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i've never had one in my life. this is the first time ever. >> modular tiny homes changing the life of at least one man used to living on the streets, how local cities and state officials are trying to fast track other projects. and an afro brazilian tradition mixing music and local arts, how a local group is going to share their passion at this year's carnival parade. >> good afternoon. i'm elizabeth cook. robberies, dozens of them, all traced to kids, one as young as 12 years old. let's get right to anne makovec. oakland's mayor addressed the string of robberies today. >> this group is linked to dozens of robberies from businesses to people walking down the street. oakland police arrested nine juveniles in connection with the string of robberies, six boys and three girls. they're ages range from 12 to 17 years old. police believe they are behind at least 35 crimes stretching
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through 14 neighborhoods from rockridge to china you know to, fruitvale to uptown and a lot of other places throughout oakland. the mayor and police announced some of their plans today to curb crime like adding more foot patrols in business areas, bringing back motorcycle officers and working together with the alameda county sheriff's department. the city is also working on creating a youth intervention plan. >> these are our babies. these are our children and they deserve a chance to get things together. they deserve a chance to have the level of support to help them turn things around. >> we're taking all this very seriously and we're taking all different approaches to insure a better and stronger quality of life in the city of oakland because that is what our residents and businesses deserve. >> the city says they are offering the young suspects and their families services, so when they're finished with their punishments, they'll hopefully be able to turn their lives around. oakland has seen a 7% increase in robberies
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compared to this time last year. >> thanks so much. some oakland residents joined community leaders today to push the city to fund social services instead of just increasing police spending. the group oakland people's budget says it believes oakland can achieve real community safety if city leaders spent money on housing, violence prevention programs, youth programs like art and music, healthcare, and jobs. >> it's not enough to give lip service to the importance of art and culture. those words require action to make them meaningful. the tougher times are, the more important art and culture are. >> the safest communities don't have the most police. we know that. we all know that. they have the most resources. >> the current oakland city budget aims to cut spending to these programs to try to reduce its $360 million deficit. meanwhile in san francisco the man accused of driving into
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a bus stop and killing a bystander yesterday is facing a number of charges, including murder. police say 57-year-old carlo watson carjacked a city-owned pickup truck yesterday morning, then crashed that truck into a crowd at 16th and potrero. a 58-year-old man was killed, three others injured, their ages ranging from 37 to 70. in addition to murder, watson faces charges including carjacking and vehicular manslaughter. this united airlines flight landed safely back at sfo after some sort of mechanical issue. the flight took off from sfo bound for honolulu earlier today, but had to turn around less than an hour after takeoff. united says it's arranged to get the 220 passengers on another flight to their destination. now to san jose where mayor matt mahan and other city leaders unveiled a new proposal aimed at helping people get off the streets. the proposed budget plan puts $50 million into solutions for encampments
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and rvs on the streets. that includes emergency interim housing, safe parking sites and staffing to operate these spaces. the plan also allows an additional $50 million towards new affordable housing projects. >> we're piecing together inclusionary fund dollars and some ending fund balance dollars over the next two years to be able to get to $50 million for each priority. >> the mayor's proposal is facing backlash by some council members over creating temporary shelters rather than permanent housing. the city already has several emergency temporary housing sites. the issues of housing and homelessness have long been top of mind in san francisco. our lauren toms spent time with one local who says tiny homes are a much better fit than those traditional shelters. >> reporter: in this modest neighborhood, a lot goes a long way. >> i've never had one my whole
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life. >> reporter: for aaron the sense of security is the key to changing his life after spending decades in and out of prison and on the street. >> changes my attitude in life, period, because before i'd never smile. i didn't have anything to smile about, you know, like at all and now i got a roof over my head. >> reporter: he's a resident of 33 goff, a cluster of 70 quaint homes the city considers emergency shelter, but legislation making its way through the state senate hopes to reclassify units like these sitting on vacant lots as true housing units, even if they are temporary, and aaron says communities like this present more opportunities for growth. >> gives me more motivation to do better and like, you know, most of my family, they're all college graduates and doing really good in life and then thtoo.s me. so like i want to >> reporter: he's been on the streets since he was a kid and
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says he feels more at home on the street than in a shelter placed alongside strangers, but at 33 goff he's been guided through the steps and hurdles of obtaining a license, applying for financial programs and even towards enrolling in a business degree. >> i didn't have an address or phone to be able to do things like now applying for school for financial aid and stuff, so i can go to school again and i would never be able to do that living on the streets because every day you're just struggling to find how you're going to eat and where you're going to sleep at and stuff. so you don't have time to do the things you need to do to become a productive member of society. >> reporter: sponsored by senator josh becker, the legislation would not only open the door for thousands of unhoused people to find long term shelter, but also make a significant dent in san francisco's ambitious promise of adding more than 80 new housing units by 2031. the bill seeks to fast track the permitting and building time in a city where it can take years to get approval to start
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digging. dignity moves, the nonprofit behind 33 goff, said they were able to get permits in just three weeks and the community up and running two two months later. each community has a bed and heater and they share bathrooms. the model is a great short term solution, but it's argued people deserve their own kitchens and bathrooms in order to be considered true housing. >> they should be temporary accommodations. so you don't want to make housing that doesn't have bathrooms or kitchens inside that's newly constructed. you don't want to consider that permanent housing. it's really a temporary shelter. so that doesn't get at any of our housing goals in san francisco. >> reporter: for aaron, it's a stepping stone that's bridging the gap between life on the street and what's to come. >> it's made life a lot he's easier for me to blend, in made me feel like an actual member of society instead of an
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outcast. >> reporter: aaron knows his living situation isn't forever, but without it he says he wouldn't be the person he is today. our other top stories this afternoon, neighbors in san francisco's sunset district now suing the owners of a home involved in a deadly explosion. that blast killed one person back in february. neighbors accuse the homeowners of negligence and premise liability. they say the owner knew their tenant had brought in large tanks of chemicals to did nothg stopitd > statrney ral at e brown ca aftesan frcisco d.a. incked evidence to prosecute. a walgreen's security guard shot banko brown last month saying he was trying to stop brown from shop lifting and told police banko brown threatened to stab him. a funeral for brown is set for tomorrow morning at 11:00 at third
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baptist church in san francisco. legendary singer and queen of rock and roll, tina turner, has died. ♪ oh what's love got to do got to do with it. ♪. >> she was electrifying. tina turner was known for her hit songs "proud mary" and" what's love got to do with it." her incredible career spanned over 60 years and she was one of the most popular female singers of all time. turner sold nearly 200 million items. she died after a long undisclosed illness in her home near zurich, switzerland. tina turner was 83 years old. ♪ big wheels keep on turning proud mary keep on burning rolling rolling rolling on the river. ♪. >> check out what we just found. that aceslike the
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fillmore west, winterland, and the cow palace. this performance was somewhere near union square. what a moment. she was amazing. still ahead on cbs news bay area, the countdown to carnival, its movement, its melody, its a martial art. how this bay area community is keeping a resilient tradition alive. >> it is music. it is singing. you also make your own instruments. you compose your songs. you learn how to define yourself, to dance. we're getting closer to the holiday weekend. we're seeing cool temperatures but lots of sunshine across the bay area, including in san jose. we'll look at that three-day weekend forecast coming up.
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from the bay bridge to washington now where the white house and the house speaker have just over a week to reach a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. the treasury department says on june 1st the u.s. will run out of money to pay its bills. that means payments for programs like medicare, social security, and veterans' benefits could be held up. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger was on "cbs this mornings" and her advice to veterans and retirees, don't panic, but stockpile some short term emergency cash, if you can. >> it's probably not going to last too long if we do hit that
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breaching moment, but for a week or two you really do need to fall back on emergency savings. if you don't have it, take a deep breath. this will get corrected quickly. >> many economists warn if there is no agreement by the end of the month, 401ks could plunge and the economy could tip into a deep recession. meanwhile the stock market was down less than 1% across the board today, but overall it's holding much steadier than past debt ceiling standoffs like in 2011 when s&p downgraded the country's credit rating. everybody's dancing in the studio. every year the carnaval parade showcases diverse groups of people that make up the bay area and one of those groups is avida. >> reporter: this year is
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called ahoda. then comes the movement of the hands, the clapping. all in a circle. then you get the first set of people in the middle. there are deep roots in afro brazilian culture. it's a martial art, a dance, acrobatics, but if you ask this woman, she wants you to see it for yourself, to feel it. >> it is a self-dance camouflaged by the dance. it is music, singing. you make your own instruments, compose your songs. you learn how to def and >> reporter: in the music there's meaning. >> there's a lot of emotions as
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well and some of the songs talk about the slavery times and sometimes the songs are like making fun of each other. so it's very brazilian like you find humor in everything, but at the same time you do have a lot of feelings, deep feelings about history. >> reporter: she moved to san francisco from brazil 30 years ago. her purpose? bringing this here. it wasn't easy. >> being away from my country was the biggest challenge. >> reporter: she was undocumented, making things more difficult, but she started small. >> two classes a week, then build to three and four and the community grew and i was able to get my legal status through my work. so that was like very -- an honor. >> reporter: now it's grown to this with adults who have never tried now joining her classes to judge children looking forward to doing this every week. >> the hardest part is like doing the kicks that you need to like work on and like
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practice a lot. >> reporter: she's been coming to san francisco for this a few years now. >> there's people that know their name and want to be sort of a part of their lives. so they feel very cared for and progress each work. so they get new skills and at home they do little hodas together. it really builds their confidence and connects them to diversity. that's been really important for us. >> reporter: that's what she wants. she said she was put in a box when she started this in brazil. here she wants people to feel welcome to, feel like they each contribute something. >> everyone's unique and everyone has something to add, doesn't matter if you are are not as agile, as young. we have room for everybody. we believe everybody has unique characteristics and when you move, there's a signature. >> reporter: in the circle it's a chance to be present in the moment. she says you don't leave gaps. you keep the energy inside. you rely on each other.
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you feel the music. for her, it's a piece of home. >> it's beautiful to watch. the dancers are taking part in the carnaval parade this weekend in san francisco. you can watch it live sunday at 10 a.m. on our live stream on cbs news bay area and on our sister station, kbcw. let's take a look at our forecast with first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen. not too bad of a day today. >> no. a little cool, but heat inland will be here soon enough as we round the corner past memorial day. let's just enjoy the free air conditioning while it lasts. any hot weather pattern just isn't in the cards the next several days because a big area of high pressure is parked out over the pacific, not close enough to compress the area at ground level around the bay area and warm it up. as long as that stays offshore, we'll stay in this below-average temperature pattern. every upper level disturbance that moves out will be replaced by another one and help keep our temperatures
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next seven days, likely a couple weeks. temperatures are mostly in the 60s, below normal for late may, 61 degrees in san francisco, mostly mid- to upper 60s and the warm spot is 70 degrees in livermore. more reminiscent of what our temperatures should be like around 11:00, maybe noon as the fowi hthroh tonight. like the past couple nights, it's going to be a pretty deep marine layer which means while we'll have a lot of gray skies overhead, the marine layer wouldn't be compressed towards ground level. instead we'll have patchy dense fog with plenty of cloud cover up in the atmosphere. it backs up towards the coast at lunchtime, but the fog will be a little tougher to shake along the coast. temperatures tonight dropping to the low 50s, very cool spots in the north bay
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valleys 49. everybody on the map between 49 and 52, not a lot of variation. the winds pick back up tomorrow afternoon and notice a little breeze today. it will pick up by thow h strongeswind gusts during the afternoon. id about 15 to 20-mile-aur sts, rein t 20 t 25rar some ndi coand the onshore direction also has an impact on our temperatures only warming to the upper 50s along the coast, low to mid-60s around the bay, near 70 down the peninsula and inland temperatures range from the upper 60s in the north bay, otherwise mostly low 70s. the warmest spots on the map only hitting the mid-70s tomorrow afternoon. a similar below average pattern friday for the first day of the bottlerock festival in napa saturday and sunday temperatures bounce back closer to normal, but i think we'll stay slightly below average for a while. six to ten-day outlook from the
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climate prediction center keeps the best chance of more widespread and below normal temperatures heading into early june. in san francisco hovering in the low 60s with mid-60s for oakland and the east bay, a little bit more variation inland, especially in the no r the holiday weekend, also low to mid-70s in the santa clara valley with a mix of clouds and sunshine. overall igly beavage, but mid-70s for highs inland parts can handle t upper 50s along the coast is pretty much what we expect for memorial day weekend. >> we're used to that in san francisco. you know you'll need a parka to go to the beach. oosing to live close to the coast. >> that's right. it's your fault. thank you, paul. coming up, the a's aren't completely out the door in oakland, but they took another big step, the final major
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hurdle standing in the way of their move to vegas. you can watch us anytime anywhere on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. catch all of our live newscasts, plus news and weather updates throughout the day on the free cbs news app or on pluto tv. here's what's going on in the bay area this weekend. festival season is here for gourmet food, music and wine, head to bottlerock, napa valley. some of the biggest names in music take the stage friday through sunday at the napa valley expo in downtown napa. raise money for local heroes while enjoying music, food and more at the muir beach volunteer firemens barbecue sunday at santos meadows in mill valley. tickets the a's plano ild
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coming up tonight at 5:00, governor gavin newsom is taking aim at target, why he says the retailer is selling out to extremists, that story and much more today at 5:00. finally at 3:00, here's the story of a house for sale. the brady bunch house in north hollywood is on the market for $5.5 million. hgtv bought it a
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