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her hand. breaking news. a bystander is killed after a stolen city vehicle smashed into a crowd at a bay area bus stop. we will have a live report from the en doat an en dion ofe city's fentanyl crisis. neighbors fed up with trash and burned-out cars. one man helped put pressure on his city to start cleaning up. i'm elizabeth cook and for reed cowan today. we start with breaking news from san francisco where a vehicle plowed into a crowd , killing a bystander. police say it all started with a carjacking at folsom and mabini streets. then, a car chase began at kansas and 25th and ended with that crash on 16th street and potrero in the mission. that is where we find our shawn chitnis. what we know so far about all of this? >> reporter: we do know that

one person died and at least four for injured. i'm going to step away so you can see where they are starting to open up this intersection and they continue to clean up the scene as they are able to move some of the vehicles involved in the crash out of the intersection but there is still so much damage to the stores that are right next to where this crash happened so there will be plenty of cleanup that needs to continue throughout the day. as you mentioned, this all started with a carjacking and then this actual car chase. police tell us this happened around 10:00 a.m. they say the suspect carjacked a city-owned truck on folsom and mabini st officers were able to notice the stolen car nearly 4 miles away on kansas and 25th. that is when the actual car chase began and it ends here with the truck smashing into the side of the building where there are a couple of stores as well as a nearby muni stop. we spoke with one witness who said that he and his coworkers said he saw

the whole thing happen. he says he saw one woman pinned underneath a truck and quickly jumped in to help her. >> bent the bumper to get it off her chest. she started breathing again. it was a older latino lady. i was able to hold her hand. in spanish, she said, don't leave me. i said, i'm not going anywhere. emt did not even realize she was there. they came over, helped her out. >> the chaotic environment of not just the vehicle having been struck but the pedestrians that were also struck, trying to sort out their injuries, trying to sort out where they were during that incident. our officers have to keep that in mind as we are going through and trying to triage and render aid to everyone involved. >> reporter: the police tell us that the suspect was the only person inside the truck at the

time of that chase. they say that they don't know if the employee who was in the truck at first was injured or they can't give us any information about their potential injuries but there was some sort of struggle. as you take a live look back here at the intersection, you can see another car that was involved in all of this. this is what the stolen vehicle hit before it end up spinning into the building so that gives you a sense of how busy the scene is right now as they continue to try to clear this area so maybe a few more minutes before they can let traffic go through this intersection. as for the victims again, five altogether including the person who died, we know they were all taken to the hospital but we don't have an update on the injuries of the remaining four. >> such an incredibly violent scene. thank you so much. we just got this video from a witness minutes ago. you can see the chaos at the scene just moments after the crash. we will have more on this breaking news coming up on our evening editions. now a live look at u.n. plaza in san francisco where was meant to be a first of its kind outdoor board of supervisors hearing was

interrupted by protesters just after 15 minutes. the idea was to ask the mayor about the th d has the latest. >> reporter: right now they are back at city hall. let's take a live look inside the board of supervisors chambers right now. they just tabled a discussion on an emergency plan to deal with the drug use. this is where they moved after a field trip to the heart of the city's drug crisis did not go as planned and the mayor was shouted down. >> thank you, president for your comment. >> reporter: the mayor was there with city supervisors today and she did come out strong off the bat. >> we can keep speaking out of

both sides of our mouth. on the one hand, we want change and we want to hold people accountable and on the othend, ar ing to let t away wi murr. >> the plan proposed by supervisor aaron peskin forming an emergency operations center so the police, the district attorney, the chp, probation, health department, public works, child protective services and can better coordinate a solution to shutdown the city's open-air drug markets within 90 days. the mayor said the discussion was best had back at city hall which is where they are now but before they recessed, she addressed the pain that the problem is causing all residents. >> why should someone else's rights be put before their needs and their safety and what they deserve too in a place like san francisco that claims to be so compassion and liberal. what >> we did see one down after some sort of fight outside of the roped off area where the mayor was speaking.

multiple witnesses said that person pulled out a brick and was trying to throw it. it is unclear who the target was but he will have a live report coming up at 5:00 and open-air drug use is one of several contentious issues on the supervisors agenda today. they are also expected to discuss a resolution urging the attorney general to examine the ll danko brown. waep oue on. bu o the seg kl neighbod. the city a eae mess but it ll keom time. julia goodrich talked to's one man who was so upset he just said, i am going to fix this myself. >> it is getting worse by the day. you can talk to some of the neighbors. this is just one section. look at this.

>> community advocate ken houston walks us through parts of oakland and says this is just one example of the abandoned cars and illegal dumping he sees on a daily basis. he says it is on the rise. >> this is a newer car. that is new. you have this over here. these cars have not been here but let me take you down here. these cars that are burned up have been here for years. >> reporter: he is very much aware of another issue, neighbors that walk in fear. >> here is a problem. the neighbors are hostage in their own homes because they are scared to report it because of retaliation. this younon you po, i'm burn down your ho k gabby who have lived here for years and have dealt with the

blight right in her own front yard. >> there has been quite a few times that it happens at night and my house will shake. we will think it is an earthquake but it is another vehicle on fire. >> i would have to come out here and water down the house. >> reporter: who was responsible for cleaning this up? >> union pacific. the railroad. of this is their responsibility. this is the railroad's responsibility. the other side is alameda county and the street side is the city. >> how do you all work together? >> that is what we have been trying to do for years. >> reporter: let's talk about solutions. the city admits it is backlogged. they can tow a vehicle if someone is living in it but they certainly can come and tow a vehicle that has been stolen and stripped and left on the street. >> they took alltis. >> reporter: chanel smith is with the city's vehicle enforcement unit. >> you can see where they

actually punched the ignition . that is how they were able to take the car. >> reporter: the city launched the vehicle enforcement unit two months ago. technicians are assigned to a specific area to focus on stolen and abandoned vehicles and tow them out. >> and they had taco bell while they were doing it. >> stolen this morning. >> reporter: often times, it is neighbors reporting stolen or abandoned vehicles so this unit handles those calls and opd now focuses solely on public safety. >> there are cases where we see people dumping cars and we try to reach opd immediately and hopefully that will take one car robber off the street but basically, we are just here for recovery. if i came back three or four days later, there would be someone living in there. >> than i can take it because now it has become someone's home. >> reporter: for committee

members like ken houston, it is a step in the right direction. still ahead, one person's trash could be a game changing alternative to fossil fuels. how a bay area land fuel is leading the way in fighting climate change. some parts of the bay are 15 degrees cooler right now than we were just yesterday. how do you do that in one day? you did not notice much else with it. i will show you the

this is a pretty cool story. a company in wyoming is bringing alternative fuel technology to the bay area and it could help with california some goal to reduce the use of fossil fuels. this new technology could be installed at the west contra costa landfill. john ramos shows us how it works. >> reporter: when the trucks rumble into the west contra costa landfill in richmond these days, they're carrying more than just refuse. they may be carrying the promise of a real alternative to fossil fuels. >> when we are up and running, people will be pretty proud that it was richmond, california was the first city. >> reporter: matt murdock is the founder of a company called raven sr that, in the near future, will be setting up shop in this yard at the landfill. when his equipment is up and

running, it will begin processing organic material, yard waste, food scraps, even hazardous biowaste into cleanburning transportation fuels. >> we can make diesel. we can make jet fuel. we can do hydrogen. we can do methanol. we can do ammonia. we can go into a lot of different pathways, depending on what is needed within the market. >> reporter: it is a patented, innovative process called steam co2 reforming. the organic waste is heated with steam to a point where it's molecules break down but never actually burn. that releases energy that can be converted to electricity and the remaining atoms can be reformed into other synthetic gases like hydrogen which is one of the cleanest burning fuel alternatives on the market today. >> we essentially breakdown the molecules to the component parts and then rebuild it. >> reporter: it is hard to find any downside to the project. it will generate power from the

methane gas being vented from the landfill, cutting as much as 70 will 200 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the landfill each year. because there is no burning, it will make the surrounding air cleaner. >> overall, when we did the health risk assessment for our permitting, we lowered the risk of cancer up to 6000 feet away. >> reporter: for a city that often has a contentious attitude toward industrial projects, the response to climate activists has been uncharacteristically positive. >> i have worked on clean energy and climate change since the 1990s. i am an old-timer and i have yet to see a project i think is as important for the local community as well as the global climate as raven energy's project. >> reporter: city leaders voted unanimously to move the project forward and now the eyes of the country and the world will be on raven sr to see if they can deliver on the promise. >> we have a lot of people that cannot wait to come and visit the plant and play with it,

throw trash in and watch it become hydrogen. there is a lot of people watching us. >> reporter: they say great things come from modest beginnings but who would have thought that the future of modern transportation may be beginning at the richmond dump. the next approval must come from the bay area air quality management district. the company's founder says they could be operating as soon as next spring. let's take a break. actually, we can stay on the environment, a related topic. kind of hazy out there today. >> yes. looking at air quality, it is fine. it is not like it is air pollution but living near the coast, you have added humidity. often times, it is humidity in the air that contributes to the haze more than anything else and that is what we are seeing. you will see it on another camera and a second. that is the view from the top of the salesforce camera. the real issue is how much cooler we are today than yesterday. some places across the bay, 15, 17 degrees cooler

than yesterday. these are current numbers for how much lower the number is for your part of the bay from where you were 24 hours ago. if we switch from the drop to of the actual current temperatures are, there is a pretty good spread here of anywhere from mid 60s to low 70s, 67 in petaluma, 72 in mountain view. that is the other hazy view. this is the one from the top of mt. diablo looking back out toward the west. that is walnut creek. 68 deto dari there. i several ldfronbeautifully diinhe cloud this morning. it was not terribly strobut it did bring cooler air in with it and now what happens over the next two days, watch the marine layer get reenergized. tomorrow

it will start building back in. not overly oppressive but by wednesday, watch what happens. thursday we are right back in to may gray. then, look up there. a little bit of energy in the big picture. maybe a few isolated thunderstorms north of the bay. it will be up in the far northwest mountains. tomorrow daytime highs, very much like today. we did the big drop to get 15 degrees cooler into today and now we will see some subtle differences. oakland, maybe you will go down a few degrees. you can see san francisco going down to the low 60s. when we look at the inland east bay, those numbers may go down a few degrees. when we take a look at our last review on the 7-day forecast, same story. a couple of degrees cooler on friday and that is about it. memorial day is coming fast, liz. >> a lot of folks may be getting out of town or looking

forward to long weekend. when we come back, serving up cookies and kindness. one san francisco business owners trying to lure back visitors to his store by giving them an experience they will

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we like to highlight the bridge builders in our community and one of the bay area's biggest superstars just pick up a major honor. warriors guards steph curry was named the nba's kareem abdul-jabbar social justice champion for this season. he has used his platform to support voter registration, funding sports programs and continues to drive local projects in east oakland. the pro basketball riders also worked in the jay walter kennedy citizenship award. as we continue to celebrate asian-american and pacific islander heritage month, we want to introduce you to the owner of a historic fortune cookie business who launched his own campaign to get people back into his chinatown shop. it is all through personal connection. >> reporter: if you want to know about this city by the bay, get to know it's people.

this is kevin chan, the cookie man, owner of chinatown's historic holding gate fortune cookie factory. he is open every day, 365 days a year. kevin knows the headlines outside his doors down ross allie are not great. he has felt the decline in tourism and perceptions about the safety of his city, things that keep him up at night. >> i always think of the night when all my employees went home and i had to work alone here. >> do you ever get tired? >> i am tired every day. i work seven days a week. >> why not sellout and give up? >> it does what i love to do. >> reporter: this place, kevin tells me, is not about the cookies. it is about the connection. thousands of tourists a month come through the doors and they are tourists who tell kevin perceptions about san francisco change. >> we are doing a food tour of san francisco. >> reporter: this youtube influencer took their first trip to the bay and they

wondered if san francisco would be safe. >> we had heard a lot. i had heard about crime and we were worried. what would it be like. >> reporter: street safety was the drumbeat they heard before coming here but listen to the music made with human connection. it happened over cookies. >> i want him to feel the pain. i want you to be happy. >> that is a great one. >> perfect. >> this is the best. >> it is so easy to make assumptions when you see things online and when you go out and you talk to people and me to them, a lot of times you are surprised by how much you connect with people that you never thought that you might be able to connect with. >> reporter: that is kevin doing his part, hoping we'll become better ambassadors of people who live here. he says the best way to confront community problems is to create change, person to person. >> i want to share this with you. >> maybe that is the real

fortune. >> reporter: love between the people and the random visitors hoping fortune smiles on his san francisco once again. >> it makes you want a fortune cookie. be sure to join us friday for our one-hour special, roots and resilience, highlighting stories from our aapi communities for aapi heritage month. it starts at 4:00 on kpix 5 and streaming on area still ahead, a historic mystery solved in st. helena. the man who returned a long overdue library book finally comes forward. who he says actually checked it out

carnaval returns to san francisco this weekend. you can watch the grand parade this sunday on our livestream on cbs news bay area and on our sister station . we will then rebroadcast parade highlights sunday, june 4 at 6:00 p.m. we have a great update to a story we first brought you last week. the st. helena public library says they know who returned a library book that was checked out nearly a century ago . a nap a man named jim perry saw our story and called the library saying he found the book while he was cleaning out his house. he told them he believes it was his grandfather in law who checked out the book back in 1927. now,

the book is in a special display case at the library. that is amazing. he came forward to so it was me. what a great find. >> i could see that selling for a lot ♪ ♪ orht, 1 of mpllprest afr rng a 26-foot truck into a white house barricade. are tonight's headlines. the new details about the 19-year-old who flew from st. louis to the nation's capital, accused of crashing a rented box truck, and carrying a nazi flag. ♪ ♪ a twist in the 2024 race for president. hall florida governor ron desantis will announce his bid for the republican nomination. ♪ ♪ >> we are now one day closer to the deadline, with no agreement to stave off a default. the speaker and the president vowed to talk every day until

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