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Plus, People Living in oakland are telling the city what they want to see in the next police chief. Open looks for a new top cop and the bay area missionary group is back home safely after being stranded in the share after a military coup shut that country down. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at and well, i hope its a good morning so far. Anyway, its only 8 oclock. What could possibly go wrong . Im darya and im james. You have start this hour with a check of the weather as weve got a lot of kids going back to school already this week, we should probably get art. First week of school forecast. Yeah. How many times you have to wake them up this morning . Thats the question it is going to help with sunlight coming through the window because, yeah, it was a foggy morning and youre trying to wake him up. Might not be as easy, but weve got the bright skies this morning. Really nice to be waking up for the first day of school. Looking like this out there. Golden gate bridge. Crystal clear. No fog at the golden gate nowhere else across the bay. Either. Its 50s and 60s along the bayshore 60s and 70s further inland. Brett, what youre already just shy of 80 degrees vacaville at 78. So for a lot of inland areas, he didnt even cool down that much last night. And now youre seeing temperatures pushing upwards again and with that sunshine by noontime. Were already mid 80s inland 70s along the bay and getting right back to those scorching hot conditions inland 90s, even a couple triple digits this afternoon. Im going to be talking much cooler weather starting tomorrow in your forecast, all right, john, thank you for that. Well, at the bay bridge, you can see. The meteor lights are now off. So traffic is free. Fallen into the city. Were still around 60 minutes. Maybe that will go down as traffic continues to flow this morning. 81 san matteo bridge about 60 minutes there. Youre traveling out of richmond via richmond. Sandra fell bridge about 14 minutes. So thats up about 7 minutes. Golden gate bridge, 30 minute ride, a little busy in the north. And 1, 1, and along of the south bay were up 9 minutes there. 50 minutes. Its 85 to menlo park. All right. Is back to you. Thank nato to and today, unions representing thousands of San Jose City workers will announce whether or not theyre going to be nble to go on strike. Over pay raises. So the announcement is expected in about a half hour from right now. Kron fours will tran following the story. Live for us in san jose. So this hour well well get our answer. Which we will be carrying the you live at 8. 30. So youll find out when we find out. And of course, the mayor will find out as well that we do know that they are working without a contract for the past month. They are looking simply for a pay raise. The answer is always money and they are looking for a substantial pay raise. The city of san jose is already offering a 5 pay raise for the first year. And they said that is simply not enough. The workers will they spend lots of jobs, including 911, dispatchers, but the Fire Department airport workers, librarians city inspectors. They all say that theyre overworked and underpaid. For the city of san jose. As big as it is. They claim its turned into a Training Ground where people come here. Learn all of their skills and then take those skills to other cities. They pay them a lot more. Got a chance to track down san joses mayor. He says there is a chance they can work out a deal. But its all in the numbers. I think its really possible that when we look at years, 2, 3 of this contract week, our budget projections could be too conservative. Its possible that revenue will come in higher than expected in which case i think we should offer workers an automatic trigger and say we will. Hey, more will will be able to go a little higher than we expected. If the revenues there, we can do it without Cutting Services or taking on debt and unfunded liabilities as weve done in the past. And frankly paid quite a price for doing james right now the 2 sides are not even close there about 20 Million Dollars. The part should they go on strike. And again, we shall find out in about 25 minutes from now. Should they go on strike . This is not an indefinite strike where you see the workers out there until they get a new deal. Instead, this will be a threeday strike. Stay tuned, as they say in news. Yes, stay tuned. Are back 2 and a half hour and that vote is announced. Thank you will. And also today, not a strike, but a demonstration by the San Francisco taxi workers alliance. Theyre going to be protesting. The possible expansion of driverless cars. Theyre going to gather the California Public Utilities Commission headquarters because they want the commission to know that they do not want waymo and cruise to be able to offer. 24 7 commercial driverless Passenger Service and San Francisco. The Commission Meets today to discuss the interference of Autonomous Vehicles with first responders. And then on thursday, the commission will vote whether or not to grant expansion of services for autonomous cars. Yeah. As of yesterday rolled back home. They sure are. A missionary group from antioch, home, safe and sound from the share after being stuck there for about a week because there was a military coup. They took over the government that forced the shutdown of borders. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson has more. We are thankful to be back home. Steve and marie, a minor are relieved to be back in america after getting stuck in niger there. While a coup took over the government there grounding all flights. You know, we never saw any violence like it was. Being out of control, not being able to do what you want to do. So you felt trapped. The miners went to west africa to host a camp for kids with a missionary group of 11 people from Cornerstone Christian center in school in antioch. But when it was time to fly home, the borders shut down. Uncertainty was the part that really got to you because you didnt know when the borders are going to open. We be getting news daily. As the missionary group anxiously waited for a way to get home. They spent the extra time reaching out to the local community and decided, hey, since were here, what else can we and so we started repairing the school for them as they continue their outreach. The church back at home contacted congressman john garamendi, who represents antioch and senator Dianne Feinsteins office to try and get them back to the u. S. One week later, the couple got an email from the government saying the request had been approved. Be ready at this time. At the airport with a bag of no more than 20 pounds to carry on that. And so, but ok awesome. Lets go. So we a lot of stuff behind. It was not an easy track, but the miners say theyre grateful. Feel really blessed because people love us. People care and people put their faith into action started doing everything they can to help now they want everyone to turn their focus to niger. There. A deadline was issued by a group of african countries for the military coup to reinstate the countrys democratically elected president. But as the deadline expired, the military coup close the airspace again, just got news today. That they can even kind escalated into a little bit more. They continue to pray for the people in here. It that the poorest country in the world. Just, you know, the things that we take for granted, they do. You know, they dont its it was water and food. Im Sarah Stinson reporting kron. 4 news. Well, wait is the time happening today. The man charged with attacking an elderly woman in San Francisco will be in court for his preliminary hearing. San francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says 27 yearold James Lee Ramsey attack that elderly woman on ellis street back on july 25th. This is video from about 11 the morning when it happened images anyway, ramsey allegedly kick that woman and then spat on another victim. There was a witness nearby who saw it all happen. Fact, that person detained ramsey until police arrived. Prosecutors are now planning to request pretrial detention because they believe he poses a risk to the public. Ramsey faces multiple charges ultimately could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, hell be in court at 9 oclock this morning. Its 808. And there was chaos in the east bay. Law enforcement responded to multiple sideshows in antioch yesterday morning. Lakota happened here was around 3 in the morning. The car crashed into another car and then into a fire hydrant at west 9th and g streets. A woman in her 50s suffered major injuries and the driver of that vehicle was caught after trying to run away at the 21 yearold they arrested was a no bail warrant at a Santa Clara County for a previous sideshow. And there were other incidents as well. Additionally, right after that, we were dispatched to hear at the antioch area for one vehicle into the at the end of the antioch area. And look at what happened here. The driver of the car that went into the water, disc apes. They have been identified. They were just gone. So police are still looking for that driver. Well, happening today, its the first day of school for a lot of k through 12 students in the bay area. In fact, the Oakland Unified School district is the first to begin the year. Theyll be followed by a San Francisco and several east bay districts beginning next week speaking the east bay, antioch begins its School Year Today for all k through 12 locations. Napa valley schools return on august 16th with some districts like saint and Howell Mountain Elementary School starting as early as this wednesday. 10 is the time and new this morning, 2 bay area civil rights attorneys have asked the department of justice to investigate the Antioch Police department because there are allegations of civil rights violations. Civil rights attorneys john burris and then nissan bomb say the department is engaged in systematic practices of racial, homophobic and antisemitic policing. The Police Department is being investigated already by the California Attorney general, the fbi and the Contra Costa County District Attorneys office and much of the allegations revolve around racist and homophobic. Text messages involving at least 45 of the approximate 100 officers on the force. Burris a are asking the Justice Department to institute a Consent Decree against the Antioch Police making their here to new policies and accountability procedures, including a federal monitor oversee the force. Were going to take a break here at 8. 11, but still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, a group of migrant rights advocates are on their 3rd day of a 40 mile march. Tell you where theyre headed. And the Writers Strike continues after negotiations rumbled over the weekend. Well explain what happened. All right. We are back. Time now is 8. 14, and for your money this morning, oil costs and high temperatures have led now to the highest gas prices of the year. According to data from aaa, the National Average for a gallon of regular gas hit a year high of 3 and 0. 82. And theres some good news in all of this. The price hikes have actually started to level off and a decrease could be on the way. But that all depends on this years hurricane season. Gas prices in california are a lot higher, though, as we know the state average of 5 and 0. 7 a gallon in the bay area. Its a little bit more than that. You can see drivers are paying a couple pennies. More in San Francisco 509, san jose. Your average is 4. 98. Right now. Oakland, 504, and santa rosa, 5. 12. So depending on where you are, youre either a little a little below the state average. Okay. So thats a problem. If you have to fill er up and if you dont, if youre charged like we do, we have to think about the heat. Because it affects the battery is one of our stories and i was noticing you have less of a range in really hot web that was i thought because i was using the ac thats got something to do with it do you say can turn the ac on or else you can only do . Well, i want areas here. Looks a little wind blowing there, windows exactly what we are looking at. Another hot one today. But thats the last of ok, no need for a sea. After day. But today, you might want to crank it up a little bit. Were definitely looking at sunshine out there in full force already. Looking out there, San Francisco from mount tam, you can see theres no fog whatsoever in sight. Feel like these nice bright mornings. Will todays savor it . Because tomorrow morning were going to return that marine layer is a High Pressure. Ridge really reduces its influence in some cooler air pushes in from the north and west, really keeping things nice and mild and seasonable for the rest of the week after today. With that, we will see the increase of the sea breeze, not getting much of that ocean cool there today with these Crystal Clear skies. But towards the evening tonight, well start to see fog pushing up against the coastline and then diving into the bay this evening. Tomorrow morning, youre going to wake up to the grey, the mist, the drizzle much like we saw last week. So were right back down to that cooler foggier stuff that is fairly seasonable for this time of year 60s and 70s for sf today. 60s at the coast gaurd just morning in these spots, its going to be another scorcher elsewhere, 80s to 90s for most of our daytime highs, redwood city, 88 san jose. 91 today and some near triple digits for livermore. San ramon in concord, while oakland, berkeley and richmond, a little more comfortable comparatively in the 70s, antioch are only spot getting up to 100, although vacaville very close at 99. Santa rosa through center fell in the low 90s tomorrow through saturday, a trend of mild and average weather 70s 80s for your highs. Little bit of fog during your mornings and peaks of sunshine. After that point. Exactly where we should be come next sunday. Thats our first sign of 90s. Returning to the forecast. But in the meantime, a little break from the heat again, rain. All right, john, thank you for that. We a little break. And we can also use a break over in the east bay, traveling along there like 8. 80, right now, nearly 40 minutes. Im seeing a lot of rent there. Southbound 6. 80, traveling, an old traffic also building the bay bridge, looking much better of a drive times are still 20 minutes. So the meeting lights are off a lever traveling along the bridge. Its a little slower. No major delays along our san mateo bridge. 14 minutes, 81 on one south bay. 1, looking at you about 43 minutes. 85 up to menlo park. So 2, 80 82 better alternate specially this time travel along 80 cracking down towards the maze, solid 30 minute ride pablo avenue. Also a good alternate to get around that delay. Daria days. Back to you. Thank nate. 17 Governor Newsom designated south San Francisco. Rohnert park and santa cruz has pro Housing Communities that makes them eligible for additional funding and resources to build more low income housing. The movement is in response to the states severe housing shortage, which is only expected to get worse as our population is expected to grow by 10 million by the year 2050. We do have some developing news keeping up on the Writers Strike which continues contract negotiations have come to a stall. The wga strike officially reached its one 100th day over the weekend and email went out to members of the Writers Guild of america. And it was saying that theres a confidential sidebar meeting to discuss resuming negotiations. But those talks failed. The email says that the alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are willing to increase their offer on a few writers, specific tv minimums and theyre willing to talk about talk about ai, but that they were not willing to engage and the preservation of the writers room where success base residuals and many of the other proposals that remain on our list. And quote, thats what the email productions, as you know, has been halted on tvs and films indefinitely because of this. The writers are fighting for a fair wage and better benefits. They say. Well, new this morning to conservative groups are trying to block the biden administrations plan to cancel 39 billion dollars in student loans. For more than 800,000 borrowers, that lawsuit claims that the president overstepped his powers and the move wasnt authorized by congress. Its asking the Education Department to stop carrying it out. While this case is being decided, the suit was filed on behalf of the conservative groups, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the cato institute. Bombshell claims made by a pentagon whistleblower sparked a historic hearing before congress. And now that man is defending his extraordinary claims in a new interview with the bbc news nation correspondent ever done. Lambert explains. The new interview comes after a top pentagon official slammed russias testimony. So it appears he has some things to push back on. Ufl whistleblo