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at 11:00, tough times leading to tough choices in oakland. >> we all know this is a tough time of truly terrifying scarcity. plus the city says good-bye to its long time leader. we look back at the legacy of mayor london breed. ali wong. >> and why san francisco was top of mind on one of the biggest nights in hollywood. and a waymo that lost its way at a very inconvenient time. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi. i'm sara donchey. just like that, the bay area political scene has totally shifted. san francisco is getting a new mayor with a new mandate on wednesday and things are already looking very different in oakland. three new oakland city council members were sworn in today, but despite the new faces they're
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dealing with some very old problems. the biggest one? a $129 million problem, the budget crisis, which we'll get to in a minute, but this is what the newcomers said after taking the oath of office today. >> we're at our best when we focus on the pragmatics of problem solving and our worst when we attempt to locate ourselves within larger ideological movements. >> every move i make i promise i'll do it in the best interest of oakland. >> yet my heart is overjoyed for the opportunity to work alongside all of you to really help uplift oakland. >> also today the council selected a second interim mayor since sheng thao was recalled. kevin jenkins was chosen to be interim mayor. barbara lee opened a campaign account today for the april 15th election.
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lee promised to talk more about her plans sometime this month, but this is what she said in november when she was asked if she would run. >> a lot of talk about you perhaps running for mayor of oakland. >> let me talk to you about what we've done here today really. there will be time for those discussions a later. we'll have time for those conversations later. >> later could be coming soon. across the bridge in san francisco the city is getting a new mayor, too. on wednesday daniel lurie will be sworn in at civic center. outgoing mayor breed said good-bye this weekend after six years in office. our john ramos was there for one of her final public appearances and has more how she will be remembered. ♪ >> reporter: the service at glide memorial church had already begun when london breed arrived bringing the ceremony
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to a halt as people rushed to welcome here and grab one last photo with her and grab one last photo as mayor. >> why don't we give it up one more time for mayor london breed, our mayor. >> reporter: introducing breed was another mayor of sorts, del seymour known as the mayor of the tenderloin for his tireless work in the most troubled district of the city. early on he remembered the compassionate way breed dealt with the tragic deaths of four young black men in the neighborhood. >> i had just met her. i said you treated those young men like they were your kids. she said those were my kids. all the young black men and women in the fillmore are my kids and i fell in love with her that day. she is the star. for many years we in the tenderloin will continue to call her mayor london breed. >> reporter: breed was president of the board of supervisors in
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2017 when mayor ed lee died abruptly. six months later she won the special election to fill the seat becoming san francisco's first black woman mayor. she told the glide congregation her life experience served her well in the role. >> i've not deviated from who i have always been. i'm a girl from the projects and who happens to be mayor and when i was mayor, i was still the girl from the projects. >> reporter: she could identify with the downtrodden on the streets of the tenderloin, a community that was particularly vulnerable in 2020 when the covid-19 pandemic hit the city like another earthquake. >> your team and your leadership during covid-19 saved countless lives. the order to shelter in place, and it was scary, but it was also a call to action. it was a moment of urgency and motivation for us as a community to come
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together to keep each other safe, but also to continue to serve on the front lines. that's what we heard from mayor breed's message that day. >> reporter: but there were other challenges in the tenderloin. breed says she grew up during the height of the crack epidemic only to find herself in charge during the deadly fentanyl crisis. >> fentanyl took us by storm and it took us by storm not just here in san francisco, but in this country and so we had to make some adjustments. >> reporter: one of those was to substitute the city's tolerance for open-air drug use for a little tough love. her most famous towards came in an angry press conference about the deplorable state of drug use in the tenderloin. >> to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the [ bleep ] that has destroyed our city. >> reporter: but while problems still persist, the tenderloin saw breed's efforts as genuine concern when so many are
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content to ignore the situation. at glide's tribute service to her she expressed her love for the neighborhood. >> the people of this community will give you their last when they have nothing to give. so when i put it all on the line to fight for the tenderloin, i meant it. i meant it. >> reporter: regarding her election defeat, she offered this. >> it doesn't change who i am, whether i'm mayor or not. i'm still london breed from the projects. i'm still london breed from san francisco. >> reporter: the election was about change at city hall and change there will be, but whether a new mayor will change the tenderloin is yet to be seen. >> breed once again mentioned she would often speak with glide's long time pastor, the late cecil williams, whenever she was faced with a difficult problem. back to that huge budget issue in oakland, today the
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city closed two fire stations, 25 and 28 closed the next six months in oakland hills. station 10 which was already closed will stay that way. our kevin ko was outside city hall where firefighters were not shy about the potential consequences. >> these cuts are a tragedy waiting to happen. >> what could have been a small fire near your house will become a conflagration leaving tragedy in its wake. >> the amount of money it will save is not worth the potential cost in lives. >> reporter: the firefighters who arrive to help when oakland calls 911 called on city officials to keep fire stations open. stations 25 and 28 were officially shut down for six months as oakland faces a $130 million budget shortfall. these temporary closures are expected to save the city about $5 million combined. >> the folks in the building behind me have decided it's okay. the city manager and
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budget director have decided that it's okay for anyone who needs help and calls 911 can wait and wait and keep waiting. >> reporter: it's unclear how response times will specifically be affected, but firefighters say an extra minute or two added onto responses can be deadly. brain damage from a loss of oxygen can start in six minutes and a house fire can become life threatening in just two minutes. firefighters outside city hall called on oaklanders to contact city officials and council members demanding fire stations stay open. one council member who will not need any convincing is zach unger who was with the oakland fire department since 1998 and is starting his new role as city council member. >> locked arms with them the last 30 years as my family, but as an oaklander, as somebody whose parents and kids live here, i understand public safety is the key item that we must maintain and preserve. the wait is finally over if you've been trying to get your
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hands on fresh dungeness crabs in the bay area. the season opened sunday after another long delay. fishermen in san francisco were out along piers 45 and 47 over the weekend. the commercial season is supposed to start in mid-november, but fishermen have had to get used to delay after delay in order to protect migrating whales. >> we lost our thanksgiving markets, you know. officially you can still open up, but a lot of us, we would like to see some of that stuff back. there's a lot of nice crab, but it's kind of a little bit slow, slower than we're used to. on top of that, we're going with less gear. >> fishermen say there are still some whales out there, so they have to be extra careful with that gear they do have. i'm kelsi thorud. when we come back, a san francisco native didn't forget her roots while she was on the golden globe stage. >> it's so nice. oh, my gosh,
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thank you so, so much. >> we'll have more from comedian ali wong's acceptance speech and her special shout out to one local club. and a group of people hoping to cook with fresh ingredients learned a scary lesson when they figured out their produce was poisonous. and a bad trip that one man could not get away from literally, how he finally got out of a waymo that was stuck going around and around in circles. the wind advisory has been expanded to include most of the bay area. now this goes through wednesday morning, but the strongest winds will occur in southern california. we'll talk about the fire threat there and peak gusts closer to homecoming up in the first alert forecast.
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heidi covey: so, i have an eye disease that causes blindness. i have moments where i get a little bit sad because i just can't see things that i used to. dr. stanley taught me to trust in the lord even when you don't want to. god is such a faithful father. nothing that happens to us isn't without his eye upon it.
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three people in monterey county ended up in the hospital after they cooked with mushrooms that were poisonous and not just poisonous, potentially deadly. police in salinas say they were dead cap mushrooms and they say they bought them from someone in a supermarket parking lot. >> ultimately what can happen
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is your liver develops toxicity and that liver toxicity can lead to death and many people go on to require a liver transplant. these are incredibly deadly, but they appear pretty innocuous. >> the three people are being treated at stanford and could need liver transplants. police are trying to trace the mushrooms back to who foraged them. millions of people in southern california are bracing for a wind event. parts of l.a. and ventura county are getting ready for a major santa ana wind event. people say they aren't taking chances with this one. >> we're ready to go. we have everything set tonight and we're going to just monitor the news and look out the window and see how bad it is. >> southern california edison could shut off power to hundreds of thousands of people in riverside and l.a. county. some of our bay area cal fire crews are heading south to help
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with any fires that could pop up in ventura county. i have to say the national weather service is not being shy at all. they're not mincing words about this. they're saying possibly deadly, potentially life threatening. >> yeah. >> catastrophic. they're really trying to get the word out this is serious. >> yeah. because there's two aspect, the fire threat, but also just the wind damage potential out of this could bring down entire trees onto structures and people are trapped in that, bad situation. we'll get gusty winds, not as strong as southern california. let's talk about why. this little ripple in the atmosphere gets cut off from the main flow of weather across the rest of the country. as it continues sliding south, it will be in a position to squeeze the atmosphere especially over southern california and produce those gusty offshore downslope santa ana winds. this is going to be a bad situation. the overall fire threat has been
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deemed as being the critical category, so zoom in here on southern california. the yellow area indicates an elevated fire threat, the orange is the critical area and this is not just for tomorrow. this is also for wednesday and for thursday. we're talking about a few consecutive days of extremely dangerous conditions and as we look at all the watches and warnings and advisories, there are a lot of them, especially over southern california. we have high wind warnings and wind advisories and particularly dangerous situation red flag warnings. that's when the danger is just at the top of the chart. so it's not only the fire threat, but wind damage possible that's going to be occupying the attention of everybody in southern california here over the next couple days. let's talk about the weather closer to home. we are going to experience gusty winds as well, but they won't be nearly as strong. they're talking about 80 to 100-mile-an-hour winds in southern california. our winds are more likely to top out in the 30 to 40-mile-an-hour range. these are the peak gusts
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and mostly in that 30 to 40 range. the exception is along the coast, half moon bay, one of the models saying a 43-mile-an-hour peak gust. this is strong enough the wind advisory has been expanded to include more of the bay area. basically all of the bay area except the santa clara valley now under the wind advisory that goes all the way through 10:00 wednesday morning. we're going to see the gustiest winds developing late tonight and into tomorrow morning with the peak winds occurring by late tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow morning. as the winds pick up tonight, it's going to help disperse the fog out there pushing it offshore and the fog should be gone within the next few hours. it's still clinging to parts of the bay area at the moment. that's temporary. once the fog does burn off, we'll see temperatures warming up. offshore winds are a direction that's associated with temperatures that are usually above average. we'll see temperatures reaching about 8 to 10 degrees above normal, into the mid-60s in the north bay and around the bay in san francisco and oakland. one of the cool spots will be
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livermore at 63 degrees, still way above normal, 68 degrees for the warmest location in san jose, so only a 5-degree spread between the coolest and warmest spots on the map. we'll see the lack of variability carrying through the extended forecast. let's look at the seven-day forecast. one thing you are not going to see is rain. there is not a hint of rain in the seven-day forecast. if we had a 14-day forecast, you wouldn't see any rain because it's a very dry pattern that's going to carry us probably until the martin luther king weekend. that's two weeks away. talking about temperatures running well above normal, even the coolest days in the seven-day forecast bringing us highs in the low 60s sunday and monday. even that is a good 3 to 5 degrees above normal, plenty of sunshine throughout, a little passing cloud cover friday and probably another burst of offshore winds developing on sunday, not likely to be problematic around the bay area. we've seen plenty of rain, but any offshore wind event until southern california gets some rain, it's going to
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be a big cause of concern for our neighbors to the south. we'll keep you updated. >> sending positive thoughts down to socal. thank you. san francisco got a shout out during last night's golden globes. ali wong took home the trophy for best performance in standup comedy for her special "single lady." kelsi thorud is here with more. we don't get too much love here in the bay area for some of these big award shows in hollywood. this is kind of nice to see. >> we should because we're not that far from l.a. >> and so many people are from here. >> like ali wong. ali gaff a quick shout out to punchline nightclub crediting them with helping her refine her craft over the years by always giving her stage time at the club. wong grew up in san francisco and got into standup after graduating college. she won two previous golden globes for her work on the hit netflix show "beef," but last night was her first win for a standup special. here's some of her
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speech. >> you know, i come from san francisco and that's where i started doing standup and i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for all the stage time that i got there and all the practice i got to become a standup comedian. so i really want to thank molly schmink from the sf punchline comedy club. >> punchline was quick to congratulate ali writing on facebook, "congratulations to ali wong. punchline is honored to be a part of your journey. go, ali." it really is just a fun night for all those really who know ali and love her and, of course, people just within the comedy community here in san francisco, like you said, not a lot of shout outs, but punchline do shows six nights a week and they have comedians locally and from across the country. they're a cool and historic venue in the city. >> a favorite spot of dave
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chappelle. >> very true. >> thank you. vern. >> well, no comedy with the 9ers. straight ahead in sports, changes started tonight on the 49er coaching staff and what the players were saying today after an abrupt end to the season.
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after five decades and so much history in oakland, the a's are getting ready to play ball in west sacramento, but tonight it was all about getting to know their temporary home. a's players were hanging out courtside at the sacramento kings game and say they're ready to embrace change. >> i think we're looking forward to building on our existing fan base to establishing a new fan base in a way in a new city. >> the a's home games will be at sutter health park the next three years. then it is on to vegas according to the current plans which have changed a lot. oakland a's fans are probably
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not going to be -- >> that soundbite from that player, he got a little fat in the wallet today. we'll have that later on. we start off with the 49ers, sorry. >> what an end to an interesting season. >> and the changes started tonight. when a team falls from a super bowl loss to a 6-11 season, moves have to be made. first domino to fall? special team coordinator brian schneider fired by the team tonight, simply put, too many blunders in the kicking game. after a disappointing six-win season, the 9ers cleaned out their lockers in santa clara. maybe no player represents the team struggles more than star running back christian mccaffery, the cover of madden '24 playing just four games due to injury and you bet he is ready to turn the page. >> i'm excited, man. i think we're all mad in the right ways and i think that's a good place to be. the mind shift now
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has to shift quick from, you know, this was a tough year. let's learn from the mistakes and get ready for otas because we don't have time to mope on this year. >> among the key priorities, getting his franchise quarterback signed to a new deal. linebacker fred warner knows a little bit about big contracts. he jokingly had this take. >> yeah. i think the first thing he'll do is buy a bunch of chains and cars, houses honestly. >> purdy just 25 is eligible for a contract extension. it will likely make him the highest paid player in franchise history. back in training camp the team dealt with long contract holdouts by brandon aiyuk and trent williams, but purdy, he wants to get this deal done quickly. >> i'm not the kind of guy that wants to have any kind of drama associated with anything. i'm here for this organization, for my teammates in the locker room, not get distracted by all the chaos that can go on within it. i
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want to be in san francisco and play my football career here. i love it. i want to do whatever it takes to be here. i know i'm the guy for this organization and i can do what it takes to help lead us where we want to go and i'm confident in that. back to baseball, we just showed you brent rooker and the a's and the kings game and it wasn't a good night for rooker. it was a great night. he agreed to a contract extension, reportedly five years and $60 million. rooker had two career years since joining the a's in 2023. he's hit 39 homers and driven in 111 runs this past season. so how about the a's? spending some coin on their players. you got to give it to the sacramento fan base, got to give them somebody to hold onto and the a's showed up to the game and the kings won. >> i'm still going to think about those oakland fans who really don't want any of it. >> i know, i know. >> you know it's a good sport cast when the mic ends up in
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vern glenn's hands. >> sleight of hand. we hold the microphone. somehow the show must go on. >> thank you so much. you know how some people are worried about the robots taking over everything? in this one case the robot did take over and it struck at the worst possible time, when a guy was trying to rush to the airport.
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nice foggy shot of san francisco right now. >> yeah. >> we're shrouded in it. >> it's going away by tomorrow morning, so no worries for the morning commute. >> that's good news. everybody has an opinion on driverless cars. have you been in one? >> i have not been in one. >> have you? >> my nieces were here, fascinated, 15 and 18, but still it's like there's nobody behind the wheel of that car, like yeah. >> we've kind of gotten used to them here in san francisco. they've become kind of part of life. we're used to seeing
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them every day here and they are becoming a little bit more normal in some other cities, too, as a lot of these companies expand their footprint outside the bay area. even so, you probably cannot help but wonder about all the things that could go wrong with no driver behind the wheel and being stuck in one feels like it's probably pretty high up on the list. not only did that happen to mike johns recently, but he was trapped while the car was driving in circles fast while he was supposed to be heading to the airport which feels like very bad luck. just like with a lot of things in a world where you have to call a random customer service number to get any help with anything, you can hear how incredibly frustrating that probably was from mike's own point of view. listen to this. >> yeah. i got a flight to catch. why is this thing going in a circle? i'm getting dizzy. >> if we got to the tenth loop, do i need to jump into the driver's seat? what happens
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there? what happens next because the car is still in control. i could bench press 300 plus, but am i able to control this? is somebody playing a joke on me? >> yeah. i actually got stuck in another company's driverless car and it dumped me off like on a freeway off ramp which was unpleasant. >> take a hint. >> mike was in scottsdale, arizona, when this happened and he was trying to get a flight back home to los angeles. he was trying to get the agent to help him the best he could and i feel like this is sort of a universal frustration with customer service that he experienced. take a listen. >> you have your app pulled up? i need you to tap my trip in the lower left corner of your app. >> can't you just do it. you should be able to handle it, take over the car. you don't need my phone. >> i don't have an option to take over the car. >> oh, my gosh. can you stop this car? my goodness. >> i'm trying to take over now, apologies. >> just what you want to hear, right?
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>> sure. >> i guess the good news is he made his flight. it probably helped the flight was delayed. >> there you go. >> waymo's spokesperson told cnn when this story came out that this was a software glitch that did this and they say the delay was only five minutes and they also said they didn't charge mike for the ride. >> yeah. >> gee, thanks. >> and also lucky perhaps that he wasn't one of those people who gets super carsick. >> how fast would it have to be going before you think about just doing a tuck and roll? >> i don't even know if you can get the window open '. >> can you get out of the car? >> he said he couldn't get out. >> he traveled to the airport, got his luggage in there, can't bail out. >> i might have. thanks for watching! "the late show" with stephen colbert is next. see you tomorrow. (gentle music)
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