>> good evening to you. i'm live in pleasanton, the scene of a horrific crash, a family of four killed last night 9:00 when they were driving along foothill road. this is a dangerous stretch along foothill road. a lot of people say they've been calling for help along this stretch because people are going too fast. tonight we hear from people and the community about this accident. >> it's somber. i think whenever anything like this happens and it impacts the entire family, it's tragic. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening to you. i'm juliette goodrich here live in pleasanton. this is the scene of a heartbreaking crash. the community is paying their respects, a lot of them hearing what happened. a family of four was killed when they were driving along foothill road and you can see the tree their car slammed into last night at

9:00. two children, a mother and a father. now our chopper flew over the scene at foothill road near stoneridge drive where it happened around 9:00 last night. there was only one car involved. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused it to crash. again, there's only one car involved. investigators are still trying to piece it all together, but they do believe that speed may have been a factor. it appears the car lost control hitting a curb and then crashing into a large oak tree. this is an area where two lanes drop down to one and there is a curve. police say the two children were under the ages of 15 years old and at least one was a student in the pleasanton unified school district. we heard from the district spokesperson today. he said they are providing counseling for students on campus. >> it's tragic. i don't know how else to put it and we understand the human impact that it has on our families. so we want to do everything that

we can to support them and just want to make sure that students know that there are adults that care about them and that are here for them when and if they need. >> reporter: it's a small community and a lot of people drive along foothill road and they know just how dangerous it is. when we were getting the alerts last night there was a collision and a fatality, everyone was checking to make sure their kids and family members were okay and as it turns out, it was a family of four killed along this stretch. a lot of people have been coming by. you can see flowers left along the roadside here, foothill road. in the last half hour there were some neighbors that stopped by who knew the family. they didn't want to tell the family's name understandably because next of kin still needs to be notified. that may be family who lives out of the country. they told me they are heartbroken this happened to such a tight knit family here in pleasanton and others have been talking about

the difficult day. >> as a neighbor knowing both of them, their kids, we just wanted to come see, you know, take a moment of silence here and -- >> it's very shocking, you know, very nice person, always energetic and it was always a pleasure to work with him and talk to him and we used to have a lot of conversations. so it's really sad and tragic to kind of see this and hear this. >> reporter: our heart goes out to the neighbors, to family members, and to those who have come by who knew the family. this isn't the first time that a deadly accident happened along foothill road. it's happened years past. that's why this road has such a history here in pleasanton, especially for parents whose high school kids go to school

just down the road from here. in fact, it's a dangerous stretch where cars are known to speed. also most recently in 2019 a crash on christmas night killed twin teenage brothers and their friend. their car hit a power pole and slammed into a tree while going south on foothill near the castlewood country club. the three were students at dublin high school. foothill road was closed all night and part of today, but it has now reopened from this deadly crash that happened here. names have not been released because family, possibly living out of the country, has not been notified yet. we're still piecing all this together. obviously we'll have more insight from neighbors who live along this road. they've even signed some petitions saying they'd like to have more stop signs and more things that can be done to slow down this stretch and further down as you can see, cars just going by here. this is supposed to be what, 40 miles per hour and sometimes that's not the case. i should note even a lamp post was

knocked down in this crash, a light post. that's going to take out a lot of light in this area as well. sara, obviously a lot more to this story and a lot more personal stories we'll share in the 7:00 hour. we'll be covering this as it unfolds. back to you in the studio. >> very sad story. thanks for the update from pleasanton. other headlines now, san francisco's retail challenges have been a big part of the conversation about the future of the city. there's been a major wave of store closures downtown from the owner of the westfield mall walking away from the property to macy's announcing plans to close its iconic union square location. the tough environment has also led hundreds of small businesses to leave san francisco. the city is trying to offer resources to help the ones who are hanging on, but for many it's too little too late. anne makovec met a bay area native who packed up and moved her boutique to los angeles and isn't looking back. >> reporter: sasha darling

knows being a boutique owner has its ups and downs. >> so you really have to be okay with the unknown and be the kind of person that can quickly adapt. >> reporter: bell jar boutique started with a bay area girl from marin making a dream come true. >> i really wanted to open a boutique in my hometown that reflected my san francisco style and the style of all my girl friends. >> reporter: her store in the mission district was a success when it opened in 2007, but ten years later her landlord raised her rent from 3,000 to $8,000. >> we need a necklace. >> reporter: hundreds of businesses have left san francisco since sasha closed her boutique. then it was high rents cutting into profits. more recently, concerns about crime and lack of foot traffic since the pandemic. about half of the stores in the city's downtown have closed since 2019, so much so that rents, back down. this fast year the san francisco office of small business added a commercial leasing specialist, offering free advice to business owners

dealing with wild swings in rent. they offer a variety of free services from help with permits to marketing, hoping to keep small businesses in the city. >> we know how important they are and many of the business owners are very good at their craft and what they do and there are some other areas where perhaps they need a little bit more assistance from and that's where we come in to assist. >> reporter: but it's too late for bell jar boutique. sasha moved her business to los angeles. >> business is definitely a lot better than it was in san francisco. >> reporter: before her san francisco shop closed, sasha opened another bell jar in l.a.'s los felice neighborhood. she planned to run it remotely. >> i hadn't spent much time in l.a. and being from the bay area i had a prejudice against it from being like superficial. >> reporter: but a change of scenery opened her mind. she rented a small apartment for a third of her rent in the city and stuck around to take care

of the new shop. >> i still have my house in san francisco, but i just found myself spending like 70% of the time here and like 30% of the time in san francisco. >> reporter: after dealing with the ups and downs of property prices, she bought a new house, the perfect accessory for her new life in l.a. >> we were curious as to what happened to sasha's old storefront in the mission district back in san francisco. now it's a comic book shop specializing in lgbtq material called sour cherry comics on 16th near valencia near where the owner lives. shem says opening it has become a dream come true. >> we're excited to be here and our sales have improved like year after year. it's just everything's very expensive. so we are hopeful that we can stay in the same place. >> so the store has been open about two years. her current

lease is about to end. she hopes to expand to an online store in the future, but right now she says she can only employ two people one day a week each. meantime mayor london breed is back from her trip to china and making a visible push to fight for her job. she's in the middle of a tough reelection fight with several high profile challengers campaigning on promises of big change, each touting their own solutions to the city's problems from crime to housing crisis. the candidates have made it a strategy of getting out into the city's neighborhoods to hear from voters directly. wilson walker went along with mayor breed as she walks san bruno avenue in the portola district. >> oh, my goodness, leon. you got my grandmother out here in the cold. >> reporter: in a blustery afternoon wind mayor london breed hit san bruno avenue going door to door along a business corridor with a large chinese population and a sure sign that the campaign and

hand-to-hand politics are well underway. >> you got a whole crew. come on. come on. >> reporter: accompanied by the woman she calls her asian grandmother, breed led a team of supporters up and down this street for some voter outreach. her other job was never far away. >> i was asking the mayor if she's going to be fixing the potholes on mission street here in san francisco. we do a lot of low riding there and our cars are getting messed up. >> you said lowrider. i'll talk to roberta. >> sounds good. >> my hope is by being out here i can answer questions, deal with people's issues and concerns, even a speed bump that still hasn't happened. >> reporter: breed must also convince residents that things are getting better in san francisco, something you do hear in the city quite a bit. however, do you feel enough people feel that way and will

ultimately in a couple months decide to give you credit for that? >> well, my hope is to get credit for it and today out here in san bruno i am talking to people about the various programs that we provide from the city. people are realizing that it is attributed to the work that i am doing as mayor. >> reporter: so the posters went up along san bruno in some cases rights alongside those of an opponent, a reminder this is a complicated race for the mayor, as voters have options. it's hard to have a conversation about the race with anyone in the city and they don't mention rank choice voting. do you have any thoughts on that? >> well, my thoughts are it's important for me to run my race and to talk about all the things that i have done and the fact is and just to talk about safety, crime is down lower than it's been in ten years, not including the pandemic, and even in 2024 it's continuing to trend down. so we are seeing

the difference, but we also have to make sure people feel the difference. so when you hear people say it's getting better, they're starting to feel it, but we want them to feel it more consistently and i think that's going to be a determining factor when folks go to the polls, whether or not they see the consistency and we have plenty of time to get there. >> reporter: the mayor had made one neighborhood walk about since her return from china in chinatown, probably gives you a good idea how the campaign team sees this race taking shape with just over 190 days to go until election day. you heard it discussed in that piece there very briefly. first alert weather now, the sun broke through a tiny bit, you wouldn't know it now looking past grace cathedral, breezy, really windy in some places. >> yeah. winds now over 20 miles an hour for sustained winds and some gusts over 30

miles an hour for many locations around the bay area. tomorrow will be a little breezier. we've got details on a calmer weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. >>

you may have heard about the avian flu outbreak that's already hit the poultry industry pretty hard. it has spread to cattle in several u.s. states. today san

francisco's health department says it's monitoring developments, though there are no reported cases here. health officials stress the bird flu poses a low risk to human. there has been one recent human case, a dairy worker in texas who tested positive. federal officials found inactive particles of the virus in samples of grocery store milk, but the fda says there's no risk to consumers, but there is concern about how the virus might be spreading beyond birds now from one mammal to another. some alarming pictures out of argentina show a massive die-off of elephant seals on the beaches late last year. scientists say more than 18,000 seals were killed, most of them pups. there's no sign of that now on california's coast, but there is a threat to our elephant seal this pupping season. brian hackney says it's the result of people loving these seals a little too much. >> reporter: whenever you see an elephant seal in a wheelbarrow, something's not right.

>> we're bringing in animals every single day. during our peak season right now, march and april, it could be five or six animals a day coming into the hospital. >> reporter: there's a reason this is peak season here at the marine mammal center. adam radner is the director of conservation engagement. >> right now it's incredibly busy. we've got close to 150 patients at the hospital. >> reporter: it isn't just that it's pumping season. >> our responders were seeing people get very, very close because these were very sick, lethargic animals. >> just moved him from e1 to g2. >> reporter: john carlo of the center says people are loving these animal as to much. >> as a result, there's a lot of crowding, selfie taking, which was inhibiting sometimes our ability to respond and added additional stress to an animal that was already very, very sick. >> reporter: in fact, a new study shows that fully 30% of stranded or sick marine mammals had some form of human or dog

disturbance. one seal, hop hop, had a boy sitting on top of him to take a selfie and it's not just humans. >> we're seeing groups of people and their offleash dogs surrounding these animals. >> reporter: but while they are the problem, they can also be the solution. >> every animal we get is because someone in the public is giving us a phone call. 415-289-seal is our hotline that allows you if you see an animal sick or hurt to call the experts. >> reporter: that's why the marine mammal center volunteers are here and they cover 600 miles of california shoreline. >> if you see an animal on the beach that needs help, call the experts. that will let the experts get out there, evaluate if the animal needs help. it does, we can rescue it and give it a second chance in life. >> reporter: giving marine mammals a second chance, that's what it's all about. >> elephant seals were hunted

to the brink of extinction in the 1800s, but thanks to federal protection they've bounced back. an estimated 200,000 elephant seals are breeding this season in five national marine sanctuaries along the pacific coast. still ahead, winds picking up. paul has a look how gusty

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clouds over the bay area much of today, occasional peeks of sunshine and blue skies. we've got one more day to go in this weather pattern tomorrow, another upper level storm system, misses us to the north. it will be close enough to squeeze the atmosphere, produce breezy conditions and a chance of a little drizzle, maybe even a passing shower, but then we get into a calmer weather pattern heading into the last weekend of april moving back to pretty much normal april temperatures for the weekend. let's look at futurecast, a lot of gray indicating cloud cover tonight and tomorrow, but more breaks in the clouds starting to show up tomorrow morning, still a chance for a passing shower. the best chance is either offshore or to our east. most of the bay area will be in between those zones, just the slightest chance, lower than 20%, of a drops on the windshield. we'll see that continue into the afternoon and into the evening. it's going to be flat out windy tomorrow. overnight the winds won't be as strong but noticeable and gusts potentially over 35 miles an hour, but staying short of

the wind advisory threshold of 40-mile-an-hour gusts on a widespread basis. still, it's going to try to move you around the road and rearrange your patio furniture as well. temperatures tonight dropping to the low 50s, a few of the coolest spots in the upper 40s. despite that above average start, temperatures tomorrow will be about 3 to 6 degrees below average. let's look at tomorrow's forecast highs, only into the mid-60s in the santa clara valley, even the warmest spots on the map tomorrow afternoon falling short of 70 degrees. that's the case far inland in the east bay around antioch. fremont, redwood city topping out in the low 60s, upper 50s along the coast, barely touching 60 degrees in san francisco, low 60s for oakland, mid- to even upper 60s for the north bay. your temperatures might be a degree or two warmer because you'll see the sunshine emerge a bit faster. tomorrow even though the sun emerges, it won't be quite sun's out tongue's out weather for frank in san rafael, but he looks

happy, suchs reaching the low temperatures reaching the low 60s. inland temperatures will have the most visibility. two-day warm spell tuesday and wednesday, close to 80e did, but back down to near normal temperatures the first weekend in may. that's a long way down the line. we have the upcoming weekend to focus on which will be pleasant, inland temperatures low to mid-70s with plenty of sunshine and warmer readings tuesday and wednesday next week. inland spots have the biggest warm-up. around the bay temperatures should get around or above 70 degrees a few days. temperatures along the coast, about a 2 or 3-degree warm-up at best, but you will see more sunshine emerging earlier in the day saturday continuing through at least the first half of next week. some of the long range forecast models hint at a shower chance by the end of next week, but that's a long

way down the line. >> thank you, paul. still ahead, we're proud to tell the stories of the bay area's asian american community. we'll take

the month of may is asian american and pacific islander heritage month and we're gearing up for a month of very special stories highlighting the bay area's aapi communities. ryan yamamoto is

emceeing our kickoff celebration happening right now with the fun assignment. ryan? >> reporter: yeah. there's a lot happening right now. i guess i got to shake my hips a little bit. i don't know if that works. we're with the tahitian dance company having a lot of fun as we kick off aapi heritage month on wednesday, may fist. you can see behind me there's a lot of people here right now. we're having a lot of fun here, a lot of community members, people representing the bay area all through the asian american community. we have so many stories that we'll be presenting beginning in may from the aapi or power of the aapi to the oldest miss chinatown still here and speaking of miss chinatown, i have the newest member of miss chinatown right now. this is tara wong nash. thank you very much for joining me. first of all, congratulations of winning the crown. what does it mean for you to represent this community?

>> it means the world to me. i think being asian american, aapi community, it's such a rich diverse community of individuals. myself being a mixed individual, i'm half chinese, half irish american. i just changed out of scrubs and i'm here to represent the community. >> reporter: you're looking great. have you ever moved your hips like this? >> not like that. i don't know if this dress will let that happen. >> reporter: congratulations once again. we are live celebrating aapi heritage month, having a little party. back to you. >> i love it. we have so many amazing cultural celebrations here at kpix. this is one of them. i know he'll enjoy himself once the camera cuts. thank you. finally tonight, a redwood city bride to be has her wedding dress back after police

arrested 65-year-old henry fonseca. he's seen taking a box in these surveillance pictures with the $2,000 dress off her front porch. the public's tips were crucial tracking the suspect down. that is a very important box to have taken, glad that's back. cbs evening news with norah o'donnell is next. we're back in 30 minutes with cbs news bay area. i'll see you at 7:00. >> for 234 years of american history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts. >> norah: a landmark hearing as the supreme court considers whether donald trump has absolute immunity against criminal prosecutions from his time in office. >> if there is no threat of criminal prosecution, what prevents the president from just doing whatever he wants? >> norah: could it further delay his federal election