Day Around the Bay: 80-Year-Old Pedestrian Fatally Struck In SF’s Inner Richmond

Local: 

• An 80-year-old pedestrian was killed near Rossi Playground Monday when a tow truck driver allegedly struck them in a crosswalk while turning right from Arguello Boulevard onto Anza Street. [Mission Local]
• Stanford organic chemist Song Lin, one of this year’s MacArthur “genius” fellows, has pioneered using clean electricity instead of toxic chemical reagents and expensive heavy metals to synthesize complex molecules for new drugs and materials. [NPR]
• Bay Area-based Mezzetta food company issued a voluntary recall of its 32-ounce jars of Golden Greek Peperoncini Saturday after a woman shared a video on TikTik of one of the jars with a dead rodent inside. [SFGate]

National:

• OpenAI unveiled new “dots” AI agents that can handle tasks such as scheduling, travel arrangements, budgeting and coding, with the ChatGPT-based agents initially aimed at professional and workplace users. The launch puts OpenAI in competition with Meta’s Muse, which is geared toward consumers, as well as Google’s Gemini Spark and other AI assistants entering the increasingly crowded market. [KPIX]
• Remnants of Hurricane Polo are bringing dangerous flooding to the Southwest, with evacuations ordered in parts of southern New Mexico after levees and dams were overwhelmed. The storm’s remnants are expected to spread heavy rain and flood threats across the central US through the week, with parts of Colorado, Texas, and the Plains facing particularly heavy rainfall. [Washington Post]
• The US military is expected to complete its withdrawal from Iraq Wednesday, ending a 12-year presence that began with the fight against ISIS after U.S. troops initially left the country in 2011. [ABC News]

Video: 

• Naomi "Nona" Hulme, the 92-year-old San Francisco transit rider featured in BART's recent ad campaign, died earlier this year after decades of using the transit system to stay connected with loved ones, and her family asked BART to share her story in her honor.