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After a number of vehicles were set on fire. News station. Hes calling news 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. Im justine waltman tow trucks that were torched an east bay business is now in turmoil this past weekend, the owner of an east bay towing company says several groups of men deliberately set his tow trucks on fire kron fours to stasio reports. The owner thinks that his business was targeted. Not one but 4 tow trucks. Thats how many the owner of california towing says were set ablaze this past weekend. In this video, you can see a person going up into the cab of the truck and then running off flames blowing out of the drivers side. Were standing in front of one of the tracks that was torched. Yes. How are you . All right. Sad. Sad and. Just thinking how how we start again at dawn. Ladies, my says it the started. California towing 9 years ago using his savings and loans from his family. He says he built the business from scratch. But now someone is trying to take it away from him, destroying his for trucks, parked at his drivers. Homes in concord. In bay point. Maybe gets i would say yes for our weight competition. If im allowed that was a zone of competition me. Know it that. I did anything wrong with them. I dont know we anything like that. So i dont have anybody that miami that by 2, 1, to different occasions and do the job. He says hes working authorities and has handed over video taken from all 4 crime scenes. Fire department say that cannot tried to pass it down with the Police Department that they reserve base see if they can catch those guys in concord, therema kron, 4 news. And now we have some new details coming out of the south bay where one of the officers hurt in a shootout at a San Jose Hotel remains in Critical Condition and is now expected to survive. Last week 2 officers were shot responding to a domestic disturbance at the extended stay. America hotel in the center, theresa neighborhood, one of the officer suffered minor injuries while the other was left in Critical Condition. The gunman identified by police as Kevin Briones is also in Critical Condition. San jose police are crediting the 2 officers with saving the life of a woman and 3 children. And then the north right now, suspect from a friday evening standoff on i80 in fairfield remains in Critical Condition after the chp says that he shot himself Highway Patrol originally released details that he had died. But doctors were able to revive him at the hospital. Police say, but the chase started in windsor where the suspect shot at an suv on highway 101 driver was not hurt. Officers then spotted the shooter suspected car and rohnert park that led them to fairfield and onto that hours long standoff that shut down traffic on 84 hours. The Solano County District Attorneys Office is now handling the investigation. A double stabbing on the east side of san jose left 2 people in Critical Condition. Some roads in the downtown area had to be closed by Police Response to the side shows on sunday. Investigators say that this double stabbing happened just before 5. 30, in the area of south king road. Way a person that we spoke with said that this is very frustrating because Cinco De Mayo was supposed to be a day for celebrations. Would say im not phase, but is is just part of life. And, you know, unfortunately things like that happen, the people to do things that are unfortunate. But i dont think the majority other people should suffer at the Cinco De Mayo. God bless and protect those people that were hurt. Police have not released a motive or any other information about the attacker. Big story tnat were following this afternoon is that israeli leaders have approved a military operation into the gaza strip and the city of rafah there and Israeli Forces are now striking targets in that area. This announcement just coming out and its coming after hamas says that it did accept a ceasefire proposal for mediators in egypt and qatar and attempt to try to end the 7 months of war in gaza. The agreement coming hours after israels military said it ordered thousands of people to evacuate rafah, signaling the long promised Ground Invasion there today on kron 4 news at noon, i spoke with the university of San Francisco professor said while hamas to accept this offer is real, has not made any announcement yet about it. This is the closest weve come and the fact that we are this close, sir, some hope that even jax that they might go back to the bargaining table that i might be able to hammer something out. Something alan took for fullscale offensive on rafah. Its been a humanitarian disaster. It gotten the attention of the world. It lead to obviously political turmoil here in this country. And so it can only hope for the best. The Prime Minister there, Benjamin Netanyahu, his office is saying that the proposal that hamas agreed to was far from israels central demands, from israels central demands, but tha and negotiators to continue talking about a ceasefire agreement. And coming up here this afternoon on kron 4 news, well have a live report from washington, d. C. , on how israel is reacting to the hamas ceasefire agreement. Also where they stand in invasion of rafah. Also, well see how u. S. Leaders are responding to all these developments today. Thats coming up at 3. 45 . Also new to the number of tents on the streets of San Francisco have hit a new 5 year low. Thats according to mayor london breed. The Mayors Office says the citys 10 count found 360 tents and structures on the streets across the city that represents a 41 drop since last july. The Mayors Office ice increased efforts to offer shelter shelter and housing as well as cleaning up the encampment says factors behind those. A tense numbers are decreasing. The Mayors Office also says the city has placed nearly 500 people from encampments into shelters since the beginning of the year. Also new now at 2 oclock this afternoon, disgraced theranos Ceo Elizabeth Holmes had her prison sentence reduced by 4 months, according to the bureau of prisons, inmates can get time taking off when they complete certain prison Work Programs is in there. And in november of 2022, homes was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months behind bars last july. That sentence was reduced by 2 years. Was convicted on 4 counts of wire fraud for letting doctors and patients use her companys blood testing services. Knowing that her company was incapable of producing accurate results. So homes is now set to be released in august of 2032. Converting to start buildings into housing. Some new legislation out of San Francisco aims to bolster the downtown areas all across the state. San francisco, some remember matt haney introducing a be 30 68 today. He says it would allow state lawmakers to quickly Green Light Office housing projects putting an end to a lengthy and costly approval process. Youd be action. And the california preservation fund. The 2 groups normally been at odds are together co sponsoring this legislation, which also prioritizes preserving Historic Downtown buildings. The bill heads to the Assembly Appropriations committee for hearing on wednesday. All right. Were taking a live look outside here in San Francisco. Theres quite how or blue skies, not a lot of clouds in this picture at all the breezy and we have meteorologist dave spahr with us today to go over whats happening. Weather wise in the bay. Hey justine. Yeah. You dont have the clouds and your shot. I got him here. Half moon well see a little in the way. Also, some fog develop a little bit. It looks like in the south bay with some clouds also working their magic a little bit overnight. Check out these temps, though, not bad. This only the first day were going to get much more warming later on the week ahead here. Upper 60s already in the far east bay. 67. Meanwhile, up to santa rosa. 59 chilly degrees. San francisco member that onshore winds been with us all day. 67, san jose. But what is developing is the High Pressure we know this as a heat spike guy, but thats very early in the season. So its going to give us a warming trend all week long. Its expected to break down a little bit by the time we get into the weekend, which is why theres a little question mark as exactly how thats going to transpire in play out for now. Looks dry, clear and all that. But we may have to introduce maybe a few little scattered clouds, bring down the temps a little bit. As far as the winds get that first onshore, as you can see here. But lets get to the fog here tonight. It starts to develop a little bit. Patchy fog. Now it starts off a little bit in San Francisco, but actually doesnt stay here along the coast will actually see by tomorrow morning is some patchy inland fog that will mix out very nicely for a nice day in store for us. 62 by 06 00pm by 9. Were talking about 54. Probably fair to kind of called variable clouds, but it really depends on where you are. Were really looking in the south bay peninsula, maybe a little Alameda County is where the most the cloud cover will be heavily concentrated. Just to give you an eyeball of whats going on here, sunny and mild for early into the week here, 60s for the bay 70s inland. But its late in the week. It gets interesting here. Warming up nicely. 80s are back 70 to 80 ish around the bay over the weekend. Theres a weak system that develops. And for vhe most part, were just kind of calling a mostly sunny, maybe a touch cooler, blah, blah, blah. But were watching it to see if theres more development on that front to see if maybe we start to get some cloud cover and even a bigger drop in those temperatures will have a look at the longer range forecast for you. Coming up later on, justine. Thank you. The wnba is Golden State Team making a big announcement today. There is now a new general manager kron 4 Charles Clifford has the details from chase center. Well, a year from now an as yet unnamed wnba Expansion Team will take the floor here at chase center. That team is owned and operated by the Golden State Warriors. And today they announced theyve hired a general manager. He may 9 and has 10 years of experience in professional sports. She comes to the bay area from the new york liberty wnba team where she was the assistant general manager. She also spent 5 years as the usa Womens Basketball Team Assistant director 9 and said on monday. Thats hes excited about this opportunity because its a chance to build a team from the ground up. What brings me so much joy about taking this is that its a blank campus and there are many that can go into building a masterpiece. First and foremost, im just building a foundation of a winning team both on and off the court. Now the new gm said today that her First Priority is to start hiring people. She needs to get some staff on board and then also start trying to find a new head coach for the team. We want the best coach and so with some flexibility from i think law weight or but we want the best person. Now, so far, the Golden State Warriors have not announced what the name of the new team will be or what its mascot will be or what the color scheme will be. But hopefully well get that at some point later this year. But for now in San Francisco, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. 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Hamas says it has accepted a ceasefire proposal, but israel is still moving forward with its planned invasion of rafah. Our washington correspondent jessi tenure now joins us live from dc. And so jesse, have we heard yet from israelis about this hamas proposal . Justine, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office, israel has not agreed to any sort of deal with hamas as of yet. And Biden Administration officials are on the ground there in the region to trying to help with all of this. At a critical stage right now, the israelhamas war in gaza could be closer to an end. The Terror Group Hamas announced monday it accepted a ceasefire proposal at the White House National security adviser john kirby says u. S. Officials are still reviewing it and will be encouraged when we get a deal in place and we can start seeing hostages get back to their families. The details of the potential ceasefire deal are still unclear. A spokesperson for israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called mosses proposal far from israels necessary requirements. The news came just hours after israel dropped flyers ordering palestinians to start evacuating from rafah. A military operation in rafah right now dramatically increase the suffering of of the palestinian people. On monday, President Joe Biden told netanyahu once again that his troops should not attack. But netanyahu in says taking rafah would ensure hamas cannot repeat. Its october 7th attack more than a million palestinians are still sheltering their problem. Now, is there such . Limited places for them to go inside gaza and there is no effective way to distribute distribute aid to rafah has been a main entry point for humanitarian aid to gaza. Thats why u. S. Officials are still hopeful for a deal to end the fighting. These fires absolutely achievable. The cia director is also in the region trying to help broker a deal. In the meantime, israel did confirm that it is moving forward with its Ground Invasion of rafah live in washington. Im jessi tenure and just how congress responding to these developments . It does seem that by and large lawmakers are pretty skeptical of this hamas announcement of a deal just kind of like the Biden Administration and moving forward to one of their biggest priorities has, of course, been the release of the remaining hostages. And even though we have yet to see the official deal or any sort of kind of along those lines herbal point, things of that nature and official sure arent saying anything. It does seem like the hostages have been left out of the equation as of right all right. Well be following this. Jesse, thank you so much. Also today, the Jewish Community Relations Council released a statement saying it does not take positions on military did say in part here, we believe that hamas as a Terror Organization must be removed for military and political control over gaza. And that all options must be exhausted to return the remaining 133 hostages. We call in israel and the International Community to maximize humanitarian aid to gaza, civilians. Urge the idf to exercise caution to minimize civilian casualties. And that will go to stanford where theres a new display thats up for the hostages that are still being held cop captive. And for those who were killed in captivity, about 250 people were taken hostage and more than 100 people are still being held. A number we had earlier was 133 people. These people is leaving behind families that are waiting for hundreds of days for them to come on. And so have reserved seats to show that these chairs are reserved for them that were waiting anxiously for them to come home. And then we also reserved a signs over there. And better. Effectively a vote, grave for those hostages who murdered a year while in captivity or before being taken captives and hamas is holding onto their bodies and refusing their families proper funeral and a proper goodbye. One of the goals of this display helping jewish and israeli students feel less isolated on campus. Students at San Francisco state continue to camp out on the campus quad in support of palestine. Demonstrators are demanding that the university and u. S. Officials disclose Financial Times that the college may have with israel and then divest students say once they see the univers