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tv   CBS News Bay Area with Elizabeth Cook  CBS  January 29, 2025 4:30pm-5:00pm PST

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immigrants. plus, we are asking about the short-term results and long-term impact of the president's policies. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. >> i am end of it. the feds say they are targeting people in this country illegally, especially those who pose a threat to our communities, but a lot of immigrants fear that the sweeping crackdown will not stop there. today, we are looking at the numbers and the fear and the fallout. we will have the conversation coming up in just a few minutes but first a look at your news headlines. students at uc berkeley are taking a stand against president trump's promise of mass deportations. they say it would affect people across the country, including their fellow students. students have been gathered here since about 3:00 this afternoon and they are urging the university to do more to protect undocumented
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students. this follows a similar student-led protest just yesterday. and we just learned that the brother of oakland rapper too short was killed in oakland. police say several suspects rammed a car to a property on 49th avenue just after 7:00 this morning, investigators say 61-year-old wayne shaw came out of that property and then was confronted by the suspect and shot and killed. our chopper spotted officers still at the scene this afternoon and have not heard of any arrests. san francisco mayor daniel lurie is one step closer to has promised to overall how the city tackles its drug prices. to declare a fentanyl state of emergency with some amendments. supporters of the bill gathered on the steps of city hall before supervisors discussed the measure. ordinance would fast-track shelter capacity and a higher public safety staff. but some critics are concerned about the potential lack of oversight.
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>> for the last year, while i have said this and will say it again today, san francisco is no longer a place that you come to deal drugs are to do drugs on our streets. >> as mentioned by the budget report, we are giving up a lot in terms of oversights. not just for -- from the board. but i think generally speaking really from the public process and of the public eye. now, the number of deaths because of accidental overdoses has dropped nationally and from san francisco in july compared to the year before. then the vote on legislation is slated for tuesday. we have got lunar new year's celebrations under way. in san francisco, dozens of people gathered in chinatown today ringing in the year of the
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snake. >> [ speaking in a global language ] >> that means make money, good health, and happy lunar new year. >> wealth and prosperity. >> wealth and prosperity. >> here, here, to all of it. the chinese new year parade will be held saturday february 15th. weather, pretty cloudy and gray day in san francisco at lease. some places near the co-star not going to see the sun at all today. of course, it is not going to go down. it almost felt like it was coming today. >> yeah. it felt just a little bit muggy. just a touch of moisture in the air. they finally did break up. let's take a live look outside right now and we can show the sunshine that has broken through as we look to the coast that is still shrouded in the cloud cover. areas of fog spurting out again
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tonight. one more dry, calm day on thursday and then the rain arrives on friday. that is going to kick off a prolonged stretch of wet weather. at least went through the weekend. likely continue into the first half of next week. it is not going to rain everywhere all the time. it is going to be a generally wet weather program headed our way. here is a different perspective of the blue skies that have emerged finally for the bay area. it did not really help our temperatures a whole lot. very stubborn in the north bay areas today. mostly in the low to mid 50s, which is pretty close to what is typical for this time of year. that layer of fog reforms. that will have a moderating influence on how much your temperatures drop off the rest of the night. it is going to make it sound pretty apparent as we head to the late night and early morning hours. once again, some patches of reduced
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visibility. but like today that fog is gradually going to retreat to the coast as we head towards midday and into the afternoon. more of a mix of inland clouds. pretty stubborn over the bay and along the coast as well. that will have an impact on tomorrow's high temperatures that are going to reach up mostly into the 60s. otherwise, mostly temperatures in the middle portion of the 60s. some spots will reach the upper 50s. this is near or slightly below what is normal for this time of year, once again in the north bay we will optimistically say will warm up out of the 40s and into the 50s tomorrow afternoon. then the rain chances become the primary concern. we turn to the radar simulation. this is the radar simulation from 10:00 tomorrow evening through 4:00 tomorrow morning. one precursor shower trying to move through late on thursday night, but mainly we are tracking before the sun comes up on friday. 4:00 friday
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through 10:00 a.m. that shows the rain staying mainly north of the golden gate. a couple of splash and dash hours beginning to cross the golden gate. and as we go from 10:00 friday morning through 4:00 in the afternoon, the rain does become more widespread pushing further to the south than what earlier models were forecasting. an equal opportunity event for more of the bay area, so we are looking at that ring continuing to head across the region as we move to the friday evening/friday night hours. a bit steadier or heavier in the north bay. that is where any flooding that potentially try to develop is going to stay as we head into the extended forecast. we are going to be tracking the potential for maybe just too much rain in a short time. actually, i am going to show you right now the amount of rain we expect in the course of the next seven days. potentially lasting
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for several days early next week. and the estimate center is almost 2 inches of total rainfall. san jose, the bust and boom amounts. only a quarter inch of rain for san jose. the jackpot amount is over 4 inches of rain. still a wide range of possibilities for san francisco. and of course the heaviest rain is going to fall in the north bay where we expect over 6 1/2 inches of rain for santa rosa. the rain possibility is over 2 1/2 inches of rain and it is in the realm of possibility that over a foot of rain would accumulate in the next seven days. again, it is in the realm of possibility. after tomorrow, it is a rainy stretch of weather. we are talking about some lingering showers in the forecast. all right. the trump administration has walked back a
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funding freeze that would have halted trillions of dollars of federal assistance. the action came from his budget office without explanation earlier this morning. >> reporter: this afternoon, the president's budget office rescinded an order to spending on federal grants. >> social security, medicare, medicaid have not been affected. we are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse. >> reporter: the directive would have affected states, schools, and organizations that rely on trillions of dollars from washington. a plan democrats slammed. >> this has woken up at the american people about what this administration is up to. >> reporter: white house press secretary karoline leavitt said the orders meant to clear up confusion, adding executive orders on reviews remain in full force and effect. on tuesday,
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the trump administration sent a letter to the nation's nearly 2 million federal workers offering a buyout to those who do not want to return to the office full-time. >> we think a very substantial amount of people will not show up to work and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient. >> reporter: today, president trump signed and his first piece of legislation since taking in office. the laken riley act mandates attention. >> it continues to carry out targeted enforcement actions around the country. this one in baltimore, maryland, enforcement or i.c.e. continue to carry out directives across the country. >> the trump administration says he will open up a detention center at guantanamo bay.
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coming up next, we are going to have a behind the scenes look at a i.c.e. operation as least track down and arrest undocumented immigrants.
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well, immigrations and customs enforcement or i.c.e. is reporting more than 1000 migrant arrest just yesterday. that is more than three times the daily average during the last year of the biden administration. arrests are now above 5500. arrester happening all over the country. in new york, the secretary of homeland security went along as federal agents conducted an overnight roundup in the bronx. cbs news' major
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garrett was there as well. >> just after 3:00 a.m., we are making our way to downtown manhattan to begin briefings for i.c.e. to come. the ranks are enlarged by other agencies now ordered by the trump administration to gear up for immigration sweeps. the plan, multiple predawn raids targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. the charges range from murder to theft to kidnapping. >> we are going to take every precaution when we are trying to apprehend these folks. >> they are joined by newly confirmed secretary kristi noem. 500 arrests over a weeklong operation in new york. in a bronx parking lot, if vinyl huddle. >> venezuelan national. he is wanted out of colorado on multiple felony warrants.
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>> runs for kidnapping, burglary, and a gun. armed agents raid this apartment building and find the suspect and three other male associates. all handcuffed and without incident. also there in the residence, three children. their immigration status, unknown. now, check to see if they have a caregiver or if child protective services needs to be brought in. >> after some negotiation, the officers make their way inside but come up empty. >> targets were not home. no arrests. no date detention. >> some might say isn't new york a sanctuary city? but you say the mayor has been cooperative? >> the mayor has been fantastic. i talked to him probably four or five times on the phone. we need the nypd to be there in case
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things go south. >> three dozen law enforcement yielding a handful of arrests. >> is that a ratio you're comfortable with? >> absolutely. >> are you aware you are in violation of our laws? >> you want cameras at these events? don't you? some would say you want this spectacle to be filmed. >> this is not a spectacle. this is the scales of justice . they are equally applied to everybody. we want transparency on this. >> vice president jd vance has suggested importing a million people a year could be possible. nearly quadruple under president biden last fiscal year. >> when you have the fiscal power you need to carry out this initiative -- it seems like you won't. >> we are going to continue to recruit and ask people to help us. >> the district attorney of el dorado county is asking for clarification on a state law which he says contradicts with federal immigration law. d.a.
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pearson wrote to rob bonta asking for clear direction. pearson gave the example that if a dealer or trafficker here in the country illegally were arrested and released in his county, his deputies could not under state law help i.c.e. detain that person or provide any nonpublic information to the feds. >> if i was to notify i.c.e. or the federal officials of that release, according to the author of sb-54, i should be criminally prosecuted under that. my people are as well. >> pearson also writes that he worries local agencies in california could face devastating funding losses if deemed noncompliant. the u.s.-mexican border is seeing an influx of u.s. troops. about 1500 more active duty personnel from the army and marine corps. that is in addition to the 2500 marines who are already
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enforcing the border wall this week. the u.s. northern command is working with the department of homeland security on the physical barriers to discourage illegal crossings. well, joined me now is stephanie. she is an assistant professor of sociology at uc berkeley. thanks for being with me to day. >> thank you for having me. >> there are a lot of heightened emotions right now surrounding immigration during the trump administration. is there anything about the current policy that is significantly different from what we have seen before here in the u.s.? >> yeah. i think we are in a unique moment that we have a president who was president prior in a different administration. that is four years to ramp up planning time. and now we are seeing the launching, the expansion of a lot of initiatives that already the seeds were planted. they have been watered over the last
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four years. we had a president in the last four years that promised a humane immigration approach following the first trump administration. we know that was not fully follow through in that. but what is particularly distinct about this moment is the open the targeting of immigrants from the u.s. southern border region from crossing over the u.s.-mexico border. and that creates a sort of open, harmful environment for immigrants, regardless of legal status, that share some of the same identity markers. same backgrounds. again, in the previous segment, it was mentioned the theatrics of this moment has also emboldened people, like the man that was arrested in north carolina over the weekend from impersonating an i.c.e. officer and having sexually assaulted a woman.
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>> you mention the first trump presidency and there was a lot of controversy surrounding these family separations. i know you have written a lot about children coming across the border. what do you think we are going to see when it comes to that this time? >> yeah. what we have seen in the past couple of weeks. or weak, really. it feels like ages. an expansion of what we have already seen. the family separations were employed as a deterrence tactic. right? imagine the worst possible scenario. your children getting taken away from you. that should be determined in any future migration. i imagine that sort of tactic will continue to be employed in the four years to come. >> so we have talked a lot about, you know, the fear in a lot of immigrant communities even though the feds said they are focused on dangerous criminals. and at the spectacle like you mentioned as well. what
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is the societal impact on these communities, people who are not criminals, trying to mind their own business? >> first we have to acknowledge crime rates in immigrant communities are lower than non-immigrant communities. and when we have the so-called or actual dangerous criminals, they are individuals who are embedded within family community networks. there are several immigration scholars who think about what we call the spillover effects. the ripple effects. there is this idea that sociologist joanne introduced with the deportation pyramid. all down the deportation pyramid, including children, neighbors, community members that are witnessing violence against the one deported individual has just expansive material, emotional, psychological, and even physical effects, not just for the present generation, but what becomes inherited by the next
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generation through narratives and warnings. >> now, i suppose you could say the same thing about a legit american who was convicted of some sort of violent criminal activity and was taken away by the feds. there would be some trauma for that person but that is not stopping everyone from arresting back i guy. >> absolutely. that is the case and that is where people think deeply about abolition and community care and being involved in prevention rather than punishment. >> okay. both sides taking a hard line on the immigration issues cause a lot of controversy. do you think there is anything that everyone can agree on when it comes to the border? >> you know, the current moment is so cloudy. i think we can agree. one thing that this is a situation that needs to be
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addressed. i think the mechanisms of addressing are things that we disagree on. even seen these immigrants across the screen. we all agree that this is not humane. it is not appropriate. it is not the correct way should we should be enacting policy or even interacting with each other as humans. i think we need to move forward with a way that causes less harm and not more harm. >> the fear in those communities. all right. that is something we are going to continue to cover. i really appreciate your perspective on that, stephanie. we are going to be right back.
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right now on cbs news bay area, san francisco on the brink of approving a state of emergency on fentanyl. a reaction to the first legislative test for the city's new mayor. >> san francisco is no longer a place that you come to deal drugs are to do drugs on our streets.
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and a bay area neighborhood is reeling after a dispensary owner was shot just steps from his store. we are going to hear from those who know him as we pray for his full recovery. >> martin is one of the wittiest, like most clever people i have ever known. and he doesn't -- it is terrible what happened to him. and after a long, dry spell, rain is about to return to the bay area. we are tracking its arrival. a hopeful new start for people who have completed their criminal sentences. meet this week's icon award winner coming up. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening addition. >> we begin in san francisco where the city moved closer to approving a state of emergency on fentanyl today. good evening. i am ryan yamamoto. it comes as the city has seen a steep drop
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in overdose deaths following a wide trend. 633 last year. that is really a 22% lower drop in the lowest number in the last five years. how mayor daniel lurie's first proposed law would tackle one of the city's most pressing issues. >> reporter: the ordinance would allow the mayor's office and city departments to sidestep the competitive bidding process for mental health and homeless services. supervisors would have 45 days to consider contracts. the same rosewood apply to rules for hiring public safety. connie had some initial concern about passing the board's enormous oversight process. >> giving up a lot in terms of oversights. not just from the board to the executive branch, but i think generally speaking really from the public process and the public eye. >> reporter: supervisors agreed that these unprecedented times required

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