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prospective college students from california amid a financial aid fiasco. the risk of wildfires and sky high home prices have prompted many insurance companies to pull back. >> now we're learning more than half of state farm policyholders in orinda are about to lose their coverage. andrea nakano speaks to homeowners who say they've run out of options. >> reporter: tom holland has lived in orinda for 15 years. his home is tucked in the beautiful hillside where he takes daily walks with his two dogs. after paying more and more each year for homeowner's insurance, he just found out his policy won't be renewed. >> i just called my broker and he said, "you're canceled." so that's it. >> reporter: he's one of many state farm policyholders to lose their insurance. >> i think it's been slowly coming at us for five years. >> reporter: holland said early used to pay about $3,000 a year. that has steadily increased to roughly 8,000.
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>> honestly, it was not a shock because it's been a known issue and also our people are assumes going up like 30 to 60% a year for about five years. >> reporter: this comes as holland and many of his neighbors have been taking steps to mitigate fire risk. >> this is our home. the moraga-orinda fire department has ordinances and we met them all. >> reporter: yazmin leave found out travelers would not be renewing her policy after 18 years. >> i've got a list of people that could potentially insure me. i was on next-door and facebook following all the leads especially after state farm here in orinda hit pretty hard, but nothing panned out. >> reporter: lee looked into the fair plan created by the state, but the policy wouldn't begin to cover the costs of rebuilding her home. >> the state needs to step it up. the reality is we have
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homes. we're living here. they need to be insured. we need to be given some option and it looks like fair is just not a viable option for many. >> reporter: holland is trying to stay positive about finding another company to insure his home but knows it's going to cost him more than ever before. >> price goes up and maybe the actual coverage goes a little down. >> and homeowners can still buy coverage with the california fair plan which is known as the insurer of last resort, but it's way more expensive and the head of the fair plan recently said another significant rate hike is likely coming. back to san jose now where officials are celebrating the grand opening of their newest mobility hub for low income residents at the betty ann gardens parts. the hub gives residents low cost energy efficient ways to get around the city, including e-bikes, ev cars for res lyft credits. this
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is the third mobility hub the city has opened with funding from the community options grant from the state. >> i believe the kind of opportunity it opens up for education, job training, work, just getting to the grocery store or doctor's office and let's not underestimate the importance of social connection, getting out of this loneliness epidemic and connecting with one another. so there are a few things more important than mobility. >> mayor matt mahan says these mobility hubs can help working families achieve upward economic mobility by having more travel options. turning to the district 16, we now know who advanced to the general election in this closely watched race to replace anna eshoo. evan lowe will face off against former mayor sam liccardo. it was going to be a three-way race in november till a former mayoral campaign
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staffer for liccardo requested recounts of both santa clara and san mateo counties. san mateo allowed seven challenged ballots counted which enabled lowe to pick up the extra support. >> it's important to remember we must thank our dedicated worker at the registrar of voters and, if nick, this election shows that every vote certainly does count. so make sure that we register to vote and we have to continually have faith in our electoral process. testimony resumed today in the criminal trial of former president trump. today an attorney for two women who say they had sexual encounters with trump faced cross-examination. keith davidson testified he negotiated with former trump fixer michael cohen on behalf of model karen mcdougal and adult film star stormy daniels. both women were seeking deals to the rights for their stories about those alleged encounters. now trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in
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connection with a $130,000 became made to daniels. final arguments will continue tomorrow in a landmark anti-lawsuit against the search giant google. the department of justice is trying to convince a federal judge google illegally mommized the online search market through a web of contracts with various software platforms. that made google the default search engine. google argues consumers just chose google because it's the superior product. the court is expected to reach their final decision later this year. apple stock is up today after the company announced a historic $110 billion stock buyback plan despite the steepest quarterly decline in iphone sales since the start of the pandemic. apple's revenue and earnings came in above projections and apple projects revenue for the new quarter to continue to rise. it was a big day overall in the u.s. stock markets. the dow, nasdaq, and s&p all made significant gains. today is the deadline for california college students to apply for state financial aid.
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state lawmakers recently voted to push the application deadline from april 2nd to play 2nd for cal grants and other state-aid programs. the change was made due to huge problems with the rollout of federal forms used to calculate scholarship and loan amounts. this led to schools receiving inaccurate information about student eligibility. up next, human hair has become one of the hottest new fashion trends, how designers are using it to create sustainable clothing. >> so then we can really also show this can be an alternative to other fibers. if the bay area had its own flavor, what do you think it would taste like? we'll take you to the newest food and wine festival hoping to satisfy that craving.
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state and federal agencies are accusing san francisco of polluting the bay through repeated and widespread failures in water and sewage systems. the lawsuit filed yesterday says each year the city releases nearly 2 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the bay and the pacific ocean. the lawsuit seeks financial penalties and compliance to the clean water
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act by improving city practices. sf city attorney david chiu gave a statement saying the city is disappointed about the lawsuit and its needless and costly approach as opposed to working together to resolve concerns. from fashion houses to environmental nonprofits, scientists may have found a unique way to tackle the impacts of climate change and it may be growing on you right now. they say human hair may be the next biggest sustainable material. skyler henry with more on how these products may soon be in your stores and everyday life. >> reporter: there's a movement quietly going on in the fashion world and it's less about trends and more about the material. human hair is sweeping the runway. >> even if it's your own hair, you don't want to look at it on the floor. you don't even want to touch it. >> reporter: the startup human material loop, the short time the amsterdam small business has been operating kolar is at salons and barbershops scooping up strands that with the help of scientists and engineers in
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its labs is turning into fiber sewn into couture pieces. what have you been able to say okay, hair works here? >> they have developed knitted pieces, also woven pieces so we can also showcase this can be an alternative to wool fibers. >> reporter: the effort is an impact at lowering the environmental impacts of the fashion world, the second largest consumer industry of water. it takes 700-gallons to produce just one cotton shirt compared to human material loops method, which uses no water. >> we just take all the hair and make it really lacy. >> reporter: matter of trust is a san francisco-based nonprofit that has experimented with human hair for years, one of the largest collectors of donated hair in the u.s. and in addition to the occasional thread, most of the hair is gathers helps clean up hundreds of oil spills in u.s. waters. volunteers needle felts of hair for these mats. >> inside we use this hair because it's better at absorbing some of the oils. >> reporter: and better for the
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environment one lock at a time. >> matter of trust also uses its hair products to stuff sandbags that could be used to protect beaches. human material loop says it hopes to convince other companies to work more frequently with its materials. straight ahead in sports, john lynch put his foot down on his 49ers roster. it pays to have a big name. just ask tiger woods. and a moment worth waiting for if you're a member of the yastrzemski family. coming up on the cbs evening news, parts of the u.s. are bracing for a massive bug invasion, what you need to know about the cicadas set to emerge by the billions within weeks,
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- [narrator] the bay area's only virtual weather studio. next level weather. only on kpix and pix+. well, in indonesia thousands have been forced to evacuate due to a powerful volcanic eruptions. a 2,400-foot volcano along the southeast asia ring of fire with lava plumes flowing down and huge clouds of ash coming out of the mountain top. >> more than 12,000 people have already evacuated as authorities warn volcanic material falling into the ocean could also trigger a tsunami.
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>> that looked like it was lightning, too coming from the lava. is that something? >> a lot of lightning because lightning is caused by build-up of electricity whether it's in a cloud with things bumping into each other in a thunderstorm or all the debris in a volcanic cloud. they're interacting with each other creating friction. that creates electricity and it gets released in the form of a lot of lightning in those volcanic clouds. >> we see that during big fires here. unfortunately, we've seen it frequently. >> we get those pyrocumulonimbu s clouds out of big fires which hopefully we don't see anytime soon. the rain should help push back the start of fire season. let's look at the big picture pattern. as we finish the workweek, we've got one more mild day tomorrow, even warm away from the water, rain, though, moving in saturday morning, heavy at times the first half of the day, then tapering off to showers. dry weather returns to sunday, cool the second half of the weekend and a gradual return to normal and even above normal
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temperatures the rest of next week. switching perspectives, here's the view from san jose. highs were in the low 80s in santa rosa, close to 80 degrees in concord, mid-70s for san jose, the mid-60s in san francisco, only the upper 50s half moon bay. we're optimistic you would hit 60 degrees today, fell a couple degrees short. later tonight temperatures will drop down to a mix of upper 40s and low 50s by early tomorrow morning, very close to what's normal for this time of year. a nice warm-up in store for us tomorrow before a stronger onshore breeze kicks in during the afternoon, temperatures reaching the middle portion of the 70s in the santa clara, a mix of mid- to upper 70s and a few low 80s inland in the east bay. antioch is one of the warmer spots touching 80 degrees, low 70s for fremont and down the peninsula in redwood city, half moon bay, 60 degrees for a high temperature if you get the sunshine to break through, starting off with fog along the coast, mid-60s in san francisco, low 70s oakland and north bay topping out in the 70s, just a couple degrees cooler than today, santa rosa at 81 today,
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topping out at 78 degrees for the high tomorrow. let's talk about the weekend. things are going to get more complicated beginning tomorrow night. before the sun comes up we'll track rain moving into the north bay. it looms to our north throughout the day tomorrow. we'll still see plenty of sunshine most of the day and then showers move in, the north bay before sunrise and dropping across the rest of the bay area with the heaviest rain likely between 7:00 to 10:00 in the morning, and we'll see that move through quickly, no worries about flooding problems. the ground can absorb this amount of moisture. we're down to a few lingering showers saturday afternoon and evening. the second half of the weekend does look like it's going to be dry. how much rain are we talking about? forecast models are in pretty good agreement, painting a half to an inch of total rainfall, impressive for may, not unheard of. as we look at our normal rainfall amounts throughout the year, san
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francisco averages 0.7-inch of rain for may. it looks likely we'll pick that up in the course of about six hours or so the first half of the day saturday. the winds will pick up, too. onshore breeds is occasionally gusty tomorrow afternoon. these are wind gusts every six hours from 11:00 a.m. tomorrow through 5:00 p.m. saturday, but the strongest winds are saturday evening after the rain stopped, but behind that cold front there's going to be a rush of west-northwesterly winds, over 30 miles an hour for the strongest gusts, not strong enough for a wind advisory. it's going to be a snowmaker for the sierra, the forecast model saying 10 to 20 inches. a lot of that melts before it hits the ground, total accumulation 4 to 8-inch range, some of the peaks close to a foot of total snowfall. inland temperatures top out in the upper 50s and we return to the mid-60s sunday, close to 70 monday, 70s and even 80s by the tail end of the seven-day forecast. it's going to be a
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climb on the roller coaster after a cold, raw day saturday. 60s and 70s next week around the bay and along the coast the warm-up will be more modest, but you'll steady warm up maybe even up to the mid-60s for coastal parts of the bay area thursday next week. gives you something to look forward to as we get through a cold, wet, windy day saturday. time for a check of what's ahead at 6:00. we'll switch over to juliette. >> thanks so much. it is a new chapter for one of the fastest growing cities in the bay area. dublin schools are bursting at the seams. now some students who have been learning in portable classrooms are about to set foot on a brand-new campus decades from the making. we hear from a student who played a role in its design. plus it's the epicenter of california's spring bloom so impressive it can sometimes be seen from space. all that is come up in about ten minutes,
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but first vern and sports. we got baseball up top and the giants. the series is all over in boston. first mike yastrzemski had a special visitor in the clubhouse before today's get-away game. his grandpa and hall of famer carl yastrzemski. mom and grandma were at fenway all three days. mike gave them something to cheer about in the third, a 1-1 count blast, second career homer at fenway, 235 behind his grandpa. he paid for so many ticket requests he played this series for free. jung hoo lee had his introduction to the ballpark in the fifth, fly ball. lee never saw it and he got fenway-ed. it dropped for a double. it put the go ahead run in scoring position. two batters later he totally redeemed himself. full extension, laid out for it and
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saved a run. kyle harrison approved. 1-1 in the seventh. giants strung together three straight hits and took the lead. thairo estrada with the key hit. giants beat the sox 3-1 and avoided getting swept. the road trip continues tomorrow night in philadelphia. >> the first time i was here, felt a little pressure to perform and play well, but this time i really got to enjoy it and just relax and see family and have fun. >> yaz later added he got to spend about ten minutes with carl before the game. "i think he left the car running when he was in here. that's normal. he's quick to the point." pivot to the nfl and the 49ers, things have quieted down after last week's draft. that's just fine with general manager john lynch. he told the pat mcafee show he has no plans to tried deebo or brandon aiyuk before the season starts. >> i'm doing everything in my power to keep our roster
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together and that's my goal and so do conversations happen? absolutely they do. we're past that now. golf, tiger woods will play in june's u.s. open after receiving a special exemption. it's the first time he has failed to qualify for a major tournament since he turned pro. tiger has won the open three times, but the last one came in 2008. back to baseball, the yankees slugger juan soto let the ump know there was some kind of distraction over the center field wall in baltimore. the guy in the white shirt sitting down thought it was him. so he moved out of the way, but it turns out it was the police officer and the glare caused by his watch. the cop covered it up and the game resumed. so i'm going to use that excuse the next time i can't read the prompter. i'll just blame somebody else. >> it was liz's watch.
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>> that bling coming off. >> that must have been a really big watch. >> thanks, vern. still ahead at 5:00, the taste of the bay area coming together at one food and wine festival, how organizers are trying to shine a light on her diverse flavors. >> you can get so much amazing - lift the clouds off of... - virtual weather, only on kpix and pix+.
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this weekend there will be a special food and wine festival curated for people of color. >> our loureen ayyoub caught up with the founder and what was behind the movement. >> reporter: it's another busy day for gina rosales, the community activist and founder of the poc food and wine festival is hard at work insuring all the vendors she lined up for this weekend's inaugural celebration are ready to go. working out of her colorful studio in soma, gina is no stranger to cultural events. >> our team has been doing filipina cultures the past several years, but it had a desire to do multicultural events. >> reporter: working from the ground up, she and her team are designing every detail from the signage to the food and wine curation. the main gathering will take place saturday in berkeley with additional pop-ups throughout san francisco. gina hopes in a time
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of polarizing division her gathering will be a source of healing. >> i think now more than ever it's important for us to come together to get to know each other, to build bridges, especially across cultures because so many of us are experiencing similar things in this country. >> reporter: serving as a point of connection is at the heart of her work. born and raised in the bay, gina says her hometown is the perfect space for the festival. >> i love the bay area so much because of its diversity like we really are so lucky that there's so many different cultures and people and community that we are exposed to. you can get so much amazing food here that really is a taste of home. >> reporter: and that taste will be present at the festival, working with vendors like rise up bakery. gina hopes attendees will learn more about local culinary creators. >> rise up bakery in soma, one of our featured chefs that's going to be doing a tasting, a really delicious bread tasting paired with cheeses at the festival and, of course, tons
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of wine galore. >> reporter: as gina runs her last few errands in preparation for the fest, she says the experience is tailored for families of all backgrounds. >> it's multigenerational. so bring your mom. bring your auntie and if you don't identify as a person of color, you are absolutely welcome. it's just that we're really creating space to lift up folks who don't normally get to be in the spotlight. >> reporter: putting a light on culture for the culture. >> the first event of the festival kicks is a palestinian family meal at reames in san francisco now until 9:00. >> there are three events in berkeley on saturday, including an after party. find all the details online at pocfoodandwine.com. that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> thank you so much. a bay area city struggling to keep up with its booming population, now we're stepping inside a brand-new campus that will give some breathing room
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to an overcrowded school district. >> not only is it exciting, it's very surreal. this place looks like a college campus. >> they're about to go from portable classrooms to a sparkling new high school campus. it's a moment decades in the making for one of the bay area's fastest growing cities. >> what used to be empty fields are now housing developments. plus an oakland father describes the frightening close call for his wife and daughter caught in the middle of a gunbattle on the way to school. >> people are just going about their business just wreaking havoc on other people's lives. the first violent scuffle erupts at the uc berkeley encampment after days of peace. >> one of our protesters got punched in the eye. >> will this change the university's approach? later, it's one of the most famous spots in the state for super blooms that can sometimes be seen from space. we're taking a road trip to

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