future" and that there is a recent effort to better address sidewalk parking in the city. near ninth avenue and moraga street, a sign asking people not to call the department of transportation to ticket cars parked in driveways. it suggests leaving a note asking someone to park differently. >> i think if you live in the neighborhood, we should be a little bit more friendly and neighborhoody to our neighbors and i think it doesn't have to go for the kill, maybe just kind of like talk to the person. >> reporter: linda messitt doesn't have a car but lives in the neighborhood and frequently walks her dog harrison. she sees cars spilling into the sidewalk all the time and it can cause issues. >> we walk in a group going to meet our friends to walk our dogs together. you're going around and end up in the street. i mean it's a pain sometimes. >> reporter: she says she's able-bodied and usually just walking her dog, but for others it could become dangerous. >> i think that it would be a bigger issue if i had kids and

you're trying to get a group of children and you don't want to cross into the street to get around a car. >> reporter: cho says he thinks the law needs to be enforced on a case-by-case basis. >> things need to make sense. regulations and rules is to make sense of something. if a rule doesn't make sense anymore, then why should there be a rule? i think what makes sense is like people with strollers and dogs and whatnot be able to pass through and i think that should be enough space. >> reporter: for now people in these neighborhoods say they will continue to try to come up with creative solutions to avoid being cited in the future. it was a busy weekend of illegal sideshows across the bay area. you can still see the skid marks from people doing donuts on the bay bridge. more than 100 cars were involved in a sideshow there saturday night and into sunday morning leading to the chp temporarily shutting down the upper deck of the bridge. police say four people were detained. it wasn't just

the bay bridge. officers responded to sideshows in oakland, mountain view and menlo park. we know of one injury so far, a 20-year-old woman ending up with a broken ankle in mountain view. tesla settled a high profile lawsuit over its controversial automated driving system just before jury selection was set to begin. terms of that deal have not been disclosed. the case stems from a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of an apple engineer who died after a crash in 2018. walter wong's tesla model x smashed into a barrier on highway 101 in mountain view while it was in autopilot. the suit alleges the technology is not as safe as tesla claims and that the company knew that it had flaws that could make it unsafe. following that deadly crash, tesla recalled all 2 million of its cars in the u.s. taking a live look at the state capitol where a new bill aims to make it easier and cheaper to buy concert tickets, east about a assembly member

buffy wickes is taking aim at ticketmaster, which she calls a monopoly, controlling 80% of the primary ticket market. she says ticket prices have gone up by 140% since ticketmaster merged with live nation in 2010 and at times it's been more than just expensive to buy tickets. it's been almost impossible. the ticketmaster website crashed in 2022 when fans were trying to get tickets for taylor swift's latest tour. it is the subject of a lawsuit alleging fraud. there was also an ongoing investigation by the department of justice. this bill would shake up the system requiring competition at the first point of sale. >> companies will have to compete for consumer business which will lead to lower fees and better service. we all know that when there's competition, it's better for the consumer. >> the bill would impact both primary and secondary markets making it illegal for companies like ticketmaster to put restraints on abilities for

tickets to be sold. ticketmaster sent us a statement saying the bill would undermine the effort of artists and primary ticket companies to limit ticket scalping forcing artists and individuals to hand over their tickets to separate sites is a dream by some the. hello, wisconsin. >> reporter: president biden visited the college town of madison, wisconsin, to roll out a new plan for canceling thousands of dollars of student debt for millions of americans. >> the ability for working and middle class folks to repay their student loans has become so burdensome a lot can't repay it for even decades after being in school. >> reporter: this plan focuses on high interest rates providing relief for borrowers who now owe more than their original loan was worth. the loan forgiveness would apply to people who have been paying

undergrad loans for 20 years or more or grad student loans over the last 25 years. it also applies to those already eligible for loan forgiveness and for borrowers who can prove financial hardships prevent them from repaying their loans. >> i'll never stop to deliver student debt relief on hard working americans and it's only in the interest of america we do it and again, it's for the good of our economy. >> reporter: it's no coincidence the plan was unveiled in wisconsin, one of the big swing states this election cycle. student debt relief is a popular proposal among progressive voters, but some legal challenges are expected. the supreme court struck down a previous attempt by the biden administration to forgive hundreds of millions in student loans. >> the supreme court was very clear in saying that biden's loan forgiveness policy was an overreach of his executive power and overreach of his authority. >> reporter: this smaller, more targeted plan will still require a months long public

comment period before it can take effect, narrowing the chances it will be implemented before election day. >> the president put on a full-court press over the new policy with the vice president holding an event in philadelphia and the education secretary holding an event in new york. baseball in the east bay is not dead. coming up next, how the oakland ballers are looking to expand their roster with local talent. here we

have you noticed gas prices have soared in the past month with the statewide average now hitting $5.35 a gallon, up a

quarter in just the past week and nearly 50 cents higher than this time last year. california is the only state above the $5 mark right now. a map by aaa shows us the whole country. states marked in red have seen a big increase in their gas prices and the entire western side of that map is all red. >> if i take those four reasons, one, tensions in the middle east and the war in ukraine, second, we see summer demand going up anyways. we don't have transportation with pipelines running to the state and we have a very high gas tax. >> so here is a look at the current prices in the bay area, 5.61 per gallon in san francisco, 5.49 in oakland, and 5.46 in san jose. compare that to the national average which sits at 3.59 a gallon. it feels like we only just got started, but the commercial dungeness crab fishing season is ending today. this is the

second year the department of fish and wildlife cut the season short to protect humpback whales. the closure is from the sonoma-mendocino county line south to the border with mexico. while commercial fishing is allowed to the north, there are restrictions. crab season in the bay area got off to a late start already this year back in mid-january. coming up, did you see it? a rare eclipse sent parts of the world into darkness. we're sharing more pictures of the moment of totality from around the country and our own view here at kpix. ahead in sports, the giants welcome their biggest name free agent acquisition to oracle park tonight. plus the dubs are locked into the play-in tournament thanks to wins in seven of their last eight games. coming up tonight on the cbs evening news, we're live from indianapolis where we experienced totality, stunning darkness at 3:00 p.m. tonight we ask bill nye, the science

guy, what we can learn from today's rare total eclipse of the sun. that's

millions of americans stepped outside to look at the sky today for the total eclipse. the moon swept in

front of the sun plunging 14 states into dark's for about four minutes. this is what the total eclipse looked like from mexico, crowds gathering in the city of mazatlan to watch the sky go dark while an orchestra played the "star wars" theme. we got a pretty good look at a partial eclipse on the roof of our kpix studios. all we needed were eclipse glasses or a paper cut poked with pinholes. check it out. >> wow. that's crazy. wow. >> reporter: what's it look like? >> it looks like when you eat a cookie and you regret it. you're like one bite in. it's only like 34%, though. it's kind of crazy. i'm jealous of everyone in texas. >> reporter: what's the cup doing? >> i poked holes in it. >> you get mini eclipses. >> it was a great day for

eclipse watching on the roof. first alert meteorologist darren peck in our virtual view studio, darren, what was your view of the eclipse? >> i was kind of out doing my normal routine and i didn't have any special glasses. so i didn't look up and i just took a look around and looked for some of the shadows through trees and noticed that maybe it was mildly less bright than it had been, but wasn't all that intense from my perspective. i'm glad we had so many people who were able to enjoy it today. we certainly had great weather for it, no clouds in our way. if you look at the number now, that's the vantage point, 73 degrees out there in diablo valley. in oakland you'll notice it's about 10 degrees cooler on this side. we're only in the mid-60s here. everybody is going up about 10 degrees from where you are right now by the time we top out wednesday. you pick out your part of the bay on here for today, a lot of low 70s, low to mid-70s for many inland

valleys. i'm going to switch this from monday's daytime high to thursday and now you can really see the difference, a lot of deep oranges and daytime highs in the low to mid-80s. wednesday and thursday actually will be pretty similar. they're both almost identical in terms of how warm it will feel and by friday we'll give a lot of that back and then on saturday nobody gets out of the low 60s. it's going to be a huge classic spring whiplash turnaround. i can show you where it's coming from. this system in the gulf of alaska which cannot get here over the next few days while we're doing our warm-up, look at the storm track, everything getting pulled way up into canada. friday that system is able to break through. it's sitting right off the coast. we won't get a lot of rain friday from this. most of friday is an increase in clouds and daytime highs that come back down probably into the low 70s for many of us, but saturday let's play this through. that widespread band right there

comes across for about everybody. the timing has gone this way so many times this winter. we get the widespread rain saturday, maybe a few leftover showers sunday, but the system appears to be primarily focused on saturday. it's a little early considering today's monday. the timing and details on this can and likely will still adjust a little bit. we may have to talk about a little more rain on friday perhaps or maybe it slows down into sunday. for now it does look very well behaved in just being bracketed primarily to saturday. stay on top of the forecast with us. we'll get about a half inch of rain out of it in general. things will get wet. seven-day forecast shows you the wild swings in temperatures. look at the numbers going down to the upper 50s by saturday. you can see what happens here for san jose, 80s, low 80s here, upper 50s here. when we finish up the microclimates, you see a very similar trend for just about everybody. if you're wondering if we can go back into spring for a while after this system,

i think there's reason to be hopeful for that because if we look past this, there don't appear to be any other systems, at least not in the next ten to 14 days after that one. let's just get this one over with. back to you. >> thanks, darren. time for a check on what is ahead at 6:00. let's switch over to juliette goodrich. >> thank you. san francisco's trying not to stall out on the road to post pandemic recovery. now the mayor is making a special trip to sacramento, the new policy city and state leaders are pushing to bring downtown back to life. plus a closer look at the shake-up in the world of real estate, how new commission rules could affect people on both sides of the market. a lot coming up in about ten minutes, but first let's get to matt and sports. thanks, jules. the giants will play somebody other than the dodgers or padres tonight, thank goodness. the nationals are in town and better be afraid of what's waiting for them.

♪ >> run! snell-zilla. >> i didn't know we were getting the voiceover there. blake snell making his giants debut tonight, expected to throw around 80 pitches as he continues to ramp up after missing all of spring training. the warriors enter the final week of the regular season playing some of their best ball of the year, but they are still tenth in the west with only four games remaining. klay thompson and the dubs took care of the jazz last night. they've won seven of eight and feeling confident wherever they land in the play-in tournament. what does klay credit for their improved play? >> i think when we got to miami, we got to have a beach day. i think that changed everything. you get to go to the ocean and to the beach, throw the football, swim, be free and have fun. i think that really sets your mind free. it was so fun to be down there with the guys and just have a day away from the court. that

really i think had us bond well together. i think that was a huge turning point. we just showed you what it was like to watch the eclipse from our roof, nice view, no doubt, but you know what's an even better spot? ♪ >> yes, everything so much better at augusta national. it's just a scientific fact. they even handed out souvenir glasses, but not all the golfers took a break from their practice round. >> this is timed up pretty good, get to watch the end of the world at augusta national, right? >> i found a couple of masters eclipse glasses, which i will be keeping those for absolutely the rest of my life. those will be some collectibles that will be in my office forever. >> i'm going to check ebay later. purdue and uconn playing tonight for the national title. if you had them in your bracket pool, you fared better than the people's bracket we filled out

before the tournament. >> clemson, new mexico? >> new mexico. >> st. marys versus baylor to go to the final four. >> i have no idea. >> reporter: this is the gaels and the bears. >> baylor. >> reporter: you're making our final four pick, uconn, baylor. >> baylor. >> reporter: how much college basketball do you watch? >> none, none, absolutely none. >> reporter: so you're the expert. >> it's got to be gonzaga. >> reporter: you're going gonzaga? why? >> because it's got a cooler name. >> i really thought it was going to be a perfect bracket. it obviously didn't work out. however, from a percentage standpoint, the people's bracket had 55%. my own bracket, just 52%. >> oh, the people beat our sports guy? >> and it was like tough to even stand out there and listen to what was being said on this bracket. i'm making fun of it and then it beats me. >> that is embarrassing for you. >> thank you for the sympathy. i was putting that out there

hoping to get some like niceties in return, no. >> no, no. i didn't fill one out. >> oh, all right. >> you can't lose if you don't play. >> i'm not even going to listen to insults hurled my way, then. >> fair. thanks for your honesty. still ahead at 5:00, oakland's new baseball team had room for a few walk-on players. coming up next, the ballers who came out hoping to earn their spot. this van just hit me out of nowhere. i thought i was dead. after the accident, i was in a lot of pain

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oakland a's fans are hurting after news that the team is going to move to sacramento after this season, but an independent minor league team, the oakland ballers, is hoping to fill that void. john ramos was there this weekend as players from all over the area tried out for the team. >> reporter: it's been said baseball is a game designed to break your heart and oakland a's fans know a lot about that these days, but today's tryout was evidence that it takes more than just some heartache to kill a dream. the a's may be leaving

oakland, but the dream of baseball was still very much alive. the oakland ballers tryout at laney college drew players who were not afraid to take a long shot chance. that's sort of what paul freedman did when he co-founded the team. >> when it became clear last year the a's intended to move, like most fans, i was pretty devastated but felt like baseball needs to stay in oakland and it really should be up to people from oakland whether baseball stays or continues and baseball is such an important fabric of the community. >> reporter: more than 100 players showed up to try to snag one of the few remaining spots on the roster. some showed more talent and perhaps experience than others, but ballers manager micah franklin says some of these guys may actually have been drafted by mlb teams in years past. >> used to be 50 rounds in the draft. now there's only 20 rounds. rounds 21 through 50 now have no place to play. they come to our league to play. now they're playing to show off

their skills to all 30 teams. >> reporter: they may get some inspiration from one of the team's assistant coaches, former giants star first baseman jt snow. he said he was lured back to hear the crack of the bat and the pop of the glove. >> you never know. there's been a lot of guys that have come through and made their dreams getting to the big leagues from tryout camps like this. obviously not everybody will get signed. there might be just a couple, but you can always find that diamond in the rough. >> reporter: most of these guys have played since they were little kids, but robert nolan is 35 now. he plays in an adult league in san jose and realizes he's probably too old to be selected, but like jt, it's not easy to give up on the game. >> yeah. i'm just here to have fun. if there's a chance to make it and compete at this level, i'd love to do it, but if anything else, i came out here on a saturday to play baseball. >> reporter: up in the stands alan harper remembers his days playing triple-a ball. he thinks every player was holding onto some hope the dream could

come true. >> i think they're serious, yeah. i think it's something they have to get out of their system, get it out of your system. maybe i gave it a shot, you know. it worked or it didn't work. i think maybe one or two guys will come out of all this. it's like winning the lottery. >> reporter: jason dixon has no more hope. he watched from outside the ballpark wondering what it will be like when the last of his beloved sports teams abandons him. >> i lost my raiders. i lost the warriors. losing the a's. i'm still a fan. i think this is cool that it will still be baseball in oakland even though it's not a professional team, but it's still baseball, right? >> reporter: yes, it's still baseball, a game of hope and a game of heartache and those who love it know you can't have one without the other. >> spring training for the ballers will start in may. the home opener is set for june 4th at raimondi park in oakland.

that will do it for us at 5:00 tonight. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts now. >> now at 6:00, san francisco working hard to break free from the so-called doom loop as downtown businesses try their best to hang on. >> now it's a hit or miss. >> the downtown rebound still struggling to get off the ground. >> out of the five days i have two good days. >> how the mayor is rallying support in sacramento to bring businesses back to life. >> i think covid taught us not to necessarily put all our eggs in one basket. san francisco has the luxury of being able to try to diversify itself. plus the day the sun went dark in parts of the u.s. >> it was definitely tear worthy, once in a lifetime. >> just amazed, blown away. >> a look at the historic solar eclipse from inside the path of totality and the unique view we got right here in the bay area. >> it's a blast. >> i think it's really cool and i'm really excited. later we're digging into the new rules for california realtors, how the changes could

shake up the process for buyers and sellers. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening. you know by now san francisco has been having a rough time adjusting to its post pandemic reality. the rise of remote and hybrid work has just emptied out parts of downtown and it's having a ripple effect across the city. the office vacancy rate in san francisco was up to more than 36% in the first quarter of the year and that's an all time high. mayor london breed was at the state capitol today along with mayors from other major california cities touting some of the steps the city is taking to help revitalize downtown. >> department stores in union square that is being converted to office, housing, but will also have retail. it's an