. now at 11:00. rockets fly between israel and gaza. the ordinary people caught in the middle are united in fear for their families, even from thousands of miles away. >> they just jumped through their windows. >> every morning, their time, we check in to see if they survived the evening. oakland's fired police chief is officially back in the running for his old job. there is something in the water in one bay area county. it is telling scientists a lot about the fentanyl crisis. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey. on cbs

news bay area. hello, i'm sara donchey. 7,000 miles between the bay area and israel and gaza. local families for loved ones, it probably feels like farther away. helplessness and desperation they are feeling is difficult for the rest of us to imagine because as horrifying as it is for us to watch these scenes unfolding for them. it is far worse. tonight, israel's military is bombarding gaza with air strikes including centers inside of apartment buildings. 1500 people died between both sides until hamas unleashed a brutal attack. 11 americans are among the dead. tonight cbs news team recorded the moments an air raid sent them scrambling less than two miles from the gaza border. >> we just heard a whole series of very large blasts. we ran to take cover here. [ sirens ]

>> cnn reporter had to shelter on the ground while reporting live. >> forgive me. i am in this position because we had rockets coming in here not too far from us. so, we have had to take shelter here by the roadside we are just about five minutes away. gaza is in that direction? we can hear now a lot of jets in the sky. >> tonight, hamas claims they are holding 100 people hostage including an unknown number of americans. hamas spokesperson is threatening to execute one hostage every time israel bombs civilians for that warning. meanwhile, israel is increasing air strikes on the gaza strip and seal today off from fuel, fuel and other supplies in retaliation. there have been rallied across the bay area as the violence escalates, tonight, people gathered in city hall to support israel. that is where betty yu met an exchange student who finds himself stuck in the bay area

as his family hides out in a bomb shelter back home. >> reporter: this photo of a bomb shelter, 20 miles outside of the gaza strip shows two young children sleeping. this is also how he spent his fourth birthday. their father has been called up to fight with the israel defense forces or idf. >> my family are in the bomb shelter. no electricity. some of them were locked in the gaza strip outskirts. fearing for their lives, having no way to go into the bathroom. you don't know, not knowing what is happening because terrrrorists were wawalking around from outside their hohouses. i have friend who was murdered on the way to help innocent civilians. i have an uncle who had a missile that fell at the house

next to him. >> reporter: he shared this photo of the damage. he happens to number san francisco for the first time on a two week trip as a graduate exchange student studying the middle east. he is a reservist combat officer in the idf. >> this is an undescribable experience. we can not start to say what our feelings are. obviously we are here, we are stuck here. we can not -- our flights back are canceled and we have to find a different solution to go back and help our families, help our country to defend itself. >> reporter: he joined the pro-israel rally outside of city hall >> i am used to the sirens since i was in elementary school we have the sirens for 21 years, missile attacks for 21 years, it is not every day, we live a normal life like here in the u.s. but this is something that we never seen

before. as we, as we have terrorists who crossed the border, killing hundreds of civilians. >> reporter: he moved to san francisco from israel in 2014 has relatives who live near the gaza border. >> they just rescued them. they just jump through the windows that are stuck on fire. >> reporter: yuval can not help but wonder what his fate will be if he was there. >> if i was there october 7th, i would be one of those kidnapped or one of those killed. the fact that i am here right now maybe it is to get to know the jewish community. i will do whatever it takes to get us back. >> palestinians are also watching in horror. earlier

tonight i talked to a san francisco native who's parents are from gaza. he talked about the fear and anxiety he and others have been feeling. >> i still have aunts and an uncle, cousins, we try to reach them every opportunity that we can to check in on them. every morning their time we check in to see if they survived during the evening. and so it is just, unfortunately for palestinians every few years we have to deal with this emotional roller coaster. every moment not knowing if your no, ma'am members are going to make it or not. so it is a pretty difficult time. >> what have they been hearing and seeing. >> it is destruction, massive destruction everywhere. just, you know, carpet bombing, you can not sleep. it is difficult for them to sleep. trying to fall asleep, the bomb explodes, because the strip is a small strip of land if you bomb in the middle of gaza they are

going to feel it in the south. so, it is, it is just traumatic for the children who many have witnessed, you know, multiple wars now. there are soldiers getting ptsd from one war, this is the fifth war that some of these children have endured. >> looking ahead what are you most afraid of in a few words? >> i mean just, we are hearing entire families wiped out. it happened in the last war. folks from california lost, one lost 15 family members, another lost 20 family members. previous wars israelis would throw a warning shot first. folks can evacuate their homes or their apartment complexes but they are not doing that anymore >> thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. tonight, american, united, delta airlines suspended flights to israel after the state department issued a travel advisory. at the same time californians who were caught in the middle of the conflict are making their way home now. some travelers that

landed this morning were still very shaken. >> i was in quarantine and i heard the rockets go off and my whole life changed. >> i could not stay over there. i left my dad with a bad condition and i don't know if i am going to see him again. that is really, really sad and breaking my heart. >> a pro basketball player originally from the bay area also managed to get out in time. >> they were bombing the airport. so, i was, the flight started taking off. i am like oh my god what if we see missiles in the skies coming at us. >> we will have her story. meanwhile, bay israel ex-packs are helping people get home to israel ahead of unacceptable.org says they have been working since friday fielding requests for people trying to get back and helping connect stranded israelis with temporary host families here in the u.s. we will, of course, continue to follow the latest developments out of the middle east. stay with us on

airstreaming on cbs bay area and on line at kpix.com. a fire erupts on a bay area bridge bringing traf toik a stand still. what we just learned about when it might reopen. you can not hide your partying from the bay area scientists >> consumption is higher on mondays than wednesdays >> how they are tracking drug use with a method you probably don't expect. and, coming up in the first alert forecast. today's rain was just round one. tomorrow, there is an entirely separate system coming in. we have another chance. if you did not get rain in your part of the bay today maybe tomorrow is your chance. coming up next. and the giant gourd that weighed its way into the record books down in half-moon bay. tonight on the late show i talk to arnold schwarzenegger. two world class bodybuilders now mostly known for other stuff. [ laughter ]

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booth and burst into flames. no word on how that truck driver is doing. we are told, though, that the bridge should be reopening shortly. chaos at the chinese consulate in san francisco after a someone slammed their car into the lobby and then the police shot and killed the driver. they say the car was already inside when they got there. officers confronted the driver and opened fire. right now the police are not saying if that person was armed or what their intention may have been. we might not know much for awhile. now, turning to oakland where the police chief, the mayor fired earlier this year, is back in the running for the job. he is one of 20 people who applied for the job. tonight the police commission sent his name and six others to the mayor for consideration.

oakland has not had a permanent police chief for eight months now. he fired armstrong in february after a report found that he mishandled officer misconduct cases but last month an independent arbitrator cited with armstrong saying he should not have been disciplineid. we found out during the pandemic you can learn a lot about where you live by your waste water. scientists were using it to see how the coronavirus was spreading in certain places. now, scientists are looking for something a little different. drugs. we have more on how scientists in marin are seeing an interesting trend on one day of the week in particular [music] >> reporter: as we all know about the human body, what goes in must come out. drink, food, or fentanyl. >> the good thing about waste water is that everyone is

contributing, everybody uses the toilet.. >> reporter: so haily and her colleagues have been working on an experiment this year as marin county flushed out some facts from this. the collective waste water from 95% of marin. >> this is the first time we have done this. this is the regional plant. >> water comes in this building, it gets strene screened and the water flows through the tanks here. through the towers, then, discharges into a pipe that goes two miles out of the san francisco bay. >> reporter: but, small samples. >> the samples right here. >> reporter: analyzed for drug concentration >> and we send off six samples twice a week. >> reporter: and? >> the data is slowing fentanyl use is high in marin and consistently high. >> reporter: the data has been showing not only that. >> we also saw that methamphetamine use is high in marin. >> can you correlate drug use with days of the week?

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in january. starting to feel like fall around here. what a difference it makes between a scorching fleet week friday and if you were out you felt the heat. and, a misty monday. in fact, as we send it over to you next door, it was not just misty. i actually saw legitimate rain. >> how about that. >> in san francisco. as promised. you did deliver. everyone though i knew it was coming it made me stop in my tracks to say what is that? >> the frustrating part about that is the only measurable rain i have san francisco is one place. and i was drenched when i walked out at 6:00. you stand in mist long enough you get drenched. not a lot. that system that brought us today's rain is history. before i use the virtual map to show you what the chance for rain for your part of the bay is tomorrow, i want to show you the second system. there is an

entirely separate second system that comes in tomorrow with another round of rain. look at the clouds up there. future cast can actually read where the rain is in that. now we can visualize this thing and watch that come onshore and we just kind of catch the southern tail edge of it. we are going to look at that in high-resolution detail, we will slow it down and come into the bay in one second. i just want to use the virtual map to kind of tell the story in a slightly different way to give you an idea on what your chances of rain are tomorrow. what we will put on here is your odds. the percentage of precipitation, it is your chance if you will get rain or not. the south bay. 10% chance in this. low odds, but f we walk northward and just pick out different parts of the bay, there is a trend, the farther north we go, the higher the odds get. by the time we get up to santa rosa, take a look at the number. it is the one place

on here where your percent of precipitation chance is 40%. that only tells you what the odds are that you will get rain. not how much you are going to get. you are not going to get a lot. again, we will get to that in one second. the other thing to use the map for is day time highs tomorrow. it is a repeat of today. temperatures not budging, below average, a fall weather system, we are staying relatively cool. let's bring in that forecast. i will lose the map and go old school and pull in the forecast imagery. using the high-resolution rapid refresh to show us the details on timing for this rain. this is tomorrow. that is tomorrow in the afternoon. that is when the next cold front gets here. that is the most impressive part of the whole thing. the afternoon in the north bay. it is not super impressive. that is probably at best 1/10th of an inch of rain that comes down through the early afternoon in the north bay. then you watch the line get down to the golden

gate. now we are looking at it in the evening. it is weakening as it goes. falling apart, the showers are a lot more hit and miss spotty. by the time we get to san jose that is why you have a 10% chance. when we looked at this on the virtual map. we look at it both ways and come away with the whole story in that way. less than 1/10th of an inch of rain if you get any rain out of that. let's move on and get to the seven-day forecast. tuesday is the day you have the most excitement on it. that is the day here. drop of rain coming down in the tube. no other day has it. we are done with tuesday, a bit of a warm up, looking at inland valleys here, back up in the lower 80s. then, on saturday, we start cooling back down again. and there is another system coming our way. that would love to bring rain to northern california. it looks like it will fall apart before it gets here. while we increase the clouds and cool the temperatures down, at this point, for next weekend, don't have rain in the forecast. it will get a little cooler. we will do the same thing now.

that was for inland parts of the bay. let's remove the forecast for inland parts and bring in the actual bay forecast. you will see the numbers lower. but the theme, it is the same. a chance of rain tomorrow. we warm up a bit through here. and then clouds increase on saturday. we will keep an eye on that, sara. we will let you know. for now, next weekend does not look like it will get rained on. it could get close. back to you. what is wrong with this graphic from the niner game last night? that is your trivia question heading into the break . >> i will have to think about that. ahead in sports, it will be back to work for the 49ers, raiders, monday night spotlight. and an incredible october baseball playoffs. tonight it was for the national league

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bonfire. it is illega have one at baker beach even if you are dak prescott. >> east coast bias they don't care. oh, let's put a bonfire there. >> i know they don't care. you know, dak is struggling to hold on to the ball. can you believe purredder is the favorite. no longer mr. irrelevant no more. >> man, what a come back. all right, on to the 49ers. is it cleveland browns week? already? sure. 9ers, early 4.5 road favorite. the starters, they will come into work on tuesday, more rested as san an sat him down for almost all of sunday's fourth quarter of the 42-10 route of the cowboys. even the fellas were surprised. >> for our d lineman to get pulled against a team like that shows that we are kind of on a different level this year. >> in the fourth quarter.

probably, the biggest game of the season. we are unhooking our past. >> i can not remember a town where we were calling the dogs off at 14 minutes. >> last week when you played dallas it is an ice bath game, any need for that after this one? >> no, we are good. [ laughter ] >> all right. monday night football. showcase for raiders jimmy g. at home, hosting the packers, picking up second quarter, raiders, here is jimmy g., end of an 8.5 minute drive. vegas led 7-3. they were down 3. start of the 4th quarter. then, josh, a tough run. crashed in for a touchdown. it was 17-13 vegas. same score, final minute. packers quarterback jordan love went for it all right here. but, raiders, making a play. went up and got it. one of three raiders interceptions. vegas won it 17-13. the record improved 2-3. the first win

over green bay since 1987. >> baseball playoffs, downpour -- down 4-0. now, going yard. 2-out, 2 homers, giving him the run. now, phillies have the tying run at first. driving one to the gap. harris made an incredible catch for the second out. it was a seed back. they got bryce harper who was running, the throw to get him was money. braves came back and won it. game 3 is on wednesday. did you know, billy jean king's brother played for the giants. she rooted for the dodgers tonight. hosting the diamondbacks, 3-1. now, blasting a solo home run. adding another run for the d'backs who finished 16 games behind the dodgers and the

regular season. they won it 4-2. they have a series lead headed back to phoenix for game three. the dodgers are on the brink. teams that take the lead win 90% of the time. >> it is that mental barrier. hard to overcome and the momentum. >> if you are the general manager, spend all of that money and i am going to get bounced by the diamondbacks? >> all right, vern, thank you. now a different kind of heavyweight battle. pumpkins competed for the top prize in half-moon bay. they came from far and wide there can only be one. >> i am going to hit the switch right now. 2749. >> this was the one tipping scales of more than a ton. the beast squashed the previous world record by 47 pounds. defending champ tucked it all of the way here from minnesota

he named it michael jordan in a nod to the year 2023. if they don't make a pie out of it, now, this pumpkin making its way down the river. the longest paddle in a pumpkin. if you are like us you are surprised to hear there is a record for this. distance needed to break it? 38 miles. >> so we test floated it before we carved it so we would know which end wanted to be up. and once we figured that out, we just marked it, got the hole at the center. we have not test floated it with the whole cup. it may take all day or it may be over in five minutes >> he did in the end make it to break the record. it took almost 11 hours. a pro basketball player was caught in between her two homes. israel and california. her emotional journey out of a war zo

. with major airlines scaling back flights to and from israel. travelers are in a rush to escape. we met a pro basketball player from the bay area who got out just in time and is now worried about the teammates she left behind. >> reporter: it has been an

emotional journey for fear of israeli basketball. for five seasons, israel, now her second home is filled with terror. she planned on making a trip to california later this week. but after hamas launched the surprise attacks over the weekend she made the decision to leave as soon as possible. >> she messaged me saying i have you on a flight you and are going. thank god. >> reporter: even with a ticket out she was uncertain if she would make it back home. >> before my flight took off they were bombing the airport. the flight started taking off. i am like what if we see missiles in the sky >> flights delayed and canceled. she landed at l.a.x. safely on monday >> i was crying, walking through customs, i am so happy to be back in america right now. >> with her teammates and other friends left behind in israel, the uncertainty of what tomorrow can bring leaves her

with a heavy heart. >> so many americans were there. flights booked. they can not get out. i am worried all of my people went to the north to be safe because the south is clearly the most dangerous area. you know, if iran wants to back them and they want to join in, then the north will not be safe either. it is just a matter of time before, i don't even know what happens. >> reporter: for now she hopes for peace for israeli and palestinians and does not know when she will return to her second home and team. >> nervous. all of the terrorists roaming around the country. no way to pinpoint where they are. i don't support any innocent civilians getting murdered. there needs to be a solution. >> we will continue to follow the latest. stay with us. thank you for watching, the late show with stephen colbert is next. good night