Kron. 4 news at 6. From the bay areas news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news news at 6. Now its 6 oclock. It is day 3 of a strike for thousands of uc academic employees. The groups union is now calling on all elected officials to cancel any speaking engagements or events at uc campuses. Out of respect for the picket lines. Thank you for joining us for kron. 4 news at 6. Im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan that doctors are also calling for higher wages that hospitals in the uc system they held what they called a unity break today. Kron fours rob nesbitt asked the doctors about what they want to see in the next contract to rob us live in the newsroom. Rob. Catherine, the doctors are not on strike yet, but they did stop work for about a half an hour today to fight for what they call a fair contract. Uc campuses across the state have been the site of signs chance and megaphone. What do we wednesday was no exception at the Mission Bay Conference Center courtyard at ucsf where unionize resident physicians stopped work in the afternoon to demand fair pay and benefits. Doctor kelli butler is a secondyear resident at ucsf and says shes a month away from a student loan repayment. She cant afford very real reality that people cant afford to park it work. People cant afford to put food on their table. People cant afford to solicit childcare because theyre working 80 hours a week and they cant take care of their own kids. Doctor butler is one of 5,000 doctors who have been in contract negotiations for the last 9 months with ucsf. The group rallying alongside the almost 50,000 uc academic workers on strike this week. The unity break also consisted of fellows like doctor paul wallace who is continuing his psychiatry trading. So were hoping we dont. Ever have to get to a point that we have to go on strike and we can come to a resolution of the contract before that doctors at uc davis and uc la hospitals also walked out of the job wednesday. All 3 walkouts getting the support of senator scott wiener. We dont want someone who is learning how to be a surgeon or a psychiatrist to learning how provide medical care to people. We dont want them to have to like not be able to make route uc campuses are world renowned for their research in health and medicine. Doctor butler says that cant continue if theres an adequate compensation for the young talent being recruited. The university of california globally and certainly ucsf want to live up to their mission and being one of the most to first for us to just for thinking and progressive institutions and they have to match that about him. I reached out to both. You see and ucsf for comment. You see responded regards to the 50,000 United Auto Workers on strike saying the best path forward to an agreement. Will be through a 3rd party mediator. Reporting live in the newsroom. Im rob nesbitt kron 4 news. Thank you, rob. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters and more than a week after election day. Now were still waiting for the results in a number of major races. But today after a hard fought battle, it became clear that a San Jose Council member will be that citys new mayor map mayhem. And im grant lotus is here with the latest one of the dog in the fight. But mayor mahan does kind of a ring to it this year into alliteration. It is now official San Jose City councilman matt mahan is the next mayor of the city of san jose, his opponent, Santa Clara County supervisor cindy chavez conceding today. Chavez saying in a statement, though, we were not victorious, our message will carry on and live within the work i take on over the next 2 years is county supervisor. Ive called matt mahan to wish him the best of luck in his twoyear term as mayor san jose faces numerous challenges in the months and years ahead requiring that we all work collaboratively with the entire city council to reach meaningful and equitable solutions. As of the latest results from the Santa Clara County registrar of voters, mahan lead chavez by about 6,000 votes mahan, a former tech executive takes the place of current mayor sam liccardo, who a hand in this race. They had was first elected to the San Jose City council in 2020. And coming up tonight on kron, 4 news at 8, matt mahan will join us live to talk about the race. Whats next for him . And how he plans to leave the bay areas biggest city again, that interview tonight on kron. 4 news at 8 oclock. You wont want to miss it for now. Were still waiting on results of several other big races in the east bay. The Alameda CountyRegistrars Office tells us there are still 170,000 votes to be tallied and they hope to be finished with the count by next monday. But heres where things stand currently you see. After 9 rounds of ranked choice voting, Lauren Taylor is still leading with 33 1000 votes. Good for a little more than 51 of the vote. But his lead has been shrinking a bit shanked out right behind with 31,000 votes, about 48 and a half percent of the overall vote. The Alameda County das race. Its still too close to call as well. Pamela prices taking a slim lead over terry wiley by about 2000 votes. The county registrar will release new numbers every night this week around 5 oclock. And when that information comes to us, we will bring it right to you here on kron 4 and also on kron 4 dot com for now, pam and catherine, back to you. All right, grant, thanks very much. In Santa Clara County, the registrar of voters has completed the examination of those ballots that were found dumped near highway 17. Most of them have been approved to be counted. They will be included in the official midterm results. 36 ballots found alongside the road near highway 17 last friday. They went missing while in possession of the Postal Service. The Postal Service found them turn them in monday. 31 of the ballots could be verified. 4 had open envelopes. One ballot had a signature that did not match the signature on file. The voters who were affected are being notified of the status of those ballots. In the national way, republicans are projected to win a majority of seats in the house of representatives. Gaining control of congress is Lower Chamber after 4 years of democratic rule, the Associated Press called the 218 seat for republicans this evening, projecting california congressman mike garcia to win reelection. Democrats held on to the u. S. Senate. This all follows an election dominated by concerns over high inflation and influenced by the u. S. Supreme courts overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion last summer. Well, there is still one senate race in georgia left to be decided. There will be a december 6 runoff between incumbent democrat phil one, a and gop challenger herschel walker. This race will determine how large the Democratic Senate majority will be. In a history making win. Democrat karen bass will become the first woman mayor of the city of los angeles. The 69 yearold congresswoman, one 53 of the vote to businessman rick caruso is 47 . But 70 of the vote counted. She hadnt insurmountable lead of nearly 47,000 votes. Bass was on president bidens short list. You might remember 4 Vice President in winning. She overcame the big spending by the caruso campaign. More than 100 Million Dollars bash will not only be la is first woman, mayor also only its second black later. Another big story tonight. Authorities in San Francisco working around the clock try and figure out how you need light rail trains crashed and injured people along the embarcadero. This is citizen app. Video of the scene. The collision happened today and injured 7 people sending most of them to the hospital. The good news is Officials Say the service delays have been cleared at the embarcadero and brannan streets. Thats where the crash happened. San francisco fire crews say 7 people were hurt. 5 people received minor injuries and were taken to local hospitals. Both trains involved in the collision were damaged just a short time ago, a News Conference was held as authorities try to figure out how the 2 trains collided. We do have again, we have signals that keep the trains separated and we have operator training about of all those signals the surface. We have multiple systems in place. And the question for us right now is to figure out what happened here at this time. We can state that impairment does not appear to be a factor. The the operators of the vehicles are cooperating in the investigation, which is both the same Police Department as well as the Municipal Transportation Agency whos also investigating. The teeth are done in julys were delayed because of the crash. But now those lines have resumed regular service. New developments involving the Deadly Police shooting in redwood city yesterday. We now know the name of the man who allegedly used children as human shields before being shot dead by Redwood City Police officers. Police say 36 yearold a run with was holding a loaded gun next to a mother and 3 children. When officers arrived on El Camino Real yesterday afternoon. Officers say they tried to negotiate with him but when he aimed his gun at the woman, they opened fire. Gutierrez was pronounced dead at the hospital. The mother was injured, but not by the shooting. The children ran away from the car after the shots were fired. They have since been reunited with their mother. The officers involved in the incident are now on paid administrative leave while the investigation continues. It was a pretty frightening scene in concord this morning after construction crews. I hit a gas line, igniting a fire. It happened about 11 00am about a block away from Mount Diablo High School kron fours Haaziq Madyun has the latest on what happened. Intense gas fire erupts while the construction crew was working here at frederick and grant street in concord wednesday morning. Contra costa Fire Protection district captain billy small and their role in fighting the blaze. So roughly about 10, 30, we received a phone call. Are 911, dispatch a large vehicle on fire with a possible gas. Great. We saw that that vehicle was well involved with a flames from that vehicle and the gas. Great. You know, approximately well happy 50 feet up in the air at that point. We hose lines to help protect the surrounding homes. No damage was caused homes. There was some damage to the cars that were parked out front. Those damaged vehicles belong to our total sainz who has lived in this home for 25 years. Look at it. This is flame is coming out to my house. Look at these melton that color. Hes met on the cards is built and discarding it in he says that hes afraid that the heat may have also damaged his solar panels on the roof of his home, as well as his fruit trees in the front. Yeah. Like or everything limon time. Jury 8. But you said your house is ok, yeah, my cars and think the guy that played up and right away it protect my house. In fact, no structures burned and no injuries reported. As you can see, the fire happened a short distance from john myhre help. Their spokesperson told kron 4 that the gas line break and fire impacted urgent care. And the emergency sooner had to switch to a backup generator for power during the incident. As for how the fire started a pg and e representative says a thirdparty dug into a pg e gas line pg and e crew stop the flow of gas at around 12, 15 at the peak 1123 customers were impacted and pg. E Officials Say all customers were restored by one 45 pm. In concord haaziq kron. 4 news. Coming up, flu cases are surging in Santa Clara County. What Health Officials are saying about getting through the holidays safely. And today were about 5 degrees above average for downtown San Francisco, oakland and san jose. Tomorrow were going to put on 4 to 8 degrees. Details ahead on your thursday outlook in just a few minutes. Also, as thousands of workers have been laid off from the tech industry. One local congressman is introducing a bill aimed at amazon did confirm today that it has started a round of layoffs which could cut about 10,000 jobs kron. 4 has learned that 263 of them welcome from the companys a sunnyvale location. Those layoffs will take effect. January 17th employees will get pay and benefits through that date. The jobs being cut include hardware development, engineers, data scientists and senior managers. Amazon says it did 5 employees yesterday and well continue to offer them support, including help in finding new jobs. A local congressman is introducing a bill aimed at Holding Corporations more accountable for abrupt mass layoffs. This is in response to the tens of thousands of jobs being lost in the tech industry. A lot of them here in the bay area kron fours Philippe Djegal has that story. For the bay area where were good, were going to have looking like these layoffs. Weve taken the street are going to be significant for a period of time and east bay. Congressman mark to says corporations have to do a better job, preparing their workforce when announcing a mass layoff. As well as impacted surrounding communities. If youve got a restaurant. And all 7 years, 2000 people working for a Large Company that no longer work there, your workers are going to be laying up. People are so this bill would do that. Make sure that you have full accountability of laughter, actions on wednesday in a subcommittee disowned introduce the justice for local communities and workers act or hr 93. 0, 5, its intended to strengthen the federal warn act which requires corporations provide employees 60 days notice of planned mass layoffs. The bill would not change that timeline. It would simply require companies provide local, state and federal agencies. A detailed Economic Impact plan when layoffs are announced, it empowers local governments to sue companies that failed to provide proper notice. It also increases penalties for violations which could double the back pay workers are owed, but very much like California Environmental quality act. But in this instance that the back in sequel. Ernie, but the national one thats equal requires you to do your impact to the environment. Before check. This is when youre laying someone off. Tell us this might negatively impact the local community and what you see as potential mitigations to make its offer. One with that study be required is that before the announcement of the layoffs . To be the same time. But i guess im wondering if um, someone who has been laid off, how would this impact them . I guess it doesnt. And more perspective, lee, this is the second time in 2 years, congressman disowned has introduced this bill. Last time it did not make it out of committee, but hes confident there will be bipartisan support this time around and hopes it passes next year. Philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. San francisco is launching a new guaranteed Income Program for lowincome members of the citys trans community. Mayor london breed said the program will provide those who are eligible with 1200 each month for up to 18 months. The goal is to help address Financial Insecurity within the trans communities. The program will also provide services such as gender affirming medical and Mental Health care, as well as financial coaching. The city will accept applications between november 15th through december. 15th. In our Nations Capital legislation to protect same and interracial marriages. Across to Senate Hurdle today, it is putting congress on track to take the historic step of ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law. The respect for marriage act would ensure same and interracial marriages are legally recognized federally and across state lines. It would not, however, for states to issue marriage licenses which contradicts state laws. The main sponsor of the bill and the first openly member of the senate. Wisconsins Tammy Baldwin says millions of americans are living in fear hear that the rights they rely to protect their families could be taken away. A few. Right wing judges who seem to think that they know best want to overturn it and theyre wrong. The bill stilt does need to pass one final vote in the senate needs to pass in the house before the president signs it into law. Lets check on our Weather Forecast on this wednesday evening. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic starting to back up. There was a nice day today wasnt crisp and it was cool. It was really nice. Speaking of cool, a recent read this is here and youre saying things to be cooling down again members. So, yeah, thats right. Pam and catherine, were going to notice anywhere from 4 to 8 degrees of cooling for your thursday afternoon. Highs in you could think tonights calm night for that. Were not tracking any gusty offshore winds in the forecast. Those will return on friday, but shortlived peaking friday night. But then during the overnight hours on saturday, we are expecting calmer conditions. But from now, until then, a cooler forecast. Were already seeing the return of that cool sea breeze. Beautiful shot out there right now over golden gate bridge. But downtown San Francisco seeing sustained winds in the doubledigit 14 miles per hour. Still out of the north. For those of you, though, in san jose and nevada. So temperatures milder there at 62 degrees. Because of that weak offshore wind. But for those of you in pacific up 50 degrees, check out redwood city, though. 49 degrees with novato and fairfax. Even cooler than that. Already in the mid 40s. So we are going to track some changes radar for the we are going to see partly cloudy skies and maybe some patchy drizzle along the coast and east bay shoreline low to mid 40s. But santa rosa cooling down to 36 degrees with daytime highs tomorrow low to mid 60s. Still below average for the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Seasonal temperatures, though, as you make your way inland with nevado and even fremont at 65 degrees. In little change in the extended forecast. 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Public Health Officials and Santa Clara County say flu covid and the respiratory illness known as rsv. All of them are on the rise in the south bay, pediatric icus are filling up with young rsp patients. Theres no vaccine for rsv, but there are steps that people can take to prevent it. Many of these respiratory viruses are spread through droplets and through contact and the way to prevent transmission is to just wash your hands. So please remind your family and yourself to frequently wash your hands. And finally, if you are sick or anyone in your family is to please stay at home. Dont send your child to daycare or school and please dont go to work. This is the easiest way to spread the infection to other people and increase the burden on our healthcare systems. Health officials are also encouraging people to get the covid booster as well as the flu shot of the countys Public Health department has launched a new web site so people can track the rate of flu and their community. The website is tracking flu in wastewater collected from 4 locations and the city. And today in san jose, a big step forward in reaching underserved communities. Kron fours dan kerman reports. But mexican Heritage Plaza in east san jose. Groceries are distributed on a regular basis. But wednesday, there was a bonus free flu shots, even though there might be clinic at walgreens at the sec that they already know the next to her. Was ahit is our home is where they feel safe. And so they are already comfortable enough to come here and get that from Kaiser Permanente provided the protection against the flu. They say this year its more important than ever while were in the 3rd year of this pandemic. We are slowly integrating more with other individuals. Were not sheltering in place. Were slowly taking off the masks. So unfortunately, theres a higher risk of these infectious communicable. Conditions rsv covid flu. And so getting the flu shot protects you. Those taking advantage of the vaccine were happy. The shots came to them instead of them having to seek them out, voting for them that and the people to get the right now. Theres a lot of things going on like loses, though. So think if theyre here, i mean, that might as well get it. During the twohour community clinic, more than 60 people ended up getting the vaccine. Now, if youre looking to get a flu shot, you can visit Kaiser Permanentes website or the Public Health departments website in Santa Clara County. In san jose. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. A triple head to the flu rsv and new covid. Various is forcing a lot of workers to call out sick and employers are already concerned about mounting absences. A recent survey by the Human ResourcesConsulting Firm mercer found nearly half of large employers surveyed said covidrelated absences alone are a concern among them, nearly a 3rd said their operations are or could be affected by the absences because of acute illness, isolation and quarantine. Some employment attorney suggests that employers encourage workers to get their flu shots and covid shots and be flexible about people working from home. They also advise employees to stay home if theyre sick. Coming up, how an east bay city is honoring the memory of a respected county supervisor killed just over a year ago. Also the year of almost over state officials have been balancing the books. Were going to take a look at how californias finances are doing and they a very chilling crash scene in Southern California after a wrongway driver plowed into more than 2