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Transcripts For KRON KRON 20240703

Skies out there like the Golden Gate Bridge and son pierre on through there. So its a mixed bag, a sun and clouds for today might see some late day showers in the far east bay potentially basically bleeding in from the Sacramento Valley. Heres what we have for you right now. The Golden Gate Bridge with that flag flapping. So we do have the continuous onshore winds today. Tomorrow, theyll settle a little bit more. So by sunday, another are some wind advisories down south, but its a big area of low pressure that just doesnt have much moisture, which to work with. But we still can get some thunder shower action from the mountains on points to the eastern even at the utah. Meanwhile, the winds there, you can see them on shore. The teens and 20s even along the coast a little bit. And thats something that will be treated to tomorrow as well. So be a little chilly, even though i will see the sun coming out. Nicely middle to upper 50s right now. Temps were pretty mild overnight. You break down for you. Sun and clouds mixture. Lots of 60s. Today we move into the 70s for the weekend bay area traffic rain. Whats going on . We have an unusually busy friday morning. Typically were not this busy. We have a stalled out vehicle on a Richmond Center fell bridge now drive times about 25 minutes. Just 5 minutes. Short of 30 minutes, able to get off the bridge pretty quickly. So that will go back down 60 minutes on the bay bridge, recovering from a few earlier has certain issues that we had 19 minutes on the san mateo bridge in a little windy and gusty here. So its ce9tainly taken time as youre traveling. Checking on the golden gate right now. 24 minute run. And you can see those winds blowing the flags there. All right, james, well send it back to you. Thank you. Reyna. And at 801, we want to get back to the breaking news, which is the big fire that happened this morning in San Francisco. Massive fire at a multistory Building Online and clay streets. In the Presidio Heights neighborhood, crawfords will trend is actually there for us right hes got the very latest. Luckily had scaffolding was and occupied. Will. It was not occupied at the time. Good news to pass along. No injuries because it was unoccupied and no injuries to anybody nearby, even though they could have suffered some smoke i halation. But the firefighters quickly got here and told everybody stay inside. Close your windows. Dont even think about going inside because the smoke was just so think. Let me show you video of what went down at around 04 30am, in the morning. This is one building. 4 stories, 6 units and they were doing some work as recently as yesterday. In fact, a roofer showed up this morning and saw the place just engulfed in flames. The Fire Department came here within 4 minutes. It was so intense that immediately call backup altogether, 60 firefighters were here. They described it us, thick smoke, almost like fog because visibility was so poor. They pounced on it. They raised their ladders. They pour thousands of gallons water down to the building and get this james and darya because of the age of the building, it actually save the building because its old enough where he uses redwood and redwood. It is very durable, even during fires as intense as this one, which is why the building never collapsed. And if you saw me at 7 oclock investigators, actually on the top floor going through it, trying to find out the cause of the fire. Yes, it was being remodeled that the time. But they are not saying immediately if that was the cause of the fire, but because they jumped on it so quickly and the age of the building, even though it looks horrible. Look at this guys. If youre watching at home, the front looks pretty much decimated, but they were able to keep the damage to the front of the building. No damage to any buildings, the left or the right. And in back of the building, it is in tact and basically not touched at all. Back to you. Im its such a nice building. Thank you. Will 804, is the time. Another big story were following. East Bay Community is mourning the loss of a family. The whole family died in car crash. Investigators say the family of 4 was in their car when it crashed into a tree and caught fire. Kron. 4 Sarah Stinson walks us through what happened. People continue to drop off flowers here on foothill road where a mom dad and their 2 kids died in a car crash. Neighbors of the family say they were headed home from a friends house when the crash happened. Its sad and tragic. A community grieving the loss of a family of 4 killed in a car crash wednesday night in pleasanton neighbors, family, friends and coworkers pulled over on foothill road thursday to drop off flowers at the crash site sits very shocking. Hassan shaikh says he worked with the dead of the family. Great whether work great police say the crash happened around 9 at night. It appears the familys electric car hit a pole before striking a tree and bursting into flames. The tree has fresh for marks on it and the road is covered in flame retardant phone. Neighbors of the family say they want police have only released limited information saying theyre thoroughly investigating the crash and theres no indication of alcohol or foul play involved with family crash, right where the road emerges from 2 lanes to one people who live nearby say driving on this stretch of road is dangerous. That no lights at all . Its really dark. And i a lot of people speed here, at leastlone of the kids who died in the crash was a student in the Pleasanton Unified School district. The district says its providing counselors and resources to support those affected. This awful. The loss of an entire family our our focus is always and how we support. How do we support students and staff and families . The family was driving a vinfast car. Thats a vietnamese electric car manufacturer. Its only been around a few years. And i spoke with a family friend off camera. She tells me she wants police to investigate to see if the car malfunctioned. Other stopping by say they hope this is a somber reminder to all to be extra careful on the road. Im sara stinson reporting in pleasanton. Back to you. Well, happening today in the east bay, Oakland Police will honor one of their own Oakland Police officer jordan wingate died last saturday from injuries he sustained in a 2018 car crash while he was on duty. The Memorial Service will be held at 3 crosses church in castro valley. Its set to begin at 11 oclock this morning. And the public is welcome to attend. New this morning lanes are now open on the maze where 5. 80 comes down into interstate 80 at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see why this singlevehicle accident where the car ended up on its roof, blocked the 2 right lanes for a time. No word yet on if anybody was hurt or how many people were in that car. But at least the good news for the commute is that that accident scene is now cleared. All lanes have reopened. Happening today in the south bay, the man who attacked a Police Officer who was protecting san joses mayor matt mahan is due to be arraigned and happened tuesday as kron. 4 was in the middle of interviewing the mayor in downtown san jose. When this man walked up, his name is Wesley Pollard and he ended up getting into an and punching the plainclothes Police Officer in the suit there, whos protecting the mayor. Pollard was charged with felony resisting and officer by means of threat or violence. And also faces a misdemeanor charge. San jose police say he also has an outstanding arrest warrant out of georgia for resisting arrest. In the east bay. 27 yearold mark simon, who you see here faces attempted kidnapping and child charges in walnut creek and police are looking to see if there are any other victims of hand. They arrested him after there was a report of attempted kidnapping of a child at the Downtown Library on North Broadway 2 weeks ago. And police then found 600 images of child on his electronic device. Well, police in concord now aoe also looking for a man who they say tried to grab a little girl while she was on her way to school happened just after 7 oclock wednesday morning near nuala street and dartmouth way. That girl who was in middle school told police that the man tried to grab her arm while also trying to open the door of a parked car. She got away. Police say she told them the man was driving a small black car. Thats all she could describe. Well, the u. S. Open workers say they were blindsided by their agencies plan to increase ticketing for illegal parking about 200 of those workers held a rally out in front of the sfmta headquarters to say that the recent announcement to crack down on illegal parking is putting targets on their backs. One parking control officers that we spoke with said shes already been assaulted on the job. Shes want to take it. Who was illegally part . He didnt like that. Got a ticket because he was doing doordash. So i continued on my my route. Follow me about 2 or 3 blocks. Waited until i stopped at a stoplight, punched a window. And as a result, the glasgow workers say they want safer vehicles and a seat at the table with the sfmta leadership when important decisions like this are made, we did reach out to the agency to get their side of this. Were what we did get a response. And heres a part of it. It reads, quote, safety is our top priority at the agency. Thanks to our effort. Crime is down. 48 1 since 2018 within our system. Our parking control officers are provided deescalation training, selfdefense tools and have access to our internal dispatch center that communicates directly with sfpd for any assistance they need end quote. The workers are hoping that improvements will be made once the agency and the workers complete there. Current labor talks. Small business week kicks off in oakland this sunday. The city is launching this as a way to celebrate shopping at small and local businesses and give a boost to the economy. Local entrepreneurs are going to be there on panels as well and workshops and theyre going have a resource fair to help improve businesses. The event runs through may 3rd. Its a 10 and still ahead, some people in the east bay are upset because their Favorite Local walmart is closing for good. And if youre thinking about taking Public Transit to avoid some freeway closures that are happening. Well, theres some other impacts. Public transit is impacted to buy whats going on this weekend . Well have the latest. And it is a kids dream with some state lawmakers want to change classrooms to help children not be so stressed out. A 13 and youre like, wait a minute. Theres no Holiday Weekend traffic do where theyve got closure is going on this weekend. And that includes southbound lanes on 80 in pleasanton. Then we have highway 37 between toledo and sears point and we closed our and our is planning a closure of some tracks and oakland this weekend. So it could be a mess. Kron fours rob nesbitt to walk us all through it. There are a detour set up for drivers and buses plan for bart riders. But both barton, caltrans are asking for patience from travelers who will experience a longer weekend commute time than usual the side of paving and construction along the southbound lanes of i680, are not new. This weekend ill be the 4th and final time. The project closes the interstate from pleasanton to seminole starting 09 00pm friday and reopening at 04 00am monday. According to caltrans spokesperson for Alameda County, janice morrow. We will be completely placing the roadway. With cement, which is a very memorable and longlasting material. Some of the roadway reopened 04 00am monday. It will be a smooth ride for a moment. Traffic will be rerouted uring the work as well as along highway. 37 starting on friday at 09 00pm. Were back on westbound state route. 37. In the to the Sonoma County line, caltrans spokesperson for that area chinchilla. Says this is the second weekend lanes have been closed to traffic at this location. The detour is a long one. Would normally is a 7. 10, mile stretch that takes people 15 to 20 minutes. It is now a 25 mile detour that goes through solano county, napa county and Sonoma County delays by car and by train. Bart will be suspending service between rockridge station in oakland and lafayette station this weekend. Chris filippi says is to keep workers along the tracks safe, a big role, but they all have this week. It is theyll be replacing lighting in the Berkeley Hills tunnel. So obviously we dont want to be reading trains through the tunnel as our workers are replacing those lights. He says free buses will be waiting at rockridge in lafayette to transport riders to their next stop. Adding about 20 minutes of travel time. But the work is long overdue. Many of the components being replaced across the bart system are more than 50 years old. Theyve got to go. They have outlived their design life more work along. I680, and highway. 37 is scheduled after this weekend. The eastbound lanes of highway 37 will be closed next weekend betwee solano and sonoma counties. And paving is scheduled next month along the southbound lanes of i680, in san ramon reporting in the newsroom. Im rob nesbitt. Kron. 4 news. 8. 16 is the time and jon ossoff. Dave is in our out the weather. Yeah. We had a little bit of drizzle going on this morning, but that we see more pictures here. Were opening up the skies a little bit, too, and look at all that green on there. Well, what is well, we with the severe Severe Prediction Center is saying, you know, we could get some passing Thunder Showers in the zone here. That extends to the Sacramento Valley. This low here, which is kind of nothing burger and away, although we are getting some winds will get some Thunder Showers and some spots when this thing gets over the rockies and goes to the central the country. It taps into the gulf of mexico moisture away. It goes for the midwest. So this will be future storms for the American South and the midwest come later as we get into early next week or late on the weekend. All right. So we have this low in our backyard. Here are the winds checking in. Theyre going to heavier down in southern california, but already blue skies, the Golden Gate Bridge. So not a bad start to a friday middle to upper 50s right now in the east bay up north. 54 santa rosa. 54 also San Francisco. So clearing out these clouds left over showers may pop back up again. Again. This will in the far east bay, but more in the Sacramento Valley. Then tonight into saturday might have some little bit of fog along the coast there. A little drizzle potentially may be slow to clear, but it looks like it does a pretty good job in sunday as well, which will be warmer. Now we have the onshore winds all day today. So let the sunshine for you, but really popping along the coast. As you can see there. And we do the same thing again tomorrow, even though were building on temperatures is not going to be as noticeable at the coast. So a bit chilly there. Keep that in mind. If you have any fog kind of. A cloudy things up there, its going to feel a little chilly morning. Drizzle breezy sunny clouds, mixture, cool 60s at work here than for the weekend. We get into seasonality there might have some rain drizzte the coast. But beyond that, turning mostly sunny and then we bump it up to about 80 sure. So come tuesday and that is above average until we back track again. You know, its spring very inconsistent year. 61, San Francisco, 64 for oakland, 66 for san jose. We use a lot of the green paint today. Well get some other colors in the tool box come this weekend early next week because a warmup, but on a bay area traffic right now, all the start of busy friday. We have a traffic hazard on Richmond Center. Fell bridge is stalled vehicle. Drive times have gone up. 25 minutes tolls to want if youre traveling the im hoping they get off the rich, something singled out the bay bridge hasnt bemn without issues and delays is probably the best drive time ive seen throughout the morning. 13 minutes now maze to that fremont street exit a few earlier hazards there. Checking highways along 80 26 minute ride starts to build. Just as youre hitting san pablo there now, the south bay, 1, 1, a fundamental part to switched over to 40 minutes up by 10, 2. 82, still not enough delays to suggest to take that. And if you are going to take 80 celie in the downhill peace. Look at that. 32 minute. Ride 5. 82 opened. Finally starting to get busy. Looks like 5 80s. A little lighter, though. Is. Back to you. Thank you. Brandon seat 19, a north bay lawmakers have a plan to help with the current Home Insurance crisis that were in. Now, we know that the Insurance Companies like state farm have announced that theyre not going to be renewing at least 70,000 Property Owner policies. Many because of fire risk, but thats leaving with his homeowners and alert travelers. Gayle ong has more. Fema grants for homeowners in designated areas and a tax credit for Property Owners. Thats a 30 tax credit and a 10,000 grant. The 2 key components that make up. Congressman Mike Thompson disaster resiliency and coverage act co sponsored by representative jared huffman. When you put it all together, this is an important piece of making sure that insurance remains available. And also affordable. To the folks that we committed almost 7 years ago. To continuing to stand with him to serve. The proposed bill is aimed to help with the property insurance crisis. It is modeled after a program in alabama after homes are impacted by severe weather. It was the

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