patrick's day weekend. >> i know the access from 680 will be an issue. >> how the closure of 680 could slow you down. a doctor who left his own kids to help children in gaza hugs his own family for the first time in weeks, his emotional homecoming after seeing the devastation of the war firsthand. >> when i entered, i realized i was like entering an apocalyptic horror movie. unprecedented action just taken to oversee a scandal-plagued women's prison in the east bay. plus it is the hot ticket for spring break, a trip to see the rare total eclipse, why bay area stargazers are so excited. >> it is absolutely unforgettable. i would love to experience it again. >> reporter: and one of our producers paid attention to paul's forecast, oh, yes, and she had her kids vouch for her why she couldn't come to work today. >> my mom is having too much fun in tahoe. she can't come

into work today. bye. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> let's begin our newscast with an update to the breaking news we told you about in alameda. our chopper has been live above an active water rescue. we'll show you in a minute. police, fire, and the coast guard are looking for someone who may have gone under the water near the beach. an initial dive team came back unsuccessful. you can see alameda fire crews there on the jetty. they have tethered scuba teams that swam out looking for this person and a coast guard helicopter is circling above. the call first came in at about 4:30 this afternoon. at this point there's no word yet what this person was doing out in the bay or how they got stranded in the water, but you can see there is a wart water rescue happening as we speak. we'll follow this throughout

the newscast and hopefully there will be a positive outcome to this. in the meantime, a lot of people out by the water enjoying the sunshine today. we're heading into one of the few weekends this year without any rain in the forecast. the warm-up is in time for st. patrick's day and the official start of spring next week, but the nice weather also is running up against a major freeway closure, great. that's going to run through the weekend. caltrans is finally starting to repave the interstate, has a repaving project underway in preventton. that's been pushed back twice because of the rain. starting tonight at 9:00, a stretch of southbound 680 will be closed from the 580 connector to koopman road. various on and off ramps will also be shut down. wilson walker has been looking at this. he looks at the impact of the disruption on a weekend where we really want to just get out there. >> the city comes out in droves for this festival and we are

always delighted to have people come from far and wide. >> reporter: a lot of festivals have come and gone over the years, but dublin is about to host its 40th st. patrick's day celebration. >> this will be the tea cottage. >> reporter: sherry jackman says it's all systems go despite the big inconvenience looming just beyond the fairgrounds and they have been telling everybody about it. >> we've personally publicized this so that people are aware that this closure is happening. so we don't want any surprises. >> reporter: the closure will be southbound 680 from the 580 interchange all the way down to highway 84 for pavement resurfacing. that means the southern flow of traffic will be shut off all the way across pleasanton down to sunol. >> that's when everybody starts taking the backroads to the 84 calaveras. so we'll get a lot of traffic. >> reporter: anthony alvarado is expecting the backroads to get slammed this weekend. that is good news he says for sunol

corner's market. >> the weekend is usually our busiest time. so i can see a lot of people traveling trying to get where they're going and traffic's killing them. so they want to relax and take a breather. >> all entrances into dublin will be open. so people should come out. >> reporter: festival organizers are upbeat and not expecting problems. the closure is just the way luck would have it for the big 40th. >> right. they didn't ask us if they could close the freeway, but we're all in good spirits because this is such a fantastic weekend for us always. >> reporter: have fun. >> thank you. >> reporter: if you live in this area, you have seen the accumulation of equipment staged and ready to go. it's all up and down the interstate here and caltrans says this one weekend blitz will accomplish what would otherwise take 40 individual nighttime closures. so you're taking all your medicine at once here on the 680 corridor, all scheduled to

be completed by rush hour monday morning. >> oh, boy, let's hope. if you have a wedding or something to go to along 680, plan ahead, please. we have everything you need to know about the 680 closure and how to get around it on the front page of kpix.com. people were getting an early start to the weekend soaking in that sunshine. in fact, our photographer, alex montano, spotted some folks enjoying ice cream at the ma plaza in concord. >> we've got a trailer load of mulch we're bringing home for our rose garden. >> and also my grandson's first baseball game will be saturday. so we'll probably go there, too. >> that sounds like a nice weekend. looking out towards ocean beach, the coast will be a nice play to be this weekend. let's get right to chief meteorologist paul heggen with how warm it will get. hey, paul. >> it's nice and warm now, but

notice a change in the last hour or so. the half moon bay temperature was registering at 72 degrees at 5:00 and has dropped more than 10 degrees in the last hour because as the offshore winds have weakened, the marine influence has crept back in. we'll see more of that heading into the weekend, but most of our temperatures still running in the low to mid-60s across the bay area, tomorrow still a good 5 to 10 degrees above average, upper 60s around the bay with low to mid-70s farther inland, great weather for all the st. patrick's day festivities, including the parade tomorrow, low to mid-60s throughout the duration of the parade and a lot of festivities in dublin saturday and sunday, temperatures around or just above 70 degrees throughout the weekend. the nice weather doesn't last forever. a rain chance returns to the seven-day forecast. we'll look at that in a few minutes. a judge has just appointed a special master to oversee the scandal-plagued federal women's prison in dublin. this

is the first time a bureau of prisons facility has been placed under that kind of oversight. it comes after the fbi raided the prison on monday. the warden was ousted the same day after allegations his staff retaliated against an inmate who testified against the prison. this is all part of an ongoing years long probe into allegations of sexual abuse of inmates that ended in the prosecution of a former warden and several officers. it was certainly an emotional homecoming at sfo for a local doctor. look at that, big hugs. he was reunited with his family today after returning from gaza. we have followed his journey from the very beginning to offer much needed medical help on the gaza strip as israel's war with hamas rages on. he shared with us some very heartbreaking images that were quite difficult to see, but we feel it's important to show the devastation of the war. he reflected today on his weeks

long mission. >> reporter: an overwhelming welcome home after an even more overwhelming experience. >> i'm still trying to digest kind of all the images and everything i saw. so i apologize if it's disjointed, kind of physically and mentally exhausted. >> reporter: dr. mohammad subei is soaking in the first opportunity to hold his wife and sons after more than a month in gaza trying to save other people's loved ones in unimaginable conditions. >> i realized i was like entering an apocalyptic horror movie. images of kids with their brains blown out, it was just really -- it wasn't what

i -- its magnitude is more than what i expected and so i'm still trying to process what that means for all of us as a global community, allowing this to happen. >> reporter: he says he'll never forget the sounds of drones and planes buzzing overhead, the screams and the smell of charred flesh. he worked in a field hospital tending to injured civilians. they were set up to treat about 30 patients daily. this past week they saw almost 1,000 patients each day. mass casualties left the doctors color coding people determining if they had a chance at survival to receive care. >> we really worked with very scarce resources to be able to save lives, save limbs. i saw more dead babies in the past month than i've seen in my 12-year career in medicine. >> reporter: subei is a refugee himself who grew up in

the west bank and immigrated to los angeles. he says he was taught to use his individual gifts to benefit the world. so it was a no brainer to go to gaza despite the risk to his own life. >> i don't really go around life functioning out of fear because it paralyzes us to be able to do the things we need to do. >> reporter: he says while he feels so fortunate and relieved to see his family and friends again, there's another feeling as well. >> i do feel this deep sense of guilt that i left gaza and i left the people there that i've grown to really have a deep connection with and a love for. >> reporter: he saw in gaza will shape him for the rest of his life. >> i learned from this experience the importance of humanizing everyone around you because we've come to a state in our global society where it's easy to dehumanize the other person and that gives you a green light in many ways to

commit atrocities that you never imagined you would ever commit. >> reporter: when subei was asked if he would go back, he said absolutely, without hesitation, willing to risk it all again to help others. >> so glad he has time with his family, though, after that. israel has been under pressure to allow more aid into gaza. the united nations estimates a quarter of gaza's population is starving. today the first aid ship carrying much needed food arrived in gaza, 500,000 meals sent by the charity world central kitchen to be distributed to the war torn region. it is the first batch of aid gaza has received by sea since the war started. still ahead, skyrocketing rates, canceled policies, now a new plan to help the insurance crisis in california, what it could mean for our wallets. plus it won't happen in the u.s. for another couple decades. bay area stargazers are making travel plans to catch the full view of the total ellipse and that happens

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we've been reporting all the insurance companies pulling out of california. it's made it nearly impossible for many homeowners to find affordable coverage. now the state's insurance commissioner announced a plan to lure them back. he unveiled a proposal that would allow insurance companies to use models to predict future disasters like

wildfires and base their rates off of it. currently companies base their pricing on past losses and their rates are subject to approval under prop 103, but insurers say that doesn't work with the current reality of climate change. consumer watchdog found our harvey rosenfield is concerned about transparency. he says there's nothing in this proposal that allows public scrutiny to make sure consumers are getting a fair deal. >> when wall street and big insurance companies start talking about models and algorithms and software to replace the current system, hold onto your wallets because there would be no limit to what the insurance industry and the modeling firms will ask for if it can't be verified or justified. >> the department of insurance is taking public comment on this proposal before shaping the final regulation which could be ready by the end of the year. there is a lot of excitement building for next month's total solar eclipse,

but before you go and dust off your eclipse glasses, you're actually going to have to plan a trip to experience the full extent of this rare celestial event. brian hackney shows us why stargazers say it's worth it. >> reporter: meet a fellow cal poly physics grad. >> i'm an exhibit developer here at the exploratorium. >> reporter: she's got big plans for april 8th. when did you make reservations? >> not as early as i should have. >> reporter: katelyn and millions of others are headed to four minutes of darkness at midday, the total solar eclipse. >> that was the craziest thing i've ever seen. >> that was absolutely amazing. i'm at a loss for words. >> reporter: they are talking about the 2017 total eclipse, which was dr. noah pitro's first. >> i found it was remarkable

how many people kind of didn't get what the big deal was until they got what the big deal was and then it was amazing. >> it was just fantastic. >> it is absolutely unforgettable. i would love to experience it again. >> reporter: that chance is coming april 8th. for the last time in decades the sun and moon will be in perfect alignment to cast a shadow 115 miles wide where a total eclipse will touch down off the coast, touch the border in texas and sweep up through new england into the canadian maritimes. 43million people live within that path of totality. from the san francisco bay area we will not see totality, correct? >> that is correct. about 30 to 35%, 34% of an eclipse. it's a nice nudge reminder that we are in this nice dynamic environment between earth, the moon, and the sun, but you've got to be in the path of

totality to really i think feel it. >> the partials are cool. the totality is amazing, like, actual amazement. >> reporter: at this point airfare to totality is hovering around $1,000. of course, you could drive for 25 hours. for four minutes of totality. is there anything like it? >> no, nothing like it at all. i would want to see as many total solar eclipses as i possibly can in my life. >> reporter: so let's hope this doesn't happen. it's a long wait until 2045, when the next total solar eclipse makes landfall in the u.s. >> if you haven't seen it, you haven't seen anything. >> get your popcorn ready. while we are on the topic,

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look at this video, a beautiful day to play hooky in the snow. our 7:00 producer, sophie, had the right idea. she sent us this snow report from truckee on her day off. her kids, stella and joe, are having a lot of fun tubing and stella did a good job explaining why her mom just couldn't come to work today. >> hi, guys. my mom is having too much fun in tahoe. she can't come to work today. bye. >> okay. bye. >> okay, bye, got to go. >> to her credit, she did ask for the day off and to your credit, she listened to your report. it's the first good weekend for travel. i guess last weekend was okay getting up there, but when's the last time we had two consecutive good travel weekends to take advantage of all that snow. >> what a day. thank you, stella, for being our news reporter. >> watch it with the spins

there. don't want anybody in the car ride on the way home having any issues. >> kids are resilient. adults aren't. >> exactly. more sunshine in store for the bay area. we'll continue the mild temperatures, maybe not quite as warm as today. we're going to feel the winds continuing to die down through the rest of this evening. they've backed off significantly, a trend that will continue the next several hours, dry, mild weather all weekend. the marine influence will return along the coast, but even though you have some morning cloud cover, you'll see plenty of afternoon sun. this nice weather pattern sticks around through the middle of next week before rain chances return by the end of next week. there is a rain chance in the seven-day forecast, but not the next few days. there's that little bit of marine layer starting to reform along the coast tomorrow, creeps inside the bay to begin the day sunday, makes its way into the inland valleys to begin the day monday, but it backs up to the coast very quickly each day. we should see plenty of sun and temperatures will still be above average

across the board as we head into the second to the last full week of march. looking at temperatures now mostly still low to mid-70s, below 70 just barely in livermore, san francisco still 72 degrees after a high of 73. today was the warmest day in the city since november. it's been a long stretch of cooler temperatures. tomorrow will be pleasant. temperatures tonight will drop down to mid-to upper 40s to around 50 degrees and then will warm up to the mid-70s in san jose. most locations inland will reach the low 70s. it's a slight step back from the widespread mid-70s we had today, but it's not bad for march 16th , low 60s along the coast and half moon bay. that's the spot. all the coastal locations you'll see the biggest change, low 70s today, about 10 degrees cooler tomorrow with the light onshore breeze kicking back in, upper 60s in san francisco and

oakland and mostly low 70s inland in the north bay. let's look at the ten-day temperature trend after we look at the dog walking forecast, can't forget hercules. he is an adoptable dog from the east county animal shelter in dublin. that black fur will soak up plenty of sunshine tomorrow. it's nice to be the bearer of good news, a dry forecast for the weekend, temperatures in dublin reaching around 70 degrees. if you have room in your home for an adoptable pet, i think this lab mix will be very happy to meet you. let's check out the ten-day temperature trend. inland we're well above normal through the middle of next week and then a shift back to slightly below normal temperatures by the end of the week into the following weekend associated with a wetter than normal pattern. this is the six to ten-day outlook through the following weekend also associated with a longer stretch of cool weather that likely lasts closer to the end of march. enjoy the dry, mild weather this weekend. here's the inland forecast over the

next seven days. we have temperatures in the low to mid-70s through wednesday next week and then some additional cloud cover and the chance of rain for the very last day of the seven-day forecast. at this point it looks like light to moderate rain showers the most likely scenario friday. it's the very last day of the seven-day outlook. a lot can change. along the coast you wouldn't be as warm as today but a little bit above normal through monday and tuesday and back down to around or slightly below 60 degrees when the rain chances return next friday. >> not clapping for that, but do like the weekend. >> at least we have a nice long stretch of dry weather in progress. still ahead, some positive sports news, how soccer could bring new energy to the coliseum next year.

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year with the oakland roots and the oakland soul playing their home games there in 2025. the oakland roots is a pro soccer team that plays in the usl one division below major league soccer and the oakland soul plays in the women's league. for now the teams are playing home games at cal state east bay and merritt college. soccer matches kick off next march, a couple months after the lease with the oakland a's is to expire. we have a name for that cute, cute rescue cub we told you about yesterday. the oakland zoo announced voters have chosen the name tiger lily. the name is lily but like a tiger lily. she won't stay at the zoo once she's fully recovered. she'll move to a facility where lily can hang out with the big cats. cbs news is next. we're back in 30 ♪ ♪ >> tornado! >> major: tonight, the trails of destruction. >> oh, no. >> major: state of emergency