Involved and are conducting their own investigationi talked to a mother of one of the students being harrassed online. And as you can imagine, she is anot happypkg an Instagram Account with racist statements, and photos, was circulating. Targeting minority students, and a basketball coach from albany high. Sot coach and a student with nooses around their neck weve blurred the photos due to their graphic nature. Some were too explicit to show. Sot im disgusted by it. I think its completely unacceptable the mother of one of the students being targeted says a fake Instagram Account was created by a number of juniors at the school. Sot my daughter didnt even know these peopleshe is emotionally hurt, but they have a good support systemsot were dealing with it the best we can. We have the right support in place. This is not something you expect your child would have to deal with Sarah Francis says the School District is taking this very seriously, but she believes there needs to be severe consequences. Sot i want them to hold the students and their parents accountable for their behavior and to show that this is a no tolerant zone. Sot students should come into School Feeling safe and welcomed and acceptedin a statement the School District says albany unified is committed to providing a Safe Learning environment for all of our students, and any racially offensive or other hurtful behavior will not be tolerated at ahs or in any of our albany schools. Sot its a bigger issue. This isnt the first time this has happened at the school with cyber bullying. Tagcounselors are being provided for student support. We did try to talk to students to get their take on whats happening right now. They were told by the school not to talk to the media. Reporting live in albany steve new at ten a young girl grabbed. And nearly thrown into the trunk of a car. It happened in San Francisco in broad daylight. This is a map. The crime took place in the citys west portal neighborhood. Near the intersection of taraval street and forest side avenue. Thats where kron4s jr stone is live tonight. Jr . Into a lady. It was bodies literally. There must have been about ten. Twleve. pam another big story tonight we are waiting for police in london to release the identity of the man behind todays terror attack. The man was shot dead by police. But not before killing four people. And injuring dozens of others. pam all this happening right outside the british capitol buildings. The attacker made it on to the grounds of parliament. And the british Prime Minister was there at the time. steve before that. The attacker drove an suv across the crowded westminster bridge. Hitting pedestriants. About three hours ago President Donald Trump tweeted his condolences. Cnns reylee carlson has the latest from london. steve happening tomorrow the us house of representative s will vote on the gops obamacare replacement bill. But tonight its unclear if republicans have enough votes. pam and this vote comes. As the Republican HouseIntelligence Committee chair from californias central valley. Muddied the waters today over the trump tower wiretap scandal. Grant lodes is in studio tracking these stories tonight. Grant . grant congressman nunes says some of president Trumps Campaign teams personal communications. May have been collected after the november election. In a legal manner. Nunes was short on specifics. And did not indicate presdient trump was correct to say former president obama ordered a wiretap of trump tower. Todays cryptic announcement has democrats crying foul and raises new questions about the transparency of the investigation. grant also today, a new cnn report cites sources who say the fbi has information which indicates some of president Trumps Campaign aids communicated with russians to possibly coordinate the release of information that would damage Hillary Clintons campaign. And on any other night the big story would be healthcare. pam Governor Brown was in washington today to oppose the bill. steve the gop controls the house, but if more than 21 republicans vote agains the bill, it doesnt pass. grant and if it passes in the house. Some republicans in the senate have said its dead on arrival there. pam new at ten a vintage store owner has been charged with selling endangered animal fur and body parts. The owner of the store, called decades of fashion, in San Franciscos Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Made her first appearnace in court today on criminal charges. Cicely hansen faces nine misdemeanors. After investigators seized 150 items from the store. Containing skins and body parts from a jaguar, leopard, ocelot, snow leopard, an endangered sea turtle, and more. Investigators steve take a look at this. The final piece of big surs pfeiffer canyone bridge on highway1 came down today. Heavy rain in january and february damaged the bridge beyond repair. A big crack caused forces crews to close it indefinitely. Stranding over 400 residents on one side. A new bridge will be built within six to nine months. For now residents are having to take alternate routes to get around town. steve new information on the oroville dam. A team of experts is warning of a very significant risk. If the main spillway is not up and running again by the next rainy season. As for what exactly the risk is. The report did not speculate. Authorities evacuated nearly 200thousand people last month. After huge holes appeared in the main and emergency spillways. Governor brown has asked for federal assistance in dealing with the repairs. The price tag is deemed as high as 200million dollars. pam a live look outside tonight in San Francisco. Rain still in the bay area forecast. steve our chief meterologist Brittney Shipp has the latest weather details into scattered showers along with a few thunderstorms can be expected into the early evening hours. The next storm system is projected to impact the region late week. Widespread rainfall and stronger winds return to the northern portion of the region late thursday and will spread southward during the day friday. Dry conditions return for most of saturday with another weak system forecast to push through starting saturday night. Dry weather and warmer temperatures are then likely next week. steve now to the raiders. And today. Strong indication that nfl owners will be voting on a move to las vegas. As soon as next monday. pam grant lodes has been tracking this story for more than a year. And is here now with the grant today an espn report indicated that a Couple League owners say its likely the vote will in fact happen next week. Raiders owner mark davis who says he wants to make the move to vegas. Needs at least 24 of the 32 team owners to sign off on the relocation. Thats 75 percent of the owners. But there still is an effort to keep the silver and black in the bay. We talked to fans today. And one city coulcil member,,who said that the majority of the leagues money comes from National Television agreements, and oakland. Being in a much bigger media market. Has a better advantage over las vegas. Larry reid Oakland City Council this is the 6th largest media market versus the 42nd or 43rd media market in las vegasbauce man 66th ave mob it is hard for me to see them wanting to go to a smaller area that has no secondary market. We have the valley and we have sacramento as well, cause this thing is about tv money and having eye on the tubes taking their propaganda from their sponsors. Thats their thing grant this saturday, some oakland city leaders andand members of the ronnie lott Investment Group will hold a big rally for the raiders at the coliseum. That is at 11 00 saturday morning. steve still ahead in a brand new edition of people behaving badly a bay area serial shoe bandit now appears to have a copy cat. pam and next the gorilla koko best known for the ability communicate with sign language. Needs your help. The problem with her home in santa cruz. steve new at ten koko. The gorilla known for her ability to communicate through sign language. Needs help. Koko and her companion ndume need a new roof for their play yard. The two gorillas reside in the santa cruz area. With the heavey rains from the recent storms the roof to their play yard and sleeping quarters has sustained significant damage. The Gorilla Foundation is trying to raise 35thousand dollars for the roofing project. The foundation says the did not anticipate the roof replacement in their annual budget. And are now asking for the publics help. A gofundme page has been set up for the project. Over 20 thousand dollars has already been donated. If you would like to make a contribution you can find a link to it at kron4dotcom. pam first we told you about jc penney shutting Stores Including the one in richmond. Now another retailer one which has been around for more that 130 years may be closing its doors. Sears is facing serious financial problem. With its stock price at an all time low. The company says it has substantial doubt about whether it will be able to stay in business. With competitors such as walmart and target. And the surge of online shopping. Sears is struggling to stay afloat. ted balanay sears shopper you know what . I feel like this sears down here in san bra. Sears in general is a great store and its like back in the brady bunch days. Sears is where america shops and id be sad to see sears go, especially in the san fran location. Its a great store and i do a lot of shopping her. My family does and what can you say, ya know . pam sears bought kmart back in 2005. Its history also dates back to the 19th century. Sears says, it is uncertain what will happen next. Sears management continues to publicly say. It is focused on a transformational plan for its stores. steve coming up the new scientific treatment that would let a baby have three biological parents. pam then hackers reportedly threatening to erase millions of iphones unless they get paid. Tonight we talk to a Cyber Security expert about keeping your data safe. steve and next do you feel safe on bart . Just hours after a woman was attacked randomly on a train. We breakdown the crime stats. vo what if this didnt have to happen . I didnt see it. vo what if we could go back . What if our car. Could stop itself . In iihs frontend crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. Not toyota. Not honda. Not ford. The allnew subaru impreza. More than a car, its a subaru. Hashtag stuffy nose. Hashtag no sleep. Hashtag mouthbreather. Just put on a breathe right strip. It instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than Cold Medicine alone. Shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. Breathe right. steve tonight in a story youll only see on kron4 a woman on a bart train viciously attacked. And Police Believe the crime was random. pam the victim was 73years old. She was on a train headed for San Francisco. She talked today to kron4. Grant lodes has more on the exclusive interview. Grant grant our Maureen Kelly talked with this poor woman in her Highland Hospital bed. She was still bloody from this mornings attack. She needed six stitches in her head. This is the raincoat she was wearing today. This 73 year old works as a stockbroker in San Francisco. She boarded bart at the fremont station just after 4 00 this morning. She says she was reading a magazine. When she says she saw an agitated man walk by her. And then she was suddenly and randomly attacked. She didnt remember what happened. Sayi ng she blacked out. But bart police say the victim was kicked by the suspect. Which slammed her into the side of the train. Some bart riders say they are surprised by this incident. Others say more security is needed. Rider thats a horrible thing its not something you expect to happen. Rider on the train clearly and every once in a while there is some Police Activity in oakland or somewhere that delays you from getting into the city but living in fremont i can tell you we could use more security more police everywherei find bart relatively safe grant the suspect. Identified as 23yearold wilbert winchester. Got off the train at the colesium station in oakland. Where he was arrested. Hes been booked on one count of assault. The victim says after 20 years riding bart. She will not be deterred. But from now on shes going to sit in the front car near the driver. Especially on those Early Morning rides to work. pam tonight we go indepth on bart safety. The attack this moring raising questions about rider safety. Kron4s Hermela Aregawi has the statistics. When it comes to crime on bart. aatake pkgaa hundreds of thousands of people take bart every day. And the vast majority do so without any problems of note. But recent high profile incidents are putting the question of rider safety back in the forefront. Bart tells us property crimes are significantly down at stations. But crime against people is up slightly. aagfxaa while ridership is down 2. 7 percent from last year. Crimes against riders is up 1. 4 but bart tells us overall. Riders are safer. aagfxaa the number of incidents per station have decreased by half from this time last year. Well below the benchmarks bart officials have set. We spoke to people on their commute home from work. They say they generally feel safesot meghan francesconi, bart riderim pregnant so i take it less and less. At night i would feel unsafe but during the day im pregnant i get a seat so im relatively okay. Overall i wish there was more space and more cars. Sot kadi thompson, bart rider theres occassionally someone who gets on who is aggravated or disturbed in some way. But ive never physically felt unsafe. I feel like the train conductors are really responsive. Ive been on one where someone pushed the button and the train conductor got on and then we stopped until the police got on and removed the person that was making the trouble. Standupone of the things people brought up is that they dont see bart police on the actual trains cars. We asked bart about that and they tell us officers are positioned mostly inside the stations so they can get to where theyre most needed quickly. If they were on the actual train cars that would be more complicated. Reporting in lafayette, Hermela Aregawi, kron 4 news. steve new tonight. We have a picture of the woman poisoned by an herbal tea she bought in San Franciscos chinatown neighborhood. Heres a picture posted on a gofund me account that has been set up to help with funeral costs for 56yearold yu ping xie. At last look 900dollars has been donated out of a 10 thousand dollar goal. Died saturday. She was hospitalized the day before. After drinking a tea she bought from the sunwing trading company. The citys Health Department says the tea contained aconite. Which is a poison that comes from plants but may also be used as a tea if handled safely and properly. pam the city of richmond is suing President Trump. The move comes over an executive order signed in january. Threatening to pull federal funds from sanctuary cities and counties. Which refuse to enforce federal immigration policy. The city of richmond argues, the president cannot pull funding allocated by congress. Not everyone in the city hall audience agreed with the lawsuit. There was one interruption. Attorney mr. President the arrogance has to stop, its an unconstitutional act as the Supreme Court has already found in numerous cases. Resident who the hell are you to sit there and tell us we dont have the right , the president has the right to do anything he needs to protect our citizens and you say he doesnt pam San Francisco and other jurisdictions have also sued the president. steve if you or your child attend a california state university. Get ready to pay a little more. The csu board of directors approved a 270 dollar tuition increase. The price hike affects all 23 schools. An undergraduate tuition for the 201718 school year. Will now cost nearly 55 hundred dollars. School officials say, extra funding is needed to hire more faculty and add classes. To accommodate the growing enrollment. This is the first increase in six years. pam happening tomorrow. March madness comes to the bay area. steve were down to the sweet sixteen. The first games will be played tomorrow at the sap center in san jose. With teams looking to advance to the final four. pam as kron 4s Charles Clifford shows us local Business Owners are also hoping to walk away with a big win. Over the next four days, thousands of College Basketball fans are expected to flood into downtown san jose for march madness here at the sap center. Natsdowntown san jose was quiet on wednesday afternoon, but that may not last for long. Sot chad ferry is the owner of deluxe eatery and drinkery on san fernando street. Hes expecting the next four days to be busy. Sothe says theyve also been working the social media angle to try to attract fans. Sotthe first two sweet sixteen games at the sap center will be played on thursday. The winners of those matchups will play on saturday. Chad says they dont usually attract a lot of sports fans at deluxe but he will have the games on. Sot whoever winds saturdays game will move on to the final four in phoenix arizona. In san jose ,Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Charles clifford kron 4 news. steve still ahead the treatment that could let babies have three biological parents. pam but first. Looking to save money . Tonight how to cut your bills with just a phone call. Reporter pkgas follows bills. Bills. Bills. They can cause headaches and inspire hit songs like this one from beyonce and the ladies of destinys child. If you want to lower your bills pick up the phone and start dialing. Tell your provider youre thinking of switching companies. Check out other offers that are out there. And know what you type of plan you have. That way you can negotiate a better deal. Want to lower your cable or satellite bill . Get rid of those premium channels like showtime or hbo. If you cant live without game of thrones get rid of the channel now and reinstate it once the show picks back up this summer. Want to look like a million bucks without spending a million . Scour free gym pass offers online. Many boutique gyms offer free or discounted passes for new clients. And dont forget Community Rec centers. You could get classes at a lower rate than the more corporate gyms. Even if youre beefing up you can still slim down your payments. For consumer watch im mary moloney. Gary radnichcoming up a little bit later in this broadcast. Steve kerr says lets shorten the nba season. Ill take a pay cut. Does he really believe that . Well talk about it. Kaepernick is doing good work. One more time. In the community. Still without a team. And the big story tonight. Usapuerto rico. For the world baseball classic title. Well have those stories. Let you know how posey and crawford did. Later in this broadcast pam new tonight at ten. Scientists have been given the goahead to carry out a treatment. That will make it possible for babies to be made from three parents. Two women and a man. The new and unusual fertility treatment. Was approved by uk regulators back in december 2016. And a clinic at Newcastle University has been licensed to try it. The treatment is called mitochondrial donation it is an invitro fertilization technique. Which involves replacing bad mitochondria inherited from the mother, with the healthy mitochondria of another woman. If a mothers mitochondrial dna is faulty, it is possible that she could pass on a number of rare and serious diseases, including muscle weakness, heart problems, epilepsy and stroke like episodes. The facility at Newcastle University will still need to apply to conduct the process on a case by case basis. steve there are reports that a group of hackers are threatening to wipe the data on over two hundred million iphones and ipads. Unless apple pays them. The news site mother board reported they obtained emails between a hacker group called the turkish crime family and apple that show they are demanding 75,000 dollars to be paid to them by april 7th. Kron 4s tech reporter gabe slate talked to Cyber Security experts who said you need to take action on this to protect yourself. Scattered showers along with a few thunderstorms can be expected into the early evening hours. The next storm system is projected to impact the region late week. Widespread rainfall and stronger winds return to the northern portion of the region late thursday and will spread southward during the day friday. Dry conditions return for most of saturday with another weak system forecast to push through starting saturday night. Dry weather and warmer temperatures are then likely next week. World baseball classic championship usa versus puerto ricofans of both teams out en force at Dodger Stadium in Los Angelestop 3rd scorelessian kinsler tigers tworun home run off seth lugo 20 usa kinsler 2 hits, 2 rbi Marcus Stroman blue jays was brilliantp itching 6innings not giving up a hit until angel pagans double to lead off the 7thtop 7th 40 usa bases loadedbrandon crawford singles to rightcenter Nolan Arenado and eric hosmer score 60 usa crawford hit. 385 in the wbc buster posey did not play ton ight bottom 9th 80 usa 2 outsdavid robertson white sox gets Carlos Correa to ground out to 3rd for the first time the usa is the world baseball classic champion final 80 usa barry bonds posted this. On his twitter account today his new giants spring rtraining locker with the caption its good to be backbonds joined the giants in scottsdale, arizona today starting a weeklong run as an instructor he will serve as a roving hitting intructor and ambassador for the organization reaching down to the minor leaguesbonds return to the giants is expected to be followed by the retiring on his number 25 and eventually a statue outside at t parkbut today he talked about his new role with the organization. sot bonds barry bondsim here to help. You know. The coaching staff. You know. Bam bam. The hitters. Anything they need. That they want. Thats what im here for. The minor league guys. Which ill probably have a lot mor fun with and enjoy. But anyone role they want thats what i do. A little history mad e in the nba tonightrussell westbrook became the first player ever to record a perfect tripledouble meaning he didnt miss a field goal or free throw going 6for6 from both for 18 points along with 11 rebounds and 14 assists westbrook is averging a tripledouble for the season with 11 games left he is on pace to be the 2nd player to ever do that Oscar Robertson the other in the 196162 season thuinder beat the sixers 12297 warriors coach steve kerr says hes open to taking less money if the nba made the season shorter. The debate about resting players continues after kerr sat four of his best players recently against san antonio because he said they needed rest at the end of a trip kerr said hes be okay to cut to reduce the amount of gamesthe nba regular season right now is 82 games. Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is donating 50 thousand dollars to meals on wheels. This comes after he received criticim this week from President Trump. While speaking at a rally in kentucky on President Trump said no teams will sign kaepernick because they fear a nasty tweet from the president. Meals on wheels is one of the organizations face funding cuts should the president s new Budget Proposal pass congress. California star ivan rabb will declare for the nba draft the sophomore announced his decision todaythrough the school 6foot11 forward was cals secondleading scorer at 14. 0 points and top rebounder averaging 10. 5 boards for the bears who lost to cal state bakersfield in the first round of the nit last week without rabb who was listed out with a foot injury. At oaklands Bishop Odown High School wipe to musselman thanks gary. Heres whats next. coming upif you got shoes missing um you should really look into getting a Surveillance System or bring all your shoes and valuables inside. Are you missing your nikes . You should Check Another shoe bandit has struck this time in hayward ill explain in the next edition of people behaving badly its spring, and we cant wait to open our sheds and get working on our yards. Scotts and miraclegro are here to help. We make it easy to grow thick, healthy lawns, spectacular plants, and bountiful flowers. Because when spring starts right, the months that follow stay perfect. Load up your shed with scotts and miraclegro. Its time to get outside. steve if you live in hayward you might just be missing a pair or two of shoes i kid you not, pam apparently someone has been stealing used shoes. And the bandit was caught by a doorbell. Hide your shoes hide your wives haha everythingit has happened again this time in the city of hayward a woman walks up wearing a backpack at 5 in the morning and she first appears to grab a pair of crocs then pauses and snags a pair of you guessed it nikes first we noticed that his shoes were missing and i asked him when was the last time he wore it he said oh let me check my ring that is tam one of the homeowners and ring is a doorbell that is also a Security Camera we kinda feel like violated but its kinda petty we kinda feel sad about the fact that someone is stealing shoes in front of our door step and if youve been following along this is not the first time we featured a shoe bandit there was this guy who struck in American Canyon and fairfield who struck multiple times usually at 3 am he also took nikes but put back a pair of used new balance shoes. For the Record Police from American Canyon and the city of fairfield know who he is they just need more victims to come forward to make a case nats ambiance so who knows maybe after seeing the original shoe bandit featured on people behaving badly she was inspired to snag shoes so i take the blame. Unless she has been doing this for a while and finally got caught on camera either way his mom has another pair of shoes thats like a size 4 which no ones fits and she took it too i dont lknwo maybe its just the thrillthe adrenilen i dont know i spoke to neighbors on the block and one house nikes were in plain view i tried to get the homeowner to talk to me. But he did say this about his size 15 nikes if they need it they can have it thats how i look at it another neighbor who was building a 71 chevelle literally from the ground up stated hes been a victim of package theft but hasnt lost any shoes as of yet. Tam had this advice if you got shoes missing um you should really look into getting a Surveillance System or bring all your shoes and valuables inside. They having filed a police report. So at this point, Hayward Police will only know about the theft if they see this segment but check around are you missing your shoes you may not have lost them they simply may be in the custody of the new used shoe bandit in hayward Stanley Roberts kron 4 news steve our top story tonight. Racist instagram posts targeting African American and other minority students. At an east bay school. Thanks for joining us o nkron4 news at 11, im steve aveson. pam and im pam moore. Its happening at albany high school. And now we are hearing from the angry mother of one of the students referenced in the posts. Kron4s alecia reid is in albany with her reaction. The principal learned about this on monday and started an investigation right away. Police also has also been involved and are conducting their own investigationi talked to a mother of one of the students being harrassed online. And as you can imagine, she is anot happypkg an Instagram Account with racist statements, and photos, was circulating. Targeting minority students, and a basketball coach from albany high. Sot coach and a student with nooses around their neck weve blurred the photos due to their graphic nature. Some were too explicit to show. Sot im disgusted by it. I think its completely unacceptable the mother of one of the students being targeted says a fake Instagram Account was created by a number of juniors at the school. Sot my daughter didnt even know these peopleshe is emotionally hurt, but they have a good support systemsot were dealing with it the best we can. We have the right support in place. This is not something you expect your child would have to deal with Sarah Francis says the School District is taking this very seriously, but she believes there needs to be severe consequences. Sot i want them to hold the students and their parents accountable for their behavior and to show that this is a no tolerant zone. Sot students should come into School Feeling safe and welcomed and acceptedin a statement the School District says albany unified is