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The case was brought up during a special City Council Meeting where officials also talked about. The budget for police kron fours Jonathan Mccall live for us tonight in vallejo with the new developments there have been no justice for him and family know body cam footage. The dnc and decided to decline the investigation leading ensure district attorneys press and the only prayer please and our city council and absolutely nothing is infuriating. Lots of people once again obviously calling for that just as they are calling for some change supporters families and friends of Sean Monterrosa theyve also been pushing city leaders in county leaders as well to release video footage of that night that showed that shooting and of course well continue to follow those new developments as soon as they become available live tonight in valais hope Jonathan Mccall kron 4 news. Thank you jonathan and continuing our coverage, the lawyer representing the monterrosa family says he believes the attorney general missed a historic opportunity. He says. That he does not share attorney general the sarahs confidence in the Solano County District Attorneys Office to investigate Deadly Police shootings. Historical point of view has not filed any charges has not come even close we can add to what the white where young man shot once if he turns the season card sully trying to wake up and we have no faster was shot back in the air as a consequence of the Police Officers picking a fight with him on current ride his bicycle at night or view it would be the reason that you. Were moving this case only sherry and applied to other case. The California Police Chiefs Association recently announced support for the state Attorney Generals Office involvement in these kinds of investigations, the label police say their internal Affairs Office is investigating the monterrosa shooting. And Officials Say that the officers involved in that incident remain on paid administrative leave and this just in to the kron 4 studio tonight, the Oakland City Council has approved a budget that reduces funding for that citys Police Department, the Community First budget reduces o p ds usage of the citys general purpose funds by 50 . The budget instead come its about one million to alternative measures such as the Macro Program which is designed to dispatch Health Workers instead of police for Mental Health Service Calls plus 200,000 and further spending to the Oakland Police commission. The budget also commits close to 27 million to communities most affected by the covid19 pandemic other news tonight, San Franciscos moving forward with plans to open safe injection sites. City leaders unanimously passed legislation that would create permits for Nonprofit Health providers to operate those sites. San Francisco Mayor london breed and district 6 supervisor matt haney proposed the legislation which is aimed at getting drug use off of the streets and intravenous drug users into treatment. The noise starts somewhere between about 7 3830 in the evening. Very frequently continues until 3 or 4 oclock in the morning. Illegal fireworks are keeping residents awake all over the bay area kron fours taylor sackey joins us now live from Alameda County where neighbors say the loud explosions carry on for hours into the Early Morning and taylor they say the number of complaints just keeps growing in fact this is happening around the country right now. Yeah thats right pam and you know i definitely have a better understanding of what these neighbors are talking about just being here within the last hour. I counted at least 10 of those loud booms of course from those fireworks and while we typically see and hear more fireworks during the week of july 4th of course these neighbors say this is nothing new theyve been hearing and seeing them more often within the last several weeks and while this can be fun and games for some people others say that there are real health and safety concerns on top of the fireworks already being a legal. This is a new nightly seen across many bay area cities in Alameda County, the use of illegal fireworks started several weeks ago and has gradually gotten worse as we approach july force every night its not just weekends is every night is loud booming. Constantly i know theres been on other neighbors who have found act cakes like giant firework cakes in the middle of the street Marvin Wilson lives in alameda with his dog kallie every time she hears one of the big booms. Tries to run for cover around underneath the bed. The loud booms also travel to the east Oakland Hills Kathleen Curtis says the fireworks concern many of her neighbors in the sequoia heights neighborhood or concerns or around noise and nuisance. But more specifically around fire danger. Because we are in the hills, its a heavily wooded area. Many of calling complaints about the can no longer get through to the fireworks tip line for the Oakland Police and Fire Department meanwhile, the Alameda County Sheriffs Office says. Theyre also receiving more complaints than usual from june first to today. And weve taken almost 400 fireworks complaint calls in the unincorporated communities of Alameda Countys accounts for only. Parts of san leandro hayward. Outward of pleasanton and livermore well the Sheriffs Office says nows the time they typically make large seizures of illegal fireworks. They say this year has been challenging Law Enforcements attention. This year was was not focused on fireworks and prevention as were doing a lot of the issues going on in our communities around Law Enforcement so we believe that that was a Good Opportunity for people who like to bring in fireworks into the state moving forward. The Sheriffs Office says they will be putting more resources into stopping the exchange of heavy duty explosives the next couple weeks well be telling as we begin to. A move more into proactive enforcement. You know were also seeing a lot more of the other Law Enforcement agencies in the bay area address this issue just on social media and twitter you places like San Francisco Police Department have also put out warnings to people to not be setting off these illegal fireworks and not only are they legal, but the Sheriffs Office of course says that they can be deadly if theyre used improperly. Its also important to be aware of your neighbors because these fireworks affect many veterans animals and livestock for now were live in alameda tiller sackey kron 4 news sailors. Thank you in san jose, theres now a campaign called fed up with fireworks. Encourages residents to report illegal fireworks happening in their neighborhood. Jeff levine shot some video of illegal fireworks outside his house, he says the citys effort, its neighbors against neighbors. So i have to expose myself as a private citizen too to the threat of violence or retaliation. That means says illegal fireworks started in his neighborhood like late last month and it has steadily been getting worse and is not just here in the bay area new York City Police say the department received more than 13,000 calls for illegal fireworks thats more than. 10 times the number from the same period last year. And we are taking a live look outside tonight here in the bay area looking out at the Golden Gate Bridge you can see that fog over their laws means its cooling things down beautiful fog rolling in right now very thick in spots. So certainly want to be extra careful if youre traveling later on this evening as well see that fog bank rolling in you see the San Francisco right now the cloud that shooting across the bay. Looks like is going to fill in some of the valleys for tonight, so certainly out there little cloudy little gray and maybe a little damp too as we could see a little bit of drizzle with the full clouds theyre pretty thick out there tonight and probably into tomorrow morning. These impressive this that time of year we get that huge range of temperatures you get the coastal sections. You have those nice cool ocean waters in the 50s that keeps the temperatures way down but you get to the valleys not far away 2030 Miles Per Hour miles there you go 95 degrees for a high in little more today over 30 degrees cooler 64 in San Francisco, 74 local for a high 86 in san jose a hot 93 in concord and 81 degrees in santa rosa. Boy what an interesting day over the Sierra Nevada has numerous thunderstorms really firing up you may have seen some of those cloud tops you can see them all the way from the bay area and blowing up into the afternoon faust are to subside as the sun has gone down chance we could see some more of those as we head toward tomorrow afternoon the moving back into the bay area and there it is rolling on in going to see more of that with the sea breeze which has been picking up into the afternoon to 26 miles an hour right now in fairfield 13 in oakland 15 at sfo and 12 in mill valley so enough to bring the fog low clouds on shore but it is not going to be cool for everyone in fact staying hot and theres an excessive heat advisory still you may come when islamic county has some very hot temperatures just not given up highs running in the 90s in many spots, especially in the eastern half year in the central valley, youre seeing those temperatures in the triple digits, so hot temperatures expected through at least saturday there before cooling down on sunday. Outside right now weve got 65 degrees in livermore and mostly clear skies still 71 and warm and pittsburgh 73 insanely now 50s into San Francisco in tehran. Theres the gray clouds that are now beginning to move back on shore filling into the bay and some of the valleys overnight tonight tomorrow going to become mostly sunny after some patchy fog and again were going to see a breeze developing in the afternoon. Then the week ahead really mostly sunny skies. I think its going to get a little hot specially on friday. I think thats what we may just see an offshore wind. The media but warm things up all the way the coastline. High pressure going to slowly build in the next couple days that is going to build to the north here well start to see a little bit of an offshore wind a northerly component that when that is going to crank up the temperatures around the bay area in fact temperatures will be soaring probably near triple digits in spots inland. But even out near the waters edge right along the coastline has been nice and cool well thats going to cut you off 3 that sea breeze let me just temperatures there may get up in the 70s. Thank you lawrence and now to the coronavirus california reporting its highest singleday total of covid19 cases since the pandemic began today, the state counted 5,019 new cases increasing the total to more than 187,000 cases, california has reported more than a 3rd of his overall cases in just the past 2 weeks. And in addition to that disturbing number of cases across the state Santa Clara County officials are also raising some alarm bells tonight, thats because today the county reported a 122 cases which is the second largest number of cases in a single day. Since the pandemic began as kron fours dan kerman tells us other indicators are also going the wrong way over the last month Santa Clara County has been gradually reopening and as expected covid19 cases have gone up. But at tuesdays online board of supervisors meeting Santa Clara County Health Officer doctor sara cody sounded the alarm. Reportedly worth being a worrisome sign that the increase may be accelerating this increase reflects bomb widespread testing. Work finding more of the cases that do this, but it also reflects an increase in cases because the virus continues to spread in fact tuesday, the state reported Santa Clara County. Had a 122 cases its second highest singleday total since the pandemic began. Over the last month weve seen 89 work sites that have reported at least one coping case. And of no 38 of the work they have been construction work sites. In of the outbreaks that weve documented 54 have been in the construction sector cody says the county is also seeing an uptick in icu visits and hospitalizations. Supervisors push cody to seek a variance from the state. So they can accelerate reopening, but cody told supervisors that uptick in hospitalizations has put the county on a state watch list. So the county doesnt qualify for a variance at the moment i dont we do need the car but it is important to understand that the we have to recalculate them every day because were looking at changes and tram what this means Going Forward is unclear. But cody says the last thing they want to do is to have to return to a full on shelter in place. Dan kerman kron 4 news in sacramento, the first covid19 case at the State Capitol the chief Administrative Officer says a legislative aide in the assembly is in self isolation after testing positive the officer says the staff member only work inside his or her own capitol office. More a Face Covering and had minimal interaction with coworkers the warning comes less than 2 weeks after the rules committee warned the legislature of a possible exposure when to Highway Patrol officers tested positive for the virus. In a letter we obtain from june 13th. Officials said that the officers were not usually assigned to the building but they were there temporarily in response to weeks of protests around the capital officials said that they did not interact with lawmakers but did with 2 Assembly Staff members. It is unclear if the latest case stems from those officers temperatures screening appears to be a less effective tool in fighting coronavirus patients than originally thought. Contra costa countys deputy Health Officer says the rise in cases coincides with the easing of restrictions on outdoor and public activities and as more businesses open up. He is discouraging the use of temperature screening has an Infection Control measure for the virus. He says temperature screening can actually have negative consequences. Often temperature screening is hurting the person doing the screening. In close contact with the person is being screened. And so that slightly elevates the risk or those 2 individuals to be interacting with each other and potentially infect each other one of them is an actor. The Health Officer says since up to 60 of people testing positive for from covid19 are asymptomatic temperature screening would be useless on someone who does not have a fever. He says medicines such as tylenol and ibuprofen can also lower a persons body temperature and that distorts are actual condition. He says the focus on screening for should be on things like coughing. Shortness of breath, and a loss of taste and smell and he advises to get tested frequently if you work with the public. Contra costa county officials are also ramping up election safety. They say they will redouble efforts to recruit as many younger poll workers as possible to protect people who are vulnerable to covid19 as of right now the county plans to set up about 100 polling places on election day but officials also strongly encourage everybody to vote by mail every active voter in the county will be sent a vote by mail ballot and the county will set up a 45 drop boxes for those mail in ballots. Covered california has extended the Current Special enrollment deadline through the end of july the exchange announced today. It wants to give consumers more time to sign up for health care covered california initially open the Health Care Insurance exchange between march 20th in june 20th for any eligible uninsured individuals who needed Health Care Coverage amid the covid19 pandemic the new deadline means that anybody who meets the eligibility requirements can now apply for coverage through july the 31st. Yosemite National Park is reversing course on reopening some campgrounds park officials began reopening some of the campgrounds earlier this month and plan to start opening more in 2 weeks but because of that spike in coronavirus cases the park canceled reservations with a rival days between now and the end of july that includes reservations for bridal veil course camp and crane flat. The National Park reopened to visitors about 2 weeks ago, but at limited capacity. European countries such as france, italy and denmark may not be an option for american travelers this summer. The European Union is planning to reopen its borders on july first allowing some travelers in for the First Time Since march but according to 2 eu officials. The union is considering a travel ban from countries with a spike in coronavirus cases and that includes the United States plus russia and brazil. Finalized list of those countries is set to be presented next week. So facebook comment made by a Police Union President of the east bay is prompting an investigation by the citys Police Department why Community Members say that is not enough plus warriors head coach steve kerr takes his passion for civil rights to the streets of oakland why he says. He agrees with the call to remove police from Oakland School and we are celebrating 50 years of pride in san perfec. Family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. How could it get any better than this . Dad, i just caught a goldfish theres no goldfish in this lake. Whoa its pure gold. Were gonna be rich. Were gonna be rich it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. This week were celebrating 50 years of pride in San Francisco and tonight mayor london breed is reflecting on her first pride parade at what the celebration means to the bay area as a force noelle bellow talked with him there. This year marks the 50th anniversary of San Francisco pride what would be 2 days of Live Performances speeches and parades throughout the streets of San Francisco. Has now shifted to an online celebration. Joining us now to talk a little pride as san Francisco Mayor london breed. Thank you so much for joining us of course, thanks for having me today of course you know last year was actually my first ever San Francisco pride event i went to the parade i had been to other you know pride events in the past, but of course, theres really nothing like a San Francisco pride parade we wanted to know do you remember your first pride events that you ever attended and if so what do you remember most about it. Well i was in high school i am me and a few of my friends we wanted to go see the parade and celebration i remember we got on a 31 balboa and we couldnt go all the way down and so we had to get out and walk and we ended up at like 800 block of Market Street where it was like ive ever experienced before i mean the music. The people i remember there were like folks who were these women were dressed in stills like colors. And they had these bright wigs that match their dresses and i mean the was like nothing ive ever experienced before i and it was exciting people were happy. Im no went to the bathroom, everyone was focused on not missing any a and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life and ive been hooked ever since. Mayor breed has so much more to share about celebrating 50 years of pride in San Francisco. She will be on our kron 4 news special airing this weekend both saturday and sunday evening at 10 00pm. President trump takes the stage at another Campaign Rally while his opponent joe biden holds a virtual fundraiser, posing messages the 2 events are sending about the state of our country plus a big relief for our riders and drivers in the east bay what mark is saying about its track replacement project that was scheduled for the upcoming Holiday Weekend. And weve got low clouds and fog surging on shore but much volkswagen today. Youll get 2 years or 20,000 miles of scheduled carefree maintenance. 3 years or 36,000 miles of 24 7 roadside assistance. 4 years or 50,000 miles bumpertobumper limited warranty. 5 years of connected services. And for 6 years you wont have paid any interest. Down the road, youll be grateful you bought a volkswagen today. I felt scared, i was. I was distraught, i did not believe what he just said. On facebook a controversial comment by a Police Union President has a local community afraid an upset. It was on facebook that the antioch Police Union President corporal c diallo said that he believes slapping protesters who flipped off the lease is 100 justified. Anti as police chief says that he is investigating but as kron fours michelle kingston tells us some people say they want the Union President to step down. It brought me confusion it brought a lot of you know emotions weathers anger disappointment. A protest planned in antioch for wednesday afternoon after the citys Police Union President wrote this on a Facebook Post i firmly believe an open hand slap to the face is 100 justified in this incident the post was deleted. But a photo of the post is still making its way around social media, it shows a protester flipping off a Police Officer and says maybe its the people not the cops that need better training some people are now calling for the Union President corporal to step down i like him to be from being the president of the police she just doesnt look like hes a good bet for. His position i reached out to the mayor for comment but i have not heard also reached out to the city councilors lamar thorpe is the only one who responded dice just shook my head that wow how could one of our Police Officers be so emboldened to Say Something so reckless unacceptable released a statement on tuesday that said in part that there is no instance where i could dont in antioch Police Officers slapping a resident. The facebook statement was taken out of context i apologize to the community for having made it please be assured that your Police Officers are 100 committed to protecting the Antioch Community and we are working 24 7 to serve you the Antioch Police chief says he is investigating the comment. He said in a statement to kron 4 that hes extremely disappointed by the recent comments made on social media by corporal yellow at face value they were insensitive in not in line with the values of the antioch Police Department he says hes opened an investigation and based on the findings will hold him accountable for his actions. The planned protest begins at 3 at a new york city park on wednesday. In the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. In kentucky, a Police Officer involved in the deadly shooting of Brianna Taylor is officially off the force tonight, Louisville Police say they fired detective Brett Hankinson after announcing the plan to do so over the weekend. Hankinson was one of 3 officers who burst into taylors home back in march. During a drug investigation. A termination letter for hankinson says he wants wantonly and blindly shot 10 rounds of gunfire into her apartment letter also says hankinson violated the rule against using deadly force. The 26 yearold taylor was an emt investigators say she was shot 8 times by police who went to the wrong house. They say the officers have 3 the 3 officers rather had gone to the house that was mistaken. President trump back on the campaign trail. He another indoor rally today, this one in phoenix arizona, another state though that has seen a recent surge in covid19 cases, nadia romero reports. Im thrilled to be in arizona with thousands of patriotic Young Americans who stand up tall for america and refuse to to the radical left President Trump addressing an audience of young supporters at the students for trump rally another mask optional gathering at the dream city church in phoenix a much smaller venue than saturdays rally in tulsa this just hours after the president can rate the 200 mile of the new wall along the u. S. Mexico border. But the president s visit to arizona didnt come without criticism right now the centers for Disease Control does not advise large indoor events take place. This is a very concentrated environment. It is not safe right now to have any large events cases are surging in arizona nearly 3600 cases were reported tuesday a record high triggering the city of tucson to cancel its 4th of July Fireworks display. Were seeing the majority of the cases happened in that age bracket of of 20 to 44 former Vice President joe biden slammed the president s arizona trip as a distraction saying in a statement his decision to hold a rally in arizona as the state deals with the severe covid19 resurgence is reckless and irresponsible. And washington nadia romero kron 4 news both republican and democratic voters in kentucky cast their ballots in president ial primaries today, President Trump won the republican primary by the democratic race. Joe biden meanwhile held his First Virtual fundraiser tonight with former president Barack Obama Obama told the virtual audience said he believes the situation biden would be inheriting is tougher than the one that greeted him in early 2009. But he said that he is inspired by a great awakening thats going on especially among young people. There is a great awakening going on around the country. Particularly among. Younger people. Who are saying not only are they fed up with. The shambolic. This organizes meanspirited. Approach to governance that weve seen over the last couple years but a more than that are eager to take on of some of the. Or challenges that have been facing this country for centuries. That are willing to so demand an honest accounting of. How we think about race in this country. That event tonight raised about million. The second of 3 general election president ial debates will now be held in miami. It was supposed to be in michigan. But the university of michigan backed out as a host because of coronavirus concerns the miami debate between President Trump and joe biden will happen on thursday october 15th first time for us to check on the weather cooling off tonight for sure lawrence is standing by with details you can see the fog guys moving in right now want to show you out over the bay. See the bay bridge and here we go weve got the fog now bouncing up against parts of the east bay hills its going to push further on shore kind of filling in overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning still temperatures are kind of warm in some spots are still almost 70 degrees in concord in i 65 and little more. And san jose 57 a cloudy in San Francisco clouds moving in oakland at 61 to 57 right now in santa rosa. All right here is the longrange forecast as we look through the first week of summer and well its been a hot start to summer in parts of the bay area and will continue High Pressure in control lot of sunshine coming your way the all the clouds are going to see right along the coastline watch out for a couple more pop up thunderstorms over the Sierra Nevada, nothing is kind of an interesting starting a thursday afternoon you can kind of see just a finger fog moving in along the coastline but more of a northerly component the wind developing that offshore wind weve been talking about i think that really kind of settles in for kind of a quick hitter on friday to really heat things up even along the coastline think well see some warm temperatures and then the clouds roll back in starting on saturday again in the sunday theres going to be a major cool down is an area of low pressure kind of spins into far Northern California a few more clouds coming our way and interesting this model has tried to paint a couple raindrops in the bay area but tuesday dont think thats going to happen. But certainly some cooler air going to filter in the bay area starting on sunday and continuing probably monday and tuesday the well so heres your tenant and were going to see some hot summer temperatures the next couple of days at least in the interior valleys and i think by friday everybody is going to warm up, but i think the hot spots inland maybe getting near a 100 degrees cooling down a little bit starting on saturday much cooler with some winds kicking up on sunday as we look at the next week, those temperatures staying down but warming up as we head into wednesday. Thank you lawrence, a final farewell to re shar brooks, the 27 yearold father who was shot and killed by police in atlanta. This was his funeral procession today and actually went through the right by the windies where he was shot and killed. Thats where he was found sleeping in his car in the drivethru lane on the night of june 12th. That of course led to a Police Response and ultimately his death. In a private Funeral Service today his family his friends and loved ones honored his life darryl forges reports. At a holy place thats held hope. Where Martin Luther king junior urged the congregation to never let go of the dream, friends and family said farewell to a 27 yearold father at Ebenezer Baptist church in atlanta as they get my grandbaby right this is look at she looks just like them. And when i look at her and no they hes not gonna. Rayshardbrooks died on june 12th after being shot by to lead a Police Officer following an altercation in a wendys parking lot. An officer who shot brooks has since been charged with murder. But here the focus is no protests death. But on his life. He radiated such a bright light that regardless of the cowardly act that took his life. His light will never be dan. He will continue to shine so bright even in his absence, the eyes of the president faced out her what the can hope for generations dont you stop. Until black lives matter in every state and every city and every hamlet in every village in every sector of American Society and ultimately the im darryl forges reports. Investigators in atlanta say they arrested a woman in connection to the wendys restaurant fire that came after the death. Natalie white faces charges of firstdegree arson in body camera video that Police Released she tells officers that she is the victims girlfriend their relationship has not been independently confirmed, but her attorneys says the 2 did know each other. Happening now Pacifica Police investigating what they are calling a graffiti hate crime officers found graffiti with violent messages like this in 4 different locations this one say kill all whites whites is misspelled it was found in the 900 block of fassler avenue last night other messages found at the pump house said linda mar beach at this time Police Believe one person is responsible for all of the messages this Summit County Sheriffs Department and the fbi are investigating a noose that was found at sonoma raceway as a hate crime. The facilitys general manager says an employee spotted the noose hanging from a tree saturday morning. Today a raceway tenant said they remembered seen the rope hanging from the tree about 7 or 8 years ago, but at that time. The rope was not tied into a noose this investigation comes as a noose was found in nascar driver Bubba Wallaces garage stall in talladega just days after nascar banned confederate flags at its events today, the fbi announced the news said been there since october and was not a hate crime. Make sure to join us tomorrow night at 9 oclock for live town hall with mayors across the bay area well be discussing the changes cities are making to try to end Racial Injustice and how the cities are moving forward from the coronavirus pandemic if youd like to submit a video question just visit kron 4 dot com and click on inside bay area politics. Steve kerr joined oakland usd parents today as they called for the removal of police from School Campuses im noelle bellow coming up ive got cursed message for the families and coming up in Sports Major League Baseball has reached a deal to warriors head coach steve kerr joined hundreds of parents students and teachers in oakland for a rally today. Calling for police to be taken off of Oakland School campuses todays rally and march was put on by the black organizing project on force noelle bellow joins us live from the newsroom tonight with their message and what coach kerr had noel ken and pam steve kerr has been vocal about supporting the black lives Matter Movement and today in oakland, he spoke about the importance of educating yourself and listening to those affected by Racial Injustice. With chance. Performances and several speakers Oakland Unified School district parents and students call for the district to dismantle its internal police force tuesday, which warriors head coach steve kerr joined activists with the black organizing project group which has been working for nearly a decade to remove uniformed officers from local schools. The group says they instead want funding to go towards more counselors librarians and teachers on campuses kerr says now is the time to listen. Last few weeks is a really try to figure things out. And shooting people. The outspoken nba coach says hes used this entire movement as a time to educate himself and encourages others to do so as well. Especially for white him. We have to re imagine. But communities or are living. We imagine. Our support. Usd is expected to vote on a measure that would eliminate the schools Police Department tomorrow, am. Thank you. Bart riders will not have to worry about service shut down near or random on the 4th of july weekend after all bart says the crews finished a track replacement project in the area earlier than was planned the crews have been working on replacing equipment along the tracks on certain weekends since april the work led to bart service delays and traffic backups along highway 20 for the project was expected to shut down service again on the upcoming Holiday Weekend but not now. Jc penney in concord is closing for good the sun valley mall location is among the additional 13 store closures that were announced today penneys filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in may. And announced a 136 store closures Liquidation Sales are the 13 in the 13 stores are set to begin. Next friday july 3rd. Today marks the anniversary of legislation that changed the landscape of College Athletics come for us kate rooney highlights, the significance of title 9. On june 23rd 48 years ago the education amendments of 1972 were passed into law aimed at preventing gender discrimination at educational institutions among them title 9 which would become synonymous with the quality in collegiate athletics now its just like its a given that youre going to have as a young woman youre going to have the opportunity to go to college and not only can t earn a scholarship since title 9 was introduced in 1972, theres been a 1000 increase in participation for girls and young women in sports beginning at the High School Level but there are still challenges less swimming or coaching women. You know that percentage has gone down. There are as many female athletic administrators thats one reason many women in athletics dont want title 9 to be just a footnote in the history books i think its part of my duty as a collegiate coach say really remind the women that work with this. This a fairly new opportunity you know for them if it if they dont know any different and i think its important to point that its its certainly knew in people have worked hard for it and its their responsibility to not take it for granted. I wouldnt be here today without title 9 honestly as athletic programs navigate covid19 in matters of social justice mckeever and mcdermott say its still important to continue championing equality in sports. For kron 4 news, im kate rooney. Classes are back in session in san jose Sunrise Middle School started summer classes this week on a limited basis. The program will run for 20 days about 60 students are spread out among 5 different classes. They have to get their temperatures taken stay about 6 feet apart keep their masks on and frequently wash their hands. The schools director says not all students and teachers are back but overall the classes are going well. I really impressed. Some of the kids you know came back yesterday and school was totally different than how they left school and theyve done a really good job of going from school to Online Learning about the school of the despite all the on press with them. She says what happens this summers kind of a test run for how things go this fall. Tonights sports weve doubled our speeds the fastest just got after going through more drama than a midday soap opera Major League Baseball and the Players Association have finally come to an agreement that means the boys of summer are packing their gear for Training Camp were going to have a baseball season, players will report to camp on july first and teams will play a 60 game season, starting in their july 23rd or 24th that last hurdle to get this deal done was healthy in safety protocols regarding covid19 and while all issues have been resolved between the 2 parties. If weve learned anything about this virus plans can destruct in a snap of a finger but as of now lets get ready for some baseball. As the nba prepares to resume its season, one of its best players has tested positive for the coronavirus Nikola Jokich will have to stay in his home country of serbia a bit longer before he can rejoin his teammates here in the states. You know it has been asymptomatic and is expected to clear to be clear to travel back to denver within the week. The nuggets have the 3rd best record in the western conference and on the ice, the nhl is Still Deciding on 2 possible hub cities that will host the rest of the nhl season, las vegas chicago, los angeles and 10 toronto and vancouver have all made the cut so far, pittsburgh and dallas, they were eliminated today while columbus was scratched off the list on monday. This doesnt pertain to the sharks. They did not make the cut to qualify and thats what happens when you have the secondworst record in the nhl, hopefully they can tighten it up for next year, but that is your look at sports back to you guys. Thanks jason exit and cat gets forced off a roof or defend relaxing in for a little kid, its pretty obvious who rules over this territory in edmonton, canada, an orange tabby was on the roof of the house minding its own business and then came those big loud squawking birds. Yeah magpies started surrounding the cat eventually forcing the cat to jump off the roof magpies are common and the 10 year round, but theyre even more noticeable in june thats when. Fledglings off and leave the nest and the parents become extra protective when they see a predator such as a cat, they will aggressively squad to try and drive the danger away and they were successful this time be hunted become the hunter yeah coming up next the news continues on our 24 7 streaming Service Called kron on it is commercial free and our noelle bellow is standing by in the newsroom with what we are working on tonight noel ken and pam tonight, i have a word of advice for all the single men out there looking for a date speaking of cats if youre looking for a date dont post pictures of yourself. With your cat on your dating profile were breaking down a new study that says guys who do post this kind of pictures are less likely to get a date as a single woman, i may or may not agree with that study weve got that and much more coming up next at 11 oclock on kron on. You want to hear about more about what you think about make sure to download the kron on app to get 24 7 commercial free local News Coverage warrants. All right guys one last look at the weather and weve got that fog that certainly going to be a factor. Overnight tonight its already surging well on shore looking out toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Boy it is just been a rolling right through likely going to see some drizzle along the immediate coastline that will be spotty but could be a little damp and spots a late tonight early tomorrow morning that fog going to fill into the bay so were waking up with a pretty good clip cloud bank early on tomorrow morning. And then as we head toward the afternoon that will begin to break away, but you see that the love thing or fog that we all along the coastline here and finally as we head toward the afternoon that breaks up just a bit but more clouds on the way in fact you can see that rolling back in as we get into thursday morning and then watch what happens everything begins to change we start to see that the road a bit as more of a northerly component the winds start to kick in that will clear out your skies i think friday were looking at probably the hottest day of the week and these temperatures are going to soar that being said overnight lows of hate pretty comfortable around the bay area some 50s and some 60s outside by day tomorrow, but hey its going to be cool in a San Francisco out toward the beaches. Were talking 50s and 60s there about 64 downtown San Francisco 66 in the marina 63 Golden Gate Park 65 in some patchy fog, 16 o granada in half moon bay. Inside the bay youll find more sunshine after a couple patches of fog in the morning should be a Beautiful Day in brisbane about 7371 in south San Francisco of course you see that breeze kick right through here in the afternoon between about 1520 Miles Per Hour right between the u. S. And we will get 75 degrees in millbrae also in burlingame 79 in foster city 75 in san mateo 80s beginning to show up in san carlos and also in redwood city and the south bay filled with 80s and even some 90s real possibility cupertino about 19 campbell 86 los gatos about 84 in morgan hill 87 in the downtown san jose east bay still going to be a bit on the hot side plan and about 91 in pleasanton 92 hot livermore 89 in dublin inside the bay union city looking good at 81 nice warm there 70 degrees in hayward little breeze in the afternoon 79 in Castro Valley 76 in oakland and about 77 degrees in hercules were going to see a bit of a breeze kicking that delta breeze into the afternoon that up to you down if you have some 80s and 90s in many spots there back toward the coastline keeping a little bit cooler in the 50s and 60s with the patchy fog shoutout to tenet and were going to heat up some temperatures getting near triple digits on friday cool down much cooler as we head toward lot of probably thank you lawrence, good night everybody tonight. 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