from cbs news bay area, this is the evening addition. >> 5:30, continue our coverage of prez job i's historic decision to drop his re-election bid. the first president since lyndon johnson in may of 1968 when he stunned the nation by saying he would not run for re-election. today's announcement did not come close to being that big of a huge surprise. >> reporter: the decision comes after nearly a month of growing calls for him to step aside following that disappointing debate performance. and biden made the announcement in a letter posted on social media saying in part, quote, it was the best , it was in the best

interest, excuse me, my party and the country for me to stand down. >> moments after releasing that statement, mr. biden announced that he is endorsing vice president kamala harris to replace him, saying in the post that he is offering his full support of the current vice president. something local democratic politicians are, of course, endorsing. >> i fully support kamala harris. in fact, she has been trained by the best, joe biden was a vice president himself, so she probably had the best mentor to work under. >> the president said he will address the nation later this week. right now he is at his home in delaware after he tested positive for covid last wednesday. former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton also endorsing vice president harris for president. in a joint statement, the clintons praise biden for his political compliments and for, quote, standing up for america time and again. but they go on to say they are honored to endorse harris and that they will,

quote, fight with everything we have got to elect america's future depends on it. former president barack obama has also weighed in. thing in part, we have also been reminded again that president biden is a patriot of the highest order. however, the former president has not yet publicly endorsed a new nominee. former speaker nancy pelosi saying in part, president biden is a patriotic american who has always put our country first. his legacy of vision, values, and leadership make him one of the most consequential presidents in american history. there is, of course, a lot more reaction coming in. to see how the news is leading with them. i am supposing that you are finding the same thing, all the democrats are saying yay for kamala. >> that is true and it is shocked but not quite necessarily surprise. that is something i have heard a lot of today. but exhaustion is what many in the democratic party have been feeling over the last couple of weeks and one democratic delegate i spoke

with today says this shakeup might just bring the confidence this party has been looking for. >> i one of 3900 people who will decide of the fate of the free world. so no pressure. i'm kidding, i'm kidding. i am one of 3900 people who will vote on who will be the democratic nominee for president. >> when tony russo mono woke up sunday morning he had no plans on traveling to chicago as a democratic delegate. with an easy assumption that president biden would be the democratic nominee and he could cast his vote from his home in santa cruz. >> it is nice to go, it is fun. it is exciting a couple of times but frankly the appeal of a balloon drop has kind of lost all the excitement for me. >> tony served as a proud californian delegate for several election cycles after

spending years as a political reporter. he says he, like many democrats, has felt the exhaustion and concern over the last several weeks watching biden's campaign unravel. >> i don't blame biden for any of this. i don't think anyone blames biden. the shakeup right now, instantly, has taken old age out of the equation. it is no longer about an old enfeebled candidate who can't complete a sentence who mixes up countries and words , who should never have been on that stage in the debate. and that is all off the table now. >> reporter: what is on the table is a likely matchup between kamala harris and former president trump. some, like democratic donor mark buell's say she is the best shot for democrats to hold onto the white house in november. >> can't say that anyone else is in any better shape and i think the delegates then will see how far they go. but i think she is very competitive. >> reporter: has a personal

elation ship with harris, he was part of her senate campaign and support her as a democratic pick, bringing a welcomed shakeup to this high-stakes race. >> a very interesting ride. but as i say, it is very exciting. >> reporter: republicans don't see harris as a significant threat to trump, at least any more than biden. but that isn't without surprise , as john dennis, chairman of the san francisco republican party. >> the president of the united states is not seeking re-election when he is eligible to do so. and that is a bit shocking. >> i think the trump campaign is fairly confident right now . >> reporter: for tony, he is spending his night rebooking travel to support harris on the floor of the dnc in chicago next month knowing he plays an important role in the success of his beloved party. >> it would be interesting, a lot of fun and deadly, deadly serious for what we have to do as a democrat. >> now the democratic national convention is just four weeks away and there are two paths to

selecting a new nominee. the first would be a virtual vote that could solidify a candidate early next month. the other is an open convention where delegates would debate on the convention floor, listening to arguments from any other potential candidates. that hasn't happened since 1968 but the parallels between these two races and this year are only just growing. >> thank you, laura. san francisco mayor london breed praise president biden's decision to step down as well as his record she also offered an enthusiastic endorsement for vice president kamala harris. >> he stepped up, he pretty much came out of retirement because he knew what was at stake and he helped to lead this country during a very challenging time. we cannot mess around with this opportunity. there is so much at stake and all i can think is, i wish i could travel to battleground states and just go across the country and help elect kamala harris. >> so it looks like the vice

president, at this moment is the front-runner to become the new nominee . it is far from a done deal. joining us live now is political science professor, david mcewen. david, i hope i am pronouncing your name right. and thank you, good deal. i appreciate your taking some time. look, lyndon johnson in 1968 stunned everybody. i don't even know lady bird knew that that night, in may, of '68, that i think lady bird did know that he was going to say i am not running he spent 15 minutes talking about the vietnam war than he turned to the cameras and said if you nominate me i will not accept and if elected i will not serve. so johnson did it in may . do you think that in president biden's case, he waited too long to make such a significant decision? >> that is a great place to start. look, there are some similarities to 1968 and lbj and the timing but obviously we are in a completely different

media and universe in a completely different political universe probably became 1968. this is much like 1964 for republicans . and 1860 for the nation. this particular election. so that is really a big deal. did he come out so late? sure. have democrats had their hair on fire since that awful debate? yes . but they have also been in disarray and disunity while the republicans have been energized and on a mission the juxtaposition on does change with this announcement. no question about that. democratic national committee, the dnc, the rules committee will begin after 48 hours, probably on wednesday. they will set forth what happens to joe biden delegates so that means kamala harris has 48 hours. after that, as can get a little bit swirly so we have to pay attention to that. but she is clear the fact oh nominee she is clearly the person who is first right of refusal. everyone else also gives democrats focus. so the race is now joint. the problem

is we are four weeks out and 100 some odd days out from the election itself. so there's a lot of time. >> dave, have you seen the latest polls about how kamala harris would do vis-à-vis going head-to-head with donald trump? is it any better than biden? >> it is slightly better than biden in certain states but you have got to take a couple of things into account. registered voter polls, we want to pay attention to swing states. donald trump gets a little bit of a bounce from the convention. it's a little bit of a bounce from the attended assassination. those are largely a wash. democrats will get a little bit of a bounce from their convention. that means and labor day, the traditional kickoff, there will be virtually a dead heat race. just to draw your attention, no democrat has received more than 54 percent of the popular vote since 1964 so we forecast a close race. the difference is kamala harris is multiracial, she is a woman, those are huge components to this race when you are facing donald trump. and the unity message has gone

away. that is not a surprise in some ways. but what does she do when she is the person on the ticket, if she is the nominee, and what is her vice presidential candidate look like? and how do democrats do down ballot? these are open questions that will dominate the convention because democrats don't want a repeat of chicago in 1968 and they often have these group therapy sessions before the nation. you don't want to have that happen in this particular political environment. >> long behind. but it is eerie. and in 1968, a convention for the ages and not in a good way. professor david mcewen, i appreciate it, david, thank you so much. >> nice to see you. thank you. independent presidential candidate robert f kennedy jr. praise president joe biden for his decision to drop out of the presidential race. >> his handling of the many difficulties and challenges , personal challenges and tragedies that he suffered during his life with so much admirable conduct.

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there is other news today, other top stories, a wild night

in vallejo, it began with a sideshow and ended with a crash after police chase. >> it all started around 1:00 in the morning. the solano county sheriff's department told us alejo police asked to help break up a sideshow in the area of tennessee and mariposa when deputies shut up there was a shootout between two cars that had crashed into each other. they chased one of the cars and it crashed into a parked car .2 people were arrested and are being treated at the hospital. deputies say no one was actually hit by gunfire. police in fremont searching for the person that shot and killed a woman just for 9:00 last night, near arrowhead avenue and colorado boulevar officers say the shooter was gone by the time they got there. the woman died at a scene a short time later. investigators say preliminary evidence suggests the victim and suspect knew each other. and airlines are still recovering from last week's global computer outage t■here were more than 1400 flight cancellations today. the majority were on delta and united. delta ceo said the outage happened during one of the busiest travel weekends of the summer.

it may not look all that pretty out those windows from the virtual set but air quality is actually okay. there is some smoke but it is pretty much staying elevated. so the smoke in the air quality is not the primary concern. it is tomorrow's temperatures and the excessive heat warnings and heat advisories . every part of the bay has got something to look at here. we'll put your number on here and i will show you why this doesn't last all week. there is good news at the end of the seven-day forecast, coming up next. straight ahead in sports, a giants pitcher went off with the game of his life. too bad the skipper wasn't around to see it in person. we've got details

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we are going to get there in one second. the first thing i want to talk about is that you have been out at all today you are looking around, the sky does not look ready. there is wildfire smoke in our sky. but when i look at the air quality sensors, and i just looked right before went on the air, down here on the ground, almost all of them are in the green, which means it is good . worst case scenario, some of it is moderate but just a quick review on that, there's a couple of wildfires burning down in the southern sierra this deep plume of red shows you where the higher concentrations of smoke are in the atmosphere. you can see most of us is being held toward the sierra. some of it is drifting overhead for us but if we play the high resolution forecast forward you can see most of it continues to stay away. is is good news. by the way, that is the rich fire. that is the one burning on the border with lake and colusa county. thank fully the smoke from that will also continue to move away. so let's use the virtual map because we are going to go in order. if i got

to talk about tomorrow's warm-up, which i do. the first thing i want to do is just a brief explainer. how do we get off so easy today? look at the wind strings here, this is today. this is right here and now and that is a very strong clip of cool on short influence. coming in through the golden gate. so that is the first clue to this. this is going to weaken tomorrow and the temperatures are going to go up but before we get to that, just a little review here. i'm going to put today's daytime highs on here so you can see where you were for today. and the numbers for today didn't get out of the low 80s for many of our hottest locations, like the inland east bay. take a look at the number over there for concord. 82, look at livermore. the number was 81 . let's go down to san jose just so you can pick that out and i'm going to remove that because now i want to see how much higher these numbers are going to be tomorrow before i show you everybody's numbers. just a little bit of perspective to do a 20 degree increase in 24 hours is a significant warm up, especially when that gets you back into the 100s. you are going to be 20 degrees warmer tomorrow in livermore. he will be 10 degrees warmer in san jose.

phil is a hot day. redwood city, your numbers going up. your numbers going up almost 20. san francisco is going up 15 and so is santa rosa so now i would to show you what the actual numbers are. going to be a lot more numbers on this one. going to look a little crowded on our virtual map just because i want everybody to get their part of the bay in. and you can see how this fast transition is going to impact your part of the base specifically. so welcome to the map, you may not want to be on the map as far as roadsides are concerned but you are as far as the temperatures go today. >> take a look at those numbers, livermore now at 102. remember it was 81 there today. going up 10 degrees, what is that place you? you go to the low 90s. this is going to be a couple of days worth. we are going to sit here all the way through wednesday. so there are excessive heat warnings for those inland valleys and there is heat advisories for just about everybody else . and when we look at this in the seven-day forecast we are starting out with 101 and 102

tomorrow. still hot wednesday. but look back here, look at next weekend. there is a really good story to this at the end of the forecast because your temperatures are going right back down to where you are today. so as nice as today was, as much as a bummer as it is to have the next three, just take notice of the fact you are going right back to where you are today by next weekend. vern, over to you. >> we've got baseball up top and the giants, you know, the good thing about a young team, sometimes stories pop up out of nowhere. san francisco, their getaway game with the rockies and bob melvin, he needed a hug after this one. it was heated when he showed up with the lineup card he led two nights of frustration. was tossed, and walked off so let's pick it up top first. jorge soler, led off with this. almost 500 feet dead center longest home run of the majors this season. 478 feet to be exact . third inning, tyler fitzgerald. not quite as far as

soler but it counted the same. his third straight game with a homer. the rookie making a case for more playing time. speaking of rookies, the story of 22-year-old hayden birdsong. you know it was a good day when you get mentioned in the same sentence as tim let succumb. birdsong, 12 strikeouts, matched for most ever by a giants rookie. was also the most strikeouts ever by a giants pitcher at coors field. look at that. i will keep talking until you see all of the strikeouts the giants beat the rocky 3-2 and avoided a sweep. also a big four game series in l.a. tomorrow night with melvin hopefully being back in the dugout for the entire game. >> i didn't plan that. so it wasn't choreographed. probably went too far. >> i'm not going to lie. i had no idea until i came in here and i was like where? what inning did he get ejected? so like i came in on , sitting there like what is going on and

i came out and walked back in and he is sitting in his office like okay. i have no idea. but i am happy . >> was taken to oakland. two more hits sunday for lawrence butler. 10 of his last four games . he has led the angels 5-2 and there it went. six outs away from a sweep and l.a. rallied back with five runs in the eighth. the big knock to put the angels on top as they won 8-5. a's hope the first-place astros tomorrow night. let's pivot to golf. for the last major of the year it is in the books. a crowded leaderboard entered the final round of the open in scotland , but there can only be one champion golfer of the year . now you don't see this much, by cheering with a sign in the water , justin rose fans ? well, rose had a share of the lead at the turn. but then it was the xander schauffele who took stage. his approach at

11.the train rolling at the back nine, stopped a few feet from the hole. sander within one shot of the lead. then another birdie at 13th and then at 14 in center. how about a fresca? this put him two strokes clear of the field and the engraver went to work. chiseling his name on the jug. schauffele with a three shot lead . attempted for par, a 65 in the final round to win his first open championship and became the 16th player to win two majors in the same year. now check out the warrior summer league team as they took on miami in white. josh christopher got the biggest crowd excited by that final minute playing, grabbed a late for good. the previous unbeaten warriors were eliminated, lost 102-99 miami advanced to the championship game versus

memphis. major league baseball 2024 hall of fame class was enshrined in cooperstown, new york today. rockies first baseman, todd helton, twins catcher, joe mauer, third baseman, adrian beltre and longtime manager, jim leyland who told his wife he couldn't believe he got the call. >> i was having coffee with katie a couple of weeks after i was elected to the hall of fame. and i casually said katie, can you believe in your wildest dreams that i have been elected to the hall of fame? and katie replied, jim, you are not in my wildest dreams. >> that was a good line. open mic stand up comedy by jim leyland, i love it. >> hayden birdsong, is that right? >> hayden birdsong. >> he looks like he is 12 and

maybe seven feet tall. >> he is 6'4". but yeah, he went out and got it done. he is younger than two of my sons. >> we are all getting older. [ laughter ] >> they all look younger. thank you, vern. we leave you tonight with a historic announcement you know by now, prez job i is dropping out of the presidential race, making the announcement earlier today. shortly after he endorsed vice president kamala harris to now be the nominee. >> in the hours since endorsements have been pouring in for vice president harris from prominent democrats. that includes former governor, gavin newsom, california representatives adam schiff, mike levin, as well as senator alex padilla. others did not mention harris in their public statements reacting to the biden news. notably, former house speaker, nancy pelosi, and former president barack obama. in the meanwhile, republicans have greeted the news with witticism, no surprise, either. some calling on biden to step down now

before his term is over. >> that is it for us at 5:00. local news continue streaming on cbs news

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