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Today on kron, 4 news at noon, Police Arrest a suspected serial kidnapper with ties to the bay area. How one of his alleged victims escaped from his grasp. Plus, parents gearing up for backtoSchool Season. Were live from a special supply distribution event benefiting 2500 south bay kids. But first, firefighting efforts continue in the south bay where a blaze continues threaten homes in east san jose. Well, latest progress on containing the clayton fire. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. Noon. Thanks so much for joining us here on 4 news at noon. Im stephanie lin. Developing news. Crews continue to make progress containing the clayton fire burning in east san jose. But that 66 acre blaze continues to threaten multiple homes. Kron fours Michael Thomas brings us the latest update from fire officials. Officials tell me as of today it is at 60 containment for this fire. But take a look at these crews have been here since yesterday and the scene is still very active around 8 oclock this morning. They switched out shifts and Officials Say that right now there was no injuries reported or damage. Take a look. This is video from yesterday. Seen the brush fire started just before 2. 30, yesterday afternoon off clayton road near san joses east. Earn foothills in the unincorporated area of santa clara county. And Officials Say when it comes to clean up, well, it may take a while. They we have one Charlie Strike Team a short engines and also a which is to hand crews. Theyll be out here throughout the day. Im also an assistant with San Jose City fire department. The fire called out a total of 70 firefighters from both San Jose Fire Department and cal fire. The teens use aircraft to drop retardant and water on the burning brush, which did save lives and homes. No damage to has been reported are still ongoing assessment. Homes in the alum rock area off clayton road in via de la vista were at risk the most. Thankfully, homeowners were prepared as to what caused the blaze. Well, thats still a mystery donor. The did investigators come out . And so that report is ongoing. And in the future, putting that down what exactly caused cal fire says the situation was contained quickly and homeowners being prepared was a big help, which is advice theyre giving out to others as we enter fire seasons, be prepared. And just try to get out as quick as possible. Does become a said or she could coming into the incident. Fire Officials Say right now it is a total of 66 acres that have burned when it comes to that investigation. Once it comes to a close, we will bring you more answers in santa clara county, Michael Thomas kron. 4 news. In the north face, nfl is stepping up a program to financially help residents reduce wildfire risks on their properties. Its called the Wildfire Mitigation Grant Program examples of eligible work include removing structure and people can also apply for multiple grants. But the funding is limited and awarded on a firstcome firstserve basis. Interested residents can visit the city of san ruffles website or call the Wildfire Mitigation Team at 4, 1, 5, 805, 3, 0, 5, 4, all right. Speaking of wildfire conditions in mitigation efforts is checking on our weather conditions now taking a look at mount tam out of our mount tam camera at this hour and pretty blue skies up above. Nice to see all of but of course, we know the firefighters are working to stamp out that fire in the south bay kyla. Yeah, thats right. And weather is on their side today. We are warming up a bit but nothing extreme. Just average temperatures you can see wind down in the south bay right now is calm. It should stay that way until we get later into this afternoon and well see things pick up a bit. The marine layer certainly present as we take a live look out at half moon so were going to see that marine layer, compressed. But still, its hanging on to the coast today. But if you head inland at all, youre seeing lots of beautiful sunshine and a little bit quicker. Todays are taking a live look from the east bay temperatures. Still a little cool in San Francisco. 58 degrees, but were at 66 in oakland. Weve got 70s from san jose to livermore to concord, right over to santa rosa. So we are going to see a bit of a warmup today and were already noticing that if you look at the difference in temperatures between 24 hours ago and now with the exception of Half Moon Bay in napa running about 2 degrees cooler. Everyone else is running a bit warmer. And so, you know, this is the beginning of the heat. Thats going to come our way as we head towards the weekend. But today, really nice kind of seasonal temperatures. Again, weve got that marine layer kind of clinging to the coast and that will happen throughout the afternoon. And thats why Half Moon Bay will be kind of pushing to get up to 60 degrees. But notice if you head to the inner east bay upper 80s, steven, 90 degrees, some upper 80s also and mid 80s in the north bay and down the south bay. Theyll likely stay in the 70s, but the big picture here is our inland valleys this weekend that are set to heat up to the tune of some low triple digit heat that will peak on sunday. But the heat for saturday sunday and monday. Ill talk more about that. And when it is over with when i come back in a bit for now, send it back to the next. All right. Cuyler, thank you. And it is that time of year again back to School Season is here. And the ready to learn event is in full swing with a drivethru School Supplies giveaway. Proffers Charles Clifford joins us live now from sonny bill to explain. Hey, charles. Yeah. Well, summer is not over yet, but the first day of school just a couple weeks away here in sunnyvale, Community Services is doing what they can to help families get ready. As part of its annual backtoschool distribution program, sunnyvale Community Services is providing families with age appropriate School Supply kits full of pencils markers and paper. They also included gift cards that can be used to buy backpacks, shoes. And other essentials in order to qualify for the School Supplies. Parents have to live in sunnyvale and have schoolage children. The program is really meant for lowincome families who might need help getting their kids ready for the new school year. Community services hopes to provide School Supplies to 2500 children during the month of august. Were hopeful that. Each child feels like theyre excited, ready and theyve gotten issues. And you either new other supplies that will make them feel very special and very, very, very much ready to learn in the fall. In addition to the School Supply giveaway, sunnyvale Community Services also does work here around helping people deal with. Homelessness and hunger. They are always in need of donations and volunteers. If you want more details on the School Supply giveaway or want to help out in some other way. You can visit their website which is Community Services, dot org. All right, back live now. The School Supply will continue until 06 00pm tonight. This is at their headquarters here along current avenue in sunnyvale. But for now in the south bay, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. All right, charles, thank you. 8 yearold. Left paralyzed from the neck down after being caught in the crossfire of an east bay highway shooting. That shooting happened last month on the eastbound lanes of 5. 80, near harrison street in oakland. The family requested we only use the childs first name in our coverage. He goes his family says the bullet pierced the spinal column of his neck. They say, despite this traumatic incident says in good spirits, making them laugh and reading his favorite books. Happening now, police are looking for a man who could be connected to a homicide in emeryville. Authorities say oakland resident ryan bell, sir, as a person of interest in this case, the killing happened on may. 26 on the intersection of 41st street and san pablo avenue oakes card club. Anyone with information on beltres whereabouts is asked to please call emeryville police. And an alleged kidnapping victim is being called a hero after her escape led to the arrest of a suspected serial kidnapper with bay area ties. The gas is a very is accused of kidnapping and walking a woman inside a makeshift cell that he built in his garage in oregon. Officers say is a very posed as an undercover cop flashing a fake badge at the worker in seattle before driving her 7 hours and hundreds of miles to his apartment where he locked her up. Investigators say the woman escaped by punching the door of that. So repeatedly when she got out, she hopped a fence and flagged down a passing car. Court documents show once a very realized the woman escaped. He fled to reno where officers arrested him the next day. Our sister station in portland spoke with one of his former neighbors. For him. It was more like. You know, im on the man. Im taking charge. And so when they when i found out about even like the whole pretend to be a cop. Thats not surprising from him. You know, because thats i keep is a con artist. The fbi is now searching for any other potential victims. Authorities say the suspect lived in several different states over the past decade and had lived in oakland for 6 years. Zuberi will be tried in oregon. He is charged with interstate kidnapping, which means he could spend life in force unsheltered people from occupy public spaces. If there are no other options available to them. The Santa Rosa City council is considering an ordinance that restricts camping to specific locations under certain circumstances. Franciscos department of Emergency Management released new data on the number of Homeless People in San Francisco who have refused to sleep in a shelter despite being offered City Services this year, the healthy streets Operation Center approach engage more than 2000 People Living on the streets of those about 1000 excepted shelter services. So about half the rest declined offers for shelter. The day together does not include shelter placements made by other street outreach teams such the Homeless Outreach out, which team or street Crisis Response team. Well, its all this information. Mayor london breed responded, arguing what the outreach can do can actually do is limited. She says the city is under a federal injunction that limits the ability to move these encampments even when people refuse shelters. All right. Take a look at this. The San Francisco Sheriffs Office announcing a large drug seizure, according to the sheriffs facebook page. These drugs were taken off the street wednesday night. They include 815 milligrams of fentanyl along with 58 grams of meth and 24 grams of cocaine. This comes just days after the chp announced it has removed more than 15,000 grams of fentanyl off San Francisco streets since may 1st. Coming up on kron. 4 news at noon. The searchers are about to start phase 2. A trial centered around long covid. We have those details ahead. Plus, the ongoing feud between governor gavin newsom and Florida Governor ron desantis could turn into an official debate between the 2 leaders. But first, an east bay gardner has his work. Trucks stolen. His familys call for support. East bay family is asking for the communitys help to get their dads business back up and running. This after someone stole his work truck with all of his tools inside kron fours Ella Sogomonian reports. You guys broke on my and east bay garners troubled after getting his work truck and tools stolen at a worksite clear case of runs gets on the garden service. He says he was in berkeley last week when in mere minutes someone took off with his truck carrying all of his tools worth more than 150,000. Everything but all and not on mueller weedy mean james, a all that we to garden needed. A surveillance camera captured a part of the theft from around 7 oclock last thursday morning, a black car spotted next a kiss on truck as a truck drives away gets out says he called police, but hes not holding his breath. I know that never come back. You know, people or something. That couldnt have happened at a worse time for casella. He had also kept his passport and documents in his truck because he and his family were planning to go on a much needed vacation the next day. For 14 days in mexico to visit my family and take a little break about my for the last february. Next, stay in the hospital 10 days. What tv . So i when happened. So i fit in that. Could you know, betty, betty, and mad about it because i dont have no. And make you saw that has been able to keep working. Thanks to his neighbors and friends. Who lent him . Some old landscaping tools and money to replace the he says he needs to get a new truck to run his business. I had they want use right now, but hes not. Not that ready. Is now used for work because do lie. And i have my fate so i need Something Like that when i have to keep it out. And that you know. And that was Ella Sogomonian reporting for us. Kids out his daughter has started a gofundme page to help her dad get back on his feet. Theyve already raised more than 15,000. Lets talk about our forecast now as we take a live look outside beautiful city of San Francisco could see Sales Force Tower just right in the middle of your screen there. Beautiful blue skies above. Lets check in now with cuyler to see what shes tracking. Hey, kyla. Hey, im tracking a gorgeous day out there for everybody. Yeah. If you have time to get out and take a walk today, highly recommend theyre going to get a nice sunshine take a live look from our mount tam cam. You can see air. Marine layer still present. Giving us a little bit of a break as High Pressure starts to move in from the Desert Southwest and the South Central part of the country where weve really had that dome of heat thats been parked there. So as it starts to meander towards the west, we will see some a Southern California go into these excessive heat watches and warnings, including areas like palm springs and that kicks in on saturday and goes through monday. Now we dont have any watches or warnings, but that doesnt mean we wont be warming up. We certainly will. As we start to see that marine layer compressed and we get that High Pressure moving a little bit closer to temperatures right now. You can see where were starting to see the heat, right . 84 degrees in antioch right now. 78 in livermore also heating up in the north bay. 75 in santa rosa right now. 76 down a Mountain View and san jose around the bay itself. Weve got 65 in San Francisco and of course, that it happened a little bit cooler. So yesterday livermore is the line in blue here that got up. They got up to at 75 degrees. Now today livermore is expected to exceed that by about 13 degrees and get up into the upper 80s. So as we take a live look from the east bay here, you can see all of that sunshine thats starting to roll. And that is why were going to go from those below average temperatures yesterday to at least kind of where we should be today, which will be upper 80s if you are inland. 64 around San Francisco about 68 in oakland. So these are the high temperatures tomorrow. And thats when we really start to see the heat kick in. Thats were going to see some of those mid 90s start to show up. And that is just the beginning as we move a little warmer as we get into sunday, some potential triple digit heat for our inner east bay in particular and sunday. Still hot on monday inland by tuesday. Were going to come back down into more seasonal temperatures. So just a little bit hot this weekend. Make sure you make your plans accordingly. Back to you. All right. Cuyler, thank you for that. California governor gavin newsom and Florida Governor ron desantis could soon take their ongoing public feud to the puck to the debate stage. Kron fours Eytan Wallace shares the formal debate offer newsom sent to desantis how desantis is responding. Ron desantis since theyre claiming this freedom gospel leadership matters. They are doing it wrong here. No wonder why weve had so many people moved from San Francisco to florida. They have not shied away from attacking one another. And now california governor, democrat gavin newsom in florida, governor, republican president ial hopeful ron desantis say they are interested in the formal newsom. Desantis inperson debate. A Newsom Campaign spokesperson confirms the newsom team sent fox news channel. This 3 page letter proposing just how such a debate would work. First newsom is calling for the debate to air live this november on fox news moderated by conservative political commentator sean hannity per newsoms proposal. The debate would last 90 minutes with no Live Audience and no notes allowed for either candidate. Each would be allowed 90 seconds to answer questions. And another 90 seconds to respond to the other candidates answers during an interview with hannity on wednesday, desantis said he is interested but did not elaborate on the specific time or date. Desantis later wrote this on twitter. Quote, the debate between california and florida is already over. People have beon voting with their feet for years. But the debate about the future of our country is one we need to game to talk about my plans to reverse a decline in this country anytime anywhere. Because ive the best vision for the future of our country. This is probably good for both of them and the sense that they both want a Higher National profile Loyola Law School professor jessica levinson, i dont think that a lot of independent voters will be swayed one way or another. But i think this is a way of trying to shore up support for both of them, both their base. Governor newsom is not running for president , but hes running this kind of shadow National Campaign where he wants to continue to be a national figure. Governor desantis is flagging in the polls and he is running for president , but hes not gaining an enormous amount of traction against former president trump. So i think for both of them to be elevated to this point where theyre having a debate that many of us are anticipating on national tv is probably a win by tom wallace. Kron 4 news. Happening tomorrow. Immigration reform advocates in the bay area start a threeday march into San Francisco. To demand congressional action on immigration groups gather in san jose and petaluma starting at 8 oclock tomorrow morning. They will meet at the Federal Building in San Francisco monday. The group is calling on congress to pass the registry bill. They say it would allow 8 million undocumented people to apply for legal permanent residency. Im Trevor Shirley in washington as russia moves to block all grain exports from ukraine. Experts say the impact will be felt all over the globe, particularly in poor countries. All explain why coming up just ahead. And as we head to backtoSchool Season, the tips from experts on ways you can help your child get on a Healthy Sleep schedule for their first day back in class. For your health, Health Experts are lending some tips on how to help you get your kids sleep back on track for their first day of classes. First, they say to make sure that your kids have had some time throughout the day to release any pentup energy. And next find a good bedtime routine. Doctors say that should last between 10 to 20 minutes and includes some relaxing activities. Theyre younger, maybe their bed time routine includes brushing their and then cuddling up and listening to a story ending with a lovely hug. Good night, your child a little bit older, maybe is still start with that teeth. Brushing. But then decompress about that a little bit. Talk about like what they are. They was like keeping things calm and positive. And how much time should your child actually spend sleeping . Well, it depends on their age. Doctors say preschool age kids should get at least 10 hours Elementary School students to try for at least 9 hours and teens, at least 8 doctors say sleep is tightly linked with attention and learning and Getting Better sleep lead to better performance. Researchers are working to better understand and treat long covid. The National Institutes of health. They are opening enrollment for phase 2 Clinical Trials that will evaluate at least 4 potential treatments. Those include drugs, medical devices and other therapies to treat those longstanding symptoms. More than 24,000 participants have been recruited so far. Plans are in the works to analyze more than 60 Million Health records and run studies on how covid affects different body tissues and organs. Coming up on kron, 4 news at noon, former President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Plus, the alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reaching out to the Writers Guild of america. What we know so far as the strike reaches 100 days. The first jose mayor matt mahan joins us live to discuss homelessness and other challenges facing his city and the Solutions Proposed to address those issues. Welcome back. Lets check in on our forecast as we take a live look outside at the embarcadero. One of my most favorite views of the from this perspective, lovely blue skies up above and not too much of a breeze out there, though. Just a little bit. We can see that flag on the out in the distance, waving just a bit. Lets check in now with cuyler for kyla. Yeah, its kind of a perfect day out there. Yeah, its really not too warm. Not too kind of sunny, beautiful, Beautiful Day area. Day today as we take a live look from the east bay little bit of marine layer. Still kind of hanging out there, but definitely making an improvement over where we were this time yesterday. So happy friday. Everybody is going to be seasonal and gorgeous today. Tonight well see some of the clouds increase as we get into the overnight. Some patchy over not neck. Fog will be out there for us. And then tomorrow were going ho be warm to hot this weekend inland. Also going to see our air quality slip just a little bit. Now. Right now, were looking good. But as you know, there are wildfires that are out and about around up in oregon, down in parts of Southern California and even locally in san jose. We have a brush fire that theyre dealing with. Thankfully looks like theyre doing pretty good. Its its 60 containment. But what that means is that, you know, as we get into tomorrow, were going to see some of our air quality slip into moderate and even further as we get to sunday and monday where everyone is forecast to be into moderate. So just a heads up because as were going into this heat, get a little haze. If youre a person, has respiratory issues just want make sure youre looking out for yourself. Beautiful, though, as we take a live look here, quite shower with this gorgeous blue sky weve got going on today. The heat is on as we get into saturday by sunday. We kind of peak will be very warm on monday as well. Before we start to see this pullback, youre going skate the heat, maybe head to the sierra. Were taking a live look there right now. Beautiful today. Looking at about 78 degrees, upper 70s low 80s as we get into saturday and sunday. Maybe youre headed out of town, headed to the airport. Boy, we can see a lot more of the airport today than we could yesterday. Seeing some delays at la x right now. You can see right there about 66 minutes. Its traffic related. We do have some weather on the east coast and there are no delays right now. We can tell you, boston Newark Airport are seeing some because of some thunderstorms looking good locally in our airports. If you are headed out everything running on time, ill be back a little bit. Well talk more about our extended forecast dallas and in all right. Cuyler, thank you so much. Happening now, thousands of workers in the bay areas largest city are casting their vote on whether they want to go on strike their contract with the city of san jose expired a month ago. Jose mayor matt mahan joins us live now to discuss the latest issues impacting his city and share some solutions that are on the table right now there. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me. All right. So wed like to start off with those headlines week. I just mentioned involving your city workers, a 4500 of them are voting this week on whether or not to go on strike. We wont know the results of the vote until monday, but if they stop working, this could impact City Services in a pretty big way. Could you walk us through how negotiations are going now . There just for context, a majority of our bargaining units which different unions representing different groups of city workers. Have current contracts. And just this year we settled for contracts with additional bargaining unit. So theyre still for that are outstanding. Unfortunately, those groups walked out of mediation after just one meeting. And, you know, the tough reality is that. The city is offering a 5 raise, which is exactly where the county just settled with some of its big bargaining units to go beyond 5 in this economy. We will have to make difficult tradeoffs. Weve been working very hard to be creative to look at solutions that say in the out years and years, 2, 3 of the contract. If theres more revenue than expend expected, then we can do a larger raise. But in year one for us to give more than a 5 raise will have to identify painful cuts. We have to reduce staffing and police and fire cut Library Hours or pay few roads. And these are essential services that our residents also rely on. So without a deal thats fair for everyone. We have a great workforce here. They deserve a raise. Thats what were offering them. I just dont see how we go beyond 5 without having to cut services, which is not a position in of us want to be yeah, it sounds like unions that are still outstanding the city hasnt reached a deal with yet. Theyre calling for a 7 pay theyre also calling for increased paid family leave you know, how confident are you at this point that a deal can be reached with you mention that it would be difficult to go beyond that 5 . Thats exactly right. I do want to note that the city offered an additional 3 weeks of paid parental leave, which is a significant increase. And its a commitment we should make as parent with young children. I know how important that paid parental leave is in terms of the gap between 7 and 5 . Our estimate is that we are over 20 Million Dollars apart. And as i mentioned, thats a substantial amount of money for a city of santa event of our size. That would mean significantly reducing Library Hours or staffing in critical city service area. So i dont see how we get to 7. I mentioned, i think its really possible that when we look at years, 2, 3 of this contract week, our budget projections could be too conservative. Its possible that revenue will come in higher than expected in which case i think we should offer workers an automatic trigger and say we will pay more will will be able to go a little higher than we expected. If the revenues there, we can do it without Cutting Services or taking on debt and unfunded liabilities as weve done in the past. And frankly paid quite a price for do it. Okay. Well stay in touch with your to follow up on that story. But we like to switch the topic now to homelessness. Among like to ask you about a new law that youre proposing that would homeless encampments in rvs near schools. Why do you think that this in particular is so important and what you say to critics who say that this violates the rights of the unhoused. Well, first on on that last point you just made. I firmly believe that we have to do 2 things at the same time we have to increase places for people to go that are safe and managed and where people can connect with Supportive Services from job training and and drug treatment to just basic necessities like meals and sanitation. So i think its important that were offering People Services and safe places to go at the same time, we have a responsibility for protecting the community and minimizing the impacts of homelessness. And that starts with our children. I was inspired by a group of students at kipp collegiate out in the side. San jose who began organizing because of the significant impacts that encampment right next to their school was having on their learning environment. They were finding needles on their lunch tables. They had folks sleeping in their bathrooms. They had repeated breakins and thefts. And so i went out to the school along with the Council Member from the district Council Member ortiz. We brought in san jose police. We sat down with School Administrators and students. This is really a studentled effort. As we talk to students, we agreed that one thing we can do without criminalizing homelessness is just create a reasonable buffer zone around schools and daycares and say the places where our children are learning and being cared for should safe. They should be welcoming safe, friendly environments. And all that means is we are asking that our colleagues enforce an ordinance to create an ordinance and enforce it. That would say 150 feet from the Property Line of any school or daycare in the city. We will not allow encampments. Thats not criminalizing homelessness. It is just creating a very modest buffer one so that students can feel safe getting on and off campus each day and and feel like that. Theyre in a protected learning environment. I think its the least we can do. And frankly, we have a lot more work ahead of us to to really balance those 2 sides of the equation, more places for people to go and then Holding People responsible for coming indoors. All right. Were going head to our next question in interest of time. Mister it would want to talk about another chronic issue for the city of san jose. The topic of, you know, deadly traffic collisions that involved pedestrians in late july. You san jose mark, more than 2 dozen crashes, a baby was involved in a recent one. And we know that alcohol and speed are not always factors. So what is the reason that this keeps on happening . Yes, that recent death involving a child is just obviously devastating to my my heart goes out to their their family. You know, we are. Were taking a number of measures in a significant number of these cases. Speeding is involved about a 3rd of these cases. Ive been a big advocate for speed safety cameras, which we would need the state legislature to enable us to do that is working its way through the legislature as we speak. We are making investments in the built environment. We have a vision 0 plan. Were investing millions of dollars improving lighting narrowing streets where appropriate, adding protected bike lanes. Were also doing education campaign. Fundamentally what we need is behavior change, particularly on the part of drivers. We need drivers to slow down to pay attention, to not pick up the cell phone and to follow our traffic laws. And that means enforcement. Ive also led the charge to double the rate at which we Hire Police Officers so that we can build up our Traffic Enforcement unit once again. Course, we also need pedestrians to be very alert and careful. Our roadways are not as safe as they should be. And so we encourage people to use crosswalks and to really be very alert when when walking near and across our roadways, its going to take investments in technology. The built environment, more enforcement and Public Education to create the kind of behavior change that we need to ensure that everyone safe on our roads. All right. San jose mayor matt mahan, thank you for your time and perspective today. Thanks for having me. Now to our next story. Former President Donald Trump appeared in a dc courtroom yesterday to answer for charges he conspired to overturn the 2020 election. That arraignment lasted less than 30 minutes and was his 3rd Court Appearance this year. The former president stood before a federal magistrate judge who read the charges that he faces. The judge asked trump if he understood his rights, which he said he did. The former president then pleaded not guilty to all 4 counts, which include conspiracy, obstruction and denial of rights. The Justice Department alleges trump lead a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Special counsel jack smith filing the charges saying trump knew he lost the election but continued to peddle lies that the election was stolen leading to the january 6 attack on the capitol. Secretary of state Antony Blinken called out russias attacks on ukraines Agriculture Sector warning the rest of the world while that theyre paying the price. Our washington correspondent Trevor Shirley has the details. As russia moves to continue to stop grain from leaving ukraine. The impacts will likely be felt all over the globe. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken says russia is using hunger, particularly in poor countries as a weapon against the whole world. Every member of the united nations. Should tell moscow. Treating the worlds most Vulnerable People as leverage. Russia recently ended agreement allowing grain exports out of ukraine to continue despite the war. Now russia says it will fire on any ships attempting to enter or exit ukrainian ports since russia has decided to tear up that agreement. Weve seen prices go for everyone. Lincoln says 90 countries are joining a u. S. Pledge to combat the disruption of Food Supplies as a means of war. What hes russias response been to the worlds distress, an outrage. Bombing, ukrainian grand juries. Mining port entrances, threatening to attack any vessel in the black sea no matter its flag. No matter its cargo. 2 million this month. However, russian officials at the un say the west is damaging the worlds food supply to its sanctions on russian goods. Blinken says the u. S. Is willing to do whatever is necessary to keep russian goods flowing. If russia allows ukraine to restart grain exports. We want to see that food on world markets. We want everyone to benefit from the lower prices. And russia has given no indication it plans to allow those grain exports to resume any time soon. Reporting in washington, im Trevor Shirley. Coming up on kron, 4 news at noon. Have you purchased your ticket yet . Another Mega Millions drawing is coming up. Take a look at the excitement building in the bay area. The summer camp that get students interested in stem careers. See how its inspiring a new generation of engineers. Im rich demuro. Thats coming up in tech. Smart. But first, an antioch program for troubled youth could help with Police Staffing in the city. We take a look after the break. Off young adults with troubled backgrounds are turning their lives around after getting on the job experience working for the city kron fours Philippe Djegal explains. The antioch mares Apprenticeship Program was developed as an alternative way to tackle crime by investing in troubled young people who were interested in turning their lives around this program came out our frustration with some of our local communities like sycamore. Where we kept sending the police to solve all of our problems. And we said this isnt working because the same people are still at the same corners, doing the exact same thing. Even when they come out of jail, the inaugural class is made up of 8 young adults who over the past 6 months were paid to train and work parttime with Department Public works. On thursday think its recognition after successfully completing the program. This was a great opportunity for us. To come in and get some Level Experience on working with power tools. You know, just getting some outside experience. Mayor lamar looks expand the program to other city agencies like the police department, which is struggling with low staffing. This as dozens of officers have either been terminated or been placed on administrative leave in connection with a federal investigation into Police Misconduct and a racist and homophobic text messaging scandal. And next week, chief doctor steven ford will retire from the police force. I dont think its preparing them to be an officer would be preparing them to get ready for the academy is an example. The mayor says the acting city manager is expected to name an acting chief within the next week. As for the apprentice some are currently applying for fulltime city jobs in antioch, Philippe Djegal, all kron. 4 all right. Lets talk about our forecast now as we take a live look outside at San Francisco international airport. Nice blue skies up above and looks like a good day. If you might want to take a of a plane, you can help in that. Take a spin around the bay for if you have wayne does has a plan. You can somebody im sure youre in the various someone. In fact, i dont im sure a lot of you dont either. But youre going. You should be doing pretty good weatherwise. There is a little bit of Severe Weather in the northeast session. I should mention also obviously weve got the heat there in the South Central part of the country that is then going to roll right over towards the west as we get towards the weekend. But for today, pretty nice out there. 75 in la 83 in fresno, sacramento, 81 degrees. And lets take a live look around the vacancy. Got a lot of sunshine out there. Half moon bay still sit in the clouds. Golden gate bridge has a little marine layer there. But everybody else. Kind of looking good in the sunshine 84 in antioch right now. This my warmest spot on the map that inner east bay. Weve got some nice 60s 70s around the bay itself. Mid 70s up in the north bay and south bay about the same story Mountain View about 77 a little breeze, but not too much. Just how we like it this afternoon. Well see that pick up a little bit. Its nice to still get a little more of that on shore flow. And then that High Pressure that i mentioned is going to start rolling towards us. And as it does, its going to bump the temperatures up at Southern California will bear the brunt of this. But we, too, are going to see our temperatures start to roll up. So i mentioned Southern California because they do have the excessive heat warning that is that will go into effect on saturday right through monday for them. But for us, were not seeing quite that extreme of heat, but yet we are still going to see some heat. So this is tomorrow where youll see the inner east bay roll into those mid 90s and well see kind of a low 90s in the north bay. More 80s in the south bay. Really pleasant around the bay itself with 60s and 70s. Then things are going to change a little bit. I wanted to use my lottery forecast because i know weve got a lot of future galion air is out there. We may even have some in our own office here at kron. 4 will see what happens. But temperatures are going to roll up. We look at concord is an example to about 101. On your sunday. So that could be the hottest day. But frankly, saturday and monday, also hot. So well get back to kind of normal as we head into next week. Then i wanted to look ahead at the country for the next week, right . Were going now from august 10th to 14th and you can see how staying cool south staying warm. Were going to be just a little bit above normal. So were going to go from hot to kind of normal and then maybe a little bit above normal, according to these longterm prediction. So just to give you a sense of where were at for august, so there is the heat saturday sunday and monday. So make your plans accordingly for your weekend. Make sure outside of the hottest part of the day. But other than that, i hope you enjoy and have a great weekend will start cooling down as we get into next week. Back to you. All right. Thank you. A stem summer camp is aiming to get Young Students interested in engineering careers rich demuro takes a look in todays tech smart. Todays the big day of the launch. So weve been preparing for this and were finally here important day for students at a summer camp called project payload. So our girls are going design their payload attached to a parachute lines and inflate a balloon thats going to be about 16 feet wide in diameter when its completely integrated. The stem camp with supervision by usc is rooted in aerospace engineering. This High Altitude weather balloon experiment teaches about pressure and more. Its pretty challenging. Im not going to lie. Weve taught them coding. Weve topped them 3 d cad. They move talking about different layers of the atmosphere and how gravity in rocketry works. Theres a lot that goes into of gloom. Want student joyce smith says the camp was more fun than she expected. It will science because science we needed every day light in this. Really how with 10 new zealand have signed is ashley is back as a counselor. I think contributes to an to camp their passion. Im interested and theyre curious. You ask questions and their interest in one through earning a major goal of the camp is to get more young girls interested in stem careers. Stem is really amazing korean fields to get into. And i feel like. Girls who more about it. If you more interested the program, funded through a donation from aerospace vc firm in bed adventures. Very important to us that we also invest in the next generation of founders and entrepreneurs, whether todays experiment fly score flops doesnt necessarily matter day. Yeah. I faced a larger impact of projects payload that will return dividends in the future. We hope that project payload inspired the students to him make their passion for curiosity and experimentation visible and available to their peers long after the summer program. Im rich demuro and you are tech smart. All right. Happening today, all National Parks are free. This is in honor of the Great American outdoors act. The act passed in 2020 and clear the way for more money and funding for the National Park system. Well, today is one of 5 days this year designated by the National Park service has a fee free day. California is home to the most National Parks with 9. So great opportunity to get outdoors on friday. And happening today, Writers Guild of america representatives head back to the negotiating table. This comes after the alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios and streamers requested that meeting on tuesday. Riders have been on strike in hollywood for almost 100 days. And happening tonight. Its that time to test your lock for the Mega Millions drawing more than 1 billion dollars is up for grabs. Kron fours Tiffany Justice has more. Yes, we are at a local shop, a winning location. Take a look at all of this signage. The jackpot for the Mega Millions drawing is now at 1. 3, 5 billion dollars. Quite a bit of money. There. 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One so we come over here every day with my wife almost every day and then do we always want win this collectors. A few weeks ago, the billion dollar Powerball Jackpot was sold in la last communist. That prize ranked as the 6th largest in u. S. Lottery jackpot history and the 3rd largest in powerball history behind the world record of 2 billion that was sold and one right here in california last year. All right. That was Tiffany Justice reporting for us. That cash option, if you choose to take it is about 695 Million Dollars. Not well, tell us that maybe has caught on among the animals. Why these Furry Friends are getting ready friends are getting ready after the break. Struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1 . Ask about vraylar. Because you are greater than your bipolar 1, and you can help take control of your symptoms with vraylar. Some medicines only treat the lows or highs. Vraylar treats depressive, acute manic, and mixed episodes of bipolar 1 in adults. 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They showed up dressed in swifts tour costumes and after a quick fashion show, the pediatric unit they visited those young patients and delivered some concert merchandise and bracelets. Its important to our children. Many of them have grown up with her and use her songs and lyrics as inspiration is they go through their recovery . And each patient was also given a taylor swift eras concert tshirt. It was a very special day at the cincinnati zoo. Well talk a little bit about fritz, the adorable hippopotamus. All right. They turn one on thursday and he and his entire bloat thats called. Thats a group of hippos. Its called the bloat. They celebrated that special day by eating some watermelons baby hippos grow rapidly. And by the time they reach one years of age, they can weigh up to 600 pounds as little fritz gets a little older and bigger. His skin will start to become the thicker and his teeth will get larger. Eventually hell weigh anywhere from 3,000 pounds to just shy of 10,000 pounds. Happy birthday for its. Hes very cute. And 2 amur leopard cubs at the Cheyenne Mountain zoo cuddled with their mom and an outdoor area in this video shared by the zoo. You can see that there the 2 leopards, basha and mango started exploring outdoor spaces around the zoo with their mom. On ya, real efforts have been listed as critically endangered since 1996 there. The rarest big cat with around 120 left in the wild. So this is very special to see. At least once a year, i like to bring in some of my kevins famous chili. Steve correll, rainn wilson, Angela Kinsey are teaming up to host an intimate dinner party for a lucky fan. The sweepstakes benefits, a notprofit helping adolescent girls in rural haiti to enter donate 10 bucks for 100 entries on the prize. Website the dinner party happens next month in los angeles and includes airfare hotel. And you even get to bring a date. Sounds like fun. That will do it for us here at kron. 4 news at noon. Im stephanie lin. Thank you so much for joining us. Lets send things over to Olivia Horton for live in the bay. A levy has to go in. Hey, stephanie, hows it going . Youre wearing my favorite purple. Thank you. I which i wish we were matching. But youve got a lovely talk on thank you so much. Usually we are im telling im usually matching with somebody, but its a right, right. And, you know, speaking of fashion and fun colors, anything like that on the show today