All right kron fours always tracking local stories here in the bay area. Theres whats happening. Lets going to start in the east bay. Dramatic spike in gun violence in the city of alameda. Its a disturbing trend of the Police Department is working to control kron fours phillipe djegal spoke with city leaders who believe the pandemic is playing a role. The alameda City Attorneys Office says it has made prosecutions of any violent or gun related crimes, a priority. This as the city is in the midst of a rapid rise in criminal activity interim police chief randy fenn says property crimes are down significantly compared to last year, especially burglaries assaults are also down nearly 19 . But robberies have increased more than 5 and a half percent and the use of firearms is escalating i think this is a societal issue why we write why have we come to this point where so many of our grievances are shuttled. With gunfire for 2 years from 2018 to 2019 there were 10 reported shootings in the city of alameda. And there were none for the first 5 months of this year. But that changed on june first since then 14 shootings have been reported citywide chief and believes theres a direct correlation to the pandemic jail sentences have been shortened and criminals have been released early from jail allowed back on the streets because of the Ongoing Health emergency as society evolves we have to evolve with it because. These criminals of all was well so we have to keep up so. You know were were trying to find a way to police in 2020 maybe we didnt just as recently as 2019 so far none of this years shootings have turned deadly the Police Department has also made arrests in 5 cases still mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft is alarmed by the sharp spike in violence if you are experiencing. Personal crises Mental Health issues. Theres so many different ways that you can see cows and alameda the Family Services agency is a great place to start both the mayor and chief agree that more positive personal interactions between officers and Community Members well do everyone some good and help build trust a challenge during a time were all being asked to keep our distance from one another. Felipe should all kron 4 news. Also the east bay, a 26 yearold oakland man was arrested after a traffic stop turned up a large amount of drugs cash and a loaded gun. This all happened at 7th and potter streets. Police say the suspect who they are not identifying at this time was driving on a suspended license and had with him several bottles of pro methods een as well as a more than a 1000 in cash was arrested on several charges. Turning now to the south bay where San Jose City leaders partnered with the community to raise these black lives matter batters at city hall today, mayor sam liccardo was joined by members of the Community Organization use hype to celebrate the unveiling city hopes theyll be seen as a symbol of Civic Engagement and well help acknowledge all the important work that still needs to be done. Matthew mahood the president and ceo of the Silicon Valley organization has resigned after a racist image was posted to the organizations website. The image showed black people some holding sticks with a big cloud of smoke on the street text above the image said quote do you really want to sign on this. In a statement, the organization said its horrified by the image and announcing his resignation, the hood said he had no knowledge of the image but that is ultimately its his responsibility for whoever posted. To the north and now the city of samara fell is facing a lawsuit over claims the Police Wrongfully detained a black male man back in august that suit that alleges that karl bracey a 21 year veteran of the u. S. Post office was on his way home. Still in his uniform when he was pulled over by police and ordered out of the car at gunpoint the officers believed that brace he was a suspect of a carjacking and had him detained in caps for several minutes before he was allowed to leave the camera fell police chief has defended the officers decisiol bracey and since taking a leave from his job and says that hes now under Psychiatric Care nurse. On the peninsula popular hiking trails in South San Francisco are still closed after a 4 alarm fire broke out nearly 2 weeks ago. You may recall back on october 16th, the wildfire raced across sign hill burning part of the famous South San FranciscoIndustrial City signed fortunately it caused only minor damage but the city says the trails they need repairs until its done the area will remain closed off theres no estimate as to when the work is going to finish up. 2 teenagers confessed to starting that fire. Some good news out of Southern California tonight, firefighters in Orange County are gaining ground as they battle 2 big fires there you have the silverado fire burning in the hills just east of irvine that has scorched some 13,000 acres as crews are now trying to really get the upper hand on that and some 90,000 people who had to be evacuated earlier in the week have now been allowed to return home. No homes were lost. But 2 firefighters did suffer second and 3rd degree burns had to be intubated the cause of that fire is still under investigation. And evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted for the nearby blue ridge fire burning in the mountains between yorba linda and chino hills that fire has consumed more than 14 1000 acres. It is 30 contained. Full containment is not expected for a couple of weeks. One structure has been destroyed 7 others have been damaged. Calm winds are helping firefighters in both the blue ridge and silverado fires. Gain ground against those flames. And now to the latest on hurricane zeta which has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm but at least 6 people have died after that storm slammed into the gulf coast on wednesday at first made landfall in louisiana. As a cat 2 hurricane that moved right on through mississippi, alabama and the carolinas. More than 2 and a half million customers are without their power in the region. Zeta has now a Tropical Storm as we mentioned moving over virginia Still Producing some high winds and extreme rainfall. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking this storm for some more into it still is pretty dangerous right very dangerous. In fact is combining with another cold storm that has made its way across the United States in fact. Its all coming together right now in the northeast and you can see the heavy rainfall that is now moving through that area and here you go you see the swirl down the south thats the remnants of storm system making its way to the north behind that youve got a lot of cold air and a cold front thats been working across the United States bringing some record cold across the u. S. Now those are all just getting together now and guess what theyve got not only rain but some gusty winds of 30 plus miles an hour across boston in new york and theyre going to see a whole lot more in fact this the very latest forecast you see behind that you get some snow on the backside of the system several inches expected through parts of new york and boston new england. It is going to be very cold on the backside of this storm system theyre going to see some gusty winds and that cold air kind of settling in for the whole day weekend thats when those temperatures for rhinos going to be dropping off in the 20s and the 30 so certainly feeling very chilly across that part of the country. Back here on the west coast though were enjoying sunshine and above normal temperatures for the holiday weekend. Thanks large still to come tonight the u. S. Economy saw record gdp growth in the 3rd quarter why the ongoing spread of covid. Could still reverse all that progress. Plus a confrontation over maskwearing it goes viral. What this couple threaten to do when they were asked to wear a mask thats next. Confrontation over mask wearing an Orange County is going viral. These said people here. Threaten to sue a Business Owner after she asked them to put on a face covering. Want you to record discriminated against because im medical condition. You can personally this. Well this occurred saturday at a frozen yogurt shop the stores owner said before the video begins the unidentified couple claim to be lawyers. Social media users are blasting the pair of are trying to bully the woman the Business Owner research does show that masks are one of the best ways to prevent the spread of covid19. For your money tonight, the u. S. Government reports the Gross Domestic Product surged a record 33. 1 in the 3rd quarter. Weekly jobless claims also hit a 7 month low. While this is the largest growth in history. It does come after the gdp shrank more than 31 in the 2nd quarter which was also record breaking. The Trump Administration is touting the 3rd quarter growth as a sign of a strong economic recovery. But not everyone is convinced. If somebody used an example this morning as if you lost a 100 in the 2nd quarter and now youre making up. 65. Boy ill tell you now. It was just last week the u. S. 7 new daily coronavirus case record and states and cities around the country say their hospital some of them are quickly running out of space democrats argue because there is no National Strategy to stop the spread of covid the economy could just as easily tank again. Still ahead tonight a testing our wastewater for covid19 why researchers are calling it an Early Warning system for potential outbreaks before they woman after covid, my hours got cut. So we cant pay our bills. And now our Family Budget is gonna be hit hard with prop 15. The yes on 15 ads say it only raises taxes on big corporations. Thats not true were all going to pay. 11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to Small Businesses and farms. Theyll raise prices. Higher gas, health care, food. Even day care. We cant make ends meet now. Families cant afford 15. No on prop 15. I welcome back when to get a check on the 4 zone forecast says the weekend is in sight. Yeah, our kron 4 meteorologist Lawrence Karnow gives us a look how we yeah you know, theres still going to be some trick or treaters out there youve got to be safe. You got to be careful. But certainly if you are headed out. But it looks like it should be a nice treat out there for the weathers were going to see some changes coming our way for the weekend High Pressure going to strengthen somewhat and then here we go maybe a couple of the ghastly looking clouds beginning to move in along the coastline, some that fee see fog moving in there temperatures are going to be a little cool running in the 50s some year we could be worried about rain dont think we have to worry about that this weekend should see sunshine with that fog moving in late. No fog out there right now to stay nice and clear toward half moon bay, a beautiful evening there but more fog expected moving i think a little bit later for tonight. Thank you can see its not that far away along the coastline just pushing to the south there near santa cruz, otherwise were going to start to see some of that fog beginning to fill in and the more that on the way as we head throughout the morning tomorrow temperatures today, 74 degrees in San Francisco, 70 very nice and warm in oakland 78 degrees in san jose 78 also limb or 79 in concord and 81 degrees in santa rosa wanted to show you this this longrange computer models trying to look for a chance of some rain we may have just found it here you watch right here High Pressure overhead bring you that sunshine as we get into halloween and sunday looking good too nice and dry then here comes a cold front looks impressive falls apart before it gets here so that one looks like to be shredded apart by that ridge of High Pressure but watch what happens late next week, this looks a little more formidable as a rolls along the coastline bringing with it. Well were going to wait and see maybe a chance of rain to the bay area by the following weekend. Meantime though tonight its going to be about the low clouds and some of that fog little thick along the coastline. Maybe sneak in just inside the bay other than that looks like itll pull away leaving lots of sunshine coming our way by the afternoon temperatures for tomorrow plan on a very comfortable friday, lots of 70s around the bay area in the valleys inside the bay, some 60s along the coastline and looking out over the next couple days and towards weekend certainly looks like a nice weekend and the temperatures a little bit warmer 80s, inland, upper 60s near the coastline. 50s for the trick or treaters right. Thanks on something for well researchers are constantly learning more about the coronavirus and they recently found it, contracts covid can actually shed the virus if you will when they use the restroom. Yeah team of scientists at u c berkeley is now launching a papa blab. To test the wastewater in our region for signs of covid19 joining us now to talk about this said development is doctor carla nelson. She is leading the team of researchers on this project doctor thank you so much for joining us. So you this is c i youre calling this like an Early Warning system for any potential outbreaks. How is that can you explain. Sure theres a number factors that give us hope that we can detect that and Early Warning when is that individuals infected when covid19 start to shed the virus in their feces before they show symptoms 74 somebody would go and seek out a diagnostic test we may be able to pick up that state thats in the wastewater another reason is that many people just never get tested, especially if youre asymptomatic and whats amazing about wastewater is it is a naturally pooled sample from everyone in a particular Wastewater Service area so we can get got this information even if people are getting tested at all. So say i live in san jose or oakland or the city should i expected. My wastewater is being analyzed. It is in fact being analyzed right now and not as a good thing because we provide that information 2 theyre open to Public Health departments and then they can consider that information in addition to all the other data that they have to make important decisions about how to it and use transmission. So say actually with a actually try to pinpoint where exactly that waste water came from of a home an Apartment Building a neighborhood and then how would you notify the people. Right so not as specific as the homes that we dont want to invade anyones privacy here. So we dont anywhere where we would be able to identify exactly where the sample team from that we are sampling some fairly small scare also for example were sampling an apartment complex that the they see berkeley pounds has about 2000 residents. So if we detect a positive signal in that waste water, then the university might decide to go in and conduct testing of individuals to then be able to correctly identify who it was that had the infection in mice right down and actress. So youre saying that youre able to detect the virus because we shed the virus is this a more dependable because the current test with the nasal swabs and what not have a you know a degree error. Right so now not approach is perfect thats why we think the ability to train great between different types of information is very useful. Theres no guarantee that we will pick up every Single Person when were sampling the waste water that we have we believe we have been able to detect and all from a single infection among several 1000 people so it does seem to be a very sensitive approach. All right. Well that is as noble work doctor. Fire nelson thank you for joining us, thank you for leading. This task and hopefully it can help. Prevent the spread. 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A run for their money they really go to town and as emily akens reports first tonight their Halloween Costumes are not only going viral. But so is their message. Theyre not quite old enough to vote, but they sure know who the candidates are done on that term and browning meat 4 yearold edman twins cody and havens. Every year their mom atria garza goes all out for halloween, but this year they had a larger audience every can you guess who they are. I never imagined wed have 2. 6 million views on millions of views in a matter of 2 days, they know they were joe biden and donald trump and they see them on tv talking all the time so they know theres somebody i dont think they understand quite yet who they are the twins were born right before the election 4 years ago, and thats where this idea came from i had to hunt down some boys suits for them their costumes complete with Campaign Signs and even some facials garza says her intention was just to have fun. But the underlying message was profound lot of people and to talk were going back and forth with their opinions and views and it actually kind of ended up being like ago vote message teaching her girls along the way theres nothing they cant do i want to teach my girls to aspire to be the president of the United States one day not to aspire to be a fairytale princess that doesnt exist. The twins encouraging people all over the nation to get out and vote. Go theyre adorable i that was a really against reporting for us tonight may have actually started something she says her twins already want to dress up as the candidates for the next president ial election in 2024 weather that we are with the cycle, know every 4 years we do sums up. All right coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 6 first halloween is only 2 days away, but officials in San Francisco warning about celebrating the holiday. How it could set the city back in its fight against the pandemic and reality check from some local doctors, they say a Covid Vaccine will take much longer than what the president is promising as. Cases surge across quite a bit of the country keep it here kron 4 news at 6 is next. News at 6. And maybe didnt showing that there is at the scene a box seen by the end of this calendar year. But in terms of someone sticking their arm out to get the vaccine probably not until spring of 2021. Now its