Who ble brittney wide spread lying all continued to move into our east bay, south bay psalm and near the peninsula. Heavy rain shower will come down in most regions. Technical difficulties blue. Reporter kron4s jr stone is tracking conditions in the north bay jr . Reporter workers doing what they can with sand bags near 17th and folsom in San Francisco to protect their businesses from possible storm flooding. Doesnt really work. Reporter Cleto Gonzalez says it would work if it werent for thieves stealing his sand bags. Happened 15 minutes ago homeless steal the plastic reporter in mill valley some sand bags have already been put out. Those at joes taco lounge say using sand bags is about all they can do. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. We just put the sandbags out and hope hahahhaha reporter drivers will be hoping too. Hoping they dont hit the kind of traffic that was seen wednesday all across the bay area. As for staying dry gets that bad go ahead. Reporter all of these low lying areas have been hit hard in the past and with none of the problems fixedit appears we could see more issues thursday. All it takes is 20 minutes reporter while Business Owners want no part of the rainthose traveling in itthey say theyll be okay. Ill be fine hahaha reporter it is not raining right now in marin county. But, today we did see several accidents because of the black rose that we have had out here. Black roads. Reporter j. R. Stone, kron4news steve thank you, j. R. Steve make sure you have the free kron4 mobile app. To help you get through the storm. Be the first to know about severe traffic and weather in your area. Well keep you updated through breaking news push alerts. Pam happening now pam a major benefit concert is underway. To support the victims of the oakland ghost ship fire. Its a sold out crowd at the fox theater in oakland. Pam kron4s Lydia Pantazes is live in oakland. Plenty of big acts performing at tonights event . Reporter it is ipad house and the fox theater tonight. Many artists says they are supporting their fellow artist and a time of need. It is a packed hou se tonight i think everyone was effected. Or, if not directly affect it still will lead to support. Reporter in seven days, the event was planned. All the money goes towards victims of the fire. We are controlling to the Arts Community of the bay area. Having artist do a concert like this is ongoing who they were. Honoring who they were reporter this came together so quickly which normally takes months to plan. Every artist we x to all forms said yes, right away. Every artist we asked to perform. I think its very important to celebrate the lives of the victims in the oakland fire. It is really, really exciting. Reporter beer hoping to raise at least 300,000 for the victims. They are hoping to raise pam a San Francisco state student. Who lost her life in the ghost ship warehouse fire. Was honored on campus today. Hundreds paid homage to michela gregory. In front of the cesar chavez student center. Where she often ate lunch with classmates. Pam teachers remembered her as creative, ambitious and caring. Pam her boyfriend. Alex vega. Also died at the december 2nd ghost ship party. Those close to the couple call them inseparable. In life. And death. This just in to the kron 4 newsroom. Steve tonight. Hercules police are investigating a vehicular homicide. They were called at around fivethirty this evening. To a parking lot at glenwood condos. The victim was pronounced dead shortly after Police Arrived on scene. The suspect is said to be a woman. Driving a gray vehicle. Steve police say this could be linked to a domestic incident. Steve still no arrest in the murder of a Castro Valley grandmother. In her own home. Authorities say her body was set on fire to try and cover up the crime. Steve officers spent the day combing the remains of a burned down home. In hopes of determining who killed the 59 year old widow. Authorities say the murder and subsequent arson fire occurred sometime between 10pm monday night and 2 am yesterday morning. With the culprit still on the loose, those who live in this neighborhood are worried. Steve we are very concerned. As, anyone would be. This is something that has not happened. This is such a horrible thing. I have seen the woman before but i did not know her. Steve Police Currently have no motive for killing. Or leads as to the identity of the suspect. Pam a big move by california regulators they have ordered uber to remove its self driving cars from the streets of San Francisco immediately. This comes as the Ride Sharing Service enters its next phase of Autonomous Service picking up actual passengers. Steve kron4s gabe slate has details. Reporter uber argues its cars do not fall under the states definition of an Autonomous Vehicle because it requires a live body behind the wheel at all times. Just in case something goes wrong. So according to uberits cars are not autonomous. But it appears having a driver ready to take over a selfdriving car doesnt always work reporter this video was captured at 3rd and market at a busy intersection showing an uber self driving car run a red light you can see the light is red here a pedestrian enters the crosswalk over here. Reporter and the uber car blows through not stopping. Reporter this was captured by Jessica Felix who works for luxor cab. She was not surprised at all by what she witnessed. Jessica they would put this stuff on the road to beta test before its ready, no doubt in my mind. I just dont understand why they think they can do whatever they want reporter in a statement sent to me by uber they said this incident was due to human error. This is why we believe so much in making the roads safer by building selfdriving ubers. This vehicle was not part of the pilot and was not carrying customers. The driver involved has been suspended while we continue to investigate. Uber spokesperson reporter moving forward uber needs to get its permit from the state to continue testing here. In a statement the dmv sent me Officials Say they encourage the exploration of selfdriving cars but it must be regulated and permitted to ensure public safety. Reporter so far the dmv has granted 20 permits to different Tech Companies who are doing similar testing. And that uber should obtain the permit like everyone else. To receive the permit uber must show it has insurance for the technology, and publicly report data like crashes and disengagements human operator takes back control to make sure the car operates safely. Reporter california regulators have ordered uber to remove their self driving cars from the streets of San Francisco. This comes the same day they moved into their next phase of testing picking up actual uber users for rides in these autonomous cars. Reporter kron 4s tech reporter gabe slate joins us live in San Francisco outside ubers headquarters to fill us in on why this is happening and what uber needs to do next to operate legally. Coming up pam its a christmas story that touched the hearts of many a santa claus says he visits a little boy in his dying moments. But tonight. New questions about whether it actually happened. There was a red light. But. Steve then seems like theres always an excuse. You wont believe some of the ones we got. In a brand new edition of people behaving badly. Pam happening now pam Bay Area Police are looking for more possible child victims. That is after a south bay tennis instructor was arrested accused of molesting a child. Pam its not the first time the tennis instructor has had a run in with the law. Tonight we have learned he has a criminal history of abusing children. Pam kron4s Haaziq Madyun reports. Reporter 61yearold matt montana of san jose has been arrested for sexually abusing a child. The Santa Clara District Attorneys Office has charged him with continuous sexual abuse of a child and multiple counts of lewd acts involving children according to megans law website montana has been arrested for molesting a child before. Back in 1996 it is important to note as part of the initial investigation a second victim was identified reporter montana gained access to both victims while working here at the sunnyvale Tennis Center. Working as a tennis new alludedcenter between whenworking at a Tennis Center could tutorbyoub alletween 2006 2012 reporter this information recently came to light. Sunnyvale Police Tracked montana down back on december 5th at De Anza College where he was arrested. Investigators say he was giving a tennis lesson at the time montana continued to provide tennis instruction throughout the south bay reporter how a registered sex offender was hired to work at the sunnyvale Tennis Centers is a major part of this investigation i think he was compliant with registering. What we are looking into is if he complied with notifying his employer, the current operator is lifetime tennis as i explained and they do complete background and compliance checks through the California Department of justice, really today is to get the word out that we have this investigation going on and asking anyone with any information to contact us reporter Haaziq Madyun kron4news. At least a little bit pam that was president elect donald trump today. Meeting with tech leaders from facebook, apple, and several other major companies. Pam he also referenced the jump in the stock market since he won the election. Pam many of those tech leaders. Steve opposed his presidency some even actively raising money for his opponent. It was not just tech leaders in todays meeting the three adult trump children were also there. Pam reporter sara murray has more on the questions their presence is raising about their exact role in the new administration. Adminstration. Return to index of stories. Reporter Donald Trumps transition turning into quite the family affair. Reporter as the president elect taps montana congressman ryan zinke to lead the interior department a source says donald trump junior helped interview candidates for the post. Reporter this as another source says eric trump sat in on a meeting with mitt romney as donald trump evaluated his secretary of state options. Reporter with trump poised to turn his Business Operations over to those two sons, the opportunity for conflict of interest appears abundant. Reporter but not to transition aides. Sean spicer, rnc chief Strategist Communications director bottom line, hes been clear from day one with the role his family plays and the trust that he has in them in terms of guiding decisions. Reporter theres no sign the familys influence is waning, though. Reporter once trump moves to the white house, the first ladys office is slated to become the first familys office to help incorporate ivanka trump. Reporter but trumps focus is elsewhere today as he convenes a meeting with tech luminaries hes lobbed insults at in the past trump once accused amazon c eo and Washington Post owner jeff bezos of buying the newspaper for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, amazon. Reporter while bezos suggested it was time to send trump to space. Reporter but today bezos along with facebooks sheryl sandberg, apples tim cook and others met trump to chat about growing us tech jobs. Trump theres nobody like the people in this room and this go along, well be there for you and youll call my people, youll call me, it doesnt make any difference, we have no formal chain of command around here. Reporter as trump picks the brains of the business community, his team is turning to how best to execute the president elects legislative priorities. Pam ironically, one tech company that was not represented at todays meeting, was twitter as you likely know. Mr. Trump frequently communicates with the public using twitter. Pam politico is reporting that the snub was a response to twitters refusal to let the Trump Campaign use a crooked hillary emoji during the election. Steve new at ten steve a sign of healing following a heated president ial election. Remember this video . A trump supporter seen sucker punching a man at a trump rally. It was all caught on camera. Back in march. Well play it one more time in case you missed it. Steve well today the two men met again this time in court take a look. Steve well, that is nice progress. Steve 79yearold John Franklin mcgraw told rakeem jones he hates what happened worse than anything in the world. Mcgraw, who is a former Golden Gloves boxer. Said they were both caught up in a political mess and told jones that we got to heal our country. Steve jones said it felt good to shakes mcgraws hand and actually face him. Mcgraw was given a suspended 30day jail sentence and a years probation. Pam lets take a look at the weather. A live picture at the san rafeal bridge brittney s we do have a lot of concerns to go over to keep you safe tomorrow. We will see heavier pockets of first and desperate that east bay and south bay. For most of the area. It will continue into your evening commute to brittney 4 in. For your no. They zones and coastal hills. Brittney wind gusts up to 40 mi. Per hour with flash flooding. Our satellite rid are showing just a few bright ball going into tomorrow. Starting in ukiah. Brittney will turn heavy and the north bay until is spread to the south and into the east bay. So, at 8 00 a. M. It is possible to have a dry comment if you are near san jose. But if you are closer to richmond, you will see heavier downpours. Brittney you are going to see heavy rainfall and also went speed up to 40 mi. Per hour for the evening commute and it will be heavy rain coming down at a short amount of time. What possible flash flooding. Brittney 10 to 30, up lingering showers as things clear up as we get into friday. Sunshine will return on friday. Brittney close to an inch and half for San Francisco, at the same thing for petaluma. Over an inch for daly city. And paul l. Toll. With an inch and have in san jose. Brittney we do have a cold front coming through. Brittney strong wind speed possibly damaging for it would take a look at the forecasts and another 10 minutes. Steve thank you, britt steve still ahead is this santa really a grinch . Mans story of how he granted a dying boys final wish. Pam and next pam you might have seen this photo on facebook. Tonight we hear from the fast food employee who neck brace and arm sling cause. Pam new tonight a ten a now viral photo showing a chickfila employee in a neck brace and sling. Has captivated social media. Steve you mght have seen this in your facebook feed. Idea a customer took a photo of him and shared his story online. Steve he was injured in a car accident a couple of weeks ago, but continued to work. The reason he ne needed the money for a good cause. Reporter vi ngyuen talked to the young man in indiana. Reporter tyler has worked at chickfila about for about a year and a half. Hes also a high school student. Reporter i just do not know what to say right now. Reporter he would add to work for the first time for atest since the car accident. They kept telling me to go home for it that they did not need me there. Reporter but tyler needed money for a car. The man wanted to help him. Source he said that he was working to feed the homeless and pay a few bills. Reporter sold the customer shared his story. So, the customer shared his story. Steve a gofund me page has raised dollars. Tyler says she plans to use the money to help the homeless. Pam tonight new questions have heard about it out of tennessee. Eric schmitt matzen says, terminally ill boy, whose last wish was to meet santa claus. Pam he then says, that boy died in his arms. That was one of the many interviews the man has given. Would you do me a favor . And he said shore. When you get to those pearly gates, you just tell him that you are santa clause no. 1 elf. Pam now, doubt is being cast on the story. Pam according to the daily mail online the newspaper that originally published the story is saying it could not verify the story. Daily mail says, it contacted hospitals in the area of knoxville, but cannot find one that will confirm it happened. Account but refuses to identify the family or hospital where it happened. Brittney we artistic few hours away from rainfall moving again on your thursday. I will let you know when the heaviest rain showers with pitt will hit your neighborhood. We live in a pick and choose world. Love or like . Naughty or nice . Calm or bright . But at bedtime why settle for this . Enter sleep number, designed to let couples sleep together in individualized comfort. Sleepiq technology tells you how you slept and what adjustments you can make. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow give the gift of amazing sleep. Only at a sleep number store, right now find the lowest payments ever on all beds. Hurry, ends sunday. Know better sleep with sleep number. Im at higher risktwice as likfor depression. Troke. 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