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KRON KRON 4 News At 8 September 27, 2022

Firefighters are on the scene right now of a fire that interstate 5. 80, in oakland. As you can see there, the fire first reported about 6. 20, this evening near the edwards exit 5. 80, along the westbound side of the freeway. There. It has been contained, but crews are still out there putting out the hot spots. Oakland fire says that the incident started as a truck fire. There are no reports of injury or structure damage. This is the 3rd vegetation fire thats popped up along 5. 80, in oakland. The first one broke out near 35th avenue macarthur boulevard. That was back on september 16th. The damaged at least 4 structures. The cause of that fire is still under investigation. And then the following tuesday, 3 bru h fires broke out near 35th avenue and delaware street near that freeway. Investigators have ruled those fires as a case of arson. To the south bay, now a man was caught on Surveillance Video stealing a wheelchair of all things. Take a look at this security video from early this morning. This is from a wheelchair store called re mobilize ers in san jose. A man is a window breaking tool to shatter the front door, the business and then carries out an electric wheelchair out to his car and then just speeds off the owner tells us the stolen wheelchair is priced at about 2000. San jose police are investigating. It is the last week for San Jose City officials to clear the largest homeless encampment there. You know, the faa gave the city until september 30th to empty out the property near the San Jose International airport. But now theres a new problem. Justin campbell joins us now live in san jose with more on that. What is that . Justin . And thats right, vicki. And the city was given until this friday by the faa to clear out this Guadalupe Park encampment thats behind me. And it looks like theyve almost completed that step. But now there is a new problem with the park in front of guadalupe part. Theres no baseball games at Columbus Park instead of a pitcher on the mound that deal with this filled with cars. Are these in tents with People Living on the sales catches and using that help the kids got other stuff out there just never 80 born in raised in san jose says kids need the field to play in growth instead of serving as a home for people side. Tenor with them . What happened one month before that . They told us the city of san jose tells kron 4 we are still assessing Columbus Park situation as our current priorities are finding resources for the individuals currently living in the faa land area in clearing the open space as required by september 30th. So far the city has housed 174 people from that area. But 100 more are in limbo. I want to know where cannot sit and parents want a place for their kids to play little bit. Coming up right . Now weve reached out to the city to find out exactly now that so many Homeless People are living at Columbus Park. Where will they go next . What is the plan for them now that theyre pretty much almost done, clearing out waterloo, pay gardens . Were live here tonight in san jose. Justin campbell kron, 4 news. All right, justin, meantime, a caltrans is expected continue clearing the which street homeless camp thats in oakland. Its an area thats been the center of major safety concerns mostly due to a series of recent. Fires this year, the city of oakland proposed a plan to clear the encampment in phases. That plan includes shelter for roughly 2 100 residents. Another big story were following tonight. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office has demoted. 47 deputies. Because they failed their psychological evaluations. The Sheriffs Office conducted an internal audit after the arrest of a deputy in a double homicide case. 10 of the department has been stripped of their resting powers and firearms. Kron fours amanda hari is talking to an Alameda County official right now on why and how the select deputies were demoted. What needs to be done for them to be reinstated. Shell have more on that a little bit later on in oakland. The Police Officers association is calling out the citys violence prevention agencies after the city recorded 8 homicides in one week. You know, when a Police Department releasing its weekly crime report today for the week of september 19 through the 25th. 8 people died due to the violence so far this year. There have been 95 homicides. There were 100 this time last year. The Department Also reported 56 shootings, 31 robberies and 35 burglaries. Opd also says 1100 guns were taken off the streets this year. The Police Officers association is putting a spotlight on the Citys Department of violence prevention. And the mobile assistance, Community Responders of oakland thats known as macro, both were established to re imagine Public Safety using non Police Response models. Our first monday and has the story. That was to reduce funding the Police Department to the tune of 18 million dollars. And transition or or to these . No, im Police Responses. Laudable goal. But unfortunately, the money seems to have moved over, but recalls have the president of the union that represents oakland Police Officers. Officer Barry Donelan is questioning the number of non violent calls for service. That got a response from macro, the citys mobile assistance, Community Responders of oakland. Donelan says in the month of august, opd has 911, dispatch received 60,000 calls for service. So of the 60,000 calls for service use a macro 19 bain added they responded to 19 calls for service. Theres more than 20. You know what, when youre taking 2000 calls for service a day and these are residents who need help. They need a Police Officer and were just wrong. Was struggling to make it to them. And we appreciate the help for not seeing it across and for these programs that the citys invested in and were just were it. And and for those who dont think were doing anything. I want them to come spend a day in the life in between the gun. Thats where we live. The Department Violence prevention is oaklands other non Police Response service. And like mac will be vp deploys violence interrupters like control killings directly to crime scenes with the focus on preventing retaliation killings. He says the vp has been very busy responding to each of the 8 homicides over the past week. Every last one and i want to say that there would be a lot more shootings and a lot more homicides. If there was not folks on the ground working. And so, for last monday, there was the incident on 31st and telegram. That was the double. Like 45 minutes after that incident, they have to go to east oakland to 20 of to the to the other female. You know, i mean, and so like even this weekend with multiple incidents where theyre going from one incident to the next. It is important to reiterate that the department of violence prevention and macro are 2 separate, not Police Response programs and oakland haaziq menu. Kron. 4 news. We reached out to macro and the Group Released a statement that reads in part, quote, prior to the linking of 911, calls with macro team members in august. Crews have been doing on view responses whereby macro crews proactively identify the individuals who they observed to be displaying signs that may prompt a 911. Call. And Hayward Police have arrested a man who they say is responsible for the deaths of a father and a son. Police say they responded to a call about a fight at a home on london avenue. About 4. 30, yesterday morning. When officers arrived, they discovered a 49 yearold man and his 22 yearold son. They were both dead from the stabbing moons. Police arrested oscar hosway and our of bus quests. Doctors say a rather police say that the suspect was friends with the 22 yearold victim. Theyve gotten into a fight apparently at a party before the stabbing. The motive is still under investigation. Time. A concord man has been arrested in connection to an Armed Robbery reported in oakley. Officers say jonathan not barred alone, led them on a chase along highway 4 before crashing his car. The suspect was first caught on Surveillance Video yesterday. This is from and p am Pm Convenience store on laurel road. Police say that the suspect took cash from the register and cigarettes and then drove off in a car that he stole on saturday. Suspect was checked for injuries and then into jail. Time now for our 4 zone forecast. As we look at overcast skies over downtown San Francisco. You know, i guess you could call this a classic San Francisco evening. Will fog out did not pretty chilly. Yeah. I kind of cools. That fog comes in almost like the middle of summertime is that cloud covers kind of roll back in making its way inside the bay. Now were going to see more of that at least tomorrow morning. Maybe a little drizzle out along the coastline. Well, it was a nice weekend. The temperatures have cooled down a bit, though. Now youve got 50s coastal areas. The 50s and 60s inside the bay. Right now, the warmer spot around the bay area. 72 degrees right now in antioch. But that on shore flow has kicked in and that flow is bringing with it. The cooler air off the ocean waters and also that patchy fog outside for tonight. Were going to wake up with some of that patchy fog early on. In fact, weve got a cold front off the coastline, High Pressure that brought that nice sunny much of the bay area. But now that ridge started, we slide further to the east as it does. I think were going to see that for all system get a little bit closer. So by tomorrow, it looks like were going to see a warm sunshine, mostly interior valleys. But right along the coastline, youve got some patchy fog and cooler weather there. I think over the next couple days will notice the temperatures probably going to back off just a little bit. Still warm inland mid 80s in the interior valleys got a lot of 70s inside the bay along the coastline. A little cool fog temperatures there in the 60s. Thank you, lawrence. Renewed concerns about californias power supply after the last heat wave nearly pushed our Energy Demand beyond capacity. The 10 day triple digit temperatures across the state earlier this month center power demand to a record level. The power regulators sent out a first ever emergency text alert, warning people to try to reduce power consumption to avoid rolling blackouts. State senator john laird of santa cruz says enough is not being done right now to improve our power supply in the future. Hes argued that california needs to invest in Renewable Energy and batteries to get off of fossil fuels. Coming up on 4 news at 8, a new report detailing just how effective covid boosters really are. And when we return, were tracking another hurricane gaining strength as it barrels towards floridas gulf coast. How people there bracing for the storm kron. 4 news today returns. Hurricane Hurricane Ian reach category 2 strength as it marched toward florida. And the National Hurricane center is predicting storm surge in tampa bay and surrounding waters of between 5 and 10 feet above normal tide conditions and rainfall of between 10 and 15 inches because of this hurricane officials in the area, you know, begin evacuation orders for a wide swath of tampa with the saint pete area soon to follow back away. Shuns could affect at least 300,000 people. There. Governor desantis said he took note of the regions vulnerability in an afternoon press conference. Clearly when you look at the tampa bay area, one of the reasons why, you know, we feared storms is because of the sensitivity of this area and the fragility of this area. Last time tampa bay was hit by a major storm was way back in 1921. The hurricane had no official name but has now known locally as the Tarpon Springs storm. Little more on that. Yeah, this looks like it could be some kind of storm. They have not experienced anything like that. In over 100 years. And now youve got all the population built up along much of the coastline there in florida. And now here we go. Weve got the potential for a major hurricane rolling in that direction. And this looks like a very dangerous system that still strengthening right now. You see it really pounding qvc. Set up a sea of anna. The rain bands already be on the move on shore. Some of the gusty winds now beginning to move on shore. Looks like its going to clip the western part of cuba then push out into some warmer waters right there in the gulf. And thats where were going to watch things really get going. In fact, very latest. Now, it is picked up a little bit of strength now sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. Moving north northwest at 13 miles an hour. I want you to watch the track here, though. Kind of gets it stings. A pushes across the land and then as it gets out in open waters or runs a very warm waters, those temperatures running in the upper 80s, almost 90 degrees. So that is going basically given extra fuel to strengthen again, maybe some 120 mile an hour winds as we head into tuesday morning, making it a category 3 and then it really gets going possibly a category 4 as we head in toward tuesday evening. And thats when it gets scary. Already battering much of the coastline across parts of florida. And then all of a sudden it gets a little bit closer. Now. Want you to watch now the red line this the National Hurricane center forecast to watch with the model does a little area underneath the walls of to the right. And thats going to be really key to this storm system comes on shore little further south cape coral. Youre really going to be the cross hairs of a comes on further north in the tampa area. Thats very dangerous situation that susceptible to these very large storm surges of the moves on through. There were talking about that 10 foot storm surge. But can you imagine a storm surge and theyve got 10 feet. And on top of that, youve got 25 foot waves and incomes like a battering ram and takes out all those homes along the coast. Weve got to get out of arena time. All thanks. Post Tropical Cyclone fiona is causing major damage along Canadas Atlantic coast. Homes in newfoundland were partially submerged and damaged as the water level rose almost 9 feet during the storm. Farther south nova scotia saw heavy wind damage. Trees toppled onto cars and homes. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power. As of tonight. Meantime, half of puerto rico still without power leaders there are working to try to determine the damage inflicted field hit there a week ago unleashing flooding across the island, shutting down gas stations, Grocery Stores and all kinds of businesses. Roughly half of puerto ricos power customers are still in the dark. Puerto ricos government is expected to have a preliminary estimate of the damage in about 2 weeks. And just for newsroom, much Gilroy Police are asking for the publics help. Now. In locating a missing 9 yearold girl. Police say elvira has could be do was last seen it. Elliott school about 2. 30, this afternoon shes wearing a gray sweater, black shorts, black, nike shoes and a black backpack with mushrooms on it. If you do see her, youre being asked to contact gilroy. Police immediately. Well known missions, sports bar is boarded up. Asher was severely damaged in a fire. San francisco firefighters say they responded to the double play bar and grill over the weekend. The bar which sits at the corner of 16th and bryant right across from the old steel stadium was up in flames. The doors and windows have now been boarded up. In the meantime, support has been pouring in from the community so far the bars go fund me. Page has raised more than 8,000. The bar owner says hes still in shock, but hes thankful. In the east bay now a San Leandro Police are searching for a man who they say attempted to rob 2 people at a 7. 11, officers responded to the 7. 11 store on 14th street early this morning to victim say that a man pointed a gun at them demanded their belongings. But the suspect then fled the store without taking anything. Officers were speaking with the victims. They spotted the suspect across the street. Police say that when officers were trying to approach him, he fired a single shot at the officers and then he pointed his gun himself and threat to commit suicide. But when officers were trying to convince him to lower his gun, the suspect ran away yet again. Officers could not find him but did locate this firearm. As you can see there. Luckily, nobody was injured, but anyone with information is being asked to call San Leandro Police on the peninsula today. The city of south San Francisco celebrating 2 new law signed by Governor Newsom over the weekend. The laws are designed to crack down on catalytic converter thefts, making it a lot harder for thieves to sell those frequently stolen car parts in south city. The city says it was dealing with one new catalytic converter theft today. So last month they made it illegal to possess a stolen catalytic converter. Now theyre hopeful the governors new laws will further help stop crim

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