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That breaking news, all westbound lanes on interstate 80 are back open now after being shut down about 45 minutes ago because of a possible shooting. These are some images from caltrans cameras near San Pablo Dam road. Chp lockdown, all those lanes around 4. 20, this afternoon. And as you take a look here, you can see the red indicating traffic still a big problem in that area will keep you posted on this story as we learn more. Well break in and let you know. Thanks for being with us tonight on kron. 4 news at 5 oclock. Im grant lotus and im noelle bellow. The war between israel and hamas continues on with the conflict entering its 10th day. Casualties are mounting amid israeli airstrikes in gaza and a worsening humanitarian crisis. The white house says President Biden spoke to israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend. It said the president expressed unwavering support for israel. Alexandra limon joins us now live with more on the u. S. Involvement in this new war. Good evening, alexandra. Yeah, good evening. President biden also canceled a trip he had planned to colorado to instead. Stay here in washington so that he could continuously be briefed by his top security officials. About the war in the middle east. We also understand President Biden is considering a trip to israel to show support. Was the sporting secretary of state Antony Blinken is back in israel, emphasizing u. S. Support to israels obligations. Does that democratic senator Richard Blumenthal says there are concerns that the war could grow beyond the current conflict between israel and hamas and United States is doing Everything Possible behind the scenes through diplomacy as well as overtly by sending 2. Carrier Strike Forces to that region to determine effort to take advantage of the turmoil. Nearly all u. S. Lawmakers agree on providing ongoing support to israel. Israel needs to do whatever is necessary to eliminate. Awesome. Because its objective is to destroy. Not only israel but the jewish people, but republican arkansas senator tom cotton says since american hostages are involved, the option of sending u. S. Troops should also be on the table. But that should never be rolled out american soldiers. Will save american lives. Now were told that in addition to talking with israel, President Biden is also having conversations with other countries like egypt, for example, to try to establish humanitarian corridors, to try to get food, water and medical equipment to help innocent palestinians who live in gaza live in washington. Alexandra limon. Alexander, we did hear senator cotton talking possibly about sending troops to the middle east. What is the Biden Administration saying about that . Well, obviously we know that the administration has deployed those carriers, which, of course, are staffed and has also moved other resources. That are ground based around in that region. However, the administration has not officially announced that any troops will be directly involved in this in this conflict. Alexandra limon live for us in washington. Thanks, alex. Meanwhile, antisemitic graffiti was found in San Francisco after a propalestine rally saturday District Attorney Brooke Jenkins tweeted last night saying it is not clear who did it, but its to have been associated with the protest. That statement did not sit well with protest organizers in kron fours. Rob nesbitt joins us now live with what they are saying tonight. Hi, rob. Deleted that tweet today that refer to the weekend rally as quote after she says she received several concerns from the muslim and community about how we could be interpreted. These were the words spray painted across the bank of america building in San Francisco saturday saying things like death to israel and kill a settler. The graffiti was found after thousands marched down Market Street calling for the freeing of palestinians along the gaza strip. Where israel has been at war with the terrorist group hamas for more than a week while seem haws with the air of resource organizing center was in the crowd of protesters. Theres a genocide happening in gaza right now. The is over 1000 children, 2700 have been killed by the Israeli Military District Attorney Brooke Jenkins tweeted about the graffiti sunday night. Saying her office assumed the person responsible was associated with the propalestine rally. That did not sit well with ariel karin with the group jewish voices for peace and who attended saturdays protest in solidarity with palestinians statement that she put out insights a phobia. Its inherently of snowfall, its also antisemitic because shes telling lies about the Jewish Community when thousands of us as jewish people were a part of that protest, the da deleted her original post from social media monday after hearing from organizers of the protest saying, quote, i listened and understand their concerns and as a result deleted the tweet. I do not support violence. The clear antisemitic graffiti has no place in sf and we must be mindful that a person who chooses to engage in hateful acts. Is not representative of an entire community or faith vilify our peace march. As anything but a peace march is extremely reckless right now. We consider didnt citation to violence. District attorney jenkins also acknowledge how the graffiti has the potential to lead to retaliation or an escalation and hateful conduct against the Jewish Community. President of the Jewish Community Relations Council bay area, tyler gregory. Says he believes the graffiti did come from saturdays protest, but that not all protesters from saturday should be thought of as a monolith 1000 and should not be equated with terrorism. Thats a form of islamophobia. You know that we saw after 9. 11. District attorney jenkins said today that her office is committed to ensuring the safety of all communities. And that anyone caught committing a hate crime will be held accountable. Reporting in the newsroom. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. Thank you, rob. Has the israel hamas war continues to intensify . A local woman is sharing her story of survival following the surprise terror attack. We will have that story coming up in the next half hour. Other news tonight, 3 people are dead. 7 others injured after a violent weekend in oakland. The violence comes as the citys navigating without a police chief. In total, the city of oakland had 8 shootings in 3 days, killing 3, injuring 7. Oakland police tell us the city has reached 103 homicides this year alone. This is the 4th consecutive year. The city has seen more than 100 homicides now friday night first was around 8. 30, near the intersection of weld street and 73rd avenue. One person was injured. The second was a shootout between a car and 2 people walking near 45th and melrose. That happened around 10, 15. No injuries reported in that shooting. 15 minutes later, another person was shot and killed with 2 others injured at peralta, hacienda historical park in east oakland, saturdays violence started at 6 with an altercation between 2 people on market and 45th. There was a firearm waved around and a victim that was struck with fit, followed by this were 3 shootings. The first at 7. 45 on Martin Luther king junior way and 42nd one person was shot dead there than just after 8. 30, another person was shot and taken to the hospital on merit and capital. And then at 11, 30 another person was shot dead on bancroft avenue with an additional person showing up at a nearby hospital later on with a gunshot wound. The last shooting took place sunday around 12 45pm. In the afternoon on 35th avenue and harper leaving one person shot and injured. The latest data from the city shows there have been 102 homicides in oakland this year. That number is slightly down from this time last year when there were 103, however, oaklands Violent Crime index is up. 21 1 from this time last year. That number includes rape, aggravated assaults and robberies, which are up. 35 . Mayor sheng thao is expected to lay out her plan for addressing crime in oakland tomorrow at her first state of the city address. In the south bay, 2 people are dead and one is injured in 2 separate shootings and a police car chase. This all started around 5. 30, this morning in sunnyvale when police got a call about a shooting on cameo strive, which is down the street from the rainbow Chinese School officers say they found 2 women shot in a car. One of them was dead. The other they say was injured. Police later found the suspect vehicle, which they say led them on a chase in cupertino. Almost an hour later, officers found the vehicle in the woods near Stevens Canyon road. But the suspect inside dead, they say from a selfinflicted gunshot wound. It police say the suspect and victims knew each other. They say theres no ongoing threat to the community. California attorney general rob bonta visiting the bay area today announcing a 5 years of Court Oversight of the embattled Vallejo Police department. The agency has that amount of time to complete 45 reforms to the satisfaction of an independent evaluator. It is a continuation of a process that started 3 years ago. The Vallejo Police departments interim chief said today the department is critically understaffed but is committed to making these reforms happen. Its hard when youre dealing with the public. Theyve been waiting for a while and theyre upset which they should we should be able to provide. Better service than we currently can with the staffing that we have. Among the reforms the state is asking for offering more support for officers alongside protecting the rights of the people of how the ag says progress has been made, but theyre still quite a long way to go. Meantime, in this viral video shared with kron 4 of les hope Police Officer is shown slamming a woman to the pavement and then punching her while shes on the ground. Police say the woman was suspected of theft and allegedly refused to yield during a traffic stop initiated by police. This happened on friday. The chronicle reports vallejo has had to pay more than 15 Million Dollars to settle lawsuits over the departments use of force dating back to 2003. Well have more on this coming up at 5. 45. Whether time now . Lets get a live look outside the majestic Golden Gate Bridge and the calm bay here on a monday. Absolutely beautiful out there today. Weve got kron 4 chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here with more. What we can this week going to warm up a little bit. How yeah, weve got a big heat up coming our way. We could see some records going down. I think as we head into thursday, so temperatures start to warm up, say i think a lot warmer by tomorrow afternoon. Weve actually got a cold front. Working its way through the bay area. But you can see not a whole lot of energy. Couple high clouds drifting overhead across the bay right now as the sun gets ready to set up what turned out to be a pretty decent day. But you can see the system working its way into northern california. Theyre picking up some showers north of us. Weve seen a few scattered light showers make their way across parts of a sonoma county. Otherwise most bay area and not see much. You can see a couple raindrops trying to work their way through this area. But really there just is not a lot of energy with this system and so bring with a chance of some scattered showers, the north and just kind of falling apart. So after that moves on out, it looks like the temperatures going to get cranking up outside numbers out the door. Not bad. A chance of a couple leftover sprinkles are really northern sonoma county. The rest, the bay area going to stay dry, partly cloudy as we head through the evening hours. Then as we get ready for tomorrow, get ready to bring all those warm weather close again. Weve got a major heat up on the rise. Well talk about it coming up next. Lawrence, thank you. Coming up, speed cameras. Theyre coming to multiple bay area cities, how they work and what will happen to those breaking the law. And Animal Rights activists are calling out east bay animal shelter, accusing it. Putting down healthy animals due to overcrowding. And a big fire destroyed at least 3 buildings in a moment of silence was held to remember women killed in the last 3 months today. Community members and leaders gathered on the steps of San Francisco city hall calling for more transparency in Domestic Violence, homicides. This was organized by the black woman revolt against Domestic Violence group. They say they organized the rally in response to recent possible Domestic Violence related deaths. They say impact the bay areas black and brown communities. If you or anyone, you know, is a victim of Domestic Violence, you can call the National Hotline number on your screen. Its 1, 807, 9, 9, 7, 2, 3, 3, that is a 24 hour hotline. Investigators are still searching for clues as to what caused a massive fire last night next to a retail and Business Center in southern livermore, 3 empty building slated for demolition were destroyed, but firefighters were able to save the restaurants and businesses right next door kron fours dan current is live at the scene with more. Dan . Well, grant a lot of Unanswered Questions at this point. As you see right now, im going to step out of the way fire investigators, including a dog are on scene now looking for a cause of this and what they can determine at this point. Again, 3 empty buildings here, right doubt residents and those who work in this area tell us that Homeless People have been known to be in those buildings. But at this point, we dont know if thats related to this fire. This was the scene late sunday afternoon in South Livermore when a fastmoving fire broke out in a lot housing 3 vacant building slated for demolition. They were all destroyed. Look at that tower black smoke. And the flame. Column coming up in the middle of it. I thought it was a lot closer juli and jim snyder live in the residential area on the north side of the burning lot. Our house is probably about 4 blocks that way. But it looked like it was on the next street over on the south side of the burning lot is a retail and Business Center, housing, charming fig cafe. Miraculously, fire crews were able to stop the fire before it leveled the building. The part of the roof caught fire, which will keep the restaurant closed for a couple of weeks. Someone was watching over asked for sure because there its not even a foot away from where thing should wind down. So thank god for the firefighters. They were amazing. They really safe displaced fire. Investigators spent much of the day combing the wreckage. To determine where and how the fire started. We a team assembled from little more Pleasant Fire Department Livermore Police department and neighboring agencies have also said investigators out to support our team throughout this investigation. Those who live and work in the area say those empty building slated for demolition had become populated with Homeless People. But its unknown if thats related to this fire. Weve been seeing Homeless People living there. They power cords going from the top of our roof down the side of the building. To their encampment. Theyve been stealing our water. They had hoses tracked over. So yeah. Owners say that they did call police. Police would come out. They would movn the Homeless People on, but they would seem to continue to return again at this point. Its not known if any sort of encampment is tied to this fire live in livermore, dan kerman kron. 4 news. Dan, thank you. Speed. Safety cameras are coming to several bay area cities. Governor newsom signing the bill on friday. The cameras will take pictures of cars, license plates as they speed by the Pilot Program last 5 years in san jose, San Francisco and oakland. But some groups around the bay area have mixed feelings about what these pilots speed cameras will mean for them. And as to privacy advocates, were always concerned when cities pickup sort of a new tranche of peoples personal information. The bill was. Crafted so carefully because of those privacy concerns. And its, you know, these cameras, they only take a picture if you are going more than 11 miles above the speed limit. Its only a photo of the license plate that is not in the polices. And its in the transportation departments hands. And then theres a very limited amount of time they came hold on to that data. Oakland mayor sheng thao did release a statement supporting mess. She said, quote, these cameras along with our increased focus on street design and lowering speed limits will help us save lives. San jose mayor matt mahan also won support of the bill. Were very mindful of the privacy and equity concerns that some Community Members have. We want to go out. Do Community Engagement involve the community in site . Selection will also be using data to help determine the site. On thursday, the city of san jose, 0 vision. Task force will hold a meeting about the speed cameras. Whether time here as we take a live look over San Francisco, we always talk about how september and october are usually the warmest months, especially along the coast and this years true to form. Yes, it calm for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has the details and more. Yeah, boy, these next 7 to 10 days. It is going to be wild weather around the bay area. Were talking about the heat this week. Next week we could be talking about the first real significant rain of the season out the door today, though. Yeah, weve got a weak cold front sliding on through bringing a couple of clouds in the bay area this afternoon, but really turn out to be a nice day out there for set sail out there underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. When that be a nice time to be out there right now and enjoy the beautiful weather around the bay area. Certainly looking good outside right now. Only going get nicer these next couple of days out above. You got a couple high clouds drifting over, head in just a little bit of a sea breeze. But the cold front boy, it just falling apart again, running right into a ridge of High Pressure and just start dissolve before our very own eyes as we just got a couple leftover clouds out there for tonight and its tomorrow. So this front is going to continue to move on by once that front moves through. High pressure is taking over in. These temperatures are really going to warm up starting tomorrow. Not bad out there right now. Weve got 68 degrees in pacifica. 71 in 7 tail. Still 70 degrees and warm and live more. It is a beautiful 71 in timber on right now. And 74 degrees in sonoma. Here it is. Youve got this one weak cold front thats going to slide by and then here comes this dominant ridge of High Pressure. Boy, this is going to send the temperatures soaring, likely to see a little bit of a northerly component win offshore flow that we talk about. And that means were going to see those really warming up with some seeking ears approaches the coastline, maybe get into some record levels. I think as we get in toward possibly thursday, that will likely be the warmest day of the week ahead tomorrow. Is going to be no slouch. It is going to be a nice one. How about 86 degrees in little more. A beautiful 82, sunny and bright in san jose. And 73 degrees downtown San Francisco. A morning forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, lawrence. Uc berkeley has announced a partnership with nasa to build a new 2 billion 1. 36. Acre research and Development Center at Moffett Field in santa clara county. According to the announcement, it will be branded the Berkeley Space Center and built within nasas Research Center has a place dedicated to identifying incubating and launching Technological Breakthroughs in fields such as astronautics quantum computing climate studies and social sciences. So far the university has invested about a Million Dollars in the project. Its expected to create 6,000 employment opportunities. A spokesperson for the project says the 2 billion dollar price tag has been committed over the next 10 years from various private funding sources. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2026. Undefeated. No more. The fortyniners 15 game regular season winning streak came to an end yesterday in cleveland. Heartbreaker. Their streak of scoring 30 or more points in a game was also snapped. They lost to the browns 19 to 17 kron. 4 Sports Reporter kate rooney joining us now. Kate, i know some kind of hurt. Yeah. The only streak that survive in this one is actually Christian Mccaffreys scoring streak. He scored a touchdown in 15 straight games. Thats tied for second. Most alltime. But that sure wasnt enough. Yesterdays game was full of mistakes, penalties and a lot of missed opportunities. A couple more streaks came to an end for brock purdy. Remember, he won every single regular season start of his careers until yesterday and he thrown 248 pass attempts without an interception until yesterday. Clevelands number one defense seem rattle the young qb while forcing 8, 3, and out drives. Thats most in a game under Kyle Shanahan and allowed just 215 yards fewest in a game under shanahan. Then cant forget about this. The rookie kicker, jake moody hadnt missed a field goal yet in his debut season. But yesterday he missed 2, including the potential game winner with just seconds left on the clock today, shanahan said his team is left with no option but to view the loss as a learning experience. Youve got to play good football in this league. Are you going to get beat . And it doesnt matter who you play of what or when. But we didnt play that good, a football and we almost were still able to pull it out, which have been proud of them for doing that. I mean, youre not always going to play great football. You still got to find ways to win, rarely do. The football gods rewards when make as many mistakes as we did. Either way that happened, i think a good learning experience. Really all that matters only come in when they come in tomorrow and then watch is still with us. Just like all that matters when they came in after dollars watch the felt as though you watch what you did, good, you watch what you did bad you make sure that you get better the next week. Shanahan did also provide a few injury updates. Deebo samual left the game yesterday with a shoulder injury, he will be day to day. Mccaffrey also left the game still awaiting the results of his mri in bleak rib area. Trent williams played through an ankle injury and will be day to day. And heres some good news. The fortyniners do expect to get linebacker greenlaw back in practice this week. Their next game is monday night football in minnesota grant. Well, back to you. All right, kate, thank you. Still ahead here, more tech layoffs hit the bay area. Layoffs hit the bay area. Details on the move this is how it feels to du more with less asthma. Thanks to dupixent. Dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. Its an addon treatment for specific types of moderatetosevere asthma. And can help improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. Dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks. And can even reduce or eliminate oral steroids. Imagine that. 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