>> i'm sad i won't be able to bring my kid to the coliseum. they won't get to appreciate what the coliseum is. now at 11:00, a's fans sending a message to the owner, if you want money, sell the team. the cry for help from immigrant families who are begging for safer places to call their own. and dualing front loaders take center stage in the oddest police chase you may ever see. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. i'm sara donchey. so you could make the argument that oakland a's fans are some of the most loyal and hard core in all of baseball. just not to the people who run the team. and they made that loud and

clear when they showed up in force on opening day, but stopped short of walking into the ball park. today was the a's smallest opening day crowd ever in a non-covid year. the party was outside the park, but this wasn't just a party. andrea nakano tells us it's a protest meant to send a message straight to the top. >> reporter: i've covered think share of opening days, but none of them has been like this one. there's the excitement of a new baseball season, but many fans captain can't shake the feeling of sadness that an era might be over in oakland. it's a feeling that's somewhat hard to describe. >> it's a lot weird. it's like weirder than weird. >> i am a die hard raiders fan, so i've been here before. and it really breaks my heart. >> reporter: alexandria and

melissa are sisters that have been coming to the come seem since they were babies thanks to their grandfather. they're among the thousands of fans that boycotted the game. >> we're going to not go inside. it's going to be hard, but no. i'm not going inside. we're going to hang out in the parking lot for a little bit, and then go home. >> i want to because i want to go home. that's home. that's our, that's our cement castle. >> reporter: as the first pitch was thrown out, these dedicated ark's fans took part in a block party tailgate to protest the team's plans to relocate to las vegasment there were djs, live bands, and even a down the clown carnival game. >> i think it's half celebration and maybe half the beginning of a funeral, right? a long good bye. >> reporter: but there were fans that could not resist being back at the ball park. this isn't a typical opening day crowd, but fans rooted for their team and kids got to see

their favorite mascot, stomper. >> unfortunately john fisher is who he is, but i love the a's and the players, and i'll be here until they're gone. >> reporter: this is brandon's roughly 20th time attending the home opener, a tradition that will end with him. >> it's sad i won't be able to bring my kid to the coliseum. they'll never get to appreciate what the coliseum is. >> reporter: while there was a somber feeling throughout the night, the moran family brought the party to the parking lot. >> there's three holidays. christmas, thanksgiving, and this. >> reporter: the morans are hoping the a's relocation will mean more dollars so john fisher can afford better players. >> you know, if we're going to move, let's just do it, right? like decide it, have a good team with a new stadium. if it's not working here, it's time to move on. >> reporter: and while one opening day tradition will end,

another begin. will you do opening day in las vegas? >> absolutely! >> reporter: but there are fans that say their love for baseball will end here in oakland. >> stay in oakland, sell the team! >> such an interesting and sometimes sad story there. there's a lot of vitriol for john fisher and manage. but that's one thing. vern, the fans that decided okay we're going to go in and watch didn't miss much. >> are we going to go through this for 81 home dates? >> oh, i don't know. >> this could be the final opening day in oakland. those inside saw a one-sided game. the cleveland guardians manager, former a's fan favorite steven vote is 1 and 0 in his manager career. ground ball to short. noda couldn't squeeze it in at first. that was part of a five-run inning.

plenty of run support for shane beiber. he punched out 11 and 6 shut out innings, and cleveland won this game 8 to 0 and got vote the w to start his tenure. meantime, bob melvin's giants era in san diego. giants against his former team the padres. one of many new faces for the orange and black. jung hoo li. singling to center for his first career hit. he was one for three with an rbi. ace logan webb had a shut out into the fifth, but profar bounced one to center. it scored machado and tied the game up at 1. webb allowed two runs in six innings. padres led 2-1 in the 7th. amed hit it sharply enough to get through and tied the game. giants later took the

lead. home half of the seventh though, conenworth doubled to the right field wall bringing home two runs and the padres won the opener 6 to 4. now, sara, i'm not going to judge these guys for at least the first 25 games. i mean, it's 152, so you have to get a sample before you torch them, praise them. >> and they're die hard fans, known for being loyal. they'll be riding for them as long as they're here. thank you. a few miles from the coliseum, four of oakland's biggest employers are pooling 10 million bucks to make downtown safer for their workers. kaiser, blue shield, clorox, and pg&e all say the money will beef up security

around their office. a few months ago kaiser even advised workers not to go outside for lunch. crossing the bay now, an any given day, you may pass families on the streets of san francisco with small kids totally unaware that they have nowhere to sleep at night. homelessness is a series challenge for immigrant families especially, some of whom come to san francisco because of its sanctuary city designation. more than 2500 homeless students were identified in the district. some may live in cars, some on the street, some in emergency family shelters. earlier this month, the supervisor urged the city to do more to get these people off the streets and into a shelter faster. i spent time with a homeless family from el salvador and told me about the struggle to get a roof over their children's heads. >> reporter: hours of washing clothes, shoveling them into

the drier, and folding shirt after shirt. for carla, this is more like a vacation. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: carla, her husband jose, and their four kids are homeless. they fled violence in their native el salvador seven months ago and have been living inside a san francisco school packed in with some 60 other people. it's being used as one of the city's emergency shelters for immigrant families. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: every day the families are kicked out of the shelter at 6:00 a.m., left to walk the streets. they have nowhere to go and have used bus stops as places to rest. they can't go back inside for the evening for their one meal of the day, a hurried shower, and some sleep on cots on the floor of the school's auditorium.

and even when they can finally lay their heads down, there are other worries. lately they say multiple people in the shelter have gotten violently sick, including their six-year-old daughter that ended up in the hospital. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: the children were afraid of getting sick like their sister. the families feel stuck in a loop unable to get housing or even a hotel voucher. and those helping immigrant families like carla's city their struggle is not unique. >> what we're seeing is families go to the access point and are told there's no resources. we can't help you. they're left on the street. that's happened over and over and over again. >> reporter: the city's

designated family shelters are full with waiting lists and advocates say there's too much red tape to get families the help they need when they need it. >> you go through this 90 minute intake process, and at the end of the time they say you haven't been homeless for long enough. you don't have enough points in the system. here's some muni tokens. good luck. >> reporter: a little luck and a leg up is what carla is praying for. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: there is a lot at stake for carla. a roof over their heads means more than just a place to stay warm and dry. it is the only way to give her kids a shot at a good life. >> the department of homelessness and housing services told us in a statement they found thousands of faces

in shelters, transitional housing, and long term rental vouchers but that more families need help right now, and they're getting ready to expand the hotel voucher program so more families can get off the street while waiting for spots to open up. it is not the kind of welcome anyone would expect in their new neighborhood. >> oh my god! >> the california mom who had to dive for cover to save her kids. and coming up after the break, it's a first alert weather day tomorrow, and there's a lot of impactful aspects to this one. it's the rain, it's the thunderstorms, there's a wind advisory that's been expanded since maybe you last checked in with us at 8:00. we'll talk about all that coming up right after the break. plus, getting a call from the president is no small thing. >> then i got a call from the white house switchboard, um, and on that call they said president obama would like to speak to you. >> but having him hang up on you for standing your ground is

something to tell the world about.

welcome back. a mom who just moved into her sacramento area home a few days ago is now worried whoever lived there before her may have had some dangerous enemies. >> oh my god! >> that happened yesterday morning. you saw her dive on top of her baby daughter as bullets were flying. she said her fish tank stopped one from reaching her son's bedroom. she believes it's a scary case of mistaken identity. >> i wasn't the targeted home, but i happened to be looking out the window, and they seen that i seen them i guess. i

don't know what their intentions are. >> her neighbor's house and car were also shot up. the gunman left 41 bullet casings behind, but didn't hit anyone. they're still on the run tonight. new video out of baltimore tonight where the ntsb finally boarded the container ship that took out the key bridge this week. they say figuring out what went wrong could take more than a year. eight construction workers went into the water when the bridge fell out from under them early tuesday. two were rescued, two more were found dead, and tonight state police say it's simply too dangerous to keep looking for the other four. >> because of the amount of concrete and debris, divers are no longer able to safely navigate around that. >> here's more on the missing and the story of one man's survival. >> reporter: the brother of one of the victims tells cbs news he wishes he could have stopped his brother from going to work. moises diaz was scheduled to fill potholes tuesday, but his shift was changed. every day we

give thanks to god for life, he tells us. he's grieving the loss of six fellow construction workers, men he calls brothers. i saw my friends as family members, and diaz tells us the miraculous story of his friend julio, one of two rescued. he says he escaped his sinking truck by falling out the window. he thought i'm going to die here. even though he can't swim, he survived. >> new traffic camera video shows the final cars to actually cross the bridge right before it collapsed. an uber driver said she was one of the first cars police stopped from crossing, and she has her passenger to thank for that. >> in all honesty, if my passenger wasn't a little bit late coming out to the car and getting into it, we probably very well could have been on the bridge when it collapsed. we were that close. a massive symbol of just how far the military has come

is docked in san francisco tonight. the us harvey milk is the first named after an openly gay person. it's headed to a mission in the middle east tomorrow. before milk was a civil rights activist, he served in the navy before being forced out. milk's nephew told us today that back in 2016, when the ship's name was already decided, the navy tried to pressure the family to allow them to change milk's discharge to honorable. the family said no because they thought it's more impactful to have the ship named for someone shunned by the navy for being gay. the navy went all the way to the top of the chain of command to get them on board. >> i got a call from the white house switchboard, and they said president obama would like to speak to you. he asked me the same thing, and i said with all due respect i think it's important we keep his less than honorable discharge. it's not going to benefit my uncle,

who's in a grave, to change that, and i think it sends an important message. all i heard was click. i thought i was disconnected, so i called back, and they said no, you weren't disconnected. not that in people say no to the president. all right, now darren peck is here. we have a storm on the way, and the timing involves a time of day and year when people are doing things outside. >> particularly right through the middle of the day tomorrow and for a good part of saturday. the storm coming our way tomorrow will be pretty impactful in a number of ways whether it's the intensity of the rain, potential for thunderstorms, and also the wind. part of the reason for this is that storm is going to develop just a couple hundred miles off the coast. we'll watch it go through one of the rapid intensifications, and by tomorrow, just about 300 miles out here, we're going to see this storm. in fact, let's go to the forecast imagery. that's what it looks like tonight. but when we put it into the actual model run, watch that blob of green

between now and tomorrow morning quickly and tightly wind itself up into a really pretty looking well developed storm. so there are a lot of things to look at on this. the first one, if you look at the big picture, this is when we're getting the widespread steady rain right through the middle of the day tomorrow. we'll slow it down in a minute and come in for a close up look and show you the actual start of the rain and how it plays out. but i want you to see the big picture view of the system first so we can understand why saturday and sunday will look and feel so different. this is the friday part of the storm. there's friday with the plume of moisture coming across for just about everybody. that's when we get most of the rain. then we get into friday night and saturday and we find ourselves back here in the middle of the system where you get your scattered showers, hit and miss on and on, but occasional thunderstorms. that's friday night into saturday. that's where you could get the heavier downpours. then sunday, it clears out in a hurry. sunday late morning we're done with

the system working out great for easter sunday. but since we have this area of low pressure tomorrow, we just went back in time. it's pulling the wasn't in so quickly we'll really feel this in terms of the wind tomorrow. the first thing to discuss is the wind advisory that's been extended. originally it was just for the coast and east bay hills, but the national weather service is now including san francisco and the entire marin county coastline and the sonoma county coastline. the center of the low will be a little farther north than it looked like it would be. and watching the wind speeds, we'll see gusts up to 50 miles per hour into the middle of the day tomorrow. so that wind advisory goes from 11:00 a.m. tomorrow until 5:00 a.m. on saturday. but watch the shades of purple right off the coast. that gets us right into the middle of the afternoon when we're really seeing the strongest winds getting pulled back into the center of low

that's right off the coast. this is the kind of scenario where we could get some downed trees. that might be the biggest impact from this. the showers start late morning. once we get into the later hours of the commute, the light rain has begun. but it picks up in intensity right there. this is now early afternoon. if you think of the time frame between 1:00 in the afternoon and 4:00 in the afternoon, that's when we pick up the bulk of the rain from the system. everyone will be getting rain at the same time. then, once we get past that, it turns into isolated scattered thunderstorms. watch the rotation. you can actually see it. there's the center of the low off the coastful everything is rotating around it. it pulls the thunderstorms away just in time for sunday because it goes to our south, and we're going to get a break in time for easter sunday. but we'll get an inch of rain from the time we go from friday into saturday. so it's a pretty,

that's not enough that we're concerned about widespread flooding like rivers and streams, but we are concerned about some roadway issues. particularly if you get one of those thunderstorms with a brief downpour. that could then produce some minor localized street flooding. just to see you what will happen in the sierra, about a foot and a half of snow. snow level down to 4,000 feet. it's friday and saturday, and by sunday travel will be easier. but friday and saturday are big travel days. that's what sara meant in terms of the timing of this. with friday and saturday coming up, it's a big holiday travel weekend for a lot of people. chains definitely in the sierra. good news, sunday looks fine, and we'll be near 70 with a lot more sunshine for much of next week. back to you. thanks so much. it's not exactly monster jam, vern, but i have a feeling you're going to want to see it anyway. >> i can't wait. and straight ahead in sports, we're down from 16 to 12 remaining in the

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a. you know i was giving you hell when i was doing well in the bracket challenge. >> and then tonight happened! >> yeah, i haven't looked at it. >> you had north carolina. >> i know that. >> but i had arizona going to the final four. >> maybe we both took a hit. >> taking that bracket and just get outta here! how was your tournament bracket doing? it's been mostly favorites rolling through, but nights like tonight are why it is called march madness. west region in la. clemson's brad brownwell and the tigers have had the hot hand. led arizona by two late. tyson hunter called game, hit

the bucket and drew the fall. he finished with 18 points. clemson, a six seed, upset the wild cats, the last pac-12 school left in the tournament. they'll face the winner of alabama and north carolina. final minute, tar heels up one. but grant nelson clutch down the stretch. big basket and drew the foul to put the tide ahead by two. one last chance for carolina. davis took it to the rack, but he's denied by nelson. get out of my kitchen! alabama hung on to win in a thriller. final of 89-87. so the crimson tide will take on clemson in the elite 8 for a spot in the final four. uconn blew out nc state, and illinois won. tomorrow, another round of sweet 16 and four more teams get outta here. >> you can't say you aren't entertained. >> oh, yeah. >> even if your teams lost. some good games. >> march madness, folks.

it may be baseball season, vern, but looks like the ski season still has a lot of life left. this was the sierra today. plenty of work for snowplows. and it was a really rough drive over the summit on i-80. some of tahoe resorts expect up to two feet of snow by the end of the weekend. they've already extended their seasons well into april. no surprise given the winter we had. meanwhile a different kind of season is being cut short. after just ten weeks at sea, bay area crabbers are ending their season. the season started late in january to protect migrating whales. how do

all right, guys, this is local news. we see police chases. maybe not as many as la, but we do see them. >> get the helicopter up, there's a chase. >> yes, i've heard that a lot many my career. but this one is something new for me and you probably. here's the play by play on a pursuit that looked like a cross between a transformers movie and a monster truck rally. >> stop!

>> reporter: how do you stop. >> stop! hey! >> reporter: a front-end loader leading gwinnett county georgia police on a slow speed chase. >> he's going to go out on a main road. >> reporter: police say the suspect had been fired from a waste management business six months ago, but returned and took off in the front-end loader, making u-turns. police in their much lighter vehicles were unable to stop it until they got a front-end loader of their own. an officer went back to the waste management company and picked one out. >> how fast is it? >> they can get up to probably about 30. >> okay, grab that. >> reporter: the employee got behind the wheel, police escorted him to catch up with the tractor being chased. five miles from where they started. >> this is unbelievable.

>> reporter: the second front loader blocked the first. officers yelled instructions. >> flip it! >> reporter: once flipped, police were able to arrest eddie sanchez, jailed for alleged theft, fleeing, and reckless driving among other charges. the end of the front-end loader chase that had even cops saying get a load of this. >> all right, you know that the second guy that got to do this had the best day ever. >> yes, first guy not so much. >> the only thing that would have been better is if he heard autobots unite! >> this is like every eight-year-old's dream! they should sell tickets. >> i'll hear mom can we do that when i get home. i'll say probab