now at 11:00 -- >> this is a situation that they're enduring day after day after day. >> -- a bay area nurse puts her own life on the line to save lives in a war zone. tonight she tells us what it took just to get into gaza and why she'd go back. plus, east bay firefighters on the defensive at this hour as a warehouse in hayward burns out of control. they say sitting over the wing is the most stable place on the plane, but we're betting the people sitting in these window seats were feeling a bit shaky when they landed. what's in a name? a lot, apparently. tonight sfo is

caught up in a bit of a shakespearean drama with the airport across the bay. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello, i'm juliette goodrich in for sara tonight. it's officially been half a year since the fighting erupted between israel and hamas. and the human toll has been devastating. tonight palestinians are returning to southern gaza and finding very little to go home to. the city is virtually unrecognizable after months of bombardment by israeli troops. israel withdrew from the area over the weekend, and at the same time, a nurse from fairfax was headed home from that very city after a personal mission to help ease whatever human suffering she could. she's now back at work in the bay area and told our jose martinez what it took just to get into gaza and why she

says it was worth it. >> reporter: sandra adler is back to her day job as an emergency room and pediatric nurse for kaiser permanente east bay after completing a two-week mission in gaza. >> i feel like what we did, hopefully saving lives, but in the bigger picture, again, it was just a tiny drop of what we could accomplish in the two weeks that we were there. >> reporter: she tell mess she and her team saw more than 150 patients per day during her time in southern gaza. the work was difficult. >> we were at a trauma stabilization point and working with a lot of mass casualty incidents. lot of pediatric trauma. >> reporter: so was getting to gaza in the first place. her journey started in germany with training on how to work in a hostile environment and from there -- >> we went to cairo where we

procured some additional supply, medical equipment. we brought 32 crates with us of mostly medical supplies and medicine. it was about a ten-hour trip getting to the border, crossing over, and then getting to our home base in rafah. >> reporter: sandra is no stranger to this type of work. she's been in disaster zones but says this deployment was the toughest. >> the artillery fire that we heard definitely increased over time. i'd say the last five days it was coming closer to rafah but consistently throughout my time there we heard shelling. >> reporter: she says one of her dearest memories is this picture with a little girl who visited her brother every day when he was receiving medical attention. but the saddest one was -- >> was leaving my colleagues, you know, there that here i knew the whole time that i had

a way out, but this is a situation that they can't leave, you know. this is a situation that they're enduring day after day after day. >> sandra worked with a nonprofit emergency response organization called ka tashgs stoshgs get into gaza. this was her 12th humanitarian mission. she says she'd like to go back if and when she can. new video just into the newsroom, this in hayward where a warehouse is going up in flames. this is video of the scene. it's from a fair distance away, but it is easy to see the flames shooting out. no word tonight what, if anything, is stored in that warehouse or how it caught fire. we are told firefighters are basically letting it burn while they focus on keeping it from spreading to other building. at home chp says it busted a chop shop operating out of an unlicensed vehicle repair store in sonoma county. detectives also arrested two men after serving a warrant on

the santa rosa shop late last month. they say there were dozens of cars inside. at least seven were stolen with parts removed and id numbers altered. so tesla just made an 11th hour deal to dodge a trial over its self-driving technology. the company settled with the family of an apple engineer who died in a crash on a bay area freeway while his model x was on auto pilot. walter wang was heeded down 101 in mountain view in march of 2018 when his model x slammed into the concrete median. ntsb investigators said the car was on auto pilot for almost 20 minutes. tesla quickly pinned the blame on wang, claiming that his hands were off the steering wheel for six seconds and he was playing a video game on his phone. wang's family acknowledges that he was distracted but argued tesla was at fault for falsely marketing auto pilot as self-driving soft

ware. no word on how much they settled for. live look out at san francisco now where more than a third of the city's office space is sitting vacant tonight. 36%, according to commercial real estate firm crbe that is an all-time high. and it's the result of the post-pandemic rise of remote work. the mayor is out with a new plan to turn that empty space into pretty much anything but offices. one small downtown business tells our kelsi thorud it can't happen soon enough. . >> reporter: mediterranean has been here at the corner of pine and belden in the financial district since 01. the manager, nancy, says when they first snagged this location they were ecstatic. >> this was store number four, so it was pretty busy. >> reporter: nancy says they would have lines out the door

during the week day lunch rush, but then of course the pandemic hit. >> it's definitely not the same as before. >> reporter: nancy says even all these years later since the peak of covid the crowds just aren't coming back. >> out of the five days we might have two good days. >> reporter: they're not alone. so many businesses continue to struggle, especially those downtown. the trend towards work from home has gutted many high-rises in the area, taking away a huge chunk of these restaurant's clientele. that is why mayor breed and several other city officials are pushing the state to pass laws that will make it easier to turn those vacant spaces into housing or other mixed use venues. president and ceo of the san francisco chamber of commerce rodney fang says he's fully on board with the mayor's vision. >> i think covid taught us not to necessarily put all of our eggs in one basket. san

francisco has the luxury of being able to try to diversify itself, which i think the mayor by going to san francisco is trying to do to expedite incentives for people to take chances and be creative in this great downtown. >> reporter: nancy told me she too likes the idea of getting more people back into downtown. she just hopes those people will visit her restaurant as much as those did before. >> improving either housing or more work, offers around the area will improve our business a lot. meanwhile, oakland is facing a cross bay lawsuit from san francisco over its airport rebranding plans. so the port commission is expected to vote this week on a proposal to add san francisco bay to the oakland airport's name. san francisco claims that would be a trademark infringement and could confuse travelers who think they're headed one place and then end up somewhere else. in a statement, the port of oakland blamed a lack of

geographic awareness for the airport's struggles in getting new routes. it added the new name would bring more flights that would benefit the entire region. all right, passengers, they heard a bang, they looked out of their window, and then they saw this, part of the plane flying off just as southwest jet did. and the eclipse, well, it didn't look as cool as this in the bay area, but it still made locals feel like this. >> it feels magical almost. >> i just feel lucky to be alive to see all this beautiful stuff in this world. >> very mature. this viewing party had all kinds of technology available to safely stare at the sun, including a raisin bran box. so we'll show you how that works. and regardless of your political stance, you'll probably blink several times watching how the trump campaign capitalized on the eclipse. coming up in the forecast, we've got a big warm-up over the next few days. some of us are going to the mid-80s by the middle of this week. and then

in classic spring whiplash fashion, we're going to drop all the way down to the low 60s for the weekend and get rained on again. we're not done with winter exactly. forecast coming up. i did not watch the eclipse. i did watch baseball. giants welcome in the washington nationals to town. they're building off a series win over san diego and on the bump blake snell. how did the highly anticipated debut for their big free agent signing go? tonight -- >> double shades right there. whoa, how'd - [narrator] at kpix, we're taking weather to the next level. - we can show not just what's happening at ground level, but we can show what's happening in the upper levels of the atmosphere. let's lift the clouds off of ground level and talk... - it really spotlights how unique the geography is here. - it's dynamic. it's different. as i lift this, you can actually see it in real-time.

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so the last thing you want when you're jetting off for

spring break is to see the plane break, so this is new video from a southwest 737 that lost part of an engine cover on takeoff from denver. so it was only in the air far few minutes yesterday before turning back to the mile high city. passengers were on their way to denver when part of that cowling came loose and hit the wing flap. >> there was a lot of, oh, yeah. >> it was a little spicy, but we're all okay. >> southwest and the faa are looking at that plane to figure out what went wrong. so peoppath of totality in total darkness for just a few minutes. and while the bay area only got partial view, plenty of stargazers showed up today to see just what they could. and john ramos shows us of all the technology that was out there to help people safely

stare at the sun, the most impressive may have been the most basic. >> reporter: the observatory is usually quiet on monday mornings, but not today. a sold-out crowd filled the plaza, doing something their mothers probably warned them about. >> we're going against our basic instincts right now i think today. >> why? >> we're staring directly at the sun, which is what we're told not to do. >> reporter: but there were all manner of devices to do that safely, from foil safety glasses to telescopes of all sizes with filters removing 99.9% of the light. and amateur stargazer dr. albert brooks was eager to show off what he could do with a cereal box. >> you don't need a telescope to see this. it's a raisin bran viewer. >> reporter: as people outside viewed the partial eclipse, inside the real show was being televised as the total eclipse

moved up through mexico and texas. it was a breathtaking sight. >> feels so powerful. it feels magical almost. and the aura is really beautiful. >> i just feel lucky to be alive to see all this beautiful stuff in this world. >> reporter: he's right about being lucky, because astronomer gerald keegan says we happen to live on this planet at the perfect time to view this unlikely celestial event. >> the sun is about 400 times farther away. coincidentally, the sun is about 400 times bigger than the moon. so the two numbers line up just right so we can see a perfect total solar eclipse. >> reporter: but that won't last for long, at least in astronomical term, because the moon is slowly moving away from the earth at the same time the sun is growing larger. >> dinosaurs would not have had this, and whoever's around 200

million years from now, they're not going to get it either, so -- >> reporter: so this is a special time. but in the rush of our live, we often lose sight of the natural wonders that surround us every day. sometimes it takes something magical to bring that back into focus. >> so even if you didn't look up and watch the eclipse yourself today, the videos have been pretty much impossible to miss. this is a time lapse of mazatlan, mexico. we don't know if the pilot of this plane did this on purpose, but it created a cool spectacle in the skies over bloomington, indiana. the astronauts aboard the international space station had a very different view that was no less spectacular. this is a look at the moon's shadow making its way across north america. all right, darren, this is what people were seeing over

sicily. that is not the eclipse. it's just mount etna's answer to it. volcano has been puffing out these perfect smoke rings since wednesday from a new crater that just opened up on the summit. wow, all these things to look at. and we're going to have some things to feel and see in a couple of days here in the bay area, right? >> we are. there's a notable warmup that's about to take place over to next few days. so i'm going to visualize how this change is going to take place between now and wednesday using kind of a unique looking map. there's california. green is showing generally warmer air. red and yellow is noticeably warm. and of course, blue is cold. i've been using this map a lot all winter to show you how the cold air what's would be coming in. tonight i'm going to use it to show the opposite. watch the progression over the next few days. subtly warmer as we get into wednesday. on thursday it takes on an exaggerated pattern. wednesday and thursday are going to be the two warmest

days this week. and some of us are going to go to the low and maybe even mid-80s for wednesday and thursday. let's use the virtual map and do a little bit of a comparison. tomorrow we're already going up about another five to seven degree where is where we were today. if we pick out some of the numbers on here for tuesday, you're going to be already in the upper 70s in the south bay. san jose on wednesday you're going to be 83 degrees. so you're going up five to six degrees tomorrow. you're going to go up another five degrees the day after that by the time we get to wednesday. there's livermore going up into the # 30s. look at oakland. your temperatures go into the low 70s. san francisco's getting close to 70. you're going to get there. you'll be there by the time we get to wednesday. in fact, here's the difference. if this is where you're going to be for daytime highs tomorrow, we'll lose that, and just to show you how much warmer the numbers will get from there as we get into wednesday, you can tack on another four or five degrees. santa rosa there, your

number goes up. everybody takes another jump up. so each day the next two days gets about five or six degrees warmer than the day before. we're going to get to the seven-day forecast in a second. and you'll see how we get into the low and mid-80s by the time we get to wednesday. now, that's going to come to an end almost as fast as it comes on. because when we look at the bigger picture, there's a system way out in the pacific that is going to get here by friday. by friday the temperatures are going to come down ten degrees and by saturday maybe another ten degrees from that. so the -- many of us will probably be upper 50s for daytime highs. think about that for a second. by saturday. we're just -- we spent all this time talking about low 8 #130s for the middle of the week. by saturday could be upper 50s to low 60s. we put it into the long-range forecast, look at the perfect placement that thing has. that's saturday morning at 4:45. that wall of green right there then comes onshore, and it's going to rain widespread

on saturday. i'm going to play this, but just the way we're looking at this for right now, it's fairly low resolution because we're going all the way out to saturday. i'm not going to try and pick out specific timeframes here. we're just going to watch a general broad brush saturday. and then on sunday there will be a few leftover showers on it. we're going to get a lot more specific over the n■ext 4 and 36 hours. i am going to slow it down. we'll start picking out specific locations. it's just a little too early with a system like that to do that. instead we come away with a general broad brush notion, widespread rain on saturday, and there could likely be a few leftover showers still with us on sunday. and the caveat to this is the timing of that system likely can and perhaps will shift a little bit because we're still several days out here from saturday. so once we get within about two or three day, we'll really nail it down. it's another one of those quickly developing storms. not recally all that well attached to the jet

stream. juliette, look at this spread, from one extreme to the other. we may not be in a drought at this moment, but this is painful to look out. water fwushing out of this high grant for hours today before it was finally shut off. firefighters were called out to the mesa verde condo come blex to shut it off. there was some sort of problem with the valve and they couldn't close it. so they had to call east bay mudd in to help. the agency tells us they don't have any metering devices on the hydrants, so there's no way to measure how much water went down the drain. and a good outcome to a different kind of muddy mess in el sobrante. the gray shape is a horse named big ben. it was some trick to get him out of there. firefighters used straw and branches to haul him out of his predicament. despite four hours stuck in the mud, we are told he is doing all right

tonight. thankfully. all right, that's not the only animal rescue in the news tonight. matt, we're going to tell you what's up with this misguided mountain goat. >> three words i've never seen next to each other. okay, right after the break, you can get souvenir whence you go to augusta national, but patrons received something no one else can claim they have. march madness officially over. a repeat champ,

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climbed. he was actually spotted hopping around the support pillars of this bridge. bystander managed to loop a rope around it and get it to the ground. all right, so matt, any ideas how billy got up there? did he jump? >> i don't know, but if he got up there, i believe he can get down himself. >> oh, really, what goes up -- >> must come down. >> look at that guy. >> very skilled. >> and he's really calm too. wow. >> good for billy. keep away from wrigley field. >> i think people could watch that video for hours and hours compared to maybe the finals tonight, huh? >> oh, not so great. not so great. basketball, we're going to get to it later, but it was not awesome. we were hoping the giants were going to be a little bit better as well. they won the back half of the off-season. they signed jorge soler, matt chapman, we had seen two of the three in action, but monday representing the debut for the final part of

that trio. >> run, it's -- >> snellzilla. >> that's so good. blew the 96-mile-per-hour fastball by joey gallo. one of five strikeouts for snell. he ran into trouble in the second. back-to-back walks setting the table for the nationals. and they scored three runs in the inning. snell needed 72 pitches to get through three innings. the giants offence is getting plenty of runners on base so far, but they're having trouble getting them home. 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position. 1 for 27 on the home stand. a .198 average for the season, the worst in the national league. washington took the opener 8-1. college hoop, yukon became the first team since the 2007 florida gators to win back-to-back national titles. their men's and women's programs have combine for the 17 tiet unless the last 30 years. i don't think huskies coach dan hurley was asking

zach how's the weather up there, big man. little tension. longtime purdue coach gene cady in the house. hopefully that's not permanent ink. led the boilermakers with 37. he missed here. camden came flying for the put back. definitely a one shining moment for him. that cut it to seven, but that would be as close as they got. yukon won all six tournament games by double digits for the second street year. sixth national title in program history, trailing on ucla and kentucky for most all time. we've seen plenty of riveting images of people watching the eclipse earlier today. where was the best view? well, in my mind, there's only one right answer. oh yeah, everything is cooler at augusta national. jules agrees. it's a scientific fact. they even handed out the souvenir glasses and the patrons twrnt only ones

excited to grab a pair. >> 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'll be in my office forever. >> will zalatoris hanging on to his. this is what's cool about augusta national, they're notorious for merchandise, but you can only buy it when you're at the tournament. >> day of. >> and then, of course, you can go online. i checked to see if those souvenir glasses have made their way to ebay. they have. tons of listings, going for as high as $400. >> who buys this? >> i'm going to buy one right now. >> no you are not. >> i'll do it right now. a masters eclipse glasses? that's awesome. >> all right do, it. >> money well spent. >> prime, will it be arriving tomorrow? >> probably can get it in the next three day, in time for the next eclipse. >> good deal. put it on layaway. >> thank, jules.

all right, the guardians are starting the season with one of the best records in baseball, but it wasn't just their play that had the fans cheering in cleveland today. the crowd at progressive field had the best seats in the house for the solar eclipse. far few minutes it looked like a night game. april is donate life month, and today a 14-year-old boy had a chance to raise a commemorative flag at the santa clara county hospital where he received a life-saving kidney transplant courtesy of a total stranger. jackson shaney felt of turlock was diagnosed with a genetic disorder of the kidneys in 2022 and needed a transplant before they failed completely. when sara best of sacramento saw his story on social media and she stepped in to offer one of her own. they had their surgeries and were supposed to unite today but sara got a flat tire and couldn't make it. that didn't stop jackson from letting her know how she changed his life. from thank you for the chance of life again, and then i really enjoy

being back to normal and able to run faster than i used to. >> aw, jackson was able to thank sarah somewhat face to face over zoom. so the trump campaign decided to use

oh boy. there were a lot of eyeballs on the eclipse today, certainly hopefully shielded by some sort of protective equipment. >> right? >> so then the trump campaign

was quick to capitalize on this captivating event. ♪ ♪ >> there it is. >> oh my god. ♪ ♪ >> oh my. okay, that was interesting. so people online pretty puzzled. some commenting that the ad is implying that he will plunge the country into darkness. i do like that song. i don't know about the ad. and there you go. who dreams this up? maybe trump himself. >> interesting. how many more years until the next eclipse, darren? >> there's going to be one in 2044, but that one's too far away. 2045, there's one that

goes through northern california. a total solar eclipse in 2045. >> that's the one that we will actually care about. when i can see it - lift the clouds off of... - virtual weather, only on kpix and pix+.