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working to put a stop to the software. >> what they're doing and their entire business model is illegal. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. we all know it's tough enough for so many people to pay their rent, but now enter a.i. into the equation. it's being used by lots of landlords these days and some renters say the algorithm makes it almost impossible to afford. today we're talking to a bay area lawmaker who says it's time for a ban. we'll have that conversation in a few minutes, but first your news headlines. a 14-year-old south san francisco high school student has been arrested for attempted murder. police say the student got into a fight with a 16-year-old student on campus and stabbed them. the victim was hospitalized, but is expected to recover. the school was placed on secure campus status which has been lifted. street safety advocates
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gathered in san francisco today after the group walk sf said two pedestrians had died in the past two weeks. they are requiring governor newsom to sign a bill requiring cars that has a certain technology that alerts drivers if they are speeding. a car plowed into a laundromat in san jose at the tully wash and dry on tully road near king street. the white toyota smashed through the front of the building. vice president kamala harris is coming to the bay area tonight after touring the border in arizona. the democratic presidential nominee will be in san francisco ahead of a campaign fundraiser tomorrow. san francisco has been at the heart of many key moments in lgbtq history. now that history has a home. city leaders gathered today in the castro to announce a plan for a
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permanent museum at market and noe. >> this place will shine with light from the stories of trail blazers who came before us and it will preserve the voices of the activists and leaders fighting for our rights now. >> the museum will house a collection of historic items assembled by the glbt historical society. federal and local dollars are paying for most of it, but they're also asking for donations. fog fest is back in pacifica this weekend, the 37th year of the event. on to our first alert weather now, the weekend is here. it's going to cool down, but before we know it it's going to heat back up. >> yeah. that's the headline. it's going to get hot. the weekend is great. what we're seeing behind you is the heat risk map specific for tuesday. when we get to early next week, that's come back. we're probably going to be talking
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about heat advisories again early next week. you got a great look weekend coming. we were talking about fog fest in pacifica. i'll show you why that is a go in terms of fog being there tomorrow. let's start with today. we warmed up quite a lot today. there's probably very few complaints about today. if we visualize what it feels like, put the temperature color scheme on the map. this is our friday afternoon 10 to 12 degrees warmer than yesterday. san francisco got up to 83. you're down to 81 now. that's a relatively warm day across the bay as a whole. let's get our orientation over the coast because i'll show you how tomorrow changes. watch as the marine layer starts to build in overnight into tomorrow. we'll
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lose the visualization for today, lose the currents and now we'll look at the influence this has on daytime highs for tomorrow. the colors will get a little bit softer. it's subtle, but it's a little cooler tomorrow for daytime highs. you'll see those numbers in the seven-day forecast. just know the weekend 2 degrees cooler than today and right about average for this time of year. let's get to the main story, the warm-up that comes in for monday and tuesday. we'll say good-bye to the fog and watch the difference here in two different ways. we'll say good-bye to the temperatures. watch the wind. the wind today which has brought temperatures up a bit is going to increase a bit more tomorrow and cool them back down. you'll have a stronger onshore wind tomorrow. i'm only showing you tomorrow to see the comparison with why tuesday is kind of an issue now. these are onshore winds and they're helping. i'm going to switch and you'll see
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them totally reverse to tuesday. now there's a really interesting pattern on here with the kind of intensity we haven't seen yet for offshore winds. that's what we're seeing here. it makes sense now having watched the visualization for today with everything going onshore. not only is there a good signature for offshore winds. this is the first time this season we've tracked the winds going out the golden gate and watch the streamer. i'm going to keep walking out into the pacific. you see the line at my feet kind of keeps going. that is a pretty good source of momentum of an offshore wind. that's usually how you dry things out as you get into fire season. fire season is a lot longer than any confined two-month period now. the next four weeks when we see patterns like that set up, it becomes a bit of a concern. when we look at the daytime highs by tuesday, we'll put that color scheme on now. the colors start to go much more red. the daytime highs are
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also going to jump. we'll see quite an increase there. let's go straight to the seven-day forecast. for the inland microclimates first, those numbers by tuesday have gone up quite a bit. now we're looking at 102, 103 by the time we get there. for both tuesday and wednesday the numbers still kind of stay elevated. we'll cool back down friday, but that's probably the most impactful seven-day for the bay area microclimates. we're almost certainly going to be talking about heat advisories monday and tuesday next week. i don't think you'll need many for the bay, but you might on santa clara valley. we'll have more on that as we get closer. >> thanks so much. it's no secret. a lot of folks in the bay area are struggling to pay rent. what you may not know is an algorithm could be driving prices much higher. the justice department is getting involved and taking steps to help millions of americans across the country facing those sky
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high rents. the software called real page advises landlords how high to set rent or whether to keep a unit vacant by using rental data from competitors. now as jo ling kent reports, the doj is filing an antitrust lawsuit alleging the firm has engaged in price fixing. >> everybody knows the rent is too damn high. >> reporter: the justice department and eight states sued software company real page alleging it illegally helped landlords unfairly fix prices and raise rents throughout the country. >> americans should not have to pay more in rent simply because a company has found a new way to scheme with landlords to break the law. >> reporter: the doj accused the texas-based company of violating antitrust laws saying real page engaged in price fixing by using confidential information like rental rates in its algorithm that tended to maximize price increases on 3
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million properties. >> real page has found a modern way to violate a century old law and to harm consumers in the process, training a machine to break the law is still breaking the law. >> reporter: in response real page said its software is purposefully built to be legally compliant, adding that landlords decide their own rent prices, always have 100% discretion to accept or reject software price recommendations. rent is the leading driver of inflation jumping another 5.1% in july compared to last year. savannah crosby in san antonio says she spends 60% of her $40,000 a year salary on rent and says it's gone up seven out of the last eight years. >> it's pretty disheartening. i just think it's so wrong because it is a disadvantage for so many americans out there that are just trying to make a
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living and live comfortably. >> there are new calls to ban these types of software in the bay area. still ahead, we'll have a san jose lawmaker about the impact he's seen in his community and if we should go after the landlords themselves. stay with us.
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in san francisco an issue impacts every single resident in one way or another. the sky high cost of housing. now there's a new push to expand rent control in the city. mayoral candidate and board of
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supervisors president aaron peskin announced a plan that's tied to the passage of prop 33 come november. that would repeal a law that limited rent control to buildings constructed before 1979. if prop 33 passes, peskin's ordinance would automatically expand rent control to an additional 100,000 apartments in the city. >> renters need relief, protection from price gouging and that everyone deserves stable housing. too many people are forced onto the streets because of rent increases. >> this measure is opposed by landlords who are concerned it could discourage future development in the city, but peskin said it would not apply to buildings constructed after november 5th. san francisco is the first in the nation to ban software used to set rent prices. supervisor peskin who led the charge called it a new form of rent gouging. john ramos has more on the first of its kind ordinance. >> reporter: most of us assume
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the high price of apartments in san francisco are the result of supply and demand, but it turns out there may be something else at work here. in 2017 james nelson was working in the banking industry when he noticed something strange happening in the rental housing market. >> i had seen something was not right. i was financing a lot of these multifamily properties and the market had changed. so i started researching in january of '19 and the first thing i saw was the name real page. >> reporter: real page is a company that offers a data-based algorithm to landlords in large cities to help them set rental prices. nelson has written a book on the company and says there's a good chance you're paying more because of it. >> that's basically what i found is we're paying double on our rent and our housing than what we should be. >> reporter: because of this? >> because of this. >> reporter: property owners
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supply real page with normally confidential information like pricing and number of vacancies and the algorithm sends a so-called recommendation to all the landlords of what to charge for a unit in that area, but when large corporate owners all follow the recommendation, it ends upsetting the price, usually a higher price. >> real page is actually advertising their software drives rents double digits higher than what a market would ordinarily command. >> reporter: lee heppner is senior legal counsel for the american economic liberties project. he says what real page is doing is a blatant case of antitrust real estate collusion. >> it's illegal. they are manipulating the market to fix prices and hike rents and remove really healthy competition from markets that should be responding to that competitive pressure and actually bringing rents down. >> reporter: now it's all starting to make sense to those in city hall. >> think about this. there have
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been thousands of people with high paying jobs that left san francisco after the pandemic and yet rents have not gone down. we still have the highest rents in the nation and it turns out that a lot of this is because of price colluding software. >> reporter: there are lawsuits popping up all over the country over the software and it's reportedly raised the interest of federal investigators and regulators, but san francisco isn't waiting years for that to play out. they may be the first city to ban it, but there's a good chance they won't be the last. >> real page responded with a statement saying media reports and legal filings are false and misleading and that their software "contributes to a healthier and more efficient rental housing ecosystem." joining me now is san jose city council member peter ortiz. thanks for being with us. >> happy to be here. >> you called for a ban on apps that facilitate rent price fixing in your city. how have
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you seen this technology hurt people in your town who are just trying to find a decent place to live? >> great question. i actually represent district 5, our beautiful and diverse east side of san jose. it's also where many of our working class residents and renters live in this city. software like real page, like real star and yardy allow property owners to submit their proprietary data to algorithmically determine maximal possible rent to charge renters. it allows them to work with other property owners and essentially fix the rental pricing of a region which has resulted in the increase of rent. from their own internal statements, they boast to investors and clients that the strategy that this pushed and is often used results in the maximum turnover of double digit increases of rent which pushes more people out of their homes and onto the street.
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there has been several lawsuits from community activists, tenant activists against these organizations, and it's estimated 66% of the san jose rental market is owned by companies that use these softwares, right? so we aren't necessarily wanting to ban the entire use of these softwares, just the portion of the application that allows them to essentially collude with other property owners to fix the price fixing. >> representatives from these companies have said the technology only advises the landlords how much they should charge the tenants. is there an argument, sir, instead of going after the tech companies or the a.i. companies that are facilitating this type of software, that maybe it's up to the landlords and maybe hold them accountable for raising these rent hikes as much as they are? >> i would say any organization that advises landlords to essentially do something that is against the law, they're providing that individual the
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opportunity and resources to break that law. so they are also guilty in the overall process of rent fixing. so they could easily turn that portion of their application off. they would simply be a property management tool, but until they do that they deserve the scrutiny the federal department's legal department and the local municipalities like the city of san jose. >> san francisco it's worth noting was the first city in the country to pass an ordinance that bans landlords from using software like this, but is this opening the door for a bigger conversation on affordable housing to create a really sustainable way for people to live and work in places like san francisco and san jose? >> absolutely. i think that's a great question. i fully support affordable housing. i have multiple affordable housing projects that already exist in my district and there are multiple projects looking to come in, especially along our alum rock avenue corridor.
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unfortunately, there has been a lot of opposition in other parts of the city. that makes the conversation around affordable housing difficult. people want to say not in my backyard. we don't want those people. unfortunately, there's a lot of just antiaffordable housing and antiworking people sentiment in other parts of the city that has made the conversation hard. we do have a fund due to a former ballot initiative called measure e that is supposed to be used for affordable housing. unfortunately, over the last two years it's become a little of a fight during our city council meetings how best to use those dollars. over the last two years, the city council overwhelmingly chose to use those dollars for other initiatives instead of affordable housing even though council members like myself fought against it. >> what else do you think needs to change with this? what steps do we need to make sure places like san jose, like san francisco, like the big cities?
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is it about building more housing, working with the landlords? what's the answer? >> i think it has to be a multipronged approach. absolutely, we'll need to build different housing, all different types of the units of market, housing for the homeless, affordable housing and interim housing which is an initiative of our city now, tiny houses and other such units, but we also got to look at potentially expanding rent control in the city of san jose and also explore avenues like social housing that i know the state of california has looked at. i know federally congresswoman aoc has recently introduced a bill for social housing. we got to look at all avenues to provide relief for working people and tenants because everyone working in san jose and who grew up in san jose should be able to afford to live in the city. >> thank you for being with us. we'll be right back.
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the city hall insiders have a formula: grow the system, exploit the system. take mark farrell's record. after receiving the largest ethics fine in city history for breaking campaign laws. mark authorized a commission almost every year he was in office. he was even caught taking donations from people he would then appoint to commissions, including a felon convicted of bribery. san francisco's challenges demand urgency, not more of the same failed insiders.
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the 49ers take on the patriots sunday at levi's stadium and brock purdy could have a couple more weapons at his disposal. matt lively has the latest. >> this is the audi "red and gold report." >> good news for the 9ers, deebo samuel could return sooner than expected. he practiced the last two days and is listed as questionable sunday. george kittle will be back to help stop the losing streak. >> i think our sense of urgency is 100% there. if it's not, that's bad ball for the 9ers and hopefully you can tell me who doesn't have a sense of urgency and i'll address it with them. >> you didn't need to check the injury report this week to know george kittle's status for sunday. >> was i limited yesterday? i didn't feel like it. very excited to play football. >> kittle said his hamstring tightness was caused by the
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warm temperature inside minnesota's u.s. bank stadium. >> i'm not going to blame the service for a hamstring. i'll blame brock for throwing the ball over my head. >> he was forced to watch last sunday's game from home and the experience was nothing like the commercial. >> did you get pepperoni? i want italian sausage. >> it's more like a stressful pace back and forth and i'm trying to follow along on the call sheet on my ipad. so that's kind of fun, but most of the time i'm just sweating a lot. i'm a dog. >> for the "red and gold report," i'm matt lively. >> you can watch matt and vern on our half hour "red and gold report" tonight at 7:30 here on kpix and streaming on the free cbs news app. a quick programming note as cbs news bay area celebrates hispanic heritage month, you can catch our one-hour special "una familia" next thursday october 3rd at 4:00 p.m. right
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here on kpix. tonight at 5:00 we'll introduce you to the queen of lowriders, how bay area women are revolutionizing the male-dominated tradition. glass falling from a san francisco high rise for the second time this month, details on the latest in a series of scary close calls. and in oakland a tragic day for friends, family, and co-workers of a man shot and killed while working to give his family a better life. >> we're killing each other. our brown and our black is killing each other and it's killing me. >> we
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qulipta®. right now on cbs news bay area, heartbreaking new details emerging on a deadly shooting in alameda county, what we're learning about the victim who was working to better himself and his community. >> it's hard to meet someone and know that they'll show up and then he was murdered like an animal down the street. once again, falling glass crashing to the streets in san francisco, the latest scare involving one of the city's most iconic buildings. helene is blamed for at least 40 deaths as the storm spreads misery across the southeast. we'll look at the damage and long recovery effort ahead. the growing concerns over
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the a's' plans to play in sacramento next year. >> you can see these heat islands that these fields create from satellites in space. >> i guarantee there are going to be nonstop complaints. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. we begin in oakland where a heartbroken family is mourning the death of a man who was working to provide a brighter future for himself and the community he called home. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. this all comes at a time when the city is seeing a sharp decline in murders, but as da lin reports, that's little consolation to the family of billy williams and all those who lost loved ones to violence. >> reporter: neighbors created this makeshift memorial on wilson street. the victim collapsed and died at that back fence there next to this apartment building after he was shot.

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