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KRON KRON 4 News At 9am July 14, 2024

Quiet morning as far as weather goes so far abundant sunshine you saw at the bay bridge and you can see it over as well. Looking out at the horizon, not really a cloud in the sky to be seen. So skies are going to remain nice and clear throughout much of the day today as we work our way through the forecast we are going to see winds picking up into the afternoon. Thats really good going to be the only thing that interrupts what is otherwise going to be a pretty pleasant. One ahead of us. Some 60s for your highs in San Francisco 70s and oakland well, san jose in the 80s, im talking more about some cooler temperatures in the next couple of days still to come james. Thank you john new this morning. A new report finds that Violent Crime on barges up more than a 115 over the last 5 years including robberies. And aggravated assaults, a grand jury report finds the agencies also facing some Serious Problems when it comes to keeping its ridership the report shows bar last 8 of its ridership since its peak back in 2016, even as the bay areas population is continue to grow and use taken stations have been added the grand jury identified 4 main reasons why people seem to be discouraged from writing barton include homelessness cleanliness of the trains and stations, fare evasion and security. The report finds a fairer visions in fact cost part about 25 million per year. The grand jury notes that the barts board of directors and the police force have been working to address some of these issues but they found the board has been a bit slow to react to a number of these problems. Its 9 o 2 and today, San Francisco could become the first city in the nation to ban the e cigarettes or supervisors scheduled to take that vote today kron 4 Sarah Stinson joining us with more on the story good morning sara. Good morning. Yeah, ive been out here all morning talking with people who smoke the cigarettes those who do and dont and people tell me that theyre not in favor of this ban. But i also just talked with staff from mayor london breeds office to say you know this is most likely going to be passed os as most city supervisors are in favor of a ban on the cigarette snow. If approved the major the measure would stop the sale of in distribution of e cigarettes and tell the food and Drug Administration completes a review of the effects of the cigarettes on public health. Its the law for the fda to do this and they havent done it so far. Now supervisor all also going to be voting on a ban on manufacturing the cigarettes on City Property as they move to crack down on teen vaping this ban would also include any sale of it up for could Mortar Stores as well as online sales shipped to a city address so you can even buy it online. If you live in the city. If this ban goes into effect no the ordinance would also apply to flavored Tobacco Products which as weve heard many times this is whats really. Making teams want to smoke these vapor products except flavor thats what kind of entice is them know the measure does not in fact impact anyone who smokes e 6. You know you can use. 6 in the city if youre 21 and older for someone in fact you but you cannot buy them in the city that we talked to one man. He just started picking up the cigarettes he tells us you know this ban it i dont think its going to work i dont think its going to stop teens. Take a listen to what he has to say. I feel its the parents. You know a responsibility to educate children much like Everything Else in video games and movies and in whats right and whats wrong. You know prohibition weve seen now once over twice over in it would be really fine to see them banned this, but hey you know legalize you know matt medical marijuana i think it would just be a conflict. Citys attorney calls this an epidemic the fact that teens are getting their hands on vapor products and this this cdc has a report out there that shows one in 5 High School Students smoke the cigarette so a huge task bring number across the country and thats why you know city thing we want to take control this while the fda, you know, while we wait for them to release that report now jewel. As right here in San Francisco. They are in you know theyre the leading company there obviously against this measure. And we actually found out east they are actually making their own Ballot Initiative for the November Ballot that would instead of banning cigarettes it would regulate them so off to see if they go through that theyre trying to get signatures as we speak, but in terms of maryland breed you know supervisors approved this she says you know im going to sign this i i agree with it so once that happens it will be implemented in 6 months but then we have the november elections will have to see what happens with this ah but so far a lot of people im talking to out here on the streets, not in favor. Well well keep an eye on the scene within the deciding for nelson the back to you in studio. All right well see what they say thank you sarah. Also today in San Francisco city supervisor going to vote on a proposed Navigation Center for the homeless along the embarcadero that proposal has been controversial at times and now one group in fact threatening legal action with kron fours dan thorn to explain. San francisco supervgsors are set to weigh in tuesday on a proposed Navigation Center along the embarcadero a group of neighbors, not happy with the plan homeless shelter say they will threaten legal action if the vote does not fall in their favor. Our concern is that his avocation senate. And can. Wallace le lives just blocks away from the proposed site. He says he and other members of the nonprofit safe and barca darrow for all do not want to Navigation Center to open up in a residential area. Crime. Open drug use. And those things were not really big problems in this italy says the city is not only ignoring their concerns but rushing to the process by ignoring the public trust. I think were prepared to take this to its far as we need to including into court and we expect the wind. Peter prow says the attorney representing lee and safe and bark and arrow for all in their appeal. He says the city has failed to get necessary approvals from the state Lands Commission and the city is also ignored the ports Design Guidelines for the waterfront. The appeal also contends the city did not go through a proper Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act. Pretty clear the citys falling off. Board wants to stick its neck out for the mayors project here and was in court thats the boards decision reporting in San Francisco, dan thorn kron 4 news. In the south bay were learning more. More about the deadly standoff that ended with 5 family members dead we first brought you the story yesterday morning it was breaking news. This quadruple murder suicide happening at a home near downtown San Jose Police were on scene almost immediately after neighbors reported hearing gunshots. Thats where they found 2 people with gunshot wounds able to get out of the house, but ended up dying at the hospital and then a tense standoff which lasted several hours before police finally gain entry into the home and thats when they found the bodies of 2 other people and the suspect the shooter. Maybe it was his Mental Health or something some will go right because everybody even you know the other neighbors were taken over the wall in this awesome too. Police havent identified any of the victims in this murder suicide or their relation to the shooter just yet. Man is dead after drowning in the Russian River in guys are veiled 24 yearold and health send on hernandez died when he went swimming. He got separated from his family, the river road sunday night. Emergency crews tried to revive him, theres just too late investigators have classified the drowning as an accident. San Francisco Mayor london breed says she wants to create a task force to review muni. Mayor reed wants to find out how the city could help to make muni or better their group could be some black comprised of transit experts labor leaders and other transportation advocates muni has faced criticism in recent months for problems like problematic sensors on the new light rail vehicle doors, a bus Driver Shortage l allegations of incomplete background checks for contractors. A big story this morning, a man accused of shooting and killing a Sacramento Police officer was taken to hospital himself. He was injured in his jail cell adele ramos faces murder and felony charges for using an illegal Assault Rifle to kill officer Tara Osullivan who is originally from the bay area. Ramos was heavily bandaged just saw that bandage on his forehead in court yesterday. They say that he banged his head against the bed frame in his cell. A staff immediately responded. Stopped him from continuing to a mussel himself. Based on the injuries to his head they feel that was necessary to get him to a local hospital where he was treated in cleared. Ramos is also charged with the attempted murder of another police officer, a memorial for officer osullivan is set for this thursday. Morning a wheel from a pickup truck caused a brush fire near livermore that happened right along 5. 80 near greenville road. Investigators believe the wheel may have fallen off from a mechanical failure of some sort that fire and the burning about 17 acres but they contained it in under an hour. No injuries were reported. Still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news senator Kamala Harris is on the campaign trail before she takes the stage in the first president ial debate this week. Plus new video shows the interaction between police and Actor Jussie Smollett on the night they say he staged an attack on himself. Well explain what the video shows as we check the markets this morning you can see the dow still off by about 38 points this morning coming up financial expert, rob black joins us with wall streets winners crash in san jose that ive been tracking since 7. 15. This morning, this is southbound 8. 80 before 2. 83 lanes of traffic blocked. Theres a big rig involved as well so tow trucks are there for the backup continues to spill be on one oh one northbound its Getting Better thats opposite side a little heavy from 2. 80. But not as bad as what i saw earlier when it was spilling over to 17, but she will be slow on both sides we still dont have an exact estimate of time for clearance so just be prepared for this major accident southbound 8. 80 before 2. 80 thats blocking were checking in on the 70 oh bridge, heres 92, its looks normal right. Its the usual crawl westbound. No crashes or stall so its quiet at 18 minutes off to one on one the bay bridge traffic 80 west, its backing up a into the maze as its been for the last few hours or so 14 minutes, not bad at all to make your way into San Francisco take 40 minutes thats considered pretty good. A quick peek at that you sure its winding down only 20 minutes rolling west from crockett to the maze stop. Well robin things have been looking good and wet. There are all morning long we havent seen much if any fog really just a few low lying clouds along the coast as you can see from timber on right there otherwise its been wonderfully sunny and pretty pleasant. So far skies are going to remain nice and clear throughout much of the day ahead of us all the winds are going to pick up a some cooler air sweeps into the bay today this is going to result in the big cool down ive been talking about all morning. Already helping to nudge out this highpressure our cold front thats pushing through is and taking us from the 90s this past weekend for inland areas down into the 70s for daytime highs in the same areas as soon as tomorrow as for future cast, not showing any chance of rain forests there will be some clouds sweeping in as we move on into tomorrow morning, mostly hanging out a pretty close to the coast. Youre still going to see plenty of sunshine for the day tomorrow in the midst of some windy conditions at times this afternoon daytime highs will be right on par with seasonal averages in a range of 80s for conquered livermore san jose down to morgan hills was up to napa and santa rosa to some 70s in nevado Oakland Hayward and fremont and then if you 60s like in San Francisco in half moon bay, heres the next 7 days temperatures really on the cool down come tomorrow and thursday is theres your daytime highs only in the 70s and 60s for bayside areas, few 50s out along the coast by the time we work into friday saturday and sunday for pride weekend temperatures begin to boost again back up into the 80s where they should be for this time of year inland with some 60s and San Francisco and some 60s and 70s along the bay, shore. And now lets talk winners and losers on wall street with financial expert rob black thank you for joining us were all right. First topic this morning got talk about home prices they are still going up against the gains have gotten center and center with the latest numbers thats well said a home prices in april were up about 3 and a half percent. On a yearoveryear basis its the s and p case shiller index which tracks 20 cities. Its a really good index because it actually tracks real home prices and it just doesnt lump them together per se the 10 city began to gain again after starting to slow down it was decelerating but when from 2. 2 yearoveryear to up 2. 3 . Really keeping up with inflation. This thats kind of a little bit worrisome. The markets are winners are kind of big losers a las vegas. Its up 7. 1 phoenix up 6 . Why my call those 2 markets losers because theyre located deserts. There are a lot of land to be built in the desert so im not fond of one one is seattle there down to 0 gain year over year this time last year there at 13 , San Francisco gaining about one 0. 8 yearoveryear doing its part to la the la the l a half just 1. 5 san diego up 8 tenths of one percent yearoveryear said the big california cities are growing as robustly some of the small and medium sized cities around the united states. And thats true. My real estate on the peninsula. I havent seen any gains on it in 2 plus years now, but i had a 6 mazen years for time to slow down. Okay now you brought up seattle is one of the market the following lets talk a bit more about amazon based in seattle amazon prime day. Actually 2 days this year the kind of stretching it out why because they had so much success last year so much success last year because they can make a holiday when theres not a holiday. We love you jeff bezos we know youre listening whats interesting about this. Its july 4 Tickets Still have 50s and 60s last year they saw the 100 million products. So theyre going to in there is a glitch last year saying extended 48 hours from 36 hours. Some are best sellers are some their own products like the Fire Tv Stick the echo show that the spot. I bring this up because mark cuban. Said mark cuban arch talk about to face us now mark cuban said something pretty smart when to save you buy Something Big like a washerdryer t v anything that you can buy try to hold off for black friday and this is basically black friday in july. I need an atv i dont want to be too i dont they see whole health, the 15th and 16th line of already seen the prices he could start to kind of shop ahead. Theres a samsung 65 inch tv. So im holding off because it can 40 off thats the best way to save money sometimes if youre not earning more if not investing more sometimes the 5 things when you can get them at a discount. If you truly need it. So thats the care and carry out, you know. All right pretty impressive. The amount of power amazon has it can just to clear its own day and people get all excited about running for us senate got one called singles day. Its on november. 11th such love and 11 1, 1, 1, 1, so you dont have a loved one q. You shop, catch a holiday for yourself pretty creative alright, 3rd item to talk about today bit coy a youre saying bitcoin is back i thought it was on the steady decline is a turnaround. This shows you that theres a lot of fear in the stock market youve seen bitcoin go from 4,000 april 2 or 11,000 a unit again. So its kind of getting sexier as his goals. People are free to stock market all of sudden because the economy slowing down and the people are predicting recession. But bitcoin soared above keep in mind 2017 people got hurt were really really bad chasing bitcoin so be cautious on this one. But this really is different in the 2017 rally and ive changed my tune a little bit because facebook is now in the game of Digital Currencies earlier this week last week they announced their own crypto currency called libra im a fee to what its going actually tie towards a stable basket of treasuries and other you know cloudy these like cash shell so speculative not suspected of found a way to play the city really really wanted to. Its psychiatrist called the Grayscale Bitcoin trust its Ticker Symbol g b t c im still not my investment it is getting legitimate allied it is starting to grow up. Interesting okay, so well see where cryptocurrencies continue to go finally want to wrap up with of your question. Jeremy writes in thank you for sending this in jeremy and so rob he wants to know is target stock worth investing a lot of people work at target had lot of target stores in california and ta

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