coming up. >> thanks, paul. as warm weather hits the bay area, it always raises questions about wildfires and today's high temperatures hitting the same time as wildfire preparedness week in california. with climate change making wildfire season longer, there's a race to develop the best technology to fight those flames. >> remember these fires are burning in dense forests and other areas crews can't reach. when they need people on the ground, they call in a special team. our itay hod rode along with these smoke jumpers. >> reporter: 33-year-old cole skinner says he'll be dropping by his workplace. he means it literally. >> the whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush. >> reporter: for the last four years this has been his

commute, a 3,000-foot death defying dive with views that are hard to beat. >> ready? connected. >> reporter: cole is part of an elite group of firefighters that's been operating in places where roads don't exist. >> roads are cut away, reserve. >> reporter: called smoke jumpers, they parachute directly into the flames. when the sirens sound, smoke jumpers pack on their gear and load onto a short c-23 sherpa plane. >> once the horn blows we have about two minutes to get our jump gear on and we're boarded onto the planes in less than ten minutes. >> reporter: becoming a smoke jumper isn't for the faint of heart. rookie candidates are expected to be in top physical shape and have some firefighting experience. the group's missions are often miles away from civilization, which is why they bring everything they need with them. their gear can weigh up to 120

pounds. >> looks good. >> reporter: as we learned, wearing it all in the middle of summer isn't exactly a breeze. how hot does it get in one of these things? >> incredibly hot, yeah. on the tarmac sitting out there, the tarmac can be well over 110, 120 degrees. this is made of kevlar material, doesn't breathe. >> reporter: smoke jumping dates back to 1939 when the u.s. forest service realized it needed to stop remote fires before they became too big to handle. in all, there are about 400 smoke jumpers in the u.s., but as climate change intensifies, their job has become more in demand. >> i experienced stuff that i had never seen before. >> reporter: mitch hokinson is the redding base manager and a smoke jumbler for 25 years. he says these days fire seasons are getting longer and longer. >> instead of getting laid off in october, we were working in december and we were starting

earlier. normally fire season started in june. now it's starting the end of april. >> reporter: the daily grind can be both dangerous and physically demanding and that's exactly why cole says the moment he heard about the program he jumped at the chance to join. >> no one else gets to parachute out of a plane to go fight fire. it's a dream here and when it came true, it was everything it's supposed to be. >> reporter: and now that he's landed the perfect job -- >> oh, yeah, baby. >> reporter: -- the sky is no longer the limit. >> he nailed the landing there. itay tried putting on that heavy gear and doing a pullup. you can catch more of that challenge tonight at 11:00 in part two of his extraordinary story. governor gavin newsom is slamming the city of half moon bay. the issue, the governor says city officials are delaying a project to build affordable housing for senior farmworkers in the wake of last

year's mass shooting. that shooting exposed the poor living conditions for farmworkers. the proposed five-story building will be located in downtown half moon bay, but the city's planning commission has been putting off voting for the project, some raising concerns the building would be too tall and increase traffic. officials have another opportunity to vote next week. in a statement governor newsom says this delay is egregious and jeopardizes the well-being of californians. the state's housing accountability unit is reviewing the city's actions and will take all necessary steps to hold half moon bay accountable if the project does not move forward. college graduation is just days away and some pro palestinian protesters are still camped out on campuses demanding an end to the war in gaza. our chopper spotted encampments at several campuses here, including uc berkeley, sf state, and stanford, this as israel's military pushes closer to the city of rafah and ceasefire negotiations continue to stall. despite everything

that's going on, university officials are saying commencement ceremonies will still go on. as of now, berkeley, stanford, and sf state ceremonies will remain on schedule. a new gaza protest on the ucla campus, but this time it was faculty members speaking out. they are upset how the university has treated protesters. reporter jeff nguyen has that story. >> reporter: dozens of ucla staff and faculty members marched to the chancellor's office thursday with demands following the confrontations with police and arrests at a pro palestinian encampment last week. the lapd says there were no serious injuries, but volunteer medics say they treated dozens. >> severe head lacerations, facial fractures. >> reporter: about 800 signatures have been collected on a petition calling for the divestment and disclosure of ucla's interests in israel and defense companies. we asked if there's any proof of such

ties. >> ucla can answer that question by fully disclosing in a written report within 30 days all of their investments. >> reporter: last week's arrest followed a night of violence in which chancellor gene block said instigators attacked the encampment. no counterprotesters were arrested, but more than 200 pro palestinian protesters were booked the following day. they are calling for the chancellor to resign even though he's set to retire this summer. >> there would be an acknowledgment we rejected his attempt to silence free speech. >> reporter: some say jewish students have faced anti-semitism following the october 7th attacks on israel by hamas and during the encampments were blocked to get to class. >> the library was not blocked. all people had to do was walk a little longer.

>> reporter: some involved in the encampments along with the ucla undergraduates students association called for the abolishment of the israel studies program. >> i think what's most important right now is the demand to take the demands of the encampment seriously, right? for the administration to come to the table and to negotiate in good faith. >> if you are trying to eliminate education on a topic because it doesn't fit your narrative, that is erasure. >> the chancellor is set to speak with congress about anti-semitism on campus later this month. the university has not responded to calls for him to resign. presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. said doctors found a dead worm in his brain more than a decade ago. "the new york times" were first to report his medical issues documented in his 2012 divorce deposition in. it kennedy claims a doctor reviewing his brain scans told him that a worm possibly crawled into his brain, ate

part of it and then died, causing cognitive issues. "cbs mornings" spoke with the doctor about how this could possibly happen. >> there are parasitic infections you can get in your brain. usually this happens in countries where you have poor sanitation, unclear water. these parasites do not eat your brain, per se, but the most likely won he would have is a pork tape worm related cyst and those generally will stay in place. they might grow, cause inflammation or swelling and that's how you get symptoms, but they are not eating your brain. >> well, a spokes person for the presidential hopeful says he is now in good health. the candidate wrote on x that he "offered to eat five more brain worms and still beat former president trump and president biden in a debate." meet the scientist trying to talk to whales, the discovery they made about how these giant mammals actually communicate. and how some bay area students are helping to make x

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>>despite despite controversies surroundingist owner, increased hate speech and misinformation on the platform, millions of people still use x to get news and opinions, but with more young people turning to tiktok, x formerly known as twitter, is rethinking how to engage more people. >> last month they challenged young developers to create a cool feature or app to improve the user experience and a team of four students from santa clara university emerged as the

winners. they came up with a way to promote more honesty and encourage different perspectives. >> as our shawn chitnis reports, they got to pitch their idea to elon musk himself. >> so when we saw this challenge, it felt like the perfect opportunity to build a really cool product for an app that we all love. >> reporter: four friends all studying computer science at santa clara university got an incredible opportunity well before they start their careers in tech, a challenge to make x, the platform formerly known as twitter, better for the average user and then they would later learn, present the idea to the company's owner, elon musk. >> oh, it was amazing. it was a great experience. he's an extremely down to earth nice guy. he asked a lot of questions about our product. he's extremely understanding, spent the time out of his busy day to speak. i was extremely grateful for that. >> reporter: they spent 30 hours working nonstop during the competition to come up with a product they called insight x. the idea is to give users

more perspective and information so when someone posts on the platform, you can easily get access to their history of posts and learn how truthful their post is. you also get presented with other posts with different views to give you all angles on a topic. >> we didn't know how it would play out, but we built a tool that we thought at its core functionality addressed a need for a user. >> reporter: for these four active users on x, it was a chance to work on a platform they all enjoy and be in a room when elon musk joined them over video call as they explained their idea to him and company leaders. >> i actually was really surprised. he's a very humble guy. he's very down to earth. >> he made it a very pressure-free environment for us. he just came in. he's making jokes, trying to understand our product. >> reporter: this team of journals and seniors hope their work is a sign of the change that can come with a new generation of tech workers and leaders to make social media

more accurate and more meaningful for everyone. >> they're trying and they're making lots of positive progress towards where they want to be. >> it's not clear if x will adopt the idea or add the feature to the platform. >> it's important to note in recent years critics of all social media companies have questioned the motivation of these tech giants suggesting profits come before safety and if they go far enough when it comes to content moderation. straight ahead in sports, giants road woes, stanford's way to remember a great coach, and we say good-bye to a 49er who played his position like he invented it, number 37, jimmy johnson. coming up on the cbs evening news, it's a big decision to start a family and more women are choosing to do it on their own. we look at this growing trend of being a single mom by choice

paul has promised it was warmer today than it was yesterday and it could even be getting hotter and time to break out the sunglasses, shorts, sunscreen, you name it? >> us city folk are not used to these extreme conditions and yet last night it was not prime

sleeping weather. we had all the windows open. >> it's cooler now than 10:00 last night. temperatures in the city have dropped off significantly. they'll bounce back tomorrow, but it's going to be a real up and down ride closer to the coast as the offshore wind battles the return of the onshore wind. let's look at where our temperatures topped out today on the warmest day in 2024 in san francisco with a high of 81 degrees, also 81 in fremont, 77 for half moon bay, mid-80s for inland parts of the bay area and inland locations will get hotter tomorrow, some spots close to 90 degrees while spots around the bay and along the coast will retreat slightly. it's still going to be warm than average, a good 10 to 15 degrees above normal. let's look at the big picture pattern. the winds in the upper level of the atmosphere will remain offshore but very close to ground level or sea level, if you will. the onshore breeze will try to reassert itself in the afternoon, so temperatures well above normal along the

coast and bay early afternoon and then dropping quickly like today. farther into the weekend things shift around and that's when the onshore breeze will be present to a greater depth in the atmosphere and temperatures around the bay and along the coast will return to almost exactly average. a little fog trying to redevelop through the rest of tonight confined to the immediate coastline, not making much progress into the bay or inland valleys. what there is will back away from the coast as the offshore breeze reasserts itself tomorrow. temperatures tonight dropping down to the 50s across the board. forecast highs tomorrow, the santa clara valley temperatures top out in the mid- to upper 80s. inland in the east bay we'll have some of the warmest readings, upper 80s and low 90s tomorrow afternoon. still warm around the bay, 85 in fremont, 86 in redwood city, but closer to the coast, upper 60s in half moon bay, above average, san francisco upper 70s by early afternoon, but temperatures tumble quickly late afternoon and early evening and

temperatures in the north bay, that onshore breeze won't be able to make its way very far inland as temperatures mostly mid- to upper 80s with a few spots including napa up to around 90 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. let's look at the ten-day temperature outlook. we'll focus on inland parts of the bay area. we'll still run above normal as we drop into the second half of the weekend and early next week, 81 degrees monday, substantially above average and then another little mini warm spell tuesday, wednesday, thursday before temperatures drop off a little closer to average by next weekend. those are days nine and ten in the seven-day forecast. we have a long way to go. pollen count remains an issue in the medium lie category for the foreseeable future, as you can tell by me. i'm about to drip on air. let's look at the seven-day forecast and i will step out of the screen. temperatures will range in the 80s inland while temperatures closer to the water are going to retreat to near average levels by sunday and stay there through the first half of next week while

temperatures along the coast also a retreat to near average, but that means you'll hover around 60 degrees with more cloud cover in place by sunday and monday of next week. >> paul, i have some claritin at my desk. time for a check of what's ahead at 6:00, switch over to juliette. >> we'll follow the president's visit to the bay area, a live report on that. plus they are quick and environmentally friendly, a way for teens to get around in marin county, but one lawmaker is saying oops, not so fast. plus it is a family affair, the brand-new san francisco hotspot where it's a mother and daughter who run the kitchen all in the name of love and business. the news at 6:00 is coming up in ten minutes. let's go to vern and sports. >> we've got the nfl up top and hall of fame cornerback jimmy johnson who passed away wednesday night. how good of a hall of famer? johnson was

deion sanders before deion sanders. a 49ers uniform is the only one he wore for 16 seasons, three time all pro and a member of the 1970s all decade team. he only had 47 interceptions because opposing quarterbacks rarely challenged him. i got a text today from another hall of famer, ronnie lott, who played the same position. he told me johnson was the best ever. jimmy johnson, the younger brother of olympic gold medalist rayford johnson, was 86 years old. here's the awkward segway back to the game and the giants may have brought their brooms to the rockies ballpark, but then the fourth inning happened. >> boy, that escalated quickly. i mean that really got out of hand fast. >> pitcher keaton winn gave up six straight hits on nine pitches, one triple, a couple of doubles, couple of singles and then there was the big blow, a three-run homer by

brenton doyle. the rockies scored seven in the inning. they won it 9-1. giants did win the series, finished the road trip 3-7. so a record of 17-22 overall, back home tomorrow night against cincinnati. >> how would you assess where you guys are at? >> not good. we left one game under .500 and come back a lot worse. nba playoffs, jalen brunson and the knicks have a 2-0 series lead against the pacers. new york has shown plenty of heart literally. forward josh hart has played every second of both games. >> what is a thing in life? >> probably us. my wife arguing with me. that makes me extremely tired. tara vanderveer won't be on the bench running the stanford women's basketball program next season, but she won't be forgotten anytime soon. the school is naming the

maple pavilion floor in her honor. it will be now known as tara vanderveer court. countdown to the caitlin clark wnba regular season debut a week from tonight, her new indiana fever teammates are quickly getting used to all of the extra attention that follows clark, but there are also some tasty perks. >> my mom would come to my games at iowa like she would always bring a dessert or something for my teammates and the coaching staff. we'll have to keep that going. all right. ann clark, if you're hearing this, bring the dessert. >> cookies. >> may 16th versus new york. you heard it. >> i love it. speaking of treats, there's only one of us in this screen that is quite the baker, huh, liz? >> actually it's a really good reminder because i have to bring the treats for the tee ballgame this saturday. thank you. >> why don't you have us

sample them a bit before you bring them to the game? >> maybe i'll make that chocolate cake i made for your birthday a couple years ago, little cupcakes? >> that sounds good. >> not very healthy. >> we don't want healthy. >> what would be the fun in that. >> thanks for the reminder, got to go to the store. still ahead at 5:00, whales have the largest brains to ever exist on planet earth and are capable of complex speech through their song, scientists making a major br - lift the clouds off of... - virtual weather, only on kpix and pix+. we're 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.

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unwind in our luxurious hotel rooms >a scientists might be one step closer to communicating with animals after a recent breakthrough in the study of whale songs. >> thanks to cutting edge tech scientists have discovered sperm whales use their own alphabet. ian lee gives us a listen. >> reporter: that clicking may sound like a zipper or a door squeaking, but it's clicking noises whales make to talk to each other. researchers in biology analyzed more than 8,000 bursts of clicks called codas similar to morse code and found the noises form an alphabet to create what we think of as words and phrases. >> these codas have a complex

internal structure with similarities to aspects of some other animal communication systems and even some aspects of human language. >> reporter: sperm whales can grow up to 60 feet long and their 20-pound brains are the largest in the animal kingdom. they communicate by forcing air through muscles in their noses. >> it seems that through this phonetic alphabet they can generate a lot of things, but we have no idea what they say. >> reporter: scientists say they need to collect millions, if not billions of codas to have enough to work out what the whales are talking about, but they think artificial intelligence can help them make sense of it all. >> we hope this discovery will help us with whale conservation as well as with a deeper understanding of our majestic neighbors of the undersea. >> reporter: hoping someday sperm whales could tell us a whale of a tale about life under the waves. >> who knew they're chatty? >> yeah. that's it for the news at

5:00. cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich starts right now. >> thanks so much. boy, the spring heat is here and in some parts of the bay area it's only going to get hotter. >> this is actually perfect weather. >> whether it's an outdoor cafe or on the beach, people across the bay area soaking up the sun. mother and daughters working side by side. >> being able to give me mom input i think is a really amazing feeling. >> that's breathing new life into a san francisco neighborhood and it all started with a special request. >> i received a letter from my mother-in-law written in spanish and she asked if i could do one thing for her. they are a fast and environmentally friendly way to get around. >> it's a great form of transportation for younger people who cannot drive. >> and they are especially popular among young people, but there are concerns about the safety of e-bikes and now one local lawmaker is trying to crack down. >> a lot of folks are observing, you know, lack of following