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following is celebrating a big milestone thanks to a baker with a dream and his grandson. >> we've been losing a lot of the really old businesses around here, and it's nice to know one is sticking around. and a growing encampment creating fear for people in one oakland neighborhood. why someone living on that street says it's not people like him creating the problems. live from the cbs studios this afternoon, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. we begin in san francisco where hundreds of thousands are expected to be in the mission district for carnaval. the parade is not until tomorrow, but the festival is already underway. >> and john ramos looks at the big party. >> reporter: the people of san francisco are so immersed in diversity every day, that it's easy to take it for granted. so the festival of carnaval is designed to help people stop and
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appreciate it. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> 46 years ago, if we had a hundred people, that was a lot. >> reporter: now it's closer to half a million. and while san francisco's diversity is often celebrated one group at a time, carnaval's organizing ceo roberto hernandez says this event takes a more holistic approach to latin culture. >> most people think we're mexicans, but it brings out the people from argentina, puerto rico, cubans. 18 different latin american and caribbean countries. it brings harmony and educates people about the different roots of our culture as latinos. >> reporter: in fact, that's this year's theme, honoring indigenous roots. and behind it all is the music. a group of musicians from the radio havana
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social club says it all starts with the drums. >> this would be like a samba. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> this would be like cuban. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> and then you would go into the mambo. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> that's what everybody, anybody, they have their own input. it comes from the feel, you know. and it's really a beautiful thing that is. >> these produce latin sound, but the traditional drums came from africa. if there ain't to africa, there ain't no drums. >> reporter: the connection between africa and latin america is a constant theme at carnaval, and jerry loses the imagery in his clothing collection. >> i actually identify at afro-latino. so it's two things come together to make one thing that's very celebrated
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throughout the americas. >> reporter: bringing cultures together is the goal of carnaval, and jorge gonzalez has been coming to the festival and parade every year since he was a little kid. >> it's like your family out here. you can't go too far without seeing someone you grew up with or someone you're related to or just hanging out and meeting people. it's fun. >> reporter: the weekend festival and sunday's parade has grown naturally over nearly half a century and has become a main stay of san francisco tradition. but the event's lead organizer says it's the roots of the latin community that gives carnaval its authenticity. >> here in the mission and san francisco, right, it's just so, it lends itself because organically it just grows within you. >> reporter: so this couldn't happen in the midwest? >> no. absolutely not. >> reporter: while other parts of the country have to work to promote diversity, in san francisco it comes easy. from the heart. >> as john mentioned, this
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year's carnaval theme is honoring indigenous roots, and they could not have picked a more fitting grand marshal for the parade. she's a nobel peace prize winning activist for indigenous rights in guatemala. she's dedicated and risked her life to publicize the plight of indigenous people in the civil war of guatemala where hundreds of thousands of people were killed or banished. she lost her own mother, father, and brothers to the violent, and her trip to the bay is sparking a surge of pride among our local community. >> that's a very dangerous thing. the fact she still kept going despite the tragedy i think was a really important piece, as a woman, to be able to speak up. >> she's still speaking up, although she was forced to leave her home country and come to the u.s. for a time. she was able to return to guatemala and use her platform to continue to fight
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for the rights of her peop >> and the parade route starts on bryant and 24th street and heads down to missn reet, moves to 15th street, ends on harrison. meanwhile, i'd take a picture of the screen, if i were you. harrison from 16th to 24th is closed until monday morning as well as treat avenue from 16th to 22ness. could you do all those in backwards order now? >> yes, actually i could because it's right there on the screen. now, ladies and gentlemen, here's darren peck. here's the forecast for that. it's going to be plenty of sunshine. we'll be a little warmer tomorrow in the mission for carnaval than today so sundaywas the nicer day for the parade. both days were really nice, but it was really gray to start today. it's missing this morning from the marine layer. that's not going to happen tomorrow. i'm on marine layer watch. we've taking the camera on the salesforce tower and positioned it out over the mission. there's dolores park right there. you can see there's 101 going down the side of the screen here. so we're
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looking straight over the mission and watching for that. it is going to build back in tonight. tomorrow morning in the early morning hours, it's probably going to be a bit gray. but once we get into the afternoon, it will melt off. i'll show you the full futurecast coming up. we'll talk about this very noticeable cool down we've just had and just it's not going to last that long. by monday, you may not recognize the place. i'll see you in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. back to you. >> if you can't make it out to carnaval this year, our special parade coverage starts tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. on pix+ and it will stream live on cbs news bay area. all month long cbs news bay area is celebrating asian-american and pacific islander heritage month. a bakery in san francisco's
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japantown is celebrating a huge milestone, 50 years in business. sharon chin spoke to the man who started it out and the grandson who's continuing his legacy. >> reporter: mile his grandson crunches up a tray of candy coating, moses still can't help but sneak a piece of the signature dessert he himself had baked for decades. >> somehow or other, i lasted 50 years. >> reporter: the san francisco native opened the sweet stop in december 1974. that was your dream? >> yeah. and i'm happy. >> reporter: the 87-year-old recalls how he could not refuse when friends offered him a space for a bakery inside a grocery store. >> when i was a lot younger, i always said i wanted to open a bakery in japantown. >> reporter: why? >> why? because there was no bakery in japantown.
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>> reporter: moses made a name for himself, perfecting his own twist for the classic coffee crunch cake made famous by blum's bakery in union square. a glowing newspaper review changed everything for the young business owner. >> i really took off, and ever since my business has gone up. >> reporter: the publicity stirred up demand for the coffee crunch cake from locals and visitors from across the country. moses' wife helped decorate the cakes, and her smile became the face of the bakery. their three daughters and grandkids also helped out. then in 2020, his wife passed away after exposure to covid. >> she was really good with the customers. me, i was the grumpy guy in the back. >> reporter: today, moses is retired because of health issues, and he's turned the shop over to his grandson, a graduate of the french culinary institute. >> grandpa didn't have any of
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his kids want to do it, so we skipped a generation. >> reporter: the city has named the bakery a legacy business, and keeping it open isn't just good for the family, it's also good for japantown. >> we've been losing a lot of really old businesses around here, and it's nice to know that one of them is going to be sticking around. >> reporter: so far he's following his own recipe for success. the sweet stop is a semifinalist for a 2023 james beard award, the culinary equivalent of the oscars. despite its sustained popularity, he admits he cannot bake his family's famous cake and eat it too. >> 15 years of having it at you ever single birthday, you get tired of it eventually. i don't think i've actually had it beyond taste testing to make sure that it's right. >> reporter: for him, the icing on the cake is making people happy. >> that's one of the things i enjoy the most about it is you give them the cake, and they're
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like oh, i'm so excited. it's a big birthday party, we're so excited. my grandma ate this growing up. >> reporter: and so, with his grandfather on the sidelines, kenji keeps the family tradition alive celebrating five decades of growing a sweet spot for the sweet stop. >> what a wonderful story. moses says the secret to the longevity of his bakery are to work hard and do not compromise on quality ingredients. in chinatown, visitors got a chance to explore centuries of tradition at this year's culture fest. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> folks at the event enjoyed live music and performances from dancing lions and martial artists as well as more than 40 booths from around chinatown. there was calligraphy and painting and traditional chinese games. event organizers say the
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festival is a chance to showcase the area's culture and history. >> this event is the first in chinatown to celebrate aapi heritage month to recognize and remember and honor what chinatown have offered to america, to the community. i want them to come here to visit and to feel what's in their heart. >> today's event also included panel presentations on family history in chinatown and the impact of chinese exclusion laws. >> if you want to see more stories highlighting the bay area's aapi communities head to our website, kpix.com. you can also watch our special show roots and resilience on our youtube channel. in belmont, police say a 27-year-old is dead after a shooting last night. it happened at o' donnell park near hiller and erwin streets around 8:00. police believe it was an isolated incident, not an
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ongoing threat to the community. according to online data, this is belmont's first homicide since march of 2021. a couple of tourists this evening need a new place to stay after a building caught fire in san francisco this morning. it broke out around 9:00 in a two-story accessory unit a block away from the stadium. no injuries, and no word on the cause. still ahead at 6:00 tonight, neighbors demanding action because of an encampment they say makes it unsafe just to be outside. >> we went past that tipping point. it's that bad. i'm beyond frustrated, beyond disappointed, i'm beyond angry. and later, how a personal tragedy inspired a local teen to help other young people find mental health resources using a.i.
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welcome back. of course monday is memorial day, and today scouts, veterans, and volunteers honored the country's fallen with a flag planting project. they spent this morning placing a small u.s. flag on each of the more than 26,000 grave sites at two cemeteries, san francisco national cemetery and golden gate national cemetery. it's a great learning experience for the scouts. >> a lot of the scouts, this is their first time here. and it helps tie their understanding of their civic duty in with what they're doing right now. >> meantime, memorial day weekend travel is already breaking records. taking a live look at bay area airports this
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evening, the tsa says it screened a single day high of nearly 3 million airline passengers nationwide yesterday. >> and flight aware said more than 8,000 flights were delayed yesterday. the faa says it's about 3,000 traffic controllers short. the nation's airlines expect to fly 271 million passengers this summer. and that 271 million is up more than 6% from last year's record pace. >> we do have alternate strategies in the event they have a day or two without proper staffing. then we can mitigate that. >> monday is expected to be the busiest travel day on the back side of a holiday weekend. now we take a live look at the roadways. are they packed with people? not really. most people will drive to their holiday get away this weekend, but they're not doing it today. or at least here at this hour. aaa says about 44 million travelers will head 50 miles or more from home. >> friday night was a little bit
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of a challenge out there on the roads. i'm sure monday, when everybody is coming home. >> well, people leave, it seems to me. here's my observation. people leave at different times. they all come back at the same time. it will be a bear on monday. all right we cooled down going into the weekend, but this doesn't last long. there's a warm upcoming back. looking from the top of the salesforce tower, we were looking over the mission district last visit. now we're looking out over the ridge line there from mount tam. and that's the golden gate bridge in the haze. let's put at the time daytime highs up there just to show you how we did for today. you can see what the trend is in terms of the cool down that happened. we're still pretty much right there. friday and saturday, both days are pretty similar. we're pretty much sitting right at the bottom in terms of temperatures. we start a gradual warm up tomorrow, and that will keep
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going. when we get into monday, we're really going to have taken a pretty big step up. monday inland back near 80, and mid to upper 60s for much of the rest of the bay. this is tomorrow. still another day for bottlerock. so speaking of the inland forecast and a specific one for napa for the thousands who will be out there again tomorrow, it will be the nicer day, actually. sunday is the nicest day for that festival in terms of sunny and warm. if you like marine layer gray, then this morning would have been great. so what we have in the sunday forecast, and we're going to stop it right there. sunday morning, 7:00 a.m. in other words, maximum marine layer. a few low clouds, but it will be a different kind of marine layer tomorrow. today's was pretty deep. deep enough that it was misting out. wouldn't be surprised if you've noticed you got a little light rain this morning from sunrise really through like as late as 10:00 a.m. this won't be able
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to do that. there's not going to be as much depth to it, and it's not going to last as long as today's did either. 11:00 noon and it's all gone. so you get more sunshine bay area wide sunday. monday is the same story. start off monday morning, there's the marine layer filling in the usual places. filling in napa valley, conforming perfectly to the topography and right through the heart of the bay. but doesn't last long. we get into monday afternoon, and it's out of here. you get more sunshine than anything else. it will stay windy near the water. that's a factor for both the afternoons. both today and tomorrow. as nice as the numbers look with a slow warm up, you still get a wind chill. especially in the city. anywhere near the bay shore or coast. you see how that happened? the on shore breeze really picks up, and now you have a 30 miles per hour wind coming across the city. so that has a bigger impact really on how your day is going to feel
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than the temperature does. or maybe even the fact that it's sunny. near the water we have a pretty good on shore breeze, but if you're inland you don't have to battle that much. here's the comparison, tomorrow, the top warmest day in the seven-day forecast is thursday. so let's do the visual comparison. you won't see a lot of change here. pick out your part of the bay. from sunday to thursday, you'll see changes over there. watch the color code go deeper into shades of orange and red. mid-80s over there. but near the coast not a lot of change. that's the warmest day thursday and friday. oakland for you that means you go to the low to mid-70s. north bay valleys mid-80s. san jose goes to 84 on friday the warmest day there. and when we look at the inland east bay, you can see the same story there, 85 thursday and friday. beaches stay pretty much right around 60 and cloudy. okay, matt over to you. ahead in sports, the a's have struggled late, but pick things up saturday with an al west rival in town. plus, the giants are giving
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if you'd written off the giants, think again. san francisco is on a tear sitting above 500 for the first time since march, and each and every win in the past few days has seemingly been better than the last. jordan hicks, he's pitched like an ace early on and he had the ball on saturday. he was dealing. a lot of whiffs in new york. hicks struck out eight batters over five innings, allowed just one run on two hits. another great start from the converted reliever. giants found themselves trailing yet again late. down in the eighth, wade jr. pinch hitting and saves it is day with one out. this one into right field. it scored mckenna and sent the game to extra innings despite wade getting tagged out at second. in
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the 10th, giants had added on two, and then yastrzemski unloaded the bases with two outs. triple gave san francisco a 7-2 lead. somehow they have found another way to win for their eighth victory in their last ten games. party got started early at the coliseum, and it was a ukelele national anthem to start them off. sears gave up just two hits over six innings. his era remains the lowest among a's starters. that set up the offense for success in the sixth with runners at the corners. cameron, hard hit ball gets through the infield. a's led into the ninth, and that means it's miller time. one of the best closers in baseball right now strikes out the side in the ninth, with his tenth save of the year. a's win 3-1 and have a rubber match tomorrow at the
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coliseum. sad news to report from the golf world today. grayson murray, a two-time pga tour winner died saturday morning at the age of 30. murray had started the week playing in the charles schwab challenge but withdrew on friday. the pga says murray's family asked them not to stop the tournament. they wanted them to continue play and they respected their wishes, but an emotional day in fort worth. per usual scheffler at the top of the leader board after a slow start to the week. he's in solo second. but davis riley is the leader. here on the par 3 16th he lands the green, and the ball kept tracking towards the whole. he had a birdie to get himself to 14 under. we're entering the end of the week and don't want you to feel like you missed anything in the wide world of sports, so here's our top five from the
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week. we start with number five, debo samuel putting in the off season work. he's back to boxing. it's something we've seen him do in recent off seasons. i imagine he's punching away some of the trade rumors. four, incredible web jam on friday. two outs, bases loaded in the ninth. chapman and wade jr. teaming up to save the day. number three, defensive player of the year getting his skates on as luka spun him around for the dagger in game 2 of the western conference finals. number two, birmingham southern are headed to the college baseball world series. but here's the thing, the university is shutting down may 31st, so the school won't exist, but the baseball team could win the national championship. and number 1, never seen anything like it. a couple of ohio high school baseball teams here in the sixth inning. pop fly just falls into center field, and that center fielder has to do everything himself because no one on his
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team wants to cover a base or bag. the runner takes off for him. the center fielder from the outfield chases him down. i'm going to say that's an 8 unassisted on your scorecards. absolutely wild play. i hope they have an oxygen tank in the dugout of ohio high school dugouts. >> matt, you know, we saw this at 5:00. so now that i've analyzed this, and andrea said where was the catcher? the catcher was at third base. in a situation like that, shouldn't the watcher have gone to third base? because the third baseman wasn't there? >> i would say where's the pitcher? the pitcher should just be roaming waiting for an opening. >> the first baseman? >> anyone but the poor center fielder. get the manager on the field at this point. >> the right fielder, anybody. >> i've seen something like that in t-ball where the center fielder gets it and doesn't know what to do, so they're aimlessly walking. >> not late into the high school baseball season in the playoffs. >> well, they've got son explaining to do. thanks, matt. coming up in the next half
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hour, growing homeless encampment is raising concerns for an oakland neighborhood. their push for the city to take action. and the mission district is known for its food, but some living and working there can barely afford to buy grocerie
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cbs news bay area, this is the
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evening edition. now at 6:30, neighbors and business owners in one oakland neighborhood say a growing homeless encampment is creating safety concerns. it all began with a single rv parked on the sidewalk, and since it has mushroomed. >> and residents say they can no longer walk in that area. it's located on east h reet between fruitvale avenue and 34th avenue. they say the sidewalk is blocked off, and there was recently a troubling incident involving an ax. da lin reports. >> reporter: neighbors say they can no longer use the sidewalk on east 8th street near fruitvale avenue. a car is parked on the sidewalk. there's also a bike and a bunch of other stuff. they walk into the street to get in and out of their homes. >> the kids who are walking to school have to get off the sidewalk because they can't go through. it's the only sidewalk since there isn't one on the other side.
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>> reporter: through a translator, hector ugo worries a car could hit his two little girls. neighbors and business owners say it started out with one rv a few months ago, but it got bigger. a second rv and a couple of cars have since camped out on east 8th street. they worry it could turn into east 9th street, which is filled with rvs and people living in cars. >> and walking through there, it's a death trap. and when it starts going dark, forget about it. there's no light there. it makes it even more dangerous. >> reporter: neighbors say this is the other route. if families don't want to walk into the street. but the alleyway is full of trash. >> i think on thursday we went past the tipping point. >> reporter: this businesses owner says on thursday someone vandalized a stolen or abandoned car on the street. a short time later, everado says a homeless man walked out with what appeared to be an ax in his
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right hand to confront someone. >> i'm beyond frustrated, beyond disappointed. i'm beyond angry. >> reporter: they say they called the city multiple times, but no one has cleared the encampment. >> it goes beyond atrocious. it's deliberate. how can the city not act? >> reporter: i asked the rv dwellers why block the sidewalk? one man says he'll tell his uncle to clean it up. >> i'll make sure that gets cleared up, you know? but no, you're right. absolutely. kids need to walk by for their safety. >> reporter: the man says the rv dwellers don't want to cause problems, but they have nowhere to go. >> it's not the homeless people bringing the trash, destroying the businesses, abandoning all these cars. >> reporter: councilman gallo met with everado about the concerns. he says the city is working to clear the rvs on both east 8th and 9th streets. >> they have to go. you have people from missouri, canada, all over the country coming into oakland because we're allowing
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that behavior to happen. this shouldn't be on that street because it's illegal to block the sidewalk. >> reporter: everado and the neighbors hope the city will act fast. >> this cannot continue because it puts our life in jeopardy. >> reporter: a lot of neighbors tell me they'd like to move, but they've lived here for a long time and say they simply can't afford to leave. now they're waiting for the city to do something about this. >> also in oakland, former police chief armstrong kicked off his city council campaign today. he's running for an at large seat currently held by rebecca kaplan. he was police chief for two years before the mayor fired him in 2023. he says he's the only candidate that understands how to handled city resources, and his focus would be helping the city rather than playing politics. >> i'm here for the people of oakland, to solve problems for the people of oakland and come up with solutions to make the city better. i want to live in a city that's thriving. i want to live in a city that's safe. no
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matter who's the mayor or who i'm sitting next to, i hope our commitment is the same. >> he was fired by the mayor who said she lost confidence in the chief for how he handled an internal police investigation. but an independent arbitrator cleared armstrong of any wrongdoing. so in february he filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city, a lawsuit that's still pending. earlier tonight we focused on the excitement around san francisco's carnaval. the largest multiculture celebration in california. and while local latino leaders are all about celebrating milestones, they're also shining the spotlight on a problem for many in their community. kenny choi has more. >> reporter: when maria's husband was deported to mexico, she understood her journey would come with struggles including cleaning three large homes a day with most of the payments going
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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 on set of the pandemic, when she couldn't find much work, she began volunteering at the mission food hub. >> the people asking for a little bit more, so i'm giving two or lee three pieces more. >> reporter: she not only served, but received services. now they've stopped serving except one day a week. roberto hernandez is the founder of the mission food hub. essential jobs depending on workers commuting to the city have hit hard times, and the demand for food hasn't faded. >> what happened to the janitor that was working there? when you think about the hotels, all the
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people that work in the hotels and hotels aren't being filled. what about those workers? >> reporter: hernandez says the hub served 9,000 families a week at the height of the pandemic. he still sees maria helping at the warehouse, despite her cleaning business recently growing to serve seven clients. >> having family and all the struggles, she has brought so much life. >> reporter: with a stronger command of english and a decade of adapting to a once foreign country, maria 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 just she visits food pantries. it's an assist she one day hopes she
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won't need. >> i'm working hard so when i feel exhausted, i'm thinking about you. you need me. that's why i'm 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 who need it even more than her. >> her -- hernandez says the food bank isn't getting the money it got during the pandemic, and he says there's also newcomers after other food pantries have run dry. other news this saturday evening, in india more than two dozen people were killed after a major fire broke out at an amusement park. rescue operations are underway. officials confirmed the deaths of 27 people, including 4 children. police say they have detained the owner and manager of the amusement park there while they investigate what happened.
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and baltimore is slowly getting back to normal after the devastating collapse of the francis scott key bridge about two months ago. today a cruise ship has left the port of baltimore for the first time since the fatal accident. city leaders are hopeful that it's a step toward economic recovery. >> cruising is back in baltimore. the more than 2,000 passengers that will be able to enjoy cruising activities over the next several days are really the telltale sign that business is coming back. >> meanwhile, clean up crews are still working continuously to clear the wreckage from the river. and still ahead here at 6:00, students at uc davis will be full of beans after taking a course on how to make the perfect brew.
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not a lot of traffic for a big holiday weekend, but i guess folks have reached their destination. today kicks off oakland's love our lake campaign by lake merit. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> the event the first of a series of summer events with live musical performances and volunteer activities dedicated to celebrating local oakland culture. residents today got the chance to see a number of local artists perform at lake side park. also enjoyed the sunny weather. >> we got together really wanting to make sure that we're bringing oakland culture back to lake merit. so we're starting today with a big launch full of music and fun.
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>> the park will host several free events throughout the summer, including next month's lake fest. and up in wine country, it's day two of bottlerock the music festival. not only does it attract music lovers, but food and wine lovers as well. tonight's headliner is pearl jam, and tomorrow night ed sheeran will close out the festival. it was packed there for nelly yesterday. >> it bet it will be even more packed tonight. coming up, the science of making the perfect cup of joe. the one of a kind program at uc davis offering lessons in all things caffeine. and we still have the bulk of this three-day weekend to get through. you could gauge a lot by today, but actually monday, if you're inland, it will feel quite different. there's a noti
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plenty of college students drink coffee, but how many actually devote time to study it? uc davis is home to the only coffee lab on a campus. we learned a thing or two about the science of making a steaming cup of joe. >> reporter: behind every abean and cup is the science that uc davis has done to an art. at the university's coffee center,
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this is the last step. the taste test in the sensory both where the red light is masking the coffee's color, forcing you to rely only on your taste buds. >> it's definitely a darker roast. >> reporter: here they research how people perceive each sip. >> what are the differences in the sensory context, and will people like them or not? >> reporter: but let's go back to where it starts. >> this is a box of green coffee. as you can see, it has like a tint of green. >> reporter: these beans from bolivia. >> we cannot improve the quality, but we can maintain the quality we're obtaining from the field. >> reporter: that's researched here. the exact science of storing each batch to preserve its true character. >> we can very accurately control the relative humidity and the temperature. >> reporter: now these beans are on to the roastery, where every single variable matters. >> heating at 37%, exhaust
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temperature at 391. >> reporter: they're heated up and dried out. >> so now we're roasting. >> reporter: the formula to create the right roast. >> i can affect the flavor profile. >> reporter: this batch is done. >> yeah, great job! >> it cools the coffee down and stops the roasting process. >> reporter: now each has to be analyzed. >> as easy as snapping a photo like this. >> reporter: roast pic, an app developed here at the coffee center is finding any imperfections or inconsistencies. >> just ensuring your coffee is brewed the same every single day. >> reporter: and now it's time to brew. >> push the number 2 button. 27 to 30 seconds is where we're shooting for. >> reporter: you need the right water, coffee ratio, and temperature. >> throughout the day,
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barometric changes can impact brewing a great cup of espresso. >> reporter: from the heart of davis, coffee research has thrived since 2016. but this month the center finally opened its own building on campus. the first of its kind in the country. >> uc davis is known for innovation in food and food systems and agriculture, so we're proud to have the first academic center focused on coffee. >> learning every step and sip of the process. >> and this is a graduate research center. there's also an undergraduate class on coffee science that more than 2,000 students have taken this year. uc davis hopes to one day offer a degree in coffee science. well, it's going to get better, right? >> it's getting better already. >> it's going to get better, the weather. >> it's starting now. plenty of sunshine. we talked about this. this morning you got rained on.
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>> well, there was a little bit of drizzle on the windshield. i had to get the wipers going a little bit. >> you kind of forecast though, right? i remember you last weekend saying there's a big change mid-week. >> coming for saturday. the marine layer got so deep this morning that there was a tenth of an inch of rain that fell in coastal rain gauges. some fell in fremont. that's not happening again tomorrow or monday. we'll go back in time. this is 9:00 a.m. this morning. that's the marine layer and how widespread it was. not only is the whole bay socked in, if you're up this early, you already know. but look what happened. the on shore breeze was so strong, took the marine layer, blew it over sacramento. sacramento woke up with our marine layer. doesn't happen often. it happens, but not super often. it happens on the days where there's a really strong on shore flow. then it went up and did a curly cue and got tangled up in the central valley. it was gone by early afternoon. so we'll watch the
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progression of how this felted away. then i want to show you tomorrow and monday. watch how fast it melted away once we got past the warmth of like noon. right about here. 1:00 in the afternoon, still a little hanging out. by then it melted away and we had more sunshine than anything else. and if we come back for the wide view and go forward in time. instead of looking at actual satellite imagery from today, we'll put the high resolution futurecast on here. by the way, there's the time lapse of the clouds coming in today. not getting into the mission much. apparently we're also doing the bottlerock forecast right now. plenty of sunshine tomorrow and temperatures in the low 70s. it will be sunny and warm. and we're also getting in the carnaval forecast too. all right, now back to regularly scheduled programming. here's the marine layer. here's the futurecast going forward. watch what happens. it builds back in again tomorrow. but nowhere near as widespread as it was this morning. that right there is as far as it's going. that time of day, late 6:00 hour, 7:00 is
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when the marine layer is at its best. that's when it's had its darkness of night and cool temperatures and can really extend in as far as it's going to get. and it doesn't stay there long. it melts back by 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. and it won't be as deep, so won't be able to mist out tomorrow. maybe a little at the coast, but you won't get that tomorrow. that's the scene on monday. so monday morning, marine layer builds back in monday morning, but it's not as widespread, not as deep, and it doesn't last as long and you get plenty of sunshine to go along with it. even with plenty of sunshine, the wind is still a factor on this. there's still going to be a cool wind chill effect to this if you're anywhere near the water. as the winds kind of pick up this afternoon, they die down tomorrow night. watch tomorrow afternoon. winds come right back again. now you have a 24 miles per hour wind rushing over the city. remember how we saw the marine layer clouds pushed through the strait pushing into
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the sacramento valley? this is how that happens. the strong on shore winds push it all the way up there. there's not as many clouds, but the wind will be almost as strong the next couple of days, so you get a little bit of a breeze. but temperatures are still warming up. there's tomorrow, sunday. it's warmer. then thursday the temperatures are noticeably warmer inland. thursday and friday will be the two warmest days in the seven-day forecast. speaking of which, here it is. oakland, your warm up putting you in the low to mid-70s by thursday and friday. north bay valleys the mid-80s. san jose will go to the mid-80s. you'll cool down, oh, just in time for next weekend. that's always the pattern, isn't it? and it will be for the next seven days. 85 on thursday and back in the 70s again by the time we get to next saturday. brian, over to you. thanks, darren. up next using a.i. to connect young people with mental health resources. how a local teen's tragic loss inspired her to help her peers.
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welcome back. a teenager on the peninsula who went through a devastating loss of her own wants to help young people like herself. >> here's how she's doing it with a.i. >> reporter: she may be young, but her wisdom is timeless. charlotte rosario is only 17, but when a.i. began advancing, she started to dig deeper to explore ways the technology could be beneficial for humanity. >> i've always loved, um, to tinker when i was younger, and in the last few years i've been interested in coding and building various apps and tools.
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when the a.i. boom started happening, i wanted to get my hands on some of these, you know, a.i. models to see what they're capable of. >> reporter: and in doing that, charlotte discovered what she is capable of. as one passionate about mental health and wellness, she decided to combine her interests and create an a.i. tool that helps people find mental health resources more efficiently. >> a lot of people don't actually have that much education and awareness around how mental health works, what is mental health, what are services available. >> reporter: it's the kind of awareness charlotte wishes her own family had growing up. after losing a parent, charlotte has been on her own journey of healing and hopes to share that journey with others. >> my dad actually passed away by suicide when i was just 12 years old. it was actually one week before the quarantine
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started. and i think going through that whole experience of realizing just how much stigma there is around mental health, i've had to put myself in a position where i have tried to heal by helping others. >> this is the landing page. >> reporter: charlotte's tool, entitled search mental health, has partnered with the national alliance on mental illness to expand the platform across california. by simply typing in one's feelings in the search bar, it provides information for context without all the medical jargon. according to the ceo of the mental health association of san francisco, he believes a.i. could encourage people to seek help, but it's only one step in the process. >> if people can develop the tools, that's great, but the caveat is these aren't the be
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all end up resources, and you can research other supports out there. but i think using a.i. is a great tool rather than the solution itself. >> reporter: as for charlotte, she just wants to let people know there are solutions. >> what's really important is doing things for social good and the people we love and the communities we love. >> reporter: and it's the love for her father that fuels her path. >> thanks for watching we'll see
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