his hard work has helped reboot the traffic unit. >> to do investigations it's kind of fun putting the pieces together and solving something. some bumps in the road for driverless cars. >> this turnaround is hard for everybody. >> the trouble spot that's led to a string of stranded waymos. plus firefighters take apart a torched lumber house in oakland, , the anxious people as flames spread. they do their lineage, almost every american has a family member who has served and some have not come home. >> the emotional tributes honoring their sacrifice. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> hi. i'm sara donchey in today for juliette. we are wrapping up a record breaking memorial day weekend for travel. a lot of people are coming back from their holiday road trips now. chp will be out

in force until midnight looking for speeders and drunk drivers, but in antioch the responsibility of traffic enforcement falls on only one person. it's no secret the police department has struggled with a staffing crisis in antioch. the city has been dealing with fallout from the state and federal investigations into officer misconduct, including allegations of racist and homophobic text messages. nearly half the department was temporarily put on leave after that discovery, but in a sign of progress, the traffic officer is patrolling the streets again the first time in more than a year in that city. wilson walker caught up with the unit of one with hoss working hard to keep people safe. >> so these marks, that actually indicates the tire friction mark on the motorcycle when it slammed on the brakes and it goes for 120 feet. >> reporter: sergeant robert green is literally picking up the pieces after an accident that seriously injured a

motorcyclist who collided with one car before being hit by another that left the scene. >> hit the motorcyclist and actually dragged the motorcyclist. so now i'm trying to find any evidence and any cameras or anything in the area that will help me identify the other vehicle. >> reporter: the investigation is now in sergeant green's hands, as he is the sole member of the newly relaunched antioch police department traffic unit. >> i mean yeah, i'm responsible for doing traffic enforcement during the day. i also get called in when we have a significant crash like this. >> reporter: so it's back to the station for the investigative part of this incident. >> so this is the car. i have everyone else. this is the car i need to find and figure out why it didn't stay on scene. >> reporter: he really is doing it all. he pulled together the funding from the state office of traffic safety for the new bikes and lidar equipment. >> these are much smaller. you just look through the view finder. >> reporter: he's picked up

the investigations into major accidents singlehandedly rebooting the traffic division after it was closed more than a year and a half because of staffing issues. >> i end up recovering a lot of stolen cars. i mean it's not a secret. right now we have a lot of stolen cars in the city of antioch. >> reporter: he also becomes part of antioch's ongoing effort against sideshows, something that's plagued neighbors in recent years. >> they do it during the day, too, kids are playing, kids walking up and down the street. my child runs in the street after a ball, don't know when they're coming. >> there's been more dangerous driving after covid mainly because there wasn't any patrolling during that time. >> reporter: as for doing it all alone, green says he gets help from within the department and beyond. >> anytime i send out a social media post or i put anything out i'll get tons of calls and i have people in the community that will point me in the right

direction. so i'm not by myself. the community is vested in this as well. they're very vested in traffic safety. >> reporter: he says he doesn't mind picking up the extra slack. he's just happy to see the unit up and rolling again. >> that's what i signed up for. i'm a public servant and we're so short, i'm not the only one picking up pieces. i don't deserve to work any less. >> reporter: for the division of one, some help is on the way. they are hoping to have a second motorcycle officer out here on the street sometime in the next several weeks. the longer term goal, though, is hopefully four officers on motorcycles. they are hoping maybe to hit that threshold sometime about a year from now. >> last month antioch's interim police chief said the department was down about a 1/3 of the number of sworn officers it's allowed. 17 officers were still on paid leave, but the department has been actively recruiting they say. we reached out for a staffing update but have not heard back. a deadly two-car crash in

san jose still closing lanes this hour. it happened just before 2:00 at montague expressway and o'toole avenue. police say one driver died at the scene. it's not clear exactly what happened, but all westbound lanes of the expressway have been closed in the area for several hours. oakland firefighters have been busy using heavy equipment to tear apart what is left of a lumber warehouse after a huge fire there last night. they're trying to get out any hotspots left over. that fire broke out just before 8:00 p.m. yesterday at economy lumber on high street near 880. it sent up thick black smoke people could seem for miles away. nearly 100 firefighters battled the four-alarm fire. the owner who has been there for decades was sifting through what was left today. firefighters say the building has to come down because it's just not stable after that huge fire. there was some concern the fire could spread to the pumps at a nearby gas station. >> called 911. they came within

i would say less than five minutes. by that time they get here it was spreading out of control. >> i was worried about we get over close to 30,000 gallons of gasoline and i was worried it's going to move. >> firefighters say it will probably take a few days for investigators to figure out what exactly started that fire. some pretty mild weather for memorial day locally, parts of the bay still dealing with what may be may gray in the morning, but it won't be long before it starts feeling like summer again. let's check in with meteorologist darren peck. >> very well put, sara. thursday it will feel like summer, but today we've still got our old friend dominating the weather. we'll visualize where the marine layer is now. it's gotten pushed back. you have to get off the coast to find it. this morning it filled in much of the bay and will do this again tomorrow. tomorrow will look and feel a lot like

today. tomorrow morning there's the marine layer filtered back in again. some high clouds will show up, but by 7 a.m. it's still there. it's going to melt back to the beach late morning. you will have more sunshine than anything else today, but there's one added item about tomorrow. watch the wind. if you are anywhere near the water, you really feel this in the city and on the peninsula near those gaps. it doesn't matter how sunny and nice the temperatures are. if you've got a 30-mile-an-hour gust, that's going to dominate your day, san francisco, san bruno, talking to you there. i'll be back in a bit. we'll be looking at numbers near 90 on friday. memorial day ceremonies across the bay area today honored the veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, reminders of the true meaning of this national holiday.

♪ people gathered at oak hill memorial park in san jose with tributes, live music and a moment of silence. one of the state's largest and oldest memorial day ceremonies is at the san francisco national cemetery in the presidio. it included a color guard and rifle salute and volunteers placed american flags on each of the gravesites. our photojournalist spoke to some of the people there about what this day means to them. >> reporter: every year on memorial day robert strickley makes the long walk to visit his grand father, milton

esterly served in the spanish american war and world war i. >> we should be thankful for the men and women who died in the service of our country. >> reporter: ordinary people doing extraordinary things, people like commandant william e. may. >> you can see i'm emotional. i'm a vietnam veteran. i served in vietnam the 3rd marine division in 1969 and some of my friends didn't come home. >> reporter: and if you're thinking you don't know anyone who fought or died for this country, commandant may would like you to know -- >> if they do their lineage, almost every american has a family member who has served and some have not come home. >> reporter: and that's why robert would like to remind you that freedom doesn't come free. >> all these protests we had recently, people can do that

because people like this died for us. ♪ >> reporter: so on this memorial day, take a moment to make even the smallest gesture of gratitude to those who may or may not have known a moment like robert strickley to a man he never knew because he never made it home. >> just overall thanks, thanks to be alive, thanks to be one of his great grandchildren. ♪ >> memorial day became an official federal holiday in 1971. before then it was known as decoration day when it was born after the several war. ♪ the uss hornet sea, air and space museum held its annual

memorial day ceremony with a wreath laying presentation and memorial squadron flyover at the naval air station alameda. ♪ in san mateo county hillsboro kicked off the holiday with a parade from town hall to crocker and north school this morning and included an observance ceremony, music festival and carnival. still ahead, self-driving cars discovering new hiccups rolling out on bay area streets, the trouble spot where waymos keep getting stuck. >> i have seen waymo cars come in and go at too sharp of an angle an

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i got him. >> you still got him? >> the sonoma county sheriff's helicopter was overhead for a dangerous chase that started saturday night when deputies tried to stop a gray bmw near santa rosa avenue and todd road for driving recklessly. it was caught speeding at 101 and highway 12 interchange. the car's brakes seemed extremely hot on the thermal imaging camera. deputies stopped the chase for safety reasons as the car headed for downtown santa rosa. the suspect eventually lost control crashing into a tree and wall on south a street and was taken into custody. waymo will soon be expanding testing of its self-driving cars to the peninsula. that comes as federal regulators are looking

into several new traffic incidents involving waymo cars. the national highway safety administration launched a probe earlier this month into the alphabet-owned robotaxi company citing 22 incidents where waymo cars got into an accident or violated traffic laws and learned of one more in san francisco where waymo drove the wrong way on a one-way street. as more autonomous cars hit the road, we'll be hearing about these kind of incidents and hiccups with the technology. as kenny choi reports, there's one particular spot in san francisco waymo seems to have a tough time navigating. >> reporter: rosemary desenna has lived in the telegraph neighborhood for decades. >> we have a main thoroughfare and a lot of small streets that feed into it with a lot of

weird directionals, five-way streets. >> reporter: she chooses to walk when she is and is acutely aware of her surroundings lately with more robotaxis passing by. >> i've noticed a lot of driverless cars getting stuck. >> reporter: ryan culberson who was visiting coit tower nearby recorded and posted on x this video of a waymo stuck at the turnaround on greenwich street. he declined to be interviewed on camera. residents know the tight turn at the dead end can present issues. >> this turnaround is hard for everybody because they don't know that it's a turnaround. >> reporter: ahmed benifa is a professor of engineering at san jose state. >> people are using them. that's why you have a lot more problem because you discover new scenarios that they never thought about it. >> reporter: he believes each hiccup is a chance for waymo to improve its product and acknowledge imperfections along the way. >> the company should be up front about it and fix it and say we know what's wrong with this scenario. we fixed it. it's not going to happen again. >> reporter: despite the latest

bump in the road, he believes sb 915, a bill that would give local governments authority over where robotaxis can be deployed, would create a nightmare where an autonomous vehicle would be allowed in one city and then stopped at the border of the next city that might not allow them. residents have witnessed stranded waymos, too. >> i have seen waymo cars come up and go in at too sharp of angle and stop and not know what to do. >> reporter: but she also sees the up side of driverless taxis like for her daughter-in-law who takes late night trips as a nurse. >> i didn't have to deal with a driver i didn't know getting in a foreign car. i just got in, said where i was going and it took me there very smoothly. >> reporter: this pedestrian crossing a street in north beach shook her head in disbelief as the waymo rightfully stopped and turned after the path cleared. >> my modus operandi is to wait

for those cars to pass in traffic before i make my moves crossing as a pedestrian. >> reporter: some are very comfortable with the white robotaxis expanding across the bay area. rosemary is cautious. >> waymo did not respond to our specific questions about the stranded cars, but it did address the federal investigation saying it will continue to work with nhtsa. in a statement it said, "at waymo we currently serve over 50,000 weekly trips for our riders in some of the most complex and challenging conditions. we are proud of our safety record and demonstrated commitment to safety and transparency." nhtsa launched a probe into amazon robotaxi company zukes. state regulators says crews misled them about an accident where a car hit and dragged a woman that was thrown into its path

by another vehicle. in the meantime the bill that would let local governments weigh in on robotaxi operations on their streets has passed the state floor and will be taken up by the assembly. the marine layer is sticking around, but things he

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let's talk a little weather with darren. i have to say walking around the city it seemed very quiet. people are coming back to something of a breeze, right? >> yes. 30-mile-an-hour gusts coming across the city. it's like the tradeoff because it was beautifully sunny. >> yeah. the wind felt really cold. i tried to do the no jacket thing and it didn't work. >> not going to happen. tomorrow will be -- look what we're standing in. these are the wind streams. this doesn't really ruin the day for most of us, but if you're near the coast, you really feel it. look up here near point reyes. you get into orange and red, 30 to 40-mile-an-hour gusts. let's come home. the most important part of this map for the overwhelming majority of us is right through the golden gate. this is where the onshore flow comes through. you still had a 20 to 30-mile-an-hour breeze on that today and will again tomorrow. things aren't changing a whole lot for

tomorrow. by thursday and friday they really are. i'm going to show you a pretty big warm-up by thursday and friday. let's go in order. since things are almost identical tomorrow to where they were today, come back this way and read these numbers along the coast, san francisco 62 degrees for the daytime high. you'll see the same story along half moon bay. let's get a wider view to angle ourselves to read half moon bay's number. those temperatures in the 50s with a 20 to 30-mile-an-hour breeze on you, it's going to field cold anywhere near the water. that establishes the impact the onshore wind's having. if you look inland, low to mid-70s, south bay low to mid-70s tomorrow and it's like a 10 to 15-mile-an-hour breeze. if we want to play how tomorrow goes, watch this afternoon's time lapse from the camera on top of mark hopkins. the marine marine layer squeezing in through the

golden gate. the clouds melted back to the beach by arch. i could show you futurecast on tomorrow, but you've seen how it's going to go because both days are identical. tomorrow afternoon we'll be looking at the marine layer just like today hugging the coast after filling in much of the immediate bay in the morning. that covers the pattern for at least tomorrow. by wednesday and thursday we are going to notice things shifting. you can see what's going on in the pacific, clouds doing this kind of droopy trough right there, really shows up in the water vapor. now you see it. that is an area of low pressure helping to strengthen the onshore flow as it zips by pushing things along. by thursday the pattern changes. instead of this trough sitting out here, what's going to build in is this center of high pressure. watch the big red bull's eye. when we get into july, august, and september, we're going to watch very closely for

circulation centres like that with the big red bull's eye. this is how you get heatwaves. you'd need it to be over us and you'd see the temperatures climb. that's not happening here, but what is happening is the development of this blocking high off the coast the second half of this week. it totally will squelch the marine layer and weaken the onshore flow so it will be much less wind by wednesday and thursday by the water, but it's also going to get warmer. if we watch the way the warm air moves through the atmosphere, watch the next three days. you'll see each afternoon and night. it's going to look like it's breathing. watch the pattern of red and orange drifting our way. are the center of high pressure will allow the warmth to increase throughout the west. when we look at this in the seven-day forecast, you'll see the pattern for inland parts of our microclimates. thursday we

peak, a 90-degree day. wednesday you've noticed it because you're in the mid-80s. i think the big change happens after tomorrow, which is very much like today, but wednesday we start the warm-up. thursday it peaks and then just in time for the weekend things are going to start coming back down again. there will be more marine influence by the weekend. let's do it again now for the bay. the trend is the same. warmest days show up there thursday and friday, mid-70s, but look in these terrariums here, no clouds. we're not even talking about a morning marine layer gray. in the peak of this little warm-up, that won't be a factor. it's not like we'll be looking at marine layer mornings anymore and get a nice return to the 80s for a while. >> thanks. still ahead, a star studded weekend

bottlerock just wrapped up in napa valley. the three-day festival was filled with food, wine, and obviously music. ♪ this is mexican rock band mana playing the main stage saturday. organizers wasted no time announcing details for next year. bottlerock is selling a limited number of presale tickets now for 2025 priced at $426 each, including fees. they're available on a first come, first serve basis

at bottlerocknapavalley.com. that festival runs from may 23rd to may 25th next year. if you weren't at bottle rock, maybe you were enjoying carnaval in the mission district. we brought you all the action from yesterday grand parade live. if you missed our coverage of the colorful dancers, the floats and lowriders, you can watch it online under the top stories section of kpix.com. cbs evening news is next. we're back here in 30. ♪ ♪ >> maurice: tonight, millions of americans are recovering from severe storms and tornadoes. >> i knew something was bad. we heard it. it lasted a couple of minutes. pretty devastating. >> maurice: and the threat is not over yet. what is ahead for those traveling home on this memorial day? >> nothing is going out today because of the weather. we are really upset about it. >> maurice: the "cbs evening