office for thousands of state workers the push back to a new mandate. coming up in the first alert forecast. we will spend a little bit of time talking about how glorious this day was with day time highs getting into the 80s. not much time to dwell. there is a total change coming. a lot of cold air and rain. particularly for saturday. forecasts on that is coming right up. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. we hear a lot about businesses leaving san francisco. today, an anticipated opening there are a sign there are still companies willing to bet on downtown. a massive new food haul opened up on market street next to the ikea. it helped reinvigorate a vacant building. the midmarket area has struggled with crime and homelessness and downtown in general has been hit with a

wave of retail closures. we get a taste of the concept that can pave the way for brighter days ahead. >> 3, 2, 1 [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: it was an exciting day for san francisco's mid-market neighborhood as a brand-new food haul -- food hall opened up. >> a rice dish, this is meat surrounded with potato and deep fried. >> reporter: cynthia is visiting the city from washington. she told me that she was just walking down-market street when she noticed the opening. >> i was like what is going on? a celebrity there? oh, it is food. >> reporter: it is a two-story space that offers guests close to a dozen food and drink options. the restaurants vary from the hall's own nordic

food concepts on the first floor to restaurant vendors and a cooking school on the second floor. hudson kramer works at the ikea and told me the whole story was buzzing about this opening >> i think we are excited to have options and easy to get to downtown that has a bunch of options for everyone. >> mayor breed was in attendance. she says this space has been years in the making and one they are hopeful will make this neighborhood more of a destination in the city. >> we have been work on this since 2018 when i asked inka to come here and open this new model of food hall and ikea. we are excited they are here >> it is not just the mayor. so many people told us they are excited to see new things like this food hall popping up along market street. >> that is the idea. vibrant, fun in here, that is what the downtown should be.

>> reporter: cynthia told me she is not from here she visits often. she knows what this city has been through and not only is it bouncing back but in some ways it is already there >> wopping around i have been here a week now and it is nothing compared to other cities. so, when i say, see people hear people say bring it back. it seems pretty good compared to other places i have been. >> market street is san area that so many think of as the beating heart of this city and one that they also believe is ready to thrive once again. >> and while there are openings like that to celebrate. office space vacancies are at an all tie high in the city. 36% of the san francisco's office space is sitting empty. all right, let's get to first alert weather. places like walnut creek enjoying one more day of temperatures in the 80s before things take a turn for the cooler. our meteorologist darren peck has

more on the big changes coming including rain. >> saturday, the rain gets here on saturday and widespread for the morning. just a little comparison on how dramatic the change will be. the day out those windows was spectacular. when you look at the day time highs for how we did there are a lot of numbers here that got into the 80s. san francisco did not get to 70. in some way it was a summer day. temperatures in the 60s in the city and temperatures in the lower 80s for concord and you can see livermore's number where the number was 83 degrees. all right, let's do the quick comparison, watch what happened for saturday and how much colder the numbers are going to be. most of them, upper 50s. the system that will do this cool down is coming with rain. for that, we will go quickly with the forecast imagery to give you the initial look at how the system is coming together and what it looks like in the pacific now. already, a lot better formed than it was yesterday. you see the spin in the clouds out there. the

forecast imagery fills in rain. we can play that forward. a hard left turn at the right and it has a hit on us. widespread rain saturday morning and that is just the start. i will see what the full forecast is for the weekend in just a bit. >> all right, thank you. o.j. simpson, the football star that became infamous during a murder trial died at the age of 76 after a battle with prostate cancer. he went on to be a star running back nicknamed "the juice" he played 11 seasons in the nfl, first with the buffalo bills and then the san francisco 49ers. he was then a successful sports broadcaster, movie star, ad pitch man n. june of 1994, many watched the police chase o.j. simpson. his ex-wife and her friend ron goldman were found stabbed together. simpson was accused of their murders. a

jury found him not guilty. simpson always maintained his innocence. it was revived by the goldman family after they got the rights to the book. he want to jail for robbery and then was patrolled. before all of that he grew up in san francisco. he and his sister were raised at a housing project. even his sports career has san francisco roots, playing football in high school, graduating in 1965. four years later, foot annual from our archives showed he returned to visit the school. before he went on to usc he first attended city college of san francisco. we caught up with a friend of the simpson family who said that o.j. simpson succeeded despite a tough early life in one of san francisco's poorest neighborhoods. >> not out of wealth not with a silver spoon but with a belief

if you apply yourself, work hard, you can become manage great and he did. >> there are several members of the simpson family still living in san francisco. they asked for privacy. younger generations may only remember the trial and what happened after, but for so many o.j. simpson had been a hero. vern glenn joins us with some perspective. vern? >> if you were my generation, growing up, playing running back through the 1970s you wanted to be o.j. simpson. he was the guy. he is why i wore his number, 32, all through high school. they called me the juice, his nickname with the buffalo bills, i was not exactly o.j. on this particular play that had like no game yardage. this is 8mm film, i wore 32 from 8th grade on. o.j. was the dominant back at the time. first to surpass 2,000

yards in a single season. all right, now, back to o.j. simpson, he was smooth, he was fast, he could shift and run and won the trophy in usc. he was the only reason to watch the buffalo bills. he ran fast but looked like he was gliding through defenders. every time he touched the ball he was threat to break a big one. you wanted his ability, you wanted his flair, america fell in love with him. movies, television shows, number one pitch man in america. remember those hertz super star and rent a car commercials that was o.j. running through, hurling luggage. if you can imagine we used to hurdle luggage at home pretending to be him doing those commercials. you just wanted to be like o.j. he was a god to us when we were kids and then fast forward to 1994, the

white ford bronco, the police chase, every came personally down. >> how do you pivot from him being your hero to a sports journalists and how you feel personally when you see the images of o.j. in the bronco? >> first came out, it split america. half cheering for him, half were like if he is running away from the police? if he is innocent why is he running away? i was kind of on that fence before all of the facts really truly kind of came out. even today, in fact i wrote on social media today, if it came up with his name, you get angry and then you are sad at the same time over what happened >> it is a heartbreak all around >> yes. bittersweet >> there you go, all right, vern, thank you. still ahead, four years after the start of the pandemic, state workers are still working from home but that is about to change. you can try your best but a lot of things that we throw away still can not be recycled in your regular bins, we will

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. state workers got a directive in a memo telling workers they need to be in the office two days a week starting in june. this impacts around 240,000 workers and it is a significant policy shift. since the start of the pandemic state workers have been able to set their own remote work policies. >> you know, our scientists have already stated is that this is going to have a negative impact on carbon emissions >> during covid everyone was ordered to work at home and it just killed the local businesses. >> the union that represents state workers says each state department must send the union a notice and meet with it before the workers can return to the office. all right, a lot ahead in our weather department, let's go right over to darren peck to have him explain it all, big

changes. yes, i am starting out with the virtual set. i don't have any of the monitors up, i don't have it in me to block the windows just yet. a gorgeous day. impressive to watch it here from our vantage point and no doubt being out in it. having done that we got to move on. satellite imagery we will put the in the big window over here. the storm developed off of the coast. not getting here until saturday. tomorrow, 15 degrees cooler. before that thing even gets here it is transported enough cooler air here then. we are in the middle 60s for day time highs after your lower 80s. that is what the system looks like. recognize it? you have your cold front there, your center right there. that is what will bring in the chance for the thunderstorms, let's come in closer and take a slow detailed look. you can get a few showers as early as tomorrow night. friday in the leading edge of this like 10:00 at night at the

north bay. not much. primarily a story of saturday morning like right out of the gate. midnight going through 7:00 a.m. that is when that swath of the steady rain moves over the majority of the bay. if you look on here watch what happens, getting more impressive. look at that grow there. so, snow level down to 3,000 feet. more on that at this time. i will show you how much to get. cold enough to snow. that is the end of phase one. we probably get half an inch between midnight and here late morning when we get a break. then, the midsection of the storm comes in and this is where you get your isolated on-again, off-again showers, there will be a lot of that to our south. every once in awhile it the grace the coast there is one coast side. then, there you are, saturday night, there is a better complex of them coming over head. saturday night could be fairly active in terms of isolated scattered thunderstorms. and, rain that

will stay with us. then, on sunday, we will take a step back, watch this, we are looking throughout sunday into the afternoon here. there is just a few scattered showers left over. sunday's rain not much. we have to keep rain in the forecast on sunday because the system is just, it is still close enough and has a chance to give us light showers, sunday is the much better day of the weekend than saturday. close to an inch of rain in san francisco. these numbers, look at santa cruz, san jose will get an inch. i don't see records getting broken but it is close. these totals are close but not getting there. and, we could potentially see as much rain in the two day period that we would typically get on average. there is a little perspective. look at the cold air. this is just so telling. how dramatic the changes are going to be. that amount of cold air coming, watch light snow amounts on mount hamilton. one last thing, the snow will come in the morning, saturday, and there would not be big totals. in

addition that we are back to this image that shows us where the storm prediction centers are at. small chance for thunderstorms there in the bay area. saturday, 10-20% chance of them. that is the saturday time frame that we were looking at a moment ago. that covers everything that this tropical storm is throwing our way. hard to say good-bye to that day out there. by the time we get to tuesday and wednesday next week. day time highs will not be in the 80s by then. let's see where they will be by the time they get to tuesday next week. lower 70s. still above average. by a couple of degrees. it not the 82, 83 day that you just had. of course, here is the headline in the forecast, our two rainy days with the majority of this coming, the first half of saturday and then the complexes of heavier showers, maybe occasional thunderstorms saturday evening. all right, back to you. plastic bags coming back to

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service that hopes to fill the gaps. >> reporter: early mornings when juan heads to his truck, the young man already feels inspired. >> noticeable that the work that we are doing is making a difference. >> reporter: a big difference by diverting waste to the landfill. >> a lot of progress towards a better future like a better, i guess, mind set towards recycling and where your trash is going. >> reporter: he works for ridwell, now his business is booming. >> my drivers are doing 50-120 stops a day. that is a 10 hour day. four days a week. >> he aims to keep hard to recycle items and reusable stuff out of landfills, it is a daunting task, reports show only 32% of waste is properly recycled or composted. most ends up rotting in the dump that creates methane, a potent greenhouse gas. >> a lot of people, myself

included. are recycles things that could not be recycled. maybe feel guilty that perhaps a whole recycling load will be ruined because something was in there that should not have been. >> reporter: she uses it to augment her service. she demonstrates how it works. >> little bags are all labeled, let's you know what can go in. >> reporter: sorting items into different cloth bags. >> a lot of things that can not be recycled in our normally recycling stream. light bulbs, batteries, we can take it to hazardous waste but it is an extra trip. this is picked up at the how news she places the bags into a small outdoor bin. that is where workers retrieve them. he takes the sacks, returns to his truck and sorts each bag into its proper bin. >> i got a text that says i did it, i am saving the world one plastic bag at a time

>> if there is a partner that can reuse it, recycle it, we will seek it out and pick it up at people's doorsteps. >> reporter: he works with local, regional partners to find solutions that will breathe new life into the waste. take for example plastic bags that do not go into most recycling bins. >> it is a piece of trex. this is what the film gets picked up from. we pick it up, take to our warehouse and put it in bails and send it down to where it gets turned into this material that a lot of people use to make decks out of. >> reporter: on special days, collecting reusable household items, some are dropped off at a place called make it home >> the best goodies we are getting from rid well, a lot of kitchen utensils and we get a lot of pots and pans and bakeware and kitchen items that are expensive to purchase and hard to recycle. >> reporter: each year americans throw more than 12

million tons of furniture into landfills >> we are serving holeless to home, we are serving people who have survived domestic violence. we are serving foster kids aging out. >> reporter: ridwell cost dollars 14 to $24 a month. it is well worth it >> i think it is worth it to pay for it on top of the existing city waste pick up because i know that there are more things that are being kept out of the landfill that way. >> hoping to make a difference one pick up at a time. >> ridwell says in the past five years it shows it diverted 20 million tons from going into the landfill. for more information go to kpix.com. san jose is making it easier to report abandoned cars or street hazards the mayor can call 311 and they streamline the process for faster response times. callers can track their requests on the 311 app or

website. >> far too often these complaints have been sent to the wrong department or passed around like a hot potato until they got to the right person if they did. we can do better >> the mayor says all reported abandoned vehicles will be cross-checked with a list of stolen cars. coming up, a polite rescue victim. what this driver said to rescuers - lift the clouds off of... - virtual weather, only on kpix and pix+.

. new video, a sheriff's helicopter pulled a woman out from the bottom of a ravine. the woman's vehicle plunged from the highway. she was so apologetic while being brought back to higher ground. >> i am so sorry for all of this trouble. >> no, no trouble at all.

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