now at 11:00, fast food employees at an east bay restaurant walk off the job after they say rats have been scurrying around the kitchen. plus, the robotaxi experiment has hit some snags in san francisco, but would you trade taking buses and b.a.r.t. for these driverless pods? >> imagine that this is going to be your daily commute. plus, legal pot dispensaries are struggling under the weight of the black market. >> instead of doing single dispensaries, our focus is on organized crime. >> we ride along with the cops cracking down on illegal operators. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs

news bay area. >> hello, i'm sara donchey. tonight disturbing allegations of a full-on rat infestation at an east bay fast food restaurant. some of the employees who work there say it was so bad they decided to walk off the job completely. today a group of workers picketed outside of franchised oakland mcdonald's on jackson street. the health department shut that restaurant down last week, but as lauren toms explain, the employees say they want some assurances before they go back to work. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: most days oscar ramirez is serving customers at this mcdonald's drive-thru in oakland, but today he's taping notices on that same facility, demanding change after he and other employees say a rat infestation has caused unhealthy conditions for employees and customers. >> i feel embarrassed, but what we can do, we can do anything.

>> reporter: for nearly a year, oscar says he's been ashamed to call attention to conditions inside this location on the corner of 14th and jackson that has been temporarily closed by the health department. scurrying feet, feces and urine, and indescribable stench of decaying rodents are just some of the scenes he's lived through just to earn a living. >> there are some containers where they put the sauces and sometimes the rat get into the containers. and sometimes you are going to get like a sauce and the rat came out. >> reporter: ramirez, along with five other workers from this mcdonald's, have declared a strike until the conditions are professionally cleaned. angelica garcia works in the prep kitchen. she says alongside rodents darting between appliances. >> the rat problem has progressed since i started my job here. we've seen dead

rats. the smell is terrible. the odor from their feces and urine, it's gotten us to this point where we're now speaking up. >> reporter: angelica stated, quote, i see rats in the kitchen every day. i see rats at the grill where we make the hamburgers. i've seen rats nibbling on pieces of bacon or hamburgers that are ready to be sent to customers. in the complaint are images of rats on what looks like kitchen equipment, including one rat that appears to be dead and surrounded by blood. the employee union also released video of rats scurrying across the kitchen. the workers are demanding a professional cleaning and want to be paid until the issue is resolved. we reached out to mcdonald's on friday, who gave us a statement from the location's owner/operator that said it's very important to me as a small business owner in oakland that my employees have a safe place to come to work. when we became aware of the issue, we immediately contacted pest control and continued to work

with them to address. oscar says he wants to return to work but has been scarred by what he's seen inside. for now he's hopeful the workers' voices will finally be heard. >> we reached out to mcdonald's again by email today with more questions about the allegations from the workers, but we have not heard back as of tonight. across the bay in san francisco, a teen was hit by a car during a police chase just outside of francisco middle school this morning. police say the driver struck another pedestrian earlier at jones and market and took off. officers then chased the suspect to north beach where he hit the 14-year-old girl near powell street. we talked to one woman who saw it happen as she was dropping off her grandson. >> i saw the child in the crosswalk. and at the time when i saw the crosswalk, i opened my door but before i could get out he had hit the child. i just broke down crying, because the way he hit her i thought, you know, maybe, you know, she wouldn't make it. >> police finally stopped the

driver at embarcadero and green and he was taken into custody. both victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threaten ing injuries. when you talk about autonomous vehicles in the bay area, you might think about some of the issues they've had, like cruise being banned in san francisco. driverless cars were meant as an alternative to rideshare, but would you take a driverless pod instead? as john ramos shows us, soon you'll be able to in the east bay. >> reporter: the county sponsored a technology fair at bishop ranch business park, which has autonomous shuttles cruising through its parking lots. on display was a driverless van for wheelchair-bound people and a self-driving semi-truck, but the star of the show was kept under wraps until the big reveal. >> imagine that this is going to be your daily commute. >> reporter: it's called a glydcar, an autonomous rolling

pod that can fit four people comfortably. it's been under development for several years at the testing facility at the old concord naval weapons station, and on this day the public got its first look at the finished product. >> we've designed so it the driver's experience is fantastic, and that really means we start reversing this trend that is there today of declining mass transit ridership. >> reporter: that decline has occurred as a post-pandemic public has turned away from crowded trains and buses that smell bad and feel unsafe. it's a major infrastructure project a 28-mile long enclosed roadway just for the glydcars stretching from brentwood through oakley and antioch and ending in pittsburg. they plan 56 pickup points and individual cars are summoned by riders using a phone app. and because the cars are only about five feet wide, the travel route can run alongside trail, railroad track, and streets without

removing any existing lanes. >> mass transit should be about moving lots of people in a short period of time in a very small footprint. >> reporter: the routes are designed to get people to and from major points of interest such as other transit systems, downtowns, and commercial centers. planners see this as a much cheaper way to expand transportation systems as the population grows. >> for example, in brentwood, they don't have access to b.a.r.t. they have to drive to the antioch b.a.r.t. station. we can use this system to extend b.a.r.t. all the way to brentwood. >> reporter: and as demand grows, the system can be expanded by simply adding more cars. >> so we might first start with five glydcars, and then as the system continues to expand, we might end up with 75 to 100 to be able to meet the demand that's in the network. >> reporter: antioch's mayor says they really have no choice with all the new housing being built, it's the only way to keep an already crowded highway 4 from becoming a gridlocked parking lot. and while the concept of autonomous public transit has always been an idea that is coming, in east contra

costa, it has already arrived. >> this is something that you can actually see and feel that will be reality in eastern contra costa county. >> reporter: the first section between brentwood and antioch is expected to be finished by 2027, a similar project by the same company is underway in san jose but officials say contra costa's will probably finish first because the roadway construction is less complicated in those open spaces. it is not hard to find a pot shop in the bay area. their storefronts are very visible. the story of their struggle against the black market, not so much. >> we exist specifically to deal with the illicit market. >> we ride along with the cops busting illegal operators in the north bay. things are about to get breezy. in fact, a wind advisory goes into effect just under two hours from now for much of the north bay. goes until 11:00 tomorrow morning. gusts up to 45 miles per hour

possible. those winds usually mean an elevated fire threat, but not this time around. thanks, paul. what better way to illustrate how bad the cicada invasion is in the u.s. than a theatrical reenactment? tonight -- >> stormy daniels took the stand to do what she does

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california and marijuana go hand in hand. the state has always been at the forefront of the legal cannabis market, but dispensaries here have a different struggle, competing with the illegal market. kenny choi joined a team of law enforcement officers cracking

down on illicit operations. . >> reporter: it's a challenge to draw in customers lately. nate hoss operates mo green's dispresencery and lounge in san francisco as co-owner and ceo. >> we're charging our customers way too much, and as a dispensary, it's tough for us to compete with the illicit market, or what we call the traditional market. >> reporter: that black market includes illegal grow operation, distribution, and unlicensed dispensaries. kevin is a command we are the california unified cannabis enforcement task force. >> we exist specifically to deal with the illicit market. >> reporter: ucetf officers raided what they say is an uncommon, unlicensed dispensary in downtown san rafael, serving a warrant, detaining two individual, and seizing all products. >> instead of doing single dispensaries, our focus is on organized crime. the more significant violations associated with the illicit

cannabis market, including trafficking, the tax evasion, weapons charges. >> reporter: the state task force has seized more than $53 million in illegal cannabis in the first quarter of this year and shut down several indoor operations in the bay area. >> it starts with the cultivators. there's a lot of indoor cultivation in the bay area, mostly run by chinese org nighed crime. >> reporter: legal dispensary owners like hoss are skeptical law enforcement can make enough of a department in the illegal market. they believe the only way to survive is if lawmakers slash taxes on cannabis products and more. >> if you tax them out of existence, which has happened to a lot of our growers and our manufacturers and distro, it's going to be very difficult for a lot of people to continue. >> check out the bud down there. >> reporter: a national survey conducted in 2022 by a cannabis industry research firm found fewer than one in four cannabis businesses are profitable. >> we want them to be successful, so in essence,

everything we do is either to protect the public or to support the legal market. generally those are the same thing at the same time. >> we keep cutting and cutting and cutting, obviously, you know, with all those cuts come, you know, just a tougher environment. >> reporter: hoss is optimistic despite the hurdles and challenges, it's not all going up in smoke just yet. >> in the next few month, we could see the federal government make cannabis a schedule three drug in the same class as drugs like ketamine and steroids that. change could make it easier for legal dispensaries to survivor. april was the world's hottest month on record to date. scientists warn there is a strong chance this year could end up the warmest year on record for the second year in a row. paul, we have some heat on the way here at home as well to discuss, right? >> we do. temperatures are going to be warming up significantly as offshore winds develop through the rest of tonight those offshore winds are kicking in. that usually means an elevated fire threat

with the low relative humidity the offshore winds bring and the warm temperatures but there's going to be some wildfire risk, specifically grass fire, because those fire fuels dry out quickly. overall the fire threat is modest with this particular event. above average temperatures are going to stick around far while, and there is a moderate heat risk for inland parts of the bay area past tomorrow. specifically looking at thursday and friday for that. talk about it momentarily. first let's talk about the humidity level, which aren't going to recover a whole lot as we head through the rest of tonight and the winds are going to pick up. you see the wind arrows in the background moving faster by early tomorrow morning, especially for the higher elevations of sonoma, napa, and solano counties. the lowest humidity levels tomorrow afternoon, the warmest part of the day, in the 15% range. we're around that. at that point, the winds, well, they're fairly strong. they're not as strong as they will be to start the day tomorrow. that's helping us out as well. not only do we have the moisture with the rain last weekend but the strongest winds, which are generally going to be around

just after sunrise and again on thursday, aren't going to overlap with the lowest humidity levels which will occur during the afternoon. keeping those two separate and factoring in that moisture we had with the rain over the weekend, that's all helping to keep the fire risk in check. not zero, but low, considering those strong offshore winds. right now temperatures dropping down into the 50s across the board. not a whole lot of variation. 53 in livermore. 58 degrees for warm spots in concord and in santa rosa. we'll see a mix of upper 40s and low 50s on the map by early tomorrow morning, which is pretty close to normal for this time of year. high temperatures are well above normal. let's take a look at forecast highs for wednesday afternoon. again, the peak of the warmth isn't going to reach inland until thursday and friday. temperatures are already in the low 80s in the santa clara valley, low to mid-80s inland the the east bay, and temperatures in and around the bay toasty as well. around 80 for fremont and redwood city. even along the coast, half moon bay, you've missed out on the last few spells, but tomorrow you manage to climb into the upper 60s. should be more of the same on wednesday. upper

70s in san francisco with temperatures around 80 degrees for oakland and temperatures mostly in the low 80s inland in the north bay as well. now again, the warmest temperatures are going to arrive for inland parts of the bay area beginning on thursday and that's when that moderate heat risk is going to spread out a little bit. but that is only the second category so. we still have two others lead to a greatn of over exertion for folks who are not used to the heat. it's just the most sensitive, the elderly, the ill, or the very young, who may have issues with the weather whiplash we've had. temperatures rapidly climbing after winter-like temperatures over the weekend. and now a taste of summertime beginning tomorrow, thursday, and friday. but even on friday when inland temperatures are going to peak, we're talking about temperatures still about five to ten degree ace way from record territory. so it's not going to be out of control hot for this time of year, but it is just kind of that whiplash effect, considering we had temperatures running 15 to 20 degrees below average on saturday. now we're running 15 to 20 degrees above average for the end of the workweek. inland temperatures will back down a little bit by sunday, monday,

and tuesday but still a few degrees above normal into early next week. temperatures around the bay will drop off a little faster. the onshore breeze returns beginning on friday, and that drops us back to near average temperatures for the weekend and into next week with a little bit of cloud cover returning by sunday, monday, and tuesday as the marine layer gets deeper and the fog and low cloud cover becomes a bit more prevalent already along the coast beginning on friday but especially over the weekend as temperatures along the coast return to familiar territory right around 60 degrees, which is exactly normal for the middle of may, vern? all right, straight ahead in sports tonight, we got a glimpse of the future for the san jose sharks. and this guy has a local tie. plus, kyle harrison little oxygen before he was dealing a mile high at the rockies.

i don't know if we can say it's the start to the season anymore, we're in it and going, but it hasn't been the smoothest for the giants so far. >> giants needed this one tonight. >> they did. >> i mean, for their own mental health they needed this to happen. you don't see this very much in downtown denver, sara, not so much the giants triumph, it's how it happened. you just don't see shutouts at coors field. now, look at giants pitcher kyle harrison taking that oxygen. 5,280 feet high at the rockies and how he went out and allowed just four

hits. seven shutout innings. couple of strikeout, needed just 86 pitches in a ballpark known to kill pitching. and the alarm went off for the giants bats as they came alive. ten hits. already up 2-0 in the fourth. lamonte wade jr. got through and brought in two more. giants won it 5-0. they got a record of 16-21 as they stopped a four-game skid. meantime, over at the coliseum, what a day for el cerrito native marcus semien. led off the game with a home run and then for the rangers, did this. doubled in two home runs to cap off a ten-run inning. the former a was 4 for 5 with 5 rbi, and the rangers won it 15-8. oakland now 17-20, has lost three straight. good old fashioned bay area

grudge match, oakland roots in white against the earthquakes. scoreless in the 76th minute. oh, buda, what a shot. lone goal of the match. quakes won it 1-nil, they'll be back to mls play against colorado this saturday. nba playoffs, sara's favorite player, luka doncic, really, had his hands full of the thunder. look out, it's 7'0" chet holmgren who cut through. 117-95, o kc hosts game two on thursday. not hockey night, hockey day for the san jose sharks. front and center at the nhl's draft lottery. >> the first overall selection in the 2024 nhl draft belongs

to the san jose sharks. >> for the first time in franchise history, the sharks will have the number one pick in the nhl draft. expected to be 17-year-old maclin out of boston university. maclin's father is a warriors team doctor, rick. so if he wants to stay bay area red, he could always stay with his parents. >> have you been on zillow every night saying, where am i going to live? >> no. >> no? >> wait, what's zillow? >> oh. my goodness. >> can you imagine you work hard for most of your teen years and, bam, you're the number one pick in the draft, much like you're the number one pick when it comes to pickup basketball, i'm guessing. where they choose teams. >> oh, no, and doncic sounds like he's related to me, but he's not my favorite player. >> just wanted to clear that. >> we do sort of sound like

cousins. now fans have a home team to cheer on. the oakland ballers. their first game is a month away. cbs news bay area now has an exclusive partnership with the team. you sat down with the ballers new manager, right? >> i sure did. and it's not like this guy learned the game out of a book, i mean, he played in the show for the cardinals. just a few weeks, you're going to get it going out here. >> we're going to get it going, man. it's amazing. they put this field together quick. i mean quick. i came down here about a month ago, and man, it was just a lot. and now all of a sudden it's getting going. i have goose bump, we're about to start. >> hey, you could be the answer to a trivia question. the skipper of the team that followed the team, huh? >> no doubt, no doubt. that would be pretty cool. four, five, six years, ten years from now look on the board, who was the skipper of the oakland ballers when they first started, you know, that's pretty cool. >> reporter: 48 home games here, we have an agreement to air nine of them, but before

all that happens, you got training camp coming up, are you ready for your clubhouse speech coming up this weekend? >> oh, i'm ready. i've been ready for a while now. >> reporter: what's your message going to be? what are you going to demand? >> oh, we're going to demand -- i want to come out and i want to kick some butt and have fun. and i want to put on a show for the fans. and that's what it's about. number one is the fans here. >> reporter: you're going to get the die hard baller fan, you're going to get the curiosity fan, you've got to hook the fringe fans. what brand of baseball are you going to bring to get 5,000 a game? >> i'm a little more new school, but at the same time i'm old school with hit-and-run, stealing bases, nonstop with the old ricky, i love ricky, one of my favorite players ever. so we are going to do all that, but you're also going to see the jazzes of

the world, when we hit a home run, we're going to celebrate. we strike you out, we're going celebrate. we're going to have the fans celebrate with us. we're going to bring the fans in with us and they're going to be on the field with us participating with us right here. and it's going to be a whole group effort when we play. >> reporter: all right, last one from me, how's the merch going? i know it's flying off the shelves. >> oh, merch flies off the shelves, no doubt. they did a hell of a job putting the merch together. it's sweet. it's sweet. >> reporter: all right. agrandsonive brand of baseball. you're going to make it fun, have fun, make it fun for the crowd out there. oakland ballers baseball. >> oakland ballers baseball, come on out and watch us. we will put on a show for you and we will be here for you. we are here in the town. >> all right, that's the skipper. hey, he's a bay area guy himself, lincoln high school hoar in the city. >> all right, vern, so starting next month we are going to be broadcasting nine friday night home games on pix+, 44 cable 12, the first televised game is on friday, june 7th. looking forward to that. it is the public service announcement no one asked for

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here, but the impending invasion -- >> thank god. >> -- but the impending invasion of cicadas in other parts of the u.s. is kind of a big deal. >> gross. >> yeah. as jeanne moos shows us, people are calling this viral video both educational and unhinged. >> reporter: it's the next best thing -- >> same block out of this or going to take a break, okay. >> reporter: -- to having a cicada crawl on you -- >> oh. oh my god. >> reporter: -- to prepare illinois residents the for thrumming 17-year cicada invasion that's about to occur. >> and emerge when the temperatures are right. it's roughly around 64 degrees soil temperature. >> reporter: employees from the dupage county forest preserve -- >> and they will crawl out of their exoskeletal shell. >> reporter: -- recreated the life cycle of cicadas. >> their wings become this

really bright orange. >> reporter: complete with red eyes and cardboard and cellophane wings -- >> the males will crawl up to the tops of the trees and start singing to attract mates. >> reporter: jennifer played the lead female cicada in a video she describes as -- >> really cheesy and, you know, kind of low quality but intentionally so. >> she will flick her wings at him and they will mate. >> reporter: the video went viral. this is cicada gold, educational and unhinged. everyone's favorite part was an insect pickup line. >> say girl, if i was a fruit fly, i'd land on you first because you're so sweet. >> reporter: the female lays eggs on a branch, kissing them good-bye, they hatch, portrayed with dazzling special effects. what was your whole budget for this thing? >> basically zero dollars. >> reporter: they snack on tree

sap then fall back to earth. >> they'll start burrowing into the ground. >> reporter: where they feed on plant roots. 17 years later they reemerge. the only thing missing? you guys didn't reenact the mating. >> no, we kind of skipped right over that part. >> reporter: a cicada rom-com minus the sexy parts. >> thank god for that. >> what could they do in our virtual reality set? >> oh my. >> we lower the lights. >> little music. >> put a little music on. i actually hasn't seen that reporter clip where the cicada landed on him. and i was truly horrified. >> so i lived in tennessee for almost ten year, and they are everywhere now. >> they are disgusting. >> there is a viral video out there of a reporter in the south who's about to do a stand-up and a fly zoomed right in his mouth. >> he works in houston, texas. nice guy. yeah, that was just -- okay, well, we are grateful to live here in the bay area.

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