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oh shoot, jack! if this is your new burger... yeah? -i'm going to you. say hello to the best-rated burger in fast food. welcome to jack in the box! san francisco is providing more one-way tickets for homeless people to get out of the city and back to their hometowns. thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. if you've been in the bay area for a while, you might remember the program known as homeward bound. meant to help folks return home and get off the streets of san francisco. well this afternoon, we'll talk to a supervisor about how the program will be making a comeback, and what's different this time around. but first let's get you caught up on today's news headlines. san francisco police are investigating a deadly shooting after the discovery of two bodies inside a home. this was the scene on dwight street in

the district last night. no word yet on who the people are or what led up to the shooting. in daly city, seton city workers are on a two-day strike. amid ongoing contract negotiations. they say they are disappointed with the union's decision and their priorities to provide uninterrupted care to patients. meanwhile nurses in santa clara county are planning a three-day strike next week. their union says their pay and benefits aren't good enough to afford living where they work or recruit or even retain nurses to the area. county says it is working to protect patients. >> there will be no disruption to the public for the life saving and essential services that the county's hospitals and clinics provide. we are absolutely committed to that and that is our top priority. get ready to pay more to cross that golden gate bridge. the board of directors approved a toll hike plan that will

start on july 1. customers will pay $9.25. it will be $9.50 for pay-as-you-go users. tolls will go up 50 cents every year for the next five years. all right, let's go to first alert weather now. we are getting a break from the rain, but getting ready for that next round. here's meteorologist darren peck in our virtual view studio. darren? >> reporter: today we just got a little bit of an onshore breeze today, keeping things cool neither coast and in the city. we would look at that in the last visit. let's get detailed on what's coming next here. we'll go after the big review. two systems coming our way with a chance for rain this week. first one doesn't get here until wednesday. of the whole seven day, tuesday might be the nicest day. you can have more blue sky today than today and a couple degrees warmer than this. by wednesday, you can see a weak cold front getting pulled through. let's come in for a closer look at that and time that one out in terms of their ability to

deliver any rain. most likely time frame on that will be the second half of the day on wednesday. really, it is more like a wednesday evening commute impact than anything else because some of the rain will show up through the early evening on wednesday right there. but notice it is pretty scattered, on again, off again, hit or miss showers. it's not particularly intense rain. we'll get a quarter of an inch of rain under that, but it's an evening commute. then we will get to friday and watch the next system come in here. it's like rebuilding on the first one, but you'll get the area of low pressure off the coast. that will look more impressive. so for friday, more widespread steady rain likely. if we get a quarter of an inch of rain on wednesday, probably double that on friday with the possibility for that system to then linger. notice this is another cutoff low as we go into the weekend, which will make it difficult to track the details and timing this far out. we are looking ahead to saturday and sunday here. by the time we get to about wednesday, we will be within

that window where we could really limit the uncertainty on the cut off low like that. so we are going to be able to get a lot more specific in terms of the ability for this system to continue to deliver rain as we would get into the weekend. for right now, what we've got to do is kind of broad brush this. we will pull in the seven-day forecast. the first thing we see the chance for rain showing up on wednesday. that's the easy system that will come through in the evening. thursday we're in between the two separate systems. we cannot take a chance of rain out on thursday, but it wouldn't be much. maybe a few leftover scattered showers. friday, more steady rain will come through. this is the more likely outcome for the system to give us the best rain on friday. and then perhaps linger into saturday and sunday. we are being a bit optimistic right now by keeping sunday out of the chance of rain forecast. but at the center of that low off the coast, just wobbles a little bit, will get a little more organization to it. we might have to include sunday. and this is where we would start to get into the three-day window and the uncertainty where we

could nail down the timing. in terms of wednesday, we've got that first system coming through. but if you're trying to make your plans for the weekend in terms of dodging any showers, this is when you really want to check in on the forecast again because we'll be able to nail down more specifics in terms of saturday and sunday and a chance for rain. >> all right, thanks. san francisco's board of supervisors just approved the revival of what's known as the homeward bound program. it's meant to help people living on the streets here, reconnect with family or friends elsewhere, and hopefully get a fresh start. we have more on how the program works. >> reporter: it's a one-way ticket out of here and buys them a bus ticket and sees them on their way. and now supervisors approved the plan to revive it. extending the offer to people already in the the city's network of shelters and support of housing. they

will also be offered drug or alcohol treatment. now it's not a round trip. anybody who uses the homeward bound program to leave the city and then returns will not be eligible to get another ticket for at least another two years. the city says about two-thirds of people who enroll in homeward bound remain in housing after the first 90 days of their move. so if that plan awaits final approval in san francisco. another statewide plan to get people off the streets is about to take effect including billions of dollars of funding from prop one. that's the plan that voters narrowly approved in the election earlier this month. a $6.8 billion bond measure to create more treatment beds for people struggling with addiction and mental health issues. the mayor says city departments have already begun planning, so when the money from the state arrives, san francisco is ready to act. prop one was a big political issue for the governor on the statewide side. they saw voters almost split and now homeward bound is a focal point for the mayoral

race here in san francisco. liz? >> it certainly is. thank you, ann. we will talk live with san francisco's supervisor and mayoral candidate about the revival of homeward bound. and what that will look like in the weeks and months to come. and plus san francisco city leaders work on ways to combat the homelessness crisis. one man is focusing his lens literally on the people. see how he is showcasing those in the tenderloin.

gorgeous view of the city there. today though we are diving into san francisco's revival of the program called homeward bound. helps unhoused individuals with resources to return to their hometowns outside of the city. joining me now is san francisco supervisor and mayoral candidate ahsha safai. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. >> thanks for having me. >> so why is it important to revive this program? >> listen, this was one of the most successful programs san francisco had at getting people off the streets. unfortunately this mayor was buried in the bureaucracy. from 2004 to 2019,

over 13,000 people were reunified with their family for about a couple hundred dollars a month. so what we saw were the numbers that were about 800,000 a month being served by this in that period of time and it dropped to a couple hundred a year. what we did, we brought that program back, let's elevate it, put it into the code, let's make it a law, and make sure the human services agency and the homeless department were really promoting and engaging on this. >> one of the biggest critique of the program, some people were getting on buses and never making it to that final destination. oftentimes ending up homeless again in another town. or possibly even in jail. how will the revival do that? >> we would look at the numbers as i want to emphasize, the successful and it is a successful program. what we would do with it, we would expand it. we want to say if you're in a shelter, if you're

in a permanent supportive housing and more stabilized, we can reunify you with your family. we are going to do that. two-thirds of the people that participated in this program stayed housed. we would check in on day 30, day 60, day 90, so we are making sure. now again, it's a voluntary program. but to have a two-thirds success rate and to see mayor london breed buried under the bureaucracy, we knew we needed to bring it back. it's one of the center pieces of why i'm running for mayor. this is really about managing our resources, managing our programs that work, and real leadership. >> now you're reviving the program, but it costs money. it's a volunteer program that people will have to voluntarily say i want to go and find my loved one to find my family and to have a fresh start, but how will you pay for this program as you keep expanding it? there's a lot more people on the streets these days. >> the people that are here on the streets or in shelter or permanent supportive housing or transitional housing. that's a

cost to the taxpayers. on average, that is thousands and thousands of dollars. in exchange and to balance that out, you are talking about on average, $300, $350 a person to reunify them. from a human element, this is the right thing to do. from a taxpayers perspective, when we are facing almost a billion dollar deficit, to say we are going to save money by getting people reunified with their family. >> and now prop one recently passed literally by the skin of their teeth. and what impact do you have on this particular program and on homelessness in general in the city. and one of the last number of years, mental health, the beds went from the high of around 21,000 down to just 18,000 california statewide. if we don't have the beds to put people in, it's one of the issues that we

would have with prop f that they would put forward to drug screen. but where are the beds? where will you put people to get the treatment? and they solve that. what they say is we're going to expand the number of mental health beds that we have in this street. and homeward bound, prop one, they work really well together. >> you mentioned project homeward bound. it kind of dissipated and got buried under what you're calling bureaucracy. covid had something to do with it as well. how are you going to keep this as a successful program and keep it going? >> now listen, we would have the department of homelessness in my committee, and we said to them, we used to have over a thousand people served a year. last year was about 340 people. how are we going to get that number back up? you know what

they said to me? we are going to educate our staff. and we will work with all our partners to elevate. and the mayor will let it go and london breed did not think this was an important program anymore. and execution is what we're talking about. i have to say for someone who has the experience that has worked in this city. if you put the pressure on, departments will respond. so now we're going to see this program elevate it. we'll get those numbers back up. but we expanded to include shelter and permanent supportive housing. i think that will make a big difference. >> how quickly do you think we'll start seeing results? >> listen, we were over around $350 last year. the mayor is following our lead to get up to a thousand. i think we're going to see those numbers at least double or triple this year because there is going to be a concerted effort to get

that going. it will all boil down to human services agencies, department of homelessness, and partners like the police department. i would walk the tenderloins last week with the captain, captain manning. we were out there talking to people in the streets. do you know about homeward bound, are you from the city? and when the officers were out there doing the foot beats when the social workers are out there and the mental healthcare workers, everyone is engaged in using this, it will be successful. >> all right, we'll check back in with you in six months. >> thanks for having me. >> supervisor ahsha safai and mayoral candidate. thank you so much. >> thank you. another supervisor and former interim mayor, mark farrell, also supports homeward bound. calling it one of the most cost effective homelessness programs we have in san francisco. and he is critical of mayor breed's handling of the program. supervisor farrell is also running for mayor this november. we asked san francisco mayoral candidate

daniel lurie to weigh in on homeward bound and here is what he had to say. >> i support restarting it, reinvigorating this program. it's a relief valve in the sense we need to get people off the streets. if that means sending them back to friends and family, somewhere else across the country or outside of san francisco, we have to do that. we cannot build our way out of this issue. we can't have endless amounts of people coming to san francisco. we need a very comprehensive plan in place, and this is one part of that plan. so i support it. we need to send a message to the country and to the world that you do not come here to deal drugs, to do drugs, or to sleep on our streets. we need to get tough on this, and we need to build the beds. we know san francisco's tenderloin gets a lot of attention in these

conversations and coverage about homelessness. coming up, see how one photographer is using his skills to showcase the soul of the neighborhood in a way a lot of people have never experienced before. >> it would be nice to have community members walk down the street and see themselves featured prominently in a positive light. >> and remember you can watch us any time, anywhere on our streaming service cbs news bay area. catch all of our live newscast and plus news and weather updates throughout the day. you can find us on the free cbs news app or on pluto tv.

san francisco city leaders work on ways to combat the crisis. one man who is focusing his lens on the neighborhood's most precious commodity, it's people. >> reporter: while many photographers have documented the hardships of those living on the gritty streets of the tenderloin, gregory takes a different approach, actually inviting them into his studio. >> taking someone who has never had the opportunity to have these lights in front of them. you have them posing for you. >> reporter: and amos has photographed dozens of locals,

hoping to capture the tender side of the tenderloin. for most of his subjects, this is the first time they have ever sat for a professional portrait. >> smiles, expressions you didn't think they had in them will start to come out. >> reporter: the goal, showcasing the dignity and resilience of this often overlooked community. 54-year-old kor eerie pounders lives in the alley just around the corner. he's listen homeless on and off for two decades. like many in the tenderloin, his bed is the sidewalk. living on the streets, he says, has made him invisible to others, but not today. >> and you would get out there. >> reporter: he also records two-minute videos of his

subjects telling their life stories. >> then you see so much stuff on the streets, man, so much love. >> reporter: the hope he says is to plaster these photos all over the neighborhood. >> it would be nice to have the community members walk down the streets and see themselves featured prominently and in a positive light. >> reporter: proving that even in the darkest alleys, there is always a flash of humanity. >> amos is also behind the tenderloin project known as veterans alley, where they find healing through

the unexpected victory for donald trump. reducing his bond from nearly half a billion dollars to $175 million today. the fiery comments and the big news about the date set for the first criminal trial of a former president. those headlines and more coming up tonight here on the cbs evening news. coming up tonight at 5:00, some of the vines are more than a century old. and find out what is prompting some grape growers to rip out tens of thousands of acres of vineyards. that story and much more with ryan yamamoto and myself coming up tonight at 5:00. and looking live at the coliseum right now. the a's will host the giants in a

spring training matchup tonight. first pitch is at 6:40. across the bridge at oracle park tomorrow night, world series champion and two-time all star, plays in what could be one of his final games in a giants uniform. and march madness will continue in the stanford women that are moving on to the sweet 16. stanford and iowa state will battle it out at maples pavilion. when people are calling it an overtime classic yesterday. kiki iriafen finished with a career high 41 points. here is what they had to say after the game. >> whoa. what a great game. kiki, my hats off to you. you're an absolute warrior. we have our own 40-point scorer. that was an awesome, awesome

performance. >> and i started off the game hot and in that second half, i remembered where we were last year and that this whole season, we've had that loss last year in the back of my mind. didn't want that to happen two years in a row. >> and stanford will face nc state on friday. all right, a look at the march madness bracket challenge here at cbs news bay area. max darrow and sara donchey are tied for first. you can barely see it. i ♪ ♪ >> tonight major legal developments for donald trump, a new york appeals court throws the former president of a lifeline, reducing his bond by nearly $300 million. >> we