now at 11:00. >> we have the people that got hit by the car. >> a deadly attack only a few hours into the new year. >> this man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could. >> what was missing that could have saved lives during a terror attack in new orleans. then days after city leaders celebrated a drop in crime, a night of violence and lawlessness across oakland.

we need to stand together. >> people in san francisco marked the final night of hanukkah, their message of unity and hope. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi, i'm sara donchey. the first few hours of the new year are supposed to be about hope for a fresh start. it is a celebration of better things ahead and it is safe to assume the thousands of people who were out in new orleans' french quarter were looking to do just that, to celebrate, when something happened this morning that would cut multiple lives short in an instant. a man rammed a truck through crowds on bourbon street and we know at least 15 people died as a result. police say the driver was shamsud-din jabbar. he lived near houston, texas, where police swarmed in today to try and get answers. people in new orleans when this happened say

they saw the truck crash into the people and them flying into the air. >> there was a car that went through the crowd. >> hit a bunch of people, came back, got out, started shooting right there in front of the door. a bunch of people started screaming and my husband shoved me. >> it is now considered to be the deadliest car ramming incident in u.s. history. ivan rodriguez is in new orleans with the latest. >> reporter: disturbing surveillance video showing the moment a white pickup truck turned onto bourbon street early wednesday morning moments before plowing into new year's eve partygoers. >> right now bourbon street is an active crime scene. >> reporter: officials urged residents to avoid the area of bourbon street where crime scene units continue their work. >> the bodies strewn, something you can't unsee, you'll never forget. >> the screams, i mean you can't not think about, you know, unhear that.

>> reporter: an earth cam in the french quarter captured the moment overnight when officers raced towards the unspeakable act of violence. >> after hitting the crowd he exited the vehicle and fired upon local law enforcement. law enforcement returned fire and the subject was pronounced deceased at the scene. >> reporter: the fbi confirms that the deceased suspect is 42-year-old shamsud-din jabbar, a u.s. citizen from texas who was also an army veteran. investigators say his rented forward pickup had an i.s.i.s. flag and the suspect used the vehicle to plow through revelers on canal and bourbon streets. the fbi said it appears to be an intentional act of terror. >> we will do everything it takes to render real justice. >> you will find out what happened and who was responsible or i will raise fresh hell. >> reporter: the fbi confirmed that improvised explosive devices were also found on the scene. >> in addition to the 15 people who died, multiple people were hurt. as far as the victims go,

so far four of them have been identified, a mother of a 4-year-old, a father of two who had just left work and went to bourbon street to celebrate among them. >> we stand in solidarity with the entire state during this difficult time. let's take a few moments in silence, please. >> the attack in new orleans caught the attention of people all over the country today, including here in california. what you just heard there was an introduction to a moment of silence at the rose parade in pasadena this morning in response to what happened in louisiana. while everyone was still trying to process what happened in new orleans a couple thousands miles away and hours later, there was another shocking scene in las vegas where a tesla cybertruck exploded into a fireball outside of the trump international hotel. police say it was packed with fireworks, gas tanks, and camping fuel and connected to a destination system set off by the driver. agents are trying to figure out if that, too, was terrorism. police are so far calling it an isolated incident but haven't

ruled out a connection to new orleans they say. tesla is also looking into the explosion. las vegas police said elon musk has been personally helping with their investigation. >> he gave us quite a bit of additional information in regards to how the vehicle was locked after it exploded due to the force of the nature or the nature of the force from the explosion as well as being able to capture all the video from the tesla's charging stations across the country. he sent that directly to us. so i appreciate his help on that. >> the trucks used in both the las vegas explosion and the new orleans attack were both rented through san francisco-based company turo, an app which anyone can put their car up for rent on, and in a statement turo inside part, "we are heartbroken by the violence perpetrated. we do not believe either person in the attacks had a criminal background that

would have identified them as a security threat." in the bay area san francisco recorded its first homicide of the year at a gas station on 17th and south van ness after midnight. a man died. the suspect, 29-year-old jose rivera flores, was arrested and booked into jail. it hasn't been a week since oakland leaders had a preference to celebrate a drop in homicides in their city and day one of the new year, a big setback, multiple killings across the city, including another shooting just hours ago on 65th avenue. one person was killed there. authorities are still piecing together how it all played out and overnight sideshows and lawlessness on full display. kara st. cyr has more on what happened in oakland and the message from one leader to oaklanders. >> reporter: 2024 ended and 2025 began with chaos and violence in oakland, this after two separate shootings in the overnight hours left two people dead. large groups also took to

the streets during a sideshow. jalen wesley calls it a bitter start to 2025. >> it's new year's and somebody's family is, you know, mourning for a mom, sister, brother, daughter. >> reporter: jalen is an oakland resident who lives downtown not far from the scene of one of last night's shootings. opd said gunfire sent three people to the hospital and left one person dead on second street near jack london square just hours before another shooting on 34th avenue killed a 32-year-old man marking the first homicide of the year. wesley is disappointed. >> there's two sides of oakland and i feel like at times sometimes the crime overpowers what oakland truly is. >> reporter: these shootings come only a day after city leaders touted a dip in homicides for 2024. >> the amazing leadership here will not rest until we drop the numbers to zero. >> reporter: in a press conference officials said the number of homicides dropped more than 30%. following new year's eve's shootings 2024

closed out this year with more than 80 homicides. carol fife, city councilwoman for district 3, said she's saddened by the violence but hopes residents don't lose hope things will get better. >> we have the right system in place to move oakland in the right direction and that is what's encouraging about how we get to a place where we have zero homicides. >> reporter: wesley still remains optimistic despite the sour start to the year. he said it doesn't mean 2025 has to follow the same trends. incoming new leadership gives him hope. >> a new police chief and as far as them getting settled with a new mayor and i hope to see some new changes to where criminals don't feel comfortable here. >> a lot of really rough stuff to start the new year. we do also have to talk about the weather because we do have rain incoming to start the year. >> this is going to be a lot lighter and weaker, but it's coming friday. we'll jump ahead in time and use the virtual map to visualize how this very narrow cold front is going to march across the bay

from friday morning through the evening. keep your eye down here. we'll put the timestamp on there and start it at 5:00 a.m. we'll just let it go through the day and you can see rain going through the late morning in the north bay, gets down to the golden gate in the early afternoon and then continues to march its way south and by the time we get to 3:00, 4:00, pretty much done and having cleared out. i'm going to slow that down when we get to the full forecast in case friday is of particular importance and we'll also look ahead to saturday because we're starting to see the development of a next swell in the ocean and the potential for some concerns at the beaches front surf saturday, doesn't look anything like what came through here last monday. this won't be a high surf warning, but it's probably going to be a surf advisory. we'll talk about the differences and what you should know about saturday as well in a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you. if you have flown into or

out of sfo recently or even if you've driven by, you might have seen some billboards that caught your attention. the pictures on them show people, some very young, as young as a year old, who have died in the fentanyl crisis. advocates say campaigns like these are part of the reason why overdose deaths dropped by 17% nationwide from july 2023 to july 2024. in san francisco overdose deaths are down nearly 20% from the most recent data released in november. one of the families behind this campaign of billboards has been on the front lines of the fight against fentanyl for half a decade. our katie nielsen looks at what's motivating them and other bay area families to make sure no one else suffers the same fate. >> i knew it would be hard to see him up there. he shouldn't be there. >> reporter: lisa marquez is talking about her son fernando who died in 2020 at 17 years old from an accidental fentanyl overdose. >> there's so many young

people on there. these are kids. >> reporter: it's part of a fentanyl awareness campaign where people are featured on a digital billboard. >> each angel is displayed over 1,200 times a day on the busiest intersections on travel holidays. >> reporter: michelle sawyer helped organize the billboard ads. she's one of the founders of micah's hugs, a nonprofit named after her stepson who died of an overdose. she and her us are on a mission to educate people about the dangers of fentanyl as well as teach people about narcan. >> a lot of people don't know about fentanyl. they don't know the dangers of it. most fake pills out there are laced with fentanyl and you can't tell the difference, if it's counterfeit or real. >> reporter: she also organized this group of parents coming together to see their children featured on the billboard, a club no one wants to be part of, but one that offers support when they need it most. >> we're all going through the same emotions. it's all going through the same ups and downs

of one day we're feeling good. the next day we can't get out of bed. >> if you want to learn more about micah's hugs, attend narcan training or access addiction and prevention resources, you can find everything on their website, micah'shugs.org. the digital ads on the billboard will be displayed by the airport starting monday. during a time when there's a lot of things going on in the world that's dark and depressing, a group of people in the bay area got together tonight to celebrate a little bit of light. >> we need to be strong and be proud and speak out for them. >> the message from the jewish community on the final night of hanukkah. it was a fishing trip one man admits he probably shouldn't have taken or survived, the unbelievable video after a tornado passed right over his boat and the lesson he learned the very hard way.

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buttermilk ranch. you won't find all of this at that other taco joint. welcome to jack in the box! tonight at san francisco's union square a lot of people from the jewish community got together to celebrate the final night of hanukkah. as the last message was lit, the message of this holiday to overcome darkness with light had a special significance. andrea nakano has one family's story to never forget and to bring peace to every corner of the world. >> happy hanukkah. >> reporter: the eisenberg family is not at the grand menorah lighting to just celebrate hanukkah. >> this little boy and his baby

brother we're taking on october 7th , 2023. >> reporter: the events of october 7th have left jackie eisenberg with a heavy heart. as a pediatrician and mother she's fought to keep these children's name in the spotlight praying for their safe return. >> this is part of our everyday luggage. we need to be strong. we need to be proud and we need to speak out for them. >> reporter: children have a special place in jackie's heart, but she's also been impacted by the deadly new year's day attack in new orleans. the hope for 2025 is for peace and safety for everyone. >> as part of humanity, i don't think this is pertaining in particular to necessarily to any ethnicity or to any religion or to any people. this is a matter of human values. >> we never lose the hope, lost the hope or will lose the hope

for a better world. >> reporter: so as hanukkah comes to an end, the eisenberg family wants the message of standing strong and of light to resonate with people of all religions and beliefs. >> we need to stand together. we're jewish people, but it's not just the jewish people. it's everybody who believes in humanity, in open societies where we are free to stand for our values. they did not need fireworks for new year's in parts of alaska. this is just incredible. they had the northern lights instead. they were very bright and incredibly beautiful in the northern part of the state there. this is some footage taken from the university of alaska, fairbanks, spectacular. interestingly enough and how often do you get to say this? we had a couple of aurora sightings in the last year or so here in the bay area. >> yes. >> mostly with the camera phones instead of just the naked eye. >> didn't look that good.

>> it didn't look anything like that, but just to be able to say we've seen it here is pretty amazing. >> we are still in a solar maximum, so it's possible we get another chance. there's some rumblings on the other side now there's another flare and some uptick in energy. keep your ears peeled if you want your chance to get more fuzzy red pictures on your iphone. >> they weren't great, but for me it was a backcourt list thing, didn't look like that. >> i remember that night you went out there. i was jealous. we had a little bit of a shake today, 6:34, a 4.7 and it was in a notable location today. this happened over the geysers. so this is just south of clearlake and the reason it's important that it happened over the geysers, that is a geothermal field. they've been producing renewable energy there for decades. there is a store house of magma

underground there. the ground's pretty fractured and every so often that stuff will shake a bit and one of those little fractures will put off a quake. a 4.7 for that part of northern california, kind of commonplace, no reports of any damage, but if you felt something at 6:34, that's what it was. if you want to see how widely felt it was, look at the colors on here. definitely the north bay felt this, but there was places in the city where there were reports. it's on the low end of the scale, but you aren't crazy if you thought you felt something today at about 6:34. this is not one of those earthquakes that's on our much more concerning series of faults, not the san andreas. it wasn't the hayward. it wasn't the calaveras. if you look through the north bay, there's the rodgers creek fault, wasn't even on that, just a little insight what happened up there today. let's come back to the virtual map, want to pick that up story with friday because that's the next element to discuss in terms of a chance of

rain come our way. i want to slow it down. keep your eye down here. i'm going to start this on friday morning at 5:00 a.m. and you'll see a pretty well put together cold front through the 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00 hours kind of hanging out there in the north bay. by the time we get to about noon, that cold front has finally got down to the golden gate. the timestamp on here has this right about noon. at this point it's really just been the north bay's rain, but from noon on that rain will continue to march its way southward and everybody will get in on the act and we'll see rain that will work its way southward from there and we'll see those showers hold together as they get down to the south bay and you'll get some light rain there as well, promise you that that's the way that cold front's going to progress even if it just wants to keep replaying monday's light rain. what will the totals look like? maybe 0.2-inch down the peninsula. you might get a 0.1-inch in san jose. numbers are better up in the north bay,

just about perhaps closer to 0.4 inch of rain falling for that part of the bay. that's the rain story. that gets here friday. the other thing to be aware of considering how cold it's been around here the last few mornings, it's about to get a little better. we don't have any frost advisories for tomorrow morning, still going to be cold, a lot of mid-40s, but it's an improvement. let's keep the view here and swing our vantage point back so we can look down the coastline because by the time we get to saturday, there's one other item to discuss on here and that's the fact we've got another swell coming our way. it's not going to be as big as the one that came through here when we had a part of the wharf break off down in santa cruz and it's not going to be the kind of swell that kicks off 100-foot waves like they were seeing at mavericks on monday, but look what is coming our way. you can see the storm track in the pacific looks pretty good. if you keep your

eye on this little circulation and let's fill that in, bull's eye. that's where the next swell's coming from. it will get here friday night into saturday. it's early on this, but it's likely the national weather service is going to put out a high surf advisory. there's your early heads up on that. if you've got any plans to be along the coast, any of the beaches, saturday would be the day. don't turn your back on the surf because it's still big enough it could cause problems and be dangerous, chance of rain friday and nothing else coming our way for the rest of the seven-day forecast after that. vern, over to you. >> i'll take it from here. straight ahead in sports, you like high scoring? we found a game and four quarters of football, not enough. and no brock purdy this weekend? no problem. this 49er gets to go against his former team in the desert.

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dance floor. there was times when they went to parties and wives wanted to dance with dad, strong lead, but that's another story. >> what happened to you? >> it didn't translate. i missed that gene. we got a little football for you and the bus is about to leave the station of 18 week regular season nfl games, but before it pulls away from the 49ers' house, it's a new calendar year and a new look when they tee it up at arizona on sunday. >> we'll start the year 1-0, 2025. >> joshua dobbs will be ready to go with brock purdy out. dobbs was named starting quarterback for the season finale. >> he's a dynamic player, obviously a proven winner being able to go into different organizations and win there on short notice. so i'm excited for him and his opportunity. >> where's that game? right here on channel 5. college football playoff business, tonight the sugar bowl in new orleans was postponed after the tragedy on

bourbon street. notre dame and georgia will kick it off a quarterfinal contest at the superdome tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. more semis, it was the cam skattebo show for arizona state against texas in atlanta. cam scat s b sun devils took lead in overtime, but texas was clutch. clint ewers found matthew golden and tied the game 41-41. then texas got the bowl back and ewers hit gunner helm for the go ahead and how would the sun devils respond? near the ten yard line longhorns defensive back andrew macuba saved texas' season with a pick. texas survived a 39-31 overtime final which sends the

longhorns into a semifinal cotton bowl match-up with the rose bowl winner and that would be the ohio state who went all scorched earth on top-ranked oregon, wow. it was no contest. here's buckeyes quarterback will howard connecting with jeremiah smith. it was 34-8 at halftime. the final was 41-21 and even the biggest oregon apologist has to agree with that one. it kind of reminded me of what sara donchey's fantasy football team did to me this past weekend. she didn't even have her quarterback and she still retired the saltless knights. >> the name of his fantasy team. everyone in the studio was laughing at that. i was laughing at that, yes. thank you, vern. when you're on a fishing boat, it's kind of important to pay attention to the weather

and this is just about the worst kind of it when you're out on the water, how this man lived to tell his story.

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not do that, right? it's kind of like being caught in the rain without an umbrella, but way worse than that, getting stuck in a boat during a tornado, yeah. that's what happened to brian johnson. he was fishing with his dog sam and his friend tony just outside houston. brian said things were fine. they were going okay. the fish were biting, but then an ef-3 tornado was around the corner. brian tried to tanker in some nearby reeds, but the boat flipped sending him tumbling with it because his pants were stuck on something. >> i shouldn't be here telling you this story. i made a terrible decision. all the warnings were there and i didn't heed them and yet somehow god spared me. so i got to believe he spared me for a purpose. >> i'm going back out again tomorrow. hopefully not. >> no. >> brian was able to free himself and find tony after the storm subsided. some other people came by and helped them flip the boat over and they all made it to safety. the peak winds for the tornado, 138

miles per hour. i always thought, darren, that when it's over the water, it's a waterspout. >> that is true. now if it comes on land, you can all it a tornado. i can tell you from that video if this is an ef-3, well, things got a lot more dramatic. most of the video did not look anywhere near what an ef-3 would do to a little boat. that guy has a huge responsibility to use the life he's been granted to spread the word pay attention. >> the dog's okay? >> dog's fine. we checked. thanks for watching! "the late show" with stephen colbert is next. >> on monday, google unveiled a new quantum computer, willow, that needs less than 5 minutes to perform a mathematical calculation that one of the world's most powerful supercomputers could not complete in septillion years. >> following their historic

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