80s also at was injured and had a on her upper arm and was surrounded by her daughters the supervisors. District covers the west portal store. She says that she happened to be in the area following up on a separate crime. When she saw lights flashing. What i from the folks who were there that happened is one of folks on west portal view is a homeless individual have been seen for a couple weeks and hanging out have been sitting on the in front of shots. And i the owner came out to ask him to please mu. And was island back with she says several people nearby grab the suspected attacker and detained him until police arrived. He was arrested and booked into custody. The store was shut down for the rest of the day. And reopened thursday. Longtime customers say that they are more and more homeless people. And i just supervisor i same way we dont the same level of service as as folks downtown. And i understand that, you know, downtown right now is both moment theres mte, you know, start prep. Thats you know, we to to make sure that that comes back. But we cannot do that at the expense of the neighborhood. Supervisor melgar says that the injured owner bought shots just recently. She was not in on thursday and a clerk declined to say how she was doing. Now, barr says that she will be pushing for more beat officers to patrol the area. In San Francisco tree say stasio kron. 4 news. New at 6 tonight. Take a look. Dramatic Surveillance Footage from the south bay, this pickup truck there just rams through the front of the business taking out another Vantage Point here, the entire front entrance knocking over tables and chairs. This is that queen bakery in san jose around 4 this morning. The owner tells us the guy in a hoodie there to cash in lotto scratchers. The owner says his business was previously hit and that time the burglars entered through the vacant business. That was next to his. Now to a tragic story were following in San Francisco. Utility worker was killed this morning in a trench collapse. Just horrible. It happened in the lower haight neighborhood. Corner of to visit cairo and oak. Man was buried under several feet of dirt and concrete while working on a sewer upgrade on oak street kron fours rob nesbitt was there when the death was announced to the press who had gathered. Rob joins us live. From the scene with details. It is just so sad. So horrible, it is great. When i first arrived on scene, this was a search and rescue effort. To try to save the man who was trapped in a trench across the street. There were cables boards. They even use search and rescue canines at one point at the trench to try to save the man. Eventually crowds gathered along the sidewalk, learned that the man did not survive. Around 50 rescuers first arrived to oak street in San Francisco around 10, 30 thursday morning frantically trying to save a man trapped 8 to 10 feet underground. Several residents in the area like audrey grooms waiting and watching behind the caution tape, risk you have person is good. It took about 2 hours before the mans body was found. It was announced that he did not survive the trench collapse after being evaluated by paramedics and Department Position again, unfortunately. The individual did not survive the injuries associated to according to Rachel Gordon with San Francisco public works, the man was a contractor working on a sewer upgrade project for the citys Public Utilities commission. Public works was managing construction for the project near the intersection of oak and a visit streets. We want to look to see where protocol followed, if not, why not . What happened . Was it something that was just an anomaly . Weve never seen this before. Gordon says safety is the number one priority on any construction site. Investigators with the city and cal osha are now working to determine why the trench collapsed. Dozens of residents on scene. Sad to find out that a search and rescue effort turned fatal. My heart goes out to the family and for everyone that was involved because this is hard work. This area of oak street was closed for several hours while investigators combed area that range thats across the street. Theyve now reopen 2 lanes. The 2 lanes closest to the trench remain close will now wait to hear from the medical Examiners Office to id the worker and determine an official cause of death. Reporting live in San Francisco. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. Terrible. Thank you, rob. Moving on to look at the 4 zone forecast in that beautiful shot there downtown San Francisco. The band, the background, really a picture. Perfect day. Heres lawrence with the latest. Yeah, you know, this is kind of that time of year we get on that roller coaster of weather here in the bay area few days. Gorgeous weather, beautiful out there today. Tomorrow, everything changes, the winds pick up the clouds roll in and we Start Talking about a chance of some rain out the door right now. Youve got some hazy skies looking out over the bay of toward alcatraz and San Francisco and beyond because we head through the night tonight, skies going to stay mostly clear temperatures. Theyre very comfortable outside right now. Its 76 in palo alto, a beautiful 76 and sunny and san jose. 76 in livermore still warm 81 degrees in concord and santa rosa and 66 degrees. Little breeze kicking up into San Francisco and you can see some of those winds downtown, some of those gusts of 27 miles an hour. Were going to see stronger winds, though, as we look toward tomorrow afternoon, much stronger. Well in the category of 30 plus, miles an hour as were going to see a storm system begin to approach the coastline and you see it to the north. You see the little swirl in the atmosphere. That little swirl. Its going make all the difference. Thats going to begin to drop almost due south along the coastline into the bay area, not to have a whole lot of moisture with it, but its certainly going to help change our weather pattern. Weve had a couple of fantastic days outside with temperatures. Boy, very nice 70s and 80s in many spots. But this storm system going to roll in. Well see increasing clouds as we head throughout the day tomorrow and well watch those winds begin to pick up numbers out the door. Youve got some nice numbers right now, but i think tomorrow it will be an entirely different story. Those clouds rolling in as we get ready for the weekend. Chance of rain developing over on friday night. Scattered showers on saturday. Least a little sunshine returning some drier weather on sunday. Thank you, lawrence. Happening tonight in the east bay, the Oakland Police commission. Hes holding a town hall meeting on the search for a new police chief still looking for one. But now some of the commissioners we have learned are not at the meeting. Kron 4 says he unit reports. These 3 Oakland Police commissioners are not attending a town hall focused on receiving Community Input replacing former police chief leronne armstrong, retired Alameda County superior court judge Brenda Harbin Forte served on the Police Commission for 2 years to talk about the implications of the 3 commissioners not attending tonights town hall. Think its unfortunate that 2 what they sort protest because it does it suggest that they do not want the public to have a voice in the selection our next police so whats the point . I its not going to be a commission is not going to be a that information that is sure to mind is going to be used by the Police Commission next and thereafter until they finally get the 3 names to the mayors kron 4 requested statements from each of the 3 commissioners we received one reply from commissioner or desk that reads in part, quote, over the last few months, its been clear that the Commission Leadership has been pushing their own personal agenda, undermining the progress that we have achieved over the last few years and creating Division Within this critically important buddy. And with the city of oakland, unquote, on equally frustrated, i am equally frustrated. Oakland mayor sheng thao said the fighting them and the Police Commissioners is a sign of them being dysfunctional. Judge, hard for today. Views it differently. You know, look at our federal government over the senate. Look at the house of representatives look at the city council. People have different not necessarily just but these are. Important issues. Has it made you cry on for news . As mentioned, that meeting is scheduled to begin at 06 30pm tonight at oakland city hall. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson is there as we speak until the full report tonight on kron. 4 news at 10 11. Meantime, the city is also grappling with stores like target shutting down and car theft skyrocketing. According to police data, 10,000 car thefts. So far this year, kron fours spoke to mayor sheng thao today about whether or not shes hearing the concerns from her community. Absolutely. You know, im equally frustrated as well to my administration. Were focused on making oakland safer for residents and businesses. You will you will see that theres going to be people brought to justice. But the standard of how how much crime is happening in city of oakland, it is not the standard that ever ok with. The mayor says that she has announced more foot patrol officers in Business Districts throughout oakland this month on top of support from the chp. New at 6, a newly released report says the Sonoma County sheriffs office. Use their police dogs too quickly against suspected offenders between 2022 and this year, the independent office of Law Enforcement review and outreach says the use of the bite came without appropriate deescalation consideration and without assessing how much force to use in response to the suspected offense or threat made by the person. The board says the issue can be resolved by reassessing policy and training. Coming up, the recent delay hope cold case that ended in rest might lead to another being broken. In the east bay, well explain. And President Biden is set to speak california Gop Convention tomorrow. A closer look at where he stands in the look at where he stands in the polls. When dry eye symptoms. Keep. Coming. Back. Inflammation might be to blame. 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This one at the Reagan Library in simi valley. It was the second debate without former President Trump and kron fours. Catherine heenan is live in the newsroom. Now with more on the 2 hours of scripted oneliners. We heard as well as in prompt to interruptions. Catherine, all of these debates scrapped their scripted and lots of interruptions. But it did get pretty chaotic last night. If you wanted a calm, clear cut exploration of the issues, you were probably disappointed. But for fans of loud in your face, political theater, there was a lot to see and hear tuesday night. Fighting each tension, momentum ultimately survival. Most clearly had been counseled to get louder and tougher, not only on each other, but on the front runner by a mile. Donald trump. Youre talking these things and let me tell you whats going to happen. You keep doing that. No one appears going to lead on trump any more quickly. A donald duck. Donald trump is missing in action. He should be on this stage tonight. Our political analyst donna crane says pretty much every move had been. Dictated ahead of time by age candidates, polling and strategy teams here. Heres you know that your viewers should everything we see on the stage here at this level of politics is informed by what the campaigns are getting behind the scenes in terms of their own polling and in terms of their private focus group. So we can make some inferences based on what weve seen. The fact that the ramaswamy was making an to be a little bit more collegial tells us that hes getting feedback that hes too combative. The fact that nikki haley, what harder at it and tells us that shes getting feedback that thats working. I also noticed another switch. You know, Chris Christie has sort of made central to his campaign the idea of taking on donald trump, right, that thats a little bit old. But something thats new is that desantis has sharpened his attacks on trump and desantis joined christie in calling calling trump out for not showing up to the debate. And so that must be telling us that hes polling is indicating that needs to make a move. Otherwise hes at risk of becoming a footnote in the second tier of this race. A debate that times out of control and meandering probably validated Donald Trumps decision to skip it again. We asked political analyst michael yaki of Republican Voters likely got anything useful out of i think the voters who do care. Are voters who are concerned about donald trump being the nominee and then look at this cast of characters thinking, you know who among could. I possibly try and support. But i think like i said, there isnt there are desperation in that room as talk over each other, insulted each other, you know, pulled out all the canned oneliners that they could its its you saw a room with people know that unless something outside of their control happens, donald trump is going to be the nominee. The 7 candidates walked onto that stage last night, way behind donald trump and michaels indicating probably wrapped up the evening still way behind them. Vicki and grant. All right, catherine will have to just wait for the next one. Meantime, former President Trump will be speaking to thousands at the state Republican Convention in Orange County tomorrow. In addition to the former president , Florida Governor ron desantis, the vec ramaswamy and South Carolina senator tim scott are also there to get their remarks. This comes after a new poll from the Public Policy institute of california shows trump way ahead among republican likely voters here in california. Trump is expected to speak at about noon tomorrow while the other candidates are expected to speak this weekend. Meantime, on capitol hill, a Government Shutdown is set to begin sunday despite the fact that the senate just advanced a measure to fund the government through november, 17th, the senate voted to advance a shortterm measure that includes 6 billion dollars for disaster relief. And another 6 billion in aid for ukraine. But conservative republicans are pushing for a house vote tomorrow on a plan to add border funding and slash other spending. Still not everybody agrees. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell criticized the approach of his own party in the house. On the government is a choice. And you charge that would make the crisis our southern border. Speaker mccarthy saying he cares more about the winds of the hard right. The hard hard right then avoiding a shutdown. Most senators agree the only road to funding the government is a bipartisan one. That includes some compromise. I whether time now vicki is we take a live look outside here. The few from. Not time will pius the camera pretty stable. Sometimes its shaking around when its hella. Windy, but not tonight. Not tonight, but maybe tomorrow. What . What i think tomorrow that companies can be shaking quite a bit. Winds are really going to pick up and thats going to make it feel a lot cooler to the temperatures. Probably a drop, a good 10 degrees from what we had today and some of the warmest spot. So big change in the weather on the way. And then maybe we talk about some raindrops as we head toward tomorrow night and into the weekend out there right now. Beautiful evening outside half moon bay. Yeah, youre looking at fog. Free conditions out there right now. That time of year we clear out along the coastline, bring some sunshine out along the beaches, sunshine just about everywhere you go around the bay area, golden gate bridge. Yeah. Beautiful shot out there this evening and look at the flag. Just waving at all much in the wind. But tomorrow that is going to be entirely different stories. Well likely see those winds really get gusty as of this frontal system begins approach the bay area. So this the wind forecast as we take you through the night tonight and tomorrow, watch the color change as we head toward 4 oclock in the afternoon. You start to see some 20 some 30 mile an hour gust not just along the coastline, but around a good part of the bay area. Going to be a blustery afternoon outside for much of a so yeah. Watch for that big change coming our way tonight should be mostly clear, though, a little bit cool. Overnight lows in the 40s in the 50s tomorrow. Well, the clouds are going to be on the increase throughout the day. Temperatures are going to be dropping. And then as we get this weekend, unsettled weather pattern with a chance of some rain, right . The storm system off the coastline this morning that were watching very closely now. This going to be the one that eventually is going to start to loop around and start to dive to the south as it moves southward. Its going to move all the way along the california coastline right in the bay area. So this is going to be the one that will likely bring us a few rain drops throughout the weekend. Not a huge storm system, but we could easily see maybe a quarter of an inch of rain. Some of the weather spots. You get the Santa Cruz Mountains the monterey bay may actually see more than us parts of the central coast. But otherwise, hey, this is good stuff in there. Maybe more in the long range forecast coming our way, too. We welcome bringing. All thanks all right. Still to come, gas prices in the bay keep going up. Up. No sign. Of leveling off how Governor Newsom is trying to poland. Well, companies accountable. Probably do not have to tell you. But gas prices continue to soar in california and also. They continue to be about 2 higher on average. Then what other people across the country are paying now. Governor newsom is once again trying to change that. But republican lawmakers are looking for Something Else can force. Dan kerman reports. California gas prices continue to rise. Bay area drivers are paying well over 6 a gallon for regular. Statewide triple a says the cost of a gallon of regular. Hes gone from an average of 5. 28. A month ago to 6. 3, per gallon. Now thats well over the nationwide average, which aaa reports is 3. 83. A gallon 2 and 0. 20 less than californians are paying. Theres no justification for you can look at all the environmental wills and regulations and taxes that the state imposes compared to the national average. And youre not even get to a so where is that mystery surcharge on top of that, California Governor Gavin Newsom says Oil Companies are gouging the state and now he sent this letter directing the California Energy commission to determine whether penalties and restrictions should be assessed against Oil Companies are ripping off taxpayers of this state and people at the pump. The governors also directed the air Resources Board to allow refineries to ramp up production and distribute its winter blend of gasoline. Now, which should also help to bring prices down sooner than later. Asking the governor. To call for a special session to deal with the gas prices. But California Republicans like state senator janet nguyen want to go one step further. Republican legislators have sent the governor this letter calling for a special session of the legislature to temporarily suspend the 0. 58 a gallon gas tax. Get us all on the same page and thats true answer. Thats the only way we can find a permanent solution. A spokesperson for the governor says suspending the gas tax will not ensure that money goes back into the pockets of californians Oil Companies could easily pocket that extra money to further line their pockets. Dan kerman kron, 4 news. This is into the kron. 4 news room. Water has been shut off and parts of northwestern petaluma because of a major water main leak. The citys Water Department says areas affected our Magnolia White oak circle. Acorn circle, sycamore lane mud road lane, pepper wood lane in hawthorne court. Repair crews are there, but theres no estimate for when people will have their water back. Well keep you posted. Criminalizing drug sales in San Francisco. That is how we got to this point. Kron 4 news at 6. 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Fred cain, the 3rd was transported from oregon to Solano County wednesday, arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping and sodomy. He is accused of killing 6 yearold Jeremy Stoner who was abducted from his home in vallejo in 1987 and later found dead near sacramento earlier this week, the Solano CountyDistrict Attorneys Office revealing dna evidence links quinta stoners killing. And now the Martinez PoliceDepartment Says he may also be connected to one of their own cold cases. Its approximately one month apart from that the death recorded to the death of jury started prior to stoners