Next month. Melinda vega is the director of a Nonprofit Organization focused on helping farmworkers. Over all these years we continue to hear the difficult plight of farmworkers and the need to have better housing, better pay, better access to medical, increased human rights. Reporter but it took a tragedy to bring broader attention to that effort. The january mass shooting exposed the deplorable Living Conditions that countless farmworkers face. We are grateful because Governor Newsom came to Half Moon Bay and we spoke to him about the conditions of housing. He saw the images and the photos. Reporter now the Governors Office has announced 825 million to build affordable housing, including for farmworkers. About 58 communities across the state will receive funding to build nearly 10,000 homes as part of a new funding approval process that eliminates the need for a developer to submit multiple applications. This includes roughly 700 million in funds from multifamily developments and 125 million funds for development. It is part of the statewide housing plan focused on building at least 1 million Affordable Homes by 2030. Since the shooting, San Mateo County has implement to the task force aimed at improving Living Conditions. Repairs are underway at capitola wharf after the storms that left the damage landmark completely unrecognizable. The city says the goal is to make it more resilient against future weather events. The closure of the wharf is still affecting the community, which is heavily reliant on tourism business. It was not quite as busy as it should have been. I think that a lot of people from outside the area thank the beach is still close. But it is not. The repairs are fully funded. Safety concerns over robotaxis have lawmakers asking companies to turnover data to federal regulators. The push is coming from nancy pelosi and san mateo congressman kevin mullen who wrote a letter to the national Highway Traffic Administration requesting detailed data operations from crews based in san francisco. That includes picking up riders, how they respond to emergency vehicles or unexpected situations and how often they actually block lanes. There have been several incidents where Autonomous Cars have blocked emergency responders. We reached out to crews and waymo. Cruze says that it reports more data than most other vehicles on the road. Waymo says that he voluntarily provides data , more so than required by law, and claims that its vehicles are responsible for reducing traffic deaths. Concerns over the safety of Driverless Cars is not only happening in the bay area. Frustration is now growing in austin, texas. More drivers and pedestrians report unsafe encounters with driverless rideshare is operating in that city, but the city of austin is frustrated, too, because regulation of rideshare operations within city limits is largely out of their hands. Unfortunately as a city we cannot do much. This is more of an issue where they have tied our hands on this one. They have taken away our ability to regulate these companies. Reporter the City Council MobilityCommittee Plans to talk about it at their meeting next week and councilmembers will continue to document the growing problem with the hopes of doing something about it in the future. The Federal Reserve is not raising Interest Rates this month and it keeps trying to fight inflation. The current benchmark shortterm rate is the highest in 22 years. You probably noticed if you tried to buy a car or home recently. The fed also says that it expects to raise rates one more time this year and is projecting fewer cuts next year. Inflation has also slowed but is still above the fed goal of 2 by the end of the year. Today marks 12 years since the military repealed its dont ask dont tell policy for lgbtq servicemembers. This morning the pentagon took a major step towards helping veterans who are still carrying less than Honorable Discharge because of their sexuality. Anne makovec spoke with one veteran who has been hoping to see this change for decades. Yeah, this person is part of a lawsuit brought against the pentagon meant to force changes like this. The department of defense is vowing to make the review process more accessible and efficient for lgbtq veterans, conducting a review of their records. Those who served are recommended for discharge upgrades, taking the burden off the veteran and putting it on the military. They are launching a website dedicated to helping veterans through the process. We reached out to the lawyers representing former servicemembers today and they say they welcome this news but that much work lies ahead. We come from a very proud family of heroes. Reporter joining the navy was something that the veteran always knew they wanted to do. When i was a little kid and in cub scouts i loved having a uniform on and i loved the flag and all the things that all the telltale signs that somebody would join the military. Reporter lilly joined the navy and at 19 years old they were stationed on the uss Abraham Lincoln in virginia. When i first got there, people knew that i was they knew that i was an lgbtq person. It was just not spoken about. Which is the old way that things were done in the navy, was you just dont talk about it. Reporter until they were flagged. We had commissioned the ship and we were getting ready to go on a world tour and there was a shakedown and they wanted to kick all the people out of the group that were undesirable. So that would have included me. Reporter one year after joining the service, lily was discharged with other than honorable status. Their military papers, known as dd214 identified them as homosexual after finding magazines in their locker advertising lgbt clubs. I had somebody from above me in the chain of command telling me that i am not worth anything. That that did not make any sense to me. Because i know i am. Reporter it is estimated that 1000 lgbt servicemembers were kicked out of the military between world war ii and the repeal of dont ask dont tell, and that other than Honorable Discharge status can deny them benefits they have earned. Less than 2 have had their discharges upgraded so far. We are redoubling our outreach to lgbtq veterans discharged under dont ask dont tell to encourage anyone who might be eligible to apply for corrections to their military records, including to their discharge paperwork. Reporter in a statement, lawyers say that the lawsuit still stands and that until every veteran is discharged under dont ask dont tell and they receive the justice they deserve, we remain committed to advocating for the rights and dignity of lgbtq veterans who have been affected by this historic injustice. There is a hole inside of me that is still not filled because it is a place where i lived close to my heart for my country. As of today, lilys other than honorable status has still not been upgraded. Before today they found the process overly complicated and emotionally taxing, but these changes promised to make things easier. A bit of vindication. All right, anne, thank you so much. Lets take a live look at downtown oakland where city Council Passed a resolution declaring september 2023 as oakland lgbtq pride month. City Council Members reaffirmed their commitment to the liberation of queer and trans people. Data shows that oakland holds one of the highest percentages of lgbtq residents in the united states. Still ahead, bay area medical facilities are dealing with a critical shortage of blood. Why some potential donors might not know they are even eligible to give. And a hotel ta the doctor will see you now. But do they really . Do thehey see all l that you . At kaiser r permanentete all ofof us work t together to c care for alall that is s. Would you believe that every two seconds someone in the u. S. Needs blood but donations are in short supply . A bay area nonprofits is one large reason why is that businesses and schools halted blood drives at the start of the pandemic. The new eligibility guidance from the fda will allow more people to donate. Our Shawn Chitnis spoke with one donor who was going above and beyond to help. Reporter on a recent visit to the Donation Center in fairfield, Dennis Walter marked giving blood 300 times. It saves lives. People who need blood need it now. It is easy for me to do, so i do it. Reporter a major milestone that is not a big deal for dennis. They need it today, so that is why i do it. They need it today. Reporter at one point he was donating every two weeks. He can no longer give platelets but still comes in once a month to give plasma. I have asked that question several times, and they say that as long as i am healthy i can keep coming. Reporter year after year of donating, the needle never bothers him, but because it can discourage others from giving, he says it is nothing to be afraid of and enjoys the experience spending an hour catching up on his favorite shows well in this chair. I know it is helping somebody and i know that whenever they need it, they cant go out and solicit it. It has got to be there. It has got to be on the shelf. Reporter in fact, they have a goal of storing up to five days of blood on shelves but it has already seen the supply go well below that level this summer. The need is constant. As fast as people are donating, it is going out to hospitals. There is always somebody in need of blood. Reporter so many donations over so many years has added up from the blood bank. Dennis has likely helped to save thousands of lives and had an impact on many family and friends grateful to see their loved one survive. I have been very blessed in life and i need to get back. This is one way to do it. About half the population can give blood but only 3 of all eligible donors do so. They want to remind you that it is free and only takes an hour to complete. Covid cases are rising in the u. S. Health department is once again offering free tests. You can order up to four free testing kits per household. The tests are designed to detect the covid variance that are going around. Health Officials Say they will have instructions on how to identify expiration dates. Straight ahead in sports, the giants are looking small. And the 49ers . They have the National Spotlight tomorrow. At cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. So paul, i got two emails from my kids school saying they would restrict outdoor play today. You think that will happen again tomorrow . Yes, it will happen tomorrow and it should have happened yesterday, but again, the sources were too late updating everything. At least now they are taking the appropriate precautions. We are in for another couple days of poor air quality. Another system dropping in from the north will intensify the winds, especially at higher elevations. But the changes are beginning on friday. The air quality is not going to just magically be in the green across the board by the end of the work week, but westerly winds will help to guide some of the smoke out of the bay area and eventually the westerly winds will send us into the good category. Lets take a look at the smoke simulation from futurecast. You see the bulk of it is closer to the source of those fires. It is the lightning complex fires, the annville fire, and it has been drifting straight down the coast and collecting in the bay area. Again, the westerly winds begin to kick in on friday and will be more noticeable saturday. You see how much of that gets squeegee it out of the bay area and by the time sunset rolls around that is when we are into the good category. That will not be the case tomorrow. Unhealthy for sensitive groups air quality at least and there will be times when we have red dots on the map indicating unhealthy air quality. Restrict outdoor activity, specifically anything that requires you to exert yourself and breathe a little harder. You want to be prepared to deal with a couple more days of this. Hopefully we get through the next 24 hours without a fire starting but the new fire threat will be elevated for the north bay mountains in particular. Take a look at the arrow pointing to the south and the red showing up in the higher elevations, indicating 30 to 40mileperhour wind gusts and northerly winds. The direction means the humidity levels do not recover very much, so lower humidity means gusty winds. It will continue through much of the day tomorrow for the north bay mountains but then late in the day the onshore breeze returns and that is going to mitigate the fire threat. The red flag warning expires at 5 00. It will be nice to add moisture to those fire fuels and we have a chance to do that, especially by monday night of next week. Rain chances potentially arrive before sunset but more than likely monday evening and monday night, mainly along the coast and for the north bay but it is the first shower chance of autumn and we will be very happy to see it if it continues to shape up that way. Always a big if in september. High temperatures were still around 80 with low 70s for santa rosa and fremont. Very similar temperatures in store for us tomorrow. You see the haze as we look out towards the santa clara valley. A cool start tomorrow morning but still smoky. High temperatures still a few degrees below normal. Mostly 70s inland with low 80s in the trivalley and the delta. Temperatures run pretty steady over the next several days. There is the rain chance on monday and it will mainly be monday evening into monday night with lingering cloud cover on tuesday before we clear things out by wednesday. Temperatures are at their coolest when the rain chance arrives, especially for the north bay with highs only in the upper 60s to start off the first full week of autumn. Temperatures inland also in the upper 70s and low 80s. Not bad for the last day of summer tomorrow after several days of autumn with little change along the coast. That is what we expect. Time for a check of what is ahead at 6 00 as we switch over to Juliette Goodrich hey there there is a vote coming up over whether to ban special flags including the pride flag. We are going to hear from parents who say they have lost trust in the board and county leaders who are stepping in to keep politics from interfering with education. Plus, a bay area womens game plan to get more teenage girls coaching on the sidelines. It is her personal mission to change the landscape of youth sports and she is doing it. We have that story at 6 00. That is coming up in 10 minutes. Lets get to burn and other sports we have baseball up top, and look, you will not find a more positive guy than me, but this giants playoff plummet has given me pause they have now dried up in the desert. To arizona, where i like how it started, and hey, lamont lamonte wade jr. Goes yard. The giants having to catch three teams ahead of them with 10 games left. Bottom third. Logan webb in trouble. Alek thomas found a whole. Deep enough to score a run. The diamondbacks put up a 31 lead. Webb had no run support again. Boy, the giants had their chances. Thairo estrada up with two on in the seventh but he struck out to end the threat. Arizona blew it open late, winning the game 71. They have a 15 record on the road, and get this. San francisco has a record of 525 in the last 30 road games to the wildcard standings, and it is not good. They are now 3. 5 games behind the cubs for the final wildcard spot. Playoff odds are down to 1 and it does not get easier, because up next is a fourgame series at the dodgers the math is not on our side. Everything is one that we have to win. He will miss the rest of the regular season with a hip injury that limited him to just 10 innings over his last three starts. Rookie Kyle Harrison was recalled to take his roster spot. Nfl. The 49ers take on the new york football giants tomorrow night at levi stadium but will not be brock purdys first prime time appearance this week i dont think i have changed or anything. All the other guys will give me a hard time about some stuff, but for me i know who i am. Yeah, purdys new commercial for toyota debuted this week. He joked that they shot all day and only used 30 seconds. Welcome to the biz. He also has an endorsement deal with alaska airlines. Fans wearing purdys jersey at bay area airports will get priority boarding this season speaking of endorsements, tomorrows game is on Amazon Prime Video they got promotion thanks to an assist from tele novella. Is the sponsored by amazon . I want a cut of this. The worst amazon purchase i have made . I had to buy a whole bunch of sleeves. In the meantime the braves of the best record in baseball and their fans are pretty good, too look at this guy baby in one hand, makes a bare hand grab with the freehand and then put the baby down so that he could fire the ball back because it was hit by a phillies player the braves have clinched the n. L. East it is nice to know the farm system has reached to the bleachers it is impressive how calm he was he just reaches up he is a veteran thanks, vern still ahead at wewe made it bmo has ararr. Hello . You sasaid it. Hehello to morore ways to savave money, grow your r wealth, growow your busisiness. Just w what we neeeeded, ananother big g bank. Not so f fast. How manyny banks do o youw that reweward you fofor saving evevery month . . Hes got a a good poi. Did i i mention bmbmo has more f feefree atatms than the t two largestst usus banks comombined . Uh, bmo . O . Just bebeemo, actctually. Quick ququestion, wiwill all this stuffff fit in yoyour car . should i g get rid of f the . Bmo a fun trip to nashville takes an unlikely turn for a group of friends after they arrived at their hotel. Phone started ringing off the hook and that is when they decided to take over the hotel the group of friends could not find anyone working overnight at the la quinta hotel, so they stepped in helping guests with their problems, even serving breakfast in the morning free food for everybody they told the hotel they were checking in late after a concert but when they got there the place was empty. We looked at each other and we were like, what . When you walk in somewhere and you see is not going so well, you have to fix it. It is in our blood. Good for them. Eventually a manager from another hotel showed up and was able to check them in, but the friends decided that it was best to find another place to stay. You are probably wondering, did they have to pay . They ended up getting a free room at the holiday inn for their efforts. As for the overnight shift employee at la quinta, well, they left without telling anyone and were promptly fired. Oh, do you think . I would hope they would get a lifetime of free rooms at la quinta after that. Thats it for the news at 5 00. Cbs news bay area with Juliette Goodrich starts right now. We begin with smoky skylines. How long are we breathing all of this in . Still plenty of haze across the entire bay area. The northerly winds bringing the smoke down continue at least one more day. We do have some good news in the first alert forecast. Black band fallout. A huge amount of parents and teachers say they have lost trust in their leaders. This is a very vocal and powerhungry small minority of people that are trying to push what they want into our schools. We are here to make sure that the school board can get past politics and return to pupils. Gas prices closing in on six dollars. I think we are in for a tough october. What is behind the spike and why one expert says something does not add up. Later, one bay area womans game plan to get more girls coaching on the sidelines. They are picking up skills through coaching that they can translate