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right now at 5:30, we are counting down to carnaval san francisco, the largest multicultural celebration in california. >> good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. more than 400,000 people attend the event every year. latino community leaders are all about celebrating milestones, but as kenny choi shows us, they're also shining the spotlight on a problem for many in their community. >> reporter: when maria's husband got deported to mexico, she understood her journey would come with struggles, including cleaning three large homes a day, with most of the payments going to the small business she worked for. >> i started almost nine years ago with $80 a day. >> reporter: that's $26 and change per home and less than $9 an hour. at the onset of the pandemic when she couldn't find much work, she began volunteering at the mission food hub which launched food distribution days to three
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times a week. >> the people asking for a little bit more, so i'm telling maybe two or three pieces more. >> reporter: reynosa not only served, but also received much needed food assistance. lately it's a challenge as the hub recently reduced distribution to once a week. >> the rest of the month what do we do? i'm looking for the food pantry. >> reporter: roberto hernandez is founder of the mission food hub with office vacancies still at all time highs, essential jobs depending on workers commuting to the city hitting hard times and the demand for food hasn't faded. >> what happened to the janitor working there, when you think about the hotels, all the people that work in the hotels and hotels aren't being filled? what about all those workers? >> reporter: hernandez says the hub served 9,000 families per week at the height of the pandemic. he still sees reynosa helping at the warehouse despite her cleaning business recently growing to serve seven
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clients. >> having family and all the struggles, she has brought so much life. >> reporter: with the stronger command of english and a decade of adapting to a once foreign country, reynosa believes she could find a better paying job with health benefits, but her teenage son has special needs and multiple therapy sessions a week. she's building a small business on her own for the flexibility it allows to take care of jonathan. >> i need to work. it's only me and him, nobody else. >> reporter: that's why she visits food pantries. it's an assist she one day hopes she won't need. >> i'm working hard. so when i feel exhausted, i'm thinking about you. you need me. so that's why i make it strong. that's why. >> reporter: it takes courage to tell one's story of struggle, but she's sharing it knowing it could help the ones
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who need it even more than her. >> hernandez says the mission food hub isn't getting government funding or donations like it did during the pandemic. he says there have been newcomers who visit after seeing other food pantries run dry. we are six days from the carnaval parade. we have live special coverage at 10:00 a.m. sunday on pix+ 44 cable 12 and streaming on the free cbs news app. let's take a live look at our bay area airports. we are days away from memorial day weekend which mark the unofficial start of travel season. the first wave of travelers w flooding airports this week. the tsa expects 2.9 million guests at the airport friday and is expected to top 3 million this summer, an all time high. >> it will make you less stressed out if you have more
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time across the entire experience of travel. >> delays at boeing and engine issues on some airbus planes means several u.s. carriers scaled back summer plans, but the nation's airlines still expect to fly 271 million passengers, up more than 6% from last year, another new record. the prosecution rested its case in former president trump's hush money trial after nearly four days of cross-examination of star witness michael cohen. now lawyers for trump will present their defense. on the witness stand, trump's former fixer admitted to stealing $30,000 from the trump organization. cohen testified that when he invoiced the trump organization in 2017 for what he says was reimbursement for payments to stormy daniels, he also included funds meant for a tech firm, but he never paid the company. >> it felt like one of those moments on the stand where he raised his voice and felt like
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he really caught cohen in yet another scheme in front of the jury. >> prosecutors later let cohen explain between paying stormy daniels and getting a smaller than expected bonus, cohen felt like he wanted to charge trump a little bit extra. cohen is the prosecution's last witness, sending the case over to the defense. the judge says he expects closing arguments next week. in a manhattan courtroom nearby new jersey democratic senator robert menendez is facing bribery and extortion charges. that trial resumed today. the senator's accused of acting as a foreign agent to benefit the governments of qatar and egypt. he is pleading not guilty. to baltimore now where the cargo ship that crashed into the francis scott key bridge is finally on the move. it's been nearly two months since the bridge collapse that killed six construction workers. today tugboats surrounded the 984-foot damaged vessel moving it back to port at about
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one-mile-per-hour with its 21 member crew on board. officials say it's a major step forward. >> we're excited to see us reach that milestone, but we understand there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. >> crews will work to clear the remnants of the bridge from the river with hopes to fully reopen the channel by the end of the month. meanwhile federal officials are still trying to determine exactly what caused that crash. last week the ntsb released a preliminary report which found the ship had a pair of catastrophic electrical failures just minutes before the crash and had experienced two blackouts while in port a day earlier. he was trained as nasa's first black astronaut but never got the chance to go to space until now. how he a slow network is no network for business. that's why more choose comcast business. and now, we're introducing ultimate speed for business —our fastest plans yet. we're up to 12 times faster than verizon, at&t, and t-mobile.
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developing story in fremont, our chopper over a two-alarm fire at the tesla factory, crews on the ground with water hoses and also on the roof attacking what is a two-alarm fire looking for smoke and flames now. we see multiple firefighters on the ground fighting this. we'll keep you updated on this developing story on the air and on our website kpix.com. a 90-year-old has become the oldest man to go into space. ed dwight was a top air force test pilot and trained to become nasa's first black astronaut 60 years ago but was denied the chance back then. sunday morning dwight finally accomplished his mission aboard blue origin's new shepard rocket. he says his call sign for the flight, justice, is for all the people who supported him over the years. >> it was a grand opportunity at this late date to fulfill that for self-satisfaction, yes, but more importantly, to
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satisfy all the wonderful people that have showered me with love for all these years. >> ed dwight went on to a much different career, first as a businessman and then an artist, sculpting nearly 20,000 pieces. dwight beats out actor william shatner as the oldest person ever to fly into space and he says he's not finished yet. he wants to go into orbit next team. in oakland now, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held to unveil a new playground at piedmont avenue elementary school hosted by steph and iesha curry's eat, fun, play foundation. >> there's something for everyone on this playground, basketball, four square, the play structures, or reading a book in our new nature center. this playground is great for kids to just engage and enjoy their recess. >> the oakland-based nonprofit is committed to renovating 25
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school playgrounds in the step by the end of the 2026 school year. still ahead, the baby falcons living at uc berkeley need names and you can help pick them. straight ahead in sports, we say good-bye to the hall of famer known as mr. raider. and the giants did this, broke out the old broom sweep and got a little bit more notoriety today. coming up tonight on the cbs evening news, for our heart of america, see how world renowned gymnast simone biles is gearing up for the 2024 paris olympics and preparing to make a major comeback, that and more tonight here on the cbs evening news.
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uc berkeley's newest falcon clicks are growing up so fast and they still don't have any names, but you can help change that. the cal falcons group just revealed four sets of potential names and they all have a theme. one of the sets includes names related to characters from beverly cleary novels like ramona and bezus. cleary was a berkeley alum. you can vote now on the cal falcons website. the winning set of names will be revealed this
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thursday. taking a live look outside, some haze hanging over the golden gate bridge. first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen is here. honestly, i was so happy to see the sun. i'll deal with the haze. >> we saw plenty of sunshine today, even coastal parts of the bay area, another day of that tomorrow and then the fog and low cloud cover starts to return to the coast. let's look at what you need to know heading through this week before memorial day weekend, a brief one-day warm-up and then back to near average high temperatures wednesday and thursday. a big cooldown kicks in as we head into the holiday weekend, not feeling like the unofficial beginning of summertime, but it doesn't look like the system bringing the cool air will have moisture to access, so we don't expect any decent chance of showers for the weekend. looking outside now from treasure island towards downtown, you can see the haze shrouding the hills in the distance. temperatures drop off through the evening, but we climbed up
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to 80 degrees in concord this afternoon, most inland temperatures in the 70s with mid-60s in san francisco and only upper 50s along the coast for half moon bay. very little fog developing as we head through the rest of tonight. we're largely fog and cloud free. that's the case heading into early tomorrow morning. futurecast is just indicating a couple patches of it here and there. it won't take long for that to dissipate, should be gone by 9:00 or 10:00 and full sunshine will allow temperatures to warm up after a normally cool start, a mix of upper 40s and low 50s by early tomorrow morning, everybody within a couple degrees of normal for this time of year and then high temperatures tomorrow are going to reach up to 6 or 7 degrees above normal in most locations, low 80s for the santa clara valley, 82 degrees in santa rosa and los gatos, even warmer inland in the east bay, mid- to upper 80s, 88 degrees for a high in antioch, not quite 80 degrees for fremont or redwood city and the exception to the 6 or 7-degree departure from average
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along the coast, about a degree above normal for half moon bay, low 60s, 70 in san francisco with temperatures in the north bay mostly reaching the 80s by tomorrow afternoon. this is a one-day warm-up. we'll see a big drop in temperatures as we hit the end of t workweek. let's look at the ten-day temperature outlook for first san francisco, the temperature of 70 tomorrow not matched anytime soon. the biggest drop in temperatures kicks in just in time for the beginning of the three-day weekend. saturday looks like a pretty cool day with temperatures in the 50s and 60s across the entire bay area, even going far inland to around livermore, high temperatures only in the mid-60s but just for one day. we're back up close to normal high temperatures for the holiday monday. that's the case as we head through next week as well. let's look at the seven-day forecast. we'll start inland where temperatures will be toasty tomorrow but closer to normally warm by wednesday and thursday and then
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the roller coaster reaches its bottom on saturday with a climb anticipated on memorial day, monday, just one day of more abundant cloud cover on saturday, a mix of clouds and sunshine around the bay the rest of the seven-day forecast. along the coast you get full sunshine one more day and then fog and clouds start to return wednesday and thursday, the cloudiest day for everybody on saturday and the coolest day. again, because it's 2024 and seems like so many weekends have been raining, we don't anticipate a good chance of showers for memorial day weekend. >> good news. thank you, paul. time for a check on what's ahead at 6:00, we switch over to juliette. >> thanks so much. san francisco's public schools are in need of some pricey updates, why voters may have the last say if they'll get the money. it's a good deal if you're looking for an apartment. rent is declining in oakland. we'll tell you why. check out this bakery in san francisco's japantown is celebrating a huge milestone, tiff years in business. we'll hear from the
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man who started it all and the grandson who is keeping this tradition continuing, all that coming up in about ten minutes at 6:00. let's go to vern and a lot of sports. >> we've got the nfl up top and the raiders, a sad good-bye to the raider franchise first ever draft pick, 00, jim otto, played center like he invented it, 1960 to 1974 passed away sunday at age 86. otto anchored the offensive line for 15 years only wearing the silver and black uniform. he never missed a game his entire career. otto credited that streak to an early message from then head coach al davis. >> he said you can't come off the field. you have to get off your [ bleep ] and keep yourself going. i have mentioned that to mr. davis in the past, too, that i will continue to get off my butt and keep going and that's why i'm
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here today. i could have quit a long time ago. awkward segway to baseball, giants outfielder luis matos named national player of the week to keep him from going back to the minor leagues for a while. heliot ramos will also stick around a while. ramos and matos combined for 21 hits on the recent homestand with 24 runs batted in. that sparked a struggling offense. >> we have a good vibe going, good friendship if that makes sense, and we just want to keep it going and play good baseball. >> it's been refreshing to get some guys up here that weren't part of, you know, the early part of the season when things weren't going well. >> giants have a record of 23-25. they've won four straight games for the first time all season. they'll start a road trip tomorrow in pittsburgh. meanwhile warriors guard brandin podziemski was named the nba's all rookie team. he did a little bit of everything to play his way into the
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rotation. he even drew the most charges of any player in the nba. >> it's something i had on a goal list of mine coming into the year and i got to check that box. so it's pretty cool. you see this picture? it's a face only a mother could love. this was me at my college graduation in 1984. i'm headed back to university of virginia next week for my 40th reunion. one of my classmates won't be able to make it. indiana pacers head coach rick carlisle. >> well, we're the invited guest. so here w■e re, kay? >> the pacers crashed the party and reached the eastern conference finals after beating the knicks on sunday. now they'll face top seed boston. draymond green has been critical of indiana and was quick to predict the celtics in five. >> they got to the conference
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finals. somebody had to get there. it's the east. we get it. somebody got to go. but congrats to them. that's dope, but i think this is going to be the end of the road for them. >> draymond green in a concession speech. >> there you go. i got to go back to this picture, though, because i'm trying to imagine what vern was like in college. >> oh, my gosh. >> 19-year-old vern glenn. >> my gosh, well, there were some stories that will be told and retold 40 years later. i'm bringing nicole back for the first time, first time she'll meet any of those friends from that era and i'm a little nervous about that one. >> oh, man. well, you were in the library most of the time, so, you know. >> sure. great naps in the library. >> all that studying you were doing. you know what i mean? thanks, vern. when we come back, he was a pioneer of bay area television, where you can get an up close
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floor of san francisco's iconic coit tower, there's a mural by ralph shisee, an artist with a quiet but long lasting legacy, one of a renaissance man creating paintings, sculptures, murals and puppets. in the 1950s he was the a man creator of the children's tv show called "brother buzz" which aired on kpix. >> he built all the puppets. he acted. he wrote all the scripts. >> reporter: that's ralph's son bruce here in the city as the san francisco public library unveils a three-month exhibit to honor his father, showcase some of his best work, and highlight his unique and underrecognized place in san francisco's history. how does it feel to have this exhibit in san francisco to honor your father? >> well, it's been 75 years and coming. i'm very happy that it's finally here. >> reporter: some of the puppets that helped make "brother buzz" with the hit show it was are on display at
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the exhibit and one of them even returned to the kpix studios. >> grand pappy wood mouth from the show. he was a central ongoing character in the show and was very important for brother buzz to converse with. >> i think if we spent more time learning to understand one another instead of laughing at each other and making fun, the world would be a better place to live in. >> reporter: brother buzz was a busy bee who taught children about kindness, good manners, and so much more. >> it was the first program that dealt with the environment and with kindness to animals. >> we're looking for an aquatic mammal. have you seen one around? >> and the interesting thing about my father was is that he knew nothing about animals. >> reporter: your father was an artist. >> yes. and he had to research all of it. >> reporter: shisee truly had a deep connection to san francisco. his wide range of work was appreciated by many
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for decades. bruce is proud of his father's legacy and touched by the san francisco public library's gesture. >> i'm just very delighted. my former partner has already seen the exhibit and she says it's just really tremendous, so i'm looking forward to seeing it. >> reporter: the legacy of a renaissance man who spent the majority of his life contributing to bay area culture that continues to live on. >> neat to see those. ralph died in 1991. if you'd like to learn more about him, the free exhibit is located at the san francisco main library on larkin street. it will be on display until august 18th. that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> thanks so much. renters are getting pushed out of san francisco because of high costs and now they're looking across the bay. >> i can't afford to live in san francisco anymore. >> so she moved to oakland where rent is hundreds of dollars cheaper. it's good news for tenants, but it may
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make some landlords nervous. rent is on the decline in the town. we'll tell you why. from upgrading aging buildings to security to healthy school lunches, san francisco's schools are in need of a major overhaul and voters may get the say if they get the money. >> the question isn't whether we need the money. we clearly need the money. >> but can the district prove that they deserve it? >> i really hope the district will come out and show that it can handle funds responsibly. it's the home of the famous coffee crunch cake. >> i've always said i want to open a bakery in japantown. >> we hear from the man who started it all 50 years ago and the grandson who is now in the kitchen carrying on the family legacy. >> grandpa didn't have any of his kids want to do it. so we skipped a generation. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening. thanks for joining us at 6:00. it is

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