The legal battle heats up, as the Supreme Court weighs in on the new Texas Law. Women are turned away from clinics, and a website is set up to report anyone who is seeking an abortion. Welcome relief. Improving wind helps crews fight the Caldor Fire. We go inside their battle. Reporter this is a backfire that crews set intentionally to take advantage of the favorable weather. Odonnell kids and coronavirus why cases among children have increased rapidly. Grounded the f. A. A. Says Richard Bransons Space Plane Cant take off. And, grab your tissues. A military Dads Surprise for his family. This is the Cbs Evening News with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and Thank You for joining us. Tonight, we begin once again with the extreme weather facing this country. The northeast is recovering from recordbreaking rain, flooding, and tornadoes triggered by remnants of hurricane ida. The storm is now responsible for more than 40 de
year early. that s why for so many fans tonight they re feeling sad even though they re in a festive mood. this has been the home of the raiders for 40 of their 59 seasons. a little bittersweet. we re mad that they re leaving, but we re glad to be here to represent the raiders. my mom was a fan. i m a fan. my son s a fan. my grandkid s a fan. reporter: talking about four generations. four generations of raiders fans. we love them, sorry to see them go. reporter: what s not known is where the team will play in 2019. staying in oakland seems unlikely given the city sued the team and nfl earlier this month alleging they violated anti-trust laws by boycotting oakland as a host city. we re feeling pretty good actually. we drove in the rain and we re still here and still toughing it out with the raiders. that s how we roll. reporter: the federal lawsuit will not try to keep the team in the city but does seek the maximum amount of monetary damages. man, i don t feel go
often, they don t even call to report it anymore. usually it s fairly late at night. we re in bed. and it s just oh, okay someone is shooting another gun. i would hope they would not get rid of it. the neighborhood really needs it. oakland really needs it. reporter: here s an example that people not everybody calls in. last month shotspotter recorded 258 reports of gunfire in west and east oakland alone. that same period, only 197 reports were called in by folks who live in oakland. so there s about 60 reports that were not called in by folks who live here. live in oakland, i m da lin, kpix 5. the department has to come up with the money to keep shotspotter by this summer when the contract is up. new at 6:00, volunteers are going to start testing the waters off the west coast for traces of radiation from the fukushima disaster. scientists expect to start seeing low levels of radiation next month. they have crowd sourced volunteers to take water samples from alaska t
says the referendum is illegal. good afternoon everyone. russian president putin signed a decree today recognizing crimea as a sovreign and independent country as president obama announced new sanctions against russia. kpix5 reporter mark kelly is live in our news room with the presidents beefed up promises. mark? reporter: michelle president obama unveiled sanctions against seven russian officials including russia s deputy prime minister. the u.s. and it s european friends have stepped up sanctions on economic and trade sanctions against russia following a historic vote sunday to the brings crimea and russia even closer together. pro russian crimeans celebrated sunday. the government said a large majority of voting crimeans cast a ballot to join russia. many believing a split from ukraine today will mean more opportunity in the future. prime minister said dear friends, we are going home to russia. the government said 83% of voters went to the ballot box, from the white h