According to a new report from the budget and legislative analysts office, it found residential vacancies surged by more than 50 between 2019 and 2021. From 40,000 vacant homes to 61,000, the report emphasizes they are not all habitable. Summer undergoing construction or facing permit issues. San francisco voters will decide next month whether to levy a tax on homes sitting vacant for more than half the year. This is meant to discourage people from buying up investment properties. Today the city celebrated the rhythm ribboncutting for a new Affordable Housing project. Nearly 400 unit apartment complexes on east 18th street, that will mostly house seniors and families, the complex includes a fitness club a Community Swimming pool and recreational and social services. Nationwide home sales have dropped for an eighth straight month. Sales are at their lowest point in a decade. With the exception of a brief period at the start of the pandemic. Usually a slowing Housing Market means houses are available, which would push prices lower but right now there are far fewer fresh listings because homeowners want to hold on to those lower mortgage rates. Dangerous microbes sometimes known as flesh eating bacteria is causing a spike of infections in florida. Has been breeding in standing water left behind after Hurricane Ian causing a Record Number of cases, a reporter on the danger and what to look out for. Weeks after Hurricane Ian rampaged through florida, it is still causing devastation. Floodwaters from the storm have become a breeding ground for deadly bacteria. You have an open wound and you are immersed in water thats contaminated with bacterial growth it poses a higher risk. Reporter thats what happened to kendalls father, when he helped salvage a friends boat in naples. The next day he went to the hospital with an infected leg. He thought until we all could be there. For him to pass. He wanted us to be able to see him, and share stories, and express our love for him. Reporter that was from sometimes known as flesh eating bacteria. It lives in warm brackish waters, often where rivers meet the ocean. Sewage spills during storms can increase levels of the microbe, which infects people through open wounds. The number of bacterial infections has already smashed records for florida. According to the health department, there has been nearly 70 cases reported this year so far. Thats already double the number reported in 2021. About a dozen people have died. Symptoms can include fever and chills, a drop in blood pressure, and blistering skin lesions. The hewitt family says their dad died trying to help others. He didnt like to see anybody suffering. It hurt him to see the suffering in this world. Reporter he died within three days of his infection from sepsis, and organ failure. A shocking reminder of the dangerous aftermath of the storm. Cbs news, hallandale beach, florida. Cdc says one in five people with an infection dies sometimes within a day or two of becoming ill. Hurricane ian laid waste too much of the citrus harvest, most florida oranges and up as dues and consumers may start seeing the impact of the grocery store. More than 375,000 acres in florida are devoted to citrus. Orange production is already down 32 from the previous season, and preliminary estimates put citrus losses from ian as high as 204 million. The crop had only recently started getting back to normal after Hurricane Irma in 2017. This is no doubt a gut punch to an industry that we believe is on the cusp of being able to stabilize and rebuild. Early estimates put Hurricane Ians damage on agriculture as a whole as high as 1 1 2 billion dollars. The storm affected livestock, seasonal vegetable crops and hundreds of thousands of bees essential to many growers. More americans have been rolling up their sleeves for out dated covid 19 booster shots, the cdc reports 4 1 2 million americans got the bivalent booster last week. That vaccine targets the original strain as well as two omicron variance, that total of about 20 million americans have received the new booster still, less than 10 of the eligible population. In San Francisco, ucsf has launched two research projects, we spoke with doctor Jeffrey Martin about what those symptoms look like, and the efforts to learn more. Its the symptoms that either persist from the initial period, or the developed short after, shortly after or what we call long covid. Through the National Institutes of health, ucsf is participating in whats called the recover project, we are interested in individuals right now who are in the first 30 days from their covid infection, both people have been doing well and those who are not. We are particularly interested in the communities hit the hardest by covid, particularly the latino and black communities. Like now the test Positivity Rate stands at 4. 4 , earlier this week Governor Newsom announced californias covid state of emergency will end after every. Still ahead, the Biden Administration now says iran is getting involved in the war in ukraine. Details on the accusations. A major new lawsuit accuses google of collecting Sensitive Information without their users consent. Coming up a 6 00 on cbs news bay area, as californias drought deepens, a San Francisco business that specializes in quenching thirst is finding creative ways to save. That allows us to make more beer with less water. Everybody needs to be doing something. We are proud to be part of that. How its turning its water waste into something us cotton candy. Pink lemonade. Bubble gum. When Tobacco Companies sell candy flavored products, they know exactly what theyre doing because four out of five kids who use tobacco start with a flavored product. And once theyre hooked, they can be addicted for life. This election we can stop big tobaccos dirty trick. Voting yes on prop 31 will end the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. Saving kids from nicotine addiction. Vote yes on 31. The Biden Administration now accusing iran of sending military personnel to ukraine to train Russian Forces, launching drone strikes on civilian targets, that accusation comes after russias president of paired martial law in provinces that were illegally annexed earlier this month. Serena marshall has the latest. Reporter civilians are evacuating ukraines region. Ahead of an expected ukrainian under offensive. Russian president Vladimir Putin is vowing to hold onto land he ceased declaring martial law in four provinces in ukraine and russia illegally annexed earlier this month. In his nightly address, ukrainian president palmer zelinski urged citizens in those territories to lay down their arms to avoid being drafted by russia, to fight against ukraine. As a brutal winter looms, Russian Forces are attacking ukrainian power grid, but ukrainians are standing strong. This man stocked up on candles and power banks as others flocked to Grocery Stores to buy water. President biden says the u. S. Will continue to support ukraine for as long as it takes. But kevin mccarthy, the House Minority leader, indicated Congress Wont continue to write blank checks, if the republicans take over the house this fall. As the war weight rate boudin is in an incredibly difficult position. It seems is only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens. Reporter during a closeddoor meeting the u. S. And others accused iran of violating a un band by selling drones to russia to attack ukraine. Russias deputy un ambassador is denying the claim but the eu is moving forward with fresh sanctions against iran over the drones. Serena marshall, cbs news capitol hill. Power outages up to four hours arch but the cross ukraine, the Nations Energy company urged people [ indiscernible. ] warm socks and blankets on hand. The pentagon says it will provide travel funds for troops who are seeking abortions, but where abortions are now illegal, many of the pentagons Major Military bases are in states with antiabortion laws, including texas and florida. The department will also extend this support to troops dependence. The Texas Attorney general now selling google accusing the company of collecting voice information without consent. The lawsuit says google violated a state Consumer Protection law that requires companies to inform and get consent before collecting biometric identifiers, the complaint targets the Google Photos app, the nest camera and the google assistant. We reached out to google for a response on the matter but havent heard back. New federal standards for furniture safety have been approved target stressors and other furniture that can tip over and potentially injure children. Nearly 200 children have been killed by furniture teuvo verse in the last two decades. The standards implement by the Consumer ProductSafety Commission will include minimum stability requirements and detailed labels for buyers. There a minimum stability requirements that manufacturers will have to exceed in order for their units to protect children and prevent that furniture from falling over. This applies to Storage Units that are 27 inches and higher. We will be working to educate manufacturers so that they know how they can meet the standard. It will be required. Still ahead at 5 00 and unexcited Fireworks Show leaving a lot of people startled. Near Treasure Island, the explann,. Super bowl liv rematch this weekend as Kyle Shanahan watched that game since. s answer is coming up next plus, a big showdown between two of the best tight ends in the sport, george kittle, travis kelce, why this matchup is special for the pair. Details, next. Coming up on the cbs evening news, joe biden hits the campaign trail in pennsylvania, why some candidates dont want the president to stump for them. An update on the search for a missing college student, and the trip of a lifetime vo a Medicare Advantage plan should come with all the benefits you want and zero compromises. With Anthem Blue Cross, it can. Just go to anthem. Com answers or call 8337974179 for a free oneonone medicare plan review. Ask about our zero dollar monthly premium plans that include dental, vision and hearing coverage along with transportation, a gym membership and zero dollar copay for prescriptions all for zero extra cost. Plus, you could be eligible for extra benefits to help you save even more. 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Lets look at what we do have in store, nothing to worry about as we head into the weekend, more fog as we head through tonight into that pattern briefly, we will see significant changes into the weekend. Normal temperatures tomorrow everybody within 5 degrees on either side of whats average for this time of year, and a cooler breezy weekend in store, temperatures going to be 5 to 10 degrees below average, even for inland portions of the bay area, saturday and sunday, both days are looking windy. The big question, as the system moves and it will be able to bruise his precipitation. Clouds moving through as we head through tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night, theres a 20 chance that they squeeze out sprinkles with the best chance of showers will remain in the high sierra well or will fall as a rain, snow mix and everybody is drying up by saturday afternoon, we will see sunshine from saturday afternoon through the entire day sunday, and the winds will be strong but out of the north able to push the fog away from the coast, so sunshine right along the coast as we head through most of the weekend. Looking outside seeing hayes on the horizon, air quality in the moderate category that will improve over the weekend as well. Temperatures topped out anywhere from the low 90s in livermore to the mid50s. In pacifica San Francisco briefly made it into the upper 60s, likely to be a couple degrees cooler but its dropped to 59 in the city, and the temperatures 90 in fairfield at almost 90 degrees in livermore, we had a 37 degrees spreading to butchers right now, that will be narrower this time tomorrow and narrower than that over the weekend. The fog will make a push through the rest of tonight but its going to back up along the coast by mid day, tough to shake that fog along the coast as we head through friday afternoon. Temperatures tonight dropping to the low to mid 50s, high temperatures tomorrow will be below average near the water, slightly above average further inland but everybody fairly close to where we are supposed to be this time of year. Zooming in for a closer look along the coast, low to mid 60s down south end of the bay and the peninsula with mid to upper 70s to around 80 degrees in the santa clara valley. East bay, thats a big drop from todays temperatures, even though youre above normal it is still relief from the warmth, upper 60s to around 70 for oakland in the east bay, mostly in the mid70s north of the golden gate until you go farther north, likely to hit the low 80s for inland Mendocino County and lake county. Temperatures wont change much in San Francisco over the next several days, more up and down for inland parts of the bay area, san jose to just the 60s saturday and sunday, monday and tuesday before another wave of cool airheads the way thursday, but like this first wave into saturday, it wont have moisture to work with, passing clouds no significant chance of rain. Time for a check of whats ahead at 6 00, we switch over to julie goodrich. Coming up 6 00 another bay area county issued a vaccine mandate, but its not for the covid shot, we will tell you what its for. The famous brewery making sure nothing is watered down, including its factory. Its creative approach to conservation, and nearly half of all californians rent but they have next to no representation. Among Assembly Makers now making that happen. That is a 6 00 is coming up in 10 minutes, lets head over to charlie for sports. 49ers chiefs this weekend, it appears to be a great game on paper, kansas city coming to down also means that the 49ers heartbreaking super bowl loss is brought back to life, catch 22, sunday march the first regularseason meeting between the teams, since super bowl liv. Any loss in the super bowl stings, more than most, however, that loss is hit extra hard with San Francisco blowing a 10 point fourthquarter lead, it was the type of game that caused sleepless nights and years later, it still stings. Talk about that against the chiefs, what comes to your mind . Never lost. I hadnt washed it for a while until these days. I dont like watching it. This week it wasnt about that, i had to watch it for schematic reasons. And what our history is together. How you felt in that game, and you tried to see what type of play they tried to use against us to see what they might try and come with sunday. National tight end day this sunday, two of the best go headtohead, chief travis kelce in town to duel against the 49ers george kittle, i ask 49ers linebacker with the biggest difference was between the two, his answer, kittle is a better blocker, Bulletin Board material. Kittle is fired up for the holiday. Is awesome, the fact the nfl has made a big deal about this, theyre planning to use a high level this year, they have that miked up,. Chiefs, niners, National Tight End day, its like it was planned or something, crazy. The warriors are back in action tomorrow, golden state has a matchup, steph curry enjoyed his night off yesterday, curry put his kids to sleep then got to watch his brotherinlaw drain gamewinner. Come on sorry, i cant, i woke him up. Here was the shot that had carry so fired up, the former warrior damion lee fadeaway jay, that proved to be the gamewinner, that outburst from curry welcome his 4yearold son, then brought the toddler to tears. Did you apologize to your son for your outburst last night . No, its my house. Hes all right. Thats a technical foul. Yeah. Yeah, but he may pay for it if the kid doesnt go back to sleep. It all evens out in the end. Still ahead as californiabased record heat this summer, demand for power reached record highs. The state is trying to use water to help solve the energy crisis. Reporter kurtis ming explains how. Reporter on the brink of blackouts this summer, californias demand for power set records, and some utilities are looking to produce more power with water. Hydropower is a great solution for the california spacing. Reporter most electricity comes from large dams like fulton and oregon, but new smallscale projects like this one in oakdale are getting designed to generate power in existing irrigation canals. We are bringing in equipment that can be placed in the water, use the Natural Energy to generate power. And do it in a way thats low cost. Reporter the state has hundreds of miles of existing waterways that could one day generate power. We are able to provide energy for water districts to become net zero, or energy exporters. Reporter another idea is called pumped storage, using lakes to save excess solar and wind power for when its needed most. Is a giant water battery that works by gravity. You can take water from a reservoir when you got too much power, so much solar on the grid you cant use it, pump up to the higher reservoir, and when the sun sets and you need that power release it, the fallen water turns and creates clean carpentry power. Because it recirculates the same water, it can be used during a drought. A stream of potential clean energy that could keep the lights on. Water has always been the source of the lowest cost of electricity that we have. Thats it for that is a 5 00, cbs news bay area with Juliette Goodrich starts now. Thanks liz and ryan, and new drought numbers are in, Mother Nature isnt doing much to ease californias plight, its up to us to find more ways, more creative ways to save water. As we enter the fourth year of an ever deepening drought, obviously having everyone use water as efficiently as possible is as important as ever. A Bay Area Company that specializes in quenching thirst has found ways to make its factory less thirsty. Everybody needs to be doing something, we are proud to be part of that. 7 00 on the dot. We hear the machines get fired up in the house starts shaking. Reporter noisy neighbors, the earsplitting project that has people in one San Francisco neighborhood losing sleep for weeks. Plus another bay area county issues a vaccine mandate, and its not for the covid shot. Here. Reporter do you feel like youre being unfairly targeted by mosquitoes . Half of my family gets eaten alive. Reporter you may not be imagining things, the specific sent that turns certain people into mosquito magnets. This is cbs news bay area with Juliette Goodrich. Thanks for joining us, the new state route map was released today, it shows a slight improvement in some areas but certainly not enough to make any real difference in the bay area or anywhere else in california. Until rainfall and a lot of it, all we can do is conserve, so far this year the bay area has been doing a better job of it than most of the state. The latest figures are in, here they are for the governors office, it shows an overall 7 drop in august, but every major bay area water agency did better with the exception of San Francisco