just record them and report them. let's make our city look a little better. >> what happened when we questioned the business about one of its trucks caught in the act. free palestine! >> president biden swings through the bay area for cash and is greeted by protesters ready to give him an earful. >> our government could have easily changed course a long time ago and instead he's collecting billions of dollars from tech billionaires in the bay. >> it played a unique role in bay area healthcare for 126 years. >> to me chinese hospital is not just a hospital. it's very much so part of our history. >> how a shot in the arm from the state will help it expand care at a challenging time. and the northern lights visible in northern california? the potential impact of a rare solar storm. clear skies over the bay area, but you need to get away from the city lights if you

want to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis, warm temperatures today continuing into at least part of the weekend, details in the first alert forecast. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening. thanks for joining us at 6:00. no one wants to see their city become a dumping ground. that is why an oakland man who saw this happen was so shocked he says he had to start recording. so what you see here, a truck blatantly dumping piles of construction and debris at a city park. this happened earlier this week in a parking lot next to oakport park by the mlk jr. regional shoreline trail. the man who took the video says it's bad enough to see it happen. it's even worse the truck very clearly belonged to a business. da lin joining us live. you reached out to the business. what did they say? >> reporter: yeah, juliette. the owner says yup, it is his truck in the video, but he says it's got nothing to do with him or his company. more on his

response shortly, but this is where it happened in this parking lot right here. public works came by about an hour and a half ago and they took most of that trash. this is what's left. a brazen act, around 3:30 on tuesday afternoon a witness says there were other cars and people in the parking lot. >> when he was looking all around seeing if somebody was looking at him, so that's when i decided to bring out my phone and record it, see if he was going to dump it. sure enough, he opened up the doors and he kind of looked around, started dumping it, closed his doors and just sped off. >> reporter: the witness wants to remain anonymous due to state of reasons. aside from the video, he shot pictures of the truck, including the license plate. the witness says he immediately reported the problem to 311. he was outraged someone with a company truck would trash his city. >> going there as a kid to those fields and actually

watching my friends and myself playing a little bit of soccer, i grew up here. i love my city. >> reporter: the truck has the logo of galindo tree care based out of concord. the owner jose galindo said he has nothing to do with this. he wrote in an email response, "i rented my dumping truck this past tuesday. i didn't know the guy was dumping garbage everywhere. when i asked for a copy of the rental agreement, he could not immediately provide one. on the company website nowhere does it say truck rental as part of the business. a man called me to say he is the person seen here and he rented the truck from galindo tree care. he says an oakland city worker instructed him to dutch the construction debris in this parking lot. i asked him for name and evidence. he did not provide anything. >> i don't think that's true. i think he's just lying just to cover it up, you know. i don't think a company with their logo, their license, they won't rent out a truck to

anybody just because their insurance won't cover that person if he's in an accident or nothing. >> reporter: after we shared the video with the city on friday an inspector came out to investigate. public works sent two trucks to remove the construction debris and a large pile of dirt, no interview, but the city says in 2023 they issued at least 400 citations to violators. the city provided this graphic showing in fiscal year 2021/2022 public works crews picked up 17,000 tons of trash. that's 34 million pounds of trash. >> i feel bad, you know. whole families coming here on sundays for the play in the fields. >> reporter: many families park in this lot to either go play soccer at oakport field or walk on the nearby waterfront trail. >> a lot of that ends up in the water. once it starts raining, that ends up on the bay. >> reporter: the witness who shot the video is asking others to help keep oakland clean. >> take out your camera and

just record them and report them. let's make our city look a little bit better. >> reporter: an oakland city spokesperson says the illegal dumping citation can go up to $1,000. that's on top of the cleaning cost for all of this. so it appears an investigator will be reaching out to galindo tree care company very soon. >> we'll be following up on this. so much cheaper to do it the right way than face the fines and have that mess behind you. da, thank you. thanks to that person who shot that video. we've been covering this problem a while. the city has been trying various strategies to tackle illegal dumping. it recently wrapped up a 90-day pilot program to address things like trash and graffiti in some of its most troubled neighborhoods. the oakland fresh program started in january and wrapped up on earth day. the city says in the first two months oakland public works staff cleared more than 140 piles of illegally dumped debris in these neighborhoods and enrolled 75 local businesses in garbage service

to reduce dumping. a total of 174 abandoned vehicles were towed in the 90-day period. on to our first alert weather, you were either sweating it out in summer-like heat today for feeling a little relief depending where you live. the heat cranked up to 90 degrees in some of our inland spots like concord, but closer to the water you could feel a little cooldown, 70s at crown beach in alameda. let's get right to chief meteorologist paul heggen who is waiting it out. >> we'll see warm temperatures again for inland parts of the bay area where lies highs got up to 90 degrees in concord. along the coast temperatures warmed up but cooled down rapidly, 78 degrees in san francisco early this afternoon, now 68 degrees and 61 degrees now in half moon bay. we've got 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s on the map, a bay area

map if you've ever seen one, 90 degrees still in fairfield. the inland temperatures are going to back down quickly as the sun goes down, but it's going to be another hot day inland, warm temperatures around the bay, 60s in san francisco, 70s oakland, upper 80s and low 90s farther inland one more day and then a drop starts to kick in for inland parts of the bay area. we'll look at the full seven-day forecast in a few minutes. just as quickly as he arrived, president joe biden is gone leaving from moffitt airfield this afternoon after less than 24 hours in the bay area. he was here for two fundraising events on the peninsula, one at the home of tech billionaire and venture capitalist in portola valley and then went to east palo alto to the home of former yahoo ceo marissa mayer. everywhere he went he was greeted with scenes like this, protesters trying to

get their message in front of the president if even for a brief moment. >> we are just here to show our support. very much support biden's attempts to return the hostages. >> our government could have easily changed course a long time ago and instead he's collecting billions of dollars from tech billionaires in the bay. >> it was more of the same when he arrived in palo alto, more pro palestinian and israeli demonstrators waving signs, chanting slogans, making it very clear to the president this will be a key issue in the campaign he was fundraising for. today in san francisco two people from there senior living facility near the japantown peace plaza were taken to the hospital for minor injuries after a fire broke out early this afternoon. fire officials say nearly all the people who were home during the fire needed some kind of assistance just to get out. no word yet on the cause. the red cross was on scene shortly after to help more than 100 people who were displaced by this fire. on to oakland now where the

police department there is welcoming a new class of graduating officers from its academy and with the new police chief taking the helm tomorrow they're joining up at a time of major transition. it is the 193rd graduating class and today's ceremony came after six months of basic training. the newly minted officers spoke their feelings of triumph after long months of hard work. >> it was a very difficult long six months, but i couldn't have done it without my rtos, my family. >> i've always wanted to be that person to become a law enforcement officer and make change. >> my humble beginnings i've seen a lot of stuff, a lot of people in anguish, in pain and all i ever wanted to do was just help people. >> also in attendance, the graduation there, the department's soon to be new police chief floyd mitchell. he previously served as the police

chief of lubbock, texas, replacing leronne armstrong. mitchell's first official day is tomorrow. still ahead, it started as a way of fighting exclusion. now 125 years later san francisco's chinese hospital is serving an important role in the community while fighting for every single dollar, how a boost from the state will certainly help its mission. >> we need to do whatever we can to make sure the hospital survives and thrives. plus could we see the northern lights in the bay area and will our electronics work? what an astronomer is telling us about the potential impact of a rare solar storm.

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california facing some tough choices this budgets budget season, governor newsom just announcing cuts to close a deficit that stands at more than $27 billion even after billions of dollars were already trimmed earlier this year. california's budget has been squeezed by high inflation and stock market slumps. cuts have landed on education programs, the state's welfare program, and climate programs. >> none of this is kind of work we enjoy doing, but you got to do it. we have to be responsible, accountable. we have to balance the budget. >> governor newsom says the proposal will fill both this

year's deficit and next year. his proposal will next go to the state legislature which must pass a budget by mid-june. with dollars being so tight, a bay area hospital is actually celebrating a much needed funding boost from the state budget to help fill a gap in healthcare. chinese hospital in san francisco's only independent hospital located in the heart of chinatown as it celebrates a major anniversary, kelsi thorud looking back at its importance to the community and its fight to keep serving patience in challenging financial times. >> reporter: this week marks san francisco's chinese hospital's 125th anniversary. it's a milestone the ceo says is almost too monumental to fully grasp. >> to me chinese hospital is not just a hospital. it's very much so part of our history. >> reporter: the hospital was

first built back in 1899. zhang says at the time those in the chinese community were turned away from other hospitals. >> so that's why this hospital was built back then and it was called the dispensary right up till it was built and bubonic plague hit san francisco. >> reporter: zhang says the chinese were blamed for the spread of bubonic plague. she says the government went so far as to build walls around san francisco chinatown trapping the community inside. chinese hospital was the only place they could get treatment. >> chinese hospital took care of the sick patients, did the public health work and prevented huge outbreak. >> reporter: sadly, just a few years later the hospital was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. >> the community at that time

got together and did fundraising and built a real hospital. >> reporter: the new hospital opened in 1925. it served the community for the next 90 years. >> when i talk about chinese hospital, someone in the audience would say oh, i was born at chinese hospital or my dad was born at chinese hospital. >> reporter: even celebrities were born at the hospital, most notably bruce lee. >> he was born here in november 27, 1940. >> reporter: as the years have gone by, the hospital has only grown. in 2012 the 1925 building was demolished to make way for a brand-new state of the art building which opened its doors in 2016. >> you can see the bay bridge, the bank of america building and then you can see the coit tower. >> reporter: this new tower was ground zero for treating patients during the covid pandemic, years where zhang

says the community sadly saw themselves again blamed for the spread of disease. this time, though, the hospital had the resources and support to help everyone in the community. >> covid education, testing, care and a lot of vaccinations. >> reporter: but even with all these successes, zhang says keeping the hospital going this long hasn't been easy. >> chinese hospital, we are still more than 80% of medicare and medical patients. >> reporter: zhang said since the pandemic the cost of labor, supplies, and pharmaceuticals has only increased while the payout has stayed stagnant. >> every dollar we spend we only collect 75 cents to put it in a simple way. >> reporter: that means the hospital relies significantly on state and private funding. one person, who has been critical in securing some of that funding, is state assembly

member phil ting. >> the first 5 million helped with some of the upgrades that needed to happen. >> reporter: assembly member ting secured another $5 million in this year's state budget that will go towards building a 23-bed subacute unit in the hospital. >> right now i believe the only subacute beds that were in san francisco were at st. lukes. those have now have been shut down or are in the process of being shut down. so right now without chinese hospital there are no subacute beds in san francisco at a hospital. >> reporter: investments like this zhang says will help the hospital continue to care for patients long into the future. >> it's really important to the community and so we need to do whatever we can to make sure the hospital survives and thrives. >> reporter: it's a journey she knows won't always be easy, but one zhang says she, the hospital, and the community

are up for. >> the new unit is set to open in a year. subacute patients usually have an illness or injury that requires more intensive specialized care than typical skilled nursing care. for example, patients may need feeding tubes or ventilators. still ahead, it is already cooling down a little bit closer to the coast but not a lot of relief inland. paul will tell us how hot it's expected to get

we made it to friday. here we are. paul heggen standing by with our forecast. at the end of your forecast i'm going to ask you a question that my dentist asked me this morning. i'll let you know what that is. >> okay. did he expect you to answer while he was doing -- yeah. that seems to be usually the way. we will see a few changes, but not too many yet tomorrow, still another day of inland heat one more day and then just warmth the back half of the weekend. it was hot today with upper 80s and low 90s, but we had morning fog and we'll have fog tomorrow morning mainly along the coast, but a little bit peeking through the golden gate and around the bay and a little bit infiltrating the valleys of the north bay. it should back up to the coast by 9:00 and backing a ways away from the coast midday into the afternoon. temperatures tonight will drop down mostly to the 50s, very

coolest spots in the upper 40s of then we'll warm up again for inland parts of the bay area. we have an adoptable dog in the forecast as we do every friday. we have a dry forecast for a change saturday. jasper is all smiles for that. he is adoptable from the east county animal shelter in dublin waiting for his forever family. he may want to wait in the air conditioning tomorrow afternoon as temperatures reach into the 80s. other temperatures around the bay area, they'll reach mid- to upper 80s in the santa clara valley, a good 13 degrees above normal, a mix of upper 80s and low 90s inland in the east bay, the hotspots, mid-80s in fremont and down the peninsula in redwood city with temperatures along the coast not nearly as warm, mid-60s in half moon bay. it's still a couple degrees above normal. mid- to upper 60s in san francisco by early afternoon and cooling off quickly and temperatures in the north bay reaching the 80s, not quite as warm as other inland parts of the bay area because you won't have as fast of warm-up because of the fog early in the day.

looking at the ten-day temperature outlook for livermore, tomorrow is the peak and then we drop back. we'll still run above average sunday and monday and a baby warm-up the middle of next week as temperatures reach farther into the 80s, finally retreat closer to normal temperatures the end of the following weekend and into that following workweek as well getting back down to the mid-70s, still a long stretch of warm weather, even though not as hot as today. pollen count doesn't change a lot, locked into the medium high category over the weekend into early next week. let's look at the seven-day forecast and start with the hotspots inland, hot tomorrow and then just warm, the coolest day in the upper 70s inland and hover around 80 degrees tuesday through the rest of next week, plenty of sunshine. the fog will do its back and forth thing. some clouds over the bay and along the coast through the weekend and next week with temperatures returning to almost exactly average around the bay by sunday and monday,

maybe a couple degrees above normal the rest of next week. temperatures along the coast, sunday and monday will be the coolest days, upper 50s with plenty of clouds overhead, but then more sunshine peeking through the clouds for the coastal parts of the bay area next week. >> so my dentist said this morning he loves the tubes. my mouth is wide open getting a couple things taken care of, and he said but why are there plants? >> why not? >> why not? there's your answer. >> little ferns. >> i never really asked paul that. thank you. coming up, astronomers are buzzing about a strong solar storm that could light up the night sky. what are our chances of seeing the aurora in northern califor

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the bay area could be in store for a rare sight this weekend as a severe solar storm approaching earth could make it possible for us to see the northern lights. auroras to give them their proper name are caused by energized particles from the sun's slamming into the earth's upper atmosphere. while it's a feast for the eyes, it could also create some issues with our communications systems, satellites, and possibly even the power grid. >> all of those things are possible. first the magnetic field will start to move and shake as a response to that impact and then that in turn

has influences on earth's own atmosphere and even the surface. >> dr. mendez stresses it's unlikely to have any negative impacts. as far as seeing the northern lights in northern california, he says it's a big maybe. the best window is tonight 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. saturday. dr. mendez suggests getting to the highest elevation you can and as far away from city lights as you can. the last time the aurora was seen in northern confident was in march 2023 when it was visible near shasta lake. protests have threatened some graduation ceremonies across the country. the graduating class at cal state east bay got to celebrate getting their diplomas in person today. it was a bit toasty for the ceremony in hayward. you can see many attendees kind of fanning themselves. some were using umbrellas, pamphlets, shade. we talked to one graduate who said she came prepared. >> i actually brought a fan, a portable electric fan, and i also brought an umbrella. i

don't do very well in extreme heat. and i also have my hydroglass. >> she is prepared. lee says her last two graduation ceremonies virtual, so she would have been prepared for another one if something came up. tomorrow the university will celebrate a bay area legend. betty reed soskin will be awarded an honorary doctorate of letters degree during a commencement ceremony for the college of arts and social sciences. she's 102 years old and retired last year making her the oldest active ranger in the national park service. she is a gem. cbs evening news with norah o'donnell is next. we're back >> norah: relentless severe >> norah: relentless severe storms slammed the south. >> what the [bleep]! >> norah: tonight, the devastation from another tornado outbreak, as more than 200,000 customers are without power after a wild week of weather. >> i went right in the house in the nick of time. they just tore everything up. >> norah: tonight,