Counsel jack smith for his alleged monthlong effort, monthslong effort overturn the 2020 election. Thank you for joining us for kron. 4 news at 5. Im dan thorn. And im vicki liviakis. Former President Trump has been charged with 4 counts, including conspiracy to defraud the united states. Hes also charged with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The 45 page indictment is connected to the special counsels investigation into the january 6th insurrection. Our washington correspondent Raquel Martin joining us live now from the capitol with the very latest recount. Good evening. Well, this is now the 3rd indictment. The former president is facing. And this time its related to his role in the january 6 attack at the capitol. According to the indictment, alleges that the former president knowingly and repeatedly spread lies about the Election Results in 7 key states. Another federal grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump charging Donald J Trump conspiring to defraud the united states. Conspiring to disenfranchise voters. Conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The justice investigation led by special counsel jack smith found evidence of crimes committed by trump during the lead up to the january 6 attack at the u. S. Capitol. It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant. Targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the u. S. Government. Even before the indictments released trump attack smith and the Justice Department saying the cases are politically motivated to hurt his campaign for a second president ial term. The new indictment is separate from the charges trump faces in a Florida Federal Court for the alleged mishandling of classified documents and a potential indictment in georgia for trumps alleged attempts to overturn the states 2020 Election Results. And special counsel jack smith says that the department of justice is speak seeking a speedy trial. The former president is set to appear at a Dc Federal Court on thursday. Were now in washington. Raquel martin, back to you before you go. And as todays indictment marked the end of this investigation. Well, the special counsel jack smith says know that there are still other individuals that are under investigation. And we know based on this indictment that there are at least 6 Co Conspirators that are not named involved in this of accusation. All right. Thank you very much, Raquel Martin reporting a live for us from washington, d. C. , lot going on today. Thank you. Raquel. The Trump Campaign is slamming this indictment as politically motivated saying in a statement the charges are, quote, the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and theyre weaponize department of justice to interfere with the 2024 president ial election in which President Trump is the undisputed front runner and leading by substantial margins. The white house is not commenting on the indictment at this time. Another big story were following tonight. The man accused of murdering cash app founder bob lee will stand trial. A judge making the ruling today in a San Francisco courtroom on the second day of the preliminary hearing for memo, many hes accused of stabbing lead to death in the Early Morning hours of april. 4th and the rink on hill neighborhood kron fours haaziq modyoon was in the courtroom when the decision was made and he will have the latest in us for a brand new report coming up at 5. 30. Happening now, a people in San Francisco do not have a place to call home tonight after this massive fire tore through a construction site in San Franciscos hayes valley neighborhood. That fire broke out just before 6 oclock this morning at the corner of octavia and oak street. Rob nesbitt is out there live for us tonight with a look at the damage and the latest on the investigation. Rob. Nikki and and the Apartment Building behind me that caught on fire was under construction scaffolding from that construction. Still here. Barely standing, though. And thats a hazard for the streets and sidewalks below. Residents in San Franciscos hayes valley were woken up Tuesday Morning to this where the noise is. Commotion going an entire Apartment Building on octavia boulevard on fire. The heat from the flames was Strong Enough to crack windows across the street. Have trucks, lots of noise outside. And then really just the it was the color of the light through the windows and the heat against the windows. The building was under construction. So no one was living inside at the time and no injuries reported. But San Francisco fire chief jeanine nicholson, explain how the construction made fighting the fouralarm fire so difficult does not have the Fire Protection systems in place. And this one, a particularly so because its open walls starts. Theres no sheet rock. Theres no why are blocking . Theres no sprinklers. Theres no. Its just waiting to go up. According to nicholson, 4 buildings were affected by the fire and 8 people were displaced. Captain Jonathan Baxter says all 8 are being helped by San Francisco City Services and the red cross. We were able to escort each one of those displaced into their homes to get valuables out of their homes. Firefighters monitor the scene throughout the day dousing embers and hot spots, streets and sidewalks in the area will remain closed until the dangerous scaffolding against the Apartment Building is removed. The Property Owner and the Construction Company are working with City Services to bring a and to remove scaffolding safely. This is a view up oak street. Now you can see just how affected the traffic is in this area. The intersection here at oak. Is still blocked off here. They still have traffic because of this fire. The streets are still closed. The sidewalk still closed. As you can see, the scaffolding still stands and they get to bring a crane and theres actually still lift across the street. Thats replacing broken windows. That happened because of this fire in the heat from across the street. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Reporting live in San Francisco. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. A lot of questions and a lot of cleanup. Thanks a lot, rob. Meantime, a chp is investigating a bizarre death. The body was found following a fire near eye 9. 80, in oakland. It happened around one 30 this morning. The Oakland Fire Department responding to a man starting the fire in the westbound lane of the 17th street offramp. Firefighters later found a burned victim with head trauma at the offramp. Chp is not sharing any other information at this time. 4500 people who work for the city of san jose are voting over the next 4 days. Whether to authorize a threeday strike. The workers are seeking better pay and benefits. But mayor matt mahan tells us that the citys offer is more than generous. Our kron fours dan kerman report. City workers in san jose were casting ballots tuesday as to whether they should authorize a threeday strike. We 911, dispatchers are working 5 to 6 days a week and we work 8 to 14 hours. A so just this weekend, im working like 12 or 13 hour days. Back to back to back to back. And we are very understaffed under staffing is just one of the complaints. The 2 unions representing some 4500 workers, including 911, dispatchers, librarians and airport employees are also looking for higher wages. We need better pay in order to be able to even you know, some of us cant even and live in the same city. Half of my coworkers can afford to live in the city that we work all workers are proposing pay hikes of 76 5 over 3 years. The city is holding at 5, 4, 3 , anyone wants to go beyond that 5 raise. Weve offered this year. They have to point to a service in the existing budget that they want to cut there just isnt wiggle room left at this point. We will have to make a cut somewhere. Weve tried to be very creative. I have a lot of respect for our workforce that shows up every day to serve our residents. But the math is what is san joses mayor says there may be some wiggle room in terms of years, 2, 3, if revenues are higher than projected, but he says the first step is getting back to the negotiating table. Were better off continuing to have dialogue to open and honest about the numbers to look at tradeoffs to look at years, 2, 3 were ready and willing to be as creative and collaborative as we can possibly be as weve been throughout. But were also prepared for a strike down and we will we will get through another union voting will continue through friday afternoon. Results of that vote will be announced on monday at San Jose City hall. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Meantime, fastfood workers in san jose are planning their own protest tomorrow. Employees will be picketing throughout the day. Theyre going to begin at the carls junior location on saratoga avenue at 10 00am and then theyll move to San Jose City hall at noon. Hell head on over to the kfc located on east santa clara street and what theyre demanding the city address, low pay Workplace Violence and unsafe working conditions. New at 5, the entertainment world is still reeling from the death of angus cloud. The 25 yearold died inside his familys oakland home monday morning. And now clouds, euphoria, costar and fellow oakland native is weighing in, writing on instagram, quote, words are not enough to describe the infinite beauty. That is angus. Im so grateful. I got the chance to know him in this life to call him a brother to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile for here is infectious. Cackle of a laugh. She goes on to say, quote, my heart is with his mother and family at this time. And please be kind and patient as grief looks different for everyone. Oakland firefighters say they got a call about a medical emergency at the cloud home around 10 skews me 11, 30 yesterday morning. There is still no word of a cause of death tonight. Family members did say the cloud struggling with the recent death of his father. And they also said, but they hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for every one. All right. Switching gears now as we get a live look outside from the top, our mount tam cam. A lot of billowy clouds out there. Basically fog, yeah. Good old fog us is out there in full force. Happy august 1st bay area. Lets take a look. What were tracking outside and thats that thick marine layer. In fact, its going to stick around for the next couple of days that brought us temperatures 5 to 10 degrees cooler and below average as well. So we are tracking that cool sea breeze that onshore flow pushing that low and high cloud cover along the coast and eventually making its way inland into the bay areas. But we are going to see, though, air quality for today and tomorrow along the coast moderate. So we are tracking some haze out there. Cant really see it with that cloud cover. But the oregon wildfire, smoke and haze certainly impacting our air quality along the coast. So just keep that in mind. But quite the temperature dip and spread brentwood, 93 degrees with happened at 59 degrees. So yeah, were tracking a 35 degree difference from our coolest coastal city to our hottest inland valley. But widespread low to mid and upper 60s around the bay areas shoreline. Hayward, 68 degrees with fremont and san jose and the very pleasant low 70s, but dublin and fairfax currently at 77 degrees is seeing a lot more 70s as opposed to yesterdays 80s. And we are tracking a strong sea breeze out of the west, 20 to 30 miles per hour. Its going to increase by tomorrow for your midweek forecast. And with that cooler temperatures prevail. More my full forecast and what you can expect at this hot weekend on tap in just a few minutes. Back to dan and vicki. All right, lisa, tonight, you could become a milit, not just a millionaire or billionaire lottery Officials Say that the Mega Millions jackpot has now risen to 1. 1 billion dollars nobody has won the jackpot since april when a player, one 20 million in new york tonight strong. It is the 4th largest prize ever for the Mega Millions game. A lump sum payment would get to about 528 Million Dollars after federal taxes. But of course, the chance of hitting the big prize one in 302 million. All right. Yeah. Thatd coming up here at 5 oclock. Another breakin caught on camera. This one. At a local business celebrating its grand opening. How its already setting the owners back. Plus, Alaska Airlines cutting thousands of flights which bay area airport will be hit the hardest and a wild scene in the north bank who police say was behind the wheel of this tesla when it wheel of this tesla when it took a hard crash. Kayaking is my thing. Running is awesome. 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Tesla for a little joy ride and ended up crashing into a pole and 3 other cars. Yeah. The teens joyride began early this morning without her parents, even knowing as kron fours Philippe Djegal reports she could now be facing several charges. 3 teenagers are lucky to have walked away with just minor injuries. After a 13 yearold girl behind the wheel of a tesla sedan slammed into a utility pole on king street in santa rosa Tuesday Morning. Barreling into 3 unoccupied parked cars after speeding through a design dip in the road at around 4. 30 Tuesday Morning. The front end was totally smashed i said my wifes nephew is cars totaled smash just went all the way through the trunk on his car. William guyger woke up to the crash and lives across the street from where it happened. They seem very young i was more just concerned that there were ok, i think, you know, that was a pretty that accident im just. Having everybody come out. The car was. This best case scenario. The 2 other people in the car were also 13 years old and no one had to be hospitalized. Santa rosa Police Lieutenant christopher her and says the driver took the car out without her parents permission. She was not arrested but could face misdemeanor charges for driving without a license to Pay Attention to what your kids are doing. If youre seeing those red flags of behavioral issues. You made you you may have to bring your car keys into the bedroom with you at night or if its on your cell phone because, you know, teslas can start by your phone, make sure that i have your pass code to be up to get your phone to take that with you as well. That ended her and says this all appears to be the drivers fault. The initaal investigation shows the car was not in selfdriving mode. In the end, the real cost is going to be to the parents of the Insurance Companies for 3 vehicles. Plus that utility pole is going to be probably tens of thousands of dollars of damage, lieutenant him or her in. And william guyger also say the girl is fortunate. No one else was driving on the road. Otherwise the end result could have been a lot worse in santa rosa. Philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. Firefighters in redwood city had to rescue a 70 yearold man from his vehicle after he crashed it into a home. This happened this morning on roosevelt avenue. This is video from that crash scene showing emergency crews gather around tail end of a silver lexus. The car appears to have gone right through one of the homes walls. Theres no update tonight on the mans condition. No other injuries have been reported. A new business in martinez picking up the pieces tonight after a breakin and vandalism less than 48 hours after their grand opening on friday security video catches this man terrorizing bentleys Cocktail Lounge early sunday morning. He also went inside the attached indoor market market and main cutting a water line and ethernet cable as well as taking down umbrellas and throwing plants around. He also stole some tools, crystal and sulley is one of the owners. Shes a carpenter and says she needs them to grow the business. Turning our business more than you this is a summer phase. So were going to be doing the winner and i have nothing. I have absolutely nothing to start that project on now. So i would estimate over 20 20,000 of items that he the need to be fixed. And says theyre not going to let this stop them from moving ahead. She and her partner have filed a Police Report and they started raising money through a gofundme to replace everything that was lost. Redwood city man was arrested in connection to a shooting near San Francisco nightclub that left 3 people injured. Earlier this year on june, 11th officers responded to a shooting on ocean avenue thats near the stratus nightclub in the ingleside neighborhood and at the scene, they located 2 men and one woman all suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. All the victims were transported to the hospital and treated. The suspect has been identified as 42 yearold salvador rodriguez. He was arrested at his home in redwood city and booked into San Francisco county jail. Sonoma county Officials Say the increase in fraud is causing a delay in benefits, distance for residents in the area. The county says more than 625,000 in calfresh an medical benefits have been stolen in the county alone since june. They also say applicants experienced unusually long wait times and delays from the Human Services department, both in person and by phone. The county says theyre working on hiring more staff by october to better assist residents in need. District announced its free ol breakfast and Lunch Program at all k through 12 schools for the 2023 2024 school year. According to the district, each student will be provided free meals under the National School Lunch Program, breakfast program. And after school snack program, some students may qualify for other meal benefits depending on their current Household Income level. Ucsf Medical Center has been named deep top hospital in the country for adult care. And number 2 for neurology and neurosurgery. This ranking was posted by the news and World Reports best hospitals for 2023. A ucsf was ranked among only 22 other Medical Centers nationwide in just 5 here in california, the Medical Center was also named one of the nations leaders in quality and safety ucsf, along with ucla health. Were the only hospitals in california to rank among the top 50. Still ahead, governor newsoms ambitious plan to ban the sale of all gaspowered cars in the state. In just over a decade is facing a new roadblock at 5. 45 . The new proposal to undo the ban . After the break, passport problems still plaguing travelers during the peak travel season. Whats being done to try and solve the issues and why lawmakers say it isnt enough. 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Congress must reject these cuts and instead support these agencies with increased staffing and reliable funding. Its sort of a misallocation of resources that the first job of government constituents is not doing very well. Always. The answer appears. Bash guys spend more money people how much it were already spending. State department Officials Say they are surging resources, including hiring extra workers and approving extra hours. The goal is to get processing times down by the end of the year. But for now, they warn travelers to keep planning ahead. Well, it might be more difficult to get. Chris, you need to go next year. If you plan on flying Alaska Airlines, the carrier. Is cutting more than 3,000 flights from its january schedule meeting about a half million feuer seats will be available to book the service loss will affect sfo in sacramento airport side. The most these cuts theyre happening despite alaska reporting record profits in the 2nd quarter. Francieco bay keeper says it that they have found harmful algae along emeryville, berkeley and albany shores likely caused by elevated levels of chemicals released from nearby Wastewater Treatment plant last year. A similar bloom caused a red tide killing many fish. The organization is urging Wastewater Treatment facilities to reduce releases into the bay. They also want you to report any water that looks or smells suspicious to its pollution hotline. Coming up here at 5 oclock, the murder trial and tech executive bob lees death is moving forward. Why a judge ruled in favor of the prosecution. Plus, a historically hot month in phoenix, arizona. The concerning records being broken and why theres still no relief in sight. Also, the white house vowing to do more to help patients suffering from long covid the new roy resources being made available. Tonight, were learning more about the concord man who drowned in lake tahoe over the weekend. Bill, see you and his
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