Bay Briefing: A California exodus? Not so much, data shows
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Erica and Blake Johnston pack their San Francisco apartment in September in preparation for their move to Austin, Texas, with their child, Ellis.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2020
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, March 1, and work starts today to repair Highway 1 near Big Sur where a chunk of the road fell into the ocean during a rainstorm. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Migration staying mostly local, USPS data shows
Despite all the talk of people leaving the Bay Area during the pandemic, only a small fraction of residents have left the state, suggesting that reports of an exodus have been exaggerated, according to a Chronicle analysis of U.S. Postal Service data.
Tuned, as always. thank you, martha. meantime tonight, russia is striking back, after the u.s. expelled dozens of russian diplomats and closed a consulate, following that poisoning in the uk with a nerve agent. the kremlin expelling 60 american diplomats now, giving them one week to leave. and shutting down the american consulate in st. petersburg in just 48 hours. more than 20 countries expelled russia s diplomats over the poisoning of that former russian spy and his daughter. and tonight, russia is vowing to expel diplomats from all of those countries, as well. and we should point out that that daughter is said to be improving tonight. here at home, and to that mysterious accident along california s scenic highway 1. a family of eight, including six children in an suv, that went off the road, plunging onto the rocks, the beach right there below. their children believed to have been inside. some are still missing. tonight, a portrait of that family now emerging, leading to new que
Unbelievable. a rockslide closed scenic highway 1 in malibu as a result of all of this, and snow is pound being the midwest as well. let s go to mary costello of fox affiliate kmfp in minneapolis. folks are not getting a break this year. hey, mary. reporter: hey there. yeah, definitely not getting a break, and december may become the snowiest in our history. just being minnesotans, hearing about the rockslides, when we wake up to our cars being coated with ice, it sort of seems like, oh, we can just scrape off the car, no big deal. however, we are under snow emergencies, and the problem with the snow overnight is that freezing drizzle followed that. so as you look at the highways and the side streets, it looks like you ve got dry pavement, but this is actually glare ice. so we ve got some crash numbers that have happened since 3 p.m. yesterday from the state patrol, and it turns out there was one
And robbed by university hospitals of my future. the clinic has revealed that more than 4,000 eggs and embryos were lost when a storage tank malfunctioned. next, new clues in that mysterious crash along california s scenic highway 1. a family of eight, including six children, believed to have been lost when their suv went off the road and crashed. tonight, a preliminary investigation suggesting it may not have been an accident after all. here s abc s kayna whitworth. reporter: tonight, police say a family s fatal plunge off this scenic stretch of california coast may have been intentional. jennifer and sarah hart died in the crash last week, found in the wreckage with three of their six adopted children. three of those children never found, believed to be swept out to sea. nobody wants to get to the bottom of this more than the guy you re looking at right now. why did this happen? how did this happen? reporter: investigators now say evidence recovered from the car indicates t