on cbs news, bay area. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. we start with breaking news tonight coming from overseas? israel warned the united nation to evacuate more than one million people in northern gaza to the south. that is half of the population, israeli tanks have been building up along the border. many think a ground incursion could be coming soon. 1500 palestinians have been killed. hundreds of thousands of air strikes. we talk a professor and drew. >> behind me are the pictures of san francisco. san francisco is 600 plus, 700,000, double that number of population, talk about the bridges are not there, because they have been made inopperrable. inopperrable. >> it is the highest density population in the world and then you ask people to leave and they have 24 hours to make their way out. i can not foresee the possibility of actually movement of such people which means israel is really looking and staring at the massive casualty, civilian casualty. >> we are also hearing from children in gaza about what their lives have been like over

i know you're happy to see this, sara donchey. great game tomorrow, warriors/kings, playoff rematch. it will have a lot of playoff and energy. >> basketball's back. i'm a happy girl, very excited about that. >>> matt, you need to see this. >> oh, boy. >> one day this could be you. the most popular cheerleader at these high school football games in texas is a grown man in the army. andre simmons is blowing up all over the internet for mirroring his daughter's routine from the bleachers. >> oh, i like this. >> and then hey, jets, let's go. you got it? >> one more time. one more time. >> after his 15-year-old daughter taught him the routine, simmons started performing at every game making eye contact with his daughter in maximum dad mode, but there are a lot more eyes on him. he says he fully owns the nickname cheer dad. >> i'm number one cheer dad. i'm number one cheer dad. >> reporter: did the military teach you those dance moves? >> no, ma'am, they did not. joining them in doing stuff they love. >> reporter: do they love it? they'

. >>> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. the agony of not knowing what happened to their loved ones is what kept this family from sleeping or eating or feeling any kind of rest. tomorrow would mark two weeks since an american mom and her teen daughter were kidnapped by hamas terrorists while on a family trip to visit people in israel. but today their family got a call they weren't sure they'd ever get. that the women were the first and only hostages to be released by hamas. tonight they'll begin a long journey back home to the u.s. >> reporter: this is the first photo of judith and natalie moments after they crosses the border from gaza back into israel. >> i haven't been sleeping for two weeks. tonight i'm going to sleep good. i spoke with my daughter earlier today. she sounds very good. she looks very good. she was very happy. now she's waiting to come home. >> reporter: late friday, they got a call from president biden who told them they'd have the full support of america as they recover. but 17-year-old natalie's call t

. >>> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >>> hi, i'm sara doncheyght, more than a million people are being told to do what the united nations says is impossible. israel has warned people in north gaza, get out now. they were told they have 24 hours to leave about 27 hours ago, ahead of what many expect to be an imminent ground invasion by israel in response to the attack hamas launched almost a week ago. but many palestinians say they have nowhere to go. israel dumped leaflets in the sky over gaza saying evacuation your homes immediately. the people that could leave packed what they could and headed south. the un and other humanitarian groups have called the orders inhumane, pointing out there's no food, no water, and again there's nowhere safe for people to go. u.s. officials think there are between 500 and 600 american citizens in gaza too, and there are many here in the bay area whose loved ones are trapped in gaza hoping to survive whatever is coming next. our betty yu spoke with a south bay man who grew up in gaza and tells us some of his famil

in for sara donchey tonight. we are unpacking one effort wildest police chases we have seen in awhile. a random assault at a church, it ended with a bomb robot, combing the suspect's car. they lobbed a pair of pipe bombs at them when they took off. diving into the suspect's background and this is what we found out. this is far from a brush with the law. it is not the first time he has been accused of blowing things up. our betty yu is at the north beach church where it all started. betty? >> this is where all of it began. the suspect participated in the mass and demanded money from and attacked a parishioner before leaving with an unopened folding knife. >>> san francisco police said what happened after communion inside of this church on sunday was brazen and dangerous. >> the suspect then violently assaulted this parishioner, pushing him in the head. we believe the parishioner went unconscious temporarily. the suspect kept demanding money from this parishioner. the parishioner did not know the suspect. thankfull

. >>> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >>> hi, i'm sara donchey. what a way to end the work week, head into a long weekend. today the bay area had it all. big ship, big planes, and of course the blue angels with the perfect blue backdrop. we came close to not having a fleet week at all this year. there was the threat of a government shutdown, and the fog that always lingers over the bay during fleet week, but today everything came together for a spectacular air show and parade of ships. a lot of people very excited to see the ships and the jets. and here's a time lapse of the bay crowded with boaters hoping to get the best view of the air show. but in between today's big show and tomorrow's, the men and women of our military get to let loose a little and enjoy some of the fun things that san francisco and the bay area have to offer. betty yu is on the water front in san francisco talking to special guests about their fun friday in the city by the bay. >> reporter: the high dive is just one of several popular bars across the city where sailors and

on cbs news, bay area. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. by now we have all seen the images of suffering amid war breaking out in the middle east. it can be hard to look at, hard to imagine what the people in israel and gaza are living through now. but there is a group of american families who have been very purposely combing through all of that footage relentlessly scrolling social media not looking away because that has been their only hope of trying to find their lost loved ones. the white house says 14 americans have been killed and 20 more are unaccounted for. two of the missing are from here in california. some of the families of the americans believed to be held hostage gathered today in tel aviv to plead with the u.s. and israel for help. is some say they have gotten no information from the government about how their loved ones are or if anyone is going to get them. >> it is the kind of text that will make any parent's storm. there were two text in a row from her at 8:11. the first one said, "i love you" and immediately it said "i'm

. >>> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello, i'm sara doncheymight have felt the ground shake a little bit tonight, a magnitude 3.7 earthquake hit the bay area around rush hour, and it caught a lot of people off guard. that is, if you felt it. it was centered right under sfo, but we got calls about it from as far away as walnut creek. according to usgs, people felt it as far north as santa rosa, as far south as watsonville, and as far east as antioch. we are not seeing reports of damage, but less than two hours later a 2.9 quake hit allen rock in the south bay. paul, we were going to start off with you anyway, but we are happy you can explain the earthquake too. >> and on our virtual map i am standing right where that earthquake happened, right underneath sfo near millbrae. it gives you a perspective of where it is. but that's where it was located. where it was felt is virtually everywhere on our virtual map. you see that on the top down look we're used to seeing. let's zoom in for a closer look. it hit right at 6:38 this evening. we can take a

>>> from kpix this is the late news with sara donchey. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. in the face of war there are stories of incredible bravery. we hear from two different perspectives, that of a man trying to escape the bombs with his young family in tow and a young man answering the call to war even though it came while he was in the bay area. >> we know biden will travel on wednesday. the pentagon told 2,000 troops to get ready to be deployed to israel to help with legistics and medical care. hundreds of families are holding vigils, man believe they are held hostage by hamas >> we don't know we she is. if she eat, sleep, where they keep her, we don't know anything. >> i heard a lot of gun shots out of the window. we decided to stop talking because she was hiding. but at some point she go to me that they are inside the house. >> israel's military says the group is holding nearly 200 hostages in gaza. >>> one week ago today our betty yu met a 26-year-old israeli grad student here in the bay area. he office a two-week exchange program studying the middle east when ham

. >>> from kpix this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. we have seen a lot of horrifying images as the war in the middle east continues. images that have shocked and disturbed people all over the world and here in the bay area. tonight, several local groups are speaking out saying enough is enough and that the killing must end. among some of those shocking scenes was this today. a huge e ploagz that explosion that struck a hospital. gaza says it was a rocket and israel says it was a missile fired by gaza. we spoke to a bay area doctor that works on the peninsula and has family trapped in gaza. he found out about the news of the hospital bombing while he was at work. >> i just could not believe it. i had just walked out of an er shift yesterday afternoon midnight. i paused outside of the er just thinking about my fellow er staff out there in gaza caring for the thousands of people who are injured and the thousands of people who lost their lives and, the children. i mean one of the most difficult things for any er doctor and er nurse is to

. >>> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey. on cbs news bay area. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. 7,000 miles between the bay area and israel and gaza. local families for loved ones, it probably feels like farther away. helplessness and desperation they are feeling is difficult for the rest of us to imagine because as horrifying as it is for us to watch these scenes unfolding for them. it is far worse. tonight, israel's military is bombarding gaza with air strikes including centers inside of apartment buildings. 1500 people died between both sides until hamas unleashed a brutal attack. 11 americans are among the dead. >>> tonight cbs news team recorded the moments an air raid sent them scrambling less than two miles from the gaza border. >> we just heard a whole series of very large blasts. we ran to take cover here. [ sirens ] >> cnn reporter had to shelter on the ground while reporting live. >> forgive me. i am in this position because we had rockets coming in here not too far from us. so, we have had to take shelter here by the

. >>> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >>> hi, i'm sara donchey. did you feel it? summer is here just a few weeks too late. it was a hot one today along the coast, tomorrow we are doing it all over again. paul, i know things are expected to get warmer over the next few days, that is good news for fleet week. over the years, visibility has been less than ideal. >> yes. the temperatures less than a deal. cold, breezy, foggy conditions last year. but on friday, the blue angel show was good that day last year. we have hot conditions, a heat advisory for areas around the bay, peninsula, into the mountains and in the santa clara valley. not the hottest temperatures we have seen across the bay area but the farthest above average. what is expected this time of the year. that is kind of a shock to the system when we are in early october. it will feel more like august, so, i guess, "aug-tober weather is r" weather will be with us. inland and the east bay, topping out in the upper 80s. upper 80s in redwood city, and half-moon bay, 81 degrees, made it into th

. >>> from kpix this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. every time there is a earthquake we ask, did you feel it? we had one today and if you did not feel it you heard about it on your phone as it was happening around 9:30 this morning everyone's phones were buzzing with a warning to duck and cover. even though we are a day away with the shake out and the drills that come with it. they warned a quake was coming. what happened was less intense thankfully. it was centered in sacramento county east of antioch. >> what was that? >>> there was some shaking at a liquor store it was not major. a couple things fell on the floor. for the majority of people it was confusion that struck. native santa cruz tweeted out, i got the shake alert but did not feel anything. adding it was confusing because there is is another earthquake test tomorrow. brandon posted that the alert was scarier than the quake itself. matt posted he ducked and covered but did not feel it. >> reporter: the san andreas fault said "sorry, everyone, i got excited." >> . >> reporter

the late news with sara donchey and then the late show with stephen colbert.ith all new episodes . these are two shows you want to spend the night with. record it, stream it, watch it live >>> the 49ers could be making for answers at quarterback with brock purdy's status in question. vern glenn explains in this morning's "red & gold report". >>> this is the volkswagen "red & gold report". >> the 49ers return to practice wednesday and you want to talk about booing the lead , check out how kyle shanahan started his press conference. >> deebo samuel, trent williams, green lines having a bad day and brock purdy is in protocol. >> what was that? >> in concussion protocol? that puts in and out to play on sunday. it is believe you may have been injured on a quarterback sneak monday night. >> starting to get symptoms on the plane and i found that out when we landed and we were pretty asleep and then he got checked up today or yesterday and now he is in protocol. >> for the "red & gold report", i am vern glenn. >>> giants baseball may be over the season but what a move

right before colbert is the late news with sara donchey.ll us what she is working on tonight. >> we are happy to see that he is back. we have been waiting a long time. we want to tell you about there video going viral right now. sap fran city worker going after a food vendor. the video shows a man in public, in a public works vest running towards a hot dog vendor and hurling his cart to the ground, scatters food everywhere. tonight we are talking to the person who was there, shot this video that everyone is sharing and everyone is talking about. we also reached out to the city of course. we will have all of that coming up tonight at 11:00. >> there are always two sides to the story. >> and that does not look quite right. >> we are talking to the people who saw it happen and reached out to the city and hopefully, you know v some answers. >> did stephen call you? personally? >> no, he didn't f. he wants to personally call me he can. any time he wants. >> you, too, by the way >> i usually do. >> all right, thank you, sara, see you tonight. >>

you can catch the show after the late news with sara donchey right here on cbs news bay area. >>> that'sfor the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> liz, thank you. >>> right now at 6:00 governor newsom makes his pick to fill dianne feinstein's senate seat and now he has to defend it. >> she's the only choice. she's the best choice. >> long time labor leader and abortion activist lafonsa butler tapped. >> if you look at the selection, it's both fascinating and cynical. >> we want people in our area who have been on our communities on the ground level and that's unfortunately not the case in this particular instance. >>> the blue angels land in the bay as fleet week officially kicks off, but it's not just for show. >> if in the event of a disaster you're not handing business cards out in the disaster, you already know who each other are. >> how the military is teeming with local first responders to prepare for potential disasters. >>> plus fleet week pushing out the cooler weather and bringing some october heat, we're tracking the timing. >>> and the

. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey.crime that's massive and horrible overwhelming hospitals and law enforcement and shocked the country coast to coast. tonight another mass shooting in america this time in maine. at least 22 people are dead, dozens more hurt. an entire city is sheltering in place as they chase down the person of interest. a firearms instructor with military training. the shooting happened in lewiston, maine. the second largest city between augusta and portland, home to about 37,000 people. here is what we know so far. a shooter opened fire at two different places. people were caught on camera while police pulled up. police released these pictures of the shooter holding his rifle while entering the business. >> we have an active shooter and multiple injuries, from active shooter incident and multiple people down. >> while the shooter is still at large, police were seen searching a parking garage with their rifles gone just a few minutes ago. robert card is considered armed and very dangerous. a trained f

i do want to contrast that video of myself with sara donchey reaction to a earthquake in los angeles, maybe you can show that to you at the 11:00 news later on tonight. let's talk about the quake. we will zoom in where it was centered and right under sfo. it happened at 6:38 p.m. we have an updated did you feel it map just coming in. you can see more reports compared to what we saw earlier, mostly on the lighter end of the spectrum. that is what we felt here in the studio. this earthquake happened basically right along the fault, that is the line that runs here underneath the peninsula. you can see the epicenter, the magnitude, the 3.9 quake at 6:38. just off of the main line of the san andreas fault. the other thing we are tracking heading into the weekend is an elevated fire threat. a off shore wind event about to kick in. not here yet. it will happen during the day tomorrow. let's track the winds as the red flag warning goes into effect at 5:00 a.m. not too gusty but the winds accelerate in the higher elevations of the north bay. the late morning on saturday. the gusty conditions t

sara donchey is following what the united nations says is becoming a humanitarian disaster. >> reporter: this is a crisis like we have never seen. another sign that a ground invasion by israel could be coming to the streets of gaza, of course in response to the deadly terror attack last week. what is happening on the ground in gaza is quite something. look at this. this was the scene earlier, all of the things you see in the sky, those are thousands of leaflets falling over gaza and written on them were warnings from israeli defense forces to get out. many people are desperately trying to do that to the best of their ability. families in cars, trucks, carts pulled by donkeys on foot, they packed up whatever they could, and they started to stream out of gaza city to the south. some hospital staff stayed behind to tend to patients who are too sick or injured to go anywhere, let alone to the south. some residents say they had left their homes because they are afraid they might not be able to come back to them and they simply don't know where to go. >> i'm actually terrified. i'm trying not

sara donchey joint is now with details. sarah? >> reporter: a lot of chaos today, ryan. three people were ultimately taken into custody. it was the third suspect that police spent most of their time looking for. let's take you to the beginning, this first unfolded after oakland officers spotted a gray sedan wanted in connection with a shooting that happened around noon. police say they tried pulling the driver over, but the suspect took off. our chopper was over as the car headed through the oakland hills, toward lafayette. it was seen speeding and swerving around other cars. police say the gray sedan eventually drove back onto highway 24 toward oakland, at one point dodging other cars going in and out of lanes, driving recklessly. the suspect eventually lost control, right there, hit the median just past the telegraph exit and stopped. but the chase did not end there, exactly, our chopper spotted three people bailing from the car. two of them jumped over the guardrail and ran off. the other person was arrested on the spot. one suspect ran into a neighborhood near telegr

. >>> the late news with sara donchey. >>> we start with the breaking news. driverless car crashed into a pedestrian there say massive and police fire response at 5th and market streets right now. we are live there for us. betty yu, i know you were working on an entirely different story when you heard about what happened here. can you tell us about what we are seeing and what we know that happened to this person? >> reporter: sara, as you can see there is a very active crime scene happening. an investigation just behind me. you can see part of 5th street near market the is roped off. the car that is involved in this collision is still here on the scene. if you fake a look that cruise car with the flashing lights that is a car that is involved. san francisco police said this happened around 9:30 this evening. officers arrived and they found the car struck an adult, a female adult, that is, no one was inside the cruise car at the time of the accident. now, sf fire said that its crews had to secure the cruise car to free the victim. that victim was rushed to the

. >>> hello, i'm sara donchey. it is a big week for the city of san francisco. we are hours away from the first fleet week air show. we saw them soring across the bay area to get them ready. some of the most powerful people in washington were here today to remember senator dianne feinstein. vice president harris, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi were here on civic center. the city has, once again, tried to put on its best face. steps away from where they all met with their security details in toe we spotted this, this morning, park rangers clearing people off of the sidewalk and this, piles of trash littered all over the sidewalks. mountains of trash is what some people in the tenderloin learned to live with day in and day out. there ari team of people who pick up the trash to come just hours later with the mess. >>> at times it felt like our efforts are for none. we will go through the block and dump it right back out on us. it almost seems like it is a thankless and effortless job, right? i mean, look at it. >> daybreak in the tinder loin, his job does not so much

alert forecast with our chief meteorologist paul hegge snoorks jessica handle today better than sara donchey did. we showed that view a few days ago. it was pretty much the opposite of what jessica just showed you. i will show you what happened with the heat. it is still on. one more hot day to go tomorrow. another first alert weather day. the heat advisory extended until 11:00 on saturday. but, the position of the heat dome, the center of high pressure, atmosphere, weighing down on us. it will shift a little bit. the breeze it is going to kick in tomorrow afternoon. it means coastal temperatures will be a little 10 degrees cooler, maybe five or so degrees cooler. that still leaves us well above average. a larger shift in the pattern by monday. a storm system will direct most of the energy and the moisture towards the pacific northwest. it is close enough to give us cooler temperatures, clouds, even a chance for a couple of showers. that is farther down-the-line, though. right now, warm. we look out from sales force tower. temperatures 1 1/2 hours down. still in the upper 70s and 80s. the nu

let's go ahead and bring in sara donchey with the late news >> it can be hard for sailors and marinesr long periods of time. they do it often the women and men of our military. it gives them a chance to have fun and go on adventure. tonight we found some who never even been to san francisco before. we asked them, what do you think? devon, spoiler, our food was one of the biggest highlights that sailors and marines have been enjoying. that is no surprise. >> that is what i think they are doing >> the beer drinking, too >> yes. i mean, you know, obviously these air shows happen all over the country. my personal thought is what better place to come than to san francisco bay area. we have the food, we got the weather, we got the views, we have everything. >> yeah, you know, they work hard for us. they defend us, they deserve a little break, too. >> yes, and they are taking it right as we speak. >> all right. >> all right, look forward to it, thank you, sara. >>> fleet week is not just about the spectacle in the sea and sky, it also has a practical purpose. >> reporter: when navy petty off

our sara donchey tells us aboutthe emotional reunion at l. a.reporter: it is probably the tightest hug yuval has ever given his son. >> it's a miracle. i don't have any other words. that's -- amazing miracle that i see my son here. just happy that i'm here. >> you know, alive. that's it. >> reporter: roy was in israel at the music festival that ultimately became the site of a terrorist massacre. he was there with five cousins when rockets started flying overhead. and the shooting began. he called his dad in los angeles to tell him what was going on. >> i was on the line with him and then the phone hang up. no signal. i didn't know where him -- eight hours maybe, i didn't know where is my kid. i believe the worst happened. and it's a miracle that i see him right now. >> reporter: roy says he ran for four hours straight leaving everything behind including the shirt he had on. he wouldn't realize how lucky he was until later. after news broke that 260 people had been killed there. >> finally i -- i hear that they took him to a safe place. i was rel

sara donchey is about to show you the families say they still don't know if anybody is going in to try to rescue the missing family members. >> reporter: it's the kind of text that would make any parent's stomach turn. >> there were two texts in a row from her. at 8:11, the first one said i love you. and immediately, at 8:11 also, it said i'm sorry. >> reporter: rachel goldberg's son was born in berkeley and he was at the music festival that was ambushed by hamas terrorists. 260 people were slaughtered and the last thing rachel learned about her son's whereabouts is haunting. >> he was injured in a gun battle. i mean, they were all civilians at a -- music festival. and they were fish in a barrel. sitting in this bomb shelter. terrorists came to the door. they were throwing grenades in. shooting machine guns. and we know that his arm from the elbow down was severed. was blown off. >> reporter: hirsch's parents think mill substantials dragged her son into gaza and they have not heard from him since. narah's mother is a grandmother from fresno and she was sitting on her porch when her nei

this morning, sara donchey shows us the charging documents that take us inside those tense moments in the alaska airlines cockpit sunday before the pilot had to be restrained. >> reporter: in clothes marked "jail" and behind panes of glass, 44-year-old pleasant hill pilot joseph emerson appeared in court today in oregon, facing 83 counts of attempted murder. about 48 hours earlier, investigators say he was trying to shut down the engines of alaska flight 2059 while he was off-duty and riding in the cockpit jump seat. >> we've got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit. >> reporter: the picture painted in court documents is shocking. emerson told police he was having a nervous breakdown and hadn't slept in 40 hours and was battling depression and had taken psychedelic mushrooms two days earlier. about a half hour into the flight, the pilots told investigators emerson threw off his headset and pulled red fire handles like these that can cut off fuel to the engines. one of the pilots said he wrestled emerson away from the controls and told him to get out of the co

our sara donchey tells us about the emotional reunion at l. a. x.. >> reporter: it is probably the tightest hug yuval has ever given his son. >> it's a miracle. i don't have any other words. that's -- amazing miracle that i see my son here. >> just happy that i'm here. you know, alive. that's it. >> reporter: roei was in israel at the music festival that ultimately became the site of a terrorist massacre. he was there with five cousins when rockets started flying overhead. and the shooting began. he called his dad in los angeles to tell him what was going on. >> i was on the line with him and then the phone hang up. no signal. i didn't know where him -- eight hours maybe, i didn't know, where is my kid. i believe the worst happened. and it's a miracle that i see him right now. >> reporter: roei says he ran for four hours straight, leaving everything behind, including the shirt he had on. he wouldn't realize how lucky he was until later after news broke that 260 people had been killed there. >> finally i -- i hear that they took him to a safe plac