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from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> the party continues following today's pride parade in san francisco is tens of thousands of revelers take to the streets of the castro. >> this is a great turnout and i will use the word hope again. neighbors nervous about fire danger from illegal fireworks ahead of the fourth. how one city is cracking down while another is paying residents to hand them over.
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a brazen robbery in the east bay caught on camera. a family-old business unsure how they will recover. good evening. andrea is off tonight. the parade may be over, but thousands of people who dissented on san francisco still have some celebrating to do. market street was packed with thousands of marchers and onlookers for the biggest event of the year. lining the streets from the embarcadero down to civic center plaza, people came from across the bay area and the country to take part. >> i have not been to the pride parade before. i heard san francisco is just the best place for pride parades. >> it is about unity and togetherness and a big umbrella of happiness and joy and love! >> some notable faces included mayor london breed, scott wiener and former house speaker nancy pelosi. >> it means pride and joy and respect for our community. i am so glad that people are so optimistic this year in light
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of the challenges that we face. we are proud of them. they represent our san francisco values. >> the parties built into the castro where celebrations are expected to continue into the morning. betty yu has been out there to recap the day and has this report. >> after a day of festivities, this is where thousands of people gathered to celebrate san francisco pride. a night of partying what is traditionally the biggest weekend of the year for the castro. >> reporter: the castro was packed with people ready to have a good time. they came dressed in their rainbow best. there were lines spilling out of bars on both sides of the street. pride was also good for business. sales were about four times what they normally are at marcello's pizza on a sunday. >> this gives a lot of hope to small businesses out here!
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>> well he is encouraged, manager alex said things are not quite back to the way they were pre-pandemic. some people we spoke with took notice. >> it is different than years past. it is not the same vibe that used to be. >> it used to be more vibrant? >> yeah. a lot of the stores are closed. there are not as many people as there used to be. >> reporter: they started the day in the parade before they strolled through the castro. >> it is beautiful. the love is in the air. >> we pick something up to make it a little stylish! >> even your shoes! >> you love my shoes?
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>> reporter: this year threats and violence against this community are on the rise as bills seek to restrict lgbtq rights. >> it is really widespread throughout the country, that there is violence against trans people and people of color, so we have to stand and be visible, and we are. we cannot be afraid of who we are. >> reporter: there was also a heavy police presence throughout the castro. officers could be seen in virtually every corner. >> crowds after the parade at civic center plaza were so big that the b.a.r.t. station had to be closed for 30 minutes. there were gatherings across the country from denver to chicago to new york city. thousands of people out in observance of pride day. and it wasn't just in the u.s. there have been pride parades across
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the globe and these are just two of them, one in toronto and another in santiago. festivals are an opportunity to push back against what is called political attack against the lgbtq community as missouri became the 20th state to restrict or ban transgender hormones in surgeries for minors. >> there are communities under attack right now. >> a study this year by queer advocacy group glaad found that an all time high in american support rights for lgbtq groups. if you miss the store you can find it on our website kpix.com and streaming on the cbs news bay area app. a brazen robbery at a donut shop in oakland. oakland police looking for three suspects. you can see the masked man standing at the front of the store when one of them jumps
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over the counter holding the employee at gunpoint. the owner of the shop tells us that the robbers got away with cash and says that while they have dealt with break-ins before, this is by far the most brazen. >> we are just trying to make it. this is my parents' american dream. what is disheartening is for my parents to tell me they have operated here in oakland for close to 40 years and this is the worst they have seen it. >> police still looking for the suspect. they encourage anybody with information to call oakland police. in santa rosa, 15-year-old in critical condiafter a shooting. police said they found him alone, lying wounded on the street. it happened on blacksmith way near bellevue ranch park in the southern part of the city. a reward of $2500 being offered for information leading to the arrest. a giant plume of smoke in west oakland where a u-haul truck caught fire at san pablo avenue and 34th street. no injuries were reported. there
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is no word on how the fire started. in contra costa county, firefighters contained a 55 acre brush fire in brentwood. this is near deer valley and chadbourne road. crews are still investigating how it happened. at pleasant hill police tried using a drone last night to track down fireworks-launche rs. the scheme did not work. all fireworks are illegal in contra costa county. it is on the minds of law enforcement because usage will only increase as we get closer to the fourth. the main worry as wildfires and devin fehely reports on what san jose is trying to do to stay fire safe. >> reporter: it took a while, but our green hillsides have finally dried out and turned a beta golden brown. >> we have concerns about fire hazards. >> reporter: tom davis lives near san jose's communication helen says the days and weeks leading up to the holiday can
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be nerve-racking , with nightly fireworks displays. >> it is not just on the fourth. it happens before and after the fourth. we have no idea where it is coming from. it is late at night. i wish that there were stronger laws in place. >> reporter: the san jose fire department is trying to discourage people from setting off fireworks in the city. they say that even one errant firework and cause tremendous damage and you can be hit with a fine of up to $1000 for a first offense. >> in san jose, all fireworks, including safe fireworks are considered illegal. >> reporter: the fire department is increasing staffing the closer we get to the holiday and they have even mapped out every single report of fireworks they receive so far so they know which neighborhoods to focus on. >> last year alone we had over 79 fireworks calls with the fire department. of those, 64 were fires and nine of those were medical -related.
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>> reporter: neighbors say they are deeply concerned about how vulnerable the hills are. >> as you can see there is a lot of dry grass. so yeah. it would be a shame to have it all go up. >> reporter: neighbors know what is going to be tough to snuff out all of the illegal fireworks, but they hope to be spared the worst of it for the holiday weekend. >> whether it is grass fires or fireworks, there is embers in the wind and you never know where it is going to land. >> reporter: at the same time, the sheriff's office hosted a buyback in redwood city and they got more than 400 pounds of fireworks. $75, no questions asked. finds for shooting off illegal fireworks range anywhere from $500-$2000. still ahead on this sunday night, san jose trying once again to get a major-league baseball team, but there is a giant roadblock in the way. rivers and california still too dangerous for casual recognition, so when will it be
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monster tornado ripping through central indiana. you can see it destroying a building and sending debris flying through the air. it took homes and trees down with it. it is near indianapolis where hail the size of tennis balls rocketed down. one homeowner said that he regrets not taking the warnings more seriously. >> you don't feel like it is going to hit super close to home until all of a sudden you look at your back door and you see a tornado coming toward the ground. >> rescuers still searching for the victims. here and california, temperatures still soaring across the state. bad news for rafters. preston has more.
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>> reporter: fast and furious. that is how the cold water is flowing at yosemite with rangers warning visitors to stay out of some rivers and streams. record snowmelt has made many popular rivers off-limits. >> this year we are afraid even put our feet in the water. >> reporter: several counties statewide have banned recreational rafting and swing because of the risk of drowning and will fine those who ignore the closures. at least 18 people have drowned or disappeared in california waterways since april , according to the mercury news. the currents carried one victim 10 miles downstream. swift water rescue teams are bracing for a busy summer as many people underestimate the temperature and strength of the water. >> people enjoy themselves but they get a little bit complacent and it is
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unfortunate. >> reporter: rescue officials say the rivers are so cold that hypothermia can set in within minutes. they also warn that if you do decide to swim, never be alone. darren, finally a little bit of warmth on the horizon. >> yeah. big jump by the time we get to friday. i will start with that and by the time i get to that we need perspective. it is always helpful to see where we are and where we have been. i think it lends some context as to why the numbers on friday are starting to become a bigger story in the forecast, even though they may not be super impressive on their own. if you look at daytime highs, we are in the low 70s for inland valleys. that is 14 degrees below average. we have gotten used to this. this is the issue. so it has gotten dark but we have our camera looking over the tri-valley right now over towards livermore where the number right now is 55. if you look at where we go for daytime highs over the next five days, this really does
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drive home the point. look where we will be tomorrow. we are not changing tomorrow and we will not change much by tuesday, private by the time we get to thursday and friday we now have daily highs climbing back up into the mid and upper 90s. that is going to be quite a change. because of that there is the possibility that we could have heat -related impacts from this. i want to show you the heat risk map. first, here is the comparison for tomorrow and then we look at friday. if we look at tomorrow's daytime highs, this is nothing different from what we have been doing. these numbers are just as far below average. we are all pretty much mid to low 70s, but watch what happens when we transition into friday. we start cheating over here and now we have a lot more low to mid 90s as we saw. this is the number for friday. you can see what we saw from the previous forecast. so the national weather service has
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started up in the messaging now for friday and saturday. yes, we are not breaking records, and this is not a significant heat wave. you can certainly do upper 90s in late june and some years it is not even a big deal. but for this one it is really a big deal because we have not acclimated. we have been so far below average for such a long time. the area in the orange falls in the moderate range for help-related impacts, so you want to be sure you're paying attention. we will talk about this all week just to draw your attention to what the primary focus is in the forecast, and that will be on friday and saturday. it is not first alert status at this point, but it is something to make sure that everybody is aware about. if you look at the forecast for san francisco in oakland, we are looking at numbers in the upper 70s in oakland by saturday. we will be right on the verge of 90 for the north bay valley. san jose, you could hit 90 on friday and
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the inland east bay communities will get up to 93 and 92 by the time we get there. that is the comparison right there. all right. brian, back over to you. thanks, darren. still ahead, while his private military pulls back from moscow, the leader of the rebellious wagner group is now missing. what a week it was for the now new look warriors. a rose blooming at a golf major. the giants' full head of steam in baseball's first half, and a forever giant known as the big marine. those sports stories and more on game da
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unknown. >> reporter: from the hero's farewell , it could be hard to tell that the mercenaries failed in their mutiny. yevgeny prigozhin smiled and posed for selfies on his way out. some greeted the returning russian authorities less warmly, hurling insults. for hours, the world watched wagner forces marched towards moscow. social media tracked every update of their advance. russian authorities locked down the capital, and with the kremlin 's focus elsewhere, ukraine sees the opportunity, launching major assaults along the front. troops cleared russian trenches near bakhmut while ukrainian soldiers rained down artillery on their positions. we are firing shells all the time because our guys are trying to get through the russian defenses, he says. it was the war in ukraine that sparked the rebellion in russia. prigozhin
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accused the russian military of killing his men with a missile strike, a claim that russian officials denied. his men quickly seized rostov before advancing towards moscow. a furious president vladimir putin went on state tv to call prigozhin a traitor. but with wagner troops knocking on moscow's gates, the kremlin cut a deal. wagner troops would be pardoned and returned to their bases. criminal charges against prigozhin would be dropped and he would go into exile in belarus, whose leader brokered the agreement. today, evidence of the e insurrection evaporated. an uneasy calm settled on moscow and rostov. putin's hold on power survived, battered and bruised. coming up next, with the a's on their way out of oakland, san jose trying once
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team of its own, but there is a major obstacle in the way. john ramos has the story. >> reporter: over the years, san jose has tried to lure professional baseball here, but without success. now with the bay area poised to become a one team market, san jose is sending mlb one more pitch. no pitch clock needed here. the very day nevada approved public funds for a new a's stadium in vegas, san jose sent this letter to commissioner rob manfred, calling for mlb to remove the giants' grip on the city's baseball fate. >> given that the a's are moving this feels like the moment to make our case to mlb that the territorial restrictions placed over the south bay just need to go. they don't make sense. there is no other city in any major professional sport that faces the imposition of territorial rights like the ones that constrain san jose. >> reporter: mayor matt mahan and four former mayors signed the letter calling for san jose to be eligible for any future
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team looking for a home. >> it would not be the a's but would be an expansion team, and yes. we do need that, because we lost the raiders who went to vegas and now we are losing the a's. >> reporter: michael ulmer remembers 12 years ago when the a's tried to move to this area of the city, adjacent to the transit station and the s.a.p. center, which was the hp pavilion at the time. >> i remember when they wanted to put it right there and that would have been a beautiful ballpark. >> reporter: but the deal was squashed by the giants, who exerted their territorial rights. the irony is the only reason the giants have those rights is because the a's agreed to it in 1990 as a way to keep the giants in the bay area and not relocate to florida. >> the a's ownership of the time was incredibly magnanimous and the idea was the giants were looking to build a stadium in the south bay which never happened, but they held onto
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the territorial restrictions. >> mlb needs to stop that. they need to stop it, because it is a monopoly. it is like playing a game of monopoly. i own boardwalk, you can't own it, but so, you ain't going to put nothing here unless i say so! >> reporter: as the 10th largest city in america featuring economic strength of silicon valley, san jose is ready to get out of the minor leagues, and the mayor thinks that should not be dictated by their smaller neighbor to the north. >> it is past time to remove the restriction. that also creates the opportunity for a future expansion team or a team that is relocating to take a look at san jose. >> reporter: as for michael ulmer? he just wants to see baseball here. he is tired of playing monopoly. >> the 14 expansions, by the way, san jose was considered neutral territory, but all that changed after expansion. other two-team markets like l.a. and new york share the entire region. coming up, another weekend, another music fest as we head
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great weather today for the stern grove festival and a great turnout as well to mark headliners indigo girls and nico case. the entire show was streamed through the free cbs news app and broadcast on kbcw. was it all about? >> it is about men, women, everybody together sharing the love. >> who is that blonde girl out
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there? >> juliette! >> next sunday it will be sent a gold on the main stage. all the main shows are free but you do have to reserve a ticket ahead of time. the festival wraps up on august 20th with the flaming lips. >> i am so thrilled that we are streaming all of the shows. we can now watch every stern grove performance without leaving! >> you can stream it
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. this is game day on kpix an cbs news bay area. just like the man said, gam day for june 25th. last one of the month. later on, a spotligh on a forever giant, matt williams. but, how about william's first team? the old orange and black. the giants rolled out of the bed, fans came out with their brooms to watch them swee the diamondbacks. a nice give away day, at oracle park. now, nice start, got the former teammate to ground into a double-play. that ended the fourth. struck out three over six innings of two-run ball. an
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