Arsons to about a dozen. That is including the seven this week and at least five others from 2016. The first five this week happened overnight in a driveway. The two this morning were parked on the streeet. Fire officials believe the same person or people are responsible for all of them. They say there are some commonalities among them. Much of which they wont share in order not to compromise the investigation. I spoke with residents nearby in walnut creek. And they say this is part of a trend in increase in crime here in recent years. One man told me that hes lived here since the nineties without incident up until the last year. His car was stolen twice. So now he says hes taking a different approach to prevent Something Like this from happening to himself or his neighbors. Tim mcconnell neighbori think its one of the things weve kind of decided that with this kind of going on and now the vehicle fires. If people are driving through your neighbhorhood i dont think theres a real problem of asking if you have any suspicions do you need some help or are you looking for something. Just ask questions to see whos driving through here. Hopefully people arent put off by that but its kind of what you have to do. Hermela Aregawi fire officials are looking into possible surveillance footage. And theyre asking anyone who lives near any of the victims who may have surveillance cameras to reach out to them via their arson tip line at 1866 50 arson. steve tragedy in the east bay. An offduty Alameda County sheriffs deputy killed in an Early Morning collision. pam the chp says, 51yearold sroeuy khin. Died after a bus slammed into the back of his car. It happened on eastbound interstate 580, at the 205 split near tracy. Kron fours Philippe Djegal tells us what happened. In the moments before the crash philippe evidence markers along eastbound interstate 580. Lead up to a badly battered volkswagon beetle and the tour bus that ran into it. The violent end to this deadly crash confirmed by the damage done to the bug. The man behind the wheel of the beetle was 51yearold offduty Alameda County sheriffs deputy sroeuy shuhroy khin ken who did not survive the collision. Capt. Christopher sherry chp our thoughts and prayers go out to the Sheriffs Department, the deputy and his family. The crash was reported just after seven oclock in the morning. And, immediately after, the california Highway Patrol shutdown the three far left lanes. For reasons still under investigation. California Highway Patrol captain Christopher Sherry says khin ken slowed down or stopped his car in the number two lane of the freeway just east of grant line road. And, the driver of a tour bus carrying 51 Tesla Corporation employees traveling from fremont to stockton, slammed into the beetle. Capt. Christopher sherry chp i dont have the statement from the bus driver right now. You can imagine, its reverse commute, traffic is driving faster than in the westbound direction, theres sun in the horizon. Theres all types of factors involved with weather, roadway conditions, things like that that well be taking into consideration when we put together what happened in the collision. Telsa released a statement saying all employees on the bus are safe and accounted for. Nats traffic the backup extended for more than 10 miles into livermore. The chp says the bus driver is being cooperative, and that neither drugs or alcohol appear to be factors in the crash. Though its possible that person could face charges. Capt. Christopher sherry chp anytime theres a situation like this, theres the potential for criminal charges. Well have to wait. All lanes were reopened just before two oclock in the afternoon. In Alameda County, Philippe Djegal, kron four news. steve we are now learning more about the deputy who was killed in the crash. 10year veteran. Srouey khin was driving home from a 12hour overtime shift at santa rita county jail when he was killed. Khin started his career with the Alameda CountySheriffs Department in 2007 and worked in several different parts of the agency. Sheriff greg ahern says he remembers when khin first joined the department a decade ago. Sheriff ahern says he was a hard worker and put in over time work to support his wife and four children. Birthday. pam contra costa countys District Attorney is under fire tonight. And now a civil grand jury has called for him to be removed from office. Kron 4s Vicki Liviakis is here with the latest. Vicki vicki yeah pam, its a real problem when the person entrusted with upholding the law is accused of breaking it. This week a civil grand jury recommended that contra costa District AttorneyMark Peterson be removed from his position because of corruption. He is accused of illegally spending 66thousand dollars from his Political Campaign account on personal items. Peterson said he considered the money to be loans and that he was paying the Campaign Fund back. Now a group inside the d. A. s office are asking for a no confidence vote. That vote expected to take place two mondays from now. As for Mark Peterson he has denied comment. Pam, steve . steve an innout restaurant in livermore is back open tonight after being shutdown for several days. The burger restaurant was closed after several players from a College Softball team reported feeling sick after eating there. But Health Officials say it appears players on team had symptoms of the stomach flu a week before they ate there. Meanwhile the restaurant has been sanitzed. And employees are being screened for symptoms before they return to work. pam new tonight, the Oakland Raiders are facing an important deadline in their move to las vegas. steve the team is hoping to have their new vegas stadium built in time to for the 2020 season but if they fail to secure a Lease Agreement later this month, the move could be delayed by a full year. Kron 4s Charles Clifford is live for us tonight in oakland with details and reaction from an oakland city leader who says he wont support letting the raiders extend their stay at the coliseum. steve right now, raiders management and the Las Vegas Stadium authority are scrambling to finish a Lease Agreement on a new 65,000 seat stadium that will sit just off the las vegas strip. In order to have the stadium completed and ready to go by the 2020 season, the lease needs to be approved at the nfl owners meeting on may 22nd. If the Lease Agreement isnt ready in time, the next owners meeting isnt until october. Any delay would almost certainly mean construction would be postponed and the stadium wouldnt be finished until 2021. Currently the last year the raiders can play at the Oakland Coliseum is the 2019 season. Sotfor me, i would never vote for an extension of the raiders Lease Agreement. City councilman larry reid has been very vocal about his disappointment that the team is leaving oakland. He says that if the raiders come looking for an extension on their lease, they will not get his blessing. Sotas long as im a member of the joint Powers Authority and the Oakland City Council i wouldnt support it. Reid says it unacceptable that the team was given the nfls blessing to move before a Lease Agreement was in place. Sotthat the nfl just arbitrarily did something that theyve never done is allow a team to relocate in another jurisdiction without having all the is dotted and all the ts crossed. Wreid also says there hasnt been any communication between the raiders and the city of oakland for quite some time. He like everyone else is watching from a distance as the move goes forward. Sotso we will have to wait and see how everything plays out. pam a word of warning tonight for pam a word of warning tonight for south bay residents living along the new bart extension from fremont to san jose. steve as kron fours rob fladeboe reports now, the new bart tracks have been electrified. And can be deadly if touched. pkg nats vta worker going doortodoor handing out fliers for the next 30 days or so the Valley Transportation Agency will be going door to door in neighborhoods from south fremont to in North San Jose educating people who live along the new south bay extension that the bart tracks, unlike those on other south bay rail lines, are now electrified and potentially dangerous. Brandi childress vta they are a bit shocked, no pun intended, because light rail, for example, are powered overhead while bart is powered from the ground, so it is different and unique to this county so were reminding them that the tracks are off limits. The entire corridor, from warm springs in fremont to berryessa insan jose is now charged with 1000 volts of electricity. The tracksare protected by a high fence topped with razor wire and signs like this warn of the danger. Vta wants to make sure Everybody Knows about it. Brandi childress vta i have been getting questions about if it will be noisy so after i tell them about the electrification i tell them we will be testing trains soon and that because its either below or above grade the trains wont have much interaction with pedestrians or traffic and wont have to blow its horn so the noise will be at a minimum. Rob fladeboe san jose test runs are set to begin this summer and the system should be up and running by theend of the year, several months ahead of schedule. In san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 newss pam a sunny, breezy friday. Now it is time to plan for the weekend. steve chief meterologist Brittney Shipp has the forecast cooler than normal temperatures along with breezy onshore winds can be expected through early next week. While most areas will remain dry through the weekend, there is a slight but decreasing chance of rain regionwide late monday into tuesday as another system approaches from the north. A warming trend is then expected late in the forecast period as a result of building high pressure. Ahead at eight. A wild chase leads California Police inside a movie theater. But wait till you hear how the pursuit started. Plus. A global cyberattack is being called the biggest ransomware outbreak in history. How you can protect yourself. And next. President trump igniting a new controversy. After suggesting there might be secret white house tapes. Are there recording devices in the oval office or in the residence . As ive said, for the third time, there is nothing further to add on that. steve questions about secret white house tapes. Stonewalled by the president s press secretary. The fallout from the firing of fbi director james comey is looking more and more like the watergate scandal that brought down president nixon. pam because of the Early Morning tweet from President Trump, democrats on capitol hill are demanding that the president hand over the recordings. If they do exist. steve it warns comey there might be tapes of his conversation with the president. Catherine heenan has the reaction. The president s press secretary refused to say that the president s tweet was an attempt to intimidate comey. I dont think that thats not a threat. Hes simply stated a fact. The tweet speaks for itself. Im moving on. Sean spicer repeatedly turned aside questions about secret recordings. Does anyone in this white house have an audio recording of what unfolded during the january 27th dinner between the former fbi director and the president of the United States . Im not aware of that. The one on one dinner has produced two very different interpretations. I think he asked for the dinner. And he wanted to stay on as the fbi head. And i said ill you know consider and well see what happens. Not so, says former National Security chief James Clapper comey told him the invitation came from the president , and it made him uncomfortable. Youre in a difficult position to refuse to go. But i do know he was uneasy with it just for the appearance of compromising the independence of the fbi. sources close to comey told c n n he was taken aback when President Trump used the dinner to ask for a pledge of personal loyalty. They say comey reminded the president that those who work at the fbi pledge their loyalty to the Us Constitution not to any individual. Did you ask that question . No. No i didnt but i dont think it would be a bad question to ask i think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important you know it depends on how you define loyalty, steve after a rash of packages were stolen from front porches around los angeles. Police starting leaving some boxes of their own. pam but their packages are rigged with gps tracking devices. Kara finnstrom reports one robbery suspect who took the bait. Led officers on a wild chase. Nats i was kinda like is this like a tv show or something . But i guess it was real. The helicopter showed up . That man was at this Southgate Shopping Center when a high speed chase ended at a movie theater. Officers say the suspect ditched his car and ran inside just as a movie was starting. Nats;not knowing, what was going on got me more scared. Moviegoers say the screen went dark and they were told to get out. Officers then swarmed the theater and arrested 27 yearold christopher cook. He was wanted for stealing delivered packages from a doorstep in this arcadia neighborhood. And perhaps just as interesting as the chases hollywood ending is how it started. Lt. Roy nakamura Arcadia Police dept. once we noticed a movement on the tracker system then we are alerted and we dispatch officers. Lt. Roy nakamura says arcadias detectives have been hiding gps trackers inside packages and then leaving them on doorsteps. They got a hit coming from the car officers chased at about 6 30 last night. Weve aired reports from throughout the southland with security video of thieves swiping packages right off of porches. Arcadias program was created a couple years ago to tackle the problem. Since then nakamura says more than one hundred suspected thieves have taken the bait. Lt. Roy nakamura Arcadia Police dept. this Program Successful for us. steve detectives filled the package with enough valuables to make it a felony theft. They say thats not likely to be the only charge cook faces. He was also in a car that was reported stolen pam lets take a live look outside at sfo tonight. Steve Brittney has the mothers day weekend forecast. Cooler than normal temperatures along with breezy onshore winds can be expected through early next week. While most areas will remain dry through the weekend, there is a slight but decreasing chance of rain regionwide late monday into tuesday as another system approaches from the north. A warming trend is then expected late in the forecast period as a result of building high pressure. New ahead at 8. A school under fire from a parent who claims their policy targets black pressure. Building high pressure. New ahead at 8. A school under fire from a parent who claims their policy targets black students. And next. A professor clashes with students on campus. Now hes facing a lawsuit for what he did. Captured on camera gary sports tease coming up a little bit later in this broadcast, alicia and i will handle some emails, if there nasty well put them on thats good entertainment. Well update you on the giants, we got as highlights. The raiders might stay an extra year for they jump to vegas and of course some warriors business as well. Later in this broadcast. steve heres what were tracking tonight at ten. There is a new gold rush in california. And you can thank mother nature. The years heavy rains have given way to gold fever in the sierra foothills. Meet a group of prospectors looking to cash in. All you need is a pan, a bucket and a shovel. That story tonight on kron 4 news at ten. pam an anti Abortion Group is suing a fresno state professor. Who erased their political messages written in chalk on campus. Video captured the confrontation. Where you can hear the professor say, erasing the message is part of his free speech. Dr. Greg thatcher professoryou had permission to put it down. I have permission to get rid of it. Bernadette tasy student good to know. Dr. Greg thatcher professorcollege campuses are not free speech areas. Do you understand . Obviously you dont understand. The university was quick to respond. Saying, fresno state defends students right to free speech. And that free speech is not limited to any area on campus. The lawsuit against Mister Thatcher wants to hold the professor accountable for his actions. Attorneys are not seeking punitive damages. steve if you have State Farm Insurance you could soon get some money. About 250 thousand californians will get a refund of up to 55dollars for over charges made between december 8th and midfebruary. This only applies if you have homeowners or renters policies. The state insurance comm