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Having to cancel, unfortunately, their travel plans on up into the Sierra Nevada all the way through sunday. We are looking at avoiding mounting travel at all costs, 0 visibility because of those strong winds. If you do plan on getting up to the sierra getting stuck, honestly because above 5,000 feet in elevation it 6 upwards of 12 feet of snowfall. Donner summit echo summit. Both i80 and highway 50 likely to see closures and anyone thats already up there. Make sure that they are all ready to go with the Food Supplies for multiple days. We dont just have whiteout conditions but likelihood of a lot of Power Outages up there as well here in the bay area are situation little less severe. We are seeing rainfall for sure. You may have to adjust your weekend plans accordingly. Right now its low 50s to midfifties later today it will be upper 50s with a chance of continue to give you the breakdown of the weekend forecast. Still ahead, right . All right. On the eve of that was morning. Drive out into the city this morning. Conditions are a little slick out there. So take your time. If youre traveling 9 iran into the city this morning, san mateo bridge just short of 14, 80 to 101. There it was ever feel. Bridge about 8 minutes and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 21 minutes. Ok, lets continue our Team Coverage as johns been talking about. We do have some showers beginning to fall here in the bay area, primarily in the north bay. Were seeing a kind of spread all over now. And weve been checking in all morning with kron fours will tran every time we go out, we kind of know what okay off. The hood is its a little calm right well, ead and tell you it not raining right now. Back well as prepare for all. That is an entertaining to thank you very much. Well, thank you. So pg e bracing for severe weather. The utility says this weekends rain could lead to mass outages. The says it has crews stationed in the north bay areas where the storm is expected to hit the hardest. Just like to get ahead of the snow. So i think if people are thinking that coming up they should take well at oakland resident, busy liked how warning drivers not to go to the sierra. A blizzard warning is now in effect. And while the warning is slated to expire on sunday, its going to take time for ski resorts and caltrans to dig out. All right. More store coverage throughout the morning. Now, lets get to other big news. The Oakland Community finally got its chance to hear from the 4 candidates that are vying to be the next Police Public forum was held at city hall more than a year after the previous chief war. Armstrong was fired. Alvarez. Dan thorn has that story for us. A virtual appearance thursday night by the 4 candidates vying to be oaklands next. Top cop. The Oakland Police commissions police chief Search Ad Hoc Committee held a public forum in the City Council Chambers asking the questions from the community. Why does your background in policing make you the best fit for oakland . Next police chief . This is my life work. And i think if im given the opportunity to lead this department, you see significant, tremendous impact new york citys assistant deputy mayor for public safety. Louis molina, along with former lubbock, texas police chief floyd mitchell, cincinnati, ohios assistant police chief lisa davisand former San Leandro Police chief Abdul Pridgen all had a chance to speak. Pitching their goals for the first 100 days and plans to build Community Trust and transparency. Oakland community. And the local police very attractive to me and my family. I were increasing. How working to better truly makes things happen. The group does not include an internal candidate, but pridgen says he understands the bayarea. I think im the perfect. Choice for oakland since i just lived down the road and my son is going to start. School in oakland in september. And im angered in this community. Not at the meeting. Was oakland mayor sheng thao who over a year ago fired then chief Leronne Armstrong thao says she is against these kinds of forums because it harms the chances of attracting the best candidates. And for those in the audience, there was no opportunity to ask questions, make comments or offer feedback during the forum. But the public is invited to provide feedback online through a post forum survey. The feedback window will close on monday. The police chief Search Ad Hoc Committee says they will be submitting their list of finalists to the mayor on friday. And then the mayor can choose to interview those candidates or reject them in oakland, dan thorn kron, 4 news. While oaklands mayor sheng thao did not attend last nights forum. She did tell kron 4 that she is seeking to change the process of how Police Chiefs are selected altogether. Also said, 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 fixes. 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. According to the current city charter, the Police Commission comes up with a list of finalists that the mayor has to pick the next chief from or the mayor can reject that list altogether and ask the commission to come up with a list of different candidates. Mayor tells already done that once. Well, developing news, a 4th suspect has been charged with murder in the killing of Oakland Police officer twan lay lane was shot and killed in late december while responding to a burglary right near jack london square. So bond russell now joins marks. Sanders marquese cooper allen brown is being charged for las murder. Russell was originally charged with 3 counts of burglary and entered a not guilty plea. Prosecutors believe it was sanders who pulled the trigger killing lay. Alameda county supervisor pamela price. As in part, quote, we will not stop until everyone who participated in his murder is held accountable in, quote, the 4 defendants are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on monday. March 4th. Well, the man accused of killing 7 people and Half Moon Bay last year has pleaded not guilty. 66 yearold chunli zhao was back in court thursday. San mateo county. Hes been charged with 7 counts of firstdegree murder. One count of attempted murder for allegedly shooting and killing 7 people and wounding one other. This was at 2 mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay earlier last year was arrested the same day as remain in custody ever since. Prosecutors are hoping the trial will happen later on this year. They admit they might have to wait another year. Next Court Appearance is scheduled for april. Well, thats along. The county sheriff now is investigating after a mans body was found along interstate 80 in vallejo. The mans identity not released yet, but Officials Say he was found near georgia street. Right there at the offramp, investigators say appears to be in his mid 30s but didnt offer up any more details on that. San francisco has released new numbers about people cited for using drugs last year. The report shows that of the 718 individuals cited only about half said they lived in the city 141 of those arrested are also receiving cash assistance from the county. Last year. Police made more than 2000 arrests for drug sale or use in the tenderloin and seized more than 260 pounds of fentanyl. And so far this year, police say they have made more than 350 arrests. Still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news lawmakers on both sides of the aisle cracking down on child traffickers in california with a new bill and a blizzard warning in the sierra. Were live this morning with a look at those conditions. Will you can see that. So snow stacking up in the mountaint and its just Getting Started with even more of it on its way as we make our way through the afternoon evening and eventually into tomorrow and some of our heaviest of rainfall also back like we never left. We are. Yeah, weve got almost 9. 15. Youre on the clock live. Look here at San Francisco behind as it doesnt look like its raining too terrible right now. At least right here. Just seems a little sprinkles here and there. But john, as we get us ready for the harder rain to come and all the snow to the snow is where its at the sierra really in the midst of the biggest snowstorm of the season. So far and one that is likely going to be for the books too. This is your view at diamond peak right here. Quite the change from yesterday. Youre not seeing a ton of snow stacking up on the deck right there because it keeps blowing off. We have 75 to even 100 Miles Per Hour reported wind gusts at the crest of the sierra and thats half the problem. The blizzard conditions, the whiteout conditions got to make travel to the sierra dangerous. If not completely impossible, highway 50 as well as it likely to see some closures. The snow only escalates here in the bay area. Things have been comparatively quiet. Thats easy to do compared to this year right now weve seen light to moderate showers out there across the bay area. Low pressure area incurring this big dip in the jet stream. And right now the jet is just set up shop or right up into the sierra. Thats going to plunge. This moisture dense air right up into the mountains. We also have unsettled weather to and thats why we have a chance of thunderstorms here in the bay area. As we move into the afternoon, especially your 2nd half your friday as where things will get. A little interesting for us here locally as we do see a chance of thunderstorm development, heavy downpours cloud to ground lightning. All the things that come along with these thunderstorms as we move towards the Late Afternoon into the evening tonight, things do remain unsettled tomorrow and look at those areas of blew up in the north bay mountains, especially we have areas of snowfall, especially around clear lake up in lake county in inland areas of mendocino counties, rainfall in the bay area over 2 inches for some spots. The santa cruz mountains. Im expecting as much as 40 even 5 inches for you up there. We could see some localized flooding in those small streams both around the Russian River in Sonoma County, as well as a small streams in the santa cruz mountains. As for the north bay, we have several inches of snowfall on the way lake and mendocino counties looking at anywhere between 3 to 6 inches of heavy snowfall. Mount saint could see 9 inches at the very top of the mountain. While you have the feet of snow piling up in the sierra head up above 5,000 feet and weve got anywhere between 4 to 12 feet of snowfall. Going to take several days for crews to dig out so many of those roadways up there that going to be impacted. We have a winter storm warning for lake and inland Mendocino County and that blizzard warning up in the Sierra Nevada. Thats not just because of the feet of snow, but the whiteout conditions that comes along with winds as strong as were going to be seeing them, expect down trees and Power Outages. Travel to the sierra. Just not anything close to a good idea this weekend well have 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour. Wind gusts in the bay area. Thats a lot of wind, but not as much as or sierra neighbors. It is enough for wind advisories taking effect today lasting through 10 00am tomorrow. We also do have a High Surf Advisory at the coastline with waves as high as 15 to 20 feet up and down the coast. Your daytime highs today warmer than they are about to be tomorrow. Upper 50s today. Tomorrow will barely make the low 50s is that cold air really settles in mountain snow in the bay area and continued showers likely into early sunday right all right, john, thank you for that. Ok, slick, wet conditions. What weve been seeing out there, although were seeing friday light conditions. Still want to take your time. If you are traveling out there this morning because of the wet conditions. 9 minutes heading into the city this morning, 30 min arrive 80 to 101, on the san mateo bridge richs center fell bridge. Looks to be about 8 minutes tolls to 101. And if you are going to be taking the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 21 minutes you can see from the skies up. Theyre already starting to see the grade as blanketing much of the bay area this morning might be a good time to get some extra things for rays. All right. And well try and bring that back up. Full screen on the shot again. There you go. This is 2. 67 of kings beach. So were looking at the north shore of lake tahoe. And, boy, you can certainly see a lot of that snow has been falling and its really starting to cover up the roads. Caltrans is going to be out there with their plows trying to stay, you know of stay with it. But its going to kind of tough because we got a lot of snow coming down. Hey, were not seeing a whole lot of a commuter traffic out there. A lot of people are listening, but we are seeing monica deanda. And Placer County this morning, monica, last time youre out the car now its good to see you will warm back in. Yes, david, remember getting a little bit of a break here to treat. I want to show you, though, the roads. This is what we are looking at. You can just coming at us right now. Is this a massive so paul with a caltrans, theyre doing their best to keep these roads nice and clear for them to go ahead and skip that snow out of the way as they make their way up. Theres actually 2 of them. So this is what weve been saying. The snow has been consistent. This is nothing new. We expect to see about 2 to 4 inches of snow fall every hour and possibly up to 10 feet of snow. As we make our way to the weekend. So, look, it seems like we actually have. The the full load here. The snow plows, everyones coming out to play, making sure theyre going in their respected directions. They got assignments to go on. Of course, keeping the roads clear is a big priority. But also stay away from the road. Thats been the message from caltrans to everyone that lives in this area who was thinking thinking about traveling to this year is really stay away. And the reason is this, were going a different angle now. Just the snow covers complete all over across the roads. And if you see, were going to work our way out and come up here i80 us are in kingvale. Got to go slow, nice and slow. We still are getting kind of one of those little slushy right now is bit of i would wouldnt think its no fly with the slushy coming down right now. And this is going to continue its only going intensify as the day goes on. So. Really avoid any travel to the sierra. Thats the message as we have actually seen in the last 10 minutes, a semi that was stuck. So these are the conditions out here in this year. And with that, james reyna, back to you guys are gonna come so that you please stay absolutely. And, you know, as you saw from monicas video, not a good time to be up there in the sierra right now. So hold off any plans you had to go at next weekend. 9. 18, is the time on to other news. We have governor gavin newsom now facing questions this morning after a new law contains a loophole that appears to favor someone who donated to his Campaign Last year. The governor signed this law to increase the minimum wage to 20 per hour at most fast food chains. But exception was made for change that make bread and 7. Well, a bloomberg article this week suggests that the exemption was made by newsom to benefit one of his donors. Greg flynn, a bay area native who owns. 24 panera bread. Brand franchises across the state. Republicans in response at the state legislature now demanding and immediate ethics investigation. Weve got complete ethical problem going on here where a billionaire Business Owner has put in a special exemption into a bill and we dont even know how it got in there in in the first place and then has made over 150,000 in Campaign Contributions to the governor. This is unacceptable that friends of the party in power get exemptions and thats not right. And if this is a bad law for one company, its probably a bad law for every company. Well, the Assembly Member who authored the law says that he was not directly involved in the negotiations and doesnt know why the exemption was included. He also says he wasnt aware of any relationship between newsom in flint. I and i dont and ive become more where i wasnt a spokesperson for newsom responded to the bloomberg article by issuing the statement you see on your screen which reads, quote, the governor never met with flynn about this bill. And the story is absurd. Our legal team has reviewed and it appears there is not exempt from the law. Well, in the south bay, the Santa Clara County register voters, theyre expecting about 45 the 55 of registered voters to vote in the march primary election next tuesday. And theyre pushing to increase voter turnout. County says this is lower than normal and theyve only gotten ballots mailed in from about 8 of voters so far, Santa Clara County is focusing on latino voters who have had historically low voter turnout. Only about 27 voting in the 2022. Midterm elections. Another Critical Group is the Vietnamese Community where asians make up. 41 of the county about 100 Voting Centers are going to be open this weekend. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters and we have a new poll this morning in the race for californias u. S. Senate seat. The uc berkeley la times poll shows that republican steve garvey is in a statistical tie with democrat congressman adam schiff. It found garvey had 27 . 2 shifts, 25 . And thats all within the margin of error. Which is plus or 2 percentage points. Democratic congresswoman katie porter is in 3rd at 19 with democrat congresswoman barbara lee in 4th at 8 when it comes to the general election, though the poll finds that shift would beat garvey. 53 to 38 . The poll included people who have already voted or are considered likely to vote in tuesdays primary. Speaking of which crowd for your local election headquarters. So join us on tuesday. Election day. This coming march 5th, our live Election Results from around the bay area will happen during our special coverage. And that begins at 08 00pm again right here on kron 4. Coming up on the kron, 4 morning news show of support for Alameda County District Attorney pamela price as she faces a recall effort. Well talk more about that. And we are tracking the rain during the morning commute will have that and more 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. Well, construction on the token clubhouse, which was damage from last years rainstorms is now underway. The historic San Francisco landmark was built in 18, 92 serving as an event space for weddings and stern grove. But nearly a year ago, 85 foot eucalyptus tree fell on top of it. Cities rec and Parks Department helping to fund the 2. 5 Million Dollar peers. The clubhouse is expected to reopen to the public by the end of this year. Well, your Health Scientists are now learning more about lo gterm cognitive effects. Im having long covid. The findings are a little disturbing. Scientists found that your brain function is greatly impacted by the virus. Memory loss, loss of concentration skills, your brain shrinks and theres some inflammation in your brain as well because average iq drop of 3 points. You can see the worst of the severity of the infection. Those are hospitalized in intensive care. 79 point iq decline. Cognitive decline equivalent to 20 years of aging. Those findings are with the original virus as well as its variance. Well, a San Jose International airport is now celebrating. 75 years of travel. It was back in the 1950s at the airport debuted lpits first flight. Did not man humans on board, though there was the pilot. There are 5 other people. But the majority, the plane was filled with more than 2500 baby chickens. So starting next tuesday in celebration of their anniversary, san jose airport goers can expect to see surprise encounters with giant inflatable chickens walking through the terminals, handing out giveaways. Dont be shocked. Its all part of their celebration. 9. 26. Is the time were going. Take a break. But coming up next on the kron, 4 morning news. Another challenger to mayor london breed. Why this new highprofile candidate for San Francisco mayoral race has decided to jump in. And were still tracking the wet weather around the bay. You see these on and off again. Showers throughout the bay area with blankets of snow falling up in the sierra. Weve got john trouble standing by with a full look at the forecast. Democrats agree. Conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. Our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. Mr. Garvey, you voted for him twice. As your own man, what is your decision . Garvey is wrong for california. But garveys surging in the polls. Fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. Stop garvey. Adam schiff for senate. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message. At first, i used better than bouillon for broth. And then stir fry. Sauces. Even marinades and with all the varieties. Organic. Reduced sodium. And now the culinary collection. Its like the deliciousness never ends make everything better with better than bouillon and we are back 9. 30, is the time here on the kron. 4 morning news were dealing with showers. More on the way. Snow as well. Yeah. And just what i thought was going to be able get outside this weekend. John kept that was last last week and its a movie weekend. I think definitely not a tahoe weekend in the next 24 hours is going to bring the heaviest snowfall of this system up to the sierra. Youre going to start to see it stacking up real quick. This is diamond peak right here. The deck is really gettang not just that snow but summer, really, really strong wind. Thats half the battle in the sierra this weekend is winds gusting 75 to even 100 Miles Per Hour resulting in whiteout conditions up there. Snow is pocking up in intensity for upper elevations, but also up there in the north coast. Weve seen a few lightning strikes in the mendocino coast line this morning. The bay area has been comparatively quiet, but were also going to see our own round of thunderstorms for the 2nd half of the day. You can see those into the afternoon here at around one 45 pm in the north bay and then into the Late Afternoon and evening for the rest of us, some really heavy rainfall cloud to ground lightning. Really strong winds, too. Lot of people wanted to get to this year this weekend. And really my message to the past few days have been staying put because all the way through sunday we are likely to see 0 visibility up there. Heavy snowfall, the snow drifts that will make roadways impassable. Snow levels low as 1500 feet. That will actually play some snow on our bay area mountaintops to where a 6 to even 12 feet of snowfall expected above 5,000 feet. That includes i80 on Donner Summit echo pass along highway 50. Both of these routes going to be impassable for much of the weekend. Likely temperatures in the 50s right now for the bay area. Weve been comparatively quiet. Of course, the emphasis has been on the sierra because of the strong winds and heavy heavy snow up there. But youll probably a just a few your plans, even if you were staying local daytime highs today in the upper 50s chance of a thunderstorm later today. And all this continues into tomorrow rain. Right, john, thank you for that. The morning commute where your roadways are slick, but weve been seeing friday light. Im in a run into the city this morning. Mateo bridge about 14 minutes there. Richards Center Bridge one low car, a minute ride and the golden gate bridge. 37, the tolls. 21 minutes. 9. 31 is a time and kron 4 is your local election headquarters and the list of candidates to be San Franciscos next mayor is looking likerits going to grow is getting bigger. Sources tell us that the board of supervisors, president aaron peskin, will officially into the mayoral race sometime next week. Yeah, we have come Michael Thomas on the story for us up in the newsroom morning. Michael, good morning, everyone. What you did here right now, supervisor aaron peskin has not officially launched his mayoral campaign. However, sources do tell kron 4 that we could see that official announcement as early as next week in this decision to run is based in part on former San Francisco mayor mark farrell is decision. To also join the race. The idea behind that is that theres currently no progressive candidate in the race supervisor peskin currently serves as the president of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And hes been on the board on and off since about the early 2. Thousands currently, his term is set to end later this year. And if he does officially joined the race, will he could be joining incumbent mayor london breed supervisor ahsha stuff. I e philanthropist daniel lurie and former San Francisco mayor and supervisor mark farrell. Now, there was a poll done in february by the San Francisco chronicle that showed a majority of residents in the area do not approve of the way of mayor london breed is currently running the city. That poll included more than 800 likely voters with more than 70 disapproving. The mayors performance overall. That poll also showed that voters are disappointed specifically in the way that the mayors been handling public safety, homelessness, drug overdoses and housing affordability. The question of who residents are leaning towards for mayor in this race. Well, former interim mayor mark farrell got the highest percentage out of all the candidates. However, 38 of residents still said either 9 or that they were undecided last day to officially join the mayoral race is june 11. So as we get more details from the supervisor, we will keep you updated. Live in the newsroom. Im Michael Thomas. I will send it back to to live in the studio. Good enough pay. Thank you very much, michael. Head to the east bay because bay area faith leaders gathered in oakland, the support. Alan, me to County District attorney pamela price. She faces a recall. Group says they like prices approached all the people accountable for the crimes they commit says that she should be allowed to finish out her term. And we believe that halifax is giving hope. And the thought i put in for hope is just helping other people even if they got in trouble, then united would come with a price that she is someone who stands for peace, stand for justice and want to right by our community. The Organization Behind the effort to oust price says they have already got enough signatures needed to put the recall on the ballot. Signatures are verified. A recall election will take place next june. Well, a new bipartisan bill at the State Capitol wants to increase penalties for traffickers who target children and teens. The authors of the bill say the current law with a few exceptions classifies the solicitation of a minor for is a misdemeanor. This bill, however, would reclassify commercial with a minor is a felony. And that would lead to an increase in jail time. A fine of up to 25,000 and a requirement that anybody convicted on this charge be registered as a offender. California is a hot bed for Human Trafficking and passage of sb 14, 14 is sending a clear message that not one more child will suffer at the hands of those who seek to exploit and harm. If youre going to engage in this kind of kenyas crime need to know youre going to go to prison. The bill is expected to go before the Senate Public Safety Committee in the coming weeks. San jose police have arrested 2 suspects now connection with a homicide in december of last year. Thats when police were called to an incident on snow drive for a report of a gun that was being fired. And then short, while later, 2 men arrived at the hospital suffering from gunshot wounds. One of the men died at the hospital. The second survived and following the investigation, police say they have arrested joshua, that kind of buchan a ground. And of san jose and michael care of of gilroy. Both suspects have been booked into the Santa Clara County jail on charges of homicide. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Unified School District has agreed to pay nearly 5 Million Dollars to settle to abuse lawsuits. Those lawsuits involved a former athletic director, George Washington high school and a former teacher at lowell high school, the former athletic director, George Washington, is accused of abusing 2 female students between 2012 2016. The former teacher at lowell pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a male student during the 2004 school year. Well, another round of business closures strikes the bayarea him chevys in emeryville reporting a permanent closure come april 16th. A result of the shutdown was not clear. The San Francisco Business Times reports all staff will lose their jobs now after more than 4 years of business, we have lees deli in downtown San Francisco. Theyve closed. It was the last one in the city. The restaurant chain wants at 10 locations across San Francisco. But its not all doom and gloom because urban punt. Eye opened in downtown san jose. The mini golf course restaurant had been open in San Franciscos Mission District for 10 years before closing its doors last month. Puts it another mini golf venue called holy moly will open at the same time. And the San Francisco location sometime this year. Well, uber has a new feature just for teens. It allows 13 to 17 yearolds to take rides or order foods they want. Kron fours. Sara stinson connell with over folks to learn how work she talked to the parents, the plan to use this for the kids. A new transportation option for teens in california. Uber has launched a Specialized Team account that allows young users to get a ride or order food north a dad, steve grove becker says the new feature will make his life a lot easier yes, having 5 kids full time job a cushion, the price. I cant be everywhere all the time. So yeah, i think its a great idea. His son grant a High School Freshman is also excited. Its definitely nice to have to get place to place rainy days. Are something thats not to walkable. As an uber spokesperson says the feature requires parental permission. Parent just invites 13 to the family profile in their app. To open a Specialized Team. Cow they download the app and from their teens can order their own rides and food parents can live track their childs trip set spending limits and contact the driver as he gets picked up to get a push that. He gets dropped off. Look at another push notification. Uber is promising to only allow the most experienced a high rate drivers for teen trips. Tina council also have a pin verification system which helps ensure that the teen is getting in the right car. And the way that works is that he has a pin number that they have to get to the driver before that trip can start the San Francisco based Company Began trying out the teen account idea in canada in 2022. Before expanding it into the u. S. So far, there have been no reports of Serious Problems with the program. I think its going to save a lot of tears a lot of so, yeah, looking forward to most of the parents i spoke with here in marin county say theyre excited for this new feature on uber. But thats not how people felt on twitter. We put a pullout asking parents to let their teens use the app and most of them said no. Im sara stinson reporting in marin county kron. 4 news thursday was leap day and the chances of being born on a leap day. Our to 1004, just 61. Several babies here in the bay area. Pete, those on yesterday joining nearly 5 million leaping around the world. So one of them, a baby girl was born yesterday morning at kaiser redwood city. Call for that. It has talked to a proud parents are back in court east meant this is their second baby. While they havent settle on a name just yet think about which day will actually celebrate the little girls birthday. You our here. And so they either celebrated on the 28th of the first then a celebrate both days. You kind of make it special every year. And little guy right here is key finding. Really good look at him next. A baby blake, harper trujillo. We have his picture. He was born of the any Medical Center at 12 00 04am. He weighed in at 9 pounds. Here he is. 6 ounces measured. 21 inches. That cutie pie. So meantime, General Hospital welcome 5 babies, Sutter Health cpm season as campus. They have 3 so packer told babies are born. Police say the babies are currently being used first or lee okay. Well, still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, the snow survey is out. Well see how much snow pack this year received and how its helping california. Thats even including what were about to see in this year. The next 24 hours is going to bring the very heaviest of snowfall that were seeing from this system. Its going to be piling up, beat up on feet. Comparatively calm through well, the department of Water Resources conducted 3rd snow survey of the season measuring the water content this year. Snow packed. Get some insight into the states water supply for the coming years. Survey measured a depth of about 4 feet. Thursdays results reflect continued improvement in the snow pack. This is the slow and dry start to the water year on average this year, snowpack supplies about 30 of californias water needs. So were going to get a whole lot of water match and what their surveys going to show once they do it next time because this before all this stormy snowfall and john, well and a little update for you guys. The Uc Berkeley Snow Lab just reporting this morning, the first time this season, they are officially above were already seeing that and its only just the because we are going to see our heaviest of snow fall. Still ahead of us. So this is going to be a big one for the sierra pushing as well past the dial. This is where were sitting at Donner Summit right now, rather at diamond peak. You can see the lake and now you can hardly even see the trees in the foreground. Been watching this view really closely. Blizzard conditions up there. We have gusts of wind reported around 100 Miles Per Hour at the crest of the sierra. This is going result in blowing snow, drifting snow and dangerous conditions with white out Power Outages, loss of power for several days. Likely for some. The reason youre not seeing a lot of snow on the deck there. It just keeps blowing off of the excessively windy conditions. You have radar is showing the deep blue indicating snow level really picking up lot of going on up there right now. Also seeing some of it on the north coast ranges. Perry has been so comparatively quiet. This is going to be a stormy afternoon for us, though. So we pick it up a little bit more into the latter half of the day. Low pressure still incurred up to our north is a deep dive of cold air and the jet is set up shop just funneling all this moisture right into the sierra unsettled weather for us. Brings that opportunity for thunderstorms late morning into afternoon for the north bay and Late Afternoon into evening for most of the rest of us, you can see those areas of yellow, orange and red that your heavy downpours associated with some thunder as well as strong winds for the latter half of the day tomorrow, were going to keep this activity going and look at those spots of blew up in the mountains to our north at some snowfall up there for the bay area. Were going to be measuring it all in inches with multiple inches of rainfall and also multiple inches of snowfall. Back here at step out of the way and look at the left side of your screen up in lake mendocino and mountainous portions of sonoma and napa counties. Well have 3 to 6 inches of snowfall. Mount saint helena, you get up to 9 inches up there while the sierra its going to be feet upon fee upon feet of snow. Donner summit echo summit. Both of these spots here likely to be impassable with 9 feet of snowfall piling up. We have 4 to 8 feet of snowfall at lake level and its not just the feet of snow. Were looking at winter storm warnings up in the north coast ranges lake and mendocino counties. Blizzard warning up in the Sierra Nevada already mentioned how excessively windy things have been. This is going to result in downed trees, downed tree limbs. Lot of Power Outages likely as well. Winds in the bay area also going to be breezy 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour gusts. Thats enough for high wind advisories today through tomorrow morning. We also do have high surf advisories at the coast with 15 to 20 foot, breaking waves up and down the coast. Temperatures today are going to be in the upper 50s still relatively mild, but tomorrow will barely make the low 50s tomorrow morning. Seeing that opportunity for snowfall in our bay area. Mountaintops. We will see activity winding down a bit on sunday, especially later in the day, but still staying on startled into next week, right . All right, john, thank you for that. The highways like me right now, 8 minute ride into the city 70 0, bridge around 13 minutes which is bill, 9 minutes. And the golden gate bridge. 37 toast 20 minute ride. In the north bay, we have Sonoma County now offering residents the ability to use an Emergency Warming Center for this weekend. Anybody needing to escape. The rain can head over to the haven parking lot on west sonoma street. That shelter is going to be open at 7 oclock tonight and will stay open until monday morning. There are a limited number of blankets and pillows, however. So keep that in mind, service animals. If youve got one, dont worry. They will allow me to bring them inside. The Santa Clara City Council has unanimously approved a new Housing Project along the Great America amtrak station. The latest development calls for a 21 story. Nearly 200 condominium complex. Its all part of the citys reimagining of the tasman east neighborhood right near levi stadium. Thats where the city is hoping to add about. 4500 new homes over the next few years. Well, the sun of the largest rv park inside and san jose will actually cost the city have as much as they thought. She the original 50 Million Dollar plan included for building services, Counseling Centers and restrooms. The new design only includes 2 last located right near coyote creek. We the city second safe parking site was one in santa teresa vta station parking lot set to open this summer following some delays. All right. Well, if you are looking to avoid the rain this weekend, there is an epic new Science Fiction movie in theaters this Dean Richards takes look too. Weve been fighting arguments for decades. Why families can find them for centuries in 2021. Fans of the Frank Herberts scifi novel dune. Didnt know what to expect from the french canadian director, denis villeneuve. What we got back then was a larger than life epic story of family power, love and fast forward to today and dune part 2 is bigger and bolder and even more epic than before. Maybe 2 epic in some ways. Its a story about battling factions of nomads and royals of ancient fuse and civil wars as young warrior who survived an attack that wiped out most of his family who ruled the desert planet seeks revenge. And that is the most bare bones explanation of what this movie is about. And believe me, theres almost nothing that is bare bones about this movie. Nothing fancy understand. The stories are multilayered and super complex based on the original novel without much left out, fans should be able to follow along. But if youre a newcomer to all of this, fully expect to get lost in the names and places and mythology its like theyre speaking a foreign language. And if youre not familiar with the book are you havent seen part one. Forget about it entirely. That said its not completely impossible to follow all wrong, although i had to see the movie twice in order to absorb what was being thrown at should you really have to see a movie more than once to get whats going on. All of that said due in part to is one of the most visually beautiful movies that ive ever seen. Incredible sand swept cinematography with overwhelming original sites technologies and even creatures visually. It reminded me of the first time that i saw a star wars movie, the creativity here is stunning. But at the end of the day for me, its always about story. And as best as i could decipher the formula for this one, is that good people and good intentions are battling evil for the world as they know what as impressive as the look of this efficiently may 2 and a half hour saga is the galaxy of superstars contained in it shined the brightest at the top of the list is the impressive Timothee Chalamet leading the pack is the reluctant young rebel sunday. A expands her presence here into a more powerful elvis star Austin Butler plays it deliciously evil with javier bardem, florence pugh, josh brolin, Christopher Walken day. But he each adding something special. So for now, enjoy part 2. Do your homework before you go. Pay close attention and see it on as big of a screen is possible for maximum visual impact. I give it a deans list a minus. We have a great weekend in chicago and Dean Richards. Thats pretty impressive. All right, 9. 52, the time a live look at stormtracker 4. The radar showing widespread rain sporadic throughout the bay will get another look at the forecast coming up with when Peter Dickson led my platoon into combat the forecast coming up with job. In afghanistan, he cared about two things completing the mission, and making sure his marines came home. And we all did. Petes always fought for what he believes in, and i know hell do the same in congress for affordable housing, the rights of women, and the democracy he swore to protect. Because helping people who need it has always been petes mission. And i know hell get it done. Next Generation Veteran Fund is responsible for the content of this ad. Welcome back. Its 9. 54. Keeping you updated on our latest storm. As you probably noticed for the bay area. Things have been relatively calm so far. But were about to see thunderstorm activity picking up later on today. I want focus on this year, though, because thats where all eyes are really aimed at because the next 24 hours is going to bring some of the heaviest of snow fall, not just of the storm, but of this entire season. So far were seeing blizzard conditions up there with already reported 100 Miles Per Hour. Wind gusts and the heavy feet upon feet of snow makes what weve got in the bay area. Looked like a little walk in the park, although we do have things little just your plans, including thunderstorm potential later on today, were seeing some pockets of heavier rainfall. Now for the first time this morning, really seeing some of those heavier pockets moving through portions of marin county right now around sandra fell. Youre about to be seeing rainfall picking up here in just moments. Also right around napa down through american canyon, some heavier pockets there as well. Now for the Sierra Nevada, it is a situation that is going to stay really, really bad into the weekend. In fact, some worsening conditions as those blizzard warnings are in effect and winds and heavy snow only picking uptthrough the day today. We already have those strongest of winds expect downed trees, Power Outages. Just a reminder if i have it at the size, did enough already. It is not the weekend to be heading up into the mountains. Ill be keeping you updated in the next hour on what exactly to expect keeping you updated on radar as the showers push overhead. All still to come. 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. From the station, youre watching you. Morning team. All right. Welcome to the kron. 4 news at 10. Were talking storm coverage. Thats the big news going forward. Weve got not only rain here but high winds and strong surf and thats just the bexar. Thats not even talking about the sierra. John. Good morning. Yeah, weve got it. All right. The surf at the coastline, the winds, the rain at times going to be heavy. But the sierra just downright impassable this weekend. This is the Current Situation up at diamond peak right here. Blizzard conditions up there right now. The reason that youre not seeing a whole lot of snow on the deck, its just completely blowing off. We have reports of winds as much as 75 200 Miles Per Hour up there. And you cant see hardly even the trees there in the foreground anymore. Let alone the lake in the distance lake level 4 to 8 feet of snowfall to be accumulated by this. The next 24 hours going to be bringing the very heaviest of snow fall to the Sierra Nevada and roadways out there. If not close down in many spots will be soon likely as mountain passes are going to be receiving feet upon feet of snow. Bay area comparatively quiet, but breezy nonetheless. And we do have marine wood. Sandra fell seeing some heavy pockets of rain pushing through rainfall for the latter half of the day is actually going to be more significant than what weve seen so far this morning. And as we work our way into the latter half of the day, you can expeus