tv The Late News CBS August 25, 2024 11:00pm-11:35pm PDT
11:00 pm
11:01 pm
our heart. he's been with us. we got to be with him. then 150 hotel workers in oakland without a job tonight as the final guests at the airport hilton check out. and the bay area shook during the biggest quake since loma prieta. we'll visit the people of napa's magnitude 6 as we look back a decade later. >> good evening. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. after more than four decades in business, a staple of san francisco's parkside neighborhood went up in smoke today. >> this was the scene neighbors woke up to this morning, fire trucks battling the fire. not much could be saved, but it could rise from the ashes. >> reporter: the owner of great wall hardware, albert chou, tells me there's more than 22,000 items inside his store either damaged or destroyed. damage assessments are still ongoing, but great wall hardware is hoping to stay where it's been for the past
11:02 pm
41 years. >> i love my town. i love my district. i love my hardware store. >> reporter: those are things albert chou is certain about as he faces many unknowns. it's unclear how a fire started this morning around 4:00 a.m. that destroyed the lifelong san franciscan's family business. chou said he found out when he got a security alarm alert from firefighters going into his building to fight the flames. >> gosh darn it, it's the first time i wished i had a burglary instead. >> reporter: great wall hardware used to be owned by chou's parents. the family business is one of san francisco's legacy businesses which means it's been in the city more than 30 years and is recognized for adding to san francisco's culture. >> he's been with us. we got to be with him. >> reporter: josephine zhao lives near the store. >> it's very devastating. we have been shopping at this neighborhood hardware store for a long time, for as long as we
11:03 pm
have moved in. it has been here for decades and it's a staple of the neighborhood. it just burned a hole in our heart. >> reporter: it's not clear how much or how long it will take for great wall hardware to be back, but chou is certain the store will be back one day. >> i love this town. yeah, we have our busts. we have our booms, you know. this is not a one-trick pony kind of a town. this is a town with many benefits, many jewels, many opportunities here and i have been all around the world. i still find myself back here. so one fire's not going to stop that. >> reporter: chou's mom was also one of several residents who live above the store. the fire didn't actually touch the units, but there is some serious smoke damage in some of these units. in fact, chou's mom was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, but he tells us she's doing okay.
11:04 pm
now to oakland where police have been getting reports all day about a large group of people on motorcycles and atvs robbing and harassing people. dozens of bikers took over streets in the area of grand avenue and perkins. some were near a gas station which investigators say was robbed and vandalized a short time later. footage here shows a car's windows busted out at that gas station. investigators say some of the people in that group rushed the snack area, stealing things and heading out before police arrived except for one suspect who can be seen struggling with several oakland police officers as they arrested him. police have not said if the incident is related to any of the other reports that have been coming in, including similar reports tonight in san francisco. the hilton hotel next to the oakland airport will soon join the growing list of closing businesses along the heggenberg corridor. this is a list of the businesses that have closed in the last 18
11:05 pm
months with most of them citing crime as the reason even after the city promised police patrols and to work with the community to improve safety. ahead of wednesday's closure, the hotel's final guests checked out. the hotel hasn't disclosed the exact reason for closure after 56 years. it tells the chronicle it doesn't know what the 20-acre property will be used for next. as for the 152 workers, all they could do is say their good-byes. >> most of the employees work long time here. we have a lot of memories on the place. it's our second home. >> i have 150 people that i've known and now we'll all be like split apart. >> we're all crying, hugging, you know. we wish everybody a good luck. the emotional effect is very high. >> there are reports that the company that owns the hotel did have some financial
11:06 pm
difficulties in recent years. last month the san francisco business times and chronicle reported that the other property they own, the union square hilton and park 55 in san francisco, saw its valuation drop by $1 billion. well, in other news, napa marked an anniversary this weekend it would probably rather forget, ten years since a magnitude 6 quake rocked the town. >> as john ramos shows us, despite all the damage, people in napa say the earthquake taught them some important lessons. >> reporter: on this weekend ten years ago, the ground beneath the city of napa shook and ever since then and even before that this is a town that has learned the importance of being resilient. napa has been through a lot, from flooding in 2005 to the devastating atlas wildfire in 2017 and in 2014 the earthquake, but if there is one
11:07 pm
place in town that symbolizes those trials and tribulations, it is the first presbyterian church. at 3:30 sunday morning august 24th , the church built in 1874 was literally being shaken apart. >> it jarred us awake. we knew there was going to be damage. so we came down pretty quickly down into town and when we arrived, we saw that the front window, our jesus window, was down on the ground. inside the damage was extensive. speakers had fallen. there was a lot of debris everywhere. >> reporter: it took two years and $2 million to restore the church's main sanctuary, but it was not the only building with major damage. the historic center building dropped tons of bricks onto a parked car a. luckily, no one was in it at the time. today there are still signs of the damage done that day. across the street the old courthouse has been completely restored after the quake shook a chunk of its front off and around the block the top corner
11:08 pm
of the carpe diem restaurant ended up on the sidewalk. it's all been repaired with the bricks colored to match perfectly, but from her workplace across the street, janice chaidez still remembers the horror of that morning. >> i mean you set straight up on the bed and my husband goes, "don't move. we're having an earthquake." all you can hear was everything breaking, everything hitting. i'm thinking, oh, my god, is our house going to be still here? they all had a lot of damage. i mean you'd see people's driveways just sticking up like that. it's just amazing. i mean the horrific stuff, it was just -- it's dreadful to go through, see it. >> reporter: and kevin and laura sutter had only moved to napa six months earlier, when the earthquake gave them a wake-up call. >> our bed was shaking so much i thought the ceiling was going to fall down on us. what bothered me most was since i grew up in san francisco, i thought what if? where is the epicenter? if it's in san
11:09 pm
francisco, the big one has hit. then we discovered it was right here in napa. >> reporter: back at the church by coincidence they used this day to celebrate its 150th anniversary. the old building has been through a lot over the years and the congregation's pastor found inspiration in that. >> there are bad things and good things happening at the same time. that's what this community has taught me. i think the importance of community as well is very important, that you don't go through the bad times and the good times on your own. >> reporter: and practicing with the choir, ruthellen miller reflected on how the earthquake affected the entire city. >> it changed us in that we depended less on things and more on ourselves and each other and our friends, like our friends over here, to just kind of bring it all together. that's what i remember the most about it. >> reporter: and that persists to this day? >> it does. >> reporter: it's been ten
11:10 pm
years and if you ask anyone who lived through it, they'll tell you the act of god that tried to shake the town apart only succeeded in bringing it closer together. >> it's estimated the city of napa suffered up to $1 billion worth of damage from the 2014 earthquake. that's a combination of the damage caused and the potential economic impact stemming from businesses being closed. and in other news, here is calfire dropping water onto a grassfire in solano county this evening. it threatened some structures in american canyon. eventually it took out a small outbuilding. this all started about 6:00 tonight near american canyon road not far from i-80, grew to about six acres before calfire got a handle on it. the latest update from fire officials put it at about 75% contained. pg&e says it's ramping up its ongoing efforts to stop future fires sparked by its power lines. there have been 62 fires in high threat areas so far this year. last year there were 65.
11:11 pm
pg&e says the crews continue to clear out dry vegetationnear power poles and install more cameras to monitor those lines. still ahead tonight at 11:00, one of the hottest destinations this year for labor day was just hit with a cyberattack, what it means for the thousands of people planning on hitting the roads, sea, and skies this weekend. later, feats of strength to help make sure sport and competition is open to everyone. wait till you see what these kids were pulling when we come back. remember how yesterday it rained, it was cloudy, temperatures didn't get out of the 70s? isn't it amazing how fast that changed. we'll use the virtual map. i'll talk about how the onshore breeze has weakened and then yes, unfortunately, we have to start using this again. remember that? the heat risk map, believe it or not. some of us will be near 100 degrees in two days. the forecast is coming right up.
11:13 pm
but home is also your body. i asked myself, why doesn't pilates exist in harlem? so i started my own studio. getting a brick and mortar in new york is not easy. chase ink has supported us from studio one to studio three. when you start small, you need some big help. and chase ink was that for me. earn up to 5% cash back on business essentials with the chase ink business cash card from chase for business. make more of what's yours.
11:14 pm
well, couldn't have asked for nicer weather down in san jose this weekend for the silicon valley pride parade. thousands of people took to the streets this afternoon at silicon valley's 49th annual pride parade. in san francisco people came out to valencia street for this weekend's sunday streets. a portion of the road was closed to traffic and replaced with vendors, kids' activities, and some live music. next up, golden gate avenue in the western edition coming up on september 22nd. nice day to get out with the dog. >> it's going to get better
11:15 pm
than today. >> that's all a relative term there. >> people love the fog. that's what i want. >> okay. i'm not a fog lover. >> she's a sun and warm. i kind of like when we get those cool days coming in through the city. we got to warm up, so you'll love this, but there is a little concern by tuesday because we're starting to use the heat risk map again. some of the inland parts of the bay area need to pay attention to this. let me show you tomorrow. for daytime highs pretty much for all of the locations across the bay and we'll look at the numbers as they are in general for about any location. so this is the broad overview. what you'll notice is we're already warmer than today. today the numbers for inland valleys managed to climb to the mid-and upper 80s. tomorrow you'll be in the 90s. san jose, you were in the mid-80s today. you'll be low 90s tomorrow. san francisco, you're not budging. santa rosa, you might go up a few degrees. there's an interesting story i think in terms of daytime highs tomorrow and how this is not an even or
11:16 pm
equal warm-up. what we'll do is take a line and pick out the microclimates that show us the daytime highs tomorrow for locations that go from the coast to inland contra costa county because this particular line really does illustrate the extremes from one end of the bay to the other. look at your daytime highs tomorrow in pacifica, in the 60s, san francisco 70s, berkeley 80s and then bam, mid-90s inland. that's typical. we kind of all are familiar with this spread at this point. here's what's unique about tomorrow. yes, we do have a warm-up coming tomorrow, but if you're in the city or pacifica, you're not warming up at all. look at the numbers there. see the zeros? you're doing the same exact day. meanwhile tomorrow is going to be 10 degrees warmer than you were today for the inland valleys. that's usually the way this works, gets hotter there, but you usually go through much bigger swings and go through much bigger
11:17 pm
adjustments as a result. that's part of the reason, that fast warm-up and the fact we're sitting there a few days and tuesday is a bit hotter than monday, look at our old friend here, depending how you think about it. it's messaging some important information in a friendly way. it's the heat risk map. when you get into orange here, you're at a moderate risk for heat-related health impacts. we've been through much worse than this so far this summer, but you are coming off a very unique pattern where it was in the 70s, damp and misty. that's why we should start messaging at awareness about this, especially for the inland east bay and the santa clara and some parts of the peninsula. let's go to the seven-day. i'll show you how this plays out from here. the numbers warm up and come right back down again. so when you look at the seven-day for the inland microclimate, we've walked you through these two numbers.
11:18 pm
tuesday is a little hotter than on the virtual map a moment ago. tuesday is the peak. wednesday is still warm. then we drop out of it. by the weekend daytime highs are back down to the mid-80s for our warmest microclimate, a couple degrees below average, in fact. to show you the seven-day forecast for the bay, not nearly as extreme, but the trend holds the same. you'll get your warmest temperature on tuesday. then the marine layer starts coming back. you can see all these terrariums are filling in with more clouds and marine layer. >> that's what those are, terrariums. >> where are you going? >> i was letting our viewers see these lovely numbers. >> very polite. coming up next, back to international news, hostilities ramping up on the border as israel and hezbollah trade fire. that will be next. last "gameday" of the month, 15 days before the 49ers open it up, george kittle
11:19 pm
weighed in and you are back with vengeance, too. bernardo green starred as a seminole, tried to make it as a 9er. and a look back at a six-decade career of a great warrior. >> to me he'll always be mr. warrior. that i'll say what city hall insiders won't. we have a drug, homelessness, and economic recovery crisis, because the system that's supposed to fix things is the problem. record budgets. fewer officers. business killing bureaucracy. the insiders won't change a system built for their benefit. i'm daniel lurie and san francisco needs a mayor unafraid to take on the status quo, bring accountability,
11:20 pm
and stop the excuses. is it possible to count on my internet like my customers count on me? it is with comcast business. keeping you up and running with our 99.9% network reliability. and security that helps outsmart threats to your data. moaire dida twoo? -your data, too. there's even round-the- clock customer support. so you can be there for your customers. with comcast business, reliability isn't just possible. it's happening. switch to reliable comcast business internet with security and get started for $49.99 a month. plus ask how to get up to a $500 prepaid card. call today!
11:21 pm
alright. what's the definition of character to you? umm... would you be a superhero or a supervillain? if you could say one thing to big tobacco, what would it be? it's so important in this time of change that we reclaim our sacred ways. i had to open my eyes. you can't continue to do this. deep breath. i'd want to ask them “why?” (♪♪)
11:22 pm
welcome back. a few dozen people waved israeli flags over i-80 in berkeley today calling for the release of hostages held by hamas since october 7th. israel since then has killed at least 40,000 palestinians, this as israel trades fire with hezbollah. concern is growing about the war expanding after israel killed a hamas chief and hezbollah commander. today hundreds of strikes were made on lebanon killing at least six people. hezbollah took credit for missiles launched towards israel, most of which were intercepted. >> it's going to take a lot of effort to try to make sure it doesn't turn into an all-out war because if it does, it could drag in iran itself and the united states, which is something i think everybody wants to avoid. >> hezbollah's leader made a
11:23 pm
televised speech after the attacks calling them a resounding success and suggesting he wants to avoid a full-scale war while israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said it was not the final word. in gaza international groups are ramping up efforts to get the polio vaccine into the area after the first case of polio in decades was confirmed. hundreds of thousands of palestinians have been living in camps with no clean water or sewage and today israel ordered the evacuation of one of gaza's last remaining hospitals. after the break, the labor day travel period is almost here and hackers appear to be already trying to throw a wrench in people's pl
11:24 pm
11:25 pm
"the doctor will see you now." but do they really? do they see that crick in your neck? that ache in your heart? will they see that funny little thing that wasn't there last year? a new bounce in your step? the way your retinal scan connects to your blood sugar? at kaiser permanente all of us work together to care for all that is you.
11:26 pm
taking a live look now at our bay area airports tonight ahead of what is expected to be another very busy holiday travel period ahead of labor day next monday. the surge is being helped by lower prices on some key travel expenses and a massive increase in one particular type of vacation. kris van cleave explains. >> reporter: naveen chopra is hoping to beat the labor day rush trading the blistering heat of phoenix for calgary. >> before the kids go back into college, then just having some time before everyone is back in the offices and school. >> reporter: aaa says domestic
11:27 pm
travel will be the focus this labor day weekend, tren6% and g prices are roughly 44 cents a gallon cheaper than this time last year. united airlines expects friday, august 30th , to be its busiest day of the long holiday weekend. >> overall this summer has been busier than last summer. >> reporter: aaa says the top destination? seattle driven by a nearly 30% surge in alaskan cruises, helping anchorage and juneau, alaska, make their top ten list. >> there is this desire to go cruising, primarily because people can budget that vacation ahead of time. you know how much you're going to spend on drinks and lodging, so you don't have to worry about it too much. >> reporter: travel website priceline says while europe and best destinations are always big, the return of college football and the u.s. open in new york are also going to be big draws. ceo brett keller. >> event tourism has really taken over the last couple years and this labor day in particular big college towns
11:28 pm
are taking off, atlanta, miami, nashville. there's a lot of people chasing sporting events and concerts. >> reporter: is it too late to start thinking about labor day weekend? >> it's not too late to start thinking about labor day weekend. if you're flexible with your destination, that really opens you up to cherry pick and find a location that fits your needs at a great price. >> as seattle is seeing this influx of visitors, their port was hit with a cyberattack saturday that knocked out internet service and most of the computer systems at seattle airport are run out of the port. the outage affected everything from guest check-in to bag tracking, but it did not impact the tsa. port officials are still working to resolve the issue. there is still no time frame, though, on when everything will be back up and running. and talking about all pulling together, man, coming up after the break, a unique fundraiser down in the southl when we're young, we're told anything is possible...
11:29 pm
...but only a few of us go out and prove it. witness the greatness of anna hall on a connection worthy of gold: xfinity mobile. only xfinity gives you the most powerful mobile wifi network, with speeds up to a gig in millions of locations. and right now, xfinity internet customers can buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. get the fastest connection to paris with xfinity. ok y'all we got ten orders coming in.. big orders!
11:30 pm
starting a business is never easy, but starting it eight months pregnant.. that's a different story. i couldn't slow down. we were starting a business from the ground up. people were showing up left and right. and so did our business needs. the chase ink card made it easy. when you go for something big like this, your kids see that. and they believe they can do the same. earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase with the chase ink business unlimited card from chase for business. make more of what's yours.
11:32 pm
away they go. strength, stamina, spirit on display this weekend down in southern california. teams of 25 volunteers competed to see who could pull a 62-ton plant at the long beach airport the fastest all to benefit the special olympics. participating groups included law enforcement agencies, nonprofits, community organizations all for a good cause. >> pretty impressive. before we go, if you're looking for an uplifting way to start your workweek, "cbs mornings" has got you covered with another edition of begnaud's america. >> reporter: monday on "cbs mornings," it's begnaud's america with stories sent to us by viewers like you, the story of a man paralyzed after a necessary medical operation who
11:33 pm
was told he may never walk again. wait until you see him run. then a grandfather becomes the oldest person ever to graduate from his texas university and a former foster child is beloved for being a foster parent to more than 70 animals. see it all monday on cbs. >> that is tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. right here on kpix5. i guess that will do it for us. >> we're done. >> since we got a few seconds, warm? yes. hot if you're inland by tuesday. i think we call it hot. i'm sorry. >> she's a big fan of all this. >> yeah. we want to make sure we watch the heat risk. >> that's right. appropriate messaging. that's why we are here. >> we'll follow it like a leopard. news and weather updates always on kpix.com. have a great week! i'll say what city hall insiders won't. we have a drug, homelessness, and economic recovery crisis, because the system that's supposed to fix things is the problem. record budgets.
11:34 pm
fewer officers. business killing bureaucracy. the insiders won't change a system built for their benefit. i'm daniel lurie and san francisco needs a mayor unafraid to take on the status quo, bring accountability, and stop the excuses. deep breath. cancer is a journey you don't take alone. you did it! our cancer care team works together to care for all that is you.
11:35 pm
last game day of the month. let's get it for august 25. the baseball playoffs are in just over a month. are the giants going to be a part of it? who knows with 30 games left and now look where they could have gained some drought. look at this backdrop, the pacific northwest at the mariners. the top one with a
47 Views
IN COLLECTIONS
KPIX (CBS) Television Archive Television Archive News Search ServiceUploaded by TV Archive on