Beautiful things about her. I dont think i ever saw her in a bad mood that mood and she would just come in and light up wherever she was at the Water District that schools and at the State Capitol via was known as the water princess. Often appearing in some kind of water related costume to dramatize her message her. The specialty was education, especially a k. Up through high school and thats probably one of the hallmarks that will be remembered for is her efforts to educate thousands and thousands the young minds in and teaching them about water. The day. He Campbell Williams is survived by her husband of 25 years 2 children and an extended family who recalled her as a resoundingly echo of light and joy with an enthusiasm for life work adventure and water. She was a trusted colleague to many, but true friend a few people also within the organization, i mean a true friend and were just going to mr. The dearly and our hearts go out to you know her family all her friends so many letters of gratitude are coming in expressions of her and and to the whole community because there were several people involved with this tragic accident. Flags Water District is they a several locations across the county. Fridays family is requesting that any donations can be made in her name in care of california strong and that the proceeds will be donated to the families of all those who died in the fire. In santa cruz rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Owner of the boat released a Statement Today saying in part quote my family and i are speaking today with extremely heavy hearts. No words will ease the pain that loved ones are feeling. We extend our deepest condolences to all those involved in this horrific tragedy. The company went on to say that they are just releasing a response because they have been working tirelessly with investigators to Company Truth aquatics. After it filed a lawsuit to limiits liability in the boat fire. The Company Called the sued an unfortunate side of such tragedies. But this move is being condemned as victims are still being identified in fact one remains missing. The lawsuit states the fire was not caused or contributed to by any negligence fault or knowledge on part of truth aquatics the boat conception burned in that predawn labor day fire 34 people on board died today the Sheriffs Office gave an update on the investigations. This preliminary. Indications are that the cause of death was smoke inhalation the belief is that the died all right and that rtem and not would hurt after death but not before that. Meanwhile tus coast guard says safety concerns have put a stop to their efforts to salvage the dive boat. They will resume when it is safe to do so. The highprofile criminal trial in the ghost ship fire is now over and the judge who presided over the case is speaking out. Kron fours Haaziq Madyun sat down one on one with the honorable Trina Thompson to get her take on the case. This is a story youll only see on kron 4. Absolutely every attorney in this case brought their a game i caught up with judge Trina Thompson here at the Alameda County superior courthouse in oakland to get some of her reflections of the courtroom process behind the goal ship fire drought. It is the day after the jury acquitted, max harris and deadlocked on the charges against codefendant derick of judge Thompson Says both the prosecution and the defense made stellar legal efforts in this case. Mister mister kent consummate professionals i mean they were calm. And their demeanor was amazing. There was no stone unturned in term of respectful there were times where you know some of the council have. A little push here in the air and even with me but i think everybody would reset the following day the jury deliberated on a fourday schedule with the judge deciding to give the fridays off. She explains why these are individuals who are not getting paid. Who are away from their families who re away from their jobs. So we ied to come up with a schedule that allow to have some time in the morning. Some time during the lun hour. And some time in the evening to at least be able to remotely with their places of employment. They all have fridays so they could go back and at least work a full day and be le to maintain the continuity of their work. She talks about the decision to have no during the trial to collective we have to look at the configuration of the courtroom. Avwe have to look to see whether there was any way to have a camera or cameras in the courtroom that would intrude on the process. That would not compromise or jurors in their identity. What capture things that were private documents that were not going be displayed to jurors judge Trina Thompson is the first African American womamamaelected to be a judge i Alameda County where she has ruled on ththe bench for the past 16 years she is also a lecturer at u c berkeley is department of ethnic studies in the college of letters and science. In oakland Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Tonight police say they arrested a man wanted in a freeway shooting. They saaj just after 1 clock in the morning on wednesday. They received a call about somebody shooting ang interstate 2 80 near the 7th street ramp. Police were ble to develop several leaves which ultimately led them san jose lop with attempted murder assault with a firearm and shooting at an occupied vehicle. In the south bay, one person is dead after a fire at a mobile home in san jose kron fours can see that hr was there and has the very latest. Im here west winds mobile home park. Crews have been coming to and from for hours trying to clean up the mess of what use to be the home of one person com the fire who didnt make it san jose firefighters tell broke out in this double wide mobile home late last night after 11 00pm the fire so large over 30bfirefighters battled the blaze. When they arrived on scene it was very intense of fires were coming. Fire was coming through all all the doors and all the windows they had to make sure that they were careful once they were able to surround it with the appropriate lines they were able to extinguish it, but they were they were encounter with a very intense fire. Crews found one person inside of the mobile home who die from the incident. Neighbors tell us an elderly woman lived inside of the home and they think shes the one who lost her life. Everyone was real broken up last night of course we kind of knew right awath so just in stand. You know sadness and mourning. I spoke with one of the San Jose Fire Department captain to tells me that the care taker of the elderly woman is very luckily, ok, but unfortunately is without a place to live right now is being helped out by the american red cross. Now right now arson investigators are looking in to what the cause of the fire was im reporting here in san Jose Christina teatro kron 4 news. His friday, lets take a live look outside and see how things are shaping up tonight looking out over the San Francisco and the bay looks pretty nice out there. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here now with a look at our weekend forecast. I do learn im doing great get ready for the weekend now looks like it is going to be an almost fall like weekend outside as were going to see some much cooler air. Rowland on an outside right now a nice evening just a gentle breeze blowing across much of the bay area a little haze inside the bay and some white caps out there on the water but not bad but were really going to see a lot more white caps as we head through the weekend this were going to see some windy conditions, especially along the coastline. Latest on the satellite image you can see momoisture has pushed eastward. But just off the coastline of those white clouds thats part of a weak cold front that will be moving in bringing us some clouds and yes kick up the winds and dropping the temperatures big time. Numbers outside right now still warm 81 degrees in livermore does 74 in san jose 76 in redwood city 63 degrees breezy into San Francisco and 70 degrees in the bottle tomorrow morning. Were waking up to mostly cloudy skies even the valleys will likely see clouds early on tomorrow and then by the middle of the day becoming partly cloudy, but look at those temperatures much cooler and i think by the afternoon tomorrow. We top out with highs in the warmer spots only in the 70s. Thank you lawrence, welk police of hercules are investigating a home burglary that involve the suspects getting away with thousands of dollars from forest graham lotus joins now us more details on this crime. Yeah alarming especially for people who might forget once in a while to unlock your front doors right now. Police in hercules are sharing pictures and video keep your eye on this vehicle, right there see somebody get out of it it is grainy, but hey it is something and were talking about at least 3 home burglaries this week and is cont forcefully to all reports one family. Last 60,000 in cash. Just after noon tuesday, a gray or silver newer model infiniti sedan parks along turquoise drive in hercules and to eventual burglars pop out and run to the back of the house 20 minutes later, a neighbors surveillance camera captures the suspects jump back into the car with the getaway driver speeding off corporal greg sanchez says the trio got away with 60,000 in cash and 2 passports suspects are entering into the homes through. The side windows or doors and make it into that way tuesdays loss was the most reported so far of the 3 home burglaries the 3 suspects are connected to. Police say they struck again thursday morning breaking into a home on the same street and another on emerald way this neighbor in white yelled at the burglars when he saw them leaving the home across from them and the suspect sped off i didnt know there was a driver in the car. I just saw 2 cars him out the door or not i just reacted because i knew it wasnt the owner of the house he says his next door neighbor called him instead of the Police Telling him to check out what was going on outside because they noticed something suspicious if she had called the cops or south theyve made cotton now the suspects are still out there potentially committing more crimes solace what they see anything out of the or in u kron 4 news definitely keep an eye out and police have some tips to try to limit these home burglaries and its obvious stuff. Lock your doors lock your windows and though it may seem like that is obvious experts a lot of people simply forget sometimes and that makes them vulnerable additionally hide valuables you can install double key dead bolts to really secure your doors and also make sure those patio doors are locked as well pam justine back to you thank you graeme we have. Vaping tonight after Health Officials try to figure out why hundreds of people are coming down with serious breathing also ahead lawmakers in el paso discussing domestic terrorism aimed at immigrants details on the debate ahead. And the death toll from Hurricane Dorian continues to rise near the bahamas as many people are still Hurricane Dorian un deadly fury has now hit land and right now emergency. Officials are still trying to figure out the situation thats unfolding in the carolinas. And Hurricane Dorian has leveled towns in the bahamas as a category 5 storm dari and stalled over the island nation inflicting strong winds and rain for more than 48 hours. A man there says the water lifted his rooftop and carried away his son as Patrick Oppmann reports fortunately in this case. The story has a happy ending. Reaching the hardest hit areas of grand bahama island. Means driving through still flooded streets, most. In streets. There are no longer streets. This area in the east of the island has until now been inaccessible since the storm. Little to no help has arrived. The force of the hurricane through cars through buildings. The storm stalled out here. The gory 5 leveling whole towns. Many rode out the storm in their homes. Many did not survive. Pastor joy saunders was on the 3rd floor of his home with his son when the storm surge crashed in these. Started to make out of to the second floor of the house and in 10 minutes in the side of throughout 3rd for all. You know, item initial opt or head, telling you notice strong current trying to break loose, everything you need to cracks and this was in the middle of the night. One 30 in the morning. And then that current was so strong in the roof started to lift. And thats i was on the need the water. My son son to get my nose, he had to search late. I was just he just disappeared socially. I heard and business screaming daddy daddy daddy. He was in the water that point right hes moy the water. I try i caught on to like, but 600 feet away from each of us from the 20s. The court and to the with 32 feet high. The water carried you into a pine tree. The middle than i was your son was 4 ways away from you. Me what was going through your mind you must have terrified. Yes, i was hoping that he was a lie. And he thought i had died also. You know the 2 days later. Maybe so one of things and the trailer idea. Not so we so another Indian Government has warned people the death count could spike. In places like iraq where everyone knows of dead or missing family and neighbors that news is no surprise. Even though this is one of the hardest hit areas. Help from the government is yet to arrive. 4 zone forecast time now as we take a look at the satellite radar for Hurricane Dorian still a monster storm chief meteorologist is here to bring us up to date on that as well as the local weather in hundreds of thousands of people losing power from the storm system about 20 tornadoes coming down today and people trapped out of some of the Barrier Islands because they didnt leave they didnt leave when they should have got now the way. Of that hurricane but here we go you can dorian what a storm its been a what a story to tell as that system has moved by see moving right across a local coke island. And thats where many people being reported trapped there theyre trying to get them out of the homes right now supposedly some of them havent had the attic to get all the water that had been rising in a hurry. Alright winds right now sustained at 90 Miles Per Hour making it a category one storm system is moving up the coastline right now but its not done watch the track here moving to the north youre going to see some of that rain may be affecting places like new york, maybe also into a boston finally making its way up to nova scotia but even possibly as a category 2 category one storm system all the way up into canada. So certainly a some kind of hurricane that moved through the past couple of weeks. Outside right now for us weve got some pretty calm conditions a little breeze out there you see the fog in the distance is not above a couple high clouds that some of that storm system off the coastline not going to the rain but give us a nice fall feel for the weekend temperatures bounce back today remember talking about a ridge building in to bring us tonight friday. It happened to the numbers popping up in the 80s in the liver 84 degrees little more 88 in concord 84 degrees in santa rosa, 64 degrees in San Francisco, 71 for a high in oakland and 76 degrees in san jose, but you are to begin to see some of those high clouds off the coastline. Those will begin to move it a little bit later on and the winds really going to be a big story is theyre going to start to kick up right now youve got the breeze blowing on nothing too out of the ordinary here. I think by tomorrow evening. Were talking some of those wind gusts, maybe or 30 Miles Per Hour and yet youll see right here watch what happens we take you through time overnight, those winds going to calm down they start to see all the colors popping up in the afternoon and by tomorrow evening. Look at that all in red here you look up to our scale. Winds gusting over a 30 Miles Per Hour, especially in the north bay. But certainly along the coastal areas youre going to see some gusty winds. So High Pressure finally getting out of town and look at that low dropping on in that will bring with it some cooler air in the bay area, some partly cloudy skies for the better part of your saturday and some temperatures pretty cool that cool probably not going to get in the 80s on saturday in the warmer spots and by saturday night into sunday temperatures dropping off into the 40s. Thank you so much to the centers for Disease Control is now warning the public not to use these cigarettes as they scrambled to figure out the cause of a crash a disease linked to vaping new york state Health Officials say vitamin e a chemical there is the focus in their investigation at least one of a product containing the chemical has been linked to each person who got sick and submitted a product for testing in the state. Vitamin e acetate is commonly available as a nutritional supplement. The Health Officials are now saying its not known to cause any harm when its ingested as a supplement or applied to the skin. One woman is now trying to warn others after her son got sick from vaping. Became violently set my only set. Its just awful. The number of People Killed associated to vaping is now up to 4. Starting on saturday, San Francisco International Airport will be closing down one of his key runways for nearly a month in order to fix some wear and tear problems. The Closures Expected to impact travelers crime force Charles Clifford has details. Number 7 thats a whole is going to shut down one of its key runways use or landings. Now the runway in question is 28 left pilots refer to it as to 8 left and theyre going to shut down this runway for 20 days. So they can get in there and put in a new base layer. Theyre going to be working along a stretch of about 1900 feet of the runway specifically where it crosses runways one left and one right airport did some similar work back in 2017, but they discover that the problem it was a little more extensive and so they need to go in there and a really put a new service on to this runway. What it will mean for travelers is that there may be some disruption. 2 flights over the next month, the airport says they have worked with the airline to try to minimize any sort of problems and they picked the month of september because summer vacations are over fewer people are flying right now and also the weather is still dry. They need that a warm dry weather to finish the work out on the runway now this entire project cost 60 million that my money is for provided to federal funding and again this work should wrap up my friday september 27 at sfo Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Housing crisis is one of the biggest issues facing us here in the bay area local leaders say they want to fix it calls for kathryn he and host of inside bay area politics sat down with east bay congresswoman barbara lee. Representative will ease make sure that there. Eye is Affordable Housing everywhere for low income individuals for poor people for middle income individuals and along with the housing we have to make sure that their services we have to have outreach workers we have to have people who can relate to people who are on the house and we have to make sure when people want Developers Want to construct housing that we have percentage of those Housing Units for low income and moderate income individuals. Coming up tonight at 6. 45 a new study says vegetarians and vegans have a higher risk for stroke details on those findings ahead and up next new Pilot Program in San Francisco pneed of mental health. S in uhoh, looks like someones still nervous about buying a new house. 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