now at 11:00, we could finally hear from antioch police officers about the racest texts several are accused of sending for years. what's happening tomorrow that activists and plaintiffs who have been suing the city have been fighting for. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. hello and good evening, i'm sara donchey. wow, so much has happened in the city of antioch even in just the past 24 hours since we last spoke here. it is enough to make your head spin. the police department and the

city have been in crisis for months now, but there could now be new fallout to the racist text scandal that's sidelined more than half the police department. just days after a sudden resignation announcement for the chief, a hearing tomorrow could lead to even more criminal cases being either thrown out for at least held in limbo. at least 15 antioch police officers have been subpoenaed to testify at this hearing where the chief is also expected to testify. what happens in that hearing could cause a judge to dismiss criminal charges against four men, but the police department is resisting subpoenas for at least five of its officers saying they can't testify because they're out on leave with quote industrial injuries. some of the people already suing the city of antioch over the scandal plan to pack the courtroom for the hearing tomorrow. two of them told andrea nakano tonight, they hope it will be the first step toward positive change. >> reporter: this texting scandal has rocked the community of antioch and the police department. now, on the week that chief stephen ford is

expected to testify, he announces his retirement after being on the job for just a few months. the plaintiffs, though, say they are not deterred from seeing the case through. >> i just want to see justice. that's really it. >> reporter: joshua hawkins butler is one of the plaintiffs. he says he's been target bid the officers named in the texting scandal lawsuit. >> i've been harassed, i done been abused. i've been put in situations where i thought my life would be taken away. >> reporter: butler says his life has changed since the officers in the scandal has been placed on leave. he's had numerous run ins with the law and admits he's been in and out of jail since he was a teen. >> this is my first time being on the other side. i always been the one in the courtroom, not on the other side. it's going to be different for me. >> reporter: the plaintiffs, their families, and community members are expected to pack the courtroom. frank sterling jr. will be one of them. he

says he had an encounter with police in 2009. >> he violently attacked me, kicked me in the face, beat me with a flashlight. did a chokehold on me until i passed out. and then when i woke up, he used expletives. he said this is what you get when you f with the cops. >> reporter: steriling is now part of reimagine antioch, a group fighting for systemic change in the police department. the group feels a couple things are necessary to implement real change. >> we want all the officers involved in the text message scandal fired. i doesn't matter if they just received the next. if they didn't turn it into a superior immediately, they have to go. >> what reimagine wants is police oversight commission that has power. that can make changes and can fire and hire and be part of the whole process. >> reporter: reimagine antioch and plaintiffs like joshua hawkins butler hoped chief ford

would be part of the process before he announced his retirement. >> ever since he came through the doors, there's been a lot of light. he's been taking actions. i feel like he's doing what's right. >> reporter: now butler feels like he's doing what's right to create positive chge and be the father his son can look up to. >> the system been fighting me all my life. so when you get a chance to stand up for yourself, why not? >> and tonight we're hearing from one of the people who will have to guide the city of antioch through whatever come next. our wilson walker talked with mayor thorpe about what he thinks should happen now. >> reporter: at this point what's next? >> nothing comes as a surprise anymore. that's why i'll continue to say the officers on administrative leave related to this scandal need to be fired so we can continue to hire new recruits. hiring someone from

the academy takes about six months. so those individuals are literally holding us hostage. >> we'll follow tomorrow's court hearing, which is expected as andrea mentioned, to be packed. we have some breaking news tonight. a real headache for airline passengers well on their way on a long haul flight when someone forced the plane to turn around. united flight 871 was headed from sfo to taipei when two hours in, a disruptive passenger forced the crew to turn the plane around and head back to sfo. the plane's flight path on flight aware is what you're seeing. the plane eventually landed safely. police met the plane and took the passenger. not sure what they did. the flight is now back on the way to taipei adding a lot of time and frustration to an already 13 hour long flight. shots were fired on a busy east bay highway for the second time in less than a week today.

there were reports of someone shooting a gun from a car in oakland during the morning commute. no reports of anyone getting hit. last friday, an eight-year-old boy was gravely injured when his family's car was hit during a rolling gun battle. the violence is making some drivers really nervous and worried they won't be safe on the roads. >> i'm usually with my two kids. we take the highways less now. i take castro valley boulevard and always be mindful of surroundings. >> if anyone cuts you off, you don't know what type of problems they going through thought the day. just stay calm. >> cal trans has already installed 120 highway cameras, mainly on 580, 880, and 80. another 40 cameras will be installed in the fall. all right, paul is joining us now. we're in yet another air quality advisory tomorrow. we've been talking about it,

looking at camera shots. it just seems like the haze is sticking around. >> right, the haze on the horizon is not pleasant to look at, but at least it's kind of elevated in the atmosphere opposed to ground level. it could be a lot worse. this is due to smoke drifting down from the flat fire in southwest oregon. mostly moderate air quality levels across the bay area, but some settling into the east bay areas. livermore seeing orange dots edging towards unhealthy for sensitive groups. tomorrow we have a spare the air advisory. a lot of north bay has been excluded from this. temperatures won't be as extreme as the past couple of heat waves for most of the region. but that doesn't mean it's going to be necessarily safe outside. heat risk for the inland east bay

around antioch, we're talking about the heat risk in the high category earlier today. it will be in the very high category tomorrow. it retreats slightly on saturday, and this heat wave, like the last couple, doesn't last that long. it's out of here by early next week. we'll take a look ahead to the down slope on the temperature roller coaster in a few minutes. but again, when you see the values in the high and very high category, stay hydrated and find air-conditioning when you can. >> i will. thank you, paul, appreciate it. san francisco made it a goal to have immediate treatment available for people struggling with addiction, but the reality is far from immediate. the change desperately needed to cut a lot of red tape. and why some people are traveling from hundreds of miles away to see a film at one specific northern california movie theater. and

if you've followed the news on the drug crisis in san francisco and the bay area, you probably heard about the term harm reduction. it's an approach aimed at reducing the impact of drug use in a dignified way by doing things like using in a safer way, meeting people where they're at, and treating drug users with respect. now, there has been a lot of debate about what is the right approach to

helping people who are struggling with addiction, but in many cases, advocates say getting people help quickly makes all the difference in the world. and now a familiar name is throwing its hat into the ring in the effort to get people recovered and back on their feet. >> reporter: as san francisco tries to take better control over its drug crisis, there's a group kind of jumping up and down begging to be a greater part of the relief effort, and that group now includes someone we've met before. >> this program was designed in response to the needs of the community, and we set out to create a safe space for people who were trying to get away from all drugs. >> reporter: two years ago, we introduced you to steve, who after two decades in and out of jail and prison ultimately landed a job with the san francisco probation department where he ran the city's only abstinence-based recovery program. but the only way to get into that program was to come out of jail, which is something we don't want people to have to do, right? so what

is steve doing now? well, he has a new job trying to take the same idea to more people. >> our facility is basically not being utilized to its fullest capacity. >> reporter: that's the new job, filling the empty beds at the salvation army's on demand detox and residential treatment program. >> right now we've doubled down on housing first and harm reduction. while those are useful strategies, we need treatment on demand and recovery-focused transitional housing. >> there was a time i just woke up one day, it was like a spiritual awakening, and i couldn't do it no more. >> reporter: joshua is among those that came here looking for help. he's now in the initial 180-day recovery program. everything here is based on abstinence. >> it doesn't work for everybody. i believe what helped me, you have to want it.

you know, i've been through this, through recovery before, but i was doing it for the wrong reasons. i was doing it for somebody else. >> as a complete treatment, they transition into a recovery-focused transitional housing program for an additional few years and work on formal education, vocational training, career development. >> this is my room, come on in. >> reporter: joseph is now 11 months into recovery. >> i have a really good job in the mall. i'm a manager, and saving up money to go to school and give back to the community. service is really big to me. that's how you stay sober. >> reporter: and in the coming months, the plan is to take all of this and scale it up. >> the building was built in the 50s, and it was a salvation army adult rehabilitation center. >> so we are looking at the third floor wing that, come january, will be completely remodeled. >> reporter: the old mission facility is now being

renovating adding more beds on the floors. >> rebuilding their life and just restoring hope to others. >> reporter: the salvation army is hoping to become a major piece of the city's answer to the drug crisis lobbying for direct referrals and more funding, while pushing back against perceptions the institution is outdated. >> we don't discrimination. we're open to anyone seeking help. >> and we are just wanting the city to recognize that, you know, the drug, the open drug scenes and the, the addiction with the fentanyl crisis that there are hundreds and hundreds of people on the streets that need a recovery-based approach. >> i chase my recovery the same way i used to chase drugs. i go in all gas, no brakes. >> reporter: it's a familiar name offering help in a new kind of drug crisis, and steve is convinced for a lot of people it's the way out. >> we need to make provinces we

can keep. one promise we can keep is we can help people reclaim their lives if we start promoting recovery and demonstrating change is possible. people want to do better and need to be given the opportunity. >> at the same time, san francisco lawmakers are pushing a plan to put narcan in every hospital in the city. oppenheimer is opening nationwide, planning on seeing it. and some people are driving hundreds of miles to see the movie in one theater in downtown sacramento. they're one of the few theaters showing it in a vintage format. it was shot on 70-millimeter imax film on a six story tall screen. the director says seeing it in the larger format is the best possible experience. >> it's going to move five feet of film per second. >> it's 1 of only 19 theaters

in the country with a working 70-millimeter projector. and someone to my left has been planning on seeing oppenheimer for a long time. >> since it was announced. >> and you made the grave mistake of asking me if i was more of the barbie movie type. do you know me at all? >> apparently no post-apocalyptic fiction, and this is a true story, but ties into that. >> apparently the film that the imax film, it's like 11 miles long if you stretched out the film. it's almost a three hour movie. i'll be there saturday watching it. >> how exciting. >> it's going to be a good weekend to spend time in a theater because it will be hot inland. the heat dome reasserting dominance and flexing towards the bay area tomorrow and saturday especially. but like the past couple, it's not going to be a long time heat event for the bay area. other parts of the state and region has been cooking for the past couple of

weeks. that's going to continue, but this should drift away by the time sunday and monday roll around. so the high temperatures peak tomorrow and saturday. ten-day outlook. concord around 100 tomorrow and saturday, and then backing down to basically average temperatures through most of the last full week of july. it will just feel like typical late july weather which is warm to hot, but not excessive heat. and the heat risk overall won't be at high as the past couple of heat waves. talking a moderate heat risk, only folks especially sensitive to the heat whether it's heat related reasons for lack of access to air-conditioning. the heat backs off starting sunday, and we're back to near average for the whole bay area starting monday. with this heat dome building overhead, it traps pollution near ground level. so we have the smoke from the flat fire in oregon and ground level ozone produced by traffic. underland, parts of east bay, and the santa clara valley

likely to reach the unhealthy for sensitive groups tomorrow. that's why there's a spare the air. not seeing much fog right now. still 70 in concord and livermore. 59 at oakland and santa rosa. not much fog to start the day tomorrow. it will mainly be around the bay and pushing into the santa clara valley, but backs out of the inland valleys quickly. we should see unobstructed visibility by noon at the latest except right on the coast. but you should see sunshine even along the coast tomorrow. temperatures tonight dropping into the mid to upper 50s to around 60. tomorrow 60s along the coast, 70s along the bay. close to 90 in san jose, but closer to 100 morgan hill and gilroy. mostly 90s in the north bay. the upper 90s and low 100s in the tri-valley and delta. it will be hot out there tomorrow. temperatures not that

hot around the bay, so looks like a great evening for the a's second game of the four-game series against the astros. temperatures in the low 70s for the 6:40 first pitch with temperatures dropping into the 60s. temperatures won't be that warm around the bay. 70 in san francisco and back to near normal temperatures monday through friday, maybe even the last weekend of july. that means 60s and 70s around the bay. back to mostly 80s further inland once we get past tomorrow and saturday with the heat advisory through 11:00 p.m. saturday. back to normally hot weather inland with normally foggy conditions along the coast. matt? thanks, paul. the race to october is on, but the giants stumbled when they had an opportunity to make a huge leap. plus, the open championship is underway. some golfers off to a crappy sta

there's little room for error in the national league west where two wins separate the top three teams. the giant hearsay a golden opportunity to gain ground on the dodgers who were off on thursday for

travel. this guy had the best seat in the house for the series finale against the reds. all star alex cobb gave up a two-run homer to the number nine hitter. it was a rough start for cobb. failed to record a strike out for the first time all season long. the giants had only one hit in eight innings against cincinnati starter andrew abbot, but even that ended poorly. maton doubled, flores was trying to score from first, but he was out by plenty. reds win 5-1, split the four-game series. the giants head to dc for the weekend trip to finish the roadie. a's and astros rocking out at the coliseum looking for a third straight dub. hogan harris was cruising into the sixth, then kyle tucker doubles into left center to give it will astros the lead. they win 3-1 stopping the a's two-game

win streak. first round of the open championship. victor had the wrong kind of birdie. he told his caddy a bird just popped on him. he's four shots off the lead. that's the least of his worries. awkward stance for mcillroy. got it on the green and managed to save par. he finished at even. lampra shot a 66, and the amateur has a share of the lead after the opening round. this is why we should never been fighting in hockey. the youth 18 thailand and hong kong teams had a brawl in the hand shake line, but number 24 is in the back punching air, taking names. the one guy i don't want in a fight is the crazy dude.

he's clearly unhinged. fight your inner demons brother, let it out. look at him go. >> he's waiting for someone to come to him. >> i guess so. he wants the action over there. >> i actually think it's a strategy to keep everyone away. >> prison rules. you got to be the crazy person. no one messes with you. i respect that. >> how do you know about priso rules? >> we'll get into it later.

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okay, i'm not personally the biggest taylor swift fan in the world, but my producer is, and i know a lot of other people who are. if you weren't able to get your tickets, and they were hot, for next weekend and thought you'd catch the show from the parking lot, bad news. levi stadium says they're not letting anyone camp out that doesn't have a ticket near the stadium friday or saturday

night. people all over the country have been doing that, but it won't be happening in santa clara. stadium management and the police department say the crowd could cause a traffic nightmare, so they'll be closing off the drive right outside the stadium all of next weekend. call me, though, when beyonce comes because now we're talking. you can tap your phone to pay at many grocery stores and restaurants, but what about tapping your palm? soon you'll be able to do that at whole foods if you have a chip with credit card information embedded in your body. the move is an expansion of the technology first rolled out in 2020. not everyone is on board, of course, and privacy experts raised a lot of concerns about sharing the data. sometimes you might be in the mood to order just a bunch of sides or put together some snacks instead of a full meal. it's popularized on social

media as girl dinner. popeye's says we're selling our own version. you can put a bunch of sides together to make a meal, and while i love that, my version is girl dinner is two full meals. some unusual activity on the set of beetle juice 2, but are you

i feel like a lot of people agree that beetle juice is a classic film. came out in 1988. now the sequel is coming out 36 years later. >> better late than never. >> but the film was shooting in vermont near the border with new hampshire. suddenly props started going missing. police say that somebody has actually been stealing them. they say someone drove up to the set in a pickup truck, shoved a pumpkin lamp post in the back and took off. three days later, a huge statue went missing, and we have, i hope, of the statue. there it is. >> oh, yeah. >> they said i need this for my foyer. it's 150-pounds, so whoever took it is probably in good shape. police say if you saw anything, call us. the movie is supposed to come out in september of next year. >> next year, okay. >> yeah, hang on. >> probably some post-production work to be done. >> yeah, including recovering whatever