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Rather by abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal recut enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. We continue to follow that breaking news out of georgia tonight where the Fulton County prosecutor has indicted former President Trump and 18 of his allies are trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump now facing 4 criminal cases as he vies to unseat President Biden come november. Thanks for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 10. Im ken wayne. I should say next november, a georgia District Attorney spoke out about 30 minutes ago laying out the contents of a 97 page indictment that was handed over by a grand jury earlier today. Our grant lodes joins us now in the studio with a closer look. Grant. Thats right. Ken trump was indicted on 13 charges tonight, including. Racketeering, soliciting a public officer to violate oath and a number of conspiracy charges as well as making false statements. So judge signing off on the indictment today. There are 18 other defendants in this case. Trump is one of 19, including former white house chief of staff mark meadows and trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The indictment includes 41 felony counts altogether with all of the defendants facing racketeering charges. The investigation was ignited, at least in part by a january 2021. Phone call that was recorded. I just want to fly 11,000. 7, 1980. Love in that phone call that was with georgias republican secretary of state where trump is asking him. You hear trump asking him help them find quote, 11,780 votes. That, by the way, is the number of votes that would have been needed to joe biden in georgia, georges District Attorney says that she will or the countys da says she will try all 19 defendants together as a package case, if you will. She says that it will be up to the judge to start a trial date. But she says her office will suggest that a trial happen within the next 6 months. Within the last hour we spoke with kron fours political analyst michael yaki. He says that while this may not cause trump to lose any votes from his base, dealing with these legal issues is getting expensive. Right now. Hes taking it be spending more money and lawyers. Hes actually raising even though they say every time we get in raise more money, well, they do. But theyre spending far more in legal fees. This is going to create even more. And i think this has the potential that some of the biggest fees because of all the different codefendant who you remember that hes had a practice pain for everyones lawyers and all the other cases. Well, here there and 18 other people than him, including Rudy Giuliani who is in serious jeopardy with 14 different counts. I this indictment so, you know, its going to be expensive him. Now trump did respond can to this latest news tonight calling it quote, election interference is attorney calling the process. Once i did not. Giuliani is his current attorney whos speaking about the but it is remarkable and historic that you have the front runner for the gop nomination for president. Former president who is now indicted in the 4th separate investigation and he and the others until next friday, the 25th to turn themselves in. In person, right . Yeah. In georgia there. Obviously. You know, the da of Fulton County hopes that theyll be cooperative do that and avoid escalating thinks. All right. We shall stay tuned. All right. Thank you. Grant it. Again. This is trumps 4th indictment in march. He was indicted by a manhattan grand jury for an alleged hush money scheme to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his. 2016 president ial campaign. Faces 2 federal indictments last month. He was indicted ey special counsel jack smiths team for the classified documents probe out of maralago and then earlier this month, a grand jury approved an indictment against trump for the january 6 capitol riot. Another big story were following tonight. The San Francisco Coroners Office has identified the woman who was found dead in gol en gate park last night as 37 yearold kelly koike of San Francisco kron fours man. Harry has the latest on that investigation. It feels a little weird is a little area this morning. When i when i came in, i like man, dont know what happened here last night. Andre johnson says this has been his route every day working for outside lands. But sunday night it look different. When i left the festival, we probably about maybe 40 50 Police Officers out here. We have the yellow tape and red taped off everything. So i just kind of automatically assume there was some pretty bad. And johnsons assumption was right. 37 yearold kelly quake of San Franciscos body was found around 07 00pm sunday. The San Francisco standard reports that she was inside of a duffel bag, a dog walker founder next to stow lake near where outsidelands was taking theres a lot of chatter at work about what was going on last night outside lands did release a statement about the incident, simply saying that, quote, the San Francisco Police Department is currently investigating the reported matter and all questions should be directed to their department at this time. Its unclear if the victim was attending outside lance, but there were a lot of people in Golden Gate Park at the time she was found. It was pretty shocking knowing that theres so many thousands of people Walking Around and liked. Dont know. Like anybody seen anything or heard anything. But theres pretty hard to like. Dump somebody in a place where theres like thousands of people Walking Around. I reached out to the city supervisor for this area, connie chan and at the time of this report. She hasnt gotten back to us just yet in San Francisco, amanda hari kron, 4 news. The family of a missing saratoga teenager has confirms that the Human Remains Found near Castle Rock State Park in Santa Cruz Mountains are those of 17 yearold katie schneider. The discovery was made saturday as crews are searching for the missing teen. The 17 yearold went missing more than a month ago. And just last week, deputies found her White Honda Accord near the park, according to a post on social media schneider was involved in a car accident which led to her death. No other details were available. The circumstances surrounding that car accident remain under investigation. Hello, im gayle ong in for chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. And we want to start you off with your wakeup planner because we did see some unsettled weather today and we could see a repeat of that towards the afternoon. But waking up tomorrow in the 06 00am hour, expect cloudy skies near the coast around the bay and inland upper 50s along the coast and 60s by the bay and inland and then by the 09 00am hour, those clouds will start to dissipate and make way for some sunny skies. So the coast will see 60s 65 by the bay and warming up. 74 in london by the afternoon. Thats when were going to start to feel that heat inland. Were seeing 90s, low 90s in places like livermore and concord around noontime lunch time. So you want to get sure aarons done before then and then we may see some more Thunder Showers in the late afternoon. Ill send it back to you, all right, thank you, gayle. Now to the latest on the devastation in maui. With a number of people confirmed dead stands at 99. Hawaiis governor said today more than 2200 structures were destroyed by the fires. 86 of them. Were residences. He also said just under 2000 Housing Units have been made available for displaced residents. The fires that consumed almost all of the higher are already the deadliest in the u. S. In more than a century. The cause of the fire still under investigation. Tonights people across california and the bay area are rallying together to try to help the people displaced from the wildfires on maui. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson talked with several organizations working around the clock to try to help those in need. She joins us now with more. Sara. Supplies just touched down on maui from hope hangar. A food pantry in mountain view. The organization partnered up with vive church to send items to people who survived the Massive Wildfire boxes of wife that the general gist is just anything that you would need staying at the shelter. The Organization Also created the maui hope fund. Raising more than 9,000 so far, we dont really realize how much island like now just that specifically that area has impacted families all over the well times, especially here in the bay area. It was very easy. The outpouring of love that we were able to just just a few hours on maui. More than 2000 structures burned to the ground, destroying the entire town of la hina. People who survived the wildfire are reeling after losing their homes. And business is a reality. All too familiar for californians throughout our history with deadly wildfires. More than anybody. Californians know what its like to deal with wildfire. And we know the environmental damage, the physical and the damage to the economy. Brian rice was a firefighter for 30 years. Hes now the chair of the california fire foundation. It helped raise money for those in need after the camp and car fires. There are so many similarities. In both of those incidents, and whats going on in the higher right now. The foundation has created a relief fund on behalf of the hawaii professional Firefighters Association so that it can be distributed to people displaced on maui. And for firefighters who have been injured or affected by the fires. Nearly 30,000 has been raised so far. I think nows the time for californians. That many of us have visited the and we have experienced. Aloha and now is the time that we give a back. The foundation insurers, 100 of the proceeds will go directly to survivors. Rice advises all to make sure before you donate to an organization that its legitimate. There are a lot of organizations out there that are springing up and their intention is to make it all. Some of the money that they collect will never hawaii or simao. And so my caution all, do your homework and every little bit matters. It doesnt matter if its 0. 50 or a dollar. It all helps. Ken, within just hours of people finding out about the fires in maui. People got to work. The first question was how can i help . What do you need . And weve seen that just time and time again, especially with that Foundations Fund raising 30,000. But a very good tip there to make sure that the organization is legitimate because, course, we want every single cent actually go to the people there. So its not only people from the bay area. Its people from the other islands. My mom on kauai and theyre working hard as well to make sure they get the supplies that are needed over there. I was really a powerful statement because those of us who have been lucky enough to go to hawaii have experienced aloha. So its just right to give it back. It is. They give so much of the people most affected are the people who serve you at the restaurant and you go. The people who work at the hotel and theyre the ones that need this right now. So if you want to donate to any of the organizations that i just brought up, you can head to our web site. Kron 4 dot com. All right. Thank you, sir. You can stay updated on the latest informations on maui on our sarah just mensing mention kron 4 dot com scan that qr code on your screen. It will bring you the latest information and ways you can help. Coming up, a warning out of the east bay to try to more mosquitoes as more cases west nile virus popped up. Plus. A mission to get an injured bald eagle back home. Ill take you on my flight, tonights fighting tales report and a possible legal action that a San Francisco supervisor is considering after driverless car stall out on friday, creating big traffic problems. Babackck i in n ththe e , snsneaeakeker r drdropopst getting online to wait in line. Now with Xfinity Mobile. We get the Fastest Mobile Service and can get the freshest kicks asap. I got this. Get the best price for 2 lines of unlimited when you switch to Xfinity Mobile for 30 a line per month. Nice job, little sis they grow up so fast. Im a fan. From xfinity. visit your local volvo retailer, to explore mild hybrid suvs during the summer safely savings event. Call for possible legal action after almost a dozen Automated Vehicles clogged city streets in abandoned passengers. Francisco board of supervisor member aaron peskin said friday nights incident in north beach. Just the latest problem involving driverless cars. Kron fours theresa tells u. S. Supervisor peskin says expansion plans have to come to a halt before the situation becomes dangerous. It was an alarming scene. But one, the San Francisco Officials Says its becoming too common and that really calls into question whether there is a fundamental systemic, a defect that is dangers. San francisco supervisor board president aaron peskin says he is working with the City Attorneys Office while calling on federal state regulators to step in before something dangerous does happen. Kron 4 news obtained documents showing 5 separate cases vs block emergency vehicles just last week. Supervisor peskin says that is on top of 50 other documented cases. I mean, if what we are is that when phones are not operatives, cannot remotely assist cars thats kind instant second happening in a disaster, whether its a lot higher type disaster on a printer earthquake disaster. When cell phone service, thats the precise moment at which francisco being to deploy versus the apparatus, fire trucks. Ambulances past can says hes deeply worried as the California Public Utilities Commission last thursday granted a broad expansion of a vs is impressive new technology. We dont think were going to put the genie back in the bottle, but we want it to be rolled out a way thats safe for San Francisco. And franciscans, a Cruise Company spokesperson says that they are continuing to investigate last fridays bottleneck. And didnt respond about steps to curtail expansion or legal steps to slow the role. Of bees, theresa kron. 4 news. More cases of west nile virus have been found throughout Contra Costa County. Were still in the thick of mosquito season. So people are being warned to stay proactive to prevent more of the insects from breeding kron fours. Also the money and live in the studio with some of those tips. Ella. Yeah, these keep pests are breeding in standing water. So its really important to check even the smallest object. For water has collected near your homes and then dump that water out. Lets take a look at some more video out there of these bugs. So if found in standing water in cases like this, where its basically a nonfunctioning fountain or a pool, whats really interesting is you can actually call the company out there in Contra Costa County, the mosquito and Vector Control to come out, assess the situation and they will bring over some fish for free in order to eat them up. But if it isnt just a bucket or a cop or open water bottle, you can just pour that out because mosquitoes will not be able to survive outside of the water. And again, they can breathe in a space, even a small as a bottle cap. So the district reports of west nile virus activity is intensifying and we know the mosquitoes carry the virus and spread it to people and animals. There were 5 dead birds and 5 groups of trapped mosquitoes that tested positive in san ramon, concord, pittsburgh, and oakley, among other places throughout the county. So its really important. And were telling folks here in Contra Costa County to make sure they dump and scrap dump out any amount of standing water and then scrub that container to remove any mosquito takes because if you deny the mosquitoes places to lay their then reduce the mosquito population. And some tips if you do find that standing water again in Something Like a bucket or an open water bottle just pour it out. Lets get a will not survive. So if theyre found in a fixed structure like a pool or water found again, the mosquito Vector Control will deliver that special fish that will eat them. And theres also a liquid larvicide. The can be purchased at a home and garden store. And if youre out at dawn or dusk, use insect repellent, mosquitoes are also less likely to survive and running water. And if youd like the district to offer that program and come out and inspect your property, deliver that fish. Just given the call in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron. 4 news. Thank you. Positive cases of west nile virus have also been found in santa clara county. The countys Vector Control says it plans to spray for mosquitoes in south san jose wednesday night. That is where county Officials Say they found positive cases of west nile virus in a mosquito pool. There. Officials say the weather is to blame for a rise in the cases. High temperature most likely to have one mosquitoes and chance to have on mosquito. Picked that this might rise is more. Positive cases of the west nile virus were also found in sunnyvale. The Vector Control plans to treat that area later this week. Lets head over to a kron fours gayle ong whos tracking some mosquito friendly weather out there. Gayle. Yeah, weve been definitely dealing with the heat. Can good evening, everyone. And we can expect that pattern to persist through the workweek. So its going to be really hot and also. Im tracking some active weather. We had some strong thunderstorms moved to the bay area and the central coast. Heres storm tracker. 4. That activity has since diminished and now there seems to be more activity to our north in places like eureka. So we saw some strong towards and hosts a Matt Hamilton and even livermore. But heres the future cast. Weve been noticing some clouds along the coast overnight and into your morning commute. So you can expect some drizzle along your drive. And that seems to be the tomorrow. We can expect maybe some isolated thunderstorms like we saw in the late afternoon, usually around 5 or 6 in the evening. So thats when all that energy start such charge up from all the heat. So you can expect that to happen at temperatures right now in your overnight lows. Now were in the 50s and 60s. So pretty mild. And looking ahead, we have upper 90s. So were going to stay in the upper 90s inland 80s around the bay 60s along the coast. And coming up, ill have your tenant. 10 forecast and more news after the break. Continuing coverage on the destruction in maui. Federal Officials Say more than 3,000 people in maui have registered for various kinds of federal assistance. And that number is expected to grow the Biden Administration and the Hawaiian Government launched a Transitional Shelter Assistance Program for residents in need of housing, which allows them to move into hotels, motels and airbnbs. The president is also seeking 12 billion dollars in additional funds from congress to help people there recover. Fema says it currently has the right amount of personnel on the ground. This is going to be a longterm recovery operation. We have the resources need today as we continue to identify what the needs are will continue pour we will be in hawaii every step of the way to help residents take control, but the recovery and helping rebuild in a way that is going to make them more resilient. Right now, the estimated cost of the damage in hawaii is about 6 billion dollars kron fours Parent Company nexstar is partnering with the red cross to help people affected by the wildfires in hawaii. You can donate any amount to help victims recover from the disaster. If youd like to help. We have a link on our website at kron 4 dot com. Former Oakland Police chief has said it filed a lawsuit against the city wants protected. Why he says he wrongfully terminated. Will explain. Plus, will there be a strike tomorrow are not in san jose. Were following developments in contract talks for City Employees and thieves. Ransack storage sheds belonging a Little League team. How the players are now scrambling to try to save scrambling to try to save their season. warehouse ambience introducing togos new french dip sandwiches featuring fresh Artisan Bread piled high with tender roast beef, smothered with melty provolone cheese and served with hot au jus for dipping. Try the roast beef or pastrami french dips today only at togos the bay area Little League team is stunned and saddened after they found most of their baseball equipment stolen. Someone broke into the rodeo Baseball League sheds causing a lot of damage and ran off with thousands of dollars in equipment. Kron fours justine waltman has the teams plea for help. A tough loss for the rodeo Little League. Theyre upset asking questions like why would anybody take from real baseball . The players are used to stealing bases, but the 14 and under youth league is not at all. Ok with someone stealing most of their equipment. They spent some time trying to cut that looks like the lock because like probably this far from being cut open, the thief busted in through the walls of the storage shed now missing a lot of items from the snack shack, including an ipad pizza machine and several propane tanks also gone. Some expensive equipment like the pitching machines. No cash is missing and no cameras caught the crime. This could have happened any time between wednesday, the 9th and saturday night week mom and board member heather farmer total the loss at 5 to 7,000 equipment and 10,000 property damage. We have no idea did it or why they did it. The deadly take away from the kids. Waking them youth. Any. It makes our job a lot harder than it needs to be. A season starts in 2 weeks leaving little time for the nonprofit in the small town to replace and rebuild. Donations are were were not going allow that to stop us from what we do best. People can help by donating to a gofundme. And weve posted that link on our website. Kron 4 dot com. They can also reach out to the team directly to donate their time. Theyre also hoping that maybe the oakland as are the San Francisco giants might see their story and step up to the plate and help these Little Leaguers out in the newsroom. Im justine waldman. Kron. 4 news. Teenagers as young as 13 are among 6 people facing retail theft charges. San Francisco Police say a total of 6 suspects burglarized a business on fillmore street near pine last thursday by filling large bags with merchandise. Officers say they tracked him down in the Mission District and arrested them shortly after that. The suspects age range from 13 to 20. Violent crimes continue to plague oakland. The oakland Police Departments weekly crime report shows a jump in the vast majority of crimes. Rape is up by 10 aggrevated assault 11 robbery. 25 burglary. 44 and carjacking up 52 . Very donald with the oakland Police Officers Association Gave the unions perspective on this years increased crime stats. 20 increase in 911. Calls. Our response times have reduced. So functionally increase calls and number officers always a demand and supply thats helping to drive. Hes crime stats. Homicide meanwhile, is down by 8 earlier this month, Governor Newsom announced the Highway Patrol be deployed in oakland to try to back up police colin and says the chp has been deployed a predominantly in east oakland. Former Oakland Police chief Leronne Armstrong is suing the city for wrongful termination. Armstrong was placed on leave and then fired in february over his handling of to misconduct incidents involving Police Officers. The allegations were released by a law firm working for the federal monitor at the time. Armstrong accused the report of misstating and miss characterizing statements he had made regarding those incidents and he demanded to be reinstated. Sources also tell kron 4 the former chief claims he was fired in retaliation for criticizing robert warshaw. Thats the federal has been overseeing the department for more than 2 decades. Its not clear what kinds of damages armstrong is seeking. The city has not publicly responded to that claim. San jose city workers have suspended their strike that was supposed to start tomorrow. According to union leaders, they have made substantial progress in conversations with the city. They say the city council will hold a closed session to review the conceptual terms of agreement. Tomorrow morning. The strike would have seen about half of the city workers on the picket lines for 3 days this week. Now to the 4 zone forecast says we give you a live look outside at a little bit of fog starting to creep across downtown San Francisco, gayle ong standing by with more. Good evening. Can good evening, everyone. And you can take a look at Golden Gate Bridge behind me in the thick of the fog, which is usually the case around this time. And you can expect that to happen in the Early Morning hours as well. But we have some active weather today. We had some Thunder Showers that moved through the area. Some strong cells in the south bay and the east bay. And this is why we have this low pressure. Thats part in Southern California from a system there. And thats just driving all that moisture to our area. And then we have High Pressure thats bringing us the heat so inland. It was pretty hot in the 90s. There. So far those thunderstorm activia since diminish and they are spotted to our north up in rica and they were active in ukiah. But you can expect that pattern tomorrow as well. So we will be monitoring some fires may be new fires, hopefully not. But as for the heat, were surrounded by heat watches and warnings across the state. But were not under any even though we will be sitting in the 90s. These are the daytime highs tomorrow. So expect upper 90s in livermore, concord, in antioch, 80s by the bay in hayward. 84 degrees. And then of things stay cool along the coast in San Francisco and half moon bay. 67 upper 60s and with that low pressure system to our south, youll notice those clouds again along the coast of maybe some drizzle, as you can see those light green spots on the map. And that is expected to be the pattern. Usually in the overnight hours into the morning for the rest of the week and then things clear out more inland. So maybe some clouds and some places. But overall, still going to be warm and muggy. Heres the longrange casso. We have that ridge of High Pressure that has been in the north thats been heating us up. Now we see this trough thats going to strengthen and thats going to cool us down midweek. So youll notice it. Youre 10. It forecast. Youll notice. So were going to stay in the upper 90s inland until about thursday. Thats when we start to see the change in the weather may be some relief from the heat in the upper 90s. But this time next week, thieves may be in middle 90s. So it looks like a typical summer pattern. Yeah, weve had a little bit of a roller coaster all summer. Just kind of nice. We get brakes. The brakes makes a huge difference all right, gail, thank you. Chair. A team of wildlife specialist came together to get an injured bald eagle back to health and returned to the wild in tonights find tale segment, i had the rare opportunity to fly that big bird home. What is it about bald eagles that captures the imagination the size, the power, the majesty. Whatever it is. Its not so unusual anymore to see one for yourself in california are very fortunate that of the bald eagle did come off of the endangered list a while back. It was came to the almost the brink of extinction. Wasnt man but likely to ospreys that lead to trouble for this eagle. Probably a fight over fishing lake alma norm, Plumas County of the osprey. Im not surprised they probably. Were saying, hey, this is my territory right here. So you stay on this side of the line we, you spray and bald eagles should be able to compete, in the same area. The injured bird was spotted by boaters picked up and turned over to wildlife care. Specialists veterinarian at Wildlife Center is very worried about his shoulder and tendons. And they thought that it would be a long healing process. The 10 pound female also had a puncture wound inside her left wing. She was taken to the Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue facility because it has 100 foot long fight. Aviary. This is only the second bald eagle to be treated here. If all the egos and apex pc. So they kind of ruled the skies and to have were like that in our presence was was really extraordinary. Just like with human beings. When youve been out. With an injury, youve got to have a recruit ration period. They have to be successful. They have to be able to go back out there it. And so we dont want to release them until we feel confident that we have conditioning. These birds. And so doris duncan and her team down there did an amazing job was flying for sending us videos every day. The bird was fed mice, fission rabbit and put on a Cardio Program to improve its flying. This knew if they want to be with us. Only took about 12 days for the rehab process and they thought it could be months. The she proved to us as she was ready to go. Thats when we come you, ken. Next thing i know me and my wife, carol, are floating a bald eagle into the back of our for the flight to lake eleanor. Traffic sky lead. 73 shark 100 descending. Its a 4 and a half hour drive from sonoma wildlife delay common or its a one hour flight. Greatly reducing the stress level on the bird. Looks like your buddies out their mission and hes going to be too. Coming in on final, some wind gusts started to rock the plane a little. Eagle has minutes later at the edge of lake her crate was covered with burlap to shield her view from humans and to protect your feathers. So we didnt get a really good look at until the moment we said are free. You know, the end goal for everybody that comes into our institution is for it to fly free and in when its recuperated. And theres just no better feeling in the world and watching that releasing it yourself or watching at 3rd get released and go back out into the world thats why we left in the square. You it can be hardened. Truly the lots of challenges. But when things like this happens, it makes you feel like you cant wait to go to work the next morning they yeah, that is that was my. That was my wife saying unreal. Hopefully right now that eagle is sitting in a pine tree next to lake common or after enjoying a nice fish dinner pressing underneath the stars. That wraps up kron. 4 news at 10 coming up next sports night live. I know youre big eagles fan. Yeah. The in from philly. But honestly i have a bird phobia really dont like birds really know. I cant stand except for eagles. I like the football the real bird. Not so much. I think we had geese that my school growing up and geese are very, very territorial aggression and so ever since just dont like birds, not my glad you have to say that 1, 0, yeah. It was says as long trip fly away from me live away from me. Duly noted, got anyway, sports night live. No but we giants cant get a hit. Were hoping to build off that momentum from their walk off yesterday. But not the case. Put ball brock purdy. All systems go. Should be qb one on september 10th and western pennsylvania. That and more coming up after the break. Yeah, it was that type of night for the giants and its starting to become a trend. Just suddenly baseball over the past couple of weeks. Thanks for rocking with me here on sports night live. Im jason dumas. The giants got a muchneeded win last night. Thanks to the late heroics of rookie patrick bailey. But the giants are still struggling to score runs and they reverted to that again tonight. Nice catch, though, from these fans. They didnt bring any love. Top of the ford raise up to one offer yandy he drives one off the wall in leftcenter field. A run comes on in to score that caps off a threerun 4th ending for the rays. And like i said earlier. Giants team has just been struggling to produce runs lamonte wade junior had the bases loaded but he flares out to left rays pitcher tyler glass now pitched 6 innings, struck out 7 giants and only gave up a run. Rays crews in this one tended to Brandon Crawford also continues to struggle just bad and just over 200 on the season. Now after the game. Gabe kaplan we didnt mince his words about the rays bats tonight