News station. Youre watching kron. 4 news at 6. I want shopping destination, especially during the holidays, the macys Flagship Store in franciscos days are numbered. Its part of a large number of nationwide cuts from the retailer. But this cut is unique. Late painful to the city. Thanks so much for joining us at 6. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus. Macys says been a fixture, of course in union square since the 40s. And now it is just one of 150 stores that macys is closing nationwide. Kron fours dan kerman is live tonight in the it will close no year, but as early as next year. Too. For some it wouldnt be the holidays without the adoptable dogs and cats in Macys Union Square window. But the sun is setting and that tradition as well as the iconic macys christmas tree. The retailer has announced it will be shuttering 150 stores over the next 3 years. And the Mayors Office says the union square store will be one of them. Were really excited for the opportunity to work with the Union Square Alliance other retailers and businesses that we talked to to explore what other possibilities exist. While disappointed the mayor decided to put a positive spin and the departure of one of Union Squares most iconic retailers. Things are shifting. And so we have to make sure that we shift to an experience that Consumers Want to that. And the mayor says the city will work to streamline the bureaucracy to allow multiple possibilities instead of penalizing and focusing on fees and taxes and other things. Our goal is to focus on. How do we incentivize . How do we get people excited about investing in downtown for the possibilities of University Soccer stadiums, day spas and other opportunities that we know people have an interest Macys Union Square. Its a crown jewel of downtown San Francisco, john constand, junior with macys neighbor johns grill says hes sad to see macys go. He says shopping at macys and eating at his restaurant. Its a tradition people from around the world of enjoyed. Its really important that they find. A great operator or come up with a great plan to fill shoots deceased. Going to be. Speak a big deal lot, not a lot of jobs lost square area live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Thank you, dan. And coming up at 06 30pm, tonight will head to the east bay, too, macy store. That seems to be thriving. Talk to shoppers. Their bout. What seems to be working at that location . Well, if youve driven on interstate 8. 80, through oakland this week, you may have noticed something missing missing. Thats because the large as rooted in oakland sign on the side of the coliseum. Has been painted over. That happened yesterday. That sign headed or on the side of the coliseum since 2017 part of the campaign to try to build a new ballpark in oakland, you know, rooted in oakland. But now with the club. Trying to move to las vegas. The as have taken that signage down the as Season Opener is at the coliseum in about a month from now for what could be the teams last season here. Although the team is trying to negotiate a lease extension beyond this upcoming season. While there vegas ballpark is being built. Meanwhile, Community Activists in oakland are calling on the oakland as to allow for more open use for the coliseum. Our first Charles Clifford has details. Well, here in oakland on tuesday, a group of Community Advocates called on Alameda County to make sure that whatever eventually happens to the Oakland Coliseum. They want to know that the community will benefit tuesday morning. The Oakland United Coalition called on the Alameda County board of supervisors to pressure as owner john fisher to allow the Oakland Coliseum to be used for things other than a baseball. The team recently blocked an effort by the upstart oakland bees to play at the coliseum move that the Oakland Coalition says robs a community of a financial benefit. The as are currently in the process of buying out the county stake in the coliseum, a deal which makes them in the city of oakland, coowners of the site. Coalition believes that the county can still exert pressure on the team. But county has the agreement with pfister that is allowing him to be a decisionmaker about what does and doesnt happen in our backyard, too. Theyre a dream and is allowing the as ownership to block the flow of needed resources into the east oakland community. And although as ownership has declared a desire to move the team to los vegas, there are no set date for when that might happen. The Oakland United Coalition says that if the team truly wants to leave oakland, they should give up their stake in the coliseum to john fisher. Sell your state in the coliseum. Make your profit and allow to flourish and thrive. If you cant do that, then its time to play ball with the community and join us at the negotiating table. Even though the as have expressed an interest in leaving oakland, the team has had talks with the county and the city of oakland about extending their stay at the coliseum. Although no deal has been reached in oakland, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. From now on ports across the u. S. , including the port of oakland will only be buying in implementing new port cranes that are made right here in the u. S. According to a government report, cranes made in china have the ability to monitor us shipping and could potentially disrupt and shut down the system at any time from overseas over the next 5 years. A u. S. Based company will take over the crane production. But this will not affect any existing chinesemade cranes at american ports. Only future orders. Oakland, Business Owner has been in a years long tug of war with the city over constant Illegal Dumping outside the establishment. Now over time instead of helping the business fix the problem. Kron fours Philippe Djegal reports the city is holding the business responsible and hit it. But 10,000 fine. Were not taking it anymore. Its dot. Jason, her burrs has owned stay gold. Deleon san pablo avenue in west oakland for 7 years. And he says for most of that time on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis, he and his staff have filed 3, 1, 1, reports to the city about the mass amounts of trash being illegally dumped outside of the business. I think that people know that and feel that they can come down to this neighborhood and commit that will be investigated will go on and thats just the way its been for years rather than working with her burrs to mitigate the problem. He says the city is holding him responsible for the trash and begin fining him for negligence. Back in 2021. And at this point, the total amount due has reached 9,658. And 0. 53. Are we being fined for operating a you place. Her birds has appealed the fine. The city replied by agreeing to reduce this years texas litter fee by more than 800 because the business has an onsite litter removal program. And customers dining on site. But a letter from the Deputy Director of economic and Workforce Development says, quote, the appeal is not granted in fool due to serving food and beverages in or on disposable plates containers and napkins that can blow away or be littered by customers after they leave the business area. Mostly make sandwiches and barbecue. This stuff gets its wrapped in disposable biodegradable. A paper containers you know, we compost. We recycle. We you know, we a huge dumpster. We are the problem. With little herbert is refusing to pay the fine and is exploring legal action against the city. Philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. Weve got a response from the city of oakland this afternoon about this saying businesses can appeal there fee to reduce or eliminate their fee based on their business being improperly classified or having a litter reduction program. In this case. Stay goldbelly filed an appeal for the 2023 charges. And there this is fee was reduced by 90 leaving their fee of just 91 this year. They added the city did that. The deli likely did not appeal or pay the prior years fights. Right now. Time for 4 zone forecast. The look in live tonight at the bay bridge. Light in the Traffic Department and pretty sweet. And the weather department. Yeah, its gorgeous out for late february. This is about how you can one, especially after. All that rain, lawrence, we dont to feel guilty. Enjoying the sunny just get out there and enjoy because it is all going to change very soon. In fact, weve got about another 24 hours of almost springlike weather and then winter is going to slam us with some of the coldest temperatures of the season and even some snow likely across bay area peaks as we head in toward the weekend outside. Right now, the sun has set on what was a gorgeous day outside temperatures soaring in the 60s around much of the bay area. In fact, youre looking good outside right now about 60 in santa rosa, 16 palo alto. 58 now in hayward and cooling off in the San Francisco. Now, 56 degrees after a beautiful day. Overall. The state looking good, nice and dry couple high clouds up above. But we are awaiting the next storm system in this one coming from a different direction. The previous storms weve had this month. This is not an Atmospheric River event. This is going to be one of those gold cold storms dropping right now, the gulf of alaska. And you can see that little swirl. Off the coastline there of alaska. Thats the center of low on the front. That is going to begin to make its way in the california that is going to drop the temperatures drastically all around. So enjoy the night ahead. Mostly clear, nice and dry. A little cool in spots. More about the rain coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, lawrence. Today apple reportedly shut down its decadesold quest to build an autonomous electric car. You may have seen some of these on the roads of sonny bill. These the images there from last year. Bloomberg reporting that the move will mean over 1000 job cuts are reassignments to the companies. Generative ai ai projects or other roles. At least 1400 employees were working on this project at one time around 5,000 workers were working on what was known internally as project titan, Tesla Ceo Elon musk reacting to the news on x today with a salute. Microplastics are everywhere and theyre causing even more harm that we know how california lawmakers are trying to mitigate the problem and what you can do to limit your exposure plus, the city of San Francisco issuing an apology today that no other city has ever made. And recent snow storms hitting this year. Moore are on the way. Good for reservoirs. Good for resource. But what could be bad for business . Well explain after the break. What do i see in peter dixon . I see my husband. The father of our girls. I see a public servant. A man who served under secretary clinton in the state department. Where he took on the epidemic of violence against women in the congo. I see a fighter, a tenacious problemsolver. Who will go to congress and protect abortion rights and our democracy. Because he sees a Better Future for all of us. Im peter dixon and i approved this message. Alright, brace yourselves about 8 feet of snow. Let the dumped in the lake tahoe region by the end of the week got a lot. Yeah, its a huge boost. Also to the snowpack in the ski resorts. But the timing not so great for other businesses in the area. Gophers rob nesbitt joins us now live in the studio with more on that. Rob. And a perfect scenario. Winter storms would happen in the sierra during the week and be cleared out by the weekend when the most tourists are in town. Thats not whats happening this week, though, creating a good news, bad news scenario. The biggest snowstorm of the year is on its way to tahoe. Lead scientists at the central sierra snow lab. Andrew schwartz is expecting a range of 7 to 9 feet. Many, many people are going to be very. Theres going to be a lot of shoveling out to do and quite a bit of snow from the previous couple of days. Short expects travel to be nearly impossible by thursday morning. Still on the roads, but also the mountains and the lead scientist says that will benefit the states water resources. The storm is expected to take us somewhere between 110 and 125 of average for this time of year. And it will give us much, much closer to reaching average on the season. Overall, towns in the region are already preparing. David palive. He is the mayor for the town of truckee. We just want everybody to be heed the warnings to levy also owns the retail stores, tahoe Mountain Sports and tahoe mountain life. The timing of the first blizzard warning of the year is not ideal for business going into what would normally be a busy weekend in my business. We rent skis. We rent equipment, things like that. Weve already had some people moving around the reservations for the weekend. So thats not going to happen. Nearly impossible. Travel conditions and a decline in business during the worst of the storm. But tahoe relies on snow in the winter and many are looking forward to seeing the benefits news of an incoming storm for us up here in the mountains is great. Thats what we live for. Thats why we live here. A blizzard warning is not just about snow sorts as this also takes into account things like high wind speeds and limited visibility reporting in studio. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. All thank you. Rob lawrence has been talking about this storm coming this weekend. Not one of those warm. Pineapple express storm not in at all. What do you call Polar Express or you had a good one. But says the script says the arctic express this is interstate 80 at donner. And were getting a live look at it. Theyre not snowing at the moment, but a big dumping right . Lawrence is going to hammer like grand said the king crab i like that one. That is that whats going to stick . Yeah. Lets go with it. The king grab a hammer. It looks like its coming our way in. Yeah, were going to be affected by a 2 here in the bay area. Of course, theyre going to really get hammered, though, in the high country. Thats where theyre going to see a ton of snow. Now, the good news is theyre getting a ton of snow. You like to see that. And thats going to that real fluffy powdery snow that you get. Theres that cold outside. Now youre looking at the half dome. You can just barely make it out there in the background. Lot of snow is headed in that direction to him. Well, weve got some blizzard conditions expected in the high country as the storm system going to be tracking in right now remains dry up. Their roadways are open and clear and will likely be that way for another day after that, everything begins to change a major winter storm system going to be moving in. Blizzard all but likely. Now thursday through saturday and the snow level is going to be dropping very, very low. Were talking about 2000, maybe 4,000 feet. Thats in the first part of the storm. I think as we get in towards saturday and sunday may be down to about 1000 feet or so. Now were talking about maybe as much as 10 feet of snow 5,000 feet. That is a ton of snow coming down in a short amount of time and the winds gusting may be 82 over 100 Miles Per Hour across the mountain passes. So dangerous, drug driving conditions, obviously, and then a likely going to see some whiteout conditions. If youre heading that direction, too. So you can see right here. Blizzard warnings are going up across the sierra nevada. Going to be interesting how it turns out to see the snow begin to pile up and all of a sudden looking in the bay area start to see the models picking up on snow moving in our direction. So theyre going to get a ton of snow in the high country. Were going to get some snow here locally to maybe really going to see maybe 3 inches or so across some of our picks as well. So snow level youre dropping down. Maybe 2000 feet, maybe 1000 feet. We get a good down dress. So that would be the king crab hammer crab hammer. Maybe the cocktails. Right. So people like the plan for stuff like this. When do you think the kids might be able to play in the snow locally . I think if you got up on sunday morning, you might be able to drive up to some local mount diablo. Yeah, out, you maybe mount tam. I mean, its going to be building up that we could see some snow in that direction. All right. Yeah, get out there. Think that hammers. I like it. Was so silly. Thanks right. Thanks. Light. I today San Francisco supervisors formally apologize to africanamericans and their descendants. For what they call racist laws and policies perpetuated by the city. All 11 members of the board signed on as sponsors of the declaration. Its the first of more than 100 proposals made by City Committee to actually happen. And San Franciscos the first major u. S. City to issue such an apology. So far theres been no movement on any of the committees monetary proposals, including a lump sum cash payment to residents or a guaranteed income. 2 u. S. Senate panels held a joint hearing on microplastics in water today was hosted by california zone. Alex padilla he invited experts shared what we can only be described as chilling information. Kron fours Catherine Heenan is live in our newsroom with more on this. Catherine. Yeah, those hearings, grand focused on how tiny particles of plastic are finding their way into water, not only bodies of water like the ocean, but the water we drink, the invited experts said todays hearing say that microplastics are basically everywhere. Microplastics is a problem. We know that ingesting plastic in any form is bad, but it is becoming increasingly clear these days that avoiding the problem is just about impossible. One macro plastic item can for millions of microplastics which break into billions of nano plastics. Particles so small they can easily move across the gastrointestinal tract, be carried by the blood and up in our livers, kidneys. Sprains even crossing the placental boundary into embryos. Formulations of plastics are estimated to use upwards of 13,000 chemicals. And microplastics are widely documented to harm aquatic and terrestrial wildlife. Its Common Knowledge that many of the chemicals can cause cancer. But these experts point out theyve been linked to everything from alzheimers to obesity, these chemicals within plastics are linked to fertility issues. As well as being associated with obesity rates, autism and other developmental issues. It was interesting to watch as it dawned on various senate Panel Members that they are in fact, surrounded by dangerous microplastics. My understanding is our paper cups like the one senator loomis history can feel at this moment are also lined with plastic. My daughters a little obsessive about the containers that she uses in her house for my grandchildren. And i thought she was being a little obsessive compulsive. And now i know shes not. The hearing is intended to lead to better ideas on how to ease the problem. That wont be easy. The testimony today included the fact the u. S. Has the highest prevalence of micro fibers in our Drinking Water than any other nation. And the u. S. Is not set up to handle the problem. Right now. The recycling infrastructure is awful. Things you can do to minimize health risks. Aside from using fewer Plastic Products include. Filter in your water, vacuuming regularly that talked about although microplastics are just about everywhere, including your clothing, one of the senate bills being considered, meantime would pay for a National Study on the presence of microplastics. Vicki, thank you, catherine. Good information, sir. This is a wendys. That means you may soon have to pay more for that barker at certain times of the day. Explain. Coming up. Paying more during peak hours works for rideshare companies. But will it work for fast food kron fours . Alice sogomonian reports nowp from walnut creek. Cars are lining up at the wendys drivethru for lunchtime. Its noon in the parking lot is filling up with hungry customers. They can enjoy the same price day or night. That fight next year. That will change the fast food franchise plans to charge more during busier hours. Im not really a big fan of really, really just to collect a lower price meals, but make it affordable for us working class guys. All customers out here agreed theyd like things to remain the same. One man says it wont change mind about dining wendys. As long as there isnt a huge price difference, everything that youre not a its really but just a little bit. Im not going to. Going change keith miller runs a few subway locations in california and noted that minimum wage is going up for fast food workers to 20 an hour in april. Hes with franchisee Advocacy Consulting and treats by the business model. And its an interesting concept, because as running a restaurant, we always are trying to balance. You know, how do we balance day more, you know, especially for like a some subway, you know, a large percentage of our businesses and within a 2 to 2 and a half hour period and associate professor of economics at cal state east bay shares. Why wendys might be making the the surge pricing. Thats an example of price discrimination right from the it just means that the Companies Use all Information Available to it about the customers. To adjust the price to what was going to their profits. In a statement from wendys, the Company Confirms they will fluctuate prices both high and low. Using an ai enabled menu with seasonal suggestions saying this will allow us to be more nimble and flexible pricing, including providing value offers to customers and walnut ellis ammonium kron. 4 news. Still to come, san jose taking the top spot in the state in this new quality of life report. Thats out. What makes the south bay area such an attractive option, at least according to the people who did this study. Also, were talking about the important issues facing all californians one week before super tuesday in the big primary election. And then todays bombshell macys Flagship Store in San Francisco is shutting down. You can still shop there for now. But not a whole lot longer. We went to a store macys in the east bay that is not supposed to close any time soon to get some perspective soon to get some perspective there. Pretty inter thousands of women with Metastatic Breast Cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. 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