my office has discovered evidence of prosecutorial misconduct involved in the death penalty case is. >> it stemmed from one case in alameda county. >> in the case of ernest dykes, who was tried and convicted of murder. >> now, the embattled da says it is time to review dozens of convictions. >> i am mandated to investigate and root out unethical behavior. >> this comes in the midst of a recall campaign. >> recall price! recall price! >> her critics say there is no time to wait. >> there is not a timeline on life. waiting until november is not an option. >> we need her to go right now.

this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. >> thank you so much for joining us today. that question has divided the community in alameda county. should she stay or should she go? today, we are taking a closer look at the efforts to recall district attorney pamela price and how she is fighting to hold people accountable and hold onto her job. we will hear from both sides in just a moment. first, a look at today's news headlines. pro-palestinian protesters are camped out at uc berkeley. they set up dozens of tents on the steps of sproul plaza. they promised to stay until the university divests from companies that have ties to the israeli military and ends its study abroad program in israel. >> we are willing to risk suspension. we are willing to risk expulsion. >> a similar scene is playing

out on college campuses across the country. uc berkeley told us it has no plans to change its investment policies. san francisco mayor london breed's latest plan to cut down on crime in the tenderloin, a curfew for businesses. under this proposal, smoke shops, liquor stores and some corner markets would have to close from midnight until 5:00 a.m. the first violation would earn a warning. after that, a fine of up to 1000 bucks per hour. new, affordable housing is coming to lake merritt in oakland. ground breaking ceremony was held by state and local leaders. the new development will be on east 12th street and 2nd avenue. it will have 91 apartment units. 25% of them will provide supportive housing for homeless families. the money for this project comes from an and for structure bond passed by voters in 2022. in san jose, the popular chain the burger pit will be closing its last location today. the restaurant's owners as he reluctantly decided to shut down due to pandemic

financial losses and a steep rent hike. customers lined up out the door and circled the block on their last day and they -- we had a chance to talk to some of them who say they are sad to see a staple in their community go. >> when people come in here, it is like family. you always know somebody when you come into the burger pit. they greet you and welcome you with open arms. they are wonderful people. >> we now know, billy porter will be the celebrity grand marshal for san francisco pride this year. the actor is a grammy and tony award winner. he will be the main stage headliner. the pride parade is set for sunday, june 30. onto first alert weather now. i hope you grab your sweater today. our cool down is here and meteorologist darren peck says it is sticking around for a bit. >> interesting pattern with the marine layer. it really built back in this morning. it will also build back in tomorrow. what is driving it sits out here, an area of low pressure

sitting right off our coast which you would not be able to see all that well. let's visualize it using the forecast imagery. look at the bullseye. a counterclockwise spin right off the coast. that matters for tomorrow. there is a couple of things for the marine layer. it deepens it. it also elevates it a little more and it gives it more lift so we are now getting some rain developing within it. that means we will get some marine layer misting along the coast wednesday morning into wednesday afternoon. i hesitate to call this rain because it does not add up to big totals but it does accumulate over time and a light steadiness. if you are near the coast or on the hill or even in the east bay tomorrow, you will encounter that for wednesday. then, we never really warm-up a whole lot wednesday or thursday. fridays different. -- friday is different. friday,

a totally separate system comes across the pacific. a more traditional way we would get rain if we were to get rain. it is a weak little storm that is remnant of what so many of the winter storms were over the course of the last couple of months. it is like the last gasp of those. notice it barely holds together. if we go into the long-range forecast models, there will be some light rain that holds together and maybe gives us a light shower on friday. here is the perspective on this. much might it be? not a lot. if we instead look at what the potential accumulated rainfall amounts could be, we are only talking about a couple hundredths of an inch of rain friday morning. it would not be much at all. you can see what our current system is doing, keeping it a little breezy with an onshore wind from that but as we get to the system that comes through thursday and friday, you will see it is different. northerly winds come down. it will be a slightly stronger onshore wind on friday but it does not look terribly

content. let's put it in a 7-day forecast. we know that friday has a drop of rain on it. we just saw why. the nice thing is, when we are done, we get into the weekend. we get more blue sky than anything else with temperatures that will warm back up into the mid-70s. alameda county district attorney pamela price, who is staring down a potential recall . last week, the county's registrar of voters announce the group leading the recall campaign did, in fact, submit enough verified signatures to put a recall to the voters. today, that group, which calls itself safe, or save alameda for everyone, rallied outside the county administration building, demanding the county supervisors set a special recall election date at the next board meeting on april 30. >> the damage that has been done so far is tremendous. we

should not be the only people that see what is going on. the board of supervisors have a job to do. >> the group claims the county is required to set an election date during the meeting last tuesday. that meeting was the day after the county registrar certified those signatures. let me give you some background on district attorney price . she is a former civil rights attorney. she won the da seat in 2022 with 53% of the vote. she promised to reduce mass incarceration, light and sentences for defendants under the age of 25, and hold police accountable for misconduct . when she took office, she drew opposition from prosecutors and community members who view her policies as too lenient. less than seven months into her term, her critics warned -- formed a recall committee. price also promised to hold prosecutors accountable and now her office is reviewing nearly three dozen death penalty cases due to possible

misconduct. this all stems from a review of the trial and conviction of ernest dykes, a man found guilty of murder and attempted murder during a robbery at an apartment complex back in 1993. as our josé martínez reports, the da claims that notes written by prosecutors warrant a closer look. >> alameda county district attorney pamela price says all eyes will be on at least 35 death penalty cases after discovering evidence of prosecutorial misconduct. alameda county district attorney pamela price says it was a discovery of case notes like these that identify potential jurors by race and ethnicity as jewish and as possible opponents of the death penalty that has opened a pandora box. >> my office has discovered evidence of prosecutorial misconduct involved in the death penalty cases. >> price says judge vince, the you stick strict of northern

california because -- has ordered her office to review nearly a dozen death penalty cases. the first has surfaced in the case of ernest dykes, who is currently on death row for the 1995 murder of lance clark and the attempted murder of his grandmother bernice. price sesser office stumbled upon notes highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in dykes case. >> in the course of reviewing mr. dykes ' sentence, which is pending -- his case is pending before the judge. my office discovered evidence of a pattern of misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, that may well impact all of the death penalty cases in alameda county over the past 30 years. >> while the review is likely to be open, nina salerno, president of crime victims united, says it is important to assure that the justice system delivers a just outcome. >> i think the district

attorney's hands are tied. she has to follow a court order. >> price's office is reviewing 35 death penalty cases and says the probe could span further. >> salerno worries about the toll on families who have already been victims of crime and lived through the trauma of a crime trial. >> my heart goes out to the victims associated with the cases. i am sure they endured a long process to even get to where they are and get a conviction. i believe that they have some finality moving forward. i am sure this must be devastating news. >> while this review is ongoing, the das office is reaching out to victims and survivors of these crimes that have been impacted. the da says this is just the beginning of an investigation that could lead to more cases. >> the da's office has

advocate tours assigned to help victims and witnesses in these particular cases. if they have not reached out to you and you're connected to one of the cases, you can contact them directly. reminder, the state has not executed a prisoner since 2006 and governor newsom issued a moratorium on executions in 2019. despite that, there are still 640 prisoners on death row, the most of any u.s. state. still ahead, a stunning shift in a 3-year-old case. the da's move against police officers in the death of a man and alameda as she says she tries to rebuild trust in the system. continued calls for justice and action from the families of other crime victims. >> it is awful. it is absolutely awful. goodridge. and the cbs evening

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much of the criticism of alameda county da pamela price has centered around crime in oakland which surged during the first year price's term. this year has seen improvements in almost every single category. homicides are down by 50% compared to this time last year. burglaries including car break-ins are down by nearly as much. one big exception, robberies, which are up 28% this year. also, violent crimes are up 10%. it is a statistic that virginia nishida is all too familiar with. it has been and a half years since virginia's husband, kevin, a security guard, was shot and killed in downtown oakland. since that day, virginia says she has continued to fight for justice. >> a reminder to me of what happened and how they speak of it, how the defense attorney speaks of the crime. it is as if he deserved to be shot and that is what i am really upset

about. these guys that did it are criminals. they are repeat criminals. they have been in prison. they have been in jail. they have done violent things. >> nishida says with price in office, she worries the men responsible for her husband's death may not serve the time she believes they deserve. price, for her part, is taking action on another case from three years ago, the death of mario gonzalez while in police custody in alameda. she announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the three officers involved. our looks at the stunning turn of events. >> this is the police chest cam video of the mario gonzalez encounter. the previous district attorney and a few independent investigations have previously cleared the officers of any wrongdoing . da pamela price would not say if there is any new evidence. the office charged the three officers with involuntary manslaughter right before the third anniversary of the death and a day before the statute of limitations was set

to expire. the officers are eric mckinley, james fisher and cameron leahy. officer fisher now works for the contra costa county sheriff's office. >> we need to try to rebuild trust in a system that has not always been fair, particularly in alameda county. >> on april 19, 2021, officers caught up with gonzalez and theft investigation. he was apparently incoherent . after talking with him for nine minutes, the officers decided to detain him. officers that he resisted so they took him down to the ground where an officer placed a knee on his back after struggling for five minutes, gonzalez stopped breathing. supporters of the gonzalez family say the criminal charges are welcome news. >> our loved one should have never been stolen. we see the process of civil settlement first. if we are lucky, we will get criminal charges. >> amanda works for courage, a

youth restorative justice nonprofit. her brother was also killed by law enforcement. those officers were never charged. >> seeing this with mario's family does give me a beam of light. >> lawyer who represents officer mario gonzalez says this is all politics as the a price is facing a recall. the officer's actions while taking mr. gonzalez into custody were reasonable, necessary, and lawful. >> the public should know that i am walled off from the case. i will not be participating and have not participated. >> da price had no influence on the case. her supporters it is about holding everyone accountable. >> she ran her campaign on police accountability. i don't think this was planned out. i don't think it is safe -- fake. >> attorney michael raines represents two of the officers involved. he did not respond back to us for comment on this. the recall effort against the da is not the only one happening right now when it comes to the city of oakland.

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>liz>well, alameda county d a. pamela price is facing a recall. opponents of oak mayor she centaur thao are also gathering signatures to try to oust her alameda county da pamela price is facing a recall. opponents of oakland mayor sheng thao are also gathering signatures to try to oust her . critics of the mayor started collecting signatures to recall her last month and at the time, they had 13,000 signatures. they need 25,000 of them to put the recall on the ballot. critics blame the mayor for what they say is out of the control crime with many businesses having to close. recall opponents say crime has

been going up long before the mayor took office. >> this all comes as the city of oakland welcomes a new police chief. he was previously the chief of police in lubbock, texas. oakland had been without a police chief for a year. mayor sheng thao fired leronne armstrong last february over an independent report that found he allegedly mishandled a misconduct case against the oakland police officer. we will be right back.

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>reporter> this week, we are learning about a national epidemic of romance scams. laura cowell was looking for love on the dating up match. instead, she became ensnared in a scam that authorities say is now stealing more than $1 billion from americans every year and it may have cost laura her life. cbs news chief investigative correspondent jim axelrod meant her daughter who is searching for answers. >> she started looking for clues, sifting through bank records and discovering her mom had wired frank about $1.5 million, just about everything she had. >> i think as i went through and started uncovering this, i became sick with the depths of all of it.

>> in the last year, 2023, our best estimate is losses in the range of $1.3 billion related to romance scams alone. >> that represents an increase from 500 million in 2019. >> the consumer protection branch at the department of justice investigates online romance scams. >> it has been a rapid rate of increase but we believe that is also substantially in accounting the true extent of the problem. >> jim axelrod joins us now. you have been digging into this for many months now. is it getting better or is this problem getting worse? >> liz, you were talking about those numbers at the top where it is now a billion-dollar problem meaning more than $1 billion in losses if you count up what has been reported by people. you just heard more than double from four or five

years ago. that is a lot of money. it is also probably a significant undercount. think about it. so many people are wrapped in shame, regret, embarrassment that they don't tell law enforcement about this scam. the billion-dollar number is probably much higher. >> what can people do to protect themselves from getting scammed on these dating apps? >> a couple of tips to keep in mind. first of all, don't ever, ever, ever send money to somebody you don't know personally. in other words, people report adding ensnared in these scams and the heart overtakes the head and they end up sending to money -- sending money to people they have never met. you hear about it and a lot of times these are very sophisticated, shrew people and they're just lonely. they want to send money to someone who

they have never met before. that is the biggest thing. if you have not met them, don't send them money. >> to follow the rest of laura's story and jim is reporting, watch tonight on the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell. >> coming up tonight at 5:00, pushback for plans to redesign the san francisco streets where a family was hit and killed while waiting for the bus. why some business owners say it won't make things safer. the cbs evening news is next right >> i'm not sure that anyone has ever seen anything like this before. >> tonight, trump on trial. x tabloid publisher david pecker telling jurors about a secret deal between him and donald trump to bury negative stories during the 2016 presidential campaign. and the former president