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[chaotic music] [inspirational music] healthcare can get a whole lot easier when your medical records, care and coverage are in one place. At kaiser permanente, all of us Work Together for all that is you. From cbs news bay area, this is the morning edition. A rushhour crash leaves 16 people hurt and a city bus wrecked, some say it happened at an alltoofamiliar location. A massive water main break in San Francisco may be fixed, after some people in this neighborhood have eroded confidence. And this morning we take you to a bay area bagel business betting on downtown San Francisco. Good morning, thank you for starting your day with us, today is saturday, march 9th, im max darrow. We begin in the east bay where 60 people 16 people were hurt after a transit crash in oakland, the car was going out of control following a separate crash moments earlier. People who live near the intersection tell Andrea Nakano the street where it happened might be a big part of the problem. This is the transit bus that was involved in the crash, it wasnt even directly involved, the collision happened a little bit up the road and one of the cars violently flew into the front of the bus. Daniel saw the crash and aftermath that happened in the peak of commute hours just before 5 00. Rosa was also at the scene, and helped us translate what he witnessed. That is the car right there. They just left him on the floor, and it looked like his leg was swollen. Reporter he saw at least one of the cars going roughly 100 miles per hour, according to the spokesperson from ac transit, the speeding car lost control. The chrysler 300, as im told, struck a second Passenger Car , a toyota that was attempting a left turn from south Bound International on 2 54 avenue. Reporter according to an organization, international boulevard has seen 18 fatal traffic accidents over the last two years. And this is one of the deadliest intersections. The organization has held two vigils for the people who have been killed here at 54th and international. Reporter speed is to blame. It is almost every block, every light, there are people speeding down at top speed, running red lights. It is extremely dangerous. Reporter at this point there is nothing to indicate that the chrysler was racing another car point residence one action to make the streets safer. There is something about the cars racing, they need to put a stop to it because it is very dangerous. Despite how bad it looked, late last night police said only one of the injured victims was in the hospital and that person is expected to be okay. Police in the east bay are investigating a couple of brazen burglaries, thieves apparently used a truck to steal an atm at the gas station market on blanding street in the night before, burglars used a van to drag a safe out of a jewelry repair store just about four miles away on grand avenue. But in both cases, from all of their efforts, the thieves got away emptyhanded. Reporter investigators from the two Police Departments are sharing notes, while the two cases have similarities, it is unclear if they are connected. This is Surveillance Footage of the first burglary at grand jewelry repair, near oaklands lake merritt, happening on thursday morning around 3 45 a. M. , two vehicles and five burglars. The stores owners son said they used a van and a rope to drag open the metal gate. Once inside, they used the rope to try to drag a large safe out. But it snapped, so they took a heavy metal chain and put that over the safe and that is how they were able to drag it out. Reporter it was so heady, it took them a while to secure it and tie it to the back of the van. They couldnt quite get it into the utility truck, so you could see sparks, as they were on the freeway, pd was right there with them. It was heady. Reporter the burglars took off and left the safe in the middle of the road, police recovered the safe, which contained thousands of dollars in jewelry and watches. The repair shop also experienced significant damage when the burglars dragged the safe through the store, the owner was in tears when he saw the damage on thursday. This is 34 years of my life in their, but now i dont know if we are going to come back. Now hes thinking about retirement. It is more like a forced retirement because he does not feel safe. Reporter it is the second costly burglary in three years at the store, the immigrant who escaped the war in vietnam says they cant seem to escape the crime in oakland. Thank you to all of the customers for supporting us for 34 years. Reporter nearby in alameda, around 4 30, burglars used the uhaul truck to back into their glass doors, they used the chain to drag an atm machine out of the gas station store. They are kind of desensitized, i feel like this is a normal occurrence in the bay area, and it is sad to feel like that. Reporter police were able to quickly recover the truck and the atm in oakland, but in both cases, the burglars got away. These burglaries are killing small businesses. We need leaders to bootstrap them, we need more hands on the ground and actually lead, do something. Reporter this happens so often, Bay Area Stores have removed atm machines from their locations, some stores no longer accept cash, only credit and debit cards to avoid robberies. After a massive water main break in San Francisco, some people who live nearby say they are worried that a hillside could collapse. Heres what it looked like from above. Water was shooting about 60 feet into the air. This was on the 1700 block right next to stern road, crews worked into the afternoon to get the water shut off. The real concern is this. A river of mud that started flowing down the hillside in the neighborhood near homes, listen to what neighbors had to say about it. I heard a crack, then boom, and i saw the water started shooting up. I dont know how much the soil will get eroded from the water washing down the hill. Weve had a lot of trees come down and it is a precarious area. This is not the first time a water main break caused drama in the neighborhood, in 2021, you might remember this, a break flooded stern grove, forcing the cancellations of the concerts. We have light rain showers moving into the north bay this morning but today is not going to be a washout, though showers are going to fall apart as they try to move across the area and most of us are going to see a couple of sprinkles. A stronger system will send more moisture towards us and a more widespread rain chance is in the forecast by tomorrow afternoon. But todays rain chance is late morning, north of the golden gate, and we taper off as we head into the afternoon. In between showers, it is going to be a cool day, temperatures topping out in the 50s and 60s, a few degrees below normal. It has been a turbulent week for united airlines, on friday, the second time in two days, one of the jets took off and had to make an Emergency Landing at l. A. X. This time, for some sort of hydraulic problem. Hours earlier, another united flight skidded off the runway after landing in houston , leaving the 737s stuck in the mud with the nose pointed up in the air. And on thursday, the wheel came off a united flight as it took off from sfo, the tire landed on a car in the employee parking lot. Nobody was hurt in any of those incidents. Retail activity in San Francisco is lacking in many big stores, they have either closed up shop or are planning to do so. Some Business Owners see this moment as an opportunity to bet on downtown San Francisco. Wilson walker talked with the owner of a bay area bagel empire about why she is putting her dough behind the idea that downtown will rise again. This is going to divide it into chunks. You can see it just gets wrapped up in the ends get stuck together and it comes out like a bagel. Emily winston is watching the early moments in the creation of a bagel and this phase is decidedly hightech. And we have the robot arm that picks it up and puts it on the rack. And that prevents a ton of repetitive stress, injury, and workers comp issues. Reporter even the Newest Technology does not replace the most essential elements of this old art form. We are doing the Old School New york bagel process and i have not added any automation to the, this is exactly as it has been done for the last 100 years. Reporter it is that neck that has pushed boichik bagels to the center of the bagel universe. We are probably running the most technically advanced bagel operations right now. My background is mechanical engineering, so i love this, this is where i get to shine. Reporter it is easy to see how their passion has translated into not just success but international acclaim. My wildest fantasy was that the New York Times would one day say my bagels are okay, then they came and say we are even better, which is completely nuts, but yeah, its awesome. I have a lot of people who are super excited to see a woman building a business that is so successful in gaining ground so publicly. And it is an honor to be a role model like that. Im super stoked. Im excited to change the bagel industry. We moved to San Francisco in 2016, and you know, you would like a good bagel if you have been in the east coast for most of your life. They are seeking out more quality, that means more growth with three new locations in San Francisco. Im investing in downtown. Winston send the following lease price has created the perfect opportunity to position in the years ahead as what she sees as the inevitable San Francisco rebound in the next chapter for their incredible expansion from a single store to a Bay Area Institution in just four years. The question was, where and when. And i dont want to build 40 stores around the bay area, we are going to keep it to about 10 or 12. People want good bagels, they are desperate for a good bagels. Coming up, a mystery off the coast of orange county, crews continue to clean a large oil slick in the ocean, but the question remains, how did it get there . And the public is watching in real time to see if all of the eagle eggs will hatch. Get the latest about what is going on in the nest at big bear valley. It is 6 13, heres a look outside at sfo, just before the sun rises. Stick around, we will be you can make money the hard way as a bullfighter or a human cannonball. 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[narrator] the virtual view studio, part of morning edition. Weekday mornings starting at 5 on kpix. Welcome back. Here is a look at this morning at san jose, looking like a beautiful start to this saturday morning, the time is 6 15. The coast guard says it has cleaned up about 85 of an oil sheen floating in the ocean near huntington beach. At this point it is unclear if that was the source of tarballs that washed up along the shoreline. I stuck out my hands and my feet, it is not the easiest thing to get off. It is a bunch of tar that we stepped on, i mean we can see it along the shoreline. Never a fun situation. The two and a halfmile slick was spotted thursday evening, not far from a pair of offshore platforms but the coast guard is not exactly sure where it came from. Rain showers making their way into the north bay this morning, that is the best chance of anything, more than a trace of rainfall is going to remain, that area will fall apart as it tries to move into the rest of the bay area. A better chance of more widespread and slightly heavy rain in the forecast beginning tomorrow afternoon and continuing into the early hours of monday morning but a little bit of a break on monday before another system sends rain monday night and tuesday. None of this will lead to any potential flooding threats, we dry out and warm up by the end of next week. The showers this morning are just falling apart as we head into the early afternoon, we will see if you breaks in the cloud cover but still sunshine for most of us today. Then we have the next area of rain that is going to be moving into the north bay by about midday on sunday, spreading across more of the bay area as we head through sunday afternoon and sunday evening. If you add up both systems, a 10th of an inch to about a third of an inch of total rainfall, maybe the coastal ranges picking up closer to half an inch, but even when you add the additional round of rain on top of it monday night into tuesday, we are talking about less than an inch of rain with all three systems put together. For the sierra, this is going to be a snow maker, but more so with that system that moves in monday night into tuesday and that is when we are likely to add up closer to a foot of accumulation especially on the higher elevations. In between showers today it is going to be cool overall, with temperatures only topping out in the low to mid 60s in the Santa Clara Valley and those will be the warm spots around the region. The rain chances are keeping a lid on how much we warm up. Low 60s in the east bay, everybody else around 60 degrees at best, just below 60 degrees in San Francisco. And the north bay because we have the best chance of rain, you are going to talk about in the upper 50s this afternoon. Similar temperatures for everybody on sunday with rain moving back in the afternoon. If youre looking forward to a longer stretch of dry weather, you have it in the longrange outlook. Through st. Patricks day weekend, showing a good chance of drier than normal conditions and a good chance of warmer than normal conditions. That timeframe looks like we will see the warm response approaching 80 degrees, at least for the day before st. Patricks day next saturday. In the shortterm, it is unsettled and cool as we head through today and tomorrow, monday a little break from the shower activity but still a chance of a passing shower. Monday night and tuesday, one last batch of rain, then we begin the stretch of dry weather with temperatures warming up into the 70s for basically everybody except for the coast. This morning we have an update on californias most popular lovebirds, we are talking about jackie and shadow, the two bald eagles currently living in big bear valley. This is the camera feed of them. They have been watching as the parents have kept their eggs warm throughout the series of winter storms. One of those eggs may not end up hatching. The first of the eggs laid in january has passed the incubation time so experts say that is likely not viable, the two eggs are still within the incubation window so we are keeping our fingers crossed. Coming up after the break, Caitlin Clark is in the ncaa record books once again, the big night and the record she hit to surpass steph curry and everybody else. Coming up in sports, an update on steph currys ankle injury, you can exhale, plus, the women had to the pac12 thursday was as bad as it could get for the womens team, not only did the team lose, but steph curry left with ankle injuries, good news on friday, stanford missed saturdays game but is expected back next week after the mra came back clean. Steph curry rolled his ankle on a cut to the basket late in the Fourth Quarter and did not finish the game. Golden gate ended up losing to chicago. The push for the sixth seed is coming down to the wire. They are tied with l. A. , they are 3 1 2 games back. Womens hoops, stanford and tar vanderveer at the championship, in the third quarter, cameron brink knocks down the triple, pulling the cardinal within one. In the Fourth Quarter, brink knocking down the jumper, finishing with a tripledouble, 12 rebounds, nine assist, stanford wins, they will take on usc in the title game on sunday. The sharks were active, trading allstar forward to las vegas, one of six deals made by san jose before the trade deadline as they continue their rebuild, the general manager, mike grier said he deserved a chance to compete for a stanley cup. We are still a couple weeks away from the College Basketball brackets being released, but march madness is in full swing at the High School Level and plenty of local teams representing the bay area in the state championships this weekend. Games taking place at golden 1 center in sacramento, the oakland girls will be bringing home some hardware. The wildcats beat montgomery, 5650, they win the Division Five crown. On the boys side, evan lucas, the alltime leading scorer, and also a state champion. Get up, young man, their first title in school history. That is going to do it for sports, have a great day. Caitlin clark etched her name in the record books once again last night, this time she broke a record set by steph curry back in his college days at davidson. With this pull up three right here. Clark dropped her 163rd three pointer of the season, breaking the Ncaa Division i record for the most three pointers in a single season. She entered the game needing just want to break the record, it took her nearly the entire game to knock one down, she really had to earn it. She went from zero to 11 deep in the Fourth Quarter, still a solid night for clark, finishing with 24 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists and a nice win to advance in the big ten tournament. She will be back on the court today. An ultramarathon is a tough task as it is, but one self prescribed pain scientist said lets step it up, she decided to run one for every day for 28 days in the bitter cold in antarctica, on her way to setting a world record. She brought all of her heart for her polar ultramarathon, she ran 30 miles per day and below zero temperatures and violent wind during her challenge. She calls it to run antarctica, she ran 871 total miles of the arctic region. This might be the longest polar ultramarathon ever, she says she did it to embolden women to get into sports. Northern californias recent blizzard dropped 100 inches of snow over the course of four days. But it ended the snow drought nonetheless at the tail end of the warmest february ever of record on earth. We are seeing science signs of an early spring. Kelsi thorud describes the possible reason behind the weather whiplash. Reporter it was a monster blizzard. The storm slammed california with heavy snow, high wind and treacherous whiteout conditions. But the aftermath simply epic, in just four days, 6 to 10 feet of snowfall, concern over the snow drought evaporated. However, we have yet to dig ourselves out of the much bigger problem. It may appear hard to fathom but this blog post or blizzard with all of this snow may have links to our warming planet. Experts believe Global Warming may be supercharging some of our snowstorms, while boosting the risk for a rapid snowmelt. Climate change is affecting the underlying set of possibilities for what the weather system is capable of doing. Reporter andrew jones is a climate scientist at the Berkeley National lab, his research involves hydroclimate extremes and snow dynamics in particular. This blizzard got his attention. This was a very interesting storm. Reporter a warming planet should mean less snow. It really does highlight this conundrum that we see Climate Change causing two counteracting forces at the same time. Reporter with this blizzard, cold arctic air made a beeline to california, on the way he traveled over the warming is at the goshen, warming due in part to Climate Change. The higher temperatures in the ocean and the air allowed the atmosphere to hold more water. The Ocean Temperatures are warm right now and so this cold massive air that moved down has picked up heat and picked up moisture as it was moving across the pacific. Reporter creating a warmer and wetter storm that was still below freezing. Jones is keeping his eye on the snowpack and with good reason. February was the ninth straight month in a row to be the warmest on record globally. Because the conditions are warmer, the snow might melt faster than usual. Reporter jones is helpful for new strategies that could capture water and direct it underground, he says it is not too late to slow down Climate Change. We do have to be aware of the changes that are happening and start to prepare for them. Reporter so we can weather any storm. Coming up, President Biden and former President Trump are hitting the campaign trail this weekend and although it is still only primary season, the matchup is all but set so the focus shifts to the general election. And we will have an update on yesterdays accident in southern texas where two National Guard members were killed in a Helicopter Crash along the border with mexico. And here is a look at chase center on this saturday morning as the sun rises, we have your cbs deals. My hair, a couple years ago i started to notice my hair was breaking more, it wasnt growing as much, i did a lot of research and looked into a lot of things and i wanted to find something clean to help me out, this is it. This is a serum, the way we get our hair healthy is we get our scalp healthy. 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Reporter good morning, still more than 240 days till november 5th, we have never seen a general election battle start this early, last night President Biden was in the crucial state of pennsylvania focusing on the next four years and on his opponent, former President Trump. Outside philadelphia friday, President Biden made his case to some of the suburban voters who could help decide the 2024 election. Our freedoms are on the ballot this november. Reporter the president is hitting the road, he will be in georgia saturday, then michigan and wisconsin next week. All battleground states and the Biden Campaign is boosting resources, planning a 30 million media blitz over the next six weeks, opening roughly 100 field offices and more than tripling the number of staff members. At the state of the union, President Biden never mentioned former President Trump by name. But called him out more than a dozen times. Now my predecessor, a former republican president tells putin, do whatever you want. Reporter trump fired back on social media. He is on the run from his record and lying like crazy to escape accountability to the horrific devastation he and his party have created. Reporter on friday, his daughterinlaw was elected cochair of the National Republican committee. How this rematch plays out is still an open question. Friday, President Biden was asked if he will debate trump. The campaigns are off the ground with a long journey till november. Today, former President Trumps rally is planned in georgia well President Biden is in the atlanta area, in 2020, of course President Biden won the state, so no doubts we will be seeing these candidates in georgia a lot. You mentioned the millions of dollars they plan to spend on advertisements, do the candidates have similar awards towards these elections . President biden has significantly more cash right now, while former President Trump reportedly has about 56 million on hand, he will get another 9 million more if and when he secures enough delegates to have the republican nomination but that significant difference in the Campaign War Chest is one of the reasons why laura trump focusing on fundraising in her new leadership role. The senate has approved a 460 billion spending bill and has sent the legislation to President Bidens desk, the vote was in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. Biden plans to sign the bill today, next up for congress, they will be negotiating a second package of six bills in an effort to have all federal agencies fully funded by march 22nd. That will include the issue of funding for the department of homeland security. We have light rain showers moving in this morning but today is not going to be a washout, they are largely going to fall apart, and most of us are going to see a couple of sprinkles. A stronger system will send more moisture towards us and a better rain chance is in the forecast by tomorrow afternoon and continuing into tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. The rain chance will peak late morning north of the golden gate, then we taper off in the afternoon. In between showers, it is going to be a cool day. Upper 50s and low 60s. A Border Patrol agent and two National Guard soldiers have died following a Helicopter Crash, the helicopter was flying over the u. S. Mexico border yesterday when it went down, another soldier is in Critical Condition. Officials say the crew was assigned to the federal governments Border Security mission, they were conducting aerial monitoring and detecting operations at the time. The cause of the crash is under investigation. To the middle east, aid packages continue to drop into gaza. On friday, reports that five palestinians were killed and a dozen others were wounded when a parachute failed and fell on them by mistake at a refugee camp in northern gaza. There were two boys among the five people killed. The video released by the u. S. Department of defense shows u. S. Airmen prepping and conducting an aid drop for palestinians. Humanitarian aid will continue to flow in this weekend, this is just as we are one day away from the muslim holy month of ramadan. Officials on capitol hill said they hoped to reach a ceasefire agreement ahead of this holiday. They fear violence may escalate during the religious time. A ship with more humanitarian aid is planning to leave cyprus and go to gaza, the eu says they hope to open the maritime corridor to gaza this weekend, it comes on the heels of the state of the union where he announced a u. S. Plan to build peers in gaza to address the need for aid. U. S. Officials however say they can take up to two months to build. The Hong Kong Government rolled out a new draft of a National Security bill that cracks down on treason, espionage and more. The proposed bill has many worried that it could further dent the freedom in the city. The bill is similar to the one in beijing that was enacted four years ago, that all but wiped out public dissent in beijing. The bill is being scrutinized by some as a crackdown on political opposition. If enacted, it could broaden what the city considers sedition and could threaten life imprisonment and stiffer sentences for people who break other National Security laws. A sacramento hospital has contacted hundreds of people who may have been exposed to measles. Officials at the Uc Davis Medical Center say young patient was confirmed to have contracted it this week. His test came back positive after a trip to the Emergency Department on march 5th. This is the third confirmed case of measles in california this year. Hospital Officials Say they have a record of everybody who was in the emergency room that day, they estimate around 300 people were exposed. It is labor intensive, getting in touch with all the individuals and making sure that they have their vaccination or giving them advice as a what they need to do. About 90 of people who are not vaccinated will contract the virus if they are exposed. Symptoms include fever, coughing, runny nose, followed by a rash. Coming up, a bay area boy scout is honored, how he puts his training to use to save his brothers life. I could have easily stood up and said help, but what i did was just look to my son. How one bay area woman is bringing comfort and care to families, we will introduce you to this weeks jefferson welcome back. Here is a look at San Francisco city hall on this saturday morning. The time is 6 44. A daly city teenager is being honored for using his scout training to save his Little Brothers life. The scout and his family were out to dinner when a celebration nearly became a tragedy. I held my arm on the table. The 10yearold describes his moments of panic when he couldnt breathe and couldnt speak because a piece of chicken stuck in his throat. I was trying every way possible to get it out. He was out with his family, they were together at thanksgiving time to celebrate life with their grandfather who was battling cancer. It was a fun, lighthearted night and it conquered that is until finnigan started choking. I tried putting my hands in and tried taking the chicken out but, only one piece came out, it was very scary. Reporter the boys mom was seated a few places away. All of a sudden i saw him struggling and i looked at my older son and i gave him the look, like help. Reporter he recently finished his boy scouts first aid training, and he took charge. I turned him like this, i put my arms around him, one fist and a ball, and underneath his solar plexus, i pushed down and up. Reporter with his Little Brothers life on the line, he did the heimlich maneuver and it worked. I felt so relieved when it came out of my throat and i just said to myself, that was close, im alive. I could have easily stood up and said help, but i looked to my son and he was able to jump into action. I just saw a situation in front of me and i performed. We practiced it a lot, and i feel like that is so essential to be able to do that, because a lot of people every year die from choking. Reporter his actions caught the attention of the National Boy Scouts of America Organization with just which just awarded him one of the highest honors. The medal of merit is given to scouts who go above and beyond to exemplify the ideals and skills of scouting, it is often given to scouts to save a life, it will help him in his goal of being an eagle scout like his father, david. It is such an impact on my life, and my brothers life, and the whole family, and we are very grateful to still have finnigan. Reporter and it was the last time the boys will get to be with their grandfather, who passed about one month later. This is such a momentous occasion because we were celebrating life and also saving lives in the same day. He also has a black belt in tae kwon do. Some rain showers making their way into the north bay this morning, that is where the best chance is going to remain, that area will fall apart as it tries to move deeper into the rest of the bay area. A better chance of more widespread rain is in the forecast beginning tomorrow afternoon, continuing into the early hours of monday morning, but a little break in the action monday before another system sends rain monday night and tuesday, none of these will lead to any wind damage or flooding threats, then we warm up to the end of next week. The showers are just falling apart entirely as we get into the early afternoon. More clouds and sunshine for most of us today, the clouds will fill back in tonight and we have the next area of rain that is going to be moving into the north bay by about midday on sunday, spreading across the bay area sunday afternoon and sunday evening. If you add both systems together, a 10th of an inch up to about a third of an inch of rainfall, maybe the coastal ranges of Sonoma County picking up close to half an inch but even when you add the additional round of rain on top of it, talking about less than one inch with all three systems. For the sierra, this is going to be a snow maker and minor to start, but more snow with that system that moves in monday night into tuesday and that is more likely to add up closer to a foot of accumulation especially at the higher elevations. In between the showers today it is going to be a cool day overall with temperatures topping out in the low to mid 60s in the Santa Clara Valley and those will be the warm spots around the region. It is the cloud cover and the rain chances keeping a lid on how much we warmup. Low 60s in the east bay, everybody else around 60 degrees at best. Just below 60 degrees in San Francisco and the north bay because we have the best chance of rain and the thicker clouds overhead, you will top out in the upper 50s this afternoon. Similar temperatures for everybody on sunday. If you are looking forward to a longer stretch of dry weather, we have it in the longrange outlook, which takes us through st. Patricks day weekend, showing a good chance of drier than normal conditions and a good chance of warmer than normal conditions. It does look like we will see the warmer spots approaching 80 degrees, at least for the day before st. Patricks day next saturday. The shortterm, it is unsettled and a cool forecast as we head through today and tomorrow. Monday a little break but still a chance of a passing shower. Monday night and tuesday, one last batch of rain and wednesday begins the stretch of dry weather with temperatures warming up to the 70s. Some of the warmer spots even flirting with 80 degrees already friday. It can be traumatic for parents who unexpectedly find themselves at the hospital with a critically ill child but a woman has brought the gift of comfort and support to families and hospitals for the last two decades. We have an update on the jefferson award winner we first met in 2005. Everybody has a chance to do different things. Reporter janet fraser overseas an Assembly Line of students packing care bags for families in crisis. I want the families to feel loved by the community and this is a community effort, it is huge. Reporter janet understands the need , more than two decades ago, her daughters stephanie and lindsay were in a car accident, stephanie died. Lindsay remained in Critical Condition and janet remembers feeling overwhelmed at her hospital bedside. I almost fainted and a nurse walked me outside the room and asked me when i had eaten last and it had been over a day. Reporter the nurse shared her sandwich. It almost brought me to tears, so i really wanted to do that for other families so they could stay by their childs bedside and be nourished like i was. Reporter janet cofounded the network of care in 2004. When we met her a year later, she had a dozen volunteers who packed and distributed 30,000 nonperishable food bags to families and a dozen hospitals. You are getting all of the macaroni and cheese ready. Reporter the nonprofit reaches 58 hospitals from sacramento to san diego and even parts of colorado. 340,000 families have received the food bags thanks to an expanding volunteer base, up to 200 students and 300 contra costa schools, helping to pack t■he bags, like this special education class. Students love to do this. They understand what it is for and it gives them a lot of pride and a lot of selfconfidence. Reporter young adults learn handson job skills from math to product management. I feel very grateful to help. They are very dedicated, they are very passionate, it is wonderful to see them. Reporter janet said the volunteer support helps her continue to turn her familys tragedy into something good by giving gifts of love and support through her Community Network of car ufo Detection Kits are being tested at a range in texas, scientists have unearthed a rare discovery in southern france, an almost complete dinosaur skeleton. The massive 32 foot long fossil is a titanosaurs, the paleontologists first spotted it near a cliff edge that recently collapsed. They began excavating and they made another discovery, the site had multiple animal bones and other fossilized dinosaurs but it is definitely the biggest and most impressive discovery considering it is still fully connecte one last check on the forecast, this morning, showers are going to largely fall apart as they try to move across the rest of the bay area, be flexible with any outdoor plans just to be on the safe side but this afternoon, we are looking fine. Still more clouds but a little sunshine is nice to see and it should help warm the temperatures up into the low 60s in the east bay, rest of the area, around 60 degrees with similar temperatures tomorrow and another round of rain tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening. Coming up, a car smashes into an ac transit bus, 16 people are hurt. Some oakland residents say they are not surprised it happened at this particular intersection. And in the east bay, two burglaries happened in alameda, police were able to uncover what was stolen but the businesses are dealing with a lot of damage