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On friday, the Alameda County Health Department shut down this mcdonalds at 13, 30 jackson street in oakland with customers waiting in line on from the Health Department. They have some sanitation the season they need to clean up. And we saw inspector filling out this Health Report. It reveals that 7 violations were found at the restaurant, including rodent activity. The report explains rodent droppings were seen around the water heater along the walls and wrote it. Traps responded as well to hold were seen in the kitchen and a dead rat was found on a trap near the soda syrup boxes. We feel like. A lot of more rats than the past that last time this is Oscar Rodriguez who has worked there since 2022. And says the closure is needed good because i know that people its not going to takes closer to get and the like infection are gets about and theyre at. But i worry as the war care. That i know all day, we are looking those states. He and other workers were striking but decide to come to work on friday and was there when the mcdonalds was forced to close. He says they were instructed to stay in clean up. The violations washed the floor. Every lie, all the dishes, everything we use in there. Clean the walls all goes to you go out and thats it. And you mask and that and starting monday, they are resuming their strike and to professionals come in to do with the rats os might going out to pay our will our days. We are losing. Because they know from a long time ago and they didnt do anything about it. The California Fast Food Workers Union Representing the workers say they have notified mcdonalds about the concerns with workers having to clean up these violations. They dont have. Met day us for to do it. They are not going to do to clean faces from is really unsafe is often that they have to do that. And we reached out to the mcdonalds for an updated comment but havent heard back as of news time. And its not clear. When the expections as scheduled for. But if you like to read the full Health Report and learn more about those other violations, be sure to head to kron 4 dot com live see a little in kron. 4 news. Thank u. S. Led 11 yearold girl has died after she was hit by a suspected dui driver in cupertino. Investigators say the girl was one of 4 children who were standing on a sidewalk of foothill and Stevens Creek boulevard on april. 27th win pickup truck just plowed into them. The girl was rushed to the hospital where she clung to life for several days. The other injured children ages 8, 7, 4, theyre the suspect identified as 38 yearold adam woo. According to was allegedly high when he crashed into them. He bailed out of jail last week and remains out of custody as of today. So far, no criminal charges have been filed against him. Detectives are waiting for a toxicology report to be completed. Developing news were following this evening. Israel has started military operations into the gaza city of rafah. This started just hours after hamas announced it had accepted a ceasefire proposal to halt its war with israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said that the proposal was far from israels the central demands, but that it would send negotiators to continue talks on a ceasefire agreement. Protesters around the world have been calling for a ceasefire in gaza for months now. First, rob nesbitt joins us here in studio with reaction from both sides on the idea of a ceasefire deal. Rop. Ken, when i reached out to a local Jewish Organization and those who have organized ceasefire, protests in the bay area. I was expecting more celebration. Both sides seem skeptical that a deal will be reached. Since israel wage war against the terrorist group hamas. 7 months ago, weve seen the impacts of protests from College Campuses to the golden gate bridge. Simmer, robbie, with the arab resource and organizing center has taken part in demonstrations, calling for a ceasefire and was relieved to hear the update monday that hamas accepted an egyptian qatari proposal for a ceasefire. A little bit of hope and some relief, right . The idea that maybe all of this carnage. A tense up can finally end after months and tens of thousands of people dead. The proposal accepted by hamas called for a permanent ceasefire. U. S. Pop of israeli hostages for prisoners and would allow displaced gazans to return to their homes as israel has ordered about 100,000 palestinians evacuate the city of rafah before a Ground Invasion by militants there. To me, this looks like them trying to pump the brakes on the operation because they know that this is their last holdout. In last grasp on on power in gaza, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council bay area. Tyler gregory says hamas must be removed from military and political control of gaza. And then all remaining 133 israeli hostages must be freed. Whats under consideration is if hamas is allowed to stay in power at the end of this war, everyones worried its going to repeat the attacks. Theyve said as much theyre committed to doing that. Egyptian and hamas officials have said that their ceasefire deal would take place in 3 stages each 6 weeks long. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will send a delegation to resume negotiations. The Israeli Military doesnt want to stop which like it sounds while to even say that out loud, particularly when light. To what end. Gregory with the j c r c also mentioned his concern for palestinians calling on israel and other countries to maximize humanitarian aid to civilians in gaza and urged the idf to exercise caution to minimize civilian casualties. Reporting in studio. Im rob nesbitt kron 4 news. Thank you, rob. And with talks of a ceasefire, we visited the propalestine encampment in stanford to talk to students who say they wont be backing down regardless of todays proposed announcement. Positions still maintains that obviously divestment disclosure is our biggest aim, as is the fact that we maintain ideologically that while ceasefire is obviously at the moment, were still pushing for a fully liberated palestine as soon as possible. Directly across the propalestine encampment on campus. A memorial set up white plaza commemorating those killed and held hostage by hamas. It falls on the very same day as the holocaust remembrance day. Organizers tell us that the chairs that you see symbolize the more than 100 people being held hostage since october 7th. Well, these place markers, those represent grave sites for those who have died at the hands of hamas. The primary goals were too. Health. 2 students and israeli students feel less isolated lesson battled on campus and to show that. There is our narrative is also on display theres a place for us to go grieve pray. It has now been 7 months since the hamas attack on israel. Well, the time now as we get a live look from our mount tam cam. One of those beautiful scenic which you wouldnt have known just a few days ago, it was. All socked lawrence, a whiplash again from the weather department. Yeah. How about that . Weve got some 80s coming our way. Maybe we Start Talking about some 90s around parts of the bay area. Of course, this last week and were talking about all that snow in the sierra. All the rain here around the bay area. But things have changed quite drastically. Now youre seeing the couple batches of fog begin to roll back in along the coastline summit, beginning to move inside the bay. A little breeze out there as well. But overall, i think the pattern going to shape up to be very nice for this week ahead going put away the rain clouds for now warm those temperatures up. A lot of 60s out the door at this time. If youre headed on a little cool breeze along the coastline, highs today, actually topping out. Well, still a little bit below the avlrage. What a change from the weekend highs in the 50s on saturday. So watch him climb back up near normal lot of 60s out there today. I think we go above normal starting tomorrow around parts of the bay area, then well above normal for the remainder of the week, we do have one last little cold front that weve got to deal with. You can see all those clouds making their way through Northern California part of a weak system. Thats kind of sliding on by once that moves to our east, High Pressure is going to build in behind it. The winds going to be a little gusty in spots. But other than that, weve got a lot of sunshine and much warmer weather coming your way. Well talk more about that a few minutes. All right, lawrence, San Francisco Officials Say that for the 3rd time in a row, their quarterly count of tents and structures. On city streets is actually dropped as our kron fours. Dan kerman reports tonight, though, please. They know theyre still a lot more work to be done. San franciscos tenderloin is far from 10th free, but a drive through the area suggests there are fewer tents and encampments than before. And now city data backs that up ever sense. 9th Circuit Court appeals decision once we started to go into action, weve seen a decline of encampments over 40 . So were really excited about what this means to the stats show the number of tents and structures has dropped from 609 in july of 2023. To 361 in april of this year. Last week when i was Walking Around the tenderloin and some of those areas where they have been some real problems with it encampments. Theyre gone. And you notice the big difference in how the streets look and how they feel when you walk down the streets and how much cleaner they are. And while there may be fewer tense there, still a lot of people on the streets and because of that many who live and work in San Francisco still see little change. I literally walked a gauntlet every morning from the bart station to get here to my so no, i dont see an improvement may be in different areas it is possible, but not in this the mayor says in camp and outreach teams have conducted 242 operations this year. And made 1530 encounters with individuals of those. The city says 30 of the time the offer of shelter was accepted. 60 of the time it was refused and 10 of the time individuals were already housed. Weve increased our shelter says have been mayor by 66 . Weve increased our Housing Options by over 50 for people on the where creating the opportunities. And we just need people on the streets where we are offering in to accept what were offering encourage. San franciscos mayor is not taking a victory lap. She knows theres still more work to be done and she hopes the momentum will continue. In San Francisco. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Coming up on kron for news at 6, a violinist ration delays. The fdas plan to ban Menthol Cigarettes. Some say that decision could cost lives and Self Checkout stands. A thing of the past will not. Everybody in favor of getting rid of them. Well explain. The Governor Newsom announcing the tourism in california has reached record levels, but thats not the case in San Francisco. Some appear on the iconic golden gate bridge, a testament to americas greatness. Californias greatest. We could be more proud to announce today. Record breaking tourism numbers in the state of california over 150 billion dollars tourism. Spend unprecedented in our states history. Governor newsom heading to the top, the gate bridge, the town of huge tourism boost in california. And the governor announcing that tourists have spent more than 150 billion dollars in california in the past year. Surpassing the 144 billion that that was a record set in 2019. Governor newsom says that not only is the state retaining its title as the worlds 5th largest economy. Its also growing in population for the First Time Since the covid pandemic. According to the latest data, the travel industry supported about 1. 2 million jobs last year. Thats up about 6 . Tourists generate about 4 more revenue than 2023. And spent about 5 more than they did before. Although the governor chose to announce the tourism boost from San Francisco. The city is still not seeing a full recovery from covid like the rest of california. San fran side, San Francisco saw just over 13 billion dollars from tourist in 2023. That is about a billion more than 2022. But its still about a billion dollars shy of the prepandemic record which was recorded in 2019 new legislation out of San Francisco aims to bolster downtown areas statewide. San Francisco Assemblymember matt haney. Introducing a bill that he says hes going to allow state lawmakers to quickly Green Light Office to housing projects, putting an end to lengthy and costly approval process. Ease the legislation also prioritizes preserving Historic Downtown buildings. The bill heads to the Assembly Appropriations committee for a hearing on wednesday. San Francisco Mayor london breed kicked off Small Business week in the city at this event is presented by the San Francisco chamber of commerce meant to showcase events popup some Networking Opportunities all across the city. This years theme is make it here. It will focus on the manufacturing and production sectors. Mayor breed says that Small Businesses are the heart of the community. Small business week runs now through may 10. Today is the first day of the rs. A conference in the city. The annual Cyber Security expo returns to moscow. Center for 4 days this week. Speakers include officials from google, the secretary of state Antony Blinken and a special performance by alicia keys. Happening tomorrow. Apple is inviting people to let loose in cupertino. The tech giant is hosting one of its famous unveiling event at 7 oclock tomorrow morning. Let loose is the slogan for the event. And right now thats about a. L we really know about it. However, there are rumors online that the occasion could have something to do with ipads. Governor newsome declaring this wildfire preparedness week all week long. Cal fire. Its going to work with other agencies to host events to raise awareness about how calfire prepares each year for events are going to be held statewide. That includes an event tomorrow and ella granada in san mateo county. That are 4 zone forecast. Getting a live look right now at coit tower. The windy out there still pretty light. These days. Yeah. And lawrence, now were switching our attention from rain and snow to heat and sun. Yeah. I got a long hot summer ahead of us and it looks like things are going to be switching gears quite a bit. Even this week. In fact, were going to see those offshore winds beginning to kick in. And typically those are some of the winds we worry about some of the fire conditions around the bay. Of course, early in the season. Things very wet out there. So dont worry about the moisture levels just yet, but that its going to change as we head throughout the season, especially in the fall outside. Right now, the sea breeze is blowing. Weve got some fog out there as well. You see the fog making its way over san bruno mountain. Right now. The winds now little blustery in spots got some 20 plus mile hour gusts along the coastline. Well, youre going to see a lot more wind on the way. In fact, weve got one last little front thats going to dive just to the east over the great basin behind that High Pressure starts to build in. We get a big contrast pressures will see a lot of winds kicking up around the bay area specially and parts of the north and the east bay. Heres the forecast models for the period here as we head through time through the night tonight and then tomorrow. And then as we get toward tomorrow night, we really start to see the change more of a northerly wind that offshore wind starts to kick in. Thats where you start to see the color changing to read some purple out there. Some winds gusting 30, 40 plus mph. Blustery afternoon through wednesday as well and probably into parts of thursday. But those offshore winds also bring nice temperatures around the bay area, wind advisory posted in Solano County expecting some of those winds sustained about 20 to 30 miles an hour gusting. 35 the 45 miles per hour. So if youre traveling there, high profile vehicle, a truck, be careful. Its going to be blown around. Pretty good. As we head into wednesday and thursday. Check out the temperatures, though, tomorrow. Well watch. These numbers really begin rebound outside 70s in the san jose. 67 degrees in oakland and 65 degrees in San Francisco. Really some nice weather ahead and looks like as we head in the dry months here. I dont think were going to see another storm like we had this that was some kind yeah. So the hard i dont see anything coming up on the models. The long range models i can always tell when when you worry about think of the knitted wbrewyou just pacing. Yeah, you pretty excited about this and habits like you want to get the word out to people, know, its just going to be just like any ordinary may storm. That had problems for and the high country. Of course, i always care. Vicki thanks, guys. Hey, take a look at this. 4 people rescued after their boat overturned in tamal