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I know what from buck anymore. The newscast this free, though. So how about that . Im esta beaches warning. Hey, were talking about what we can get for a buck. The weather also for hr and very accurate. Good morning to yes, day. Its definitely going to be especially accurate because were just right. And a pretty easy forecast to get down. Hopefully we can get outside and enjoy it as much as possible. Weve got a little clouds this morning, but skies clear out this afternoon. You look outside from mount tam some bright spots out there. If you look way, way, way, way in the distance, you can see San Francisco way out there now. We are going to be looking at a day today that does clear up more and more are already dry. But now we just got to get rid of some of this meeting during cloud cover as we make our way into the weekend. We do have an isolated area of rainfall moving in during your saturday morning. Just want to note that for you right there moving in. Thats the only thing thats really interrupting these next few days of dry weather until sunday night, expected least so. We see a wetter pattern taking shape again for a few days. Now, temperatures will be back into the 40s to 50s for the next few minutes but were rising into the low 60s this afternoon. So were kind of chilly this morning. A lot of that cloud cover still kind of sheltering us from the warmth of the sun. As of right now. But temps will rise under sunshine later on and back up into the low 60s right now. I dont think that were talking about traffic this morning bay bridge. Not bad, but it is the san mateo bridge and im seeing issues on. So we have an accident. Oh, my goodness. Im just do not take the 7 to rich because its a and drive. Times are 135 minutes. Theres been an accident near the mid span portion of the san mateo bridge. Think that started sometime in the last hour. So do not take this bridge. Got people getting out of the car, walking to see whats going on. Take the dumbarton bridge instead, not seeing major delays there. Richmond center fell bridge 13 minutes and the goal to get rich. 37 to the tolls. 40 minute ride 802, right now. And in the east bay, the grand bakery brand in oakland has a new owner. Now and you got it for a one buck. Back in october, we told you theres a chance to vie the bay areas oldest kosher bakery. Now were hearing from the man who was chosen from 250 applicant was gail ong has the story. You know, longheld dream of mine. 2 at one point operate a bakery. That dream is now a reality for oakland native bear silber who took ownership of grand bakery, the bay areas oldest kosher bakery for the price of one dollar. The recipes, the routes that customers that buy up. All of that was purchased for about sober and former grand bakery owners santo biz close the deal on february 19th. The exchange of that dollar pictured here, the wholesale business operates out of a kitchen above the food Mill Building on macarthur boulevard in oakland, who also own sauls restaurant and deli in berkeley tells kron 4 he did not have time to operate to businesses at once. So back in october, he put out the news. He was looking for a new buyer. Applicants were asked to write an essay describing themselves their qualifications and why they want to own a bakery over 250 submissions. Later, there was the ideal candidate. Showbiz describes bears having a unique combination of operating experience and passion in the early 19, 100s bears great. Grandparents opened a wellknown jewish bakery chain called silvers. My grandfather and all of the sibling, 7 siblings were raised above the big 3. And it a little bit of this several businesses in the bay area and is now ready to take on his new role while there will maintain grand bakeries legacy, he plans to bring new additions. Right now were kosher department. Id like to add very point with the facility. And that would allow us to make different products like im with a lot. And then there are some family recipes, silvers that i would like to bring back mike. Theyre really well known for their rye bread and sugar now as kron fours gayle ong reporting and if youre wondering about that one dollar deal that did not include the price of equipment that was purchased. On the peninsula. The San Mateo County Sheriffs Office is investigating a phishing scheme. A woman fell victim to this in el granada, an elderly woman. She responded to a fraudulent email link impersonating an online Money Exchange company that instructed her to take out cash and meet up with a man from this fake company. And that man showed up, took her money and took off. The Sheriffs Office says you should always be careful. Never give out your private information or meet anybody like that that you met online and give your money. Well, in the south bay, San Jose Police made an arrest in 2 deadly shootings. It happened last month and theyre searching for a 3rd suspect as well. The first shooting happen february 18th in a parking lot at the sa Shopping Center on story road. There are some people going to a vigil. And they were shot at a man. A woman was shot the man. 26 yearold joe duran died at the scene. Police arrested won perez. For this shooting that happened on march first in san jose. He was booked into the jail. And then there was a second shooting that happen on brua. 29th in a parking lot on moore park avenue. 34 yearold Jose Rodriguez was found shot and killed in a car and denzelle brown has been arrested and accused of that. Time now 805. And in east bay, oakland, Police Arrested a minor in connection to a shooting that killed store clerk earlier this year. Officers say my jed i was on e was working a shift at orlandos market on linden street january 6 when a group robbed the store, they shot him. Officers say ellis ani drone sell to the hospital where he died. He leaves behind 4 children. Its 806. And another big story that were following this morning has how neighbors are reacting to the tragic discovery of a mother and son who died in their santa rosa apartment. And now you have a lot of the neighbors that are questioning why this happened. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson has that story. There are still so many Unanswered Questions about this case. Detectives spent more than 12 hours inside this santa rosa apartment trying to get the answers. I spoke with the mother and sons next door neighbor who says this does not feel real. She says the 2 daily she cant believe theyre gone. Neighbors like her are rattled by this. People who live in the spring Lake Apartments in santa rosa woke up to crime tape surrounding their neighbors apartment wednesday morning. I was shocked because its just its such a hit. Hes community. Theres never whenever any crime here, news quickly spread about Police Investigating the death of a mom and her 10 yearold son whose bodies were found inside their apartment on summerfield road. Santa rosa. Police say they got a call just before 8 from someone concerned about the 2. No details were given about the color detectives spent the day going in and out of the home collecting evidence, trying to figure out what happened. Investigators also collected evidence from a parked car since the childs death is involved. The domestic violence, assault team responded to the scene as well. Police say theres no known threat to the public, but people who live in this complex didnt find comfort in that. Its so vague. It doesnt really mean anything. Does i wouldnt dont think that what are their next door neighbor says the mother and the child always seemed happy and she never heard anything out of the ordinary coming from their apartment. Police did not release the names of the mother or her son, but they did say they hope to learn more about the cause of death. Following autopsies later this week. Im sara stinson reporting in santa rosa. Back to you. Its 808, and a 10 yearold boy is in the hospital with serious injuries after he was struck by a car yesterday morning and double and he was riding his bicycle. About 08 00am in the area of devoted right and chatham street across the street from dublin, high school. The driver involved did remain at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation. Police say impairment does not appear to be a factor. Tonight, gilroy students and families are going to rally because they want Better Safety and more transparency at their schools are organizing this event because a couple of things have happened. A man trespassed on to the pre Elementary School campus last weekend. A couple days after that the school was placed on lockdown because it was a gas leak and a neighboring home. The parents want the district to provide them with more immediate information. Any time first responders, our called to the school and they want more campus safety. This rally is at 6 oclock in the District Office happening today. You got janet ers across california and the bay area. There will be rallying in support of a new bill. The legislation aims to better working conditions. Also to combat assault in the janitorial industry. Raleigh is going to be 11 30 this morning. And 1, 1, one oyster point boulevard thats in south San Francisco. 809, right now. And heres a new look at a rendering of the California Forever community. Its that utopia city that tech billionaires want to build in Solano County and its facing south and it shows you how close this community would be to Travis Air Force base. Thats about 4 and a half miles away. And fairfield is less than a mile away from the base. People in charge of California Forever say their new community would create 15,000 jobs and offer 700 Million Dollars in scholarships and business grants. This project so far as got mixed reviews and responses from people who live in the area that had town hall meetings, which they held in december. And what came out of that was some from at least one congressperson and environmental groups. They were skepta bull skeptical about whats really behind the intentions of the goals of this project and others seemed to think it would be a beautiful addition to the area. 10 right now. Still ahead on the kron, morning news, 8 truckloads of stolen merchandise is found when a retail theft bus happens in Alameda County will have more. On what was recovered and a judge rules in favor of a former safeway, a worker in san mateo. She was fired after she tried to stop a shoplifter. And today looking increasingly clear, nice and dry all day long. Daytime highs will rise into the 8. 13 right now and take a look at this. Its tale. And this is in san ramon, our assistant news director south just sent this to us. She captured they hail. I mean, it was raining and then i should probably thought sometimes i think while its raining and you want to go over that because it tailing it to louder. Yeah. That rain is yeah, its cool. And then you can sometimes get confused with matching names added a hill and then we have funnel cloud. What is going . It was it was yesterday. I was saying, ok, inland, east bay, you know, its on your way later on today. I thats what they got. So we were haha. But yet yesterday morning in the south bay was just nonstop rain and they got were looking nice and clear. So we get a breather now. Think we kind of need honestly that funnel cloud that pushed over the edge. Were looking out there and what we have at the Golden Gate Bridge marin headlands. Its all looking really good. Lot of cloud cover sitting overhead this morning. Well see less of that through the day. Most of that energy has moved out to the eastern deserts of the state. And so that just means the bay area is going to be sitting under consistently dry forecast today and tomorrow. As the High Pressure ridge builds in to the north, though, our next storm system thats going to drop in saturday morning just leaves us with a brief dose of rainfall for your Morning Hours on saturday. You see that playing out after a dry day today and tomorrow, predawn hours, Mendocino County begins to get it while toward 7, 08 00am, to 09 00am. Drifting into the north bay loses steam on saturday morning for the rest of us. Just dont be surprised if you see a couple of showers here and there for the most part, this is indeed a dry weekend. Its not until sunday night monday to tuesday that we really crank the storm door open again. Sierra will get additional snowfall. Just a few inches comes saturday morning. Much more significant snowfall on its way towards the start of next week. Several inches, if not a couple feet at the crest of the sierra. In the meantime, though, nice dry forecast for the day today and a nice way to be ending out the week with today and tomorrow, both looking increasingly sunny and warm tight. Daytime highs today will be in the low 60s. Thats not unfamiliar. Weve been seeing the same numbers the past few days. The difference is were tapping into a lot more sunshine. Its going feel really nice. Hayward, oakland, up to Richmond Beach at 62. More of a spot today being napa at 65 degrees. And as for santa rosa, not far behind at 63 temps tomorrow back into the mid 60s for more and more of u. S. Saturday morning showers. But afternoon hours, clear out really great. As for saturday night. Just forget, dont forget to adjust the clocks forward an hour as we will be getting an extra hour of sunlight next week. Chances of showers really returning comes sunday night monday into tuesday, right . All right, john, thank you for that. In morning commute bay bridge. We havent had any issues there. 6 team in iran into the city. Its been the san mateo bridge with that. The major issues. Now is looking here and it says that the accident has clear, okay, but we have residual delays. Major delays. Still an 80 minute ride. 81 to one. So if you can take the dumbarton to at least to start to taper off a little bit, give yourself some time. Richards ever feel rich. 13 minutes and the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the tolls. 33 minutes 8. 16, right now. And weve been talking in the news a lot lately about how groceries are costing more and more commonly. Well, some relief is coming now to one areas, marin county people say is very underserved. Now they have a new grocery store. Weve been talking to kron fours will tran. Hes live with customers up. So proud to serve the community. Were so because Community Outreach is what we do. I thats what we do giving back to Community Get a lot of community. So thats a big part where we come thats okay. Were going up. Pantry. So by being able to be on the other side of that, being able to give back, you tearing up durham. Ming. Thank you for sending me jason bahr, our executive it they well, i cant believe that theyre not playing the rose live all right. We also talk about the elections here on kron 4. As you know, we have the results of 2 propositions in San Francisco about policing and drug use in people are split on whether its good or bad it. So what other say . It was way too far in kerman. Talk with political analyst and heres their take on puppies passage means an expansion of power for San Francisco police. The passage of prop f means those seeking public assistance may be screened and forced into drug treatment to assess those funds. Some of called this the end of the Progressive Movement in San Francisco. I think the idea that racism is out, its a little bit of an overreaction. You think progressivism someone sympathizes with working men and women who wants to help those who are unfortunate, who wants to ensure that we have equality. The terms of school has been and always will be a progressive city. Political analysts see this as more of a rejection of some progressive policies related to Public Safety and quality of life. I think theres been an emergency in the city over half a decade and theyve gotten worse in the last couple years behind the you know, the issue of law and order, civil civil behavior, those things have to be addressed. San Francisco Mayor london breed was behind both measures. And the question now is, will this help her reelection bid considering polls show the majority of san franciscans disapprove of the job shes doing these victories in these positions that he supported are absolutely a positive campaign. Its a campaign that needs positive events, positive it will certainly help her. If she can take and if she can take actions and that makes a discernible impact on the quality of life of the people of San Francisco. Then yes, she can benefit from them. But from now, all she has is another thing that she has to do in order to convince people to get off at 71 disapproval rating. Political analysts, though, are divided as to whether these election results. Could end up propelling progressive supervisor. Aaron peskin to enter the mayors race. Our make him rethink that idea. He had a chance to appeal to a broad a swath of the knows how to talk about these issues in a way that does not put him at odds with where a lot of voters are. When you look at the results, for example, the different county Central Committee where the socalled moderates lee 21 to 24 of the scenes. Yeah, the question is whether or not he even gets enough votes to make it into the second or 3rd tier in ranked Choice Voting and if thats not the case, you know, i think its going to be really hard for him to out. You want to mount a campaign at this point . No official word from the peskin campus to whether hes going to enter that november. Mayors race. Dan kerman kron, 4 news. Coming up next, problem morning news. A group of demonstrators gather at the State Capitol in support of a new bill. The benefits that it would provide out undocumented would provide out undocumented seniors. Alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way to make it last longer. Say hello to your fairy godmother alice and longlasting gain scent beads. Part of the irresistible scent collection from gain who says you cant go for bold without going broke. Get the brands you want, the prices you want, whenever you want. Tj maxx where you can always afford to be you to the maxx. 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Of course, biden is expected to leave no stone unturned, tackling immigration crime, reproductive rights, the economy and more. More in costs for americans and giving people more breathing room. Loring Health Care Premiums and taking on big farmer to lower the cost of prescription drugs, making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. Many republicans are not optimistic about, of course, members of congress. Its divided right now. And they are divided over the u. S. Support of ukraine and israel and the ongoing complex. Biden also facing criticism about his age and his memory, alabama Sen Katie Britt is going to deliver the republican response following the president s state of the union. And a reminder we will be airing president bidens state of the Union Address live right here at 6 oclock and directly afterwards, ovarian catherine. It could also panel of political analysts for you. Good morning, everyone. Im Michael Thomas. Coming up, Brentwood Police need your help in finding a man whos been exposing himself i a 28 right now and were checking out the weather and seeing the even a little sunshine there in a cell phone. No major delays yesterday, which is a good thing. I john. Yes, thankfully, were starting dry and were going to be ending this week dry with today and tomorrow, both looking absolutely gorgeous. Looking now behind me, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge right there. Little bit of cloud cover this morning. Skies will clear more and more. Youre also seeing clouds up in the sierra. Wanted to take a quick look up there. This is from Yosemite National park and you can see just how much that snow is piled up. Theyre also getting a bit of a break for much of the sierra these next several days before more snow on its way next week. And well also have some more rain on its way for us next week as we make our way to sunday night monday and tuesday. So this nice break for us this morning. We will see a brief round of showers, especially for the north bay saturday morning. So today and tomorrow were dry saturday morning. Watch for this right here. Then better chances of rainfall widespread sunday night monday into tuesday. Current temperatures are in the 40s to 50s oakland sf alameda at 51 concord and fairfield at 50 degrees petaluma and allay each at 47 right now later on today, well get even more that sunshine with temps in the low 60s, right . All right, john, thank you for that. Lets get a look morning commute. 90 min arrive traveling into the city right now. Hey, weve been tracking in issue honor san mateo bridge. Thankfully, they clear that accident, but drive times to little slow. 46 min running 80 to 101. Youre just felt. Ridge. About 13 minutes and the Golden Gate Bridge. 37, if it holds 30 minutes. Its 8. 30, and we want to take you to the east bay where theres a search underway now for a serial flasher. Police say hes been just flashing people in public kron fours. Michael thomas is in the newsroom with that story in a photo of this person. Yeah, good morning, everyone. Thats right. Police say theyve identified this brentwood flasher thats been exposing himself specifically a retail stores, but they havent calm quite yet and normally wears a mask. But allegedly, when hes doing excuse me, allegedly, when hes doing this, hes wearing a mask. However, surveillance cameras have been able to capture him. Weve got photos up on your screen now. You can see this man that police are looking for. Theyve gathered gathered about 3 to 4 photos of him and say hes being accused of exposing himself to people outside Shopping Centers in both antioch and brett, what and the most recent case was reported last month, according to Brentwood Police, the suspect typically wears a mask and has a cross tattoo on the back left arm and then he has some sort of a scripture. You ski see their written on the excuse in the back of his left arm. Now, if you are in that area, police want to warn you to be aware and also just a vigil in, especially if you do have small children, if you do have any information on the whereabouts of where this man is, police ask that you contact with police soon as possible. We do have these photos on our website at kron 4 dot com. If you want to head there, you can. Why this morning in the newsroom. Im Michael Thomas will send it back to to live in the studio. Right, michael, thanks for breaking it down it. 31 is the time right now. And Walnut Creek City Council is getting more hate speech. Somebody showed up and started spewing antisemitic comments yet. So now the public to live in that area, they say. Theyre fighting back a kron fours amanda hari has that story. Unfortunately, this is the second time in 2 weeks that someone is use public comment. To make anti semitic remarks, wilke says the 2 people have something in common. Neither of them live here in walnut creek. He does not represent our values and he is not welcome here. Another disturbing incident at the Walnut Creek City Council meeting. This man took to the podium tuesday night to spread hateful comments directed at the jewish community. And jewish Councilmember Kevin wilk whites are blamed for nearly all of societys problems because a disproportionate power. Well, control the media information, federel reserve in money. So they are the ones with disproportionate power. Theres a proverb that you will cry out in pain as he strikes you as he walked away. Councilmember wilke tried to get more information from him. I think thats where Mister Hassan was from. You can hear them and respond off mic saying hes an american citizen. Wilke says he believes people like this are doing this to normalize hate speech. But wilks says he wont tolerate it. We do respond. We will always respond strongly and certainly im going to respond if it said in my presence and the Community Responded as well, about a half dozen speakers took to the podium to push back against the comments of previous speaker do not stand for the values of this community for the students who i work with or for anybody who is in any kind of invested leadership in walnut creek. This comes just 2 weeks after another man who identified himself as scotty. Spewed hateful comments and used a racial slur while wearing a shirt with the words white power on it. He also criticized city leaders for ending virtual public comments. Wilke says theres not much they can do to prevent these comments, but hell always fight back against hate in walnut creek. Amanda hari kron. 4 news. Its a 33 and theres a major Health Warning coming out of the north bay. 5 people have died in marin county in the past few weeks. From fentanyl overdoses in the Public Health officer says that theyre concerned that many of these people dont even know how much fentanyl theyre getting because its mixed into other drugs. People may not recognize that fentanyl is included. Says theyre taking if theyre taking illegal substances, it could well be contaminated with fentanyl. The dea says synthetic opioids are 100 times stronger more powerful than heroin. They say 2 milligrams of fentanyl could equate to a potentially deadly dose. Well, a shoplifting investigation in alameda leads police to an extensive fencing operation. Yeah. This boost buster covered about 85,000 worth of stolen merchandise and cash kron fours. Philippe djegal has more. 75,000 in stolen merchandise. More than 10,000 in cash and several stolen cars recovered. Plus one arrest and i expect more arrests to before coming out me. The Police Investigators are still documenting the inventory recouped in a nearly monthlong retail theft operation. Chief shot joshi says this case started in early february. Thats when the shoplifting incident was reported at old navy in the islands south shore Shopping Center. Were various leads and were able to identify a location in oakland where we operation a fencing operation was occurring during the course of the investigation. Chief joe, she says the stolen stuff was traced to a residence in oakland. There investigators tied stolen items from multiple retailers in several cities to an elaborate fencing. Operation, the clothes and other items were still tagged and on hangers ready for resale. I think its important too. Have a multi pronged approach to this very significant issue. Thats a going on throughout the region. The state and the country. And that approach includes holding thieves accountable by making arrests and recovering merchandise. But also going after the sellers running the fencing operations. Chief joe, she says this case hes yet to be presented to the Alameda County District Attorneys Office and then dissipates additional arrests. Philippe djegal all kron. 4 its a 36 and attorney general. Rob bonta is better protect users bonta and 40 other attorneys general sent a letter to meta. Urging them to review their Data Security practices amid National Consumer protection week account hijackings have dramatically gone up last year. The takeover is allow the scammers to steal your personal information. The letter calls on metro rework their procedures when it comes to handling takeovers, including an increase in staffing it so they can respond to hacks. The coalition also wants to remind users that you should have a complicated and unique password for all of your accounts. Well, the university of california says they are now seeing a boost in student enrollment after the soggy years of decline because of the Pandemic University system says application numbers went up by 0. 1 5 . Thats a lot. College Officials Say the roads can be attributed to they got more transfer students, more california residents and students from historically underrepresented groups are now in higher education. About a dozen people gathered outside the State Capitol yesterday afternoon to urge support for assembly bill. 24 15, the call for a 35 Million Dollar investment to try to expand the states cash assistance program. Also known as kathy, that ron include an documented Senior Living in california. So remember, says that legislation would benefit at least 17,000 people worked in the country for decades. Theyre not eligible for Social Security payments. President immigration status. No one should be left behind. A b 24 15. This is step in the right direction to spend axis to cap the program again, an already existing program for this states most vulnerable seniors and disabled undocumented population. They came year and have contributed in every single way. And yet. When it comes to something as basic as food. They are excluded. What does that say about california . No word on formal opposition to last year. Governor gavin newsom vetoed nearly identical bill citing some concerns over cost. Its 8. 38 and a panera. Bread Franchise Owner now says that hes going to raise the minimum wage for his employees in california when the states new fast food minimum wage law goes into effect. Despite reports that his chain wouldnt be a complying. A report circulated february. Governor newsom talked about this loophole in the new law for one of the major donors. Both parties say that theres not a loophole in a statement they panera franchisee says hes going to pay workers and is 24 panera bread. The 20 minimum wage starting april 1st, its unclear whether other 10 years in the state are going to follow suit. Mayor london breed. Welcome to irish politicians to city hall for some special events. Irelands consul general and the mayor of cork join mayor breed and they raise the irish flag as you can see here. And they also did some irish dancing yesterday in San Francisco. Do you know that cork is San Francisco sister least for 4 years because back then. Then mayor dianne feinstein, his in his car and made that relationship, mayor breed announced that. March is officially irishamerican heritage month and that honors about 67,000 peach people of irish descent who live in San Francisco in the mayor explained the importance. Unite as seth is a part of the theme this year. So as we celebrate, its about bringing communities together. Its about remembering are challenging times, but also recognizing that San Francisco and our iris community represents resilience. And the Saint Patricks day parade is coming up. The one in San Francisco, you know, is one of the biggest in the whole country and its set for saturday march 16th. All right. 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More people internationally that were traveling through Oakland Airport. The knot last year. And they say about 30,000 International Travelers arrived in oakland in january of this year. They say its because there are some better deals from airlines. Now that are flying internationally from oakland a lot of folks are heading out for spring break. Season is back to the story. I feel like im too old track spring break now. United Airlines Says theyre expecting record breaking busy spring break ever in the history of airlines has a plan to send more than 21 million pastors between this friday. April 21st, the busiest day is expected to march 22nd with more than half a Million People schedule k its not that youre too old is they are not old enough kids. You go. I know its spring break because my kids are suffering like it. I like so youre in that middle in the middle. Spring break spots and my kids, those with the weather is great, it sure is. Theres no middle. You take this spring break at all stages that im not spring break in this year. So thats for everyone else. Were looking out there at the Golden Gate Bridge with a lot of cloud cover overhead today. We are not going to be seeing any rainfall, though, today. Tomorrow looking consistently dry, beautiful finish to the week. Now we do have our next system right there to the north of this highpressure ridge. Second of explains whats going on today. First of all, High Pressure going to keep us dry today and tomorrow. But right above that is that next storm system that punches through the High Pressure ridge just briefly on saturday morning. You can actually see what it does here. So today, tomorrow, nice, clear skies. Good to go. Get outside. Enjoy a little mini spring break. Then we work our way into saturday morning in showers move through, especially the north bay, losing a little bit of steam by the time they reach the rest of us. Not sure. One little hiccup of the weekend. Real rainfall gets here sunday night monday into tuesday. Its looking like a more significant system. Also at the little bit of snowfall, saturday morning up in the sierra nevada. As for the biggest snowfall that will be on its way early next week as well with a few more inches, if not a few feet of snowfall up there. But nothing like the snow that we saw this last time around. That was likely to be the biggest of the season. Temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s today. That sounds super familiar, right . But it is a little different than yesterday because were not going to rainfall or Stormy Weather in the middle of this. You can count on the 60s feeling pretty good under the sunshine freeman through hayward all the way through oakland up to richmond in the low 60s warm spot today. Its you nap a 65 for your high fairfield. Not far behind along with the at 64 degrees. Each. Tomorrows temperatures in the mid 60s for more and more of us too. Saturday morning we start with the showers. Well clear out nice. The afternoon, dont forget to adjust your clocks saturday night before you go to bed spring forward an hour. Which does mean you get up an hour earlier. But you also have that extra hour sunshine at the end of the day, sunday night into monday and tuesday. Our next round of lighter rain rain. All right, john little rough for us next week hitting up even earlier. Okay. Traveling into the city right now, 18 minutes on the bay bridge. The san mateo bridge is a rich. We have the accident there. So drive times are still about 40 minutes, a 80 to 101. So just be mindful of that. If youre traveling the richmond, sandra fell bridge. No accidents. 12 minutes and the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the tolls. 26 minutes state. 47 on the peninsula. A legal victory for a former employee of safeway who was fired after she tried to stop a shoplifter. A judge ruled in her favor. Kron fours dan thorn takes a closer look. Former safeway employee Antoinette Baez says she lost her job at this store in san mateo after trying to do the right thing. Surveillance video from february 2023. Shows baez and another worker confronting a suspected shoplifter. The persons arms filled with 500 worth of groceries. Baez says they did not pay for the confrontation cost baez and the other employee, their jobs and they would rather do that. People just steal from the store. Have an employee. And anyway interfere with the theft. So its basically an and open house for thieves by his attorney Neil Eisenberg says safeway has been cracking down on workers instead of thieves. Safeway fired by as in may 2023 and over the next several months, baez was unable to collect Unemployment Benefits because safeway said she was terminated for misconduct. Shes a single mother. She has had no income. And no benefits for the last year. And she hasnt been. And that because . Her only job experience as being a cashier. It safely. Baez took her fight to the Employment Development department. And finally, this month, a judge ruled she was let go for performing her duties. The ruling means she will now get Unemployment Benefits from the time she was terminated. Eisenberg says after 22 years of working at safeway, baez deserves better. He was an exemplary. And coy and they simply kicked the curb. Eisenberg says that he is planning on filing a lawsuit against safeway seeking punitive damages of up to a Million Dollars for his client. He says its not just about the money, but about the message that safeway employees should be treated better. We have reached out to safeway seeking comment on this. And as of this report, they have not responded in san mateo, dan thorn kron. 4 news. Y es college is still worth it. Thats according to data from the federal reserve. The data shows the wage gap between recent college and High School Grads has been widening for decades and grew even more this last year. 2023 got recent College Grads age. 22 to 27 working fulltime. 24,000. More per year. 22 to 27 yearold to only have a high school degree. High School Graduates also dont see much wage growth. College grads might see their salary double or more over their lifetime. Stanford Womens Basketball has been on a roll this year. They just swept the pac 12 regular season awards a few days after winning the league. And now theyre playing uc berkeley in the quarterfinals for the last time ever. Kron 4 sports director jason dumas has more. But to its its heartbreaking that that was our last trip to oregon. You know, hopefully it wont be. But, you know, we know this is elect cup. The last pac 12 tournament and, you know, were really excited to have won the regular you know, im im really proud of our team for how we stepped up and were going to were going to get giving our very best going into the tournament you know, i have a lot of confidence in our team and we we know in some ways that, you know, youre one game a bad game and youre out. But a little bit. The pac 12 tournament is great preparation for the ncaa tournament. And we just want to play with that heightened. I you know, urgency and im really excited about how are how are working and we just have to see what we can do. Coach van der veer has won the pac 12 coach of the year award 18 times. Stan ord and cal face off today at 2. 30 in las vegas. Stanford is leaving the pac 12 to join the Atlantic Coast conference. The acc next year. Its 8. 51 right now. Tara vanderveer is amazing. And guess what . We honoring remarkable women right here on kron 4 all month long. You can. Hear all about our finalists by scanning this qr code will take a right to that spot where got all of these highlights of just amazing, remarkable women in the bay area and give them their due. And it looks like no one was lucky enough to win the powerball at last nights drawing. No jackpot winner or 5 number winners. Now, the next big jackpot is 521 Million Dollars. Thats not a cash value of 249 Million Dollars. The next drawing is saturday night at 08 00pm. So get those lucky numbers ready. Of winning one over 292 but whats that . Thats all 5 numbers. Plus the powerball coming up the next hour. Were talking about one bay area woman. Was now bringing the power of music to underserved communities will have her communities will have her story coming up. When your child has moderate to severe eczema, its okay for them to show off. Show off their clearer skin and noticeably less itch with dupixent. 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Coming up in the next hour, we have a lot to get to because guess what, not a person spewed hate speech will make the comments at a city council. Meeting in walnut creek, why officials and Community Say theyre not going to tolerate pay for marks anymore. A bakery in the east bay gets way find out how much was. So for one dollar, why owner says he sold it for cheap. Instead, try make a profit. And a mom and her son rtment in santa rosa. Neighbors who knew them say they are just shocked and so sad to hear the shocked and so sad to hear the that more coming up. You know that feeling of having to rewash dishes that didnt get clean . I dont. Platinum plus is cascades best clean ever. With double the dawn and double the scrubbers, it removes the toughest grease and residue for an irresistible clean and shine. Cascade platinum plus. Dare to dish differently. The kron. 4 morning news. Neighbors are shocked to find out a mother and her son were found dead in their apartment in santa rosa. Brentwood police are looking for this man seen flashing exposing himself at a local Shopping Centers. And we meet a man who bought a historic bakery branded the east bay for one dollars. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning news that no. Morning and thanks for waking up with us on dry thursday daria and rain. Its been a really nice morning so far, not as wet stormy as yesterday. See how