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And your saturday, this is going to be the most significant snow of the season thus far. Snow kicked off this morning already, but our heaviest of it is friday through saturday. Now this is going to pile up above 5,000 feet. 5 to 12 feet of snow. That includes Donner Summit. Roadways are going to be impassable. If you had plans on gelting to the sierra, cancel those plans, it is just a nogo. And if youre already up in the sierra, make sure to have emergency kit with you in several days worth of food. In the case, the power goes out to its not just the heavy snow, but strong winds gusting as high as 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour. As for the bay area are impact is going to be a little less severe, but it is going to impact us. Nonetheless 50s for our current temperatures and thats where well land for a daytime highs later today. Weve already seen a lot of cancellations and delays out of sfo and with rainfall intensity only increasing later today, expect more of those delays as we go. James, thank you very much, john. We are continuing our Team Coverage of the rain where the north bay has already seen some showers this morning. So a wet commute to start their kron fours will tran in it up in santa rosa. A crime . Can you answer the door . Because Mother Nature just entered the party. We waited all morning for the rain to arrive and sure enough about 8. 55. It has been steady, not windy like it was before, but there is good rainfall thats happening right now in the north bay. And we do expect it to pick up in intensity. So if youre leaving now, you missed the train because that dry condition. Well, that was a little bit earlier this morning. Ill step aside. You can see trust the tree, not swaying back and forth anymore. So the wind, the breeze, gaunt, but what is here . Look at the heavy cloud cover your visibility will be cut down because obviously the rain is coming in. Its getting a little bit darker as we move in on that heart of the morning time. So youve got to keep that in mind. I remember any time you use your windshield wipers, you must turn on your headlights. Youll need it. As i mentioned, its getting darker at this particular time. We do expect the rain to come thr its way towards San Francisco and the rest of the bay area. But in the meantime, take it easy. We do expect paddling to happen. Not so much yet as Mother Nature, as i mentioned, just into the party, give it time and youll see hydroplaning, im sure on the roadways and chp officers, they are patrolling the freeways just of anything to show a presence that we are out here. So slow down. Hopefully going to be bumper to bumper traffic. And ive said that before bumper to bumper traffic is terrible. If you have to go to a certain place in a certain amount of time, is good because youre so moving so slowly that youre not going too fast for these conditions. All right. Well, thank you very much. Were also following a power outage situation happening right now in campbell, just south of downtown san jose. You see those areas in red in campbell, along were looking at about 8,500 or so customers without power right now. But if you look at Santa Clara County in total, thats when youre looking at about 22 1000 customers without power right now, this is an unplanned power outage. They do have a handful of planned maintenance outages, but thats not what were talking about here. Upwards of 22,887 customers without power right now in Santa Clara County for an on planned outage. No word yet on when that power will be restored. But theyre hoping some time this afternoon. All right. Happening in a matter of minutes, the man charged in connection with the Half Moon Bay mass shooting will be back in San Mateo County in court. Were talking about truly zhao. He was supposed to enter pleas to grand jury indictments last month, but that didnt happen after his defense asked for more time to review the charges last year. Zhao pleaded not guilty to all charges and remained in custody ever since. Prosecutors say they do hope that this trial will happen this year, but they admit it could be delayed until 2025, his arraignment starts at 10, 30 in the San Mateo County superior court. Meantime, today is a key deadline for the Company Behind a proposed ecofriendly city in solano county. Today is the deadline for the slaughter county counsels office to give California Forever the ballot title that the company will need to start collecting signatures for the ballot. The companys trying to get the proposal on the november ballot. California forever has had to revise its initiative twice now, which has delayed the amount of time and short amount of time. They have to collect the 13,000 signatures. Theyll need. But a spokesperson for the company says they are confident that their initiative will make it onto the ballot in november. Happening right now, bay area, faith leaders are rallying against the recall of Alameda County District Attorney pamela price. Theyre advocating for price to be allowed to finish out her term. Organizers are hoping the rally will serve as a testament to the support for price and her efforts in their community. Happening tonight, the public will get a chance now to meet the candidates for oaklands police chief. But tonights Candidate Forum comes with a little controversy. Mayor sheng thao says she will not be there. Kron fours. Dan kerman explains why. Cincinnati Police Department Lieutenant Colonel lisa davis, new york assistant deputy mayor for public safety. Louis molina, former San Leandro Police chief Abdul Pridgen and retired lubbock, texas police chief Floyd Mitchell are all candidates for Oakland Police chief and now the Oakland Police commission has selected them to answer questions at a Community Forum thursday. But mayor sheng thao says this public forum is making top candidates withdraw their names from consideration. And this letter to the Police Commission tell us as oakland city charter does not require a public form to select the Oakland Police chief hosting a public forum is detrimental to attracting the best candidates. I will not participate in the forum for these reasons. Chief election help. That we had from. We dont have a public. There was a public from civil rights attorney. John burris is closely watching the process. The mares position on this, although theres some legitimacy to i just dont know that overrides the Public Interest to know these people are before they selected. I think thats the overriding consideration. Former San Francisco police chief tony rivera says the current list lacks any internal candidates. He says oakland could benefit from someone who knows the department and the Community Problems are always going come up in your teeth. Look at a problem in in a specific community and its nice to to know a couple of leaders in that community, but you can call up on a personal basis and saying, hey, i have a problem here. What do you think . And it really gives you some firsthand knowledge that. I think its very advantageous. Former Oakland Police chief Anne Kirkpatrick says shes also disappointed theres no internal candidate and she says whoever is chosen, they must be someone who can make peace among all the factions fractures between the commission. And the mayors pressure between the mayor and the city council fracture between the community. And all the politics that place fractured. And yet you have a great Police Department that just really hungry for the right person who could be a peacemaker. I think between all of these different factions. How this all plays out remains to be seen. But civil rights attorney jim chanin says the mayor and the Police Commission need to stop the infighting. They haye to get themselves together. Whether we have a public hearing or not is not to be by not what people want, but but bucks best for the people plan. And thats clearly not happening. That Candidate Forum will take place thursday evening at 6. 30, at city hall and online. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. 10. 0, 8 is the time in san jose, by the way, also needs a new police chief city leaders are planning to hold a virtual and inperson meeting next month where residents can voice their opinions about what they would like to see in a new chief. The current chief anthony mata is retiring after nearly spending. What, 30 years with the department. He has accepted a new position as the Investigations Bureau chief for the Santa Clara County District Attorneys office. In the north bay. Filet o police are asking for your help now and identifying the person that they believe started. This fire in a target store saturday afternoon. Officers say that the man right here on the screen is the one who set paper towels on fire, forcing evacuations in that store and for the store to close. Managers are hoping to reopen on saturday. The damage is now estimated at about 3 million dollars. If you know who that person is or where he is. Contact police. Well, now to a story we first brought you yesterday here on the kron. 4 morning news, San Jose Police arrest a man in connection with the shooting outside of a talker. Rio, multiple witnesses where theyre standing just feet away at the time. Crawfords amanda hari has the story. Surveillance video outside of the law. Victoria talk korea on almaden expressway back in august of 2018 shows the moment a triple shooting went down. It was around 10, 15 at night and lots of people were still around. Video shows just how gruesome this act committing Violent Crime in a public area where multiple bystanders are located, including small children. And so you really see that in the surveillance video, San Jose Police Public Information officer Tanya Hernandez says the 3 victims and 2 male suspects. Were inside of the restaurant when they got into an argument and that argument turned violent when all 5 people stepped outside. That was when the primary suspect produced a handgun and shot each of the victims, at least once in november of 2023. Police identified 26 yearold Miguel Vergara perez as the primary suspect and reopen the case arresting vergara present december. Alright, homicide unit detectives really exhausted. All leads in these cases and do not rest until they bring justice to our victims and the victims. Families. Look at our upper as is in the Santa Clara County jail right now facing attempted homicide charges. Police are still looking for another suspect in that case. Were going to take a break. Still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news with less than a week until the primary election. A new exclusive poll shows who is in the lead for the open u. S. Senate seat here in california. And were just getting thing started as far as this next storm is concerned. Heavy rain and snow already falling to the north of us and its only going to pick up for us only going to pick up for us and ill be honest. By the end of the day, my floors. Yeesh. But who has the time to clean . Thats why i love my swiffer wetjet. Its a quick and easy way to get my floors clean. Wetjet absorbs and locks grime deep inside. Look at that swiffer wetjet. 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. Were back at 10, 13 in library. Cardholders may soon lose the opportunity to get free passes to hundreds of state parks. The California State Parks past was launched 2 years ago as a way to provide more equitable access to the outdoors. But its not included in governor newsoms latest budget proposal. The passes provide free parking for a day at participating parks. They were checked out from libraries more than 2500 times since july of 2022. And used mostly buy low income families will see if maybe they cant get program back in the budget. All right. Take a look at a rainbow gracing the skies in San Francisco this morning as the rain was rolling in. This photo comes from the husband of our kron 4 morning producer angelica, thank you very much for sending that. It gave us a good view of what people around the bay were seeing. This was in the bayview district, by the way, and hopefully that will be the last rainbow that we see. John, i know were going to plenty of rain. Lets see if we can get a rainbow or 2 of this storm system. Love it. I was spotting all those rainbows under bridges last week and i got excited every time. So it is kind of fun, especially. After youve been looking at views like this all day, which is what most of us are going to be seeing this right here out and at the very top right there you can see it is windy and it is wet. The storm is coming in really just getting things started. As you can see, light showers drifting in more and more across the bay area. But the heavy stuff, all that still to our north and it is going to be pushing in later today. Cold front draped right here across mendocino county. And as that pushes through, winds will pick up as well as rainfall, intensity. Snow in the sierra is going to be a whole nother matter as this massive lowpressure dives deep into the west coast, striking in along with it. Some really cold unsettled air, bringing with it a chance of thunderstorms for the bay in rowlett list. Snowfall in the sierra nevada. The mountains will be off the charts with as much as 5 to 12 feet of snowfall above 5,000 feet in elevation. Includes areas like Donner Summit on i80. It is going to take crews days to be cleaning up this feet of snowfall with those plows. So anticipating snowed in for several days up in the sierra. If youre up there, make sure to bring emergency supplies. Power outages are certainly possible as well. Several days of food. As for our northern neighbors here in the bay area, sonoma and napa county mountains could see 3 to 6 inches of snowfall. So this is low elevation stuff. Its not just the feet of snow in the sierra. That is the concern. Its the 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour wind gusts that we have that are prompting blizzard warnings that just went into effect moments ago, lasting through 10 00am on sunday with those strong winds, risk of Power Outages and that compounded with being snowed in, not an ideal situation for being in the mountains. So this is very hazardous weather. If you are not in the mountains right now and had plans on going up there, just dont do it. Not a smart idea right now. It doesnt matter if you have chains or a truck thats done it before. We do have blizzard conditions today through saturday snow level falling as low as 1500 feet well down into the sierra foothills. And of course, that feet upon feet of snow higher up for the bay area. Its the rain for us. We do have that round of thunderstorms likely moving through later on into the afternoon. Very unsettled weather. So well have pockets of heavier rain, potential for hail, strong winds as well as cloud to ground lightning. This continues overnight tonight and into tomorrow as well with friday, bringing pockets of heavy rain, interspersed by lighter showers all through the day friday and into saturday as well. So weve definitely got several days of wet weather for us. The good news is the ground is dry back out. So will absorb fairly quickly. A quarter to a half an inch of rainfall today, several inches over the next few days. Any excess will drain off into our rivers. Rivers and streams have also seen water levels dropping. So this means that they have the availability pull up a little bit without necessarily overflowing. So our flood risk is fairly minimal. Fortunately, we do have high surf advisories at the coast starting tomorrow, 15 to 20 foot breaking waves that the coast strong winds to 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour that risk of downed trees is certainly a possibility. Todays daytime highs will land in the upper 50s to low 60s. Were honestly pretty much already there. As for the next several days, we get colder as that cold front barrels in friday saturday and sunday will barely make the low 50s along with heavy rain in the bay that heavy mountain snow in the sierra. Back to you, james. All right. Thank you very much on. Well, lets talk more about that major snowstorm in this year. Its already causing. Major delays on the roads. As john said, theyre looking for at least a couple feet at least over the next couple of days. And some of the lower elevations. But its tough on him is at boreal ski resort with the latest there. Its anticipated to be the most significant storm. The sierra has seen this season and were already getting a quick glimpse of it. We want to go ahead and take out to some video to show you some of the conditions we are seeing already this morning. Take a look at those wind conditions. You can see these flags are wavering in the wind back and forth. Fervently just goes to show you how significant already the wind gusts for today. But again, we have a lot of snow thats already coming down. This storm is expected to get pretty impactful later tonight. But again, already seeing the brunt of it this morning and here at boreal ski resort. Were already seeing people who still want to take on the slopes boreal ski resort has also mentioned to us that theres a wind hold on some of their chair lifts. They also mention that there is a possibility Power Outages could happen. So they have some backup generators in the event that happens. But they want everyone to stay safe on our roads. And with that, were already seeing a highway closure for today. Take a look at this. I80 worst watching us. Traffic is getting diverted at king veil. Thats because of a big rig that overturned on that highway blocking all lanes the National Weather service has come out with some pretty Strong Language about todays storm. Theyre anticipating travel to be extremely difficult to impossible. So just goes to show you how bad the storm is expected to be reporting from boreal ski resort. Im its tough. Onion. Ok, 10, 20 is the time the Oakland Unified School district is set to hear recommendations now on making budget cuts so the district can be more efficient and save money. The district says this is all part of their annual Budget Development process, which is a multiyear planning endeavor. They say staff has continued to provide the board with recommendations to address the districts financial realities. The board scheduled to vote on the recommendations in 2 weeks. Well see what they decide. Lawmakers and advocates took to the steps of the State Capitol to push for a fair and equal College Admissions process here in california. According to Assembly Bill 17, 80 authored by state Assembly Member phil ting, the law would prohibit private california schools and colleges from receiving state funding through the cal grant program. If they give preferential treatment to certain applicants, particularly those with donor or alumni ties. In california, we believe that power influence and money should not dictate who gets a c unit are steamed college and universities. We believe all students deserve a fair shot at a College Education regardless of family background income level or the color of their skin, their previous lawmakers add that you see these and see us use already dont practice legacy admissions. This follows last summers u. S. Supreme court ruling that bans race consideration in College Admissions processes. Sonoma county Animal Services are asking for you to help in fostering or adopting dogs. Officials say the 118 kennels are bursting at the seams right now with about 180 dogs, including 46 puppies. The shelter directors says the overcrowded shelter is due in part to a recent cruelty case where the shelter had taken a large number of animals. The shelter, they say, will provide food dog beds, Veterinary Care and anything else needed for foster homes. Some consumers are getting access to a free Tax Filing Service courtesy of the federal government. The Internal Revenue service is now testing its direct file program in 12 states for qualified users to file simple tax returns and among the states included california. It also includes arizona, texas, new york and florida filers need to provide a Social Security number or individual taxpayer id number for themselves there. Any dependents they may have as well as provide proper identification. The service is only for w 2 employees. People receiving Social Security or those on unemployment. All right. Were going take a break or 10. 22. But coming up, more on the rain. The big storm system impacting us over the next days. Is already starting to bring rain to the bay area and snow to we are back at 10. 25 federal regulators are considering limits now on connected vehicles to prevent. Abusers from tracking victims. Now the fcc says it regulations are needed to help victims feel safe in their own vehicles. Most new cars come with telecommunications features, which could be used by domestic abusers to track Someone Congress passed what theyre calling a safe connections act last year. The fcc will now discuss implementing the act for automakers as well. Well, a new report claims that panera bread. Hes exempt from following californias new minimum wage law due to its relationship with governor gavin newsom. So starting on april first, the new law will rays fast food worker minimum wage to 20 per hour. But the new law doesnt recognize places that make their own bread for sale as a fast food establishment. Y the line was drawn at bread is unclear. But a bloomberg report found that the owner of more than 20 panera locations has also been involved in donating to newsoms campaign. So theyre trying to make a connection there. No evidence of that just yet. But as much as 100,000 in 2021, was donated. The owner of the panera locations told bloomberg he had no role in crafting the bread exemption in the new fast food well, starbucks is heading to the negotiating table with its workers union. The coffee chain says it will begin talks again with workers united about labor agreements. The union first organized starbucks workers back in 2021 and represents employees at more than 300 starbucks locations across the country. The company also says it will begin rolling out pay raises to workers in those unionized locations. The 2 sides say there is a quote, constructive path ahead for collective bargaining at starbucks. 10. 27 is the time coming up next on the kron 4 morning news. A major storm as weve been telling you, is set to hit the telling you, is set to hit the sierra and make it imposs ordinary is the opposite of beautiful. Beauty drops our jaws. Dilates our eyes. And beauty is something we can create. Right now. At floor decor. Whether someone is across the neighborhood, across the street, or across the room, you have the power to make them feel right at home. Ritz. A taste of welcome. Who says you cant go for bold without going broke. Get the brands you want, the prices you want, whenever you want. Tj maxx where you can always afford to be you to the maxx. All right. It is 10, 30 welcome back to the kron. 4 morning news at the half hour. Lets get a check of that forecast. Weve been talking about it all week. John. The storms come in. The storms are coming in todays the day. Here it is. Yet yesterday was super super nice. Today is just the introduction to. Another couple of days that are going to be very stormy, especially for the sierra. This is where were at san jose. The clouds have been darkening gradually the past few moments here we are starting to see showers pushing in more and more into the bay area. As you can see, we from the Santa Cruz Mountains up the coast into the north bay, all just an introduction because look at what weve got to our north, that really heavy rainfall in our cold front draped across the region right here has yet to even push in. And that will result in heavy afternoon showers and along with the chance of thunderstorms, speckled cloud cover offshore cellular clouds right there. A sign of unsettled and cold air. So a chance of thunderstorms and a much colder forecast ahead of us. This allowed snowfall the fall ever decreasing elevations in the sierra. Once you head above 5,000 feet, snow will pile up between 5 to 12 feet. That includes routes like i80 and highway 50 up there. At lake level, expect as much as 4 to 8 feet of snowfall at lake tahoe. This is going to result in extremely dangerous travel conditions. Honestly, impossible travel conditions. I dont care how experienced you are. It is not a forecast to be heading up there. It is going to take several days to plow off these roads. Theres going to be multiple closures over the next several days with the most intense snowfall friday through saturday and snow level dropping to as low as 1500 feet as this cold air settles in. That means some snow on top of a mountain peaks in the bay too. As of today, this is our warmest that were going to be the next few days. Upper 50s right now for your current temperatures and were going to land in the upper 50s to low 60s this afternoon. Back there getting some rainfall already seeing multiple delays that after sfo. So its already having its impact and its only increasing as we make our way into the afternoon. James. All right, john, thank 10 31 is the time and happening right now. A blizzard warning as johns been mentioning in effect right now for the tahoe area. He says if you havent headed up there, you dont. In fact, a lot of the National Weather service is saying the roads are going to be impassable and they dont use that term lightly. Crawfords Michael Thomas live for us with more on what we need to know. Michael. Yeah, good morning, everyone. And as you heard john earlier, he doesnt care how experienced you are. Its really not an area you should be driving. That is in full effect this morning. In fact, weve got a live look right now of the Donner Summit. Can you can see its near 80, just how its already starting to build up that fresh powder. Thats soon going to be several feet. And as james mentioned, starting at 10 oclock this morning, just a few 34 minutes ago or so fully in effect, is that whether blizzard warning issued from the reno area all the way 300 miles stretch. Its going to be from sierra from north of lake tahoe, down to south of Yosemite Park and the area said to have widespread blowing snow that will create blizzardlike and whiteout conditions causing travel to be dangerous and severely severely bad meaning you cant even see in front of you buy a few feet. Now experts say they do expect 2 to 4 feet of snow in towns. A longtime host shore with 5 to 10 feet that areas highest elevations and wind gusting around 100 Miles Per Hour pg and e and pacific gas excuse me say that crews are on standby as they do. Expect disruptions to happen throughout the weekend. And they want to remind people to be safe. Use caution and never touch those downed power lines. We did speak with our meteorologist john trouble this morning. Take a listen to what he had to say. If you do have plans in that area this weekend. So you have plans of getting to the sierra. It is time to cancel those to reconsider. If you are going to be in this year already fully plan on being snowed in for multiple days. Have those go bags ready . Multiple days worth of food. It is very important to be ready to not be able to move what you get up there. And again, that started the warning at 10 oclock this morning and its lasting all throughout the weekend into sunday. So you really do want to make sure youre being safe, canceling those plans. And if you arent already up there, make sure youre doing your best to stay inside. James, all send it back to okay, michael, thank you very much. 10 34 the time in related news. The department of Water Resources is going to be conducting its 3rd snow survey of the season. Hows this for timing . Theyre going to take that measurement right before this expletive blizzard is going to roll through the mountains. This is going to be up at phillips station. The dwr will measure the water content of this year. Snow packed giving them some insight into the states water supply for the coming year. The staff is going provide the latest measurements on how it compares to previous years, including last years historic season. Ken, the measure, but theyre going to take today, which they have to take today to take it on the same day. Every time of year, just as luck would have. It is going to come right before the big snow dump. Well see what the next measurement shows. All right, 10 34 on the clock back closer to home. A berkeley intersection is back open now after yet. Another person is struck by a driver. Police closed off the area of heinz avenue and 7th street on wednesday afternoon. The investigation is centering on mini cooper with the damaged windshield. A person was crossing the street and was struck by the driver of that car. This specific intersection has become a problem spot lately. Fact, it was just a couple weeks ago that a father and his 3 yearold child were biking to a nearby school when they were struck by a driver in that intersection. The little boy wasnt hurt, but the dad did suffer an injury to his knee. Now, another accident happened just yesterday. Has residents saying that somethings got to be done. I hope cities can do more to put in more infrastructure to keep people safe because i want to live in a city that is walk and bike friendly and i think we actually need that for our future. Well, advocacy group. Called walk. Bike. Berkeley is also weighing in on this latest crash. The organization tells kron 4, theyre extremely upset about the fact that another person has been injured by a car. Theyre calling on the city of berkeley to act more quickly and make some safety improvements. Speaking of the city of berkeley, we have uc berkeley officials now addressing an antiisrael protests that forced an evacuation monday night about 200 protesters descended on laubach playhouse where an bar yosef yosef at and israeli attorney and former member of the Israeli Defense force was set to speak, but the protesters broke through doors there at the playhouse and that forced the audience and the speaker to evacuate. 2 jewish students say they were assaulted by some of those demonstrators. The Chancellors Office sent a letter to the campus describing what happened. But the victims of the demonstration wanted more. But nowhere in that statement, todays mention anything about jews being harassed or use the word antisemitism wants. And so i think there are a lot of Jewish Student Center feeling alienated now the letter called the attack on the building and the event and attack on the fundamental values of the university organizers, though, moved the event to a more secure location and they continued. State. Attorney general rob bonta has reacted to what happened. He wrote on ax quote on California College campuses. There is a right to assemble right to free speech, right to safety and a right to peaceful discourse. Free of violence and acts of hate. Hate against one community is hate against us. All we must do better end quote. In the east bay. We have oakland city Councilmember Dan kalb spending wednesday walking through the streets, speaking with merchants in north oakland. And this is because hes looking for solutions to combat rising crime last Year Resolution he authored past in the city council addressing public safety. He says the city is currently implementing those actions, including hiring and retaining more 911, dispatchers to improve response times. He added that high tech cameras along busy streets are helping as well. One thing ive asked for insist upon is that we asked the fbi to come in to oakland and to help us investigate the most Violent Crimes. Theyve done that in the past and now theyre going to do it again. Well, wednesday, mark hobbs, 4th walk with police since he says crime started to steadily rise 2 years ago. All right, 10 38 is the time 4 is your local election headquarters and we are just 5 days away from primary election day. And this morning we have an exclusive new inside california politics and Emerson College poll which shows the race for californias open u. S. Senate seat is extremely close for the number 2 position. Capitol correspondent Eytan Wallace takes a look. Well, here we go. Its the sprint to the finish. Remember in this u. S. Senate race, its not just about whos in first, but also that all important. Democrat adam schiff, thank you, everybody. Republican steve garvey. And democrat katie porter. Youre looking at the 3 leading candidates in the race for californias open u. S. Senate seat. That is according to this new inside california politics. Emerson college poll showing ship in the lead with 28 and garvey in second with 20 in 3rd place. But within the margin of error in reach of second places. Porter with 17 democrat barbara lee rounds out the top 4 at 8 . While all other candidates pulled the 2 or lower. I think the main takeaway here is that shift is likely to take that number one spot. But that second place that is up for matt taglia helped to organize and conduct a poll. He says its important to remember this race is part of the states top 2 primary system, meaning the top 2 vote getters will advance to compete in the november general election all the more. So i tag we know its much of the attention is now on porter and garvey as they do it out for runnerup. We see a real tightening per second place. So i think thats thats the headline here. He also says something to watch closely is this 17 of voters say they are still undecided. When asked who theyre leaning toward 19 of the undecided point to barb early with shift and porter just behind it. But even if you factor that in the poll finds ship would still be in the lead with garvey importer behind him. As for lee, without that baseline of supports, it might just be too little too late in the race for the white house. The poll found a joe biden and donald trump will easily win their respective primaries in california. A state where voters say their top issues include the economy, housing, affordability and as for governor Gavin Newsoms ballot measure known as proposition won, the poll found its likely to pass the proposal asks voters to approve a 6. 3, 8 billion dollar bond to fund more than 11,000 Behavioral Health beds. And 27,000 treatment unit statewide for people experiencing Substance Use disorders. And Mental Illness for the poor results. 69 of voters say they will vote yes, seeing support close to 70 . Suggest that there is still widespread concern among californians that were not doing enough to take on this issue. And the poll found governor newsoms Approval Rating stands at 49 while his disApproval Rating stands at 39 . That is significant. Given a new recall effort launched and just this week with the goal to oust him from office reporting from the state capital late tom wallace kron. 4 news. Thank you. Wait on. And dont forget since kron 4 is dont forget since kron 4 is your local election Election Night tuesday, march 5th. Were going to have live Election Results coming in. That special set to start at 08 00pm again. Thats next tuesday right here on kron 4. Showers picking up across the bay. And its only just beginning our heaviest of rainfall has still yet to make its way in. Weve got several days of wet weather for the several days of heavy snowfall several days of heavy snowfall on the alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way to make it last longer. Say hello to your fairy godmother alice and longlasting gain scent beads. Part of the irresistible scent collection from gain 10 44 is the time checking bay area weather here. Lots to talk about both here around the bay and up in the sierra john. Yes, the sea air is really going to be seeing the heaviest snowfall that its seen all season long and that is prompting all agencies to say just dont do it and completely agree. Heres lake tahoe right here. This is a look before its right now. But we are seeing that rain and snow mix moving in. Temperatures are going to drop and at lake level these next several days, 4 to 8 feet of snowfall are dissipated to be falling. This is just the start of all of it. We have showers here in the bay area really picking up for us, although the heaviest of it, theres your cold front right there. Going to be scooting in along that line that moves through into the early afternoon today. Low pressure area anchoring this big dip in the jet stream in a much colder air mass that plunges in along with it. This is going to allow snowfall to fall at increasingly lower elevations. And that means no all the way down to 1500 feet down into the sierra foothills. Going to be a lot of it, too. Once you head above 5,000 feet in elevation, you can expect snow to pile up anywhere between 5 to 12 feet. That includes Donner Summit right along i80 and that is going to take several days for crews with those clouds to be clearing out. So roadways will be impassable for the next several days. If you have friends that are up there, make sure that theyre stocked up on everything they need emergency supplies as well as several days of food for the bay area. 3 to 6 inches of snow in the mountains above sonoma and napa, mendocino and lake counties and even a dusting up on mount diablo in mission peak expected as we move, especially into saturday morning. Its not just the feet of snowfall in the sierra, but the strong winds 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour gust is prompting blizzard warnings taking effect this morning and lasting through sunday morning. This is going to result in likely some Power Outages up there, too. So this is a dangerous situation for travel and make sure that if you have family up there to have them ready to go to be snowed in for several days. As i mentioned, snow level will continue to fall down in elevations, especially low on friday night and saturday morning, dangerous travel conditions, not just dangerous, honestly, impossible driving conditions heading up there into tomorrow. We will see future cast showing continued showers for the bay heavy line of showers pushes through this afternoon along a cold front boundary winds picking up around that time, too. We could be seeing cloud to ground lightning. Small hail, heavy downpours and just strong winds along with it all the way through the evening tonight and into tomorrow as well. Pockets of heavy rain and unsettled weather continue through friday and into saturday for us. Little good news for the bay is our ground is dry back out. Thats going to absorb a lot of this rainfall. Flooding risk is fairly minimal these next few days, anywhere between a quarter to a half an inch of rain. Today, were going to add several inches on top of that tomorrow and saturday and even more into next week, too. As for the coastline, we will have high surf advisories taking effect tomorrow, 15 to 20 foot. Surf at the coast. And we do have future cast of when showing 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour gusts for us as we move into the afternoon as that cold front does arrive. Temperatures today already peaking before the cold front arrives. Upper 50s to low 60s into the afternoon. Youre actually going to see temperatures decreasing because that cooler air makes its way and by friday, saturday and sunday, were barely lake making the low 50s at our warmest mountain snowfall continues very heavy through saturday with areas of rainfall likely through sunday, james. All right. Thank you, john. 10. 47 is the time. Lets take a break from talking about the rain. Lets talk about the moon. The u. S. As we know is planning to send humans back to the moon. But this morning were actually getting a rare first look at some of the training underway for the astronauts that will be on that ride. News nations Xavier Walton gives us a look. Off the coast of california for astronauts prepared to make a splash in space exploration. This is all part of nasas Artemis Campaign. We rise together. Back to the and the next phase. A crewed mission lasting 10 days traveling roughly 685,000 miles around the moon just a few hours ago were floating around in the front porch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at night with a helicopter hovering over us. All right. Pretty inspiring. Pumped up with space program. But would you see it when you see all the sailors on the ship working together . I mean, you just like. Gives you faith in humanity. We can do some extraordinary things. Nasa and the department of defense making waves in the pacific testing procedures and tools that will ultimately be used to retrieve the astronauts after their long journey. So here it is. The orion spacecraft, at least a test module. Heat shields have actually been to space in those windows. Thats what these astronauts are we looking out when theyre going by the moon . We explore because thats what we do as humans. Christina cook a mission specialist. Part of too, is a trailblazer setting the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman at 328 days in space. The space flight will be the very first for nashs Kristina Cooke with nasas Artemis Campaign should be the first woman to step foot on the moon. And victor glover, who has a storied career of self will be the first person of color on the lunar surface. It doesnt matter if youre a first theres no second thursday force. And so thats really what i think about is making sure that we do the best of our job. So that the American People and our International Partners continue to have faith in their public space agencies so that we can keep going and its going for all right. Back here on earth, lets go to mesa, arizona, where the giants the as faced off for the first time this spring as offense getting off to a quick start in the first inning. Zach, tell off showing off his power going the other way. Right . Giving the as in early lead that they really never did. Let go of oakland. Won that one. 74 as the giants have yet to win the game this spring as manager mark kotsay talked about the importance of having the veteran blackburn in the as rotation this year. You know, paul should feel real good about where hes at experience standpoint and where he fits in rotation what it can provide this club when healthy weve seen it was an allstar 2 years ago. You know, the value he brings, not only from just ability to manage a game and pitch. To to the new leadership role as well from the guys that had time last year just show. All those different well, the as look to start their season on a positive note. Despite all the negative relocation talks. All right. Lets talk football now. The fortyniners. Well, actually, the nfl players Associations Annual report card has been released and it is the fortyniners that rank among the best franchises in the league to play for the survey lets the players themselves grade their teams across 11 categories, including how the players families are treated. The food quality at the stadium, the training facilities, how good the coaches and when they tallied it all up, the fortyniners ranked 6th best out of 32 teams. And they received as multiple categories, including team ownership. So the players love playing for the fortyniners, not so much, though, for the kansas city chiefs, the players therr gave the super bowl champions and when it came to overall rank company. Dow 17. Well, the big College Basketball matchup taking place tonight at chase center. Weve got kron. 4 sports director jason dumas walking us through it. We are in the last week of the regular season in College Basketball. Now is the time when teams are buckling down and prepping for postseason run. And right here in our backyard, the San Francisco dons are doing just that. They are on the outside looking in on most ncaa projection tournament field. But they still have an opportunity for several quality winds. One being tonight against gonzaga at chase center. The dogs are led by Jonathan Mogbo Marcus Williams and those 2 have the dons in 3rd place in the wcc standings and a win would go a long way. To helping improve their chance to getting to ncaa tournament upperclassmen. They know they have to set the tone. You know, make sure my guys are on the just. And within the florida coaches we you know, just cant one guys doing down. You know, are on come together, have to you know more. We come together. The good in long run. In other news, the warriors take on the knicks in Madison Square garden tonight. Of course, well have all those highlights and live coverage from chase usf gonzaga. Thats your look at sports. Well, make sure you tune in tonight, by the way, for our special honoring black history in the bay area. Its going to be hosted by our own noelle bellow is set to air at 6. 30, dont 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. 10. 55 the time. And as we say goodbye here on the kron 4 morning news. Lets check in with jessica wills and see whats coming up today for live in the bay. Good morning. Jest. Hey, good morning, james. Coming up today on live in the bay team usa squatch coach and professional squash player Charlie Johnson joins us with some tips on why squash is a great sport to pick up a racket and play at any age and the first ever contra costa youth shark tank competition is in the books. Well chat with the winner and hear what she came up with to take home. That first place prize plus, singer and songwriter meekly is joining us in studio will get a Live Performance and get a sneak peek of her upcoming new album. And as always, want to hear what you have to say about our question of the day. Go ahead and scan that qr code today. We want to know what is one of your most used apps . Let us know and your answer could be lab read live today on the show at 01 00pm right here on kron 4, james. All right, jess, thank you very much. Thank you. Look outside. Radar showing you right now that we do have showers drifting across the bay area. Its been relatively light thus far. Heavier rainfall makes its way in as we make our way into the afternoon and see that line of showers still to the north of a sign of whats headed our direction. Part of this cold front pushes in this afternoon. Winds pick up along with the heavy rain and the start of heavy mountain snow. Getting a look at our 7 day forecast today tomorrow on into saturday, bringing the heaviest of rain and the heavy mountain snow to us sunday. Seeing some showers too. James roadways going to be impassable, heading into the sea air this week or i had a guest tomorrow morning for the morning commute is going to be wet. So make sure you tune in here will get you through it. Absolutely. By. Marshalls buyers are detail obsessed perfectionists. Who take quality very seriously. And go to the ends of the earth to hustle the best of the best for you. 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