moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> if you think downtown is going to come back and be the way that it was, you are living in a fantasy world. the past is gone. >> words from cells for -- cells for ceo -- salesforce ceo marc benioff. >> we will have more on that in a moment but it is all about the army we have a heatwave a lot of -- all about the warm. we have a heatwave. that is including san francisco. >> did we set any records today? mike nicco has a record for -- an answer for us from his rooftop. >> it is beautiful out here high

everyone, --hi everyone. i hope you get to enjoy this afternoon and evening temperatures are moving forward. 95 is it cold in santa rosa -- 87 in oakland would set a record. the 90 of san jose -- 90 in san jose is one shy of the record. and the 93 in livermore is a record. there are other places around san francisco where it is warmer than that in the mid and upper 80's. i'm having issue with the controller. what i will tell you is we have light, down slipping wind as we continue through the evening hours. temperatures will still be in the 60's at the coast and in the 70's until eight or 9:00. we are in the 50's and 60's by 10:00. enjoy the wonderful weather. big changes on the way i will show it this weekend and a slight chance of sprinkles as

well. >> pg&e warner their cust -- warn their customers they may have to turnout their power -- and the potential for wildfires. -- to him a counties -- and others should be subject to public safety shut off snow bake county areas are on the list kristen >> san francisco is struggling list. >> -- blasting tech leaders about their decisions downtown. >> we have coverage abc 7 news -- but let's begin with abc 7 news were orders live in the newsroom the remarks. >> mayor read -- breed slam salesforce ceo saying he needs to do more to get people to return to the office. even so the rate -- mayor realizes bon

tech. in downtown san francisco, lunchtime is slow taking a toll on the owner is saying. >> compared to pre-pandemic we are only up 40% right now. it is time to get -- it is starting to eat our savings we wish for everyone to come back. >> mayor lanyon breed pointed out that life in san francisco as we know it before the pandemic will not go back. adding to mayor breed the work from home thing will be here to stay. she went on to blast tesla ceo elon musk saying a person who got tax breaks in california and decided to take the money and run. he has moved the headquarters to texas. talk to the california bureau chief for bloomberg news about mayor breed . >> she distinguish between tech leaders invested in the city and those who have been hiring

critical -- highly critical. -- salesforce employs the most workers in the city of san francisco. -- the -- marc benioff has allowed them to work from home. and she talked with us about last month's dream force conference. >> if you think the city will come back and be the way that it was you are living in a fantasy world because the past is gone. >> the mayor is disappointed by salesforce. >> i would say what i got his disappointment and frustration. next is for a elon musk, >> her comment about the elon musk and his acquisition of twitter, she has been an outspoken critic of california and she was frustrated that somebody who received over $3 billion in california tax credit direct and indirect up and moved

the tesla headquarters to austin. -- the mayor plans to on tracking different companies into downtown san francisco instead of counting just on tech. and the mayor says she sees an opportunity for san francisco to reinvest and make commercial properties -- and attract other types of industries such as biotech and green tech. live in the newsroom. abc7 news >> there was a lot to unpack here. let's start with mayor breed and her perspective on salesforce and whether or not marc benioff is doing enough to invigorate downtown and whether it is his job to do that since maybe the debility of salesforce should be his focus. but that is the question we have -- >> that is a question we have for those that give back some, the question for san francisco

are they giving back or are they just going away? so far, they are just going away. work occupancy before the pandemic was about 40%. the vacancy rate for offices is at 25%. but i will tell you it is a lot more, because people who are renting are on the floors and they are filling to and when the lease comes up they will drop it down to two. we will see a deeper drop we will also see revenues from proxy which was attacks on big tech earners like marc benioff and by the way he supported it and helped fund the initiative. it was hundreds of millions of dollars for homeless services in the city. it has dropped $42 million short. this is an economic reality and the russian is, we talked about memorial day, labor day, it will come back area and now for the first time ok, this is the new normal. this is the way it will be some

time to come. one more point on marc benioff we found out he is not voting in california because he's living most the time in hawaii and registered to vote in the state of ohio -- hawaii. >> yes you should be encouraging people to go vote. but we have to look at ourselves, and agree, that in san francisco, city workers, police and fire essentially have to be on the street they only have to work three days a week. that was tough to get them to agree to that though if you're saying others should be in here five you may want to start in your own house. next twitter is a different situation with you elon musk. >> everybody can beat up on elon musk it is wide open. >> he received $3 billion -- you elon musk goes to -- where the best deal is he is the donald trump of high tech. he may be buying twitter twitter is headquartered in francisco.

and he's been talking about whether we need that space or it could be used as a homeless shelter. that is elon musk anytime you bring him to the party, something could go awry. but with big tech in san francisco, we met heavy on salesforce, and twitter, airbnb but we also bet on angry birds and a whole host of things where we scratch your head at we were betting that would not be a wave but an actual river that kept on flowing russian mark welcome to ? welcome to the post-covid pre-recession reality. >> -- there's economics and personal safety. people do not feel safe coming into san francisco or being in san francisco. that is why people are leaving. you can look at the bridges and polls. they are up to 90% but they are

not coming into san francisco they are driving past and onto the peninsula where the work is in south san francisco. >> thank you for the insight we could probably talk for hours on this topic alone. we appreciate your insight we will do it again some other time. >> a new study on major issues the city of and is facing a majority of citizens are deep pessimistic about the direction of the city. today oakland chamber of commerce revealed it wholesome oakland voter opinion poll. most -- more than half to not see oakland as a good place to live. homelessness and housing costs continue to be voters biggest concern that they also show that non-violence and crime are also at the top of the list as well. >> they feel less safe in their own neighborhood. that was a start finding into what we have seems -- seen historically. >> there's encouraging news when it comes to voter outlook on the

economy. many large companies moving their business into oakland is good for the city's economy. -- mailer shaft will deliver her last city address tonight she will speak from a housing development tonight at 6:00. >> coming up a $.7 million restroom. why it may not be as crazy as it sounds. heavy traffic, -- casual carpool will it ever return? and s

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>> it is not too busy right now but commuters know that the traffic is creeping up to the pandemic levels and that is something calls for the return of carpool but that is not so easy. abc7 news reporter has a look at what it will take. >> i use it for my daily commute to the city because i work in downtown san francisco. because of the pandemic, there have not been a lot of passenger cars who want to take the ride over here. >> kelsey is talking about casual carpool. the service has been around for decades. drivers picking people up at multiple occasions carpool lane.

but the pandemic has taken a toll. combination of people being nervous about having strangers in the car and also the demand for people coming into the city is not as much because it is were more -- remote work. >> -- with the metropolitan transportation commission. >> pull volumes in the fridge are running 95% of the pandemic levels but call -- carpool volumes is somewhere between 50% and 70%. >> jesse used to pick people up prior to the pandemic. >> i would say at least half an hour on mike every day. >> i hear anecdotally that casual carpooling is creeping back to height because it is casual carpooling, we do not have any statistics. >> we wanted to see for ourselves, i spent the morning at a popular pickups lot in oakland. there are many cars passing by

but i do not know if they are here to pick somebody up or if there are getting from point a to wait to be. there are no signs that there is a pickup spot drivers and passengers have to rely on each other to be here. spoke with a couple of women who say they have cawley to use this card service prior to the pa waiting. it is a similar situation. there are cars pullingar servicei have began to ask peopt so far, no luck. >> i is to take it everyday and it is sorely missed. >> what you think it will take to get it back? >> i think the city has to step in and organize it. this lane gets parked in it is not organized anymore. >> tara campbell abc7 news.

>> there's controversies growing over the cost of a public restroom. that will make your nose scrunch. >> here is abc seven news reporter. >> there is a competition of sorts of america to earn the right to be in the hall of fame of public bathrooms. brian park -- and both in new york city -- back for part in colorado all show here in full glory. but san francisco has never reached the claim to fame. we haveot winners -- n fra>>upe why here?the fuin exist -

square-foot public bathroom right in the heart of the noah valley neighborhood at a cost of $1.7 million. >> put it to better use, it is ridiculous. why we would spend that for a stupid bathroom. >> thus the estimate given by the park of recreation for the planning that would be involved. city officials hope it will not cost that much. >> they have an idea of what it would be, but i do not think they have the form or -- formal, final plans yet. but they are in a position to put that altogether. >> still people here as to have a commode in place commode comes from the french word meaning suitable or convenient. >> it would be nice to have

facilities like that here. >> when you've got to go you icccess instead o the restroom saying can i use the laboratory i think that is something a neighborhood should have. >> they have zero functioning public bathrooms. >> new york is considering legislation forcing the city to build public restrooms in every zip code. >> we do not have near enough public restrooms in san francisco. >> -- big dreams start in small places at a high cost. leanne melinda's abc7news. >> you would hope they could do it for a million dollars? >> do you know contractors that would do it for half $1 million? >> i have a guide. >> mike may do it himself. >> he is doing -- enjoying the sunshine out there right now. >> no i did not want to come in

i like how i am elevated above all that right now. i see the flags went into the east there is a low level sea breeze starting to develop but it will not take away what will be a wonderful evening. it will back off tomorrow and leave us with warm temperatures again. we will feel a little cooler along the coast. but this weekend it will be so blustery and if you're out for the weekend that may be the biggest issue trying to keep everything in place so it does not low away. there is a chance of sprinkles tomorrow running and -- wednesday. high-pressure -- hanging around a little bit longer. you can see low clouds coming down the coast. lurking on the coast ready to take a left-hand turn and come our way. a few parts around the bay will have a little fog tonight but not a big link it whatsoever. the rest of us in mid and upper

50's tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon, 79 in sunnyvale. low 80's for the south bay. 72 up to 78. low and mid 60's along the coast. 72 in south san francisco. mainly mid 80's in the north bay valleys. as you head to the east bay, moderate air-quality temperatures in the mid-70's there 80 degrees. as you head towards 90 upper 80's almost 90 -- this is where it will be hottest. all that will change and it is due to the cold front -- that will unleash most of its wet weather in oregon and washington by the time he gets to us saturday morning, there are a pockets of rain but it is quickly gone. the rest of the day, we have a wintry mix in the sierra. snow level is down to 74 feet -- 7400 feet.

-- it will usher in rainfall all the way down to deptford. you can see it tapering quickly as it heads toward us. on the other side of that, wind turns on shore friday. that is why you have a cooling trend and temperatures back to average. and over spread of gusting winds saturday 30-40 miles per hour. to a lesser extent we will have easy condition sunday sunshine and temperatures below average most of us in the 60's. we will return back to average as high-pressure reestablishes control and there's a secondary cold front coming in wednesday and promising sprinkles -- another warm day tomorrow and then wow, watch out this weekend. >> thank you we will send the roof. -- plumbing here to the roof. >> this may sound strange but the irs has updates. >>

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>> big news today from the irs and you may like it there is a change that will lower the tax racket incomes. reena roy has a update for how you could say. >> a tax update may be available for many americans. within irs update of who is eligible for as tax bracket smaller amount of earnings. money that a lot of people could use in insulation. >> -- when we think about how inflation is cutting into paychecks, this is a way to make up for those higher races. it before if you made $89,000 you a a 20 percent tax rate now you move into the tax bracket if you make

over $95,000. next the numbers are rising as the board by about 7%. the other big art of this announcement is the standard deduction that will go up $900 for an individual tax filer. you can deduct up to $13,850 as an individual. the number is double for couples. next this is a significant change -- one of the biggest changes we've seen in decades area of the earned income tax reddit available to low and medium income families now jumps to $7,430 and this is all happening because of inflation. this is a way to help put money back into american pockets. reena roy. abc news new york. >> gas prices are still high nationwide gas price is three dollars 85 cents a gallon look at california it is averaging $5.94 and it is -- most counties. president biden is taking action to get prices lower area today announced hetrategic

see in response to ec's recent cut in production. and they are passing record profits onto customers not shareholders. >> the second order this year, profits and six of the largest public traded oil companies were more than $70 billion. that is $70 billion that just one quarter. 90 days. >> mr. biden says the 50 million barrels will be released in december. safety in the north they not just any bikes we are talking about evite and the -- e -- bikes and the law not keeping up with their popularity. next and the change

>> building a better bay area. moving word finding solutions this is abc 7 news. >> a man recently hit and killed by a e bike has raised concerns. >> there's been a raise number of complaints. we look into this evite issue.

--e-bike issue. >> one of the friendliest and clean mode of transportation is on display dozens of bikes or motorized bikes called e-bikes for students to get to their afternoon activities. -- director of the coalition and an avid -- bike owner is thrilled with this popularity but with this rapid rise has come to challenges surrounding safety and young people writing these fast-moving bikes who do not know who is on the road. >> in the past three months or six months, there has been a real crescendo in the amount of people complaining to us that perhaps people are writing unsafely -- writing unsafely on the street. >> please put out a statement saying they receive multiple boards with kids operating scooters and electric cycles in

an -- manner. causing risk to themselves and the general public. >> people have the financial capacity to buy these four kids and they become trendy. a lot of parents are going out and saying i do not have to drive my kid to soccer activists any -- practice anymore however, we need to look at the research and decided this essay for young's. this is -- youngsters. this is class 1 -- >> -- in order to understand the concerns around e-bike people have to understand the three different classes of them. >> eight years ago california establish legislation and define what it electric bike is. and defined the categories for them. >> they all involve having registration and license plates. class one and three has pedal assistance.

the differences class three goes faster than class one and a writer must be at least 16 years old and where a helmet. class two bikes are throttled bikes and they do not require peddling and they can go with a push of a button. >> class one and class two electric bikes and go up to 20 mi per hour and there is no age restriction on who can write the. some e-bike advocates a the class two bikes are the most concerning. you can put a five-year-old and did it on a throttle bike according to california law today area next do you think that should change? >> i think we should research it a little bit more but in my heart of hearts i would not -- put my five-year-old on one of them. >> these are typically marketed towards kids like this one california-based e-bike manufacturer which has no pedals at all. >> we have product coming into

the market that is not safe. and being sold to people who, from a cultural standpoint, problem number two do not know how to use it. so you may have a child that is just right -- grown up in the back of an suv and wanted -- one day their parent says hey i got you this e-bike go have fun. that is not a fair way to set a kid up. >> for that reason there is a new training program called e-bike safety -- that will teach kids and owners safety using these. and a bill requires highway patrol to develop statewide safety guidelines and e-bike trainings by next september. but -- e-bike are not going anywhere and not only laws but infrastructure is to catch up. she waits to places like the neverland who built a superhighway just for fast-moving bikes. >> the risk is that we have a

huge opportunity to do something that is positive and it could really get messed up because nobody is taking a proactive and positive approach on this is a great way to get people around how do we make or infrastructure and make it safer and make rules more clear. etc.. -- abc 7 news. >> to the effort to protect pedestrians from motorized scooters after the support of supervisors passed resolution yesterday urging the as of the ta to allow parking patrol officers to issue citations by writing on sidewalks, double writing, or other safety actions. this also calls for scooter opportunities to immediately stop operating scooters that do not have anti-sidewalk technology installed in them. -- scooters of doesn't and small midsize u.s. cities but no word

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>> is time for the forever for today michael joining us we will start on a serious note. texas schools are encouraging parents to store their children's dna and finger records. school district has begun handing out free testing kits this is six months after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in uvalde, texas after children and families had to line up to buy dna samples to help identify bodies for victim. is this where we are at? >> really?

i will jump in here. this solution to school shootings is to figure out how to identify your dead child? texas. only in texas. >> i did not know what to say. we will not deal with the cause of the problem but we will make sure you can identify your loved one in case of the worst -- the worst happens. >> it makes you want to cry because you read the description sometimes you cannot identify those nobodies because the weapons they are using the weapons of war are tearing them up so badly -- i cannot even believe it. >> it is crushing it really is if you think about it it will take you a deep dark hole if you allow it. we cannot that's -- we cannot. we have to keep pressing on but i read with you we have to get to the root of the problem instead of band-aid solutions. >> moving on. you probably know that stated --

sleep is important if you do not get enough of it. a new study shows that sleep is just as important as diet when it comes to your heart health. adults need seven hours of sleep at night and those who got less got had an increased risk for heart -- disease, diabetes, and obesity. i will say some of them may be crank here. -- were cranky. [laughter] >> i decided against falling asleep during your read ok? you give me that. >> some of the viewers please do that. >> i feel happy if i get 7.5 hours but i need at least six to function. what about you michael? >> i'm not a good sleeper and i did not sleep many hours and hours i do sleep, i do not sleep well. so i hate doing how bad it is for you because i do not sleep much. >> have you tried watching

larry? [laughter] >> i put him on a loop in my house. >> i have a best of vhs -- it will keep you sleeping. you will get tired. >> that was really fun for me. more fallout from the pandemic help build a baby boom. trends working from home pushed up birthrates in the u.s. the birth bump was most noticeable among first-time parents and women under 25. it is the first major reversal in declining fertility rate since 2007. while that is one good thing to come out of the pandemic and working from home and lockdown. >> are we surprised? did we not see this happening is to mark especially the younger generation. no wonder they don't want to come back to work. [laughter] >> i haven't even thought about

that but yeah. there are some benefits of working from home and if it's on top of benefits. anybody else got anything they want to add on top of that? >> i'm happy to have held down the fort working in the office while you guys enjoy quality home time. [laughter] >> i would like to say my wife was out of the house working the entire time she went back six week after the shutdown. >> i wonder why. bye-bye. [laughter] >> yeah she saw incentive on fleeing. >> adult happy meal toils -- toys -- the toy is by cactus lance lee being sold on ebay at ridiculous prices some are listed as much as $300,000. come on. -- but the toy has sold out within days of release.

i don't know, my kids always love the happy mills, and they play with them -- happy meals and they play with them for five minutes roadway in the -- they throw it away in the back of the car until we go through the drive-through again. >> $300,000 is a lot but i know some in my family who collect them and have held them for 30 years and 40 years and some of them are worth something. but did not open them and let a kid play with them that ruins the value. >> is the new beanie baby. they will be worth a ton of money here. >> wait to go -- way to go mcdonald's department limited supply. >> they were not working from home because of these things. [laughter] >> that was fun. >> that is a good place to stop that is it for four at four.

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>> bay area civil-rights leaders are calling on will across the country just take a stand against racism and hate. to that end, -- invited to attend a rally against hate this sunday in san francisco. >> hate does not recognize

borders, it does not record ice colors, it does not recognize gender choices. but it hate everyone. >> according to the reverend dr. a miss brown -- san francisco mayor and other leaders from a coalition of community, leeches, and ethnic groups have committed to attending israeli it will take a sunday at 3:00 at the baptist church on mcallister street in san francisco. >> election day is less than three weeks away if you need help understanding the oppositions on the ballot we have you covered. abc seven news anchor looks at proposition 28. >> proposition 28 is the k-12 education funding initiative. this would be an allocation for extra funding for music and art programs -- the measures as at least 1% of the funding that the state receipts from rock 98 which passed in night --

propagation -- proposition 28 -- must be set aside for music and art education. that goes to $1 billion annually. no income schools received funding and order income schools require to spend 80% of the funding to hire new music and art teachers. it is for all california public art students to have access to our and music classes which are often the first to go when schools make budgetary cuts. some odors -- supporters -- say the programs can drastically improve their personal life and could help ensure these programs without raising taxes. the measure is backed by the california democratic already, to -- california teachers association, and local arts organizations. the federal party of california

has remained neutral but there is no formal opposition to the measure. for more information on proposition 20 eight or others go to abc seven news.com -- you can get easy breakdowns and arguments for and against each measure and explain her videos so you can -- explaining video see you can cast your ballot with confidence. >> and the weather it feels like the last blast of summer that we are experiencing? >> yes and after this temperatures change. >> temperatures 25 degrees cooler by the time we get to the end of the day -- the end of the week. >> and we have record high temperatures today let's take a look at what to expect this evening. it will be gorgeous. look at those 61 at the coast at 10:00. 61 at the base 71 with a few low clouds starting to move toward the coast. that is mainly where they will be tomorrow. that is the localized sea breeze

and clouds -- the localized sea breeze will reach places like san francisco and other areas like san mateo, oakland, and richland with 70's and 80's for the rest of us. around the state, it will be arm inland not as warm along the coast. we have a chance for sprinkles saturday running and otherwise it is blustery and cool through sunday and another chance of sprinkles wednesday. >> now to an image from a james webb space telescope this is a highly detailed snapshot of what they are calling the pillars of creation. this is interstellar dust and gas speckled with newly formed stars. this was us way back when. the area of about 6500 light-years from earth was first captured by the hubble's telescope in 1985. >> insight into the cast of the goldbergs. >> it was divine in how it

played out. >> one star was not interested in acting in the other

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>> coming up tonight on abc 7 in prime time we started 8:00 -- elementary home economic and -- at 10:00 and abc7news at 11:00. the cast of the goldberg the actors who play erica and jeff swartz in the abc show set down with abc7news anchor. >> season 10, the thing about this is haley, you did not to be an actress and now you have been on the show for 10 years. [laughter] >> yeah i started in music and then -- record labor rules -- labels encourage me to try to get a tv show like hannah montana. and i set up let me see what i can do here but now it is magical that i am on a show that

is now going a decade. i do not know, it was in oops he on my part but the best kind because i love acting in the show and the people i love -- i work with. it was divine in how it all played out. >> you still get to do music and -- then the opposite is true of you sam because you grew up in a show business family. >> yeah i am looking into getting into singing. no, i did my dad as an actor he's been an actor for 40 years and his brother is an actor. so i started when i was nine years old and now my dad lays my dad on the goal. which is and in saying. -- insane experience and so fun. >> that is the dream that is amazing. so you two crazy kids on -- are married on the show and you are expecting a baby and what else

is happening this season? >> there was a lot the baby is a big part of it it is a journey for our characters but you can also get to see beverly gold mother -- goldberg become a grandmother and she is also a widow in the show so see her as a mother and possibly down the line maybe dating again. you don't know. and then you have adam who is in college, i guess he is juggling college alongside taking on a new rear and trying to get into the music. -- juszczyk, that is me. music that is me. -- it's new entertaining things. >> watch the goldbergs tonight at 8:30 on abc 7. 10 years running on netflix -- network show is pretty big deal. -- get the streaming tv app so

you can join us whenever you want wherever you are. that will do it for this edition of abc7news at

>> we experience one of those warm october days that the bay area is known for. people were taking full advantage of the warm up. it was a gorgeous >> day. >>thank you for joining us. some areas flirted with record temperatures. >> it looks like a pretty good beach day in the upper right. but there is no fog.