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Exclusive poll that shows which candidate is in the lead for californias open senate seat. And the man charged in connection to the Half Moon Bay mass shooting appeared before a judge this morning. And we have a live report. Recapping what happened. Light rain falling in the bay and weve got snow falling in the sierra. Weve got a multiday weather event. Ill have all the details to get you ready for news at noon starts right now. From the bay news station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waltman. The man charged in connection to the Half Moon Bay mass shooting appeared in the San Mateo County courtroom this morning. John liu zhao was supposed to enter pleas to a grand jury indictment last month. But that did not happen because the defense asked for more time to review the charges. Well go now live to kron 4 s charles clifford, who is outside of the courtroom in redwood city. He has the latest details. Thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. Well, this is a case that has moved very slowly through the court system. But today the suspect chunli zhao appeared before a judge. On thursday morning. 66 yearold chunli zhao appeared in a San Mateo County courtroom. His attorneys entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. The reason not our joe has been charged with 7 counts of firstdegree murder and one count of attempted murder for allegedly shooting and killing 7 people and wounding one other at 2 Mushroom Farms in Half Moon Bay early last year. He was arrested the same day earlier this year in an effort to speed up the case. The San Mateo County District Attorney sot received a grand jury indictment against following thursdays arraignment. His Defense Attorneys requested additional time to review that grand jury indictment. Jello remains in custody without bail and is scheduled to return to court on april 19th. All right, back live now. A couple other notes. There is a gag order in this case which prevents the District Attorney and the prosecutors and the defense from speaking to the media. Also, the original judge in this case recused himself, citing a personal friendship with the prosecutor who was assigned. To this case and wagstaff had previously said he was hoping this case would go to trial this year but had conceded, but it might not start until 2025, but for now in redwood city, cha. Les clifford kron, 4 news. Charles, thank you so much. Pg e is working quickly to get the power back on this afternoon for people in Santa Clara County. Heres a live look now at the utilitys outage map. And we can see less than 1000 customers do not have power this morning. That number was more than 23,000 customers is unclear what caused the outages. There does not appear to be any major outages across the bay area right now. And we just new video now into our news room of an overturned solo big rig truck. This was a collision at blocked all the lanes eastbound on 80 just east of donner lake near that interchange there. Theres the truck there on the side. The driver has minor injuries and the caltrans district 3 posted on x saying, please take it slow once traffic is released, try to avoid mountain travel. This is only the beginning of a storm and the worst is yet to come. And were just learning now that a popular tahoe ski resort is going to be closed because of the storm. Sierra at tahoe sending out this message about the closure. It started at noon. So not that long ago. And with feet of snow expected there resort will made closed tomorrow as well. So lets talk about that storm in our local forecast here as were taking this live look outside right now at whats going on here in tahoe. Some. I dont know snow or rain, but some things coming down already kyla. So whats going on . Yeah, is whethe it it is snow. Snow. Snow is starting to happen there now. You can see it there at the areas in blue just as were starting to get some of this moisture rolling in. This is all ahead of a cold front is going to be tracking through. So right now in the bay area as we take a live look here at the embarcadero, cant quite see the weather here are a little too zoomedin, you can see that it is relatively dry here in San Francisco. But we are seeing some sprinkles up in the north bay already some light showers. These are the rain totals over the next 5 days, which is to say one to 2 inches for most and higher numbers in the coastal mountains. And this is a multiday event. So thursday, friday, saturday into the first part of sunday, were going to see some pretty heavy rain, particularly as we get into friday and friday night. Here is a low pressure system. You can see it right up here in the northwest. And this is a very defined line of moisture that you can see right here. That is the actual front thats going to be passing through once that passes us by some very cold air is going to start rushing in and thats going to help to increase the intensity of whats going to happen here. And also in the sierra. So right now, its just some light showers. You can see them falling in the north bay. Certainly just a little bit here. And there are enough to make those roads a little slick along the peninsula down in the south and a little bit trickling into the east bay as well. But obviously very light. But as i mentioned, if youre out on the roads, youre going to notice they were already getting some of that moisture there. Temperatures not bad, mostly 50s out there, but 63 in san jose where we got up to 70 degrees yesterday. Wind is picking up. So its going to start to be a little unpleasant, some of our bridges as well. You can see 21 Miles Per Hour there at Half Moon Bay. 25 in fairfield highs today will be about where we should be this time of year. A little bit cooler in most spots, mostly looking at more 50s that we are 60s. Obviously yesterday it was a very warm day as we track through today. Expect these heavier lines of showers to roll through when its all said and done about a quarter to a half an inch of rain today. But a lot more to come. Well have more details on a comeback in a bit about that. Kron. 4 is your local election headquarters and now were just 5 days away from primary election day and now we have an exclusive new inside california politics and Emerson College poll. Which shows the race for californias open u. S. Senate seat is very close. Our capitol correspondent Eytan Wallace breaks down the results. 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 taglia notes. 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 take on this issue. That was Eytan Wallace reporting. And as for governor newsoms approval rating, the poll shows and stands at 49 while his disapproval rating is at 39 . That is a significant number. Given the new recall effort that Just Launched this week with the goal too, pushing out of office. Just a reminder here. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters. So join us on election day tuesday, march 5th for a live Election Results for all around the bay area. Well have coverage all day long. But those results start to come in and well have that live for you at 8. Happening tonight. The public will get a chance to meet the candidates for oaklands police chief. But one person whos not going to be there is mayor sheng thao 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 says 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. The 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. Position on this, although theres some legitimacy to i just dont know that overrides the Public Interest to know where 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 with your teeth. Look at a problem in in a specific community and its nice to to know a couple of leaders in that community that 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 have to get themselves together. Whether we have a public hearing or not, it is not to be by not what people want, but but bucks best for the people of oakland. 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. And coming up here today at 12, 45 were going to be speaking oneonone with mayor sheng thao about her decision not to attend this form. And last we talking about some other challenges that her city faces. You should stay with us for that. And still ahead, a new Study Reveals the health new Study Reveals the Health Impacts of sports drinks. 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This happened in the year. Heinze avenue was shut down yesterday after this crash. Police say a woman in her 50s was in a crosswalk when a driver made a lefthand turn and hit her. Shes currently in the icu at Highland Hospital after suffering a traumatic head injury as kron fourscdan kerman at storm reports. This crash comes just weeks after a father and his toddler were hit in that same intersection. The smashed in windshield of this blue mini cooper is evidence of another accident at a berkeley intersection. Police had to close off 7 street and hines avenue wednesday afternoon after another person was hit while crossing the street. Really goes out to the pedestrian because i saw. Just a little photo of the car and the shattered window shield berkeley resident adam moss is all too familiar with the dangers of this intersection on the morning of february. 12th mohsen, his 3 yearold son recycling to a nearby school when they were hit by a driver. The child was not hurt, but moss suffered a bad knee injury and it was a terrifying experience. We feel so incredibly grateful well that we were in work off because were well aware that it could have moss says theres a lot of movement in this Industrial Area of southwest berkeley. Aside from the nearby businesses and schools, the intersection is popular for cyclists dog walkers, runners and families moss. His wife is involved with Traffic Safety group walk bike berkeley. The Organization Says theyre extremely upset about another person being injured by a driver. Theyre calling on the city to rapidly respond by making safety improvements at the intersection. Moss says infrastructure such as curb extensions or bollards need to be put in place. I hope cities can do more to put in our 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. That was dan thorn reporting. The driver who hit the woman is cooperating with investigators and due to the severity of her injuries, the Fatal Accident Investigation Team has taken over investigating this crash. Were following some developing news now on the peninsula where there are major delays at San Francisco International Airport right now. Heres a live look at the airport. According to flightaware inbound flights to sfo are delayed about 3 hours departing flights delayed about half an hour. It appears the 235 flights have been delayed today. 8 have been canceled. We have reached out to the airport for more details. We will bring those to you when we hear back. Kyle was saying it does not appear to be weatherrelated, though. The weather is certainly do think today we have a significant storm coming. Exactly. We do. And certainly there low cloud ceilings out there right now. What theyre saying if you look at fda dot gov is that it is a taxiing, runway construction issues. So its its a little interesting. Hopefully get some clarity on that. But theyre having some delays. As we take a look here, you can see that the rain is starting in the bay area that weve got the snow hanging out in the sierra getting that party going. In fact, you can see right now right along 80 and along 50. Thats where were going to start to see some of those hazardous conditions. We showed you earlier. There was a truck that was having some issues. So its not the time to be traveling there under a blizzard warning. Now we dont talk about this often, but we are talking about it now through 10 00am sunday. So now is the time not to get on road. If youre not already. There, the kind of have to just let it go, folks. And, you know, understand that even if you were there, a lot of the resorts are not going be able to do the fun stuff that you get to do in the snow because its going te be too much going on. Blowing snow and wind blizzard conditions. High wind expected. 75 plus Miles Per Hour. That means tree limbs can come down. Power outages. It is a multiday event. So you know the region want to stay off the road is because you could have 0 visibility at times and but this is just getting started. Its certainly going to get worse as we go through the day today and tomorrow, particular think into saturday, its going to be a really rough ride. So just to show you futurecast how this plays out, the snow gets going here. Weve got some rain rolling in. Were going to see some heavy rain come in friday. So this is friday morning. Take a look at this line. You see right there that dark green thats going to roll through the bay area and has the potential for some thunderstorms. And thats going bring heavy snow this year as well. Taking you now into sunday, you see things start to lighten up a little bit. But, you know, this is going to be a lot of snow. Its going to be a significant rain for us as well. Snow. Were talking 4 8 feet of snow. We could see higher than that in some spots. And you do see mount saint helena, not blow getting a few snowflakes there as well. This is the rain were looking out for, for the base between one and 2 inches over the next couple of days. We do catch a break on monday. Watch out for those lows and highs there. Once we get friday night to saturday, its going to awfully chilly to back to thank you. San jose police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting outside of a talker. Ria multiple witnesses for standing just feet away. Kron fours meant to harry has the latest. 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. That was amanda harry reporting for us. That suspect is in the Santa Clara County jail facing attempted homicide charges and police are still looking for another suspect in this case. Im Trevor Shirley in washington, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump are facing off today in dueling visits to for your health this afternoon. A new study is revealing how smoking marijuana is linked to an increase in heart attacks and strokes. According to the study that was published in the journal of the american heart cssociation. Daily marijuana use led to a 42 increase in strokes and a 25 increase in heart attacks. The study drew its results from nearly a halfmillion cannabis users. 75 of the participants consumed cannabis by smoking. 25 by vaping drinking or eating it. So when the smoky get to those one is the particular matter cause and damage feel alone and it thc causing damage to system. When you take the edible, theres no particular meta involved. Its just goes to that. Got upstate edible, thc gets released and that he is he causes a basket. Debits. So the notion both completely say this also not true. Medical experts say that just because cannabis is legal does not mean that it is safe. Sports drinks may include more sugar than you think. A Cleveland Clinic dietician is urging people to avoid drinking too many. She says they include several dies depending on the brand. And shes also urging people to get their electrolytes from other foods. These can be found in fruits and vegetables like beans, dark chocolate leafy greens experts also recommend adding a powder version of electrolytes to your water, which may not include eyes or added sugars. Next here at noon a host has been using one of the longest running childrens literacy, public assets programs to teach children how to read for 40 years. And well hear how the show got its start. And the impact that its had over the years keeping an hi, im sally. Im from phoenix, arizona. Im a flight nurse on a helicopter that specializes in trauma. Ive been doing Flight Nursing for 24 years. As you get older, your brain slows down and i had a fear that i wouldnt be able to keep up. I heard about prevagen from a friend. I read the Clinical Study on it and it had good reviews. Ive been taking prevagen now for five years and its really helped me stay sharp and present. Its really worked for me. Prevagen. At stores everywhere without a prescription. The last day of black history month, we want to introduce you to sallie baker. Sally is the dynamic host and creator of one of the longest running childrens literacy, Public Access programs in the nation. Its called we poets. Its based out of berkeley as kron fours reyna harvey shows us that her passion for literacy. The speaker has inspired thousands of young minds through poetry. Evening, everybody. The year is 1984, and sally baker has Just Launched the First Episode of our new show. Poets unite country. The goal is to help promote literacy for underserved students. Well, one day i was on the bus and i sat behind 2 young boys and they were trying to reduce paper and they had difficulty trying to reading it out loud. They simple words. You know. So i went back home and i said to my partner and into i said, you know, i sat behind 2 boys and they couldnt read a newspaper. Why dont we do a show where we could kids learn how to read and write better . You know, and thats just would miss baker did despite the nonbelievers, the show. Was a success. So i went to all the major tv stations in San Francisco and oakland. And i asked them if i could do my show and they said, well, you know, miss baker, i dont think point re will sell. So the only thing that sells on tv now days is 6 in violence. And so i dont think nobody would want to watch something little kids reading their points. Said to im going to show you different and show them she and hope is that well always thousands of interviews hundreds of interns strain and the sally baker is now celebrating 40 years of we ms talley. What does it mean to you to know that youve impacted so many peoples lives of making feel great that i can see that what i started will go on and keep on going on. You know that it will not die. But continue to grow and grow and grow grow and specially in the life this journalists. Thats back in the early period. Is raining says theyre me having confident we can it. You know. In the programs 40 year run, we pull its in salah baker one more than 50 prestigious awards. Now, therefore, be it resolved that i just see out again, mayor, the city of berkeley do hereby declare february 14th 2024 to the repo its day in the city of berkeley. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Very i appreciate this honor. I never realized that i do a tv show for 40 years. But here we are. Baker determined at a young age growing up in iowa to bring people together. Receiving her business degree and Iowa State University moved to california. But before she started, we pull its she dedicated many years to working in Higher Education at the university of california berkeley. Sally baker, you are institution that has been in our community and a wonderful resource who are just kind of was how youve given so much to the community. Youve helped so many young promoting literacy, giving the motivation to speak in public. Im just so impressed with with the way that. She has been able to bring the community of people together and tell their stories and for giving me this opportunity of getting more experience and its really inspiring. I think shes one of the most passionate people who just like enjoy doing what she loves for a very long time. 40 years. Incredible. We talk about legacy. Whats one thing you want to be remembered for . I would like to be remembered for helping people no matter what background you come from, but social background go with what you want to do in life and help people dont be selfish, you give out what what you you know, free of charge. You know, you dont have to charge somebody to get out. What you have inside, you know, if its for the good of other people. That was reyna harvey reporting and now because we poets is a nonprofit educational service, they run on donations. So if you would like to help, we have a link on our website. Kron 4 dot com. And make sure you tune into our special honoring black history in the bay area airs tonight at 6. 30. You will not want to miss it. Were focusing on the forecast right now with the rain here and our camera in San Francisco. Kind of blocking your view of the transamerica pyramid. But it is raining out there. Cuyler is tracking where its going. Thats going to stay. Can i just say, though, rain now hardly. Oh, so cute. Harvey, i wouldnt recognize her in a second, though, right . Such a cute kid. I wanted to start with a look at the month since were on the last day of the month. It is our leap year. Taking santa rosa as an example. Weve had a pretty below average month. Temperature wise could see 16 days below average 3 at normal and 8 above in. Many of them have been really in the last week that weve seen the warmer temperatures, rain wise. Theyve gotten over 9 inches of rain than normal is 6. 6 7. So the point is weve had a relatively, you know, pretty good rain season so far for looking back to october. First, were still above average of the north bay, San Francisco. A little bit below average in oakland. But you can see san jose 127 of normal. So weve done pretty good. Were going to add some more to this as we take that live look outside. You can see the right now starting to show up in San Francisco. The wind also starting to pick up and you can see its above 20 Miles Per Hour in many spots across the bay right now that southerly flow indicating that were going to have a front thats going to pass us by going to get breezy this afternoon. But watch what happens tomorrow in the afternoon and evening. Were going to see that wind really get going, particularly as we get later into friday night. And that is why were going to be under a wind advisory tomorrow starting at noon and that goes through 10 00am on saturday. We could see gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour. In addition to that tomorrow, were also going to be dealing with some danger. The coast, a High Surf Advisory starting at 10 00am tomorrow and going through the afternoon on friday as well. So this whole system is going to be rolling through bringing several different dangers. One of them certainly sneaker waves. And so you want to just be careful. Were going to get into it a little bit today with about a quarter of an inch to half an inch of rain. And thats starting to fall now. But tomorrow, the heavier rain is coming in. Back to you. The Anti Defamation League filed a federal complaint against the Berkeley Unified School district for what they say is a severe and persistent. Antisemitic bullying problem. The complaint accuses berkeley administrators of ignoring parents reports and allowing its k through 12 schools to become hostile environments for jewish and israeli students also accuses the board of education of not disciplining teachers and students who have engaged in this harassment and instead of addressing the issue, the report says principal simply move the affected students. 2 different classrooms. Uc berkeley leadership is talking about an anti israel protest that forced an all hands on deck situation at the school on monday night around 200 protesters, raleigh, that uc berkeley to stop a speech that was being run by grand bar. Yosef added israeli attorney and a former member of the Israeli Defense during the protest to jewish students were assaulted in a letter sent to the campus community. The office of University Chancellor said protesters broke down the doors to his alibi playhouse, forcing the audience and the speaker waiting inside to be evacuated. Nowhere in that Statement Today mention anything about jews being harassed or use the word antisemitism once. And so i think there are a lot of Jewish Student Center feeling alienated the letter called the attack on the building and the event, attack on the fundamental values of the university. The event was then moved to a more secure location. State attorney general rob bonta reacting to this incident at cal. He posted this on social media on the on California College campuses. There is a right to assemble a right to free speech, right to safety at a right to peaceful discourse, free of violence and acts of hate. Hate against one community is hate against all of us. We must do better. Lawmakers and advocates took to the steps of the state capital to push for a fair and equal College Admissions process in california. According to Assembly Bill 17, 80, which was 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, especially those with donors or alumni tots. 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 or previously reserved. Lawmakers add that uc and csu already does not practice in legacy admissions. And this is following last summers. U. S. Supreme court ruling that bans race considerations in the College Admissions process. Theres a new report out there to claiming panera owing is exempt from fo californias new minimum wage law due to its relationship with governor gavin newsom starting april first, the new law would raise the fast food workers minimum wage to 20 per hour. But this new law does not recognize places that make their own bread for sale as fast food y the line was drawn there at bred remains unclear. But a bloomberg report found that the owner of over 20 panera locations has also been involved in donating to newsoms campaigns as much as 100,000 in 2021. That owner of that panera location told bloomberg he had no role in crafting the bread exemption into the new fast food law. Starbucks is headed to the negotiation table with its workers union. The coffee chain says it will begin talks again with workers. The Workers United Group about labor agreements. The union first organize starbucks workers in 2021. And represents employees at more than 300 starbucks locations in the u. S. The company also says will begin rolling out pay raises to workers in june eyes, locations. The 2 sides say there is, quote, a constructive path ahead for collective bargaining at starbucks. Today, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will both visit the southern border. Each man is taking separate trips, but the dueling appearances are highlighting how big of an issue immigration is going to play in this years election. Washington correspondent Trevor Shirley has the latest. Each visit will be at a location designed to push a specific narrative on a continuously challenging issue facing off along the countrys southern border. The current and former president s are hoping to use the immigration issue to their electoral advantage is hes going to meet with Border Patrol agents, Law Enforcement officials, frontline personnel and local leaders. President biden heads to the Rio Grande Valley town of brownsville, texas. To show evidence of what the white house says are effective immigration policies despite republicans blocking bipartisan border legislation. We believe were on the offense because we did the work with the senate in a bipartisan way for 4 months. Republicans rejected it. They allow politics to get in the way about 300 miles away from brownsville. Former President Trump staging his appearance in eagle pass texas, a spot known for its record high number of illegal crossings. Theyre all coming in. Through joe bidens horrible, open border. Theres never been a border like this anywhere in the world at any time. Recent data Shows Migrants crossing the southern border illegally have slowed after hitting record levels into the hundreds of thousands last year. You see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. We dont know where they come from. They come from jail as they come from prisons. They come from all sorts of places that we dont want to know. The polling consistently showing immigration remains a top concern of voters likely staying that way through election day. Both of those visits are scheduled to happen later on this afternoon. Reporting in washington. Im Trevor Shirley. Coming up, its been just over a year without a police chief oakland and the search may be getting a pass up tonight. So after the break, mayor sheng thao will join us to answer questions about that to answer questions about that and some other issues kerendia presents. 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Kidney damage from ckd in t2d is not reversible. So ask your doctor about slowing your kidney damage with kerendia. All right. As the u. S. Plans to send humans back to the moon, were getting a rare first look at the training underway for the astronauts that are going to be taking that right news nations Xavier Walton has the details. 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 beyond 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 ocean at night with a helicopter hovering over us. All 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. 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Because he sees a Better Future for all of us. Im peter dixon and i approved this message. All right. Lets talk now about the city of oakland searching for a new police chief. Theres a new batch of candidates that are going to be introduced to the general public tonight as theres outcry from residents to get the seat filled. Theres even a recall effort now and infighting between the citys Police Commission and the mayors office, which is why were speaking live now with oakland mayor sheng thao here during kron for news this afternoon. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So lets start with the search for a new police chief for one year. Plus, without one. And tonight, theres a chance for the public to actually meet these 4 candidates of virtually the where they can. They vote had a chance to submit some questions will get to meet them here a little bit about them. Theyll introduce themselves. But you dont want to have any part of this. Can you explain why . Absolutely. Well, first and you know, having under this new process rights, a newish process around how we find our next police shape. That is that through the polic commission which isnt all appointed civilian commission that has full authority you know, to actually work with the farm to find out who the candidates could be in the interview them and then they will do their Due Diligence to send me at least 3 names. And so this process has only happened once before. And also take over a year to actually find the police chief under this new process. And so i want to make that part clear that this is not a unique situation where its taking over a year under this new process. And i also know that the Oakland Police chief, they he leave where she leads a critical component of my comprehensive Community Safety strategy. I am very grateful to interim allison. However, this candidate im invested in finding exceptional candidates for oakland. However, a public forum does not help recruit the best candidate a form identifying candidates places. Those individuals, strong individuals who may have lied to the city of oaklands actually helped lead the department that they may have issues there in Current Employers, right . So vision, a world where youre currently a deputy chief for a chief in a different city and you have may have all the skills talents to lead the department and the experience. But theres no way that your name could be out in the public. Open me, you know, because that actually causes different multiple different things, including a premature bidding war or you can the people that they are managing feel as if theyre be left behind. And so again, i dont believe that this is a Good Environment to actually or a good way to hire the next chief. We need to get the best of the best. And this is not the way to do it, ok, but this is the process that were dealing with. Is there any theres no way now to like go and change how this all happens. I mean, were like a year now into this. The police theyve already submitted candidates to. You said no, you didnt like any of them. They have these new candidates. The way the Police Commission, which is how its been decided in the city of oakland. This is how we hire police chief is its done by the Police Commission, not buy you. I know that youve had some discussions that you want to like kind of take this over because youre the coo of of the city. You want to have that authority, but theyre going to have this open discussion with these candidates. I kind of get those like if youre interviewing for a new job, you would want your Current Employer to know about it because it could jeopardized and how you can get your new job. I understand some of that. But this is the process t now to get a police chief. And you dont want to meet or talk to any of these people before beforehand. Well, let me be very clear that this is the Police Commissions process. I was invited last minute on friday to join them and i declined because, again, these 4 candidates, theyre not the finalists actually, theyre going through this forum where they publicly announced all of the names, the potentials and then i dont know out of the 4. I dont get a say. But then i will have a say in it once theyd send me a list. Still send me a list at least. And its the requirement is to me, at least 3 means it could be all for it could be just 3 names. And then from that 3 list, i can then did michael interviews. I can didnt do my one on ones and pick from those 3 and the from that list. And so i you know, i again, i dont believe in this form. The form is not part of the charter. They do not need to do this for him. It is not part of any formal process nowhere. Does it say that this war and needs to be done . And again, i think this forum is going to hurt. It has hurt the process of finding a very good police chief. You know, i know that there have been 2 potential and strong candidates who actually applied pulled out because of this candidate for him. And theres no internal candidates. Did you have opinion about that . Well, i heard right, because when you apply, i do not receive the applicant applications. I do not even get to see who actually applies. But what i have heard is that there are internal candidates who have applied but the commission will not lift their names so these or not, there are not the only ones that apply. Its list, a long list of candidates that have apply. I dont know who they are because im not privy to that. But it is my understanding that i have heard that there are individuals within the Police Department that would be viable candidates. But the volice commission did not live up their names. So head. Are you aware of the 4 candidates that they are part of this form tonight that they have selected . Well, you once you all found out who they were, thats when i found out who they were at the same time. And so i will be given a packet of their interview documents and and all of that you know, the Police Commission sense to me that list. And that was will not be sent to me until probably the end of their meeting. So maybe friday morning is the earliest they could send it to me. But again, till then i do not have any, you know, ive learned about these candidates at the same time as the public, because, again, that is the process. This is a process that i do not agree with. It was voted on by the voters many years ago. But with any new systems put in place, you know, you have to have lessons learned. You have to be able to go back you know, make says that actually doesnt actually work in practice. And this is one of those. And so im hopeful and look forward to amending the charter in regards to how we in the november ballot. So are you going to reject all the candidates that they give you and just try to wait until november to you can make a change about this. Are you going to pick a chief from the people that the Police Commission gives you know, that is too early to to say, of course, i want im going to have to re. Im going to read through, you know, the resumes. You know what . Im going to invite them for interviews with myself. You know. So its too early to say again, i just received the list when you all received a list. And so i still have to do my Due Diligence. Im not saying that, you know, no one from this list of people will be lifted to the top. What i am saying is that this is a huge hendren says public forum that did not need to happen is a huge hindrance in actually obtaining the best of the you know, as application people for me to choose from. And so, you know, go through the you know, review the applications and i go through interview process. And do you have a timeline for that . If they do give you these names come friday, which was always the day that they had kind of said march 1st was kind of a. A number put out there day put out there. What is your time line for them making a decision. So their timeline was march 1st that they would actually send me at least those top 3 names. And so once they get those top 3 names on that, i do my Due Diligence and really do my own research and have my interviews. And so im committed to the process into ensuring that we do get. You know, a strong candidate to be the next chief lent. And so i dont think that there is a strong timeline regards allow have to make the decision by the speaker. What have you . I will take my time to do my Due Diligence to ensure that oakland gets a fair shot at getting a strong leader and why you have these names in front of you when youre doing the interviews and the research and there still is no police chief, would you declare a state of emergency within that timers . The process move far enough along that you feel that theres some confidence that you will get someone in place by the end of the year. Well, im going to push back a little bit on that. We do have a police chief. We have interim chief allison, who has had over 20 years within opd. And when hes not the interim hes actually the assistant chief. And so hes been the assistant chief multiple times the the interim chief multiple times prior to this time. And so we are running our strategy and our strategy is up through the operation. Ceasefire strategy that we have talked about previously. And what were seeing is that the strategy that we will we are implementing and will implement no matter who is in that sheet position. And that is actually drawing out good numbers. Were seeing that the homicides and property crimes are going down relative to last year. So were going to continue to do that strategy so any notion of like there is no chief in place. Thats a false notion. And any notion that there is no public strategy in place, that is a false notion. We have a full strategy. We did an audit. We diagnose issue last year and now were in Implementation Phase and were already reaping the benefits of this strategy that we know is data driven and that has worked in the past and we have resurrected were seeing the fruit of that labor right now. Yes, no, no disrespect their to the interim chief. It all. We do understand he is a stepped in this position. And has been working to make sure oakland is safe. Dont notice disrespect there, but finding a permanent person i think is the goal that the city is looking for. Oakland mayor sheng thao, thank you so much for joining us here this afternoon. Appreciate your time. Thank for having play. Thats up from the newsroom. Well send things over to live in the bay. Thank you so much, justine. We have an incredible show lined up for