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numbers only about three or four degrees below average. upper 50s along the coast, almost exactly normal along with the cloud cover, the bay gray that is going along with memorial day weekend towards the bay area. below average temperatures for inland parts of the bay area, reaching a little low to mid 70s, supposed to be approaching 80 degrees on a regular basis, the farther you get away from the water . but that is comfortably cold, temperatures in the low to mid 70s. we could definitely handle that. if you're going to be traveling a little bit further out the bay area, nothing to be concerned about is the potential from some pop-up thunderstorms in the high sierra and northern california. developing in the afternoon , at higher elevations. if nothing, it is going to cause you more than a slowdown but you want to be aware of , you don't want to cut out in the open, though thunderstorms are around. we are going to have some back and forth low cloud cover to track over the next couple of days. let's go ahead to tonight and tomorrow. more detail in just a few minutes. >> thank you, paul. in oakland now, city leaders are vowing to do more to address the issue of crime
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among young people . it comes as police announced the arrest of nine juveniles, we will get to that story in just a moment. here, a united airlines flight had to be diverted and headed back to sfo after departing for honolulu. here is what they had to say about that. we will go to negotiators are nearly out of time to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling. before the federal government runs out of money. seem to be having some technical difficulties here. back to that united airlines flight, had to abruptly turn around and head back to san francisco less than an hour after takeoff. united flight 2380, making a safe landing back at sfo. emergency crews were standing by. united says pilots reported a mechanical issue as they were out over the pacific. united says that arrangements have already been made to get the 220 passengers another flight to their
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destination. this evening, we're learning more about the man blamed for a carjacking and deadly christ in san francisco, please identify the suspect as 57-year-old carla watson, police say it was watson who stole a city truck, sparking a chase that ended in the potrero hill neighborhood. one person was killed and four other people were injured as the stolen truck slammed into another car and then careened towards people standing near a bus stop watson is now facing several charges, including carjacking, murder, vehicular manslaughter, and driving without a license. the man accused in the stabbing death of tech executive, bob lee, wants to put his case on a fast track. now preliminary hearing is set for next tuesday. but here's the surprising thing about all this. turns out, is that hot with his high profile attorney. paula kenny had wanted to delay the hearing, but he insisted on
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having the earliest court date possible. kenny told us, while it is not what she wanted, she understands his desire to have his day in court as soon as possible. >> from his perspective, or for any terminal defendant's perspective, they are in custody . who wants to be in jail? most people want things to , there cases to proceed quickly. the most good lawyers want to look at everything. >> reporter: is being held without bail, he is accused of murdering bob lee, prosecutors say it happened after a confrontation over whether his sister was involved with lee and whether the two were using drugs. a snafu in ron desantis is big announcement that he is running for president. he was sent to do a live chat with elon musk on twitter bases at 3:00 p.m. our time but when he logged in, this is what we saw. no audio . but he did end up making an official , eventually, and markovic has more on the typical deal to difficulties and is big
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announcement. >> announcement on twitter spaces, finally started at 24 minutes after the hour , after the audio crashed and users were repeatedly kicked off. then, finally . >> governor desantis, are you there? can you hear us? >> i am here. >> i think you broke the internet there. we had over half 1 million people on one twitter space. >> desantis went on to chat about his bid for the gop nomination with twitter ceo, elon musk, marking a new chapter in his rise from congressman to florida governor, now a leading figure in conservative movement over race, gender, and abortion. he filed the federal paperwork and officially registered as a presidential candidate earlier today. >> writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society, normalcy to our communities and integrity to our institutions. >> this is his official
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campaign video release earlier today talking about border security, crime, and indoctrination. desantis is joining a growing republican field that includes south carolina senator, tim scott . former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, and former president donald trump and a newly released poll from quinnipiac university reveals former president donald trump remains on top as a potential gop candidate, 56% supporting trump, 25 supporting desantis. meantime, president biden tweeted out a link to his campaign donation site at the same time that things were going technically awry on desantis's announcement, saying simply, this blink works. desantis will remain governor of florida while he runs for president. his office announced today that he signed a broad election law bill that contains a provision allowing him to do so, exempting himself from the state rule known as resigned to run. >> lets the game began. in oakland, city leaders are bound to do more to address the issue of crime among young people. it comes as police announced the arrest of nine
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juveniles, between the ages of 12 and 17 years old. for nearly three dozen robberies, all across the city. >> these are our babies, these are our children, and they deserve a chance to get things together. they deserve a chance to have the level of support to help them to turn things around. >> we are taking all of this very seriously. we are taking all different approaches to ensure a better and stronger quality of life in the city of oakland. >> reporter: are jose martinez is with more on the community programs trying to keep kids out of trouble and why they say they need help. >> reporter: it was definitely interesting to hear , a group of students gathered to actually get ready to talk about the work they do as part of a violence prevention program that supports hundreds of students here in oakland.
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>> oh, she's calling me. >> reporter: meet sierra taylor, a passionate 17-year-old student who believes in creating a brighter future for oakland. >> there's a lot more to this world than what we see around our community . just the drug deals and the shootings and getting into games, being affiliated with that stuff. just because our cousins are brothers are part of it don't mean we are born into the life. we don't have to be like that. >> reporter: one of many young individuals were found a sense of purpose through use all of, the organization focused on prevention, intervention, healing, and support to combat violence. >> we start talking about root causes of violence , things like poverty , easy access to guns, drugs, and alcohol. fear and how that ties into violence. i became really passionate about it. i was like, this is something i wouldn't mind looking more into. >> reporter: the executive director of this organization, he says the work they do is extremely important these days. >> our focus really is to hold
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both our young people in the moment when they are experiencing the trauma, but also through our pier education program like teens on target, through our outreach and communities, through our violence interrupted, our hospital based violence intervention program. we are also walking with people from that moment of trauma through their healing process, making sure that there isn't retaliation on their behalf >> especially after, once again, authorities in oakland say there has been a surge in violent incidents in bay area youth. recently, non-adolescents and teens were arrested in connection with a series of robberies and other currents, including the assault of a 63-year-old woman. >> part of our work is understanding that why , understanding the nuance the violence. violence isn't just happening in this moment in oakland. that , for many of our communities, this violence has been intergenerational. >> reporter: dr. griffin says
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that in the last five months alone, over 100 students have become violence prevention ambassadors just like sierra, who continues to encourage other students to join the cause. >> reporter: sera tells me she hopes these conversations can actually help more students find a different purpose for their lives. >> thanks so much. negotiators are nearly out of time to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling before the federal government defaults for the first time in history. treasury secretary janet yellen says that will happen june 1st lawmakers still need to write a bill and pass it through both chambers of congress. the biggest sticking point, remains spending, with the republican demand in cuts and democrats offering to keep current levels. >> is a democrat control the senate, they control the white house. and they wouldn't even do a bill, they wouldn't even communicate. i don't think i have to say who is to blame. >> reporter: they put toward an extreme package of devastating cuts that would/supporting, support for education, law enforcement, food assistance , the list goes
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on and on and on and on. >> if the government defaults, it would not be able to pay its bills, which includes social security and medicare payments. >> it is really affecting everybody who is getting a check from the government . this includes military families, this includes postal workers, national park service, some of these programs such as, for example, medicare. are designed for people that do not have the largest financial slack to begin with, who are potentially struggling to make ends meet as it is. still ahead here at 5:00, remembering a legend. ♪ >> the lasting legacy of a queen of rock 'n roll, tina turner . the a's moved to vegas is nearly a done deal, today's announcement for the team.
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the world is mourning the death of the queen of rock 'n roll, tina turner. she died today at the age of 83. people are paying their respects on her star on the hollywood walk of fame. and we went back into the kpix archives and wait until you see this, turner made many stops here in the bay area, including san francisco's union square in 1977. take a listen. >> is a she was an incredible performer. ike and tina turner played other venues, including the fillmore west. once even
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at the usf gym, including some spots in oakland, as well. cbs news reporter bradley blackburn has more on the remarkable life of tina turner . >> ♪ >> reporter: tina turner was loved by millions of fans, born in 1939, she grew up in poverty in that bush, tennessee, as a teenager she started touring with ike turner, and married in 1962, recording hit songs like proud mary. but the relationship was violently abusive, and they divorced in the 1970s . on cbs sunday morning, turner spoke to gayle king about being forced to start over. >> i found that i had enough, just enough enough. now it is time to go out the door. i had nothing, i had absolutely nothing. $.36, that was all.
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>> she embraced buddhism and launched a solo career, landing some of the biggest hits of the 80s. >> i think the song that really fit a lot of liberated, like yeah, that's right, tina, what does love have to do with it anyway? oh yeah, that's right, that's what it means, okay. but , in my case, i am more of a one that i think love has everything to do with everything >> she became known as the queen of rock 'n roll . in 1984 she told cbs news that getting rock stations to play her music was a challenge. >> i had a real hard time because i'm black . in america , radio programs don't program you as a black person in rock 'n roll. you are r&b because of your color. >> reporter: turner became a pop culture icon, and the subject of a broadway musical telling her life story. she was there on opening night in 2019 in front of an adoring crowd. turner spent her final years in retirement in switzerland , in
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a statement, her representative says she leaves behind her greatest work, music. >> turner is one of the best-selling female artist in music history, selling nearly 200 million records worldwide. a private funeral is being planned. starts from all across the entertainment world are paying tribute to tina turner tonight. we invite you to do the same , using the hashtag kpix 5. it is hard to follow tina turner but if anybody could, it is vern glenn, the a's are leaving for vegas? is this happening? >> let me tell you something. the story says , tentative agreement , what does that mean? sounds good, governor , talk soon? anyway, to the a's have a foot out the door? it depends on who you ask now, today's announcement , it didn't include a whole lot of specifics. the billion and a
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half dollar ballpark would be publicly owned. city taxpayers, they would have to pay at least 350 million and that public funding would cover less than 25% of the project. the a's would not have to buy or pay rent at the tropicana site. so here is my hope for oakland a's advanced . is there a signed deal? has money exchanged hands? is the tropicana hotel still up and running ? if those answers are no, no, and yes, then let me know when the shovels hit the ground. this is far from over. >> okay, not a done deal. you heard it here first. we always knew it. thanks so much. switching now to whether . a lot of folks may be heading to las vegas for the memorial day weekend? a lot of folks are heading out of town the weather is probably going to cooperate, sounds like. >> if you're going to be staying around here , you don't have to go anywhere, it is going to be a little on the cool side. of course, near the
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coast, you have to deal with the may gray. >> are in san francisco, you know you're going to need a jacket. as you said earlier, you chose it. >> exactly, you just have to drive about 20 miles inland, the, and it is going to be really comfortable. let's take a look at what you need to know as we get closer and closer to the holiday weekend. just minor day-to-day changes. overall the pattern is going to be the same. you see plenty of sunshine from late morning into the afternoon. after some low cloud cover and some patchy fog to start each morning. that will be the case regardless of where the temperatures end up we are going to be below normal for highs, tomorrow and friday especially, and then while we have a little bit of a warm-up in store for the holiday weekend, so going to be running a lease a couple of degrees below average saturday, sunday, and monday. we will look out right now from the golden gate bridge where, there is the marine layer trying to reform the fog. visibility is okay. temperatures downtown is 59 degrees. further in, temperatures only in the mid-to-upper's succeed in the low 70s for the warmest spot. 71 degrees right now in livermore which is not warm for late may. the little haze on
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the horizon has been with us again today, but air quality has been fine in almost all parts of the bay area, either in the good or barely into the moderate category, a little patch of slightly degraded air quality here in the hills to the west of san jose. otherwise things have been fine, just seeing that little bit of haze, something we will continue to monitor in case it drips down toward us, we're going to see that low cloud cover and some fog drifting inland. not going to be a real concentrated layer of fog right near ground level, the weight of the atmosphere kind of expand a little bit, which means that the clouds are going to be out there but they are not going to be all that dense severely reducing visibility is maybe one particular spot and should dissipate quickly. the clouds are going to be tough to shake along the coast so you're not going to warm up a whole lot. temperatures tonight dropping down mostly to the low 50s, the cool spots in the upper 40s .
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49-52. highs tomorrow, a few degrees below average for san francisco, oakland, and san jose. closer to 10 degrees below average for concord and a similar departure from normal for the north bay, as well. upper 50s along the coast, a minute of upper swifties with mostly low 70s in the santa clara valley. a lot of upper 60s in the east bay, the tri-valley is going to mix of upper 60s and low 70s, the warmest spots only hit in the mid-70s. couple of degrees below normal. but not that far from what we expect in late may. only mid-to-upper 60s for much of the north day until you go a lot farther north up towards cloverdale, ukiah, up into the upper 70s and low 80s. you will be the warm spots by far over the next few days. one spot that is not going to be warm but it will be festive, downtown san francisco, temperatures in the mid-50s around the parade start. only warming up to around 60 degrees by early afternoon. a gray
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start but gradually the sunshine is going to be breaking through those clouds as we had farther into the day on sunday. just kind of hovering in the low 60s in san francisco for the next seven days. mid-60s for oakland, including for memorial day weekend. up and down for inland parts of the bay area from the upper 60s back to the low mid-70s for the holiday weekend. so the transfer san jose and no change along the coast . change in upper 50s with that may gray hanging around. every peak of sunshine is worth its weight in gold. a few of those here and there. >> we treasure those . thank you. still ahead, nearly one third of the homeless people in the u.s. live in california. how one east bay woman is getting creative in hopes of putting a huge dent in those numbers. >> we have to treat people as adults , right? that is one of the things that we need is we got rid of curfew. antioch is reeling amid the racist text messaging scandal at the police department. how longtime community members say they hope to take something positive out from the troubling revelations. and be sure to join us friday for our one hour special , roots and resilience.
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112% of the u.s. population, according to federal housing data , nearly one third of all the homeless people in the entire country, lived and our state last year. sharon chen shows us how the this week's jefferson award winner is trying new ways to bring those numbers down. >> reporter: robbie montoya has worked in social services for more than 40 years and she is known for her out of the box solutions. >> congratulations . >> reporter: robbie montoya throws her arms around people living with homelessness. >> absolutely the dorothy day ways to help others do the next right thing when nobody is looking. it begins with outreach. >> reporter: says 2019, ronnie
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has headed up the dorothy day house, a berkeley nonprofit serving the homeless. she rolled out an unconventional 24-hour shelter two years ago, the horizon transitional village. 50 unhoused people pitched their tents inside an empty warehouse. >> we have to treat people as it adults. that is one of the things that we did immediately as we got rid of curfews. >> reporter: horizon had fewer restrictions, more room for belongings and lounge areas to build community. gregory warner felt safer. >> family , the connection. >> reporter: of nearly 150 people who lived at the village, all of them had medical benefits, and a third got permanent housing. >> we are really working on health and well-being. >> reporter: when the warehouse police expired in september, the city help secure a hotel. so robbie now temporarily houses 27 people in their own rooms at the berkeley and
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>> for a lot of people this is the first time in maybe a decade that they have actually had their own space >> reporter: as robbie transitions folks from the warehouse to the hotel to permanent housing, she draws upon a four decade career in social services and juvenile hall tackling extension , her work honors her mother, who grew up in the catholic orphanage. >> she has never not wanted to help somebody in need . and it was an inspiration for me. and i wanted to be just like her. >> reporter: robbie raised her now grown daughters with the same giving spirit. >> so we buy 40 cheeseburgers and just walk them down the street, give them out. >> reporter: it is robbie's boldness that inspires program director, rochon atkins. >> she comes with a wonderful vision that is outside of the norm and allows for us to be creative.
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>> reporter: that is my philosophy is taking outside the box, getting creative, there is so many possibilities. >> we have our community kitchen. >> reporter: whether the nonprofit is cooking hundreds of daily meals, running a drop in program, driving necessities to encampments, or providing safe rv parking spaces, robbie thrives on multiplying good. >> that is my reward is getting up in the morning and anxious to come to work. >> reporter: so for creating ways to support and lift people out of homelessness, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to robbie montoya. >> one of the most memorable success stories, she had given one man the key to his home , and he had been homeless so long he forgot how to use a key he spent 40 years living in a hole he dug near a bay trail that he could only get in when the tide was low. by the way, she is still looking for another warehouse to house her program. you can nominate your local
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hero for a jefferson award online at kpix.com/hero. still ahead, the town of antioch dealing with the fallout from the racist text messaging scandal involving dozens of police officers. how residence codes say they hope it changes their community. >> we don't have the same perspective and background , we want to see healing happen in our community. please have tracked down a fugitive accused of murdering a woman in the east bay. how they finally found him , hundreds of miles away. a new plan to
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