from cbs news bay area this is the afternoon edition. putting the brakes on driverless taxis, the dmv's decision impacting cruise cars in san francisco. new details on the pilot accused of trying to shut off the plane midflight. court documents revealing the substance he took before hopping on the jet . israel bands fuel from entering gaza as hospitals run out of power. you will no longer see cruise cars without a driver on the streets of san francisco anytime soon. the dmv suspended some of the companies permits.

and maccabee joins us from the newsroom with what all this means in the fight over driverless taxis . >> the company is still allowed to test the thomas vehicles but only if there is a safety driver inside. the suspension suspends them from testing without a driver. they determined that the company's cars are not safe or public operation and that the company misrepresented safety information. there is no timetable on how long the suspension will last but the dmv gave cruise steps to apply for reinstatement. and in a statement they say they are looking into a crush from earlier this month involving one of its robotaxi's. a different car with a human driver hit a pedestrian who then got trapped under the cruise car. the human driver took off and is still at large and cruise said it's vehicle followed all safety protocols. they also claim that simulations show that if the

other car had been a cruise it would have avoided hitting the pedestrian in the first place. they are currently doing analysis to identify potential enhancements to the av's response. before that suspension was announced the teamsters and other labor unions were already rallying outside of the cruise san francisco headquarters . they were rallying over the potential for driverless semi trucks on highways or even cases where cruise cars have stalled out, blocking firefighters from getting to emergencies. >> they work fine if there is no engine. if there is a crash or a construction site, anything that impedes the roads, they don't know what to do. >> it is important to note that the suspension does not affect other autonomous driverless companies.

is bay pilot who tried to turn off the planes engines midair admitted to taking psychedelic mushrooms. that is according to court documents obtained by kpix. joseph emerson appeared in court about half an hour ago in portland facing 83 counts of attempted murder. he is accused of trying to shut off the engines on an alaskan airlines flight to sfo on sunday. he was off duty and riding in the jumpseat . the two pilots testified in affidavits that emerson said "i am not okay." that's when the pilots say he pulled the red fire handles and one of the pilots wrestled with emerson, and asked him to leave the cockpit. and passenger say they were in the dark about the danger they were in. >> i fell asleep with headphones in. i was right by the cockpit. but nothing woke me up. nothing was loud enough or rambunctious enough to wake me up. according to aubrey

they just kind of walked him down the aisle. the did seem calm and with it . >> after they left the cockpit emerson then went for the emergency exit. she was able to stop him by placing her hand on his. he was eventually restrained at the back of the plane. >> after we landed about five police officers came on and escorted the gentleman from the back of the plane. you know, the whole situation the entire time was very calm. >> court documents say that emerson told investigators that he was depressed and had taken psychedelic mushrooms about 48 hours before the flight . the faa released a statement saying that pilots can lose their certification for using psychiatric drugs and he has been removed from service. they are talking with the union about his status. he was next scheduled to fly this thursday. and justin on capitol hill,

tom emmer has dropped out of the republican race for house speaker just hours after his party elected him as the latest nominee. he outlasted six other candidates and after the wind former president trump that a vote for tom emmer would be a tragic mistake . he is now the third speaker to drop out in less than three weeks since members of the gop ousted kevin mccarthy from the position. republicans will have to now find another nominee. turning to the middle east israel's military says it will not allow any more fuel into gaza despite the growing humanitarian crisis . all of the hospitals in gaza say they are running out of fuel and that means more injured and sick people will go without treatment. israel says hamas has been taking that fuel for military purposes. meantime israel has yet to launch its

promised ground invasion into gaza. leaders have reassured both the israeli public and its own soldiers that it is coming. in the words of the defense minister "it will be lethal." today the idf said it had hit her than 400 hamas targets overnight. in central israel warning sirens are a regular occurrence forcing people to take shelter today video from tel aviv and other cities show the countries iron dome intercepting a number of possible rocket strikes. and during a u.n. council meeting, antony blinken called for the universal combination of hostage terrorism and the release of hostages. >> i am for everyone, use your voice, use your influence and leverage to secure your unconditional needs. >> they said that with a former

commander of the is really navy s.e.a.l.s and asked about israel's message to the palestinian people. >> when these pictures every day show up on people's phones and tvs, of women and children in the rubble, that doesn't help the cause. >> this is a tough fight. but it shows the face of hamas using gazans as a human shield. preventing them from going to a safe haven. he wants us to create destruction. >> some people look at those pictures and think israel is at war with gaza or with the palestinians. to that you say what? >> we are at war with hamas. >> your message to the palestinians is? >> if hamas took you hostage, it kills its own people. >> as this all unfolds you can stay on top of all the developments through kpix.com and find is streaming on the

free cbs news app. doom loop or stilley destination? a look at the dueling realities in san francisco's downtown. and it is opening night for the warriors. we spoke to fans that are excited for the start of the season at chase center. it is a pretty day, the marine layer has been hanging out for much of the afternoon. but a little cool down coming. we will be skirted by another fall weather system. we will track that, coming up in the complete

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a new study shows that san jose is bouncing back from the pandemic. it is coming from the university of toronto and found the number of people visiting downtown is at 96% of the 2019 levels. in comparison oakland had a 74% recovery and san francisco was at 67% . a lot of people bring up the downtown vacancies along with homelessness and cry when talking about san francisco. but others say the doom loop narrative is not the real story. wilson walker looks at that debate. >> the bottom of it has a slightly lower temperature to set the crust and set the

rise. >> the door is open for another day at out of sight pizza just celebrating its first birthday . >> it is crazy that it's only a year it feels like five. >> the co-owner says it has not been easy opening a business in the heart of san francisco's tenderloin. challenges in this neighborhood have made headlines around the world. headlines that often flat-out describe san francisco as a failed city. >> it feels good to be down here. i don't feel scared or like it is dangerous. i don't like the doom loop from the news. the people that actually live and work and fight for the city don't have that feeling. >> i got here in the late 80s, the a.i.d.s. epidemic, people are dying left and right and the murder rate was three times higher than it is today. but you know, we came back. >> jim austin doesn't have any doom loop either. he has

jumped into the ferocious online battle over the state of the city arguing that the failed city is actually fiction spun by those who are only looking at the problems. >> there are people getting paid to do this, just bash the tenderloin, they show people suffering. the same four or five blocks and say this is san francisco. look at this. a lot of us, it is your perspective, right. if used bernal heights kumi was a they are doing great. south market, a different story. >> it is definitely not the same place i'm used to. definitely not. >> yvonne has lived in south market most her life. >> i and here many years and it's not the same place i remember. >> that sense that the city has changed, that is something you hear often. and from different laces. earlier this year i met jeffrey who is

living on the streets in san francisco. during our conversation he offered this assessment of the city. >> san francisco is not what it used to be i any means. i thought it used to be worse. i first got here i was intimidated, but it was a nice city. there were nice people here. there still is but it's not like, post-pandemic the city is ms . >> if you've heard this discussion, and i'm guessing you have, you know it can sound like two different realities as people offer up diverging takes and what is actually happening in san francisco. my sense is that what someone makes of the state of the city has a lot to do with who they are, what they are and what direction they are looking. are you comparing now to 2019 or comparing now to 1979. there is a lot of room for crosstalk in this debate can get very heated as it gets pulled into the gravity of san francisco politics. >> what you're getting at is something the most important

thing in american politics right now, not just san francisco. we create groups . >> jason mcdaniels, a political science professor at san francisco state says the doom loop debate and the cities angry politics are the inevitable byproducts of a city that is facing a long list of very complicated problems. >> is at homelessness, as it drug use, drug dealers, the police, the government, incompetence at the bureaucratic level, is it tech people coming in to change things? none of those are easy answers or solutions to very complicated problems. >> it has been hard times and even those who reject the doom loop idea acknowledge that there are big challenges. >> i think downtown will get worse before it gets better. >> we have our problems, of course. every major city has

its problems. >> the scale of the problems may be a matter of perspective, a doom loop city or a city on the rebound. time will provide more headlines and eventually some answers. >> san francisco has been trying to rehab its image with ads just like this. >> now, new challenges. but we won't be defined by them. we remain resolutely here. here. here. it all starts here. >> in the meantime the mission district is losing two restaurants this weekend. a cuban eatery and tex-mex restaurant and bar . let's look live at chase center right now where we are just a few hours away from tipoff for the home opener against the phoenix suns. fans will get a treat once they get inside. these shirts are laid out for that sold-out crowd. even those outside of the chase center , it will get just as

loud as fans gather and thrive city. he spoke to fans who say they are ready for another title run. >> i think they are doing really well. being chris paul with the team, the dynamics that have been going on, i think that will work well all the way. we will go all the way. first alert weather, mild today but a cooldown is coming. darren peck is in our virtual view studio. a lot of people will be hanging out at the thrive city. >> it will be great weather for it. really or sunshine than anything else. marine layer, beautiful time-lapse shows you that we still have this very summer influenced pattern in terms of the marine layer. it is kind of nice when you can still see that. we are fast getting to the time of the year where we will say goodbye to views like that. as we take a look at just how widespread

that is, it is not. the marine layer is just a narrow little ribbon right along the coast and maybe streaming into the golden gate a little bit and that is about it. everybody else looking at clear skies. pretty much right at the daytime highs for this time of the year. upper 70s, inland. right we should be. low 60s in the city, 10 degrees below average. everybody else, a pretty typical day going. let's take a look at two follow systems that will mix things up. we get a wider view and there is the next storm. pretty good-looking storm coming into the pacific northwest. watch that thing try to get here and not quite make it. there will be a line of rain that will try to get down to the bay. looks pretty promising , and then it falls apart. we will look at this in a couple of different ways. here is where it will rain, this is over the next 48

hours. not really here heard their precipitation in the sierra is coming in as snow. let's come in for a closer look at that . if the travel plans that take you into the sierra, wednesday night into thursday morning, that is just enough snow on donner pass and echo summit that it will impact travel to a degree. it is really high, and it is not a lot of snow. but it is the first one and that catches a lot of people off guard. that will be wednesday night through thursday morning, early. let's talk about the chance for rain here at home. a little shower that skirts the north bay and that is it. daytime highs tomorrow are very similar to today, maybe six or 7 degrees cooler as the week little cold front comes through. we will be in the low 70s inland instead of mid to upper 70s. and you can see the influence that system will have. watch that pool of

cooler air spilled on our way . even if we are not getting the ring out of it we will get a little cooler and we will technically get a little offshore wind event from this. this gets us ahead into thursday afternoon. that is the system that skirts by, watch what it does. those are offshore winds. not strong enough to give us any fire weather concerns. i look at the wind speeds in the mountains. the rest of us have a 10 mile an hour breeze. that is fall. this is what things do here in the fall. luckily this year we haven't had to be too concerned about fire. the seven-day forecast, starting with our seven day for the inland micro climates. notice the temperature trend. seeing some of our warmest numbers. but by the time we get into tomorrow we really dipped down. then we will keep cooling down from there so we look at

daytime highs that fall into the upper 60s. to finish off the seven day we will bringing the forecast of the day. increasing clouds on friday, just not rain. a tough loss for the niners on the road. coming up in the red & gold report, the costly mistakes and how the team is looking ahead.

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a tough day for niners fans, they just lost their second straight game on the road. our vern glenn explains the late mistakes that unfortunately cost them. >> this is the volkswagen red & gold report. >> 49ers get consecutive losses for the first time since week six and seven of last year. they ruled the football but committed some self-inflicted misses that

cost them. including this one by cam in the final minute that ended the game. the 49ers were held to 17 points for the second straight week . >> i was trying to throw it over him, trying to force it. i have to learn from it. think i could have ran. got down and whatever but i forced it. >> gave up three, only got one. hard to win when you're mind is tuned into the battle. we will watch that and the blame is not on him for the interceptions. but it will be a game we will bounce back from, we will learn from it and grow from it. at the end of the day a we've got, what, 10 more games ahead of us. the season is not over yet . >> for the red & gold report, i'm vern glenn. coming up, ever go overboard on snacking? guilty as charged. why a new study

shows that it may not be your fault.

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that story much more coming up at 5:00. some people call it snack accident and you have one chip and then another and then you've eaten the entire bank. it may not just be a self control issue. researchers found that altar processed foods may be as addictive as cigarettes or heroin. things like ice cream, chips, soda and cookies which are high in fat, carbs and sugar with little to no nutritional value, according to the study in the british medical journal, the combination of refined carbs and fats has a super additive effect on the brain. researchers say 14% and 12% of children are addicted to alter processed foods. it is not your fault. cbs evening news is next ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, the breaking news. we are learning new details about american troops hurt in the middle east. plus, the intention negotiations currently underway to get more hostages still held by