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Home. Plus, the u. S. Womens Water Polo Team make an unexpected ally as they get ready to pack up for paris for the summer games. From kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. Hello, im sara donchey. A San Francisco dog walker was already going through tough times. Terry williams says hed been targeted by racist threats and he was dealing with that issue today when suddenly his house caught on fire with his family inside it. Williams is a well known dog walker in San Franciscos alamo square. He had recently reported that someone left a black doll with a noose and kkk messages at the front door. No one has been named as a suspect and there have been no arrests so far. As williams was sharing his story with city leader this is morning a fire broke out at his home while his parents were home. Firefighters had to rush in and rescue them. His mom was seriously hurt and is in the hospital tonight. Williams dad was treated and is expected to be okay. As for the house, well, now its red tagged. Investigators have not said that there is a definitive connection between the alleged hate crime and todays fire, but as lauren toms report, williams and his neighbors have a lot of questions they want answered. Reporter hours after a fire ripped through this alamo square home, the scent of char remains in the air. Community members are demanding answers after hate crimes targeted the same man now left with the clothes on his back and his beloved three dogs. I really thought i lost my mom and my dad today. My dogs. I thought i lost everything i cared about. Reporter Terry Williams worst fears became a reality tuesday when a fire ripped through his familys home on grove street where theyve lived for over 50 years. I just lost everything. Like, you know, everything, all my memories, everything from a little kid. Playing up and down the house, jumping off the wall, doing stuff. Its gone, burnt away. Reporter they all made it out alive, a miracle, he says, including his three dogs, but mystery surrounds the cause of the fire after a string of racist threats targeting terry remain unsolved. I go to city hall try to take care of something, and then this happens. Its like so every time im leaving somethings going on. I feel like i need to protect my house 24 hours. Reporter he wont speculate how the fire could have started. Community members rallied together and launched a gofundme for terry to install cameras in his home after a noose and a black doll were left in front of his door. The cameras were installed, but the batteries were charging while the fire erupted. During that time, terry was at city hall meeting with city officials about the prior hate crimes. Authorities have not yet identified a suspect. You could tell i dont feel no security out here. I feel like they, in a way, i feel like they won the round right now. We still in the fight but they won like four rounds right now. Im really five rounds down. Trying to fight back. So this is rough. Im not going to quit. It makes me want to fight harder. Im up against the gun. Reporter most days terry can be seen walking his dogs and his clients dogs through alamo square park chatting with people along the way. Members of this community, including lorry, are devastated alongside terry. She says the attacks are growing more personal. Because they dont deserve any of this. Theyre really, really kind people. And i dont think anybody deserves it, but especially not this family. Reporter displaced and on high alert, terry says he doesnt know where he can sleep tonight. Torn between keeping his family and his home safe. My dog will keep me warm. This is my house. What am i going to to . I got to protect my stuff. I cant take no more of this stuff no more. Its too much now. Like my familys on the line. Its like come on. Reporter left with more questions than answers as he picks up the ashes of the life hes lived. A gofundme page has been created to help the Williams Family rebuild, but the Fire Department expects it to take months to determine a cause of this fire. Terry says hell keep walking his dogs through alamo square every day no matter what. The San Francisco board of supervisors adopted a resolution today condemning the threats and intimidation of the Williams Family. That was on the agenda before the fire broke. A family outing to the ice cream shop turned into a horror in san jose. A man walked by and smashed a window, sending shards of glass raining down on to a young boy. Surveillance video shows a child and an adult walking into the baskinrobbins store late last month. Right when the child sat down at a table, here, you see a man outside punch through the window, sending all of that sharp glass all over that little boy who immediately rushed out of the store with the adult. You see how traumatizing that probably was for the child. You see the glass shattering all over the child, them trying to figure out whats going on. Youre going there just for ice cream, but then youre assaulted with glass. Were just learning about this because San Jose Police say the crime was never actually reported to them and they didnt know about it until they got a tip early this month. We dont know if that little boy got hurt when this happened, and detectives want to find him and his family to ask them about what happened. They say if you know who they are to give them a call. As for the suspect, Police Arrested 36yearold payam afsari. Hes been charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon and child abuse. No word on what prompted that attack. The fate of more than a million gig workers in california is in the hands of the state Supreme Court. Were talking about prop 22. Voters approved it back in 2020. It reclassified appbased drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. That meant drivers were not legally entitled to benefits like workers comp. Lower courts have gone back and forth over whether voters have the power to regulate employment terms or if its up to lawmakers. Katie nielsen talked to rideshare drivers about what this change could mean for them. Reporter dozens of rideshare and delivery drivers who are against prop 22 gathered on the steps of the California Supreme Court ahead of the argument, including this driver. I drive with both platform, uber and lyft, and theyre twins. They behave the same. Price is the same. Reporter he started driving full time in 2015 and in the past few years his income fell dramatically, especially after prop 22 passed. What the proposition did is give them a safe harbor basically to do whatever they want. Theyve cut what they pay the drivers about 20 to 30 . The same time this is going on, passengers are paying considerably more, theyre telling me. Reporter he says as a true independent contractor drivers would be able to set their own rates instead of the companies setting rates for them. What is the flexibility when we work more than 12 hours just to make this. Reporter Uc Berkeleys Labor Center just released a new study on monday looking at the average income of gig drivers in five major u. S. City, including San Francisco, and found on average drivers were paid less than minimum wage after expenses. The study reported rideshare drivers made an average of 5. 97 an hour before tips while Meal Delivery drivers made even less, 4. 98 an hour before tips. I always use an electric bike when i do deliveries. Reporter but doordash delivery person lewis says being an indepent contractor allows him to work when he wants, instead of being forced to work a certain schedule the way he could be if he was a company employee. It allows me the flexibility to be able to pick up a few extra hours on the side. Reporter dave says his main job right now is working as a pedicabdriver but hes making about 2,000 a month working with doordash. I dont consider doordash to be a fulltime job, i consider it to be something that supplements me to be able to make ends meet. If you want to make an income, you really have to do it like 60, 70 hours a week. Reporter for fulltime gig workers like john, he hopes the court will find prop 22 is unconstitutional so he can get some of the same protections as other employees. I mean, everyone else has labor standards and rights and were singled out where we have no labor rights basically and we dont have independent contractor rights like other people do. The state Supreme Court has 90 days to rule on the fate of prop 22. We reached out the uber, lyft, and doordash. They all said that voters made it abundantly clear they support the proposition. Californias housing shortage is not new, but one mans solution to it is, and its getting some attention. I knew id be parking in front of peoples houses at night. I wanted to practice. And i didnt want them ecomplaining. How this musician creating a rolling home. And a scary scene in the skies after severe turbulence turns deadly. A beautiful view of the sunset this evening looking towards the golden gate from salesforce tower, but after the sun went down, we start to see that haze thats been on the horizon actually coalescing into some fog around the golden gate. Were going see a little more of that tomorrow morning. More changes to come late they are week. Details coming up in the first alert forecast. Paul, thanks. Later on, we are getting ready for the olympics. The summer games are coming. Who better to hype us all up than flava flav. Why hes betting big on womens water polo. A slow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. Were up to 12 times faster than verizon, at t, and tmobile. And existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds. At no additional cost. Its ultimate speed for ultimate business. Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to comcast business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today you ever get on your phone and scroll through zillow to see whats out there . A lot of us do, and a lot of us are discouraged as to just how expensive houses are in the bay area, even outside of the bay area. The median price for a home in california just hit 900,000 for the very first time. This is from the California Association of realtors. Home prices in napa, alameda, and San Francisco all went up at least 13 from last year, but in sonoma and solano counties prices barely rose. In fact, so Solano County has the you can find a lot of bang for your buck over here. I think theres great pockets in vallejo. Prices actually dropped in marin county about 5 . Dont get too excited, though. The median home price there is still over 1. 67 million. And when people cant find affordable places to live, they have to get creative. Though maybe not as creative as a man in l. A. Who created a home out of an old ambulance. Alex martinez took a drive with him. Reporter Cameron Gordon came to l. A. With the hope of becoming a songwriter. He soon realized it was cheaper to live in his car than pay rent. So i didnt want to get snuck that trap of like coming here for a dream and then abandoning it just to live. Reporter in 2019 he bought an ambulance because of its thicker walls and insulation. I knew id be parking in front of peoples houses at night, and i wanted to be able to practice. And i didnt want them complaining. All right, ready to go. Reporter we took a ride in the place he calls home. Whats the most challenging part about living in your car . Having to move every day. Like if you have a house or apartment, you have the luxury of, like, laying around in bed and nobody sees you. If youre living in a car in front of someones house and you dont leave for 24 hours, like the cops are going to knock on your door. Reporter gordons home also pays his bills. Welcome to reporter he reporter it also comes with flashing lights and medical equipment. Gordon saved up enough money to buy this small plot of land in sun valley. I found the cheapest piece of land i found for sale anywhere in california. I went to check it out. Im like, it was too good to be true. Part of that was. Reporter an l. A. Municipal code prohibits him from living on his property in his vehicle. There is an exception in the law. You can use the land for agriculture. So he set up an outdoor garden area where he can be during the day. At night gordon has to sleep somewhere else. The American Dream that were sold to as kids and growing up, go to college, get a good job, and then you can afford a house and a family, and the times were in now, thats just not true. You can do all the things right and still end up living in your car. Reporter one day he hopes to save up enough money to build a house on his lot, but until then, living in his ambulance will have to be enough. A major emergency in the skies to tell you about. One passenger died and dozens of people were hurt after a Singapore Airlines flight hit major turbulence. It was so bad the plane dropped thousands of feet in a matter of minutes, and the pilots had to make an Emergency Landing. Kris van cleave talked with passengers on the plane about this horrifying flight. Reporter passengers describe a sudden drop during a meal service that left passengers bloodied, overhead bins and oxygen masks dangling, dented ceilings, and debris everywhere. During the few seconds of the plane dropping, there was awful screaming. Reporter it happened about ten hours into Singapore Airlines flight 321 as it approached thailand on the trip from london to singapore. There were storms in the area when preliminary flight data show the plane appeared to encounter a sudden turbulent event lasting about a minute. It launched unbelted passengers and crew into the ceiling, leaving Dozens Injured and a 73yearold british man dead of a possible heart attack. A line of ambulances met the boeing 777300 after an Emergency Landing in bangkok. Just a sudden drop. The thing i remember the most is just the objects and things flying through the air. There was an elderly lady with an awful gash on her head covered in blood. Reporter among the 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, at least four americans. One is said to be among the injured. 30 people were taken to the hospital, according to the airline, seven in critical condition. Its extremely rare to have a turbulence event result in fatalities. Reporter former ntsb chair robert. What i would call this right now is an inflight upset, whether that is a result of atmospheric turbulence or whether its the result of something else. Reporter too early to know for sure. Too early to know for sure at this point. Reporter injuries from turbulence are rare. The faa says between 2009 and 2022 in the United States there were 163 injuries reported, nearly 80 two or flight attendants. The best way to protect yourself and avoid injury is to wear your seat belt. Lets talk about our local weather now. A really warm day in the bay area, even along the coast and in San Francisco where its usually pretty foggy this time of year, right, paul . Yeah, and the fog is going to return later on tonight. Were seeing some of that getting back together. Not a tremendously foggy start to the day, especially compared to the weather last week. Today was unusually warm for most of the bay area. That is a brief kind of syndrome. Were going to be seeing temperatures backing off beginning already tomorrow. Storm system passing well up to our north sending rain to the pacific northwest. Close enough to shift the winds in the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere. A retreat toward normal temperatures over the next couple days. Today we did manage to make it up into above average territory. Lets take a look at those high, well above average for the north bay. Close to 90 degrees in santa rosa, the warm spot across the entire bay area. Almost 70 degrees in San Francisco. Thats not bad for the middle of may. Mid80s for livermore. The exception is along the coast. Despite the sunshine, only 58 degrees for a High Temperature in half moon bay. You might be able to do a little better tomorrow even with fog to start the day. Temperatures in the Santa Clara Valley not wiet as warm as other parts of the inland bay area, but into the low to mid80s. A half dozen degrees above whats normal for late may. Still slightly above average for High Temperatures tomorrow, just not quite as far above normal. Lets take a look at how things are going to shift. Beginning with that fog as we look to the west from the mark hopkins hotel. Its not a thick layer of fog, but its getting reorganized. Temperatures 54 degrees downtown San Francisco and in santa rosa to 66 degrees still in concord after that High Temperature of 88. But youve already dropped over 20 degrees over the course of the past few hours. Futurecast shows the fog trying to make a push across the bay into the trivalley, maybe even into the Santa Clara Valley, but its not going to last long in those inland valleys. Itll have more success along the coast, at least until late morning. Youll see the sun breaking through midday into late afternoon. Low to mid50s across the entire bay area. Quite a bit more variation to our High Temperatures in the afternoon but still three or four degrees above normal. Upper 60s and low 70s around the bay with upper 70s and low 80s farther inland. Into the low to mid 0s as you go farther down the peninsula. A few upper 70s a lot of low to mid80s inland and the east bay. These will be some of the warmest spots on the map, especially eastern contra costa and solano counties. Low to mid70s for the north bay, until you go farther inland where the 80s are rmore common. Low 80s in santa rosa instead of the upper 80s like today. Look at the forecast for carnaval weekend in San Francisco, upper 50s for High Temperatures on saturday. Thats it. Back to the low 60s on sunday, which is a little closer to reasonable for this time of year, but everybodys going to get in on that cooldown. Lets take a look at the sevenday forecast. Well start with inland parts of the bay area where temperatures retreat from the low 80s tomorrow to only the upper 60s on saturday. Were going to have to struggle to hit 70 both friday and saturday. As we head farther into memorial day weekend, it does look like things are going to warm back up to closer to normal for the holiday itself on monday. A similar trend around the bay from the low 70s tomorrow to only the low 60s by saturday with a lot more cloud cover overhead to start the weekend. But our rain chances are going to remain almost zero. Not technically zero because along the coast as that cool air moves in friday night into saturday there is an outside chance of maybe a shower, more likely a little bit of patchy drizzle for coastal parts of the bay area, sara . Excuse me, vern. Yes, sir, straight ahead in sports, the giants, rough one in pittsburgh. And a brand new beginning for the future of pro baseball did my legs shrink . I can move them. I mean, i knew Alaska Airlines premium class had extra legroom but this. This feels different. Okay. Crazy idea. On the count of 3. Im going to try and cross my. Ohhhhhhhhhhh boyy thats nice. Woooooo ominous music teacher . But its still true. There are four states of matter. There are solids, liquids, gases. Teacher trevor . Teacher not quite . Plasma. Teacher lights please. Teacher now, states of matter are comprised of relationships between molecules. Teacher molecules relationships. Nicotines a neurotoxin that can escalate teen anxiety. Teacher saved by the bell ominous music well, i cant imagine giants fans are thrilled at this point in the season. Theyve dealt with a lot, some of it bad luck, some of it bad playing, some of it, what . Just goes to show you that baseballs a funny game. I mean, it can build you up, fourgame winning streak going on the road, and then it can actually crush you. Mmhmm. Tonight a soul crushing one for the giants. The players, the giants fans, this one hurts, sara. Not every day you see a 62 ninth inning lead disappear. Not the way you want to start a road trip. Now, does this dog look secure in the pirates mascots arms . San francisco up four runs. Ninth inning, and it unravelled. They could not complete a gameending double play. A run scored. You feel bad for luciano, couldnt make the play. 64. Two batters later, onerun game, oneill cruz doubled into right. A twoout rbi that tied the game at 66. Nick gonzalez finished wit a walkoff single, and the pirates came back to beat the giants 76, snapping the giants fourgame win streak. San franciscos record now falls to 2326. Meantime, fill in your own caption here. Man, dog, as hosting the rockies. Bottom of the eighth tied at 44, but no more. Abraham toro lined this shot out. His fifth home run of the year. Some of the damage in a crowd and dog pleasing 54 win snapping an eightgame losing streak. And the ballers are on the board. The oakland ballers are on the board. Ballers in montana for their first ever game facing glacier range rioters tied at 44, top six. Miles jefferson just beat the throw home. Gave the ballers the lead. Davis was 5 for 6 with four rbi. You know its gone based on the bat flip. Solo shot made it a tworun lead for oakland, and the ballers won their inaugural game. Final of 76. Nba. Tyrese haliburton and the pacers seconds away from closing out the celtics in game one of the eastern finals. Eight seconds left, jaylen brown and the former cal bear hit a tough three, tied the game, and sent it into overtime. Little over a minute left in ot. Bostons down two. Jayson tatum, bucket, and foul. Celtics put them up one, tatum scored 36. Boston hung on and won 133128, and thats how the eastern Conference Series opened . Whoa. Thats just for starters. Yeah, give me some of that. The excitement of that. Yeah, that was a clutch three to say the least. I was watching, talking to a friend. We thought the game was done and over with, and then all of a sudden, were back to life. Unfortunately speaking of clutch oh yeah, no, no. Maybe a little. All right, vern, thank you so much. You know, the olympics are just a couple of months away, and 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. I know. Faster wifi and savings . I dont want to miss that. Thats amazing doc. Mobile savings are calling. Visit xfinitymobile. Com to learn more. Doc . Golden 1 credit union agrees, its never too late to try something new or pick up an old pastime. We know youre up for adventure, thats what youre here for. The golden 1 member cash rewards card lets you try the things you love with your true love. When you can enjoy the rewards of every experience that comes your way, what are you waiting for . Dive right in. Golden 1 member cash rewards card. Life is a journey best dreamed together. So the olympics are coming. Mmhmm. Right around the corner. Summer olympics, were very excited. I feel like every year is an olympic year now. I love that. What are you looking forward to . The swimming venue, but im biassed. Your kids are swimmers. You . The basketball. Theyre going to be hosted in paris, sports like basketball, soccer, track and field, swimming, those are the ones that tend to steal the spotlight. Some of the players on the u. S. Womens Water Polo Team have been trying to drum up support on social media, and theyve landed an unlikely hype man. The team captain put out a plea to ask for support, and you know who responded . None other than flavor flav. He said im going to put my money where my mouth is. These girls, man, these girls are really trying hard, you know what im saying . They out there in that water busting their you know, what im saying, and whole nine. Water polo sports may not be big right now, you know what im saying, but doing stuff like this, you know what im saying, like maggie said, she wants to help grow the sport. Because theyre really trying hard and not only that, but theyre good. You know . And i dont want to see all of that great, great talent just go down the drain with the water in the pool. And when i come out and i watch this water polo thing the Water Polo Team usa, usa, yo, im going to be the biggest hype man that they ever had in their life. Im going to be bigger than any cheerleader that they had in their life. Im going to cheer this team on, and im going to cheer this team into winning a gold medal. Im going to need him to do that when im getting ready for work in the morning. Need the hype. Flav is finalizing a deal to make him an official usa water polo sponsor. Sure. Hes been turning to social media to shine a light on the girl, writing these women should not have to be working two or three side jobs to be able to compete. Agree. Id like to see one egg beater kick by flavor flav. Just one. How can you not flavor flav, huh . He looks great, 65 . I would not have guessed that in a million years. He kind of just doesnt age. Yeah. I interviewed him on the red carpet at last years super bowl, and he really . Was just awesome. Did the whole thing, yeah boy. That was pretty good. Groirng have to ask him for his new love of water polo. Next time, sure. Why not . Thank you for watching. The late show with Stephen Colbert is next. The news continues stream eking on cbs news bay area, good night. Yeah, boy. Oh my god. Its too good. Wow, yeah. Actress Scarlett Johansson is accusing the Parent Company of openai of using a likeness of her voice without her permission. Not only did she refuse a request from openai to voice its new virtual assistant, she declined after the companys ceo approached her twice. Now she says the company reluctantly agreed to take the