we are hearing from concerned parents and students ahead of the vote that could dramatically reshape santa rosa city schools. on this day of remembrance, a look at some three creations of powerful images from japanese internment camps. >> they are saluting the flag and here they are right behind barbed wire. >> those involved say they see parallels with what is happening in our country today. it is the first day on the job for the new d.a., what she plans to do differently from her predecessor. >> i feel like we cannot stop the crime from occurring but we can be a deterrent. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> no doubt is it difficult ahead for students and parents of north bay, they are going to find out tonight if their school

will shut down for good and like many other districts, santa rosa city schools is short on money, the trustees are meeting right now. kelsi thorud has been hearing from those who oppose the closures. >> reporter: parents and students are making their voices heard, many of them angry at the potential closer of elsie allen high school, calling on the dose -- school district to find a different way of balancing the budget. >> school is hard as it is, coming back from covid and now with this, i think it is going to impact our kids dramatically. >> reporter: erica's daughter goes to the high school on the day the district is said to officially vote on whether or not to shut down the school, erica was in the high school parking lot waiting to pick her daughter up. she told us she's worried if the school is shut

down, it'll just make it that much harder for parents trying to get their kids to and from school. >> a lot of our kids are going to be impacted, a lot of kids get to walk here and parents go to work early, so now they don't have reliable transportation. >> reporter: countless parents and students arrived at city hall wednesday night to be at the district meeting in person. dean jansen, a student told us he was there to argue against closing any of the high schools. >> all of the high schools are in a really tough spot in san jose, and i don't think they should close at all. >> reporter: a junior told us she was there to try to get answers directly from district officials. >> i think it was their problem for misusing the money that was from our schools and they have

not owned up to it yet, they haven't apologized or anything and i just want them to take responsibility. >> reporter: the district said deep cuts are necessary to help balance the budget and it's not just elsie allen on the chopping block, three elementary schools and three middle schools are also a part of the plan. in a statement, the superintendent, dr. daisy mireles said officials must make difficult choices to ensure the sustainability of the district, going on to say they are exploring all possible options to minimize the impact on students and families. erica contreras says she doesn't know exactly where her daughter will go if it is shut down. she says the whole plan has everyone on edge. >> it's just nerve-racking right now. >> reporter: some critics are also saying that by closing down elsie, it would disproportionate ly impact the latino community, 90% of high school students are

latino. the school board in vallejo is voting on possible closures and consolidations and it has been the same story across the bay area. a number of other districts have enforced difficult decisions because of low enrollment. they include the franklin mckinley and alan rock districts in san jose, sf unified and oakland unified are also facing big money problems. and this is a trend that could continue, so take a look at this graph from the public policy institute, statewide enrollment could drop even further by 2033. so, what is causing this decline? earlier i talked to one of the fellows from the institute, here is what he said. >> there's a couple things going on, one is we had a decline during the pandemic so parents help their kids out of school, we had more kids doing homeschool options, some of that has subsided but what has

continued is a longer run in demographic trend where we had people running out of the state and stalled population growth and lower birth rates. the cohort is smaller, so with that comes a smaller school footprint and perhaps eventually school closures as well. >> he tells me even though the downsizing decisions are difficult, there is a silver lining, money allocated from the state could go further for local districts with fewer kids. 43 different faith organizations came together in san francisco today to show their support for the immigrant community, they marched into japantown to denounce the threat of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the u.s. and they picked today's date for a reason, it was 83 years ago today since the start of world war ii and franklin roosevelt signed the order, sealing the fate of her than

120,000 japanese americans living on the west coast. families were imprisoned in one of 10 internment camps built across the country, their only crime, they looked like the enemy. today a photo exhibit in emeryville is looking to retell the story of what japanese americans went through in 1942, we caught up with the award-winning photographer and a woman from albany who was born in the camps, both trying to make sure history does not repeat itself. >> i was shocked and saddened. >> reporter: she remembers the day when she discovered a historic photo of her father from 1942. >> and even though it was an image of my dad that was a little blurry, i recognized him right away. >> reporter: the photo shows her father inside a jail at the internment camp, taken from them

homes and imprisoned in 1942. i jail, she had a chance to visit the side-by-side photos showing her standing and thinking inside her father's cell. >> i just took some time to reflect on what it must have been like for him to be separated from his family, not knowing how long he was going to be gone. >> reporter: the image taken by a pulitzer prize-winning photographer, whose project and research began after he discovered a photo of his own family taken in oakland before they were about to board a bus and sent to the internment camp in topaz, utah. >> my grandparents were in it, and my dad, he was 14, he was wearing jeans with rolled up cuffs on his jeans, just really looking like what the heck is going on. >> reporter: paul re-creating the moment with the stoic photo

of his father and aunt outside the building where the original photo was taken. >> just standing there and thinking that in 1942, their whole life had been blown up. >> featuring more than 61 pairs of photos that he has curated since 2005. >> this was a tough one. >> reporter: one of the most iconic pairing of photos, a historic picture of these three boy scouts saluting the flag at the internment camp in wyoming. >> the symbolism of the boy scouts, they are saluting the flag every morning and lowering the flag showing respect to the united states of america and here they are locked behind barbed wire, it is such a shameful part of american history. >> reporter: it is a part of history she has written about in the book, now traveling the

country speaking about the japanese american experience and what is happening today with other immigrant groups. >> it's the same rationale that is being used today to do mass roundup and detention of asylum-seekers and other immigrants. >> reporter: her goal, to keep telling her story that all began 83 years ago with the signing of an executive order, now with the hopes that history does not repeat itself. >> the exhibit will be on display in emeryville through may with the chance to meet the photographer on march 1st. air quality reports have come back normal after a flareup at a monterey county battery storage plant, it was an apparent re-ignition of the fire last month which destroyed much of the energy facility in moss landing, last night's fire was smaller and is now under control

but residents say they still have questions over safety. >> batteries are important, but vistra and the whole battery industry have themselves a bit of a pr nightmare on their hands. >> last months fire revealed heavy metals were found in nearby wetlands, officials are working to disconnect the remaining batteries to avoid the risk of another fire. next, we sit down with alameda county's new district attorney on her first day on the job and she's already undoing some of her predecessors work. how the trump administration layoffs could have a big impact on the wine industry. some light showers earlier today gave way to a pretty sunset, a little bit of fog and cloud cover along the coast but we will see the fog trying to spread out later on tonight, and we are tracking a big warm

it was the first day on the job for the newly sworn in district attorney, ursula jones dickson , she tells us safety is one of her top priorities. lauren toms caught up with her as she was settling into her new office. >> reporter: alameda county's new district attorney, ursula jones dickson barely had time to settle into her office, a space once held by supreme court chief justice warren before being met with the court strike, halting proceedings and highlighting challenges ahead, but she says she didn't seek the job because it was easy but because she knows the impact the office can have. >> oakland is really struggling, no office is perfect and no history of any office is perfect but, this office has an amazing

history of people who have done great work. >> she has lived in alameda county for more than two decades and understands the challenges ahead, she calls oakland not only home but a beautiful city on life support. >> they don't have the police and the budget is a mess, and i'm saying we because we all live in the city, but the other piece of that, they are still bringing in cases, it is up to us to take the rest of that. >> a true public servant, from prosecutor in this very office to superior court judge and now the county's top law-enforcement official after being appointed to the post left month but she isn't here for the title. >> i don't care about the title, i just care about the work. >> latest statistics show an uphill battle, violent crime dropped across alameda county, including in oakland where it's

all a 19% increase but, she will handle the next step, prosecutions and according to the latest data, just 3% of violent crimes resolved in 2023 and that is where her work begins. >> i feel like we cannot stop the crime from occurring but we can be a deterrent, and we can make sure that people know that when something happens to them and it is brought to our office, something happens. there is a consequence for every action. >> her first major policy shift, speeding up the charging process, appending her predecessors progressive policy. >> is our job to protect our community, but also making sure young people who make dumb mistakes, not everybody has to go to state prison for everything that they do but you can't continue to do the same thing over and over again with the same result and not call

that insanity. >> ultimately her role is about consequences, ensuring that crime happens, just as follows. her very first order of business, this morning she issued a directive to prosecutors a handful of policies, such as a gun enhancement that adds time onto a sentence. let's turn to the weather, our last chance at rain for a little while, people are seeing scattered showers, but that has since fizzled out. paul heggen is here with the forecast that you predicted. >> here is the radar replay over the last 12 hours as showers were moving into the north bay, they quickly moved across the area and did not amount to a lot, but did hold onto traces of

mounts of moisture across the bay area. we will see plenty of sun over the next couple of days, let's take a look at how much rain did add up as we look out to the east, a little breeze on the flag, we are going to see light showers coming to an end entirely. warmer temperatures in store for us on thursday and friday, the rainfall we saw was less than a 10th of an inch, dry weather will continue through the weekend and through the first half of next week with above normal temperatures continuing into the first half of next week as well. temperatures at the moment are dropping down into the 50s for the most part across the bay area, we don't have any additional rain chances over the course of the next seven days, the rain chance that we had today, that is it. maybe a little bit of fog along the coast, maybe registering as a trace of moisture, otherwise we are going to be very dry for the

month of february and early march. temperatures in the 50s across the board, not a lot of variation on the map at the moment and later on tonight we are mostly going to drop into the 40s as the fog tries to spread out across the bay area. some will try to make its way across the bay but, from the moisture from this morning, it is going to get stirred around, and the fog is going to dissipate before the sun comes up tomorrow morning. and temperatures will begin mostly in the 40s, the exception is going to be in the north bay valleys where we will start off in the upper 30s but that is not that far below normal this time of year, and high temperatures tomorrow are going to reach several degrees above normal, about three to five degrees above normal. santa rosa will climb to almost 70 in the afternoon, same thing for fairfield, but mid-to-upper 60s for most inland parts of the bay

area, mid-60s with a mix of upper 50s and low 60s along the coast and very similar temperatures once again on friday. the real warm-up is going to kick in as we head into the weekend, let's take a look at the 10 day temperature outlook, taking us into the first day of march, above normal temperatures across the board, san jose will be the warmest spot around the bay area, mid-70s through the weekend and the first half of next week, maybe around 70 degrees for the last days of february and into early march, more reminiscent of early may. not exactly the normal february pattern but we will taste spring if it wants to present itself. temperatures are going to warm up for an average basis into the low 70s this weekend continuing that trend into the first half of next week but again, some of the warmer

spots like san jose climbing into the mid-70s. around the bay, still flirting with 70 degrees over the weekend and for the first half of next week with a mix of clouds and sunshine. no rain, even for the coastal parts of the bay area, just gray skies on monday and temperatures in the low to mid 60s as well. the trump administration firing scientists performing research on the impact of

there's concern about the impact of federal layoffs on the wine industry after scientists were given the pink slip, we spoke with the president of the winery in napa valley who says the industry has lost billions of dollars worth of wine since 2020 because of wildfire smoke. he says they ended up dumping wine, not wanting to take any chances that smoke would impact the finished product, winemakers reached out to help, and two scientists were hired to research the cause and effect. now they have been laid off, abruptly ending that research. >> this is impacting stakeholders greatly, they asked the government for assistance in an issue they were seeing. >> it makes absolutely no sense,

they cut two jobs and we lost $3.7 billion worth of wine and inventory and property due to a wildfire, wouldn't you want to have those two people researching this? >> she will be looking for a new job possibly at a university or private industry but won't consider working for the government any time soon. it was supposed to revitalize union square, now a restaurant

they opened up to a lot of fanfare as a way to revitalize union square but, celebrity chef, tyler florence abruptly pulled the plug on two cafes right before the nba all-star weekend, in 2023, florence's company was granted $400,000 and

a three-year lease to open up a two cafes on opposite sides at union square. hopefully there will be others that open up. thank you for watching, we will see you back here at 11:00, have great evenin

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