live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. now at 7:00, smoke pouring in over the contra costa county skyline tonight, smoldering for weeks erupts and spreads to a former power plant. why crews can't fully put it out. and a rescue that became a race against the clock. why fire crews say they were lucky to save boaters stranded in san francisco bay. and will the new generation of abortion rights activists march to the ballot box this november? i'm john ramos in oakland's rock ridge neighborhood. how are small businesses doing today, and what changes have

they made to navigate the shifting landscape? good evening, i'm brian hackney. right now we're following an east bay wildfire that roared back to life after smoldering for weeks. check out this new video into the newsroom minutes ago. flames spreading to a decommissioned power plant in pittsburgh tonight. it's in the area of willow pass road. it's creating a tremendous amount of smoke. the 200 acre fire has scorched palm trees and burned about five cars at a nearby business. crews say it all flared up from a fire that started a few weeks ago in the pittsburgh marsh. now crews are working to beef up the perimeter. >> lately we've been having a lot of fires around here, you smell smoke often, so, you know, with the wind blowing too close for comfort, i'm not -- i don't feel safe. hopefully they can get it fixed! the fire had reached an area out by the waterfront that has pete moss in it, and the fire is now burning through the pete moss. it's actually smoldering in the

pete moss, and there's no amount of water that we can put around this time to extinguish that fire. we were just going to have to wait for the rains. >> first alert meteorologist darren peck has been following wind conditions and in terms of the firefighters hoping for rain, i would think that's a fairly faint hope. >> going to be a long time for that, and you know what the bigger issue might be with this at this point, goes back to the comments from the gentleman who lives nearby there. are you smelling smoke through this part of the bay area? so for perspective, you can see what this fire looks like. it's a live picture. this is from our camera on top of mount diablo. we're looking north. you can see some of the delta out here. you're looking at pittsburgh in the foreground. you can actually see that power plant on here. it is a decommissioned power plant, and from reports on the front line of this fire, the flames themselves are actually not moving towards any structures at this point, and most likely heading towards the san joaquin river. if we take a look at the winds on here, just for perspective,

where's the fire exactly? coming from the wide view on the bay. zoom over on that view on mount diablo. these are like sustained winds to 20 miles an hour going through the delta. in other words, like every other day of the last six weeks. wind is always an important factor when you have a fire. so it does factor into how this fire is going to behave, but it's no different today than it has been over the course of the last several weeks. and in terms of air quality, take a look downstream. if that fire's burning right in about here right now the good news is most of the air quality sensors are reading okay. i'll be back with the rest of our forecast cp in a bit. for now, back to you. new at 7:00, a race against time to rescue three people from a crashed boat in san francisco bay. at about 3:30 this afternoon, fire crews responded to the al vezo marina where the boat was stranded. turns out it ran out of gas and crashed into the shore. fire crews tell kpix they only had a small window of time to get them out safely. >> tides were rising and we had

to access under a bridge, and we had about five minutes to get them out before the tide rose too high where we wouldn't be able to return. we were really lucky to get them out in time. >> the pilot, they hit the mud and maybe the boat tipped over in the mud. >> two passengers, in fact, were hospitalized with minor injuries. crews do need to wait for better conditions to tow the boat out. also in the south bay, people rallied at san jose city hall to fight for abortion rights. >> reporter: the organizers of this march and rally here at city hall just graduated from high school and will get the chance to vote in their first major election this year. they say the threat to abortion rights hasn't turned them off from voting. it's energizing them, and they want to get more people their age excited about future elections. >> we just feel drained. we feel drained just being, just being who we are. >> reporter: incoming college freshman say they're frustrated that abortion rights are going away in many states. recently turning 18, they've

never known abortion to be illegal their entire lives, but they hope their first time voting can help change that. >> this is something that's important. this is something that is going to have a lot of input on your future. >> reporter: while the supreme court decision to overturn roe versus wade has brought out many people on the street who support abortion rights nationwide, some are angry at both political parties including those who spoke at this rally. but the three recent high school graduates who organized the event remain hopeful about voting and supporting leaders who will keep abortions legal. >> i think it's really important that each and every one of us uses that opportunity that we have, like not only is marching on the street just as we just did super important, but we need both. >> they have never voted in an election, but say they're excited to participate in the democratic process, and they will try to convince more young adults like them to believe they can also make a difference. >> and the big elections and the small elections, any way possible. >> while most americans disapprove of the high court's

decision on abortion and especially young voters, a recent poll by cbs news found that most voters from all political sides say the ruling will have no or little effect on their likelihood to vote. 'sthis. ything is in our hands, >> but these young leaders say it will motivate them and encouraging their peers to do their research will get them to be a part of the change. >> we have the right to vote in this country, and we need to take advantage of that. >> reporting in san jose, shawn chitnis, kpix 5. now to a developing story, japan's elections scheduled for tomorrow will still go on despite the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. he was shot during a campaign stop. his body arrived at his home in tokyo earlier today. and today locals honored abe's legacy at japan town in san jose. the historic buddhist festival honors deceased japanese ancestors. the festival is making its comeback after a two-year

hiatus. and japan town was bustling with people enjoying just being together again. >> it's great to see everybody back, for us without masks, you know, for a lot of people it's just great to be out and with the japanese community again. >> a time of remembering and of expressing our gratitude for all the individuals who make our lives possible. >> and you still have a chance to enjoy the festival. it goes until 10:00 tonight, and then from noon until 8:00 tomorrow. and down the road at martin luther king jr. library, some of san jose's most historic names are being honored in an exhibit called east side dreams. the untold story of east san jose. it has art displaying highlights of the works of people like cesar chavez and another familiar name, our own len ramirez. >> it's really an honor for me

to be part of this and to be mentioned in the same breath with some of the greats that have come out of east san jose like cesar chavez and jim pl plunket and others that you will see in this display. it's a great day for east san jose to be highlight instead this way, and as i said, long overdue. >> you can check the display honoring len and others at san jose's martin luther king library until september 24th. oakland's college avenue was filled with live music, pop-up shops and food vendors. you had the rock ridge rock and stroll, the perfect opportunity for small businesses to shine at a time when online business is booming. john ramos shows us how they've learned to adapt. >> here in the shopping district of oakland's rock ridge neighborhood, they decided to add some music to their marketplace. we thought it was a good opportunity to come talk to people about how small businesses are doing these days. ♪ it's all right ♪

>> reporter: compared to two years ago, it is all right for the small businesses that line college avenue. this morning people were back out on the streets as rock ridge held its rock and stroll promotion featuring live music in various spots along the shopping district. >> some people are holding their pocket books a little tieghter, but we seem to be pulling through pretty well. >> reporter: at a vintage home decor store, the manager said they learned their lesson in the great recession of 2009. they diversified adding furniture refinishing and re-up holstering and that helped them weather the pandemic, especially with so many people stuck in their homes. >> i think with everything that's going on in the world, you kind of need a little escape sometimes, so why not just make your home your little haven. >> reporter: but there is no escape from the competition of the huge online retailers. marty nemcodoesn't like it but admits it's hard to avoid.

>> even i who recognizes the value of community in local stores, the selection is so great, the price is so great, and i get it at my door in a day. >> that's not a concern at cutting up on college where marianne valentine has been styling hair for nearly 40 years. she's had to adapt to all the tech workers who have moved into the neighborhood lately. >> it's good because they can't get their haircuts on amazon for sure. >> so you're protected from amazon a little bit? >> yeah, but they can buy the clippers and try, and then we fix it when they mess up. >> but just as shopping has evolved, so have the brick and mortar businesses. they offer live sidewalk concerts as an experience you can't get online. at planter day, owner matt day and his partner yumi consider their greenery to be a healing comforting force against the stresses of everyday life, and to connect to the community, they offer their store as a venue for gatherings like this recent comedy show. it's all part of adapting to a

rapidly changing environment. >> we've had to be more realistic, think bigger, and at times scale back and just learn to adjust, so i think we've learned to become really resilient. >> there is no going back. the online retailers will always be an option, but small businesses are learning that their customers don't just want to add to their possessions. they want to add something to their lives. in rock ridge, john ramos, kpix 5. >> and coming up, an uphill battle to protect california's oldest treasures from a ballooning wildfi

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and protect tribal sovereignty welcome back, you could call it the most expensive divorce in history. a $44 billion breakup between elon musk and twitter is setting up a courtroom brawl. after three months of drama, tweets, and trolling, elon musk says he wants out now. the richest man on earth is abandoning that $44 billion buyout of twitter. drivers heading into marin county from the golden gate bridge should expect delays this weekend. they already have had them. an emergency caltrans project has closed two northbound lanes of highway 101 in sausalito. the closure starts just north of the robin williams tunnel. it ends at the rodeo avenue exit. it's not much of a stretch of a closure, but it is certainly backing up traffic. they're repairing damaged drainage system. lanes are going to be reopened at 7:00 a.m. monday morning. now to the fire watch, an out of control yosemite wildfire threatening hundreds of giant

sequoias. the fire started thursday in the southern end of the park. it's now over 700 acres growing more than 50% since just yesterday. there's no reports of severe damage to the 3,000-year-old grizzly giant, which is wrapped in fire resistant foil for protection. fire crews say the flames are proving difficult to contain, and crews are using air drops and bulldozers to build fire lines. and darren used to work at yosemite, and you know, the tough thing about fighting those fires? >> yeah. >> rugged terrain. >> yeah. and for those of us on this side, the tough part is wondering what's happening in the moment. so oftentimes when we get these images, you know, that fire has already progressed a little beyond that. so we're going to use two tools to try and get specific. if you're as concerned about what's going on as i am, a lot of people care deeply about this place. we're going to watch the plume of smek coming off that fire. you'll see a couple of things on here. you already see the ominous sign that virtually every fire in the

sierra is going to have, a pyro cumulus cloud. that tells you there's enough heat coming off of that fire that it's tabable to develop it own thunderstorm. about halfway through this, they change the prospective on the camera, and you think it doesn't look as ominous when you look at it this way, only this is all smoke now, which is obscuring your view of that column, which is likely just about as tall as it was. here's one other way of looking at this. that gives us at least -- just from looking at it on the alert wildfire network, it gives us at least a little bit of an insight into the behavior of the fire today. here's another unique way of getting specifics on where this fire is on the ground. that's the latest perimeter map, and just to get oriented, the fire is outlined here with the green outline. the grove is over here, you can actually see the road snaking through the grove. that's the upper grove. that's the lower grove where the grizzly giant is. this is where that museum is. most of the grove if you look at it from just this vantage point

has escaped the worst of this fire, but this is not an official report. we've got to wait to hear from boots on the ground. just from analyzing it this way, certainly the lower edge of the growth has gotten some flame through it. now that fire just needs to be watched and hopefully put out. okay. current numbers, mid-70s for most locations now. if we look at morning lows for tomorrow, we go back down into the mid and upper 50s. now we get to the story, the headline in today's first alert forecast. tomorrow will feel different. tomorrow we've got about a ten degree warmup over where we were today, so if you look at the numbers for the inland valleys of the east bay, concord and liver more in the mid-90s. san jose barely made it up to just under 80 today. tomorrow you'll go to 88 and most locations along east bay shoreline will also be kind of low 80s. we're going to do that for two days, and then the pattern's going to shift again to allow us to start cooling back down, and you see it in the seven-day forecast. if we put up san francisco,

oakland, and san jose first, what you notice is the increase on that bottom line from today right around 80 to sunday and monday, which are both at 90. but then look at the cooldown. we get into the middle of next week. we go right back down into where we have been. oakland and san francisco, you kind of see that as well, but where you see the story become a little clearer is when you look at the micro climates. not only the cooldown for our inland valleys going from the mid-90s in the medicalnext two . there's another warmup coming. that one will bring indidaytime highs back up again. charlie, over to you. >> all right, sports is next, and we travel back out to tahoe to hear from today's guest, that would be raider's quarterback derek carr, he talks the number 4 and number 17 connection they now have. and giants have been struggling. carlos roe don took it in his own hand today. what an outing from ro

giants news to lead off the show, jake mcgee designated for assignment today, and most likely done in san francisco. this coming a year after he posted a team high 31 saves. he was brilliant last year. this year struggled a bit. his spot luis gonzalez who's been fantastic. carlos rodon, speaking of fantastic, he was dealing against the padres, third inning, high heater to get void out, fifth inning, grisham, again, high heat on the outside corner got him. then manny machado next inning, r this one in the dirt, got him chasing, lights out was rodon. eighth inning game tied at one. wilmer flores, a two-run homer. just sneaks it over the left field wall. giants win 3-1. how about rodon, he pitched a complete game, 12 strikeouts, only two walks.

zack loeg on the mound with the astros in town. third inning, alex bregman up high, heat, got him. five innings of two-run baseball. here's one way to get a run in, bases loaded. the catcher maldonado, off his glove. elvis andrews comes in to score, game tied at 2. sheldon noisy up, he was the batter on that passed ball. a wild pitch as it skips away. steven pis ka tee waltzes in. the athletics get two in the form of no hits. they had a 3-2 lead, and that was all they needed. brilliant pitching from there gives zack loeg the win despite only four hits for oakland's offense. to basketball, it's been 15 months since we saw james wiseman suit up. that changes tomorrow. the former second overall pick is set to play in the warrior's summer league game against the spurs. wiseman didn't play a single minute last season after coming off a meniscus tear.

he averaged 11.5 points and six rebounds in his rookie season, that was back in 2020, '21. . let's move to tennis. women's wimbledon final, ba battling ons jabeur, grazes the net, alters the point, jabeur couldn't do much about it and her 12-match win streak is finito. elena ribakina wins her first grand slam title. the earthquakes taking on toronto fc, 26th minute no score. the touch, the fire, finds the back of the net, but the quakes would surrender that 1-0 lead. now down 2-1 as we move to stoppage time. jack scan gets behind toronto's defense, and he scores. quakes earn a 2-2 draw in this one. 36 holes in the books and south lake tahoe, 18 more to decide a champion at the american century championship.

former oakland athletics pitcher mark mulder sits alone in first place right now. steph curry is tied for 20th and is behind his father dell. so he'll have to catch up tomorrow. he's having a solid showing in 29th place, team's off-season was stellar. the raiders were already good coming up just one place short against the bengals in the playoffs, now car has one of the most dangerous receivers in the nfl to throw to. his former college teammate devonte adams. >> let's talk about number four to number 17 because if you read social media, you guys are the only ones on the team. >> yeah, yeah, exactly. yeah. yeah. this is really the first time, you know, devonte will have someone opposite him when he's been the featured guy. he's got darren. he's got hunter. we don't have a group of guys worried about numbers. we're worried about getting each other open and trying to play good football. hopefully adding him helps that. >> time goes fast. football season right around the corner, seems like it was just

december and the season was ending. i was having my heart ripped out as a bengals fan at the super bowl. and now we run it back, raiders and niners should have really good teams this year. >> tomorrow is another day. thanks, charlie. up next, astronomers having waited decades for this nasa preparing for a big reveal and we'll show it to you when we

welcome back. ford is expanding an suv recall and warning owners to park those

cars outside all because of a risk the engines could catch fire, even when the suvs are parked and turned off. the recall covers more than 100,000 hybrid vehicles including ford escapes, m mavericks and lincoln kor sierras. 20 have gone up in flames, injuring one person. owners will be officially notified next month. and get ready to see some views of the universe as we have never seen it before. at least that's what nasa says is coming up. on tuesday they will release the first high resolution color photos taken by the james webb space telescope. the image coming from a telescope test back in may. nasa also has a lofty promise that at least one of the pictures will show the deepest image of the universe that has ever been taken, presumably that means looking farther into the universe than we have ever seen before. the telescope was launched last

december. the space science telescope has been called the most powerful and complex. that will do it for us. that's darren peck. i'm brian hack announcer: it's time to play "family feud"! give it up for steve harvey! [captioning made possible by fremantle media] [cheering and applause] steve: thank y'all. thank you, folks. i appreciate that. thank y'all. thank you very much. i appreciate it. yeah, i do. thank y'all, everybody. well, welcome to "family feud," everybody. i'm your man steve harvey. [cheering and applause] got a good one for you today. returning for their second day, from taylor, texas, it's the champs, it's the royal family. [cheering and applause] and from cleveland, ohio, my homies, it's the najpaver family. [cheering and applause]