right now at 5:30, another wrinkle in the way cities and developers address california's housing crisis. >> much of the effort to build new housing in california is focused on removing the obstacles thrown up by local governments and now the u.s. supreme court has ruled cities and counties must be more judicious in the way they assess impact fees on development projects. >> john ramos explains how that could affect what's being built. >> reporter: the ruling stemmed from a case called sheetz versus el dorado county in which a man wanted to put a modular home on his property and was told he had to pay to replace the entire street. the supreme court says that wasn't proper and now it may be a game

changer in the housing crisis. effrin coreo was involved with the development of this affordable senior apartment complex on the site of a former mobile home park destroyed by the 2017 tubbs fire, but the amount the city charged to do that was simply astounding. >> had an average of 40 to $60,000 per unit on impact fees. that is money that can be going into building additional housing and residential units for working class people. >> reporter: impact fees are the assessments developers must pay for the added burden to the community, streets, utilities, parks, et cetera. officials are supposed to study what those impacts are, but they often just assign an arbitrary fee per unit on the projects and the money collected doesn't even have to be spent in that

area. >> so it helps pay for parks in other communities, street improvement in other communities, which is fine. it's just a function of right sizing what that impact is on the development that you're proposing. >> reporter: but that's what the supreme court said may be unconstitutional. the unanimous ruling said the fees charged must be connected to and roughly proportionate to the actual impact of the development. jen close with the santa rosa advocacy group generation housing says builders now have the power to challenge the validity of lot impact fees in court. >> and i think that's what sheetz is going to ultimately require is that those examinations are a whole lot more specific and more careful. otherwise they're going to find themselves defending lawsuits. >> reporter: developers have been insisting for years that impact fees are having a stifling effect on new home construction and that is borne out at the senior complex. two phases of the project are

complete, but financing for the third phase simply isn't there and the land next to it sits vacant. >> with high development impact fees or impact fees that don't make sense, developers leave the state. they're building in nevada. they're building in texas. we think that by right sizing impact fees, by modifying them, builders can come back to california and build the units that we need. >> reporter: it will be a hit to local government budgets, but it may be the tradeoff required to build the housing they're asking for. corio wishes they'd stop acting like building houses is harming the community. >> there's a little irony in we're trying to build affordable housing and workforce housing and yet we're considered an impact. >> reporter: the ruling didn't define what fees constitute a taking of private property. they're leaving that for the lower courts to hash out, but jen close says cities may save themselves a lot of legal costs if they simply cut

their fees voluntarily. >> a state law passed in 2022 requires local governments to make the fees more proportional, but it gave them eight years to study the true impacts. the supreme court ruling may hurry that process by exposing them to lawsuits from developers. at the state capitol today the annual march for life taking place one day after governor newsom announced a proposal to expand abortion rights. hundreds of people rallied at the state capitol. remember abortion is protected under the california constitution. now the governor says he wants to expedite the process for arizona doctors to get licensed to perform abortions here. people at today's rally say he should have different priorities. >> we shouldn't promote abortion as a means of fixing social ills and in place of social programs and helping people and providing for families. >> meanwhile the governor continues to use pac money to run ads targeting restrictive abortion laws in other states.

here's what's running in alabama. >> taking action at righttotravel.org. >> alabama's currently considering a bill that would make it a crime to help women travel outside the state in order to receive an abortion. this is part of a larger effort to combat travel bans across the u.s. newsom was behind a similar ad that ran in tennessee. former google employees are speaking out days after the company fired more than two dozen workers following sit-in protests. employees say many of the 28 fired workers did not directly participate in the protest. nine people were arrested at the sunnyvale and new york offices where they're demanding the company drop their google cloud project on nimbus contract with the israeli government. >> this is a legal fear mongering and it will not stop us from continuing to organize and fight for the company to drop project nimbus. >> google says the terminated

employees violated company policies by physically obstructing the workplace. their internal investigation is still ongoing. protests continue at college campuses all across the country, including at uc berkeley. students occupied the steps in front of sprawl hall pitching tents right in front of the building, calling it a solidarity encampment, demanding an end to the war in gaza. at columbia they canceled in-person classes today as campus protests there stretch into a sixth day. on the eve of passover, jewish students say they just don't feel safe. meg oliver has the latest from new york. >> reporter: outside columbia university supporters of israel marched in solidarity with jewish students who say they feel unsafe after nearly a week of on-campus protests against the israel-hamas war. >> i'm not going to go in and go into that camp and risk my safety. >> i have a right to my education. >> reporter: monday the university switched to mandatory remote learning and

promised to significantly increase on-campus security. pro palestinian demonstrations on and off campus have not let up. >> free, free palestine. >> reporter: the private school had asked the nypd to clear an encampment last thursday accusing demonstrators of trespassing. monday the nypd announced it's patrolling outside campus and not aware of credible threats to students. >> we have to wait until they decide they want our presence until we move in. >> reporter: police were invited onto yale's campus monday, arresting more than 40 people at an encampment. protesters are demanding the university divest from military weapons manufacturers. >> an institution that's dedicated to academic excellence, that has no place funding a war machine that spreads across the entire globe. >> reporter: demonstrations are impacting other campuses across the country, including nyu, harvard, and university of colorado. at usc in los angeles

students are protesting the school's cancellation of the valedictorian speech at commencement. the school cited safety issues. the valedictorian is muslim. >> columbia university's president did not give any indication when on-campus classes would resume. a heroic moment plays out in the middle of an interstate. we'll show you the tense moments when a driver is rescued

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continue to get stronger. moments later a transportation worker was finally able to break the window and the crowd then pulled the driver to safety. thankfully, believe it or not, no injuries were reported. >> just in time there. a lively celebration in san francisco's noe valley neighborhood sunday for a toilet. you may remember it made national headlines over its estimated $1.7 million price tag. >> while it did cost a seemingly ridiculous amount of money for a bathroom, coming in at around $200,000 considering when they thought they were going to spend, i guess, turned out to be -- i don't want to call it a bargain, but it was some savings. da lin has more. ♪ >> reporter: it's a celebration fit for the most infamous toilet, one that almost cost the price of a house. >> noe valley, let's hear it for our not $1.7 million bathroom. woo-hoo!

>> reporter: so event organizers decided to have some fun with it, everything toilet-themed, even this band renamed to american standard at least for the day. >> we couldn't get toto here. >> reporter: leslie crawford organized the toilet bowl celebration at noe valley town square. >> when everybody laughs at you, you got to take the power back and laugh at yourself. >> reporter: leslie admits san francisco deserved all the poop it got when the city announced the $1.7 million bryce tag. people thought it 1.7 million was the perfect example of government waste. >> i thought it was a little ridiculous myself. everybody did. >> yeah, that's crazy. >> reporter: a private company donated this prefab bathroom, but the costs still added up to $200,000. the city says union workers had to connect the plumbing and do a bunch of other stuff to get it ready. i asked the folks who used it how did it go? >> i'm flush with excitement

that they have a bathroom now and it gets a 10 out of 10 for me. >> it's great. it's a relief and we can relieve ourselves when we have to go. we don't have to go to the -- >> lovely and clean. >> it was spacious, clean, and wonderful. >> it is a relief to be able to go finally. >> reporter: and leslie is happy there's no more bathroom jokes about san francisco, at least for a short while. >> this is a great ending to our story. >> reporter: the city says the bathroom is about 50 square feet meaning with its $200,000 price tag, it came out to about $4,000 per square foot. >> how do i follow that up? straight ahead in sports, countdown to nfl draft day. and a certain star re

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>anc2 mic>paul. paul, it was another great day to get outside. you just want to soak in all the sunshine because it feels like for years we've been deprived of it. >> years? >> a little dramatic, you know. >> but still it's nice. >> it feels like it's been that long. >> especially when you get a couple sunny days along the coast, which was kind of temporary today because the fog did roll back in. now we're back to typical late april weather the rest of this week. you can kind of break out the boots again, liz. she's always

excited about that. we have this upper level storm system out over the pacific that will sweep towards the coast. that isn't going to have access to much moisture, so just a few clouds passing through, no chance of showers. it brings our temperatures back down to normal for this time of year. as the area of high pressure, more atmosphere on top of us, slides away, it reduces the weight of the atmosphere overhead and allows the marine layer to expand and the fog to roll back in, swallowing up sutro tower as we speak. warm inland, 83 degrees in san jose and concord, upper 70s in santa rosa. your current temperature has dipped down to the low 60s. mid-70s for fremont earlier, but only low 60s in san francisco, upper 50s half moon bay. the closer to the coast, the earlier the cooler air rolled in. let's look at futurecast. we'll see fog pushing across the bay into the inland valleys, clouds farther up in the atmosphere. it's going to be a mix of fog and clouds higher up and a mix of clouds and sunshine through the rest of tomorrow. even with the

sun breaking through, our temperatures aren't warming up as much as today. temperatures tonight will be a couple degrees above average dropping into the low 50s when we're supposed to be in the 40s. highs tomorrow, everybody within a few degrees of normal, exactly normal in san jose, 70, only mid-60s for morgan hill and los gatos. inland in the east bay will be at or above 70 degrees, 73 in antioch, the toastiest location around the whole bay area. upper 60s down the peninsula, only upper 50s along the coast and half moon bay where temperatures will be hovering the next several days, low to mid-50s for san francisco and oakland and the north bay. the fog and clouds will be a bit more stubborn in the north bay valleys. let's look at the ten-day temperature outlook for san jose. there's another drop coming the end of the workweek, thursday and friday san jose topping out in the mid-60s. we bounce back to

near or slightly above average temperatures the last weekend in april. as we look ahead to early may, pretty close to typical for this time of year. the coolest weather thursday and friday is associated with the only rain chance in the forecast, mainly thursday night into friday. on our rain graph we're staying below the scattered threshold. so it's just a chance for showers thursday night into friday. if we get rain, it's not going to amount to barely more than a trace. let's look at the seven-day forecast. we have near average highs a few days and temperatures cool down a little more thursday, but getting back into the dry weather pattern with slightly warm temperatures heading into the weekend, saturday, sunday and monday pushing back up into the low 70s inland, stuck in the 60s around the bay. temperatures will be cooler near the coast. i wouldn't adjust any outdoor plans thursday night into friday. we'll keep you updated as we start to get better forecast

model data. we'll keep you updated through the rest of the week. >> thanks, paul. a check of what's ahead at 6:00, juliette. >> thank you. reaction is pouring into the death of a san francisco legend reverend cecil williams, co-founder of the glide foundation, has died. we hear from the reverend and his late wife in their own words about his legacy helping the poorest in the city and some of the people who worked closest with him paid tribute to his impact on the tenderloin and beyond. plus the supreme court weighs in on a case that could determine how cities deal with the homeless crisis. we see an encampment sweep in action and hear from neighbors on how they've made a difference. all that is coming up in about ten minutes, but now let's go to vern in sports. we've got the nfl on top and the league draft. thursday prime time is the start. the 49ers topic one, not about a

draft pick. it's about a player on the team currently. when you wake up friday morning, will wideout brandon aiyuk be on the roster? he's looking for a new contract with a year remaining on his existing one. >> our wish is he's here and part of the 9ers the rest of his career. now on to other less pressing offseason issues like fred warner first pitch opening day at oracle park. what happened? well, fred pointed out that he had just become a first time father. he wasn't fully prepared. >> that's what happens, i guess, when you don't warm up. you undershoot it. yeah. i'll leave that to sleep deprivation. i like that. >> do you think you should get another opportunity? >> i would never turn it down. i don't care how bad i did it.

>> were you talking about it in the locker room? >> surprisingly, no. i guess guys don't care about baseball. >> warner will not be throwing out the first pitch tonight when the giants host the mets in the first of a three-game series. the a's at yankee stadium and in the fourth inning sears was dealing, went right after him. juan soto, aaron judge, giancarlo stanton all going down swinging. sears struck out seven in six shutout innings. top of the ninth scoreless until jack gelof went yard, two-run homer, his third big fly for the years. a's beat the yankees by that score and snapped a three-game losing streak. about the yankees manager aaron boone, he wasn't around to see the finish. he was ejected two batters into the game, five pitches. take a listen to his exchange with the

home plate umpire. >> you're not telling the thing i did when you're supposed to do it. you got anything else to say? you're gone. >> boone stood down, but when a fan in the front row yelled back, the ump had enough. >> there you go and now aaron saying, "i didn't say anything. >> boone went out to plead his case, that it was the fan who said something. >> i did not say anything. >> wow. boone is tied for third among major league managers currently with 35 ejections. you know who is number one? bruce bochy. >> oh, bruce? >> bochy? >> yeah. 82 ejections in his long managerial career. >> he's always so stoic and calm. it's hard to believe he'd ever be thrown out of a game. >> well, when he gets his dander up, there's no stopping him. >> i guess so. we know he's

passionate. >> thanks, vern. still ahead at 5:00, an american

well. scientists say climate change is threatening the world's largest trees, california's endangered sequoias. >> but as ian lee shows us,

sequoias are flourishing across the pond. >> reporter: you can't miss these majestic trees, but this isn't california. it's the english countryside. >> yeah. the trees here are very popular. >> reporter: scientist phil wilkes monitors the monsters outside of london measuring the trees with a laser. >> you can then estimate how much carbon is stored in the tree. >> reporter: the average giant sequoia pulls roughly 190 pounds of carbon out of the air every year offsetting about 800 miles in a gas-powered car. phil then compares the giant sequoia's growth to their american cousins. how do these trees stack up to their relatives in the states? >> they're doing surprisingly well actually. these trees are relatively young. so they're saplings compared to trees in the states. these trees are probably 110 years old. >> reporter: giant sequoias can live more than 3,000 years and soar nearly 300 feet in the air, but experts say wildfires and climate change are threatening their native habitat. that's not a problem here in the uk. most people, though, don't think of

california and the uk having the same climate. >> sierra nevada mountains can be quite similar to here. so it's cooler and more damp and that's very british weather. >> reporter: today more than half a million giant sequoias are thriving in the uk compared to fewer than 80,000 in the u.s. >> we're very happy to have a tree like that here. we associate them with your fine country and it's lovely to have them here. >> if you run out of them, we can always give you a few back, can't we, because we're cousins, after all? >> reporter: giving an american icon a safe home away from home. that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> thanks so much. remembering a san francisco legend, the long time leader of the city's glide foundation has died. we look back at his life and legacy fighting for the less fortunate. >> i've always talked about changing the world and i really believe that we have touched many people from all over the

world. >> san francisco pays tribute to a tireless advocate for justice and equality who left his mark in the tenderloin and beyond. plus a passionate debate before the supreme court that could have major implications for the bay area, how far can local governments go to regulate homelessness? >> we want the city to have an effective and humane response to homelessness on the streets. >> we see one of the city's sweeps in action and hear from neighbors who say they've made a difference. >> i think some people would be afraid coming to businesses like this. plus on this earth day the trash punks are tackling an overwhelming problem in san jose, how a former punk rocker is gaining worldwide attention for his unique approach to helping the planet. >> i wanted to bring that same do it yourself energy to cleaning up our world. we're not waiting on people. we're doing it ourselves. >> they make cleaning up the city just fun and engaging. they've