Terms like "off the charts" and "record breaking" are being used to describe the coming "super" El Niño that is taking shape in the Pacific.

Nothing is for certain when it comes to these predictions, but the forecast models are reportedly lining up and showing meteorologists a dramatic picture of what could be a record-busting El Niño season that will put the super El Niños of 1997-98 and 2015-16 to shame, not to mention 2022-23 which wasn't even that "super."

As the Chronicle weather team tells us today, and as they have been saying for a couple of months, temperatures below the surface in parts of the Pacific Ocean are currently 7 percent above normal in some places, which is "more heat at this stage of an El Niño’s development than has been observed in the modern record."

And atmospheric scientist Paul Roundy, who is based at the State University of New York at Albany, tells the paper that "a strong El Niño event [is] a virtual certainty," at this point, and he has it officially forecast as a 50 percent chance of being the strongest El Niño in 140 years.

What does this mean for Northern California? Well, the strongest El Niños on record here, in the winters of 1982-83 and 1997-98, meant we saw double the usual amount of rainfall here, and Australia meanwhile saw more extreme heat and drought during their summer.

The intensity of the warming that is going on in the Pacific could shift the direction of storms as well

A super El Niño was also predicted for the winter of 2023-24, and while that winter was indeed wet in the Bay Area, it was nothing compared to 1997-98, showing the variability in these events. That was the season of Hurricane Hilary, however, which hit in August 2023 and primarily affected Southern California and the Desert Southwest.

Warming surface temperatures in the Pacific could make for late summer or fall cyclones like that, as well.

The doomsday scenario would be rains on the level of the winter of 1861-62, considered a 200-year flood event which happened 165 years ago. During that winter, back-to-back storms created inland lakes in California's Central Valley, flooding the new state capital of Sacramento — meaning that the capital temporarily moved to San Francisco — and causing catastrophic damage.

Tulare Lake, which emerged in the winter of 1861-62, re-emerged during the last El Nino season, in February/March 2023, with experts suggesting that this could happen again in wet seasons to come.

Will we see a replay of that, but worse, this fall and winter? We'll see!

At the very least, you may want to stock up early on sandbags if you have a below-grade garage, or any flood-prone areas.

Two San Jose parents were found guilty of second degree murder Friday in the 2023 overdose death of their 18-month-old daughter Winter.

A Santa Clara jury delivered a guilty verdict to Derek Vaughn Rayo, 29, and Kelly Gene Richardson, 31, of San Jose, in the death of their 18-month-old daughter Winter in August 2023, as KTVU reports.

As SFist reported in 2024, drugs were found scattered throughout the home, and Winter had 74 nanograms per milliliter of fentanyl in her bloodstream — 25 times the lethal dose. She also had 30 nanograms per milliliter of methamphetamine in her system.

Rayo and Richardson reportedly neglected to call 911 until more than 11 hours after her death, explaining to investigators that they wanted to grieve her death before her body was taken away.

The jury found the couple guilty of second-degree murder, along with numerous child endangerment felonies and enhancements — the first verdict of its kind in Santa Clara County, according to KQED.

Both Rayo and Richardson could receive a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in prison.

As previously reported, another couple lived at the residence at the time, Phillip Ortega and Paige Vitale, who were Rayo and Richardson’s alleged dealers. Ortega’s murder case is pending, and Vitale, who also initially received a murder charge, was later charged with felony drug possession and misdemeanor child endangerment.

This is the second such case in which Ortega had been charged with murder, as he also allegedly provided the drugs that led to the May 2023 fentanyl overdose death of Phoenix Castro.

Previously: Murder Charge Dropped for One Housemate In Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler, Trial Proceeding for Two Others

Photo of Winter Rayo via Facebook

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• California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that hospitals throughout the state that serve low-income families will soon be offering 400 free diapers to new babies. [KPIX]

• Scientists have figured out that the purple waves that appeared along the Point Reyes coast last weekend were most likely doliolids, tiny gelatinous marine animals that typically live further offshore in warmer water. [Chronicle]
• Flights departing and arriving between 8 am and 11 pm at San Francisco International Airport Friday have been experiencing delays averaging around 70 minutes, due to decreased visibility from low cloud coverage. [NBC Bay Area]

National:

• The US is sending a repatriation plane to retrieve the 17 Americans stuck onboard the cruise ship that’s plagued by a hantavirus outbreak. They’ll be taken to a special biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center upon their return to the US. [CBS News]
• Predictably, people are now placing bets on prediction markets speculating on how large the hantavirus outbreak will get. Users have wagered about $3 million on Polymarket, with pools accepting bets until the end of the year. [Fast Company]
• South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace, who’s a member of the House Oversight Committee, says she obtained evidence that several former members of Congress settled sexual misconduct and harassment claims over the past decade, totaling more than $338,000 of taxpayer money. [ABC News]

Video of the Day:

As previously mentioned, House candidate Saikat Chakrabarti has been taking interviews with online content creators alongside traditional media outlets in an effort to gain name recognition. Here, he discusses regulating the AI industry with local creator Diana Regan. (Apparently, Tung Tung Tung Sahur, which is referenced in the video, is Italian brain rot.)

Image: Leanne Maxwell/SFist

The man hired to help hold the SF Sheriff’s Department accountable has faced repeated recent law enforcement encounters, parole violations, and allegations of violence against women, which he consistently denies or attributes to bias, misunderstanding, or retaliation.

William Palmer was appointed to the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board in 2021 to help monitor jail conditions and hold sheriff’s deputies accountable, and he now serves as its president. As on other city boards, Palmer serves as a member with "lived experience" of the agency it is overseeing — he was imprisoned for decades for a crime he committed as a teen, and released in 2019.

Since joining the oversight board, Palmer has repeatedly cycled through the same system he was appointed to oversee — at times invoking his position to avoid arrest, while consistently denying responsibility for nearly every incident, as detailed in recent investigations by the Chronicle and the Voice of San Francisco.

In once incident highlighted by the Chronicle, Palmer was pulled over in the Tenderloin for driving with expired registration, and he can be seen on bodyworn camera footage introducing himself to a police officer as "President William Palmer" of the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board, and refusing to hand over his license.

Over the last several years, women have reportedly accused Palmer of assault, strangulation, stalking, intimidation, and sexual violence in multiple incidents. He has also faced allegations involving parole violations, unauthorized international travel, violent altercations, and secretly recording women on BART. Some of these cases were dismissed, while others were never fully prosecuted.

But across many of the incidents, Palmer’s response tends to follow the same pattern.

Repeatedly, Palmer has described accusations against him as misunderstandings, false claims, retaliation, or examples of society unfairly targeting Black men and formerly incarcerated people, according to the Voice of SF. Even when incidents involved police reports, surveillance footage, medical records, or parole write-ups, Palmer consistently denied wrongdoing or shifted blame elsewhere.

In one of the most serious cases, a woman accused Palmer of assaulting and sodomizing her inside his apartment after he picked her up near the Mission District in 2023. According to court records, medical staff documented injuries consistent with strangulation and assault, while surveillance footage reportedly matched parts of her account. Prosecutors later dropped the charges after concerns emerged involving the witness’s credibility in a separate incident, though the district attorney stated the dismissal did not prove Palmer was innocent.

Per the Voice of SF, Palmer publicly described the dismissal as vindication.

In another incident, a former girlfriend accused Palmer of punching her while she was driving, throwing her phone out the window, taking her keys, slamming her onto concrete, and biting her ear. Palmer claimed she was actually the aggressor.

Parole officers also reportedly documented violations involving unauthorized travel and other conduct issues, though several incidents resulted in little or no additional punishment.

Even smaller encounters appeared to follow a similar script. During a traffic stop last year over expired registration tags, Palmer repeatedly identified himself to sheriff’s deputies as president of the oversight board while questioning why he had been stopped and suggesting he was being targeted.

The Chronicle reports that the situation has led several city supervisors to call for Palmer’s resignation or removal from the board, while fellow commissioners have accused him of hostile behavior and failing to carry out his responsibilities.

Supporters of Palmer’s appointment argue that formerly incarcerated people deserve representation in oversight spaces and that lived experience matters in criminal justice reform, but lived experience alone doesn’t replace accountability.

“The first time he gets himself in trouble, he gets the benefit of the doubt,” said Damon Cooke, founder of the reentry nonprofit Uncuffed Project, speaking to the Chronicle. “But when a pattern emerges, when it happens multiple times, then you have to start looking at him instead of the system.”

And, as Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman tells the paper, regarding Palmer's fitness to serve on the oversight board, "Lived experience is one thing. Current experience is another."

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Polenta debuts in Alamo Square, Del Popolo slings its final (non-frozen) pies, and the East Bay's takeout staple Grégoire opens in the Inner Sunset, all in This Week In Food.

The big food world news this week was the closing of Ama and Café Sebastian in the building adjacent to the Transamerica Pyramid that has been named Three Transamerica Plaza. Chef Brad Kilgore's restaurants have only been open a short while — Ama for just seven months — but after the tower and the adjacent buildings were sold in February, it sounds like the new owner wanted the businesses out and jacked up the rent.

Also now closed as of a few weeks ago, but just confirmed this week, is Hamburger Project's Mission location. The Divisadero original location remains open, and the team says that the Mission restaurant — in a notoriously cursed restaurant space — had not found enough traction with diners.

SFist earlier reported on the opening, at long last, of Polenta, at 803 Fillmore Street in Alamo Square. The Friulian restaurant features a menu of specialties from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, along with an all-Friulian wine list. The place is still in soft-opening mode, and does not have a website, but you can reserve by phone at 415-875-9404.

Del Popolo's final night of serving pizza on Nob Hill is tonight, and the Chronicle sat down to talk this week with owner and acclaimed pizzaiolo Jon Darsky about his decision to close. Despite the restaurant still doing good business, Darsky has decided to focus on expanding the frozen pizza business he launched during the pandemic, hopefully nationwide. He also reveals that he, his wife, and two sons relocated to Los Angeles in 2019, which has meant him commuting up to SF every other week or so to oversee the restaurant, as well as his SoMa frozen pizza production facility. His likely next move is to open a much larger production facility elsewhere in California or out of state.

The almost 52-year-old Pacific Café in the Richmond District is for sale, and it may close by the end of summer unless a buyer emerges. As the Chronicle reports, the restaurant, known for its classic seafood dishes and complimentary wine pours, is on the market for $195,000, as co-owners Frank Gundry and Ross Warren are planning to retire.

Tablehopper brings word of the opening of Qua o La, a new wine bar at 1318 Grant Avenue in North Beach that is serving primarily Croatian and Italian wines "with a focus on family-run [wineries] and women producers." They're also serving some Croatian food, including sausages, salumi, and burek. And tonight (May 8) is Chevape night, celebrating the Croatian staple mincemeat sausage known as chevape or cevapi.

And we missed this opening in recent months, but East Bay upscale takeout staple Grégoire, which has locations in Berkeley and Oakland, has opened a San Francisco location in the Inner Sunset, at 9th and Irving. Chef Grégoire Jacquet tells the East Bay Express that he received over 150 franchise applications since announcing franchise opportunities two years ago, and he finally found a franchisee he wanted to work with. A shared commissary kitchen provides food for all three restaurants, and Jacquet has hopes for dozens more franchise locations in Northern California. See the current spring menu here, and don't sleep on those potato puffs.

Chronicle associate critic Cesar Hernandez has a review this week of Oakland's Snail Bar, the once white-hot wine bar and restaurant in the Temescal district where chef-owner Andres Giraldo Florez has recently left the kitchen in the hands of a young new chef after moving to France. That chef, Louisiana-born Zachary Breaux, has kept the menu interesting and impressive, Hernandez writes, with some excellent beef tongue croquettes, and an "unbelievably sticky" pig skin ragu lasagna, and the vibe at the place is still very much the same.

Photo courtesy of Del Popolo

Ray of Light Theatre, the local musical-obsessed theater group that has performed mostly at the Victoria Theater in the Mission District for much of its 25 years of existence, has a new home downtown.

As of last week with the opening of Mean Girls, the Musical, Ray of Light Theatre has been entertaining audiences in the newly refurbished Barbary Stage — aka the former single-screen movie theater next to the Safeway at 215 Jackson Street, which most recently was home to the now defunct 42nd Street Moon theater group.

There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Barbary Stage last week, presided over by former SF Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger and state Senator Scott Wiener.

"To be opening a new theater is... truly extraordinary," Wiener said at the event. "And it needs to become less extraordinary, because we need more art, not less."

Ray of Light renovated the theater with the help of donations from its fans and subscribers, expanding the size of the stage, installing new lighting, and remodeling the lobby and restrooms — adding historical photos of the Jackson Square and "Barbary Coast" areas to the lobby.

Purple hues now cover the walls and floors of the restrooms and lobby, with black accents and gold bathroom fixtures. And as the Chronicle reports, a new platform has been installed above the stage for the orchestra, making them visible during shows.

"Twenty-five years ago I started Ray of Light because I wanted a home — for the theater kids, the observers, the people who grew up feeling everything and needed somewhere to put it," wrote Ray of Light's founding Artistic Director Shane Ray at the outset of the project. "I wanted a place in SF where we could put passion, danger, hilarity, and rebellion on stage (often all at once)  and not be precious about it; a place where audiences could have a great time and still walk out changed. We’ve built every show on volunteer labor and love, and after two and a half decades of making this work in other people's spaces, we are building something permanent, a home of our own."

"The Barbary Stage is a bet that what made this city iconic isn't gone yet — just looking for a room," Ray adds.

The Jackson Square neighborhood, as the Chronicle points out, is now home to multiple AI startups (and also former Apple product designer Jonny Ive's design firm that got acquired by OpenAI), but Ray of Light is hoping to fit right in.

"This is an opportunity to meet people in this neighborhood where they’re at and say, ‘OK, maybe that’s your work life. We’re down the street,’” says Artistic Associate Jenn Bevard, speaking to the Chronicle. “It feels ripe with a sense of possibility — not like we’re at odds with the community."

And the all-volunteer leadership team of Ray of Light Theatre says that they're glad to be downsizing from the Victoria in terms of seating capacity, with the Mission District theater seating 480, and the new Barbary Stage seating 199, making for a better sized and more intimate theater-going experience.

Mean Girls runs through May 30, and you can find tickets here. And Ray of Light's 2026 season will continue in August with Urinetown, and in October with the Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon a One More Time.

Safeway recently eliminated handles on its paper bags, citing supply chain shortages, but after receiving complaints, the company has since restocked the original bags with handles at some of its locations.

The customer backlash was reportedly swift over Safeway’s decision to switch to paper bags without handles. While Hollywood would like to believe that handleless paper bags persist throughout the ages, most people consider them a thing of the past. They’re a pain to carry, plain and simple.

As the Chronicle reports, Safeway's parent company Albertsons reconsidered its decision and announced that some stores have been re-stocked with the original bags with handles.

It’s unclear which Safeway stores are currently stocked with paper bags with handles, as the chain reportedly hasn’t released a list of which locations have begun carrying them again. Staff at one of the stores said they've been quickly running out whenever they're re-stocked, and most Bay Area locations are still stocked with mostly handleless bags, according to SFGate.

Albertsons said its initial decision to forgo handles on its paper bags was due to supplier issues. SFGate notes that an update to California’s plastic bag ban went into effect January 1, prohibiting plastic bags in stores in cities that previously didn't have bans.

Based on a report from KGO earlier this week, Safeway may still be allowed to carry heavy plastic bags with handles, as SF's local plastic bag ban, which is written differently, overrides state law.

Image: A Safeway supermarket shopping bag is seen in a domestic kitchen,  Lafayette, California, February 24, 2026. (Photo by Smith  Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Investigators continue to search the San Luis Obispo County home and backyard of Susan Flores, the mother of Paul Flores, who was convicted of killing fellow Cal Poly student Kristin Smart in 1996. And some gruesome evidence has been found.

On Wednesday morning, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department served a search warrant at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores, the mother of Paul Flores, who was convicted in 2022 of the murder of Kristin Smart. Smart's body has never been found, and investigators have long believed that Flores's parents likely helped their then-19-year-old son dispose of or hide the body.

Ruben Flores, the father of Paul Flores, was tried alongside his son for being an accessory to Smart's murder, however a jury acquitted him due to lack of evidence. Evidence was presented at the trial from a 2021 search of the backyard at Ruben Flores's home, in which investigators found traces of degraded human blood in the soil around what appeared to be a recently filled-in, six-foot-by-four-foot void underneath a back deck.

On Friday morning, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson gave a press conference offering an update from the ongoing search at Susan Flores's property.

"We believe that ... human remains were there at one time or [are] still there," Parkinson said. He explained that the investigative team was using the same ground-penetrating radar that had been used in the search at Ruben Flores's property, and soil testing was being conducted as well.

"I’m not going to go into the details, other than just to say with soil tests, it’s about the compounds in the soil that are related to a human, decomposing body," Parkinson said.

"I think it’s safe to say that we have not recovered Kristin yet," he said. "But our search goes on, and I don’t know how long we’re going to be there."

Parkinson spoke about law enforcement's frustrations with this case over the decades.

"I remember speaking to our investigative team at one point, saying 'We don't seem to ever get a break,'" Parkinson said. "Every time we think we have something, it collapses."

Parkinson also said that Susan Flores would not be permitted back into her home until they had concluded searching the property, and he was not sure when that would be.

"We plan to be there until we can walk away, either finding Kristin or all the evidence we can find, and moving to the next step," Parkinson said.

Smart went missing over Memorial Day Weekend in 1996 from the Cal Poly campus, about 16 miles from Arroyo Grande. Paul Flores was the last person seen with her, walking her back to her dorm after she left an off-campus party with friends seeming very intoxicated. Investigators have long believed that Flores assaulted or attempted to assault Smart in his dorm room, and killed her there, and then called his father for help getting rid of the body in the middle of the night.

It is not clear what new evidence in the case allowed detectives to obtain a new search warrant at Susan Flores's property, which had not been searched in over 20 years. The implication from both this and the search at Ruben Flores's property five years ago is that Smart's body may have been buried and moved multiple times since her murder.

One witness testified at trial to hearing Paul Flores bragging about killing Smart and burying her under his skate ramp at a different home in Huasna, a town due east of Arroyo Grande, where the Flores family had been living in the mid-90s.

Susan Flores has never been charged with a crime in connection with Kristin Smart's murder, but Parkinson confirmed that she has always been a person of interest in the case.

Previously: New Search Warrant Served In Kristin Smart Murder Case as Hunt For Remains Continues

Both the northbound and southbound lanes of 19th Avenue (Highway 1) in San Francisco are closed this weekend as Caltrans continues repaving the roadway.

While only the nortbound lanes were closed between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way two weekends ago, this weekend's closure includes all of the lanes, except for one that is being kept open for emergency responders and local residents reaching their homes.

The closure began at 3 am Friday and will continue until Monday.

Also, each morning this weekend from 3 am to 7 am, Lincoln Way will be closed to traffic at 19th Avenue, and drivers will be detoured to Irving Street.

Given that this will be a big weekend of events round the city, Caltrans is advising people to allow extra time, especially when traveling through the Richmond and Sunset districts.

"The Giants are in town this weekend so, you know, use your GPS and you know try to stay off 19th Ave unless you have to be here," says Caltrans spokesperson Matt O’Donnell, speaking to KRON4.

Work to resurface 19th Avenue has been ongoing since the fall, and the project will be continuing December.

The next closure on 19th Avenue will be happening over Memorial Day Weekend.

House candidate Saikat Chakrabarti is contending with being an outsider to the local political establishment by embracing creator-driven media and hosting other outside progressives at his rallies, including incendiary leftwing commentator Hasan Piker.

Former Stripe engineer and congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, who has spent millions of his own money on his campaign, is leaning into his outsider status both locally and within the Democratic Party as he tries to build name recognition in San Francisco politics, as Mission Local reports.

Chakrabarti has spent heavily on field operations, hiring paid canvassers to build name recognition through door-to-door outreach, while also leaning into what his campaign calls “new media” by doing interviews with online creators as well as traditional reporters.

A central theme of his campaign has been sustained criticism of the Democratic Party’s direction and what he describes as its failure to effectively confront Trump. As previously reported, those tensions reportedly prompted House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi to pressure Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to fire Chakrabarti as her chief of staff, creating an awkward situation where AOC declined to endorse him in the race.

On Thursday, Former New York congressman Jamaal Bowman appeared at the event, alongside progressive House candidates from New York City, Los Angeles, and Denver, all of whom are endorsed by Justice Democrats, a group Chakrabarti co-founded to help promote insurgent progressives in Democratic primaries, according to the Chronicle.

The biggest draw of the night though was Muslim content creator, Hasan Piker, whose commentary on Israel, US foreign policy, and other issues has drawn backlash from Jewish organizations and moderate Democrats. Chakrabarti and Piker have recently collaborated on campaign videos and policy discussions online, with Thursday marking their first public event together.

Piker, who has a large online following and streams for hours daily, compared Chakrabarti to New York Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani and invoked a Maoist slogan about inspiring “a thousand Zohrans” to emerge, per Mission Local. Chakrabarti told the crowd, “We ruffled some feathers with the Democratic establishment. And I’m glad we did.”

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In anticipation of Piker’s appearance, Supervisor Matt Dorsey reportedly introduced a resolution this week calling on the San Francisco Democratic Party to formally condemn Piker and reject what it describes as efforts to reshape the party around his political views.

Dorsey, who has described himself as a “self-proclaimed Zionist,” per Mission Local, has focused his criticism on Piker’s public comments about Israel, as well as other past remarks that have circulated widely online, including statements about 9/11 and a video in which Piker lashed out at a Vietnamese refugee supporting Donald Trump.

Piker has pushed back on those characterizations, saying his comments have been taken out of context and pointing to the pace and volume of his hours-long live streams.

Additionally, a counter-protest over Piker’s appearance was also planned Thursday, but Piker pointed out that not a single person showed up, as Mission Local reports. “They have the money and interest, but we have the people,” he said.

Per the Chronicle, Tiffaney Bradley, spokesperson for Chakrabarti’s campaign, responded to Dorsey’s resolution in a statement, arguing that the Democratic party is failing its constituents, citing dismal polling numbers and pointing to rising costs, global conflict, and what she described as an erosion of civil rights under an “authoritarian government.”

“The only option we have left is to use the democratic process to change our party, so if you see a rally of Democrats trying to inspire people to get involved as a threat — then you’re part of the problem,” Bradley said.

Related: Former Pelosi Staffer Says Chakrabarti Was Fired From AOC's Staff

Image: Hasan Piker attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Mark  Guiducci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026 in Los  Angeles, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

A man was shot early Friday by Oakland police officers in a strange incident that began with a traffic stop, and left both officers and the suspect injured.

The incident occurred in the area of Oakland known as The Blade, on the 1200 block of 9th Avenue, around 3:15 am Friday. Two Oakland police officers attempted to stop a suspect who was driving on the street, and as KTVU reports, the reasons for the stop have not been disclosed.

The officers say that they saw a gun "in plain view" in the suspect's car.

The Oakland Police Department says that the suspect then began "dragging one officer and pinning another between the suspect vehicle and a parked car."

One of the officers then fired his weapon, hitting the suspect, and leaving him with a non-fatal injury.

Both police officers and the suspect were hospitalized with injuries Friday morning.

KTVU reports that a white sedan was later seen at the scene, "with its nose parked on the sidewalk and crime scene tape surrounding it."

According to department policy, the two Oakland officers will now be placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident.

Last week, Oakland officials announced the launch of a new pilot program to install new street barriers on the side streets in The Blade, including 9th Avenue, to deter the sex-work trade and impede cars traveling on these streets. That program is set to begin in June, and those barriers are not yet installed.

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• A legionella outbreak linked to Kaiser's Santa Clara Medical Center in the South Bay has led to 18 people contracting the infection. Kaiser completed treatment of its water system Monday, as the illness is spread through inhaling mist from contaminated water. [KGO]
• Oakland police have charged 23 people so far in connection with the group of dirt bike and ATV riders who took over the Bay Bridge Sunday — four received felony charges and 19 were cited and released on misdemeanor charges. [KPIX]
• As Tahoe’s Sugar Bowl ski resort begins upgrading its cabins, the resort is selling its old, “classic alpine” style gondolas, which were built in 1953, for $10,000 each. [Chronicle]

National:

• The Trump administration has proposed a rule allowing people to send handguns to each other through the US mail for the first time since 1927. The rule only applies to mailing guns within state lines, as more restrictions apply to mailing guns outside state lines. [Associated Press]
• The US State Department will soon begin revoking the passports of US parents who owe more than $2,500 in child support, activating an old provision of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. [New York Times]
• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he doesn’t believe “people managers” hold any value in the future, nor those who “resist change.” [Fortune]

Video of the Day:

Be sure to catch one of the Top Chef Band’s famous front stoop sessions on Fillmore Street some time. SFist just might be listening to “Golf Clap” on repeat tonight.