now at 11:00, the end of an era. >> i decided the bes way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. it's the best way to unite our nation. >> president biden explaining in his own words why he decided to step down from the race for

the white house. plus, tear gas, flags on fire, and a huge group of protesters who wanted to make their anti-war message heard. then -- >> i want to kind of bring that pre-pandemic feeling of community. >> people in part of oakland walking with a purpose. how they're hoping a simple gathering will set their neighborhood on a new trajectory. and a reality show contestant is eating crow after he literally ate an endangered bird. why he said he had no choice. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi, i'm sara donchey, if it feels like we've been talk a lot of politics on this show lately, it is because so much keeps happening. since the presidential debate that drew a lot of attention a few weeks ago, there's been an assassination attempt, a candidate suddenly dropping out, and a bay area politician rising to the top of the democratic ticket. and tonight more history made with president biden addressing the nation about what could

essentially be the end of his political career. skyler henry has that story. >> i believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for america's future all merited a second term, but nothing, nothing, can come in the way of saving our democracy. >> reporter: in a primetime oval office address, president biden spoke to the nation about his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. >> so i've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. it's the best way to unite our nation. >> reporter: when he announced over the weekend that he's no longer seeking reelection, biden threw his full support behind vice president harris for the nomination. >> the stake of democracy, which is at stake, i think is more important than any title. i find strength and i find joy in working for american people. >> reporter: president biden, who stepped down under intense

pressure following his poor debate performance last month, says he plans on staying in office until the next president is inaugurated in january. >> vice president harris is wasting no time ramping up her campaign and part of that will no doubt be deflecting attacks from the other side on her record but also on her, even her family. now second gentleman doug emhoff's ex-wife is coming to her defense. >> i've had a lot of titles over my career, and certainly, vice president will be great, but mamala will always be the one that means the most. >> reporter: it's a title vice president kamala harris is proud of. >> family is our beautiful children, cole and ella, who call me mam ala.

>> reporter: now that title, stepmother, is again in the spotlight. >> my family means everything to me. >> reporter: with some conservatives suggesting she should not be president because she does not have biological children. really simple, underdiscussed reason why kamala harris shouldn't be president, no children, a conservative lawyer who worked on ron desantis' campaign wrote this week on social media, writing, and no, becoming a step parent to older teenagers doesn't count. that echoes similar comments made by now republican vice presidential nominee jd vance in 2021. >> we're fectively run in this country via the democrat, via corporate oligarchs by childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made. >> reporter: which are being resurfaced as he and his running mate seek to defend kamala harris from voters. >> the entire future of the democrats is controlled by people without children. how

does it make sense we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it? >> reporter: harris does have children, two adult stepchildren, cole and ella, who were 19 and 15 when she married doug emhoff in 2014. >> we have a very modern family. >> reporter: their blended family, she has joked, is almost a little too functional, which she credits to the close friendship she has with emhoff's first wife, whom she calls an incredible mother. >> one of the keys to my relationship with cole and ella is their mom. >> reporter: ella emhoff says their family dynamics work, they are really a unit, creating a modern political family. >> the thing about blended families, if everyone approaches it in the way that there's plenty of love to share, then it works. >> on the other side of the aisle, president trump has been busy on the campaign trail also. today he had his first rally since a gunman tried to assassinate him last week, and

he was greeted by very enthusiastic supporters in north carolina. some of them were so determined to see former president trump they actually spent the night in their cars before the rally in charlotte. and president trump addressed the elephant in the room and said the assassination attempt against him would not cause him to pull any political punches. >> they say something happened to me when i got shot, i became nice. and when you're dealing with these people -- they're very dangerous people -- when you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice. >> the rally was also president trump's first chance to go after vice president harris as his direct opponent on a big stage. >> so now we have a new victim to defeat, lying kamala harris. lyin', the most incompetent and far left vice president in american history. >> president trump also slammed harris over to border and

inflation. and during all of that campaigning, things got a little chaotic on capitol hill today. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in town addressings a joint session of congress, and so were thousands of pro-palestinian demonstrators protesting outside. >> -- do not want this genocide. everybody at the united nations does not want this genocide. >> protesters marched, carried flags, but some of them burned american flags and hoisted up dolls resembling the israeli prime minister. at one point police used tear gas and pepper spray to control the crowds. netanyahu had some pretty harsh words for protesters. >> you have officially become iran's useful idiots. some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for gaza. they might as well hold up signs saying chickens for kfc. >> the prime minister also discussed the more than 100 hostages still believed to be held in gaza, including eight

americans. he said he has been meeting with their families and promised to bring them home. all right, back here in the bay area, bar and restaurant owners probably woke up pretty mad today after thieves broke into multiple spots in oakland early this morning. police say it happened at three locations in downtown and near lake merritt, all within the span of only about an hour. one of the locations they hit is a historic piano bar that's been in business for 100 years. surveillance video shows a crew of four burglars behind the bar ransacking the shelves. at one point they even ripped out the cash register. we don't know how much they got away with there or in total, but police are asking anyone with more information to gif them a call. and it is in that very neighborhood around lake merritt where residents have been determined to take back their community after a string of violence there. and they're doing it one step at a time. our kelsi thorud has the details. >> reporter: kimberly miller first started coming to lake merritt back in the '80s when

she moved to oakland for college. >> and one of the first memories i have is coming with my friend to the lake when the lakeshore side of the lake was shining with folks from east and all over oakland with their beautiful vehicles, shiny chrome, music playing, and fun. >> reporter: through the years, the lake has always held a special place in kimberly's heart. she's now the executive director of children's fairy land, just off the lake. s the a dream job in a perfect location, but in recent years, kimberly says the lake has lost a little bit of that shine it used to be so known for. >> well, i think the real dramatic change has been other the last five years, right in the pandemic has played with every city's sort of center, right? >> reporter: crime has become a central focus for those living and working around the lake. several people have been shot in the area this year, including multiple people shot on juneteenth. to try and

combat that violence and bring joy back to the lake, kimberly and other city leaders created the love our lake campaign, hosting events all summer. >> i love this town so much. there's so much going on. there's so much vibrancy and the people are so cool and the food is so great. and so we wanted to create some opportunities to bring that kind of spirit to the lake. >> reporter: one of the programs they jus kicked off is oakland walks wednesdays. every wednesday from now through labor day, oaklanders are invited to gather together at the lake at noon or at 5:30 for a relaxing walk around the water. >> kind of bring that pre-pandemic feeling about being community, the way oakland's very used to being, back. in person, feeling like we can celebrate together, picnic together, eat together. you know, listen to music together without sort of the extra level of drama that sometimes has come in the last

couple of years. coming up, evacuations have begun after a fast-moving wildfire sparks near a california college town. we'll have an update on the park fire. it was never even a possibility in my mind that i could do stand-up at this level by this age or ever. >> she's only 30 years old, by taylor tomlinson has already reached peak comedy success. the advice steven e-colbert gave her on the very first day of her network gig. the unofficial start of the season for the 49ers. who was unexpectedly absent. and a reality tv star is apologizing after he caught and killed a rare bird. why he said he did it even though he knew it was against the law. starting a business is never easy, but starting it eight months pregnant, that's a different story. with the chase ink card,

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remember that unbelievable video of a huge geothermal explosion at yellowstone we showed you last night at 11:00? in it you see a group of tourists running away from the blast zone, some of them not running as fast as you'd hope. we're hearing from some of the people who escaped. >> we kind of went into fight or flight mode. we grabbed our kids, started running. just instinctively trying to get as far as we can from the explosion. and then, you know, moments where we started to realize the gravity, holy moly, there's boulders, rocks falling all over us. my mother-in-law was very close to the epicenter and she ran the other way towards the entrance and luckily she made it, but she was all covered in ash and

silt. >> the blast did some damage to the boardwalk, but incredibly, nobody got hurt. . evacuation orders for butte county for a fire that started this afternoon. the park fire, as it's being called, started about 3:00 at bidwell park in chico. right now it's 6,500 acres. crews are coming in from around the state to fight this fire. no word yet on a cause. all right, darren peck has more on that fire. we've been keeping our eye on it, obviously, this is the time of year, darren, where that's a concern. >> the pictures of the smoke plume are impressive, but it's good to have as much context as we can. where is that fire exactly and how fast has it spread? come look at the map. that's the town of chico right there. on the upper end in the foothills, if anybody knows chico, there's a park called upper bidwell park this. fire started there at 3:30 today. that is about a ten-mile long track in a very narrow ribbon. that speaks very clearly of a

wind-driven fire able to race ten miles along the sierra from 3:30 until now. the visual really drives home the point of how that fire spread so quickly today. for perspective, that is the town of paradise out there, which has a notorious and infamous history of fire of its own. that's the region this is, butte county. where is that exactly? here we are at home. let's go up to butte county. we'll leave behind the bay. there's chico. look at that patch of relatively stronger northwest winds. when we put the streamlines on there, you can see that strong flow from the south up to the north. and we can see it on the satellite today. watch the satellite, you'll see a plume of smoke right there, see it? the plume of smoke was visible when that thing started at 3:30 today. that's the latest on the park fire. let's come back home. the wind is our story right now. i'm going to bring the streamlines in because tomorrow

they're going to intensify. and as they intensify, this is going to give us a bit of a cooldown. there's a very traumatic cooldown by the weekend, but you got to start small. and tomorrow we're bringing these numbers down by just about five degrees from where you were today. so let's walk this up. i'm going to start you down here in the peninsula. we're going to bring up the daytime highs for tomorrow. redwood city, your temperature's only going to 86. follow that up to san francisco. let's go in a straight line real quick and get up to the north bay as fast as we can, pick out some of those numbers up there for the daytime highs tomorrow. a close-up look at santa rosa. your numbers are only going to the mid-80s. that's a big drop. but if you look over here, you get a five to six-degree drop over here. livermore going to 97. san jose, your number's going to 89. it's an average, if you think about this, everybody's going down five or six degrees tomorrow. what i want you to see is how much lower the numbers are going to be for saturday. so instead of looking at every location, i'm going

to pick out six representative spots, and i'm just going to show you how much cooler that particular part of the bay is going to be by saturday. look over here, you're going to be 23 degrees cooler on saturday than you were today in livermore. 20 degrees cooler in concord. san jose, we'll get you on the map over here. your numbers are going down 17 degrees. redwood city is going down about 11. just so you can see what the actual number is going to be, we're going to look at the seven-day in one second. here are the actual daytime highs by the time we get there. some locations, like the tri-valley, aren't getting out of the 70s. 78 degrees. concord, you can read your number. that's the real story here. saturday is the coolest day in this seven-day forecast. let's look at it in the seven-day and give you the low down of how this plays out over the next few. and as we look at the trend, if saturday's the bottom, sunday you warm up again a little bit, you'll be in the mid-80s. and then we do warm up next week. it's not going to be like it just was. i don't think we're going to

need any heat advisories going into the early and middle part of next week. just know as nice as saturday's going to be, unfortunately, we're not staying there too long. sara, back to you. >> thanks so much. a look at levi's stadium from where the 49ers hit the practice field for the first time today ahead of next season. for these niners it is super bowl or bust. matt lively was in santa clara, where there was an unexpected absence from a very important player. >> reporter: day two of 49ers training camp is in the books. it was the first time that the niners actually hit the practice field and brandon aiyuk was not the only starter missing. >> i feel pretty confident it will all work out in the long run and he'll be here. >> reporter: trent williams is holding out. he's under contract through 2026 but with no guaranteed money. fred warner would like a quick resolution. >> of course. i mean, shoot, one of our best players, one of our leaders, you know. we understand the business side of it. this is not our first rodeo. this is a curse and a blessing to have this many great players. >> reporter: brock purdy was on the practice field, and he

looked a little bit different. >> we joke about his baby legs, so he built those up. >> he's looking like a third year veteran, you know what i'm saying? he's carrying himself with that confidence. >> yeah man, i'm a vet. >> reporter: while last season is in the rearview mirror, it is making this team hungry entering 2024. >> i think the energy's definitely there. our locker's been pretty empty today, all right, football. >> coming back from otas, and obviously now with camp, having all the guys back, just the way fred's acting, george, juice, these guys that have been in the league for a while, man, they're back ready, like hungry. >> reporter: brandon aiyuk is considered a hold-in. he reported to the facility in street clothes, but no contract extension. she has got one of the most coveted jobs in entertainment, taylor tomlinson and i sit down to talk about how she made it at just 30 years old. vern? >> you've seen the 49ers, now

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giants got a pretty good win. >> yeah, you would say so. they got a nice debut of a new giant and all the planets were align just right at chavez ravine. giants fans, you're going to love it when i say this. the dodgers didn't have a hit until the seventh inning. a former cy young winner had something to do with it. on the shelf for more than six months with injury since his trade from the mariners, it was worth the wait. hello, robbie ray. had not pitched while recovering from tommy john surgery. he waited over a year for the this, pitched out of a bases loaded jam with a pop out. limited l.a. to just one run. did not give up a hit yet.

then look here in the fifth. got shohei ohtani to wave at it to end the inning. eight strikeouts, five hitless innings. it was a giants collective no-hitter until it wasn't. chris taylor won this one over tyler rogers. broke up a no-hit bid. san francisco held a 2-1 lead but erupted in the eighth. matt chapman had homered in the fourth, drove in lamonte wade jr. here, and capped off a six-run inning. giants won it 8-3, their first win in six games at dodger stadium this season. the a's and the astros, these guys, they going to comic con? looks like it. anyway, top of the sixth, with houston leading 3-1, bad break for oakland this. one off of j.p. sears shoe. jeremy pena got through, drove in a run, and that's enough. houston won it, final of 8-1, and halted an

a's sweep. college softball star najiri canadae announced she's transferring to texas tech and will reportedly get a $1 million name, image, and likeness deal. believed to be the highest ever given to a softball player, canadae was the national player of the year with the cardinal this past season. ucla is beginning their first season in the big ten, and head coach deshaun foster didn't exactly sell the bruins on his opening statement at the conference's media day. >> i'm sure you guys don't know too much about ucla, our football program. but we're in l.a. it's us and usc. we --

i'm just basically excited really, that's it. >> foster apparently was great with the media the rest of the day, even joked about his awkward start. speaking of awkward, real quick, first thing i ever said on the air, april 13, 1985, tv 8, wooz, debra tomkins butters me up, introducing me, she says vernon glenn is here for sports in his tv 8 debut, and i'm sure he will do a great job. and i said, aw shucks. that's all i had. aw shucks. >> better than the other s -- >> it wasn't a pregnant pause like coach, but still -- >> shucks and not the sh word, and i think we're off to an okay start. >> right. just a 23-year-old kid, sara. >> that was only a couple years ago. all right, vern, thank you. taylor tomlinson is at the top of her game. she already has one of the biggest jobs you can get in entertainment as the host of after midnight a hit

late night show here on cbs. while she tours the country doing stand-up shows, i sat down with her about her rise to the top and the advice she got along the way. >> i have three younger siblings. they're all gen z, all queer, all in relationships and so disappointed in me every time i date another straight white guy. >> reporter: she's kind of a big deal. at the ripe old age of 30, she's got her own cbs show, successful stand-up tour, and three netflix specials. >> before i had netflix specials, it was people who were maybe a little familiar with me or people who saw a clip online and were like we'll take a chance or were already in the mall where the comedy club was and were like, i could go for some chicken fingers. >> reporter: besides being pretty funny, taylor says there's one obvious reason she made it relatively early in her career. >> i think the internet has made it so that you can find your audience much easier. so it was never even a possibility in my mind that i could do

stand-up at this level by this age or ever. >> reporter: her show follows stephen colbert's late show, but he's more than a predecessor, he's a mentor. >> what was the advice he gave you? >> i think he said something like, people are just happy to see you. and you're not going to be amazing right away. >> reporter: after midnight makes a game of dissecting intermet memes. it's all fun and games until danger comes knocking. >> we do a search history game on the show. we're doing it next week, and the writers are like can we get your real search history again. i was like, i don't know. it's really boring. reality competition shows can be cutthroat, especially when you're trying to survive off the land. why a reality star is coming under fire tonight for something he says he did out of hunger and desperation.

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all right, we have a couple of tv connoisseurs here. not only do we to tv, we watch it. >> we do. >> we love it. >> we consume it, sure. >> survival reality shows have been kind of a thing for a while when it comes to tv. you

have the original, survivor, right? >> mm-hmm. >> of course, there is naked and afraid. >> i've seen that. >> it is as it sounds, you are totally nude trying to navigate the forces of nature. not easy. and who could forget man versus wild with bear grils? >> we were just talking a bt that show. >> it's left a lasting cultural mark. perhaps not as popular, there is another show called race to survive new zealand, which pits teams against each other for race across the country, which apparently is kind of rugged. part of the deal is that you have to find your own food and water. well, one of the contestants had an interesting meal, and what he ate on the show has gotten him into some trouble. >> oh. >> yes glcht oh. >> spencer corey jones, a cob tes tant from here in the united states, is in trouble with the new zealand government for killing and eating an endangered bird during filming last fall. yeah. he did not opt for chicken. the weka is a

flightless bird protected by law. you cannot kill them in new zealand, and if you do, you can actually face up to two years in prison. jones apologized on the show. he said he knew it was illegal but that he was desperate and hungry. wildlife officials issued him a written warning instead of a big fine or jail time. >> wow. >> he knew it was wrong. -- fly away, grabbed him. and it was dinner time. >> you know, i've always wondered if they're sneaking them like protein bars, you know? just from behind the scenes. >> right. >> i guess this answers that question. at least on that show. >> killing that bird's already bad enough, but if he was getting protein bars and still killed that bird. >> yeah. >> no, yeah, i'm going to pass on the bird. thanks for wa h, the >> trump might be regretting picking j.d. vance as his latest running mate. >> j.d. vance doesn't look the