the giant retailer probably wouldn't get the same reception in healdsburg., a lot of people got pretty freaked out in may when this small men's clothing store showed up in the downtown area. >> as far as i know, this is the first time we've ever had a chain store, per se, come in and it scared people. >> reporter: so mayor evelyn mitchell says the town began working on an ordinance to ban chain stores and restaurants known as formula businesses from the downtown. they've already been prohibited in the commercial spaces lining the city's downtown plaza. >> the plaza is where people go, right? i mean it's really unique. we call it the healdsburg living room. >> reporter: by a unanimous vote, the city council approved an ordinance to extend the chain store ban to a larger portion of downtown. they also banned big box stores like home depot and walmart from the town entirely. those are already available in the town of windsor just up the road. so healdsburg figures it can afford to forego some sales tax revenue to maintain its identity. it's hard to find anyone

as john ramos reports, it's all being done to keep healdsburg, healdsburg. >> reporter: it's a tough time to be in business these days, but they like their smile, and they're working to protect it, even if it means keeping some familiar names from coming in to town. on saturday, the city of brentwood celebrated the opening of their first costco, and it felt like the entire town showed up to welcome it. the giant retailer probably wouldn't get the same reception in healdsburg. in fact, a lot of people got freaked out in may when the small men's clothing store showed up in the downtown area. >> as far as i know, this is the first time we have had a chain store per se come in. and it scared people. >> reporter: and so the mayor says the town began working on the ordinance to ban chain stores in restaurants known as formula businesses from the downtown. and they have already been prohibited in the commercial spaces, lining the city's downtown plaza. >> the plaza is where people will go, right? i mean, it is unique. >> reporter: but a unanimous vote, they approved an ordinance to extend t

the giant retailer probably wouldn't get the same reception in healdsburg. in fact, a lot of people got freaked out in may when it had small men's clothing store showed up in the downtown area. >> as far as i know, this is the first time we've ever had a chain store per se come in, and it scared people. >> reporter: so mayor evelyn mitchell said they began working on an ordinance from the downtown, lining the city's downtown plaza. >> the plaza is where people go. it is really unique. we call it the healdsburg living room. >> reporter: the city council approved an ordinance to extend the chain store ban to a larger portion of downtown. they also banned big box stores like home depot and walmart from the town entirely. those are already available in the town of windsor just up the road, so healdsburg figures it can forego some sales tax revenue to maintain its identity. and it is hard to find anyone who is too upset about it. >> i just think that when you're local and you have the big guys coming in, it starts changing the feeling of it. it changes the feelin

. >> reporter: itay hod, cbs news, healdsburg, california. >>> and that is the "cbs weekend news" forin new york. thanks for watching. have a good night. in new york. th thanks for watching. have a >>> i have things i have to do. i don't have a vehicle. >>> and plus san francisco's slow recovery is hurting small business. >>> it is really scary. i have to dip into all my savings. they're all gone. >> one business owner says it is the worst he's seen in over 30 years. >>> and healdsburg wants to remain the small quaint town that it is. >> when you're local with the big guys coming in, it will start changing the feeling of it. >>> but we're going to begin tonight by talking about the fact we're on the eve of a fairly large stripe by the vta in the south bay. something that will affect

a garbage truck crashed and rolled over, shutting down the northbound lanes of highway 101 in healdsburg. this happened near limerick lane. the chp says the driver has minor injuries. traffic is being diverted at arata lane while crews work to get that truck upright and clean things up. california joining 20 other states in suing the trump administration over the mass firings of federal employees. they're all part of elon musk's doge cuts to government spending. more than 200,000 federal employees were serving a 1 to 2 year probationary period across the u.s., and those are the employees that were targeted. attorney general rob bonta says that we don't know how many californians were impacted yet, because the trump administration didn't follow proper procedures. >>>>that's the point of the reduction in force procedure to give states 60 days notice to identify who is losing their job, where they are, where they live. help to help them get a new job to prepare for the support that they will need. >anne>the attorneys general asking to pause more mass firings and reinstate everyone who was,

healdsburg. police have arrested a woman.as a violent encounter with. >> a group of juveniles on february 24th. this woman confronted the group. >> that's because they had gotten into a fight with her child and then she >> was in the car. she accelerated the vehicle towards the group and then got out and started slashing one of the kids with a sharp object. later, she refused to answer her door when the police showed up to her home. she was eventually arrested, trying to drive away during a search of are officers found drugs, an unregistered gun and other paraphernalia. so she was arrested. the investigation continues. the former executive director of the nonprofit east oakland boxing association is accused of embezzlement. the department of justice says that howard solomon >> conducting mail fraud and tax evasion against this nonprofit. you served as executive director from 2017 to 2021. prosecutors say that he used the money from the nonprofit to pay for a vacation rental property. amazon orders and an suv. how are those em

50s there, upper 50s for san francisco and otherwise we're talking about mostly low to mid-60s, healdsburghe warm spot at 68 degrees, only 60 in oakland, low to mid-60s east of the oakland hills and temperatures in the santa clara valley not nearly as warm as today. it will feel cooler, but these numbers are close to normal for this time of year. then the rain starts to move in. let's look at futurecast. we'll begin tomorrow afternoon when we'll still be dry. anything you want to get done outside tomorrow, that's the day to get it done. here comes the shower activity hitting the north bay coast as the sun goes down. we'll see the rain spread out tomorrow evening and tonight night. the first wave of showers moves quickly west to east and follow-up showers are likely. these are going to be scattered. we're talking about intermittent showers saturday night into early sunday morning and throughout the day sunday. this is radar simulation sunday from 7:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. you see gaps in between the showers, but plenty of showers as well, just an unsettled day. then we catch a dry break o

you go warmer and warmer as you go farther and farther inland, upper 60s around healdsburg, the warm spot for the entire region, mostly low to mid-60s, which is close to normal for those inland communities, for the first day of march. temperatures take another step downward sunday because of a return of more substantial cloud cover and of the rain chances. let's talk about that. futurecast simulation from 1:00 through 7:00 tomorrow shows the showers nonexistent during the afternoon. the first showers just hit the coast of the north bay as the sun goes down tomorrow evening. the first batch of rain moves quickly across the bay area west to east and is followed by scattered off-and-on showers continuing through saturday night and into early sunday. there are plenty of gaps in between these showers. it's not going to rain everywhere all the time. the showers will be out there. have an indoor alternative for any outdoor plans and be ready to dodge showers if you're trying to get out for the second half of the weekend. it will certainly impact our temperatures, upper 50s to maybe around 6

you'll make up for it with temperatures climbing over 30 degrees, close to 70 in healdsburg tomorrowthe warm spot. most temperatures will be in the mid-60s, low 60s for san francisco and upper 50s along the coast. all these numbers are within a degree or two of what is normal for this time of year and very similar temperatures are in store for us once again for saturday and sunday as well, a nice second weekend in march. get out and enjoy it because the break from the rain chances won't last that long. let's look at the dog walking forecast for tomorrow, which is brought to you by an adoptable dog, in this case twizzler and her very perfect posture, very upright dog. she's adoptable from the east bay animal shelter in dublin. i'll put up a link with her information right after this weathercast, temperatures in the tri-valley reaching the mid-60s. the perfect weather ends next week. the two long range forecast models, american and european, are in good agreement, sending the first wave of moisture monday mostly down to our south. showers are possible in the seven-day forecast but not

the truck rolled around 11:00 this morning, shutting down northbound lanes near limerick lane in healdsburg. they reopened a few hours later. >>> sonoma state athletes and coaches are suing the university over the decision to cut the entire sports program. a lawsuit was filed this morning by the group save seawolves athletics. we are told details will be revealed next week of the lawsuit. this comes as the state is proposing an 8% cut across all csu campuses. >>> just yesterday san francisco state announced it's cutting some of its sports teams. on the chopping block is the baseball team. they held their first home game since the announcement. we heard from students whose students are now playing their final season at state. >> it's kind of a disgrace, very disappointed in the school and mismanagement of how they're dealing with their money. >> my perspective is sports are important at the university level. i think it hurts the image and the student body as far as having a baseball team, having sports. >> both parents tell us kids are hoping to transfer to another school to keep playing. me

temperatures in the north bay after the cold start flirting with 70 degrees in both santa rosa and healdsburgsimilar temperatures saturday and sunday, really not much change. the changes are on their way heading into next week. look at our long range forecast models side by side. a lot of times we do this to highlight the differences, how it's tough to sort out exactly what's going to happen, but in this case we'll show you how in lock step they are with the most likely scenario for next week. we start at 4:00 sunday afternoon when we're still dry. the best chance of rain on monday is largely going to miss us down to the south. there's still a chance of showers. we'll leave that in for now. things have been trending in a drier direction, same thing for tuesday, still a chance of showers, but the long range forecast models are starting to come into better agreement maybe we just missed the first rounds of moisture. that's not the case wednesday. here's the rain accompanied by a fair amount wind and heavy snow in the severe weather. so the middle of next week looks like it's a mess and a week f

for the north bay, mostly down to the mid-30s, petaluma and healdsburg dropping down to 35 degrees.t chilly start, we bounce back, temperatures in the mid- to upper 60s for the north bay valley, warming up by about 30 degrees, mostly mid- to upper 60s inland, low to mid-60s around the bay, upper 50s along the coast, getting up to around 70 degrees in the santa clara valley, hitting 70 in san jose, just barely short around los gatos. perfect dog walking weather tomorrow, the forecast brought to you by toby, who is sporting a little cowlick on his hair that makes him look like a unicorn, but he's special, mid- to upper 60s in the tri-valley tomorrow, ideal weather, sunshine throughout the day and pretty much a copy and paste forecast from tomorrow to sunday, maybe a degree or two cooler for the second half of the weekend. it won't change a lot until we hit the middle of next week. let's look at the ten-day temperature outlook for san jose which is going to show us a steep drop in temperatures ones we get past tuesday, an 11-degree drop from tuesday to wednesday. that corresponds with

it's a good distance farther north, heading up into healdsburg northbound 101. but marcus, that tweet you showed us from santa rosa, chp does say that folks are being diverted off of northbound highway one at arata lane. now you can take old redwood highway, but it's getting really congested because that's kind of the only way to get around all this closure and up in toward hillsville. so we're watching for that. really, we don't know how long it's going to take to clear up, because we don't know if there are any other chemicals or other spills associated with that garbage truck. so chp will continue to update on their exit count. keep that in watch. of course. nbcbayarea.com. back to you. useful information. thanks, mike. all right, well, get ready for a strike. that will certainly impact the travel of many bay area commuters. nbc bay area's kris sanchez is in san jose. with what you need to know ahead of monday. the union hand-delivered their notice that they plan to walk off the job as of monday morning. so if you use vta, you need to plan ahead. if you drive

healdsburg.d a woman after there was a violent encounter that she had with a group of juveniles. it was on february 24th that the kids say this woman confronted them because they had been in a previous fight with her child. she was in a car. she accelerated the car towards the group, got out and started slashing one of the kids with a sharp object and then later she refused to answer the door when the police showed up at her home. wanted to talk to her. she was eventually arrested. however, when she tried to drive away during a search of her home, officers found drugs paraphernalia and an unregistered gun. the former executive of a nonprofit called east oakland boxing association is accused of embezzlement and this all leads to worded stephen money go follow this. they are accused the man's name. haha howard solomon. and he's accused of mail fraud and tax evasion as he worked for this nonprofit. he was the executive director from 2017 2021. and prosecutors say that's all the news money from that

let's go north. 36 in petaluma, 35 in windsor, 34 in healdsburg. how about the peninsula?ds the santa cruz mountains, 34 scotts valley. one more stop in the east bay. 41 now in lafayette. 40 degrees for you, orinda. good morning. berkeley. you're 47. afternoon highs for today, ranging from upper 50s at the coast to upper 60s inland. and winds will be generally light. i'll have a better look at today. and those changes coming our way in the extended forecast coming up. >> thank you. rosemary. well, a secretly recorded video that appears to show a state farm executive discussing the insurance company's efforts to raise rate hike rates in california is circulating online. >> and it's causing a lot of backlash, as you might imagine. ktvu betty yu joins us in the newsroom with more on the fallout and calls for an investigation on this sunday morning. good morning betty. >> good morning, frank and ali. the advocacy group consumer watchdog found this video so troubling. it issued an open letter to the california insurance commissioner calling for an investigation. now, it's uncle