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KRON KRON 4 News At 10 May 4, 2017

Terrence liu is the High School Junior who was hit and killed by a train as he was crossing a small bridge of in the distance behind me. Sot everyone right now is in a state of shock right now of course some did cry but a majority are devastated just trying to take it all in. Classmates of High School Junior terrence liu reacting to news that he was hit and killed by a train wednesday morning. Liu was a student at kipp king collegian high school in san lorenzo. Sot hes a very quiet kid but hes actually a very very smart kid. Sot i was like oh gosh one of my classmates. Everyone was dead silent when that was mentioned at the gymliu was crossing this bridge when he was hit. Those with Union Pacific say he was either walking or riding his bike across. Wednesday night was the first time our crews saw a train come through this area and by the time we turned on the camera and started recording, the train was already here. Those who live nearby say its that quick in the daytime too. Sot wasnt surprised because ive gone across the bridge and i try not to go across the bridge. A bit concerned that if i get halfway out there i could possibly be in a bad situation. Those with Union Pacific and local emergency crews wont say if liu had his headphones on but there is a fear in the community that he did. Sot headphones on . Well according to my mom because she actually heard about the incident as well i think he did have headphones on. Sot i stay off the bridge because you cant hear anything on either side of the bridge. I spoke with a woman who knew terrence and said its gotta me tough when this happens to a pretty good kid. She said he wasnt just a pretty good kid. He was an amazing young man. Live in san lorenzo, j. R. Stone kron 4 news. steve this latest train tragedy happened not to far from where another teenager was hit and killed. Back in may of 2014, 18yearold Brittney Silva was hit in san leandro. Witnesses say she was wearing headphones at the tme. Its believed she just did not hear the train coming or witnesses screaming for her to get out of the way. pam it has been five long years. And now, the sierra lamar murder trial will be in the hands of the jury. Deliberations could begin by the end of this week. And the biggest question now being asked. Is antolin garciatorres. The wrong man on trial in the murder of sierra lamar . Lead defense attorney al lopez began his closing arguments by asserting to the jury, there is little evidence Garcia Torres killed sierra lamar. Lopez attacked evidence that put garciatorres near the bus stop where sierra lamar vanished. Arguing there is proof he was long gone before sierra got there. Lopez also says, investigators failed to look into reports of another car in the area, suggesting. They arrested the wrong suspect. Legal analyst steven clark calls this. A brilliant strategy. Steven clark legal analyst anytime you as a defense attorney can point to someone else as the person who may have committed the crime, thats something you have to do and that could resonate with this jury when they decide, one, is she really dead and two, did Garcia Torres killer her. pam with no body, no crime scene and no witnesses, the jury must decide whether or not to convict Garcia Torres based on dna and other forensic evidence. The defense is expected to resume and wrap up its closing arguments tomorrow. steve another big story tonight Police Open Fire on one of San Franciscos busiest streets. After finding a man stabbing another man. The shooting shutdown part of Market Street for most of the day. Kron4s Charles Clifford is tracking the latest developments. Natsaccording to the San Francisco police department, just before 1130 wednesday morning two uniformed officers walking in the 900 block of Market Street witnessed a white adult male stabbing a philipino or asian male. The attack may have happened near or possibly inside a Subway Sandwich shop. The officers immediately intervened. Sot this is cell phone video of the scene captured by a fedex truck driver who was parked along Market Street. The driver says he saw people running. Sot tragic. These things we try to avoid them as much as we can but we do have an obligation to protect the public. Nobody wants to see anyones life taken ever. As with any officer involved shooting in San Francisco, multiple investigation have been launched. Sfpd homicide and internal affairs division, the department of police accountability, San Francisco District Attorneys independent Investigation Bureau and the medical Examiners Office are each looking into this shooting. steve also tonight we are learning more about a Deadly Police shooting in san jose. It happened last night outside a home on Mount Frazier drive. Officers responded to a call about a family disturbance. Police say, a 28yearold man came out of the garage. And charged at one of the officers with kitchen knives in both hands. Thats when the officer fired his gun. The man was rushed to the hospital and into surgery. Where he later died. The officer involved in the shooting. Is a 15 year veteran, and has been placed on paid administrative leave. pam happening tomorrow. The house of representatives is planning to vote on a Health Care Bill to replace the Affordable Care act. Known as obamacare. steve presdient trump, House Speaker paul ryan and others. Are trying to persuade enough republicans to get on board. Grant lodes has been tracking the developments in washington. W here to things stand tonight . grant House Majority leader from california, kevin mccarthy. Very confident tonight, telling reporters. There are enough gop votes to pass the measure. Something that wasnt the case when a healthcare bill was abruptly pulled in march. But tonight, the top demoncrat in the house. San franciscos nancy pelosi. Is blasting the notion of a revised heathcare bill. She said in a statement. Tomorrow, House Republicans are going to tattoo this moral monstrosity to their foreheads, and the American People will hold them accountable. The white house has another headache on its hands. The quest to find enough support to pass the gop plan to repeal and replace obamcare in the house. The president has reached out to roughly a dozen house members. Both in person. And over the phone sending the signal hes open to changes to lure moderates. Those moderates are uneasy that trumpcare would weaken obamacare protections for people with preexisting conditions. Allowing states to optout of those provisions. Though a fund would be set up to help the most vulnerable. Jim acosta why even monkey around with preexisting conditions . Thats the most popular thing in obamacare. Why are you guys spinning your wheels messing around with preexisting conditions . Sean Spicer White House press secretary i wouldnt call it messing around or however you phrased it. I think the president wants to do. Jim acosta right now, people with preexisting conditions are covered. They are not discriminated against. Why not keep that protection in place . Sean Spicer White House press secretary the president has made it very clear, pre existing conditions are covered in the bill under every scenario. I dont know how much clearer we can state it. Jim acosta so anybody who has a preexisting condition under trumpcare, they are going to be fine . Sean Spicer White House press secretary yes. Democrats arent buying it. Rep. Nancy pelosi, dminority leader they think they can dupe the American People, by saying, well, we were going to eliminate preexisting conditions its a joke. Its a very sad, deadly joke. Trump its a great honor to have the president with us. On Foreign Policy. The president is taking on another big middle east peace. Palestinian president mahmoud president palestinian as he met with peace. Middle east challenge. Another big taking on president is policy. The on foreign us. President with have the great honor to have the president with on Foreign Policy. The president is taking on another big challenge. Middle east as he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. The insisted the decades of violence in the be so tough to solve after all. Trump lets see if we can find the solution. Its think is, frankly, maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years. Jim acosta why does he believe that the toughest arguably the toughest Foreign Policy challenge in our lifetime may not be as difficult as we thought. Sean Spicer White House press secretary i think both of these leaders have very publicly expressed the confidence they have in the president s negotiating skills and the residents desire to work to get peace. grant even if this passes in the house tomorrow. Many experts forsee drastic changes if its going to pass in the senate. The nonpartisan concressional Budget Office estimated that 24 million americans 24 million estimated that Budget Office concressional Budget Office estimated that 24 million americans could be uninsured by 2026, including 14 million by 2026, including uninsured by could be uninsured by 2026, including 14 million by next year. pam also tonight. We are tracking much cooler weather on the way for the bay area. This is a live look at San Francisco. A big drop in temperatures are expected tomorrow. Kron 4s chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp is in the Weather Center with what you need to know. Hot conditions today as ridge apex shifts inland. Tomorrow will be another hot today as the ridge begins to exit into the great basin. A modest cooling trend will start on thursday as coastal stratus returns. Cooling trend continues friday into saturday when a slight chance of showers is forecast as an upper low approaches the region. Locally windy conditions can also be expected over the weekend. pam coming up new at ten it is not unusual to see drones around the bay area. But flying one at the wrong time in the wrong place could land you in jail. steve then also new at ten. The split second before a tragedy. Tonight the story behind a military photographers final photo. pam and next a major bart construction project set to start soon in the east bay. And it is going to have big impact on parking. A live report after the break pam an east bay bart stations parking lot. Is getting an overhaul that could take months to complete. A number of Parking Spaces will be closed off, and riders will have to find alternate parking kron 4s alecia reid joins us live from lafayette, where the construction is currently going on. Alecia . Thats right, solar panels are being installed in one of the carports, and about 200 spaces were affected. Now thats wrapping up, then construction will start in another lot. That will end up taking months to complete. Pkgi didnt know this was happeningby the end of may, this parking lot will look drastically different. The lafayette station site Improvement Project aims to lower congestion and optimize traffic. They gotta do what they gotta do right . The project area will be between deer hill road, happy vally road, and happy valley creek. I guess you can go to orinda. Im definitely not gonna ride into sf on a moped. That seems ridiculousneighborhood Street Parking is also an option, but finding a spot to leave your car for the day is already tough. Yea thats gonna be a challenge. For 8 months . Theres a lot of parking. Parking goes for acres and acres but theres just a lot of cars. I mean people from danville, walnut creek, pleasanton that drive all the way to lafayette bart, park here so they can get on the train. Even those living here for years havent had the chance to get a permit for the bart lot. Theres a high demand for this station, so ive been on the wait list for permit parking for 4 years once construction starts, there will be a huge shortage of spots. Bart suggests using bus routes 6 and 25 to get to the station. When alls said and done, pedestrian visibility and access to station will be a lot easier, and the current bus stop will be replaced and relocated in order to accommodate more buses at the station. Standup construction is expected to start at the end of the month. The entrance to the station will remain open through its completion. Reporting in lafayette. steve happening now google is warning people to beware. About a widespread email scam going around. Kron4s Lydia Pantazes is standing by in the newsroom. Lydia how does the scam work. lydia the attack looks like its coming from a trusted source. Heres how it works. take vo you get an email from a contact who asks you to open a google document. If you click, it takes you to a page to open the google docs app with your google account. This grants access to your email account and your contacts. A cybersecurity expert says anyone who clicked on the link should check their google App Permissions and remove the one called google docs. We did try and talk with google on camera but no one was available to speak with us. But they did issue a statement where they said the phishing scheme affected less than pointone percent of gmail users and that they were able to stop the campaign within an hour. lydia its unclear how widespread the attack is and who is behind it. Lydia pantazes kron4 news. pam the man who police say, killed his wife and held police on an hours long standoff in the east bay has been charged with murder. Gregory prokop owicz appeared in Court Earlier today. The 38year old is accused of killing his wife. 47year old roselyn policarpio. Last thursday afternoon on first avenue in walnut creek. After a 19hour standoff, prokopowicz was arrested friday in martinez. However. Police say, he did not surrender until the swat team fired three rounds of tear gas into the car. Where he was holding authorities at bay. A gofund me page has been set up for the victim. It was set up by her son. Her family says, the money raised will be used for funeral expenses. steve a Major Development tonight in the possible federal case against two Louisiana Police officers in the july killing of alton sterling. 5 sec nat alton sterling was selling cds outside a store in baton rouge last year when Police Responded to a report of a man with a gun. Two officers wrestled with sterling. And after someone yelled that he had a gun. Sterling was shot several times and killed. Police say that a loaded gun was later found in his pocket. Tonight Authorities Say theres not enough evidence to prove that either officer violated the federal criminal civil rights law. Meaning no federal charges against those officers. sot Corey Amundson all of the prosecutors and agents involved in this case have come to the conclusion that insufficient evidence exists to charge either officer with a federal crime in connection with this incident. Chris Stewart Family attorney we learned that officer salamoni walked up to alton sterling, put a gun to his head and said, ill kill you baaah. The familys Attorney Says theyve now learned that the white officer who later shot sterling. Had pointed a gun at the back of his head. And threatened to shoot him before they struggled. Sterlings family is now demanding a state criminal investigation. His death prompted protests from activists demanding justice for what they say was the unjustified killing of an african american. pam a live look outside on this wednesday night. Things already cooling off around the bay area. steve thursday temperatures will be much different than today. Our chief meterologist Brittney Shipp has the details. Hot conditions today as ridge apex shifts inland. Tomorrow will be another hot today as the ridge begins to exit into the great basin. A modest cooling trend will start on thursday as coastal stratus returns. Cooling trend continues friday into saturday when a slight chance of showers is forecast as an upper low approaches the region. Locally windy conditions can also be expected over the weekend. steve still ahead in a brand new edition of people behaving badly we tell you all the time about mail thefts. But in this case. The video actually had enough clues for an arrest. pam and next a very large reward being offered for a stolen dog in the east bay. The animal was not just an ordinary pet it actually has a very important job. steve in Castro Valley. The reward for a stolen german shepherd. Has been increased from 7to10 thousand dollars. The dogs owner says bring 3yearold murfee back safe. And the money is yours. No questions asked. Murfee was last seen sunday. In the front yard of his home on east Castro Valley boulevard. In Castro Valley. Murfee is a rescue dog. Who has helped mentor

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