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winds pick up tonight. coming up, our katie nielsen is bringing us the latest from the palisades fire. plus, a man in altadena risking his life to save his home and his neighborhood. >> i saw the fires coming down. i did everything i could to stop the line to save my house, to help save their houses. >> what he saw while trying to save his neighborhood from going up in flames. and back here at home, a celebration turned into tragedy. da lin is bringing us the latest in last night's deadly shooting in oakland. >> live from the cbs studios in san francisco this saturday night, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. regions in southern california continue to burn for the fifth straight day. there are now 13 confirmed deaths related to this fire. this was video taken early this morning before sunrise. fire crews had a bit of a break yesterday but could see some challenges as winds pick up tonight. and here is a live look at the fires actively
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burning in the area. the biggest fires, the palisades and the eaton, continue to rage. each less than 20% contained. a big focus today, brian, was the upscale brentwood neighborhoods. >> yeah, that's down in the south land, not our brentwood, of course, it's theirs. as the palisades fire began creeping to the east, towards interstate 405 it prompted more evacuation centers. the getty center, with all of that artwork, is in the warning zone. palisades is one of the most destructive fires in the region expanding by another 1,000 acres overnight. air tankers are on scene dropping flame retardant while helicopters doused smoky ridgelines with water. >> and here are some fast facts. the palisades fire has burned more than 23,000 acres. it's at 11% contained. more than 5,000 structures have been burned, and this includes buildings and cars. >> katie nielsen's been covering the fire storm over
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the last few days. >> and she's at manville canyon where fire crews worked to save some homes, katie? >> reporter: we're actually here up on the ridgeline above the canyon, the winds still whipping tonight. now, this is a kestrel, a tool firefighters use to get a pinpoint accurate forecast for exactly where they're standing. so it has a wind meter on it. we've been seeing wind speeds somewhere around 20 miles an hour, 25-mile-an-hour gusts, and that was the big story of the entire day were the winds. but we talked with one homeowner who said i don't care how bad it gets, i'm not leaving. >> i have two fire pumps here, one for the roof. we'll pull hose to the front of the house. >> reporter: a 60,000-gallon swimming pool, that's gunner jenson's fire plan. >> i can fire this pump up, and it'll protect that whole side of the house. then i take this pump with the house around that
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side of the house. >> reporter: he's lived in the canyon for 65 years. >> i've been through about ten really bad fires here. >> reporter: he doesn't have any fire fighting experience, he's a plumber, but he says no matter what happens, he's not leaving. his emergency plan if the fire does blow through? yep, you guessed it, the swimming pool. >> take the scuba gear to the bottom of the pool, if and the -- let the fire blow over and come back up. >> further up the canyon, winds were pushing the flames closer to homes where the hillsides and houses were painted pink with fire retardant. >> hey, you guys able to hit that? >> reporter: as firefighters worked to keep the flames low to the ground. >> see the retardant that they dropped earlier, it's really slowing things down. it's actually working in our favor right now. it's slowly backing down the hill, slowing it down. it's doing its job. we're preventing it from taking off all this heavy brush here. >> reporter: a big difference today from a few days ago is
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the amount of resources available to work on this fire. the winds are calm enough for water-dropping helicopters to get thousands of gallons of water on the hot spots, making round trips through most of the afternoon. plus, there are engines at basically every other house with crews making sure the fire in the hills doesn't come too close to the backyards. but if it does, gunner says he's ready. >> so we have everything we need. we're running a little low on food, but we'll take care of that when the time comes. >> reporter: we keep talking about it over and over and over again, the winds. that was what was pushing this fire today and causing some of the problems for those firefighters as it was kind of backing down, creeping its way closer to the houses on the canyon. that's still going to be the story over the next couple of days, because they are expecting those santa ana winds to start coming back on monday. firefighters feeling a little bit more confident about their
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chances now that they have so many reinforcements here. we spent most of the day in the canyon with a crew from washington state and further down the hill we saw crews from oregon. right behind us, that one's from new mexico. but again, if we start seeing 50, 60, 70-mile-an-hour winds like we did just a couple of days ago,everything changes. >> now, katie, you've had -- you've covered your share of fires up here in northern california. you know, we've been seeing these pictures coming from southern california, all this devastation. is it even comparable to what we've seen up here in the north bay or up in chico or what is the destruction like? are there any similarities? >> reporter: you know, i think we were trying to count them, and i think this is the 19th fire that i have covered in the last seven years. and i have to say the damage that we've seen in the pacific palisades area
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reminded me much of coffey park where it is literally just a moonscape of homes flattened for blocks and blocks and blocks. what struck me about the eaton fire near altadena is that reminded me more of paradise. a lot of old, established neighborhoods. you had lots of tall trees there. and it was a little bit more of a hopscotch pattern where you'd have one home that was okay and then all of the houses around it were not. and i know that so many people are asking, you know, why, why did this house make it and the rest of them didn't. it's hard to know. sometimes it's literally dumb luck that a burning ember didn't land in the exact wrong spot. but i can tell you that the firefighters here now are so committed to saving as many of these structures as they can, and that's because everyone for the most part has evacuated so. they're not
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having to worry about saving people's lives, they're able to focus on that structure protection. but you know, so many lessons learned in our northern california fires that we now see being applied down here in southern california. a lot of similarities. >> well, katie, thank you so much for your coverage this week. and i know that you are seasoned at covering these fires, but please, to you and alex, stay safe out there. >> thank you, katie. we're going to go east of where katie is now where people are returning to their homes to find nothing let left from that eaton fire. >> it's burned through more than 1,400 acres. it's destroyed more than 7,000 structures there. >> and one altadena resident in the evacuation zone chose instead to stay and protect his neighborhood and his own home. tristan perez said he was certain if his house caught fire so would his neighbor's, and he wanted to prevent that. >> smoke everywhere, the ember raining down. all of a sudden i
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start hearing explosions. unfortunately, they had guns, you look across the street, houses over there, gas tanks, everything's exploding. bullets flying, gas tanks exploding, embers raining down. you can't see anything. breathing is unbearable. >> perez said that the fires got to his front yard but did not spread any further. >> governor newsom announced he's doubling the number of national guards deployed in the area. they'll help aid firefighters and keep the peace against looters or thieves. overall, 12,000 personnel, including firefighters, police officers, and national guard troops, are on the scene to support the ongoing fire fight. the extra personnel hasn't stopped scammers, though, from trying to take advantage of the situation. they're putting signs with los angeles city logos and a fake number hoping to get people's personal information. >> you know, we're getting scams, as we can see here. i pulled this off of this house that was demolished. i called
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the number listed here. it goes to voicemail and says leave a message. unfortunately, this is just the beginning of those that are preying on the vulnerable and that's pathetic. but it's -- happens in these types of situations. we need people to thoroughly vet any correspondence, any communication they get through the city or an official source before they commit to anything. >> meanwhile, california's attorney general had a message for businesses and landlords who illegally jack up the prices of essential supplies during the state of emergency. >> it's called price gouging, and during the state of emergency like there is currently in effect in ventura county and los angeles county, it is illegal. you cannot do it. it's unlawful. it is a crime. punishable by up to a year in jail and $10,000 fines. >> you know, i'm thinking you're going to talk about the wind direction. >> yeah. >> it seems to me that if the winds are going this way and that way, fire's going to run
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out of fuel. >> right. and then maybe get blown back on itself and stuff it already burned. but there's a lot more territory it can still burn, even in that scenario, because there's like three more offshore wind events coming. >> oh no. >> a lot of sloshing back and forth. >> oh gosh. >> first of all, we have been getting rain here. i'm sure you've noticed. it's tied in. watch what happens on the futurecast. we're going to take what was the last most recent storm. see what this thing did? i'm going to play this back one more time. this is a classic pattern. we don't get rain. systems come to our north and then slide, inside sliders. let me show you why we're doing that. we're going to look at the wind field now. when you color code the intensity of the winds, you're going to see a pattern. inside slider, watch what happens. you can see it, as it gets to the south, all the wind gets pushed down into southern california. we've already had about two of those come through since
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tuesday when this started. and there's a couple more to go. if we count the one happening right now, we could say there's three more to go. there is one happening right now. they had 50-mile-an-hour gusts in the mountains within the last hour. if we just look at southern california and color code the map, here's your time stamp. tomorrow morning. look at the purples over the santa monica mountains. the wind is going back the other way, more offshore winds. for the last 24 hours, the winds have relaxed and the fires were actually burning back up hill, which is what they want to do naturally when there's no winds. when the offshore winds turn back on, they're going to have to reverse and the fire is going to go back the other way. almost always it's going to be from the northeast to the southwest. watch when we get into monday. there's going to be another one. so here comes the second of the three coming. and then there could be another one by wednesday. one other thing to look at just to visualize why this is so problematic. when these winds turn on, it's not just the
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wind field, it's also what the wind's doing to the air and how rapidly it dries it out. if you take a look at the relative humidities, this was today at noon. as we got into the last few hours and those winds turned on, look at the dry air, you can visualize it when you look at it this way. there's this big push of dry air across southern california with so much force the dry air is going out over the ocean, but the numbers which were in the mid-30s for relative humidities for much of southern california now are down into the teens. that also is cumulative. so if we're going to have, let's say, five offshore wind events over this week where we're looking at a significant threat here, counting all the ones from the beginning to hopefully the end by the middle of this week, each one of those dries out the landscape more than the one that went before it. the as cumulative impact. by the time we get to that wednesday offshore wind event down here, that one, even if it's not as strong, that's the fist one on tuesday which was really strong in terms of wind speed, that
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one on wednesday will get an assist in terms of its ability to spread more fire, because the landscape's going to be drier than it was a week ago. notably drier, so we need a break. we need to get some rain here. we'll look at that coming up in the full forecast. i'll show you what that loop looks like. got to talk about our weather as well in a few minutes. >> thank you. pg&e crews headed to the south land. they'll check in on fire damaged utility equipment and restore power where they can. they'll be monitoring red flag warnings in kern, santa barbara, and san luis obispo counties. >> a special cake with the words i love l.a. the bakery will donate $50 towards the restaurant's care relief fund to support restaurant and bar workers affected by the wildfires. bakery's owner said they wanted to help in some way. >> we've had great success with doing cakes as far as for donations. we've done one in
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the past for planned parenthood, so i think it's just a great way to sort of offer comfort and in a time when people need it and then also help people that we can help. >> she says many of her staff members have family affected by the fires. >> and cbs partnering with the red cross to raise money for those impacted by those wildfires. you can go to redcross.org/cbs, and to donate you can also call 1-800-redcross or text red cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation. take a look now at our other top stories on this saturday night. a teenager's birthday party turned deadly last night in oakland. >> gunfire killed two young people and injured a third person right outside of a venue on 55th street just blocks away from the oakland dmv. da lin talked to one of the teenagers who was celebrating her 16th birthday. >> reporter: the young lady tells me she and her twin brother were celebrating their 16th birthday at this event rental space when gunfire erupted. she is still trying to
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figure out what led up to the shooting in what was supposed to be a joyous celebration. a neighbor's surveillance camera picked up the gunshots on friday night just after 10:00. at least 25 rounds. shortly after, party goers ran away for their safety. and here's a different angle where people ducked behind cars to avoid the bullets. you can hear people crying in the background as well. police say the shooting killed two people, a 19-year-old richmond man and a 20-year-old berkeley man. a 29-year-old man from san pablo survived the shooting and was listed in stable condition. >> this is definitely a surprise. this is the first time anything of this nature has ever happened. >> reporter: ben, who declined to provide his last name, say this is neighborhood is typically very safe. it's near the rockridge district. >> i think it's rare. most of the time when people want to celebrate, they celebrate. they have a good time. >> reporter: the birthday girl
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declined an on-camera interview, but she and her brother were celebrating at the east bay community space near the corner of telegraph avenue and 55th street. someone opened fire, killing one man at the entrance and another man near the intersection. police are investigating the motive. >> sucks, i work right here. i used to sit right here and eat sandwiches. years ago, now i don't no more. >> reporter: a man who claims to be the owner of the event space declined to comment on the shooting. >> don't touch it. >> reporter: an hour later, when we filmed on the sidewalk, he walked up to grab our mic and block the camera to force us to leave. >> is this on or off? >> yeah, this is on, you're being recorded. i'm on a public street. do not grab my stuff. >> don't have me call the cops, dude. >> reporter: the birthday girl says while she's okay physically, she'll be traumatized by the shooting for a long time. neighbors like ben say it's a tough situation. >> this is terrible, and i feel sorry for her. i wish her the best, but yeah, it's going to
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be hard to process. >> reporter: police say no one has been arrested in the double homicide, and they have not released any suspect information. they're asking anyone who has information to give them a call. >> last night's victims were the fourth and fifth homicides of the year in oakland. in a comparable period last year, oakland police say they had six homicides. well, coming up, victims of police violence are standing up against the state's district attorney. their calls for reform now.
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alarming rise of in-custody deaths and what they say is a failure of the police to prosecute officers involved. john ramos has more. >> reporter: there's been a lot of concern in oakland lately about elected officials being soft on criminals, but one group is challenging the state attorney general for being silent on what they say is police abuse. >> we want accountability. we want it now. if we don't get it, we're going to shut it down. >> reporter: just last month alameda county district attorney pamela price was recalled from office for focussing too much on police abuse and not enough on prosecuting crimes. but terry believes what happened to her son in police custody was a crime, one that is being ignored. >> it's basically consuming -- this is what i do every day all day. i do nothing else but try to find out what happened to my child. >> reporter: jelani was born and raised in oakland but was arrested and convicted of robbery in los angeles. in september of 2021 he was awaiting transfer to another
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facility when he died in a county jail cell. terry was told he died of a fentanyl overdose. >> but i've gotten pictures from the coroner's department that shows that jelani was beaten. i've got pictures in my discovery that shows a hole in the back of jelani's head. >> reporter: so far now no one has been willing to talk to terry about what really happened. >> i wrote a letter to the attorney general's office, and he just refuses to talk to me. they pay out the taxpayer's money, your money, my money, to settle these cases, and the officers don't get reprimanded. they don't get put on suspension. they don't get fired. and it's ridiculous. when is he going to do his job. >> reporter: jelani died in los angeles, but there have been a disturbing number of in-custody deaths in jails around the state, including the bay area. at santa rita jail in alameda county, more than 66 people have died since 2014. >> anybody that's in custody, you have a right to come in the
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same way you left. or if you get sent to prison go to your next destination without dieing in that custody. and a lot of in-custody deaths happen and they sweep it under the rug because the families don't have money. they don't have support. and they just want to just hush everybody up. and we're not going to be hushed up. >> reporter: so they've been traveling around the state to raise awareness and pressure attorney general rob ban tan to address the problem. just as reform activists say so far the only action has come from legal settlements with almost no one being held criminally responsible. they say that's not going to change as long as information about police abuse investigations is allowed to be kept secret. >> to be able to pursue these cases, bring these officers to justice, to jail the killer cops you need to be able to bring forward the evidence. a lot of that evidence is held in secret by the police department. we're demanding open the archives. as the attorney general, he has the keys to the cabinet. you know, he could actually release these files if he wanted to. but
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that's something that he's not willing to do in his role of protecting the police. he is the top cop. >> reporter: banta promised to do something to curb -- in your neighborhood, we all benefit when there is action to ensure the integrity of policing in our state, end quote. those who have lost loved ones while in police custody say it shouldn't be everyone more dangerous after the police arrive. >> activists are demanding that attorney general banta hold monthly meetings with impacted family members, inspect conditions at all california jails and prisons, and stop taking campaign contributions from police unions. well, king tides could cause some flooding from the bay shore this weekend. it's currently peaking from today to monday. the national weather service is now advising drivers to move their cars to higher
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ground. first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> wow. >> you've got a sponsor, darren. >> yeah. >> this better be good. >> thankfully we don't have a big swell coming our way with the tide. be aware of that over the next couple days. wind, though, really the main thing. >> biggest issue, yeah. >> we have a wind advisory right now. we're so focused on what is going on in southern california, let's not leave out the fact we have a -- it's a minor wind issue for us. no fire concerns from this. if you take a look at what the rain is up to today, offshore. so it's coming through southern california, it's coming through here too. not as strong, and the overwhelming difference, obviously, is our landscape can handle this. we are well buffeted in terms of fire weather concerns because we've gotten enough rain. southern california has gotten virtually nothing, which is why this is happening to them right now. if you look at the areas
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on the map where it's colored in, you see where the wind advisories are. we had gusts around 50 in the north bay mountains this morning from the first pulse of these offshore winds there's a second one coming, and that's going to happen tomorrow morning. and we'll probably see gusts reach, perhaps again, close to 50 miles per hour in the north bay. lets up between those two timeframes. the wind advisory will stay in effect until we get done with that second pulse. if you're not above 1,000 feet, you're not going to notice a whole lot. it was breezy today. probably noticed there was like a 20-mile-an-hour breeze. this was the kind of wind that cleared out air quality for us. the offshore winds did scour out haze. a beautiful day today. and we've got another couple coming like this. but there's one difference about tomorrow. so we're going to say good-bye to the wind advisory, and i'll clear off the wind streams. and now we got to put on the morning lows on here because it's going to start getting cold. drier air,
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offshore winds, usually drier. look what this does for our morning lows. this is tomorrow, again, we'll go to the north bay. always seems to get picked on in these scenarios. north bay mountains get the hardest winds and the coldest morning lows. we're going to do this for the whole day in a second. if you pick out your number here, each day after tomorrow morning's lows, it's going to go down two or three degrees by tuesday. by the time we get to tuesday, instead of being upper 30s at our coldest, we're going to do more mid-30s by tuesday. it's going to be cold as we head through the next several mornings here. let's take a look at everybody else's number. we'll take that tour down south. we're not going down as cold as the north bay, but whatever your number is, it's a couple degrees, like three or four colder than that. by the time we get to tuesday. so it won't go down three or four each day, but by the time we make it to tuesday, you will have made it about three to four degrees cooler than the numbers for tomorrow. there's your seven-day forecast. no rain, unfortunately. we'll look at
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the long range coming up in the next weather forecast in the next half hour. we'll look out in the pacific. i'll show you where the storms are and where they want to go over next ten days. more on that later. matt, over to you. coming up in sports, nfl playoffs kicked off in a matchup of two coaches that 49ers fans should be familiar with. and while the 49ers are not in the playoffs this season, there's reason for optimism in the
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it is wild card weekend in the nfl. the playoffs started with a matchup between the coaches that used to roam the sidelines in santa clara. jim harbaugh in his first season in los angeles, and he was facing off against former niners defensive coordinator demeco ryans and the texans. third quarter, chargers down seven. it was a costly mistake from herbert. picked up by eric murray, who uses it to flip all the momentum to houston. franchise record four picks
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from herbert in this one. fourth and one, joe mixon decides to pile it on. texans win 31-12. houston back in the divisional round for the second year in a row. stanford and maxine hosting. a five-point lead over the cavs. his 13th double-double, leading all d1 players. up big, 21-point big, and watch out for jalen thompson, snatching souls. stanford wins. cardinal 11-5, now 3-2 in conference play. cal coming off its first acc win over virginia. back at home hosting virginia tech trailed by 19 at the half but end up making this game close in the second. lay-up with under eight to play made this a two-possession game. down three with three seconds to play. puts up a three to send it to ot. rims out. no good. he finished with 24 but not
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enough. virginia tech wins 71-68. tim miles and san jose state on the road facing air force, looking for their first conference win this season. under ten to play, will mcclendon, crossover, finishes it by knocking down the jumper. finishes with a game-high 2 t points. the spartans win 69-62. . no surprise, negatives outweighed positives most of this 49er season. but if there was one silver lining it was the rookie class and all their success. >> a lot of the people -- >> the 49ers rookies will put it on themselves to improve from a 6-11 season. they all contributed as part of an impressive 2024 draft class. >> the puni push. >> reporter: puni set the tone, playing all but one snap. he gained praise from around the
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league, but he held on to advice from training camp to stay grounded. >> too many pats on the back sets you back. and so i put that in my notes, and i was like, so like, no matter how good people tell you you're doing, you have to stick to the truth, what's true. >> reporter: new new sta fa new staff fa -- i was like solidified, this is how i play. >> he was on the right end of most of those hits but not against patrick mahomes. >> obviously, mahomes one i was like, whatever, it'll be funny. got a cloud off of that, though. top of the world, best game of my nfl career. ended up getting hit on the ground. >> reporter: renardo green set the record as a rookie. excelled as a starter but admitted the lengthy season caught up to him. >> it be like the season long. then you be like it ain't that
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long. i've been playing football since i was 5. you go through it like we still got how many games left. >> reporter: isaac guerendo stepped up big for an injured running back room, starting three games, rushing for over 400 yards and four scores. >> i'm sure there's people out there who didn't expect that from me, but you know, being able to showcase that, obviously, is a positive. >> reporter: last but not least, ricky pearsall had the most impressive season. maybe not statistically, but he was shot in the chest. >> i want to have some time to work on my craft, get more detail with the playbook stuff, and you know, knowing what to expect for next season. all right, matt, thanks. and with the fires in southern california making headlines, how you can be prepared when
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from cbs news bay area this is the evening edition. >> welcome back. >> we're continuing to cover the wildfires burning throughout southern california. the death toll now has gone up to 13. 12,000 structures, including vehicles, have been damaged or destroyed. firefighters have made some progress in the palisades and eaton fires, but conditions are not favorable as the wind is picking up today. from earthquakes in far northern california to wildfires in the
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south, californians know all about what you need to do to be prepared when disaster strikes. >> but if you don't, kelsi thorud has this for you. . >> reporter: in any type of emergency from a wildfire to an earthquake, having a go bag and a preparedness kit is critical. >> imagine if you turn around and the fire's right there and you have to leave. if you had everything predesignated, that makes things a lot easier. >> captain jonathan baxter with the san francisco fire department says when it comes to what to pack in your go bag, think of the peas. >> personal property, like your documents, your driver's license, your passport. think about prescriptions or medications that you may need. your cellphone, cellphone
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charger. think about your personal computer. these are things that are essential. >> reporter: captain baxter says every family member should have their own go bag, including pets. >> some families decide to take a large bag and put individual bags into that bag that has everyone's in there. other families decide to have every family member have their go bag in an accessible location. that's your decision. the importance is actually having that go bag and knowing where it's at. >> reporter: in addition to a go bag filled with essential documents and items, captain baxter says each household should also have a preparedness kit filled with nonperishable food, water, clothing, and safety supplies. >> gum, glow sticks, bubble gum, mints, something to keep you safe if you need to. have an a.m. radio. something that you can get information from. >> reporter: captain baxter
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says people should have enough supplies to last their family three to five days. he says it's also critical to have an escape plan. >> it should have at least two ways out of your establishment. how do i get out, the front door, the back door, the window. >> reporter: captain baxter says families should also have multiple routes planned out to escape their neighborhood, as well as a designated meeting point if people were to get separated. he says having all of these items and plans practiced and available ahead of any emergency will help leap and bounds if and when a disaster happens. >> some hydrants have been running dry, and it's something our crews have witnessed themselves. they came across a group of neighbors in altadena trying to put out flames on a neighbor he's home with buckets of water. they were able to flag down a passing engine, but before firefighters could help, they
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had to leave to fill up their tanks with more water, because the hydrants were not working. >> everything north of here, there's just, the hydrants, they're all dry. we got ahead, a little bit south, which is kind of alarming, so we'll be doing something like this. we might run out of water. and we gt to leave or come back or try to get another rig there. >> could that happen in the bay area? len ramirez looks at what it takes to keep our local water flowing. >> reporter: the reports of fire hydrants running out of water in los angeles has raised the concerns of many like robert estrada who wonders if the same could happen in her own neighborhood. >> this looks like an old fire hydrant. this neighborhood was built in 198. who's to say updated it is or if there's things you need to if it
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works. >> reporter: the water supplied to hydrants comes from numerous sources depending on where you live in the bay area. it could be municipal or private water retailer supplies pumped from the ground or stored in tanks on hilltops and gravity fed down to the city. but san francisco fire captain justin shore says most systems were not designed to handle the kind of widespread disaster that hit los angeles. >> if you can imagine at your home, if you and your neighbors turn on the faucets at once, you're going to lose water pressure. this is happening on a neighborhood scale. we are seeing a depletion of the water in those areas. there's only so much water we can hold in reserve. there's never going to be a tank big enough to address the level of devastation that we're seeing out of los angeles this week. this is something that the city fathers never anticipated
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happening. >> reporter: -- including 172 underground cisterns placed around the city that hold 11 million extra gallons. >> if you've ever been out and about and seen the intersection, a long round brick circle with a manhole cover, that is one of our water tanks underground we can pump water out of in case of a disaster. >> reporter: he says all california cities are on a mutual aid system that in a worst case scenario will bring in water tenders from the surrounding region to help boost the supply. as for robin, she's been personally touched by the palisades fire. her late grandparents' home is in the neighborhood that burned to the ground and where the hydrants ran down. >> you just grow up thinking that they're always full of water and they're ready to go, and that wasn't the case in l.a. so it makes wonder how prepared we are hear. >> reporter: it's a question that's become relative, and the answers could be different for a small-scale fire or what the kind of disaster california is now going through.
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welcome back. a changing of the guard in san francisco. a celebration was held at civic center plaza this week as daniel lurie was sworn in as the 46th mayor of san francisco. >> the mayor talked about the issues he plans to focus on. lauren toms reports. >> during such time as i hold the office. >> as mayor and city of san
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francisco. >> as mayor and city of san francisco. >> reporter: as daniel lurie was sworn in to become san francisco's 46th mayor, he doubled down on his promise to making the fentanyl crisis a top priority. >> that's why i'm introducing a package of fentanyl state of emergency ordinances. this will allow us to further surge resources and bypass the bureaucratic hurdles standing in the way of tackling this crisis. >> reporter: it was music to the ears of many san franciscans who voted for change. frederick jordan serves as the president of the african american chamber of commerce. he's hopeful lurie will make good on his commitments made in his speech. >> it is going to be a new day. it is definitely going to be a new day. and we're really looking forward to all of the things the mayor talked about. and somehow we've missed a lot
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of that. so we're very hopeful. >> reporter: lurie's fentanyl emergency was a concept he floated on the campaign trail. it's expected to unlock new state resources to combat the drug crisis. in his 20-minute address to the city, he also announced the opening of a 24/7 droppoff center for drug treatment and help for those in a mental health crisis. >> this will create better pathways to treatment and give police the authority to hold those who refuse help accountable. >> reporter: lurie enters the highest ranks of city government will no political experience. he also inherits the city's $850 million budget deficit, and it could get worse if a second trump administration cuts funding to california. >> feel a great sense of fear and loss about the state of our country right now. i share
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those concerns. san francisco has long been a historic beacon for human rights, and we cannot be complacent. >> reporter: among the thousands in the crowd, longtime resident susan liked what she heard but says she knows the road ahead will not be easy. >> change is not going to happen overnight. and it's going to depend on a lot of people working together. and i'm optimistic that that will happen if we are patient and if we remember what the goal is. >> reporter: a new administration bringing a new sense of optimism for the direction of the city. >> it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work, san francisco. thank you very much. okay, what about that rain? we could certainly use it in this state. when we come back, we're going to use the virtual set, and we're going to look long range. i'll show you where the storms are and what they intend on doing for the
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the plume today off the palisades fire. what we need in the long term is rain. rain would not only put the water on the landscape, much needed, but it would change -- if we were to get rain, it would change this pattern that also at the same time keeps spawning these offshore wind events. the storms are still here. you got to go pretty far out here to find them. there continues to be this big blank spot in the pacific right in front of us. so this is your dome of high pressure. you can kind of see there's the bay area. we're looking at nighttime vision. those are the lights of the bay. central valley inland from there, there's l.a. with the storm track going up and over every time one of those storms comes around this bubble and inland, you see them now, that's how we get the offshore wind. let's fill in the rain, because it's out there. we'll get rid of the clouds and instead we're going to visualize what the rain would look like in there should it finally get its act together
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and come our way. you probably already could kind of guess what's going to happen here. the pattern isn't going to change for the next ten days. so we don't have rain in the forecast. when you look down here at the time stamp, see how that says tuesday? that is a week from tuesday. that's how far out we went. so it's going to be a while. we can't really bank on that, unfortunately. this can happen through california in winters. you can go through long try spells like this. a hallmark of what california does. we would rather it not be doing it now, but that's what we're stuck with for a little while. couple more offshore wind events coming for southern california. we talked about that in the last forecast. what i want to do is get you ready for what's happening here in terms of our forecast. and when we take a look at the overriding factor at home, we've got our own offshore winds. it's enough of an offshore wind right now that there actually is a wind advisory. it's in the mountains, so most of us, you probably noticed it was a bit breezy today, down at the lower elevation where is they all
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live, none of the great population centers are included in this advisory. it's all up in the mountains. of course, for good reason. those are 50-mile-an-hour gusts moving through the mountains. nope, let's clear off the temperatures and actually put on the wind speeds in the mountains and see what that looked like. 50-mile-an-hour gusts for the north bay this morning. we're going to have another pulse of stronger winds in the mountains that will show up as we get into sunday morning. and then probably a final one on monday. but these are all confined to the mountains, and the mountains are well protected right now as we've mentioned any time. understandably, any time we hear strong offshore winds the concern is what's our vulnerability. nothing like southern california's, thankfully, because of the rain that we've already gotten so far this season. so let's talk about the other item that does stand out over the next -- really over the next three mornings, not just the next 24 hours but the next three mornings, and that is the
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morning lows. the next couple of mornings are going to get progressively colder each day. we start in the north bay, mid to upper 30s. by tuesday after we've continued this cooling morning low trend, these are going to be in the mid-30s. so the next couple of days are going to get progressively colder. and of course, if that trend applies to the north bay, the trend applies everywhere. you're just not as cold everywhere. low 40s, maybe upper 30s by tuesday. for many inland locations. san francisco's likely not going to get much colder than that 41. and then that is it. when we look at the seven-day forecast, there's nothing else on here really. so we're going to see a pattern that pretty much stays the same. a lot of low 6s and no
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to close tonight a black bear seems to have found its happy place. >> it has indeed. one sacramento couple caught the bear in their backyard taking a dip. >> the surveillance video shows the bear coming around after midnight and making itself at home. this was video taken this week, but they say the bear's been using their pool since the summer. >> looked back on our cameras, and we found him about 2:00 a.m. starting his fun. gets in and out. he shakes off like a dog, which i was surprised. i didn't know they did that. and just gets back in and like he owns the place. >> a bear is a dog's very close relative, you know. and you'd think bears would be hibernating around this time, but not all bears hibernate. and if they can get access to homes and food from their trash bins or bird feeders, well,
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they just might start a pool party of their own. >> it's cute, but i'm glad it's not in my backyard. >> exactly. we thought after the news this week, we thought it wouldn't be a bad way to say, you know a lighthearted look at a bear in a swimming pool. >> that's much easier to look at than some of the other things we've seen of late. >> what a week. >> yeah. >> we appreciate you watching tonight. we'll be back here at 11:00. >> until then, the news always continues streaming on cbs news bay area. good night. >> night. are you 50 or older? well, this news is for you. the cdc now recommends you get vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia. why?
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