o have weaknesses. the most stress i've had the entire race. now at 11:00, taking the plunge into smoke with 100 pounds of gear strapped to your back. >> the whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush. >> fire fighting is one of the most dangerous jobs, and this teen does it while jumping out of planes. a big break in a north bay cold case after a mystery. it's lasted more than 60

years. how detectives are trying to put the pieces together. plus a celebration of success against some of the toughest odds. would you ever wonder what it would be like to be sucked into a black hole? nasa says now is your chance. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich in for sara donchey tonight. when you hear about someone sky diving, it's usually a bucket list item or someone trying to break an obscured world record. but what about sky diving to fight fires? fighting california wildfires is a science. with temperatures rising, there's a never ending race to develop the best technology to fight the flames using everything from air tankers to night vision cameras and helicopters. but fires are burning in dense forest and other areas that

crews just can't reach, and they need people on the ground. so they call in a special team that jumps out of planes for a living. we rode along with the smoke jumpers. >> reporter: when 33-year-old cole skinner says he'll be dropping by his workplace, he means it literally. >> the whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush. for the last four years, this has been his commute. a 3,000-foot defined dive with views that are hard to beat. cole is a part of an elite group of firefighters that has been operating in places where roads don't exist. it's called smoke jumpers. they parachute directly into

the flames. when the sirens sound, smoke jumpers pack on their gear and load onto a short seat sherpa plane. >> once the horn blows, we have two minutes to get on. then we are boarded on in less than 10 minutes. >> reporter: becoming a smoke jumper isn't for the faint of heart. rookie candidates are expected to be in top physical shape and have some fire fighting experience. the group's missions are often miles away from civilization, which is why they bring everything they need with them. their gear can weigh up to 120 pounds. the >> that looks good. >> reporter: as we learned, wearing it all in the middle of summer isn't exactly a breeze. >> how hot does it get? >> incredibly hot, yeah. on the tarmac sitting out there, it could be well over 110, 120 degrees. made of kevlar material. it doesn't breathe. >> reporter: smoke jumping

dates back to 1939 when the u.s. forest service realized it needed to stop remote fires before they became too big to handle. in all there are about 400 smoke jumpers in the u.s., but as climate change intensifies, their job has become more in demand. >> i experienced stuff that had i have never seen before. >> reporter: mitch is the manager and a smoke jumper for 25 years. he says these days, fire seasons are getting longer and longer. >> instead of getting laid off in late october, we were working until december. and we were starting earlier. normally fire season wouldn't start until june. now it's starting end of april. >> reporter: the daily grind can be both dangerous and physically demanding. that is exactly why cole says the moment he heard about the program, he jumped at the chance to join. >> no one else gets to parachute to go fight fire and that is what we do here. it was

a dream. when it came true, it was something and that is what it was suppose to be. >> reporter: and now that he's landed the perfect job, the sky is no longer the limit. >> i am in awe. first of all that is in redding where temperatures in the triple digits, then you have the gear on with a double whammy. what was that like when you had it on? it must have been so heavy? >> yes, when i put it on and tried walking, you can't walk. you're wobbling. so it's a very cumbersome kind of outfit. but it has everything they need and it will protect someone when they land. i tried. we'll show you in part two tomorrow. i tried putting on one of those things and actually doing the pull up. i couldn't do one pull up. >> right, they would have to be in shape to be able to do that and such a physical job. and i'm trying to think that's the only way they could get to the locations that you can't fly. you have to have someone physically get down there to cut the lines? >> yeah, these are remote fires

and that is what they realize where there is no way to get there and no roads to get there, but you have to get there soon enough before these fires get so big that you have to pull on all the stops. >> are they on call? >> and they are literally on call the entire time. >> all right, fascinating. look forward to tomorrow's story when you gear up, thank you. what is it like? summer temps already? >> it will feel like it tomorrow, the time lapse as we would look towards the golden gate from treasure island as the sun went down this evening. temperatures took a big step upwards today. they will be out there warmest along the bay and the coast tomorrow, combined with gusty winds. ordinarily we would be wild about the threat, but the rain we had four days ago really helping us out. some of the peak gusts that we would have, the hills, mount diablo over 60 miles an hour. and most of the gusts were in the 35 to 40 miles an hour range. the winds are strong right now.

they will pick up again as we head towards sunrise primarily for the higher elevation spots and still a wind advisory that's in elizabeth the early hours. the wind advisory for the interior mountains. in effect until 8:00 tomorrow morning. after that point, the winds will be dying down and shifting a little bit, which is going to push temperatures back down after the peak in the low 80s in san francisco. not only is it going to be the warmest day so far in the city. but the warmest day since the middle of october, over six months ago. temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees above normal with some changes as we head towards the weekend. details in a few minutes. >> see you soon, thank you. at the nation's capital, they testified today in the first ever hearing on anti-semitism in k-12 schools. the superintendent faced hours of scathing criticism and scrutiny over the handling of

alleged anti-semitic incidents in the district. our john ramos spoke to a parent who traveled to washington, d.c. for today's hearing and she says her son has felt threatened at school. >> and we will now go to mr. burgess, you're recognized for five minutes. >> reporter: only three people testified at the hearing on school anti-semitism and berkeley unified superintendent, enikia ford morthel, was one of them. >> since october 7, the the district has had formal complaints alleging anti-semitism arising with nine cases in our jurisdiction. anti-semitism is not pervasive in berkeley unified school district. >> our superintendent was the only person testifying that could not just flat out say we have an anti-semitism problem. she couldn't do it. and that is just a punch to the gut. >> reporter: pearlman has a jewish student at berkeley high who had to leave an art class when antiisrael poster art was being displayed to the students. >> dozens of students have been pulled out of berkeley unified

school district classrooms when they complained about anti-semitism. and that is wrong. so my son included, he spent a week in the student health center and library because there was nowhere to put him. >> reporter: across the bay area, there have been attempts to hold so-called teach-ins about gaza that are pretty condemning of israel's actions. but some say the angst towards israel is extending to outright hatred of jews. at one walkout at berkeley high, some students were alleged to have chanted kill the jews. but another parent in the district rejects that as a lie. liz jackson who is also jewish and supports the palestinians says the complaints of anti-semitism are coming from a small vocal group of parents. >> we completely reject the notion there is an anti-semitic climate here. yes, of course, there are instances of hate that happens, that happens everywhere and it happens here too. but what the small handful of parents are complaining about is political discomfort. and political discomfort is

completely different than unsafe. >> reporter: jackson says she is comfortable leaving instructions about the conflict up to the teachers, and says she is confident that students could process information without it turning to hate. >> the hearings this morning had absolutely nothing to do with well being or safety of jewish students. it was about a right wing atang on education, a right-wing attempt to censor information. >> reporter: the first casualty it of the war is the truth. but where the truth lies in gaza is a matter of perspective and not something that's likely to come out of a classroom. the bay area office of the council on islamic relations just filed a title ix complaint against the berkeley school district. it's alleging a pattern of discrimination against palestinians and arab students on campuses since the events that unfolded on october 7. we did reach out to the school district for comment, but did not hear back. president biden is set to return to the bay area this thursday to fill up his

campaign coffers. biden is expected to attend back-to-back fundraisers. one of them reportedly at the home of the portola billionaire. on the other side of the country, stormy daniels back on the stand tomorrow and donald trump's hush money trial. and then the campaign of robert f. kennedy jr. confirmed today he had worms on the brain, literally. it came after a new york times reported about the presidential candidate running as an independent. times reporter saying a parasitic worm ate a part of kennedy's brain and may have caused cognitive issues. now the campaign said he did contract a parasite in his brain over a decade ago, but insists he's in robust physical and mental health. kennedy actually posted this online writing, "i offered to eat five more brain worms and still beat president trump and president biden in a debate." still ahead it is the crucial development that could

break a 1960s bay area cold case wide open. and then exotic cars, guns, and cash, the half a million dollar heist. well, this would either be a thrill or make your stomach turn. take your pick. people repelling down a san francisco skyscraper for a good cause. >> it's losing control. >> and it is not quite like interstellar, buena is a says this is what it would be like to get sucked into a black hole.

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tonight a cold case team in the north bay says dna helped them identify a homicide victim after more than five decades. now they're hoping the public could help fill in the missing pieces and offer up more answers. the sonoma county sheriff's department says the mystery started back in february of 1967. a woman's remains were found on the cliff off of highway 1 north of jenner. investigators couldn't figure out how she died. but in 2009 her body was exhumed with the help of the professor they discovered she was a white woman in her 40s who was murdered. flash forward to 2023, dna analysis identified her as lillian marie cardenas, born in 1928 and last known to have lived in san francisco.

before she died, lillian was known to be estranged. now sonoma sheriff's office says their cold case investigators are looking for any information about lillian's life or death. to piece together what happened to her. well it this picture looks like it could have been a piece of evidence in an action movie. well, that wasn't really the case. but what happened here is not too far off. this is one of the suspects involved in a half a million dollar heist that happened in fremont last night. two suspects broke into a porsche dealership, stole the cars off the showroom floor, driving them through the windows, and then they got away. police have arrested one of the suspects that they say they found high-capacity rifles, money, stone goods in his hayward home. the two stolen porsches have a combined value of $500,000. police were able to track down both cars, but one suspect is still at

large. all right, from that to things heating up in the bay area. boy, what a heist that is. and the warmest out of what we have seen so far for most of the bay area, though the warming trend kicks in. and it will warm it up. the flow of the air is going clockwise around it picking up the offshore winds in the bay area. that is also a warm and dry pattern. now the winds aren't that strong right now. early tomorrow morning, some of the higher elevations are going to get 30 to 40 miles an hour gusts right around sunrise is when those winds will peak. as we head towards noon, the winds will be more evenly distributed in terms of the gustier locations with a couple of spots in the north bay. but generally in that 15 to 20 miles an hour range, then the wednesdays will come down tomorrow afternoon. they will start to pivot. but the shore flow breeze will return after

high temperatures peaked in the low 80s tomorrow afternoon. we're going to drop by about 15, 20 degrees in the course of four to five hours, so it will be a rapid turnaround in the downward direction. not going downward, the pollen count. we have zero rain in the extended forecast. our pollen count will be locked in through the the end of the week where it is mulch. and the offshore winds will prevent the development of any cloud cover or fog, making the return by this time tomorrow. temperatures are slowly backing down, but still in the mid to upper 60s and the low 70s as of 11:00 p.m. we are only going to drop to the 50s in most locations by tomorrow morning. some of the breezier spots in the north bay staying at or above 60 degrees to start the day on thursday. it's a higher than normal jumping off point. temperatures from 10 to 20 degrees to the mid to upper 80s. it's not record setting,

but well above normal. inland in the east bay. these inland temperatures are actually going to be a couple degrees warmer on friday, while around the bay, these are the warmest temperatures that you'll get. down the peninsula, pushing the warmer air all the way to the coast. cooling off rapidly as will san francisco. oakland hitting the mid-80s. mid to upper 80s in the north bay on thursday. your temperatures were happening on friday. the ten-day temperature outlook for livermore. we're going to see temperatures still warm on saturday for inland parts of the bay area with low 80s continue happening on tuesday, wednesday next week. and that is. a long way down the line. let's take a look at the forecast. we'll start with the warmer spots inland. and then

we'll start to back down closer to normal temperatures. and the drop will send temperatures down to exactly average around the bay and along the coast. enjoy the temperatures in the low to mid-70s on friday. then you're back into the upper 60s. along the coast, your temperatures in the warmest. maybe even in the upper 50s by sunday and monday. and the fog, the low cloud cover is going to be doing its usual back and forth dance. the may gray is going to be back to some extent already on friday to a greater extent by sunday and monday. jules? >> paul, thank you. so could you stomach repelling down a skyscraper like a rock wall at the gym? well we met a couple who scaled one in san francisco and they say it is not their first rodeo. straight ahead in sports. the kid is 17 on top of the nhl world and he's not even in the

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all right, if you're afade of heights, this will probably make you a little queasy. people repelled down san francisco's union square today, climbing down on all 36 stories as if they were on a rock wall in a wind tunnel. it was put on by the group outward bound to raise money for school scholarships right here in the bay area. we met an engaged couple who said hey, they're getting mar rid on friday, and this isn't the first skyscraper they've scaled. >> this is actually been the most nerve-racking part of this week, but the wedding is okay. but this, i was most nervous for it. >> yeah. >> this is the third hotel that we've done. and oh my gosh, it

does not get easier. it was windy up there. the view up there is amazing. having him repel down with me made it more enjoyable. >> having him by her side. oh my goodness. vern, i did this once, raising money for special olympics. >> you were high like that? >> exactly. they're showing off by putting their hands out. i didn't do that. you could see windows in people's hotel rooms. >> at what point did you say to yourself whose idea was this? and did you say all right, i can make this? the whole way through i was scared. and i'm pretty tough, right, vern? >> yeah, you are. [ laughter ] >> i don't know why i said that. >> nicole, my other half, if you're watching, don't get any ideas. >> i did that one and done. >> our traditional ways to show my love. [ laughter ] >> actually, no, now we want to

have you show us your love. nicole, i'll give you a call. let's have him repel. all right, let's get some love to the giants. can we? this is more likely, a game at larger leads go to die. here came the giants, hello sailor. giants fans got a glimpse of this in denver. michael conforto, first pitch swinging in the second. turned into his sixth home run of the season. this was the start of a six-run inning for san francisco. next inning, blake sabel called up over the weekend because of injuries. he had a gaper, went for an rbi double. giving them a 7-1 lead where they held off at coors field, rockies comeback. winning eight-to, the record of 18-21. back in oakland, these kids skipped class? sat in for an

a's rangers game one of the double header. had a blast here with a six inning triple bit time he was running. the run scored. langilier with 3-4, five on the day. finishes shy of the cycle, just getting started as oakland won the first game 9-4. after a quick break, they played the second game. that fella again. along with folks, the bottom second, four out of there. they cannot keep garcia quiet. he'll double into left. the rbi up the ranger lead to 8-6. rangers led 12-7 going into the night. and oakland rallied to within a run, and you knew it was over as soon as they swung. they flew out and ended the game. texas held on

to win 2-11. they were 1821 of four out of five. jalen brunson missed the second quarter with an injury. came out on fire in the second half. hit from deep, gave new york a five-point lead in the fourth. brunson scored 24 out of the 29 points after half time and the knicks took easter and semi lead. game three is friday. nhl, the sharks have an opportunity to draft 17-year-old bay area product, macklin celebrini, with the top pick in next month's draft. his father, rick, is the warriors director of sports medicine. you figure it's been hard to contain himself. >> to have your son so close to

home would be phenomenal. >> any chance of him staying home with mom and dad? >> i can't see that happening. >> reporter: parents of teenagers know that i know his folks will get their own place. set, furnish the bed frame, show them how to separate the colors from the whites of the laundry, but who are we kidding? he'll go home and bring his laundry with him. >> mom, dad. from raising our kids, we know how nerve-racking decision times could be when it comes to colleges. we were in oakland looking for a day to celebrate the future. take a look. all right, today high school seniors at lighthouse community charter school cheered each other on as they announced where they will be pursuing higher education. one of those students is from east oakland. in the fall, he will be moving on to u.s. berkeley, the first

american generation college student. >> my jaw dropped. i was super excited and so were my friends. it means a lot to me and my family because they were going introduce it all and me and my sister to receive a higher education. so being able to go to the best in the world is meaningful to me. >> over the last 13 years, the moment walking up on the stage announcing he'll be attending berkeley felt like a distant dream until now. congratulations. >> wow. >> yeah. >> california golden bear. >> we know how hard it is to get into ucs and all that. oh my goodness. odds are we probably won't know what it is like to get sucked into a black

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i'd like to end the newscast with a question. vern, paul, have you ever wondered

what it would be like to get sucked into a black hole? >> yes, indeed i have. some picture you might feel like matthew ma conaughey i'm losing control of the stick. >> oh my. well, it doesn't look as dramatic as that. buena is a did release a new immersive black hole simulation showing what it would be like to get sucked into a super massive black hole. then slingshot it out. you can see here of the person perspective with the astronaut in the background. no return of the black hole and then a slingshot back out. the black hole is 4.3 million times the mass of our sun. the same size is the supermassive black hole at the heart of the milky way galaxy. now i find this, this looks

like nice art actually. >> yeah. >> it is pretty much a cool summer. there you go. you will leave me on a nice note there. wow. >> you wouldn't surprise that, by the way. >> me personally? >> any life form. [ laughter ] >> they make it look like it is so peaceful. i'm sure the radiation you're now wanting to date someone hit. but you're done. we're over as well. thank you for watching us. the late show with stephen colbert is next. news continues streaming on >> a little strange health news about a presidential candidate. robert kennedy opens up about health issues from a quote