the leading edge of tomorrow's rain. that's still on the far northwest coast. we'll bring that forward. it's getting here in earnest tomorrow morning. everybody will get a pretty widespread rain. we got to talk about this turnaround and cooldown, forecast coming right up. outrage over a plea deal for a dui suspect who killed a champion cyclist in san francisco, the concern about what it could mean for future cases. >> this set a really dangerous precedent that someone can drive dangerously, recklessly drunk and kill someone and not really face much consequence at all. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. let's begin with a big positive for oakland. first fridays is back after a three-month hiatus. the monthly block party draws thousands of people, but financial challenges forced it to take a break. now the nonprofit behind first fridays it relaunching it again on the stretch of

telegraph avenue in koreatown. that is despite dealing with a burglary earlier this week. da lin joining us live now. he's telling us this is certainly a big boost for all of the money troubles they've had over there. da? there you are. how you doing, da? it looks like people are just starting to show up. >> reporter: yeah. first hour into first fridays here of 2024, juliette. folks are starting to show up now as we speak. alex, the photographer, is going to walk around. with the popularity of first fridays, it's hard to imagine organizers are going through some financial hardships, but they are. tuesday they had a break-in at the nonprofit organization's office. they're saying it's a reflection of what they see in oakland but say this sort of event is so important to uplift the city. it's back and they say what doesn't kill you makes you

stronger. that's the home for oakland's first fridays after a three-month hiatus due to money problems and last week's weather postponement. you can add crime to the mounting challenges as well. >> we're super excited to be back to oakland first friday. it's one of our best events, one of our largest events. >> reporter: while it's known for arts, music, and food, the popular monthly event provides a vital lifeline to small businesses like delightful foods bakery. >> it's one of our largest events by far of each month, might be our best event of the month. >> reporter: he doesn't have a store, so selling at events is how he makes money and expand his pie business. >> we're known for our pies and our crust, okay? we have 19 different pies, everything from peach pie, apple pie, sweet potato, key lime. >> reporter: first fridays organizers say they need all the sweets and support as they're navigating through some tough financial times. kono is the nonprofit that puts

up the monthly event. they rely heavily on donations and sponsorships. >> event ranges anywhere from 35 to 45,000 each month and our vendor fees doesn't even cover half that bill. >> reporter: on tuesday morning they say a man cut their lock and broke into their office to steal some equipment. this footage doesn't have sound, but they say a loud alarm system likely forced the thief to leave early. >> we are able to bend. we're not breaking. we're going to persevere through it just like we do everything else because we're passionate about the work that we do and our resilience is unique. we will fight until we have no fight left. >> reporter: with all the crime that's happening, supporters and vendors say first fridays reminds people there's still a lot of good in oakland. >> there's a lot of people in oakland that are trying to do good. there's a lot of people in oakland that are positive and that's what we're focusing on. >> reporter: this event runs until 9:00 tonight. by the way,

organizers say they will continue to fundraise and they'll also schedule to run this event every month the rest of this year for the remaining of 2024. that's their plan right now, but they're asking for donations and for people to volunteer when they can. >> thank you. this is so fun to see. i love seeing everyone there. organizers say police and fire services are provided by oakland, but they don't contribute to funding the event. organizers are working with the city to see if that can change. you can find a link to more information on oakland first fridays on our website, kpix.com. the second time this year san francisco's chinatown is turning one of its main thoroughfares into a walkable night market. local merchants set up booths up and down grant street this evening selling food and souvenirs. similar events last year drew big crowds. so organizers decided to bring it back on a monthly basis. they home the event will help revive neighborhood small

businesses which have been struggling since the start of the pandemic. it is good timing for those events tonight because rain is moving into the bay area later tonight and at least part of the weekend. it won't be so great for outdoor plans. we are in first alert mode and meteorologist darren peck is looking at what we can expect. >> the headline is the rain. we're going to look at that in a second. we went down 15 and some places 20 degrees from where we were yesterday. it was a fast drop. if you pick out your part of the bay, it was only 60s in the south bay, tri-valley, livermore 64. after doing numbers in the low 80s yesterday, that is a pretty quick turnaround, classic spring whiplash. let's get specific on what's coming. we'll look at where the storm is now. you can see the rain off the far northwest coast.

we'll switch this to futurecast imagery. now you can see the bottom trailing edge. watch how the storm comes together. see the center and opening line? that's the cold front tomorrow morning. we're looking at 2:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. through about 8:00 a.m. that's when we'll be under that. that's the most widespread steady rain. we'll probably get a half inch of rain. most of it happens before sunrise. then with we get into late morning, there will be a little break tomorrow before the center of the system comes onshore. then tomorrow afternoon and i think probably more noticeably tomorrow evening like between 6:00 and 10:00 at night we'll be closer to the part of this system that has the ability to deliver an occasional thunderstorm. that will get us into saturday night. to give you a closer view on the start of this, we're going over this in much more detail coming up in the complete first alert forecast. we'll watch it close up, slow it down, put it on the high resolution forecast and help

you plan out saturday and sunday as well. sunday looks much better, can't day rain out completely, but it looks better. see you in a bit. let's get to a tragic update to a search in sonoma county. crews have recovered what they believe to be the body of a teenager who may have been swept away by the russian river. the family reported two teens were swept away by the water in forestville at 5:00 p.m. yesterday. one of the teens was able to get out on their own, but crews were not able to find the other teen. today a body was found in the search area, but the coroner is still working to officially confirm the identity. following two recent fires on the san jose state campus, authorities say that a student has been arrested and charged with arson. the first fire occurred march 31st in a men's restroom. the second occurred in another restroom about a week later. the suspect has been identified as sophomore imo wadaga. there's some outrage tonight after a

recent plea deal in the bike crash that killed a champion cyclist in san francisco. the man who hit the cyclist was driving drunk in the presidio last year and will only be charged with misdemeanors. kelsi thorud spoke to a cycling advocate who worries the deal set a dangerous precedent. >> that's unacceptable. this is people's safety. >> reporter: one of san francisco's most outspoken advocates for bicycle safety hearing about the plea deal reached by prosecutors and the man accused of hitting and killing a bicyclist in the presidio last year was shocked. >> that someone can drive dangerously, recklessly drunk and kill someone and not face much consequence at all. >> reporter: the suspect in the case, 81-year-old arnold kinman lowe, pled guilty to

misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter and dui, charges that each carry a maximum punishment of just one year in jail. former federal prosecutor tony brass told me he's never seen a case like this charged as a misdemeanor. >> and a dui is almost by definition a felony. i have not seen, you know, manslaughter involving driving under the influence and charged as a misdemeanor i don't think ever. so it is a most unusual plea. >> reporter: court document show that boies family asked the judge to show leniency to mr. lowe, saying "he wouldn't have wanted our families to endure the lengthy and painful process a criminal trial will surely entail." brass told me a letter like that can influence how a prosecutor chooses to

charge a suspect, but that prosecutor also has to be aware of how their decision could impact future cases. >> now are all dui manslaughters on federal land going to be misdemeanors? how do we make the distinction? what distinguishes this case? what are those facts? >> reporter: luke told me he has the same questions. he now worries that not only are cyclists still in danger on roads like the one boies was killed on which didn't have protective bike lanes, but they now have to worry about drivers not being held accountable for their actions. >> we're talking about two, three, sometimes four-ton vehicles that can very easily kill or seriously injure people and i think it's really critical people understand that there are consequences if they hurt someone with their car. >> reporter: luke told me he continues to push the presidio trust to put in protected bike lanes not only along this

stretch, but throughout the park. he says the risk to cyclists remains a significant issue throughout the city and it's one he believes that local officials need to make a higher priority. >> as part of the plea deal, lowe admitted he was drunk when he struck boies and had consumed wine two hours before the crash. still ahead, a brave young woman coping with a rare childhood disease that affects the brain, how her family is fighting for a lifeline for the state to get the medicine they need. >> never in a million years did i think 13 ye

two major biotech companies are laying off hundreds of workers in south san francisco. genentech plans to lay off 436 employees across several departments at its headquarters and commercial production facility. the company has manufactured drugs and cancer therapies there since the '80s. and sanofi based in france announced closure of its south san francisco facility that will impact about 100 jobs. families of children with a rare disease that affects their brains are hoping new legislation in sacramento will help them get the medicine they need. an assembly committee will hear the bill next week which would require health insurance companies to cover the disease and treatments. as len ramirez reports, it's been a long struggle for one south bay family.

>> this is the magic ivig. this is what we've been waiting for. they finally flew it in last night. >> reporter: for 26-year-old tessa gallo waiting four months for a shipment of medication is just part of the medical ordeal. there's painful iv hookup. >> i took close to three hours to find her vein. >> reporter: and the 12 hours it takes to get the medication infused and on this day it all became too much. >> this is the worst disease i've ever been through. it's not easy for me. >> reporter: tessa suffers from an autoimmune disorder called pans or pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome that struck her one day when

she was a happy, healthy 13-year-old. >> overnight on july 8th, 2011, tessa a drugically changed. >> reporter: the dramatically changed. >> reporter: a patient's antibodies attack the part of their brain that regulate behavior causing ocd, tics and other syndromes. >> became psychotic, developmentally delayed and i knew something was wrong. unfortunately, it took about ten months to figure out her diagnose, that it was actually not bipolar or schizophrenia. >> reporter: tessa's mother and advocate said she was in and out of psych wards and given many drugs for what doctors thought was a mental illness, that is, until a new team of doctors at lucile packard suspected pans. >> they started a clinic after her and started giving her something called ivig and retuxanoun, both very expensive drugs. >> reporter: the drugs eased

tessa's symptoms and make dramatic positive changes with many other patients with pans and a related condition called pandas which starts as a strep infection. tessa takes the medicine one every three months, but downing says it's been a struggle i since day one to get the drugs covered by insurance companies. >> never in a million years did i think 13 years later would i still be fighting for the same medication. >> the treatment is not inexpensive. >> reporter: dr. mark pastrnak is it an associate of pediatrics at harvard university and one of the nation's leading researchers into pans and pandas and says there's a lot the wider medical community still doesn't know about the disease and patients are often denied coverage with drug costs being a major factor. >> for teenagers it's probably close to give $15,000 a treatment. >> reporter: 11 states passed legislation requiring insurance companies to cover pans and pandas. california could be

next. >> california has a core group of parents working hard now to get ab 2105. >> reporter: dr. angela tang is also the mother of a pandas patient who says the california bill would require insurance companies to cover doctor-prescribed treatments which could include ivig and other drugs. >> if governor newsom will sign this law, we will be able to be a role model and a very large domino in getting the rest of the states, the 38 other states without protections, to get them to follow suit. >> reporter: if passed, the legislation would help patients like tessa get the medicine when they need it. >> when i'm waiting for the medicine, i feel like upset, kind of sad that it didn't come and stuff like that. >> reporter: although she suffered some brain damage because of her earlier misdiagnosis and treatment delays, tessa's enrolled in the college of adaptive arts and works part time in a bakery. doctors say her

therapies are working and for now the disease is in remission. >> that's good to hear. we reached out to tessa's health insurance provider for comment, but so far have not heard back. still ahead, we do have some wet weather moving in tonight. darren peck is looking at the impact to all of our weekend and when we can return

let's get to darren peck and our first alert weather. i felt the temperatures dropped today. >> your part of the bay in particular dropped 20 degrees today from yesterday. >> in the suburbs and the rain is going to hit us tomorrow? >> you can tell by looking out the window from the virtual set. the sky's already grayed over and the temperatures came down. let's do better than just looking out the window. i'll bring in the virtual monitor. we'll look how things are already starting to come together from first alert doppler's standpoint. you can see a big batch of rain off the far north coast. we'll skip into futurecast. you can see what few showers are there now. it's going to take time for that to get here really until very late tonight. that would be for the north bay. we'll probably see the leading edge of this in the north bay as early as 10:00 or 11:00 at night, but there won't be a lot to that. this will really come at midnight to 7:00 a.m.

for the first phase of the storm, that line there, that widespread steady rain. that comes across and everybody gets pretty consistent rain while we're sleeping. by sunrise most of that's done and clearing out. by 7:00, 8:00 that line starts to move towards the east and we'll find ourselves in an opening. 10:00 a.m. you could easily get a head fake on this and go oh, that's it. rain came through, it's done. nothing happening now, but that's a short break of the steady rain in the morning and what could be the more interesting part of this system. in the afternoon and evening, now we're back towards the center. you can see how there's a counterclockwise spin and that's where you can get closer to heavier downpours, our chance to see the occasional isolated thunderstorm mixed in. we're bracketing that time frame for that aspect of the storm between say 5:00 and 10:00 tomorrow night. that window is when we'll see some of the

better action from that. then by midnight most of the storm will move off and go south. for sunday, sunday is a much better day if you're trying to plan your weekend. you've got a pretty good chance of not having rain ruin anything on sunday because sunday there might be a few straggler showers that come through there, but they're really short lived and fairly light. if we look at the totals, how much rainfall we'll get from this, numbers are pretty good for an april system that comes through here. the way to think about these totals we're looking at is 80% of that is going to fall between midnight and 7:00 a.m. on saturday. then a little more will come through in the afternoon and evening when we get some scattered showers. i really doubt any of that sunday rain will add much to these totals at all because the sunday stuff is really more an after thought. look, it's going to snow. that's tomorrow morning. once again it's going to be cold enough the snow level will get down to put a little coating on mount hamilton. it won't be big totals. it was 83 degrees

yesterday and tomorrow it's going to snow on mount hamilton. in the north bay we'll see a similar setup, but it will be confined mainly to mendocino county and a big picture view at the sierra, this is not a great snowmaker. it's enough to mess with the drive. we're looking at the big picture. maybe 5 to 6 inches on donner pass. we don't even have a winter weather watch there and it's only a winter weather advisory for the central sierra. if you have to travel tomorrow into the sierra, you will need chains. it will be enough for that, but there's not going to be closures or delays. it will be enough snow you do need to be prepared. instead of looking at the winter weather, switch how we use prepared. instead ofg at the winter weather, switch

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