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>> rht non thustr the fallout after release of alleged racist text messages by police. >> i mean they really hate black people and they don't belong here. >> city leaders in antioch leading the push for major reforms when they ask a former superior court judge how the city can move forward. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto in for reed. the antioch police department uncovered disturbing text messages. first we heard 17 officers were involved in this investigation the now the mayor says it's up to about two dozen. that's at least 20% of the police department. we're still waiting for the full redacted report, but mayor lamar thorpe read some of the text messages to us. some had homophobic and racist slurs, many involving the n word. there was even talks of

violence against the mayor himself dating back to november of 2019. the mayor said city council members talked about making the change last night but no word on a vote. at one point during the meeting mayor thorpe got into a heated discussion. >> i am sick and tired of being attacked by these people in this community apologizing for the racism going on in this community. you're the problem! >> antioch's police chief said they've reworked staffing so there are no gaps in service, but in the meantime one contra costa public defender told us she's requesting that strict attorney diana becton immediately pause all criminal cases involving the antioch pd saying in part the racist, homophobic and violent behavior

of these officers will impact thousands and thousands of criminal cases, including pending cases and past convictions. so far the district attorney's office declined to comment beyond a judge ordered the release of some of those messages to the defense attorneys in one particular felony case. becton said in part, "the joint investigation revealed antioch police officers exchanged text messages which contain unambiguously racist speech directed towards the suspects the officers were investigating." joining me now live is ladoris claredell. is there any precedent the city and d.a. can look to how they actually respond to all this? >> there have been texting scandals like this in other cities, for example, in san francisco, also in san jose. so this one is the largest that i've ever seen involving at least two dozen officers

exchanging racist, homophobic and sexist text messages. so the response is going to have to be multipronged because this scandal is raising havoc in our courts, in the police department, in city government and in the community. so thic fe a e ern'reasonable one where the district attorney's office will have to look at every single case that these officers were involved in to determine whether or not these were legitimate arrests and whether or not they testified properly and truthfully in court. in the police department itself, if you have 10% of the officers now on some sort of leave because of this, the police department, one, has to make sure the community still gets proper service, but in addition, this raises a big question about training and

selecting officers. how did these 24 or 26 individuals end up in the police department? how were they screened? this brings up a whole other issue about how do you stop others like-minded coming into the department? then you have city government and the issue there becomes does the mayor and city council, do they determine who hires the chief or is it still issues here. how can you trust people who have these racist attitudes patrolling your community and obliged and obligated to protect and serve? i don't think you can. >> let's touch back on the criminal cases in antioch. could we see an actual reversal in those past convictions and could we see charges dropped in pending cases? >> absolutely. that has happened in other jurisdictions. so it is up to the district attorney along with the public defender's office to look at every single one of these cases to determine what really happened. apparently according to some of

these text messages, these officers had no problem falsifying reports, making up things in order to arrest people. that cannot stand. it's going to take some tedious work and perhaps they should bring in someone from the outside to review every single one of these arrests and convictions and then determine how in the criminal system these officers might be held accountable. >> you talked about public trust. of course, these are still allegations. we don't know how this is going to play out. in the meantime, how does a police department rebuild itself and rebuild that trust? >> the key to trust in law enforcement and having trust with the community is transparency, being as transparent as possible about who was involved, what is being done to weed out these people, and then what is being done in terms of hiring, screening of officers, being honest and up front. it's the best and only

way to establish trust in the community. >> thank you very much for your opinions and your thoughts on this case. this is definitely a case that we'll follow for quite some time. >> sure. dozens of people shared their stories at last night's city council meeting in antioch. that includes a mom who says police treated her hearing impaired son roughly when he didn't understand their commands. our katie nielsen followed up with her today. we'll have her story ahead at 5:00. fallout over the police scandal may continue to grow in the days ahead. stick with us here on air, online and streaming on cbs news bay area for the latest updates as we get them. other top stories, the date has been set for the federal trial for david depape. prosecutors say he broke into nancy pelosi's home in october. the trial is set for october 23rd. the hearing to determine the trial date on state charges has been postponed until next month. former president donald

trump is suing michael cohen for more than $500 million. trump accuses him of breaching confidentiality agreements as his former personal attorney. the federal lawsuit also accuses cohen of spreading false information about trump. this comes a week after trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying records related to hush money payments made to stormy daniels. npr says it's leaving twitter. the news organization says it's because the social media platform beled it as a state-affiliated media. npr says that label undermines its credibility. the san francisco lgbtq center announced it's deactivating its account due to the rise in anti-lgbtq tweets. the march inflation report is out and prices at the grocery store actually went down. they only dropped 0.3% from february, but it's a sign inflation is moving in the right direction. overall inflation rose 5% in march, the

lowest annual increase in nearly two years and way down from the more than 9% jump last year. used car prices have fallen nine months in a row and the cost of rent is stabilizing. the federal reserve has been raising interest rates to bring down inflation. they now have to decide if another boost is needed. the fed will make its decision next month. despite the inflation report, stocks closed slightly down today. the major indexes, all in the red. when we come back, it's used to deliver water to millions of people from the sierra nevada to the bay area, but this tunnel is in major need of repair. >> if this tunnel failed or collapsed, we wouldn't be able to provide water to the bay area and that would be catastrophic. >> the intricate operation to get the repairs done even involves draining a major reservoir. obviously no rain across the bay area today, hardly a

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it was certainly a winter to remember with 17 atmospheric rivers that filled our reservoirs and virtually a race, california's drought. look at the maps on the left where we stand now. most of

california is back to normal compared to four months ago. our big storms when most of the state was in that severe drought or even worse, hetch hetchy is currently 100% of its average level and there is a major renovation underway to keep all that water flowing to our homes in the bay area. max darrow took a trip to the sierra nevada to give us a look. >> reporter: just beyond the reservoir nestled in the foothills of the sierra nevada lies key infrastructure in supplying muff of the bay area with water, but some of that infrastructure ise 10year-old 1 tunnel on its route to the bay area, which is why randy anderson is taking us up into the foothills. >> it's a large project, but we're able to rehabilitate it instead of having to build a brand-new tunnel. >> reporter: anderson is the project manager for the mountain tunnel improvements project which began in 2021.

>> we're about 40% complete. >> reporter: the main purpose of the project is to restore and repair the outdated tunnel. katie miller, the director of water capital programs, says neglecting this wouldn't bode well. >> 85% of the water supply for 2.8 million people in the bay area comes from hetch hetchy reservoir and all of that water passes through the mountain tunnel. if this tunnel failed or collapsed, it would take us probably more than a year to repair it, which would mean we wouldn't be able to provide water to the bay area. that would be a catastrophic situation. >> reporter: to achieve the main goal, anderson says they needed to build more infrastructure, like a facility to control the water flow inside of the tunnel, which is situated directly below this 150-foot shaft he's peering down. >> this is like the heart of our rehabilitation project. this is where we'll be able to control the flow inside the tunnel for operational flexibility. >> reporter: near the priest

reservoir, anderson took us into the new mountain tunnel access location they're building. >> this will be a main access point. >> reporter: which will make it easier for crews to get to the actual mountain tunnel. >> this will be a lot smoother than it is now. >> reporter: work inside the tunnel can only occur during a short period of time in the winter. >> when we're doing work on the mountain tunnel, we have to drain the entire hetch hetchy water system. >> reporter: while construction on the mountain tunnel project is underway, people in the bay area are not getting their water from the hetch hetchy reservoir but rather some of the older reservoirs. >> we need to use local water supplies during that time. we have local reservoirs in the east bay and on the peninsula, crystal springs reservoir and calaveras reservoir. >> reporter: anderson says they've made good progress. he ultimately hopes the project will give the water infrastructure that the bay area relies on a century of stability. >> our goal is to get another 100 years out of this

rehabilitation project. >> reporter: that's the long term figure the project manager has his eyes on. short term he's looking to the winter of 2026, which is when the project is expected to be complete. time to look at the forecast with first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen. we definitely have a lot of water right now. >> all the water stored up in the form of snow pack in the sierra. close to normal temperatures the next several days. we'll watch the flooding potential through the central valley as the snow melt runs downhill, i think it will happen at a reasonable pace. around the bay area, clear overnight, windy in spots, especially along the coast and farther inland in solano county. a late week warming trend will kick in for most of the bay area. inland temperatures will jump by several degrees and a dry weekend in store before changes next week. let's look at futurecast. wind gusts are strongest along the coast where there is a wind advisory until

9:00 this evening, some gusts around 40 miles an hour. there the winds diminish through the night. a different wind advisory goes into effect for solano county at 8:00 this evening, gusts 35 to 40 miles an hour for fairfield and vacaville through 11 a.m. tomorrow. after that it's still going to be a breezy thursday overall, but the winds will especially back down after the sun goes down tomorrow evening. we shouldn't see as blustery conditions by the end of the workweek friday. looking at the allergens and the wind has dispersed plenty of that stuff into the atmosphere across the bay area, in the high category friday, saturday and sunday. mulberry, oak, and ash pollen are the top three offenders and not many rain chances. next week does go in a more unsettled direction, a 30 to 40% chance of a trace of

rainfall. after that rain chances are zero. looking outside, sunshine over downtown san francisco, temperatures 54 in the city thanks to the onshore breeze to 65 degrees in santa rosa. those numbers will retreat into the 50s in san francisco, maybe warm up a degree or two the next couple hours, low 50s for most of the finale of the giants first season of the series against the los angeles dodgers, temperatures late tospots inlan temperatures a couple degrees below average tomorrow but closer to what's normal for this time of year. we should climb into the 60s except along the coast where you'll be in the mid- to upper 50s, mid-60s down the peninsula with mid- to upper 60s in the santa clara valley, temperatures inland and the east bay, warmest spots around fairfield, antioch, pittsburgh around 70 degrees, low to mid-60s for san francisco and oakland and

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the peace plaza has received an additional $3 million donation, all part of a five-year plan to renovate the plaza. nancy pelosi announced the funding for the prodt joined by mayor lond br d othelocal leaders. that has run into a number of cost overruns, all due to the pandemic.

new affordable housing coming to san francisco state university held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new housing project located on the west campus green. sf state received $116 million from the state budget to build a new residence hall in october. it's the first time the state allocated funds to build housing on college campuses. the new site will provide 750 affordable beds for first-year students for about 25% under the market rate. >> this will reduce the number of students on our wait list for housing and reduce the number who ultimately choose not to come to the school of their dreams, san francisco state, because we couldn't house them. >> the new building will also include a new dining hall and health center. the residential building will be complete by fall of 2024. still to come, we're back on baby falcon watch and check in on the nest as mom and dad now seeing double. coming up here on the cbs evening news, new details in

the louisville bank massacre as we learn the gunman's mother called 911 to try and stop the shooting, that and more news tonight right here on the cbs evening news. here's what's going on in the bay area this weekend. the stanford jazz workshop is all day friday at the university. the citywide with youth arts festival will fill city streets with student displays and performances on saturday. tony award musical "1776" make be at the san jose center at the performing arts ma

coming up at 5:00, a bill making its way through sacramento will fund unemployment benefits for undocumented workers. we'll dive into how it would work, that story and more with myself and liz cook coming up at 5:00. before we go, we wanted to give you an update on the berkeley falcons, the first baby that hatched yesterday now has a sibling. check it out. there are now two. look at them. the second chick broke out of its shell overnight. now just two more to go for annie and lou. cbs evening news is next on kpix. local news continues streaming on cbs news bay area.

thanks for joining us! ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, the chilling 911 calls in that louisville bank massacre, including one from the mother of the gunmen, begging police dispatchers not to punish him. here are tonight's headlines. >> i'm in a closet hiding. i hear gunshots. >> norah: the desperate calls for help from inside the bank as the community comes together to honor the victims. ♪ ♪ >> evacuations are underway in richmond, indiana, as the result of a large-scale industrial fire. more than 2,000 people in the area were ordered to leave their homes. ♪ ♪ >> democracy! >> tennessee county shelby county board of commissioners has voted unanimously to