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Joining us here on kron for news at 5. Im noelle bellow day and im grant lotus. The shooting happened after a police chase and a crash. This was shortly after midnight called for us. Rob nesbitt has details now from santa rosa. Flashing blue lights lit up several streets in west santa rosa monday morning. According to the Sonoma County sheriffs office, deputies responded to reports of a man holding a rifle on todd road when they arrived on scene just after midnight. The suspect fled in a vehicle at a pursuit occurred. Gunfire was exchanged between the suspect and police injuring 4 deputies. According to sheriff ed ian groom to have injuries to their hands. And one was shot in the leg and one received a head injury. Our deputy with a head injury is in critical but stable condition after shooting at police. The gunman drove away and crashed his vehicle in stony point road and was pronounced dead at the scene. Timothy dimmick lives by where the crash occurred. It was bad. I woke up to one 30. To the sound of it, there was heavy around it. Pettit is basically on todd road. We saw we heard the shooting and crash under investigation by the Santa Rosa Police department to sheriff vehicles in the suspects vehicle were towed away from the scene by early afternoon. And stony point road was reopened to traffic officer patricia 7 says other roads with the pursuit occurred will remain closed while investigators search for evidence crime scenes to be investigated and the evidence technicians started at this location and are working their way back. To the areas todd road and a stand job. We called the effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney pamela price is moving forward today. Boxes of signatures were dropped off at the county registrar of voters to get the recall put on the november ballot. Save alameda for everyone or safe say they gathered around 127,000 signatures. That is well above the requirement of around 73,000. The group claims price is jeopardizing the safety of residents and businesses in the county by failing to enforce the law. Prosecute criminals and keep violent offenders off the streets. We shouldnt have to do this. But for the safety of our community, the safety our children, the safety of our businesses. This is something that had to be we have collect it 123,000. We had 87 senators. Supporters of price claim the recall effort used deceptive tactics to gather the signatures like sticking the paper between other issues and having people sign all of them. The registrar now has 10 days to verify all of the signatures. The das office did not comment on this report. Marin county officials are issuing a Health Advisory about fentanyl setting a recent spike in Overdose Deaths since february 14th of this year. Officials say there have been 5 recorded Overdose Deaths related to the deadly drug. Officials say thats about 4 times higher than the normal rate. The county has also been tracking an increase in fentanyl and methamphetamine in wastewater as well as an uptick in emergency room calls for nonfatal overdoses. Joe overdoses remain the leading cause of death for people under age. 55 in marin county. Take a look a repout of a sideshow led to a chase from toledo to richmond to chp chopper captured what happened last night. Investigators say the chase ended in richmond where the suspect got out of his car and then got into another car that was waiting for him. Police managed to stop that car eventually and arrest the suspect. Lets get you a check of your 4 zone forecast. Taking a live look outside at the richmond. Sandra fell bridge. Pretty slow going this afternoon. They have backed up at the toll plaza. The cars here. Headed to meteorologist dave spahr with us on this. Monday night after another rainy weekend. Noel and the grants could today. Today, everybody were left over with some rain showers here and there were going to see probably a little bit more up in the north bay as we go through tonight and even tomorrow. But its really going to be very hit or miss. And probably as much the way of sunshine as we saw for today. Theres a satellite picture for you. See the general pattern west to east. Very familiar with that. Were kind of waiting for this low to finally play out. Its going to take a while. It looks like its a little delayed and it looks like it will be pushing things more towards the south. But heres a wider perspective. Everything there you can see the pattern again, opening up some skies a little bit of the afternoon hours. Just a touch of that low is whats going to drive everything we know from earlier in the season. Thats what gave a lot of dynamics for all the stormy action 40s for right now. We see 54 oakland. These will be low. Temperatures expected for tonight. 51. Meanwhile, 4 hayward and the general forecast calls for 49 San Francisco with a considerable clouds and well throw some fog in there as well and expect maybe a few showers going on up in the north bay as well. 46 san jose and 49 going on for oakland. Nice thing is by tomorrow might start to see some warmer temperatures for you, particularly some of those inland spots, too. Well take a quick look at the forecast and a bit. Grant says good, dave, look forward to that. Kron. 4 is your election headquarters and the candidates running for our states open u. S. Senate seat. Vying for these lastminute votes. 2 of the leading democrats in the race held dueling Campaign Events in San Francisco last night. Congressman adam schiff. Was at the pearl in the citys dogpatch neighborhood. He was joined by former House Speaker nancy pelosi and San Francisco city supervisor. Aaron peskin that who have endorsed shifts campaign in the race to fill the seat long held by late senator dianne feinstein. Meantime, congresswoman katie porter held her Campaign Event at mannys in the mission. Recent polls have seen a shift holding on to the frontrunner status. Porter has been locked into a fight for second with leading republican candidate steve garvey. One poll last week showed garvey edging shift slightly for first place. According to polls. Oakland barbara lee has been trailing in 4th place according to california election rules. The top 2 candidates from tomorrows primary, regardless of Party Affiliation will face off in novembers general election. The election is today ends and were here mindful of the importance. The imperative of getting out to vote. Governor newsom was in town today urging californians to vote yes on proposition. Want the measure, if passed, would bring more money into Mental Health Care Services for the state newsom was joined by San Francisco mayor london breed and Lieutenant Governor eleni kounalakis. For many, many years, the issue of homelessness and Mental Health has been left to the counties and the cities alone to deal proposition one will create 11,000 more residential units. It will allocate a billion dollars for the veterans. Mental Health Service bring over 6 billion dollars in bonds to fix our Mental Health system. The bipartisan bill passed the house and Senate Proponents believe the prop would bring a Major Overhaul to californias Mental Health funding system building upon to recently established programs homekey and rookie that have created 15,000 more beds. And you can stay up to date on all the latest election news. Just scan the qr code here to head to kron fours local election headquarters page where youll find the latest headlines. Election results once we have them as well as political analysis. South bay leaders announcing new legislation to streamline the building of inner rim housing standing in front of an interim housing site back in 2021. State senator josh becker joins san jose mayor matt mahan and some Community Leaders in announcing the interim housing act of 2024, this measure would provide an improved option to bridge the gap between encampments and permanent housing. Interest, part housing. They can get stable. They have an address where they get supportive services. They can get tied in to networks. They can get connected in trying to get help finding a job. The proposed bill would help to speed up the process of building interim housing while permanent Affordable Housing is being constructed. Private builders usually build housing only if they can increase rents. So this would help build more mixed income housing. People can actually afford. The San Francisco giants will now be requiring their players stand on the field during the National Anthem at games this year. Thats a new rule. New manager bob melvin has set in motion as first reported by the athletic. The report says the entire organization down to the bad boys will be required to follow suit. The mlb, unlike the nba, for instance, does not currently have any league wide requirements for players to stand or observe the National Anthem. The nbas will, however, is not often enforced. Coming up, a new bill would ensure a continued funding for state missing persons dna program. Those details coming up. The documentary telling the story of alexis gabe is set to air on a major. Streaming service. And interstate 80 in the sierra reopens after being closed for nearly 3 days. We hear from folks braved the storm. 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. My dry eyes made me a burning, stinging, 5timesaday,. Makeup smearing drops user. I want another option thats not another drop. Tyrvaya. Its not another drop. Its the first and only nasal spray for dry eye. Tyrvaya treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease fast by helping your body produce its own real tears. Common side effects include sneezing, cough, and throat and nose irritation. Relying only on drops . Not me. My own real tears are my relief. Ask your eye doctor about tyrvaya. The nations first overthecounter Birth Control pill will be available in stores and online this month. Pill will be sold for 20 for a onemonth supply. 50 bucks gets you a threemonth pack. You do not need a prescription to buy both. Walgreens and cvs have said they will sell it in stores. The pills could be available for preorder as early as this week. The makers of its a its 98 effective at preventing pregnancy. If taken at the same time every day. The state Public Utility Commission recently announcing millions of californians could save on their utility bills in april state officials saying through the states cap and trade program, more than 20 million customers will receive credits from 32 to 175 on their electric bills. And roughly 60 to 86 on their gas bills combined. Thats an average credit of nearly 150 on utility bills. For the month of april. New reports say librarians are facing more and more dangerous situations that they simply arent trained for, including some of our local libraries. The Oakland Library had a have to reportedly hire a Mediation Consultant to address safety concerns and low morale at the library. Libraries are an open free resource for the public. But staff are now facing libraries being a hot spot for crime. All of this forcing librarians to navigate things like verbal abuse, gracies situations, stager u. S. Confrontations and Mental Health crises. And this is being felt in neighboring Contra Costa County as well. Are seeing an uptick in incidents at all of our libraries and its a trend happening across the country. There were threats to staff and Library Property. There were damage to staff and Library Property multiple times, including incidents of things being set on fire the mediator for the Oakland Public Library studied more than a dozen branches and interviewed 50 employees. Out of that. The internal report published by the oakland side revealed staff feel more unsafe now than ever before. There is overwhelming evidence now with low morale and employees feeling increasingly unsafe. What the lack of tools and support the Library System tells our sister station news nation, the Oakland Public Library is at an Inflection Point and needs to decide upon its path for the future or its path may be decided for it. News nation reached out to several Branch Managers in oakland as well as mediator to confirm this report. New at 5 state legislators are teaming up with the attorney general to keep dna programs in place that are responsible for solving cold cases and identifying missing person scrum. Fours dan kerman reports for the last 20 years. The finds charge to criminals have been directed towards supporting state and local dna programs that help solve crimes. But that voter approved initiative known as prop 69 is due to expire this year. Now theres new legislation to keep that Funding Source in programs use this technology to do many things identifying missing persons solving child abduction cases analyzing rape and assault evidence kits helping local Law Enforcement identify samples collected crime scenes exonerate innocent individuals testify in court and further advance research and developments in Forensic Science at a News Conference monday. Attorney general rob bonta said the 12 Million Dollars generated each year for state and local crime labs has resulted in the solving of 106,000 cold cases and the identification of a for 2000 missing persons through the missing persons dna program, which bonta says provides answers and closure to grieving families. Certainly theres nothing celebratory about this work. But the fact that weve identified over 2000 missing persons is meaningful. Its a reminder of what we can accomplish for the people of california when we have the appropriate resources which will be provided by this bill. If passed, the new bill will provide a steady source of funding to keep those dna programs in place. Dan kerman kron, 4 news. Coming up, passengers on board the Alaska Airlines flight during the door. Blowout instant are taking legal action. How much theyre suing for in a lawsuit against the carrier and boeing. The cost of one of your favorite video streaming apps could be on the rise yet again this on the rise yet again this year. Thousands of women with Metastatic Breast Cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for adults with hr positive, her2 negative Metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole. Ibrance may cause low white blood cell counts that may lead to serious infections. Ibrance may cause severe inflammation of the lungs. Both of these can lead to death. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening chest pain, cough, or trouble breathing. Before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding. For more information about side effects talk to your doctor. Thanks, mom. Be in your moment. Ask your doctor about ibrance. A pfizer product. Well, finally, after 3 days being shut down in both directions, interstate 80 here and this year is finally back open. Now the major thoroughfare was closed after a mammoth blizzard with punishing winds swept through the Sierra Nevada. Wreaking havoc for drivers, residents and businesses, especially all the ski for theresa has an update on that. And what needs to take place to try to get businesses back to normal. Wicked winds, not stop. Snowing car crashes. Just a few of the highlights from this past weekend in the Sierra Nevada at palisades tahoe resort. Ferocious winds clocking in at 186 miles per hour. Shattered glass windows before the cameras shut down, knocked offline on the donner summit. This was the scene friday and 05 00pm when the chp closed it all down, it remained shuttered saturday sunday and until monday morning at 9. 15, due to unsafe. Wild winter conditions could still see the shenanigans. You could still see that people were just adhering to the warnings. And, you know, if you did not need to be on the road, there was no reason to be on the road unless theres a number. Several cars and big rigs had to be towed off 80 and highway 50. Both are now open, but it is still slow emerald bay, which is highway 89 in the west shores still close. Those are areas that just get. Inundated with snow. So unfortunately, those are going to take a little bit more time to clean you know, theres you can save may be behind me over. Here is a, you know, just the snow that slides off the roof and just packed up against the windows. I think. Tracking resident Doug Appleton says its been a mix of fun and work for past couple of days. As many locals hunker down. Fortunately, he says that the power stayed on and the snow was a blessing to sneak in some powder skiing. Plus, a dogs also blissfully had some fun play days. Dugout neighbors weve weve helped out where we can and its a you so weve been lucky, you know, been seeing more on tv with people getting stranded in cars and whatnot. I think for those who live here and have a good set up, its actually been okay. Theresa kron, 4 news. It was a mess. I feel like we were warning people for like a week. Dont go up yeah. Worst of it over. But theres still more to come, right . Yeah, its actually going to be a lot of melting going on the next couple of days to think a lot of temperatures still hanging in the 30s in a little bit of snow still on their way to nothing like what theyve been through already. So this that set and its probably a good thing that its not going to get real warm up there because all that would do is cause a lot of melting in which is Philip Rivers and so forth. So good to keep it locked up there on the home front. Sutro camera checks in like this. Here is the golden gate. You can see still quite a bit of cloud cover to see the sun poke out just a bit. Lets look at july temperatures as we speak right now. Were going to beat these probably tomorrow, but you can see pretty much mid 50s for right now just about universally uniformly across the bay, whether be the well inland to around the bay even up north here we see petaluma, for example, 55 sonoma, 53 for comparison were some halfadozen degrees in a few Little Pockets above where we were at these numbers from yesterday. So well, probably the yellow again tomorrow because numbers are looking to be a bit warmer. Theres a pattern pretty much west to east. A couple little showers Holding Together in the north bay and the very typical it looks like some showers are possible for you. Folks up in the north bay throughout tonight and into tomorrow. Know ultimately this low has to figure out a way to make its way into the continent. And it looks like its going to be taking a southern route for a familiar. But this one seems to be dipping a little bit further south as we go. Theres a why a live shot. Again. We have the east bay shoreline. We got variable clouds at 6 temps in the 50s. Not much moving to midnight. Verbal clouds, north bay showers, by the way, possible might be waking up to those up in the north bay. Again, well call showers, not really heavy rain. Just a few showers. Variable clouds elsewhere around the bay might see some sun too, with inland temperatures dropping as you can see to the middle 40s. 52, meanwhile, at the coast into this real quick here on futurecast there. We have the little showers that passed in the north bay. Looks like some patches tried to break out a little bit and the east bay, as you can see tuesday morning. And then when we see the slow look very carefully to the south. There you can see the low is finally starting to move a little bit. And that may actually dry. Some Thunder Showers in the Santa Cruz Mountains will course take a look at the long range forecast for you coming up in a bit. Noel. Dave, thank you somebody National Park now partially back open after closing friday because of the big storm. Park rangers say visitors are welcome to come in through the highway. 41 entrance and through highway one, 40 big oak flat road badger pass road and some ski areas reopened around noon today. Chains are still required for drivers, though, park rangers say bring a shovel and be prepared for winter camping. Some meteorologists believe all the storms in recent years will help california state drought free through next year. Officials with accuweather say theyre highly confident there will be no significant Drought Conditions this year or next year. Thanks to all the rain and snow from 2022. 2023 winter seasons and of course, more recent storms. 6 of californias most important reservoirs are currently at or above capacity. 3 passengers who were on that Alaska Airlines flight when a side door blew out earlier this year. Are now suing the plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing in january when it was flying from portland to ontario. The 3 passengers are seeking 1 billion dollars in damages from the airline and boeing. They claim alaska had identified the planes issue before the incident. The passengers also say the airline neglected to make further inspections before the plane was placed in service. Alaska airines and boeing are not commenting on the suit. Jetblue is giving up on its effort to buy spirit airlines. Jetblue officially called off the merger today after a federal judge in january blocked the attempted takeover. Both jetblue and spirit appealed the judges decision. But that was required by the terms of the merger plan. The carriers were not expected to win the appeal. Jetblue will the paying spirit a 69 Million Dollars termination fee. Apple is facing heavy penalties over the rules on their app store in europe. Regulators in the European Union have find apple around 2 billion dollars over its attempts to stop Music Services from advertising, cheaper prices available outside of the app store. This is now illegal because of new laws passed in the eu. The first major complaint over this issue came from spotify back in 2020 who called it the apple tax because the tech giant makes a 30 takes a 30 commission from purchases made inside the app store. Netflix could be making more price hikes to its memberships again this year. Sources say membership fees could go up by 5 with scaling ad revenues playing a part in those rising prices. Netflix previously made small monthly fee increases on some tears back in midoctfber. As at options came online, the streaming platform had more than 260 million subscribers at the end of 2023. A landmark decision from the Supreme Court alters the landscape of the colorado republican president ial race. The ripple effects this mornings ruling could have on other states. Now. And Vice President Kamala Harris is calling for a ceasefire in gaza. What shes doing to work towards that goal today and says the wildfire ravages parts of texas here california when Peter Dickson led my platoon into combat parts of texas here california stepping in 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. Now at 5. 30, a big win for former President Trump ahead of super tuesday is the Supreme Court makes a ruling in colorados republican primary ballot battle. The justices decided the republican front runner cannot be removed from the states primary ballot. The outcome is a victory for the former president and leading candidate for the gop president ial nomination. Kron fours. Catherine heenan joins us live in the newsroom with the