Through on the futurecast. In more detail. When i check back in a few minutes. Thank you for that, sam liccardo backing a new candidate for president and, he is cochairing his campaign here in california. He is now backing millionaire by Michael Bloomberg. Len ramirez tells us the news came as a surprise and considering his initial endorsement. Len . That is right, he was an early supporter for senator Kamala Harris for the presidency. She has dropped out last week, citing the fact that she can no longer compete financially with the billionaires in the race. Now the mayor of san jose has thrown his political clout against one of those billionaires or towards one of those billionaires. San jose mayor sam accardo says he first backed Kamala Harris stto take on ought she was president trump. Now he is backing former new york city mayor and wall street billionaire Michael Bloomberg for the same exact reason. We have got the biggest bully in the history of the planet occupying the white house. I want to support those who can take down bullets. And Mike Bloomberg has shown time and time again that he will take on big oil. He will take on the gun industry. He will take on big soda, coke, and pepsi. Reporter he is not just a backing bloomberg but sharing his california campaign. Hes not well known in california so to get him out front with a candidate with a candidate who is falling low but has lots of money is a surprise. Reporter surprising because california has a history of voting down wealthy candidates including meg whitman for governor in 2010. Bloomberg is a betting big on california, skipping early primaries to focus on super tuesday by blanketing the state with 14 million in tv ads. Does a lot of other canids candidates fighting for the working class. Reporter but what san jose activist and critic of the mayor, says he is making the wrong choice. The guy who has a whole history of racial insensitivity. Reporter the mayor had an answer for bloombergs controversial new york policy that disproportionately targeted black and latino men. The truth is it did reduce gun violence is substantially in new york, and all crime, nonetheless, as he recognizes today and i also believe stop andfrisk was the wrong policy. Reporter mr. Bloomberg will be making his First Campaign appearance in california tomorrow. Tomorrow morning he will be in stockton hitting the endorsement from stockton mayor. Later on in the afternoon be in San Francisco meeting with jerry brown at a Climate Change conference. Reporting live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Major blow, oracle is moving its annual conference to vegas. According to an email from the San Francisco travel association to its members, the company said attendees have been unhappy with the high costs and poor street conditions. The move is expected to cost the city about 64 million a year in revenue. Heartbroken dog owners desperate to be reunited with their pups tonight after a van full of bay area rescues was stolen right out of a parking lot. Most of those dogs are safe, but if you are still missing. Devin fehely is live in oakland with some new information that came in just minutes ago. Reporter two dozen of the dogs were recovered, the being cared for here in Animal Services. Just a little bit ago they put out a press release in which they say that they believe the other dogs is still missing were sold before the van was recovered. In particular, they are looking for two bulldog puppies and, now the owner of that transport van, she is speaking out tonight saying that she did not do anything wrong other than become victims of thieves. Reporter this is how the stolen dogs looked after police took the alleged thieves into custody. A little scared and a little worse for wear. This is how they look today in the care of oakland Animal Services, who said they had no choice but to take custody of the animals. Crates stacked on top of each other. Debris. Ventilation. Length of time they were left in the van. Reporter the owner of the transport company said that she left the animals in their crates with the vans engine and air conditioning running while she checked into a motel to get a few hours sleep. I normally sleep in the van with the dogs but there were no rest areas are truck stops for a long time. And i was tired. You can drive tired either. Reporter the van with 28 dogs inside was stolen overnight from a hotel in fremont. Police used the gps to track it to oakland, where they arrested the alleged thieves and recovered over two dozen dogs. Fear that four of the animals, including this american pitbull puppy named fable could have been sold before they caught up with the van. I dont have children, those are my babies. I feel like someone has taken my child. Reporter the owner of the transport company says the animals were never in danger before the van was stolen. And should have been returned to her. I would never put a dog in danger, never. This is crazy. Reporter the good news is those two dozen dogs that were recovered, Animal Services says they were all in relatively good health other than two that had some minor medical issues. Fremont police say they want to send a message out to the people who may have ended up with those missing dogs. You are not in trouble, they just want to make sure those dogs get to their rightful owners. In oakland, devin fehely, kpix 5. Two suspected package thieves and face charges after being caught on doorbell camera. Homeowners believe this man and another suspect swiped packages from their front porch when officers located the suspects in the car they say they found packages stolen from danville and walnut creek. Three suspects have been arrested and a robbery connection. They were taken and after they use a security footage to identify them. The police are looking for more information on this case, if you know anything please, pitas police. Attempted robbery on bart left an elderly woman beaten and bruised. This happened on a richmond bound train in oakland. Bart says the three young men attempted to take the womans iphone but after struggle, she was able to get her phone back. Suspects ran off the train at the 19th street station and, are still on the run tonight. Still ahead on kpix 5 and cbsn bay area, a step closer to pot sales in Contra Costa County. After a lot of discussion and some very detailed scorekeeping, Contra Costa County could be moving ahead with Retail Cannabis sales, where that might happen and we will put this in the larger context of the states struggling cannabis economy. Rescue plan to keep the courses coming. Tossing out meal trays gets San Francisco hospital in trouble. It wasnt because of the food. What it did wrong. To forget we are streaming on cbsn bay area. Find is on kpix. Com , the cbs news app, or your favorite platform. New at 6, Contra Costa County could selectively give the green light to just for commercial cannabis retailers. Wilson walker on where those pot shots shops may pop up. Reporter i am standing in the city of martinez. Behind me, that is Contra Costa County. Just one of the places in california that has been conscious with cannabis. But as of tonight, that Ferry Building could be on its way to becoming a dispensary. Our voters supported the proposition to legalize cannabis at 60 . We wanted to cautiously go into this. Reporter county supervisors have gone into great detail on this, scoring of 40 applicants on everything from their security plans to their business models. Today, they gave just the four of them the green light to apply for a permit we are thinking about geographic distribution of these facilities. So one was selected west. Two and central, and one in east county. One in el sobrante, and two in the jingle area, the highest score that went to authentic 925. We are pretty happy about that. Reporter the ceo Bryan Mitchell says those 40s applicants demonstrate the demand. In Contra Costa County you have a population of well over 1 Million People and they are allowing four dispensaries. That is crazy when you think about how many Liquor Stores we have. Put that thought in the larger picture of the underperforming cannabis tax revenues, the slow acceptance of retail sales. It largely seen as one of the bottlenecks in that economy. So, from that perspective, this is what slow progress looks like. You will see a lot of cities coming up, such as concord and other cities in the area. Pittsburgh is talking about it. Reporter back to cautious, those four retailers and a handful of cultivation applicants can move ahead with the countys blessing. There will be more public hearings and then final approval, and then, only then can these applicants move ahead and ask for permission from the state. In the city of martinez, wilson walker, kpix 5. Supporters of the city college of San Francisco held a rest conference calling for 2. 7 million in city funds to keep nearly 300 classes from the chopping block. The cuts will relieve 2000 seniors, many of the cuts are coming to the older adult program. Since 2017, theyve had to cut over 600 classes due to budget woes. College Officials Say they are doing everything they can to keep ccsf from going bankrupt. Not the only college having issues, 400 grad students held a strike today, calling on the school to pay them another 1400 bunks a month so they can afford housing. They say there is no room in the budget to pay nearly 2000 grad students over 3000 a month. Zuckerberg, San FranciscoGeneral Hospital is an trouble with the Public Health department over meal trays. The dpa says that a worker violated rules i tossing the trays in garbage bins instead of shredding them. Each one contained the patients name, month, and day of birth, pleasant dietary information. This went on from june to november, nearly 12 patients have been notified on privacy breach. And, employees retrained on disposal procedures. Darren peck has a forecast and more rain has fallen. More rain and not just light rain, look at highdefinition doppler over my shoulder. You will see a lot of orange. That tells you this is not a mist. This is a moderate rain coming down. Enough that it will slow down the commute. I want to show you where you are most likely to experience that. You are looking at the last two hours as the big band of rain approaches. Stop it live clearly theres been an issue at the q along the forecast. What i want to do now is come into the city and were starting to see the leading edge of the band had across the Golden Gate Bridge which sits right appear. In fact, lets come in for a closer look. Yellow to orange is showing up for the city. Is about across the bay bridge. It hasnt, it is neatly outlined on the county of San Francisco and it does go down to san mateo. I do not want to leave that out. It has not quite made it to san mateo city yet. However, that is about to happen. Look at the big band off the coast. If we switch from High Definition doppler and put into the forecast models which, quite honestly are a big surprise by the intensity of this rain and they are not peeking up on that line as impressive as that is. This is a fairly unique situation. Theyre like the other might be some rain but, pretty good. We got our bullseye at 6 30 over the city and over the bay bridge. Itll be a wet drive getting across that bridge. Once you get into the toll plaza, the rest of the east bay now through 7 00 the focus of this rain is going to be right there. This is the second time in a row weve had a storm like this with decent rain bullseye at the commute home. The time we get to eight or 9 00 things have lightened, but we are not done. We will keep the rain going into the overnight hours. Now, we need to look at the next commute if you can believe that. That is 6 00 tomorrow morning. The rain will not be as impressive as it is now. The rain will also not be done by the time we get to 6 a. M. Scattered showers there and watch it happen by 830 and start to break out. I spent all my time talking about this. There is a lot to look at here. But is not the only chance for rain. Overnight lows tonight, just fine, daytime highs . A little bit warmer than average in the south weber no story. Here is your seven day forecast. Boy does not look busy . Just a couple of weak impulses coming through for rain. Next one is tomorrow night and then another one for the later part of friday. Back over to you. A 49er receiver season is over. We will tell you who and why, and a huge award for a local football player. He sounds like a rater already. Cbs evening news is coming up, Norah Odonnell is here with a preview. Tonight on the cbs evening news a man whose phone number has them thinking they called the north pole. How this accidental santa brings them holiday cheer. The stories and more tonight on the evening news. On the economy, a unique leader. Mike bloombergs created over 400,000 jobs. As president , an opportunity economy that works for us. Tax fairness where the wealthy pay their fair share. Education. Affordable college and high skill Vocational Training so people can succeed in the new economy. Economic security. Lower Cost Health Care and affordable middleclass housing. Proven leadership on jobs. To build an economy where people dont just get by, they get ahead. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. If you can talk the talk, you better walk the walk. Evan weaver did both this season. Today named pac12 defensive player of the year. I catch up on a 9 of them, as long as im hitting the back clip i think im doing alright i think is doing all right, he leads the nation 173 tackles. And he broke the School Record for most tackles in a single season. Check it out, he already sounds like a raider. Im perfectly happy with being the villain playing defense. You know, youve got to be angry, mean and take peoples souls away from when you hit them. Thing able to do that is one of my favorite things that i do. Lb likes vegas. Baseball the giants are agreeing to it one year deal reportedly worth 9 million. Be both a starter and reliever. Comes at a 5. 7 million average in 2019. San francisco also acquiring veteran infielder zack cozart. Billy beane has finally added kyler murray to his team. It is not the as, it is his fantasy otball team. He was the topic in 2018 but chose to focus on football. He is now in his rookie season with the cardinals. Having a pretty good year. Billy beane told reporters i let him know, britney spears, oops i did it again i traded for him. I was a little smarter this time, i let somebody else use their capital. Marquise goodwin has been placed in injured reserve. The speedy good one had only 12 catches in nine games and became expendable when the 49ers traded for emmanuel sanders. Saints fans still reeling from sundays loss to the 49ers. Sean payton can even go to the Grocery Store without being secondguessed about his surprising decision to go for two in the first quarter. I said your saints dont look too good. Worry about your meat. Ski [ laughter ] that is the heat you take, louisianas other Football Team had a much better weekend. Lsu won the sec title and earn the number one seed for the College Football playoff. Coach ed has a lot more on his plate then stopping oklahoma. I enjoy recruiting louisiana. I will be about 1822 homes next week. That means about 1822 gumbos. [ laughter ] thisll be great. Is a big man, could be a little bigger after next week. 22 gumbos. Get the blue gatorade off of his close . There the number one seed, you within the number one seed team does not need to do that much recruiting that is how you stay number one. Thanks. Do not be alarmed by the lack of the alarm, we will explain that, next. The rain on the way home tonight. Say goodbye to those emergency sirens the blair every tuesday at noon in San Francisco. At least for another two years. They have not been upgraded in nearly 15 years, so crews will spend the next two years installing upgrades. The project will cost 2. 5 million but it will improve the systems reliability and security. Thanks for watching at 6, the news continue streaming on cbsn bay area. Cbs evening news is next. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell breaking news tonight a deadly gun battle, a violent shootout in the middle of a new jersey neighborhood. Armed gunmen opened fire on police. Schools locked down. Tonight at least four people are dead, including an officer. The new details just coming in. Also tonight, high crimes. Democrats unveil two articles of impeachment against president trump, formally calling for his removal from office and saying hes a threat to the constitution. The argument why dont you just wait . Amounts to this why dont you just let him cheat in one more election. Its a witch hunt. Its a terrible thing. Odonnell tonight the charges against the president and when congress could vote. Grounded all saudi aviation students told to stand down by