church. with graduation season upon us, we highlight a bay area program that's igniting a new love of learning with students with free tutoring. i remember the magic of this place and it feels really good to return back here and share that magic. plus a star exploding in a galaxy fan, far away. meet the amateur astronomer who snapped the picture of a super nova without even knowing it. >> kind of like a needle in a haystack, right? you might not know it's there. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. the holiday rush is on, a lot of people heading out of town right now for memorial day weekend. it's traditionally the kickoff to the busy summer travel season and whether you're going by car or plane, plan on plenty of company. aaa expects the most traffic on the roads between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. today and tomorrow and the tsa

predicts tomorrow is going to be the busiest day with more than 2.5 million passengers coming through checkpoints. sfo is no exception. the airport is expected to have its busiest days in years tomorrow. so we are finally back to where we were before the pandemic maybe? max darrow got a glimpse how the recovery is going by taking a ride on someone who relies on a packed airport to boost his business. >> reporter: the anderson drive stop in san rafael meant more passengers and luggage for andrew demetro's route to sfo thursday. this is his tenth year behind the wheel for urban airporter. while they aren't seeing prepandemic ridership numbers, it seems like it's improving every month. >> it's definitely gotten a lot better. >> reporter: he says there still is a ways to go. >> if we get busier, we may be able to get back to our prepandemic service. >> reporter: memorial day weekend will be a good measuring stick for progress.

he thinks it could provide a glimpse of what their summer demand may look like. >> who knows. this may be the best shot. >> reporter: they rely on people flying. at sfo the airport is preparing for a lot of folks to fly this weekend. around 140,000 passengers are expected to pass through sfo on friday alone. that's doug yakel, the airport's spokesperson. >> column after column of on-time depart you'res, that's our goal. >> reporter: he says this weekend's memorial day travel forecast is the closest to prepandemic levels they've seen. >> i think you'll see it as you walk around the terminals friday. we recently hit a new post pandemic record for passenger activity. we cleared the 70,000 passenger mark recently per day going through our security checkpoints. >> reporter: the weekend also kicks off the summer travel season. >> between memorial day and labor day, we're expecting just under 15 million passengers to use sfo for their summer

travel, which is much greater than we saw last summer. we saw about 12 million. >> reporter: still not quite prepandemic levels bu signant re. backon the road to sfo. >> the airlines are doing well. nice to see the numbers kind of come back for us. >> reporter: demetro expects some trips to and from the airport over the course of memorial day weekend will be full, but not all of them. his hope for marin airport this weekend -- >> just be steady. every bus had people on it. >> reporter: he is ready to roll and eager to get a sense of what the summer has in store for marin airport. think about this. if airports are packed, parking will be tough. sfo says garages will likely building at or near capacity tomorrow and throughout much of the summer. book ahead of time or take mass transit to the airport. the bay area's other

airports also expecting a busy weekend. oakland is expecting about 130,000 passengers through monday and san jose expects to see about 366,000 over the next week. meantime we're hearing about a recent close call at sfo where two pilots had to abort their landings because of a plane in their path. last friday a united airlines plane flew as low as a few hundred feet over the bay before the pilots aborted the landing because of a southwest plane on runway 28l. then as the southwest plane taxied across onto a second runway, an alaska airlines plane also had to circle around. the southwest pilot never heard the clearance to depart. you can hear the crew's exchange with air traffic control in this recording. >> southwest 1179. are you departing? >> we never got that clearance. >> okay. you shouldn't be on the runway. >> the faa says the decision to

abort the landings was precautionary and the southwest plane had cleared the runways by the time the other planes passed directly overhead. the faa looked into the incident and determined the appropriate steps were taken to insure a safe operation. it has been nearly a month since banko brown was shot and killed outside a san francisco walgreen's and today family, friends, and the community came together at the third baptist church to say final good-byes. emotions were very high during the ceremony, even boiling over at one point. this was the moment people started shouting at one another during the service and then several people were shoving one another. one person had to be held back. it lasted a few minutes, but things eventually calmed down and the service resumed. >> it gives us pain. it gives us anguish. i know that we're

troubled and we're feeling the tragic impact within our souls. >> the service was held at third baptist church in the city's western edition neighborhood where the 24-year-old brown once went to sunday school. state attorney general rob bonta agreed to look over the case to see in any charges should be filed against the walgreen's security guard. that's been a demand by brown's family. san francisco d.a. brooke jenkins decided not to file any charges against the security guard. jenkins has said there's not enough evidence to overcome an argument by the security guard he acted in self-defense. let's get to some other stories around the bay. the marin d.a.'s office reduced charges in a church vandalism case and head of the catholic church is not happy. in october of 2025 demonstrators destroyed

a statue outside a catholic church in san rafael. the 18th century priest founded nine of the 21 historic missions in california. the demonstrators were charged with felonies, but those charges were reduced to misdemeanors as part of a restorative justice effort. part of the deal requires the five to pay for damages, do volunteer work, and write a letter of apology, but the catholic archbishop is upset and said the church was left out of the discussions. archbishop the latest wave of job cuts not only in tech, but in retail, gap incorporated revealed plans to slash 663 jobs in san francisco along with dozens more happening in pleasanton and the central valley. that includes gap

stores, old navy, banana republic and athleta brands. as the job market people, these graduating students walked across the stage today. we stopped by the ceremony for the college of engineering and spoke to students about the prospects of entering an uncertain job market. >> i think things are getting worse now, especially with software. it's difficult. i think other fields are easier where with software it's really tough. there are a lot of layoffs. >> congratulations to narin who secured a position at yahoo and began working before he graduated. graduates and their families know the hard work it's taken just to get to in moment. sometimes you get a little bit more help outside the classroom. here's how a free tutoring, yes, free tutoring program in san francisco made all the difference for one middle school student.

>> >> reporter: on any given day this center is full of students learning and having fun and i had the opportunity to spend the entire afternoon with one special little girl to see how these free resources are changing her life. seventh grader sharira is your typical middle schooler and she can make new friends anywhere. several hours a week after school she comes here to 826 valencia to get one-on-one free tutorings. >> it's gotten better actually. i like to write now. i like journaling now and like to talk about my life. >> reporter: the nonprofit offers programs and learning opportunities for undersourced communities and kids age 6 through 18 who may need a lending hand. >> i have my favorite tutors, which is camellia, and i love how they listen to me and they are like so passionate about things. >> reporter: the after-school tutoring is made up of volunteers. right now they're in need of more to meet the

growing waiting list of student all the while focusing on kids with financial, academic need, and those of color. the center is where shamira is able to go to finish classwork, homework and dive into creative writing. >> my family are scientists. they go on the moon every day. >> reporter: her favorite tutor is camilla who has worked with her since february who says she's noticed improvements in this young scholar's work. >> there is just real like stamina in her ability to focus for long periods of time and get really good work done, really thoughtful words to the page. >> reporter: so has her dad. >> this is the first time ever i've noticed that these excited about learning. it's been many, many years that she's had that kind of excitement. >> reporter: camilla says volunteering at the center is a

full circle moment for her. >> i was a kid. i thought this place was amazing and really magical. so i remember the magic of this place and it feels really good to return back here and share that magic. >> reporter: 826 valencia says making change and improving the lives of these students is what it's truly about. the center says they are still looking for volunteers and are hoping that the community can fulfill that need. >> thank you. they need volunteers. step in, if you can. still ahead, a new weapon against wildfires in the east bay, the technology that can spot them before they get out of control. talk about being at the right place or galaxy at the right time, the amateur astronomer who just so happened to capture the most powerful explosion in the universe. >> it's not one of the first

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providing live updates that should allow fire crews to respond before things get out of hand. >> climate change and extreme weather are putting more communities and properties at risk. however, primarily due to our department's preplanning, aggressive fire suppression efforts, and comprehensive vegetation management program, oakland has been spared from these types of catastrophic events. >> the sensors are already being used in parts of oregon and canada. thanks to this year's wet winter, electricity shortages this summer will likely not happen. that word is according to state regulators. all that stormwater filled the state's reservoirs enough to support the hydroelectric power plants that were dormant during the drought. in recent years the state has dealt with a string on the electrical grid during hot days when everybody turns on their ac units. energy consumption, a big part of wildfire season as well, especially with the state trying to convert to 100%

renewable energy by 2045 with an already struggling power grid, which is why governor newsom was in contra costa county today to lay out how the state can both improve our capacity and reliability while expanding green energy usage. >> this is not an ideological exercise. we're running against time. we're running against time. we don't have time to hold hands and talk about the way the world should be. we got to go. >> after that the governor met with women at the rosie the riveter museum honoring women who worked on manufacturing lines during the second world war. it's located steps away from a new battery storage plant that the governor plans to increase our capacity. a super nova has burst onto the scene in a galaxy far, far away and an amateur astronomer on the peninsula happened to be watching and snapping away and almost the instant it happened. as brian hackney explains, he

was in the right galaxy at exactly the right time without even knowing it. >> reporter: a few nights ago jeff krilley headed from the kitchen to the backyard and to a galaxy 21 million light years away. >> i shot various images of galaxies and things like this and one of them was m101. >> reporter: this is m101, the pinwheel galaxy. >> it's not one of the first objects i go to to look at at night. >> reporter: so you just caught it by chance that night? >> yeah. >> reporter: here's jeff's picture from thursday night. >> may 19th and there's a star there, but it's fairly dim. >> reporter: he didn't realize he snapped the very beginning of the biggest event in creation quite by accident. >> it's kind of like a needle in a haystack, right? you might not even know it's there. >> reporter: in fact, he didn't. >> then i heard about this super nova and said okay, i got to take some images of this thing. >> reporter: so here's the may

19th picture. >> on the 20th there's a star. it's pretty bright at that point. >> reporter: so from thursday night to friday night, dramatic brightening. so it's in super nova there? >> yeah. at this point the super nova had already started. >> reporter: that may not look like much to you, but super nova are the biggest things in creation. they were first postulated by the equally explosive cal tech astronomer fritz zwieke realizing stars eventually collapse under their own weight and catastrophely explode and in an instant it releases the energy of 100 billion suns burning brighter than all the stars in its galaxy. so that super november nova is catastrophely destroying itself. our super nova candidate is beetle juice, a red giant that has begun acting up a mere 500 light

years away, sometimes flaring 50% brighter than usual. we're totally safe, though. >> we are safe. it's not going to affect us. you can point there. >> reporter: in the meantime jeff continues to watch the pinwheel and 101. >> if the clouds don't come in, i will get more data on m101. >> reporter: an impressive find for jeff, even if he doesn't believe it. still a pretty good shot. >> it could use some work. i've seen better. >> so humble. pretty good work there. as for whether you can see it, good news and bad news. yes, you can see it, but you need a big telescope, someone to steer you to the right spot in the sky like this guy over here. treat your favorite stargazer really well to get that information. paul hegg joining us now. i guess you have to have all those elements to see that, right? >> yeah. good telescope and clear skies. >> that's where you come in.

we don't have that right now. across most of the bay area, the fog has definitely rolled back in around the bay. you'll be able to see that super nova if the skies clear out in about another month

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now. paul heggen joining us now. we've got a nice three-day weekend ahead, a lot plans in store. >> the unofficial beginning to summer for other parts of the summer. >> not for us. >> june gloom, clouds tough to shake heading through the weekend. along the coast farther inland plenty of sunshine. pick your own weather, go where you want across the bay area. from the top of mount diablo, a hike sounds good this weekend. if you go early enough in the morning. my wife and i hiked to the top early saturday morning where you can look out above lfvetithe pehat's an awesome ce next several days. we'll see plenty of sunshine inland it. stays gray at the coast and around the bay you're in between with gray skies in the morning and sunshine in the afternoon. highs are well below normal, even for the warmest days in the seven-day forecast. it should be pleasantly cool over the holiday weekend for inland parts of the bay area, maybe

less pleasantly cool along the coast with 50s and gray skies present as they are right now. looking towards sutro tower, it's in there, 56 degrees downtown, other temperatures not a whole lot warmer. the warm spot is 68 degrees in san jose. otherwise we're all in the low to mid-60s, even inland. that is unusually cool for a may evening. it will be in this pattern tomorrow before a slight warm-up over the memorial day weekend that leaves us below average. the fog spreads well inland, low cloud cover where you don't have the fog right at ground level. regardless, it's a gray start to the day friday. while that fog backs up, it's still hanging out around the bay. you'll have a hard time seeing the sun peeking through the clouds until likely early afternoon. certainly over san francisco, likely over oakland, finally midafternoon a little sunshine peeking through. temperatures tonight drop into the low to mid-50s, pretty much across the board. that's normal for this time of year. the onshore wind with the presence of the marine layer will have

below normal. the wind is going to be ov stng the first haday but picks up during the afternoon. even so the strongest gusts are mostly in the 15 to 20-mile-an-hour range. dog walking forecast is brought to you for tomorrow by cody. these temperatures are especially comfortable if you're wearing a fur coat, upper 60s, pups don't mind at all. even for the warmest spot inland, we're talking about highs in the low 70s tomorrow, far inland in the east bay and santa clara valley. a mix of upper 60s and low 70s inland, low to mid-60s around the bay and 50s along the coast. temperatures are going to be warming up a little bit for bottlerock in napa. you'll be around 70 tomorrow, into the low 70s saturday, but it's a degree or two difference from day to day. these are the highs. make sure you bring a sweatshirt if you're heading out to that three-day festival

taking in the sights anunds and smells of all that food cooking. temperatures aren't changing much in san francisco, hovering in the low 60s, cool for carnaval sunday, a high below 60 degrees. stuck in the mid-60s in oakland, low 70s for inland parts of the bay area. along the coast there is the may gray and since thursday is june 1st , we can seamlessly transition into june gloom. >> there you go. >> sound fantastic, doesn't it? >> thank you. if you're having a bad day, you've got to see this video of a reunion on the water, what it took to get this sea otter pup back with its mama near santa cruz. we'll be right back. be sure to join us tomorrow for our one hour special roots and resilience, highlighting stories from the aapi communities

this might be the video of the day. we have a sea otter pup being reunited with its mother near santa cruz. it's getting thrown in there. mama will come by. the mother immediately responds to the pup's sounds and reclaims it and this happened last week. the office of spill prevention and response had tried to reunite the pair from shore, but they weren't successful that way. so santa cruz harbor patrol got a boat ready and they went to work. the southern sea otter is a federally

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