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right now at 5:30, executives will pay the price for a company's recent struggles. a federal judge in san francisco handing elon musk a big loss today in court. plus
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the family of two brothers killed at a party in berkeley calling out the alameda district attorney pamela price. two years ago angel and j.c. sotelo garcia were shot to death allegedly by a 17-year-old suspect. >> that suspect is now over 18. the d.a. decided to keep the case in juvenile court. the family of the victims tells our da lin it's the wrong decision. >> reporter: a year and a half after the shooting emotions are still raw for the victims' family. melanie garcia misses her cousins angel and j.c. every day. >> sometimes i feel like i'm going crazy because i feel like i see them in like the crowd. >> reporter: melanie was extremely close to the two boys. she says the killings tore apart the family and they'll never be the same. >> christmases and every other
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holiday does not feel complete, like we try, but their absence is felt greatly. >> reporter: she says they're serving a life sentence of grief. >> the defendant has not been sentenced yet. so seven years is the max that he can get. he could get one or he could get none. >> reporter: melanie says about ten days ago district attorney pamela price decided to keep the suspect in the juvenile court system. the family pleaded with price to charge the suspect as an adult. the suspect was 17 years old at the time. he's accused of killing 15-year-old angel and 17-year-old j.c. at a birthday party in oakland in october 2022. gunfire also injured additional teenagers. police say the brothers were innocent victims. they were students at berkeley high. >> you cannot hold someone to the same standards when they're a teenager as you would an adult. >> reporter: george galdiz is
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the executive director of dream beyond bars. he's personally met the suspect. he and his staff are working to turn the young man's life around. >> prisons are not the answer. the safest communities don't have the most police, the most prisons. they have the most resources. >> reporter: george and other pamela price supporters will hold a press conference tuesday. they want to show the public they support price's decision in this case and other cases involving minors. >> a different d.a. at least would hear us out. >> reporter: as for melanie, she's urging the public to contact and pressure price to reverse her decision. >> there's nothing that anybody could do to bring back angel and j.c. they can help us heal, help us feel as though there has been justice and closure for our boys. >> and the d.a.'s office told us they do not discuss cases involving minors. some businesses in oakland are closing because of public safety. a new shop just opened up. a vintage clothing store on lakeshore avenue. the owners
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grew up in oakland and are well aware of the crime that's driven people away, but they say they're opening their new store as a way to stand up for their hometown. >> oakland probably has one of the biggest hearts. i feel like that defines us, but also shows like all the bad publicity and slander that people say about oakland, oakland's still here. >> people run with what they see on instagram and on the news. they're like oh, oakland is only crime, but on sunday you'll see families at the game, people walking to the farmers market, a lively city that oakland and real oaklanders understand and that's the message we want to bring to the bigger market and rest of the bay area. a federal judge has tossed
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out elon musk's lawsuit targeting a hate speech watchdog group. the lawsuit was filed against the center for countering digital hate based out of stanford. they have published reports showing a huge spike in hate speech on the social media platform formerly known as twitter after musk took over. the lawsuit accused the group of violating the term of service for the platform and driving advertisers away from the site. today the judge blasted the case as clearly punitive, not about protecting the platform security and legal rights. more than a year after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade the justices are about to hear their next major abortion case tomorrow, oral arguments on whether the fda overstepped its authority making it easier for women to obtain the abortion pill mifepristone. the drug was approved by the fda over 20 years ago. legal experts say if the supreme court limits the use of
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mifepristone, it could hinder the agency's authority to regulate other prescription drugs. boeing's ceo says he's stepping down by the end of this year. the departure of dave calhoun comes after nearly fife years in the role. calhoun and boeing are facing mounting pressure to make changes after a series of safety incidents in recent months, most recently a door plug that blew out of the side of an alaska airlines 737 max in january. calhoun says he's not leaving right away because he wants to see boeing through this latest turbulence. >> let's not avoid what happened with alaska air. let's not avoid the call for action. let's not avoid the changes we have to make in our factory. let's not avoid the need to slow down a bit and let the supply chain catch up. >> the problems from boeing planes have led to multiple groundings for safety issues and more than $31 billion in losses. calhoun is one of three top execs departing the company. boeing's board chair and head of commercial
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airplanes are also leaving. up next, california grape growers are struggling, why they're facing increased competition both here at home and from abroad. >> a lot of the old timers around here that have been around for generations have never seen it this bad. 25 years ago california imposed a new tax on tobacco products, how that launched a transformational
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california grows more than $5 billion worth of grapes each year, 5 billion. now up to 50,000 acres of vineyards are being completely torn out. why
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some grape growers are choosing to rip up the crops. >> reporter: this vineyard has been in business more than 130 years growing grapes in lodi for wineries across the region. garrett schaffer says some of his family's vines are over a century old. >> they're like little kids. you prune them and manicure them, take care of them, water them, feed them. >> reporter: but now he's tearing out 30% of his vineyards because of declining demand. >> it's tough. it's a really, really, really tough decision to pull out grapevines. >> reporter: nearly every lodi grower is facing similar setbacks. >> a lot of the old timers have been around for generations have never seen it this bad. >> reporter: this land used to be filled with 50 acres of grapes. now it's just bare dirt and bulldozer tracks. >> and the spurs is where the fruit would have come out. >> reporter: rows of discarded vines stacked 20 feet tall. >> if you drive around the
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countryside, you'll see vineyards piled up, pushed over, burning, being chipped. >> reporter: growers say they're forced to take these unprecedented measures because of increased marketplace competition. >> wineries are bringing in wine from overseas and blending it with california wine and calling it american. >> reporter: stuart spencer with the wine grape commission says there's other competition from alcoholic beverages and increased production costs. >> i think the next 12 to 24 months will continue to be challenging. >> reporter: these winemakers and growers are asking consumers for a little help to keep these family farms in business for future generations. >> it's really important to support local farmers. >> a new air quality ruling will limit burning of grapevines. farmers are concerned that could lead to pests and disease. warriors had a questionable decision sunday night and they're sitting right on the brink of missing the postseason.
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another week, another chance of rain, paul. it feels like we've been saying the same thing for months now. are we sort of on the tail end of the rainy season? is it going to start to dry up a bit more? >> generally the first half of april we start to see rain chances becoming not nonexistent, but spaced out and progressively lighter and then eventually one of them will be the last one that we get for the rainy season. it's an active pattern over the next seven days or so. nice weather out there this evening. if you have any plans this among evening, the weather is very cooperative as we look out from the mark hopkins hotel towards downtown san francisco. we've got another dry day tomorrow after patchy fog dissipates early in the day, should be pleasant tuesday, temperatures a few degrees warmer than today. the wet weather returns
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wednesday and then we've got a chances of showers in the forecast every day all the way through easter weekend. it does mean we'll wash some pollen from the atmosphere. after one more day in the high category we'll retreat to the medium high category wednesday before the rain moves in and then we're down to medium. it's about the best we get here in late march and early april by thursday and friday, alder, ash, and juniper the top three offenders. temperatures today topped out a little below average as the birds swoop around in the camera here. temperatures made it up to 65 in santa rosa, but san jose only 63 degrees, about 4 degrees below normal. temperatures should be a bit warmer tomorrow because we won't have cloud cover early in the day. temperatures tonight dropping down to pretty much where they're supposed to be this time of year, 40 in santa rosa to 50 degrees in san jose. let's check out tomorrow's high temperatures, which are looking pretty good, in fact, almost exactly normal
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for late march, 67 degrees in san jose, 66 for los gatos and morgan hill, mid- to upper 60s inland, maybe a couple degrees cooler around the bay, low to mid-60s san francisco and oakland and upper 50s along the coast for half moon bay, also appropriate for late march, temperatures in the north bay reaching the mid- to upper 60s. enjoy that flirtation with near normal temperatures because as the rain moves in, our temperatures drop off as well. it's back down into the neighborhood of 60 degrees for highs by the end of the week. let's look at futurecast. the fog will dissipate quickly, lot of sunshine the rest of tomorrow before clouds return as the sun goes down tomorrow evening. the thicker clouds don't arrive until tuesday night. then we'll see off-and-on showers during the day wednesday. this activity will be more miss than hit had. as we hit wednesday evening, the rain becomes more widespread and moves across the bay area fairly quickly. lingering showers are possible as we head through the day thursday. those are also on a
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hit-or-miss basis. a more substantial system heads our way friday into saturday and bring the potential not only for more rain, but stronger rains as we head into easter weekend and lingering showers possible on easter sunday. add up all these rain chances through sunday and we're talking about 1 to 1 1/2 inches of rain on a widespread basis, but it won't happen all at once. in the santa cruz over 2 1/2 inches of rain are possible around ben lomond. these are snowmakers in the sierra. the first one doesn't look huge, several inches of snow possible at the highest elevations, but as the rain continues to fall in the bay area, the snow falls in the sierra, a foot at lake level to 2 1/2 feet on some of the higher peaks through the course of the weekend. let's look at the seven-day forecast and we can kind of round things off. pretty much everyone will be on an even playing field. there is our stretch, five
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straight days of rain chances with the last day of the seven-day forecast which happens to be the first day of april, that's the light at the end of the tunnel with more sunshine and gradual return to warmer temperatures by monday next week. >> thanks, paul. for a check what's ahead at 6:00, juliette warming up in the bullpen. >> baseball is back. we're about an hour away from the a's and giants' spring training game at the coliseum, but a's fans are well aware this year may be the team's final season in oakland. so we're live for the start of this very long good-bye and how fans are gearing up to send a message on opening day. plus free training for one of the most in-demand jobs now in healthcare, the program on the peninsula helping fill a major shortage, all that coming up in about ten minutes. two weeks ago the warriors were making a push for the six seed in the last, lost seven of their last 11 and golden state is looking to hang on on a spot
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in the play-in because houston is just one game back for tenth place, but do not tell that to draymond green. >> how much are you now kind of tracking the rockets? >> i don't give a damn about the rockets. >> he says it like nobody else can. he might not have to, but if it's not steph curry stepping up, i don't know who will, 31 points in 30 minutes for steph last night, but the warriors were minus 11 without curry on the floor. steph sat the first five minutes of the fourth quarter. minnesota took control of the game. head coach steve kerr is standing by his decision. >> we can't expect to just ride steph game after game after game. these last few weeks have been really tough on him. we've put the burden of this franchise on his shoulders for 15 years. if you want to say him playing 30 minutes instead of 32 is the difference in the win and the loss, i totally disagree with that. big weekend in college hoops and the stanford women are headed to portland where
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they'll face north carolina state in the sweet 16, but it wouldn't have been possible without a huge game from kiki iriafen. stanford needed overtime to take down seven seed iowa take the and that's when kiki put the team on her back, a career high 41 points, 16 rebounds, sending the cardinal back to the sweet 16 and getting revenge for that second round exit last season. >> coach vanderveer, would you like to make an opening statement? >> yes. kiki iriafen, whoa, what a great game. >> i think i started the game off hot and then in the second half i kind of just remembered where we were at last year. it wasn't a great taste in our mouth. i feel like this whole season we've had that loss last year in the back of our mind, didn't want that to happen two years in a row. >> the cardinal made a move monday to fill their men's basketball coaching vacancy. they have kyle smith from
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washington state returning to the bay after serving as usf's head coach from 2016 to 2019. smith was the pac-12 coach of the year after leading the cougars to the ncaa tournament. he now ushers stanford into their new acc era. the first time since betting rumors hit about shohei ohtani and his interpreter, the dodgers star addressed the media with a prewritten statement. he said, "i never bet on baseball or any other sports or never have asked somebody to do it on my behalf. i have never went through a bookmaker to bet on sports." he claims his interpreter stole millions from him and lied to him for years. major league baseball is investigating. the drama surrounding brandon aiyuk and his contract heated up monday. john lynch said earlier in the day they don't plan on trading aiyuk and are actively working on keeping him in san francisco with a new deal. so aiyuk took to instagram with the following emoji message. teenage
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translation here, money talks, bull crap talks, aiyuk clearly frustrated. george kittle sent a message. don't walk, the money bag is coming. so rich you could go to space and find an alien and feed your dog. this is speculation on my part. this is the best translation i have. >> well done. >> i buy it. >> the alien threw me off. >> there was a moon, right? that was the next thing and the next thing was the dog. >> it's all very confusing, but yeah. >> i think you got the gist. >> aiyuk frustrated, wants to get paid. >> don't walk, stay. you're an alien. there you go. >> yeah, that's right. thanks, guys. still ahead here at 5:00, a major mi
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take a live look at downtown oakland where a summit focusing on child health and education kicked off today. >> first five california is putting on the week long event. >> the agency focuses on helping one of our state's most vulnerable populations. >> it's also celebrating a big anniversary this year. kelsi thorud has that story. >> reporter: this year marks 25 years of california's first
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five program. executive director jackie wong says over those 25 years the program has helped millions of parents and young children. >> absolutely so excited that we're celebrating our 25th anniversary, 25 years holding strong serving california's youngest residents, if you will. >> reporter: first five was established in 1999 after voters approved a ballot initiative the year before that taxed tobacco products to fund services for children ages 0 to 5 and their families. wong says those services include everything from prenatal care to early education. >> we're so proud of our investments in early learning specifically that led to the, you know, current governor
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actually fully funding universal pre-k which is a big win for us. >> reporter: first five will be hosting a days long summit this week, speakers including the california surgeon general, state treasurer and many more officials, doctors, and educators who have been crucial to the program's success. wong told me she's excited to highlight all the hard work so many people have put in over the years, but she's even more excited to see this program thrive long into the future. >> it's been amazing that they've touched millions of lives and we are looking forward to supporting that next generation of parents, if you will. >> it is remarkable what that program has done. that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> thanks so much. baseball is back. we have a live look at the oakland coliseum, preseason in full swing with a cross-bay rivalry, but it's also starting the clock on what could be the a's final season in the east bay. >> we don't know if it's going to be the last season or
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not here. we don't know where we'll be a year from now. >> spring training games start the beginning of the bay's good-bye to the a's as some fans get ready to send a message outside the coliseum on opening day. >> you're probably going to have 10,000 people, worst attendance in the history of a's baseball, but you'll have a soldout parking lot. a car turned over with clothes all over the street, what we're learning about what sparked this chase and crash across several bay area counties. hundreds of healthcare workers hit the picket lines while nurses warn of their plans to strike, the potential impact to patients. plus free training for one of the most in-demand skills in healthcare, the school that's helping address a hospital staffing crisis. >> this is a career that if you're a young woman that you can be self-supportive. and these picture perfect views are about to

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