we get a new restaurant in here. multiple vacancies. it is not a good look. >> now 11:00, downtown now a ghost town. offices sitting

empty in the famous san francisco skyscrapers. the bold change that one man says is the key to filling them up. >> from kpix, this late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello, i am juliette goodric in for sarah tonight. for decades, high-tech and high finance had been san francisco' bread and buer. now is ely dese e city okr wa to fillitback up. san francisco has 23 millio square feet of empty office space right now. let's put that into perspective. that is salesforce towers worth of space. ironically, many of thes vacancies are salesforce properties, including six floor of the tower and large chunks o office space at 50 fremont and 53 mission. it is expected to keep climbing as leases expire.

so how to reverse the trend? ma darrow met a man leading a grassroots effort to essentiall repaint the urban landscape as we know it. >> reporter: take a walk throug downtown san francisco, and you will see a lot of these signs and vacant spaces. >> what we need is more mixed-use downtown. >> reporter: robbie silver, the executive director of the downtown san francisco partnership stopped here on california street. >> it is a beautiful place at the front of california street. can we get some artists here an maybe a new restaurant in brthe to liit is a tall task right now. >> reporter: seeing multiple blocks with multiple vacancies, it is not a good look. >> he says there are currently 150,000 square feet of ground floor vacancies downtown, and according to figures from cb re:, 25 million square feet of

total vacant office space in th city. >> pre-pandemic it was about 4% and now we are at 30%. the biggest reason for that is hybrid work and most recently layoffs. >> reporter: cbre says that although leasing activity is starting to increase, there is not much demand right now, but he says that is going to change >> that should hopefully start to happen towards the end of this year or early next year as the economy starts to improve and interest rates start coming down and growth can turn around >> we need more establishments like this to help us reimagine downtown sf. >> reporter: silver hopes to se more of a diversified downtown with less of a reliance on tech and finance. >> if we give people positive reasons to coto come.

>> reporter: he acknowledges th city talking about a widely-built san francisco problem playing a role in the recovery, too. >> open drug dealing has to be the first thing that we tackle, but in contrast, you know, my area of the downtown financial district, we don't have a lot o that. it is going to take time and creativity and community collaboration to make it happen >> reporter: a challenge, and t silver, an opportunity. >> here is a look at how san francisco stacks up against other big bay area cities. the vacancy rate is nearly 10 point higher than oakland and twice that of silicon valley. crime and homelessness are the most visual issues plaguing san francisco, and tonight mayor london breed said that her $14 billion budget proposal aims to address both. among other things, it illuminates a defici and she is asking city

supervisors to approve funding for 220 new police officers and hundreds of new shelter beds. then there is the other matter, the drug crisis. >> let me tell you what we are going to do around fentanyl. expanding our law enforcement staffing to shut down open air drug markets, and it has alread started. >> tonight we are learning a one-year-old child is recoverin from a fentanyl overdose in santa rosa. police had to do cpr on the toddler at a home on boyd street yesterday. the chil is expected to be okay. officer arrested the 39-year-old mother saying her negligence was to blame. the deadly combination of fentanyl and xylazine is causin big problems at a hospital. tranq, as it as known, can extend highs but suspend

breathing. they say they are having trouble keeping up with the number of overdoses. andrea nakano on why the fight to save lives becomes harder each day. >> reporter: petaluma valley hospital recently had three patients come in in one week, all in their 20s. they overdose and all edaway. hospitals say that xylazine-laced fentanyl, known as tranq, is causing a major crisis. >> we want to save lives. we don't want to say goodbye to people. >> reporter: wendy thomas has worked at petaluma valley hospital for 25 years. the presence of tranq has are concerned. >> for healthcare providers, th emotional toll that it is takin on us is tough. >> reporter: recently a young woman in her 20s was brought into the hospital hours after she overdose. by the time she arrived, there was nothing doctors could do to save her life. >> one of the patients was recently and organ donor and it

broke all of our hearts. people came in on their day off to lin the hallways. she was taken to the operating room to harvest her organs. >> reporter: while narcan has been effective in reversing pur fentanyl overdoses, the combination of tranq has made i extremely difficult to save lives. more narcan has to be used in hopes of keeping a patient alive while the horse tranquilizer wears off. >> there are times when we use have all the narcan we have in the hospital. we had to call more hospitals to get more narcan and we had to order more narcan to have on hand here in i.v. form to be able to give patients, because we have run out a couple times. >> reporter: the hope is that b getting the information out to the community, people will be more aware of what they put in their bodies. >> if you don't know where it has come from or what is in it,

it can take one time for it to be lethal. one time. >> reporter: doctors say that someone has overdosed, bring them to the hospital right away in the case of the one young woman, her life may have been saved. tonight, alameda county is urging people at risk of m-pox to get thnoinm-x series cases a in alameda county, but a new cluster has appeared in chicago new tonight, campbell polic say they have rearrested a serial burglary suspect in another string of break-ins across the south bay. they say that johnny miles was in the middle of his sixth burglary when they caught him in the act last night. they also said that he was free on pending charges and 10 others across campbell and san jose. just weeks before they said he served time on 31 counts of burglary in santa

clara county before being released in january. tonight, san jose is considering a plan to transform a lot near a b.a.r.t. station into a safe parking place for rvs. it could hold about 20% of the 400 or so rvs parked around town. meanwhile in oakland, fed u ownee g a for a dead turn of events and an encampment on the street it encompasses the street between they tell john ramos that it feels like they are waiting for someone to get killed, now it has happened >> reporter: the flag on top of melrose metal finishing flags upside down , a symbol of distress. the owner has documented all kinds of crime, drug use, illegal dumping, arme robberies. in october after muc complaining, the city sent out

crews to remove the trash and effect the homeless rvs. it did not last long. >> they just came back and we were sending emails and picture to the city. >> it has been allowed to stay this way? >> it has been allowed to stay this way and get worse, obviously. >> reporter: he says things hav been getting more violent with people openly shooting guns in the air and at each other. >> a lot of gunplay. >> reporter: then last night what he predicted all along happened. a man was killed in cold blood in the middle of the street. he was of familiar face terry operates a trucking company out of the slot. the deadly shooting happened right outside. >> where am i? right here. in the middle of it. this is where we are stuck! this is where we are stuck! >> reporter: detectives were at the scene later in the morning,

but dutter was too cynical to think anything good come to it. in his opinion, it is what happens when the city allows lawlessness in the name of compassion. >> they picked the side they wanted to pick. >> the city did? >> yes. and this is the result. >> it is not their neighborhood so they don't care about compassion. they would have compassion if it was right outside their front door. >> reporter: a lot of people think crime is a problem in oakland. on this street it is now a matter of life and death. he rose to fame on that 70s show, and now he could face decades in prison. how the church of scientology played a key role in danny masterson's downfall. border patrol went beyond the pale of duty for this bust.

the multimillion dollar discovery inside a shipment of leafy greens. admitted. we wonder what it would be like to launch a car the way bo and duke hazard did. this guy found out the hard way it was a cool month of may 60s around the bay but we are i

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tonight, that '70s show actor danny masterson has been convicted on two counts of rape. prosecutors said that he assaulted two women at his home and used his status in the church to silence them. >> i think when a jury hears evidence that is the practice o religion to intimidate, to hide to do tactics that put victims in a place where they feel uncomfortable coming forward, that can be damaging to the defense. >> the church denied the allegations and said the encounters were consensual. thi was masterson's first trial. he will be sentenced in august.

the bill has passed! >> tonight we made history because this is the biggest cut in savings this congress has ever voted for. >> this evening, the house approved a hard-five compromise that raises the debt ceiling an makes budget cuts, however the deal does have consequences for millions of americans with federal student loans. if approved, the legislation would end the pause on student loan payments by august 30th. the ba area is all democratic delegation split 6-4 in favor o the deal with representatives jared hoffman, barbara lee and ro khanna voting no. two longtime spanish restaurants are closing their doors in san francisco's financial district. basque will be shutting down by the end of the week. it has been a go to

spot for tapas at happy hour. and the other restaurant will close at the end of the year when the chef and owner retires the restaurant is known for bringing together french, spanish and basque dishes. the upcoming event celebrates greek culture and traditions and of course the food! the festival kicks off friday at the st. nicholas gree orthodox church and continues through the weekend. >> gyros! >> yeah, feta cheese! the vinegar dressing that they have >> there is a lot of stuff goin on! the county fairs going on this weekend! >> just hit them all up! >> we are in full summertime mode! >> june 1st, just minutes away! strike of midnight! let's look at what you need to know as we get closer to the weekend. still low cloud cover and fog but not as stubborn as

the past couple of nights. the additional sunshine means warme temperatures , back to near normal temperatures tomorrow an slightly above average temperatures on friday before the real warm weather settles i just in time for the first weekend in june. switch perspectives. here is the view from salesforce tower towards the east. some hay is on the horizon. temperatures are dropping back. low 50s in livermore and santa rosa. those of the cool spots. the least cool spot is san jose. earlie today you could see the haze on the horizon but the air quality sensors were still registering good air quality with green dot on our map. now we are startin to see more yellow mixed in not just with the purple, but also the epa sensors indicating that air quality has deteriorated no to unhealthy levels, but just indicating that something we will have to keep an eye on as the overall weather pattern shifts into a pattern that tend

to trap ground-level pollutants not as much of the low cloud cover and fog, but that doesn't mean it will be absent. there will be some of it spreading into in the valleys by early tomorrow morning. it backs up out of the valleys as we head towards mid-to-late morning. plenty of sunshine for the rest of the day, and temperatures will warm up from upper 50s and low 60s tomorrow morning, then to almost normal high temperatures for the afternoon, a degree or two below average. you will not be able to tell much of a difference. near 60 along the coast, appropriately cool. near 70 down the peninsul and around the south end of the bay and into the mid-70s for th santa clara valley, mid-to-uppe 70s for the in the valleys of the east bay, then at mount diablo temperatures reach into the low 80s. mid-60s in san francisco, near 70 for oakland and the east bay, low to mid 70 for much of the north bay and a couple of warmer spots with upper 70s for napa, upper 70s

for santa rosa and other spots also touching 80 degrees tomorrow afternoon. we settle back into a near average or slightly below average temperature pattern after the weekend, and it looks like nea average is what we can generall expect. the climate prediction center updated their june outlook and it keeps us between the best chance of above normal temperatures to the north and the best chance of below averag temperatures further to the south and southeast. we will spend above normal and below normal for a few days, and things will generally even out over the next few days. temperatures will peak saturday and sunday. upper 60s in san francisco, low 70s in oakland, only a degree or two above normal for the day. low 80s saturday and sunday, same thing for san jose and the santa clar valley. we settle back into the slightly below average temperature pattern by tuesday and wednesday. more clouds next tuesday as well and some of the forecast models into at a chanc for pop up showers and thunderstorms. no raindrops in the forecast at this point. straight ahead in sports,

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lit up for the an think! >> when they come in on friday they will have that waiting for them! but the orioles, they wea orange and black, too! >> no! >> okay, we will localize it! the a's and the giants got off the clock early today. matinee games for both. the giants' ale wood, rough day with the pirates. charlie hayes clubbed two-run triple and would touch for six runs in 4 1/3 innings. now 6-3 in the sixth. bryan reynolds routed one to j.d. davis. no problem at second! relate to first was an issue! another run scored! it was that kind of day as the giants lost

this one and the series, nine minus for the final. the giants with an even record of 28-28 an they host the orioles on friday and give me mark kotsay hosting the braves! ronald acuna struck and found a hole in right center, scoring a run at a 4-2 victory! oakland still won the series. they have now not put three win together this season. miami from the east and denver from the western conference. local stories? the nuggets' eric gordon from archbishop vianney high school will be charged with doing the guarding. i talked to his forme high school head coach and he i confident that gordon will get it done!

>> he is one of the best player on earth and he has not given away an inch. that is something that is special about him. righ ayyou knowcomihere that s tryingto wil the timeand givi up any inches. >> the ball goes up for game on at 5: 30. gordon won back-to-back state titles for coach kennedy. jules, you know who i am working with tonight? my own coach kennedy. kevin kennedy. what is that coach? don't make me run anymore! >> are you hearing things? than you. looks like a scene from an action movie but this wild ride was

apparent inattention could have cost a woman her life when her car launched off the back o a tow truck and sailed 120 feet over a georgia freeway. the record was getting ready to loa up the car when the second car sped up the ramp and went flyin over the truck and its driver. the 21-year-old was hospitalize with serious injuries. it is unclear exactly what she was doing before the accident. if you are trying to hide something you don't want other people to go looking for, stashing it under bunches of kale may seem like a good bet maybe, but in this case it did not work. u.s. agents seized $3 million worth of methamphetamin inside of a tractor-trailer ful of kale crossing the border fro mexico. the 268 packages weighe nearly three times. back here in the bay area, livermore is cracking down on illegal fireworks starting june

22nd. property owners could face a $500 fine if anyone shoots off a firework at an event or gathering on their property. tonight, california police say they have put the pieces together and they have busted the lego bandit.

did you guys play legos? >> sure! >> limited edition legos, they get pretty pricey. up to hundreds of dollars. some don't really want to cough up the cas to get them, so police say that this shortlist 22-year-old stol $17,000 worth of legos from the local target last night. he put the pieces together. they determined that he may be the same guy that stole $30,000 worth of legos from other southern california stores. >> loss prevention employees ha noticed a male loading a large amount of legos into a shopping cart and they recognized him from previous thefts. >> thieves see these soon-to-be collectors items as easy money, often stealing and reselling

them online. >> that is what nieces and nephews and my godson asked for for christmas. this collector lego things. >> maybe he wanted to build the world's biggest millennium falcon! >> that is a good way to look a it, but he had to cough it up and now he will be doing some time, probably. not time doing legos. >> just generic legos in prison like the tyco kind that (upbeat music) - hi everyone, and welcome to legal help center. this is where we have professionals standing by to answer your questions regarding personal injury. so if you've been injured in an accident that was not your fault, like a car accident