. >>> i'm danielle nottingham in california. coming up: protesters try to stop donald trump at the california gof convention. >>> well, today is saturday, april 30th, good morning, i'm rahel solomon. can you believe the month is over? meteorologist, justin drabick, joining us, and certainly ending on cool note. >> that will be the best day of the weekends, really not saying much. >> that doesn't make me feel good. >> at least we're dry, that's about the best news i can bring you. >> we'll take it. >> but we'll bring back another storm for the second half of the weekend. so enjoy the dry period right now, if you have outdoor plans this weekend today is the day. still going to be cool. not going to see much sunshine, if at all, but at least the rainfall will hole off for about another 24 hours or so. still chilly, temperatures, boy, look at that, 48 degrees at the airport, so you need that heavier coat out there. northeast wind continues, less than 10 miles per hour, so not really windy, but northeast flow, really bringing in this

danielle nottingham has details.s the scene after a sudden explosion shut down the exxon mobile refinery in torrance last year. smoke and ash covered surrounding neighborhood. this woman says she will never forget hearing the large boom. >> i was petrified. >> reporter: the blast damaged the gasoline refining unit. the plant provides 20% of southern california's gas. the crippled plant cut production. sending gas prices in parts of california above $4 per gallon. homeowners within miles of the facility packed a 12-hour public hearing worried about what reopening the refinery will do to their air. >> i am very concerned about the pollution. >> reporter: one engineer compared restarting the plant to starting up an old car. during the first hours, hundreds of pounds of hazardous pollutants will be pumped into the air. numbers exceeding state limits. late last night, the air quality district board voted to allow the company to fully restore refinery operations. as part of the agreement. exxon mobile will have to pay a $5

danielle nottingham is following this. >> reporter: when an assistant to the dean of berkeley law school complaint against him alleging sexual harassment, she said she was told to find another job within the university. he resigned as dean but remains a faculty member protected by his tenure. what did you think when your boss got a pay cut had to go to counseling and apologize? was that enough? >> it was absolutely not. i was, i was devastated. >> reporter: documents released by uc-berkeley show as many as 19 employees including faculty may have violated the university's sexual misconduct policies in the past five years. filing suit against the university for failure to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment and retaliation. the case has become so high profile, university of california president, janet napalatano stepped in last month and banned chowdry from campus. >> the academic world is part of society at large that has continued to undervalue this type of miscon duchlkt it is 2016, and it's time to say enough. >> her lawyer claims the actions offend any notion of fairness or du

danielle nottingham, cbs-3 news. >> pope francis visit the greek island of lessbos. holy father arrived this morning, will spend about an hour today meeting with refugees who fled war, conflict, and poverty and in hopes of a bert life in europe. i am cyst the trip is purely humanitarian, and not political. but it does commas the european union implement controversial deportation plan. in campaign 2016, bernie sanders said did he meet with pope francis during his visit to the vatican yesterday. vermont senator addressed vatican conference just hours after a fiery debate with hillary clinton. >> i am very excited ton here in the vatican. >> bernie sanders took break from the campaign trail to visit the vatican. did he not stop delivering his message about income and equality. >> widespread financial criminal at this won wall street, worse financial crisis since the great depression. >> hillary clinton visited a senior citizens center while campaigning in harlem. >> and i know know where to come when i want a good game of dominoes. >> clinton, sanders, weren't playing g

more now from cbs 2's danielle nottingham. >>reporter: japanese rescue crews made their way into this home, looking for survivors of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. papers, office supplies and even computers shook and toppled over when the quake occurred around 1:30 saturday morning. guests in this hotel had a rude awakening, and several aftershocks followed. this man was rescued from the rubble before dawn. the quake triggered a landslide, cracking and crumbling roads and bridge and sliding homes off their foundations. part of this curved roadway fell down the hillside, leaving one car on the edge. of this apartment big, crushing cars parked beneath it. a smaller deadly earthquake hit this same region on thursday. that 6.2-magnitude quake knocked down buildings and collapsed homes. scientists say the smaller quake was actually a foreshock and triggered the larger one. >> about 5% to 10% of the time the earthquake that gets triggered gets first one and we call the first one a foreshock and that big aftershock becomes the main shoc

danielle nottingham, cbs 2 news. >> more secrets revealed. the former new york assembly speaker had affairs with two women and abused power to help them. tony aiello with more. >> reporter: the feds say sheldon silver was cheating on several fronts, a judge released the information friday, heavily redacted documents outlining two extramarital affairs that were evidence under certain conditions. silver had an affair with a woman who specifically lobbies the defendant and hired to behalf of his clients who have business for the state. a second affair was for a woman hired for a state job in part due to silver's recommendation. allegations benefited financially disappoint this assembly republican, but -- >> i don't find it surprising, because sheldon silver is a corrupt individual who used his position to not only enrich himself, but political favors for allies of his. >> the whole district feels betrayed. >> wonders how his relationship with the lobbyist affected legislative matters. >> i think we need to know exactly who was benefiting from th

danielle nottingham, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> pennsylvania's attorney general is taking a second look at the lesean mccoy assault investigation. earlier this month, you might remember, philadelphia district attorney, seth williams, decided not to charge the former eagles running back, or anyone he will, allegedly involved, in a night club brawl in february. two off duty officers were injured, and state reviewing the da's decision at the request of the president of the fraternal order of police. >>> there is a lot there that, you know, people don't know about. and, you know, we just wanted to make sure that we get another set of eyes looking at them. >> that was the detective who were investigating the case, got a copy of the case file, got copies of the videos. >> and, williams tells "eyewitness news" there was not enough evidence to prove that any individual committed a criminal offense. >> a legal victory for the woman accusing bill cosby of sexual assault. a federal judge has ruled andrea constant is end tight told document or emails, cosby's criminal lawyer shared with former

danielle nottingham explains. >> reporter: this is san francisco at street level. but look a little higher and you will find the roofs of at least seven of the city's luxury hotels are homes to millions of bees. >> there its the beginnings of a queen cell. >> spencer marshal beekeeper at the first hotel in city to install a bee sanctuary. when they came to you with the idea to put hives on the rooftops. >> might get a little honey. >> reporter: marshal says the hives on top of the fairmont produce 1,000 pound of honey every year. >> how many bees? >> when they're cooking over a couple hundred thousand bees. >> that's a lot of bees. and a welcome change for marshal who has seen the widely publicized decline of bees firsthand. >> when i started out almost 50 years ago if i lost 2% or 3% of my bees a year that's look what is going on now. you lose, 50%, 60%. >> reporter: when the fairmont asked marshal to install rooftop hives in 2010 the goal was to rebuild the bee population. $15 billion a year in u.s. crops are pollinated by bees. >> we do feel like fairmont is doi

danielle nottingham explains. >> reporter: this is san francisco at street level.u'll find the roofs of at least seven of the city's luxury hotels are homes to millions of bees. >> here the beginnings of a queen. >> reporter: spencer is the key keeper. when they came to you with this idea to put these hives on the rooftops, what did you think? >> might get a little honey. whoa! >> reporter: marshall says the hives on top of the fairmont produced 1,000 pounds of honey every year. four hives here, how many bees? >> when they are really cooking could be over a hundred thousand bees. >> that's a lot of bees! >> yeah. >> that's a welcome change for marshall who has seen the now widely firsthand. >> when i started out almost 50 years ago if i lost 2% to 3% of my bees a year that is like what is going on. now you lose 50, 60% and no, sir sustainable. >> reporter: when the fairmont help asked him, it was to save the bee population. >> we fear fairmont is doing its part and innovating. >> reporter: in 2018 the trend kicked off the chain developing the first honey bee progra

danielle nottingham, cbs news, los angeles. >> up next, a little dog stops traffic on a big bridge. >>> big thrill turned into a scare for hockey fans in philadelphia last night. an escalator suddenly sped up at the wells fargo center, home of the fliers. after they won. fans were sent tumbles. nobody was seriously hurt. the team has not said what caused the malfunction. >> despite the bitter weather in sparts parts of the east. a soon of spring today. baseball is back. pirates/cardinals in pittsburgh. first game of the regular season. game time temperature, 35 degrees. pirates won 4-1. >>> there was a small disruption on the san francisco bay bridge today. very small. that is a chihuahua being pursued by a motorcycle officer. they eventually picked the dog up. he is now in the care of an animal shelter. traffic was shut down there just a little bit. police say if there is your chihuahua, please come forward. >>> still ahead here, the,,,, >>> thing drones and the first words that come to mind may be spying or secrecy, not sports. that could be changing. across the country a new kind o

danielle nottingham shows us why many parents do not believe them. >> we know there are pcbs in there. the district tested. and the highest results in the entire nation, some say in the entire world, has been found in our schools. that's not safe >> jennifer withdrew her daughter from middle school because of pcbs, but her son enrolled in high school as a didn't want to leave. >> i'm worried about my child every day. >> she's part of a group suing the santa monica malibu school district. cindy crawford who pulled her two children from high school. >> we agreed we would happily pay. >> reporter: they're carcinogenic. they can also cause problems with the reproductive and nfs systems. before they were banned in 1979 they were widely used to make caulk, sealants, and other materials. >> there could be as many as 25,000 schools that contain those materials. >> reporter: the problem with the school is when three teachers were diagnosed with three thigh thyroid cancer. they're going continuously clean and monitor affected areas. is the science and we believe wha we've done is protective. >>