a much needed moment of joy for a south bay law enforcement community remembering one of their own. plus, a bay area man who served more than three decades awaiting execution could be set free. the discovery having a ripple effect in dozens of death penalty cases. and white house rivals taking jabs over military service. >> he has not spent a day in a

combat zone. >> for 24 years i proudly wore the uniform of this nation. they aren't running for office or winning gold medal, but these furry diplomats are making a big impression. >> he was a super laid back panda. slow to rise in the morning. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> good evening, i'm devin fehely in for sara tonight. it was a very emotional and bittersweet day for south bay law enforcement. they gathered to send off one of their own the road to recovery while mourning the tragic loss of another. on saturday, prosecutors say a drunk driver hit two community service officers doing traffic control, killing 34-year-old long pham. well, tonight the suspect is facing a murder charge. as andrea nakano reports, veronica bayer, who was severely injured in that same crash, at valley medical center today fellow officers cheering her on. >> reporter: it was just around

3:00 when veronica bayer came out of the hospital in a wheelchair with visible injuries to her face and body. it was an incredibly emotional moment as she headed home to recover from her injuries. >> we wish you a speedy recovery and welcome home. we have all been thinking about you for the past four days, and you will forever have our love. >> reporter: law enforcement officers lined both sides of the hallway as veronica bayer was released from the hospital. >> thank you for your service and dedication to our department. >> when she came around the corner in the wheelchair and everybody started -- she heard the radio announcement and everybody started applauding, it was very obvious that she

was overwhelmed. and that's exactly what we wanted. we wanted to her feel that love and support. >> reporter: it has been an incredibly difficult time for the police department after a suspected drunk driver plowed into bayer and her fellow community service officer long pham saturday night. flowers and candles remain at the site where the crash happened. >> that he's not leaving the hospital today. he's not with us, and you know, he paid the ultimate sacrifice just doing his job. >> reporter: in this bittersweet moment, the focus was on bayer and her recovery. the cso vowing to be back on the job soon. >> i'll be back. looking forward to being back at work. >> give it a couple days. at least a couple days. >> i'm ready to go now. >> well, it's great to see a smile on her face. and when i visited her a couple days ago in the hospital, she told me that she can't wait to heal up and get back out there and continue serving our community. >> reporter: the suspected dui driver, 44-year-old juan huerta

place ios, is mras ios is being held on bail. they were helping with traffic control on monterey road when this crash happened. while a somber mood has hovered over the san jose police department since the incident, finally an uplifting moment has come from a horrible tragedy. >> you are going home. >> reporter: police say the isn't has a prior dui conviction. the san jose police department says there will be an event to honor officer pham and that funeral services are pending. >> this is the first time that a san jose community service officer has died in the line of duty. a bay area man who spent more than three decades on death row will have to be retried or set free. a federal judge just overturned his conviction because of prosecutorial misconduct. curtis lee irwin, 1 years old, was one of three people

convicted of a 1986 murder-for-hire plot that left car lean mcdonald dead. it's been determined that prosecutors at the alameda county d.a.'s office excluded jurors who were jewish or black during the time period he was convicted. after review by the california attorney general rob banta's office, it's up to d.a. pamela price to either retry that case or set the defendant free. price hadn't made up her mind just yet but did apologize nonetheless to the victim's family. >> because of the failure of the supervisors of mr. anderson and so many failures over the years that they have now been once again subjected to having to relive the facts of their mother's murder and the trauma of going to trial and having this whole situation once again brought up in the media. >> price announced in april that her office was reviewing every death penalty case in

alameda county from the past four decades. 35 in all. it started when they took a look at the case of ernst dykes, found guilty in the shooting death of a 9-year-old boy. he's scheduled to be resentenced august 13th and could be released from prison as early as next year. and moving to the campaign trail, vice president kamala harris and her running mate, minnesota governor tim walz, are in a battleground blitz. meanwhile, jd vance, the guy who's hoping that he's going to be flying on air force two starting next year, held campaign rallies in many of the same areas. now, during a campaign stop he took shots at governor walz's military service. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris and minnesota governor tim walz rallied supporters in michigan. >> this election's going to be a fight. we like a good fight. >> reporter: and in wisconsin on their first full day of campaigning as running mates. >> we're sure the hell not going back. >> reporter: lines to see the democratic duo stretched out of

sight as the straight talking midwestern governor took aim at the republican ticket. >> donald trump is not for you and your family. and trump's running mate shares those same beliefs. >> reporter: former president donald trump's running mate, ohio senator jd vance, held dueling events nearby. >> we've got to throw kamala harris out of office, not give her a promotion. >> reporter: vance and trump went after governor walz for his handling of the unrest in minneapolis after george floyd was killed by police in 2020. >> this is a guy that says he stands for public safety but actively encouraged the rioters to burn down minneapolis. >> reporter: at the time, trump was full of praise for walz, according to this audio recording of a phone call with governors. >> tim walz, again, i was very happy with the last couple of days, tim. -- the big numbers, knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins. >> reporter: vance also accused

his rival of ducking service in iraq. >> he has not spent a day in a combat zone. what bothers me about tim walz is the stolen valor garbage. do not pretend to be something you're not. >> reporter: but walz retired two months before his unit received orders for deployment. >> 24 years i proudly wore the uniform of this nation. >> reporter: at the white house, president biden sat down with cbs' robert costa for his first interview since dropping out of the 2024 race. >> are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in january 2025? >> if trump wins, no i'm not confident at all. and if trump loses, i'm not confident at all. well, coming up, what one of the biggest tours in history has to do with a foiled terror plot. plus, the conditions making fire crews nervous battling one of the newest and one of the biggest wildfires and in state history. temperatures were still toasty inland, running from 7 to 11 degrees above average, but not as hot as yesterday.

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the bay, taylor swift's eras tour is sure to draw a packed crowd of tens of thousands of fan, all of them willing to wait hours and hours to see her perform. well, the tour is back in the news but for a very different reason. three of her shows were cancelled in vienna, austria, after government officials today say they foiled an isis-linked terror plot to attack large events. now, two people have been arrested, including a 19-year-old austrian citizen. chris livesay has the latest on a raid and what we know about the suspects. >> reporter: it's one of the biggest tours in history. tonight made even more memorable for the wrong reasons. a terrorist plot thwarted by police to attack taylor swift's concerts later this week in austria. police say two suspects who radicalized themselves on the internet are now in custody. one of them swore allegiance to isis, then carried out concrete preparatory acts for a terrorist attack. the bomb squad was called after police

say they found the suspects in possession of chemical substances, a catastrophe averted. but all three concerts have been canceled as a precaution. ruling out a repeat of the 2017 attack in manchester, england, when a suicide bomber killed 22 people during an ariana grande concert. tonight in austria, that's an estimated 65,000 fans per day and another 15,000 to 20,000 who were expected to gather outside the stadium now forced to stay home from a tour that's been called a cultural phenomenon. >> swift's website was updated late last night promising refunds for fans within ten days. on the fire watch, one of the largest wildfires in state history is exploding again after firefighters made gains boosting containment lines. now, the park fire, which has torched over 420,000 acres, grew by as much as 20 square

miles earlier this week. the fire's burning across four counties, mostly butte and tehama, the fourth largest in state history. containment is holding at 34%, but crews warn that hot and dry conditions could actually keep it burning for months. and tonight firefighters are battling a new wildfire in el dorado county that's ballooned to almost 600 acres and sparking this morning outside of placerville. it's only 5% contained at this point. it's triggering some evacuations. fire crews say that they are worried about the heat over the next couple of days while the flames eat through some thick brush. that's a lot of wildfires, but the smoke hasn't been coming our way. it's been going east. >> it's the time of year we have to watch every fire locally. we're going to be watching that over the next couple of months, unfortunately. let's talk about air quality across all of

california. i'm going to make room for our map to come on to the floor. the high and wide view of the smoke that is coming off of the park fire and then also the fire burning farther to the south. the onshore breeze is going to help to bring comfortable and below average temperatures to the bay area. it is going to continue to direct wildfire smoke away from the bay area. so really from the park fire it's been blowing mainly into northern nevada up into southern idaho and montana and it does look like that is going to remain the case over the next several days. let's take a look at what we need to worry about or not worry about really as we head through the rest of this week and into the weekend. a pretty calm weather pattern is going to be shaping up. the fog swallowing up downtown san francisco. it's not as warm on thursday. temperatures stepwise going back down to near average inland and normal around the bay and along the coast. same pattern repeating itself. the fog making a push inland and then retreating to the coast by midday. a couple of days of

below average temperatures sunday and monday. that is the view from the mark hopkins hotel. temperature down to 55 degrees already. it's not the cool spot. 54 degrees already in santa rosa while east of the oakland hills you're still holding on to a little bit of that work from earlier today. you are around # 0 degrees in concord and livermore. the fog is going to continue to make that push across the bay. let's switch over to our map on the floor of the bay area and simulate where the fog is going to go as we head through the rest of tonight. making that push through the golden gate and into some of the inland valleys, this particular forecast model doesn't show it making a whole lot of progress over the oakland hills yet tonight. that is going to be more and more the case as we head through the next several nights, which means the fog is going to be widespread across the bay area. that will have an impact on how the temperatures warm up from what's a normal start. we'll start in the north bay where temperatures are going to be at the coolest across the bay area, especially along the coast, above 50 for bodega bay. low 50s for santa rosa and petaluma. east of the oakland hills in the mid to low

60s. not bad after the temperatures in the 90s today. free air conditioning overnight. temperatures in the santa clara valley also mostly in the low 60s to begin the day tomorrow. morgan hill where lows are going to be in the upper 50s. you'll make up for it, highs in the mid-90s tomorrow. a mix of 80s and 90s across the bay area for inland temperatures. inland in the east bay, you'll be the hot spots. low to mid-90s. a mix of 60s and 70s for san francisco and oakland. temperatures down the peninsula in the low 80s. the north bay only upper 70s for napa and vallejo. as temperatures return to near normal, you may be kind of welcoming that news with almost glee. and there are signs in the long range data as we zoom out wide once again. that kind of weather pattern is sticking around. this is the 8 to 14-day outlook from the climate prediction center. for much of california and even farther north into oregon and

washington, a strong signal towards cooler than normal temperatures. this takes us through august 21st. so it's not just the seven-day forecast. i'll show you that with the seven-day outlook right now. we'll start inland. the coolest days are sunday and monday when, on average, inland temperatures will be in the middle portion of the 80s. but that means it's a mix. a few spots in the upper 80s, but all that not bad at all for august. temperatures around the bay, they change very little. mostly staying in the lower half of the 70s with that morning fog giving way to afternoon sunshine. along the ecoast, we'll fill up our weather tubes with that fog that's hanging out. sunshine along the coast today, that's not going to be the case over the course of the next several days. be happy with glimmers of sunshine and patches of drizzle, mist, the usual thing for coastal parts of the bay area. >> sounds like the weekend's going to be cooler. ly take that every time? especially in mid-august, yeah. >> you know who also likes a

cooldown? a transition to the next story, pandas. a couple of them, new ones, in san diego. california is now home to two new high profile celebrities who love to chow down on bamboo. the first new chinese pandas to enter the u.s. in 21 years, and they're making their public debut at the san diego zoo. we've got a 5-year-old male and a 4-year-old female. they first arrived in june. they're settling into the new habitat and showing off their distinctive personalities. >> this particular female, sing bow, so inquisitive. and he's a super laid back panda. very slow to rise in the morning. not only that, he's very focused on eating his bamboo, right? >> well, san francisco mayor london breed has been pushing to bring two chinese pandas to the san francisco zoo, but first the city needs to figure out how to raise tens of millions of dollars in private

donations to make that happen, matt? >> i do not like that i have to follow the pandas. coming up in sport, just three days away from the niners season opener. today though, all about the man with the most famous catch in niners history. plus, giants look to get back to .500 as they fight for that wild card spot. they got some help from some of the best hitters in our nation's capital.

well, matt lively joins us now with sports. you got some giants news. good news for the giants, but they're on that same seesaw that they seem to have been on all season. >> that's a good way to put it. the giants have fought hard as of late. they want to stay in that wild card conversation. a chance to get back to .500 with blake snell on the bump. his last start, no hitter against the reds. how did he

follow it up? it was the first time that he had ever gone nine innings, and the nats were, well a pretty easy follow-up test. snell trying to get out of the third, one of his lone mistakes of the night. a run to juan to give the nats an early lead. but the rest of the way it was more like the snell we've seen of late. struck out eight washington batters, gave up just four hits over six innings. but could the bats back him up has been the question all season long. fifth inning, the giants best power hitter stepped up to the plate. elliot ramos, second game back from a thumb injury. after hitting one out last night, follows it up with his 17th of the year. and then matt chapman hits another one into the same spot in left center. ramos liked what he saw from the dugout. so it was then up to camilo duval in the ninth, and bob melvin was not happy to see the bases loaded. go-ahead run out the plate, but duval gets out of the jam. ground ball 6,

4, 3 double play. 7-4, giants win. they'll have a chance tomorrow to get above .500 for the first time since late may. we are three days away from the 49ers preseason opener in nashville, and for now brandon aiyuk still on the team but the steelers have reportedly emerged as the favorites to land him. the nfc championship game, going to go down as one of the best in 49ers history, but the best is still the catch and today is dwight clark day in santa clara. kyle shanahan called moving to the bay area as a teenager, and some way, somehow he did not understand why clark was so iconic. >> one of the coolest guys in the world. everyone just respected him. i was like, why is that guy so special? i remember my mom crushing me for not knowing what the catch was when i was in sixth grade. i didn't grow up here. and i didn't really know -- i think

i was 2 or 1.5 at the time, she should have been softer on me. she made me feel stupid. now i get why. >> bar of soap in the mouth because kyle didn't know who dwight clark was. all right, bags are packed, i'm headed to nashville tomorrow for the preseason opener. catch the game right here on kpix this saturday at 4:00 p.m. we've also got pre and post game coverage as well and a red and gold report friday night at 7:30. going to be a fun weekend, devin. 49ers fans are just happy football season is back. they can get that bad taste out of their mouth from vegas. >> i think a lot of fans want the brandon aiyuk drama to be resolved one way or another. >> well, it's not a 49ers off-season if there isn't some sort of contract drama or holdout, so par for the course. >> last couple of seasons for sure. >> definitely. >> matt, thank you. up next, a bay area zoo giving an orphan cub

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it's the first day of the harvest season in sonoma county and wine makers aren't wasting any time. they started picking chardonnay grapes just after 2:00 a.m. in geyserville. it's not actually that unusual to start the harvest before the sun comes up. growers were in a rush to pick the grapes in a limited window of time at their peak ripeness. all right, so say hello to oakland zoo's adorable new addition. this is briar. he's a male mountain lion cub rescued by the bay area cougar action team. someone found him alone while walking down a road in el dorado county. the hope was to reunite him with family member, but no other mountain lions were found in that area. the cub is only four or five weeks old, too young to survive on his own, so the zoo's going to take care of him until a proper home is found.

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all right, so before we go, our last story is about hobbits. lord of the rings fan, yes, no? >> no? >> absolutely not. >> okay. >> oh my god. >> take it away, devin. >> we aren't exactly talking about these hobbits. >> i can't just go running off into the blue. i am a baggins. >> wait. >> so let me explain, 20 years ago scientists found a fossil of an early human species in indonesia. they were very short. they stood about 3.5 feet tall over 60,000 years

ago, and scientists nicknamed them the hobbits because of their resemblance to the middle earth dwellers in the lord of the rings books. this week experts published a new study saying that ancestor of those so-called hobbits were even tinier. >> oh jeeze. >> the study says they were several inches shorter and existed several hundred thousand years ago. >> that was more interesting than the movies and was not nine and a half hours long. >> this is heresy. >> the hobbits had big feet, iry >> russian president vladimir putin is in north korea for the first time in 24 years, his meeting with kim jong un amid mounting international concern about the military cooperation between the two countries. >> american and south korean officials have, of course,