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Media this morning that the Hospital Systems are inundated right now with burn patients. Those suffering from smoke inhalation. She says theres no 911, service cell service is down phone service is down as well. The coast guard has confirmed that theyve had to pull 12 people from the water so far that ran into the ocean to escape the heat and the flames. La hina has been devastated. One resident says all boat owners have been asked to rescue people from the water. And here you can see in this video from a viewer there to our sister station on maui. That. Traffic is backed up. A lot of the roads in some cases blocked by downed power lines and by fallen trees, all courtesy of the extremely strong winds that were generated from hurricane well to the south of the island chain will get more from john in a minute on the weather and all of this. But look at this devastation that you see on the screen. The latest video coming to us from maui state of emergency has been declared, as you can imagine, the white house says that President Biden is monitoring the situation ready to offer any financiar federal assistance that the state of hawaii may need. We know that airlines have been assisting with travelers that are trying to not only leave the island of maui, but also travelers that may have had plans to go there now on vacation. All those plans have been disrupted. Hawaiian airlines is working with passengers, american airlines, Southwest Airlines united all reporting this morning that they are working fee virtually to try to reschedule of these flights for all the travelers whose plans been affected for more on that part of the story we have kron fours Michael Thomas. Hes standing by at San Jose Mineta International airport where weve seen a number of those flights impacted. Michael, good morning. What are you seeing . Hi, good morning, everyone will you know, were seeing a lot of clothes lines. Take a look. This is Hawaiian Airlines for the last hour and a half. They closed up their counter have canceled their flights in any place that are on the switchboard right now. All see delayed until closer to 12 oclock. But i dont necessarily see that happening. When i first arrived here, there probably i would 2 dozen or so people here that had just gotten news that their flights were canceled, where they were being deferred somewhere else. You know, i spoke with one woman who said she had been planning this trip for 9 months. Turn. Her whole family were here. They were completely canceled, not able to head anywhere. I spoke with another woman who says that her family is out there right now. She hasnt been able to get a hold of them since yesterday. And then i spoke with another family in this gentleman tells me that they still plan to head over to hawaii and thats despite officials telling them to even not go there because its really only for emergencies. But take a listen to this woman that i spoke with. She says her family is there. Shes a little bit worried. She hasnt spoken to them in the last 12 hours or so. And their flight heading there has been canceled. And we cant get a hold of were says to fly over there today. And so we basically cant get hold of them on their cell phones. And so were not going chance it go to honolulu because thats where our flight was diverted to. And so were just going to basically to stay here for a couple days in san jose and see if maybe we can make it over there. And its not were just going to cancel our vacation. Now, in addition to that, she tells me that she spoke with her family yesterday and that they werent really concerned. She said that they were close to the fires, but they didnt think that it would escalate to what it has. The only thing that at the time they were worried about was that the she says her sisterinlaw said that her Childrens School may have already started burning on fire yesterday. That has not been confirmed and she cant confirm anything because she hasnt been able to get in touch with them. But back out here live again, you can see Hawaiian Airlines completely empty out of this airport. Agents tell me its only hawaii and alaska and southwest flight over to maui from this location. And from the details were getting, everything has been canceled. But thats a very latest here in san jose. Im Michael Thomas. James, send it back to michael, thank you very much. And for viewers that are just waking up to this story now to help put it. In perspective into a framework, we can understand we can equate it to what we saw in 2017 with the tubbs fire where a fire sparked in calistoga overnight sunday and by monday morning it had traveled dozens of miles to. Santa rosa burning parts of downtown santa rosa. People woke up to that unaware of what happened overnight. Well, thats the same thing. This playing out in la hina with residents there waking up to the fact that there was a wild fire all around them and again, driven in large part by the heavy winds that were generated by storm system. Well, to the south of the island chain and to help better explain that. Weve got john trouble standing by in the Weather Center, and as we saw with the tubbs fire, james, it was a very dry time of year in the bay area. The fires that are burning on maui are on the leeward side of the island. Thats the dry side of the island where the grasses much like here in the bay area this time of year can get very, very dry. What we have to the south of hawaii is a big weather maker here. Hurricane category 4 hurricane status. Dora, which is a very Strong Center of low pressure, even though youre not getting any of the rain from dora in hawaii itself, the winds from it are creating quite the issues. You have this very strong, low pressure thats going to result in winds, hundreds 100s of miles away from the hurricane itself. And thats exactly what they are seeing over there in the Hawaiian Islands. Now, category 4 storm or the dora is going to weaken as it makes its way westward over the next 24 hours here. And that is a bit of good news. Its also going to be making its way away from the islands. So were already seeing evidence of winds calming down around the Hawaiian Islands. Winds initially picked up yesterday morning at around 05 00am they started to see a 50 mile per hour. Wind gusts intensifying last night to 80 plus Miles Per Hour. Wind gusts and just like here in the bay area. When we do see our santa ana wind events like we did during the tubbs fire, you get these accelerating dry winds through canyons through mountain valleys. Thats with essentially those channels between the Hawaiian Islands serve as those wind tunnels and what we have in la hina is right at eastern edge of one of those channel separating 2 islands and just below a Mountain Range in those winds whipped up very fast last night, allowing this fire to burn into the town of vida and much as we are very familiar with in california, fast growing fire dry and windy conditions, recipe for disaster. And unfortunately, those residents are waking up to just that this morning. So were going to keep you updated much as possible right here on as we make our way through the next hour. As for the local forecast, coit tower looks good. We got those clear skies overhead. We are going to see a mild forecast today at 60s and 70s out there very much like what we saw yesterday. So a break from the heat that we had this past weekend. Some 50s still hanging out for santa rosa. Been very cool for you. Under some gray skies now towards the afternoon similar to yesterday, some 70s and 80s for warmest of temperatures. Well be breaking down when the he does return here locally. All still to come, james . John, thank you. 7. We have other breaking news to share with you again this morning. Senator Dianne Feinstein has been released from the hospital after falling at her home in San Francisco. The senator fell sometime yesterday. Her Office Confirmed to kron 4 this morning that she was briefly sent to the hospital yesterday afternoon just as a precaution. They did some tests. They all came back clear. It was apparently a minor fall. But as we know, the senator has been struggling with Health Issues over the last year. She was absent from the senate for about 3 months while dealing with a number of issues, including shingles and ramsay hunt syndrome and set alight. As for a time she missed a number of votes while she was healing. And that prompted a number of lawmakers to call on her to resign, although shes held steadfast that she does not intend to do that. She wants to stay on the job. Unclear if this latest fall will change your mind and the but we do know shes back home now. Recovery. Happening today, the city of san joses meeting with its unions that represent thousands of City Employees have another day of mediation all in an effort to avoid a strike, which at this moment is set to take place next week. Kron fours will tran is in san jose with the very latest. Well we are a couple of hours away. James, from them getting back to the negotiating table and that is good news is bec use as long as youre talking there is hope they have not broken off talks. And the goal is to avoid a strike that is already planned for august 15 overwhelmingly planned by the union. Fact, there was here 2 days ago when they announced that 99 out of 4500 city workers voted to go ahead to go on strike. Should there not be a deal in place by next week . We are talking airport workers, home inspectors librarians 911, dispatchers, a lot of jobs throughout the city of san jose. They are looking for a substantial pay raise as well as to fill in hundreds of vacancies. Those vacancies, they say force them to work unwanted overtime. Right now the 2 sides are about 20 Million Dollars. That part. Theyre hoping to strike a deal to avoid that strike, which would be the biggest in san jose in 40 years. There are hoping for the best. Expecting the worst. So take a look at your screen. This is what the union sent out late last night. They said we hope to reach an agreement that averts a strike. We hope the city stops disregarding the skyrocketing cost of living in the understanding crisis that impacts members and our community. However, until we have an agreement that protects services for the community strike, preparations are still very much underway. Now to san joses mayor. He said that they are trying to work out deal. But right now they simply dont have the money. And if they give the unions what theyre looking for that will Hurt Services down the right. But at least theyre back at the bargaining table in about 2 to 3 hours for back see if they make progress. Thank you very much. Well, now to more developing news this time out of the east bay were 2 deadly shootings broke out just minutes within each other in oakland, the first one happened yesterday at about 2. 30, at the Martin Luther king junior regional shoreline boat launch. Thats right. Near Oakland Airport officers say they found a man dead with a gunshot wound. There. And then about 10 minutes later, police found a man shot and killed near the lake merritt bart station. Bart police say they used Surveillance Video to help pinpoint a suspect. Took that person into custody within about 2 hours of the shooting. People who use barr told us, yeah, theyre concerned to see Something Like this happen to such a busy place. Very, very challenging to, you know, see this happening within our community. Well, bart police say theres no indication at this point the suspect or the victim were bart riders. They believe that just happened to be near bart station when it happened. Well take a break here. 10 11 still ahead on the kron. Morning news. Santa clara county plans to use a new approach to try and pay people. Who use meth to stay sober . Well explain what theyre well explain what theyre offering. You cant leave without cuddles. But, you also cant leave covered in hair. With bounce pet, you can cuddle and brush that hair off. Bounce. Its the sheet. And we are back. Time now is 10 14am, also bad news for people waking up this morning. If youre watching this broadcast and live in california, well, you didnt win the Mega Millions jackpot. Instead, the Winning Ticket apparently was sold in florida. One ticket sold in Merced County matched 5 of the numbers that price is worth about 3 Million Dollars. So. We still have one lucky california. And in that drawing. All right. On that note, lets get over to the Weather Center. We can all feel like a winner, though, when it comes to the weather today. John, good so lucky it was him or said county yesterday. Just kidding. I it is definitely a better forecast to be here in the bay area as opposed to out in the central valley. Where you may be winning the lottery, but she got some hot temperatures, bay area. Weve got the cool weather for you today. Definitely nice and bright out there above the east bay hills, some low stratus singing out closer towards the coastline and up in the north bay. Thats keeping you in santa rosa. Actually pretty cool this morning. Youve only been in the upper 50s. Now its been back and forth between hot and relatively mild this past weekend. It was a High Pressure ridge built now were seeing temperatures cool down because of this low dragging it along with it, some cooler air. But that low does not last forever. And in fact, High Pressure ridge already in the process of starting to work back our direction by this weekend will start to see temperatures rising back into the 90s for inland areas near triple digits by early next week. So enjoy this prolonged break that we have up until friday. We are tapping into nice ocean. Cool there. And that is allowing some gray mo nings. But along with that gray morning comes the cool air along with it and into tomorrow morning, well do a little bit of the same starting on the greater side, then getting still plenty of sunshine like were already seeing 60s for your highs in sf and along the coastline. Thats not going anywhere. Well, our temperatures further inland in the 70s to 80s. These are quite temporary. They will be sticking around through friday. So a few more days of are seasonably warm weather. Nothing too terribly hot livermore. 85 while hayward at 73 oakland at 70 degrees, looking at a lot of 70s for the north bay napa. Only 72 while santa rosa at a warm 77 looking ahead to tomorrows temperatures as well as fridays dont change much compared to todays, we will see those changes into the weekend and early next week, though, thats when inland areas will approach 100 degrees starting sunday. James. All right, john, thank you very much. 10 16, the time. Lets go to Santa Cruz County now where as fire season is expected to peak later in the fall for that area. Cal fire says they need more hands on deck as they face a hand crew shortage. According to a new report, feuer acres burned in wild fires in 2022 than in 2021. This years also been another milder fire season. Thankfully, although cal fire has invested about 20 Million Dollars in high infrared cameras that can detect fires early, they still need the manpower to create physical fire lines and to remove any potential fuel by clearing some of these wild ones. The agency says the shortage happened during the pandemic and only money right now to adequately staff about 61 of the 152 hand crews in the state to the minimum level. So they need more people. Well, caltrans was unable to fund planned replacement of the bohemian highway bridge in monte rio. In Sonoma County county officials announced in a news release that the Transportation Department will instead provide approximately 25 Million Dollars in funding to retrofit the bridge to modern seismic safety standards. The state of california will also invest in that structure back in 2012, caltrans found multiple concerns with the bridge, including a crumbling foundation and potential inability to withstand earthquakes. Analysis back then showed a new bridge would have been cheaper than retrofitting the structure. Well, developing news this morning, an american nurse and her child have been released now by their kidnappers in haiti. A witness told the Associated Press that the armed men abducted the nurse and her daughter from a clinic in the capital of portauprince. They say the area that the clinic is located at to is a gang controlled area. The Aid Organization that the women or working with posted on a blog that the 2 were recovering but did not release any further details. So were still waiting on that. But there was no immediate word from the u. S. Embassy in haiti which closed this week amid soaring gang violence. Officials in montgomery, alabama now addressing a brawl on the citys riverfront from over the weekend. Video from that incident is quickly captured the attention of the nation. Kron fours noelle bellow has more on what happened and where the investigation stands. The co captain of an Alabama River boat attack by private boaters. I fight caught on camera quickly to a brawl. Well, this is not indicative of who we are sitting. The city of miami is much better than that. According to montgomery, Alabama Police chief Darryl Albert on the evening of saturday, august 5th, the citys 19th century riverboat. The harriet too, was attempting to dock in its designated and reserved port. It was being blocked by a privatelyowned vote for 45 minutes. As he attempted to contact the operators of the private boat via pa system. They will all respondent 2 without seeing gestures. Curse words. And talk chief albert says the cocaptain was picked up by a separate vessel and brought to the dock to try and get the private boaters to move. Thats when those voters attacked the cocaptain cocaptains doing his job. Several members of the harry to came to mister picketts defense engage in. What we all have seen sense all social media. One of those crew members swam others came running to help the cocaptain. In all 13 people were detained and brought in for Police Interviews before being released as of tuesday. Warrants have been issued for 3 met richard roberts, alan todd and zachary shipment all facing warrants for assault in the 3rd as the crowd grew saturday, video of the brawl shows one man identified as reggie gray wielding affordable chair. Police are asking him to contact them for an interview when asked whether hate crime riot charges may be added a at this time based on the way the statues reading with a lot we are unable to present inciting a riot, all racial racially bias charges at this chief albert says more charges may be added, though, as the investigation is ongoing. Noelle bellow kron, 4 news. I want to see and that was 10. 20 is the time the homeless man accused of attacking the former San Francisco fire commissioner has been arrested once again. It was back in april that derrick was accused of beating don chairman johnny with a metal pipe in the marina neighborhood. Thats what you see here was captured on security video. The former fire commissioner was hospitalized with a Skull Fracture because of that attack. Now doty was initially taken into custody but then released a stay away order restricted him from reentering the marina neighborhood. But Police Arrested him last week for apparently violating that order. Do will be back in court again at the end of the month. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters and we have word this morning that former Vice President mike pence will take part in the first republican debate. His campaign confirmed that he has reached the threshold of donors needed to qualify to be on stage. The first gop debate is scheduled for the 23rd that will be in milwaukee. The former Vice President will be joining 6 other president ial hopefuls. However, as of today, that group does not include the republican front runner, former president donald trump. He has a well not committed yet to participate. Will sur show up. Well have to wait and see. Were going to take a break 10. 22 that im coming up on the kron. 4 morning news. If you want to keep your liver in tip top shape. Might want to reconsider drinking all that sugary sodas and other beverages. Well tell you what a new study found. We are back. Time now is 10. 24. And theres a new study that confirms what most of us already know, which is a texting and walking can be a dangerous combination. Australian researchers had 50 College Age Students strap on Wearable Technology and then they went through a series of exercises which included walking while texting and once they did this once while on even payment than they did it again while they were on a sidewalk that was designed to have tiles kind of slip out of place. And after all of the Scientists Say the texting significantly impaired students balance. And so they suggested that phone makers maybe add a sensor that can detect when users walking had a safety screen, maybe the lack the ability to text while theyre doing that. Also for your health this morning, new Research Published in the jammeh medical journal found that people who have drinks with added sugar or artificial sweeteners are at a higher risk for developing liver problems. Scientists followed almost a 100,000 post menopausal women over 2 decades and they discovered that those with a sweet tooth had more than double the chances from dying from chronic liver disease. They were also 80 more likely to develop liver cancer. One final story for you. The university of california has admitted a Record Number of california. First time students for fall semester. So instate students overall, you see admitted 88,000, 285 firstyear applicants here from california. Thats a 3 and a half percent jump over last years admissions. Uc Officials Say that what he knows where the Largest Group making up. 38 1 of those admitted these California First year, students they were followed closely by asian students who made up about 34 . Card skimmers. And coming up, the Petaluma Police department is warning its residents after they found several card skimmers. All and were back here at 10, 30 on the kron. 4 morning news with the latest breaking news out of hawaii were on the island of maui. You can see theyre dealing with a massive. Fire. 2 of them. As a matter of fact, one burning in western maui, which is a popular tourist destination. Theres a second fire burning in some of the Central Mountains of that island. But in this video, you can see what residents and tourists alike are dealing with was traffic jams as people are trying to escape the flames. 911, is down right now, according to the lieutenant governor, cell service is down phone service as well. Hospitals become inundated with. Victims that are suffering from either burns or smoke inhalation. You can certainly see the amount of smoke that this fire is throwing up there. And this all broke out basically late last night. A lot of residents went to bed last night thinking everything was fine and then woke up this morning like in the historic behind the town to flames all around the city and People Racing to get away. And for those that couldnt make it to an evacuation road with the flames approaching, theyve resorted to simply walking into the ocean diving into the water to escape the heat. The coast guard we know is confirmed. They pulled 12 people from the water. One of the residents there near la hina said that there was an all call to boaters to bring their boats to the beach, to rescue people that were in the water right now. Traffic has been snarled about for shelters. We know have been opened up so far 1000 people in one of those largest shelters. But thats not even the biggest problem. Weve got a lot of airport and flight delays and cancellations as a result which is impacting us here in the bay area. One of the latest alerts that came down is now that nonessential travel is being strongly discourage to the island of maui. In fact, the airport there on the island is been converted into a shelter. Theyve got about 1800 travelers from canceled flights that at folks that have just arrived to this nightmare, theyre being sheltered at the airport. Crawfords Michael Thomas is following our side of it on the bay area side of this flight nightmare. Hes down in san jose International Airport with the very latest. Michael, good morning. Hi, everyone. You know, ultimately officials with airlines are telling people if you dont need to travel there, you shouldnt take a look. This is what Hawaiian Airlines are looking like right now at san jose mineta airport. Theres nobody at the counters. People have all been either diverted to another location or their flight to just been canceled in lee. Earlier today, i spoke with numerous different families that were heading. There are some who had been planning their trips for months, but got here today. And found out that it had been completely canceled. Some people say that they have family members. Spoke with last night and they didnt see that they were worried about the fires, but come today, they have not been able to get a hold of them because theres no cell signal or anything. And im sure you can see just how vicious and crazy fires are. And as weve mentioned earlier, many people are being evacuated. The last person that i spoke with told me that they still plan to try to head over to hawaii. They have just been diverted to another location there. A different island. Theyre going to be leaving out of oakland. However, that may change by the time that they get here. But we are get their excuse me. You can see back out here that it is completely empty. There is nobody at the counters, all of the flights here Hawaiian Airlines have been canceled. Officials tell me the only flight heading over to maui would be with alaska, southwest or hawaiian here out of san jose. And as of now, they have all been completely canceled or pushed back for a later time that maybe eventually canceled. Thats the latest here in san jose. Michael thomas, i will send it back to michael, thank you very much. Weve heard from the white house this morning with the president is monitoring the situation and ready to offer any federal assistance that the state of hawaii. Needs. And again, a lot of this is being fueled by strong winds. The speed of this fire really being driven by the 60 to 80 mile an hour gusts that have plagued maui and the other islands there in the chain. Thanks to a hurricane hundreds of miles away. Hard to imagine. But thats the scenario. And weve got john trouble in the Weather Center to kind of explain how this is all playing out job. Yeah, james, looking at that video, youre seeing all that dry ground. You think theres no hurricane in the vicinity . Well, it is hundreds of miles away, just as you mentioned, category 4 storm door, a sitting. Well, multiple hundreds of miles to the south and west of any hawaiian island, let alone maui itself. Now, this is a very strong storm. Any sort of rain associated with it is not inching anywhere close to the Hawaiian Islands. So this is a dry wind event. Sounds familiar. We get a lot of those back at here at home in california. And those tend to be what sparked up our own fastmoving fires. A little bit of good news here. The track of dora is going to be taking it westward. Thats the way from the islands themselves. Were already seeing reports of winds calming down in the vicinity, but we are still breezy. And now as the sun comes up over the Hawaiian Islands, a chance to taking that devastation. So yesterday we started to see winds increasing towards around 50 Miles Per Hour in areas like la hina on maui around 05 00am. So you had a day full of winds out there. These corridors, wind tunnels essentially between the islands. Those are your channels between the islands. Oftentimes thats where youll see the breezy us of conditions. And its not just door into the south, but also a High Pressure. Ridge built up to the north. The exchange between the debt pressure differential there is what resulted in such strong winds right through the Hawaiian Islands, winds from the north and east pushing right through areas like the higher resulting in exceptionally strong winds overnight and we know all too well during our own santa ana wind events here in the bay area that those winds accelerate right through those mountain valleys. Those canyons. Thats exactly what happened in hawaii last night resulting in the rapid spread of that blaze. Thoughts, prayers certainly with those there, something that we can sympathize with here in the bay area because weve had our own devastating fires in the past few years. Today is the day that is relatively calm in any sort of wind were seeing is coming from the ocean thats having a moderating effect on our weather here locally. We saw the clouds this morning. Were seeing less of them already. Well see a return of some low great tomorrow morning along with the cooling impact that that sea breeze has 60s to 70s for current temperatures 2 days ago at this time during our heat you were already seeing 90s. So this is a noticeable cool down in the continuation of the already moderated temperatures we had yesterday. Todays daytime highs very similar to your tuesday. 70s 80s out there. A nice comfortable feel, especially along the bay shore. But it doesnt last forever. In fact, i am talking another warm up towards the weekend. Ahead. Your forecast, james. All right. Thank you very much, john. Lets go to the north bay now where the Petaluma Police department is warning people after several credit card skimming devices were discovered in the city and police say they found a small camera inside one of them. Proffers Tiffany Justice is live up in petaluma with the latest on this. Tiffany. Yes, good morning. We actually heard back from police morning. They say that they have found several of the skimming devices on items around the city. Go ahead. A look at your screen to see just how camouflage the skimming devices can be. Petaluma police releasing these photos of the devices found on items. The Police Departments Community Service members inspected all of these items and found a skimmer. The first one was hanging off of an atm sledge. They say that device was found there contained. A small camera connects to a video card set up to capture video and audio of the person using that atm. Another skimmer was found on top of a card reader at a retail store. Police say they use this method to access stolen card information out to avoid this from happening to you. The Police Department did release some tips this morning. They say first inspect all items before using it an atm, a gas pump or card reader. If you need to compare it to another nearby machine to see if it looks crooked loose or damaged when using a keypad block the keypad, with your hand to prevent potential hidden cameras and police suggest using a mobile wallet as a payment method. As its more secure, also to sign up alerts, checking your account frequently. I didnt hear back from the Petaluma Police department this morning. They say that they wanted to provide a reminder to a quick inspection prior to using any payment terminals. Skimmers can be difficult to spot the sometimes a quick visual and physical inspection can help identify fraudulent skimming devices. Now to revisit these tips once more, you can go online to kron 4 dot com. We have a web story up already. But those tips included reporting live in petaluma Tiffany Justice. Back to you. All right, tiffany, thank you. Its 10 37 and on the peninsula. Authorities in san carlos now are investigating a home depot Security Guard who shot a suspected shoplifter. This all happened monday night about 10 oclock at the store on old county road. You see that on the map. The Sheriffs Office says the guard confronted the suspect who theyve identified as Jonathan Mackey and the fight broke out between them during which police say mackey grabbed the guards baton began striking him with it. Eventually he threw that baton through a glass door and police say thats when the Security Guard shot mackey. There was a a deputy close proximity who heard the shots responded called for additional units. The deputy quickly detained. The suspect provided first aid for the gunshot wound until medics arrived on scene. Mackey was released from the hospital and then booked on charges of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Authorities say if youre not a Security Guard, you should not intervene. If you see a shoplifter, im in the process of stealing something. They say instead just documented. Call 911. A Pilot Program which aims to help people struggling with drug addiction is taking a new approach. It starts in a few weeks. A Santa Clara County is going to be giving gift cards to drug users if they stay clean and test negative for methamphetamine every week, the payment goes up in durham n of incrementally each week. The max they can get over. 24 week period is 599. Project manager tammy ramsey says that participants wont be allowed to buy alcohol or tobacco or lottery tickets with those gift cards, but they can shop at a variety of Stores Including walmart, nike and home depot. Its not the gift cards that are important. The intent of the program is positive reinforcement. So the whole concept of it is you are getting a reward for your positive behave. Well, ramsey says theyre hoping to roll out the program in the next few weeks. She expects about 90 people to sign up that program costs. Theyre being covered through reimbursements by. Telling which is californias expansion of the medical services. Bart, by the way, is going to be stalling. Some new gates later this year and cutting down on fare evasion. Heres video of what the look like. Bart made the announcement this week that the Transit Agency has awarded the contract for almost 800 new fare gates. The goal is not only to deter fare evasion, but also to improve access as well. Its a 90 Million Dollar project paid for by bart county, federal and state funds. Barts spokesperson alicia trow says that the new fare gates are necessary to keep the Transit System running. Take a listen. We know bart loses millions of dollars of fare evasion. At the same time we do offer low income discounts and discounts for youth and seniors. But we do charge a fair and we need people to pay their fair specially as remote work is popular and were trying to get more and more people to take part for other reasons than a work commute. Well, the new gates are going to be first rolled out in oakland. And as for next steps, bart will study how those gates work this december half a bart station should be converted next year and then the other half the year after that. So we can expect the entire system to have these fare gates by the year 2026. Well take a break. Its 10 41 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news u. S. Officials are warning consumers about toyed all that they say may be spying on you. And sending that information to a foreign government. Well explain. And today is set to be another comfortable one cool at the coastline with some 60s, all 70s to 80s elsewhere. Warm but seasonably so we are back in his 10. 43, a stock niners. Theyre getting ready for their first preseason game against the las vegas raiders, which is going to be weird because jimmy gs their quarterback now zone tuesday. They had their last solo practice of the week. Then they got on the flight for vegas. So they flew there. Theyre there now theyre going have the day off today to rest up and then theyll suit up for a joint practice with the raiders tomorrow and friday is this thursday and friday. Head coach Kyle Shanahan says that he expects brock purdy take part in both of those joint practices. But when it comes to the actual preseason game on sunday, he thinks probably most of the teams starters will sit out that one. You can watch the game right here on kron 4 because we are your raiders station here in the bay area. Our coverage begins at 12, 30 sunday afternoon. Thats where a pregame show will be now of the game. And then afterwards well have our postgame show starting at 4 with all of the analysis and well break down the play on both teams. All right. On that note here at 10. 44, lets get our final full check of the forecast. Weve got John Standing by with that. Good morning, john. Good morning, james. And we are seeing some bright skies out there now. Thats a sunshine above the east bay hills. You can still see some of that gray a little bit stubborn out towards the coastline. Where we have been seeing some greater conditions this morning. Now we are still in the midst of our nice cool down this past weekend. It was a High Pressure ridge in place. The kind of got nudged out as we work their way into the start of the week. Now were enjoying the benefit of this cooler air mass and kicking back up that cool ocean air on into the bay area too. Doesnt last forever, though. High pressure ridge is about to be Building Back in this weekend, along with that, were going to see our inland areas. Temperatures climbing yet again. Well, up into the 90s, if not triple digits come early next week. That means as long as we have access is cool. Ocean air today through friday. Were going to be enjoying moderated conditions. Are going to see another push of that low gray into tomorrow morning after some afternoon sunshine for the rest of the day today. Todays daytime highs will a familiar range of 60s for San Francisco and right along the coastline, too. Well, looking at a lot of 70s along the bay shore, going sweet spot in areas like foster city and san mateo in the low to mid 70s while san jose. 82 today warm but not as warm as you had been just a couple days ago in the 90s. Freeman through leandro in the 70s oakland, right at 70 degrees. Well, a lot of the north bay right there to nap at 72 santa rosa through center fell in the mid to upper 70s today. Getting your lookahead tomorrow and friday, keeping the momentum going. Nice. Mild seasonable weather before the heat builds back in starting saturday. Really intensifies into early next week when well see. Daytime highs inching near 100 degrees at our warmest by sunday. James. All right. Thank you very much, john. 10. 46 on the clock. Lets go to the north bay where the Santa Rosa City Council Unanimously voted to make changes to their. No camping law for People Living on the streets. In addition to laying out the specific restrictions for where people can set up their tents in public spaces. The newly updated ordinance is now also comply with federal law, which means they have to make sure their shelters available for any person before theyre told they have to leave. Well, santa rosa with this new ordinance will prohibit encampments in city parks anywhere that blocks pedestrian access, fire lanes or near transit hubs or bus shelters or within 100 feet of any school. It will also make it illegal for people to set up tents bigger than 10 by 10 feet and within 4 of another person in a tent. They cant have unpermitted electrical connections. Theres no dumping of gray or black water. In addition, the homeless wont be able to have Flammable Liquids or toss out hypodermic needles. Theyre also banned from doing anything that disturbs wildlife for damages, public property. As for cooking, it will have to be done in city installed facilities. Now council members, some of them did raise concerns that this law seems to focus a lot on what people can do instead of focusing on where they can go and live peacefully, which suggests that they might at a later date revisit the idea of maybe a sanction space for encampments with in santa rosa will have to wait and see if that happens. It is 10. 48. There are now new concerns on capitol hill about how china could be using Smart Devices and tech toys to spy on americans right now, lawmakers are urging the fcc fcc to take action. Weve got news nations anna lee filled with the story. Goal to see her my friend cayla may seem like an innocent toys for children, but the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party has labeled kayla a spy doll due to the toys capabilities to wirelessly, connect to the internet. Lawmakers worry the doll produced by chinabased company, genesis toys could act as an illegal eavesdropping device. Germany already banned the sale purchase and ownership of my friend cayla back in 2017 instructing parents who bought the doll for their children to destroy the toy. The dolls maker uses a large database to store recorded conversations, sparking concerns about hacking on behalf of the ccp Public Interest Research Groups dont sell my data. Campaign director rj cross says potential spying could be facilitated through these toys without parents, even knowing as soon as you get any device and internet connection, the risk a lot higher. Lots of companies can gather data about in the background, including sensitive details like our location and where we work and where we live and how we spend our money. Smart toys are a booming industry with the Global Market expected to reach more than 24 billion by 2025. And china who lawmakers have been keeping a close eye on for years for abusing Data Collection makes 80 of the smart toys across the world. But the cayla dolls and other toys with Internet Connectivity are not the only internet enabled devices raising concerns for u. S. Lawmakers, the bipartisan leaders of the committee sent a letter to the fcc this week to shine light on the potential for Chinese Companies to spy on americans through cellular connectivity. Modules like childrens toys. Cars are medical devices just to name a few. We definitely need to address this problem with legislation. We need strong legislation thats going to rain and the kinds of data that Companies Collect on and what they can do with that data. Newsnation reached out to the fcc for comment. In a statement, a spokesperson said they have received the congressmans letter. Adding we take very seriously the security of u. S. Networks and equipment. We have taken strong actions on a bipartisan basis to remove untrustworthy equipment and Network Operators from u. S. Networks. Director cross says americans should take a second. Look at the Smart Devices they already have in their homes and research where and how theyre Sensitive Information is being collected. Well, a new report says the federal deficit so far in fiscal year 2023 has been 1. 6 trillion dollars. Thats more than twice the shortfall over the same period a year ago, the estimate was released by the Congressional Budget Office yesterday as part of its Monthly Budget review and accounts for about 10 month period that ended in july. The cbo attributes the deficit increase to a dip in the amount of tax revenue and payments coming from the federal reserve. Ikea signs are now up at market and 5th streets in San Francisco. They see it. The new store is set to open on august 23rd San Francisco supervisor matt dorsey says he did reach out to ikea when whole foods announced that they were going to be closing down their Market Street location back in april over employee concerns. But he says ikea is on board. They have their eyes wide open about some of the challenges that were facing. But i think they agree with me that city policymakers, myself included, are taking Public Safety seriously. And committed to making progress on challenge were facing. Well, San Francisco has brought in help from the california highway patrol. As we know the National Guard sepsis, chris Sheriffs Office to try to tackle the Opioid Crisis that has ravaged the city. Outside lands is just a couple of days away and theres some things you should know before you head out there. This is your first time going and youre playing on bringing a bag. Know that you can only bring clear bags and backpacks and packs and purses. So make sure that theyre easily searchable. Theyre small. And if theyre anything like backpacks, eyes, they have to be see through all other bags are not going to be allowed. So if you bring anything thats not permitted, youre going to have to leave it outside. They may make you throw it away. So you dont want that if youre planning on driving there. Maybe reconsider that because there really is no parking at that festival. In fact, any of the surrounding neighborhoods that might have street parking. Its pretty limited in past years is only really been a handful of spots available and as youve been seeing in this video, youll probably see again in a second in a pretty crowded there. Yeah, there you go. So give yourself plenty of time to get there and plenty of time to slowly filter out what to do. Well be right back. Well, were just about done here on the kron. 4 morning news. Before we go, want to check in with olivia horton. Find out whats on tap for today. Live in the live hey, james. Good morning, everybody. Coming up today on live in the bay. Were hitting the course chatting live golf upcoming bedminster tour. All the details on this exciting event when we chat with pro golfer cam smith. Then were staying outdoors and checking in with nature. How the local organization negus in nature is connecting the black community to the joy of being outside. Plus, a looking to relieve foot me hip and back pain. Well, our jess wills goes behind the doors of the Good Feet Store to find the perfect fit. And as always, we want to hear what he had to say about todays question of the day. So go ahead. Get involved by scanning that qr code. We want to know whats book that you would recommend from your Summer Reading list. All right, everybody. Let us know what books are on that list and it could be read live today on the show and 01 00pm, james, to be a big reader not as much as id like to. But yeah, i do enjoy it. And i just had a book pop in my head the other day because it was in a trailer. Before the oppenheimer movie i saw. But its that prequel to the hunger games. The ballad of songbirds and snakes our producer. Richard, let me that book months ago on ok, so now youre task before summer and you have to read it and let us know right before the movie comes thanks, james. All right. Time now is 10. 56 and a quick check of our weather. A final look at the 7 day, in tomorrow. All in the 60s. 70s 80s for your highs right on par with where we should be for this time of year. But after that, we heat back up again. So enjoy these temperatures that are least offering a somewhat of a break by sunday back near triple digits. All right, john, thank you. And that will do it for us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Have a happy wednesday. Well see you back here tomorrow good morning. Judge yodit you were rearended. I just heard a boom. Maybe shes on her phone. She was on the phone. Maybe shes rambling. Her music was loud. To be honest, she was gonna try to run. Judge yodit its crazy that you two have completely different versions of what happened that day. Announcer hot bench. Judge rachel juarez. 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