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KRON KRON 4 News At 8 July 23, 2016

Same intersection that a deadly collision occurred killing a mother and her child back in may. Tonight, passengers on the amtrak train are stopped on the investigation. Lets get out to spendser blake, and spencer, what you can tell us how everything played out . Reporter well, honestly, police cant tell us much because their investigation is still in the preliminary stages. We just got here recently as well, and you can see the roadblocked off at washington and chapman in san lee aped row. A lot of police presence. Basically what we do know, they say when they arrived, a woman was hit by a train. They came and found a woman dead in the street having been hit by theamtrak train. They dont know whether it was an accident or suicide. Theysay they had witnesses who saw it happen. Police are talking to them and they are not releasing details of the witness statements. They are still gathering information, very preliminary so far. The amtrak train is still on the tracks about 600yards from where im standing, and they are continuing to look into that, and i asked police, you know, is this a concern that will be looked at since this is the second time someone was killed here . They said it j ppia qwill b by traffic engineers and n5 d perhaps on the road, there maybe changes made but, again, thats for engineers to decide down the road, and we are going to be getting more information from police tonight and bring the latest at 10 00 on kron 4. Im Spencer Blake live in san leandro, kron news. And that same intersection was the site of a tragedy in late may, a mother and daughter killed by a train while they were in their suv. Grant . Reporter a lieutenant with the Police Department in san leandro said at this time, this is just tragic, no other words to describe. It an oakland mother and 3year old daughter killed on may 24. Vanessa enriquez and her daughter, sadie, trapped on the live 5 traffic trackerred tracks, and the capital jose to sacramento. No one else was injured but now, two fatal accidents. Thank you, and tripledigit heat fueling a fast moving wildfire. This is one of several fires burning across the state in vacaville today. Well get to that in a moment but santa clarita, north of los angeles, its prompting serious evacuations. In the space of just a few hours, the fire exploded to 1500 acres and is burning bone dry hillside to state route 14. The freeway is partially closed. No homes immediately threatened, but winds are pushing the flames pretty much away from urban areas towards the Angeles National forest. Fire officials have issued evacuation orders to a trailer park and crews are struggling in the triple digit heat. In el dorado county, evacuation orders for a 60acre fire that is, however, 40 contained at last check. Firefighters spent the day working to gain control of this fire near vacaville. And we have more on the problems they have faced. Reporter yeah, really scary because this was burning close to homes. Firefighters were able to get a handle on it and contained the 57acre grass fire in vacaville, halfway between San Francisco and sacramento, and it took more than 50 firefighters four hours to get the flames under control. Vacaville police told People Living nearby to get out but the evacuation orders have been lifted. The aerials, courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc 7. The cause is still under investigation. Thank you so much, and the dry and hot weather is fueling the flames. We have concerns but are looking forward to a warm week. A warm weekend, and a few concerns, its hot and we dont have a chance of rain, and we are dealing with windy conditions. This is the big area of High Pressure, warm and checking into southern california, parts of phoenix and vegas, we are in the dpipping of a warming trend and sunny afternoonings, and it will stay warm along the coast, dealing with an onshore flow. 60sin San Francisco and the future wind speeds showing breezy conditions tonight heading into tomorrow afternoon and we will still see another round of windy and breezy conditions. I am also tracking warmer weather as we kickoff the weekend. Highs around the region tomorrow, 101 in antioch and 99 in concord and 95 in livermore and 68 in San Francisco. The 7day forecast coming up in just a bit. A gunman at mcdonalds, yelling god is great in arabic as he was shooting at children in munich, killing nine people. The shooting spree ended with the killer apparently taking his own life and heres what we know. Reporter pan oik a warm summer evening. The shooting broke out of at 6 00 p. M. , not far from the site of the 1972 olympics. Witnesses describe the gunman coming out of the mcdonalds restroom and opening fire. Boom, boom, boom. Running outside the building, and then i heard several shots. Reporter while the hunt went on, the city of 1. 5 million was on lockdown. A very serious situation. No public transport is going anywhere and people are asked to stay at home. The situation is unclear and frightening for the people here in munich. Reporter the shooter is identified as an 18yearold germaniranian from munich. He apparently killed himself after his rampage in the mall. The exabt motive of the gunman is not clear but he claimed to have been bullied as a young person. Most iranians consider isis as their enemy. Some witnesses say he wanted revenge for being bullied and yelled insults at turks and other foreigners. We brought you breaking coverage right here on wron news of this important story and you can stay updated downloading our free mobile application. A man apparently tried to kidnap a young girl in a North Redwood city neighborhood, and she tried to run away. We have more live from the school where the girl was able to call for help with the latest. Ella . Reporter yes. Fortunately, that girl was able to runoff a block away to Fair Oaks Community elementary, and there was a Summer Program open at the time this happened and now, they are asking for the publics help to catch the man responsible. Authoritiessay a man theyre looking for tried to take a young girl against her will in a North Redwood city neighborhood at 12 00 in the afternoon on thursday. The 12yearold girl was said to be Walking Around douglas and fair oaks avenue when Authorities Say that a man with blond hair approached her on a red bicycle. Hoping that they catch the guy because she plays in not front of my yard. I want her to be safe. Reporter he was described to be wearing no shirt and white and red shorts. He asked if the girl was lost, offered to help and grabbed her. She ran off and told a summer counselor about the incident. Immediately notified us and we conducted an area search, a thorough search but unfortunately, we didnt find anyone or anything suspicious. Reporter this Business Owner said he has never seen anything suspicious, just heard about it. I hear rumors about these streets here. Reporter the street where this school is located on and i have seen many r4j,families li they are urging parents and guardians to talk about stranger danger. Meantime, san mateo sheriffs deputies are looking for anyone with information to contact the Sheriff Department to help out with the search. To San Francisco where today would have been mario woods 27th birthday. Today, he was remembered. He was shot and killed by police last december. Tonight, we are live outside the church where the emotional ceremony just concluded. Reporter emotional it was indeed. Mario woods mother sat in the pews listening to all the nice things everyone is saying about her son but its clear she is grieving. Her son is dead and he is not coming back and thats difficult to bear. The vigil is going on three hours song. Members of the congregation will walk out shortly but that has yet to happen. Gwendolyn woods just wrapped up speaking. Dozens of people showed up, many of them members of the justice for Mario Woods Coalition day. They dubbed this mario woods day. And the police chief has since resigned but woods mother says more needs to be done. I think we have to take it down brick by brick. You can change your policy but if you dont change the heart of a man, we will have this problem again. If we dont get rid of this systemic racism, sexism, well have the problems again. It starts healing here. I think you need red flags and policies. You have to look at pending investigations where people come into your city. Reporter as i mentioned after the vigil inside the church, woods family and others will walk across the street where he was killed and pay tribute on him on his birthday. Policesay woods was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting. Officers used nonlethal force that day. That didnt work ultimately resulting in the deadly shooting. Shot 21 time that is day and led woodacy family to file a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit. Ahead at 8 00, San Francisco back in the spotlight as donald trump targets sanctuary cities in his convention speech. And a collision, what they are calling it. They have been plaguing southwest travelers as more flights are canceled leaving people wondering is there any end in sight . And a 6foot shark spotted in bay area waters. When consultant josh atkins books at laquinta. Com. He gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. So he knows exactly when he can settle in and think big. And when josh thinks big you know what he gives . 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So all eyes will turn to philadelphia where the Democratic National Convention Starts on monday, and final preparations are under way. We just got a video of a drone shot. Well have full coverage right here on kron 4. Happening today, a shark spotted off our coast. I guess this was yesterday . Right, and today, the warnings are going out. The spark was spotted yesterday off the shores in pacifica, and they are warning folks. The surfers did not let the warning signs stop them from trying to catch a couple of waves. Police are asking people at the beach to be aware of their surroundings and be careful in the water but the beaches are not closed. The beaches are not closed and its going to be hot. Yeah. Hot for a lot of inland locations, and people are going to the bay to try and cool off. A live look outside, a beautiful sunset and not a lot of cloudiness. As we go into the rest of this evening, well see a few clouds starting to move into parts of our area and a little bit of patchy fog as well. But, again, not a whole lot of cloudiness and a lot of sunshine for tomorrow afternoon. Tonight, increasing clouds and tomorrow, sunny and warm, and sunday, the hot inland temperatures and a hugh locations will get in the triple digits tomorrow and on sunday. 81 in fairfield and 83 in concord, and 75 in novato, triple digits for las vegas and phoenix at 105 and 76 in los angeles. And we have an area of High Pressure which will remain in control and, in fact, move closer to us which is why the temperatures will bump up. Right now, the wind speeds at 18 Miles Per Hour in San Francisco and 14 in oakland. We will maintain an onshore flow so cooler at the coast and well watch for the area of High Pressure with clockwise rotation moving closer to us as we go into the weekend, and it will bump up our temperatures in the next calm couple days. We can expect to see warming temperatures into next week with aboveaverage temperatures. 90 in novato, and 68 in San Francisco. 101 in antioch, and well take a closer look at the 7day forecast in about 15 minutes. Brittney, thank you. And if you are flying on southwest, you better call ahead. They are having problems. A computer glitch has caused massive cancellations and delays. It was not fixed. Well, it was fixed but still recovering. More than 300 southwest flights canceled. Officials are trying to give travelers with flights wednesday and tuesday a chance to rebook with no charge. That offer will last for two weeks. San franciscos immigration policy decision back in the spotlight after donald trump talked about it last night in his acceptance speech at the republican convention. Front and center when he named an undocumented immigrant accused in a local murder. Were learning more on what the San Francisco sheriff is saying report kate steinly was killed on pier 14 and the man charged with her murder is an undocumented immigrant from mexico, deported several times and had multiple felony convictions. Today, we talked to San Franciscos sheriff about where the sanctuary city laws stand. While there were changes in the ordinance, there was little impact. So basically we have a no notification policy accept under very, very specific circumstances. And it sets forth a notification policy for people who have been held to answer to specific crimes, very serious felony crimes and sometimes, Violent Crimes report she said since she took the post in january, there were no notifications. As for the suspect, he is in custody and is awaiting trial. Thank you, justine. Straight ahead at 8 00, he is praised from saving people from what would have been a commuting nightmare. Tonight and only on 4, hear from the bart driver who took quick action when he saw this truck on the tracks. And next, antipolice crimes popping up in the bay area. What is done to fight the hateful messages. Coming up later in the broadcast, wearing sharp colors. The lady in turquoise . Thats right. Turquoise. And that will hold you. And emails and the giants need a win and Draymond Green, oh, my gosh. Wait until you see what he has to at a get out of the deal in michigan later in the broadcast. That protects those inside and outside. Ready or not, the future is here. The allnew eclass. Selfbraking, selfcorrecting, selfparking. A mercedesbenz concept car thats already a reality. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Flyers saying kill cops, not trees have been found around santa cruz. The signs have been posted on the footbridge over the san lorenzo river, and otherrers, scattered downtown. Santa cruz police are investigating saying they dont consider it to be a credible threat. One art shop owner is making a point of replacing the nasty signs with a positive message saying love cops and trees. And now to the east day where the home of one donald trump supporter was targeted by vandals in a mean way. The owner is beefing up security now. It happened last week in livermore with vandals tagging the home and cars in the driveway with Donald Trumps name and spray painted the word, racist, on the sidewalk in front of the home. When i put up trump signs out front, i had a hunch something might happen with a lot of high emotions in the election and people that feel like they can shout you down. Thats not free speech. I would never do that to another, uh, political candidate but tempers are running high and it happens. David is genial about the whole thing and doesnt know who is behind it but has installed security cameras in case these folks decide to try again. A brand new episode of a back story is about 30 minutes away. Here is a look at what you can expect. Tell me what happened. I was on east 14th. It wasnt a choice situation. I couldnt find work and had a daughter i needed to take care of. Romero pulled me to the side and asked me, was there something that i could do for him to get the car back. I was scared to death. To this day, i still worry. Thats why im in a warehouse with no windows or nothing. In a brand new episode of the back story, and a classic episode at 9 30. Ahead at 8 00, thousands of emails from convention leaders leaked online. What theyre revealing. And something in the water is forcing one city to completely cut off their supply to residents. And next, a local tribute to fallen First Responders. But there was controversy surrounding that ceremony. And get ready for a warming trend as we head into the weekend. We are really going to be sweating in certain areas. Ill go over the details after the break. Bay area Police Unions came together and held a ceremony to honor fallen First Responders. Reporter bagpipes played as a group of officers from around the bay area gathered to pay respects to the First Responders who died in the line of duty. Once again, we are cut to the heart at the loss of life and damage to peace that we have suffered. Reporter in front of the speakers, a large banner held reading that today was the day to honor San Franciscos local heroes and across the state and nation who made the ultimate sacrifice. The Police Unions and International Association of firefighters chipped in to pay 15,000 to print the same words in a fullpage ad in the chronicle that ends with it is they who are deserving of special civil remembrance. Th

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