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goli, taste your goals. from cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. >> the fight over homeless encampment sweeps in san francisco heads to federal court, we have details on the compromises made by both sides. the coalition has held san francisco hostage. it is time for their reign to end. get those tiny screwdrivers ready, the ikea is ready in
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san francisco, why the mayor said the store is going to be a part of the affordable housing strategy. and the 49ers are announcing their backup quarterback and it is not trey lance. it has been a contentious back and forth battle . and today, the issue went before a federal judge and it has not been resolved just yet, but both sides have reached some significant compromises. lauren thoms was outside the courtroom today, what was your biggest take away from this? >> reporter: just after the hearing, the coalition on homelessness agreed in front of the judge that an existing federal injunction which right now does not allow the city to remove or clear people living on the street, they agreed that if a person is offered housing or shelter, they are no longer considered involuntarily on house and therefore the city can justifiably and legally remove those individuals. take a listen to what the city attorney had to say. >> it has been our perspective that if you refuse shelter or if you already have another place to house yourself,
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unfortunately when this injunction went into effect, we saw unhoused individuals on the streets rejecting many offers of shelter by the city. >> reporter: the city maintains while there are not vast housing options, they do exist. the opposing side said the city does not have reasonable housing for people and until there is more housing, any street sweeps of homeless encampment are not justifiable. take a listen to what the opposing counsel had to take say in favor of stopping the street sweeps. >> the public is rightfully frustrated that we still have this crisis in san francisco and the crisis is getting worse. we have to look at what the city is doing here, they are moving it block to block rather than providing the shelter we need. >> they are obviously very passionate about this issue. were you surprised when they came up with some type of
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compromise? >> reporter: hundreds of people are clearly passionate , and i was personally surprised by the sheer volume of this crowd. both sides chanting to either sweep or save the streets and at one point, you can hear their voices clashing. it was pretty impressive to see the show and passion of these people who care about this issue including city leaders. they both agreed that the current situation is a humanitarian crisis that the fight from both sides is far from over. >> what happens next? >> reporter: large-scale sweeps will not resume and this is not a quick process. the injunction remains for now but we are not expecting a final ruling on the injunction for several months but tomorrow we are following another hearing related to this injunction but at the district court level where the city and advocacy groups will debate over the scope and enforceability of this federal
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injunction. >> this is a problem the city has been dealing with for a very long time. thank you. it has been widely reported that public safety concerns have prompted businesses to pack up and leave, but today, a furniture store opened its doors in downtown bringing some hope to the area. let's bring in anne makovec , we are talking about the city's first ikea. what exactly does this mean for the neighborhood? >> if these lines during opening day are any indication of what it is going to bring to this neighborhood, these people are very excited about it. >> they will get more people, they will have other businesses showing up because there will be more people here now for this store. >> i think it is nice to have one in such an urban area, especially for the people that don't have cars. >> the opening comes after at least 22 businesses have closed or plan to leave san francisco downtown this year, that
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includes nordstrom pulling out of westfield mall, anthropology and home depot. the new ikea is located at market and fifth, the store is focusing on furniture for smaller spaces and it is a third of the size in emeryville . during today's ribbon-cutting ceremony, they officially declare today ikea day in the city. >> cater to what san francisco is trying to do, in the next eight years, we hope to be able to build 82,000 units. what does that mean? a bunch of people who need furniture. and those units are not going to be big and they are going to be kind of small because we know how it is in this city like san francisco. >> the store will employ about 100 people and the store is hoping to hire even more. we will be keeping an eye on that. and in other news around the bay area, the police department says they will no longer respond to calls when security alarms go off, this is due to a staffing and shortage
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issue. the department said 98% of unverified calls turn out to be unfounded, they will respond to manually triggered security alarms. a man was trying to stop thieves from taking his catalytic converter. police say the man was shot in the leg for the suspects got away. in los altos, there's a push to bring back a citizens police task force that was formed in the wake of the black lives matter protest. we spoke with former members who say the why it is now needed. >> i love being able to walk to downtown los altos. >> reporter: she is a software engineer and tech entrepreneur who has lived in los altos for 11 years. she is also the leader of los altos racial equity, a group she cofounded to make her talent a more welcoming place for all. >> los altos is a fantastic community but that doesn't mean that bad things can't happen. >> reporter: that's why her
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main goal is to push los altos to re-establish the citizens police oversight task force that was disbanded in 2020. >> people are fallible, so strong policy gives communities safety. >> reporter: following the wave of police reform that swept the country after the killings of george floyd, los altos established the citizens task force to review police policy. but it was limited to six weeks. the city council acted on task force recommendations to remove officers from the los altos high school campus and to revise the police complaint process. then according to the plan, the task force ended. >> for me it was very personal. because i saw firsthand how policing can impact the lives of my children. >> reporter: a community college health services director was also on the temporary task force. >> my eldest son, obviously a black man, was pulled over
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between the ages of 16 and 21 over 16 times in los altos, either pulled over and never got a citation. >> reporter: they say ongoing racial profiling issues and recent police policy actions by the city council have prompted them to call for their return of the task force. >> this is out of concern. >> reporter: the city council voted to accrue the request to bring 15 automatic license plate cameras to neighborhoods around town, the cameras which are used by neighboring communities have been criticized as misidentifying people as criminal suspects and the potential for misuse of the data. >> is acting as a pointer to show us where to go to look for a vehicle that is criminally involved. >> reporter: she argued for the camera, saying they could solve property crimes like larry's, but rene and tony said
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the city could have shaped a better policy with stronger safeguards such as making sure audits on the system are transparent. >> our chief is going to be the one who does that audit, and sometimes i think it is useful to have an outside independent person doing that. >> reporter: rene and tony are hoping to formally re-establish the task force in los altos but don't yet have a proposal on the city council agenda, police oversight is well established in the bigger cities and should be in the smaller ones, too. >> we could be a progressive beacon for smaller communities. >> reporter: in a city where people of color make up a small portion of the population but have a higher percentage of police stops, they say it's an idea whose time has come, again. >> another area of concern is los altos high school while
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someone will bring back school resource officers, others favor restorative justice practices and a focus on prevention rather than the punishment of students. still ahead, how much artificial intelligence is worth. of the company is already worth $2 billion, how they say it could help revolutionize how people work. >> it will basically allow them to make decisions and do more important things at a much faster pace. and the future of trey lance now in doubt after an announcement by the niners. temperatures across the bay area significantly warmer this afternoon compared to 24 hours ago and it still
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a.i. is being used for resumes, and now one company said it may also help human workers ramp up their productivity. the bay area company is working on a huge time-saving tool. >> reporter: an a.i. powered platform wants to change the way people and companies sift through documents. >> they've basically been able to do more important things at a much faster pace. >> reporter: it may sound like a simple idea, but he believes it will revolutionize how people work. >> just think about a calculator, is it worth people
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spending 10 hours calculating the numbers? no, you can do much better work and i think this can do a lot of things where humans don't need to spend that time. >> reporter: users put into the system whatever documents they are hoping to analyze. it could be anything from an identification card to a 100 page instruction manual. then the user simply asks the a.i. whatever question they want to know about the document. >> you can ask the question, what is this document? this is a password for a traveler to the united states of america. >> reporter: but, it's also capable of answering very complex questions. anything from financial transactions to translating answers into different languages. to show
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me, he pulled up a random news article from our cbs news bay area website and dropped it into insta base. >> i would say i want to ask a question. i basically say, you know, what are the key points? and i have never seen this before. i would read the whole thing. and it will tell you, basically the whole thing. >> reporter: he is a lawyer specializing in technology and a.i., insta base will really help employees streamline their work but she's also worried a.i. technology like this could also help those with more nefarious motives. >> i worry that it'll increase their efforts to call them and
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trick them and use voice recognition now. >> reporter: instabase has securities built into it, and for now it is only available for select customers. he really believes it will have much more of a positive impact than a negative one. >> i currently believe there is a huge value in a.i. for innovation and human productivity and productivity of the whole world. >> reporter: it is a software that has the power to change how people work and will hopefully become a work tool as common as the calculator. >> it is already being used by some banks and mortgage companies. time to take a look at the forecast, and today we were talking about it, this was going to be the hot one. >> it is hot, and still somewhat sticky elites at least in parts of the bay area. the
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higher the number, the more moisture there is in the air and the threshold for the bay area is 60 degrees. that is the point at which it feels uncomfortable. once you get above 65, it feels just gross, that is where it is right now, in palo alto's, a dew point of 68 degrees. at 2:00 pm, that is almost unheard of in the bay area. the dew point has retreated into the 50s in other areas, that is comfortable territory, that is not bad at all for this time of year. we are going to get there gradually across the entire area for the rest of this week. let's take a look at what is in store for us, a weaker onshore breeze that is allowing the temperatures to warm up. it is that noticeable level of mugginess but the heat risk is going to go down tomorrow, still moderate for inland parts of the bay area but even that is going to shrink significantly as we returned to near average temperatures on friday. the smoke concentration
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is not going to be at its worst across the bay area, you can see where it is concentrated across the smith river complex in southwestern oregon, the wind is going to keep a lot of that steered away from us but not all of it. while the ground-level air quality is likely to be worse than the moderate category, you're still going to see that hazy horizon which is what you see right now as we look out from said san jose. the temperature is still 79 degrees in san francisco, backing down from an earlier high today of 85 degrees. still in the upper 80s in oakland. as we look through the rest of the evening, some fog trying to develop mainly along the coast, it's not going to be widespread at all to start the day inland. and it's not going to last long. plenty of sunshine by 9:00 or 10:00 am, even along the coast. temperatures tonight dropping down to the upper 60s, high temperatures today and tomorrow warming up to a few degrees of what is normal this time of year. temperatures in
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the santa clara valley and the north bay in the 80s. here is a look at the seven-day forecast, near normal temperatures friday, upper 60s and low 70s around the bay, but then a slow warm-up sends us back to about five degrees above average by wednesday of next week. mostly near or above 90 degrees, some of the hottest spots as usual inland in the east bay in the upper 90s with temperatures along the coast all the way up to close to 70 degrees which would qualify as a heat wave even on the second to last day of august. we are counting down to the final 49ers preseason game this friday, fred warner shows how it's not just his body that needs a workout before going into a big game. we are talking to him one-on-one in the red and gold report. and a dog who likes to say hello has found a way to bring a bay area community together.
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the bay area events calendar, brought to you by broadway san jose. >> this weekend, chinatown is holding its first ever ghost festhonong ancestors with performances and a ghost kiradesaturday from 4:00 through 9:00pm. and the palo alto festival of th, transforming streets into masterpieces, saturday and sunday in palo alto. broadway san jose is a proud supporter of the lgbt immunity and will be giving away free giveaways at tina the musical, august 29th through september 3rd, the bay area broadway calendar is brought to you by
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the future of trey lance is in doubt and it appears he will not be the backup quarterback for the 49ers, the niners have named sam darnold as their backup quarterback. the red and gold traded three first-round draft picks just to get trey lance three years ago, he started two games last season before breaking his ankle, that is when he lost the starting spot. the 49ers will play their final preseason game friday night at levi's stadium, and meanwhile there still some work to do before the regular season begins. >> this is the volkswagen red and gold report. >> the 49ers are planning to play their starters for friday's preseason finale, even if they don't get that many reps on the field, it is important to go through that game day routine. >> during the off-season, there's no reason to be
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screaming, if i'm screaming, there something wrong. i'm out there and all of a sudden i'm barking and losing my voice. >> last saturday, he settled into that role as leader on the defense, but with what exception? >> know mr. warner, that is not me, i would hope so, i don't want to be mr. warner yet, but we have a lot of young talent, guys that are hungry to get that respect and prove themselves. >> the red and gold report, i'm not lively . >> the final matchup is friday against the chargers, you will see it only here on kpix. still ahead, how a four-legged friend is giving students a boost on their way
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his owner says he loves to hang out in the front yard. soon, kids started stopping to say hi before going to school. they even put up a sign out on the first day of school, welcoming the kids back. one student even brought him a present on the first day of school. look at that. murphy is such a good dog. what a handsome boy. i remember, when i used to bike to school, there was a golden retriever that was always by the fence. we would always wave to the dog and he would always give us a good morning. we will see you here ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, the breaking news. mystery plane crash. was the russian warlord who tried to overthrow vladimir putin killed? state media says yevgeny prigozhin was on board and among the ten dead beard president biden tonight on whether this wasut
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