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talented musicians are bringing a different kind of sound to your local station. ♪ [ music ] ♪ from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. hello, happy pre-friday. i'm sara donchey. it's been so nice outside this week. lots of sun and warmth, and darren had to come in here and give us the news. man, i want to shake you, but i know i'll be dismissed from the premises. >> there's a safe room to take out your aggression on the meteorologists. but we had nine days where we didn't get rained on. >> and finally when we start to see the weekend coming rain. >> that's the downer. the timing is it's weekend rain, it starts tomorrow. let's show you what's coming our way. looking at live first alert doppler, there's one thing i want you to see off the coast. watch that spark of lightning

effect. i'll go back and stop it right there. that was right about 10:00 tonight. the only reason we're looking at that is because it's proof that this system has the ability to produce lightning and thunder already. when we fill in the rest of the story, you can see where the rest of the storm is. that's arriving late tomorrow morning and will march across the rest of the bay tomorrow afternoon and evening tomorrow. you can see the areas highlighted on here by the storm prediction center that show you where the possibility for thunderstorms are pretty much includes the entire bay. that's saturday. from that it can produce rain for the friday evening commute, but once that line clears, then there's two more days of this system. i'm just going to let that play, and you can see how it just

kind of goes on again and off again. there will be plenty of times you're not getting rained on over the weekend, but it's not until the last car in the train leaves sunday evening. there's a lot more detail to look at on this. we'll do that coming up in the complete forecast. i'll see you with that in just a few minutes. >> darren, thank you so much. when it comes to california's homeless crisis, just about the only thing everyone can agree on is that nobody can agree on how to solve it. the governor's plan to inject more than $6 billion into housing, addiction, and mental health services passed with a razor thin margin. here in the bay area, the tenderloin has been the epicenter of those struggles, but one man is shining a light on its most precious commodity, it's people. >> reporter: while many photographers have documented

the hardships of those living on the gritty streets of the tenderloin, amos gregory takes a different approach, actually inviting them into his studio. >> taking someone who's never had, you know, the opportunity to have these lights in front of them, and within five minutes, you know, you've got this professional model that's posing for you. >> reporter: for the last couple of months, amos has photographed dozens of locals hoping to capture the tender side of the tenderloin. for most of his subjects, this is the first time they've ever sat for a professional portrait. >> smiles and expressions that, you know, you didn't think they had in them start to come out. >> reporter: his goal is to refocus the neighborhood's narrative by showcasing the dignity and resilience of this often overlooked community.

54-year-old cory pounders lives in an alley just around the corner with his two-year-old dog goldie. he's been homeless on and off for two decades, and like many in the tenderloin, his bed is the sidewalk. living on the streets, he says, has made him invisible to others. but not today. >> it's nice to get a little attention. get yourself out there, you know? >> reporter: in addition to the pictures, amos also records two minute videos of his subjects telling their life stories. >> you see so much stuff on the streets, man. you see so much poverty. >> reporter: the hope, amos says, is to eventually plaster these photos all over the neighborhood. >> be nice to have community members walk down the street and see themselves featured prominently in a positive light. >> reporter: proving that even in the darkest alleys there's always a flash of humanity.

>> amos is also behind the tenderloin project known as veterans alley where military veterans are invited to decorate murals. city supervisors actually recently voted to rename shannon street veterans alley. now we go to cupertino where the feds are accusing apple of building a mote around its fortress to keep a strangle hold on the smart phone market. the doj just slapped them with a antitrust lawsuit, and it's even pointing the finger at the dreaded green bubbles bubbles that pop up when you try to text an android. >> reporter: walk down any town usa, and you'll notice most people have an iphone in their hand. art is one of them. >> i much prefer the iphone because it's easy. >> reporter: easy to use, but the department of justice is playing hard ball with the tech giant. the government announced

a sweeping antitrust lawsuit calling apple's ecosystem a monopoly. the california attorney general says more than a dozen states have joined the suit. >> to take down the mote that we discussed so that we are not locking in customers. >> reporter: one example, he says, apple blocks cross messaging apps. this video is being recorded on an iphone. we sent it as a text message to an android user, and for that recipient, the sound and video quality is not the same. ruth banks says she runs into that problem because she's an iphone user, but her son isn't. >> it won't go to his phone and show up. >> reporter: the government says apple also limits third party digital wallets, prevents smart watch compatibility, and disrupts cloud streaming services. samsung user justin simply doesn't like the way apple does business. >> i think it's the ecosystem as well as the way things are so proprietary. >> reporter: ara says he

expects devices easy to use. >> my grandparents had androids and couldn't use them, but iphones were much easier. >> probably no surprise, but apple is coming out swinging against the suit saying it threatens to stifle innovation and saying it would set a dangerous precedent allowing government to take a heavy hand in designing technology and they get the facts wrong. these two beer buddies won't let cold weather and a serious lack of sleep won't stop them from carrying out a tradition. >> you don't want to get out of the sleeping bag. >> we meet the men who are always first in line. and what these kids found while playing in the woods is the kind of discovery a scientist could hang their hat on for the rest of their career. and in sports, question for you, how is your ncaa basketball bracket doing on the first day of march madness? like the old wide world of sports says, the thrill of

victory and the agony of defeat. and we all laughed at meteorologist darren peck, but it turns out he might have the last laugh after all

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the bay area. the pliny pilgrimage is legendary among beer fans in northern california and well beyond that. every year people line up for hours in front of russian river brewing's multiple outposts to get their happens on pliny the younger. it will be on tap at 11:00 a.m. people are already waiting right now in the cold and dark, including these two friends who told our andrea nakano they make it their mission to be first in line every year. >> reporter: lindsey and donovan won't say exactly when they got here today. that's because they don't want anyone trying to beat them for that honor to be the first ones to sip this year's pliny the younger. lindsey and donovan have made this their yearly tradition. >> i've been first in line for i can't remember how long now. >> reporter: year after year, these two bring their fold out chairs and wait hours, even in rainy weather.

>> at some point i decided okay, i'll be first in line. i just do that. it's a stupid thing. you have to do one stupid thing on purpose i figure, so this may be that. >> reporter: while it's lindsey and donovan this year, in the past it was the three musketeers. >> three years ago manny was with us, but he passed away. he's probably number six. so this is a manny memorial. >> reporter: while these two continue to grieve the loss of a friend, they have been through a lot individually. lindsey lost his house in the tubbs fire, was diagnosed with cancer during covid, and continues to battle health issues. >> i just did back surgery about six months ago and had a hernia operation last tuesday. so you got to have stuff like this to like, you know, a little sugar with whatever that other stuff is. >> reporter: that sugar is what these two consider liquid gold on tap. >> to me it's the best beer in

the world. >> reporter: and while the temperatures dip overnight, making sitting in these chairs a bit chilly. >> around 3:00 in the morning, you don't want to get out of your sleeping bag. >> reporter: the waiting is only part of the story. it's the bond that developments over a shared experience knowing nothing in life lasts forever. >> life is short, so do something you enjoy. okay, i mentioned in the last visit with sara that including today, we've gone nine days without getting rain. if you want to find a stretch that long, you have to go all the way back to the middle of december for the last time we did that. now, all of the sudden, in this seven-day forecast alone, four of the days have rain on them. we'll spend most of this visit talking about these three, friday, saturday, and sunday. but look at the end. another one is coming wednesday. more on that at the end of this. but it's the friday system i want to talk about at this point because that friday system, that rain really isn't going

to get going until we get into the late morning for the north bay and afternoon for the rest of us. for the first part of tomorrow, you don't get rained on. look at the daytime high in san jose. you hit 70. everyone else low to mid-60s. by saturday everyone is close to ten degrees cooler than the numbers you're seeing now. because this is a cold front that will sleep across through the second half of the day tomorrow bringing the numbers down. let's get into the details on the timing and a closer view and slower look at how it goes tomorrow. i mentioned it really doesn't start going in the north bay until tomorrow morning right there. there's the cold front. when we get to commute time, it gets a little more impressive. so for all those communities down like 280, 101 through santa clara valley, and then 680 and 580, this is going to be some of the better rain here through the later hours of the friday evening commute. whether you're trying to get

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>> is anybody ever heard of the oakland golden grizzlies? >> i hadn't, i had colgate going pretty far. which reminds you of me, but darren knew something about oakland that we didn't. >> all right. whoa. i don't know anything about the oakland golden grizzlies, other than i just wanted the word oakland to get the win. >> not only in your final four but going all the way? >> i want oakland to get a win. that's all i had on this. >> this tiny commuter school outside of detroit, going all the way. >> they took the first step today. >> they did, they did. when

oakland was one of the survivors, every year, something happens, the first or second round, upsets in this ncaa tournament. halfway home on the first round, and, this 14th seed shook up the tournament. and 13 1/2 point favorites to take out oakland university, the golden grizzlies, did not back down, and, at the five minute mark, they put this team up from detroit, they made 10 threes in the game. the cats fought back, and rob billingham, and kentucky within one. and the next possession. the grizzlies trying to hang on. and dq cole, onions, the 14th seed, oakland, knocked off kentucky, 80-76. and, the first win, and school history, they will get north carolina state, in the second round on saturday. former coach, kyle smith, at

washington state for the first tournament, since 2008 . and two minutes to go, down by one. isaiah wants, burying a three. putting them up in front. 40 seconds left, the bulldogs down by two. and a bad time for a turnover, out of bounds, and washington state. won this one 66-61, they will play iowa state in the second round, and the pac-12 is now 4-0, in this tournament. tomorrow night, and the last scheduled game of the first round, saint mary's will face grand canyon, in familiar territory. and, for the third straight year, they will take on the antelopes, in spokane, washington. former saint mary's biggest rival, gonzaga, not getting a lot of support this week up there.

>> it is great to finally be here, and not have to think about gonzaga for once. >> it is good to be back in spokane. rebuffed on a happy note. >> that rivalry is real out here. it only took is a little bit of time to realize how serious it is. >> we were the same on the way in, and all of the kids were out chanting to be to saint mary's. >> it was cool. >> we are all undefeated on the road, so let's hope we can see more fans. >> saint mary's in enemy territory, and in spokane, but you know what i think they got this one over the pesky antelopes, from grand canyon. >> byrne knows all. we appreciate it. normally when we talk about a subway series, the giants are playing the oakland a's but this is not that. -- why bart is inviting musicians of all ages to help people take on - temperatures cooling down as we head into the weekend and stronger onshore...

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all right, i'm going to tap into my mom wisdom, although limited. i know for a fact that kids like to play in the dirt. for whatever reason, they love it and gravitate towards it. a group of kids playing in the santa cruz mountains became amateur archaeologists when they made an ancient discovery that surprised even professionals. >> you are building a dam and looking for crawdads in the mud and pulling things out and one of them comes up like this isn't a stick, this is a bone. >> i didn't think it was a stick. >> they were right, it was a fossilized arm bone from a ground sloth. the students at the redwood school founded last spring and brought it to the museum. it is from a jefferson's ground sloth. what the heck is that you mark whatever it is. i can identify

with that on weekends, waking up in the morning. it used to walk on all fours and stand on hind legs, as opposed to the usual lazy slots. assigned to say this is the first evidence that has been found that the agent sloth lived in santa cruz county. at this point, they figured it walked between 11,500 3000 years ago. kind of a big range, but meanwhile, the kids say they have some work to do. -- >> does this make you want to look for more stuff like this? >> we are trying to. we are trying to find the rest of the skeleton if it is out there. >> oh, that is so cute. >> from the mouth of the kids. >> pretty insane but looking for crawdads in the mud, as a childhood thing, sounds fun. crawdads? >> you have to start somewhere. >> all three of us could out run that sloth.

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