right now at 5:30, protesters returning to the ucla campus after they were forcefully removed earlier this month. and a critical state supreme court decision for businesses hoping to recoup some of their losses from the pandemic. and it's no secret. road conditions on bay area freeways can get extremely dicey at

times. if a freeway pothole pops your tire or debris from roadwork damages your car, it could be the state's responsibility to pay for it. >> we've now learned the number of damage claims on california provides is rising, but caltrans is paying fewer of them. >> california investigative correspondent julie watts investigates why and shows us which local freeways are the worst. >> . >> i was so sad i wasn't going to see my mom and take her to dinner. >> reporter: angie ruben tries to visit her home in the retirement home every week. angie's moment is golden era hollywood actress kathleen hugh. kathleen looks forward to her daughter's visits and so does angie, but on one april saturday -- >> it just ripped the tire to shreds. >> reporter: -- a pothole kept angie from her mom. >> i had to wobble over, super, super dangerous with cars all around. i had ptsd for the longest time.

>> reporter: a tow truck brought her car to a nearby dealer for repairs. she learned she wasn't the first to hit that pothole. >> he's like oh, yeah, we know that pothole. >> reporter: cbs news california got the cal trains data and we dug into it finding statewide drivers filed more than 30,000 damage claims on california freeways in the last five years and it's getting worse, with claims tripling to more than 12,000 in the first half of last year. why? data indicates increasing potholes account for more than three-quarters of all claims during the first half of 2023. the highways with the most problems? you can probably guess. in the bay area highway 101 has more than 2,000 claims with problem areas between east palo alto and redwood shores, south san francisco and brisbane and a ten-mile stretch from the san jose airport through mountain view. there are a lot of claims on 580, 680, and 280. california law says if the state knew about a

dangerous condition and didn't fix it, the state is responsible to pay for the damages. you can sue the state, but for damages under $12,500 caltrans offers an early resolution claims process. >> i thought this is a no brainer like, of course, they'll take care of it. >> reporter: caltrans requires "clear proof such as time, location and photos." >> i showed them the pothole, the tire with a huge chunk taken out of it. >> reporter: but caltrans denies angie's claim. >> if they denied my claim, are they paying any? >> reporter: we analyzed the state data and found as caltrans damage claims are spiking, payouts are plummeting. in fact, caltrans used to approve one out of every ten damage claims. now they approve one out of every 25, meaning caltrans is denying 95% of damage claims. why? we don't know because caltrans d

interview requests and pointed us to this paragraph on their website which proves drivers must prove caltrans knew about the dangerous situation and had sufficient time to fix it before the damage occurred. we asked how drivers are supposed to know what caltrans knew and when, but he couldn't say, instead telling us to file a cpra. what's that? just ask angie. >> oh, oh, oh, i filed the public records request. >> reporter: when caltrans denied angie's claim, she searched for answers online. >> how do i find out if a pothole has been reported? >> reporter: then she filed a california public records act request for previous reports of her pothole. >> month after month after month i would get these emails saying we'll get back to you in another two months. >> reporter: she only had six months from the date of her denial letter to appeal her claim in court, but caltrans waited seven months to give her the evidence. >> they make it so hard i think they want you to go away. >> reporter: it appears caltrans did know about the pothole months before angie's accident but didn't complete the work until after denying

her claim. >> it does feel a little bit like david and goliath. >> reporter: but angie's mom taught her not to give up, so she turned to us. to find out if your state department of transportation is intentionally denying damage claims and we'll let you know when caltrans finally gets around to fulfilling our public records request. stay tunes. >> caltrans did not respond to our questions about angie's case or our data analysis. you can use our interactive search tool to find the worst roads in your county and how caltrans responds to those claims. look for the cbs news california investigates section on our home page, kpix.com. businesses forced to close during the covid-19 pandemic cannot get those losses covered by insurance. that's after a unanimous ruling by the california supreme court today. standard insurance policies only cover losses from property damage. the ruling said the presence of a virus and

government shelter mandates do not count as property damage. the chief justice said most courts in the country have agreed on this. the ucla campus once again erupted in protests today. pro palestinian protesters used tables, metal fences, plywood and other objects to create a barricade that blocked off a section of campus. by early afternoon police had arrived on campus. despite orders to disperse, protesters continue to march. some protesters barricaded themselves in a building. tensions continued to run high. meanwhile the president of ucla was on capitol hill today as house republicans held another hearing about the handling of pro palestinian demonstrations on college campuses. he was joined by the presidents of northwestern and rutgers

universities. republican lawmakers pressed them about jewish students' claims encampment protesters harass them and that the schools haven't done enough to address anti-semitism. >> i'm asking the question. you're required to answer. isn't it true that a jewish northwestern student was assaulted? >> we are investigating those allegations. >> democrats on the committee defended students' right to peacefully protest and questioned campus crackdowns involving law enforcement. >> this encampment was against policy. >> you should be ashamed for letting a peaceful protest gathering get hijacked by an angry mob. >> this is the third house hearing on this issue, but the first since pro palestinian encampments were set up on campuses across the country. up next, live nation lawsuit, how the justice department's plan to break up ticketmaster and its parent company could be a huge win for consumers. >> fans pay more in fees.

artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts. smaller promoters get squeezed out. venues have fewer real choices. plus a sea lion hitc

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illegally monopolized markets across the live concert industry in the united states for far too long. it is time to break it up. >> reporter: the justice department says live nation promotes the concerts, manages the artists, owns many of the venues, then is often the exclusive seller of tickets to those events. the doj claims the company controls around 60% of concert promotions at major venues and 80% of the ticketing. >> the result is that fans pay more in fees. artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts. smaller promoters get squeezed out. venues have fewer real choices for ticketing services. >> reporter: to drive home the point, the justice department says fans attending concerts in europe pay far less because competition among ticket brokers is more robust and they charge fewer fees. caroline matlock flew from houston to swede ton see taylor swift where it was much cheaper.

>> we probably would have paid 2 1/2 times what we paid, maybe three. >> reporter: live nation alleges the doj is under political pressure to act and issued a statement saying, "calling ticketmaster a monopoly may be a pr win for the doj in the short term, but it will lose in court because it ignores the basic economics of live entertainment." >> live nation says ticketmaster is not a monopoly saying it has faced increasing competition and has seen its market share shrink since 2010. straight ahead in sports, an all baseball show, what did the a's and giants have in common today? both were involved in thrillers and we'll show yo

darren -- >> darren. >> jinx. >> ladies first. >> see, we're excited about the weather because it actually was pleasant outside. >> i was just going to say that. it was very nice outside today. >> being in the city all day long, we get really happy when it's not freezing. >> yeah. we've barely gotten grayed out at all this week. we've kind of been dodging what the typical setup should be for us for this time of year. it's coming back saturday, just in time for -- >> we knew it. >> just in time for the first part of the weekend. it's really limited. we'll wake up to gray skies on saturday like bay area-wide and it will be

noticeably cooler saturday, but i think you got to kind of temper that with some perspective. we've been well above average with daytime highs well into the low 80s and plenty of sunshine. even though saturday will be cooler, by any other standards it would just be a typical day for late may going into the big three day holiday weekend. let's use tomorrow as the example. we've already gotten our daytime highs today. if we look at today's numbers to get the perspective how different it's going to be, look inland. we were near 80 today. we made it to 83 in los gatos, 77 in san jose. you can follow the 80s and mid-and upper 70s for most parts of the bay, san francisco, of course, in the 60s, but you had plenty of sunshine and it wasn't terribly windy. here's tomorrow. we'll say good-bye to the numbers for today and bring in tomorrow's. you will see for some places on here 15

degrees cooler tomorrow, not as big of difference in the city. you don't have that much change, but inland you do. concord is only going to 71 tomorrow. the numbers in the tri-valley, 66 and if we go back down to the santa clara valley, san jose and los gatos, there were 80s on there. you're just coming off that. tomorrow you're back in the mid-and upper 60s. this is kind of the transition day in terms of the temperatures. for friday we bring the numbers back down. saturday, though, we'll start the day and it's going to look pretty dramatically different from what we've been doing. if we bring in the forecast imagery, i'll show you. there's a layer cake of clouds setting up for us. the first one comes in tonight and sets us up for tomorrow's cooldown. the saturday setup is different. there's a weak little system coming into the pacific northwest right there. we'll come in for the closer

view. there's clouds tonight. we start the cooldown for friday. what you see come through about there is a very subtle weak little cold front. here's how you really see it. as that cold front leaves going into late friday heading into saturday, watch the marine layer rush right in back behind it and fill in pretty much the entire bay and get into the central valley. that is saturday morning. that's different. that's a lot more impressive in terms of the more traditional may gray kind of setup than we've had most of the week and the real close-up view shows you what it will look like saturday, not just by looking at the clouds, but it's enough marine layer that on saturday if you're along the coast or even along the east bay hills, this is light marine layer mist. this is the kind of thing that can add up to like a 0.01-inch of rain. you hate calling that rain, but it mists steadily enough through the early morning hours

that it can accumulate to 0.01-inch. it's not a significant change in terms of the whole day. that's saturday by early afternoon and most of it's gone. you're still going to get more blue sky saturday. it's going to be a nice day, but it's going to be noticeably cooler. however, that noticeably cooler part really gets going tomorrow. if we put it into the seven-day forecast, we'll start with our warmest microclimate, friday 71 and saturday go down another 3 or 4 degrees, but you will have cooled down 10 to 15 degrees just to get to tomorrow. then we kind of sit there till we warm back up the middle part of next week. that whole marine layer intrusion, the whole saturday may gray thing, really does appear to be somewhat limited to saturday for the inland parts of the bay. i think the rest of the interior of the bay you should plan on a more traditional morning gray afternoon sun. i'll see you with the holiday events

forecast at 6:00. we are following breaking news with two brushfires burning in antioch. we have new video just in and one of them it's burned about 20 acres of open space near the b.a.r.t. station, con fire telling us the winds are a concern in the spread of the flames. right now no word of any homes or buildings threatened. we will have the very latest at 6:00. plus oakland neighborhoods treated like a dumping ground, but despite the city's budget challenges, there is money in the new spending plan to keep up the streets, but will it last? all that coming up in about ten minutes. let's head to sports and vern. >> all right there, jules. hey, we're twinies, both wearing black. baseball up top, giants doing it the hard way, back-to-back come from behind wins when trial trailing by four runs, a first in 26 years. to the pirates mound, rookie paul skenes held the giants to

one run over six innings. pick it up bottom of the first, one-time giant andrew mccutchen drove it deep. watch luis matos track it down. the difference between a great grab and a home run, ball fell out of his glove on impact. bottom of the fourth, another former giant joey bard with bases loaded. when he gets one, it's no cheapy. a 434-foot grand salami, fourth home run of the year for bard. pirates led 6-2 going into the eighth and the giants' bats woke up. matt chapman hit a three-run blast, his third straight game with a homer, found his game in pittsburgh. wilmer flores tied it with an r.b.i. single and brett wisely brought up the go ahead run. giants scored five in the eighth and beat the pirates 7-6. they won the series and got a record of 25-26 and the road trip continues tomorrow night at the

mets. can i see daz cameron thrown into the lineup and, boy, did he respond. ninth inning a's down a run to colorado and cameron tied the game with his first big league game in two years. this one went extras. rockies scored four in the 11th , but the a's smacked back and tied it with a two-run blast, seventh home run of the year for him. a walk-off walk wins the game. final from oakland, a's 10, rockies 9. oakland's record now 21-31. then an eyebrow raiser from the ncaa this afternoon, the power five conferences will begin directly paying their student athletes and the ncaa will pay nearly $3 billion in damages to past and present athletes as part of a

settlement to antitrust lawsuits. oakland's other baseball team, the ballers, have won back-to-back games to start their series. will they make it three in a row tonight in montana? catcher colton horner was the hero last night with a go ahead single here in the ninth. oakland beat the glacier range riders 3-2. the ballers have plenty of swagger and it starts with their skipper, san francisco native micah franklin. >> reporter: any of these games remind you of yourself coming up as a young pup? >> i hope they don't because i had a different attitude. i was like hey, i take no prisoners, right? >> reporter: right. >> i don't know if i want to coach myself at a young age. >> mind if i talk? i can't wait to strike your [ bleep ] out. >> reporter: these guys come up and say you playing? you were in the show? >> they're on tiktok. we ain't on tiktok. we got vhss, know what i mean? they can't

even find our tapes, man. >> stars, personalities, that's what draws us to the story. >> micah has seen things and done things. >> don't mess

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ucla's women's rowing team got quite the surprise the other day when a sea lion pup

crashed their practice on marine delray. >> we've never seen anything like that. >> reporter: ucla rower logan hibbard is used to seeing sea lions in the water off marina del rey, cut what she never expected was one to get this close. >> she just hopped right in. you didn't really know what was going on until she was in the boat. >> reporter: last monday he hopped in and quickly made himself at home. >> he fell asleep and took a nap on my leg. he was asleep a bit and then would wake up. >> reporter: hibbard said the pup stayed put about 15 minutes as she rowed to shore and that's when she realized something wasn't right. >> he was walking around kind of in circles on the dock line spinning. that's when you could really tell there was something wrong with him. >> this animal was suffering from malnutrition. >> reporter: the marine care in

san pedro provided these photos of the youngster believed to be under 1 years old who is receiving care for being malnourished. it's too early to tell how long it will take for the pup to recover and while it looked like he may have wanted affection, that is not the case. >> these animals are not drawn to people. the circumstances drew that animal to want safety out of the water, probably given the condition it was in. >> reporter: warner praises the rowing team for not putting the pup back in the water where it most likely wouldn't have survived. the pup was named savior by the woman who called it into the center, but hibbard and the ucla rowing team affectionately named him bru for bruin. >> we figured it would be a cool way to make him a member of our family and be able to call out his name every time we row. i hope he's able to fully recover eventually and hopefully go back where he

belongs and keep swimming and practicing with us on marina del rey. >> reporter: if you ever find yourself in this situation, the center says allow that sea lion to stay on your boat, but try to back away from it as much as possible for your safety. now in this case you could see that sea line wanted to be close to hibbard. she tells me she did try to pet it once on its head, but when it seemed like it did not want to be touched, she backed away and it kept everyone safe. >> the faces are so precious. >> so sweet. that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> thanks so much. we begin with breaking news. we're following two brushfires in antioch, the largest now about 20 acres, the concern about winds fueling the spread. also, times are tough in oakland, but the money is still flowing to address some of the city's biggest challenges from public safety to cleaning up trash, the wins in the city's

new budget plan. 236 bags that was in our community where our children, where our seniors, and where we just live. >> open neighborhoods treated like a dumping ground, the promise to clean up the streets while closing a major budget hole, but can it last? >> oakland is turning the corner. a home gutted by fire covered with handwritten signs, the outpouring of support for a san francisco dog walker who's also reported racist threats, his family's message? >> stop it. we've been in this community for over 50 years. we are not leaving. and they'll be holding court among the colorful floats of carnaval. the new king and queen tell us about the pride and responsibility that comes with wearing the crown. >> give the opportunity to share mine, too. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich.