now at 11:00 >> i just don't see how anybody is going to do that >> the raging debate about birthright citizenship and its

ties to the bay area and parts of the country usually known for sunshine are suddenly covered in snow. from kdix, this is the late news on cbs news bay area. hi, right now there's a major court battle already under way to overturn what could be one of president trump's biggest issue. it is guaranteed under the 14th amendment. california joins 17 other states. one of them san francisco in suing the federal government to get rid of the law. we look at the battle over birthright citizenship and its tie to the bay area >> reporter: president trump signed the order that would

deny citizenship to people born here if they didn't have at least one parent who was a citizen or permanent resident >> i have one message for president trump, i'll see you in court. >> reporter: state attorney general rob bonta himself a child of an immigrant parent made the announcement that california had joined 17 other states in immediately challenging president trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship >> the president chose to start his second term by knocking down one of our country's foundational, lodge standing rights and disregarding our nation's governing document the first sentence of the 14th amendment states all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction there of are citizens of the united states and of the state where in they reside. it took a 1998

decision. a 20-year-old named ark living in san francisco was denied reentry on the basisover the china reclusionary act. it took a year for the court to issue his ruling which is considered a fundamental piece of the law. the trump administration will try to make the case that somehow it doesn't apply to the current immigrant community originating from south of the border >> but here i just don't see how it's possible for someone to do that. the language is straightforward, the court has already interpreted it. there's just no wiggle room. i think this is just a harebrained idea and let's see what we can do. let's try anything. why not. i think the sense is what can we lose >> reporter: speaking at the press briefing was larry yee. a

men of san francisco's chinese consolidated benevolent consolidation. the same group that stood behind wong ark 170 years ago >> whatever trump says we need to fight it and fight it to the max and continue to fight this. birthright is our right. it's our civil right, is our economic right, and we'll continue to fight this. >> reporter: wong kim arch wouldn't have wanted it any other way. >> there has no doubt been a lot of fear surrounding what could happen when it comes to changes in immigration. so much so they held a prayer vigil in downtown los angeles tonight. people of many faiths said they wanted to show support for the community >> that community is very scared about what's going to happen next. what's going to happen to their children. are they going is to be separated. are they going live the life they have tried to live >> reporter: faith leaders say they hope that the community

leans on them at difficult times. the lclu says president trump's immigration crack down may impact how socal recovers from the recent fires >> in catastrophic disasters that the fires that we under went in los angeles, immigrant communities at the forefront of clean up and recovery, hundreds of day laborers organized themselves and took to the streets to clean up and help others >> reporter: they consider president trump's actions an attack on california. the state is home to more than 10 million immigrants both undocumented and documented. after two decades, bloomingdales is close can go up shop at the shop known the san francisco center. it's been something of a disturbing trend for stores to jump ship

from there. >> reporter: another blow to san francisco's retail market. bloomigdales the last flag ship store has announced it too will be closing >> it's really upsetting. because, you know, this is the only nice shopping that we have in this city >> reporter: this is just the latest in a string of stores leaving. the closure also comes after macy's announced the closure of its flag ship location in union square. >> this is all bloomingdales that i have on. and sacks fifth avenue. so where am i going to find the wonderful stuff now? it's a mess >> reporter: the mayor posted this video on x. saying his team is already working on getting retail back into the

city >> we're going to make sure downtown is safe and clean. we are going to start a new police task force focused on those people coming in for conventions. shoppers, visitors, making sure they feel safe >> reporter: in a statement, bloomigdales wrote it was hopeful to be back serving the san francisco community in the future. district 3 supervisor danny sawder says he already has wonderful idea -sz -- ideas >> we already have some places that would fit them. >> reporter: but for now they will be saddled with another vacant space. bloo mingdales is

due to close in march and the oldest bookstore will be closing. books incorporated has been around since 1851 a shocking loss in the bay area is being felt all across the culinary world tonight. charles phan an acclaimed san francisco chef and owner of the slanted door has died. a statement from phan's family says he >> we start with a hot pan >> reporter: this is charles phan in 2002 cooking his famous dish, shaking beef >> the reason we call shaking beef is because we shake it off the pan >> reporter: this is just one example of what charles phan

did for decades. bringing vietnamese cuisine when it didn't seem possible >> he was a full on pioneer i remember growing up being in awe of a place like that. thinking to myself, wow we could actually do the same thing with chinese food >> reporter: kathy phan is the owner. she has her own cooking show >> i don't think i would be able to do the things i do now if it wasn't for people like charles phan. he started out at a very similar time as my dad. even my dad would look up to him and be like, this is the type of thing we would want to try to accomplish and do. he brought forth that light for asian-americans to say you can do that. you can get prestige and honor among westerners and

change their perception of our food >> reporter: bringing his cultural identitity to american paletes came through years of training. charles phan fled vietnam with his family when me was 13. learned vietnamese cooking from his mom and aunt. then was able to eventually open the slanted door in 1995. the restaurant now has multiple locations. phan's other businesses include chuck's take away >> the food here is great. really, really something special. i was sad, i was shocked and saddened >> it's really too bad. his passing on the slanted door has been an institution >> what he did. without him, there wouldn't be a chef 2 >> chef 2 says charles phan

made it acceptable to bring new narratives and ideas to vietnamese cuisine worldwide >> when you say without charles phan there's no chef ii. what do you mean? >> what i mean is, he created path ways. he fought battles that needed to be fought. narrative battles, identitity battles, the idea to pair vietnamese foot with wine. i have a vietnamese influenced wine bar. charles phan was the first one to do it. when i think of charles phan i think of shaken beef. his shaken beef was pretty famous at the slanted door. the way i'm going to be paying homage with the shaken beef it was a place where they don't see much snow. several inches coming at yes the gulf

coast >> to see this boat ramp covered with snow is amazing >> the scenes from the southeast and the records that were broken today. and almost a week after a fire at a battery plant there's still questions about the environmental impact >> temperatures warmed up nicely and some high clouds made for a beautiful sunset as we look to the west. temperatures are cooling off rapidly this evening. we'll take a look at how low we're going to go on wednesday morning and how much we'll warm up in the afternoon coming up on first alert weather >> and what if, staring at someone could actually have health benefits. how that's working out for a very unusual looking fish.

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country skis in louisiana. check out the beach in galveston. that's not what the sand usually looks like. it's usually ail will less white than that. florida, normally the home of palm trees set a record for snow. someone measured 7-1/2 inches. someone said they got 9-inches. and mobile breaking a 130-year-old snow record. more than 7-inches of snow in alabama. one man said it brought back some sweet childhood memories >> just wanted to look at it and see. you don't see fair oak under snow very often. the last time i saw it when i was a kid. like 7-1/2 years old or something >> reporter: mike the tiger

also got to enjoy snow. alabama also got snow. hard to even say all right, speaking of cold i'm fighting my 47 of the last six months >> we lived along the gulf coast. you lived in houston >> i did see snow during my time in texas. it wasn't much but it did happen. this was a huge event. this is nothing like what we saw >> this is breaking records. i will make my way from patient zero and we'll take a look at the replay over the last few hours. it is just odd. striking to see snow all the way down to the gulf coast and even over the gulf of mexico. this continues to make its way farther and farther to the east

as snow and frozing sleet. . there's plenty of cold weather behind it. all sorts of cold weather warnings and freeze warnings that are in effect. this has just been an exceptional event. set the stage and this storm system just took advantage of it and squeezed out all the moisture. they're going to be locked down until that stuff can melt. we have some problems closer to home. southern california still under red flag warnings for a couple more days. those continue with critical fire conditions in southern california tomorrow and again on thursday. the red flag warnings expire at 8:00 p.m. on thursday. another couple of days of kind of high tensions in that part of the state with another day. of again in that critical category tomorrow. that's the orange that just is widespread in southern california. we still have offshore winds in our neck of the woods as well. they're just not nearly as strong as those offshore winds in the southern part of the state. they haven't strong enough to keep the marine influence

pushed out over the pacific. clear skies over head. not even a hint. it's down to 40 degrees in concord. still holding on to 50 degrees already in san francisco. those numbers aren't going to stick around long either. dropping down to near or below freezing in the north bay. 30 in petaluma. flirting with freezing east of the oakland hills and even a mix of upper to mid-40s around the bay. with temperatures in santa clara dipping to 40. upper 60s in san jose, mid-60s for most of the bay area. low 60s along the coast and temperatures in the north bay reaching up to the mid- to upper 60s. even above 70 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. you may see a little bit of haze in the horizon. air quality is going to be

something we have to monitor. this dry air stretch will continue. not going to be terrible tomorrow. a mix of yellow and green dots. we're just going to have to watch it until some rain. it is good news for southern california where the rain chances are going to be a little higher. this storm system isn't going to send moisture to the bay area but a good chance of showers, light showers not enough to lead a debris threat moving into the los angeles vicinity by saturday into saturday night and sunday. adding much needed moisture to the fire. looks like we're probably going to stay rain free through the entire rest of the month of january. some

little ups and downs too. our temperatures we're going to be above normal for the next couple of days then dropping back to normal temperatures. we warm up again by early next week. just hunting for that next chance of rain. not going to happen. this is going to be the third driest january on record in san francisco >> we don't want to be breaking those records by any means. supervisors in monterey county held a special meeting after declaring a state of emergency last week. that followed the major fire at the battery plant in moss landing. as wilson walker reports, there are still a lot of questions from local leaders and neighbors about what happens next. >> this was in the beginning. this was from my boat. >> reporter: josh contreras looked out of his houseboat to see a ball of fire >> i walked on the dock. i took more photos of it. because you

could see the flames probably almost as tall as the towers here >> reporter: and now that the fire is out, he's th*euing about what comes next here >> that they do do battery packs they should keep it in more deserted areas >> this technology is ahead of governments ability to regulate it and industries ability to control it >> reporter: they are just now getting access to the burned out lithium battery facility. at least one supervisor said the fire was enough to draw this conclusion. >> this battery storage is essential for the future. that's the direction we're going. but like i said last night and have tried to emphasize, we just can't put that above safety. that's got to be the priority at this point >> unfortunately we're on a

pretty steep learning curve with battery safety. we're still figuring out how to best to suppress them >> reporter: justin lavenie is a professor at san jose state university and he says the fire will be a wake up call for the entire industry right down to the people who ensure these batteries and a lot of people will want to know what went wrong and where. in a plant that is a hodgepodge of battery technology >> that site is actually an example of different ways to design it. because it was built in different phases. it took advantage of different opportunities to put things in different places and this example i think will cause the industry to reflect on how they've built these things. because they have to be better neighbors to the community. >> reporter: then there is the community reflecting on what it means to have this plant as a neighbor. yeah, i don't think, it should be out on the desert. some where out in nevada in the

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i have to say i'm tempted to mouth the words and let you speak for this last segment or send signals. but i'm going to get through it. it's never been easy being lonely especially if you are a giant fish stuck in a tank all day by yourself. sounds awful. after an aquarium in japan closed for renovations a beloved fish was struggling with the changes and the lack of visitors so they came up with a creative solution to cheer the little fish up or big fish. the aquarium put cut outs with photos of people faces and

jackets around the tank of the sun fish. >> so when it closed down in december i will say the remnants of your voice. they noticed the fish started eating less so they were worried. that's how they came out with the cut outs. now the sun fish is doing better. eating more, still swimming around, just aimlessly i guess. happy with the cut outs on the tank around it. they plan to keep up the cut outs and reopen to the public in july. we're not quite that sequestered but we're in a big, blank, green void here as we speak >> virtual reality >> at night you can hear the voices >> i see the sun fish >> or see the screen play >> thank you for that. >> we're not that haunted >> i sound haunted personally. thank you for watching the lat show with ste >> there are trump sneakers, trump watches, trump