shortages of life saving medicine. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. we begin with new developments in the effort to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. the county registrar announced a manual count to be put to vote and both sides are proclaiming this a victory. >> reporter: the head of the elections officer said they took a random sample of the signatures that were turned in, about 5%, but the result came back inconclusive. from the small sample they could not be sure there were enough valid signatures, so now they'll manually hand count all of the signatures. this east bay mother volunteered and collected signatures to recall district attorney pamela price. >> i'm okay with that delay

for them to get it right. >> reporter: patricia harris is used to waiting. she said she's still waiting for justice over the killing of her son, jaron purvis who was working at apple and getting his master's degree at the time of his death. she said the man convicted was released after serving 2 1/2 years. >> had pamela price not come in, we would have gotten some form of justice. there would have been some form of justice served, but when you take away a gun enhancement, you take away ten years. >> reporter: harris and recall organizers accuse price of being soft on crime. they turned in over 123,000 signatures earlier in the month. they need roughly 73,000 valid signatures to trigger a recall election. opponents of the recall say this delay is good news for d.a. price. >> this is a major failure on the side of the folks that have been pushing this recall. >> reporter: william fitzgerald is the spokesman for protect the win campaign. >> in their year long campaign

was there any there there and it's clear that there wasn't. it's clear they're having trouble to meet the threshold. >> reporter: carl chan, a recall organizer, is confident they'll have more than enough valid signatures. >> not only that we're not worried, we're actually celebrating, you know, the counting is about to be done and so we can actually maybe saving some time for any legal, you know, claims that they can have. >> reporter: while price supporters say the d.a. is reforming the criminal justice system and holding people accountable, harris says getting rid of price would make alameda county safer. she doesn't want another family to go through her pain. >> his best friend's getting married in a couple of weeks. so we'll go to that, but we'll never see him get married. we'll never have grandkids by him and that hurts. >> reporter: the election's office has already started the counting process. they have 30 days. we should know the results by mid-april. >> and the price campaign is demanding the secretary of state investigate the

signatures over claims of fraudulent and deceptive collection efforts. in the march 5th primary alameda county voters passed a measure to reform how the city handles recall elections. measure b will bring the process in line with state guidelines. it would eliminate the requirement signature gatherers live in the county and changes the threshold needed to get a recall on the ballot. nearly four years after the murder of an oakland federal court officer, an accomplice of that shooter has been sentenced to life in prison. robert alvin justice drove the van while another man shot at a security booth during an attack that took place in 2020. officer david underwood died in that shooting. another officer was wounded. both attackers had ties to the right wing anti-government boogaloo movement. a federal judge did not believe justice's claim he had been coerced and threatened into participating in that attack. in san francisco nima momeni, the man accused of killing tech executive bob lee, was back in the courtroom. his

defense wanted to move the trial out of san francisco, but today a judge denied the request. momeni's attorneys are still trying to get access to lee's cell phone records. lee was found stabbed to death in san francisco's rincon hill last april. a trial date is set for may 20th. 33 new cameras will go up across san francisco early next year to catch speeding drivers on some of the busiest streets. here's a map of some of the locations, including areas in north beach, van ness and soma. officials say these cameras will help curb speeding, traffic crashes, injuries, and deaths. drivers caught speeding will get a ticket, but it's unclear how much those fines will cost. the cameras are part of a statewide safety pilot program. oakland and san jose will also install speed cameras. a major traffic alert in the east bay, in just hours a section of southbound 680 in pleasanton will shut down. crews will be replacing

pavement that is falling apart from the 580 connector to koopman road. the closure will start at 9:00 tonight. the area is set to reopen by 4:00 a.m. on monday. turning to weather now, beautiful day to end the workweek where we found people out in concord today basking in the sunshine and enjoying those warm temperatures. >> having an ice cream cone and enjoying the beautiful weather. >> we've been doing yardwork. so yeah, we're doing all the sun things that we have been wanting to do. >> first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen joining us now, knowing if we'll see more of the same for the weekend. i could use an ice cream cone right now, too. >> that sounds good. it will be even better as we head into the weekend because the windy conditions are in the process of relaxing as we speak. we'll keep the mild temperatures and get rid of the strong offshore wind. current wind speeds, there are still some pockets where it's a bit breezy, especially inland in the north

bay and into solano county and a few pockets of gustier winds in the oakland hills and diablo range. the winds die down the rest of tonight. today low to mid-70s across the entire bay area and along the coast at half moon bay. we forecast a high in the upper 60s, which is aggressive for this time of year. you beat that getting into the low 70s. tomorrow we won't be quite as warm, but still nice. the onshore influence is going to try to return, but still 5 to 10 degrees above average by tomorrow afternoon, looking spectacular for all of the events happening across the bay area, including wings over solano at the travis air force base this weekend, high temperatures around fairfield in the low to mid-70s both saturday and sunday. we'll fill in the rest of the weekend forecast in a few minutes. >> thanks, paul. a live look at the state capitol where governor gavin newsom will not deliver his state of the state address as scheduled. the governor's office told us the speech planned for monday has been pushed back to an undetermined date. this all comes as governor newsom's plan to

overall the state's drug and mental health treatment system is still hanging on by a razor thin margin. prop 1 is leading by about 20,000 votes out of more than 6.5 million ballots counted. many experts expected the measure to pass with relative ease. i'm anne makovec with more on a move that could change the real estate game in the u.s. it could soon cost homeowners a lot less to sell. the national association of realtors agreed to slash its 6% commission to settle a slew of lawsuits. the allegation that the association's fee structure harms competition and leads to higher prices with the home seller often helping to pay the buyer's broker. we heard from one of the plaintiffs in a class action suit. >> certainly i didn't understand why i was paying for someone who i'd never met, will never meet and wasn't doing anything for me. >> the court determined the current commission model makes it difficult for sellers and buyers to negotiate lower fees at a time when technology makes

it easy for anyone to access real estate listings online. today's agreement still has to be approved by a court and the losers in all this could be real estate agents in the u.s. who could see their $100 billion annual commission pool shrink by about one-third. >> thanks, anne. what was once an empty pg&e land in novato could soon become home of a major affordable housing development. that utility is donating the land to habitat for humanity which will oversee the project to construct 80 homes and several acres of parks and open space. pg&e had intended to use the land to make a service center, but that project was never completed. habitat for humanity says once the 100% affordable housing development is completed, it will be the state's largest ever. still ahead, salmon brought from a california museum a century ago are still thriving

today. >> in the last decade they've been hit by the one-two punch of climate change, disruptive heatwaves, dryness through extreme drought. and yet another problem with a plane taking off from sfo this afternoon as boeing issues a new warning to airlines. normally we handle about 500 of those cases a year. last year we handled over 800. the. >> a bay area shelter can't handle any more animals, why more pets are being given up than ever before.

more than 100 years ago chinook salmon from a river near the shasta dam ended up in the cold mountain waters of new zealand. they continue to thrive to this day. now there's a new question to bring the ancestors of those fish back home thanks to a new grant. anne makovec has details on this project in today's project earth. >> reporter: it is a 300-mile journey that traces the

ancestral path of the winter run chinook salmon from the mccloud river to the pacific ocean. the annual pilgrimage is led by the winamum tribe and its chief. the tribe has never wavered from a core belief. >> whatever happens to the salmon happens to the people. >> reporter: salmon populations are a fraction of what they once were and climate change plays a role. >> in the last decade they've been hit by the one-two punch of climate change, disruptive heatwaves, dryness through extreme drought. >> reporter: chuck bonham heads up the california department of fish and wildlife. he says the summer of 2021 was a grim one for the salmon. >> we were in the midst of the peak of our most recent severe drought and these fish are now trapped down on the valley floors and the valley floors are much hotter. water that's too hot is lethal for salmon. >> reporter: california's fish and wildlife just awarded $50 million in grants for 15

projects. one involves the tribe's attempts to restore wild salmon to the mccloud river. >> it's the right thing to do and it will help us figure out how to save salmon in california. >> so they're in a dire position now and may go extinct if this project that we're involved with isn't successful. >> reporter: sisk recounts how the problem first began with the shasta dam. while the dam provides flood control, hydroelectric power, and water supplies -- >> it is a weapon of mass destruction to me. >> reporter: built during world war ii, shasta dam flooded the winamum tribe off their ancestral land and blocked the chinook from returning to the icy cold mccloud river to spawn. in 1994 these fish were federally listed as endangered. the tribe held protests. then chief sisk got an email. >> do you want your salmon back? we have them.

>> reporter: that email was from the head of the mauri people in new zealand. in the 19th century it turns out millions of salmon eggs from the mccloud river were exported to 30 states and 14 different countries to create new salmon runs. the only one that thrived is the one in new zealand. sisk and other tribal members traveled to see the fish and became determined to bring some back home to the mccloud. >> we want to welcome them home. >> what better way to try to heal past injuries and show the world it's possible to do things together and make it better. >> reporter: in a historic agreement the tribe is now working with fish and wildlife and noaa fisheries to support a joint effort to return the salmon to the mccloud. sisk believes the wild salmon eggs will fare better than those hatched near the dam. >> the salmon survive, people will survive. if we can get a

volitional passage from the sacramento river past the dam so that fish can swim in and out on their own, then we have wild fish again. >> reporter: the hope? to get them home safely as soon as possible. >> and the tribe will also use the grant money to help establish a new passage for the salmon to return to the mccloud river and bypass the shasta dam. for more information on all of our project earth stories and how you can help protect the planet, go to our website at kpix.com. check this out. a full-on twister made its way through this heisman's property. that's pretty scary right there. it tipped over a fuel truck, ripping on off a garage door before getting dangerously close to his home. that tornado was part of a series of deadly storms in the midwest yesterday, killing at least three people, leaving hundreds more damaged homes. some forecasters there say these storms could be an indicator of an even bigger tornado season for that area running from april through june.

this is footage from santa ana where high winds blew a tree right off of its hinges. you can see the tree being torn right out of the sidewalk falling right over into a neighboring home. this was around 3:30 in the morning, a shocking wake-up call for the homeowners. pictures show it completely penetrated the roof of that garage, but luckily, the family and the rest of that house were unscathed. let's check in with first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen. that wind was really gusting and blowing up and down the bay area, but hopefully that's going to taper down a bit. >> yeah. the winds have started to die down already this afternoon and will continue through this evening. past sunset the wind won't be a factor at all. it's not going to be a factor as we head into the weekend. the difference in the amount of air to our north and to our southeast is beginning to narrow and that means it's not as strong of pressure gradient, the difference in the amount of atmosphere place to play and

the winds won't be as strong. futurecast shows clear skies tonight. a little bit of marine influence is returning the low clouds to the coast and some fog will make an intrusion into the inland valleys sunday morning and monday morning, but each day it will back up out of the valleys and we should see plenty of sunshine the first half of next week. we'll be at pretty much full capacity for solar electricity generation the next couple days, over the weekend towards the top of the scale making the most of the 12 hours of daylight as we approach the spring equinox tuesday. seeing plenty of sunshine from salesforce tower, clear skies overhead, clear view of mount diablo, low to mid-70s for everyone, temperatures running a good 10 to 12 degrees above average for most of the bay area today. we won't be quite this warm tomorrow, but it's going to be another unseasonably mild day after a pretty close to normal start tomorrow morning, temperatures mostly mid- to upper 40s, some of the warmest spots around 50 degrees to begin the day saturday, everybody within about 3

degrees of average for mid-march. tomorrow's forecast high temperatures are back up to 75 degrees in san jose, the warm spot across the region, only 71 for los gatos and morgan hill. temperatures inland in the east bay reaching the low 70s, 70 degrees down the peninsula in redwood city. the big drop is along the coast. the marine influence drops you from the low 70s in half moon bay today to the low 60s tomorrow. san francisco retreats to the upper 60s and temperatures in the north bay reaching up to or just above 70 degrees tomorrow afternoon. inland parts of the bay area hold onto the warmth the next several days. this is the ten-day temperature outlook for san jose. there's ups and downs on a day-to-day basis, but we stay in the lower half of the 70s most of the next six days and then we drop off. that drop is associated with an unsettled weather pattern that will send the next rain chance in the bay area. the six to ten-day outlook shows a pretty

good chance of wetter than normal conditions and the eight to 14-day outlook shows a chance of below normal temperatures. let's look at the seven-day forecast. we'll start with inland parts of the bay area with the low to mid-70s through the middle of next week and drops back closer to average thursday and friday. it is the last day of the seven-day forecast we start to bring the chance for some rain showers. six more days to go in this dry stretch of weather which means the pollen count will be sky high as we head through the weekend. we'll look at that closer at 5:30. just enjoy a very pleasant st. patrick's day weekend, a little cooler along the coast, but low to mid-60s the next several days. are i don't think too many people will complain. you'll dip down back to the upper 50s by the next rain chance a week from today. >> thank you. we have breaking news right now, chopper 5 over a water rescue in progress. this is happening now in the city of alameda on tide way. there's a

rescue boat, some kind of pontoon and kayak just outside the city of alameda out towards san francisco bay. you can see there's an active water rescue. we have crews on the way and we'll have more information as we get that in right here on kpix and on kpix.com. up next, a plea for help, the staff in an overcrowded bay area animal shelter have a message for current and potential pet owners. >> we're jammed full. we have no room, but if you are having difficulty, like maybe there's some way we can help you. first it was kias and hyundais. now thieves are targeting a classic american car, the new warning from law enforcement.

it's a critical time for san francisco animal care and control as well as other shelters all around the bay area as they do their best to take on a national problem, overcrowding. they have reached capacity for the number of dogs they can take in and a major reason why they're dealing with this challenge, millions of dogs and cats across the country have not been spayed and neutered. that delay built up during the pandemic. our shawn chitnis explains how you can help shelters right now.

>> reporter: it's easy for these faces inside san francisco animal care and control to steal your heart, but right now they need some extra love. >> we're over capacity. so we have animals available for adoption. we'd love for people to adopt them, but we're also packed full of stray animals and a group we call custody animals. >> reporter: virginia donahue is the executive director of sf animal care and control. she explains custody animals are those at the shelter because of a family emergency. >> normally we handle about 500 of those cases a year. last year we handled over 800 and this year we're on track to repeat that number. so that's way, way more animals that we're used to. >> reporter: that only adds to the increase they're seeing from a drop in spayed and neutered animals. during the pandemic veterinary care went down and surgeries were delayed. it's not just affecting dogs. they're taking in twice the number of bunnies

they would see over six months, even more guinea pigs as well. they're asking anyone thinking of surrendering an animal to check for additional help first. >> we're jammed full. we have no room, but if you are having difficulty, like maybe there's some way we can help you and your pet stay together. >> reporter: it's worth remembering the animals are here because there was an issue with the people taking care of them. virginia says there's nothing wrong with the animals and you can take the word of any of her employees who brought at least one of them home. >> i don't think you can find anybody in this building who hasn't adopted from here. >> reporter: that's what makes the job so rewarding and keeps her going even in tough times, purpose driven work that can truly have a positive impact on everyone. >> you get to help a lot, a lot of san francisco animals and in conjunction with that, you also end up helping a lot of people. up next at 5:00, coral reefs are vanishing at an alarming rate, why the destruction could have implications far beyond the

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right now at 5:30, the a's may be leaving town, but it looks like the coliseum won't sit empty next year, today's big vote. apple will pay nearly half a million dollars over allegations it deceived its investors, the settlement announced today. plus a noaa scientist warning coral reefs could face the world's worst ever bleaching event. the australian government announced last week a widespread coral bleaching event is happening now across the great barrier reef. bleaching means the coral is under stress from things like warming ocean temperatures and pollution. these ecosystems not only provide food and economic security to millions of people, but as cbs news correspondent tom hanson shows us, saving these habitats could also save lives. >> here he comes. >> reporter: audrey lindsay loves dogs. >> put it right here. you do it.

>> reporter: and playing doctor. >> good job. it goes beep, beep. >> reporter: when did you learn that she was battling cancer? >> she woke up on january the 3rd with a really bad bloody nose. about two, three days later they did more testing and found out that she had aml. >> reporter: acute myeloid leukemia or aml is an aggressive form of blood cancer. >> it's a lot. it has its hard days and it has its good days. >> reporter: audrey immediately started treatment at cook children's hospital in fort worth, texas. >> this is the medication that is one of the backbones of the chemotherapy that she receives. she couldn't be cured without this medicine. >> reporter: and neither could most of the estimated 500,000 americans living with leukemia. sitarabine prevents cancer cells fr