taiwan after the biggest earthquake to hit the island in decades. whenever there is a major quake, everyone in the bay area asked the same question. what would it look like here? the similarities between taiwan and the faults here at home. incoming rain complicating the efforts to get people in and out of big sur. >> it is a complicated thing down here. >> the communities cut off again. when we'll see the strongest hours in the bay area. later, scammers targeting vulnerable pet owners. >> and some were shockingly convincing. >> we asked experts how to protect yourself and your information in some of your most desperate moments. >> good evening, driving schools will seem to drive home the rule that you could turn right on red after coming to a complete stop, right? not so

many more. turning right on red will be prohibited at more intersections throughout san francisco in an effort to keep crosswalks safer. and drivers killed more than 7,500 pedestrians, the highest number in over three decades. 1,100 cyclists were also killed, and that's an all-time high. so that is why san francisco is expanding their no turn on red program to most intersections south of market, chinatown, and north beach. our amanda harry spoke to pedestrians about the impact of this project. >> 200 more no turn on red signs are being installed san francisco's downtown. many residents say they could see the need. >> you know, in the city, it might not be a bad idea. >> reporter: jamie dillon has lived in san francisco for two decades. and that they often drive. but this time she was

walking with her sister. she says she has seen problems in intersections more and more. >> and it was okay. people would pay attention. what i think with people walking around with noise cancellation, and really not paying attention, that i can't tell you how many times i've seen people almost get run over. >> reporter: the project is a new extension of the san francisco municipal transportation agency's tenderloin area wide, no turn on red program. sustainable transportation advocates says it is working. >> out of the 50 intersections, the mta implemented no turn on red, and in 2021, 92% of drivers, they comply with those no turn on red signs. and so this actually works incredibly well. >> reporter: executive director of walk san francisco says having more no turn on red signs will help prevent dangerous conflicts in the crosswalks. >> and our status quo is

dangerous and deadly. >> reporter: they say that 17 people were killed while walking in san francisco in 2023. pedestrians accounted for 65% of all traffic related fatalities. the executive director says these new signs could help bring those numbers down. downtown is where the highest concentration of high injury streets are, which is why we are thrilled to hear that they are proposing to bring no turn on red to 200 intersections downtown. the orange dots on this map represent the remaining signs that still need to be installed over the next year. but they say as a driver, she thinks turning on red makes more sense. >> if it works out from a traffic standpoint, you could make your right turn easily, you know, it'll be on your way. it's obviously more efficient and faster. >> reporter: and she is hesitant to support another law. >> and i also don't like one more regulation, you know, one more thing that's listening. and i don't think that

people are careful. >> it's red. >> reporter: even if she occasionally forgets herself. >> what happened to the red light? >> reporter: that doesn't make it safe. all right, last year, san francisco city supervisors voted unanimously to support a city wide ban on turning right on red. that resolution has not been implemented yet, but cities like new york, seattle, washington, d.c., they have already instituted city wide bans. and san francisco is also working to put up speed cameras, a lot faster than expected. newly passed laws, they will streamline the speed camera installation process in the city by a year. as we see

them across the street. coming up at 7:00, high schoolers are sounding the alarm about a dangerous intersection near campus. >> you've got to get through the gauntlet. it's a little intersection where you don't know if you are suppose to go and that i'm safe and not safe. by coming down kind of the barcelona area and then a car here and that they did not see them and they collided. >> len ramirez will have more on what the school has done at this intersection and why students say it just isn't enough. all right, onto big sur that is. residents have been asked to evacuate before a spring storm brings more rain to the area. authorities are once again closing highway 1, which as you can see was damaged in last weekend's storm. so a part of the highway slipped away and fell into the

ocean below. chp had been leading one-way convoys to get people in and out of the area, but those convoys have been suspended tomorrow and friday as the rain moves in. that means residents and businesses are cut off. >> it is just absolutely essential that the single lane will be made open to the public at the earliest opportunity, so the businesses can reopen and employees can be back at work. >> he also says that the shutdowns have eliminated about 80% of big sur's work force, which add up to losses of more than $1 million a day. all right, so let's take a live look around the bay area right now as we would wait for that same rainy system that is going to showers at big sur. let's bring in meteorologist darren peck who is tracking the timing second by second. >> yeah, you can already tell things have changed. we were in the mid-70s tomorrow. it was blue sky. look at the sky out on the windows now from the virtual set. the clouds are showing up. nobody is in the 70s, where we are mostly in the

upper 50s. where i'm standing right now, about a 30 miles an hour onshore winds just turned on. if you're fir near the water, bay area wide, you're already feeling the wind. the winds are not sticking around all that long. the cold air is and there is rain coming with this. so watch what happens when we bring in the forecast imagery. just to give you the overview of how the system is set up. first, we've got the wall of cold air. i want you to visualize from this image right here. daytime highs are not getting out of the 50s for the next few days. morning lows will be in the mid-30s for some of those inland spots. more on that in the complete forecast. the overview on the rain. because this will have an impact right here. that is tomorrow morning's commute. and so widespread rain is the first sign that we're going to discuss in the full forecast for the thursday morning commute. but all this stuff back here, this is sticking around for two days. there is an isolated thunderstorm mixed in there. i'll see you with the full forecast in a few minutes. both days are first alert days for tomorrow and friday.

>> all right, take note. thank you. let's talk about crews in taiwan there. they are working around the clock to rescue dozens of people trapped inside buildings, tunnels, even a coal mine. after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the island yesterday. at least nine people were killed, and hundreds injured. buildings and highways, they are damaged. the earthquake hit as commuters were making their way to work and school. landslides and debris would shut down highways. it is the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years. and authorities, they are warning of more tremors in the days ahead. >> the scare of the earthquake is tremendous. and i came from taiwan. so we understand that taiwan, they are in the earthquake zone. but personally, i never experienced earthquakes in taiwan, during my lifetime there in this scale. >> but many experts are commending the earthquake

preparedness of the island saying that the toll of the quake is relatively contained considering how massive it was. bay area scientists are studying data from the taiwan quake. they're looking for clues as to how a similar seismic event would play out here. our brian hackney has the story. >> look at this. this earthquake isn't in isolation. >> it will remind us of our own, starting with their valley fault. >> and when i saw where this earthquake was in the valley

fall, okay, this is where i kayaked last weekend. this beautiful trough, the landscape that's formed by faults. >> and we were once almost a seismically active as taiwan. and so the bay area was much more active. >> reporter: the 1906 quake appears to have shutdown all of that activity. not so many big quakes since 1906. and that is both good and bad. >> and they have had 13 magnitude seven and larger quakes in 100 years. and right here, we have diluted ourselves into thinking that we don't really have a problem. we turn our attention

understandably. >> and earthquakes never went away. >> while taiwan's major population is well away from today's epic center. >> we have managed to pour all the population on the faults. we just salted the faults with people and buildings. this is a much bigger trial for us and what it ever will be for them. still ahead, how to protect yourself and your personal information from scam artists that pray on vulnerable pet owners. and relying on me to be

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welcome back. now to some other stories we're following around the bay area. in oakland, officers with the department of fish and wildlife seized over $10 million worth of cannabis plants. this happened last friday on kevin court near the coliseum. more than 12,000 illegal cannabis plants were seized in the operation. officials say this was the third bust in the oakland area in the past six months. a juvenile driver is responsible for the fatal hit and run that happened earlier this morning. the collision happened at the intersection of niemann boulevard near elkin

way. that's near montgomery elementary and silver creek high school. police say a chevy camaro was speeding when it ran a stop sign. it smashed into the driver side of the white pickup truck that you'll see there. the truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene. officers located a juvenile who they believe to be the drive of the camaro and have taken them into custody. so the state's supreme court heard oral arguments in the fight over people's park. they want to build housing for about 1,100 students and for more than 100 homeless people. but opposition groups argue that the plan will increase noise and traffic and have an environmental impact outside the campus. and that noise is not a good enough reason to block the development area. the state law signed by governor newsom supporting the project. well, it seems like nothing is safe from scam artists. that includes using our desperation over a lost pet as bait. so

lauren tom spoke to one dog fosterer who is sounding the alarm after she became their target. >> i've got every type of dog toy, any dog could enjoy. i've got clothes for my chili dogs. >> reporter: rachel van hettering has been fostering dogs for years. but her worst nightmare became a reality when her latest dog slipped out of his harness and bolted. >> i was decide myself because this is san francisco. we have cars and coyotes. >> reporter: she quickly posted to social media and community groups asking for help finding sid. but that's when she became a target for scammers. preying on her fear and desperation to find sid. >> some of the scam tests were obvious. the grammar and the spelling would be strange, and they wouldn't make logical sense. some of the texts were shockingly convincing, and really resembled texts i got from real people in the

neighborhood who genuinely wanted to help me find sid. >> reporter: she was warned about the possibility and had to chase every lead to find sid. >> and i so desperately wanted sid to come back. i was very close to believing some of the scam texts. >> reporter: in text messages shared with cbs news. one scammer claimed to be associated with animal care and control and said that they had found sid. but the group's executive director says similar spoofs have happened before. >> in every case that we have heard of, the scammers have done some variation of pay us, pay us to get your dog back. that is not how any shelter in the bay area looks. but it works. if your dog is micro chipped, we will call you and say hey, the microchip goes back to you. we have your dog, and we will invite you to come in and come pick up your dog. >> reporter: and with san francisco's spca, they say in this case, the picture of the

animal might be a key to detecting them. >> sometimes they will send you the photo that's in your notice or they will slightly alter the image to make it look a little bit different. and both of those are obviously red flags. >> reporter: for sid and rachel, they have a happy ending after a helpful neighbor sent a photo of sid hiding under a car in a nearby neighborhood. >> knowing how scared i was, i was not thinking straight. and knowing those scammers, they were relying on me to be frantic and confused, i felt really angry that someone would want to take advantage of a person in that situation. >> reporter: reunited and ready for his forever family. >> never share personal information. microchip your dog to make sure local shelters can help recorrect you. and if you can, go one step further. some

recommend training your dog offleash. more to come when we come back. so this is not a subtle tribute to prince or barney the dinosaur. we'll tell you

okay, do you see the color purple? >> i do. >> no, we are not talking about the fairy tale castle. so take a look at this. people are going to the alps, to check out the deep purple lake. the color is caused by, well, bacteria in the water. for tours though, it is less about the science and all about the joy of seeing such an unusual scene. i always loved the awkward colors in canada. but i'll go with purple as well. let's go totarian and find out how our climate is affecting our waters here. >> thankfully ours aren't changing too much, but the skies have changed. you could tell the change has begun. i'll use the floor map in a unique way and disjointed timing wise. these numbers, they are friday morning. and i'm just going straight to friday morning because it's the most drastic change in terms of morning louse. you're going to the mid-30s in the north bay valleys. by the time we would

get to friday morning. you're in the mid-70s for the last two days. and so this is kind of like the main event of the cool down. it's going to be friday and saturday morning. the next two days, the daytime highs, they are not getting out of the 50s. now that we have covered the temperatures, let's get into the details with the rain. tomorrow morning's commute is when the real edge of this leading system will show up with widespread rain overtaking pretty much the entire bay, just in time for your drive to work tomorrow. whatever your 5:00 to 9:00 a.m. time frame has you doing. most of this is a morning commute issue. this widespread rain there. look at the time stamp. that'll get us into the 6:00 hour. and that will take us through 7:00 and 8:00. we are still under that widespread rain. it's not too heavy, but the most consistently steady part of the rain that the two days is going to have that's coming right on the commute. once we get done with the morning, we'll enter that next phase and watch what happens. you know the drill on this. on again, off again

scattered showers with occasional thunderstorms mixed in. and this system, they do have better ingredients than the last several have to produce some of those isolated thunderstorms. and notice that there is a lot of time there where there were openings with plenty of breaks when you're not getting rained on for the duration of thursday and friday. just know that when you get those breaks, it's likely only a matter of time when you show up. and maybe even an isolated thunderstorm. if we look at the totals for the whole two-day periods. we are looking anywhere from a quarter to half an inch of rain from this. so it is not like the rainfall totals are huge. but if you get the thunderstorm aspect of it, then in a very brief period of time, you do get some intense numbers from the rain. snow levels will drop

with a light dusting of snow through thursday and friday. we'll see the north bay mountains with their share as well, not big, but still a light dusting of snow going into the first week of april and it will be a more significant snow in the sierra. for anybody that has got that travel. and it will be there when you are trying to travel through thursday and friday. and look at how low the snow levels will be there at 3,500 feet. so this is kind of a unique setup in terms of the system's ability. to provide more energy for thunderstorms and all the cold air to work with. so in some sense, that it does have some extreme aspects for us. that's why we've got two first alert days. look at the bottom headers on there in terms of the descriptions. both days, they will have a chance for thunderstorms. look at those highs in the mid-50s. the other end of the seven-day forecast. now look at where we're going to be by the time

we get to next week. not only are we in the low 70s for the bay, but just to show you the extremes, we are going to be near 80 degrees again back here. for some of the warmer spots. all right, juliette, back to you. >> i can't wait. thank you for that. all right, time now for a look at what's ahead on cbs evening news. here is norah o'donnell. >> hey, juliette. the teacher of the year who positively impacted students for more than three decades. plus the surprise she got from the first lady. that's our heart of america tonight on the cbs evening news. >> thanks. when we come back, an extra special, extra special anniversary at uc davis. we have the story behind the unusual statues that

i never saw this one when i went to davis. they are celebrating a campus icon older than many of them. sculptures appropriately called the eggheads. the eggheads could be found aloof campus giving students a place to smile, take grad photos, even share a kiss for good luck. >> i always kiss the egghead by the library for good luck

before tests. >> they are a bit quirky. >> i'd say. these unique pieces of art have been around since the 90s, soon celebrating their 30-year anniversary. now fans can get egghead merch with their faces on them. the money will then go towards the eggheads, the restoration, and the preservation, so they don't show any signs of cracking in their old age. my goodness. no old eggs on there. we're back in 30 minutes with cbs news bay area at 7:00. thanks for joining u >> norah: tonight, the new allega >> norah: tonight, the new allegations surrounding the israeli strike that killed aid workers. >> we were targeted, deliberately. did not stop until everybody was dead in this convoy. >> norah: strong words from philanthropist and chef jose andres, accusing israel of purposely killing seven world central kitchen team

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