[panting] now at 11:00, this whale has been cruising up the coast like this for hundreds of miles. now bay area scientists are trying to figure out how to free it and some are amazed that its made it this far. >> this particular whale is very lucky. library workers in one bay

area city say their workplace has turned into a horror story. >> he was walking around the library cussing at people and threatening to stab them. >> what they are demanding tonight. and the state has poured billions into solving the homeless crisis but where is that money even going? >> people will throw money at a problem, no one keeps score. >> the scathing report that shows for the most part the state doesn't know. from kpix this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi, i'm juliette goodrich in for sara tonight. you know, the marine biologists are just trying to figure out how to free a gray whale that's just cruising up the bay area coast dragging a load of fishing net and buoys behind it. so this drone video was taken today off pacifica's thornton beach, and apparently, the whale has been dragging that load for more

than 400 miles. so scientists at noaa tell us it was first spotted last month off laguna beach. they put a tracker on it but it failed and they lost the signal. the president of the pacific beach coalition says it is amazing that the whale has come this far. >> this particular whale is very lucky because it's able to pull that along. sometimes they get dragged down and they can't get up. or they get -- you know, that buoy would get stuck on something and now they're trapped and so they're paddling and not going anywhere and losing steam and then they have to breathe. and so if they, you know, they run out of steam and they can't breathe, they're gone. >> so here is a close up of the tail. noaa believes that is a gill net wrapped around it. and it won't be easy getting close enough to the whale to cut it free. >> you're literally in a little boat going up to a whale, diving into the water next to a whale that could kill

you with one swipe of its fin and literally cutting the rope off the whale. >> there's a big responsibility for us to do everything in our power to help them. >> at this time of year, gray whales migrate from the gulf of mexico up to alaska. a long migration that's even more difficult pulling a net. so there's no timeline yet on a potential rescue mission. all right, on to some other news tonight. it is the end of an era in bay area sports. after nearly four decades at the helm of the stanford women's basketball team, legendary coach tara vanderveer is calling it a career. matt lively joining us now. and i know that she's leaving behind quite a legacy, not only near the bay area but nationwide. >> yeah, absolutely. tara vanderveer calling it quits after an historic 45-year career, 38 here in the bay area and at stanford specifically. she's been one of the biggest

advocates for women's basketball over the last half century, and she's going to go down as one of the greatest coaches in the history of the sport. in her 38 years she won three national championships and took the cardinal to 14 final fours. she was inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 2011 and her teams have played in the ncaa tournament every single year since 1988. vanderveer said, quote, i've been spoiled to coach the best and brightest at one of the world's foremost institutions for nearly four decades. stanford has already announced that negotiations have begun for assistant kate paye to take over the rains. she just finished her 17th year and won a championship as a player in 1992. paye recently joked in a kpix interview she was born to be a cardinal. she was quite literally born at stanford

hospital. they did announce that vanderveer will remain in an advisory role. >> this is a time when there's so much momentum now and the spotlight is on women's sports. she must be so happy about that. why now, why retire now? >> so she did say this doesn't have too much to do with stanford going to the acc, she just felt like she has so much leadership she's learned over the years she want tobs in an ambassador role and do something different. tara vanderveer has left stanford a better place than she found it, and i think that's the most important thing you can ask for any coach for any program anywhere. >> she'll continue helping as well. you don't just leave. >> no. >> matt, thank you. another stat vanderveer can be proud of. for the first time ever more people tuned into this year's women's final than the men's. nearly 4 million more. of course, vanderveer wasn't coaching in that contest, but it's clear the game wouldn't be where it is today without her. tonight state prosecutors

say they busted up an organized crime ring that's been smashing their way into bay area liquor and cigarette stores left and right. that includes discount cigarettes in concord, which was hit three times in the span of a month. the manager gave us these pictures showing the aftermath of those break-ins. you can see the doors are either pried or smashed open with broken glass just littered everywhere and empty cigarette shells. the three-man crew was accused of burglary or attempted burglary on about 20 liquor stores and smoke shops across more than a dozen bay area cities. they're also accused of running a stolen land rover through the front of the walnut creek louis vuitton and ripping off a quarter million dollars worth of merchandise. prosecutors say the same crew stole about $120,000 worth of what nel purses from a nordstrom in san diego. the attorney general's office says they did it all in the span of two months from september to november. one man

is under arrest but two more are till on the run. tonight police in east palo alto are investigating the city's second homicide of the year. the victim found along newell road not far from the four seasons hotel. so far no arrests. and as we recently reported, east palo alto reported homicides in all of 2023. that is a major achievement for a city known in the early '90s as the murder capital of the u.s. all right, staying in the south bay, a group of san jose parents are fighting to put some space between their children's schools and homeless encampments. they say camper vans and tents are too close for comfort. as katie nielsen reports, they're asking the city to step in. >> for the past year and a half we've been involved in some advocacy surrounding our school safety and security. >> reporter: alfredo hernandez is a senior at kipp and says some of the people living in rvs have scared his classmates. >> she was cat called by one of

the unhoused residents living here neighboring our school. and that really -- that really made me realize how severe this issue has gotten and how we need an immediate solution. >> reporter: he says the rvs started parking around the school during the pandemic, and that's when the problems really started. he says he met with san jose's mayor, matt mahan, to talk about the concern, something the mayor addressed today. >> they were walking past rv encampment, sometimes being harassed on their way on and off campus or having break-ins on campus, even found needles on their picnic tables. and they asked us what as a city can we do. >> reporter: the answer is apparently two new ordinances. one that would prevent tent encampments within 150 feet of a school, and the other would allow oversized vehicles and rvs to be towed if they pose a public safety risk, which includes being parked near schools. >> this is her house, she says. >> reporter: for those like anna, who lives in an rv parked

next to the school, she says she started parking here a few weeks ago because she was out of options. >> we're here because we're struggling. we don't really have a place to go, you know? because there isn't really places where you can park. >> reporter: anna says she wants to go to one of the county's safe parking sites but her rv has been ticketed in the past, to the point she can't renew her registration without paying all those past due parking tickets. and she can't park in a county safe parking lot until she gets her rv registered. >> we're just trying to survive. i'm just trying to survive. >> we are not advocating for the criminalization of our unhoused neighbors, we are advocating for a solution that benefits both us, the student, and our safety but also advocating for a solution that benefits our unhoused residents. >> so the ordinance sailed through today's first reading with unanimous support. there will be a second reading later this month ahead of a final vote in mid-may, assuming it passes. enforcement will begin

some time after that. california spends billions of dollars each year to respond to the growing homeless crisis, but now a new audit found the state doesn't even know where most of that money is going. the report shows the state spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn't consistently track whether the spending actually helped alleviate the problem. the audit also reports the number of beds and people using services in the state system may not even be accurate. a local taxpayer group we talked with tonight isn't surprised. >> and unfortunately, this is a very common situation in california as well as other places both at the state level and at the local level. people will throw money at a problem and wouldn't it be nifty if we did this and no one keeps score. >> the two programs the audit said are clearly working are cal works and project home key, which converts -- or convert,

that is, hotel rooms into housing. librarians in one bay area city, they've encountered so many dangerous situations on the job they could write more than just a book about it. >> we could fill a whole library with all these incidents. >> what they're demanding now from the city tonight. we've seen homes on wheels moving through san francisco like parade floats, but this is something quite extra. and coming up in the forecast, we're going to show you the 80s. there's a lot of them. tomorrow, the day after that, but then by friday everything's going to start changing. and by saturday it's going to rain. it's going to rain so much that we're looking at perhaps an inch just throughout the first part of the weekend. there's a lot to discuss on how traumatic this week is going to be in terms of whiplash. forecast coming up. >> oh my. there is a lot to discuss. and a local zoo spent weeks nursing this tiger back to

okay, so normally you see houseboats docked along the bay, not actually in the middle of it. but this two-story home made a move right across. our chopper caught a curious kayaker just checking it out. and if you're wondering as well, the san francisco standard reports the home was being towed to san rafael from its original dock in redwood city. after a years long legal battle that forced a community of houseboats to relocate. all right, back on dry land, you'd normally expect a library to be a quiet place to hang around and work, but today dozens of san francisco library

workers loudly declared that their workplaces are the exact opposite. they say the drug and homeless crisis around the libraries has gotten out of hand, and they want to see security guards at all branches. amanda hari spoke with librarians about the threats they've encountered while on the job. >> we got the power. >> we were not trained to do this type of work in library school. >> reporter: library workers across the city say they're being forced to do a lot more than recommend books. every day they're ones making sure the libraries are safe. nicole has been working in the san francisco library system for more than 30 years. she says over the years things have become worse, and she fears someone is going to get hurt. >> we could fill a whole library with all these incidents. >> reporter: jermaine brought a stack of incident reports with her, all from the past month.

she works as a branch manager at the children's library. she says they bargained for a guard back in 2022 after they had an incident that could have become a tragedy. >> i have nightmares about this one to this day. i will never forget it. >> reporter: she says it was a normal day after school let out and the library was filled with small children. >> and then i saw a half-dressed man clearly mentally unstable wielding a weapon. he was walking around the library cussing at people and threatening to stab them. >> reporter: she called library security. they were across the city. 911 responders didn't show up. the burden to get rid of the man and keep the children safe fell on her. >> i got him out there, and he started threatening a large group of preschoolers who were sitting on the floor. and he was cussing at them and threatening them with this weapon. i, feeling that strong sense of duty to protect the people, stepped between the man with the weapon and the

children. i stood between him -- he was aiming it right at my chest -- and i said, no, thank you. if he had not left, i may not be standing here today. >> it's aggravating. >> reporter: jasmine is one of several unhoused residents camping on the streets outside the main library. she says library workers shouldn't be specifically concerned about people experiencing homelessness and someone in her situation who is trying to use the library should be allowed to do so. >> if a homeless person is going to the library, hey, i salute them. at least they're trying to stimulate their mind. >> reporter: spokesperson with sf public libraries says the security incidents are down 14% from last year and not all branches require dedicated security. but jermaine says the conditions on the street are keeping families away. >> i know a number of people who will not bring their children to this main library. i'm a parent, you know, and that breaks my heart. i don't

even want to bring my children to the main library. >> so library workers tell us this picket isn't the end and they are going to keep raising awareness until they have the tools to keep things safe. so other bay area libraries have been dealing with security issues. in february, the city of antioch hired private security to patrol the library on west 18th street. the county also said it planned to upgrade the fencing and add security cameras. on to the north bay now, where sonoma county deputies found a piece of evidence during a burglary bust they probably did not want to bring back to the station for processing. oh yeah. they found a live snake in the trunk of a car at a rohnert park home where they arrested a pair of burglary suspects. the department says it wasn't anyone's pet, just happened to be there. oh my gosh. all right, that kind of, you know, a little uneasy. sweet streams, everyone. >> you know how i like to be warned about snake stories before they just pop up like that.

>> i'd like to be warned too. i should have preread that. i did, i did, i knew it was coming, but i didn't know it looked like that. >> it's almost time to go home and go to sleep, how's that going to happen now? >> forget it. notable changes coming in the weather. i want to start out with a visual graphic that ups the degree of the potential for saturday's rain. the weather prediction center today started coloring in the map for coastal california, including the bay, for saturday for an increased amount of rain likely. now, the fine print on this, when you start to get into the marginal category for excessive rain you know if it's marginal look at this on d right? because this is still four days out. and it gives us, i think, just an added little item of increased awareness that this system's got some decent rain for mid-april. let's go look at it. if we go

on the big picture, you can see it sitting in the gulf of alaska. we're going to put that into the futurecast, and i'm going to show you how this thing comes together in one moment. look at tomorrow's daytime highs. it's not raining tomorrow at all, and you're going to be in the low 80s. probably not even going to be a cloud. going to be a little hazy out there at times, just because the center of high pressure that's keeping us so sunny and warm is also making the air a bit stagnant. so it might not be the prettiest day from a visibility standpoint but it's going to be a real pretty day in terms of the way it's going to feel outside with a lot of temperatures popping up in the low 80s, in fact, these are the daytime highs. you're going to hit # 0 tomorrow in san francisco. you'll be in the upper 70s. the numbers we looked at were today's highs. these are the ones coming in tomorrow. you do see a lot more 80s on here for that. apology, i hit the wrong button on there. this is the forecast for tomorrow and thursday. both days are actually going to be doing

those numbers. let's get to this real main event and get into the detail on the system coming our way now that you know you can enjoy the next two days of spectacular weather. comes out of the gulf of alaska, that's why it's 20 degrees cooler by the time we get to saturday. daytime highs for many of us may not be above 59 degrees. timing the rain is now the challenge. we got to go to the long-range forecast model and watch the line of rain that comes through right there for saturday morning. this is predawn on saturday. widespread rain then moves across the bay through saturday, first half of the day. that's now 5:30. this is before sunrise still when some of the better rain's coming through. and then for the second half of saturday, we get into the center of the system, perhaps a few isolated thunderstorms mixed in there. and then it goes into sunday with a few leftover scattered showers possible. so the bulk of this is going to happen on saturday. primarily first half of the day. so when we look at these rainfall totals, which are now getting up to an inch in general, most of that's coming on saturday morning. and now we can see why the weather

prediction would say, oh, there's a marginal risk of flooding. an inch of rain could give us minor street issues. maybe some low-lying intersections, that kind of thing. it's doubtful at this point in the season we'd likely run into major concerns from any of the major stem rivers. probably not even on the smaller streams and creeks. let's give it a little more time because this is a developing situation in the forecast model. so here's your takeaway. after low 80s, friday's already noticeably cooler. then it's upper 50s by saturday. widespread rain, scattered showers on sunday. all right, juliette, back to you. >> all right. let's talk a little giants mascot. we know and love this mascot, but wait until you see the newer interration of lou sale and the gymnastics it performed on the field. >> can lou seal grab a bat? the hitting struggles continued for the giants tuesday night that. might be their best option. it put them on the wrong side of the win column yet again.

plus, the warriors needed a much-needed win to move up

we have matt lively back again. >> oh, hello. >> another appearance in this great show. all right, we're talking warriors. >> yeah, that's right. they know exactly what they've got to do this week to put themselves in the best position for the postseason, which is coming up quickly. and it's really quite simple, just win. t it's wise that you don't leave number 30 open. steph curry had 23. he was a perfect 6 of 6 from three. final minutes of double digits, gary payton ii gets out of here. hachimura, no, no, no, full extension and full denial. whoa, that's good. warriors win by 14. they're now just a half game back of the lakers for the nine spot. they also

win the tiebreaker over l.a. if they end with the same record. steph curry had it going from distance tonight, but he was showing off his other point guarding duties as well. perfect pass to klay through a few defenders. thompson makes it look so easy on the other end. how about this one to draymond in the second after we see klay finishing that one up. bounce pass backwards sets dray perfectly. the giants are struggling at the plate, san francisco ranks in the bottom ten in the league. but the biggest indicator of their losses recently is their 1 for 27 stat with runners in scoring position. rookie kyle harrison did his job on the mound. he went six innings, allowed three runs, and he fanned eight batters. here he is striking out the side in the second. he had five ks through two innings, but those bats, they let them down yet again. they

loaded the bases in the ninth, down 5-3, no outs. this is the prime opportunity for san francisco to send everyone home happy. michael conforto hits into a force out. straight back to the mound for out number one. then mass chapman could have played hero, instead a double play ball. they were 1 for 6 with runners in scoring position tonight. they left 11 on base. they fall for a second night in a row to washington. a's in texas taking on the rangers and what a homecoming for shea langeliers from the dallas-fort worth area, went to baylor, second inning, took nathan eovaldi yard with a deep shot to left field. then in the seventh finds the barrel of the bat again. another solo shot, this time to center field. third game of his career with at least two homers. however, he's not done. down one in the top of the ninth, the rangers probably should have walked him. two-run blast gives the a's the lead. langeliers' third of the game. oakland getting a little hot. they hang

on 4-3. all right, we mentioned early in our show, but if you're just tuning in, tara vanderveer is retiring from her role as stanford women's basketball coach, leaving as the winningest coach in basketball history. jules, we've covered this top to bottom, but that's big breaking news near the bay area. tara vanderveer, a legend in college basketball, men or women's, rightfully so that she gets to retire on her own terms. >> a little backstory, you were going to go on your dinner break, and you were like, every there's breaking news. >> i felt it in my bones there was going to be breaking news. so weird. >> she's not leaving the entire industry. >> she's going to stay on in an advisory role. there's a wnba team here in the golden state area next year. we'll see if she has her hands tied with that at all. >> she likely will. some giants fans are asking what's going on with lou seal? >> it's all i can think about. >> and tara. some say the

mascot, oh my gosh, has been acting quite strange. is that appropriate? >> it's a seal. >> take this move against the nationals. oh my gosh. he did a head stand and fell on his face here. >> no one told the seal the regular season has begun. they're still in off-season. >> this appears to be an inflatable version of the real lou seal. it's different from the seal that the fans know and love. there we go. so we asked giants has the real lou seal been replaced. so a team rep says you may see inflatable lou seal from time to time. does that mean someone's inside that? okay, well because this new costume is better for stunts, but the old lou seal is definitely not being replaced. is that g-rated? we've also been following the story of lily the rescue tyinger that got a second chance at the oakland zoo. she was moved to her forever home. lily first came to the oakland zoo in february at 8 months old. she was in pretty bad shape. she was rescued from a privately owned facility and had ten

fractures that hadn't healed properly stopping her from climbing and running so. the team at the oakland zoo discovered she has a disease that can cause bones to weaken, but they took on the challenge. they did everything they could to nurse her back to health as the oakland zoo posted updates week by week, we could see the changes. she started having some fun big time, pouncing in her enclosure, splashing in tubs of water, and even playing with bubbles. oh. now that she's doing much better, lily was moved to the paws sanctuary in san andreas yesterday, a permanent home for rescued tigers, elephants, bears, and other wild animals. all right, this pooch failed the police academy, but it didn't stop him fr

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your true calling? a dog who flunked out of a police academy for being too friendly has become an unlikely star of the earth wake response effort in taiwan. roj ter labrador failed to become a drug-sniffing dog because he loves people to the point of distraction. rather than give up on him, his trainers chose to channel that love into his new career as a rescue dog. turns out he's excellent at it. he's worked more than a half dozen quakes in his time. because he is so darn friendly. look at that. >> nothing failure about that dog whatsoever. >> i'm telling you, if you have a labrador, they're not going to be a good watch dog. >> no. they're all over the place. >> hey, how are you, welcome on in. >> they're really good at hide and seek and >> the chain restaurant chipotle announced that they will start using an avocado peeling robot to give customers consistent avocado portions. according to the ceo, the robot