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Hegenberger corridor. Kron 4 s Charles Clifford has the details. Well, every year millions of people use the hegenberger corridor right behind me here to get to and from the oakland airport. It is a very important part of oaklands economy. And today, the city in the county wanted to reassure the public that they are working on addressing the issues on monday morning, oakland mayor sheng thao along with the Oakland Police department, the california Highway Patrol, the Alameda County Sheriffs Office and Community Leaders gathered to reassure the public, but they are working on addressing problems along the hegenberger corridor. This is a key gateway to oakland and its a vital element to our citys economic engine. The city says that auto burglaries, robberies and larceny along hegenberger have actually decreased over the last year, but admit that theres still a lot of work to do to restore public confidence. The city says they are increasing the number of Oakland Police officers along hegenberger 7 days a week. Theyre also adding foot patrols and trust building officers installing security cameras and spending 2 Million Dollars to add safety ambassadors and private security to gas stations and other businesses along hegenberger, the california Highway Patrol which has occasionally deployed officers in oakland to assist opd says they will also continue to be available as needed. The chp will continue can to conduct unannounced. Search operations alongside our Law Enforcement partners, agencies in high crime areas across the east bay region. We still have a lot of work in front of us and we will continue to do more. This is just the beginning. In oakland, charles, clifford kron, 4 news. Following unanswered requests to californias attorney general, the campaign for District Attorney pamela price announcing its next steps. In trying to a vet investigate allegations of signature fraud. The protect the Wind Campaign was joined by supporters and Community Leaders this morning highlighting what they believed to be widespread instances of signature gathering fraud all in an attempt to remove price from office. The registrar of voters receive more than 120,000 signatures in support of recalling price and will be hand counting them to verify that they meet the threshold of 73,000 needed for a recall. The group is calling on the attorney for the Northern California district to investigate these fraud claims they send an appeal to rob bonta on february 28th. They say its gone unanswered. And stewart chen, the president of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council released a statement that reads, ive stayed neutral till today. I looked into the policies and practices of the da pamela price and she ran on a platform of reform. Whether you like it or not, she was elected. She ran on a platform of accountability. She was duly elected and its time to let her do her job. Tonight is the first Antioch Police Oversight Commission meeting where members will decide on a Commission Chair and vice chair. Its part of the city steps towards rebuilding trust between the community and its Police Department. After the fallout of last years rhesus text messaging scandal within the Police Department and the federal indictments of several officers at the center of that scandal. The sevenmember Police Commission included a variety of ranging from Community Organizers to lawyers. The meeting tonight starts at 6. 30. Pretrial proceedings began today in the case of a 2018 fatal crash involving a tesla walter wings. Family is claiming the model xs auto pilot malfunctioned causing with tesla that he was riding into crashed headfirst into a safety barrier on highway 101 in mountain view. His family says tesla misled them. Another consumers into thinking that the autopilot system is safe and would handle the driving duties. Tesla says autopilot does not prevent all accidents but makes them less likely to occur. Also claims that the victim repeatedly ignored warnings to take control of his tesla. The family is saying an ntsb investigation that wrapped up a year. After the deadly crash said teslas autopilot system did not properly recognize lane markings before the crash. Weve also learned some new details this afternoon into the fatal crash in San Francisco. The left 3 members of a family dead and an infant is in the hospital. Police have arrested 78 yearold mary lau for allegedly crashing into a family of 4 waiting at a bus stop in the west portal neighborhood. This happened at the intersection of you, lois street and lenox way saturday afternoon, 3 family members were killed. An infant is in critical condition. So the driver now has been charged with 3 counts of manslaughter, reckless driving with Bodily Injury early injury, driving the wrong way on a divided highway in an unsafe speed and reckless driving. Theres a vigil for the family plan to 5 oclock. Tonight. We do plan to have coverage for you later. A public hearing will be held later on this week to gather public input on the no turn on red downtown expansion project. The project would enhance Pedestrian Safety by installing new no turn on red restrictions at about 200 intersections. These new restrictions will be focused in the citys Downtown North of market and south of market core areas. Were both crash in pedestrian concentration is the highest that hearing is set for friday. All right. Well talk about the weather right now is a Beautiful Day across the bay right now. You can see the city. There are no clouds really blocking our view. Pilots here now. So we talk about is going on our last day. Winter spring starts tomorrow. Thats right. It does. It does tomorrow the first day of spring, but it sure kind of feel springlike right now and it certainly felt like it this weekend. Wind is relatively calm, although you can see were picking up a little bit out at the coast here about 60 Miles Per Hour at sfo, 14 in Half Moon Bay, but still not bad. Temperatures are lovely. 71 in san jose where its 74 in livermore. You can see doubling in the 70s as well. San francisco downtown just hit the 60 degree mark. Were at 70 in nevado check out cloverdale 72 degrees for you so were having another above average day inland. No doubt about it. And the question is, are get the fog back tonight and we are so you can see about 9 oclock. You see the marine layer starting to move back in a bit. So as you wake up tomorrow morning, its going to be very similar to this morning where weve got some of that fog out there, even potentially, i think a little bit of coastal drizzle is possible. But by the time we get about noon, we should start to get sunshine. But all across the bay area. So we do begin our spring officially tomorrow. Now it isnt until later in the day at 09 00 06pm, that we have that spring equinox. Now, what that means basically is the sun is shining directly on the equator. So if youre in the northern hemisphere, we start to have warmer days that we start to see that that daylight still kind of taking up for a little bit before we start to go in the other direction. Wed also have an interesting pattern happening right now. Its one of the reasons were getting such a nice weather. Is this High Pressure, low pressure the right below it bringing rather dramatic weather, Southern California. Ill tell you all about that pattern and when it will break down and well talk about our rain chances when it come back in just a bit. Sounds good. Thank you. After 24 seasons bay area icon and voice of oracle park. Were now brooks moon is parting ways with the San Francisco giants. The both sides there were in discussions to extend her contract, which expired last december. But both parties there decided to part ways. Brooks moon is one of the mlbs first black woman public address announcer. She was also the first woman to ever pa the world series and the first woman to repeat a the mlb allstar game. The Organization Says the booth at oracle park will be named in her honor at a ceremony that will take place during a future game. And brooks moon released a statement about the parting of ways saying in part as a bay area native, its been my honor of a lifetime to serve on the mic and in the community for the giants for 24 years. The job hes always been bigger than me. She goes on to say Representation Matters and it is my great hope that my time in the booth has inspired little girls, young women and people of color. To pursue their dreams, even if those dreams seem impossible because impossible dreams can come true. The giants, president and ceo larry baer issued a statement following this announcement. Recent partner now husband, the familiar inspirational voice for generations of players and fans at oracle park as an ambassador for the organization and a respected leader, but now has been a giant voice in the ball park and in the community and will be a forever giant. It will be a fitting tribute to name the pa booth in her honor and San Francisco assemblymember matt handy though, slamming the giants ownership over the decision to part ways with brooks moon on social media. Haney says, quote, the giants have decided that after 24 years, the woman who connects so deeply with their fans is expendable. An organization that could definitely use more diversity is announcing it was unable to find a way to keep their most visible nonplaying black employee. He goes on to say its a terrible move for a team whose majority owner Charles Johnson funds right wing politicians that were supportive of undermining a democratic election and who have tried to disenfranchise black voters across america. Brooks mood was one of the few in the Giants Organization to publicly decried johnsons political activity. She was also outspoken in twentytwenty in support of black lives matter. It does not take a crazy johnson back conspiracy theorist to connect the dots. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters. Governor gavin newsom has officially postponed his state of the state address over the very close voting margins on prop one. If passed, that measure would provide 6. 4 billion dollars of additional funding for Mental Health treatment beds and supportive housing. Political experts say its failure would be a setback for newsom who has 2 more years left in office to deliver on the promises that he made to voters. A new date for his address has not been announced. Former President Donald Trump causing some controversy on the campaign trail during the rally that he had this weekend. He warned about a bloodbath if he loses the election and also called immigrants animals. Washington correspondent Hannah Brandt has the latest. Trumps remarks are drawing sharp criticism from Many Democrats and some republicans as well. But there are those that are defending him. At a rally in ohio, former President Donald Trump was talking about his plan to tax foreign made cars when he made a dark prediction. Were going to put 100 tariff on every single car. That comes across the line and youre not going to be able to sell those guys. If i get elected. Now i do get elected. Its going to be a bloodbath for the whole. Thats going to be the least of it. Its going to be a bloodbath for the country. And in his speech, he also attacked undocumented immigrants. I dont know if you call up people in some cases, theyre not people in my opinion. These are animals. Okay. And we have to stop critics slammed the remarks. What does that mean . Hes going to exact a bloodbath. Theres something wrong here. Congresswoman nancy pelosi told cnn trumps comments underscore how important it is for democrats to reelect president biden. We just have to win this election on nbcs meet the press, republican senator bill cassidy also criticized the comments. Clearly the president s rhetoric is reflected poorly. Many americans continue to wonder should President Trump be president . But on cbs, trumps former Vice President mike pence defended the bloodbath comments. President was clearly talking about the impact of of imports devastating. The American Automotive industry. What congressman mike turner told abc while he disagrees with the wording, hes more focused on trumps border policies. Donald trump is the only candidate in this race. Its going to be able to have to fix this crisis. In a statement the Trump Campaign said he was clearly talking about the economic consequences of another biden term, accusing those who criticized him of taking his words out of context in washington. Im Hannah Brandt. Nearly 2 weeks after election day, the gavin newsom backed prop one is still too close to call capitol correspondent Eytan Wallace to tell you about the governors new last plan to try to achieve victory. And investigators are trying to figure out what started a fire at a High School Gym pleasanton. Plus, where the search stands for the 2 suspects who allegedly shot this young dog in the face. Here on kron 4. Were honoring remarkable women of the bay area all month long. Read more about our finalists by scanning this qr code on your screen. Were new stories each week right here on kron 4 and on kron 4 dot com. Its the work behind the scenes, lets take a look at this knee. That truly matters. [ physical Therapy Staff discusses results ] for your mind. For your body. And for the community. Team kaiser permanente. San jose police are searching for 2 suspects who allegedly shot a young dog in the face. This is the German Shepherd named marley did survive the attack. Police say it happened on mckee road on january. 11th just before 6. 30, in the morning. Marley sustained a gunshot wound that entered the skull and exited below the jaw line. Her right front paw also injured in this attack. Police say 2 suspects are believed to be involved one of the suspects described as a hispanic adult male. In his 20s, bill and at the time was wearing a yellow weather jacket and jeans. And unfortunately, we dont have clear description of our second suspect during an extensive investigation. I was very minimal leads are assaults. Unit detectives have decide to seek help from the public ask assistance bringing justice formerly the past. A 1000 reward is being offered by the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the 2 suspects. And a warning now for dog owners in San Francisco. The Presidio Trust is closing some hiking trails 2 dogs in advance of coyote pupping season starting today, the park trail stretching from the Mountain Lake to the presidio promenade and the bay ridge trail from the rob Hill Campground to the presidio golf course are closed to all dogs on or off leash during pupping season. Coyote is are very protective of their pups and may exhibits of aggressive behavior when they encounter other canines. The trails will remain closed through early september. School back in session today. And powers back our Valley High School in pleasanton last night, a fire started in the gym. It was contained and then put out that you can see what it looked like while it was burning the Pleasanton Unified School districts as wifi and phones have also been restored. But there were some false alarms as part of this reset. The district is adding that students started a fire today in a bathroom trash can. And the school is investigating. But as far as last nights fire, the total damage is not yet clear. We have not seen damage building no one was hurt. 2 firefighters. Are still looking into what caused this fire. San francisco fire rescuing 2 people and their pop. There are say from a cliff at fort funston late last night, the agency posting this picture of the rescue on social media. Crews got a call from 2 people visiting from out of town and they found themselves stuck on a cliff after the tide came in that pair and their colleague breed dog had been hiking until after the sun went down. Only to find got a little dark and they couldnt find their way back to the trail. Coastal rescue crews were able to help them out safely. In the north bay. Deputies in Sonoma County airlifted a camper who experienced a severe medical emergency at lake sonoma over the weekend. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office shared this video showing deputies using a helicopter to rescue the camper from the campgrounds. First responders who the patients to an awaiting air ambulance, which th