Fields. Donald trump president ial candidate did anyone think it was a horrible thing what happened . I dont get it. Reporter after questioning fields account at cnns town hall tuesday night. Donald trump president ial candidate michelle fields, who, by the way, she is not a baby. Ok . In her own worlds, exactly. i was jolted backwards. well, she wasnt, shes standing there. someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm. Tightly. And yanked me down. she wasnt yanked down. Reporter accusing fields of pressing charges to gain attention. Donald trump president ial candidate wouldnt it have taken care of this if he had simply said, im sorry . i actually dont think so, i think she would have pressed charges anyway, because i think she likes it, thats my opinion, maybe im wrong. Reporter his rivals are pouncingcriticizing trump for setting the tone for his campaign sen. Ted cruz president ial candidate look, it shouldnt be complicated that members of the Campaign Staff should not be physically assaulting the press. Reporter both cruz and kasich saying they both would have fired any staffer of theirs who did the same. Gov. John kasich president ial candidate when you see things that are pretty clear from what i understand the video is clear. Of course i would fire him. Reporter the three remaining republican candidates are also facing questions about the gop loyalty pledge they signed last september. Anderson cooper cnn do you continue to pledge whoever the republican nominee is . Donald trump president ial candidate no. I dont anymore. Reporter all three backing away from their commitment to support the eventual republican nominee. Gov. John kasich president ial candidate if the nominee is somebody that i think is really hurting the country, and dividing the country, i cant stand behind them. Sen. Ted cruz president ial candidate im not in the habit of attacks my wife and attacks my family. Reporter trump insisting he doesnt care whether cruz supports him. Donald trump president ial candidate honestly, he doesnt have to support me. Im not asking for his support. I want the peoples support. Pam the latest controversy comes. As a new poll shows, senators ted cruz and Bernie Sanders with leads over the republican and Democratic Front runners in wisconsin. Pam the Marquette UniversityLaw School Poll shows, cruz ahead of donald trump 40 to 30percent, in the gop race. Meanwhile, for the democrats. Bernie sanders is ahead of Hillary Clinton. 49 to 45percent. The wisconsin primary is next tuesday. April fifth, and it is the only major contest before new york, which votes two weeks later. Pam a viral video showing two San Francisco state students arguing. About who has a right to wear dreadlocks. Continues to spark interest on social media. Kron 4s dan kerman has been following the story. He joins us live in the newsroom with more. Dan . Reporter this is the video that has sparked conversation it was posted to youtube two days ago and has already received 1. 7 million views reporter heres what we know today Reporter Police are still investigating whether there was an assault this case. They have confirmed the woman involved is a student named bonita tindle. She is one suggesting it is ininappropriate for Cory Goldstein to have dreadlocks because it is not part of his culture we know that goldstein has chosen not to press charges but, the person shooting the video does want to press charges because of what tindle for appearing to grab is phone at the end of the video reporter now the kron 4 Facebook Page comments about this video with 14hundred comment and 15hundred shares. Among them reporter robert says the woman should be expelled. Ishmael says he has the right to have dreads, just as much as she has the right to dye her hair blonde. Reporter now there are comments on social media suggesting it was goldstein that provoked this confrontation he denies that, we reached out to people online who said they were at the scene, they have not gotten back to us. Pam new at five we just learned 30 minutes ago prosecutors will not seek the Death Penalty for three drifters accused of killing a hiker in marin county and a tourist in golden gate park. Pam morrison lampley, sean angold and Lila Alligood would instead face life in prison without parole if they are convicted. The marin County DistrictAttorneys Office says after reviewing the case, it was the appropriate decision. The trio is accused of killing audrey carey last october. Pam a couple of days later theyre suspected of killing steve carter on a trail near fairfax and stealing his car. Pam a robber is on the loose. After pulling off a brazen heist at a walgreens on the peninsula. Burlingame police gaves us this picture of one of the suspects. Pam they say he walked into a walgreens on el camino real. Just before 1 am yesterday. Pam he then went to the pharmacy. Jumped the counter. And pulled a knife on the clerk. Pam this is another surveillance photo of the suspect. Police say, he demanded to know where the drugs xanax and hydrocodone were kept. Pam he then grabbed more than 3thousand pills. And ran out the front door where a car was waiting for him. Pam in the east bay. Pam an antioch neighborhood says crime. In tonights my kron 4 story. Jeff pierce shows us what the community is doing to combat the problem. My name is mike lapento jr and this is my kron four story. Reporter this new subdivision on the far eastern edge of antioch with its sparkling new homes is becoming a magnet for crime. Mike and his father have been victimized four times in the last year. They have installed a set of security cameras. We put this in after the last time we were robbed of over two thousand dollars worth of tools. Reporter tuesday night they had their truck stolen out of their drive with all its new tools. A vehicle actually came by and made a circle and parked across the street here. This guy comes back and comes right by our house here and what hes actually doing is scoping out the house. Youll see him come back hell head to the door no hesitation super calm hes got some sort of tool that he uses, knows exactly what hes doing. He rolls it out to the middle of the street, not starting the car yet, then he gets over here im guessing hes alerting this guy thats parked over here then he turns on the car and pulls off. Reporter the surveilance cameras only neighborhood feeling victimized and they have begun to come together to form a Neighborhood Watch as part of the solution. It started out with little and its progressively getting worse. Weve watched all of this grow with crime along side of it. Reporter they feel the incidence of crime in their neighborhood is not receiving the attention from Law Enforcement that it deserves. Were getting no help from the police were doing things on our own to try and make everybody aware. Reporter Antioch Police say they seeking more officers as these neighborhoods expand and encourage vigilence of nieghbors coming together, in the mean time the sparkling new neighborhoods still present a tempting target for criminals to prey on. I believe right now they know there are no consequences. Theyre never here. So why not keep coming back here. Reporter in antioch jeff pierce kron four news. Pam vehicle breakins in santa clara are on the way back down. That follows an upward trend in recent years. New numbers reported to the state department of justice show, a significant spike in 2014. Peaking last year when almost 14hundred breakins were reported. Pam at least 150 of those breakins, are blamed on a west oakland crew, known as the ghost town gang. smash and grab thefts were occurring in strip mall parking lots across the bay area. Before 21 suspects were indicted in december of last year. Pam Santa Clara Police also attribute the spike in vehicle breakins. To the passage of proposition 47, which reduced property crimes, from a felony to a misdemeanor. Pam for instance drug and netted used to beat a felony as opposed to a misdemeanor. So the would be back on the street instead of taking them to jail. Pam police say, they have made the vehicle breakins a priority and that the upward trend is now going in the other direction. Pam there have been 160 reported so far this year, while there were 314 break ins by this time a year ago. Pam in the south bay. Two people are behind bars this morning. On suspicion of stealing mail from apartments in morgan hill. It happened around one yesterday afternoon, at the murphy ranch apartments. Along east dunne avenue. Pam Police Arrived at the scene and found someone standing next to mail boxes at the complex. Another person was hiding behind a nearby bush. Pam officers arrested 37 yearold fleitcha johnson. And 36year old myisha johnson. Mail to the rightful owners. Next. Why pet owners are being told to be on alert in one area of the east bay. Pam plus. Police in oakland cracking down on drivers not yeilding to pedestrians. But they were not handing out tickets. Pam we will explain why. Pam and did the wet start to march. Take a bite out of californias drought . The latest findings on the snowpack in the sierra. Coming up. Brittany tracking warmer come vicious as we get closer to the weekend that will have more later in the protest. Pam a warning for people in the east bay. To keep an eye on their pets. Police are investigating multiple cases of animal cruelty. Kron fours averi harper explains what is happening. Reporter police say five animals were shot and died from their injuries and others had to be euthanize because they were injured so badly. Fouled and Berkeley Marina saturday. Other animals were shot. They found palace still inside of thempellets it was awful. How could anyone be cruel to an animal. They are like human beings they have a right to live as well. Reporter shot at the zero planets that they frequent. At the arena that they frequent this is really sad. You are coming here to get away from things like that and it just breaks your heart. Reporter are asking anyone with any information of what may have happened to these animals to please give them a call. Every harper, kron 4 news. Averi harper pam the woman who was struck and killed on interstate 280 has now been identified. 23 year old alexandra stevenson. Was found dead in the right lane of the busy freeway. North of alemany boulevard monday morning. Pam this is video of the scene from our helicopter partnership with abc7. Police say, she was struck by more than one vehicle. They do not know why stevenson was on the roadway, or how she got there. Pam police are awaiting toxicology reports to see if drugs or alcohol played a role. Pam it was very close call today. For a pedestrian trying to cross an east bay street. Fortunately, the person was a Police Officer. Pam but you wont believe how many times, cars got dangerously close to hitting the undercover officer. As kron fours Terisa Estacio reports, those in charge of the operation say, the goal today was much different than what you might imagine. Reporter watch. Reporter and you can see, driver after driver, after driver on grand avenue while this person tries to get to the other side. Reporter look on this time. The car gets so close to hitting the pedestrian. Fortunately, this is not just any person, but an undercover officer out here to bring more awareness to drivers. Reporter and get this. The goal here is. Not to give tickets. Lt. David elzey opd it would be more of a success if we did not have many parrot that is because majority of the public are all saying the traffic laws. Reporter however, tickets were certainly handed out. Because drivers failed to follow the law repeatedly. Reporter did you just not see the person. No why did you not stop . Officers are still counting up how many infractions they wrote. During this sting. We just want people to be safe. Reporter the Department Says htey have seen an increase in pedestrian injuries. Which is what promopted this operation. In the last 3 years, they ahve had 876 injries. They plan to do mor of these opeaions in the future. Reporter te pam dungeness crab season has officially started. After the price was set at 2. 90 per pound. Crab fisherman took part in a closed meeting yesterday. To discuss the late start. Pam californias crab season was delayed because of concerns been found in the crustaceans. The state declared the Sea Creatures safe for human consumption late monday evening. Pam fisherman say, piers across the bay area have been ghost towns for the past four months , but this week , back to normal. ,. It means our lively hood it means everything, so this how we pay our bills. This is how we make our money. So its our jobs. When we cant fish. We cant pay our bills pam as fisherman finally prepare many fear they wont regain the revenue they lost. The estimated 48 million loss to the fishing industry. Pam now. Fresh, locally caught counters and markets. As early as tomorrow. Pam much better than last year. But not what state water a strong el nino winter. Grant lodes is here with the results from todays snow survey in the sierra. Return pam not too bad but not what we really needed. Grant this is the most important snow survey. Because its the last one of the season. At least there was snow on the ground today just off highway 50 near sierra at tahoe. Grant last year. You could see the ground. Todays snowpack measured about 95 percent of normal. Which is a vast improvement comapred to last years measurement at the same time. But slightly disappointing to some considering the el nino that did fuel several strong storm systems. It seems good because it is obviously so much better than last year. It will improve conditions. But there are still some that ongoing of facts that we will need to handle as well as it the the fourth year of this impact. Grant state water regulators say theyll use this measurement when they consider whether to ease the statewide Water Conservation mandate. Governor brown ordering people to use 20 percent less water. Return to index pam a sunny breezy day today. Brittany is here. Return to brittany patchy fog tonight and in the morning then sunny and warmer. Right into the weekend that is great and even warmer into next week. Breezy conditions for this afternoon has started to calm down as we get into the next couple of days. The reason why things are selling down is because we have a system to the east of the contending to move away. Taking away the long gray snow showers affected the lake tahoe area. Just a few showers will bring in the sierra. Lingering brittany as we go into the rest of tonight we will see more apache f o g. Patchy fog. Will start to drop quickly in the low 50. We will have more of the three day forecast to let you know things will warm up for the weekend and what is in store for rest of the week. And the upcoming week. Pam . Pam california moves closer to raising the minimum wage will help more when we return curry pam california moves closer to raising the minimum wage. Pam california is moving closer to being the first state in the country. With a 15 dollar minimum wage. Catherine heenan is here with todays developments. Catherine a California Assembly panel has given preliminary approval to the deal today. Catherine as soon as tomorrow the full assembly could consider it. The deal was negotiated by governor brown, labor leaders and legislators. Catherine it would gradually raise the minimum wage to 15dollars an hour by 2022. But were also hearing more details on the stupendous costs involved. Catherine today a legislative analysis says this would eventually cost taxpayers 3point6 billion dollars a year in higher pay for government workers. And the projection doesnt deal with the broader impact to private businesses especially smaller ones. Catherine some economists say this could lead to lay offs and cause price hikes that couldoutweigh the benefits. Catherine supporters argue the higher wage will help more than 2million californians livingin poverty. Pam the backlash continues for instagram over possible changes in how photographs are displayed and delivered to its users. Kron 4s tech trends reporter gabe slate explains what is happening. Gabe right now instagram is not making this change. Its staying in chronilogical order. Gabe they are just testing this out with a small amount of users. They sent out this tweet. Gabe saying. Were listening and we assure you nothing is changing with your feed right now. We promise to let you know when changes roll out broadly and its likely if they did change to this new style there would be an option to turn it off and keep it the way you like it. Gabe but for argument sake. Lets say the y do move to this algo rhythm style of displaying gabe why would they. Well they say its to improve your experience. Gabe show you what youre most likely to like content based on your interactions and interests. The change could help users catch clips and photos from events such as a concert or a fun moment in a friends life that may have happened while they were away from the app. Gabe but there are alterier motives here. Changing to the algorythm is a pre system. Like what happened direct and easy way for instagram to make money off brands and businesses. Gabe boosted posts are when a brand or business pays for their Facebook Post to be delivered to more users. So all the marketers and retailers and anyone selling anything who dishes out content on instagram could lose their free ride. Their content will get lost once the algorythm goes live because people would only see their posts if they constantly actively like them gabe when you think of this like that. As a business decision. It will be hard for instagram to avoid switching to this style they will have to eventually. Or find other creative ways to make money but for now its not happening gabe wyttgs pam now at 5 30. A live look outside at the golden gate bridge. Pam kron 4s Brittney Shipp is here with a look at tonights forecast. Pam brittany we are seeing beautiful conditions that are a little bit warmer today than what we saw yesterday. Looking into weekend temperatures to stay warm. 67 degrees in fairfield and will see more these temperatures tomorrow. 67 i raised in san jose, some are still breezy depending on where you are in the east bay. Brittany we have bee