Got more. Reporter this earth day project in oakland was about more than just picking up a city park. It was about starting something new. A group of two dozen volunteers gathered at ramadi park in west oakland to collect trash, power wash playground equipment, and even add some splashes of new color. The park had gotten pretty run down over the years, but it is seeing a lot of changes lately thanks largely to the many new Housing Developments that are popping up in the area. Yeah. There are definitely a number of residents here who are excited to just help take care of a spot that has been a little neglected for many years. Reporter but the biggest changes happening right now. A brandnew baseball field is being laid out, soon to be home of the oakland dollars, a new independentleague team in response to the loss of the as. The chief of staff helps the 1. 5 Million Investment in the park will help revitalize the entire neighborhood. Being able to do something for the community by the community is critical. That is for me as a person and for us as an organization. So just looking at all the people who have committed a beautiful saturday to coming out and cleaning up this park is pretty incredible. Reporter the team has a builtin fan base from the surrounding housing complexes. Many of the cleanup team came from right across the street from the park. Everyone is excited for the first game coming up. I think right in june is the first one and we are excited to see the progress of the park getting built slowly and surely. Super exciting. It is super exciting to see the transformation happening. I want to say so quickly but it has been a lot of work in a long time coming. Now we are seeing a lot more families enjoying the park which is fantastic. We are going to make it something that oakland especially west oakland deserves because for too long we have been divested and this will be something that everybody can really benefit from. Reporter but one man who lives in the area says that while they can welcome the new ballpark, they are weary of how it will affect the neighborhood, especially black residents who have lived there for a long time. Every time they do something new, for people who have lived here a long time it is scary. Are they going to take your home or your property because we have got a project coming in . So the project is what you see behind you. And the people who were there, i dont know. Are they on the street . Or did they moved to a different area . Reporter it has always been the dilemma to oakland. How to bring in something new without pushing out what was already there. In this case, the changes represent a new direction, a new focus for oakland baseball fans who know exactly what it feels like to be pushed away. The teams cleanup effort comes days after the city Council Agreed to invest 1. 6 million into renovating the park. Also happening in oakland today, thousands of volunteers came out to the shoreline of the Oakland Airport to plant 100 trees along the walkway updating the scenery and improving the citys air quality while they are at it. And over in concord, residents were invited to pick up trash at newhall park. The event was organized by friends of concord creek. It is importance of keeping the creek letter free. All of the native plants and animals live in the watershed and we want to give them habitat where they can thrive. That event was just one of 10 earth day weekend events happening in concord alone. And coming up in our next half hour, exploring earth days origin and the california disaster that sparked the movement. Tonight, we are bringing you back to back specials. First at 7 00, the First Alert Weather Team takes a look back on this past winter. Wild weather that will leave a Lasting Impact on the bay area. Then at 7 30, a cbs news Climate Watch special. The species threatened by a changing planet and how scientists are protecting life on earth. And on monday, cbs news bay area presents earth day a special and how scientists and everyday people are working together to protect the planet. Are streaming special airs on kpix. Com, the free cbs news app, and on pluto tv. San jose fire crews put out a fire in an abandoned building that caused a nearby nursing home to be evacuated. And happen on east santa clara and south 13 streets this morning. Crews put out the flames before it got to nearby buildings. There were residents at a nearby nursing home that were able to return safely and nobody was hurt. A fire also broke out at a marijuana warehouse in oakland near a rv park. This was near san leandro street. The blaze broke out at 4 20 this morning and was contained by around 6 00 a. M. No one has reported any injuries. And 4 20 is the unofficial holiday for cannabis users. In years past, people would pack hippie hill in San Franciscos Golden Gate Bridge park to celebrate. This year, organizers cannot raise enough money to celebrate but that did not stop hundreds of people from gathering at hippie hill for a mini smokeout today. And that is where we find da lin live. How is it going out there . Reporter it is going well. Still a few hundred people on hippie hill. Even earlier that afternoon, the crowd size was still small compared to years past. In years past, this area will be found with thousands and thousands of people so it sounds like people got the message this year and stayed away. Peace, love, and a lot of weed on hippie hill. Freedom. Beautiful. Just one love, everybody. Reporter young and old, they start showing up saturday afternoon. No one knew what to expect this year since organizers did not have the money and canceled the yearly celebration. We like it organic. Reporter that is what a lot of people say. They like the nonstructured environment. No fencing and no corporations. Debbie and her friend Chandler Leblanc visit hippie hill on 4 20 every year from you talk for the last 15 years. We stumbled upon it every year and had so much fun we said lets do that every year. Reporter it brings them back to how they used to celebrate cannabis. It is more of a commodity atmosphere. Everyone seemed happy. The drum circles are going. People are dancing. They are not regulated. They are not ruled to death. Reporter but one fence is there need to be a balance. We do not want it to get too crazy. There are shootings. That happens. We have seen some fights down here that have not been that good. Reporter there would be live music and dozens of vendors but without any official event this year, the city partnered with volo sports to offer activities at Robin Williams meadow. Cannabis lovers are encouraged to take part. Some believe it is a form of crowd control by activating the space. We have got corn hole here on the west lawn. We have got some bocce here in the corner. We have got spike the ball. So if people want to head on the hill and come down and do their thing, we are all signed up for it. Reporter volunteers also hand out free water. And it is not all pot smokers hanging out on hippie hill. Some people tell me they dont smoke at all. Then there is this family. Three generations just enjoying a lively day in San Francisco. We always come here with him anyway. So it is just a normal weekend for us with a little extra. They are in town from alaska visiting the grandparents. Reporter no festival, no problem. Debbie and shanna like how it is turning up, and they will be back next year. It is a nice good vibe like the old days. Reporter at last check, no reports of injuries or arrests. And, aside from the crowd sizes, i am told this year from a lot of these participants they are using a lot more edible cannabis products this time around so we are not seeing as much smoke. Andrea, i remember one year, years ago, there was so much marijuana smoke we could not see to the other side of the field but it is very different this time around and it seems like it is a lot more manageable as well this time around. It was a good marker though. You know you were at the event that you saw that big plume of smoke above the park. I hope it was easier to park this year though. Reporter parking was a challenge because they blocked off a lot of intersections around here but i think a lot of folks took Public Transit or just uber. Thank you so much for covering the event for us. Talking about all this. Still ahead, the grass has not been greener for a lot of cannabis users. The new tax breaks from one bay area county ny growers say it is not enough to keep them afloat. We are doing everything we can to survive. The industry is not the pot of gold that i thought it wise. Plus, you may think it is a fond farewell or a good riddance but either way b. A. R. T. Bids farewell to part of its fleet. And we have got a little wrinkle in the weather forecast. Generally it looks good but wait until the end of next week. Norman, bad news. I never graduated from med school. What . But the good news is. Xfinity mobile just got even better now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go. Plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. I gotta get this deal. Thats like 20 a month per unlimited line. I dont want to miss that. Thats amazing doc. Mobile savings are calling. Visit xfinitymobile. Com to learn more. Doc . Lift the clouds off of. Virtual weather, only on kpix and pix . Well, today san jose hosted their second touch a truck event where kids and kids at heart can climb aboard and get behind the wheel of all sorts of vehicles. There were big rigs, fire engines, police cars , and the touching trucks. They also featured a classic car parade, food, and carnival games and all proceeds go to coastal kids home care, the bay areas only provider of Pediatric Health services. B. A. R. T. s legacy fleet of trains have been in commission since 1972 and will soon be out of commission for good. Just three of these legacy fleet trains are still running today since b. A. R. T. Got a major upgrade in 2016 replacing the original models with modern updates but today the last of the legacy fleet trains reach their last stop. Some of the cars will spend their retirement at a nearby museum. Major payment repairs on the north bay this weekend. Westbound 37 a shutdown between vallejo and sears point. The road is expected to reopen early monday morning and caltrans crews were a turn into the same thing next weekend that will be followed up with two more shutdowns but in the eastbound direction. The golden gate ferry has suspended surface between sausalito and San Francisco. They turned up some sort of damage on the sausalito pier yesterday. For now, the Ferry Service is running golden gate transit buses. And a beautiful day, but there may be some changes ahead, brian. By for the next few days, just steady as she goes. Some clouds on the shoreline but aside from that skies are beautiful and blue and the numbers are in the low 80s inland. Concord, 73. Santa rosa, 73. San jose has 70 degrees. Forecast highs are all around low 80s for, you know, the inland east bay. High pressure is building up of the east coast and temperatures are warming to the 80s inland, and that will set a trend. Certainly does not say much in terms of fog. This is a futurecast that shows high clouds between now and tomorrow night. For tomorrow, for example, san jose will talk about in the low 80s run 4 00 in the afternoon and santa rosa, a nice warm day on tap. Sunny morning right to 6 00 tomorrow night so plenty of sunshine is on the way. It will be a little bit warmer tomorrow. Not much. By noon on monday, we get some low clouds beginning to thicken up on the shoreline. We will still be in the 80s inland on monday. But that will bring the numbers down. By then, in San Francisco, we ramp up the chance of a few showers moving in over the city and for the rest of the bay area as well. So in the headlines, we have a weekend warming trend that will drive highs into the 80s inland. We will continue to call it down by the time we get to tuesdaythursday. Overnight lows tonight will be in the low 50s for the bay area. Mostly starry skies. A good night for amateur astronomers to get out there except the moon is approaching full and that kind of spoils the view here. Livermore, 83 degrees. 84 in antioch. 83 in fairfield. San francisco hit 69. In the extended forecast, pretty much the same for everybody. The next three days look sunny. It will begin to cool down on tuesday and by the time we get into friday, it looks like light rain will be over the area. It will not linger. The next weekend will be sunny again. Next few days, warm 80s. Then it cools down again with low clouds near the shoreline and in the north bay and south bay we get some chance of rain coming in on friday and that will include the shoreline on the coast. It will be a chilly week ahead with daytime highs doing no better than 60 degrees but inland east bay will be in the 80s for a couple of days before cooling it down so it all comes down to one day on friday. Some light showers. For the warriors, it is all coming down to the playoffs. Here is matt. The warriors are watching this here from home. We will bid farewell to the team that knocked them out. Plus, it is already a big deal to have your own bobblehead day. Temperatures cooling down as we head into the weekend and stronger onshore. Ah, i stepped off the coast again. The winds are really picking up. Fog spreading farther inland. And in the north bay, youre gonna get soaked. water splashing [narrator] presenting the bay areas only virtual weather studio. Next level weather. As i lift this, you can actually see. [narrator] on kpix and pix . wind blowing its that real. water splashing lets move on to the sevenday now. The giants were trying to get the taste of fighting 8171 loss out of their mouths. The only silver lining, the giants finally hit their first run at oracle park. Now, they are coming in bunches. Patrick bailey, that is an important detail. We will come back to that. We come back to the first inning. The giants very first atback. Deep shot into the arcade. His first career homer at oracle park. The giants like 21 after the first and it gave starter Kyle Harrison some early run support. Decent outing cheer for harrison. He struck out five in just four innings after giving up three earned runs. Good thing for the giants the offense was hot. Back to the bobbleheads. Pat bailey already at two hits going on into the fit. This made it so much more memorable. Send it to mccovey cove. Splash hit. 103. Even the fans in the mccovey cove went home with a souvenir. Giants win 73. They will try to take the fourgame series. For the first time in years, the warriors are watching from home. They had to win two games in a row as the 10 seed to advance. They cannot get past the kings earlier this week who got to like the beam earlier in sacramento but the beam was not let earlier because of pelicans did not take the kings. That means they will face the top seed in the west in the first round and larry nance jr. Is feeling pretty confident that they are going to down the thunder. Respectfully, i am just i am betting on the pelicans. I am not betting. No. I am not betting. No. I am not betting on anything i dont own a betting app none of that no. No. In golf, this gator cannot stay away from the third round in hilton head in south carolina. Maybe this book him up. Cal from 111 yards holes it. He is in solo third at 14 under. He will need a little luck to catch up to the sky on sunday. Scottie scheffler, a historic one. He had a bogey 363. That puts him at 16 under. He has a onestroke lead heading into the finalround. One of the most recent stars has a chance to earn his pga tour card right out of college. I know that i will be playing on the pga tour. If it is this summer or next summer or whatnot. It would be nice to have a direct avenue within a few months. Reporter michael has racked up a lot of wings and a lot of awards over the last four years at stanford, but perhaps nothing is more impressive than his number one pga Tour University ranking. Pga tour is a huge deal. You cannot just sit on your phone and look at the scoreboard or the leader rankings or whatever all the time. Reporter it would be understandable if he did. If he finishes the season ranked first, he is granted a pga tour card, something that takes years for most golfers. I think we have four or five more events left. I will take a good long look after the fifth event. Reporter the head coach has been around stanfords finest, including his team mate, michael woods. He believes that he has carved out his own legacy at the farm. Bosh. It is an honor. The guy is a stud. He is a really, really good kid. He wants to be great. And that is all you can really ask for from a coachs perspective. He shows it every day. Wanting to win. Reporter it may be an understatement. When asked where he sees himself in five years, there is no hesitation from the senior. I want to be the best player in five years. Reporter to think the head coach of stanford was tigers teammate while a cardinal himself. That is pretty cool. It does goes right through. They keep heritage right there. Coming up in our next half hour, we will take you into the Central Valley were a crucial canal failed and why the pricey replacement is also failing. Plus, after months of stalling from the house finally passes a foreign aid bill for ukraine and israel. Why the deal could cost the House Speaker his job. Were in the middle of. Seizing the date in the middle of the perfect pairing. And parking it here for the night so come get away. Together. Illinois the middle of everything. From cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. Now at 6 30, a rare saturday session on capitol hill with the house passed a set of foreign aid bills. In the same week, israeli bombs killed six children. There could still be billions more on the way for more weapons, both there and in the war in ukraine. The final package but House Speaker mike johnson at odds with more than half of the house gop. Reporter longawaited aid for ukraine made it past the house by a bipartisan vote as part of a larger foreign aid package. On this vote, the as are 311 and the nazar 112. It is pass. They voted for ukraine it. The bills provide more than 26 billion to support israel. More than 60 billion for ukraine. And around 8 billion for the indo pacific including taiwan. It is a slap in the face for america. Reporter House Speaker mike johnson move forward with the vote after months of opposition with members of his own party for your grade aid and funding for the border. This is a model the American People dont support. They dont support a Business Model built on blood and murder and war in Foreign Countries while this very government does nothing to secure our border. Reporter the foreign aid package passed by a number of hardliners. Ultimately, there was no motion made on saturday. Johnson said the bill was important to democracy and to ward off russia. I said it very simply. I will say it once again. It is an old military adage. We would rather send bullets to the complex overseas in our own boys, our own troops. Reporter President Joe Biden urged them to move quickly so he can sign the bill into law. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer says the senate should vote on the foreign aid package on tuesday. Lawmakers also moved one step closer to banning tiktok throughout the u. S. The house bill would put a ban in place if the Chinese Company that owns the social media platform does not sell it within nine months. The measure was tied to the larger foreign aid package. Tiktok has said they plan to challenge the law in court if it passes. Me well, today, President Biden signed a bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as fisa. The Senate Passed the bill last night. It enables the government to collect large amounts of cell phone and Internet Data on foreign targets including their interactions with americans without a warrant. Supporters say it is a tool to safeguard national security. Critics say it violates americans constitutional right to privacy. Tomorrow on face the nation, a wrap up of all the action on capitol hill and there has been a lot of it. Whether the foreign aid bill could cost speaker johnson his job. That is at 8 30 a. M. Right here on channel 5. Land is sinking so fast in the Central Valley since a crucial canal failed. And the new canal they have built to replace it is already sinking as well. We are talking about the canal and to larry county which runs along the east side of the San Joaquin Valley. This is a lifeline for many farmers and communities there. The systems are similar to lake north of fresno and from there it runs 152 miles to the south powered entirely by gravity, but gravity means going downhill , and that has gotten complicated. Decades of groundwater pumping have caused the valley floor to sink and the canal with it. To convey this water south through this section, we have lost over 60 of the carrying capacity. We first showed you the solution back in august of 2022. It is a new canal built right alongside the old one, only it is higher so the water can still flow down hill. That new canal will go into service in the next couple of weeks and as wilken walker shows us, it already faces the very same challenge as the last one. Reporter so you are looking at it here in the foreground. The old canal. Then just over that dirt pile there is a new canal. This is typically an image people look at and think, oh, my gosh, what kind of problem do you have to solve out here . That is it. Reporter stretching out this california megaproject that is just about finished. It is a new fry at kern canal. What is that . About 10 or 12 feet higher than the old . Reporter the old canal was a water disaster in slowmotion syncing with the valley floor since the time it was built. It was actually raised in the 70s but the subsidence has continued. Capacity was cut by 60 . The only option was a new canal but it faces the same old problem. We have got some poster boards for you, wilson. This will blow your mind. Reporter they are about to celebrate the grand opening of this 300 million lifeline for 1 million acres of farmland and a quarter of 1 million people. And now we have encountered a new area of subsidence between avenue 136 in the river which is just about three miles upstream of here. That is creating a capacity problem in our new canal. Years of planning, tricky financing, and on day one we are facing about a 400 cfs capacity problem. Reporter that is due sinking threatening the very project that was supposed to keep the water moving. It is not Rocket Science what the cause is. It is over draft of water. And we need the water that grows the grass to feed the cows. Reporter he is a thirdgeneration dairy farmer who relies on the surface deliveries. That is not the case for all of his neighbors. Investment companies are coming into play in orchards and vineyards and next thing you know, they are just feeling deep, deep wells where my wills were 300 and 400 feet, and they are drilling 1200 to 1800 feet and drawing the deepest water. It is a touchy subject because we are talking about neighbors. We are talking about friends. We are talking about people who have known each other for many, many years. Reporter the sinking canal is now forcing the issue. They are forcing the state for a emergency intervention on groundwater usage in this basin. Yeah. I hear that quite a bit. Why are you picking a fight with fellow farmers . And my responses what are we supposed to do . What are we supposed to do . This is the most important infrastructure facility on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley and it is being harmed and damaged every day. The challenges in a sense are picking farmer against farmer in a way because who is pointing fingers at who . The challenges are deep. Reporter deep enough to cut into the capacity of this regions emergency subsidence fix before it even opens and what scares them even more is that california does not have a plan to reach groundwater sustainability. Not until the year 2040. Our problem is it has got to be addressed really soon because in order to realize that the full capacity water can move to the new canal, this problem has to be addressed immediately. Reporter now, the canal was built with future subsidence in mind. The giantsthat pulled the water beneath the roadways that would allow them to raise this canal in the future without having to lift all of the bridges like they had to do back in the 70s. And thinking about the canal sinking in lands sinking and everything subsiding, it really forces you to use your imagination when thinking about the states water challenges so this massive project will open to a number of questions as californias water landscape changes in more ways than one. And wilson tells us the ribboncutting of the canal will come in the next couple of weeks. The state is expected to hold a hearing on the groundwater issue in the tule water basin in september. Still ahead here at 6 00, the california disaster that sparked the earth day movement. Plus there is no crop attached in Sonoma County except cannabis. They could be priced out for playing by the rules. Now, why one bay area county wants to give them a break. We have already shown you plenty of even celebrating earth day with it actually being this monday, the 22nd. So where did earth day originate . It has not been around forever. Its hard for the California Environmental disaster. Reporter hey, mother earth. It is your day, earth day. It all began in 1969. That is when u. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of wisconsin saw the damage caused by a Massive Oil Spill off the coast of santa barbara. The following year, he called for a nationwide peaceful demonstration. And environmental teachin. And that is how earth day took route. On april 22nd, 1970, from coast to coast, more than 2 million americans showed up to participate, including a die in at the airport in boston, massachusetts. A rally in manhattan with school kids attending their very first protest. A callin in chicago to eliminate all fossil fuel burning callers. It is important for us to involve ourselves in politics so that we can turn the system around. Reporter it secure the political will and action that led to the creation of the u. S. Epa as well as the clean water and clean air acts. Now, 54 years later, in 2024, earth day will focus on plastics. Plastic production has now grown to more than 380 million tons a year. That includes hundreds of billions of plastic bags and plastic beverage containers sold every year in the u. S. More than 95 of plastics in the nation will not be recycled at all. Earth day, the most important day in the world. Reporter threetime grammy award winner and casting a breakout will host a jam session and open air sustainable market. It will be one of a dozen event that plan to honor mother earth. Earth day. Celebrate your existence. In harmony with the place that you live. The more that you love it, the more that it gives. Reporter the first earth day made it clear there was enough public support, energy , and commitment to change the environment the hope that every day is the earth day. And you can find plenty of earth day events on our website, kpix. Com. And in honor of earth day, a new kind of disposable cup will be available in the u. S. The compass created with 3d printing using only clay, water, and salt and is made by a Startup Company called gaya star. Industry is usable. But you can throw it into the garbage and it will disintegrate into dust. And you can get it at merv coffee shops beginning on monday including the one in downtown San Francisco. Activewear is one of the faster growing categories and fashion with sales projected to be 770 billion by 2032 but the material that gives yoga pants stretched can pose in our mental challenge. Some recycling nonprofits say it has been difficult to reuse or recycle this stretchy fabric from elastic ware. The fabric woven inside makes them difficult to shred. One scientist in denmark wants to make recycling stretchy fabrics easier. At his lab, he is researching a chemical process to breakdown it and leave behind useful fibers. Meaning that you would get the fiber mesh out of the nylon intact, but you would have washed away the other stuff. It is similar to the one you get. The epa says since 1980, textile waste in the u. S. Had jumped more than 650 . Less than 50 of it is recycled. Well, coming up , the return of panda Diplomacy Program the local zoo getting two adorable new residents from china. And the return of showers to the bay area . Eventually. But in the meantime, not bad. We have the forecast. Guess what, san franciscans . I have some really exciting news. We have some cute, cuddly, blackandwhite beauties coming to our city. Mayor london breed announced during her trip to china on friday that giant pandas are coming to the San Francisco zoo. Visitors at the zoo say they are eager to see them up close. It is super exciting honestly. Pandas are cool. It may bring more people out here. I have not seen a panda ever if i remember. It will be fun. Now, pandas have served something of an unofficial barometer of chinau. S. Relations since 1972. That is when beijing gifted a pair to the smithsonian zoo following president nixons historic icebreaking trip to china. Fewer than 2000 giant pandas remain in the wild. National park week kicks off. That means it is free to get into every National Park in the country, even the big sites like yosemite. There are 429 sites within the National Park system from National Battlefield to seaside parks. The event runs from tomorrow through next sunday. April 28th. There will be special activities and each day has a theme. And if you want to take advantage, you dont even have to go all the way to yosemite. San francisco National Park is participating and so is pinnacles National Park in san benito county. You ever been to the caves in pentacles . I have not. Have you been to the pinnacles . I have not which is kind of strange. Have you been south of san rafael . We are south. I take it back. We have a chance of showers moving into the bay area. Right now, if you have not seen what San Francisco looks like lately, there it is. Temperatures came up. High pressure building in off the pacific. As a result, it is very pleasant as we approach saturday evening. Oakland, 64. And San Francisco, 61. And santa rosa, 63. Are High Pressure began to build in over the west coast. Warmest in the west spots and that will continue through monday. Not much in the way of fog. Tomorrow morning it should be beautiful at the shoreline. This is actually a timelapse. There is a little with of clouds coming in over pescadero and that is about it. Otherwise, things are looking this. San jose will top over at about 78 degrees by 2 00 in the afternoon san rafael. Soy. Got san rafael on the brink. Santa rosa. 7778 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. It will be warmer tomorrow. A couple degrees in land but nothing dramatic. And repeat tomorrow and begin to come down on monday. Then tuesday and wednesday, the numbers collapse. Enjoy the weekend. It is going to be nice. 80s inland right through monday than High Pressure gets booted to the east and that will be about it. Look what happens on friday. After essentially a week of norain chances we spike. This could be something big. Steve allen song by the way. This could be the start of something big. You have got a 65 chance of rain in San Francisco by friday but it is just a oneshot affair. By next weekend, we will pull it back. So it looks wet on friday. That is about it. Highs and night. It will continue warm on monday with a few coastal clouds. Then we begin to cool it down tuesday through thursday. The numbers come back down to low seasonal averages and by friday they get a little bit wet. Not a big deal. The forecast and not too bad tonight. Low 50s under starry skies and freeman will be down to 54. Livermore, 53 degrees. Beautiful sunday with 83 in fairfield and 84 in antioch. San jose, 81 degrees. Still chilly by the shoreline. Note i pause here to point something out. Colors on this map to reflect the temperatures. Note the green along the shoreline. Only in the 60s. Note the orange. Anyway you see orange it will be in the 80s. All right. In the extended forecast, a chance of showers come in friday otherwise it looks nice. Fog and low clouds in the morning. We will go status quo. Usual night and Early Morning low clouds. Rain. Should get wet on friday. Other than that, andrea, you will be loving it. All right. Thank you, brian. Up next, north of san rafael, the jackpot businesses struggling to compete with the black market. Now, one county agrees, it is time to change up the system. You can watch instream us anytime on cbs news bay area. Live news and weather updates throughout the day. You can find us on the free cbs news app or on pluto tv. Its time to get away and cache in, at cache creek casino resort, to rock and to roll. To go all out or. Go all in. With four stars and rising stars, northern californias premier casino resort is the perfect place. To do as much or as little as you want. Make your get away now and cache in at cache creek casino resort. This years 4 20 celebrations are coming at a time when a lot of legal pot businesses are barely squeezing by. California remains the Worlds Largest market. It is the largest market for legalize Recreational Marijuana but it has been struggling. The state reported just over 5 billion in total cannabis sales and that is down for the second year in a row. Now, some local counties are realizing that cannabis is not the moneymaker that they thought it would be. John raine must talked to one grower who says they should not be taxed at all. Reporter as he ducks into his Clinton Allen cannabis nursery, eric observes the growing stock for next years plots. He figured officials were overestimating what the value of cannabis would be to Sonoma County. The industry is not the pot of gold they thought it was in 2016 when they began to contemplate these taxes. Reporter that was acknowledged on tuesday at the board of supervisors meeting. I think there have been hopes that this tax could be used for other things in the county and to be able to make improvements. Originally, this was going to be a cash cow and it was not and that is true for everyone but be careful what you wish for i guess. Reporter so the county voted to reduce how much they charge cultivators. But cannabis is taxed four times in Sonoma County from the time it is grown to the time it is sold. Pearson pays more than 90,000 in taxes for his three acres while the hillsides are covered with grape fines that are not taxed at all. There is no agricultural crop in Sonoma County that is taxed except cannabis. Reporter new revenue was one of the selling points but the taxes which remained fixed began killing off businesses. Now, pearson says there are only a handful of legal operators competing with those who have returned to the illegal market. If they charge us too much money we cannot compete with that and by default they support the illicit market that they were trying to step out essentially. Reporter if they got rid of all the taxes on cannabis right now with that save the industry . S. Absolutely, it would. Reporter there may be another reason for getting rid of the taxes completely. The costs. By tacking the cannabis growers, the county is actually losing money. The numbers are pretty grim. Last may, there were 155 Legal Cannabis growers operating in Sonoma County. Today, there are fewer than half that many. And, with that, we thank you for watching. 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