Wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. mark we are just two hours away from learning the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya a jury is set to announce their verdict at 9 00 this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. will jurors in the sierra lamar murder trial have reached a verdict, Santa Clara County superior Court Officials announced this afternoon. The verdict will be read in court at 9 a. M. On tuesday at san joses Santa Clara Hall of justice. Antolin garciatorres, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 15yearold sierra, who has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and to the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. If garciatorres is found guilty, the jurors will weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors and select between death and life without the possibility of parole. Both sides would be allowed to present evidence during this phase of the trial. Garciaarrested on may 21, 2012, two months after sierra went missing and after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside morgan hill. Sierras dna found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in 1998 red Volkswagen Jetta. Defense attorneys for garciatorres have alleged cross contamination during the evidence collection process, pointing to sloppy techniques by the Santa Clara County district attorneys crime laboratory. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark and stick with the kron 4 morning news all morning as we wait for the verdict. We will bring it to you as soon as it is read at 9 00 this morning. We will also have a criminal defense attorney on set to discuss the jurys decision. And if you are away from your tv make sure you download the kron 4 mobile app. We will send out a breaking news push alert as soon as the verdict is announced. mark this morning we are hearing from a victim of the bart mob attack last month. darya anny hong is here with more on the lawsuit against bart. Anny . anny land rusty stapp and his family are now suing bart for three Million Dollars. They were returning from a Birthday Dinner in San Francisco when the mob began pounding on the train as it pulled into the coliseum station. Stapp and his family claim bart did nothing to prevent the attack and robbery. They say the person driving the train should have realized people were pounding on the doors and never opened them. anny stapps Attorney Says bart must answer for its lack of security at fare gates. Bart now has 45 days to respond to the claim. Acting bart police chief Jeffrey Jennings says bart Police Officers were working extra hours before the mob attack and continue to add increased security after the attack. < Jeffrey Jennings, acting bart police chief this past weekend i dont know if they are juveniles or adults we arrested 16 people with my extra staffing which thwarted a lot of activity. anny land jennings says only one juvenile is being linked to the mob attack. Bart doesnt plan on releasing video of the incident saying it is against state law since they might be juveniles. Back to you guys. mark breaking overnight. Bart police are now investigating a hate crime at a station in San Francisco. It happened last night before 1130 at the powell bart station. A man was standing at the platform when another man came up to him and called him several gay slurs. The man then punched him in the face. The victim reported the crime to a station agent as the attacker fled. Police say the attacker was wearing a black security uniform and a silver badge on the right side. darya a vallejo mother is demanding answers after her 6th grade daughter was attacked at school. The attack was all caught on camera. mark Spencer Blake has the story you will only see on kron four. pkg looklive at Solano Middle School, plenty of students have seen the video that somebody uploaded of a sixth grader getting pummeled during pe. This is that video. It starts with the victim seated in her spot, ready for pe. If you listen, you can hear taunting from others. She said, hello and i was sittin there ignoring her and she just started beating on me. The girl came home that day in early march with some knots on her head. Someone in the School Office called her mother, emma simms. But simms says the administrator only said her daughter was upset. had i known that my daughter was beat up like that, i wouldve been here quick and in a hurry. The sixth grader did tell her mother what happened, but when the video got posted on youtube she kept that to herself. People wont stop talking about it. Who . Everyone at school . Everyone in my class. Simms didnt know the video existed until sunday. She says her daughteris fearful, scared to come to school, she wants me with her. A teacher at Solano Middle School told me she too had seen it. She called it assault, and said she already had to discipline other students for having it or passing it around. The teacher also told me the attacker had been suspended for multiple daysbut ashe feels it wasnt enough. Now simms is trying to bring the avideo to the attention and the district. To be one of those thats trying to commit suicide. By law, the district has 15 days to receipt of the complaint form simms is filling outand another 60 days to investigate it. In vallejo, Spencer Blake, kron four news. darya police have identified the man who shot at officers over the weekend in san jose. He is 29year old kevin riley. Police say riley started firing at them sunday morning on tully road. Police shot back, but did not hit him. Riley was later arrested at a Mobile Home Park in the area. This was the third officer involved shooting in the last week. mark if you drive in the north bay you could soon be charged a toll to use highway 37. Officials say the highway is prone to flooding and Traffic Congestion and charging a toll could help fix some of those problems. Marin county officials it can take years to get the money to fix the highway and a toll could help speed up the process. But some Business Owners in the area say a toll will be too costly for them. mark fortythousand people use highway 37 every day. It connects solano, marin, napa and sonoma counties. mark we are learning how much it is going to cost to fix some of the roads damaged during the winter storms. 37Million Dollars is needed to fix highway 35 in Santa Clara County. Highway 35 washed out in the Santa Cruz Mountains in february. Caltrans says it will need to build a retaining wall to get the road repaired and back open. According to caltrans, this road will cost the most to fix than any other road damaged by the winter storms. mark happening today. Wells fargo is in court and accused of targeting undocumented immigrants to open up bank accounts. That is according to a lawsuit filed by a wells fargo shareholder. It claims that bankers and tellers scouted the streets and Social Security offices for potential clients. Their goal was to find undocumnted immigrants and persuade them to open a bank account. The lawsuit claims that personal bankers and managers turned to unethical and potentially illegal ways to reach their daily sales quotas. A spokesperson for wells fargo called the lawsuit offensive, and denies the allegations. darya land a closely watched proposal to eliminate sales taxes on tampons and diapers has failed at the state capitol. Under the bill, taxes on hard liquor would have gone up to make up for the lost money. The bills sponsor says the state should not be taxing necessities for women and children. The bill didnt make it out of a legislative committee yesterday after lawmakers expressed concern over raising taxes. mark the Valero Oil Refinery in benicia is being fined for violating regional air pollution rules following the flaring incident. The bay area air Quality Management district says it has issued four violations. One for causing a public nuisance and three for releasing excessive smoke. It all started with a power outage at the refinery on friday morning that led to flaring which released massive plumes of thick, black smoke into the air prompting a shelter in place. There will be continued flaring at the valero refinery this week while crews work to restore operations at the facility. darya the Golden State Warriors are heading to the western conference finals for a third year in a row. mark after taking a commanding 3 to nothing series lead over the utah jazz, the dubs dominated them last night to seal the deal. They sweep the 4 game series after a 121 to 95 win in game 4. Steph curry led the way with 30 points. Klay thompson scored 21, kevin durant added 18. And Draymond Green had a triple double. After the game draymond talked about how the warriors have been able to dominate the competition in the playoffs so far. And. New information about the man who confessed to killing a woman in the east bay and burning her body. The Evidence Police used to track him down. anny land and. The marin county coroner accused of sexually assualting a young girl made his first appearance in court. Youll hear from his attorney and what they think of the charges and heres a live look outside. Bay bridge Weather Center with james tracking the forecast. james james were waking up to clear and Cool Conditions this morning as we look forward to a warmer day today. Lets check our 4zone Camera Network and see what its like outside. As i said, its cool to start. Were seeing 40s at the coast and in the north bay valleys. Were waking up to 50s elsewhere. Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 mark the marin county coroner accused of sexually assaulting a young girl made his first court appearance. darya anny hong is here with more on the trial. Anny . anny land prosecutors say Darrel Alan Harris started sexually assaulting a girl in 2008 and then assaulted her again when she was older. Harris was arrested in eureka and brought back to marin county. He is now in jail on 750thousand dollars bail. Harris attorney and family believe he is innocent. mark no one was injured in the fire and Church Officials say much of the damage happened outside the main chapel. mark this morning. The parents of a man who was murdered along with his fiancee are one step closer to finding closure. Jason allen and Lindsay Cutshall were murdered on a beach in jenner in 2004. And now the Sonoma CountySheriffs Office says the killer is in custody. Shaun gallon has been named as the main suspect. And this morning we are hearing from jasons parents for the first time. mark investigators say the killings were random and that gallon had no connection to the couple. Gallon was already in Police Custody when investigators linked him to the murder. He had been arrested in march for the murder of his brother in forestville. darya one person is dead and two others injured following a shooting in fairfield. Police say, they received calls at about 430 yesterday morning. When they arrived at the scene on crowley lane. Officers found three victims. We know the two victims that survived the shooting remain hospitalized this morning. The extent of their injuries are not clear. Police have not said if any arrests have been made. mark the San FranciscoPolice Department is reporting a drop in officers using force. In the First Quarter of 2017 force was used in less than one percent of incidents. Thats a nearly sixteen percent drop compared to last year. Police chief William Scott says it shows the departments training and deescalation tactics are paying off. darya opponents of californias bullet train are again trying to put the brakes on the project. But yesterday a judge rejected another lawsuit. It was aimed at blocking the states 64billion dollar high speed rail project that would link los angeles to San Francisco by 2030. Opponents say they may file an appeal. The judge hearing the case says he will hear an appeal from the group buy says they must present different arguments for blocking the project. mark california is borrowing up to a half billion dollars to repair the nations tallest dam. Heavy waters damaged the oroville dam in february. It tore giant craters out of both spillways. Forcing nearly 200thousand people to evacuate their homes. The state department of Water Resources is rushing to repair the main spillway before the next rainy season. President trump already announced more than 200 Million Dollars to pay for the repairs. Repairs are expected to take up two years to complete. mark Richard Simmons is taking the National Enquirer and radar online to court. Simmons filed a libel and invasion of privacy suit against the two tabloids. He says both ran false stories that he was transitioning into a woman. Simmons, who walked away from the public stage in 2014, has long denied that allegation. The company that owns both the National Enquirer and radar online says the stories were based on credible sources who were in simmons inner circle. It says both tabloids plan to defend its claims. darya the kron4 morning news wants to send you and a guest to see hamilton keep watching the kron4 morning news and we will give you the secret word of the day. Then go to kron4. Com and enter the word for a chance to win a pair of the hottest tickets in town keep watching every day for a new word and another opportunity to win todays secret word of the day will be revealed in our 8 oclock hour so keep watching and you could win hamilton tickets mark still ahead. A sex offender arrested at a Junior College while using a fake identity. Kron fours Lydia Pantazes live on campus with the details. And after the break. Well explain why a teenager throws a 68yearold woman into a swimming pool. And heres a live look outside. San mateo bridge. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Heavy traffic on wb 4 out of antioch darya a 68yearold woman is bodyslammed and thrown in a pool as she tries to get a group of kids to turn down the music at a pool party. This was near fort lauderdale, florida over the weekend. Police say she was out walking her dogs when she went to her apartment complex pool to tell the group of kids to quiet down. The 16 year old who lifted the woman up was trying to throw her in the pool but slipped, slamming her against the concrete. He then dragged the woman into the pool. darya the victim was taken to the emergency room. Shes expected to recover. The teen turned himself in and is being charged with battery. james tracking your morning forecast. Details coming up. will in just a matter of hours we will learn the fate of teh man accused of killing sierra lamar. I am live at the courthouse as we wait for the verdict to be wait for the verdict to be read in court. More people than ever are making the move to nissan. 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Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and