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Clear that the overwhelming number of our members. Are making their voice heard that the current offer on the table is not something we can settle for. The union is calling for smaller class sizes and higher pay. The district has agreed to some races but not enough to meet the unions demands negotiations between the 2 sides have been going on for the past 6 months. I think a big problem is under staffing schools right now might be gilley supports the teachers. She is a parent of a 4th and 7 greater any Parent Action Committee member at San Francisco Community School Hart Middle School does not have a math teacher. We just onboarded a social worker for the school like today, which is 57 days into the school year right now, our counselors acting as a math teacher. So we dont have a counselor join teachers and classified workers outside the San Francisco Unified School District office. Thursday afternoon, we need employees that want to work here and the District Needs to probably pay every also negotiating a separate contract with the School District. President of seiu 10, 21 who represents the districts classified staff, which includes custodians and cafeteria workers. 99. 5 voted in support of a possible strike. We love our students. We dont want to hurt our students and their education. The pandemic get that enough. We want to create better brains for our future teachers that may come out of School District, our future construction workers, it workers, etcetera. A statement from the School District reads in part, quote, we are working diligently and in good faith to reach an agreement with our labor partners. The district also claims they will prioritize Financial Decisions that most directly benefit student experiences. And as for next steps on a possible strike, Union Members are required to vote a Second Time Around to allow a strike. Teachers and workers say all this depends on what happens on monday when the 2 sides return to the bargaining table. Gayle ong kron, 4 news. Thank you, gayle. In the east bay, a Brentwood Police officers are recovering tonight from a stab wound to the neck. From a teenage boy, police say it happened about 5. 30, last night when they got a call about the 16 yearold who was allegedly taunting people with a kitchen knife in brentwood park. Police say when an officer tried to deescalate the situation, things turned south. We saw a couple of nice and the female kicked away. Police say a witness in another Police Officer took the teen into custody. Officers say that he may have been involved in an altercation with other teens before police arrived. Meantime, the Department Says the injured officer underwent Successful Surgery last night and is in good spirits. The american death toll continues to rise tonight in the israel hamas war, u. S. Officials confirming today that 27 americans have died. 14 americans remain unaccounted for with only a few of those missing believed to have been taken hostage. The war on going for 6 days now with the Israeli Military bombarding gaza with airstrikes, leaving neighborhoods destroyed. Tens of thousands forced to flee their homes. To safer places, israel blocking off all fuel electricity and medicine supplies from entering gaza. More than 2500 people have been killed on both sides. Now the u. S. Government is expected to begin evacuating americans from israel by both land and sea as early as tomorrow. Among those catching a ship to cypress plane to athens or frankfurt in the days ahead is San Francisco businessman manny ya. Que te as kron fours. Dan kerman tells us manny had been visiting his family when the hamas attack took place. And then the food is being package. And sorted over there. But im attacked israel on saturday. San francisco businessmen, qtl of manatees in the mission was visiting family in israel. Since then he split his time between family and taking part in relief efforts. Most recently joining volunteers at a tel aviv restaurant. The day i spend about 6 or 7 hours. In a restaurant in tel aviv in central tel aviv that was collecting hot food and cold food from other restaurants to be organized and delivered to soldiers on the front lines. Now, manny is among those americans that will be evacuated by the u. S. Government in the days ahead. He says this time leaving will be more difficult than ever. I feel, you know, like jews around the world, not just jews in israel have been hit hard in the heart recently. You know, ive lost 1200 of my members in cold blood. And so i feel like a part of me should stay and should help and should should contribute to the effort. 02 00am to prevent more people in my family from being murdered on the other hand, as part of me that feels afraid, afraid of what might be coming before leaving many had a chance to visit with his israeli cousin, who is the same age and also a cafe owner and about to be deployed to the war effort to open to one of the pages of the newspaper just had images of all civilians who have been killed, not all of them but hot, but a lot of them. And, you know, i looked at them and we were just in shock. You know, these are people that look just like us young people, people the beginning of their life and their prime and and for him, i do want to speak for him. But for him, theres a sense of duty. To prevent more folks are being killed in their homes. Many says there remains a real sense of shock and sadness and fear among his family in israel. And yet they still managed to celebrate milestones like his fathers 80th birthday. We ordered chinese food and my sister picked and it was it was still beautiful. But it was a very different kind of celebration sure. It was a wartime celebration. It was it was quiet. It was number was near. A bombshell from the dan kerman kron. 4 news. Statewide officials are also feeling that tension. Californias Homeland Security adviser says the agency has been actively monitoring potential threats here at home saying, quote, while we are aware of statements made about potential threats on friday, october 13, i want to emphasize that no specific and credible threat to california has been identified at this time. Even so San Jose Police are among the departments that say they are beefing up their presence at local synagogues and mosques. More on this story coming up tonight at 8 insects francisco. 2 people were shot in the citys tenderloin neighborhood. Happened about 12. 45 this afternoon near golden gate avenue and leavenworth street. No word on the victims conditions or a possible suspect tonight. San Francisco Mayor london breed says she plans to expand the citys Police Officer reserve program in order to increase the number of foot patrols around the city. The move would require reserve Police Officers be paid for their work and would put in place another eligibility requirements if approved. The mayors proposal would immediately deploy 30 reserve officers to highprofile foot beats across the city. As of now, there are 30 reserve officers made up of retirees and members of the public who fit selection criteria and past testing. Governor newsom making it clear he wants the state to ramp up housing production. He signed bills that streamline permitting processes fast track housing on church land and offer more tenant protections. The governor signed a package of more than 50 housing bills this week. 3 of them were written by San Francisco state senator scott wiener kron fours. Rob nesbitt joins us now from the newsroom with more on this. Ken, its no shock to anyone that california is expensive state to live in and the cost of housing in the bay area is one of the biggest stresses for those who live here. When Governor Newsom signed the extensive housing package of 56 bills. This week, it was made clear that theres a need to make housing more affordable in california. We had very, very good year for health this year and the legislature, senator wiener off their 3 of the bills, including the San Francisco replacement housing act that requires the city to replace around 5800 homes that were destroyed from 1948. To 1976. Belong to black, japanese and filipino families allow San Francisco to finance the nearly 6,000 replacement homes. But San Francisco is required to provide make communities that were harmed by redevelopment. Maddy. Scott was living in the fillmore district in the homes are destroyed. The city called urban renewal. She calls it urban removal and says senator wieners bill writes that wrong. All the businesses and homes taken away. You know, all the equity and empowerment that we had as a community was destroyed. The senator also wrote the Affordable Housing on faith lands act that allows churches, faith institutions and nonprofit colleges to build Affordable Housing on their land without going through an extensive rezoning application process estimated. That may open up as much as 170,000 acres of land statewide just below market rate housing. The senators 3rd Affordable Housing bill extends and strengthens existing law that was set to expire in 2 years requiring cities to grant permits quickly for new Affordable Housing projects. Even housing is a nonprofit Affordable Housing developer in california, president and ceo. When demand illini says time is money with Interest Rates going up more and more every year. The fact that the governor has signed so many bills that will help expedite the approvals process that actually helps us bring costs down. It also helps increase supply. Governor newsom has announced all the Affordable Housing related bills but still has a lot more bills to go through another topics the governor has until saturday to either veto or sign them into law. Reporting live in the newsroom. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. Rob, thank you. Lets check on your 4 zone forecast as the sun is starting to set here, taking a live look a downtown San Francisco. Its pretty picture. Perfect sour. Lawrence is going to wet, though. Yeah, we might see some showers out there again. Weve got yet another weak cold front headed our way. Remember, its a few days ago we had one come through bring some light showers. The bay area. You may see that once again out there tonight, though, working on a nice evening outside. You do have a few high clouds begin drift overhead. A sign of that ridge of High Pressure starting to weaken somewhat, but not before we squeezed a really nice day outside. We have a lot of sunshine around the bay area. Well, some warm temperatures to go along with that number. Still looking very good. If youre stepping outside right now, 74 degrees in san jose to 74. Also in santa rosa. 75 a nap and 78 degrees and warm in concord. 66 degrees in San Francisco up because the things changing in the pacific. Look at cold front. See those clouds begin to gather now that is going to help push that ridge of High Pressure further to the east. That means tomorrow. Well start cooling things down a little bit and then well see increasing clouds as we head toward the afternoon and before long, we may even see a couple raindrops in the north bay outside right now keeping things dry. But some high clouds drifting up above the clouds. Going to thicken up, though, as we head throughout the day tomorrow and here comes you can see late in the day this week system kind of sliding on through rain likely toward your week in crescent city. Just a chance of showers in the north bay by tomorrow evening. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, a San Francisco. Do your store damaged after an Early Morning smash and grab. Where police say ended up finding the merchandise. Plus louisiana congressman Steve Scalise drops out of the race to become the next house speaker. Details ahead on where things go from here. And as we head to break, we hope you join us tonight as we wrap up our special celebration of hispanic cultures in the bay area. Kron fours theresa hosts are hispanic, hispanic heritage special right here on kron 4 starting at 6. 30. The doctor will see you now. But do they really . Do they see that crick in your neck . That ache in your heart . 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Officers received information that possibly 3 vehicles pulled up to a retail establishment. This shattered role of glass in the back of this pickup truck is all that is left of the front door of the do your store on coast and grand avenue in San Francisco. San Francisco Police say that it was around 6. 45 thursday morning. The high end fashion boutique was the site of an elaborate smashandgrab. This is video police still on the scene that was posted to the citizen app hours after the crime. One of those vehicles drove into that business. Multiple subjects jumped out of the vehicles, entered the store and stole store merchandise. Sergeant robert wu aca says one car loaded with stolen goods was discovered a short time later on the bay bridge sisters who were responding to the scene. For the incident spotted one of the vehicles that matched the description. The officers observed that vehicle. On an on ramp onto the eastbound direction of the bay bridge as officers follow those suspects and were able to stop the teen and subsequently arrest 2 of the suspects for this incident. Upon inspection of the vehicle crashed. The vehicle contained multiple items that we believe were stolen from the burglary grant avenue. Police are not saying exactly what was stolen. The company is known for its pricey purses was in the thousands of dollars. As well as expensive for food and make a San Francisco did recently received a state grant to help bolster its force in crackdown on brazen retail thefts. These pictures show a recent bust in the mission. 17,000 worth a reportedly stolen merchandise was recovered. 3 people have been arrested in connection with the fencing operation. As for the dior story was closed on thursday, employees told us that they expect to be closed until sunday. Work crews spent most of the day building a new temporary facade until a more sturdy replacement can be fashioned in San Francisco, theresa kron. 4 news. The effort to oust Alameda County District Attorney pamela price is gaining some momentum. Organizers of a recall effort say theyre set to begin Gathering Signatures this week. Save alameda for everyone or safe has until march 5th together more than 73,000 signatures, which will all need to be verified by the county. The group says since being elected da price has not been aggressive in addressing crime or supportive enough to victims. Everyone is talking about public look at the pieces. You look at people we talked to, we go to every city and everyone is talking about my god. You we feel we dont few safe. We want everybody to be safe in the current administration. That is not their main focus. Thats not the priority. Its so we have to do Something Different organizers say they plan to spend 2 Million Dollars on this recall effort. We did reach out to the das office for comment, but so far have not heard back in recent months, price has defended her record publicly saying shes doing the job she was elected to do. The number 2 republican in the house of representatives have been scrambling all day to try to get enough votes to be the next speaker. But he failed. And just a short time ago, louisiana congressman Steve Scalise withdrew from that race. Kron fours. Catherine heenan live for us in the newsroom with more on these ever changing developments, catherine, all say that will people including House Republicans themselves, as you know, knew this was a mask, but it still surprise some of them that steve scully suddenly stepped down. It is yet another setback to choosing a new leader for the house with the gop in chaos, reporters were waiting to hear f