Commute, many passengers know all too well that the Opioid Crisis thats plaguing bay area cities has also become a battle for the transit system. Just yesterday at the North Berkeley station transit ambassadors used three doses of narcan to revive an unresponsive man who fell on the floor of a train. This is something that happens almost daily somewhere across the b. A. R. T. System. Our Wilson Walker has learned the number of Overdose Deaths on b. A. R. T. Just this year has climbed past last years total. Where i grew up at in arizona there was nothing to do but drugs, you know. Reporter sitting at the very end of the civic Center Platform just as b. A. R. T. Is about to shut down for the night, one rider about to make their way back to the east bay. Im currently homeless and i have a motor home. My motor homes parked in castro valley. I just came over here to score, you know, but its cheaper over here to get it, you know. Incredibly cheap. Reporter john is among those who come to San Francisco for the citys buyer friendly drug market and anyone who has ridden b. A. R. T. Knows the drug crisis is coarsing through the transit system. So far this year 20 people have died on trains in stations or somewhere else on b. A. R. T. Property. These presumed overdoses are referred to as unattended deaths, a number that has now surpassed last years total. I mean theres so much of it that i dont think they can do anything about it, you know. Hello. Hello. Reporter this is one way b. A. R. T. Is responding, 19 crisis intervention specialists part of an effort to deploy as many different uniformed bodies as possible both to respond to people in trouble and as a deterrent to keep the drugs out. Police officers, crisis intervention specialists, transit ambassadors, fare inspectors, our Community Service officers, we committed more of our personnel to our trains and stations. Reporter not only are they trying to get more people in more places, b. A. R. T. Leadership is hoping some of this can be mitigated with new fare gates, but managing this drug challenge is becoming something of an old problem. I got to pull out the camera. I got to show my friends this. Theyre not going to believe it. Reporter many of you will remember 2018 when this cell phone video of civic center station made National Headlines and prompted emergency discussions between mayors, police agencies, and b. A. R. T. Leaders. Something that jumps out of that video, just about everyone in that hallway was using a needle, finding a bit of tin foil on the ground back then something of an exception. So the problem hasnt gone away. It has changed, a more prevalent, more lethal drug. If youre watching b. A. R. T. Try to respond to all this, what youre seeing is the evolution of the larger Opioid Crisis. I went from smoking heroin to shooting up heroin and then this stuff came around and fentanyl epidemic hit and made everything 100 times worse. Reporter just as fentanyl has driven up overdose numbers in cities where b. A. R. T. Passes through, it has done the same within the system, but the deaths are only part of the story. Every b. A. R. T. Staff member you see while traveling is now equipped with narcan and they are using it every few days, sometimes several times in a single day to revive passengers who might otherwise be the next fatality and again its happening everywhere. B. A. R. T. Says its average Response Time to a reported overdose is about four minutes. However we cant be everywhere all the time. So we definitely depend on our riders to help us identify some of these issues. Me myself, ive resuscitated people that i dont even know you know what im saying . Because im not going to let Somebody Just die. Reporter for his part, john says hes hoping to find a treatment option, reconnect with his family and break the cycle. I have kids and stuff and i cant see them because this. Reporter a cycle that has landed him and so many others in a similar situation battling addiction in the most public of places no matter where it takes them. I guess were all just regular people and we all have somebody that loves us somewhere no matter if its here or anybody else. I think everybody deep down wants help and nobody wants this for themselves. You know what i mean . Thats powerful. Its sad. Its powerful and just in your reporting over the years, its escalated. Yes. What is b. A. R. T. Supposed to do . What are we supposed to do . Thats a good question. You hear the assistant chief saying they need help. They cant be everywhere. Right. Theres an app where you can let people know if somethings going on on the train, but you look at b. A. R. T. Struggling, think of all the businesses in San Francisco who have the same problems who arguably have greater control who they can refuse service to and they have people walking in dying in restrooms. How could you fortify b. A. R. T. In such a way that you keep this crisis out . I dont have an answer for that. How did you leave when you finished your story, just baffled . You know, thats why i went back to 2018. We keep talking about these things. The problem keeps morphing and changing different ways, but its the continuation of the same discussion. Well keep following it and hopefully look for progress. Wilson, i appreciate all those years of reporting on it. We are getting new numbers. San Francisco Police say they seized more than 271 pounds of drugs since the beginning of the year, much of it fentanyl. That is more than the total amount for all of last year. Tenderloin station officers arrested 533 people for selling drugs, almost as many as the total for all of 2022, but while arrests may be up, San Franciscos d. A. Is blasting the countys criminal courts for putting fentanyl dealers back on the streets. At a Public Safety town hall in the tenderloin just last night, Brooke Jenkins said her office has requested repeat offenders be detained while awaiting trial, but only 16 out of the 100 requests were granted. Were going in filing these motions arguing about the deadly myths of fentanyl and the dangerousness of this conduct and yet and still the judges are ignoring it. So that is the biggest impediment that i have found. Jenkins said police have to arrest the same person four times on average before the court will agree to hold them in custody. On to a brushfire that broke out in hayward this afternoon, another reminder fire season is upon us. The fire was burning off harder road near west view way. Our chopper 5 got to the scene fairly quickly around 1 30. Heres what it looked like just moments after the fire broke out. You can see the flames on the hillside and smoke plumes rising into the air. We still do not know the cause of the fire, but our chopper also caught video of what appears to be an encampment in that area. You can see some of the debris scattered along the hillside. Luckily fire crews were able to get a handle on the flames and contain the fire. No injuries have been reported. Its going to warm up across the bay area this weekend. Chief meteorologist paul heggen has been warning us. Now hell tell us how hot it will get and what it means for fire danger. It will be higher, but it wont be off the charts for this time of year because we wont have any record setting heat or offshore winds. We did take a step up for our temperatures today. Its still warm for inland parts, especially in the east bay, current temperatures in the 80s, 60s around the bay, 50s along the coast. Temperatures tomorrow will be another step up, just a few degrees warmer around the bay. 80s and 90s farther inland and step up from there on sunday with some of the hottest spots up to around or above 100 degrees. One of the hottest spots is antioch. Your heat risk today, excessive heat risk, which is basically the risk of overexertion, topped out in the moderate category, elevated technically this afternoon, moderate tomorrow. That means we arent likely to have any significant heatrelated Health Concerns even for sensitive populations, but that does climb sunday when temperatures get up to 100 degrees, into the high category, but its another brief heatwave. Well talk about when temperatures return to normal, wont take long, coming up in the full forecast. Thank you, paul. We told you earlier this week about an algae bloom spotted along the east bay shoreline and now reported sightings of dead fish are certainly setting off more alarm bells. The Environmental Group baykeeper tells us the bloom is the same species that developed into a red tide last summer and killed tens of thousands of fish in the bay and lake merritt. Its not clear yet whether this will be as bad, but a naturalist who documented last years fish kill posted pictures of a few dead sturgeon found on point milate state beach in richmond. He updated them to a page set up by the California Department of fish and wildlife. Baykeeper tells us theyve had other reports of dead fish. It is nowhere near the scale of last years fish kill yet, but scientists are keeping a close eye on this. Algae blooms can harm fish by removing oxygen from the water. Another shooting on an east bay freeway may have been the result of road rage overnight on interstate 80 in Richmond East of central avenue. One car was damaged, but luckily no one was hurt. We have seen how this kind of violence can have heartbreaking consequences. Were learning more about what happened to that 8yearold little boy caught in the middle of a rolling gunbattle on 580 in oakland last month. In fact, theres been an outpouring of support for him and his family in the hours since his family posted an update on a gofundme page last night. They are grateful that their son is alive, but he has a long recovery ahead of him. Anne makovec has more on the story thats resonating with so many people. Because of the realization that not only could this happen to any of us, it could happen to any of our kids and it has changed this little boys life forever. He is now paralyzed below the neck. The fundraising website his family wrote their son needs a respirator to survive and aroundtheclock care estimating it will cost over 1 million in the first year alone. Little asa has bullet and bone fragments lodged in his neck after the shooting last month. He was with his mom on 580 near grand avenue caught between two shooters in two different cars who were firing back and forth. There was a time the family thought he wouldnt survive. The positive here is that asa can read and he can communicate. His family wrote, we hope you never know pain like this. At the same time we hope that you may know, as we now do, the exquisite gift of childrens resilience. Many people who drive on east bay freeways say theyve either changed their routes or learned to live with the anxiety. Our home backs up to 580. So its our main thoroughfare. So were on it constantly and it is now a thought that i have every single time i get on the freeway. That oakland resident says she avoids the freeways if possible and takes city streets whenever she takes her granddaughter to the park. The chp says no arrests in that july 14th shooting that injured 8yearold asa. They are asking witnesses with dashcam videos and tesla drivers to come forward because teslas do have builtin cameras. Our heart goes out to asas family and to asa. There has been a push for more freeway cameras after all these shootings. So caltrans installed at least 50 cameras just in oakland, seven on interstate 80, another seven on 580 and 36 on interstate 880. Cameras have been put up in san leandro, berkeley, emeryville, richmond and pittsburg. In the last couple hours caltrans gave us an update its installed about 180 cameras bay areawide. Still ahead, its another blow to san joses downtown, a huge tech campus hitting pause on construction. Plus a Restaurant Owner says he missed his rent payment by one day to be with his sick daughter in the hospital and now hes fighting an eviction notice. If you dont have the financial wherewithal to first the google village, now another company hitting pause on a huge tech campus in san jose. Boston properties is blaming Market Conditions for halting the project known as platform 16. The campus on west jillian street would be more than 1 million square feet once completes. The campus isnt far from sites google planned to develop as downtown west. Google said its reassessing the timeline for the project because of market uncertainty. On to another story, a popular palo alto restaurant that served customers for nearly three decades is fighting to stay in business. So mikes diner bar is in midtown. It was just served an eviction notice for being one day late on rent because of a family emergency. The owner tells our Jose Martinez he has poured his heart into the place and hasnt gotten much sympathy from the property owner. Reporter im here at mikes diner bar in palo alto, a place that is part of this towns identity. We spent some time with the owner who tells me that after surviving the pandemic and investing a lot of money expanding the place, hes facing the possibility of getting evicted. Its a current concern these days. We were informed theyve already started the eviction process and that theyve requested the sheriff to give me a date to be out. So, you know, this is a fluid situation. I dont know when i every time i come to work i dont know if theres going to be a note on the door saying reporter hes the owner of mikes diner bar, a restaurant he opened in midtown palo alto 29 years ago, but today hes facing his Worst Nightmare after receiving a notice to vacate the premises after being one day late with the rent payment to the Property Owners. It was because i have a disabled daughter, chelsea, who was in the emergency room at El Camino Hospital that day. So we were getting her admitted to the hospital and i brought the check the next day. Reporter he says on july 20th he received this letter sent by vintana Property Service, the owners agent, explaining that they were returning his july rent check for 22,000 and letting him know because of the violation the owners would proceed with the eviction. We contacted the Property Service and a woman answered the phone and said no comment. We reached out via email but still havent heard back from the company. Were going to try to do everything we can to mediate this situation and have a resolution thats equitable for the Property Owners and me. Reporter he says he invested at least 2 million in that expansion project, but the pandemic hit him hard. So hes been working with his friend and the city of palo alto to have events here to revitalize this part of town. People think of palo alto and might think of gucci, tesla and prada, but this is a neighborhood shopping center. These are unique to palo alto. Theyre Small Business districts that are protected, zoned and theyre for the convenience of the neighborhood people to be able to walk and bike to local businesses without getting in their car. Reporter mike agrees. He says its time to protect Small Businesses in the area before its too late. The smaller merchants are obviously like myself are just getting squeezed out. If you dont have the financial wherewithal to fight them, then theres not much you can do. Reporter mike tells me hes going to continue fighting not only to keep his business open, but to keep this part of town alive. A small town California Library has some major bragging rights, the postmenopapausal womenen wiwith hr herer2 metastaticic breast cacancer arare living l longer withth ki. Soso, long livive family t t. Long live e dreams. And d long live e you. Kisqsqali is a p pill proven to help women live longer when taken with an aromatase inhibitor. And kisqali helps preserve quality of life. 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Pretty good overall. Okay. Whatever you want to find, you want cool and foggy, head for the coast, hot, go farther inland, hot and humid, go somewhere else. We dont have that, which is fine. We dont have hot and humid, which is good, correct . Thats firmly in my rear view mirror, but its going to heat up heading into the weekend. The warming warming trend courtesy of the heat dome is coming towards us, the upshot there will be more pollution at ground level. There will be yet another brief inland heatwave, livermore topping out above 100 degrees sunday, mid90s degrees monday and below average temperatures tuesday through friday before a baby warmup for the following weekend. While weve had some spells of hot weather for inland parts of the bay area, theyve been two or three days at most. The air quality is something we have to monitor. There has been a little bit of smoke blowing into the skies over the bay area from the flat fire in oregon. That thing is over 30,000 acres and only about 30 contained, but the bulk of that smoke will drift down and stay off the coast as we head through tomorrow and a similar story sunday, but our air quality nonetheless is still going to deteriorate to the moderate category pretty much across the board into early next week because that heat dome building overhead, just more atmosphere trapping ground level pollution, specifically ground level ozone. I dont think well get into the unhealthy categories, but its something well have to monitor. This will be brief, back to good air quality by tuesday next week. There is the fog hanging out behind the buildings of downtown San Francisco instead of around them like at this point last night. Temperatures are cool by the bay, 61 in the city, 65 in oakland. Inland a mix of 70s and 80s, which is appropriate for an august evening. The fog will make another good inland push by early tomorrow morning, but its a shallower marine layer which means the inland spots wont have to contend with fog very long at all, fog gone at 8 00, 9 00. Even around the bay youll see plenty of sunshine heading towards late morning. Along the coast i dont think youll see much sunshine at least through the first half of the day tomorrow, maybe a few glimmers in the afternoon. Any actual sunshine on the coast will probably have to wait until the peak of the warm spell sunday. Temperatures wont warm up much along the coast. We start off in the 50s across the board. Temperatures will be within 4 to 7 degrees of whats normal for this time of year, just the hottest spots far inland reaching up farther into the 90s. The hottest weather arrives sunday. Quick check of the dog walking forecast with dodge who seems to be saying youre not going to make me go out in that heat, are you . Black fur dogs especially just absorbs the heat. Maybe sure they have a supply of cool water and a cool place to hang out as we head through the weekend. It wont be that hot around the bay, 70s in San Francisco and oakland and back to the 60s through much of next week. The inland heat wont be quite as intense as some previous heatwaves, but its easy to overdo it if youre not careful, especially inland and the east bay, over 100 sunday. You can find relief by driving 30, 40, 50 miles or so. Yeah. Its all in our own backyard. Thank you. How cool is this to get a cameo for your Library Video salolonpas lidococaine flex. A susuper thin, flexible p h with maxaximum ototc strengthth lidocainee ththat contoururs to the b by to relelieve painn riright where it hurts. And did d we mentionon, it re, really stiticks . Salolonpas, itss good medidi. A library in the sacramento area has become a viral sensation after its tiktok video featured an unexpected star. Of course, youve got to borrow a book. Hey, henrietta. Hows life as a library cat . 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