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On kron. 4 news at 5. Im grant lotus and vicki liviakis. Health officials are investigating 2 recent deaths from legionnaires disease. Potentially linked to a richmond spa that was operating without a Health Permit. Kron fours rob nesbitt joining us live now in studio with more on how one Contra Costa County supervisors calling for a wider investigation. This is deeply troubling. It is the spas close and more could be closing in the coming months. The zhen zhen day spa. And richmond closed after 2 people died from legionnaires disease. Both victims had visited the spa just days before they started showing symptoms. The concern now is who else visited the spa . Chains in a closed sign. Let those walking up to his end. A spot know the state of the richmond business as the Contra Costa County Health Department investigates 2 deaths caused by legionnaires disease. One person died thursday night and the other friday morning. This facility. It was operating without a Health Permit from the county environmental Health Department and all pools and spas are required to have environmental Health Permits, samples of the spas. Water are being tested in a lab while Contra Costa County supervisor john gioia is calling on the countys Health Department to investigate and identify other unpermitted spas. Basically these unpermitted facilities. Need to be shut down until they receive a permit which says that they are operating in a healthy and safe manner. But this are encouraging. Anyone who may have visited is and a spa to watch for legionnaires disease symptoms. Those include shortness of breath, muscle aches and fever, according to supervisor, joya, theres only been one time that the cdc reported a case that was spread from person to person. Theres really not a Major Health Concern that someone who was exposed to the bacteria at this spot would go out and spread it in the community to somebody elses. And a spa is cooperating with the Health Departments investigation. But the supervisor says a civil lawsuit could result if the businesses found liable for the 2 deaths. Anyone who visited the send a spot in the last 2 weeks should contact the Contra Costa County Health Department that Contact Information is in the web article. This story on kron 4 dot com reporting live in studio. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. Thank you for that. Now to some breaking news on the peninsula. Redwood city firefighters. Say 21 people have potentially been exposed in a hazmat situation. This happening on island drive in the Redwood Shores neighborhood. Firefighters say at least 5 people were affected and theyre receiving treatment right now, authorities are inspecting the building right now. They say that the chemical that was leaked is called free on and was accidentally released from a faulty a c unit freon is typically used as a refrigerant. We do have a crew on their way to the scene and well be bringing you more details as they come into the newsroom. Today. Were learning more about the 2 people found stabbed to death inside a san jose home. One them. As a child, police say the stabbings happened friday morning at an apartment complex on park. More avenue just off to a t officers. Were there doing a welfare check when they found an elderly woman and a young boy with stab wounds. The woman is the boys great grandmother today. San jose police described the scene as traumatizing. Its not just traumatic to our officers are going through the investigation but also traumatic the community as a whole. They have to be rest assured that our Police Officers detectives so the finest in the nation, theyre going to worked until they find a conclusion, reasonable conclusion this case. That means having somebody or someone additional custody and helped up to trial for the crimes that have occurred. Police say theyre still investigating the motive the specific circumstances surrounding the deaths. Neither victim has been identified. One person is recovering tonight after another freeway shooting in the east bay. Chp says just after 02 00pm yesterday a car pulled into the San Leandro Police Department Parking lot with the person inside who had been shot. Police think the shooting happened on eastbound 5. 80, near grand avenue. The victim was taken to the hospital. No word tonight on their condition. After a threeday vote, it was announced today jose city workers will go out on strike. Thats going to begin on august. 15th. If an agreement cant be reached on a number of issues between the city and the union workers. Our kron 4 Charles Clifford has more now on where negotiations stand tonight. Well, here in san jose, thousands of city workers have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike. San jose city workers into unions have voted to authorize a 3 day strike starting tuesday, august 15th running through the 17th 4500 workers from across the city, including employees at the airport and city facilities, such as libraries are now set to walk off the job next week. The union say that the main sticking points are disagreements over wages and benefits. The unions also say they want the city to address staffing shortages. Striking is a last resort. Our hope is that City Council Members and mayor mahan. Well, finally this into us just under staffing crises impacting libraries. The airport Affordable Housing Emergency Response times and monday morning state Assembly Member ash kalra who represents san jose was critical of mayor matt mahan is handling of the situation called on him to do more to support workers. And so when the mayor. Its our residents against our workers. That is not leadership. That is cowardice. Have to make it very clear that investment in our workers is an investment in our residents. You know, im not going to get into politics on monday afternoon, mahan reacted to the news that a strike is imminent, saying that the current city budget doesnt support. What the workers are asking for at the end of the day budgets in contract negotiations are a math problem. We have a certain amount of revenue. We have a cost of delivering services and were constantly striving to strike a fair balance between increasing wages were offering a 5 increase yearoveryear. Plus 3 additional weeks of paid parental leave. Will surf to be fair to our residents who rely on city services. At this point. Its unclear when contract negotiations may resume. And again, the strike is set for tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week. And the south bay, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. Our weather time now as we get a live look nice day in the bay. Hot, though, if you are inland just like yesterday, things are going to be changing, though, as we move into the latter part of this, we can hear more about that. Brittany begley joins us now. So thats what you know, what changes are headed . Our way was kind of hot this weekend, right . Really hot and land. Kind of hot today, too. And i was like, all right. Let me show blue skies. Everything thats happening right now as we speak. Those temperatures are just a little bit cooler than what they were yesterday, but still above average, especially inland. So the big picture again showing you San Francisco. 61, oakland, 69, san jose, 88. Livermore 93 concord, 95 and santa rosa. 90. So still above average, still much warmer than what were dealing with the past couple of days. But really what were looking at tomorrow is a little dip in temperatures. Soar still going to be above average. Thats the good news. But those temperatures are going to feel a slight change. So 06 00am im still showing foggy were so to have a foggy start going to start in the 50s for the entire region by 09 00am. Thankfully that fog is going to start to clear, but we are still going to see some breezy conditions. In fact, we could see some wind gusts up to 23 Miles Per Hour a little bit later on tomorrow. So coast, were going to start around 9 at 56 bay, 60 in inland 63. So were still going to struggle to get those warmer temperatures. But by noon, were really going to start to see things heat up inland. 79 fe, 66 in the coast. 59, were not going to be again as warm as we were today, but were still going to be above average for those temperatures are definitely changing. Youre still going to see some fog as you wake up. So that morning commute could be a little tricky. Its going to keep those temperatures as you can see down just a little bit. What are we looking at for the 7 day forecast and how planned for this coming weekend . I have all those answers coming up next. Look forward to that. Thank you, brittany. National news now, former President Trumps legal team is urging the judge overseeing. The 2020 election case against trump to reject a proposed protective order arguing it is too broad and limits his free speech. But prosecutors argue trump is made threatening statements on social media kron fours washington correspondent Anna Wiernicki is live in the Nations Capital tonight with the latest on all of this drama. Good good evening. Will prosecutors say they want this protective order in place to limit what former President Trump can say publicly about this case. Specifically, they say on social media. Have you ever seen anything like whats going on . I mean, i heard the word indictment. Then all of a sudden over a period of a couple of weeks, you get 4 indictments. Former President Donald Trump remains defiant in the face of the prosecutions request to limit what information he can share publicly about the case against him. Its not a gag order. The former president is free to criticize the trial. Its not a relevant to his First Amendment rights at all. George Washington University professor paul schiff, berman says hes not surprised the former president is fighting the order. The special counsels office says its needed because of posts like the one the former president made on friday, declaring quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Trump is a little bit of a loose cannon and is at least potentially willing to use social media to reveal confidential information or to pressure witnesses or to otherwise obstruct justice over the weekend, former Vice President mike pence who could be a key witness in this case, gave more details about what happened leading up to january 6th, frankly, the day before january, 6 of memory serves a. It came back as lawyers that it said we want you to reject outright this. This they were asking made overturned the election. I had no right to overturn the election. Trump responded on social media calling pence, quote, delusional. Now the protective order issue must be resolved before the case can move forward in a new potential trial date can be sent at the next hearing on august. 28th for now live in washington. Im Anna Wiernicki. Back to you. He added we know what will happen if trump violates this protective order. What cause of consequences the former president might be facing . Well, legal experts we spoke with if the former president violates the protective order, he could face a fine even jail time or even just a warning. How much that fine would be and how much jail time you could face would really depend on circumstances. It would depend on how many times that order is violated and how badly the former president would violate it. Wiernicki reporting live tonight from washington, d. C. , thanks meantime a federal judge has dismissed former President Trumps countersuit against writer e jean carroll. In may, a jury found trump liable for sexually abusing carroll at a new York City Department store in the mid 90s. She was awarded 5 Million Dollars in damages. Then a day later, trump filed a defamation countersuit arguing carroll made false statements during the trial. That case is now dismissed. But trump still is facing another defamation lawsuit by carol. A trial is scheduled for in january. Still to come on kron, 4 news at 5 and clouds mom speaking up about his death and the love field day before his passing. Plus, a bay area missionary group is happy to be back home safe and sound after they got stuck in 9 year when a military coup took over the government. There. But first, authorities in antioch picking up the pieces after a chaotic sideshow ends up with cars inundated with water and innocent woman in water and innocent woman in the hospital. Get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. 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I would be very clear that the individual who hit the fire hydrant is under arrest. Both incidents are connected to a sideshow that happened sunday in the Early Morning hours in the parking lot of the marina and smiths landing in india. While legal side shows are not uncommon in the east county. This is the first time ive heard about sideshow car going up in middle Contra Costa County Fire Protection district swift water rescue was called to the water up to the roof of the vehicle. Fire captain chris told us as checking to see if anyone was inside the vehicle or possibly ejected were top priorities. Do individuals get tossed here and there so where the actual vehicle may not be where the action rule, patient or victim is. There is no one inside the it was reports that this vehicle head on over the last thing driver lost control. Over to the delta name. Abandoned the vehicle and 2 out. Mayor lamar thorpe says the citys previous sideshow suppression efforts have been hampered by a number of officers being unavailable due to being the focus of an Ongoing Police misconduct investigation. And so now were at a point where were, you know, prepared to the state for chp support repaired, asked the county for support from the sheriffs department. Were prepared. Ask anybody for support. This is so critical keeping the residents of antioch safe. Anyone with information about the side show related incidents can contact the antioch Police Department Haaziq Madyun kron. 4 news. That developing news. Also an east bay man is dead after being rescued from the harbor bay over the weekend. Firefighters in the u. S. Coast guard helped rescue 4 people near the harbor bay Ferry Terminal in alameda yesterday afternoon. They say 7 rescue swimmers found 3 people in the water several 100 yards offshore. Officials say when they arrived, one victim was on shore in cardiac arrest. All 4 people were taken to a local hospital where that cardiac victim later died. The victims names have not been released. The mother of oakland native and euphoria star angus cloud says his death was not a homicide. Lisa cloud posted the update on facebook. She says despite this shattered time for their family and this is last day was a joyful one. And she says he did not intend to end his life. Cloud said her son spoke of his intent to help provide for his sisters at college. I was working on an art project at his desk at home and when they hugged good night, he said that he would see her in the morning. She said, quote, we may find out he overdosed accidently and tragically, but it was abundantly clear he did not intend to check out of this world. Lisa cloud also spoke of a is head injury from 10 years ago that he miraculously survived, saying he was given 10 bonus years and fill them with creativity and love. She said the family appreciates all the love theyve received since his death. And this was just 25 years old. Meantime, a memorial dedicated to angus cloud has grown significantly in the week following his death. The mural is on a building off the corner of east 19th street and park avenue in oakland. It features a large image of the beloved actor with wide grin. His name is also painted in bold letters near the top artist darren bella ban painted the mural with several of clouds, friends. Time to take a live look outside here as we see the Trans America Pyramid in San Francisco, a breezy day in the bay. Yeah. Blue sky back there too high. Brittany. Yeah. Grateful to have a blue skies and that was the case a couple of days ago, but definitely breezy. Thats going to be the story for you tomorrow. But the change that were going to see is a dip in temperatures. So we went from above average temperatures. I want to go right there close to average again. So take a look at sfo. You can see some clouds in the distance. I just checked. Were seeing about 60 of departures on time. Arrivals a little bit better. Were looking at 80 . The delays about 25 minutes. But overall, not bad. I only bring that up because a couple of days ago we could even see the runway. So we are making progress. The story for us really is going to about as High Pressure system sitting over dallas, bringing them record breaking temperatures of 105. And what were looking for is that High Pressure system still bringing us those warmer temperatures inland. Were looking at 90s, but its all about this low pressure system coming from the north dropping down those temperatures, some places inland are going to fill a dip by 10 degrees. So our highs today, San Francisco, your average is 66. Were looking at 72 oakland. Your average is 71. Were looking at 78 san jose year averages. 81. Were looking at 91 so 10 degrees above average livermore. 88 today were looking at 97. You can see santa rosa, your averages. 83. Were looking at 91. So just showing you across the board, were looking at those above average temperatures. But as you wake up tomorrow, were going to see another foggy start. Thats going to actually keep those temperatures a little bit cooler as we start our day at 6 oclock, your morning commute could be a little tricky. Thats why we say wake up with us to get you to work on time by 7. 45. Right there, especially in the coast are going to see a foggy conditions lingering around by 8. 45. Things are slowly look better. With the exception of half moon bay, San Francisco and up to the north napa, probably 9. 45. Things will start to clear out for you. Were also seeing gusty conditions, a break down tomorrows temperatures and your 7 day forecast coming up next. Alright, brittany for your money tonight, oil costs and high temperatures have led to the highest gas prices of the year. According to data from aaa, the National Average for a gallon of regular year high of 3. And 0. 82. There is some good news, though. The price hikes have started to level off and a decrease in prices could be on the way, but that all they say it depends on this years hurricane season. Gas prices in california, obviously a lot higher than the National Average. The state is averaging 507, for a gallon of regular in the bay area. Drivers will pay a little bit more than that in San Francisco gas in san jose. Its a bit cheaper 4. 98, on average for a gallon of regular oakland. The price goes back above 5 bucks. And in santa rosa on average 5. 12 bringing home. The bacon might cost to more soon. A wall street journal report says wholesale prices for pork belly. Have more than tripled since the start of june. Also, an anti animal cruelty law here in california requires pigs to be given more pen space in order for their meat to be sold here in the state. Well, the report also adds some producers may stop selling in california altogether rather than change their practices. Still ahead, People Living in oakland are telling the city what they want to see in new police chief is oakland. Hes still looking for a new top cop. Plus, the red cross is sending blood donor restrictions on and bi men. Details on the updated federal guidelines. Welcome back. Were taking a live look now at an active scene in redwood city. Were an accidental chemical leak that forced this building to evacuate zahn island drive in the Redwood Shores neighborhood. Authorities say 21 people were potentially exposed to a chemical called free on, but only 5 people are showing symptoms. A faulty airconditioning unit is being blamed for the leak and subsequent hazmat incident. And no word on how long it will take crews to clear the scene. Again, youre looking live at that no other, you know, evacuation or shelterinplace orders have been given, but well certainly stay on top of that story for you. For your health tonight, starting today, a federal rule, change that will allow more and bisexual men to donate blood. According to the red cross individual donor risk assessments will be conducted for a potential donors regardless of gender or orientation. The new policy is designed to help ease the nations critical blood shortage. It would also put the u. S. In line with other countries like the uk and canada. The policy was previously denounced as discriminatory by medical and lgbtq organizations. The Michigan Department of health is investigating 2 patients who caught flu strains that normally circulate in pigs. They believe agricultural fairs may be to blame when both people became ill with swine flu. Shortly after going to 2 different fares last month. Both have since recovered and did not spread the infection to others. The cdc says people attending those fares should avoid eating or drinking around the pig exhibit. And ought thoroughly sanitize their hands. After leaving. Up next, about 34,000 children back at school oakland says of today, why some kids are excited to see their school and how hiring has changed after last year. Strike. Plus, ukraine says its foiled a plot to assassinate president low tamirs alinsky. How military Officials Say they captured an alleged russian informant redhanded a into may now be getting involved in the antioch Police Departments. Racist text messaging scam. Tonight at 5. 30, attorneys who have filed 2 federal civil rights lawsuit against the antioch Police Department. Well, theyre now calling on the u. S. Department of justice to step in. Yeah, this is in connection to that racist text messaging scandal that has plagued the department. Kron fours dan kerman tells us tonight attorneys a