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Extraordinary and unprecedented planned wartime visit in israel. While there the president back to that country, which she said had nothing to do with the blast at the gaza hospital that left hundreds of people dead yesterday and has led to violent protests. Thanks for joining us on kron. 4 news at 5 oclock. Im grant lotus and im noelle bellow. The president also reaffirmed americas commitment to israel. While calling for humanitarian aid to the region, Carlos Saucedo reports with the very latest developments. I came to get kind back on air force one. President joe biden says his overseas trip was a success. Egypt will open the gaza Border Crossing to allow for much needed humanitarian aid. President biden wrapped up his lightning trip to israel wednesday and what was seen as a diplomatic scramble to keep the war with hamas from escalating into a larger conflict. Biden reaffirmed americas commitment to the jewish state for decades. Ensure israels qualitative military edge. Later this week. Im going to ask United States Congress Fresh support package. Prisoners defense, the president met with israeli First Responders and families of those killed, injured or taken hostage. The high stakes visit overshadowed by a blast at a gaza hospital that killed 500 civilians. The hamas led Gaza Health Ministry says an israeli airstrike causing destruction while Israeli Military denied any involvement, blaming a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic another militant group think are ruled was rightfully outraged. But this outrage should be directed, not israel. But the terrorists. Based on what ive seen, it appears it was done by the other team, triggered protests like these in iraq, an anti israel rally with crowds chanting death to america. Biden scheduled visit to jordan and other arab leaders was called off last minute signaling a shift in diplomatic relations when it just highlights the difficulty that the United States has in managing its relationship. And its alliance with israel with its relations with arab these populations of enraged deaths of palestinians in the gaza strip. Back home, protesters took over the Capitol Rotunda in dc calling for a ceasefire. And end to the bombing. That was reporting for us tonight. Meanwhile, the u. S. Vetoed a Un Security Council call for i humanitarian pause in the israeli hamas war today and President Biden will address the nation about the middle east conflict tomorrow night at 5 oclock. Our time we will carry that live here on kron. 4. Here in the bay area, 1500 San Francisco students walked out of a class today calling for a ceasefire in the middle east. Many of the students of era palestinian or muslim descent, all of them asking israel to end its attacks on gaza. Following that walk out, city leaders held a press conference demanding an end to the bombing of the region as well as accountability from elected officials for hateful and prejudice rhetoric causing fear and already marginalized communities. I want to remind everybody that theres a large air, a palestinian and Muslim Population right here in the city of San Francisco. They are going to School Every Day feeling the gravity of this moment and they need those in positions of power to take care of them to see them and to make them not only feel visible but feel heard. The San Francisco Unified School District also issued a statement of support for the students saying, quote, as a School District that champions diversity and social justice, its imperative our schools are safe spaces where each and every one of our students feels like they belong, feel heard and received the support they need to process and heal. As the heat kicks into high gear in the bay area today and tomorrow, people who want to cool off the beach may want to think again, dangerous or conditions may be life threatening for beachgoers this week. Kron 4 spoke with a former coast guard on tips to stay safe. Dont go into the ocean and try to save your friends. The coast guard has enough time dealing with one people. One person in the ocean let alone multiple people in the ocean. So your first thing never turn your back on the ocean. Always maintain your senses. And if you see something in trouble, pick up your phone and call 911. The coast guard is just over the hill there out here practicing all the time. Theyll be the first people to respond somebody in danger in the ocean. Sneaker waves high surfs and rip currents. All concern here. Meantime, happening tomorrow, the bay area air Quality Management district is issuing the 7th spare the air alert for this year. The warmer temperatures combined with Motor Vehicle exhaust could produce unhealthy ozone levels. The district is encouraging residents to drive less and take public or alternative transportation in order to reduce pollution and Greenhouse Gas emissions in the bay area. This is a live look there downtown San Francisco right now. Kron fours chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here with more on what we can expect. A lawrence all about the heat tomorrow affect you felt that today temperatures. Warm. Just about everywhere you went. Can you believe its going to be hotter tomorrow . And yeah, we could easily see some records fall out there. Right now. Were clear all the way to the coastline, little hazy out toward ocean beach right now looking from our sutro cam. But overall, i think skies going to stay mostly clear tonight. We do have some patchy, dense fog last night into early this morning. Right now, check out the temperatures. It is 75 degrees in Half Moon Bay. 81 degrees right now in downtown San Francisco. 82 in oakland, a hot 92 in santa rosa on 87 degrees in san jose. 86 in fremont and 82 degrees for our friends in oakland. So pretty toasty around the bay area right now. Heat advisories are going to be up continuing until 11 oclock on thursday night. The temperatures overnight tonight, especially as you get the mountain tops here about 500 feet or so. Theyre just a very warm, probably around the 60s and 70s into the santa cruz mountains. So youre really not going to get a chance to cool things off for you overnight tonight before the heat is on tomorrow. So youve got advisories for heat all the way from San Francisco down the peninsula into the Santa Clara Valley into the east bay in the north bay, too, expecting some very hot temperatures by tomorrow afternoon. Look at these. These could easily be many records around the bay area. 89 in downtown San Francisco, hot 98 in livermore. 97 in san jose and 98 degrees in santa rosa. There is a cooling trend and a big cooling trend may be some rain in the forecast. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Our largest given this weeks warming temperatures, Santa Clara County libraries are opening as cooling centers. A heat advisory again in effect until late tomorrow night. You can check out the complete list of cooling centers on the county website. People are advised to check in frequently with older folks and people who have Chronic Health problems. Officials say if you see somebody who seems to stress because of the heat, dont hesitate to call 911. San francisco is expected to have a record year for fatal drug overdoses on track to reach 800 deaths. That is more than the record breaking year of 2021, 726 people were killed because of drugs. Scott force about that but joins us live with what experts say is causing more overdoses this year than in the past couple route. The majority of the deaths reported this year by the chief medical Examiners Office are fentanyl related. But that was also the case. The last 3 years. Walk San Franciscos streets any given night. And you can see this person after person struggling with addiction. And this week, the San Francisco department of Public Health released the numbers from january through september, the first 9 months of 2023. There have been a total of 620 accidental overdose deaths. Thats to fatal overdoses a day and the majority are cause from fentanyl. The same year San Francisco brought in reinforcements from the california highway patrol, the francisco Sheriffs Office and the California National guard to help tackle the opioid epidemic. A move the National Harm Reduction Coalition has been critical of from the start. If you make drug use criminal, if you stigmatize people who use drugs. Theyre going to go underground and 10 shalene more likely to overdose less support from the community or Harm Reduction service providers, director of Overdose Prevention policy and strategy. Mary scylla says increased policing cant be the only thing to blame for a record year of overdoses. She says the Number One Solution will be getting narcan into the hands of drug users to reverse overdoses. One other solution, according to Health Experts in San Francisco. Is the citys new night navigator program. A team of people who have gone out from 07 00pm to 03 00am for the last 3 weeks providing outreach. Donna hilliard leave the teen and says its made up of people experienced homelessness and overcome drug transport we also have, you know, a sobering center. If you want to go there or if you want to go to a detox, she says on average 8 people in it are saying yes to getting help. But that fentanyl is reach, makes the work of Harm Reduction more difficult each night fit in all can be in cocaine powder substances. People dont know that, right . So theres people who are not using fentanyl but are being exposed to fentanyl. And then you see the overdose because they were unaware. All is the number one cause of fatal drug overdoses in San Francisco. But its followed by meth and cocaine reporting the newsroom. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. All right. Thank you, rob. Happening tonight. And lafayette. Teachers and their supporters are at a School Board Meeting demanding better wages for themselves and more resources for students. The Teachers Union says theyve been unable to reach an agreement with the district since february. Tonights meeting will get under way at 5. 45. At the Stanley Middle School library. Its the final Board Meeting before the 2 sides meet for mediation. Meantime, San Francisco teachers did vote to authorize a strike last week. Negotiations there with the district are still ongoing. Also happening tonight, the Martinez Refining Company will brief the city on what theyve done to prevent the release of chemical dust into the air like they did last thanksgiving. A 3rd party lab analyzed that material identified. It has spent catalyst. The refinery will also discuss what caused a smaller releases, including one that happened the morning of october 6. Also talk about ongoing plans to increase worker safety there. Tonights meeting is set for 07 00pm. Say after members protested outside the netflix headquarters in los gatos today following the conclusion of negotiations. With the alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers studio execs did not accept sagaftras latest offer last week. The last offer we put on the table, they just walked away and didnt which is, you they didnt even give us offer to so theyre just being extremely Union Members are still demanding what they call fair pay safer, working conditions and protections against Artificial Intelligence in the industry. Still to come Area Food Bank reducing its services, why theyre cutting back on the workforce. Plus, a newly signed piece of legislation set to protect to youth against fentanyl overdoses. What melanies law entails. But first, see, you have not felt perhaps but instead. But youve got this notification more on the earthquake that this Sacramento Region and the Technology Used to try to keep Technology Used to try to keep people safe. You know i got two home runs. You got two jacks. And then my grand slam. I signed a ball for you. Okay. And it says papa i love you. Why did you do that . Because youve taught me everything about baseball. 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This alert popped up on thousands of bay area phones wednesday warning residents in earthquake was eminent. That federal learned triggered by an early overestimation of the quakes. Intensity from californias shea color, usgs. This is bell is still a bose. And with u. S. Geological survey is a system that detects earthquakes right as beginning to and sends an alert to people that theyre going to feel shaking. However, for many, the shaking never came because it has to estimate the magnitude of the earthquake extremely quickly. That initial estimate is a little so, yes, the initial estimate was 5. 7, which is quite a larger have. Thats why many people received an alert when they in fact, feels like. Lobos, ian says, even though the system may not have appeared to work usgs as they see it as a win is a tradeoff between providing timely information. Again, those first couple seconds are really critical. Theres a tradeoff between timeliness and accuracy. So that simply. Future of how the system works that we want to provide alerts more conservatively and make sure that people get alerts when they should get really wanting to get everything. Were trying to things as quickly as possible. So the ideal response when you get an alert on your phone is to take action. Color is a joint project between usgs in berkeleys seismology lab. Doctor andrew lucks explains they plan to study the quake and the alerts to learn more on how to make it all better. Going to be some ongoing work. Theyre just trying to figure out exactly what happened. Looks like overall, again, the system worked well. We have one station that seem to have higher iqs what would expect. That event. At Moffett Field to recess stasio kron. 4 news. I whether time now as we get a live look outside the you hear from mount tam and theres a little low layer of haze. But yeah, not the thick fog that you usually see coming in the bay unless it has moved that i dont know. Absolutely beautiful. Were going to be not technical about it. Its beautiful saying that the waves are pretty wild out there today. Yeah, big waves. A pounding the coastline. You know, folks start to feel the heat probably want to get a little relief. They head of the coach got to be careful. These are some major swells that are moving in, even though were seeing High Pressure here. Weve got a pretty intense area of low pressure in the gulf of alaska that has generated some bigtime waves. So its beautiful out of the coastline where they started out with some dense fog. At the beach that cleared out, we have some temperatures soaring in the 80s even along the coastline. You see some of that white water, though, in the distance there. This is Half Moon Bay and really large swells out there. In fact, the National Weather Service Still issued a advisory for big waves there. And well see those maybe 17, maybe 22 footers out there along the coastline. That advisory continues until 7 oclock tomorrow evening. So be careful not only for people that want to swim, but people want to go fishing or anything along the coastline get knocked off the rocks very, very easily. All right. Check out the temperatures right now. 75 in Half Moon Bay to 77 degrees right now. Pacific at the coast, 80 in San Francisco. Youve got 79 in fairfax. 71, but they a 92 and hot santa rosa. So all around these temperatures really warming up. So going to be seen if we calculated records. I dont know if any fell today, but i think theres a very good chance. Were going to see numerous record set by tomorrow. Things are setting up now that were going to see that offshore wind developing. In fact, you kind of get the hint of that today. We cleared out along the coastline. I think overnight tonight well see that offshore even more. So that means skies going stay mostly clear overnight tonight, storm track had a well to the north. You see that big storm system in the gulf of alaska, the generating some of the swells eventually some of this energy is going to punch through as we head into friday and the weekend could actually bring some rain and some much cooler temperatures. But not tomorrow. Were basking in sunshine and probably record heat tomorrow as well see those offshore winds that sinking air really warming up as it approaches the coastline. That is going to be the temperatures even along the waters edge, going to be running on the hot side overnight tonight model showing mostly clear out there overnight tonight. Then by tomorrow, a lot of these numbers and i put an asterisk by some of these forecast numbers that will be records if we hit these, that could be a recordsetting rose at 98 degrees. A record of 98 possible in napa. 98 in livermore. That could be a record 97 in san jose. 82 could tie record in Half Moon Bay. So you get the idea these temperatures unusually hot tomorrow, but then we go the other way. Were going to watch these numbers. Just take a major tumble on friday. So usually can handle a couple of days, the heat, but that was when they get into for 5 days. That really wears you down. But tomorrow, get out there and enjoy it. We may not see another day like that this year. Thankfully, no wind coming along with that. Yeah. If you had some really gusty winds to go along with the seat, that could be an issue right now that doesnt look like a problem. Next week, though, we could see some of those gusty of firewood. So watching closely. Thanks, arent the warriors preseason continues tonight with the game at chase center is coach steve kerr put it. Theyve been. Going hard during Training Camp, but hes been quiet about whether or not this will be his last season as the warriors coach for us there in wilson is live at chase with more now, people there feeling about this coaches going into the last year of his contract writer. He the night you said he did mention been going hard in preseason Training Camp for good reason, not in vain because they have been able to maine in a perfect preseason up to this point. Even play sacramento there this week. Now, of course, men was coming here into chase center by trying to change when we talk about tonights back, have talked about speaker said that tonight is more a dress rehearsal as is the spurs preseason matchup later on or next week. That being he meant not more so when it comes to line up see out there on the floor. Getting into the game routine, how you pair ahead of the game. The game of the things that they team after the game. That, of can have a real look at a true sign. Up right now with Draymond Green still out not play in this game. Not expected to play in the spurs preseason and hes even listed questionable for the Season Opener against the that said, though, he also meant that he was very impressed by guys like brandon moses, moody and jonathan kuminga, of and we caught up side ahead of this matchup. Hes been looking forward to seeing big of a jump they will make after offseason. Yeah, i cant wait to see the pick and pop. Ive practice with steph curry chris i think moody is going to have a little bit outbreak this season by feel like coming. Its going to have that jump from the. Couple of preseason games that weve seen this season so far. Now also talked about fact that he was excited to see chris paul and steph curry, actually how he became a thing. Those to battle each other. So hes excited to see those guys on the same side of the floor, working with other, making some magic for the warriors. That though steve kerr also mention that he was not impressed so far with the preseason defense that theyve shown too many about cars. But well talk more that its 6 want to give you more of a pregame look. Tonights battle against the sacramento kings. For now you guys. Ill to you guys in student i cant wait for the real games to start next week. Thanks there for that preview. Coming up, the u. S. House still without a speaker tonight as ohio representative jim jordan fails to get enough votes from his own party. Again, latest from washington, d. C. But first, more closures sitting bay area issues with Rite Aid Stores shut down for good. Well tell you about that. Not good news. But the San Franciscomarin food bank has announced that it will be reducing its services over the next couple years. They say this is because the pandemicrelated, federal and state funding is coming to an end. It by the end of june 2025. The food bank says it will be closing all emergency popup pantries and they say theyll have to reduce their workforce as a result. Rite aid plans to close stores following its bankruptcy filing and some of the Closing Stores are here in the bay area of the list of closures includes the santa clara location in the Moonlight Center mall in el camino right now as well as the cupertino location inside the homestead square shopping center. Its unclear when exactly those stores will close. But patients prescriptions are expected to be transferred to other pharmacies. Has a short customers. It is not going out of business and it will continue to serve customers instore and online. You can head over to kron 4 dot com for a full list of those closures. For your money. This evening. The irs trying to simplify the taxfiling process with direct file a new program. Theyre testing out that will eliminate thirdparty tax Services Like h and r block and turbotax. 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