Good evening, and welcome, everyone. The demand for accountability is growing louder on the Hawaiian Island of maui tonight amid the search for something to explain how so many, how so much could be taken so quickly. No cause of the fire has been determined, but the local power company, Hawaiian Electric, is coming under increased scrutiny tonight over how it responded as live power lines toppled under 80mileperhour winds spewing showers of sparks, potential sources for ignition of the incredibly fastmoving fires. The utility acknowledging shutting off power as conditions worsened was not a simple solution, but no search for answers in all of this is more urgent than accounting for the missing. Over 100 have been found dead, and there is still so much ground to be searched. Tom llamas once again leads our coverage from maui. Reporter tonight, search teams in lahaina continue their heartbreaking work already more than 100 bodies found, and theyre still looking for the lost what was once
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Bay area are remembering the life and legacy of glide Church Founder Cecil Williams. And the outcry for a ceasefire in the war between israel and hamas now making its way into Bay Area College campuses. Were live at that student at uc berkeley. From the bay station, youre watching kron. News and news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. Protests set elite u. S. Educational institutions are happening today. Students at uc berkeley are demanding a ceasefire in gaza and for the university to end connections with companies linked to israel. Kron 4 Charles Clifford joins us now live from the uc Berkeley Campus with the latest here. Thanks for joining us. Well, good afternoon. You know, protest are nothing new here in the cal campus. But a group of people upset about the conflict in gaza between israel and hamas are digging in here. Its was a jewish students. We talked to say that theyre worried about antisemitism and the university is hoping to just ge
Ones. The high cost of living, fromle lowed by housing and traffic. People shared why they are so disenquantitied. Jana. Reporter people that we talked to today shared some of those concerns that its just getting too expensive and too much of a hassle to stay in the bay area. Ask people what problems they face in the bay area, and many will tell you straight up. You have to work two jobs to maintain here in the city. Reporter adora gibson was born and raise understands San Francisco, but moved to antioch two years ago to escape city problems. It was overcrowded. Expensive, cost of living, and too much traffic. Reporter so you went to antioch. And it was even more traffic. So i thought might as well deal with it here. Reporter now those problems might drive her out of the bay area all together, into oregon. In the next six to nine months, maybe. That soon. Reporter the 2017 survey by the council found that 20 of those responded think they are might leave the bay area in the next two yea
Reporter oneshi told her about staffers caretaker, a woman named kimberly van borst, charged with taking staffers life savings. Wiped me out. Reporter the loss 130,000, money she did not know was missing until van horst disappeared. Someone went and looked it up and found there were massive charges on my credit card and checks written that i had nothing to do with. Reporter staffer came to court to be in the same courtroom as van borst even though we cannot show you the picture. The judge says van vorst is living in a home for battered women, a victim of domestic violence. Staffer believes van vorst is lying. Shes gotten away for so much. Shes used battered womens shelters as an escape to protect her. I feel somebody needs to beat her to say, youre in trouble, you did something wrong. We apologize for audio problems with mark matthews. Hes going to continue to stay on that story and will bring us the very latest on what happens with the outcome of that firefighters suit. Getting down t