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this is cbs news bay area with reed cowan. >>roilingu and nopridenjounbig money investmen
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on climate visit to the bay area. good afternoon, everybody i am reed cowan. love questions and a lot of fear after a 10-year-old girl and other people work shot in san francisco. these happened near a tourist area. >> supervisor aaron peskin tol us the very latest. he heard that an arrest has been made an another person has been detained, but so far police hav not confirmed the arrest. they said that the shootings along the waterfront are related. the first shooting was reported across from pier 39 at beech an stockton street and the other one happened moments later to the south at embarcadero and howard street. it started just before 7:00 last night. police were called to the shooting and they found two people with what appeared to be gunshot injuries they were rushed to the hospita
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. there were two cars involved in the shooting. several parked cars were also found with bulle holes in this area that, as rei mentioned, is crowded with tourists. one witness described a young woman on the ground and officers tending to her. a chaotic scene for the people wh witnessed it. >> two cars were shooting at each other. i yelled my sister to get down. >> how are you feeling? >> a little bit scary. my life flashed before my eyes. >> are you injured? >> i got glass in my arm. >> and not great for the city tourism department. again, police have not confirmed any
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arrest or released information about suspects, but we will bring you developments as they come in this evening. meanwhile, president joe biden is in the bay area as we speak to my making a stop in palo alto and announcing $600 million in funding for climate change projects. this is the first event of his three-day visit to the bay area. the president got a tour of the coastal wetlands at the lucy owens nature preserve. he announced that the department o energy will be providing more than $2 million to improve the energy grid. it is going to be a long day for the president. a short time from now president biden will take part in a campaign reception in los gatos later this evening he will head to atherton and be the guest of venture capitalist and former state comptroller peter wesley. we brought you the remarks
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earlier on a streaming service, cbs news bay area. just a reminder, on the palm of your hand , you can watch this anywhere on the cbs news bay area app. 42% of democrats say that biden should not run for re-election. recent polling shows for president trump is still the republican front-runner by quite a healthy margin. florida governor ron desantis, taking on trump, is also in california to raise money for his campaign today. you saw him hold a breakfast fundraiser in sacramento costin $3300 per person. this comes as his administration has transported migrants and dumped them in california. reporter camilla burnout spoke with them about their experience and the
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challenges ahead. >> reporter: walking the street of san francisco is a dream com true for this migrant, but the first time she walked the streets of the california capital she felt confused, angr and betrayed. unfulfilled promises, says the migrant. it was in a shelter where she said two men approached her with th offer of a lifetime. a paid tri on a jet to california with the promise of a job and housing. >> translator: she said they offered her a job so she was happy and signed. >> reporter: this after she spent two months traveling from her native columbia to the u.s.-mexico border. she described the challenges of the jungle, train, starving, sleeping on the street, begging
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for money. >> translator: she is emotional and says it is the worst becaus you feel like you are at your lowest. >> reporter: it was a total of 36 migrants who traveled on two separate charter flights from texas to sacramento. when we got here we had no direction an no job and no place in life, said this migrant. with republican governors like greg abbott of texas and ron desanti of florida sending thousands of migrants from texas to democratic-led cities. >> we did not co
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for work. >> reporter: but he says he wants people to understand thei suffering and their desire to work. >> california attorney general rob bonta says he is looking at criminal action for those who transported these migrants. today, people across the ba area and the country are celebrating juneteenth. it is the federal holiday that marks the date in 1865 when union troops arrived in galveston, texas to announce that all enslaved people were free. it was nearly two years after the emancipation proclamation. in the east bay they are celebrating juneteenth with a free park day. the east bay regional park district held two events. in fort worth, texas today people gathered for the
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walk for freedom march. you might remember opal lee . she i considered the grandmother of juneteenth because she worked for decades to bring recognitio to this important date. we hope you are having a wonderful juneteenth and to share your photos, be su to use the hashtag #kpix. up next we will hear from the new free-agent draymond green! i
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big news today about one of the warriors big three. we are also hearing from the new general manager. a lot of sport news today. vern glenn is here to talk about it. >> read, it was a big day and i was all done by noon. dunlevy, first-round draft pick by the warriors in 2002 told us today that he was a little bit apprehensive on the transition. >> asked me if i could do the
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job. i said i'm a little bit uncomfortable taking your job. and he said come on, man. it is just a job. so we had a laugh about that. at that point we were like okay. good to go here got boss approval which is good >> done leaving will get right to work. free agency starts with draymond green. as expected, green opted out of th final year of his contract and is seeking a new multiyear deal hopefully from the warriors and -- >> we really want draymond back we feel like we have to have hi in order to win at the highest level. there are certain things we know that. but the good
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overwhelms the bad. >> this will be the last big deal for him. of the decent teams with cap space, oklahoma city might be an interesting suitor. but the rest of the teams are bad. so look for the warriors to give him more money he is the most valuable player in the league. the warriors not that they cannot win without him. first alert weather. we se the camera shaking a little bit and we know it is windy. time t check in withdaen pw afternoon, marine layer was totally impacted but of course the wind
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has been the other. there is another batch of cool air that is about to come our way . i am going to start out with that. san jose at 68 degrees here right now. we are pretty much a the time of day where you would be hitting the daytime high, so it is relatively cool. let me show you how things will go fro the daytime high standpoint. th court stands out there on thursday. something going on right there. there is another batch of cool air that will com through and drop these temperatures down for thursday before we start warming back up you will see that play out and it is not like a cold front. we are just keeping our temperatures below average. the wind already got into the 40s today. while these are four of the top numbers, we pull out a couple more numbers and you can see that in general everybody i at 30 miles per hour. we are at
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peak wind right now because you see how things will calm down a we go into the overnight hours. it will be breezy tomorrow but not as windy as today. here is why the cool air is coming back if you look at the big picture, you clearly see the trough coming down for us. it shows up beautifully on the water vapor. there is cool air here and this is the visualization that helps us to see how the temperatures have dropped. there is another one just like that that will come through on thursday and will keep this trend going. we are staying below average for pretty much the entire forecast and even beyond that, here are the numbers for tuesday. if we watch futurecast we see how the temperature is going to dip. we use san jose as our example. you don't see much of the marin layer come back at all. all of
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sudden on thursday morning not only does it come back, but it comes back on overdrive. and it will be so thick that we will probably get a little bit of missed out of it. and temperatures will continue belo average. big weekend coming up. we will be tracking that in detail, but here is a look ahea to pride. it should be a fantastic weekend. it might be bit cool but it would not be anything out of the ordinary. i the seven-day forecast, summer starts on wednesday. san francisco and oakland show us that the trend does not change lot. so mid-to-upper 70s. you should be in the low 80s. nobod is even getting to 80 for the next seven days. we hope you like it cooler than average. no back over to you, reed. meet volunteers to bring
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welcome cken re or leotopained mp in towe kth. thare the bridge buil communities. and now the livermore-pleasanton fire department is joining in. >> reporter: joseph is a senio
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in high school and he is doing something above and beyond the curriculum. he is voluntarily taking a life-saving course wit volunteers. this is in a mock building. >> you got to get home and do homework? >> yeah. there is also a volleyball game my friend has got to tell me about. >> reporter: sacrificing his free time to learn life-saving skills. the class is taught by the livermore-pleasanton fire department. this rescue drill i called cribbing. it is used to rescue trapped victims under heavy objects. >> if there is any movement, then you know we got the clearance and that should be good enough. >> reporter: joseph says he doe always wanted to be a first responder and that is why he is here. >> last year the sergeant told
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me how cool it was. >> reporter: volunteers who don't know one another working together. the main thing is to learn teamwork. >> here at the station we have team lead who is overseeing everything. kind of a safety officer. if we don't have good communication between creditors that can throw off our load. we need to know that our creepers are set and our levers are set. >> how has it been for you? >> i have loved it. my first example, i didn't really understand how it worked. we have also learned about the different disasters the community may face. >> reporter: hands on training and training inside the classroom. >> yeah. they start in the classroom. the total course is about 27 hours, 28. >> so now we will give you an idea of what you guys can do. s turn on your lights and follow
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me. >> it is helping me realize how much better prepared i could be in the event of something going wrong. >> reporter: this particular drill has been a success. and for joseph? >> i feel like this is a good step in the right direction. >> reporter: so the fire department hosts their certification classes. if you are interested, send them an email to the address on your screen. still ahead, an unexpected but very welcome discovery. >> when you are adopted you ar searching for your parents, but you are actually searching for yourself. who am
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the start of the national anthem there by a black trans opera singer in the bay area . see how breanna sinclair is leaning on those who came befor as she seeks equality through her art. that story and more with liz cook and ryan yamamoto coming up at 5:00. plus, a bay area man getting the gift of a lifetime
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when he found out he was adopted. our john ramos picks u this beautiful story. >> reporter: lauren mcdonald spent father's day's honoring his adoptive father, donald. bu he always wondered where he cam from. >> i spent my entire life from the age of five thinking about my parents and particularly my birth father. i don't know why. but i think i have this innate sense that i was more like my father than i was my mother. >> reporter: eventually learned through government records the maiden name of his birth mother but his father was a complete mystery, just that he was from sweden, so he took a dna test and got no results until he sen his dna profile to a genealogy service popular in europe. >> i wake up on saturday mornin and i see that i have a 10% dna
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match with a gentleman named haakon. the first thing he sai to me as i have been waiting fo this call for 40 years. >> reporter:'s nephew had confided in haakon about the birth child, but he coinim t al jobs ntes. >> after puerto rico had a good job in new york. i tried to support myself as a writer. it hasn't worked out yet. he was writer. that's what he did. so there may have been this innate sense that maybe this letter could find me at some point. which it did, of course.
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>> reporter: lauren is fascinated by how many things h has in common with his biological father, including a love of writing. he said children given up for adoption often spend their lives searching for missing pieces to the puzzle of their lives. >> you are actually searching for yourself. more so than you are searching for them. >> that cousin in sweden sittin with a handwritten letter from the guy waiting to be found, th mind boggles. how many other lding onto items that they are just sort of waiting to be foun and hoping to be contacted? >> reporter: jaron died in 2002, never having met the son who has been thinking about him >> don't put things off.
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whatever it is, don't procrastinate, because if you d it might be too late. in my cas i was not actually able to meet the parents that are responsibl for me being on this planet. >> reporter: now that the secre has been revealed, it only raises more questions, and the son of a globetrotting father will embark on an adventure of his own. lauren is already planning a visit to sweden to reunite with relatives that jus a few months ago he did not eve know he had. >> the resemblance there! so th cousin had one more surprise fo lauren. apparently it was the finished manuscript of a novel that was written by his birth father. it is reflective of his travels and kind of felt suspiciously like the experiences of the letter, so lauren is deciding if he wants to take that material and publish it. >> he would have an audience on that! >> yes he will! and to all of you, we wish you a great week. hopefully you had a great juneteenth today and a great father's day yesterday. local
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