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right on the 1st alert weather now some of the june gloom is sort of creeping back into our forecast. meteorologist darren peck looks at how much we are cooling off and he's in our virtual view studio. >>hey, daryn, liz, and you know the beauty of that with the june gloom is even if we don't see a whole lot of the clouds. were still definitely getting a very strong return of onshore flow through there. it's noticeably windier if you're anywhere near the water today, and the numbers are way down from where they were yesterday. little comparison on this. we were looking at numbers yesterday in the tri valley at 101. for livermore. we still got another 45 minutes to go where these temperatures could rise. so these are not the official daytime high ship. but take a look at livermore's numbers today. 86. from 101 to 86. that's really what can happen here when you turn the onshore breeze on and we've almost got back down to average 83 would be average in livermore anyway. concord, 83. would be average for you and everybody is pretty much gotten back to where they should be. we're going to get a little more of that june gloom tomorrow morning. watch the high resolution future cast for thursday morning. the marine

layer streaming in here. this is tomorrow at 5:00 am 5:00 am 6:00 am, it's going to work its way up into napa. we do not all wake up. 2 june gloom. it's not going to be a marine layer gray out tomorrow by any means, but over the city will and in napa, you will and certainly over san pablo. you will is going to help keep the temperatures pretty well behaved, so let's see where we're going to be on. this will take a look at the daytime highs for thursday. and we're a little cooler than even today. so if we're mid 80s today, we're not getting out of the upper 70s. this was the day i was talking about this last night in the forecast how of this current 7 day forecast. thursday, probably stands out more than any other day. only because it's the 1 where the numbers are going down the lowest just about everybody. and it's kind of going to be the best of all worlds because what little influence we do get from the marine layer should be pretty localized should be gone by the afternoon so you can have plenty of sunshine. and you'll also get temperatures in much more comfortable level. let's see what that looks like. in the 70 forecast, we'll start out with the micro climate for the inland east bay, and

there's also really does apply for north bay valleys as well. there's that 78. for thursday. you do jump right back up, but think about friday and saturday as identical. to today. so you can kind of start planning your weekend based on that. how are you liking? what it feels like for your for your part of the bay. for this wednesday afternoon. that's pretty much what saturday and sunday. you're going to be like will mix it up a bit. we'll get into 70. forecast for the bay just to see how things are going. on that temperature, trend. same story only upper 60s tomorrow. and then we'll pretty much keep it in the mid 70s, going throughout. there's even signs. of a temperature downward trend by the middle of next week. alright, liz back to you. >>aaron. thanks so >>much >>for decades, people have used psychedelic substances like magic. mushrooms to alter how they see the world now a new human trial at uc berkeley aims to find out exactly how they affect the brain. joining me now is the leader of that study and faculty director of the uc

berkeley center for the science of psychedelics, michael silver. thanks so much for joining us yeah. let start with the science. of psilocybin. what does it actually do to the brain and in this study? how are your patients going to be ingesting it? well, we know, unfortunately. at this about what suicide doesn't bring. you understand it fairly well. the molecular level. why psilocybin produces these profound changes. in experience and consciousness and perception. how it may be useful. as treat. for mental health disorders. research questions that are still actively being actively investigated. so how are you picking the subjects of this study? how how is it going to be conducted? this is not a study on patient populations. its so called healthy normal subjects. anybody who is interested can go to our website or contact our email address for potential participants. and then there's an elaborate screening procedure to make sure people in their study are not at risk of having adverse reactions. but it's open to practically

anybody. now we know that it does have some benefits. but there are some dangers as well. what's the biggest concern? you have about suicide and specifically. suicide and in terms of toxicity to the body. i'm certain certainly compared to many other substances that we invest in our society. yeah. alcohol. hmm. and also safe compared to many medicines. the main risks i would say our psychological risks and these are often situations where yeah. difficult material arises for people. hmm. often. depending on the situation. haven't prepared for that. they're not environment where it's safe to and protected. or they haven't put enough preparation into going into the experience. so there are risks. but i think that they can be managed by the proper intention. research is the hope that with studies like this, and research that you're doing that something like psilocybin or maybe another psychedelic could 1 day potentially replace and pharmaceutical drugs used to treat depression and ptsd.

symptoms is that kind of the goal here. um a scientists. we follow the data, and so whatever the most effective treatment is is the that should be but it's just the case that we have many. mental health conditions in our society that are very prevalent and treatments are very limited for them. justin and depression and anxiety. yeah. please use disorders and there's evidence that psychedelic assisted therapy can be a helpful treatment forces. disorders. and so that's where the research needs to be at this for in terms of public health. and if it proves to be more effective than the treatments we have then of course, we should get it. medical care. so what do you think? the biggest misconception is that people have about magic mushrooms. psilocybin. psychedelics. yeah. think biggest misconception is that they are much more dangerous. people believe that they are much more dangerous than the artist. a lot of misinformation. that expect to the 60s. mhm psychedelic drugs

making people jump off building. mhm fourth and we know now, but there is a star and the importance of sentence setting. mindset that people are going into the psychedelic experience in the setting in which they have that experience. critically important. proper care is taken there than these trucks can be very safe and certainly can be viable medicines. do you think the stigma of psychedelics is softening a bit? yeah. appears to be uh, interesting. new groups that have become very much in favor of 2nd expert people. efforts. mhm. the terrible suffering from ptsd. and veterans populations. in the city. yes. yeah. so they don't necessarily connect with 25. counterculture and so forth. yeah. we're going to cover that a little bit later in our show, michael silver. thank you so much for being here. great. information, anxious to see the results of your study. all right, still ahead. we look at how veterans are using psychedelics like we just mentioned to help heal

trauma and the latest push here in california. to make some types of therapy legal.

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this afternoon. we're looking at the impact of so on the brain. and hearing in california. there's a new porsche to allow the legal use of certain psychedelics as therapy for veterans and 1st responders. many of whom deal with mental health challenges. the national center for post traumatic stress disorder says ptsd. is slightly more common among veterans than civilians. at some in their life 7% of veterans will have ptsd. for female veterans. that number jumps to 13%. and, according to the v, a suicide rate among veterans as more than twice as high as non veteran adults. and why some vets find relief in prescribed medications. others are turning to psychedelics on their journeys towards healing, cbs news contributor lisa ling met with several of them, including urban daniels. he spent 14 years as a green beret

and nearly 14 years and active. combat. >>how did it get for you? >>the darkness was pretty profound. >>what kinds of medications? where you prescribed. >>a lot of medications. taking them. in the morning. through the day. in the evenings pills to help me sleep at night. >>did any of the medications work? >>they have to say no. daniel spent 4 years and in active combat, and he says it was after he retired from military service that the darkness started to consume him. he planned to take his own life twice then he found out about an organization funding grants for former special forces, to leave the country for treatment. not legal here in the us okay? it's called vets veterans. exploring treatment solutions. marcus and amber capone founded it after marcus retired from multiple combat deployments as a navy seal with ptsd. and traumatic brain

injury. >>why psychedelics? >>it gets the job done. i mean, flat out traditional approaches are very difficult to solve those problems. really for mccain down to a of complete desperation to save marcus. it felt like we could lose him to suicide. amber found out about a retreat in mexico that uses psychedelics to treat ptsd. so in 2017 marcus went to mexico, where he was given a hallucinogenic plant mixture from africa. and he smoked, sm e o d mt. that's when he says everything. changed. yeah. just like it just reset everything. in a few hours. all the stressing zai itty. it just went away, flew away. fell right off my shoulders. >>gmt is reputedly the most powerful psychedelic i mean, it's not the kind of thing that you would just do on a whim. >>no, you know you get to a place where it's bliss. and

it's godlike, but it's not fun. you should always be in the care of someone who's a professional. after marcus experienced the couple dedicated themselves to helping former special forces they say the veterans who are funded are given the money to pay for the retreat. and given educational resources and support. before and after. the us now there our opponents like the california family council, who worry that making psychedelics widely available. could have devastating consequence. ince's if they fall into the wrong hands. seizures heart issues. anxiety. loose. i mean, psychedelics, actually. apart. of what it does. is it makes you lose touch with reality now sometimes people have good reactions with that, but there's a lot of people who have terrible reactions. they think they can fly. they don't know where they are. they have violent reaction. to this. at the state capitol lawmakers

just introduced a new bipartisan bill to allow military veterans and 1st responders. to access certain psychedelics like psilocybin from mental health treatment, it's called the ... are heroes act and join me live now is 1 of the co authors of that bill, state senator josh becker. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having me. alright, there's been many similar bills to come through and none of them have have passed yet. what makes this 1 different? i think 1 thing people might be surprised at this. as you mentioned. this is a bipartisan effort. i'm doing this with the senate. republican minority leader. brian jones. we are working together. on this piece of legislation. and, uh and that's because it's a very targeted approach. it's very limited approach its pilots in 3 counties. and as you mentioned specifically, focused on veterans. and 1st responders. and we're going to get a lot of valuable research and intel out

of this. but also hopefully help a lot of people but in a supervised setting, supervised by professionals by health professionals, what about the concerns, though over potential misuse of psychedelics? again. this is very limited. so this is going to 5 locations in each of those initial 3. counties only. and very limited folks can administer it. it in terms of mds. d psychiatrist and it can and again, it'll be a supervised health setting. so i think that's why maybe people feel better about this effort. you think this is so important now in terms of our veterans? well, i think it's for the story. you heard in the stories that i've heard. now over the last 4 years since i've been here. i've heard veterans. like jesse gould coming here who was deployed 3 times as an army ranger to afghanistan. juliana mercer. 2 was over 5 years in both iraq and afghanistan. and and then she spent 5 years working with the wounded warrior battalion. in san

diego. we've heard angela graham 35 years as emergency. services. professional. yeah. some folks who have been involved in in the new york effort. joe mckay. around veterans would have been exposed to burn piles. so these just heard these people coming. um excuse me that people coming now year after year testifying and and you hear this, you say we want to do something. there's yeah. and as you said, there was a lot of stigma. around this. um i think a lot of probably maybe just misperceptions. and so we realized this is an opportunity here to really help these veterans and advance our knowledge here. we should grab it. we need to do something here in california. all right. so what are the next steps with this bill? well, it's going to be heard in the assembly health committee. um and that's something that will be happening in the next several weeks. and then we have to pass

the assembly. we got to get it through and through the senate, so it's a bit of a rush. timeframe. we really have only until the end of august, but i think we have a lot of momentum because of stories like like that that you're profiling here today. all right. state senator josh becker. thank you so much. thank you very much. well, some veterans are turning to the ocean to find healing from their trauma how surf therapy is easing their minds. events calendar brought to you by broadway. san jose >>what's happening in the >>bay area weekend? >>he wowed audiences at the royal wedding of prince harry and meghan markle, >>now >>british >>are >>mason. making a san francisco >>symphony debut. >>in north beach festival turned 70 this year, celebrating its cultural roots in san francisco's little italy >>of >>the >>generation. yeah.

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this afternoon. we're talking about ways. veterans are working. through mental health. challenges. while some turned to medication or other substances. others are finding comfort by catching waves. there's a group surf therapy for veterans. off the coast of santa cruz called operation surf. it was all started by van carozza. more than 2 decades ago to help deal with his own trauma. among the group is 28 year old zach, did we he lost his sight from a bullet after trying to take his own life when he left the marines. he says, surfing means everything to him. widens its it's kind of surreal about building trust. therefore, you can accomplish things that you never thought you could ever do what we do at operation surface, not just to build connections. with the ocean. it's actually the build connection with others. research shows spending time in the ocean can help reduce ptsd. symptoms from nearly 40%. more than 2000 veterans have participated so far and operations. serve. and service dogs can also help military members and veterans with ptsd.

gemma network open study finds partnership with a trained psychiatric service dog reduces the severity of ptsd. depression. and anxiety after 3 months. compared with usual care alone. now for veterans who are in crisis or their loved ones. there is a number you can call for support. it's 988. and then you press 1. that's available. 24 7, and it's always confidential. we'll be right back.

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because not every spaces safe for us, one of the benefits is this. like overwhelming sense. of i'm not alone. come and check on you. full report tonight at 5. right here on k p i x and thank you so much for joining us for today's important conversation about the use of psychedelics as therapy and their impact on the human brain. love to hear what you think. do you believe in their healing powers, or do you think they're just too risky? post your thoughts online using the hashtag kpi x the cbs evening news is next on kpx and local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area i'll see ou at 5. >> norah: life-threatening flooding. the relentless rain in florida leads to flash flooding as part of the sunshine state breaks records and there is no relief in sight. >> nonstop precipitation, which means more flooding is likely, more daily rainfall records are

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