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le clear choice gave me my life back. i definitely look at my life as before clear choice and after clear choice. >> they gave me my teeth back, but not only that - they gave me my life back. >> this is a second opportunity to live again - no worry, no stress, no regret. you deserve to have a great smile. >> go and see them at clear choice. ♪♪ ♪♪ now at 11, remembering a man who helped put the bay area r & b scene on the map.
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>> we lost a relative, a band mate, brother, friend. >> those who knew d'wayne wiggins reflecting on his impact on oakland and beyond. then, farmers are walking a tightrope. why many are expecting to eat the costs themselves. you don't know this is a government vehicle at all. >> postal trucks being targeted by taggers. why people are divided on whether it's art or an eyesore. and you can find statues of martial arts legend bruce lee around the world but not in the city he was born. now leaders unchinatown are trying to change that. from kpix this the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi, i'm sarah palin. oakland is the birthplace of a lot of music legends, and today it lost one of its brightest stars. tony! toni! tone!'s define wiggins died at the age of 64
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after battling bladder cancer. here's more on the man who always gave back to his community. >> reporter: d'wayne wiggins was one of the founding members of tony! toni! tone!, a group that had five number one hit and sold over eight million records. elly lie. baker was wiggins' cousin and one of the original members of the band. >> he was a leader and just to know we lost our relative, a band mate, brother, friend, boss, you know, yeah, it's hard. >> reporter: while tony! toni! tone! members started solo careers in the mid-90s, wiggins continued to perform and mentor
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the next generation of music starts. here he's pictured with pop life. those who knew him say he was all about giving people from his hometown a chance to go big. >> he's mr. oakland. as a matter of fact, he's mr. bay area. he was out more than anybody. like we -- when we got famous, rafael and myself, we tried to keep the star image and not be out so much. but dewayne was total opposite. he loved the city, the area. he deserved a street for sure. >> he's a person that really walked in gratitude, you know. they was able to come out of oakland, the streets of oakland, get a record deal, and you think he was forever grateful that he realized he was in a great place, and he shared that love everywhere he went. >> reporter: the group's hits were loved internationally by music fans, but singers and songwriters say his songs were
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also uniquely oakland. >> i think he really personified the essence of oaklandism. if that's not a word, let's make it one now. but the style of oakland was a lot of street style, lot of the hustling culture, mixed in with being a little bit eccentric. and i think that's the hand print of the bay area. >> reporter: as news of wiggins' death circulated, there was an appreciation of the talent that was lost. >> it's tremendous void in the music community and the world, and the music industry, and he's irreplaceable, and we'll just try to make it without him, but he will be forever loved and missed. >> reporter: as they try to cope with the loss, there's also some regret that all of them didn't make more of the tame they had together. >> our last album was 1996. i
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wish -- we let like 29 years get away where we had a strong unit. i wish i could get everybody back. i wish we could have talked like men and fixed it. like i say, we were alpha males and egos and had our own talent and careers. i just wish could i get those 29 years back with them. hundreds of scientists, researchers, and academics protested in 30 cities across the country. they called it stand up for science. and they were demonstrating against the trump administration's cuts to health and science research. ♪ science is good economy, science is good for you and me ♪ >> reporter: all right, so somebody came up with a little song there. one of those events was at civic center plaza in san francisco. we heard from a cancer survivor who saw first happened the extreme and
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critical importance of medical advancement. >> i've had two separate occurrences of breast cancer with two separate diagnoses, and the difference in my treatments between 2009 and 2020 was phenomenal, and it's all based on science. >> since taking office, the trump administration has laid off thousands of federal employees at science agencies, including the cdc, that issa, and the national institute of health. so the funding cuts and the lay have i don't haves have definitely stirred the pot, and so have tariffs. yesterday president trump postponed tariffs on some product from mexico and canada. today he threatened to impose reciprocal tariffs on canadian lumber. hear in the bay area, farmers are already feeling the effects. we spoke with some who say they're actually eating the costs to help keep produce affordable.
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>> we've got mandarins, grape fruits, oranges, pretty much a little bit of everything. i feel like come season, that's when we're going to feel it. >> reporter: prices have to stay low. it services a neighborhood with limited access to affordable fresh produce, especially for low-income families. but with supply costs soaring, farmers like joe are stuck in the middle. >> i feel like once the prices go up, they're never going to come back down. and people won't be able to afford it. you know what i mean? it's kind of messed up for them. the farmers are eating the cost. >> reporter: it's planting season but joe says tariffs and supply disruptions have driven material costs up by at least 30% for essentials like drip tape and metal stakes that are often imported from china, canada, and mexico, which have been target of a trade war. >> we're not complaining. we're just talking about it. we have
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to bay it. there's no other way around it. >> reporter: for now he says he's keeping prices low and eating the costs with hopes the mark will stabilize. but for other verdicts, they have no choice but to hike up their prices. >> maybe you can see on my table the price is very, very low. i think i'm the only one. but i need to go now. we need to do. why this because even now, we are nervous, everybody. >> reporter: it's an impossible choice in in a certain market. professor of agriculture economics dan sumner of uc davis says it's still too early to tell what the true impact to local farmers and farmers market will be. >> the worst thing right now is the uncertainty of it, and it's certainly too early to say prices have gone up because of the tariffs. what we do know, and there's no debate about this among economists, putting
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on tariffs between integrated economies raises the cost of consumers and producers, and the economy as a whole loses. >> reporter: for joel, he doesn't have the time to worry about the politics of it all. >> we're too busy working as a farm to even know what's going on in poll tickets. we don't know. hopefully it turns out for the best. hopefully customers have more money in the long run and we're able to jump the price up a little bit. even like 50 cents helps out a lot. >> reporter: and if costs keep climbing, farmers say it's not just their profits at risk, but affordable produce for all. postal workers are known for their ri sill yen see. as the saying goes, neither rain, snow, or sleet can stop them. but now they're having to deal with grew fit. many vehicles are completely covered in spray paint. are here's why there may
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not be a solution anytime soon. >> i don't know if this is my mailman, or is this a hip-hop man? >> reporter: it that's mailman and his delivery truck, but that's the question a lot of residents are asking. what is this? >> i think it's dangerous for the postal workers and the community, because you can't see who's in here. you don't know that this is a government vehicle at all. >> reporter: jazz mon worries people will shoot at these vans driving in certain neighborhoods thinking it's someone from a rival gang. jasmine works near the downtown post office and walks by the vans almost daily. >> and aim surety's embarrassing for the u.s. postal workers to have to drive these things around the city. >> reporter: oakland residents say not just a few but many usps vans and trucks are covered by graffiti. while they've noticed them for at least a year, they say the problem has gotten worse in recent months, and they're seeing them throughout the city. >> it's just not good at all.
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doesn't look good, and it doesn't look good for our city. >> somebody's truck, looks like they just bought it from the junk yard. >> reporter: but some call it urban art. >> i don't see any problem. the trucks seem to be able to make their deliveries on time. they just have a little art on the side. >> reporter: now, would you consider that art? >> i mean, art's subjective. >> i think there's a lot more other things to worry about now than some colors on a mail truck. >> reporter: people tag the windows, even the tires. >> it's bad if you cover the window. that's bad for them. you've got respect the driver's safety. >> reporter: a usps spokesperson says they clean them up as quickly as they can. quote, however, as part of our responsibility to maintain reliable service for our customers, we must carefully balance these efforts with ensuring that our vehicles remain in circulation and available for delivering the nation's maul. the spokesperson declined to answer questions like how many vehicles are tagged and are they dealing with this problem outside of oakland. one of the unions representing
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the oakland postal workers tells me they're severely understaffed and they don't have enough workers to remove the grew fit. they also say this is only happening to the vehicles that are parked overnight on city streets. they don't have enough parking lots for the trucks. but jasmine says this is not acceptable. >> a reflection of crime, i think that's what it looks like. one of san francisco's biggest stars may get a permanent tribute in his old neighborhood. >> a statue is the tiest form of honor that you can bestow upon someone. >> we will introduce you to the man working to create a tribute to bruce lee. coming up, the first alert forecast. and if you look up in the sky and wonder if the earth son a collision course with an
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asteroid, or perhaps the other way around, you might want to look into becoming an asteroid detective. on november 27th, 19 40, bruce lee was born in san francisco's chinatown. lee went on to become a legend in the world of martial arts movies from "enter the dragon," to game of death. brian yamamoto shares the plans for a statue in his
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old neighborhood. >> reporter: jeff chen, who was born in chinatown, owns one of the largest collections of bruce lee memorabilia, including a replica of the yellow jump suit from the game of death. >> i court one of his most famous suits because it was worn in the movies, such as "kill bill." >> reporter: but for chen, bruce lee is more than just a movie start. 's hero who he believes should be honored by the city of san francisco, much like hong kong, eastern europe, and los angeles, who have all built statues of the marshal arts icon. >> a statue is the highest form of honor that you can bestow upon someone. >> reporter: and his wish became one step closer to reality when community leaders held a press conference at the museum to announce the first steps to raise $250,000 to build a statue
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of bruce lee in chinatown. >> i think this statue has the ability to bring about change in the future. >> reporter: the announcement sparking a moment for chen. >> so from my heart, thank you, bruce. this statue is for you. thank you. >> reporter: the emotion coming from a time when chen as a young boy was bullied for being chinese. his only escape, watching bruce leon the silver screen, giving him confidence to see someone larger than life that looked like him. >> never met him, but he actually helped me out, and until my dying day, i will do my best to pay him back in any way that i can. >> reporter: a gift he hopes will bring san francisco's
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native son back home. first alert weather powered by can i. a learn more at kia.com. kia. movement that inspires. well, another day of no input to the complaint department, because it was beautiful out there. >> i like that. >> and i know that we are springing -- >> springing forward over the weekend. >> when are we springing? >> saturday night. so lose an hour of sleep. but we get that hour of daylight at the end of the dismie. all right, listen. >> is id rather just have daylight time full time. >> that could happen. we'll see what happens. but the hour's loss of sleep is rough. >> especially for those who kids, or with pets. >> or those what enjoy an adult beverage or two in teaching. >> maybe those with kids and pets. let's take a look at what's happening weatherwise. the storm system brought us some showers and brought rain and snow showers to arizona and new
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mexico today. the next storm system is missing us to the north, so we are in the middle of a calm weather pattern that's going to carry us into the first half of next week, but it's not going to last forever. let's check out current conditions as we look out from the treasure island camera towards downtown. current readings dropping mostly into the 40s, still clinging to 50 degrees, just barely, in san francisco and san jose, but those numbers will end up far down into the 40s, while everybody else -- not everybody else but a lot of locations are going to dip down into the thirty. not seeing fog yet but we are going to. future cast indicates it's going to be patchy, not widespread. i don't think it's going to slow you down a whole lot. should dissipate pretty quickly once the sun comes up as we head from midday into the afternoon and the emerging sunshine. we're only a couple weeks away from the first day of prink so that sun does have more power,
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especially when it's directly overhead. temperatures in the north bay and east of the oakland hills are going to dip down into the middle portion of the 30s by tomorrow morning but it won't take long. you'll end up in the mid to upper 60s by tomorrow afternoon. numbers mostly rung two or three degrees above normal. low to mid-60s around the bay. upper 50s along the coast. temperatures in the santa clara valley closer to five degrees above normal, right at 70 degrees. very similar temperatures in store for us sunday. then a minor cool-down as we head into next week. but that cool-down is going to take a little while to kick in. take a look at the ten-day temperature outlook. actually, we're going to look at the side by side forecast models. a lot of times we use these to show how those two main forecast models are having a hard time sorting out the details. instead, they're really agreeing on a lot with one batch of moisture missing us to the south as we head into monday and tuesday but then the next one
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sending a low end atmospheric river by wednesday. also gusty winds. they're agreeing even on the specific timing of the arrival of the heaviest rain, bend daich and evening. they also agree lingering showers, lighter rainfall thursday. here's where the differences start to come in. the american forecast model drives this out to the end of next week, while the european model, and i think this is the like scenario, sends another round of widespread precipitation. noaa agrees and parts of the north bay, two to three-inch range. santa cruz mountains closer of four inches of total rainfall. it's all about how much this adds up in a short amount of time to lead to any potential for localized flooding, something we'll continue to evaluate as we get more data. but let's enjoy the
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weekend. a bit of a cool-down on tuesday with more clouds, then a lot of a cool-down by wednesday, thursday, and friday as the wet and windy weather returns. pretty much everybody is going to be in the middle 50s for highs by wednesday. wet weather not an unusual circumstance in the middle of masn. we'll maybe see some dry weather take hold once that back to back shot of rain does move out. matt with sports. how the nfc west just got a big shakeup and why it means a former niner could be coming back. plus, one warrior is telling everyone to savor the moment and enjoy the traveling circus of curry.
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so here's a look at what a's fas can expect in vegas, we think. the new renderings show what the ballpark is expected to look like on the las vegas strip. there's a shortened foul territory, allowing for the closest seats to the field of any major league stadium. the a's expect to break ground on the project in june. the other changes will be on the sleeve, thanks to a new marketing partnership with the las vegas tourism officials the a's will
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have a giant las vegas patch on their jersey. those will debut on opening day, march 27th. i am pretty sure that all the a's fans watching from oakland right now are not happy about that. our floor director was doing the vomit. >> i'm sure the sacramento fans are not happy about that. >> i meanr there any fans that are happy about that? >> i don't know, but speaking of another team that has already left oakland, last week, the raiders were unable to acquire quarterback matthew stafford after stafford opted to stay with the rams. so las vegas decided to pivot to another qb, the seahawks reportedly dealing geno smith to the silver and black. smith is going to reunite with his former coach, pete carroll, now with seattle. they're rumored to have interest in vikings qb sam darnold when free agency begins next week. the cal women taking on number six notre dame in the
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acc quarterfinals. midway through the third, marta suarez scored to give the bears a six-point lead. 14 points, 11 rebounds, her third straight double-double. but cal struggled to take care of the ball. they committed 28 turnovers. notre dame's hannah hidalgo knocked down three of her 25 points. here the irish won and advance. bears will have no wait to have their name called on selection sunday. tough news for usf. the school announced star guard marcus williams will be withheld from competition after the school received information that he may have violated a rule that impacts his eligibility. how do you find that out at the end of the year? the dons are the three seed in the conference tournament. they need to win to the reach the ncaa tourney. the warriors begin a seven-game homestand saturday night against the pistons. golden state has played only two games at chase in the last
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month, and steve kerr is pretty happy to be home to spend time with a very special someone. >> and i'm looking forward to being home for a couple of weeks and seeing my dog. that's the main thing. >> sorry, mrs. kerr. hope she didn't hear that. with the warriors being back it means dub nation will get to see the steph curry show again. he averaged nearly 35 points a gym on the road trip and made road arenas sound like home games. >> i was thinking to myself like, the nba is lucky, because this man is going into every arena, putting on a show. >> the show that he puts on the joy that he brings to so many fans what are coming to see him play and all these different cities, you know, every fan base loves steph. >> don't ever take that for granted. that's probably one of the things you'll miss when it's all over. so i'm very appreciative of it. >> steph's fun to watch. so is
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nikola jokic. during the nugget game against the suns, joker made nba history with the first ever ever 30-point, 20-rebound, 20-assist game. he ended up with 31-21-22. denver currently holds the three seed in the west. it's unbelievable what this guy is doing night in and night out. >> i know. and he doesn't even care ?roo. you asked me during the break, what do we call it? >> now we're calling it a joker, but he doesn't even care. he wants to racehorses. >> we love that for him. if spending some time looking at the stars and searching for asteroids sounds like fun, we'll introduce you to a couple of people who do that full time. it's time to scope out the conditions with the latest toyota tahoe report. i'm johnny mosley, your host for the day. let's see what kind of weather we're going to get into. >> no significant additional snow over the last 24 hours for the sierra resorts but the numbers in the circles are the
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amounts that added up earlier in the week. more than enough to freshen the slopes. conditions are looking great this weekend. weather will be cooperative. no problems on the roads. things are looking good once you actually get to the mountains. plenty of sunshine saturday and sunday with overnight lows in the low 20s, daytime highs in the low to mid-40s. looking ahead to next week a pair of significant storms will dump several feet of snow in the sierra from wednesday through friday. so if you're already thinking ahead to st. pat tricks day weekend be ready for some difficult travel conditions in that time frame. but let's just worry about that next week. in the meantime we will
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we like to end the week with some good news, and here is a nice update from outer space. a so-called city killer asteroid that could have hit the earth has apparently changed its mind. >> woo-hoo! >> well, some people were cheering for the opposite. astronomers raised the risk level to yr-4, a level we had not seen before, but those levels quickly dropped and now they are near 0. the bus-size asteroid was not expected to hit
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until 2032, but nasa's planetary defender keeps an eye on testing out how to change their trajectory. >> it's the only natural disaster that we could potentially prevent. if you were to find an impact threat to earth well enough in advance, then you wouldn't to have deflected it much for it to be able to miss the earth in the future. >> find them before they find you. the sooner you find them, the more options you have for deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids. >> that is my strategy at the bar. nasa has tested how to stop an asteroid. they crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid in a first of its kind test to change the trajectory. scientists think there are around 14,000 undetected asteroids large enough to cause damage still floating around in space. do we feel good about this? >> sure. why not. >> are we talking about a -- >>

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