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meeting . >> this is going to be great television. i will say that. >> -- turned into a shouting match in front of the whole world. >> you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with world war iii. >> how ukrainians in the bay area are thinking about their country's future now. >> i'm not able to understand what's going to happen because the odds are anything may happen. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi. i'm sara donchey. it was a pretty astonishing show in washington today. everybody has been talking about it. typically sitdown meetings with leaders from other countries are calm, at least the public-facing part of that. that certainly was not the case today. tensions flared in the oval. president trump and vice president j.d. vance clashed with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy with vance accusing zelenskyy of being ungrateful for american support in the war and taking people on

propaganda tours around ukraine. >> mr. president, mr. president, with respect, i think it's disrespectful for you to come to the oval office to try to litigate this in front of the american media. right now you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. you should be thanking the president for trying to bring into this conflict -- >> have you ever been on ukraine that you say what problems we have? >> i have been to -- >> you've come once. >> i've actually watched and seen the stories and i know what happens is you bring people on a propaganda tour, mr. president. do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military? >> wow, so zelenskyy was at the white house to sign an agreement giving the u.s. access to ukraine's rare earth minerals. that ultimately didn't happen after that exchange. world leaders have been quick to jump in and show support for ukraine. the german chancellor and polish prime minister, spain's prime

minister showing support for zelenskyy on x and if you think you had a rough day at work, you can imagine how the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. felt. that was her facial expression and her physical body language as that exchange went down in front of the media. cbs news has been digging into some of the claims that were made in the oval today and here is what we found. the president claimed the u.s. spent more than $350 billion on the war in ukraine. cbs news confirmed team found that to be false. the u.s. government's ukraine oversight group reported congress appropriated 183 billion. of that 106 billion went directly to ukraine. the rest of the money went to funding the u.s. response to the war and aid to other affected countries. so this turn of events raises a lot of questions about efforts to end the more than three--year-old war between russia and ukraine. erika brown has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: with the world watching, president trump and vice president j.d. vance publicly berated ukrainian

president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> during the war everybody has problems. even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future. god bless. >> you don't know that. >> god bless, god bless. >> don't tell us what we're going to feel. we're trying to solve a problem. don't tell us what we're going to feel. >> i'm not telling you. >> you're in no position to dictate that. remember this. you're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. >> reporter: the conversation turned contentious as zelenskyy questioned vice president vance about russia honoring any deal. >> what kind of diplomacy, j.d., you are speaking about? what do you mean? >> i'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. >> yes, but if -- >> mr. president, with respect i think it's disrespectful for you to come to the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the american media. you should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict. >> reporter: the meeting unraveled in what appeared to be a realtime rupture between

allies. >> you're not in a good position right now. >> we're not playing cards. i'm very serious, mr. president. i'm very serious. >> you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with world war iii. >> reporter: after the intense oval office meeting, the leaders left unsigned a rare earth minerals deal between the u.s. and ukraine. previously president trump said the agreement would bring kyiv closer to ending the war, which russia began just over three years ago. the president spoke to reporters as he was leaving the white house for the weekend. >> you saw what i saw today. that was not a man that wanted to make peace and i only address it if he wants to end the bloodshed. >> reporter: a planned press conference with the two leaders was canceled after the meeting and zelenskyy and ukrainian officials were told to leave the white house. >> okay. a lot to dissect here, political analyst caroline heldman joining me now. thank you for being here this late hour. we saw all the attention the exchange got. specifically

when it comes to republicans, so many people on both sides of the aisle in congress expressed support for ukraine. their votes suggested that. the words they share about ukraine suggest that. is there going to be an alignment specifically with republicans now that the president has sort of laid this approach out there? >> well, sara, it's very obvious republicans are kind of getting into lock step behind donald trump and perhaps this is no surprise coming from republicans like lindsey graham who a few short years ago were proposing resolutions condemning putin and condemning his invasion of ukraine and now there's so much disinformation, this lie that putin didn't invade ukraine, that it was the other way around. it's as though up is down right now in terms of our initial support behind ukraine and i think it's important to note that this is a war that putin was supposed to end in three days. the reason it didn't end in three days is

because of the nato alliance and specifically, our role in that alliance which a vast majority of republicans initially supported and have now done an about face as donald trump has done an about face on our position with russia versus ukraine. >> so it sounds like you expect more republicans to fall in line with the president's positioning on this. what about the democrats? there has been a lot of criticism of the democratic party pre, during, and post election certainly. what are they doing with this moment? are they presenting any kind of unified front in opposition of this? what has their response been? is the criticism of the party they aren't doing enough in these moments valid? >> i think it's absolutely valid. there isn't a particular mouthpiece or leader who is really leading the opposition against trump. so the democrats are having an issue with messaging, but i've been online looking at social media feeds from republicans. they're very much behind donald trump except for a few who say hey, it's bad

for both sides and putin's the winner here, but on the democratic side they've uniformly really gone after trump, but again, no kind of coherent message. you see adam schiff calling trump essentially saying he's a coward and calling zelenskyy a hero. you see hakeem jeffries talking about how this is really terrible for the united states and how putin is the winner and how j.d. vance and donald trump are doing putin's bidding. so you have this kind of entrenched partisan warfare around this, but i think what we're missing is that we are in the middle of a global realliance. we're having a resorting with russia, iran, and china gaining dominance. so you see this outpouring of european countries in support of zelenskyy because they understand the stakes of this. they understand that the war in ukraine is a proxy war and when zelenskyy brought that up that it might reach american shores, only time will tell, but the winner tonight is absolutely

putin. he is celebrating this moment with this chaos that we have never seen in the oval office. >> i have heard that a lot today. so public opinion on support for ukraine, military support coming from the u.s., has been split somewhat. there was a new pew research study that showed 30% of americans say we have given too much support. 22% say we aren't doing enough. obviously trump ran on this american first semi isolationist platform and he was elected and he won. how do we square this with public opinion and what the american people want? >> well, the american people have been generally behind support for ukraine. i think i look at this longer term. historians and political scientists are very concerned right now because the alliances that we so carefully developed after world war ii are really coming apart at the seams. putin is a murderous dictator. he murders his opponents. he's not somebody to be trusted. so it's very questionable that we would

be aligning ourselves with him in this way. >> so much more to unpack in the next few days and weeks, i'm sure. thank you. the war of words coming from the oval office this afternoon shocked a lot of ukrainians in the u.s., but as andrea nakano reports, there is still optimism about finding common ground to end the war. >> reporter: natalia goslik came to the united states in 2021 as a fulbright scholar. as her family members back home live with the threat of air raids, she remains in the east bay to create a safer life for her two daughters. she had hoped for a pathway to peace, but is now worried after friday's meeting between president donald trump and president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> i'm not able to understand what's going to happen because the odds are anything may happen. >> right now you don't --

you're playing cards. >> i'm serious, mr. president. >> you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. >> reporter: the heated exchange between the two shocked her. she said it was like watching a car wreck happen live on national television. >> i had this feeling that i'm, you know, in a car and i'm a passenger and the driver lost the -- he's not able to control the car at all and it's slippery and, you know, the car is just going to hit something and you wish you could stop this car with your feet, with your arms, but nothing's going to happen. you are not able to control anything. >> reporter: goslik is a lecturer on ukrainian linguistics at uc berkeley and believes a lot was lost in translation, such as using metaphors about not having cards to play with. >> he is not accepting that president trump is using this metaphor of that, you know, this whole life or negotiation is a

game because for president zelenskyy right now that's not a game. that's life. that's work. >> reporter: she had hoped, if anything, president zelenskyy would have been able to deliver one message to the united states. >> you can't actually trust russia because russians have lied numerous times and unfortunately, that's the message he i'm not sure was able to convey. >> reporter: while this may have been a setback for both countries, she has to hope both sides can cool their heads and continue talks once again. >> i wish president trump had, you know, had said let's think about our bigger goal right now, which is bring peace. another big round of layoffs hitting the government this week, this time targeting weather forecasters. >> let's think twice. let's not go in with the chainsaw.

let's go in thoughtfully with a scalpel and make sure what we remove is not vital. >> how this could ultimately impact your forecast. fog is in the process of swallowing up downtown san francisco, just the top of salesforce tower visible as we look out from sutro tower. temperatures before the fog rolled in today were unseasonably warm. it will not last into early march. details are coming up in the first alert forecast. this isn't normally a way you'd consider helping the earth, but apparently hunting down nutria is an option, the message from u.s. fish and wildlife about the invasive pest. you might have seen people

posting on social media about this economic blackout that took aim at big corporations and billionaires today. the grassroots group behind this asked people not to spend money at retail giants like starbucks and amazon for 24 hours. they hoped to disrupt the economy and send a message about what they call corporate greed. >> so when i saw about the economic blackout, i was like oh, this is something we can definitely stand behind and support. >> i would say it's good just in the sense of everyone sort of understanding their power. >> if enough people come together, we can definitely make a difference. >> so an expert we spoke with says the boycott is largely symbolic because its real world impacts are probably limited because it is only lasting a day. the latest round of federal firings have hit the national weather service. kqed reports at least two people at the bay area office were laid off, including a meteorologist. it's part of a larger cut to the parent agency,

the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. in all 800 workers were fired there with more layoffs possible. we want to bring in paul heggen for more context. let's start with this because i feel this is hard for us nonmeteorologists to grasp. what does the national weather service actually do? >> right. so they're responsible for issuing forecasts and also for issuing a lot of the advisories and warnings. i'm turning on all the warnings in effect or advisories on the floor map across the entire country. at the moment the worst thing we have now are some winter storm warnings , red flag warnings, but these would become actually life-threatening red flag warnings, things like that. they're responsible for running and maintaining and improving the forecast models that help us predict what's going to happen and prepare for some of the worst case scenarios and they're responsible for observation of the weather that happens across the country, whether it's from

the ground base sensors, weather balloons, or satellite data that we rely on to see the storms coming from across the pacific. >> the forecasts you craft are based largely on data from these agencies. >> cannot happen without them. >> doge, the department of government efficiency, does that make sense to you? >> no. how much was returned to the taxpayer as an investment was the equivalent of $102 billion, basically $74 returned for every $1 invested. that's an incredible number. >> in other words, they are good at what they do and they produce would you say a life saving product? >> a vital product and that's one of the issues is why is this even necessary when you're looking at cuts to noaa, but it's part of a larger theme. you look at all the agencies

that have had cuts, the department of education, department of energy, national institutes of health, it's hard to not see it as a broader attack on expertise and specifically, scientific expertise which is a dangerous and short-sighted road to go down and in this specific case, guess which agency houses the united states response to the climate crisis. it's noaa. this is going to be part of an effort to cripple those responses which is something that -- it's the opposite direction we should be going in. >> paul, thank you. first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia.com. kia, movement that inspires. >> now that we've got the housekeeping out of the way, let's talk about our weather. >> things will change for the weekend, the warm weather ending

and now a typical unsettled late winter pattern. this is the simulation over the next two weeks, some long range data. it those a progression of storm systems sending mostly light to moderate rain into the bay area and the timing is going to be about every two or three days, sometimes spaced out longer. eventually we're likely to get another atmospheric river directed towards the bay area but not in the next seven days. the next couple rain chances are very modest rainmakers, sending us back into this pattern that's typical for early march with rain every few days and temperatures a little cooler than we have experienced recently. let's look where things stand right now with a look outside. we're looking out from the mark hopkins hotel and not seeing a whole lot whatsoever because the fog has swallowed our camera, temperatures mostly in the 50s, 49 in the city and 48 degrees in santa rosa. that's a full 31 degrees cooler than your high temperature earlier today. things have definitely cooled off in a hurry. the fog will continue to spread out through

tonight. it's been moving in over the past few hours. that's a trend we'll see continuing as we look through the overnight. we'll see the fog even into the inland valleys widespread to start the day saturday, but it won't last long in the inland valleys. you'll see a mix of clouds and sunshine most of the day which means your temperatures will warm up to a greater extent than along the coast with the fog very stubborn. the farther inland, the more things warm up, low to mid-60s for the most part, about where we're supposed to be for this time of year. some of the warmest spots will reach the upper 60s by tomorrow afternoon. we'll knock a few degrees off these temperatures. pretty much everybody will be a few degrees below average for high temperatures sunday with the next rain chance moving in. futurecast takes us from 1:00 tomorrow afternoon through 7:00. tomorrow looks dry during the day. the first showers move into the north bay as the sun goes down. those showers become more widespread through tomorrow

night. futurecast from 7:00 p.m. through 7:00 a.m. shows the first wave of rain moving through, but then more off-and-on showers developing. it's not going to rain everywhere all the time saturday night and sunday. it's going to be a pattern of a little rain, dry break, a little more rain. that will be the case throughout the day sunday. this last animation takes us from 7:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. some locally heavy downpours won't last long enough to lead to any flooding potential and overall about a 0.1-inch to a quarter inch of rainfall as the system moves through. we'll see another wave of rain the middle of next week. when we get these waves of rain every few days, we get dry breaks in between. we get a couple more dry days thursday and friday before another rainmaker heads towards us. it looks like the chances are increasing for the second

full week of march. temperatures go up and down following the rain chances. when we dry out, we get a chance to warm up. the warmest days will only send us to about what's typical for early march. straight ahead, why the rams had to pivot from aaron rodgers. and a big stage for the high school ballers to decide san francisco's finest.

i can't take my off that fog. >> i know. as soon as i go outside, my hair. >> mine, too. >> yours a little less i think. i can't imagine being a young person and getting to play where the bigs play. >> where steph curry currently plays, where kevin durant, klay thompson played, andre iguodala. i could go on. chase center served itself up tonight. lincoln cheer squad performed. washington and lincoln in white

play, triple-a title on the line. the mustangs galloped away. caleb bond linked in on the run and cayenne lott laid it in. lincoln won it 55-40, their fourth straight city section title. to the nba, the warriors play the second leg of their five-game road trip. that will be tomorrow in philadelphia, on saturday. golden state will be coming off steph curry's 56-point performance thursday in orlando, but rookie quinten post, impressed? >> how many points did he have? 56. is that his career high or -- then i guess he could have been better, but okay. >> hey, 62 against the magic.

steph dropped 56 on 12 three's, second career 50-point game in orlando, one of his favorite arenas. probably because curry made the crowd sound like a dubs home game. >> i know the home team never likes that, but it's just good energy in here and the fans seem to be into it and they love when a show starts to happen. >> if a crowd is against us, all of a sudden, though, those boos are going oh, ah. they're mesmerized by it. we don't have a ton of road games, steph curry effect. we don't have a bunch of road games. we have a lot of home games. nfl, he's staying in l.a., quarterback matthew stafford agreeing to a restructured deal after the team gave him permission to speak to other teams. the giants and raiders started to get real before l.a. brought stafford back. the door had creaked open for aaron rodgers to come to l.a. rodgers for the moment is a new york

jet. shout out martinez's alhambra high school led by head coach chris patiti. the bulldogs beat san francisco's international high school 50-41 and won their first ever ncs title. i can see his chest, sara, stuck out proud because among the notable alums, our producer tonight, kevin kennedy. >> all right. congratulations to him and all of those young people! >> we don't see it right now. he's probably going like that. >> oh, he definitely is. also playing at chase is all amazing. >> you got it. >> thanks, vern. sounds like a protein bar, but it is, in fact, a rodent. why the fish and wildlife service wants you to eat nutria.

hey, jonny moseley here. let's wander over to the map and see what kind of weather we're dealing with. here comes the toyota tahoe report. >> it is still winter, but saturday is going to bring spring-like skiing conditions to the sierra. look at these high temperatures. higher elevations will reach the 40s, mostly 50s for saturday. sunday brings us back to winter. a weak storm system will bring colder temperatures and light snow to the mountains sunday and monday, temperatures hovering around 30. we're expecting 4 to 8 inches of snow above 7,000 feet, an inch or two at lake level. a winter weather advisory is in effect from 10:00 p.m. saturday through 4:00 p.m. monday. there's more good news. another round of light snow will move in the middle of next week and the long range data points to heavier snow for the second week of march. we'll keep you updated on that here in the toyota tahoe report.

if you want to save the swamp, it turns out all you have to do is saute a nutria. >> a what now? >> okay. i grew up in l.a. county and never heard of a nutria before until i moved to texas. >> apparently, that's one of them. >> these are nutria. the u.s. fish and wildlife service had that message for america during

national invasive species awareness week. if you don't know what a nutria is, it's an invasive rodent and it's causing a lot of erosion to ditches, lakes, bodies of water. they were brought to the u.s. from south america for fur. you can find them along the pacific, atlantic, and gulf coasts. fish and wildlife says the pest is edible comparing the meat to rabbit. >> i would not be opposed to eating a nutria. >> there's a lot of animals i wouldn't eat, a lot of people eat, but not me. >> that looks like an animal i could have at home. >> as a pet. >> what? i don't think so. if you do decide to hunt and cook nutria, officials recommend the smoked nutria and sausage recipe from the louisiana department of wildlife. >> of course, it's louisiana. >> there's even a heart healthy crock pot recipe if you were trying to keep it light. >> if you would have said tastes like chicken, you might have had me. >> really? paul