Coming home. A san quentin inmate who is up for parole in just a few months is dying of covid19 at a bay area hospital. His daughter now forced to make a very difficult decision tonight weather or not to keep him on life support kron fours michelle kingston is at san quentin with more on this heartbreaking story. Want to swartz is father has been battling coronavirus for weeks now he told his daughter with a nod of his head that he doesnt want to live like this anymore. My dad is not brain dead that he is there he just has control of his body and he will not back to want to short his father is 74 years old she says he contracted coronavirus at san quentin in june and has been fighting for his life for weeks unable to speak he listens to his daughter on facetime calls every day and nods in blanks to communicate the 2 of them are very close despite his incarceration there are so many people that are dying alone and so it is. The hardest part of the as of tuesday, there are more than 2200
The greatest especially youre traveling. Throughout the east bay this Early Morning hour and at the coast are really socked in here about a mile visibility through Half Moon Bay and a couple miles through hayward into oakland parts of nevado coming out of the north bay as well and then a heading over the golden gate bridge. You are going to be greeted with a whole lot of karl the fog this morning. The good news is there is some clearing but we just have to wait closer to that lunch time hour we are going to start to see things a pull back just a bit but were going to have a mixture of sunshine and cloud cover throughout the entire day today temperatures outside much cooler than what weve been seeing on average over the last couple of weeks. We are in the 50s to some low 60s but definitely cooler and it feels that way as you walk out of the house this morning so long sleeves definitely necessary 62 in oakland right now 56 in downtown San Francisco. And theyre currently at 62 in downtown
Just one person right now. Now as i mentioned shots have been fired by the suspect in numerous deputies. We are assisting theyre asking people that are in this immediate area to please stay away. They also like i mentioned has several intersections and roads blocked off surrounding the main jail while we know that heating street in san pedro street along with guadalupe parkway and west Mission Street sand casual west Mission Street now obviously we have many many questions as to what led up to this if the person was arrested at the time was the reason he was a it was able to get break free from that so again as you can see very active scene there trying to. Well get things under control currently we know that suspect has been shooting at deputies this morning and again theyre asking everybody in the area to stay away their brick be pretty firm. Well now and not letting people go past is caution tape. They have said that here at san pedro street. Again, we know very active scene for sev
Jail by himself, we know that shots were fired at deputies. They had tactical and negotiating teams on scene they also had several streets in the area that were blocked off which have carly all been lifted now again no one was injured in this whole ordeal and again theyre going to be updating us in just a moment here we have several questions wed like to ask the one want to know how that person he was originally arrested able to acquire a weapon and also has some more information regarding what led up to these moments so again will be notified just a minute well bring that back to you but for now reporting here in san jose reyna harvey kron 4 news right in just a really quick question i know we had some street closures a surrounding that area do you know if theyve lifted those closures or not or should people still avoid the stretch. Yes, the so robin great question they have lifted those closures i dont know if you can see basically where im at right now this is a one of the main stre
Iran in the morning that man we now know his name Joseph Castro and right behind me you can see cars are now blocking it that this is the entrance to the jail, this is where they bring the winner get ready to put people in so what happened is further down that ramp that you cant see but and that insurance behind me thats where all of the standoff originally and sue now this all took a bizarre turn of events were actually going to show you and deputies arrived here on scene. Well now we know that castro originally was being booked into jail and as they arrived here. He what manage while he was still in his hand cost to climb into the cargo area while still handcuffed to get access to the rear storage area where the deputy stored as weapons once he had the weapons several rounds were fired by castro. Thankfully, no one was hit. We also know that the deputies did not return fire. Now the deputy was able to get away to safety and call for backup. Thats when the gel was placed on lockdown t