Touchdown in oregon this afternoon. The post Flight Inspection revealing that missing piece of the plane kron fours dan thorn joining us live tonight from sfo dam. No, well, this is just the latest in a series of problems for united planes leaving sfo coming back to sfo and these mechanical issues are becoming pretty concerning for united passengers. And the airline says they do not know when this external panel came off of the plane today. Another issue for United Airlines flight leaving sfo after landing at Rogue Valley International medford airport friday afternoon. A united aircraft was found without an external panel. Medford airport spokesperson says they were forced to briefly pause operations on the runway to look for any debris. None was found. This is a very minor incident in the grand scheme of things. Retired commercial Airline Pilot doug rice says. The external panel is an aluminum fairing which helps smooth the air against the plane making for a smoother ride. This specific boeing 7. 37. Is a 25 yearold aircraft. And rice says at that age metal fatigue can set these aircraft, go through a significant amount of maintenance they should be catching these things. What were learning now is that we have to be more aware of these things as they go through maintenance and double checking and triple checking the this latest issue for united is making some passengers feel uneasy on thursday. A flight approaching sfl had a hydraulic leak with some smoke seen by the landing gear. Last week, a japan bound plane lost a wheel during takeoff and had to make an Emergency Landing in los angeles. And on monday, a united flight bound for sfo from australia was forced to turn around because of a maintenance issue. I think its a little bit the scary the fact that this keeps coming up all the sudden. And i i dont know if its because we havent been aware and now we are. Always said, and its its an immediate issue that were dealing with. Its scary for people. United spokesperson says there wasnt an Emergency Landing in oregon because there was no indication of damage during the flight. Theyre now going to do an investigation to iind out what happened. Will the faa says that theyre also going to be looking into this incident. As for any injuries, united says of the 130 plus passengers and crew that are on board. No one was hurt. Reporting live at sfo. Dan thorn kron. 4 news. Dan, thank you. An update to the alaska Airlines Flight where a door blew off midflight earlier this year. Its been revealed a seat belt saved the life of a passenger during that frightening ordeal. According to a new lawsuit filed on behalf of 7 of those passengers, one of them said his body lifted out of the seat and suction tore off his shoes and socks. And left bruises on his legs. The incident happened in january over portland. The plane landed safely. The department of justice has opened up a criminal investigation. A body was recovered in the oakland estuary this afternoon. Alameda firefighters shared this photo with us earlier today as crews were getting ready to go into the water following reports of a man having trouble swimming, the crew deployed rescue swimmers and searched for the man for about an hour before locating the victim under water. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Officials are working to identify that victim. The United States coast guard is investigating an oil spill after Officials Say one of its both accidentally discharged approximately 500 gallons of diesel fuel off the coast of northern california. They say it happened this morning around 30 miles offshore of fort bragg. Theyre evaluating potential impacts to sensitive sites now and there are no there currently are no impacts to the shoreline. Meantime, a few folks did enjoy the sunny weather today. Spending this evening at the beach. This is a look. At a some kids even frolicking in the water. We got some surfers out there as well. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. Im hoping for a copy paste again tomorrow and sunday. Gayle. Yeah, we have some nice weather in store this weekend. And even after that. So spring is here. Well, spring is tuesday, but weve been under meteorologist. Pray that you can even see tonight. Look how clear it is out there and temperatures are pretty mild this evening. Were in the upper 50s low 60s. So thats close to the 60s are close to the daytime highs for tomorrow, too. And these are the highs today. Were well above average 10 degrees warmer and santa rosa and San Francisco. So you as lot of 70s and well be seeing that this weekend. A very nice week weather for the holiday weekend, Saint Patricks day. You know, theres parades going on and a lot of activities. So upper 60s, low 70s just enjoy the sunny and warm weekend because next we0kend we do have rain in the forecast and ill show that to you in the extended in a few minutes. Back to, you know, thank you, kaile new details this evening in a shooting that injured for sonoma county. Deputies officials releasing the 911 audio and bodycam footage. We want to warn you some of the video. Might be disturbing. Yes, i would become for many are trading desk. Youve like a ripe for fund ng. Authorities say the suspect. 53 yearold jose luis serve on tests showed up at la hacienda del toro, a restaurant last night club on stony point. And todd rhodes after being kicked out the night before some on tests showed up tthe business in the overnight hours of mah 4th with a rifle in hand allegedly threatening to shoot those who have fired him. When deputies arrived savant este ran off. He didnt make it far, though, pulling into a parking lot on todd and standish roads opening fire on deputies. After firing several times on test got back in his car and drove back to the restaurant before continuing a chase that ultimately led him to crashing his vehicle at the time of the crash of on tested multiple gunshot wounds and injuries. He died at the scene during the crossfire. 4 deputies were injured as well. 3 of them are recovering at home. The 4th deputies suffered a head injury and is still in the hospital tonight. We now know that deputy suffered their injuries after another accidentally hit them with their patrol car. Meanwhile, Officials Say cervantes died due to Blunt Force Trauma likely due to the crash. But his official cause of death is still pending. New at 11 deputies in Marion County have arrested. 21 yearold Julian Sanchez of sandra fell for allegedly selling marijuana products to children. They say sanchez had more than 20,000, marijuana products at his apartment and in a storage locker. Along with 17,000 in cash, detectives determined he was selling them to kids of various high schools after getting into his 2 cell phones, sanchez has been booked into the Marion County jail. A judge is appointed a special master to oversee the womens prison in dublin. The order came as part of a lawsuit filed by 8 inmates claiming of abuse from some of the prison workers. Comes after the fbi rated that prison earlier this week. As we reported, agents seized computers and documents back in 2021. The fbi also raided the facility and that led to the conviction of a warden charged with multiple counts of abuse for ordering incarcerated women to pose naked 7. Others were also found guilty of abuse. A member of the Boogaloo Boys has been sentenced to life in federal prison today for the murder and attempted murder of 2 oakland security guards in 2020, Robert Justice junior was convicted of murder and attempted murder last year, according to prosecutors, justice was the driver of the vehicle in which stephen fired gunshots that killed a protective services officer. Dave underwood and the attempted murder of a second federal officer in a driveby shooting. Korea was sentenced to 41 years in prison back in 2022, both justice and korea were followers of the socalled boogaloo movement. A loosely organized Antigovernment Group that believes a second u. S. Civil war was eminent. Dozens of protesters who blocked the bay bridge in november to call for a ceasefire in gaza are being penalized for their actions. A San Francisco judge ordering 78 of the 80 demonstrators to perform 5 hours of Community Service representation for the protesters say they have agreed to pay more than 4,000 in restitution to avoid criminal charges. Its about 57 for each person being punished. The money will be given to those who needed to be evacuated from the bridge during that protest. Happening right now, caltrans has closed a stretch of 6. 80, southbound and it will stay closed through monday. Its for paving project that was supposed to start back in january, but it had been delayed due to rain. 6. 80, is closed between the 5. 80, in 6, 80 connector in pleasanton and that closure goes all the way through highway 84 and son all about 9 miles. The closure will stretch through 4 oclock monday morning. Caltrans says this weekend closures actually going to help lower the number of nightly closures. Theyll need to finish up this project. Also happening this weekend in the east bay, a stretch of bart tracks between richmond and el serino tell North Station will be closed both saturday and sunday for some major track work as a result, all the Red Line Service will be canceled in the area. Free buses are going to be available for commuters between those 2 stations during that closure. Coming up on kron, 4 news at 11 oakland Business Owner says hes looking for a new place to set up shop after his restaurant was hit by burglars. Not once, not twice, but 3 times. Plus the Oakland Coliseum will be put to good use in the coming years. More on the teams that plan to use the space and p g any donating more than a dozen acres of land to a nonprofit. What its going to be used after the brea business. Its not a ninetofive proposition. Its all day and into the night. Its all the things that keep this world turning. Its the gotos that keep us going. The places we cheer. Trust. Hang out. And check in. They all choose the advanced Network Solutions and round the clock partnership from comcast business. Powering more businesses than anyone. Powering possibilities. More Affordable Housing is coming to the north bay pg. Any is donating more than a dozen acres of land in nevado to habitat for humanity. The 13 Acre Development is expected to be the largest affordable home site in the state housing. More than 300 people pg and e says theres going to also be parks, courtyards trails and at least 10 acres of open space. The need is so great. You know, when we had 20 homes available, we had over 700 families apply our last project in redwood city. So to be standing here in this community where the average home price is 1. 6 Million Dollars to be able to bring affordable homeownership to the community, to the county to the city is just remarkable. Construction is expected to begin later on this year. City of oakland is lifting advisory for lake merritt after the water turned red from a minor algae bloom lake tech, the organization responsible for the fountain in the lake that prevents algae tells kron 4 a mix of things like nutrient runoff and Wastewater Treatment plants typically caused the algae growth. The bloom will likely come back. From time to time, different conditions, whether thats climate or weather Water Quality can lead to them to grow rapidly, get out of control. And thats when we call that a bloom. And the reason thats a problem is when they grow to that extent, they will eventually start to die off. And when that happens, we have rapid depletion of oxygen in the water and that often lead to fish kills. Kerr says following this years wet winter water temperatures were significantly higher compared to this time last year. Those warmer water temps may have been the cause for that minor bloom. I think this is of a kind of a nail in the coffin or we do want to kind of maybe explore other. Other areas. And oakland, Business Owner and chef says he has had enough after burglars smashed through his eatery overnight. Happened early friday morning at roasted and raw. Just hours after celebrating 3 years in business. The loss is less than the cost to repair the damage because he no longer leaves much inside that business overnight. You cant keep cash on hand. You can keep the safe and office they jam this time. They they completely jammed and open the office door. So they only got away with petty cash says in the drawer. Earlier this week, more than 200 Business Owners in oakland shared their intent to boycott paying their taxes. If the city doesnt fix the crime problem. City countered by saying taxes do pay for the essential Public Services including Police Officers and 911, dispatchers for the time being greer is going to continue operating in downtown, but he is eyeing a future move. Midnight tonight will mark 4 years since the bay area, shelterinplace order went into effect. For coronavirus march 16th twentytwenty was the day 6 bay area counties to drastic measures to try and contain the virus. As we know it would be a year before vaccines in any sort of normalcy would arrive. Covid, of course, is still with us today. The cdc, though, recently loosened precautions by dropping the fiveday isolation rule treating the virus much like other common respiratory illnesses. Lets get you a check of your 4 zone forecast taking a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge tonight. Gail, hopefully people are resting up tonight so they get up tomorrow and enjoy the sunshine. Yeah, its going to be a very nice weekend on tap. Really excited for it. I hope you all are as well, especially after the strong winds. We have to deal with earlier this week. And here is a live picture at San Francisco. This scope. A really gorgeous out there. Just clear skies, calm conditions. And you can even see it on the satellite and radar. Theres a bit of some unsettled weather. So the south of us and you could see slots. Angeles had some thunderstorms earlier. Theres actually a winter storm warning over by big bear until sunday morning. So thats part your plans. Just keep that in mind. No watches and warnings in the sierra or here in our area. So this is a future cast this is a 06 00pm saturday, but you can see mostly dry spent saturday evening. You may see some coastal fog and maybe coastal drizzle and a little bit of some onshore flow. But during the day, its going to be really nice. Sunday morning, youll start to see the same pattern. But then things start to clear out on a sunday afternoon. So overall, we have a nice sunny days ahead. So for tomorrow morning, youll be waking up to the 40s and low 50s and well be warming up to the upper 60s and low 70s. So very nice woather for the weekend. The holiday weekend. Ill get out of the way here. So you can see sunshine for the next few days. Now, the first day of spring is tuesday. We will see a shift in the weather pattern because we are expecting some rain next weekend. But, you know, lets enjoy this weekend first, but well well keep an eye on that rain next weekend. I think its pretty good that were getting this break right before. Spring brings back a little bit of a little bit of rain for us. The sunshine i think we sure and is going to be quite for me this week the weather center. Thanks, gayle. Youre welcome. The oakland roots have been approved to play at the coliseum. The approval allows the soccer team to play starting march of next year. Officials passing the motion this morning. They say theyre looking forward to seeing people show up for those soccer games, not only for the roots, but also for oaklands first professional Woman Soccer Team as well. Police or womens professional team will be able to debut next year. And that would mean its the first time in oakland sports history. That womans professional soccer team. It has opening its name in place and open california. So its a tremendous for the community. Were all very excited. Humbled. Im so grateful for mayor sheng thao. Vice mayor rebecca kaplan, all of city council county, the jpa and of course, most important our community that supported us through all of these efforts in conversations. This approval comes just one day after oakland, Alameda County officials met with the as to discuss the team signing a lease extension for the next 3 years until the new stadium is built in las vegas. The team says the meeting went well. And the group will continue discussions over the next 2 weeks before they meet again on april. 2nd right now, the city is asking the as. Do leave behind its branding and logo when it officially leaves. It wants the team to have an active role in bringing an mlb Expansion Team to and selling its half of the coliseum. Steph curry was in los angeles practicing with the team today and hopes his injured ankle as well. Enough to play on next in sports, aaron wilson will let us know of steph is actually going to be good to go tomorrow against lebron and the lakers. And now kron 4 sports. While the warriors, heres some good news headed into their 3rd match up against the la lakers this season. Good news for us. Of course, after missing the last 3 games after this play where he tweaked his ankle and the grimace on his face. Koreas honestly, they display sideline dont, you know, for the last 3 losses and half of that bulls loss. Now with the warriors looking for win in la, theyre hoping that curry can play and they expect that he actually will be out there crypto dot com only only todays practice, he did well and tonights rehab, he does will now. Thats according to coach steve kerr. Now the plan is for staff to play on saturday. Of all those things go