>> today supervisor ahsha safai tells us his story. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. >> iran and san francisco are separated by more than 7,000 miles, but now supervisor ahsha safai is eyeing the road to the mayor's office. we've heard from the other candidates this week. now it's his turn to lay out his platform. he's joining us live in a few minutes, but first a look at your news headlines. another bay area mayor is throwing his support behind prop 36, the november ballot measure that would stiffen penalties for some theft and drug crimes. the antioch mayor saying he's responding to concerns about retail theft and street conditions. >> while i don't think this

proposal answers every single question that we're facing, i do think it will help. >> the mayors of san francisco and san jose have already endorsed the measure. it would reclassify more low level thefts as felonies. opponents argue the cuff-on-crime policy would fill up jails without addressing the root causes of crime. that announcement came about an hour before the latest shooting in antioch. officers found an 18-year-old shot and critically hurt at cavallo drive and sunset road this afternoon. there have been 12 shootings in antioch this month. to oakland, the final homestand for the a's at the coliseum playing the new york yankees in their final friday night game tonight ever in the east bay. the a's plan to play in sacramento starting next season before leaving for vegas in a few years. their final game at the coliseum is next thursday against the defending world series champs, the texas

rangers. members of the san francisco symphony are holding picket signs instead of performances, canceling shows through the weekend after chorus members announced a strike. they say management offered unreasonable pay cuts in their next contract. the symphony says the shows will not be rescheduled. heads up for drivers in the tri valley this weekend, a stretch of southbound 680 will be closed for paving work from al costa boulevard in san ramon down to the 580 connector in pleasanton. it begins at 9:00 tonight and will reopen by 4:00 a.m. monday. right now san francisco is hosting its first block party in its newly created entertainment zone. the city is celebrating oktoberfest on front street in the financial district. people can legally buy and drink alcohol on the street. it's all part of the city's efforts to revitalize downtown. in hayward elementary school students and their dads were greeted with high fives today for the million fathers march, a day when fathers and

father figures escort their kids to school to show they are engaged in their education. on to weather now and it's friday. the weekend is almost here. we're just a few short hours away. i think folks are looking forward to good weather. we know it's going to be warm. >> yeah. we don't have to worry about rain. we're taking a step back. we had some excitement the last five days, a couple area of low pressures that came through, the sky looking quite different with big cumulus clouds building. the sky's getting back to normal and for the weekend we're going back to normal and then a warm-up coming. i want to show you what's coming tomorrow. we woke up today and it was impressive for the marine layer. most of us woke up to gray skies. it stuck around until late morning. tomorrow way less of that. how does the fog behave tomorrow when it builds back on? it won't be terribly widespread

and won't really build in in any overwhelming way. it fills in napa valley a bit tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., comes through the golden gate and that should be about it. if you're waking up this way, you know you'll have a fairly warmer sunny day. morning lows, san francisco beginning in the 50s, but everybody else is all pretty much the upper 50s where where he start the day tomorrow. clouds will melt back and more sunshine than anything else. we'll look ahead to daytime highs tomorrow that begin a slow rebound, didn't warm up a whole lot today, but starting tomorrow we will. numbers are approaching 90 for some of the inland valleys on saturday. this is maybe 5 degrees above average for this time of year, but the numbers will keep going up from there. if that was saturday, here comes sunday's numbers. sunday, now we've taken another big jump. we're getting close to the century mark for some of the inland

valleys. let's look at this in a slightly different way. bigger picture pattern now starting to dominate our weather. where we want to be looking now this time of year is to go wide and check in on the scene across the gulf of alaska. we just brought on today's satellite imagery. that was the sunrise working its way across. we're on the side of the planet that's totally illuminated and we can pick out the clouds. i'm going to loop the last three hours. there's a pattern showing up. there's a fetch of moisture at the gulf of alaska. i can put in the rainfall and watch what that does the next several days. by the middle of next week i brought the futurecast depiction ahead to wednesday next week and it looks like there's some rain coming our way. what we'll see is classic fall because if we take it from that point wednesday and play it forward, watch that line of rain break up and we don't get

it and then there's two more after it. this is now the second half of next week. we'll let this play forward all the way towards the end of month the because we can go long range when we look at things this way. we aren't seeing the chance for rain showing up. here's another way to visualize this. let's color in the globe. where's it going to rain between now and the end of september, a lot of places but here? the dark blue shows you where the rainfall will happen. there's no rain in the long term and instead we have a warm-up. let's go to the seven-day forecast and check in for the inland microclimates. go back up to near 100 monday and then you'll cool down, maybe a few clouds, but that's about it. you'll get back down to about average by the middle of next week with daytime highs in mid-80s. seven-day forecast for the santa clara valley now, not nearly as warm as the inland valleys, low 90s for tuesday and to round out our seven-day forecast to show you what that warm-up looks like,

our coolest microclimate and the one that really stands out more so this time of year because you get a lot more variety in the daytime highs in the city, not unheard of to be near 80 degrees for the daytime high in san francisco going through mid-september, early october. liz, back to you. ♪ we are just 46 days away from the election and all week long we've asked the top candidates for san francisco mayor why you should give them your vote. today we're wrapping things up with supervisor ahsha safai. we spent a day with him as he juggled work and family duties. a lot of us know what that's like. our lauren toms talks to him about his personal experiences that pushed him to seek the highest office in the city. >> reporter: it takes a few

steps for candidate mayor ahsha safai to go from city official back to dad. >> they literally mean running for office, in this constant, constant hustle and that's why i always say if you're not losing weight on the campaign, you're not working hard enough. >> reporter: zipping across town to pick up his son from camp. >> romi, daddy is literally at the light. i will be there in one minute, okay? i'm just another dad at the game there to support my son or daughter or dropping them off at school or going to parent/teacher conferences or helping with homework. >> reporter: for ahsha his connection to his family is as intertwined as his journey to public office. an immigrant from iran, he moved to the u.s. during the iranian revolution. >> we had to leave. i had family members that were killed. it was pretty traumatic. you don't think about those things till later in life. i was like wow, that actually really happened and helped to ground me. it kind of

tore my family apart. my mom raised me as a single mom for some time. >> reporter: with a drive to rebuild, he studied city planning foreshadowing his future decades later. >> i wrote on my entrance essay at mit that i'm coming to your program because i want to be a mayor of a city one day. >> reporter: looking in the rear view, he can now say that goal has a shot at becoming his reality and with every turn he uses his own experience to drive his policy. >> my kids are involved in a lot of conversations. we talk about things that are happening in the city, particularly because it hit home, right, like our own home was broken into the same night that speaker pelosi's husband was assaulted. our house was broken into. they stole my stove, my microwave, my hood. thankfully, we hadn't moved in yet. we were a few weeks away from moving in, but i mean it was

just jarring. the kids see these things. they know it. they feel it. so we talk about it. >> reporter: stopping for a sweet treat, he relishes in a moment to spend with his son. >> you want to get ice cream? >> okay. >> you put in the time and energy to prepare for all these different moments and it's impactful. >> reporter: a sweet reminder of the future he hopes to build for his family and his city. >> so what is safai's plan for the future of san francisco? he'll join us live after the break. we'll ask him how he plans to tackle the biggest challenges facing the city from homelessness to

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one-on-one interviews today with supervisor ahsha safai who represents district 11. he immigrated to the u.s. from iran as a child and got his masters from mit and knew early in life he wanted to lead a city. everybody gets the same first question. if you would pick one area to change or improve in your city, san francisco, what would that be? >> so right out the gate i'd just say listen, we've been unfortunately dealing with this overdose crisis in san francisco. we've had more people die on the streets of san francisco since the year 2020, over 3,000, than covid combined and we have to hit that head on. we have to do it in a different way. we can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. so we got to get in there. we got to give people the option. we've got to expand the number of mental health and drug recovery beds. we have a phenomenal partner

waiting to partner with the city, the salvation army. they have 1,100 recovery beds that they can partner with san francisco and we have to be aggressive about using the new millionaire's tax that's been repurposed, proposition 1, that we voted on in march, so that we can open up and expand the number of mental health and recovery beds. ucsf purchased st. mary's and st. francis. we have the option there to work with them to expand those and open back up those recovery beds. so we have a lot of different things that can really make a difference right out the gate so we can turn this tide on the fentanylover dose crisis and we also have to be very clear. you can't come to san francisco, be on the sidewalk and use drugs. business as usual. we're going to draw a firm line and insure people are getting off the streets and into recovery they need. >> so many voters say they're fed up with san francisco politics as usual because they

feel like, frankly, the city doesn't have their backs in terms of making the city safer, providing lasting solutions to homelessness, and prioritizing public education. you're a member of the board of supervisors. what makes you different? >> if you look at my track record starting off with public education, one of the things that we were able to do and it's going to go into effect really this year is the student success fund. that is going to be using our existing dollars within our budget and we are going to allocate up to $60 million a year to our schools, particularly the schools that don't have the robust ptas, that can't go out and raise money for the additional enrichment funds, the math and english literacy, after school support. i worked with members of the board. this is not my idea. i worked with two of my

other colleagues on the board, supervisor ronan and melgar, but at the end of the day getting people to the table and getting a final compromise and getting through the politics of divide that's kind of really hurt our city over the last decade and particularly under this mayor, i got an 11-0 vote. we put on the ballot and it passed overwhelmingly. the only person that didn't support that unfortunately was mayor london breed and here we are going to do something special for our schools when they need it most. they're in tough times now. >> you are endorsed by the united educators of san francisco and have endorsement of several other labor groups. so many people who work here, though, can't afford to own a home or even rent a home here. what are you going to do to help make the city more affordable for the workers that are really the backbone of the city? >> you said it the way i've been talking about it on the

campaign. i'm running to be the mayor of all san franciscans. you shouldn't have to be rich to live in the city. the families that feel the pinch every day are the families i represented, the teachers, nurses, firefighters, janitors, laborers, front line restaurant workers. i had a meeting with them last week and listened to their concerns and they're thinking about affordable child care, how they can get access to good affordable child care, how they can afford to get to their job in a timely manner, a good public transportation system and you said it, lastly, we have to be aggressive about expanding our affordable housing opportunities. i have a piece of legislation forward that's going to lower the transfer tax rate using union pension funds to unlock the 40,000 units that are in our pipeline and build more housing and particularly, to build more affordable housing for working

families. that's what's been missing in san francisco. the district that i represent, the excelsior, 30, 40 years ago you could buy a single-family home for maybe around 100,000, 150,000. today that same home is going for 1.5 million to $2 million. we have to remain committed to insuring working and middle class families can stay in in city and i have the track record. i've done that and dedicated the last 24 years in san francisco to that work. >> you've been very vocal that if elected mayor, you would think about replacing the head of the sfmta and the police chief. why are those your priorities? >> listen, you talk to small business owners, talk to community groups, talk to transportation advocates, talk to pedestrian advocates. no one feels listened to by the sfmta and one of the things that they do really poorly is community outreach and getting community input. look at the valencia

street project. look at they call it the terror on taravale. so many times the work that should be done with small businesses with the input of community has been done despite their input and expertise and that's unfortunate. i think we need new leadership at the sfmta and another reason and you said it, i have a lot of relationships and work i've done with organized labor. i sat down with the transit workers the other day. they said they have never ever felt more disrespected, not listened to and incorporated into the decision making on how they can be a part of making that a better agency. so that's one reason. on the other side, listen, i have a lot of respect for chief scott, but he's been the longest serving police chief in san francisco in the last 50 years. he came in with an agenda. we supported that

agenda, which was police reform and he's done a tremendous job, but beginning in the new year we need someone that's going to come in and reset the tone, help to uplift morale within the department and i passed a community policing piece of legislation getting the officers out of the cars on the foot beats and you saw it in realtime work last week when they were out proactively in union square. they saw an individual with a gun. they showed tremendous restraint. our officers showed tremendous restraint and in the end of the day, there was a shooting, but no innocent bystanders were hurt. the individual was ascertained and at the end of the day we were able to make an area that has been plagued by crime a lot safer. that's community policing in realtime, getting the officers out of the car, proactively doing the work. we need a chief that's going to fully embrace that and a mayor that will lead on that. that's why i'm running.

>> supervisor ahsha safai, thanks so much for being with us. >> wow, eight minutes went by fast. >> you got it. >> thank you so much. i appreciate you having me on. >> nice to see you. this wraps up our entire week of conversations with san francisco's mayoral candidates. to see all of our interviews, just led to our website, kpix.com, and let me know what you think on social. we'll be right back.

the the 49ers open up division play this weekend when they head south to face the rams on sunday, but some lesser known players will have to really step up with the injury list stacking up. our matt lively has the details in the "red and gold report." >> this is the audi "red and gold report." >> the 49ers already entered the week shorthanded with christian mccaffery on injured reserve, deebo samuel out two weeks with a calf injury, and as we get closer to gameday, the injury reports keeps growing for the red and gold. after missing practice the past two days, tight end george kittle officially listed as doubtful for sunday with a hamstring injury. on defense safety talanoa hufanga will

return, but charvarius ward is questionable. ahead of a big divisional match-up this weekend, trent williams says next man up. >> it sucks, you know. those guys are the best in the world, but who really feels sorry for us? a couple guys that we want to see get more action anyway, so nobody would have known jordan if a couple guys hadn't gone down and nobody would have known brock if we didn't lose three quarterbacks in one year. it's a blessing in disguise and guys just got to be ready to step up and relish in the moment. >> for the red and gold report, i'm matt lively. >> you can catch matt and learn on our half our "red and gold report" tonight at 7:30 right here on kpix and streaming on the free cbs news app. coming up tonight here at 5:00, she may be the most famous park ranger on planet earth. we'll take you to the big celebration for betty reed soskin as she turns 103, amazing. and an east bay man

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area, more offices are sitting empty than ever before in downtown san francisco, why there are already signs of a comeback. my business was attacked three times in almost three months. >> after more than three decades an arrest in a gruesome south bay murder, how san jose detectives were able to crack the case. a big warm-up is underway. our first alert weather team is tracking one of the hottest days of the year in san francisco where temperatures are supposed to approach the triple digits, not where that fog is. plus we'll meet a bay area man bringing the spirit of mexico to alameda county, how he's creating magic with mescal. from cbs news bay area,

this is the evening edition. we'll begin in san francisco where it's a tale of two cities today. >> good evening. 'm ryan yamamoto. >> i'm elizabeth cook. on one hand, the launch of a new entertainment zone hosting an early oktoberfest celebration on front street, on the other, a new report finding more offices than ever are sitting empty. >> vacancy numbers pushed slightly higher by x moving out of the mid-market headquarters. our amanda hari spoke with business owners and city leaders about the record high vacancy rate. >> reporter: the mid-market neighborhood is a little by quieter after x closed its headquarters about a week ago. you can see what's left of the sign, this white rectangle here, but that's not the only office building in the city to close. office vacancies are expected to hit an all time high this quarter. >> it was a