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Concord most of the east bay shoreline locations, a purse or lower 60s upper 50s 50s up to the north bay but napa on the bottle getting up to 6155 San Francisco by the way. You have the left over on shore drift right now keeping the fog in place, although that is starting to wane. And this weather alert that we still have is this a heat advisory covering Solano County off the Central Valley. The Contra Costa County still be looking at hot temperatures and frankly one of the things for why its not included is this is a different forecast office this is out of sacramento in the rest of its out of the San Francisco office and monterey sometimes that is why sometimes is a difference going on there. Although up to lake county. Theyre also involved in this too we should mention. 82 at high noon by 3 oclock at 90 in plenty of 90s will have on the board will take a look at that coming up little bit later on the broadcast robert. All right, thank you dave. Well our top story that were following for you this morning, the Oakland Unified School district is eliminating its School Police department the school board voted to make the move last night kron fours reyna harvey is live in oakland with an update rain. Robbing the morning that decision by the board unanimous stand again the board citing the disproportionate rate of black students. The arrested take a look at the moment, the board actually announce this decision you can see the community here celebrating this group youre looking at right now is the black organizing project. They were one of the groups responsible for calling for the Oakland Unified School district to redirect money spent on police into social services for students. Well its called the george floyd resolution to eliminate the oakland School Police Department Background on some of the statistics, the board cited in that resolution from the 2015 2016 school year through the 2019 2020 school year black students have accounted for 73 of arrest in city schools. But just 26 of enrollment. Also that in 5 years from the 2013 14 school year to 2018 2019 school year. The district spent million on its armed police force. Now lets hear from the organizers from the black organizing project and the Oakland Unified School District Police chief. This is very historic for our members and for the people of oat bran and we are really hoping that we can set a or what remove Police Free Schools looks like throughout the country calls are still going to be answered this high priority, although previous still going to be big and those out and if somebody from a school picks up the phone and called 9, 1, 1, one you now. The only difference is my officers wont pick up that dont produced spot. Now the resolution directs the superintendent to tell the board by august 20th how shell launch a communitydriven effort to revise the district safety plan. The board voted to get rid of the School Police by january, the district would like to part ways with School Police by the end of this year. Now again if youre wondering how this is all going to work. Instead of calling the School Police thats going to be redirected to opd and now the main question is where that funding what programs thats going to actually go into for now reporting here in oakland right now harvey kron 4 news quick question for you right now we were just wondering what happens to the Police Officers that are going to be removed. From the schools are they going to be laid off to they go back to work for the oakland Police Department that they mentioned that at all what happens to those officers robin. That is an absolutely great question you know i dont know where the police are going to go to. All i know is that this has been an effort by the community to try to redirect some of those resources but that is a great question of one of the same thing if they were going to go and work for opd but whats going to happen to the officers but for now i think the main focus is the students and then as the story continues to develop. Well find more about where the officers will be working robin all right. Thank you and we appreciate the update. Well, the San Francisco Unified School District board also voted to remove police from Public School campuses now under the resolution the district will not renew its contract with the citys Police Department. It also is labeling it schools as sanctuary spaces from Law Enforcement so armed officers will not be allowed on School Grounds and money that was previously used to pay Campus Police will be redirected towards Student Support services. School districts across the country are looking into removing police from their campuses state School Superintendent Tony Thurmond says that his department will be speeding up research into the potential harm caused by Police Intervention at schools. Ive already seen data that shows in may cases when there police on campus. This results in more suspensions or rest of our students any particular africanamerican students. You know the students of color. Thurman says the data is Still Limited so the state will be implementing a threepronged approach. They are first the establishment of a task force secondly analysis of data and research from the task force and then establishing alternatives to keep School Campuses safe. The state department of education plans to work with lawmakers advocacy groups and Police Representatives to figure out the next steps. And new this morning, voters in california will decide in november whether colleges and universities can consider race when they admit students. The state banned affirmative action policies back in the midnineties but yesterday, California State Senate approved the move to appeal an amendment to the state constitution that would ban affirmative action policies. Voters must approve it before it becomes law, however, this comes during this time of nationwide demonstrations over racial injustice. To the east bay were learning more about one School Districts plan for reopening schools this fall the san lorenzo Unified School District says it will begin the school year with 100 distance learning. The district is hoping to move into a hybrid model with some in person classes by the end of october. The district says it will return to full on campus learning as soon as it is safe and practical to do so. And to another big story were following this thursday morning. Theres new research that projects nearly 180,000 people in the country could die from coronavirus by october 1st. Now this comes as california set a brand new record for the number of new cases of the virus in one day. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco with the details and sarah this is showing us whats happening when so many people are congregating and so many of them dont have masks. Yeah looks like nah so the key to success here and buy success i mean lowering the death rate and that is the only way we personally can help these numbers and stop them from growing. Also staying home as much as possible even though were seeing our communities reopen and take a look at this chart it shows productions are 58,000 more people die of the coronavirus in our country by october first quite alarming in this chart put out from the university of washington it shows a projection of 179,000 deaths by october first remember these are all projections created by their come their computer models which we have been closely monitoring and referring to on the kron 00 04am morning news since the beginning of the pandemic at one point the chart showed a prediction of the death toll exceeding 200,000 so it has gone down a little bit right now in the u. S. Or death toll with the coronavirus stands at 121,000 people. According to their model in california 11,600 people are projected to die of the coronavirus by october thats about double the current number of deaths in california you can see on your screen a list updated the numbers this morning right now we stand at 5,725. Looking at the total number of cases in our state right now were at 195,925 cases and this includes or recent single day surge in cases of 7,000 cases of this deadly disease know earlier we heard from governor Gavin Newsome he talked about what we can do pleading with californians to wear a mask with the new statewide face coverings order now well hear from doctor fauci who comments on the state and and are surging cases. I dont think its anything that the state of california is doing wrong not its what the response of the to what the opening process is you dont really need to go back to lock down he need to pause and say wait a minute. Were starting to opening and things are going right what do we need to do to correct that you may need to stay where you are in impose a few more restrictions or maybe back up a little. And you heard and i mean its up to you and i us as the customers as i say because weve seen a lot of companies. The employers the Business Owners taking a lot of precautions to make sure were safe as we enter restaurants or as we enter you know a retail shop so its up to us to wear that mask keep that distance and make sure that were following the rules because as we looked at earlier though that was a lot of numbers but those are just numbers thats projected number of people those are human beings. Anybody you and could die of the coronavirus and thats why our state and country leaders have been pleading with us to continue to take it seriously even though we are starting to reopen important to note in San Francisco we enter the next phase next monday. But its also important to note that if you cant keep 30 feet of distance you wear that mask. Im here live on fillmore street, im seeing a lot of people wearing their seems like people are taking it seriously and continuing to do what they can to save lives. Im live in San Francisco Sarah Stinson kron 4 news and sarah as you were speaking, we saw come some people behind you walking across sidewalk. All of them wearing their mass, thanks a lot for that live report. From the fillmore district. Well taking a look at bay area covid19 cases there are over 21,000 cases now in over 540 deaths. Were seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 5200 infections. The virus those taken the most lives in santa clara county, which has 154 deaths. We have a full breakdown for you of cases by county and city at kron 4 dot com. On the peninsula, San Mateo County supervisor dave can david Canada Governor newsome to find people who do not wear a mask, you sent a letter to the governor proposing a warning for the first offense, a 100 fine for the second. And a 500 fine for the 3rd kind suggest that Community Service officers could force the fines rather than Police Officers. In a statement he wrote quote, im seeing too many people ignore the Simple Practice which is frankly putting the entire community at risk to this deadly disease. More than 5500 californians have died from this disease in just 3 months. If we want to truly save lives and we must all wear face coverings in quote. Another developing story were following this morning in the east bay, one person is dead following a fight overnight at a Grocery Store in antioch it happened about 10 oclock last night of the luckys Grocery Store on contra loma Boulevard Police say that a store worker caught a man trying to steal from the Grocery Store. The employee confronted him in the man attacked the employees now during the fight the attackers stopped breathing and suddenly died at the scene its not clear if he died as the result of the fight or another medical condition. The store worker was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries that he received during the fright fight. Still ahead this morning on the kron 00 04am morning news called stew and Police Brutality in the bay area were going to take you to a rally for Police Reform in the east bay. That was prompted by a controversial facebook and coming up after the break a woman caught on camera in the south bay intentionally coughing on a child that person works for a bay area School District will see how the di safety, its not a fad or a trend. At lowes, we believe safety is more than that. Its a value that weve always had and thats never been more important than right now. Safety unites us. Home unites us. And welcome back the time is a 15 checking in with dave spahr who has a look at your forecast safe robin good morning and good morning, heres a live shot coming in from the san jose state of the media logical department in there looking at lots of blue skies off towards the distance getting back to the general closer bay, the golden gate bridge. This is a problem area take so long to get karl to clear here a kind of hangs out here late in the morning. We expect a little bit better clearing here in the next couple of hours. Temperatures thus far been little sluggish though were still the lower 60s along the east bay shoreline 71 antioch hodge podge of 50s and 60s up to the north bay there 61 san jose and 55 meanwhile for San Francisco so having said all that that parts pretty quickly that fog afternoon little showers at hand here. We have all low up towards our north providing that necessary left. More locally however excuse me there be the return of that on shore flow with the fog tonight in to greet us tomorrow morning. But a cooldown expected our way into the weekend it looks like so another heat spike is on the way for today we got the 90s back again for those inland locations with that heat advisory Solano County. And then 4 weeks and it will stay pretty much the same with 80s around the bay 90s happening in land this weekend though inland highs falling below 80 on sunday and well stay in 80s territory into early next week it looks like 2 little maybe treat 67 going on San Francisco 74 for oakland 88 for san jose. Still though 90s on the board for highs today took the appear to concord in antioch in the midnineties you will note contrast with that chilly at 6981 for napa 87 santa rosa and even upper 80s down to the south bay of course well be looking into your 4 zone forecast in a bit right now robin is looking into your traffic in the area highways and byways i am indeed and its looking a little bit better out there is seeing the traffic thinned out check out the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. It was much happier about an hour ago now its just a little slow off and on from the atv overcrossing through the tolls up the incline. But a nice improvement, heres to hoping that its going to continue to improve without any big trouble spot. So give yourself a little bit extra time get out there early since its still crowded. All right, lets check in on 92 the san mateo bridge. It was the first to start stacking up this morning. Its still busy but no big problems for you heading over to the peninsula all is well here for the westbound right marty all right robin. Its good to a developing story were following this morning, a woman accused of intentionally coughing on a baby in the south bay works for a bay area School District it happened at a yogurtland on cottle road in san jose. Police say that though coughing woman was apparently upset that the mom was not following proper social distancing guidelines as she waited for her order. So she coughed on the womans baby. The oak grove School District in san jose released a statement saying it is aware of the incident allegedly involving one of their employees statement also says that the unidentified employee, currently off work and not providing services to students district says its cooperating with the san jose Police Department. Hes very hospitals are treating more covid19 patients this week than they were last week staffing and capacity levels have been maintained so far and as kron fours phillipe djegal reports 2 Major Health Care system say that theyre ready for a surge if it comes. John muir health in walnut creek and conquered has set aside a unit on their campuses to care for an influx of covid19 patients. Doctor nick mica says the medical director of Clinical Operations and says his hospitals are safe and prepared for a surge in cases, a surge. He says is expected around labor day in recent weeks much like the rest of San Francisco<\/a> by the way. You have the left over on shore drift right now keeping the fog in place, although that is starting to wane. And this weather alert that we still have is this a heat advisory covering Solano County<\/a> off the Central Valley<\/a>. The Contra Costa County<\/a> still be looking at hot temperatures and frankly one of the things for why its not included is this is a different forecast office this is out of sacramento in the rest of its out of the San Francisco<\/a> office and monterey sometimes that is why sometimes is a difference going on there. Although up to lake county. Theyre also involved in this too we should mention. 82 at high noon by 3 oclock at 90 in plenty of 90s will have on the board will take a look at that coming up little bit later on the broadcast robert. All right, thank you dave. Well our top story that were following for you this morning, the Oakland Unified School<\/a> district is eliminating its School Police<\/a> department the school board voted to make the move last night kron fours reyna harvey is live in oakland with an update rain. Robbing the morning that decision by the board unanimous stand again the board citing the disproportionate rate of black students. The arrested take a look at the moment, the board actually announce this decision you can see the community here celebrating this group youre looking at right now is the black organizing project. They were one of the groups responsible for calling for the Oakland Unified School<\/a> district to redirect money spent on police into social services for students. Well its called the george floyd resolution to eliminate the oakland School Police<\/a> Department Background<\/a> on some of the statistics, the board cited in that resolution from the 2015 2016 school year through the 2019 2020 school year black students have accounted for 73 of arrest in city schools. But just 26 of enrollment. Also that in 5 years from the 2013 14 school year to 2018 2019 school year. The district spent million on its armed police force. Now lets hear from the organizers from the black organizing project and the Oakland Unified School<\/a> District Police<\/a> chief. This is very historic for our members and for the people of oat bran and we are really hoping that we can set a or what remove Police Free Schools<\/a> looks like throughout the country calls are still going to be answered this high priority, although previous still going to be big and those out and if somebody from a school picks up the phone and called 9, 1, 1, one you now. The only difference is my officers wont pick up that dont produced spot. Now the resolution directs the superintendent to tell the board by august 20th how shell launch a communitydriven effort to revise the district safety plan. The board voted to get rid of the School Police<\/a> by january, the district would like to part ways with School Police<\/a> by the end of this year. Now again if youre wondering how this is all going to work. Instead of calling the School Police<\/a> thats going to be redirected to opd and now the main question is where that funding what programs thats going to actually go into for now reporting here in oakland right now harvey kron 4 news quick question for you right now we were just wondering what happens to the Police Officers<\/a> that are going to be removed. From the schools are they going to be laid off to they go back to work for the oakland Police Department<\/a> that they mentioned that at all what happens to those officers robin. That is an absolutely great question you know i dont know where the police are going to go to. All i know is that this has been an effort by the community to try to redirect some of those resources but that is a great question of one of the same thing if they were going to go and work for opd but whats going to happen to the officers but for now i think the main focus is the students and then as the story continues to develop. Well find more about where the officers will be working robin all right. Thank you and we appreciate the update. Well, the San Francisco<\/a> Unified School District<\/a> board also voted to remove police from Public School<\/a> campuses now under the resolution the district will not renew its contract with the citys Police Department<\/a>. It also is labeling it schools as sanctuary spaces from Law Enforcement<\/a> so armed officers will not be allowed on School Grounds<\/a> and money that was previously used to pay Campus Police<\/a> will be redirected towards Student Support<\/a> services. School districts across the country are looking into removing police from their campuses state School Superintendent<\/a> Tony Thurmond<\/a> says that his department will be speeding up research into the potential harm caused by Police Intervention<\/a> at schools. Ive already seen data that shows in may cases when there police on campus. This results in more suspensions or rest of our students any particular africanamerican students. You know the students of color. Thurman says the data is Still Limited<\/a> so the state will be implementing a threepronged approach. They are first the establishment of a task force secondly analysis of data and research from the task force and then establishing alternatives to keep School Campuses<\/a> safe. The state department of education plans to work with lawmakers advocacy groups and Police Representatives<\/a> to figure out the next steps. And new this morning, voters in california will decide in november whether colleges and universities can consider race when they admit students. The state banned affirmative action policies back in the midnineties but yesterday, California State Senate<\/a> approved the move to appeal an amendment to the state constitution that would ban affirmative action policies. Voters must approve it before it becomes law, however, this comes during this time of nationwide demonstrations over racial injustice. To the east bay were learning more about one School District<\/a>s plan for reopening schools this fall the san lorenzo Unified School District<\/a> says it will begin the school year with 100 distance learning. The district is hoping to move into a hybrid model with some in person classes by the end of october. The district says it will return to full on campus learning as soon as it is safe and practical to do so. And to another big story were following this thursday morning. Theres new research that projects nearly 180,000 people in the country could die from coronavirus by october 1st. Now this comes as california set a brand new record for the number of new cases of the virus in one day. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson<\/a> live in San Francisco<\/a> with the details and sarah this is showing us whats happening when so many people are congregating and so many of them dont have masks. Yeah looks like nah so the key to success here and buy success i mean lowering the death rate and that is the only way we personally can help these numbers and stop them from growing. Also staying home as much as possible even though were seeing our communities reopen and take a look at this chart it shows productions are 58,000 more people die of the coronavirus in our country by october first quite alarming in this chart put out from the university of washington it shows a projection of 179,000 deaths by october first remember these are all projections created by their come their computer models which we have been closely monitoring and referring to on the kron 00 04am morning news since the beginning of the pandemic at one point the chart showed a prediction of the death toll exceeding 200,000 so it has gone down a little bit right now in the u. S. Or death toll with the coronavirus stands at 121,000 people. According to their model in california 11,600 people are projected to die of the coronavirus by october thats about double the current number of deaths in california you can see on your screen a list updated the numbers this morning right now we stand at 5,725. Looking at the total number of cases in our state right now were at 195,925 cases and this includes or recent single day surge in cases of 7,000 cases of this deadly disease know earlier we heard from governor Gavin Newsome<\/a> he talked about what we can do pleading with californians to wear a mask with the new statewide face coverings order now well hear from doctor fauci who comments on the state and and are surging cases. I dont think its anything that the state of california is doing wrong not its what the response of the to what the opening process is you dont really need to go back to lock down he need to pause and say wait a minute. Were starting to opening and things are going right what do we need to do to correct that you may need to stay where you are in impose a few more restrictions or maybe back up a little. And you heard and i mean its up to you and i us as the customers as i say because weve seen a lot of companies. The employers the Business Owners<\/a> taking a lot of precautions to make sure were safe as we enter restaurants or as we enter you know a retail shop so its up to us to wear that mask keep that distance and make sure that were following the rules because as we looked at earlier though that was a lot of numbers but those are just numbers thats projected number of people those are human beings. Anybody you and could die of the coronavirus and thats why our state and country leaders have been pleading with us to continue to take it seriously even though we are starting to reopen important to note in San Francisco<\/a> we enter the next phase next monday. But its also important to note that if you cant keep 30 feet of distance you wear that mask. Im here live on fillmore street, im seeing a lot of people wearing their seems like people are taking it seriously and continuing to do what they can to save lives. Im live in San Francisco<\/a> Sarah Stinson<\/a> kron 4 news and sarah as you were speaking, we saw come some people behind you walking across sidewalk. All of them wearing their mass, thanks a lot for that live report. From the fillmore district. Well taking a look at bay area covid19 cases there are over 21,000 cases now in over 540 deaths. Were seeing the most cases in Alameda County<\/a> with over 5200 infections. The virus those taken the most lives in santa clara county, which has 154 deaths. We have a full breakdown for you of cases by county and city at kron 4 dot com. On the peninsula, San Mateo County<\/a> supervisor dave can david Canada Governor<\/a> newsome to find people who do not wear a mask, you sent a letter to the governor proposing a warning for the first offense, a 100 fine for the second. And a 500 fine for the 3rd kind suggest that Community Service<\/a> officers could force the fines rather than Police Officers<\/a>. In a statement he wrote quote, im seeing too many people ignore the Simple Practice<\/a> which is frankly putting the entire community at risk to this deadly disease. More than 5500 californians have died from this disease in just 3 months. If we want to truly save lives and we must all wear face coverings in quote. Another developing story were following this morning in the east bay, one person is dead following a fight overnight at a Grocery Store<\/a> in antioch it happened about 10 oclock last night of the luckys Grocery Store<\/a> on contra loma Boulevard Police<\/a> say that a store worker caught a man trying to steal from the Grocery Store<\/a>. The employee confronted him in the man attacked the employees now during the fight the attackers stopped breathing and suddenly died at the scene its not clear if he died as the result of the fight or another medical condition. The store worker was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries that he received during the fright fight. Still ahead this morning on the kron 00 04am morning news called stew and Police Brutality<\/a> in the bay area were going to take you to a rally for Police Reform<\/a> in the east bay. That was prompted by a controversial facebook and coming up after the break a woman caught on camera in the south bay intentionally coughing on a child that person works for a bay area School District<\/a> will see how the di safety, its not a fad or a trend. At lowes, we believe safety is more than that. Its a value that weve always had and thats never been more important than right now. Safety unites us. Home unites us. And welcome back the time is a 15 checking in with dave spahr who has a look at your forecast safe robin good morning and good morning, heres a live shot coming in from the san jose state of the media logical department in there looking at lots of blue skies off towards the distance getting back to the general closer bay, the golden gate bridge. This is a problem area take so long to get karl to clear here a kind of hangs out here late in the morning. We expect a little bit better clearing here in the next couple of hours. Temperatures thus far been little sluggish though were still the lower 60s along the east bay shoreline 71 antioch hodge podge of 50s and 60s up to the north bay there 61 san jose and 55 meanwhile for San Francisco<\/a> so having said all that that parts pretty quickly that fog afternoon little showers at hand here. We have all low up towards our north providing that necessary left. More locally however excuse me there be the return of that on shore flow with the fog tonight in to greet us tomorrow morning. But a cooldown expected our way into the weekend it looks like so another heat spike is on the way for today we got the 90s back again for those inland locations with that heat advisory Solano County<\/a>. And then 4 weeks and it will stay pretty much the same with 80s around the bay 90s happening in land this weekend though inland highs falling below 80 on sunday and well stay in 80s territory into early next week it looks like 2 little maybe treat 67 going on San Francisco<\/a> 74 for oakland 88 for san jose. Still though 90s on the board for highs today took the appear to concord in antioch in the midnineties you will note contrast with that chilly at 6981 for napa 87 santa rosa and even upper 80s down to the south bay of course well be looking into your 4 zone forecast in a bit right now robin is looking into your traffic in the area highways and byways i am indeed and its looking a little bit better out there is seeing the traffic thinned out check out the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. It was much happier about an hour ago now its just a little slow off and on from the atv overcrossing through the tolls up the incline. But a nice improvement, heres to hoping that its going to continue to improve without any big trouble spot. So give yourself a little bit extra time get out there early since its still crowded. All right, lets check in on 92 the san mateo bridge. It was the first to start stacking up this morning. Its still busy but no big problems for you heading over to the peninsula all is well here for the westbound right marty all right robin. Its good to a developing story were following this morning, a woman accused of intentionally coughing on a baby in the south bay works for a bay area School District<\/a> it happened at a yogurtland on cottle road in san jose. Police say that though coughing woman was apparently upset that the mom was not following proper social distancing guidelines as she waited for her order. So she coughed on the womans baby. The oak grove School District<\/a> in san jose released a statement saying it is aware of the incident allegedly involving one of their employees statement also says that the unidentified employee, currently off work and not providing services to students district says its cooperating with the san jose Police Department<\/a>. Hes very hospitals are treating more covid19 patients this week than they were last week staffing and capacity levels have been maintained so far and as kron fours phillipe djegal reports 2 Major Health Care<\/a> system say that theyre ready for a surge if it comes. John muir health in walnut creek and conquered has set aside a unit on their campuses to care for an influx of covid19 patients. Doctor nick mica says the medical director of Clinical Operations<\/a> and says his hospitals are safe and prepared for a surge in cases, a surge. He says is expected around labor day in recent weeks much like the rest of Contra Costa County<\/a> hes noticed a spike in hospitalizations but nowhere near the level that would jeopardize the ability to provide critical medical services, youre planning for capacity of 4 its if the actions and were nowhere near or standard of us in much less and forcing in a statement a spokesperson for Kaiser Permanente<\/a> Northern California<\/a> says quote. The recent increase in cases throughout california is a reminder that the virus is still active in our communities. We have seen an increase in covid19 cases at Kaiser Permanente<\/a> hospitals over the past week. Our facilities and staff have remained ready to respond to a surge and safely and expertly treat patients with the virus will become cheaper hurts a little one safe this or not but we have symptoms or this is a 100 no, but it definitely is keep us safe unity data from Contra Costa Health<\/a> services shows more than 400 new cases have been reported in the past week. Nearly double the number of new cases reported the week prior phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. New this morning, dozens of secret Service Agents<\/a> will be quarantined following president trumps rally in tulsa oklahoma over the weekend. Thats according to a Law Enforcement<\/a> official who described the quarantine as a precaution. According to saturdays rally packed a little over 6,000 people in an arena but face mask and social distancing were not require. 8 trump staffers who helped set up that event have tested positive for the coronavirus and so did 2 secret Service Agents<\/a>. The secret service says that this quarantine will not impact its ability to fulfill all of its duties. Well disney is delaying the phase reopening of its disneyland and disney california adventure theme parks, the Southern California<\/a> attraction was scheduled to reopen on july 17th with new safety requirements for gas. But it faces strong opposition from a union that represents just the employees so disney didnt give a new reopening date. Im alexandra le mon in washington, the Trump Administration<\/a> says its imposing sweeping restrictions on Foreign Worker<\/a> visas to help the u. S. Economy. Coming good morning, welcome back president trumps controversial executive order that suspends new work visas include high skilled Tech Industry<\/a> workers to low skilled seasonal workers. Critics say that this is going to actually slow growth and job creation. Our washington dc correspondent alexandra le mon has more. The Trump Administration<\/a> is extending sweeping restrictions on Foreign Worker<\/a> visa programs through the end of the year customs and Border Protection<\/a> commissioner mark morgan said the action is designed to preserve american jobs for americans it makes sense that as we are. At this historic rate that were in and were trying to restart the economy that we do take a look at that. Well from a global perspective. Morgan says the move will also keep americans healthy year were seeing in covid increase outside our borders but nevada congresswoman dina titus says thats just an excuse but know trump is that isnt going back years and am i. To go after immigrants there are exceptions to the visa restrictions like for farm and Food Processing<\/a> plant workers critics like titus say the new rules are like a not welcome sign for the brightest around the world, how he skilled highly educated engineer for example, Business Leaders<\/a> and ceos also warned the move could backfire and slow Economic Growth<\/a> because there arent enough properly trained americans to fill the jobs that ranged from Tech Industry<\/a> workers to College Professors<\/a> the u. S. Chamber of commerce said in a statement that the restrictions will push investment and Economic Activity<\/a> abroad at microsoft president brad smith said immigrants play a vital role at microsoft and support the countrys Critical Infrastructure<\/a> in washington, alexandra le mon. Coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news, the calls to Defund Police<\/a> have been heard all across the u. S. How the city of oakland is taking steps to do just that. A controversial decision by governor Gavin Newsome<\/a> of the next several days. Thousands of inmates from prisons like san quentin could be released welcome back everyone the time is 8. 29, im Robin Winston<\/a> good morning, everybody on Marty Gonzales<\/a> is go ahead and check in with days far for the forecast friday morning a robin marty good morning everybody live shot coming in from san jose state as we take a look at the nice blue skies taken hold here. Were going to be seeing that everywhere but still working on some fog around the immediate they to be continued. Tomorrow with this little week low overheads providing that on shore flow a little bit also complements some daytime heating happening in land it would draw that in temperatures are pretty much in the 50s and 60s mixture antioch the exception as it was all this morning, somebody one now 64 for conquered east bay shoreline lower 60s, 56, San Francisco<\/a> in 61 for san jose. Now the future wins here they are boom this afternoon and into the evening actually you can see a far east over the east bay hills and lingering actually pretty late at night. And well probably see that keep temperatures supported in places like fairfield to tomorrow morning potentially for today without overcast sky appearance, were probably seeing along the coast as well, 82 by high noon to 3 oclock at about 90. Coming up a little bit well have the 4 zone forecast for you we do have lots of 90s on the board but not everybody is going to and still plenty of upper 80s to marty back to you. All right dave, thanks a lot, lets get to a big story. Were following this thursday morning Governor Newsom<\/a> says that california is hoping to speed up the release of thousands of inmates in california state prisons. Its all because of the coronavirus kron fours will tran live at san quentin this morning. And he sort it all out for us will. Its a controversial decision by Governor Newsom<\/a>e he knows all about it. But he says he has to car room within the prisons. So they can have social distancing to slow down coronavirus throughout the prison system which he says is a hotbed for coronavirus and he has the numbers to prove it at san quentin 464 inmates actually already tested positive for coronavirus and that number could explode unless he acts according to him very quickly. He wants the inmates release over the next week possibly even sooner. The reason being because right now there are about 3800 cases of coronavirus within the prison system with 1800 cases out there that still need to be tested. And because theres no social distance in prison as much as they would like to. Let me give you an example there are places no doubt about it there are places within the prison where the inmates can be isolated. But those places are quickly filling up at san quentin they have 3700 inmates. 600 more than it actually can contain and thats in a Perfect World<\/a> marty thats before the pandemic now you add the pandemic to it he says it could quickly run through the system, its quinn and other prisons which is why up to about 3500 low risk inmates were not talking violent offenders. These are the people who are not convicted of Violent Crimes<\/a> or domestic violence. They will be checked out they will be looked at whether or not they have coronavirus or exposed to coronavirus and then theyll be quarantined if they were exposed to coronavirus and then released to the public i would presume to their family and friends. So a lot of people are saying why are they being released. Theres got to be another way to do it. The governor says hes considered all options, but the bottom line is prisons are not growing by the day. But the inmate population is and more importantly the number of covid cases they are growing which is why he and other legal experts believe the need to act very quickly because people come and go all the time through presence, including employees to go home to their families and they could spread coronavirus so he says time ironically when we talk about prison time. He says time is not on the state side. Party all right well, thanks a lot that that report from san quentin robin. To the east by now the Oakland City Council<\/a> is defunding its Police Department<\/a>. One City Council Member<\/a> says that redirecting the funds will actually increase Public Safety<\/a> kron fours haaziq the new reports. Redirecting a portion of the oakland Police Department<\/a>s, million annual budget and investigate in alternative Public Safety<\/a> programs that is one of the primary goals of the mid cycle budget passed by a majority of the Oakland City Council<\/a> but for me its not about deep funding for me its about you where do i want to invest the revised budget is the work of the City Councils<\/a> equity caucus led by finance Committee Chair<\/a> Councilmember Lynette Gibson<\/a> mcelhaney we reduced our expenditures and police about 12 million she says giving police more time to respond to Violent Crime<\/a> is the aim of the new budget what we want to do is to get some better policing on the serious and significant fines murder, trafficking kidnapping. Rate. And relieve the department of any of the things that are better suited for social workers that are better suited for. But they are up as are better syria. For a Community Response<\/a> Councilmember Mcelhaney<\/a> says she knows what it is like to have Police Respond<\/a> to a call involving a loved one needing Mental Health<\/a> assistance. I was terrified and i literally throw my body around. This young woman. Nbcs to allow it to be handcuffed. But the protocol was suv handcuffed in the middle of Mental Health<\/a> crisis. That her car was broken. She says the revised budget also allows for the city council to study what it will take to reduce opd use of the citys general purpose funds by 50 . We know that we cannot police are way to safety. We have to do the things that create healthy whole community has a menu kron 4 news. Also in the east Bay Community<\/a> members are calling for Police Reform<\/a> in antioch. This comes after the citys Police Union President<\/a> steve a yellow commenting on a photo on facebook of a protester flipping off a police officer, he wrote that he believes an open hand slap in the face is 100 justified. Well now people are asking that he step down calling his actions unacceptable among them catherine wade, the mother of an antioch man who says that i should he was beaten by police in 2014 now this is a photo of an officer with his knee on her sons neck just outside of her home where she says the officer pulled him out of her car in her driveway. Theyve said settled in a federal civil rights lawsuit officer is still with the Police Department<\/a> today. No no until you of our victim. I have condolences for the want the lies at the hands of the police. But what about the was this live in through the trauma. The brutalization from police is its not ok i exercise my right to protest, im going to be here as everyone else and i will not get slapped in the face by a police officer. Well chief plo released a statement that said his comment was taken out of context and that he apologizes for having made it there is an investigation into the matter and weve also reached out to the mayor for comment. But have not heard back. Meanwhile in the south bay plans are now in the works in san jose to reform its Police Department<\/a> mayor sam liccardo laid out an ambitious ninepoint plan that includes steps to improve transparency and accountability in arbitration and disciplinary decisions. Independent investigations of alleged Police Misconduct<\/a>. A ban on rubber bullets and a review of use of force policy. The mayor says those plans reflect his commitment to reforming the Police Department<\/a> without defunding it. I believe the overwhelming majority of our residents. Want us to continue funding the police because they want Police Officers<\/a> to show up particularly in communities that are heavily him by crime. Our residents are overwhelmingly telling us we want more police. Well this move comes as protesters call to defund the Police Department<\/a> amid outrage over Police Brutality<\/a> across the country. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news gun violence is spiking across the country what some believe experts believe is responsible for the violence. And a little peek outside before we go check in on the san mateo bridge where traffic is finally standing out welcome back in a developing story Law Enforcement<\/a> agencies in Contra Costa County<\/a> are teaming up to try and stop a recent rash of fireworks in richmond fireworks calls have jumped 82 compared to last year. Now agencies are using already depleted resources to get more officers on the streets. Officials worry about the impact the fireworks could have on pet people suffering from ptsd and the possible damage to homes. Every year we normally start receiving calls ground early june this year we started receiving calls as early as april been idle for a long time and so fireworks season, we know that theres not going to be a lot of fireworks shows and since this year in so we think that reason that people are going out and getting fireworks on your own. Fire crews in Pleasant Hill<\/a> battle, this large grass fire tuesday night they say was sparked by fireworks possession of fireworks is a misdemeanor in Contra Costa County<\/a>, Richmond Police<\/a> have issued at least one citations so far but theyre hoping that a new reward program will generate more tips that can lead to more fireworks being discovered. And the plate ocean Contra Costa County<\/a> later on this afternoon, current temperatures putting us about 64 for concord 71 going on for with a lot of 60s up to the north bay in the south they going to check in your 4 zone forecast after the break. 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Were checking out the view from walnut creek a highway 6 8024 where things are looking pretty smooth. But day thats when a good its going to be one of the hot spots later is going to be that as well yeah well show you that 4 zone forecast in a bit but one of things i want to show you is progress on the fog yet as the shot from timber on look at all the blue skies we can see but a problem area around the golden gate so up close and personal its not as impressive for the golden gate, but. Elsewhere you can see fog is starting to lift sfo still working on that as well to its kind of hovered around the hills off to the back row, but no delays happening this morning. Temperatures are pretty much of the 50s 60s mixture over most of the bay however far inland antioch is coming in at 71, its kind of been the exception outline or all of this morning. 60s lot of the east bay shoreline lower 60s at that for now warming up later today in Central Valley<\/a> and one 02 for fresno 99 bakersfield, one 04 per the 70s or for the coast and Southern California<\/a> inland forget about its 100 plus even 77 up the big bear 60s meanwhile along the Central Coast<\/a> of the 4 zone forecast for your thursday 6067 rather for San Francisco<\/a> will do. A little cooler at the coast though were going to be fighting that fog a little longer as well 65 for daly city 62 for half moon bay. Meanwhile, the 70s and 60s mixture along the northern end of the the bay side. But south were looking at 80s here 83 for redwood city of palo alto 84 Mountain View<\/a> and 76 carlos, in the south bay shy of 90 as we look at upper 80s in place here san jose at 88 los gatos also matching at morgan hill kind of a mild 84 today milpitas in santa clara in cupertino all line up for 87 on the east bay shoreline to the south or in the lower 80s lower 90s out the tri valley livermore and pleasanton about 1992 94 walnut creek end that were just looking at and 93 for a concorde 69 for berkeley and richmond checkin at 71, however, a chilly 69 but nation meanwhile, 83 89 pittsburgh, an 81 up to napa 89 sonoma and 87 for santa rosa more 80s down to southern rim to keep these 90s at least inland cooking for the next couple of days. Big dramatic change happens as we get into sunday. The high is gone, but in the next week well see generally mild weather. But temperatures not so lofty into the 80s look at a bay area traffic is that improving robin it is indeed thank goodness were not seeing heavy traffic that we saw a few hours ago check this out the drive into San Francisco<\/a>. I was going to say wide open but i do see a couple of cars slowing down just a little bit but a huge improvement compared to the last hour easy going so far. Here at the bay bridge toll plaza, lets check in on some more bridges, we have a hot spot free commute to the richmond sandra fell bridge traffic has thinned out here as well so no problems into the north bay and then commuting between the north bay and San Francisco<\/a> we see it picking up a little bit northbound heading out thats traffic on the right and thats partially because you only have 2 lanes theres nothing going on here. So overall a nice commute in both directions into and out of San Francisco<\/a>. On the peninsula after more than a 100 days of being shut down San Mateo County<\/a> officially allowed gyms to reopen on monday. One of the gems now open is the body studio for fitness the business is run by danny in teresa and the couple moved quickly to stay afloat when their door shot in march. Well, the Small Business<\/a> loan from foster city but what also helped. Well switching to virtual fitness classes. So happy to see our audience their love and their one gave us a band have run so we were like trying to figure out how to do this week we created these words and theres 4 squares inside hes where as everything that you need to train the quiet yes, so there are some workout stations. And it worked out the customers loved it so despite being reopen the virtual workouts were such a success that danny and theresa plan to keep it going. National news now this morning cities across the country are seen an increase in gun violence now this comes during the cannes continuing coronavirus pandemic as well as social unrest in issues of Police Reform<\/a> following the Police Killing<\/a> of george floyd Brynn Gingras<\/a> has more. In many major cities across the country gun violence is on the rise. In the chicago suburb, a 13 yearold girl hit by bullets while watching tv. The gunfire outside her window among more than 100 shootings indy city last week in minneapolis by some people to shooting just. 3040 50 shots Officials Say<\/a> more than a 100 people have been shot in the last month since the death of george floyd. And in new york city nypd crime data shows the number of shooting victims is up 414 last week compared to the same time period last year. Chief of Department Terence<\/a> monahan calls it troubling it goes back to 1996. We havent seen this level of violence, researchers with the council on criminal justice looked at homicide rates across 64 cities this year compared to the previous 3 years if you see see sun in crime trends across country you need to look at some Type National<\/a> shock to the system. Broader underlying structural trends are not explain as part of their Study Released<\/a> this morning the authors cite 2 major trends, the coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath of floyds death historically incidents like the Police Involved<\/a> killing of Michael Brown<\/a> in ferguson freddie gray in baltimore had led to a period of more gun violence. Now many cities are seeing more Violent Crime<\/a> as protesters call to defund Police Department<\/a>s and Police Reform<\/a>s across the country are put into place in atlanta, a task force is working to rethink training policies for the citys officers, there is a fierce urgency of now. In our communities it will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect. Last week, the nypd disbanded its anticrime unit plainclothes officers to combat Violent Crime<\/a>. But those aggressive tactics were often met with controversy money and says Constant Police<\/a> changes are causing confusion among the rank and file how did the communities wants to place quality of life policing in new york. Was one of the things got us to where we were a cop the question what do communities wants to go and there are people out there to take advantage of it. And then theres the pandemic public resources, least Hospital Service<\/a> providers communitybased means theres less resources to fight Violent Crime<\/a> and the pandemic is these people under Reach Financial<\/a> mental emotional strain and so all of those things can trigger. More violence. The councils research had already found killings in major cities were on the rise, this year starting in january and february. Now a dramatic increase in numbers as cities reopened after shutting down in the spring. A nationwide trend, many believe will continue were deeply concerned that in the months ahead he see more violence. This huge. Researchers and members of Law Enforcement<\/a> say the burden to bring crime down cant solely rest on the shoulders of police we need to hear from the community that i live in foodies gunfire. They have to see it each and every day what exactly do they want us to go this is monumental period and policing. Well that was Brynn Gingras<\/a> reporting for us this morning, a republican Police Reform<\/a> measure collapsed in the senate on wednesday. Democrats say that didnt do enough to address issues of Police Misconduct<\/a> and racial injustice. They plan to introduce their own plan later today. And we plan to take you outside take a look at sfo this morning. Still some cloudy skies, but no delays welcome back everyone that im a 55. Lets check in with dave spahr so that we can get an update on todays forecast 8 robin good morning and good morning, everybody, you know were talking about some earlier shots we had from my temper on for example we could see the blue skies off in the distance still working on healing this off from the east bay hills the shot from the bay bridge least the traffic is much more breast care, but we still have those overcast fog clouds hanging around so thats a suppressive for temperatures in and around the immediate bail though inland were getting some moving up in the north bay, 71 antioch and 63 me well for san jose lining the day up for a rather the current winds, we have Single Digits<\/a> for most regions, although still a little bit breezy off towards the delta were going to see that again for tonight and its going to linger overnight, keeping temperatures support a little bit there back to the bay bridge shot, 82 by high noon were 3 oclock at around 90, but plenty of 90s on the board while the force on for you coming up in a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot coming up in the next hour of the kron 4 morning news there are a key research the now predicts the u. S. Could see nearly 180,000 covid19 deaths and 12,000 in california by october first well have the grim report on the latest numbers coming up. And the Oakland Unified School<\/a> district voting to eliminate its School Police<\/a> department well find out what this means for students and where Oakland Unified School<\/a> district cuts ties with School Police<\/a> well have that full report coming up in just a moment. This morning were looking at grim projections for coronavirus death toll in our country and our state im live with the details and numbers coming up. Over the next several days, thousands of inmates from prisons like same quinton prisoners as you say from saint quinn could be released to the public. Ill tell you why and more details about this controversial decision by governor gavin. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 09 00am. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us on the kron 00 04am morning news. It is thursday june 25th were almost to the weekend. Omar gonzalez were going to start off this hour by checking in with days far and the forecast high day marty good morning, good morning, everybody lets go and take a look at a live shot coming in from the bay bridge toll plaza still the overcast sky conditions of the leftover fog thats here but showing some signs of trying to lift. 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