now. today city leaders made their case things are looking better along the troubled hegenberger crime corridor by the airport, the strategies they say are working and a reality check from the people on the ground. >> oh, it's a hot mess. it's tore up. it's ridiculous. there's nothing there. it's all gone. what we're showing right now in the data shows the very beginning works of something beautiful. dozens of people gathering in san francisco to mourn the three family members killed in a horrific bus stop crash, what we're learning about the victims and the charges the driver could face. >> the suddenness with how unexpected life is. i'm grateful people are coming to honor the lives that were lost here. plus we will have the latest on two crashes snarling the monday evening commute on the san mateo bridge and interstate 280 on the peninsula. later a positive use for a.i., how one bay area

company's trash sorting robot could help improve how we recycle. >> we want to design something that is immediately and fundamentally useful to all of the biggest players within the circular economy. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. oakland leaders have been under some pressure to do something about one of the city's crime hotspots and today it was a full-court press to tout that the troubled hegenberger corridor is getting safer. the stretch that runs from the airport to international boulevard is considered a gateway to the city, but it's been plagued with car break-ins and thefts. the crime has led to some high profile business closures. in fact, the british tabloid, "the daily mail," even questioned whether it was the most dangerous square mile in america, but today city leaders painted a positive picture of the area. john ramos has more on the strategies they say are

paying off. >> reporter: even businesses that are not directly victimized by crime are still affected by the fear of crime. that's what's happening here on oakland's hegenberger corridor, but today the mayor gathered a group of people from the area to make the case things are not as bad as people say here and that the efforts of the city are making things better. as a mayor facing a possible recall over the issue of crime, sheng thao gathered a friendly group to talk about what's happening on hegenberger road. >> i have to say mayor sheng thao has stepped up more than any other mayor to bring the resources and the attention to this vital corridor. thank you. >> reporter: but the story of hegenberger has been pretty bad lately. next week in-n-out burger will close a restaurant for the first time in its history. denny's has been shuttered a while now and many

of the fast food franchises no longer accept cash or allow sitdown dining. >> so you see a lot of these buildings, the offices are closed, the restaurants are closed now because of all the crime. they don't want anyone inside. >> reporter: linda grant is part of a recently created street ambassador program run by a nonprofit called the black cultural zone. it's one of the programs touted by the mayor as making a difference in the area along with stepped up police patrols. on this day mayor thao was pretty upbeat about where things are heading. >> our crime rates are trending downwards and i see the numbers are only going to continue to trend downwards because we are continuously working together. >> reporter: but vincent johnson, who is the dispatch manager for the ambassadors, has a different view of hegenberger. >> oh, it's a hot mess. it's tore up. it's ridiculous. there's nothing there. it's all gone. there's nothing

there no more. it's over. it's totally over. >> reporter: and he doesn't share the mayor's optimistic view of the future. is it really getting better in your view? >> well, somewhat, but it's all the homelessness. you got a whole bunch of homeless encampments around you. what do you expect to happen? you got a whole bunch of drunk people coming in your store. what's going to happen? they'll steal. there's no jobs no, money, no nothing. you take away the vitality. everybody leaves. >> reporter: to be fair, there's probably little mayor thao can do about homelessness, but crime is something people are fed up are. no new initiatives were announced today, but the mayor is hoping people will believe data over what they're seeing with their own eyes. >> working together is a good example of good governance and we're going to keep moving that forward and pushing that thread. >> reporter: if she can't, it may be the thread her job hangs on. >> so the city presented this police data as evidence of the

improvement in the area, compared crime stats from the last five months understanding in february to the previous five months. during that period auto burglaries fell 63%. larceny and theft cases dropped nearly 50%. robberies were down 7%. the city also highlighted its partnership with the chp which conducted a surge operation just last month and is planning more and the port of oakland has helped add three eye-in-the-sky cameras to monitor activity in the area. in the height of the evening commute, one eastbound lane still closed this evening on the san mateo bridge. a three-car crash shut down two lanes about an hour ago at the high rise at the bridge. one lane has since reopened, but there's no word if anyone was hurt in the crash. this truck with an overturned trailer is causing a big backup on southbound 280 just before sandhill road near woodside. you can see the large pile of

wood chips and debris blocking the right lanes and the trailer blocking the left lane. so cars are forced to move into one lane to get through until it gets all cleaned up. right now in san francisco people are gathering for a vigil at the scene of this weekend's heartbreaking crash where an suv hit a family of four at a bus stop in west portal. a father, mother, and toddler were killed and an infant is still in the hospital with life threatening injuries. police arrested the driver of the suv, 78-year-old mary fong lau, booked on suspicion of three counts of vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving. she was going the wrong way on ulloa street and was speeding when she crashed into the bus stop. we're also learning more about the victims. the family has not officially been identified, but a group of brazilian advertising agencies did share this photo of the father,

40-year-old diego cardoza de oliveira identifying him as an employee of apple. amanda hari is live at the scene now. >> reporter: the vigil is starting to wrap up, but at its height there were hundreds of people in the street here. i would say this is about a third of what we saw still here and people are still going up to the memorial leaving things behind. this memorial has been growing all day as people have been here paying their respects. the impact of an unimaginable accident is being felt days later. monday afternoon people gathered for a vigil to remember the family lost. >> unthinkable happening. it really affected the neighborhood. >> reporter: jane yao lives in the neighborhood. she said when she heard about the crash, she had to come to the vigil. saturday a car crashed into a bus stop where the family was waiting. witnesses say the

driver was traveling at speeds between 50 and 70 miles per hour in the wrong direction. the crash killed the father, mother, and toddler. a family friend says saturday was the couple's wedding anniversary and they were waiting for the bus to celebrate at the zoo with their sons. the younger son who was only months old is still in the hospital. yao says it breaks her heart to think about the boy growing up without his family. >> i can't imagine. my son's home for college spring break. he's going back in a couple days. i don't know. you know, i don't even know. we're trying to help the child growing up without parents. >> reporter: the d.a.'s office hasn't filed official charges yet. they say it could be 30 days to get toxicology results and the vehicle's operating system will also be analyzed to see if that played a part in this crash that

killed the family. >> it is heartbreaking all around. thank you. d.a. brooke jenkins released a statement saying, "while i understand there is an immediate desire to know what ultimately will happen in this case, i ask for patience from the public as investigators continue to gather more information so that my office can make appropriate charging decisions." the d.a. also says toxicology results alone can take more than 30 days and investigators need to analyze mechanical issues before making any charges. tomorrow the public can weigh in for the last time on at&t's move to stop landline service right here in california. anne makovec has more on what could be the end of an era. kids are probably going mom, what's a landline? >> right. just in our lifetime how many different incarnations of the phone that we've gone through. >> absolutely. >> some people arguing we are not ready to cut the cord completely. there are some neighborhoods in the bay area with spotty cell service at

best like montara, a coastal area in san mateo county rated by "pc magazine" as one of the worst cellular dead zones in the u.s. we recently met glenn eastman of moss beach who said he needs his landline for an emergency and internet connection. >> when everything else goes bad in an emergency or even when people don't have an internet or a cell phone, you can always get 911 on a landline. i would say to at&t that they're giving up their responsibility to loyal customers who have been with them for years and years and years. >> it is not just at&t considering this. in response to an fcc order allowing providers to drop copper landlines, other providers are planning on it in the future. san mateo county supervisor ray mueller appeared on our afternoon edition today. he is actively fighting at&t's bid saying it's a public safety issue. >> we're trying to figure out

is there a possible plan b that will go ahead and provide the connectivity necessary for the public health and safety for our residents living in those areas and right now we don't. >> so we'll see what the california public utilities commission has to say about all this at two meetings they're holding tomorrow. >> in all of this what is at&t saying about this? >> they do see the concerns that some of these communities have, but they say they want to put their efforts into upgrading their current wireless network to make that more reliable and they say trust us. we'll make sure there are alternatives before we cut the cord. here's their spokesperson. >> we are going to continue to provide existing voice service as long as it's needed and that is particularly in those areas where there may only be at&t landline service available to a customer. >> so the california public utilities commission hosting virtual meetings tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. >> okay. we'll see what happens. hard to cut the cord

officially. >> it is. i mean just nostalgia aside, remember you had to like get through somebody's parents when you're a middle schooler trying to make a phone call. >> a long cord trying to talk quietly so no one will hear you. thank you. still ahead, the a.i. powered robot that's sorting through our trash. >> it makes me all the more motivated to get out in and be the change i wish to see in the world. nice weather to start off the new workweek after some morning fog dissipated, blue skies throughout the day, a few more days of dry weather, but rain

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welcome back. today is global recycling day, the day to highlight the important role recycling plays in protecting the planet. of course, the process isn't always perfect. we don't always know if that plastic bottle we're throwing in the bin is actually being recycled, but a bay area company is using a.i. technology to improve those odds. loureen ayyoub shows us how recycling robots could be an absolute game changer for this industry. >> reporter: while some folks are worried about the negative effects of a.i., here at glacier an a.i. robot is helping to improve recycling. i'm in san francisco where one powerful female founder has a positive vision for a sustainable future.

it's not just trash. >> it's organized trash. in the world of recycling that means everything. >> reporter: rebecca hull alongside her co founder has created an innovative way to reduce waste using robotic a.i. sensors. entitled glacier, rebecca's creation makes it easier for recycling infrastructures to recover more items that may have ended up in landfills or in oceans. >> the idea of glacier came about four or five years ago and it was a direct result of the headlines in the news we were seeing about the climate crisis. >> reporter: growing up as a first generation american, rebecca has always been more mindful of waste and very confused with a society fixated on hyper consumption. >> my parents are actually immigrants from china. so i was raised with a very particular mentality towards waste, in

particular, reduce, reuse, recycle being a constant mantra in our household. anytime we used up a tub of margarine or something like that, the instinct was never to toss it out. it was always wash it out and use it as a storage container, for some other purpose. >> reporter: rebecca took those values with her to the lab and now with advanced a.i. camera sensors her recycling tool is used not just in her bay area home, but throughout the nation, from new jersey to arizona and more. studies show such a tool continues to be necessary. currently only 21% of recyclable material is captured. according to uc berkeley's profession o'neil, conservation efforts in the u.s. remain urgent. >> we're still struggling in terms of building new recycling facilities or getting people on board with recycling. so i feel like in many ways we're still kind of stuck in where we were a few years ago. >> reporter: which is why

rebecca says her mission is so critical. >> we want to design something that is immediately and fundamentally useful to all of the biggest players within the circular economy. >> reporter: her effective waste management solution even caught the eye of amazon. they also ended up being one of her customers, utilizing her invention on their own packaging. >> we have lived around the confines trying to fix some of the challenges in packaging for decades and it's rare to find an individual like rebecca that can clearly see how that can be possible today. >> reporter: rebecca is serving as inspiration to her growing startup team. she hired a diverse team of men and women who all share passion for treating the planet well. >> every piece of progress that i and that we as glacier are making, it makes me all the more motivated to really get out there and be the change that i wish to see in the world. >> reporter: the kind of change that can benefit the whole wide world. >> so the a.i. robot can identify more than 30 different materials and pick up 45 items

in a minute. it can sort items like grocery and trash bags which can be difficult to sort through with traditional screening technology. tonight's cbs evening news has one woman's inspiring journey from a hospital bed to running a half marathon. here's norah o'donnell. >> hey, juliette. for our heart of america, the inspiring young woman who completed the new york city half marathon just two months after having brain surgery, her remarkable fight against a rare disease, that and more headlines tonight on the cbs evening news. still ahead, if you liked the weather this weekend, you're going to like the start of the week, but paul says changes are coming. so he's going to let us

we get to officially say spring has sprung tomorrow. >> just over 24 hours from now. >> yeah. we did have a great weekend. >> lovely. >> my duckling from oregon is coming back and she's like i just want to see the sun, mom. i said we've got that and now i'm going to have to let her know there's a little rain coming her way. >> by the end of the workweek and weekend, back into that oregon-ish weather pattern around the bay area. >> she likes to do tanning while she's home. >> not quite yet, probably not going to happen. i'm sure she'll be happy to be home either way. >> she'll be fine. >> let's look at the big

picture weather pattern, a calm start to the workweek today and this calm weather pattern sticks around a couple more days. it was not calm in southern california. the storm system kind of cut off from the main flow of weather across the country has just been meandering around and near southern california they saw some thunderstorms pop up today, but all that activity way off to the south. looking outside from the mark hopkins hotel, blue skies overhead, about an hour from sunset. temperatures all over the place, back into our microclimate effects with the onshore breeze, mid-50s in san francisco after a high of only 60. farther inland temperatures are in the mid- to upper 60s and still low 70s. it's a similar pattern through the day tomorrow. also similar, the fog we start off with tomorrow morning, widespread reduced visibility and we track that pushing far into the inland valleys by early tomorrow morning. the bright white is the ground level cloud cover and fog. the duller gray is cloud cover farther up in the atmosphere, mainly see that farther off the coast. the fog retreats to the coast as we

head towards lunchtime. we should see plenty of afternoon sunshine and allow temperatures to warm up after a normal start tuesday, mid- to upper 40s to around 50 degrees for the last morning officially of winter. temperatures tomorrow afternoon topping out several degrees above average inland in the low to mid-70s for the santa clara valley and inland in the east bay. antioch will climb up to 74 degrees, one of the warm spots, but contrast that with temperatures along the coast, only upper 50s for half moon bay, very similar to today. san francisco might be a couple degrees warmer, 62 degrees, exactly tomorrow's normal high temperature and the north bay not quite as warm as other inland parts of the bay area because you'll have the fog lingering longer. i don't think you'll clear out around san jose and petaluma until 11:00 or maybe even noon. let's look at the longer range pattern for our rain chances in a second. don't want to forget about the dog walking forecast tomorrow, a perfect picture for

the spring equinox. this is zoe. she can soak up plenty of sunshine tomorrow, cool sunshine in the city with highs just above 60 degrees. wear your dogs out the next few days because rain chances do return farther down the line which will help us in the pollen count. that will be sky high the next few days, but medium category by friday. here's the rain chances over the next seven days. you can clearly see where the switch flips. it's friday into saturday for the best chance of rain and still lingering showers possible sunday into monday, but you add up the four-day stretch of at least some rain chances and it's not going to be a huge rain event. we're talking about a quarter to half inch of rain on a widespread basis, some spots in the santa cruz mountains, along the coast and in the north bay favored for a better chance of getting around an inch or so of total rainfall. let's look at the seven-day forecast and we'll start with inland parts of the bay area where the warmth will linger a few more days. then that switch flips back to a cooler and wet weather pattern as we head through friday, saturday, sunday, and into

monday of next week. it's a similar trend around the bay as well, temperatures not quite as warm. juliette trying to crash the party earlier there, saw pink pants in the corner of the screen. temperatures back down to 60 degrees saturday and along the coast that's about where you top out the next several days, but you'll still be dry other than a little drizzle from the fog until friday and saturday. be flexible with outdoor plans. we'll keep you updated on the rain chances. >> whose pink pants are you talking about? oh. >> those. >> did i scoot in there too soon? >> a little bit, trying to crash the party. >> thank you. still ahead, a good reason to get

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