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this is cbs news bay area, with reed cowan. >> excitement turning to tragedy, a woman who lost her husband and son and that submersible accident speaks out. a proposal to help bay area transit agencies maintain service and safety but there is a hit, it might cost you, drivers. we will have details. here comes the heat. how soon it will finally feel like summer in parts of the bay area in the meantime, happy monday, good afternoon, everyone. we ar hearing today from the woman wh lost her husband, and her son come in the oceangate-submersib e tragedy. and mecca because this story. >> she was originally supposed to go on that trip herself but at the last minute she gave the spot to their 19-year-old son when she saw how excited he was
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at the idea of seeing the wreckage of the titanic. >> i miss him. i really really miss him. >> the woman's husband, a pakistani businessman, had ties to seti, he and his 19-year-old son , suleiman, work aboard th sub when it imploded down on th wreck to the titanic. all five people on board died. christin said her husband had a lifelong dream of visiting the titanic. >> he had this ability of childlike excitement . they bot were really excited. i was happ for them because both of them, really really wanted to do tha for a long time. it was suppose to be us going down, and then stepped back and gave the space to suleiman, because he really wanted to. >> the u.s. coast guard and canada's transportation safety
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board are not getting the cause of that accident. the trip cost $250,000 per person, and christine also told the bbc tha the family had been planning a trip on the titan for a while but it was actually postponed b the pandemic. >> such a tragedy. thank you so much. let's come home now to the bay area, were state lawmakers and local lawmakers have a new proposal to help public transit agencies stay afloat. they wan to temporarily raise the toll o the bridges that you drive . here is how it works. if the proposal passes, you drivers would pay an extra $1.50 for five years starting january and ending in 2028. it would apply to every bridge in the bay except the golden gate bridge. b.a.r.t. has been saying that with federal funds running out, there's a chance it might /services. the lawmakers behin this proposal say it is accepte to yield roughly $900 million for transit. >> it will help us get through the next few years, so that we can ultimately, in my view, go to the ballot, to have a
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long-term sustainable bay area revenue source for public hesitation. this is so important for our future, transit is not optional. >> still, a lot of steps neede to get through before the toll hike would become a reality and there has already been some opposition at the state level. we should also note that driver should already be prepared for an expert on bridge tolls starting in 2025. that was part of a voter approved hike from 2018. activist and sentences go are demanding a city budget which, as they put it, prioritizes poor and working-class communities. at rally today in front of city hall, people held up signs and chanted slogans urging city leaders not to make cuts and programs that they say are vital for san francisco's most vulnerable, including housing assistance, and childcare. the accused the mayor and other officials of considering rollbacks and funding which was already approved by the voter. >> i am sad that we have to be
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out here in one of the richest cities on planet earth, asking the mayor not to /our basic human need and right to the bone. there is a lot of talk going around in room 200 about revitalizing san francisco. i hope the folks up there remembe when they are making this budge that you cannot revitalizing sa francisco if you do not invest in san franciscans. >> mayor brito told us last week that cuts to childcare are on the table to fill empty office space in the city, addin that childcare services currently enjoyed will not be impacted. let's talk about the weather. first alert weather, now, the calendar officially switched to summer last week an soon it will start feeling like it. here is meteorologist darre peck with why we should ditch those north face sweaters for couple of months. >> at least for a little while. application you just showed coming the tri-valley will really feel this. i will show you how this plays out because think this will catch people of guard. it is going to be a dramatic change , and the first
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really good warm-up of the season. 57 in the city right now, you still need that jacket reid was talking about. if you go inland, right now numbers ar in the middle 70s and we will d that again tomorrow. so, this warm-up is not starting until w get towards the second half of the week. if we watch the way the trend will play out, we are still doing middle 70s, tomorrow. but, all you need to do is look at the increase and you can see the numbers getting well into the 90s by the time that we get into friday and saturday. we have not been that hot, yet. we have a couple of quick spikes where the numbers have gotten into the low 90s inland, but we have not started to move higher yet and it is coming on fast. because of that we have not acclimated and we are used to numbers like these, like today, in the middle 70s. want to talk about the heat ris and i will show you who should be the most aware of this as we get into friday and saturday, coming up in your complete firs alert forecast but for now, bac to you. hope, love, pride, proudly
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presented by petfood express an broadway san jose. santa clara county raised the lgbtq plus progress pride like today building on west hedding street. they say it is meant to show their commitment to equal rights and the highlighting of importance of inclusivity. today marks eight years since this up in court ruled that same-sex marriage could not be banned. there is still growing concern that the current supreme court, which ha a reputation of being conservative could reverse that ruling. so, what would happen? if it happens, at the supreme court level, proposition eight, which banned same-sex marriage in california is still on the books. it could come back in force because it is still in th state constitution. an amendmen to remove it from the constitution is expected to go before voters in november of 2024. we will be watching that one, but we can tell you this was a great weekend in san francisco. a destination for thousands, many of you here for the 53rd annual pride parade an celebration.
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market street, packed with thousands of you, and onlookers for the biggest event of the year. they lined the street fro the market arrow down to civic center plaza. people came from across the bay area and really the world to take part. >> i have not been to the pride parade before. because we are s close to the area, i heard sentences go is just the best place for pride parades. >> it is about unity and togetherness and one, a big umbrella of happiness and joy and love. >> notable faces included sentences go mayor london bridge, and former house speake nancy pelosi. >> it gives me pride and joy and respect for our community. am so excited that people are so optimistic this year, in the light of challenges that we face, but we are proud of them. they represent our sentences g
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values. >> if you missed yesterday's special coverage, you can still see our pride month stories on our website, kpix.com, and also streaming on the free cbs news app. still ahead, neighbors and frustrated worried about the fourth of july. trying to get ahead of the fourth of july an fireworks that could be set off the city makes a pitch to have a team of
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quiet today with both teams off the giants are coming off a los to the diamondbacks but they have taken 12 of their last 14 games. the a's are back on tomorrow after finishing their series in toronto with a loss. now that the a's have their sights set on san jose, there is one giant optical in the way >> reporter: over the years, sa jose has tried to lure professional baseball here, first the giants and the a's, but without success. now, with the bay area poised to become a one team market, san jose is sending major-league baseball one more pitch. >> reporter: no pitch clock needed here. the very day nevad approved public funding for a new a's stadium in vegas, san jose sent this letter to commissioner rob manfred callin for mlb to remove the giants grip on the city's baseball fate. >> the a's are likely moving, this really feels like the moment to make our case to mlb
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that the territorial restrictions placed over the south bay need to go. they don' make sense. there is no other city in major professional spor that faces the imposition of territorial rights like those that constrain the bay area. >> reporter: mayor matt mahan and for former mayors signed th letter appealing to be eligibl for any future team looking fo a home. >> it wouldn't be the a's that we need that because we have already lost the raiders going to vegas, now we are losing the a's. >> reporter: michael ulmer is a baseball fan living in san jose who remembers 12 years ago when the a's tried to move to this area of the city, adjacent to the transit station and the sap center. the hp pavilion, at th time. >> i remember, 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 territorial rights. the
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irony is, the only reason giants have those rights is because the a's agreed to it in 1990 as a way to keep the giant in the bay area and not relocat to florida. >> a's ownership at the time was incredibly magnanimous and the whole idea was that the giants were in the golden stadium of the south bay, which never happened, but that held onto the territorial restriction. >> major-league baseball needs to stop that. okay? it is a monopoly. it's like playing a game of monopoly, okay? i own boardwalk, you can't own it but yet still, you won't be able t put nothing here unless i say so. >> reporter: as the 10th larges city in america featuring the economic strength of silicon valley, san jose is ready to get out of the minor leagues an the mayor thinks that should no be dictated by their smaller neighbor to the north. >> it is past time to remove th restriction which at least creates the opportunity for a future expansion team , a team that is relocating, to take a look at san jose.
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>> reporter: as for michael ulmer, he just wants to see baseball here. he is tired of playing monopoly. >> before team expansion, san jose was considered neutral territory. but, as many of you have told us, and we knew about this, that change after the expansion. other two team markets like los angeles and ne york share the entire region. starting today, cal fire is suspending all burn permits for outdoor residential burning in napa county and solano county. not a surprise to you at home, right? the rules start friday in alameda and contra costa counties and on monday it start in sonoma county. cal fire says it is because of the increased fire danger posed by the high volume of dead grass that shot up because of all of the atmospheric river conditions. also, to blame hotter and drier conditions in the forecast. another factor that could contribute to illegal fires ar fireworks. we notice as we get closer to the fourth of july. devin fehely shows us what san jose is doing to keep all of us safe. >> reporter: it took a while,
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but we went from the winter rain to dry out and turn a big golden brown. >> we have concern about fire hazards. >> reporter: tom davies live near san jose's can indication hill, and he says the days and weeks leading up to the fourth of july holiday could be nerve-racking, with nightly fireworks displays . >> it is not just on the fourth happens before the fourth and after the fourth. we have no idea where it is coming from. i is late at night, and, i wish that there was stronger laws i place. >> the san jose fired trying to discourage people from setting off fireworks in the city. they see that even one errant firework can cause tremendous damage , and you can be hit wit a fine of up to $1000 for a first offense. >> in san jose, all fireworks including safe and sane fireworks are considered illegal. >> reporter: the fire departmen is increasing staffing the closer we get to the holiday,
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and they have even mapped out every single report of firework they have received so far, so they know which neighborhoods t focus on. >> last year, alone, we had over 79 fireworks calls. nine of those were medical related. >> reporter: neighbors say they are deeply concerned about how vulnerable the hills are this time of year. >> you can see, there is a lot of dry grass. it would be a shame to have it all go up in flames. >> reporter: neighbors know it will be tough to snuff out illegal fireworks with the hope to be spared the worst of it fo the holiday weekend. >> grass fires or fireworks, there are embers in the wind and you never know where it wil land. >> reporter: first alert meteorologist darren peck with our forecast. kind of a tinderbox. >> stillness today and below average. it is time to start
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drawing our attention to what i coming. there is a significant warm-up by the end of the week. take a look at inland contra costa county , that is concord down there at 76 degrees. martinez, not that far behind that number. pretty much the same number looking out over phoenicia on the other side. mid-70s there, now, you can see it was relatively clear. the marine layer which had everyone underage and bloom this morning has now melted back to the coast, just a bit of a ribbon o it along the peninsula into the city. everyone else looking at sunshine. you can see the impac that is having on temperatures. 57 on the city right now, 76 degrees in redwood city. here are today's daytime highs. redwood city is already there but most everyone else will als be middle 70s if you are inland 81 in redwood city but look wha happens by friday. by the time we have gotten to friday, now, the temperatures have really jumped and we are looking at upper 90s over here. so, this i the day where we take a
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significant leap. we will start on thursday, but it is really friday and saturday that we get into what i think we can now start calling legitimate heat. so, the national weather servic has started upping their messaging on this, and they are now resenting the heat risk ma for it, they do it all the time but, they are drawing our attention to it even more so than normal. just a quick refresher on this book we see the inland parts of the bay shaded in orange. the key up there shows you where you will be on this scale. you are entering a moderate range of heat related health impacts. we will state relatively warm, probably, for a while after the seven day forecast. the reason why you would be already rankin on a heat risk map is because w have been so cool, for so long, it is not that this is necessarily a standout heatwave on its own you can even get to 100 degrees this time of year, but we have been so cool for s long, and it's coming on the weekend friday into saturday, this will catch people off guard. if you look at the numbers for the inland east bay there your numbers get to 99 by
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cruising through a monday. with the help of some very special bridge builders in our community, and east bay toddler is recovering in hospital after being hit by a truck. while out on his bicycle but he is expected to make a full recovery. blessed us with one's heart. is things to the quick response of the drivers who stopped and did what they could to help. amanda starrantino wa there when the boys father met one of those heroes. >> reporter: in between his son of surgeries at ucsf benioff children's hospital in oakland, juan got to meet the man who saved his son. james sinner wa already doing all the things h could on wheels at his young age. >> he's skateboarding with no assistance . skittering, he loves being active and out. >> reporter: but, last week while he was riding his new bik in concord with his mother behind him, according to concor pd report, a truck hit little
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james at the boulevard and cal road intersection, while he wa in the crosswalk. it was not until minutes later when he got the phone call from his wife. >> she was talking about his legs and how they got hit and could hear him screaming in the background. >> reporter: leon valdes was there , one of the many drivers who saw what happened. >> here comes the truck and th trailer and i see the little boy rolling into the trailer , so i quickly ran out of my car to assist. it was heartbreaking. >> reporter: leon, a father of two boys himself was driving home when he came across this crash. he says other drivers got out of their cars immediately, too, and ran over to help. but, the damage was already done. >> the mother and i were there you can just see the gash in hi leg. it was just -- >> reporter: james was rushed
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to the hospital where he had multiple surgeries since the accident and he has a long road of recovery ahead of him and recovery to move forward from. >> he will go into immediate panic. i think he remembers the incident like that. >> reporter: what he will also learn to remember, eventually, is the quick effos by strangers like leon, that made the difference to help. >> we need each other, right? for context, the city says ther have been 44 accidents at the intersection over a ten-year period. one of those involved serious injuries, none were fatal. but, we know you are asking for solutions and we are working to see what the community conversation can be about solutions. as for james recovery, dr. say he will not put weight on his legs for abou three months but he should be able to learn to walk again. police say the driver of the commercial truck was cooperative at the scene and is fully cooperating with the investigation. they say drugs
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and alcohol were not a factor i this story. still ahead, it could be a source of emergency information and news. why a.m. radio is disappearing from some cars, an why some people say, that is a bad choice. coming up on the cbs evenin news, the kremlin in crisis. th new message tonight from the head of the wagner group after leaving a 36 hour armed mutiny in russia and
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coming up 5:00, the numbers are in for the upcoming lifecycle i cried in southern california. we will should introduce you to the couple whose advocacy for this event keep them coming back year afte year and we will have the totals. a host of automakers, bmw, mazda, volkswagen, and teslak have taken a.m. radio tuners out of their cars. they say the ev batteries can interfere with reception. during a hearing on capitol hill this month, first responders say that a.m. radio serves as the backbone of the nation's emergency alert system >> when disaster strikes, no on should lose access to essential information because the vehicle being driven does not have a.m. radio. >> there are more options to deliver content alerts in vehicles than there ever were. >> two u.s. lawmakers are now
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cosponsoring a bipartisan bill to require a.m. radio stay in those cars. there are 4500 a.m radio stations across the country heard by 82 million americans every week. cbs evening news is next on kpix. local news streams as always on our streaming service through cbs news bay area. ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, the rebellion in russia and now the kremlin in crisis, as we are hearing from vladimir putin and the leader of the revolt for the first time since the armed mutiny. what it means for the war in ukraine. here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ putin meets with his top security officials tonight. what the
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