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from kpix, this is late and is with sara donchey on cbs new bay area. >> will talk about the sideshow in a minute but tonight there i another big story in oakland. dozens of oakland unified schoo district teachers will not be i class tomorrow. they will be doing something very different. after a week at the bargaining table over contracts with the district, teachers have decided within the past few hours they are going on strike. here is why. teachers want limits on class sizes, more counselors an support staff. the most contentious issue is pay. teachers want an increase acros the board. the district is countering with increases between 10% and 22%. some say they support the teachers but that they have to rush to make other plans.

>> i would have to look for som other form ofchild care. the teachers don't want to do this, but they are being forced into it. >> the district says schools will be open tomorrow but will not be school as usual. centra office staff will be sent to schools to supervise the kids. they will still serve meals at school and students who do not show up at school will be marke with excused absences. ousd say they don't know how long the strike will last but the end of the school year is filled with milestone events and they want to make sure that regular classes start again as soon as possible. the oakland education association released a statemen saying that school administrators failed to appear and present a written proposal to the union. they went on to say that students had a plan to work through the night to reach an agreement if the other side showed up. the last time ousd

teachers went on strike was before the pandemic in 2019. i lasted a week with teachers and the district ultimately agreein on a pay raise, but almost 30 years ago in 1996, oakland teachers were on the picket lines for almost a month. one o the students at oakland high wh remembers that is somebody that we both know! >> i remember in 1996 when we didn't have enough substitute teachers, so they were putting security guards in each classroom to watch over the kids. they would also combine the classes. so there wasn't a whole lot of teaching or learning. it was more babysitting. that long strike i '96 was stressful for myself and a lot of students but it al turned out okay! i graduated tw years later from oakland high i 1998. these were photos taken for my graduation. >> she has not aged at all! oakland is dealing with legal sideshows that have turned

violent. people in atvs and dirt bikes took off and turned away. another video showed a man trying to stop a sideshow befor he was viciously beaten and stomped on by a group of people we are not showing that video here tonight. andrea nakano onc spoke to a man who was thinking about running for mayor of oakland but is now thinking about packing up and leaving. >> reporter: it is not just weekly sideshows that oaklander are concerned about. it is the shootings, robberies and theft and other crimes that rattle their sense of safety. one man we talked with said that it has gotten so bad that he might jus leave the city he loves. >> it is a war zone! it is scary. >> i have never seen it like this before. it is like the wild, wild west.

>> reporter: this is one of the sideshows captured. you can see an oakland police patrol car driving through the chaos of th sideshow. houston says this is exactly what is wrong with oakland today. >> there is no authority any longer. it is not like where i grew up. you would be scared of your next-door neighbor. you would be scared of police officers. now there is no fear they fly by them going 50 miles per hour in a 20 mile per hour zone where kids walk. we have t bring back some fear and respect. that is what we have t do. >> reporter: mayor sheng thao released a statement regarding the violence and sideshows. she said my office is currently working with the alameda county sheriff's office on a robust an comprehensive plan to implemen sting operations so that we can crackdown on illegal sideshows that continue to put our residents in harms way. houston fears that unless there are

consequences from the legal system for people committing these crimes, nothing will change. >> i don't see any hope any longer. i don't know what it . i do any longer, cause it is out of control. you have to punish people. people don't want to do punishment sometimes, but you have to do a punishment! you have to teach and punish! >> reporter: with the ongoing violence, houston is now contemplating a move that he hoped he would never have to make. >> if it doesn't change in the next 24 months, i'm leaving. >> reporter: in the merrill proposed budget there is a plan to host candidates to fill open positions but there are questions on how many open positions will be frozen in the police department. the final budget should be adopted on jun 30th. listen to the soothing sounds of my sound machine and also outside! it is may but it didn't really feel like it today. we had scattered showers pretty much all over. paul is

here. i really do use that for the sound machine sound, so it is nice when i don't have to do the artificial! >> oh yeah, we use the thunderstorm sound on our sound machine because you don't hear thunder very often in the bay area! >> or train sounds! i was wondering if other people do that one. >> no! i think you are alone on that one. >> my producer says there you go! b.a.r.t. sounds! b.a.r.t. screeching! >> there you go! for now we are in a bit of a break. still a lo of low hanging cloud cover. there are patches of mist, drizzle, but as we look at the radar loop over the last few hours, a lot of the green you see towards the end of the loop is just ground clutter because the radar is getting full by th amount of lingering moisture in the atmosphere. very little of this is actual shower activity. we are going to see the showers pretty few and far between. rai

chances are not going to be zero, but i think some locally dense fog and lingering drizzle will be more of a concern than actual shower activity. you could see showers bubbling up a we head into the afternoon but those will be more miss than hit. on thursday we have two more waves to get through befor returning to a normal mayweathe pattern. we have all that comin up in the forecast. now to a truly disturbing story. a series of stabbings ha left people scared, but police could be one step closer to solving the case. ashley sharp reports. >> reporter: detained an in custody. cbs 13 has blurred the face of the man in the video. i was the moment that a man of interest was pulled out for questioning. >> he seemed somewhat calm and was not giving up a fight or anything. >> reporter: carter carlson

helped davis police find what could be a needle in a haystack. a man matching the stabbing suspect description. >> i noticed that they had long curly hair and the adidas pans that have been talking about. >> reporter: he doesn't call himself a hero but he called in a tip on wednesday at sycamore park where he was leaving flowers at a vigil for the victims when he saw this man walking in the park alone. >> they were being a little bit sneaky, i would say. my first thought was wow, this guy could be scoping out the school. that is very scary. >> reporter: police were there minutes later. a call that just might crack the case. monday night another tip to police cam from isaac chessmen who said he had a close encounter with who he thinks is the same suspect. >> i said, you look like the d

they have been describing that has been stabbing people. then he takes off from around the bend. >> reporter: startled by a man dressed in black with long, curl whoseemedto be scoping out where he and his fiancee were sleeping, fearing they were a target. >> he is killing innocent, vulnerable people. whether they are on house does not make the less human. >> reporter: now an arrest is the only thing that will calm the fears of this davis community. waiting with baited breath. >> hopefully this is all over. >> reporter: hoping the person responsible for a string of stabbings is in fact off the streets. >> as of tonight, no official arrests or charges have been filed. still ahead, a woman dealin with a debilitating condition was so desperate that she was ready to jump off the golden gate bridge until a local doctor changed her life forever >> i lived a life wondering wha is wrong with me. >> i look at it as micle. > e was expecting. how does somebod

steal 50 koi fish and we can without getting caught, and better yet why? what we know an don't know about a really weird heist. >> how do you even carry 50 koi fish? warrior fans, i have a question! what is your conf

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a bay area woman suffering from a debilitating medical condition was at the lowest point in her life. she was so desperate she was ready to die but she ended up in the right place at the right time to meet the right people. kpix 5 producer molly mccray and i had the chance encounter that help to solving medical mystery. >> reporter: the golden gate bridge. many stopped to admire its beauty but some see the landmark in a much darker light four years ago, a bay area woma walked onto the bridge intendin to jump off the side. but what happened next is stunning. >> it is amazing. talk about perfect timing. >> reporter: meet debbie menzies and her husband robert. on that day, on that bridge, debbie was at the end of her rope. >> i just could not deal with : of uncontrolled seizures and a

persistent depression. as a child, doctors had diagnosed her with epilepsy but medications had little effect. several times per day she felt strange electrical sensations i her head. add to that decades o feeling deeply despondent. >> i have lived a life wonderin what is wrong with me? there is something else wrong with me. i is not just epilepsy. >> reporter: back on the bridge she was about to jump. >> i felt a tap on my shoulder. >> reporter: an alert bridge worker stopped her and called a ambulance. the ambulance brought debbie to zuckerberg general hospital where she was admitted. the team taking care of her was baffled by her seizures. they call the doctor on duty, dr. paul garcia. >> each individual seizure is kind of a puzzle. >> reporter: dr. garcia only goes to the hospital a few time a year. that weekend he happene

to be on call. >> she is a memorable person, s i remember her being very clear about the symptoms she was having. >> reporter: debbie said that when she had a seizure people described her as laughing and smiling. that caught the doctor's attention. he had a hunch. >> he asked me, have you ever had a brain mri? and i said, no >> reporter: garcia ordered an mri. the results? >> it was like i couldn't believe it! it shocked me! >> reporter: deep in debbie's brain, there was a growth about the size of a lemon seed. it wa on a critical part of the brain called the hypothalamus, which manages a lot, including parts of the nervous system and mood. >> anything that alters the circuitry of the hypothalamus i like throwing a wrench in one o the major control centers of th brain. >> reporter: the growth is called a hypothalamus hematoma. as for treatment? brain surgery. >> i said, sign me up!

>> so the location of the hypothalamus turns out to be pretty much right in the middle of the head. there are a variet of different ways that you can get there, almost all of which are dangerous. >> reporter: top ucsf neurosurgeon dr. edward chang caught her case and he had a cutting-edge plan in place. >> we had been pioneering the use of a new technology called laser thermal. >> reporter: dr. chang inserted a probe through a tiny hole in debbie 's head. using gps coordinates, he guided it right to the tiny growth. >> precision was important for this procedure. >> reporter: on the tip of the probe, that when activated, the laser destroyed the growth. immediately after surgery, no more seizures and no more depression! >> it is quite a new life. a ne

start. >> reporter: her doctors are thrilled. >> i feel honored that i had th opportunity to take care of debbie. >> it is tremendously gratifying. >> reporter: as for debbie? >> all i can say is that i owe my life to them. >> reporter: a life that, thank to serendipity or some greater plan, can be lived knowing that there is always hope on the horizon. >> i need to thank producer molly mccray for all of her fantastic work putting that entire story together. doctors think that that rare condition might actually be more common for people who have uncontrolle epilepsy. got to talk about weather. gloomy and rainy. when do we ge some sun back? >> by the middle of next week w should be closer to normal. i think that there is hope furthe down the line. you just have to wait for it. we have a lot of cloud cover out there, but at least we are in a break from showers at the moment. let's ad up the rain that has fallen so far through the course of the storm system. over 2.5 inches o

rain through the santa cruz mountains by dan loman. over 1. inches of rain over half moon bay. over one inch of additiona rain for san francisco. this now ranks as the 15th wettest water year on record dating bac to the gold rush. more modest amounts elsewhere but this is a decent amount of rain for early may. limited shower activity tomorrow but not a 0% chance. grab the umbrella even though the storm system will be exiting, another one dives in from the north to take its plac as we head from friday night into saturday. that is our second wave of showers and another is going to follow it u as we head into early next week first alert doppler and the loo shows a lot of ground cover. th radar is getting full with the amount of lingering moisture in the atmosphere. futurecast show spotty shower starting day tomorrow. don't be surprised if you run into a couple on your way to work. the nence th friday. to ofuntil it is mainly going to be friday

night into early saturday where we are tracking the next round of showers moving in with another round of showers likely after that as we head into earl next week and let's check the rain chances over the next seve days. friday night and early saturday there is a second wave of showers and the next one is sunday night into monday. the forecast is dry out as we head through the middle of next week and that is when temperatures return to normal. tonight temperatures not only dropping down from where we are now, upper 40s to around 50, but highs are once again way below average. mid-to-upper 50s for san francisco and along the coast, lonely to mid-60s along the coast. temperatures will remain well above normal with the rain pattern into next week then by tuesday and wednesday that is when temperatures retur to closer to normal levels. eve by wednesday of next week we ar still at least slightly below average. the warmest spots in the east bay will only be in th

low 70s by tuesday and wednesday when they are suppose to be in the mid-70s with littl change along the coast. temperatures in the mid-to-uppe 50s and that is actually normal for the middle of may. it is kind of may gray giving way to june gloom and no sky july. but we will just figure a way through the next seven days. >> that's the serious stuff! now the not so serious stuff! >> it is theft, depending on wh you are! >> it is out of san jose, and the question is, how does somebody steal a school of koi fish? >> why? >> i don't know! happened over the weekend on two different nights. somebody managed to steal dozens of fish from the pond at the japanese friendship garden. how and why they did it is a mystery. police are trying to figure it out, but it was surprising to people who were there. >> that's crazy! why would you steal 50 koi fish! you can't even eat them! >> how do you even carry 50 koi fish? i am wondering how you di it, why you did it, what was

going on late in your night. >> plastic bags? tupperware? i don't know! in 1955 the city go koi fish from their sister city in japan. it is important to note that koi fish are very expensive. what if i told you that there is a clear favorite in thursday's warriors-lakers game would you like to know which team that is? man: i'm not slowing down anytime soon.

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vern and i were texting before and during the game. i think people during the sports telecast were freaking out and switching from the dubs to the lakers. but it seems like a little premature, don't you think? >> right. for the players, some of these are veteran people, bu how much sleep are they getting tonight and into the morning thinking about what happens whe the ball goes up? eve of the western conference semifinal game two. warriors expected to snap back and vegas oddsmakers agree! it might mo

concrete if jordan poole's thre had dropped. his shot selection discussion took on a life of it own from fans. he was 6 of 11 from three with 21 points. a former defensive player of the year came to poole's defense. >> jordan taking that three is not why we lost that game. i know the people will say he never should have shot that three. prior to that three, he was 6 for 10. so -- you have a guy 6 for 10 who you know can shoot that -- out of the ball, when he misses an open three, you live with it. >> draymond green! the giants unexpected good fortune has come at the expense of the defending champs! getawa day in houston. last day of the road trip. look at these bright start of yearwebb took a shutout into the fifth and give

up a couple of runs. joey bart helped out his pitcher with an rbi double, part of a two-hit day for bart who raised his batting average to over .300! giants put it together and win 4-2, taking the last two of the three-game series from the astros. giants are back home friday against milwaukee. a's and the mariners. the coliseum delayed by over an hou for rain. when they got rid of the tarp, oakland had a lead in the ninth and aj pollock went deep off of zach jackson. the solo job tied the game and sent it to extras. in the 10th, that is when seattle opened it up. serving up a three one shot to you daniel suarez. the mariners came back to win by a final 7-2 so warriors-lakers. ball goes u at 6:00 p.m. one word,

aggressive! the warriors have t be aggressive. draymond green has to be at his best because anthonvi get his touches. see you at chase center tomorrow. >> can't wait to text you durin the game, vern!

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with stems. -daddy, i don't want to go to las vegas with you and mommy tomorrow. oh, are you sure? are you sure you don't want to go, it will be so much fun! a san francisco theater was transformed into a colorful cultural event tonight. the asian -american pacific heritag awards on organizations that ar lifting up the community. mayo london breed also signed a proclamation declaring may as aapi heritage month. forget about the limo, what about driving to prom

high schoolers? you tell m about this. they usually rent a limo or party bus to take them to prom, right? >> not in the glen house! they went on a bus that was bit different? more expensive? thes guys rented a world war ii tank to take to the dance at the portland art museum! >> i like that style! okay! >> they actually fund raised to

get this. the school had set aside a special parking lot at the venue for teens to make a splashy entrance. renting a tan fit the bill. it was going to cost $20,000 and they found somewhere else to do it. >> we caught a museum in oregon and they didn't have anything that they got us in contact wit a guy and in about 15 minutes w had a deal worked out. >> who was driving the tank? >> the kid was. wait, that wasn't a kid. (upbeat music) - hi everyone, and welcome to legal help center. this is where we have professionals standing by to answer your questions regarding personal injury. so if you've been injured in an accident that was not your fault, like a car accident