It because then sunday and monday, get here. And weve got some showers around the corner, which is something you want to prepare for. Getting those cushions and all the stuff you dont want to get wet back inside by saturday night. Were sitting right now a little bit of a low gray over San Francisco podcast show some of this gray that is filtered in overnight today. Tomorrow are set to remain dry with mostly sunny afternoons. Great opportunities to get outside before that latter part of the weekend does eventually bring us rainfall right now that rain the system bringing us that rain is senator right up north around the gulf of alaska. This is going to drop down our direction over the next couple of days here by sunday into monday, the bay area taps into this earlyseason rainmaker. Absolutely. Love to see it all the details about how much we can expect. Still to come 50s 60s. For the meantime, though, right now, we do have a couple of 40s popping up in the north bay. So much like previously this week. Get those jackets on for your morning hours. Certainly good idea to stay cozy as we start the cool before warm conditions later on inland areas back up into the 80s bayside cities in the 70s staying in the 60s near the coast. Reyna. John, thank you for that. Lets get a look at your traffic on this friday morning. About 7 minutes. Traveling from the maze 2 that freeman, she exit. All right. The san mateo to want to want a 12 minute ride for you. There. The richmond, sandra fell bridge tolls to want to one about 7 minutes. And then lets check on the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls is going to take you 20 minutes on this friday morning. What it is now, 04 00 02am. And in Castro Valley car crashes into a traitor. Joe sending 8 people to the hospital, including a 5 yearold child kron fours. Dan thorn has those details for us. Chp says all the victims suffered minor to moderate injuries. The Popular Store is boarded up and closed for the time being as police are trying to figure out why this 88 yearold driver came barreling in. Shoppers cash registers and merchandise or sent flying after a car comes crashing through the driver slamming into this trader. Joes in Castro Valley thursday afternoon, injuring 8 people of injured. 4 people were taken hospitals. One of the 4 people transported to hospitals is a juvenile. The youngest victim is 5 years old, much younger than the 88 yearold man who chp says is responsible for running into the busy store. Regular shoppers of this trader. Joes say theyre upset over the news. Well, its a sad thing. You know, i mean, i hope nobodys hurt 2 seriously. Her dolls, a bad thing. Thats what happens. As i understand it was an elderly person who is part. Hit the wrong pedal. I guess that can happen. Investigators say the driver has been cooperating with police. They have already ruled out drugs or alcohol and also whether the driver was suffering from a medical emergency. Were just really, really happy at this point that there are not. Any fatalities and this in these type of severe crashes, it is common to see if a but at this point, were told that theyre minor to moderate injuries for all involved. The driver is not expected to be facing any charges. The trader joes will be closed through friday and the manager is recommending shoppers to check online and also through social media for updates on reopening reporting in Castro Valley, dan thorn kron. 4 news. Well, the ntsb has released these pictures of last months deadly plane crash in watsonville. The photo shows the moments just before 2 small planes collided above the watsonville airport the afternoon of august. 18th. Its part of the initial findings by the federal Agency Looking into what caused the crash. A part of that report published thursday afternoon shows that injector e of the 2 planes at the point of impact. A witness says he observed the twin engine cessna 3. 40, on the cessna one. 52 stale. The cessna 3. 40, then banked to the right and its left wing struck the cessna one. 52, the cessna one. 52 with the single occupant on board crashed short of the runway. The cessna 3. 40, with 2 people on spiraled into a hangar. Well, a complete report with the final cause of that crash is expected in about a year. And the east bay of several people who were hurt during a shooting that happened in oakland. That shooting happened last night shortly after 6 on international boulevard near 42nd avenue. Police say multiple people were shot and a pedestrian was also hit after that shooting. Officers say multiple people were shot and all the victims were taken to the hospital. They are all listed in stable condition. No word on how the shooting happened. A motive or the suspects. Well, the Master Tenant of the ghost ship warehouse fire that caught fire nearly about 6 years ago killing 36 people could be facing more time behind bars. You have Derick Almena who was convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter but took a plea deal that allowed him to avoid prison and serve home detention, followed by 3 years of probation. Prosecutors say during a search of his lake county home, they found a machete, bows and arrows and ammunition possessing these weapons would violate the terms his plea deal. Hes been ordered to appear in an oakland courtroom next friday to face those allegations. A warning about a new type of fenton all circulating around the bay area. The pills are called rainbow fentanyl and their brightly colored. They come in all types of shapes and sizes wilbert. The police first found more than a pound of them during a traffic stop earlier this month. Kron fours tell exactly tells us how the drug is already impact. They look like candy but their deadly an extremely addictive. The rainbow colored fentanyl pills are popping up across the country and have been recently found right here in the bay area. Very scary and very upsetting because obviously anything that resembles candy is purposely targeting younger crowds, co founder of mothers against drug deaths, jackie berlin has been fighting to crack down on fentanyl in the open air drug market in San Francisco for over a year with her organization. Shes personally seen the impact of the drug has on individuals and families. You know that a lot of people think that this cant touch their family or wont touch their family. But ive met many, many people who have lost their children. To addiction or either because their children died and they had no idea. That tunnel was even out there really worries these new fentanyl pills will more people to take the drug, especially with in younger populations, of fentanyl in our cities. And our states is absolutely destroying its taken my son from me. Its this sentinel is so incredibly addicting that if somebody can try it one time they could either die or that won it again. And thats i believe that that is the reason that these this rainbow fentanyl is coming out because its making it look more attractive to a larger percentage of people earlier this month, more than a pound was found in berkeley during a drug stopped and just last month, rainbow fentanyl was found in Placer County and in Southern Oregon near the california border. Its been said that the brightly colored pills are also circulating in San Franciscos tenderloin neighborhood. Its absolutely a weapon of mass destruction. Its killed far more people. My nearby city of San Francisco than covid19 ever did. Berlin says city and state leaders need to take this crisis far more seriously and suppress the continued spread of fentanyl. Im taylor reporting kron. 4 news. Well, Governor Newsom launched a Billboard Campaign in 7 states. Directing people on information and how they can access Abortion Services in california. The billboards all look like the one on your screen. It reads, texas doesnt own your body. You do. And then a direct appeal to left side. That includes information about abortion access. 18 billboards are in indiana, mississippi, ohio, texas, south carolina, south dakota and oklahoma. The City Council Committee in oakland this week tentatively rejected a plan to continue the use of automated license plate readers to fight crime. Mayor libby schaff spoke to kron about washing feel so strongly that the license plate readers are so desperately needed. Lets make the unequivocal. They are very useful tool, particularly as we are struggling with police, stopping technology can be a force multiplier. It is being smart on crime. We have hundreds of cases of stolen cars that have been solved because of this technology and more than a dozen felonies. Serious felonies up the in recent case we were able to rescue a minor girl from human trafficking, but we cannot move forward with purchasing the new software to actually add Privacy Protection without the councils approval. So honestly, im very frustrated that they are stalling moving foward using this technology in a responsible way. Automated license plate readers are on. 21 police cars and oakland yet. Police chief lee argued that Crime Fighting is going to suffer if theyre no longer use the citys Privacy Advisory Commission will take up the issue again in october. All the peninsula. Theres a civil claim fall behalf of a group of lawyers alleging email messages between attorneys and their clients are being looked at by employee employees at the San Mateo County jail in redwood city, criminal defense lawyer paula canny says that violate Attorney Client privilege. She also says the Sheriffs Department website gives no warning the messages are going to be read by Law Enforcement. The system does have. T3e capability of putting a blocking feature on. Some that correctional staff, Law Enforcement cant read client email messages, but they wont do that. Officials at the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office say they im not yet received the complaint. A spokesperson did say those sending emails to inmates included attorneys receive an ation that messages are subject to search and that there is no expectation of privacy. They say the email system is not private for safety and security reasons. Still ahead of the kron, 4 morning news, you have winemakers in napa are sick and tired of. The fires destroying their crops. Were going to hear how theyre deciding to fight against the wildfires and President Biden will speak with the family of Brittney Griner and paul weighs in. They have not secured their release. We have a live report from dc on those updates will be right back. So make sure you stay with us. Mark coleman south florida is very transient. People are coming and going constantly. Twentyseven years ago, i planted the church that were at now. In the first summer, a third of our congregation moved away and they were all leaders. Ringing in my ear was dr. Stanley saying, trust god, trust god. The mosquito fire is now the largest wildfire in the state so far this year. The blaze began last tuesday. It has burned more than 67,000 acres and destroyed about 70 structures. You have more than 11,000 people under evacuation. There and thousands of structures are still threatened. So far, no injuries have been reported. The fire is about 20 contained and the cause theyre still looking into that. When it comes to fight wildfires. Napa valley wine makers are taking matters into their own hands. Now, fours gayle ong tells us how theyre now paying for new sensors to monitor wildfires. 24 7. The 2020 lnu lightning complex and glass fires devastated. Napa county lost a about a 10,000 squarefoot building with them about 9,000 cases. A wife according to napa Wine Industry groups that can on the glass cause more than 2 billion dollars after several wildfire seasons. Napa wine groups are stepping up to fund early detection. Wildfire sensors and learned that these cameras actually detected the glass fire nearly 30 minutes before it was reported this said, look, this is something that we need to have monitored. This program was initiated in 2021 by napa county and was maintained through public funds to fill the gap. Local Grape Growers donated funds to keep the sensors active during the beginning of this years fire season. When the service expired last month, the napa valley Grape Growers, napa valley vintners and visit napa valley. Join together to pay almost 100,000 for 24, 7 monitoring of the cameras from Early September to november gets the firefighters on scene. Even in a minute sooner than they would have been. Otherwise, its its worth doing. And its another tool in the tool box, along with many others to just try to help minimize the likelihood of wildfires and that the county, the sensors are located on atlas peak clover flat and diamond mountain. After the 3 month period, the wind groups are going to follow up with napa county officials. One of the things we want to confirm is whether or not the early provide a noticeable advantage to the firefighters in getting to a fire. Preliminary indications are it might, but we want to make sure that weve got the data to verified. Gayle ong kron, 4 news. All right. Keeping a close eye on the wildfires and the potential impacts am on us. Back here at home, john has been tracking that air quality and not so much here in the bay area that. He said areas really the best air quality there. Good morning, john. Chaos of the mosquito fire burning up around a plaster in eldorado county. Still putting up a lot of that smoke around lake tahoe. Which means youre getting up there potentially for any weekend plans. Its not going to be ideal. That smoke is settled right into the tahoe basin itself. It had been formerly an issue right on the north end of the lake. But its really made its way in and settled into the entire basin now. So if you have plans of getting up to tahoe this weekend, just note conditions out there, not the best. If you want some better air quality had further southward. Weve got some better step in the central sierra as well as north into the northern sierra. What we have here in the bay areas definitely some better conditions. Its just the good air quality today. Good friday to be getting outside, enjoying today. Fully today will continue this westerly wind relaxing it a little bit as compared to yesterday. So words yesterday was breezy for some of us today. Not going to be quite as windy and just all in all a beautiful friday and saturday to venture out. Im encouraging. You do so today and tomorrow because towards sunday, thats what we have working its way our direction. Our next rainmaker across the bay area. And as each and every model run comes out, it just shows with greater and greater certainty that this is, in fact, going to be a rainmaker for the bay area. Light rain for most of us. But still in early season system right here. Were not even to the end of summer yet. And were already talking our first system dropping down from the gulf of alaska. This is usually something we talk little bit later in the year as we move into sunday showers move in from the west pushing on into monday, likely to and even the potential of a couple of sprinkles still hanging out with us into tuesday. Sundays rainfall could amount to anywhere from a half an inch of rain for most areas to upwards of an inch of rain in some of our north bay hills, santa rosa nearing that inch of rain by the finished the day on sunday areas like san jose hayward closer to a 10th of an inch San Francisco around a 3rd of an inch. You add on top of that, what we could see monday and youve got santa rosa over 2 inches of rainfall while most of the rest of us closer to a half an inch, if not a 10th of an inch of rain. So lighter amounts further southward. But the north bay hills could really be the big rain winners out of all of this. As for today, its 60 70s for San Francisco 60s at the coast. And then weve got consistent 70s elsewhere, foster city down to redwood city at 76 south bay temperatures mid to upper 70s for you. We do have a few low 80s returning inland. Its going to be a warm and sunny start to the weekend. Enjoyably warm, though, conquered 83 vacaville. 84 napa wine country looking nice today at 77 degrees. A look ahead in our next 7 days. Temperatures tomorrow. Not quite as warm as todays cooling further into sunday as that cold front and rainfall arrives likely lingering into monday rain. Don, thank you for that. Lets get a look at your bridges this morning. Heading into the city right now. A 7 minute ride. Mays to that freeman street exit, the san mateo bridge, a 80 to 1, 0, 1, 13 minutes for you. Theyre heading across towards the peninsula. Our Richmond Center fell bridge about a 7 minute drive as youre traveling out of richmond and check in on the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 18 minutes on this friday morning. The time is now 04 20am, and the families of wnba star Brittney Griner and paul whalen. Our meeting with President Joe Biden at the white house today. Both americans remain imprisoned in russia. Washington correspondent Raquel Martin joining us from dc with what we can expect. Good morning, raquel. Reyna. Good morning. The white house says this meeting is all about showing these families. That their loved ones and bring them home remains top of mind. The president will be meeting with the wife of Brittney Griner and also the sister of paul whelan. Both of them have been ramping up the pressure on this administration to do more. Friday. President joe biden is meeting with the families of wnba star Brittney Griner. In paul whelan, both currently imprisoned in russia. When i would lov