Nationwide creepy clowns target schools online oakland, ca Oakland Unified School district has received reports of creepy clown messages on social media. These messages are similar to what several other School Districts are reporting across the country. The messages threaten violence. Some have gone so far as to reference specific schools in ousd. We have shared all messages with our ousd police and local Law Enforcement, and they are investigating. While authorities believe the messages are hoaxes, ousd police and staff will be extravigilant. None of the threats nationwide has been deemed credible. The security of our students and staff is our top priority. We will be monitoring the situation closely and providing extra patrols to the schools named in the rumors and all schools in general, said ousd police chief jeff godown. We are encouraging students, staff and families to send any posts oakland unified s enforcement as well. The Berkeley Church community. A grant modesto so far please do not believe that any of these threats are credible. We should set the bay area schools to not believe these the execrable despite that kid was arrested in houston after a clown related threat was made on social media and fairfield schoolcraft state the district has put up postings for parents to reassure them there is not imminent danger parents want answers about these clown threat again this is a nationwide trend and so far there have been no reports of actual violence and being made using clowns on social media day has now reached the bay area. On the extent of the damage. Spencer . Two million dollarsand perhaps up to two years before part of the church can be rebuilt. Thats the latest weve been getting from fire officials and the churchs senior minister today. Investigators are still trying to figure out what sparked the flames. They say it started near a brick chimneybut get this the damage is so extensive, they may never know exactly what started it. Firefighters still dont suspect foul play. I spoke once again with the senior minister, molly baskette. She was happy to report that more than 350 people came to their sunday worship, which was held across the street at first presbyterian. now that the first moment, now that the event of the fire, a lot of adrenaline comes in now that thats sort of ebbing away, i think more of the grief is coming to the fore. Baskette is very busy right now following some leads on some Church Office space they can rent on a longterm temporary basis. Theyre also talking with some jewish communities about using their synagogues for worshipbecause they would be available on sunday mornings. Shes trying to keep things as consistent as possible for her congregation. The expressed a lot of thanks to a lot of people today. And coming up tonight at ten on kron four news, hear more about a fundraising effort for the church that has already brought in quite a bit of money. Live in berkeley, spencer blake, kron four news. Reporter another Police Officer caught up in the bay area sex scandal involving Jasmine Abuslin was arraigned on a variety of charges this morning while a Second Office had his case delayed. Kron4s dan kerman explains the charges they are facing 8pkg reporter criminal defense attorney mike rains, who specializes in defending Police Officers and represented many of the officers during the internal investigations into the sex scandal involving Jasmine Abuslin says he thinks Alameda County d. A Nancy Omalley was too hasty in her charging decisions. Reporter rains says he expects many of the officers attorneys to make motions to dismiss some of the charges but rains admits abuslin formerly known as celeste guap is a victim. Sot she is a bit of a lot of things i think a victim of the system and the neglect by her own parents. And that she is a victim. These officers should have never allowed her to find them. Certain means the very high standards and society holes into. Who reached out to officers initially via social media in a very innocent way. But says when the conversations turned more casual, officers should have cut it off. Sot standup Dan Kerman Fremont 141 51 a man accused of torturing cats in san jose plead guilty to over 20 felony counts of animal cruelty this morning. Twentyfour year old Robert Farmer was arrested on suspicion of abusing cats in san jose last year. Police found farmer sleeping in a parked car on hillsdale avenue, close to where several cats had gone missing. Police searched his car and found at least one dead cat. Investigators determined that he was connected to other cat thefts in the area. Today he plead guilty to 21 counts of animal cruelty and 1 count of battery. No sentencing date has been set yet. Farmer could face up to 16 years and 4 months in prison. He is the son of a retired San Jose Police captain. New at 8, Animal Shelter officials in alameda say that without additional help from the city they may have to close the shelters doors. A move that could leave the fate of hundreds of animals up in the air. Kron 4s Charles Clifford is live for us tonight at Alameda City Hall where the shelters supporters held a rally outside Tonights City Council meeting. Charles. Temperature britteny is keyboarding and the end of the week. Same thing closer to the bay closed at 80 degrees and echoes back to the 70s tracking a seven day forecast take a look at coming up. In 10 up. Steve out additional help from the city they may have to close the shelter doors. A move that could leave the fate of hundreds of animals up and air trawls clifford is live covering the story now at city hall. Reporter in 2011 and added to a contract the city to and i am all services for hundreds in dollars per year since then cost has gone up for about 1. 3 million per year of the contribution has remained the same. Nancy in the shelter supporters are hoping to get a new agreement with tuesdays present the case account so i outside city hall they tell the rally is the count all the people shall throw. Provide valuable service to the communities. Happening tonight. With the next efforts these animals may be automatically put down. Reporter city had according behindthescenes russian agreement while its too early to say to earlier for sure it to remain optimistic she remains optimistic. Pam a large water main break in berkeley causes one busy street to close to traffic. The incident was reported around noon today. At the intersection of University Avenue and grant street. University avenue is now shut down in both directions. 40 homes and businesses are without water. The cause of the break is still unknown. But officials do say, the main is 83years old. Repairs are estimated to be complete by about 2am tomorrow morning. Pam ahead at eight. Accused of acting as a fake doctor and sexually assaulting woman. What this man had to say to the victims today steve brace for a direct hit. The warning for southeast states as category four Hurricane Matthew barrels toward land. Pam a string of violent robberies targeting people in their homes. Now police make a big break in the case in the east bay. Half a dozen men have been arrested in connection to a series of violent home robberies. The Ongoing Investigation is the work of a special joint Law Enforcement effort. Grant lodes is here to explain why these suspects could be connected to other, similar crimes in the east bay. Grant grant there have been a series of armed robberies in recent weeks targeting people inside their homes and in driveways outside their east bay homes. The 6 adult male suspects were arrested on charges that include home invasion, robbery, burglary and a carjacking case last week here on conejo drive in unincorpated danville. Arrests were also made in connection to crimes in livermore and fremont. Investigators are checking for any connections between these suspects and last weeks shooting and robbery of carol brown and her husband in the driveway of their home in orinda the feds are assisting in this investigation. The Contra Costa County d. A. s office expects to release more information regarding the arrests of these 6 suspects in the coming days. Pam it is an investigation getting some back up from federal Law Enforcement the d. A. s office expects to release more information regarding the arrests of the 6 suspects in the coming days. A modesto man pleaded no contest to 2 felony counts. After officers say, he solicited women online for fake modeling jobs. Police say. He then posed as a doctor , to try and sexually assault them. Today in court, 33 year old garry chow said, he hopes that the victims can get the healing that they need. According to prosecutors he pleaded no contest to the charges. It is part of a plea deal that insures chow will spend no more than three years in state prison. Officers say, he posted an ad on craigslistdot com. Seeking models. When women would respond he told them they would need a medical screening before being hired. And sent them to sequoia hospital in redwood city. He then led his victims into a utility room at the hospitals parking garage. For a physical examination. Eventually both women became suspicious and alerted police. Chow is scheduled to return to court for sentencing in december. Marines and a few members of the blue Angels Flight team entertained sick kids at uc San Franciscos childrens hospital. Britteny and to its marly warm things up we will not see any thought to our morning you want to hold on and to flee week with airshows coming from a saturday and sunday elicit a promising forecast for warmer temperatures and a look ahead right now we can expect for the rest of tonight clear skies tomorrow warmer and sunny temperatures warmed up we keep it going into the weekend. And then as a push into sunday at changes at the things cool down a bit for inland locations. We have Clear Conditions across the region and surely the San Francisco airport once again given conditions for us not really a lot happening and no quiet weather pattern will remain for us area of low pressure that will continue to attract the east and this time will stay in far enough to the north of lost the will not cool air and highly behind us the area of low pressure that will give us a warming trend. Thats the big weather story featured castro is exactly that stain to the north of us as we go into the rest of your work week thats when we will continue to see the warmer temperatures and lots of sunshine right now where at 64 conquered 63 oakland 68 differences go low 60s and richmond. And center fell 57 degrees petaluma and then our temperatures in santa rosa at 61 degrees. Tomorrow back to the 70s for santa rosa mid70s a petaluma 77 napa 73 degrees in vallejo and the richmond. And then where at close to seven degrees for services to 07 degrees in san mateo. And then it even said that although between livermore set 75 san jose. Friday were back to the 80s again saturday ill little bit of a debt of honor temperatures. One day one of for in the response. Back to the 70s and by the day we will warmup right through a week and saturday 80 degrees of a cooler and then close to the coast since his arrest sunday another look at Hurricane Matthew, 10 minutes. Steve Service Women and men played games with some of the kids. The funfilled day included playing a classic game of battleship. There were also a few matches of rockemsockem robots, remote controlled racing. The kids who were visited. Are being treated for a variety of different illnesses, including cancer. The manager of Child Life Services at the hospital says it helps the patients take their trt 26 their medical experiences those in uniform say their goal was to put smiles on these kid faces. If so, mission accomplished. New ahead at 8. Steve bloodied and wounded but alive. A man shares pictures after his encounter with a grizzly bear. October is the beginning of flu season. No major outbreaks to report yet. So what should you do to minimize getting sick . We are tracking the story tonight at ten. With real advice on fighting the flu naturally. And easy remedies to ease the pain. We get behind the sneeze. Tonight at ten. Steve a lawsuit is moving forward over those credit card chip readers you see at some stores. A judge is allowing Small Businesses to sue Major Credit Card Companies for forcing them to use the chip readers. Businesses say the machines are expensive and dont fully protect them from fraud. They also accuse Credit Card Companies of penalizing them if they dont upgrade. If the lawsuit becomes class action eight million Small Businesses could make it a six billion dollar case. Pam google held a press event in San Francisco today. And showed off a new device for the home. That behaves like a personal Google Assistant. Our tech reporter gabe slate was there. He gives us a closer look at this new gadget gabe google home is a stand alone wifi powered device. Hardware wise at its core its a wireless speaker with voice recognition. Nats stage with the Google AssistantSoftware Built in its like an oncall voice activated google search. Standing by ready to answer your questions. It worked for me me nats try out all the information google has just an ok google away. Nats and the home device connects to your other google gadgets so you can add an item to your calendar that will show up on your phone. Or add to lists. With your voice. Nats stage google home will work with the Google Chromecast streaming media player so with your voice you can order up videos on your living room tv. Nats google home hits the market in november it costs 129. Google also unveiled the pixel a new smartphone to take on the iphone 7 and a new vr headset called daydream view for a closer look at these new devices look for my tech page on our website on kron 4 dot com or on our mobile app. Ahead at eight. Backlash against bill clinton after what he said about president obamas healthcare law. New details about a Deadly Police involved shooting. As lapd release video of the encounter. And next. Vice president ial candidates on the attack. The key moments from tonights first and only vp debate. Im in. At john muir health, we know how big the Little Things can be. John muir health. Be heard. Republican governor mike pence and democratic senator tim kaine faced off tonight. The Vice President ial debate. Moderated by cbs news correspondent Elaine Quijano at Longwood University in farmville, virginia. Kron 4s Vicki Liviakis is here with highlights of the 90 minute verbal sparring match. R vicki yeah pam, steve. For anybody who thought the vp debate would be milktoast. Had a rude awakening. Both Vice President ial candidates went on the offensive right off the top. After the opening handshake the candidates went toe to toe on a number of topics. Like immigration. Terror. And taxes. Emails, cybersecurity and nuclear war. Vice President ial nominee Hillary Clinton said something on the campaign trail. The very next day she said, you know i shouldnt have said that. Look for donald trump apologizing to john mccain for saying he wasnt a hero . Did donald trump apologize for calling women slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting . His two minutes, please. The debaters getting in their own jabs about both donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Tonights Vice President ial debate setting the tone for the next president ial debate on sunday. Pam . Pam former president bill clinton is backtracking. A day after calling obamacare quote the craziest thing in the world. At a monday democratic rally, mr. Clinton ripped into the Affordable Care act. For flooding the Health Care Insurance market. And causing premiums to rise. Today, he tried to clean up his criticism. Saying, that the law did a world of good. And repealing it would be a terrible mistake. Pam it is no secret that Illegal Dumping is a big problem in parts of oakland. Kron4s Stanley Roberts has been showing us just how bad it is for a while now. But tonight he saw something that surprised even him it gives as whole new meaning to the words. Illegal dumping. Stanley im stunned and disgusted strong words from a teacher in east oakland because something totally disgusting happened in front of the school teaches in i teach in both schools which is esparanza elementary and korematsu discovery academy. Here is video ken houston posted in facebook to fully explain im out here on e street east oakland by stone hurst elementary youre not going to believe on night patrol what ran across wait lets pause the video. If you are easily grossed out, this would be a good time to look away seriously lets continue down here down here this is dog feces that was dumped in the pathway of where our children about 60