from cbs news bay area , this is the evening edition. now at 11: neighbors rallying behind a san francisco dog walker in the face of racism and a fire that destroyed his home. ahead of memorial day, we are honoring the sacrifice and the lives lost during a mission that helped turn the tide in the pacific hurling world war ii. but first a massive fire breaks out in an east bay warehouse, multiple crews called out to get a handle on

this after hours of burning live at 11:00, on a saturday night for the cbs studios at broadway in tampa cisco. smoke from that huge fire in oakland, visible across the bay as seen from our camera on top of the salesforce building. a massive plume of smoke for hours, and fire officials telling anyone in the area to close all their doors and windows. it is happening at the economy lumber on high street right off 880. that is where we find da lin tonight live at the scene. what is it like and what we know about how it started? >> reporter: that is still under investigation right now. firefighters are sending investigators through here right now but the big planes are out. going to take a live look right now. you don't see any big flames but still, some black smoke. still very active seen here. a lot of firefighters inside that warehouse that you are looking at right now. they're still looking for hot spots, putting out any flames that they can spot. now this fire, according

to the fire department, started around 7:45. at least that is where they got that call. they got here pretty quickly and they said when they got here, this warehouse was already fully engulfed in flames so they had about 80 firefighters and they immediately went into the 's of mode, as they were saying, because the flames were so big they didn't think they'd have a good chance of saving this building. so what they were doing instead was to make sure the flames do not spread to the main office in front of the warehouse. that those flames did not spread to other racks of lumber . so that is why they were going into the defensive mode. but obviously they were in the offense of in attacking, making sure that the flames were being put out. they were successful in saving the main office and a lot of the other racks of lumber. but the warehouse is pretty much destroyed. firefighters say there is a lot of wood in there. it is also that warehouse, also has a showroom with windows and doors so it is their showroom for windows and

doors, customers can order windows and doors . there is a lot of plastic and a lot of wood in that warehouse and they were concerned about air quality in fact, they were calling for air-quality experts to come out here and check out and measure how the air is doing. take a listen to what the italian chief had to say earlier clear at the time, anybody that is in the area, we suggest just to stay in your quarters, stay-at-home. keep your door shut and just kind of stay out of the smoke. and then also traffic in the area here between high street, coliseum, 880, san leandro is blocked at this time so we are also please ask everyone to just stay away from this area, as well. >> reporter: again, this fire is still under investigation . it is too early to say what caused it or how it started. all they can do right now is to make sure they put out the flames and then they can really safely find out what started

it. no one was hurt, the fire department economy lumber was closed at the time , given that it was a sunday. now i'm going to have the photographer, mckenzie, pan over right here. this one-story building, that is the main office. that is where they store a lot of the materials, as well. and the main office is safe , according to firefighters. no smoke or no, at least no fire damage . inside the main office . and firefighters say they will be here overnight to monitor for any hotspots. as you can see, there are still some black smoke emerging from that rooftop. brian? >> no surprise that lumber warehouse is going to burn and how. live in oakland tonight, thank you. lasting concern, of course, all that smoke being pumped into the skies. let's go to darren peck to find out more. there parts of the bay that

are experiencing that smoke right now. you might not expect , i just go to show you who is good at and why. first of all, look at the time left. can you see how the smoke kind of sit hits a ceiling here and then leveled out? that is problem number one. that is the top of the marine layer there. it is an inversion layer. it is warmer and dryer above it and the smoke can't rake out of the marine layer into that next level of air. it is like a cap on the atmosphere. we see this so often when there are fires here so that is problem number one. kind of trapping the smoke and we are not letting it vent away. so now it is here and that means it is here and it is going to get moved around by the wind. let's use the virtual map to show you what that is doing. and no doubt you are probably already aware we've got are onshore flows of the winds are coming into the golden gate all day. let's come down here to where that fire is. you get to this part of the bay, they turn more easterly and they start getting pulled up into the oakland hills. that is just at the lower part of the marine layer. in order to see how this is behaving in a way that it is

able to get to parts of the bay you did not expect you to look at what the windsor doing a little bit higher. and for that those winds are shifting off toward the northeast. so let me show you what the air-quality centers look like and you can see that this is impacting parts of the bay that you might not expect if we plug the air-quality sensors on here come you can actually see where the purple air reading show you, there is a cluster of reduced air quality here downwind from oakland. but look at the line, so the higher winds are taking that smoke and they have been able to transported from oakland over the east bay hills and over toward walnut creek where we have seen air-quality go down over there. that is why it was an important part of the story, we are hearing from the fire battalion. if you're in that direction. particularly it is not overwhelmingly bad but it is bad enough and you don't want to breathe any of the stuff in. we'll be back with the rest of our forecast and just a bit. back to you. clean nicely done. before we sent bill to

cover the fire and open, he spent the day and temperatures, where people living your alamo square came together to support their neighbor, terry williams with a well-known dog walker whose family home was gutted by fire last week and here again, da lin with the story. >> reporter: this is what a village looks like. filled with hugs , donations, and messages of support. >> we will all continue to love and support you and your family. >> love and support from the mission, and thinking of you. >> i am so happy to see how many of your neighbors love you >> we support you as neighbors and we love you. >> terry williams says he is overwhelmed by the amount of love. >> i am very proud and grateful. >> roughly 100 people , friends, neighbors, even strangers attended the barbecue fundraiser for terry and his families in the evening. a fire destroyed their family home on tuesday. terry had reported to san francisco police about a month before the fire, his family received threatening and racist packages, including a dull depicting a black person

with a noose around its neck . firefighters are still investigating the cause of the fire. police say at this time, there is no connection between the fire and the racist packages. >> i pray to god, i said that before but i pray, i just pray to god that crazy. >> mom and dad suffered from injuries in the fire. terry says there at the hospital and doing better. the families are staying in hotel. terry said his dad bought the house near alamo square more than five decades ago. in the early '70s. >> were not leaving . right here, we're not going down. that is the plan. >> reporter: leticia williams humphrey is terry's sister, she was raised in the house. and it breaks her heart to see it boarded up >> i don't have a home. i have a house that i live in but this is what i called home. you know, where my parents were always home.

>> reporter: supporters say while they lost their home, they still have the neighborhood. >> and compassion, will overcome hate , just racism. >> we love you. >> we are standing live with you and are keeping your family in our thoughts, your new neighbor, sara. >> reporter: the williams family says this kind of support shows the love that trump's hate. >> everybody is doing my family, thank you. everything is going to be all right. >> the rebuilding process will likely take months, terry is talking to the city to see what kind of housing option may be available to his family. >> hardest working man in the news biz. after a year and have on negotiations with not much progress, the workers who run the alcatraz island ferry went on strike this weekend. almost 100 unionized ferry workers are fighting for better pay and workplace benefits the union says it is frustrated with that face from their company, alcatraz city cruises, which the union claims is only topped with a few virtual meetings.

>> ultimately, i think what is really important to say here is that the union is not trying to set a new standard with this employer. we are simply trying to bring them up to an existing standard that exists and other employers on the bay doing similar work. >> the company condemned the strike. they said they had the right to hire temporary replacements on saturday. manager said they would continue transporting tourists without the striking workers. people gathered in san francisco to remember the sacrifice made by the u.s. says san francisco. john ramos reports on the ship or history is still being written 80 years later. >> reporter: remembering the uss san francisco has become a yearly tradition on memorial day weekend in san francisco another family of one of its crew members has added a piece of that history, as well. the

bagpipes, once again, led the nation's colors to the memorial for the u.s. says inferences. it's torn bridge wings on display with holes from the shelling and took in the brutal battle of guadalcanal . it was november 14th, 1942 that a japanese armada was heading to bombard a group of marines trying to hold onto an important air base. and u.s. as san francisco steamed into the middle. it was nothing other than a suicide but they knew they had to do it in order to save the marines. and that is the story of what we remember. >> reporter: within that were other stories, as well. like that of cheap war officer, paul mckinley. he flew as a back seat or in an amphibious two-week scout plane aboard the ship. he joined the navy in 1937 and was just about to get out of the service when pearl harbor was attacked. >> and so he was not released out of his four year contract and served the next four years at an extended tour of duty is what they called it.

>> reporter: mckinley's family was at the ceremony, offering a book about his wartime experiences. he was on the uss san francisco when it emerged undamaged from the pearl harbor attack. and then seemed to move from one major battle to another. lead midway, they wanted their way to midway and they found other that had gone down had they had introverted course and did not go to midway so they did escape that one that was just proceeding guadalcanal. >> a thought all. >> he was, yeah, he was out there. >> mckinley scout plane had been removed from the ship prior to the bloody battle that killed 103 men. but the plane was used afterwards to track the crippled japanese ships and rescue american sailors from the sea. most of it was never talked about until mckinley's family convinced him to put his memories down on paper before his death in 1996. >> and i don't think that the bravery and the heroism of the men and women can accurately be

understood without hearing it from their own words. changed the war . especially the u.s. says san francisco. and that has changed the outcome of our country and i think we lose that because we are so in the present, here and now. it is very important to remember what happened. >> so now a new chapter has been added to the story of the uss san francisco . and it will be up to the generations that follow to decide what will be remembered and what will fade into the thin air of history. as the nation prepares to honor its fallen servicemembers on memorial day there is a gathering in san francisco this morning for members of the sacrifice made by the trend 15, as we just saw, will also be other ceremonies when we come back.

if you were in san francisco today, chances are you saw some colorful outfits, some bouncing cars, and big crowds. from one of the biggest annual festivals in san francisco, carnaval san francisco continues to be a crowdpleaser, bringing the other people from many cultures and bring in lots of loads and lots of performances, including a crowd favorite, the low rider. >> i love this. this is what low writing was really meant for. we love to cruise our cars nice and slow and let people

enjoy them. >> ramirez says that low riders had a lot of problems with the police once upon a time but things are better now. low writing is just about cruising, it is not about gang activity. there is jose. let's go over to first alert meteorologist darren peck with the latest on, i don't know if you're going to talk with the weather or the smoke or something. >> we covered all that smoke. we now need to talk about memorial day. you still have day three of a holiday weekend to enjoy. so what we are going to do is we are going to spotlight how it plays out for kind of like the three main microclimates. inland obvious are the warmest. your temperatures are going to be on the verge of 80 tomorrow. you can pick out the time of day maybe that matters most, whatever you might be doing with your memorial day. but the numbers did you to near 80 that is going to be quite nice. it is going to be a bit warm. that covers one microclimate. let's do this for the bay now, so we switch. you see the temperatures here a bit lower. mid-to-upper 60s. pretty spot on for where you were today. a

good way to think about this is tomorrow is virtually identical to what we did today and that includes where we are going to be at the coast. that is kind of a broad overview with the patriotic lag back there for memorial day. get a little more specific i'm just going to put your number on. got your part of the bay here and you get a specific number for the daytime high. so sure it is one thing to say you are going to be near 80 in general for parts of the inland part of the bay but you will get 80% of rosa. you will be in the mid-70s for nevada. san francisco, barely at 60 tomorrow. contra costa county there, 77 for concord. 67 in redwood city. half moon bay, that is the number on the coast out there. and you can see we'll be, tri-valley, 77, numbers will be in the mid-70s for the south bay. that covers tomorrow's daytime high. another added element that needs to be discussed for tomorrow, which is what is the marine layer going to be doing? that was quite overwhelming on saturday morning and it wasn't that bad today . it is not going to be that bad tomorrow.

play it forward, the high-resolution depiction in these models have gotten so good over the last few years, really. that being a spotlight how they're going to be able to behave the next day. so tomorrow morning, you can see it's billed and over the city, gets over toward the east bay, filled in the contour groups for napa valley, but then it melts back as we go to the afternoon and look yet more sunshine than anything else, just like today. so we have got that kind of make gray set up in the morning and then we go into the afternoon and it pretty much clears out and we are done. so you will have more blue sky than anything else and in seven-day forecast we will start with that were missed microclimate again. you'll warm up to the upper 80s and then you will call back down a bit by next weekend so there is a little bit of a warm up only toward the tail end of the week. you will see it all in our microclimates. you will see it for the bay, as well. mid-70s through thursday and friday and cool down into the weekend. brian, back to you. >> thank you, darren.

coming up later, guess which san francisco landmark is celebrating his 87th tomorrow. that is a clue. plus . >> giants winning series and the way they are doing it. you have heard of aquaman, we've got a local aqua woman. stay busy. >> let's take this busy. >> baby makes four for this golden state warrior. that and more on game day in moments after the newscast.

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will welcome back. a live look at the capitol building tonight. there are growing concerns about the number of threats pouring into the capital's switchboard and email inboxes. lawmakers, their staff, and capitol police also the number of threatening phone calls has also surged, including death threats. the youngest staff and interns usually are the ones that get the brunt of the messages. capitol police chief warns senators this week that overall threat investigations have doubled in the past six years. a new survey of top congressional aides found nearly three out of four have suffered some kind of insulting or threatening messages to senator amy klobuchar, who oversees the capital police says that the threats are not limited to just the d.c. offices but the offices of local lawmakers, as well. >> our democracy cannot function if you have elected

officials being threatened. >> law enforcement has hired three new prosecutors to handle the growing number of cases capital police also are actively recruiting to recover from a wave of departures after january 6th. in the coming weeks, congress will debate how much money to give the department in 2025. after the break will head to italy where a small to

on this memorial day weekend , and american family travel to a small italian village where their loved one, along with seven other u.s. soldiers, were killed after escaping a p.o.w. camp. chris went with them for the 80th anniversary. clear the year was 1944 , the allies were chasing the out of italy when american forces bombed a german train. it turned out to be carrying hundreds of allied p.o.w.s, destined for concentration camp. among the survivors, corporal paul valdes of the army's 45th infantry division. and seven other americans. dave fled for their lives here to the rugged hills. 42 miles out of rome. now 93 years old, was 12 when one of them knocked on his door. >> mama gave them a loaf of

bread because the poor things had nothing to eat. nothing, he sobs the americans eventually took cover behind these abandoned medieval walls. though not for long. >> this medieval monastery became a literal sanctuary for those agi's until the nazis eventually hunted them down and gunned them down. villagers say the bullet holes are still visible. >> reporter: what cowards the nazis work, he shutters. recalling the moment he saw the bodies of the slain americans. those were boys. since the massacre, the town has honored those agi's every year. this year marks the 80th anniversary . a milestone that the family of paul valdes could not miss .

flying in from california and colorado, like his grand niece , elaine torres. >> they have kept their memories alive all these years. all the years that we never even knew . or the anything that happened here. it is extraordinary that they really embraced them. they never forgot. >> the valdes family has paul's german p.o.w. tag, letters home, and his prayer book. for decades, they never knew the full story until, with the help of historians, the town reached out to paul's mother, ruben, in 2019. >> the town was taking care of him, people cared about him. other mothers carried about him and his fellow soldiers. >> ruben, peggy valdes's father, died just months after the call. but not without blindly knowing, once and for all, about the town that took care of his brother and has honored his memory ever since.

>> the national world war ii museum estimates that fewer than 1% of the 16.4 million americans who served in the war are still alive. 1%. coming up after the

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but first baseball and the giants, 54 games in, dead even record and in the mix in the west. they won eight of their last ten and if you really want to get ahead of yourself, the g-pan are a game out for the second wild card spot. and here is how they finished up a 4-2 road trip. giants faced former teammate sean menia at the getaway game. okay, tied in the third inning. that's when brett