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dozens march through the streets, placing blame on elon musk. >> if you're going to be yes mated, i'm going to be the one doing it, and i don't want to do it. >> and liquefied cremation? the alternative to a traditional burial. and what are the chances of an asteroid wiping out an entire city? we look at the odds. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> i'm sara donchey. it's been almost a month since president trump took office and brought elon musk along with him. pressing ahead with the push to overhaul the government. that's led to massive cuts across the board, and more are coming. cbs news says more than 6,000 irs workers will be laid off by the end of the week. about 3,500 of them are probationary hires deemed not critical to tax

filing season. the president and musk have defenned doge's work a lot, including today while speaking to finance and tech leaders in miami. a court filing yesterday from the white house, though, said musk himself is not even a doge employee. and he doesn't have any formal authority to make government decisions himself, but he certainly seems to have the president's backing. >> he's a very serious person. and he's a very high iq people. you know, i like high iq people. not all have to be, but you know, be nice to have some people up there that -- he's a seriously high iq individual. now he's got his faults also, i will tell you that. but not too many of them, which is now really waging war on government waste, fraud, and abuse. >> so those words, obviously, about elon musk. president trump also alluded to the idea of giving 20% of doge's savings back to american taxpayers, but the numbers are not adding up

exactly. doge claims it saved $55 billion by cutting jobs and contracts, but according to a cbs news analysis, some of the amounts they gave were wildly overblown. one example, a contract doge said was worth $8 billion was actually worth $8 million. doge updated that entry today but did not change its claim that it shaved off $55 billion. federal workers from coast to coast rallied today protesting musk and his involvement with doge and their work overall. and here in the bay area people demonstrated outside of a san francisco tesla dealership. they told our andrea nakano they're calling it a corporate coup. >> reporter: federal workers from around the bay area chanted and held signs at the corner of van ness and ferrell just outside the tesla showroom. >> if i don't speak out, we don't stop it. >> reporter: she's been fareful about losing her job for weeks

as the department of government efficiency has made cuts to the federal workforce. >> i joined thinking i would work here my entire career, because i want to uphold workers' rights. and that's what i want to do with my life. but now i don't even know if my agency is going to exist. >> reporter: the trump administration and doge have claimed they are making the government more efficient and stopping the wasteful spending of tax dollars, but those here say that's not the case. >> they are trying to privatize the government. they're trying to stop americans, everyday americans, from getting the services they rely on, that me and my coworkers provide just so that billionaires can profit more. >> reporter: not everyone at this rally was a government employee. >> seeing someone come in and try to take all the best things we have. >> reporter: esther cardona brought her son to the rally to show him all americans have a voice. >> i have three kids, and i

don't want them to think that -- someone can just come in and stomp all over education and the arts and science and health and the environment. >> reporter: the workers are fearful that by being vocal they are putting their jobs at risk, but they are worried even more about what they fear will happen if they don't speak out. >> after a crisis it is completely dire, and we need to be getting into the streets. we need to be speaking out. we need to be pressuring must xk his minions to stop this, to stop taking away the services that americans deserve. north bay wineries say federal layoffs could affect them too. scientists tasked with studying the effects of wildfire smoke on wine grapes have been fired. researchers say the industry has lost billions of dollars because of build fire smoke, so the usda hired two uc davis scientists to look into the program. but the layoffs abruptly ended that research. >> that this is impacting

stakeholders greatly. they went and asked the federal government for assistance in an issue that they were seeing dramatically impacting their crops. >> it maybes 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? >> yeah, one of those researchers, dr. rombaugh, says she's looking for a new job but won't consider working for the government any time soon. one east bay congressman back in the area for a town hall. eric swalwell's union city event was packed with all 500 seats filled and around 1,000 more people on the waiting list hoping to have their voices heard. our katie nielsen also had some tough questions for him about how democrats plan to get back on track. >> reporter: it was a packed house at the mark green sports center filled with supporter es for congressman eric swalwell, who represents the southern

portion of alameda county. >> i will work to protect you and we will protect by working together each other. we can do that as a community. >> reporter: swalwell has been an outspoken critic specifically of the trump administration, both four years ago and now, rising to national prominence with repeated appearances on cable news networks and his involvement in the trump impeachment hearings. and now he's vowing to bring the fight back to the capitol. >> republicans won the white house. they now have control of congress, and they have stacked the courts. you don't have a lot of levers of power to pull, so what do you reasonably hope that you can do or preserve? >> my vote really does matter right now because the republicans cannot lose a single vote right now. so if they can't keep it all together, and they never have been able to, democrats have leverage. >> elections are all about values, and the american people have spoken very clearly that

they are not buying what democrats are selling, so what needs to change within the party to get people's trust back? >> we need to tell a better story. because people aren't buying the story that they associate with the democratic party. we need to be seen as fighting for those core values and not let, you know, other issues that don't really affect us, they can't crowd out what really matters. >> reporter: what mattered to the folks at the town hall were issues around immigration, protecting social security, and medicare, but the biggest topic of discussion? elon musk and doge. >> why is he going through our computer system? and who are the minions that are with him? >> reporter: swalwell says unless republicans stop making cuts to federal programs and apartments, he will encourage all democrats to force the government into a shutdown when the current spending bill expires on march 14th. >> so i would argue government is shutting down right now, that they are shutting it down intentionally, and that if they

want our votes, we're pro helping people keeping the government open. >> reporter: and even then, he says he would only vote for extending the spending bill for 30 days at a time, as a way to keep trump and musk in check. >> democrats still sr.ch for that answer, they still search for what to do. >> reporter: david is a political science professor at sonoma state university. he says threatening a government shutdown is the nuclear option, but democrats don't have many other options because of their minority position in both houses. >> in the first six months of this year, democrats are going to be without some moves. it's really later in the year, into the august/september period when the fiscal year ends that democrats want to exercise some leverage. >> reporter: until then, he says democrats need to work on reconnecting with voters. >> democrats are searching for a message, they're searching for a cohesive kind of standing place where they can push back about the administration but at the same time present their own

alternative view. they don't have those talking points yet, but democrats lack that message and messenger, and they better find it pretty quickly. san francisco marked the 83rd day of remembrance today. it recognizes the more than 120,000 japanese americans forced into internment camps during world war ii, and it comes at a time where immigration and mass deportations are on the minds of a lot of people in our country. >> none of us are free, none of us are free. >> people sang inside saint mark's lutheran church in san francisco. the group drew parallels between the treatment of japanese americans and president trump's threats to detain and deport undocumented immigrants currently living here. people marched from japantown to the christ united presbyterian church for a vigil and to reaffirm places of worship as sanctuaries for everyone. >> when the government abuses its power, denying asylum, tearing families apart, dehumanizing the vulnerable, we

must resist. >> faith leaders across the country also shared their commitment to protecting immigrants. almost 30 religious groups filed a lawsuit against the trump administration for refusing to protect sacred spaces from immigration arrests. a father and son are using an interesting approach to tackle something we'll all have to deal with one day. what to do with your body after you die. >> it's just flame cremation here. this is water cremation here. so it's like the ying and yang. >> how they use water for a liquid cremation and the very difficult conversation that sparked all of this. and another fire reported at a moss landing battery facility. the situation on the ground now and what county officials are doing to try and help people feel safe. some light rain showers scooted through the bay area the first half of today, but by this afternoon the sun had peeked through the clouds, and we saw a beautiful sunset looking to the west from salesforce tower, fog on the horizon. we'll track the fog through the rest of tonight,

add up the meager amount of rain we saw today and look ahead to a warm weekend coming up in first alert weather. and if you've been keeping your eyes to the skies, we have some news on an asteroid that may or may not be on its path toward earth.

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us really want to talk about, but it is a fact of life. we are all going to die. typically you've just got two options for what happens next, either a traditional burial or cremation, but a father and son team in emeryville are using a relatively new method that's also gaining traction across the country. our kevin ko shows us the process also known as water cremation. >> reporter: lazzaro is 22, and he's been working at his father's funeral home the past five years. >> that's the blower kicking in that will blow the flames on to the person that actually allows for the cremation. >> reporter: but in the course of doing the job, he faced a harsh reality. >> it's something that you have a hard time imagining, you know, your loved one going through. >> reporter: francisco rivero is the founder of pacific internment and lazzaro's dad. >> when he brought up the idea, well, if you're going to be cremated, i'm going to be the

one doing it, and i don't want to do it, right? so we had a little -- not a conflict, but just a discussion over this whole thing. and within a year of that conversation he was reading about this new process. >> reporter: that process is acclimation, also commonly called aqua mags, alkaline hydrolysis, or water cremation. >> this is flame cremation here, this is water cremation here, the yin and yang. >> reporter: this machine is only the second one licensed by california, one of 28 states are this process is legal. >> and this is where the hot water comes in. >> reporter: it required just two ingredients. >> it's hot water mixed with potassium hydroxide flakes, which are these right here. >> reporter: a body is loaded into the machine. >> and then that's how you keep it locked up, because there's an enormous amount of pressure in the machine during the process. >> reporter: after three to four hours with 200 gallons of water

basically dissolving the remains, the process is done. all that's left are a few bone fragments that are turned into a fine powder. >> i never envisioned that there would be something that would supplant or could supplant cremation and burial. and this does. this is the perfect in between. >> reporter: lazzaro and francisco believe it's the future, filling a need inspired by their family's personal decision. >> francisco also says it's more environmentally friendly than cremation or burial. it uses up to 90% less energy and emits far less carbon dioxide. as for where all that water goes, straight into the store. air quality reports are normal in monterey county after a flare-up at a battery storage plant in moss landing. it was an apparent reignition of that fire last month that destroyed much of the vistra energy facility. last night's fire was considerably smaller, and it is now under control, but people who live nearby say they still

have questions about safety. >> batteries are important, but vistra and the whole battery industry has themselves a bit of a pr nightmare on their hands. >> testing completed after last month's fire revealed heavy metals were found in nearby wetlands. officials said they're working with vistra to disconnect remaining batteries to avoid the risk of yet another fire. they've also launched a new survey for people to share how the fire affected them and their health. first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> all right, so we did see a little bit of -- are we calling -- that was rain, right? >> it was rain. >> it was light rain. >> light rain, intense drizzle, heavy mist. >> heavy mist. impressive clouds too, by the way. >> very pretty clouds, especially once the sun started to peek through. we'll see plenty of sunshine and not much

in terms of additional rain chances. the storm track is shifting. i'll turn on the clouds here on the globe, and the storm system that caused today's light rain is moving farther and farther to the east. the next one and the one after that and the one after that going to miss us to the north. so high pressure taking over in the upper levels of the atmosphere. a hill of air edging up from the south. that is going to nudge that storm track farther and farther to the north. we're looking at basically rain-free weather for the next couple of weeks in all likelihood. if not entirely rain free, below average rainfall as we finish the month of february and head into early march. we did see light rain earlier today. let's go back 12 hours. the radar replay shows the showers moving out of the bay area by early afternoon. and since then we have been drying out and clearing out. and we didn't add up a whole lot of moisture overall. let's take a look at the rainfall totals that we managed to accumulate out of this system. they were definitely on the low side. we're talking about on the high end of things a few hundredths of an inch, 0.07 of an inch in

mill valley. san francisco picked up 0.04 of an inch, and san jose got shut out entirely. not exactly a surprise considering you're in the rain shadow of the santa cruz mountains, but this is the last of the rain we're going to see, at least for the next seven days or so. a hint of fog in the distance, but i don't think that fog is a major factor for the rest of tonight or for the thursday morning commute. current temperatures retreating mostly into the 40s. 52 in san francisco and san jose. exactly 50 degrees in santa rosa. but santa rosa, you'll be one of the cool spots on the map by early tomorrow morning. let's take a look at those forecast lows. most of us in the 40s. north bay valleys into the upper 30s. that's not that cold for this time of year. pretty much everybody else is in the low to mid-40s to begin the day tomorrow. very close to normal. then we warm up to slightly above normal. high temperatures three to five degrees above average, into the upper 60s for san jose and morgan hill. temperatures into the mid to upper 60s east of the oakland

hills. mostly in the low to mid-60s around the bay with a mix of upper 50s and low 60s along the coast. 38 in the morning in santa rosa all the way up to almost 70 degrees by tomorrow afternoon with very similar temperatures in store for us once again on friday. and then the real warm-up kicks in as we head into the week. temperatures are going to be in the low to mid-70s inland. and it's likely this warm weather pattern is going to continue through the end of the month into early march. here's the eight to 14-day outlook from the climate prediction center, a strong signal towards above average temperatures along with drier than normal conditions. doesn't necessarily mean zero rainfall, but it does mean it's going to be limited as we head into the new month. let's take a look at the seven-day forecast, and we will start with coastal parts of the bay area where temperatures aren't going to warm up as much but they are going to stay in the low to mid-60s, which is above average for the end of february and not likely to change a whole lot as we look beyond the seven-day

forecast into next thursday and friday. temperatures around the bay also warming up to a greater extent than coastal parts of the bay area. into the upper 60s to around 70 degrees, even bayside over the weekend and the first half of next week. and the real warm-up is going to be inland on an average basis, temperatures top out in the low 70s, but some inland spots barely touch 70. some inland locations get all the way up into the mid-70s for high temperatures over the weekend and into next week. those numbers are more typical of april or may as opposed to late february, early march. >> wow, all right, not complaining. >> taste of spring. >> thank you so much, paul. coming up, we check in with matt lively at giants spring training in arizona with the giants pitcher who went from helping you unlock your door to locking down games.

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when covid hit five years ago, a lot of us had to find something new to pass the time. one giants pitcher found a new career that helps with his current one. matt lively has the story from scottsdale. >> reporter: welcome to scottsdale stadium, the spring training home of the san francisco giants. any baseball closer has to know how to lock down a game. ryan walker probably has a better understanding of that than most back end relievers, because he's likely the only one that can say he's literally a locksmith. >> got him. rodgers strikes out the side. he gets the save. >> reporter: long before he was the giants' shutdown closer,

ryan walker had another profession during covid when the virus shut down the baseball season. >> i had to find a job, you know, especially how it was in the minor leagues then. >> reporter: the impromptu gig didn't come until he bought a truck and needed new keys for it. >> called a locksmith, and i met him. we started talking and he literally just offered me a job. he was like, i need a guy, you want a job? sure. had me buy this car lock, meet him on thursday. i show up, and he's like, hey, i'm actually pretty busy, so i'll give you some jobs, go figure it out. >> reporter: you might be thinking, was this a skill he was good at? did he have locksmithing experience? did you have awkward moments when you showed up and people were like, i need to get my door, and you had no idea what to do? >> all the time. even after i got good at it after a year or so, i'd still show up at jobs like i don't know what this is. >> reporter: in 2024 he broke the lock away from camilo duval and became the giants' closer.

17 runs in 76 games. >> certainly wasn't anything he did at the end there that would suggest he shouldn't be the cloerz right now. >> reporter: he's come a long way from opening up your front door. now he's running for the bullpen in the ninth inning, one of the most coveted jobs in all of baseball. >> you have that extra adrenaline and jitters just knowing that it's a high pressure situation. >> reporter: while he enjoys this gig a whole lot more, he's grateful for an odd job that helped him along. >> my boss trusted me a lot. i'd get stuck and he'd be like, i'm on my way. two hours later he'd be like are you still stuck? all right, i'll actually come this time. then he'd show up if it got to that appointment. he forced me to figure things out on my own, which in turn i think helped in baseball and other situations in my life. >> reporter: the locksmith tells you 30 minutes might be two hours, all i know is ryan walker is hoping the ninth inning is a

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known as 2024 yr4 was first detected back in december. scientists say if it does hit the earth, if it does, it wouldn't happen until december of 2032. so you have time to get affairs in order or really mess them up depending on your philosophy. nasa put its odds of making contact at about 3.1% before dropping them to 1.5%. the asteroid is an estimated 130 to 295 feet wide. experts say the impact wouldn't be anything like what happened to the dinosaurs, but it would still leave a mark. >> it's called a city killer because it's about the amount of energy that would be released if it hit the earth and probably something like this wouldn't actually hit the earth as it dove into the atmosphere, it would get so hot it would explode in the atmosphere itself. this -- last one of these we had, big one, was in 1908 in siberia and it flattened hundreds of miles of square miles of trees. just when you

thought things were chaotic already, you know, now we get this. >> cool. so there you go. the odds are expected to keep going down and the earth will likely be okay. not everyone is happy. benny boy shared this on x, i'm rooting for the asteroid, to be perfectly honest. another person said the asteroid will hit the same year i planned on retiring. of course, people will bet on anything, including the odds of an asteroid hitting the earth. they gave it better odds than the cowboys to win the next super bowl. >> they'll keep measuring this thing, could go up to 5%, it'll likely go down to 0%. if it does hit, it won't be our part of the planet. >> are you going to study what's going on with the cowboys? >> absolutely not. >> that is a >> february marks the beginning of black history month, and it comes as the white house is dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within the