from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. now at 11:00 cruel and unusual or a necessary tool? the u.s. supreme court getting ready to hear arguments in a case that could end homeless encampments. >> is there any constitutional status at all for people who are homeless and can you criminalize behaviors that the

homeless must engage in? then gavin newsom taking aim at states that limit access to reproductive health, how he plans to help people get to california to seek care. and oakland police looking for people on motorcycles and atvs who blew through the scene of a wreck. >> good evening. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. the u.s. supreme court is set to hear a case tomorrow that could redefine how communities across the country are able to address homelessness. >> hot button issue, of course, in communities across the bay area and the entire country. it all comes down to local jurisdictions and whether or not they can punish or cite people for sleeping in public even if there's not enough shelter beds available to them. both liberal and conservative elected leaders have joined forces to back the complaint. they say the current rules make it impossible to do anything. >> while homeless advocates say it's just a way to punish people for being poor and doesn't really address the

causes of homelessness. jose martinez has more. >> reporter: all eyes are here on the tenderloin ahead of tomorrow's big day as the supreme court hears arguments on a case regarding the rights of homeless people. anthony has called the streets in the tenderloin his home for the past 25 years. >> i came from los angeles, pretty much. >> reporter: he's just one of many homeless individuals whose lives could be impacted by a crucial decision awaiting the supreme court's ruling in the case of johnson versus grant's pass. the outcome of this case could have far reaching implications for homeless individuals like anthony who rely on public spaces for survival. >> it's already tough enough being on the streets as it is. >> reporter: on monday the supreme court will delve into the legal aspects of penalizing homeless individuals for activities like sleeping in

public. professor little from uc law san francisco sheds light on the case's significance and potential impact. >> we'll address a very narrow question, which is is there any constitutional status at all for people who are homeless and can you criminalize behaviors that the homeless must engage in, such as sleeping in public? >> reporter: the case originated from grant's pass, oregon, raising national concerns about anti-camping ordinances and their effects on homeless communities and whether it can be considered cruel and unusual punishment to cite people for sleeping in public even if they have nowhere else to go. >> and in law was attacked by a number of people who are homeless as a class action on behalf of all the homeless, not just in grant's pass necessarily, but similarly situated around california and the country and the district

court dismissed their lawsuit, but the 9th circuit court of appeals, the federal court that covers the entire western united states, reversed that and said no, these people have a cause of action and laws that criminalize the status of being homeless are unconstitutional. >> reporter: professor little emphasizes regardless of the court's decision, the case prompts municipalities to reevaluate their approach to homelessness amidst rising statistics. the case comes at a time when homelessness is on the rise throughout the country with a 12% increase reported between 2022 and 2023 according to a department of housing and urban development report. >> i think the court is likely to say not everybody who sleeps on the street is involuntarily there and they're going to say municipalities have to sort of pick and choose and have to make individualistic determinations on almost every person. >> reporter: professor little

says we should expect a ruling by the end of june. for now anthony will stay here on the streets hoping for the best. >> i'm going to continue to go like that. you shouldn't fine nobody just because they're on the street. >> reporter: anthony says he hopes the supreme court hears these arguments with compassion. >> for an idea of the scope of the issue, according to the latest available numbers from san francisco, as of 2022, there were more than 7,700 homeless people in the city with less than half of them in some sort of shelter. 2023 data showed that around 6,200 homeless people lived in san jose with only 30% of them in a shelter and oakland's data is only updated through 2022, but it also shows a similar trend where less than half of roughly 5,000 people were in some sort of shelter. other news in sacramento, governor newsom is taking aim at another republican state. today he announced legislation

to make it easier for people in arizona to get abortions in california, would offer abortion providers in arizona a quick path to get licensed in california. at the same time newsom plans to run these new ads beginning tomorrow in alabama, where lawmakers are trying to criminalize people who help minors leave the state to get access to abortions. newsom was behind a similar ad ran in tennessee. mayor london breed touched down in the bay area today after her week long trip to china. as part of china's panda diplomacy program, the mayor announced that two giant pandas are coming to the san francisco zoo. the mayor also touted the trip as a chance to stimulate economic growth and expand tourism in the city. >> we held a business forum of people who have interest in not only doing business in san francisco, but investing in san francisco. designed signed an

agreement to bring pandas to san francisco and are aggressively moving into the appropriate agreements that would allow us to move in that direction. >> the mayor says she met with a number of chinese airlines discussing plans to increase the number of flights from the region to san francisco. an arrest in the south land in los angeles of the suspect who police say broke into the home of mayor karen bass early this morning. this all happened just before 7:00 a.m. investigators say the man got in by smashing a glass door, cutting himself on the broken glass on the way in. police arrived and the man was taken into custody. authorities say the mayor was home at the time of the break-in but wasn't hurt. >> i'm very concerned. it's the mayor of the city. we're concerned any resident that has somebody just come into their home. so we treat this very seriously. >> police are looking into why the mayor's security detail didn't stop the man from

getting into the house. and in oakland police are investigating a motorcycle sideshow that led to a collision. this is near grand avenue and perkins street. police arrived at the scene to find a motorcycle driver lying in the street after being hit by a car. he was taken to the hospital. he's expected to recover. the driver of the car is cooperating with police. the marine mammal center is working to figure out what killed a 40-foot gray whale that washed ashore at an alameda beach. the wle was found floating off robert crown memorial state beach on saturday. responders collected initial samples and say they plan to tow the carcass to angel island for inspection this week. the marine mammal center says it's the first whale casualty of the year in san francisco bay. a major road in the north bay is back open tonight a little earlier than planned. it originally was scheduled to reopen tomorrow morning. all

weekend long westbound highway 37 has been shut down between vallejo and sears point for pavement repairs. caltrans says to expect another shutdown for next weekend. that will be followed up with two more weekend shutdowns, but in the eastbound direction. still ahead tonight, tiktok one step closer to being banned in the u.s. after the house voted in favor of that ban today. later the party celebrating a pricey new public toilet that was the butt of jokes around the world. then we'll get a check of your first alert forecast ahead of the new workweek. and if you're looking for an uplifting way to start your monday morning, cbs mornings has you covered. david begnaud introduces us to a man who has opened his heart to thousands in need. >> reporter: i had never heard of the toy man until now. he is a humble humanitarian who has brightened people's lives all while living with one heck did my legs shrink?

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welcome back. tomorrow is earth day and there have been a lot of early celebrations across the bay area this weekend. >> but none like a shutdown today in atherton. john ramos shows us a lawn mowing battle between sheep and robots. >> reporter: the purpose of earth day is to get people thinking about ways to protect

the planet and in a town like atherton that boils down to a fight over the best way to mow your lawn. at the earth day festival in atherton they wanted to promote the benefits of using environmentally friendly lawn equipment, but that's where the friendliness ended. on the other side of the park it was a battle of a.i. versus ewes, sheep versus robots. the competition for eco friendly lawn care pitted a flock of sheep from uc davis against a newfangled autonomous lawn mower from husk husqvarna. >> it talks to the mower, the gps satellites and talks to the base station and you draw

points on the lawn and close them out and it makes a square and it knows where to go. >> reporter: it can mow anytime day or night, makes almost no noise and will automatically find its way back to the charging station when the battery gets low. >> the first part looks like a car, but also kind of like a black panther or something like that. >> reporter: and they say it causes a lot less shock to lawns than normal weekly mowing. >> with the robot you cut it three or four days a week, no cost because you're running on a battery and they do no damage. in fact, the lawns are much healthier. >> reporter: but not everyone is sold on the technology. >> you want to watch me vote? look at that. here we go. vote for the sheep. sheep hopers kick robot grass. >> reporter: haven kiers has had enough of the robot. the uc davis professor said her sheep has something that trumps hi-tech. they're cute and kind of fun to watch. >> let's look at the people

watching, photographing the sheep and then there's the robotic mower. do you see anyone or is it hidden in a corner with no one watching? >> reporter: the sheep can also graze on hilly terrain and they say watching them has a calming effect on people, but it was the cute factor that seemed to be swaying the public vote. >> well, they're cuter. i mean if it has to be something cute for me in order to win because yeah, i like cute stuff. >> i just voted for the sheep, you know, organic matter over metal, you know. >> reporter: 8-year-old raphi schooley voted for the robot because he likes a.i. better than sheep, but he was wondering if there wasn't some way to combine the two. >> and you could always just get a robot or like a hybrid version of a sheep and make it grow their fur faster. you can have an infinite fur machine that could last forever. >> reporter: but this was no popularity contest. well, actually it was. so it wasn't a big surprise when the votes were counted and the result was

announced. >> the sheep versus robot competition is 20-103 and the sheep won by a lot. >> that's right. >> reporter: so score one for organic matter over metal. the sheep seemed happy about it, but the robot sat quietly on its charging station waiting patiently. >> and be sure to tune in tomorrow for our cbs news bay area earth day special where we'll look at how scientists and everyday people here in the bay area are working together to protect the planet. our earth day streaming special airs on kpix.com, the free cbs news app, and on pluto tv. brian is so excited to join us to tell us about the beautiful weather we're going to have with maybe a sprinkle of rain on friday. it's a possibility at least as we look at a time lapse as the sun sinks slowly in the west and the ships come in under the golden gate bridge

bringing us those desperately needed products. lyrid meteor shower, heard a bit about that today, maybe you read about it, it peaks tonight. problem is we've got a near full moon. the moon is waxing and it's almost full and the recipe for destroying a meteor shower is have a moon around. you really need dark skies. have a shot at it. the lyrids when they peak after midnight, should be fairly clear skies, 65 degrees in san francisco. the temperatures will turn around because tomorrow night low clouds pack the shoreline again

by 6:45 monday night. the coast has been fairly clear of the low clouds, but they'll increase by monday night, tuesday morning. tomorrow looks pleasant. in san jose the numbers peak near upper 70s and mid-70s for santa rosa. everybody's going to cool down by 8 to 10 degrees by the time we get to tuesday with some fairly dramatic cooling. tomorrow won't be quite as warm, very nice, but this low pressure up in the gulf will get closer to the coast of california. as it does, temperatures will collapse on tuesday. a chance of showers coming in late thursday, early friday wouldn't amount to anything. in fact, the probability of those showers is not that great, but the likeliest time looks like it's thursday night, friday morning. reservoir storage looks pretty good actually. everybody from shasta and oroville in the north down to don pedro above average for this time of year. as the snow melts, it will add to it. one more warm day tomorrow and it will be sharply cooler with drizzle by tuesday morning, a cooling trend that will begin wednesday through

friday and a chance of showers possible by friday. tonight we'll be in the low 50s. tomorrow it will still be warm, so enjoy the weather monday. it won't look this warm by tuesday, 80 at santa clara, 80 milpitas, 80 in san jose. over in the east bay the numbers will be in the low 80s as well, 80 at fairfield, 82 at pittsburg. in the north bay novato tomorrow very nice, mid-70s, sonoma 77 degrees and by the time we get to ukiah and clearlake and lakeport the numbers will be in the 80s again one more day. show you one panel of this because everybody looks pretty much the same. a couple mild days followed by cooler days and a chance of a few light showers coming in by thursday. up in the north bay nice day tomorrow and everybody cools down into the 60s by midweek and it looks like maybe on friday a few light showers and that's about it, not a bad week ahead, just a little bit chillier. >> thank you. the house passes a bill banning tiktok in the u.s.

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there's not much congress can agree on these days and while critical issues like housing can go unaddressed, they had no problem with a tiktok ban unless the parent company divests from china. tiktok says such a law would violate their first amendment rights. president biden has said in the past he would sign such a ban if it passed the senate. that wasn't the only major piece of legislation to make it through the house today. as we take a live look at the capitol tonight, the house also passed three separate aid packages totaling to about $95 billion.

60billion is earmarked for ukraine, 26 for israel and aid to gaza and a little more than 8 billion to help counter china in the indo-pacific, but speaker of the house mike johnson had to rely on democrats to get it across the line as now there's calls to oust him. >> he has completely betrayed republican voters all over the country and he is absolutely working for the democrats. >> i don't walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. i have to do my job. we did. >> meanwhile several democrats have joined more moderate republicans pushing back against the effort to remove johnson from the speakership. still ahead, a community flushed with excitement, the big celebration for san

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people in san francisco's noe valley neighborhood celebrated a toilet today. you may remember when it made national headlines when it was estimated to have cost 1.7 million. while the cost seemed a ridiculous amount, it actually came in about $200,000 considering what they thought they were going to spend turned out to be quite a deal. da lin has more from the toilet bowl party. >> reporter: people made a stink about it when they first

learned it would cost $1.7 million to build a small bathroom like this one here. the public outcry forced the city to flush that idea down the toilet. so they came up with this. it's a celebration fit for the most infamous toilet, one that almost cost the price of a house. >> noe valley, let's hear it for our not $1.7 million bathroom. >> reporter: so event organizers decided to have some fun with it. everything toilet themed, even this band renamed to american standard at least for the day. >> we couldn't get toto here. >> reporter: lesley crawford organized the toilet bowl celebration at noe valley town square. >> when everybody laughs at you, you got to take the power back and laugh at yourself. >> reporter: lesley admits san francisco deserved all the poop it got when the city announced the $1.7 million price tag. people thought it was the

perfect example of government waste. >> it's preposterous because the plumbing was already in the ground when they built this place out. >> i thought it was a little ridiculous myself. everybody did. >> yeah, that's crazy. >> reporter: a private company ended up donating this prefab bathroom, but the cost still added up to $200,000. the city says union workers had to connect the plumbing and do a bunch of other stuff to get it ready. i asked the folks who used it how did it go? >> i'm flushed with excitement because they have a bathroom now and it gets a ten out of ten for me great. it's a relief and we can relieve ourselves when we have to go. >> lovely, very clean. >> it was spacious and clean and wonderful. >> it is a relief to be able to go finally. >> reporter: and lesley is happy there's no more bathroom jokes about san francisco at least for a short while. >> this is a great ending to our story. >> reporter: i haven't covered too many bathroom stories. 22

years in the business, actually this is the only one. so i have to give it a try. my review, strong flush, very functional, got the business done. >> the city says the bathroom is about 50 square feet and at $200,000 applying the calculus that comes out to about $4,000 a square foot, about right for the bay area. >> not too bad. after the break we'll hit the streets of san jose for a unique community event giving people a chance to connect and have fun on the open road. choice hotels is a family of brands that helps you get the most for your money, so you can be any traveler you want to be. you can be a free, hot breakfast hero at a comfort hotel. yes! that's how you waffle! mr. "this script got a plot twist" at a radisson hotel. a business big leaguer.

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welcome back. bustling streets in downtown san jose this afternoon as people came out for a viva kiya, an open streets event where people got to enjoy the open streets any way they wanted without cars,

riding, biking, skating or just playing around. >> at the same time traditional drummers put on a show for thousands of people today at the 46th annual festival in san jose's japantown. the yearly celebrations of japanese traditions that thrive here in the bay area and preserve cultural history in the community. our own ryan yamamoto emceed today's event. >> kind of want to see ryan there. >> yeah. >> maybe he'll send us a picture. thanks for watching! "gameday" is next. >> news and weathe

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game day for april 21st. looking to the warriors and their early exit in just a second but we begin with both bay area baseball clubs. for the giants, no matter what happens, there is no time to dwell on a game. there is always another one on the backend. here is the four-game series finale with arizona. they got the spirit. yes they do. they got the spirit, how about you? thanks to mike yastrzemski, he followed up sentences goes first hit of the fifth with a two run homer. his first big fly