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Plus, people in open continue to share their thoughts on what they want to see in their next police chief. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. And thanks for waking up with us aria and im james. 09 00am as the time and before we get all those stories. Lets take a look outside the suns yeah, in some spots and maybe a few layers there. John. Lets take a peek yet. Getting brighter and brighter as the moments go by. And so there are some burnout liars. Most notably San Francisco berkeley right now. But a lot of us are warming up and really cleared out by now, looking at the embarcadero, youve got the low gray overhead. Youre not driving through it. Youre just looking up at it. Still hanging out above you. Visibility has improved for the vast majority of the bay north bay in coastal areas. You are those stubborn holdouts 60s for most of our current temperatures. Even under that sunshine, brentwood, youre at 67 while alameda and oakland at 62 64 vacaville and kelsey ville among our first few spots to rise into the 70s. Now we move into the afternoon, you can expect temperatures to continue to rise. Taking us to very similar daytime highs yesterday. This is before a big warm up this weekend into next week, which ive got you covered for as we go. All right, john, thank you for that. Well, we are making some really great time here in this 9 oclock hour. The bay bridge. Look at that 12 minutes. Finally, 115 minutes on a mornings commute. Youre just ridge. About 12 month totals to 101 san mateo bridge just under 18. So right now, probably the busiest bridge in terms of traffic. Golden gate bridge is still have that fog there. 20 woman, right . Thankfully not impacting things in the north bay, the slowing you down much along 80 crockett down towards the maze. Just under 31 minutes. Darya. James, back to you. Thank you. Reyna to and the breaking news that were following is in hawaii. We can tell you now that at least 36 people have died. Dozens were hurt in this fire that has burned over 2 Hawaiian Islands is still going. Theyre still working on it and recovery efforts. And and sue this morning. So the numbers could get worse already at least 270 buildings or more have been destroyed. Well, were also following the latest who, as you can see from the air looking down at the destruction, its been incredible. One maui Restaurant Owner this morning says theres nothing left of the once bustling town of la hina, which is what youre looking at. Right now. The faa also now restricting airspace around behind a above it in the surrounding areas. There are still so much smoke up there right now. This is we know flights of the departing the island maui, bringing travelers and tourists that have told to leave the island back here to the bay area. Yeah, because they dont want dont want people there who are lucky enough, by the way to to be okay. Many of whom lost everything, though and some of them have been arriving in different flights this morning to San Francisco. Michael thomas is live at sfo. Theres also been canceled flights so you cant go to hawaii. Obviously. Lets talk about more about what hes learning firsthand this morning. Michael. Hi, good morning, everyone. Well, you know, its really a fluid situation. I mean, these flights that are coming in were not necessarily scheduled to come in at this time. Travelers tell me that its kind of just stop and go situation when theyre at the airport. Theyre being told that they may be able to switch from such as you know, united over the southwest. But there is a 19 fee. Lets go in video so we can talk about what things are looking like right now on the island. There. Travelers tell me some of the more stock for 30 hours either in the High School Gym in the area on the island, others were actually sitting in the airport the whole time. One woman tells me she was even stuck in her hotel room and that they were running out of food eventually at some point this morning, they knocked on her door and said, hey, weve got an open road that will get you to the airport. So her and another woman from england got in a car together. They travel to the airport, paid that 19 to switch from one Company Another and made it here back to the bay area. I spoke with another traveler who tells me that shes lives on the island. She says its going to take them at least a decade to get back to where they were not only economically, but even just structurally and take a listen to this woman that i spoke with news from the bay area that are right here this morning just after 06 00am. In the not an apartment place. I know you have a thing for the storm to calm down, but it got really bad. And then the ceiling started still rule starts to fly and then and you got their vacation so in the 5 minutes they put everything in and and then the that he saw the smoke. You know, and her story was really touching and tragic. She went on to tell me that her and her daughter and shes there with her whole family, but essentially where she had taken her daughter to get ice cream in the downtown area. She said after the win, they looked at it the next day. It was completely destroyed and she said chilly had about 45 minutes to gather herself for kids. Her belongings before the apartment that she had rented was just taken out completely. I mean, you heard her say that the brief was being torn off as she was in sight. Thankfully, they spent the night in the High School Gym in the following day at the airport before arriving here this morning. And she didnt even get to bring all of her belongings and the force of the back to the last thing that people are telling me from the last flight that just came in is that communication there to people staying on the island is very sparse. Theyre telling me that only communication that theyre able to really get is by radio. And even then its just it or miss because theres no signal theres no electricity and theyre really kind of just depending on each other of word of mouth of this is whats going on. This is where you should go. Thats a very latest here from sfo and what travelers are telling as they arrive here from ill send it back to and as youre at the airport, you know, to just reminds me so imagine, michael, youre at the airport there at the airport in maui. For 30 hours, they cant get in or out. Theres no food there. Theyre sleeping on the floor right in. Are families. Yeah, these are families. And in addition, one woman tells me that they once you get to the airport, they tell you, hey, you cannot leave after this certain time. And theyre only giving you limited amount of food. So, really, i mean, some of these people so many, you know, they havent slept in a bed showered or even a proper meal in going on 3 to 4 michael, thank you very much for that. Will continue following the latest out of hawaii here in the east bay. We had a fire as well. Nothing near as large, obviously. But this is a live look out of the port of oakland. You see a little bit of smoke still in the sky. They had a fire that broke out there yesterday. A large plume of smoke at one point. But here we see just wisp of it as evidence of something that that burned low turnout was a pile of scrap metal. It caught fire near the citys port air Quality Management district has extended its advisory for parts of contra costa, alameda counties. We have some video of what it looked like yesterday. He was a different angle. You can kind of see here in the distance that plume of smoke. We have other images you see in a second that show much more dramatic smoke. But yesterday when the fire was at its peak, that smoke could be smelled for miles around cruz responded to the scene. This is right on embarcadero west. At the are steel recycling facility a little after 5. 30, when the fire broke out. And heres how the fire chief describes it. I think its normal business for snakes they dont usually have house of this size, but theyve had some some technical difficulties over the last week and the powers gotten bigger than normal. So were just investigating how it started. Clearly the cause still unknown. As you heard him say, nobody hurt, though. Thats at least some good news. 907, is a time. And today state officials vote whether or not to expand driverless Vehicle Services in San Francisco kron fours amanda hari talk to some tech experts about the possibility of this vote passing. A cruise vehicle stalled on golf street wednesday afternoon. People honked. But there was no one inside of the autonomous vehicle. There are always problems. This is this is of the learning curve using the street to Test Software to test the hardware. And to test the different scenarios that they never expected. San jose state professor and Tax Specialist ahmed banafa. Says there are already hundreds of these cars on the road and soon there could be even more thursday morning. The California Public Utilities Commission will be voting on whether to expand driverless Vehicle Services. Throughout the city of San Francisco, thats going to be interesting to see how they respond to the concerns from people in San Francisco, principal analyst with guidehouse insights am avalos. Am it points out the issue . Wednesday is hardly the first one. Just 3 days ago, a driverless cruise car was involved in a crash. The semi Truck Driving in San Francisco. According to cruise, the truck was in the right lane when it tried to turn left and hit the cruise theres been a lot of issues with them. Causing traffic stops, traffic blocked blockages and emergency responders. And so be curious to see if the cpc actually takes that into account. But the says the hope is the companies will quickly learn from and fix each of these issues. This is a stop to it. But this is a glitch in the in the system. And its expected that of a complicated machine like autonomous cars. If theyre getting this feedback and immediately fix it and understand that this is not going to happen again, then we are really on the right track. Other have been small malfunctions with the driverless cars. There is yet to be a major accident in San Francisco. Samad says personally he feel safe taking a robotaxi. Theyre generally safe to ride. And ive written in the law numerous occasions. Now both cruise and waymo vehicles and ive never encountered a scenario where i felt unsafe. And the cpu sue vote is at 11 oclock this morning. And there may be a rallies on both sides of the issue. Well, in the east bay, the search is on right now for opens next police chief with the Police Commission asking residents what theyd like to see in the next top cop, all 60 colors joined last nights forum and they were asked several core questions among them. What should be the next chiefs priority . What can characteristic or background or experience should they have and what track record . Would suggest that they can respond to oaklands challenges. So among the answers that were given you see on your screen here, caller said that they want the next chief to be highly ethical, not cover up for coworkers and hold the police union in check. They also want the chief to focus on reducing crime and increasing transparency and encouraging more community policing. Lastly, they want the chief to end. The 20 year federal moratorium or monitoring agreement and return oversight of the department to local officials. Well, the next step in this process will be to narrow the list down to 3 or 4 candidates. Then theyll be another community forum. The Police Commissions goal is to have this all done by october. But thats all dependent on. If they get quality candidates otherwise they might have to extend the timeline. Ultimately, whoever the finalists are will go before the mayor for consideration. There are 2 more inperson discussions about what is wanted in a new police chief and that will be held on this coming saturday at oaklands libraries on adeline and 81st street. 9. 11 and coming up on the kron morning news. Do you know this is this person put swastikas and racial slurs on a building in the bay area. And now theyre looking for him. 9. 14. Right now were checking out the weather and everybody is starting to get sunshine almost everybody. Yeah, good morning, john. There it yeah. Almost every once a good way to put it because San Francisco coastal areas, even parts of the north bay kind of holding out at this moment. But most of us are getting a solid dose of cool sunshine at this moment. Good chance to step outside for a little bit and enjoy it before it heats up. More. Some of that low stratus will be persistent near the coastline and push back in overnight tonight. So this low pressure to our south, whats that doing . Well, this is actually the remnants of some tropical moisture that is scooting up our direction, losing a lot of steam as it does so but resulting in some isolated showers for Southern California and just the slightest chance of a brief sprinkle in the bay area after 11 00pm tonight. Just something to note, not really anything to worry about what i think were most going to be concerned about is what we have next week, which is quite the heat building in and staying with us for a while. Next weeks forecast is looking warmer than average for the entirety of the state. But specially above normal for northern california. So get ready for some warmer staff in the days to come. I know its already been warm but seasonably. So its 60s for the coast. 70s along the bay shore some 80s for some of our inland areas. These temperatures are right where we should be for this time of year. Kind of familiar at this point after the past few days, san jose 81 today, freeman through hayward and oakland, only in the 70s. Well, walnut creek, 82 conquer to 83 today at her very warmest were just shy of 90 degrees. While the lay whoa, snow votto center fell hanging out in the 70s. Heres a look ahead at tomorrows temperatures right around the same as todays and you see what our inland areas are up to into the weekend and next week, which is going to be upper 90s to low triple digits come sunday monday and tuesday. Some scorching hot temperatures. So get those outdoor plans out of the way the next couple of days or enjoy them during your Early Morning hours as we move to the latter part of the forecast right now. Im john, thank you for that. Get busy highways and pretty like bridges. So nearly 50 minutes along 1, 85 to menlo park south bay and along the peninsula, the bay bridge. Look at things here. 12 minutes. Meteor lights are off our san mateo bridge. Youre down to 15 minutes, which is pretty typical for light traffic over in the east. A lot of orange, a lot of red. 33 minutes to make it from sale down beaches. Maybe youre heading up 80 or 5 80s yet to choose to oakland. 5 80s, much lighter at this hour. Richmond, sandra bridge 8 minutes there and 80, if youre traveling from crockett down to the maze. 24 minutes. All right, james, back to you. Time to talk winners and losers with our financial expert rob black morning, rob. Morning how are the markets looking . We start august a little bit week after having a mazen for 7 months. The air. I thought were due for a little bit of a pullback would didnt last very long, although who knows where we go from here, think we in higher is my point, though, by the end of the year because the probably done raising Interest Rates and then probably next move in 2024. 25 is lower rates stimulating the economy. We saw inflation coming at a 3. 2 rate instead of 3. 3 . Something were expecting 3. 4. So inflation is cooling real wages are rising like they were, which is. Bad for the worker, but its good for the economy because softens inflation. So were still talking about a soft landing coming with a higher Interest Rates in the last 16, 17 months. Thats impressive cause a lot of people were predicting recession, including interesting yesterday. The number one search on to go spike 50 yesterday color. Yeah, because this week and last week on the union negotiated basically 170,000 pay package for drivers that includes pensions. Sending your kid to college to be a poacher major or send your kid to ups to be a brown truck. Driver 170. Doesnt sound that bad and you can retire after 2025 30 years. So sounds actually kind of attract well. And when its hot out, they get to where the brown shorts, you get that you get the pants and the short. No. Part of the concessions, Ground Troops into the airconditioned. Thats right. And i mean, my kids, you know, hes still talking all i want to back up plan egos. The backup plan has to involve no education like you want it right away. So that might be something for a college kid whos like all i need to make money. Now. Theres a big fear that i work with blue collar jobs are on the rise. While white collar jobs are on the decline based on chatgpt. And other things in society. But i were always need plumbers or always welders. He said, well, unders. Yeah. That was fire fighters. Teachers in jobs that you can retire after 25, 30 years myself looks attractive to some but more attractive to others want to be a star. And thats not as attractive to the kids. These days hard, but can you imagine its been 50 years since hip hop started. Thats so strange to me was in high school would have pop started. And my dad, he did run dmc. But i had to have the adidas sneakers. 50 years tz is a billionaire doctor dres a billionaire usled beats to apple for 3 billion. Youve got rihanna. Youve got travis its its its interesting how fast its evolved become part of the 16 million are Music Industry and effective and rightfully so. But 50 years it makes me feel old. Us talking about to a friend about College Years and was like and we wait, wait that 30 years ago. I know i5. I is chris. And plus, you know, were talking about kids. Its hard to be a star, but actually, when those guys were doing it, there were few stars, but now everybody can be like a youtube star and instagram star above that, you know, the influencer kind of deal. Thats a star. Keep in mind, dari, its only the top one percent that makes anywhere over 50,000. Your kid. They want to be an influencer, its very, very unlikely. Theyre going make over i hear, know, thats a Football Player to okay. So maybe im gonna tell him fall back on the welding, not on tiktok started and this is all because of paying bills. They start mounting when the kids are young and i cant believe. How much people actually carrying Credit Card Debt. This was a little bit shocking. Balances are up 20 yearoveryear. 5947 is the average. Theres over 150 million credit cards out right now in the United States population, Credit Card Debt is over a trillion. Debt that were carrying on credit cards are up for over 60 . Users are over a year long. The savings rate with the interest charges 20 annually now. Oh, highestever. Yeah. Weve the fed raises rates. Thats what happens. But but so okay. So you look at this. If its about 6 grand, then you said somebody carrying a for at least a year. A lot of them. So by the time they pay off their like on this treadmill and if it you know, 2, 3, 5, 10 years that 6 grand is what are they paying at the end of 10 12 . Probably next 2000 interest. If theyre paying more than the minimum payment during an amendment payment to be about 15 years and double t a. The position of originally bought. Of note, 76 . Of lenders credit card lenders will lower your rate if you do one simple thing and call them ask them write. So i people dont know that. And the wood they waive the fee sometimes if you say youve call and ask. But you know, i would be full of missionary when it came out of college. 35 years ago. I have Credit Card Debt and it got so bad that i was ashamed about it. That i would say things like roblox dad when their call. To church tried to escape the debt and ultimately i borrowed money from a brother. I paid off the debt and i know we did it again. And i learned my lessons in my 20s 30s and 40s. Knew that brother back, by the way, he ages called hes been taken back, pay handsomely. I people can go to ccc ss af dot org to kind of come credit counseling. Francisco. And that it will help them kind of do what you are trying to figure out how to do right thank you, rob. Story. If you have any questions or comments for rob, you can reach him email. You can reach him email. X or facebook. With nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks all in one. Dont take if allergic to nurtec. Allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. Most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. Ask about nurtec odt. 9. 25. The time. And in bay area news caltrain is going to be suspending service this weekend between San Francisco and millbrae you need to ask you, can you give me arrive . Yeah. So all those stations between youre going want to know this. This actually one of several closures are going to be happening this month. Theyll be closures each of the next 3 weekends as a matter of fact. So youre going to plan for this all through august. People are being encouraged to look for other forms of transportation. There is a bus bridge. If theres youve got nothing else. But that also is going to, you know, cause delays. So just give yourself extra time to get around. Like i didnt even tell you where i needed a ride to. That 95 right now the Alameda Labor Council hold a rally in oakland. Theyre supporting the actors and writers strike. In the hollywood, this is going to be 11, 30 this morning. And you can see its own party lane in oakland. The will be there talking about their support for the writers strike. All right. Were going to take a quick break here. 9. 26. Coming up. A popular restaurant on the peninsula thats been open for almost 30 years is now being evicted because they paid their rent late. By one day. What more on that coming up . And it is backtoschool time. We are in ramon will have thank right now were inching towards well, were like shooting towards the weekend. We thursday and i feel like were accelerating towards really hot temperatures once again. But thats not till the end of the weekend. So some time to time is moving fast. And if youre a kid, youre like know. Is dont understand yet . For youll get were going to get there a little too quick to that heat. Weve got 2 more days of that at least tolerable warmth. And then were getting back to the scorching stuff which i dont know too many of us that are looking forward to the 90s and triple digits. Were out there at the mount tam camera right now. Youve got the sunshine up above the clouds, sun down into the bay down below. Most of us are seeing sunshine at this point. But a few great spots near the coast. 60s for most of our current temperatures. Still nice and cool. I know its national spoil your dog day and this weather is perfect for the actual long dog walk. If you want to get out there the next few minutes as we move into the afternoon, temperatures will rise into the mid to upper 80s at the very warmest most of us in the 70s to low 80s. I will be talking about that scorching hot rest of the forecast. Still ahead, rain. All right. John constable mike thank you for that. Hey, the bay ridge is the bridges look great. Right now. We start off super busy, maybe around 7 oclock this morning. Now 9. 30, 13 minutes. Meteor lights are off at the bay bridge. San mateo bridge. Things are starting to pick up again though. So 17 minute last time we were at 15 thought it was going down. Things are still a little busy. 8 minutes Richmond Center fell bridge golden gate bridge, although youve got the fall still under. 22 minutes and the south bay. Lets get a good look at things. Just a little under 50 minutes of 47. 85 up to menlo park. All right. James, back to you. All right. Thank you very much, and now heres a quick live look outside in the east bay. The air quality alert has been extended. Were told for another day, at least through today, following a fire at a recycling yard near the port of oakland. So thats been an issue. You can see a little bit of smoke. Theyre not terrible, but a little bit of wispy smoke kind of rising off in the distance. Now, earlier this morning, there was a a large, large or plume of smoke rising into the area, but nothing compared to what we saw yesterday. It was a pile of scrap metal. It caught fire near the citys port. The air Quality Management district has extended its advisory for parts of contra costa and alameda counties. In fact, heres video from yesterday. Little different angle. You can kind of see the darker smoke in the distance. Yesterday there was a fire at at its peak. It was quite impressive. In fact, youll see that here in a moment. But the smoke could be smelled for miles. There it is. Crews responded to this scrap a recycling place on a bar cutter west, the schnitzer steel recycling plant a little after 5. 30. Cause of that fire still under investigation. All right. Lets continue with our update out of maui. The breaking news, obviously, the fact that the wildfires are still ravaging the area weve had. 36 people now confirmed killed and were getting much more granular images of the damage done by these fires. These are satellite images. Weve got a few of them that were kind of cycling through and they show the before image. This is la hina, the popular Tourist Destination in west maui. Looks like a great community. Lots of homes right up to the shoreline. Now, lets show you what it looks like after the fires went through and all of those homes, all those rooms you saw in last image reduced to just ash and rubble. The white ash visible from the satellites above and typically weve seen fires here, youll get it spotty. One house spared another house has taken a universal. The fire just went through like a wall and took out just about the entire downtown area of la hina. And again, thats what theyre dealing with this morning. Heres actually goes to side by side. So you can get a look of the before on the left and the after on the right. Weve matched up the images. So theyre a Perfect Match and you can see the devastation is astounding. Thats what theyre dealing with this morning. We have our sister station there out in hawaii and their reporter, bridget, the mata has been out there on the ground, getting a firsthand look at the description destruction. So lets take a look at her report now. Well, here on maui, the winds are so strong. I feel like im using a lot of core strength that i didnt know. I had just to be able to stand upright. And of course, the strong winds helped fuel the devastation here on island. In fact, maui county officials have confirmed multiple people have died and rescue efforts are still underway. The beautiful Historic Town of la hina burned to a crisp thousands of maui. Residents are displaced. Thousands of maui. Visitors had nowhere to go. A lot of them have been stuck at couple louis airport and hundreds of maui firefighters with assistance now from firefighters on oahu have been battling these flames around the clock on the western side of maui as well as up country. The red cross is assisting, but whats making it difficult is the lack of cell service, particularly on the west side of due to downed power lines. In fact, 911 service was down officials, hawaii officials are still trying to work on that. But we are continuing to monitor the situation here on maui. We are your eyes and ears. Stay with us. As try to figure out more about whats going on and try to get some clarity all the devastation all the updated numbers and what we know here on the valley. Isle. Brigette namata sending it back to you. Its 9, 34 4 men who allegedly waged a gun battle in East Palo Alto park were indicted by a san mateo grand jury. That indictment came in may of last year as dozens of children. Were playing at the shooting that has happened at Jack Farrell Park on fordham street. This is cell phone video of that day from a girl was in the park when the gunshots rang out. One man died and that turned out to be the cousin Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams and 5 other people were hurt. Well, in oakland, police are right now investigating a homicide. It was just after 9 oclock tuesday night. The Police Responded to reports of a shooting on 25th street just off telegraph. Police say thats where they found a man whod been shot, took him to the hospital. But unfortunately he died. This is the 3rd deadly shooting now to happen in oakland. On tuesday alone. The first one happened at about 2. 30, out at the Martin Luther king junior regional shoreline, the boat launch there right near the oakland airport. Officers with opd and east bay regional park. Police responded. They found a man dead with a gunshot wound. And then the second shooting happened outside the lake merritt bart station with one person in custody. Now for that show. Its 9. 35. And solano deputies are looking for this person who red spray painted a building. You can see that spring can of spray paint right there. The tags were swastikas and racial slurs that were scrawled on the wall. There early tuesday morning. And this is thompsons corner saloon in court, delia, near the intersection of 86 8. If you have any information about who this is, the Solano County Sheriffs Department like to hear from you. On the peninsula, a Restaurant Owner in palo alto is now facing eviction because he was one day late in the rent conference. Justin campbell talked to him. Mikes diner bar has been in power over nearly 30 years. And after undergoing a 2 Million Dollar renovation, they could soon be closing after the owner paid the 22,000 rent payment. One day late in july, paid the rent one day lead because my daughter disabled was in the emergency room, El Camino Hospital i had to get owner. Mike wallace says he pay the rent the next day but on a Property Services sent him this letter and files for eviction in santa clara, 2 milers trying to work with them and mediate and also filing a motion to set aside the eviction. Mike says a year ago he signed a stipulation saying he wont be late on rain. After being late during covid which took a hit on his business 3 in the morning and stared at the ceiling. Good out and make this word have such a big investment into it. I can just walk away. But to be honest with you, just trying to get reopened and busy enough to pay all the bills. Has been extremely challenging. Mike is Gathering Community support. A petition has been signed with 900 signatures and hes also planning to go to city council next monday. Well, i think the most that the council can do is help rally community and and try to convince the landlords to have dialogue and look at solving the problem this this mikes cafe is an institution in midtown here. Its valued by the entire neighborhood. Mike is planning to fight. Dont opinion entertaining and youre to keep his restaurant open reporting in palo alto, Justin Campbell kron. 4 news. Santa clara county is launching a campaign to enhance bicycle and pedestrian safety. San jose mayor matt mahan introduced a program that promotes Traffic Safety just right about now. And kids are all heading back to school. And the strategy is to invest in protected bike lanes, better Street Lighting and a Pilot Program to use Speed Enforcement cameras. We dont want anyone to die or be injured on our streets. Im happy to say we have reduced this year far at this point in time we are seeing a substantial reduction in fatalities, but frankly, even one fatality is too many. The city of san jose has seen 29 traffic fatality so far this year. Well, happening today, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District goes back to school. Yeah, were seeing all the backpacks, kids teachers out there live this morning all morning long. So lets go back out to Alamo Elementary School. Tiffany justice is there. Good morning. Yes, good morning. And it is already pick up time for the super young ones here and back here on campus to pick up their children right behind us. It is that time it is backtoschool time for the santa fell Valley Unified School district. Today is their the school has set up a nice play outside for a lot of the parents that have stayed here to walk through the campus and take pictures at that display. Were at the Alamo Elementary School where some of the kids will be going to school for the first time today, classes started at 8 oclock this morning. The School District says today will be a minimum day, a time to get to know your teachers, classrooms and classmates. They want to remind parents of students, class assignments. And schedules can be found on the districts infinite campus portal know schedules for Elementary Middle School and high school have already been posted. They also want to remind parents and students about Traffic Safety. It can get quite busy around School Campuses and School Officials are asking people to be patient and park in designated spaces. Only they know traffic can be frustrating for these first few days as families learn the dropoff and pickup traffic flow. Earlier this morning, we caught up with some parents. Weve been working for the last wild to ensure that we are focused on helping all of our students thrive. That is our big focus. And our staff and our parents and caregivers, weve all been working together for that absolute exciting focus were an amazing district that has always helped our kids succeed academically. And we are really focusing on how to help them thrive socially and emotionally as well. All right. That was the superintendent for the School District in the next hour. Well have some. Sound from parents having to drop their children off for the first 8 today back to studio and think stiff almost make out with some of them are saying, yeah, thank, stephanie are at 9. 41. Oclock. Were going take a break here. But still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news. State leaders are joining forces to help protect lake tahoe from Climate Change and to help people blue. Were also following the future to of callan, staff for the athletics because their fates are still up in the air as the pac. 12 seems to be dissolving. Where will they go find and were also following the latest with the weather to john. Yeah, were looking at forecast out there today. That going to be nice and cool in San Francisco in oakland, but little warm for san jose up into the low 80s. Ill be breaking down the hotter weather we have just around the corner. All still to come. And if you are going to be hitting the roads out there, driving or traveling, keeping driving or traveling, keeping a close with wendys bogo dollar deal, your dollar never tasted so good. So everyones gonna get. [all talking at once] i was gonna say a frosty and a frosty. You can do that . I dont know, willies really smart. Choose wisely, choose wendys buy one get one for a buck. Heatin up the kitchen we got somethin different spreadin good vibes all day livin in the golden state nada se puede comparar livin in the golden state vive en el Estado Dorado well, 9. 44 is the time in a meteor showers set to light up the skies this weekend. And this year because the moon is supposed to be barely visible. We should have a pretty good view of the Perseid Meteor Shower come saturday night into sunday morning. You can wish on those. Media showers produce streaks of light across the sky. That all appear to come from the same what we call the radiant point the radiant point for this meteor shower is in the constellation perseus, hence the name hearst it meteor shower. Yeah. So the showers set to start late saturday night and it will go until early dawn on sunday. You can expect to see they say anywhere from 30 to 100. Well call him shooting stars. Thank you and listen. You spend your money to wish on the lottery. Yeah, i this is free, james. And these come true. And i yeah. Think about how many im going to i cant wait. Were saying 10 to midnight is a great time yet to take up to, you stay up too late. But you can stay. Really shooting 9. 45. Right now, california, join forces because they want. Lake tahoe to stay blue and healthy. Bipartisan lawmakers gathered for the annual lake tahoe summit yesterday and they focused on how to protect the region for years to come. Climate crisis. This so urgent because the Climate Crisis is having a direct impact. Its a dire impact on both of our states. We can all agree on the goal of protecting something that is larger than any of us. Lawmakers support extending the lake tahoe restoration act through the end of 2034 instead of letting it expire next year. And for more than 2 decades, that legislation has provided resources and funding for the lake and the whole surrounding well, lets check bay area weather now. Weve got john with a look at our forecast this morning as were looking outside to increasing sunshine breaking through here and there and morning clouds. But the afternoon is going to be sunny again. I guess john afternoons going to be nice and clear. Good afternoon to get outside, not just here in the bay, but also up there at the lake where, hey, its looking pretty good. If you look really close, look at what weve got out there in the distance. Still a little bit of a lingering snow fall. Just very crest of the sierra. Nice to see a little bit of that. Still hanging out and obviously beautiful and clear out there as well as youre heading up to lake tahoe this weekend. Expect 70s and 80s now for the bay area this weekend. Our temperatures are going to be chi climb in quick. I hope youve enjoyed the cool weve had this week. It continues today and tomorrow, this low pressure sitting to the south and west of is associated with the remnants of some tropical moisture bringing some isolated showers to Southern California and just the slightest chance of a brief sprinkle for the bay area overnight tonight, what im really most looking forward to not ford in a good way. Just kind of dreading is what we have next week, which is going to be the scorching hot weather returning and staying around through the week. Your forecast into next week is going to be well above normal temperatures for not just the bay area, but the rest of the state to that means enjoy today. Seasonable weather 60s for your highs and San Francisco end up the coastline. Well, a lot of 70s along the bayshore pretty comfortable range of numbers in burlingame in foster city in the mid 70s warm for the south bay in the low 80s today and also pretty warm for the space, and livermore and pleasanton at 84 clinton iseventy cool in berkeley and richmond only at 66 little bit warmer than yesterday up in the north bay, napa. Youll be at 75 nevado at 79 today. Tomorrow temperatures will be right around the same mister days and then the climb uphill begins by sunday monday and tuesday. Inland areas back to those hot numbers in the upper 90s to even low triple digits rain. All right, john, thank you for that. Lets start over in the east bay. If you are taking 24 right now. Were back down to 12 minutes. We started pickup just a little bit traveling to will randle. We got up to about 16, 17 minutes. Were back down to 12. Thats great news. 40 min right heading into the city right now. Our san mateo bridge just under 15 highway for way slowly 40 minutes of the peak of the morning. Now were down to 21 that antioch to concord, doubling down to fremont. Thats along. Southbound 6, 80. 24 minute. You can see 5. 80, also start to pick up little more traveling to hayward. You need to add on to say about 20 minutes there and Richmond Center fell bridge 8 minute ride darya. James, back to you. Thank you. Reyna 9. 49 and for your money this morning when it comes to car sales or funeral expenses, somebody seems to be always selling something sometimes its a hard sell. And you feel like you cant say no. Jane king is at the nasdaq desk with a few tips. Dont fall for sales pitches that offer bargains or discounts if you sign now legitimate businesses will usually give you. The same deal later, if you accepted the sales offer that was made it your home. The law gives you 3 Business Days to cancel the transaction. Now the best 3 words for sales pitches like this sleep on its one of the best ways to avoid highpressure sales pitches to avoid them altogether. Now, some of the common highpressure sales pitches are for cars. Time shares Life Insurance and Home Security systems. If you plan to go to a presentation, you can research the sales tactics at a time and prepare answers for a variety of pitches. However, one you may not be able to plan for is a funeral. The pitch is to let us create a memorable no expense spared tribute for your loved one to make sure that it reflects a loving relationship. You shared. Its a common enough occurrence of the federal trade commission established the funeral rule to prevent predatory sales practices in the business. According to the rule, funeral providers must provide detailed price list that explain which services are required by law. The best defense is to go online and decide what you want before going to the funeral home. Smart salespeople know your weaknesses, whether its killed vanity fear or plain old laziness and theyre prepared to prey on any and all of them and their efforts to always be closing from the Nasdaq Market site. Im jane just trying to figure why are they going to help uber ride may be recorded. Can now use an audio recording safety feature in ubers. Around the city, uber says the in app safety feature will allow drivers and riders to record audio for the duration of the ride. The audio files will then be encrypted and stored directly on the users device. The recording apparently will not be sent anywhere unless you attach it to a safety report. Dont forget, secretly recording a trip is not an option. California is a 2 a 2 person state, which means both people in a recording have to be notified that theres recording happening. So both the driver and the writer have to make it known to the other that theyre being recorded. If you dont want to be recorded as a writer. Uber says your option is to cancel the ride step out of the vehicle. Meantime, live says the company is lowering right fares to better compete uber. The ceo says lyft is eliminating surge pricing, which typically happens when there arent enough drivers to meet the demand. Lyft says the number of riders who experience surge pricing fell. 35 last quarter because of the high drivers supply. Their goal is to kill off surge pricing that be interesting because wow did a very you know it with all these services. You know what . Its like the end of the big event. Those prices caused a lot of money to get out of there. 9. 52. Right now, a former Silicon Valley Bank Vice President is going to spend 15 months in prison for falsifying documents. His name is more near gad from los gatos. He was convicted yesterday for his part in a securities fraud scheme. And in addition to going to prison, hes going to serve 36 months of supervised release and pay a 10,000 fine. Well, the acc, these president s now chosen not to vote last night on whether to add cal or stanford to their league. This leaves the future of both athletic programs up in the air as they look for a new home following the departure of several schools from the pac. 12 cal and stanford have also reached out to the big 10, which just added oregon and the university of washington last week. But not clear if the big 10 has any interest in adding those 2 schools yet to their conference and well see. And kron 4 is home to the raiders yesterday season games. So you dontswant to check this out this sunday because its the raiders hosting in vegas, the which will be so much fun. Thats the preseason game. And yeah, its always a plus. By the way, its fun to be able to see the niners right here on kron 4. When you normally when especially you get, you know, you can you can watch us on youtube, youtube, tv and on now hulu live, which is something thats just brand new to us here. Which is the last week or so. So enjoy the game on your big screen. I know you i know you will 9. 53. And coming up with a couple morning news residents in dublin. Be careful. Well tell you what police are warning about. Somebody is impersonating se all right. Were back at 9. 56, a new research has shown that human caused Climate Change is causing Antarctic Sea ice. To shrink and decline and thats impacting global ocean. Temperatures. Scientists say the rapidly disappearing sea ice is devastating. Ocean currents around the world. And thats resulting in warmer ocean. Temperatures. So youve got environmental scientists now saying they need we need to do more to reduce fossil fuel use and production. Thats critical, they say, for preventing even more Antarctic Sea ice from vanishing. Its 9. 56 in coming up in the next hour, the death toll continues to rise in maui because of the wildfire that broke out. Well have a live report from sfo where travelers, if theyre lucky have gotten a flight out too. Plus, the police union is calling on city leaders in oakland to speed up the process of finding a new chief has crime rates continue to has crime rates continue to skyrocket . To celebrate doubling my sourdough jack, i got doubles for everyone in the office. Alright, my double looks nothing like me, and neither does yours. phone rings hr . Hey. Its our wife. Order my classic or double bacon sourdough jack today. affordable design. Endless possibilities. Ikea. For fans of my sourdough jack, this is for you. 100 beef seasoned as it grills, Hickory Smoked bacon, and melty cheese on my original sourdough bun. And for my imitators. Better luck next time. Try my sourdough jack today. Right now, the kron 4 morning news. The death toll continues to climb following the devastating wildfires in now. And a cloud of smoke fills the air after a fire broke out in recycling yard oakland. And people in oakland continues to express their views on what theyd like to see in their next police chief. From the local news station, youre watching you on morning team. Good morning. I dont know that. What what were going to agree. And rob, you can you guys are so anyway. What talking about we just got word mayor london breed was actually on the island as