now at 11:00, a major human trafficking bust in the bay area. >> a lot of times their traffickers are not prosecuted or arrested. >> one local survivor says arresting the bad guys is a good start, but the job is far from finished. >> at point of contact of me being arrested there was no services. >> why she hopes the victims who are rescued are treated better than he was. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello. i'm sarah sara donchey. california is a human trafficking hotspot with victims forced into all kinds of horrible, unimaginable situations, sexual slavery, forced labor, held against their will, but tonight over a dozen trafficking victims were rescued here in the bay area. over two weeks in july local law enforcement agencies worked with the fbi to carry out 17

operations and arrested nine people linked to trafficking. >> there are kids that are living in our communities, living in our streets and they are not for sale. the bay area has led the way in developing techniques to investigate and disrupt this activity. operation cross-country started here in the bay area. we have always been leading the way on this. >> but the end of that operation is just the beginning of a long road to recovery for these victims. our andrea nakano spoke with a survivor turned advocate in sonoma county who hopes things go better for those women than they did for her. >> reporter: elizabeth curos was a victim of human trafficking for nearly 12 years but victim no more. she is making a difference. >> when i was 26, i was arrested for the last time and i had a 3-month-old baby boy i needed to think about and at that time i realized i needed to end the cycle that was within my family.

>> reporter: elizabeth curos said she met her trafficker when she was 16 years old. it began with a stranger first giving her compliments, then gifts, then a hope of a better life than what she was experiencing at home, but it just led to a life of crime and trauma. >> at the time of the point of contact of me being arrested there was no services. i was treated as a criminal and looked down upon because, of course, i was an addict. i was selling drugs and smoked my own supply because of all those years of trauma and being trafficked. >> reporter: she is applauding fbi's latest operation cross-country that helped locate four children and 17 adults. she feels the key to reaching the victims is to provide the right type of resources. >> it's important that we continue to bring advocates and even survivors to be part of those situations where the victims can relate. they can understand because they're not going to talk to somebody that's in a uniform. >> reporter: that's why she co-founded redemption house to, give victims the support and tools they need to turn their

lives around. >> once they realize like that the power is theirs, once they get out of that life and realize their power is theirs and their voice is theirs, they'll start to be able to be set free from all. that. >> reporter: curos said the resources she was provided behind bars truly changed her life. she now is a social worker with a master's degree. while her focus is to help others, she is rewarded with each victim she saves. >> a lot of times their traffickers are not prosecuted or arrested or it goes unnoticed. i tell them keep sharing. keep speaking about it and that will be a form of justice so you can get that proper healing. it helps me, too, when i do this. >> reporter: curos said she had three traffickers during they are 12 years of none of them were prosecuted for human trafficking. florida governor and gop presidential candidate ron desantis says he will go toe to toe with california governor gavin newsom on the debate stage even though newsom wears

up and down he isn't running for president. still newsom has been pushing for this debate for months, saying he'd do it on fox news and even let sean hannity moderate. today the florida governor accepted. last week newsom outlined the terms. he wants to have it in early november in either georgia, nevada or north carolina, but none of those details have been agreed to explicitly yet. newsom called for a debate in this tweet from september 2022 after desantis said newsom's hair gel muddled his brain function. newsom has been busy with other things affecting us here in the bay area, though. he says he'll send chp officers to oakland after the mayor and police asked for help to control crime. six chp officers and one sergeant will help crack down on sideshows, reckless driving, freeway shootings and carjackings. the state is also giving oakland a $1 million loan to install license plate readers. oakland robberies are up 22% over last year and even now utility

workers are being targeted. as katie nielsen reports, if you see a pg&e crew out doing work in oakland, you will probably see a police car not far behind them. >> reporter: deanna tibbs owns oakland puzzle company. this morning she was concerned when she saw an oakland police squad car parked in front of her building. >> i brought my daughter to work today and i was like i went up to them and said is there something going on because i want to make sure it's safe before my daughter gets out of the car? >> reporter: but the police officer is off duty working overtime paid for by pg&e to provide security for the crew doing maintenance on an underground gas line at east tenth street and sixth avenue. >> you're in a situation when folks don't have basic utilities because we're unable to provide an umbrella of protection for pg&e to fix a problem. >> reporter: barry donelan is president of the oakland police officers union. he says pg&e started hiring off-duty oakland police officers in november last year after a number of

utility crews were robbed at gunpoint. thieves demanded the crews hand over their tools and personal items like cell phones and wallets. >> it's sad that we're in this situation. this should be a clarion call to city officials that we've got significant challenges around public safety in oakland. >> reporter: according to oakland police, pg&e pays for 24 hour protection for their gas and electric crews monday through friday. there are up to eight off-duty officers assigned to pg&e each day with each officer working an eight-hour shift at a cost of about $100 per hour. that adds up to a tab of more than $6,000 per day, millions of dollars per year pg&e has to pay for the added protection, which begs the question will it be customers who have to pay for it in the end? >> obviously really upsetting that crime is so bad here that pg&e workers are at risk. >> a spokesperson from the union that represents pg&e workers says while oakland is the only city where the company

is doing this right now, they might hire officers in other cities, too, including san francisco and richmond. a cnn reporter experienced the ultimate irony while reporting in oakland today. kim law was out shooting a story about crime when thieves broke into her car right across the street. even though it became news, it isn't new for her or her crew. she says it's the third time one of cnn's rental cars has been broken into while she was reporting in the bay area. law says she will not even leave a candy bar visible in the car anymore. to contra costa county now, people evacuated from a san pablo neighborhood because of a hazmat scare will be out of their homes all night. the trouble is coming from a retired chemistry teacher's shed. firefighters found hundreds of boxes of hazardous materials inside. they had to rush most of the neighborhood out. everyone in a one-block radius was evacuated, including part of giant highway, miner avenue, 11th street, and

palmer avenue. the thing is we don't know exactly what is inside those boxes yet, but firefighters say the person who had them is cooperating. for everyone who had to leave, there is a shelter at contra costa community college gym. some people told us they did not waste time getting out. >> well, i'm glad that we are in the safe area because we don't know what the substances were. we immediately got out, but the people just standing down there. >> hazmat crews will take a pause around midnight. they'll be back out at 5:00 tomorrow morning. a burglar arrest got our attention because of what the intruder was allegedly after, women's feet. we haven't had any crazy storms. so why does one east bay road look like that tonight? this is part of san francisco. it's perfect for the geography of the city, as you know. you can walk down. you don't want to walk up a hill. >> on the 150th anniversary of

the cable car, we look back at a time when mick jagr grasped at straws to give his best testimonial to save them. and why this airbnb listing could be your biggest dream or worst nightmare. once again temperatures were below average the 2nd day of august, one more day of cool readings and then we warm up significantly, especially inland, details coming up in the first alert forecast.

arrest near lake tahoe, investigators say an intruder was breaking into vacation condos to fondle women's feet. it happened early last month in state line. deputies say two different women woke up to find 26-year-old mark anthony gonzalez rubbing their feet. both chased him off. investigators say gonzalez has a history of similar crimes involving fetish-like behavior. this looks like a scene from those winter storms, but this is alameda tonight. a water main break caused a sinkhole to open up in the middle of lincoln avenue. east

bay mud cut service to several streets along the southern end of lincoln to repair the line. bottom line, not a good idea to drive near there right now. some sad news tonight in san jose where a child was found unresponsive in a school pool. that child has died. it happened this afternoon at the harkner school. the school is hosting summer camps, no word on the child's age who drowned or how they ended pool. fans of actor angus cloud are visiting a mural on east 19th street between third and park near lake merritt. the artist was painting an entirely different piece but decided to change directions to honor the actor. >> i hope that people that knew angus or were affected by him, you know, bring something positive away from this wall. >> people have been leaving flowers and candles in front of the memorial and the artist is encouraging people to stop by

to pay tribute to angus. cloud was known for his role as fez in hbo's "euphoria." a hip-hop legend told us it's important for men to step forward and voice these issues in public. >> i know i can't be the only person that's going through it and they don't have the spaces to talk about it. they don't have the knowledge to articulate it and they don't even have the terms to identify it with. tonight san francisco is celebrating 150 years of cable cars rolling through the city. mayor breed gave senator feinstein a shout out for securing funding to save them in the late '70s when she was

mayor. the 90-year-old was a no-show at today's celebration. her rep says the senator has a cold. we dug through our archives and found this footage we shot in october of 1981. then mayor feinstein convinced mick jagger to join her on a motorized cable car outside city hall and the rocker tried his best to give them a testimonial. >> this is part of san francisco, so if it wasn't here anymore, it would be gone. it's perfect for the geography of the city. you don't want to walk up a hill. this is perfect for it, right? so without them you'd have to do a bit more walking and parking. i think these are wonderful things and they still do work. they just need updating a bit. >> standard oil a million. >> with that mindset we can go home, right? >> that totally reminds me when you had to get up in front of the class and had no idea because you didn't prepare in school. i had so many of those moments.

>> now look what you do. >> i know. i kind of get up in the class unprepared, no, not unprepared. we do try here. the rolling stones were in town at the time to promote their album "tattoo you" and played two shows at candlestick park, but they got the laugh in the end. >> somehow he looks the same. >> i have a feeling you prepared for your book reports. >> yeah, sometimes. got some of the best grades on the books i didn't actually read. >> i was really good at the standardized test not studied for. >> oh, yeah, i never prepared for those. that's a different skill set entirely. let's talk about what's happening weather-wise. i managed to get into school and study meteorology, things worked out. one more cool day before the heat dome is going to edge a little closer to us on friday and it's going to impact our weather as we head into the weekend. look at the ten-day temperature outlook for concord which still has good news, free air conditioning tomorrow, make not air

conditioning, but comfortable temperatures around 80. you warm up significantly, just a three-day stretch, saturday, sunday and monday, but the warmest day will be over 100 degrees sunday and we settle back to near average temperatures next week. like all the heatwaves so far this summer inland, this will be very brief. we'll keep an eye on air quality, not just the ground level pollutants, but more smoke drifting down from the flat fire burning in southwestern oregon. futurecast indicates some of that smoke makes its way down to coastal parts of the bay area and north bay tomorrow. most of it's going to be elevated in the atmosphere, but some of it could drift down towards ground level. i think at worst we'll be looking at moderate air quality tomorrow. we'll see another wave of smoke staying off the coast friday. air quality forecast does include more yellow dots by the time saturday and sunday roll around, the influence of the heat dome trapping ground level ozone, doesn't look like we'll get into the unhealthy

category. now looking outside from salesforce tower which we could see this bay bridge a few minutes ago. now it's swallowed up by fog, an even mix of 50s and 60s. it will be a gray start for most of the bay area. by midday we'll see the sunshine breaking through the clouds over oakland and san francisco. along the coast i don't think the sun will break through yet tomorrow. you'll have to wait until at least friday, maybe saturday. temperatures in the 50s across the board to begin the day tomorrow, highs still 5 to 10 degrees below average, right around 60 degrees along the coast, temperatures in the 60s around the bay and mostly 70s inland, even the warmest spots in the delta and farther inland in the north bay only hitting low 80s. we can handle that in early august. we warm up as we head into the weekend, near 70 in san francisco saturday and monday, the warmest day sunday low 70s, around 80 for the warmest day in oakland while

farther inland the hottest day on sunday in san jose will top 90 degrees for highs before we back down to near normal temperatures next week. farther into the 90s for the north bay sunday and at or above 100 degrees for the tri-valley and delta on sunday, but back to tolerable temperatures monday. straight ahead in sports, who has been the best player in 49ers camp so far? we have a candidate. and the giants have done it again, of course, in come-from-behind fashion.

vern, tell the people what i said about the giants during the commercial break. >> how in the world are these guys doing it? the old saying is you're going to win 60, lose 60. it's what you do with the other 42. giants are making good of it as we hit august. how is it the giants only get one hit through four innings

and then flip the switch? take a look at this. in the man zone for arizona's -- whoa, the catcher, that hurt. for the second game in a row, took a while for the giants' bats to heat up. brandon crawford drove one in the fifth, deep enough in triples alley for j.d. davis to score, crawford's first triple of the season and later scored and tied the game. next inning bases loaded for davis and he delivered into the left field corner, two runs scoring. they won it 4-2 behind seven innings and five strikeouts from logan webb. giants have reached 60 wins. look at this. a live ball in the field of play at nla and this fan grabbed it. oops. giants stayed within 2 1/2 games of the dodgers who hammered the a's. mookie betts went yard the second night in a row, 10-1 final. dodgers smashed four

home runs in the rout. 49er walk and wideout brandon aiyuk in the eyes of the field certainly shined in camp. >> way better than i even thought he was and i knew he was already good, but seeing it up close and personal kind of every day from otas to now, i think he's become such a better receiver than when he first got in the nfl. he's really detailed in his routes, really explosive. i think he's poised to have a really, really good year. >> practice at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. interviews with uncle vern at noon. i can't wait to see george kittle and the gang. >> he's always a good time. >> i'll tell him you said hi. >> please do that. i love to see you interact with the players because you seem to bring out the more casual side, comfortable side. >> i'm not one of those guys who say third and ten, you're down five. what's the thinking?

that's not me. >> vern's like what's your favorite color? no, no. other serious stuff, too. thank you so much, vern. still to come, it's 1 1/2 times the length of an olympic swimming pool and even michael phelps couldn't tackle this sandwich.

this admittedly sounds a little big brotherrish. tonight juul says they have a new vaping device that can tell whether or not you're old enough to use it. here's how it would work and it remains to be seen whether it will. it would require a user to upload government id and a realtime selfie to an app to activate the device, just spitballing here, but i'm sure young people

would probably find a few ways around that. the e-cigmaker juul said it can also detect counterfeit cartridges with illegal fruity flavors. juul is seeking authorization to sell that device. philz coffee is a bay area success story. they are on many corners and blocks here in the bay area, but today they made a big announcement. they said they're closing down their very first store after 20 years. the coffee shop at 24th and folsom will close october 16th when their lease expires. philz coffee is vowing to find jobs for all eligible employees at its 12 other san francisco locations. former employees of cafe centro in mission bay are trying to bring that shop back to life now. the cafe was incredibly popular with the early tech crowd and it closed friday after 30 years in business. the owner cited the now incredibly familiar post

pandemic recovery problems. now to mexico city where a single sandwich fed an entire tentful of people. this is my dream sandwich. 100 people formed an assembly line to make the world's longest torta. it's 246 feet. our executive producer likes putting things into perspective and so to do that for you tonight, she found out that you could lower this sandwich from the deck of the golden gate bridge all the way to the water and still have 26 feet of sandwich to spare, quite the visual. thank you, melissa adams, for. that. if you've ever wondered what it would be like to hang out at a celebrity's house, one is about to be listed as an airbnb complete with an itiner

actress gwyneth paltrow's mansion looks really nice and i'm sure she'd take you up on staying there for a weekend. it's got a beautiful pool and a guest house, but how about staying there with her all weekend? >> like follow her around wherever she goes with her? >> vern, now's your shot because her house is going up on airbnb for a weekend in september, not sure how your wife will feel about that. gwyneth is also a very successful entrepreneur. she founded goop, which is a wellness brand. it's all about healthy eating and healthy

living. your stay will include guided meditation, a goop spa day and a nourishing goop-inspired meal. she went viral earlier this year for what some would describe as a very restrictive diet that included skipping breakfast for coffee and a bone broth as a way to detox. booking opens at 10:00 a.m. august 15th for up to two people. >> you had me at spa day. i'm going. mrs. glenn is going. >> there we go. that's okay. the spa part is fine. it's just like the bone broth all day. maybe bone broth just once, but -- >> no. >> i knew that was going to be a tough sell for you. >> no, no. i get to eat the steak first and then make the broth. >> you've seen how i eat. is there a drive-thru? no. i'm out. (upbeat music)