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Restaurant says enough is enough after a celebration is ruined by another break in so this afternoon with the owner has now decided to do. Plus, a San Francisco judge handing them the consequences for dozens of protesters who shut down the upper deck of the bay bridge in november. But does the punishment fit the crime . And the future of the pedestrian bike path on the richmond, sandra fell bridge. What it might look like next. Station. Hes calling for news 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news that 2, im justine waldman. Our top story this afternoon as that an oakland Business Owner is saying that hes just had enough after burglars smashed through his eatery overnight happened right in the heart of downtown. And this he says, is the 3rd breakin there in 3 years. The owner tells kron 4 sweeps all. He is now exploring his options to leave oakland. You want to just take a look . You know, these are hes a thats, you know, the sites and here. The found that opened here. Theres and its its devastating. Just hours after celebrating 3 years in business early friday morning, chef in money, greer received an alarm alert, notifying him the plantbased rice bowl shop he owns in downtown oakland, roasted and raw. Was burglarized again. Really has taken a serious toll on us physically emotionally financially. Obviously, this is the 3rd burglary greer has had to recover the damage outweighs the financial only got away with petty cash because greer says he does not leave much inside the business overnight anymore. The window the burglars smashed to get inside, though, will cost thousands of dollars to replace greer says he does not see oakland as a sustainable place to run his business anymore. And hes reluctantly considering relocation. We dont want to leave open. But when youre talking about overhead of cost in downtown oakland versus the sales that theyre actually promising with business. It does not hasnt had it up. And thats why youre seeing hundreds of doors close. In fact, earlier this week, more than 200 Business Owners in oakland shared their intent to boycott paying their taxes. If the city does not fix the problem. The city countered by saying taxes pay for essential Public Services Like Police Officers and 911, dispatchers. And that recently bolstering both positions has led to improve response times and a decrease in property crimes. Still, greer says he can only take so much either multiple 1000 windows and we do not get any help know grandma, help from the city to replace. These are landlords. Dont help. Property managers dont help. So its just its all on on us as a Small Business. For now, greer says he will continue to run the business. Even opening after the burglary. Philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. Now to some developing news as the Alameda County election. Officials are now saying they will manually count the signatures submitted in the petition to recall District Attorney pamela price. The county registrar of voters says the results of a random sampling of the signatures submitted last week. Were not enough to determine whether the signatures. Able to meet the threshold. The recall effort requires about 73,000 signatures to qualify. And organizers of the recall effort say they submitted more than 123,000 signatures. The group behind the effort to recall price, which is called save alameda for everyone issued this statement and they remain confident that they have enough votes to meet the recall threshold. The Statement Reads in part, we launched a grassroots effort to reclaim Public Safety on behalf of the people that the county. We welcome the hand count of more than 120,000 signatures. We submitted ensuring the integrity of the elections process in this way. It further protects the recall petition and that gathering process from any legal challenges. New at to a punishment has now been announced for the dozens of protesters who blocked the bay bridge in november to call for a ceasefire in gaza. A San Francisco judge has now ordered 70 demonstrators to perform. 5 hours of Community Service representation for those protesters say they have also agreed to pay more than 4,000 in total restitution in order to avoid criminal charges charges. Thats about 57 for each person being punished. That money will be given to the people who needed to be evacuated from the bridge during the protest. In the north bay changes could soon be coming to the richmond. Sandra fell bridge that would limit the access by bicyclists and pedestrians squad for Charles Clifford is live for us now with an update on what theyre deciding to do. Thanks for joining us. Well, good afternoon, wolf. For the last 4 years, bicyclists and pedestrians have been able to cross back and forth over the richmond. Sandra fell 24 7, but this coming spring, there could be some changes made that limit their access. The metropolitan Transportation Commission says that in may, they along with caltrans, will make a recommendation to the San Francisco bay conservation and Development Commission or bcdc. To only allow cyclists and pedestrians to use this path on weekends friday, saturday and sunday, the rest of the week, the barrier currently in place would be moved over in the path would become a roadway shoulder. The ntc says that there are just not enough people using the bike lane during the week to justify keeping it in place. 24 7, the idea is. That by making the path available friday saturday, sunday. It will help those folks they want to get out there ride the bridge, particularly on the weekend and a and buy using that space is a shoulder monday through thursday. It will make things just a little bit easier. A little bit easier for the folks who drive through the corridor and theyre dealing with peak period congestion. On friday, cyclists crossing the bridge were not excited about the possibility of only having limited access to the path. Well, im not happy with Leland Fishman right over the bridge a few times a week. You know, choose to come down middle of the week, its recreation for us. Its a way to get out. Get or into the bay loop. Not im not happy to see it happen. The installation of the bike path was a fouryear pilot. Project commissioned by the bcdc that ended last november. The results of that project are expected to be released later this summer. At this point, its not clear if the bcdc will accept the mtc recommendation to change the bike path. All right, back live. Now theres also a new study thats been launched. A look at possibly turning. What is currently a bike lane there on the top deck into a car pool lane. But for now in the north bay, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. Charles, thank you so much. The oakland, Alameda County Coliseum Authority has now approved that the oakland roots and souls sports clubs will get to play at the oakland coliseum. This approval means that to soccer clubs will play at the coliseum for the 2025 season. Officials passed the motion this morning and they say theyre looking forward to seeing people show up for soccer games. The motion passes. All right. Well, thank you all so very much. And i look forward to the exciting and vibrant soccer games here in the facility. This approval comes just one day after oakland and Alameda County officials met with the as to discuss the team signing a lease extension for the next 3 years. Is currently do not have a place to play after the season. The team says the meeting went well and the group will continue discussions over the next 2 weeks before they meet again on april. 2nd. Right now, the city is asking that the as leaves behind its branding and logo when the team leaves oakland. The city also wants the as to sell their half of the coliseum. Oakland Councilmember Rebecca kaplan says the town should be celebrating this milestone. In a statement she says in part, quote, the roots and the souls soccer team, a beacon of unity and passion has captured the hearts of oakland residents and soccer enthusiasts nationwide. Their commitment to community engagement, diversity and excellence on the field aligns perfectly with the values that make oakland a remarkable city. The oakland as are currently leasing the coliseum through this season. And the Team Released a statement that reads in part, quote, we have shared with the city of oakland and Alameda County that were open to being co tenants of the coliseum with the soul and 2025. We look forward to meeting with the roots soon. Happening this week in a section of bart is going to be closed in the east bay track work is going to be taking place between the richmond and el del stations both saturday and sunday. So as a result of a Red Line Service will be canceled in that area. Free buses will be available for commuters. Commuters between those 2 stations during the closure. Happening tonight, a portion of southbound 6. 80, will be closed until monday. Theres a huge paving project that was supposed to happened months ago. But its finally going to be happening now in pleasanton kron. 4 Sarah Stinson has what we need to know. Caltrans is closing a ninemile stretch of southbound 6. 80, this weekend to repave the road. This project was set to start in january, but it got delayed again and again because of the rain. Its set to begin this weekend, starting friday night at 9 and ending monday morning at 4. On 6. 80, in pleasanton signs warning drivers of a major disruption this weekend. Caltrans is shutting down a ninemile stretch of the interstate. To replace worn out lanes. The goal is to fix pesky potholes. Janice morrow with caltrans district 4 says the closure will be a shortterm inconvenience that comes with a longterm fix for will years and to 6. 80, will be closed between al costa boulevard in san ramon all the way south to state route 84 in seminole northbound 6. 80, will remain open. Morris says getting it done in one weekend will allow them to reduce the number of nightly closures needed. And in turn allows caltrans to finish the project sooner moving the project to have. On phone so it will be done in this area. This spring, here are some alternative routes. You can take your coming in from saint racing from area. You can take west crown finding southbound 4 and as you grow them into far from coming concord braces north. Get on state road. 4. Whats found indeed. There is an exception to this closure and its good news for those celebrating Saint Patricks day in dublin, entrance to 6, a e fy will open. This is just one phase of the project. Caltrans will have another closure when they begin the north end. And that should happen in the next 2 months. We put information about this closure on our website. Kron 4 dot com. Im sara stinson reporting in the newsroom. Back to you. Coming up here, new recommendations handed down on where speed cameras should be going. And San Francisco, well hear how Safety Advocates are responding. Plus. A 15 yearold has now been arrested after this car theft was caught on camera in the north bay. But first, advisory has just been lifted for lake merritt. So after the break, were going to talk with the company that monitors the water conditions there. And what red water that people are seeing their could mean. And if you should go there this weekend and im even on your weather, we still have some breezy conditions out there. But the weekend looking good to have all of the details on when this wind will wrap up. Well take a look at your sevenday forecast. Stay with us. And advisory has been lifted for lake merritt after some of the water in the lake started to turn red. This color is created. Some fears have been algae bloom there again for joining us now live to talk about whats going on. Is you like her . She was the president of lake tac. Thats a group that monitors the water conditions in lake merritt. Thanks for joining us. Eli. I whats happening in the lake . Well, currently right the conditions are last week on thursday, the wake saw large streaks of and it did turn out to be the same red tide that we saw in previous years as well as a composition of other species were present in the water. But fortunately due to the cold weather and some of the rain, we had it subsided all on its own. So it came very quickly. My staff were there on wednesday they didnt see anything. It was widespread on thursday and over the weekend last weekend dissipated on it kind of went away. So what is for people that dont know at a red tide, this algae bloom and why would it be concerning to see it there . And lake merritt. Yeah, we use the term algae kind of kind of general term, this specific species is adeina flatulent. That is president. Its a small microscopic organism that is a considered a phytoplankton that floats address with the tides. It can move around on its own. There are tens of thousands of species, some of them can be harmful and some not there typically always present in some combination of but from time to time, different conditions, whether thats climate or weather or Water Quality can lead to them to grow rapidly, get out of control. And thats when we call that a bloom blooms. Typically classified by wanted here in abundance in the water. And the reason thats a problem is when they grow to that extent, they will eventually start to die off. And when that happens that we have rapid depletion of oxygen in the water and that often lead to fish kills so that some poses to. The wildlife there is that it can start to kill the fish. There are match in the birds. Probably dont fare that well with it either. The fish are probably the fish are the ones that are suffering. Definitely the are quite happy because theyre hit. Maybe thats why i want to wait their lead. The dead fish. Yet, but the sight of circle of life right there. So our talk. Thete was a lot of people doing research and studying. This was a new phenomenon for the west coast, primarily especially in the bay area where we are has happened historically years back. So theres a lot of researchers trying to find out was this particular species toxic or toxin producing . But there was no evidence that ive seen any way yet definitively that talks and production was the cause of the mortality fish last year to 2 years. And what do you think is causing it . Were kind of coming out of our wet months now into our drier, warmer months. Is there something about how the weather is changing that might be causing this algae to continue to cause problems at lake merritt. It is likely that of the weather is playing some some role. We Water Quality monitoring. These kind of is the one you can see behind me that side. Its a we have those all over the state and were seeing already that water temperatures are significantly warmer than they were at this exact same time last year. So we had a pretty mild winter despite it was a nice wet winter. Were seeing warmer water temperatures and water are one of the key factors as well as nutrient availability and other things that will cause algae that grow. 2 of loom proportions. And again, everything that the lakers find, people can go there this weekend with their pets, their families and should be a problem. This blue. Yeah, this the city and im assuming will. Be issuing any warnings. And ive seen that they had a. Were were relatively proactive that posting about it and know to folk notifying folks on social media on their website. Like hersh with lake tac, thank you so much for joining us here during kron. 4 news this afternoon. Appreciate your time. Yeah. Enjoy the weekend and enjoy the lakes. Everybody. You to have a great weekend. And that of the south bay where the director of the Santa Clara County valley water board has been stripped of her roles on assignments for misconduct. The board voted yesterday to center Rebecca Eisenberg for discriminatory harassment, abuse of conduct and improper direction to staff. An independent investigation did follow up with those allegations. Eisenberg is also now required to attend antidiscrimination training after reports allege that she harassed staff based on their race, age and national origin. The ceo of valley water is claiming eisenberg took 2000 pages from the investigative report and now shes order to return them. A bay area environal fie a lawsuit against the San Francisco Public Utilities commission over sewage that goes into the bay during heavy rainstorms. According to the organizations San Francisco bay keeper. 72 million gallons of sewage is discharged into the bay every year. They say that that sewage contains bacteria, viruses, chemicals and trash. They claim the city is violating the clean water act. They say the city of San Francisco has a combined system that treats both sewage and storm water at the same time, which is different from other California Coastal cities. The sfp you see says the discharge has authorized by the Environmental Protection agency and that the system is designed to prevent trash from escaping into the bay. Taking a live look outside right now. Looking out towards ocean Beautiful Day out there today. Kyle is here now and lets just rave about the forecast for a little while. The weekends . Gonna be great. I got and its going to be so fantastic. Its already fantastic. We do a little wind out there, though. Were going to kick that. As we get into the evening, but blue skies as take a live look at coit. Our San Francisco look at you with your 68 degrees. 72 in oakland, 73 in san jose livermore. 69 and to say every one of them today, 71 in concord as it should say, is a 73 Half Moon Bay at 70 degrees. Its just gorgeous out there. We do still have some of that wind, though, that we are working our way through. And you can see it in oakland here. Its 22 Miles Per Hour or so. Obviously, we still have you know, some more hours to go before that relent. But you can notice that its letting up a little bit on the peninsula in the south bay in the east bay. So its really going to be until later in the day when we start to see it really kind of wrap up in the north bay. Thats going to last point. And we do still have this wind advisory for those of us lot of county. And that does go till 5 oclock. But having said you know, were breezy we take a nap as an example and we looked over the next few hours, you see that wind going down and just to put a finer point out, it will take you to tomorrow morning. And here we go. Were going to nice, calm winds tomorrow and keep the sunshine. So that will be today. Its all about the blue skies, but it is also about the wind. So sam, around, were looking at for 72 degrees and sunshine for you. Not bad. And as we see this High Pressure is kind of pulled up to the north a little bit starting to release that wind, grady. And so once that happens and they get a little more distance between them, that high low pressure, thats when well get rid of the wind. Meanwhile, its you know, very dramatic weather happening in las vegas today where they have some rain. And also you can see in utah and in parts of arizona get a little bit of snow up there to its of the peaks. But we are gorgeous all about the sun. So what does that mean . It means weve got a spegtacular weekend coming for all of my lads and lassies will be celebrating Saint Patricks day with a upper 60s low 70s saturday and sunday looking good. So really like today, only without the wind. You can see an extended forecast. We do have a little bit of cloud cover coming in on wednesday. Cool it down a little bit there as we begin spring. But our next shot at rain really isnt until the end of the week. So fantastic. Love this. Thank you. All right. Still ahead, a big change could be coming to the way we buy and sell homes. Why the national apassociation of realtors are eliminating their rules on commission. And more Affordable Housing coming to the bay area. The land donation that made this possible. In the north bay pg and e donating land to habitat for humanity to build more Affordable Housing in novato. The 13. 6 acres of development is expected to be the largest affordable home site in the state. Housing more than 300 people pg. E also saying there will be parks. Theyre courtyards trails and 10 acres of open space. The need is so great. You know, when we had 20 homes available, we had over 700 families apply in our last project in redwood city. So to be standing here in this community where the average home price is 1. 6 Million Dollars to be able to bring affordable homeownership to the community, to the county to the city is just remarkable. Construction is expected to begin later on this year. The u. S. Has market could soon get a big boost and home purchases. This after the National Association of realtors agreed to drop the standard 6 sales commission. That commission is split between the buyer and the seller. Agents. Lawsuits claim that the na are and brokerages violated antitrust laws by mandating the sellers agent make an offer of payment to the buyers agent dropping the commission is part of a Settlement Agreement in which the na are would also have to pay 418 Million Dollars in damages. The terms have yet to be approved by a judge. But if so, realtors would have to lower their commissions. Up next, a nonprofit is shutting down right after a car crashed into its building. And now the group is trying to get help. To fix the thousands of dollars worth of damage. Plus, the chp sharing some video of a crash that sent 2 officers to the hospital. Why they are now saying this was done on purpose. But first, new recommendations just handed down on speed Safety Cameras have been approved, become a reality. And 3 bay area cities ab 6, 4, 5, was signed by governor gavin newsom in the fall. It calls for 6 california cities to put cameras in locations that have been identified as high crash sites. So since the beginning of the year for pedestrians have died in traffic collisions and San Francisco kron fours to co has more on the plans. The program and how drivers will have to pay if theyre caught. Speeding. A fouryearold girl in a stroller killed when a driver hit her at this intersection at kean in San Francisco, a beloved teacher fatally struck walking to school. Just 2 recent pedestrian fatalities on the streets in San Francisco. The more we can slow vehicles down, even if its just by a mile per hour or 2, the higher the chance of surviving. Shannon hate those with the sfmta. The agency is moving to install. 33 cameras in critical corridors. Throughout San Francisco in the next few months, it is part of a Pilot Program funded with the passage of ab 6. 45. Signed by the governor last fall. So San Francisco is joint with oakland and san jose. Up here in Northern California and in southern california, there are 3 cities. Unsafe speed is one of the most common factors in crashes that result in injuries or death in the event of a crash between a car, a pedestrian or cyclist, the vehicle speed will largely determine the survivability of the crash. A person hit by a car traveling 40 Miles Per Hour is 8 times. More likely to be killed a person hit by a car traveling 20 Miles Per Hour. Take its planes. Extensive Research Went into selecting the 33 camera locations. The sfmta board will weigh in on the recommended cameras next tuesday at their scheduled meeting. Just this week about. How in the First Time Since new york city has been tracking traffic related fatalities, which was 1914, they started tracking. This is the first last year was the first year that there pedestrian fatalities is the lowest. Jody madera says with safe streets ffe organization is pushed for measures to reduce pedestrian fatalities. Following a rally last august when the 4 yearold was struck. They held rallies to draw attention to how speed can kill the program is expected to go online by this time next year. Warning notices will be sent in the first 2 months of operations for those offenders. Speeding 11 miles over the limit then finds will be sent to those speeding vehicles to recess. Stasio kron. 4 news. A 15 yearold has been arrested for his part and stealing a car and Solano County video released by Vacaville Police shows the burglary taking place in vacaville last week. Police say that the teenager was tracked down in Monterey County when he was arrested. Police found a loaded gun on him. Thats what they say. So now hes been booked on robbery and gun charges. The stolen car seen in this video was found unoccupied and allay police have still not found the second suspect seen in the video. East oakland nonprofit had to shut down after a car crashed into the building. This is the damage there. This is now the second time the group has had to deal with a reckless driver causing thousands of dollars in damage. The group now needs help to get back up and running. Kron fours. Dan thorn has the details. Its a devastating blow for east oakland, nonprofit, homies empowerment, their care center on 77th in macarthur heavily damaged after a speeding driver crashed into it. It is very that heartbreaking that here we are both the 2 years. Were at this again. Care Center Coordinator vyvianna montana, speaking through a protective mask because of potentially harmful particles floating around inside the building. She says early thursday morning, 2 cars were seen speeding down the street and then one of them lost control and slammed into the front of the care center. The car was later towed away, but the driver was nowhere to be found. And were lucky that it didnt happen during the day time where we have. Over 2000 families lined up to food or when we have our days that we do the free thrift store. This is now the second time the nonprofit has had to deal with reckless drivers smashing into their building in 2022. And out of control street racer struck the center forcing them to stop muchneeded services for 6 months. Because of the structural damage done to the building this time the center could be closed for much longer. The group will also have to stop providing food and clothing to families while the buildings damage get surveyed. Montano says they need the city to step up with some solutions, kind of upsetting because we have reached out to the city. We have reached out to see if we can get some type of barriers in the front of the facility. Yet nothing has done. Homies empowerment is asking for the community to help them bounce back just like they did in 2022, they showed up words of hope for that. One of very initial up for us and just help support the time. In oakland, dan thorn kron. 4 news. The california Highway Patrol releasing some new information about a crash that hurt 2 of its officers. The chp has released video of this wreck and investigators are now calling this crash intentional. So it happened on wednesday afternoon on 80 davis. 2 chp officers were sitting in their cruiser, just stopped on the side of the road. And thats when they say one person intentionally drove their car on the right shoulder. Hit the car, their head on at a high speed right there to the cruiser. You can see the car then flips over. The chp is now speaking out about what happened. Acts of violence like this against our officers will not be tolerated. Are chp detectives, investigative personnel will work collaboratively with the District Attorneys office to ensure this individual is held accountable for his actions. There we see it again. Now the 2 officers both taken to hospital for their injuries and have been released officers then also took the driver accused of crashing into the officers there in the cruiser into custody. We have some new details now on that recent nosedive from a boeing 7. 87 flight that hurt at least 50 people earlier this week. A lot Airlines Plane traveling from australia to new zealand suddenly dropped hundreds of feet. And now the wall street journal is reporting that a Flight Attendant accidently hit a switch on the pilots seat while serving a meal and that then caused a motorized feature to push the pilot into the controls. And then that whats that is what pushed the planes nose down. And while this free fall only lasted a few seconds, passengers say it felt like an eternity. I just looked out the window and i said. All right, missus, is you know . Its time were done. And then its straight know, instantly. About a dozen passengers had to go to the hospital after this investigation, though, is still ongoing. All right. Lets talk about our beautiful forecast and this picture really sums it up. Nice and sunny out there today. Spring is arriving. Pilots here now with all the details. She was so happy earlier. She did a little happy for casas feel. I did. And listen, i dont think im the only one whos happy because this kind of looks like the parties Getting Started a little early out here at half. Moon bay. Weve got. Everybody out on the beach may be sitting in the sunshine, taking a walk, enjoying it. Good on ya. Its its a good day to do it. Beautiful. Really warm. We get offshore when we start to get the coast nice and warm. And thats whats been happening out there today. Same story tomorrow. Just a couple degrees cooler. And on sunday, were going to stick with that sunshine as well. The difference will be that we do watch the wind ramped down because were going to see this Pressure Gradient between high and low pressure search to release a little bit. Now looking behind this, you can see theres another low pressure system. We will be kept dry for a while, but it does break down eventually. So wanted to show you kind of the big picture. Here is your saturday looking great. Your sunday, beautiful. Even your monday. We start off the work week. No problems and we get into about wednesday. Well start to see some clouds move in. But it isnt until late thursday into friday that we actually see the chance of some rain and some sierra snow. So again, that will be late next week. And im glad to see this because our snow pack, weve done a really good job so far and want to hang on e to it. So that the way to do that is add a little bit, too, as you work through this month. This is our last month that we generally will get some of that snow and some pretty decent rain totals for us to. Thats good. And if you are going to be in the sierra this weekend, taking a live look here at diamond peak. Again. People out enjoying themselves and boy, oh, boy, youve got some gorgeous weather for your skiing this weekend. So enjoy it. When you come back on monday, well still have the sunshine for you. Back to thank you. Kron 4 is your local election headquarters and its a very tight race for the remaining spot on the November Ballot for california. 6 congressional district. For the First Time Since the polls closed more than a week ago. Assemblymember evan low is leading the race for second place. Passing Santa Clara County supervisor joe smitty and with the latest batch of ballots just released. But its still too close to call low leaves by just 59 votes. Former san jose mayor sam liccardo has already secured his spot in the race to fill the seat that was once held by representative and a shoe. A special prosecutor who had a romantic relationship with the Fulton County District Attorney fani willis has now withdrawn from the Georgia Election interference case against former president donald trump. A judge had ruled that willis or this special prosecutor, nathan wade had to leave in order for the case to move forward wades role in the prosecution had come under fire since an attorney representing one of trumps codefendants alleged that wade and willis were involved in an inappropriate relationship that resulted in willis profiting improperly from the prosecution. The irish Prime Minister in washington today for what is typically a very michael visit ahead of Saint Patricks day. But this year, irelands staunch support of palestinians in the israelhamas war is complicating things. Even with President Biden who often speaks fondly of his irish heritage. Our washington correspondent Jessi Turnure reports now on the tricky politics of this visit. To the next 100 the white house is celebrating the 100 year relationship between the u. S. And ireland ahead of Saint Patricks day. Well. Thank so but this year, theres a cloud hanging over the visit of irish Prime Minister leo veronica. Israel, its war with hamas and the fate of the Palestinian People. We need to the ceasefire possible. We both know to be broad cut called for an end to the fighting. The release of the remaining hostages and more humanitarian aid for palestinians in gaza. Very human tragedy, which i think will help to solve for years to come. The irish leader has been under pressure in his own country to condemn u. S. Support of israels actions in gaza. Theres a long history of irish solidarity with the Palestinian People like President Biden, Robert Mccall with the council on American Islamic relations is a proud irish american. But hes also muslim and says President Biden should embrace ireland support of palestinians. Dont think thats something thats translated across the atlantic. The biden during a Saint Patricks Day Celebration at the u. S. Capitol. President biden thanked for odd cuff for his support of palestinians. Im deeply grateful for our own john waiver, humanitarian aid and the president promised the u. S. Would continue to do its part to no barriers too thick or too strong. Arlen and i station in washington, im jessi tenure. Coming up, the donalds dealing with a world wide outage this morning. Well tell you where things stand. Any bay area locations were impacted. Also whats bringing vicepresident Kamala Harris rapper fat joe together at this big table. Plus. New ideas in technology from a lifesaving car safety feature to electric campers. And even a connected grille. Im rich demuro. Thats coming up in tech. Smart. Vice president Kamala Harris with the help of rapper fat joe spoke about Marijuana Reform at the white house today. Our washington, d. C. , correspondent Raquel Martin has the story. Vice president calls stop every day. Unlikely trio. Rapper fat joe Kentucky Governor andy beshear in Vice President Kamala Harris teamed up at the white house on a mission. Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking. There is hosted a white house roundtable to highlight the administrations efforts to free individuals jailed for nonviolent Marijuana Possession and expand opportunities once theyre released making Small Business administration loans available to the previously incarcerated individual since taking office. Harriss, tens of thousands have been pardoned or have their sentences reduced at the request of President Biden. There still is much more to do. The white house is urging the department of health and Human Services and department of justice to quickly reclassified the drug to prevent future of rent on the schedule. Currently. Marijuana is considered as dangerous as heroin and more dangerous than fentanyl. We really want to be very careful about doing that. Kevin sabet is the founder of smart approaches to marijuana former drug policy expert at the clinton and obama white house. Sometimes the Vice President s rhetoric blurs the line a little bit. He says legalizing marijuana is unlikely and he says its not consistent with the president s stance. He doesnt want people arrested for marijuana use, but hes also made very clear in his actions and words that he doesnt want to legalize marijuana either. In washington, Raquel Martin. A lot of Mcdonalds Restaurants coming back online now following a Global Technology outage from earlier this morning. Customers reported having trouble ordering at some restaurants and on the app it impacted locations in the u. S. And in australia, japan and also the united kingdom. There were no reports of power outages, though, in the bay area. Some stores did, though, have to completely suspend operations. Fathers had to take orders the oldfashioned way by just relaying the orders by either parent paper actually telling the kitchen staff in person, a mcdonalds executive says the issue has been identified and corrected. The company says the outage was not related to a Cyber Security event. Target now rolling out some changes to its Self Checkout lanes beginning on sunday. A lot of them will be converted to express lanes for customers with 10 items or fewer target experimented with this idea. Last year, 200 stores. They say that the Self Checkout was twice as fast at those stores. Its perfect for people looking for quick target run. Thats what theyre saying. So anyone with 10 items, well, now that they have 10 items or more, theyre going to go. Check out with a actual person at a cashier. They also thinking this is going to cut down on theft stores. Beautiful day. No shortage of blue skies across the bay. Eric, i lets hear now hoping maybe shell do that well, whether happy another and then another were all dancing . Am i wrong or are am i right . Everybody else dancing today to the blue skies. Got me happy, everybody. I love the warm weather and its especially nice. We can talk about warm weather and its not terrible fire danger, we are going to be talking about a little more of that over the weekend. But lets talk about this in 4 days. Spring will have sprung march 19th tuesday. Im ready for it. Im ready for no socks, flipflops. All of it, but probably not quite there yet. But boy, today, if you are inland, you might be where your flipflops. Youre probably not wearing socks because san jose at 73 oakland, 72. Wow. Oakland just warmed up. Were at 71 in concord, santa rosa. 73, even Half Moon Bay, where we saw all of this people basking in the beautiful sunshine. You guys at the 70 degree, mark, this is the difference in temperatures between 24 hours ago and now. So obviously our highs are going to be up there. We do still have the wind to contend with. And if you are east and north bay, youre really feeling it. But frankly, even at Half Moon Bay, they are quite gusty right now. Still getting that offshore direction to their 24 Miles Per Hour. But thats whats helping them to warm up. Is that warm air coming towards them . Meanwhile, the sunshine is beautiful, but we will see that wind gradient relax as we get into the evening that high and low pressure slowly moving apart from each other. And that will help things to get a little bit better. So just to show you how this plays out, im taking you to 6 oclock tonight. Couple hours from now. Notice were looking good. And San Francisco, the peninsula east bay, you should look good too. Just about kicking it in the north bay. It will go as we get later into the evening. So just hang in there. If youre still kind of contending with some of the when our extended forecast shows your good or is fabulous weekend, dont have enough words to describe that. Mondays going to be really nice, too. Will start spring on tuesday. We do cool down a little bit, but still really nice kind of seasonal temperatures. Cooling it down even further as we look into that chance of rain thursday night into friday. So get your weekend started. People. Thats what i want to do. No problem. Alright, car makers are trying to make the roads safer by introducing smart sensors. Rich demuro has a closer look in todays tech smart. When it comes to technology, new ideas are everywhere. We think there is insufficient notice. 2 oncoming drivers of dangers ahead on the roadway. Emergency Safety Solutions says 19,000 people a year are injured or killed in crashes involving disabled vehicles, which is why they created a system for cars called health of the first alert is highlighting alert and thats what you see here. The high flash right of the has a theres also a digital alert that notifies drivers as they approach a disabled vehicle. Right now the technology is in teslas. Theyre also working with volkswagen and stellantis makers of dodge and jeep to our main focus. Number one is the draw awareness of this problem and to do something about electric vehicles are all the buzz. But what about an ev camper . He seems like a lot of sense in a lot of different ways. Earth crews are known for their rugged expedition trucks created their first 100 electric camper on a hummer. Ev the concern for sure is. Got to get back. Going to but thats Getting Better and better over time. The solar topped house is made of lightweight. Carbon fiber is powered independently and comfortable for 2 people and a dog. Weve gotten very spoiled with the infrastructure that the petroleum industrys put together for us. Thats fabulous. And it wont be too long before that same infrastructure is going to be near it electric vehicles and whether youre grilling at home or on the road, even thats getting smarter. Just the versatility of the settings through our smart technology. This really elevates the game with particular group. Webbers new summit. Smart gas grill has a digital screen. Precise controls instead of knobs and a builtin scale to let you know how much propane you have left. There are different temperatures for different zones. You can control and monitor everything from your phone instead fumbling around and you have the dew legwork learning were able to use technology to get you where you need to be quicker. So were giving you confidence and were getting your consistency in your im rich demuro and you are tech smart. Up next, the cash thats up for grabs as the Mega Million Jackpot continues to grow. Thats coming up next. Dont forget, kron 4 is honoring remarkable women of the bay area all month long. Read more about our finalists by scanning the qr code on your screen. Were new stories each week right here on k mylowes rewards credit card saves us 5 on the things we need. 5 off. 5 off. 5 of. And, as loyalty members, we get points toward mylowes money for the things we want. Oh, we want this. 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The crue are now saying theyre excited to show off what they have been working on for the last few months. The thing gratifying. Part of on this team going to different parts of the country and interacting with people of all generations and backgrounds influencing the next generations to do something bigger than themselves. Their show runs saturday and sunday. Gates open at 09 00am. A dating app is now having some second thoughts about its signature feature of having women make the first move the strategy featured in bumble was about empowerment of women in the dating world. And theyre also encouraged equality from the very beginning. But with all the expanded gender identity options. Bumbles new ceo says it feels like a burden for many of its customers. The dating app is now testing out some new options. So this includes providing women with pre written messages and maybe even allowing men to make the first move they re launch is set for later on this year. Dont go anywhere. We have another hour of news ahead for you here on kron 4, including a business smashed. A celebration dash this afternoon. A Business Owner now weighing his options. Plus, we have new video and new details of that shootout that ended with 4 sonoma county. Sheriffs deputies hurt and one person dead. Im justine now from the areas local news station. This is kron. 4 news at 3. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. Im justine waldman. Were going to start with some new details this afternoon from a shooting that hurt for sonoma county. Deputies officialse