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Devastating. Now at 5, a San Francisco neighborhood coming together tonight to remember 3 family members killed by a speeding suv. Well, they were waiting for the bus. Thank you for joining us. Here in crawford is at 5. Im noelle bellow and im grant lotus. A memorial has formed since the weekend tragedy. And tonight a vigil is just getting underway. Kron fours rob nesbitt joins us live from that vigil in westport. Good evening, rob. Great. Well, im here live at the vigil. Theyre playing music behind me in large crowd from the community has gather this is you lower street near the intersection of lenox way in San Francisco. It actually closed off the intersection so that the community can come here and more after this crash that happened saturday afternoon. A growing memorial in front of the crowd for the victims. Were family and friends behind me. And now here at this vigil. According to San Francisco police, 78 yearold mary fallout was driving her white suv too fast down you, lois street when she crashed into this muni bus shelter, hitting a family of 4 killing a man, a woman and a child, the only survivor and infant still in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Yet this is a family is really heartbreaking because, you know, i can just imagine the family was just enjoying a beautiful saturday and then for this to happen and all their loved ones, just, you know, our heart goes out to lau has been charged with 3 counts of manslaughter, reckless driving with bodily injury, driving the wrong way on a divided highway, unsafe speed and reckless driving. San francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins released a statement monday saying in part, quote, there are no words to adequately describe this tragedy. My offices Victim Services division has been in touch with the victims family and will work with them closely. The family has asked for privacy as they grieve and work to make sense of what has occurred. A memorial of flowers, cards and other items started growing at the bus. Stop over the weekend. The crashes spark conversations about Pedestrian Safety in the area. Kron 4 spoke with Sustainable Transportation advocate. Look born heimer who started an online petition to have the intersection closed permanently. 2 vehicles in one block of here. Theres a library. Theres multiple schools as a park in a you know, theres a church, theres doctors offices. Theres merchant corridor. This is not the place they should have covered. Car traffic going through. Police are investigating the crash and say they do not believe traffic. Engineering was a factor. This crash happened in you know, im cars district and her office says that they are working with both sfmta and city public works to improve safety conditions for pedestrians in this neighborhood. Reporting live in San Francisco. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. Just terrible. Thank you, rob. This just berkeley, police say theyve arrested a 23 yearold woman suspected of stabbing her 60 yearold mother to death. The stabbing happened just before 3 yesterday afternoon at an apartment on University Avenue between san pablo avenue in sacramento Street Berkeley pd says it is not releasing any other details until the daughter has been charged. She has been booked into the santa rita jail. Oakland and Alameda County leaders announcing a 2 Million Dollar investment into the hamburger quarter corridor today. Every year millions of people travel through the area to get to and from the airport, the city claims auto burglaries, robberies and larceny have actually decreased over the last year. But they admit theres still a lot of work to do to restore public confidence. Today. The city announcing an increase in the number of officers in the area 7 days a week, meaning more foot patrols. In addition to new security cameras, safety ambassadors and adding private security at gas stations and other businesses along hegenberger. This is a key gateway to oakland and its a vital element to our citys economic engine. We still have a lot of work in front of us and we will continue to do more. This is just the beginning. California Highway Patrol will continue to conduct operations in the area as well. Meantime, theres a new proposal on the table to help oakland clear abandoned cars off of its streets. According to Council Member rebecca kaplan, who introduced this measure, the citys abandoned cars, not only clutter the streets, but impact public right of way functionality and compromise the overall wellbeing of the Community Funds for the project would come from the Alameda County Transportation Commission that measure will be voted on in tomorrows council meeting. Currently, it is a matter of months, not weeks before oakland axon cars that are left on the city streets. Supporters of Alameda County District Attorney pamela prices are alleging fraud in the effort to recall her just days after the registrar asked for a hand count on the signatures, gathered to see if there were enough to put the issue on the ballot. Kron fours. Dan kerman reports now on the Price Campaigns effort to go above california. Attorney general rob bonta, his head and get the u. S. Attorney Generals Office involved for months. Packers have Alameda County District Attorney pamela price have maintained the campaign to recall her. Hes a rightwing plot designed to turn back the clock on social justice. Now theyre turning things up a notch alleging opponents, a price committed fraud in the signature gathering process will we have extensive evidence that we collected from are volunteers from folks who are just living citizens. People who live in Alameda County come tools made these claims and they and everyone else deserve. For our into intention of liberty, integrity, Election Integrity to be maintains. The allegations set forth in a slide show presentation revolve around 3 main complaints, signature petitions were left unattended on tables, some signature gatherers were from outside the county and some from outside the state which may be illegal. They say also they allege some signers were alert to sign an unrelated petition and then presented with the price recall even more importance today. He calls every single signature is now increased scrutiny. Following that announcement last thursday by the register voters that the folks he spent millions of dollars, they think users may not have enough. Last week. The Alameda County registrar of voters said the signatures would have to be manually counted. To verify if there are enough legal signatures because a random sampling was not sufficient, pulling no punches. The Price Campaign also attacked attorney general rob bonta on monday for allegedly not responding to their february 28th request to investigate. Because all that dereliction of duty from attorney California Attorney general bonta. Were escalating our demands and now were asking. The department of justice. Attorney general michael is mile around to to take this because ag bonta has not taken this no word from bontas office or the u. S. Attorneys office for the Northern District of california. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Tonight is the first Antioch Police Oversight Commission meeting where members will decide on a Commission Chair and vice chair. Its part of the city steps towards trying to rebuild trust between the community and the police department. After the fallout of last years racist text messaging scandal within the department and the federal indictments of several officers at the center of the scandal, the sevenmember Police Commission includes a variety of backgrounds ranging from Community Organizers to attorneys. Tonights meeting starts at 6. 30. Weather time here as we get a live look out there. Just a beautiful monday in the bay that follows a glorious weekend. Spring is almost upon us. And the blue skies are just lovely. I went to mount tam for the First Time Since ive been here, lawrence. And its absolutely gorgeous this weekend. Again, gorgeous today. Hopefully copy and paste all week long. Yeah. How about that . I mean, really, i mean, everything is so green. All the flowers are blooming out there. Things are looking. Very nice all around the bay area with the coming to a close by this time tomorrow night. Yeah, itll be spring already. So here we go. Weve got some changes in the forecast. I think next few days going to see a return to some low clouds and fog. That will be pressing into the bay overnight tonight and tomorrow morning. So that is a sign of things to come. Otherwise sunshine around the bay area right now looking like a nice afternoon outside. I think overall its going to be pretty nice around the bay area. The next couple days. Look at these numbers outside right now, 70 in a bottle. It is 72 in concord. 73 right now and live more. 71 redwood city, 70 in san jose. Of course we get that seabreeze this time of year. Youve got cooler temperatures go side only 55 degrees right now in half moon bay. Well, we are seeing some fog along the coastline. Thats, of course, keeping those temperatures cooler. Some storm clouds in the southern california, the rest. The bay area, though, looking good outside, i think really pretty nice week ahead. We will see some changes coming our way. In fact, theres another chance of rain in the forecast as we look toward the spring days ahead. Well have more on that in time that out for you. Coming up in a few minutes. Lauren, thank you. After 24 seasons, bay area icon and the voice of oracle park, grinnell brooks moon is parting ways with the San Francisco giants. The team says they were in discussion to extend her contract, which actually expired last but ultimately both parties mutually agreed to part ways. Brooks moon is one of the mlbs first black female public address announcers. She was the first woman to ever pa the world series and the first woman to pa the mlbs allstar game. The Organization Says the booth oracle park will be named and brooks moons honor at a ceremony to take place during a future home game. Giants president and ceo larry baer issuing a statement following the announcement. It reads in part, quote, now has been the familiar and inspirational voice for generations of players and fans at oracle park as an ambassador for the organization and a respected leader. Were now has been a giant voice in the ballpark and in the community and will forever be a giant. It will be a fitting tribute the pa booth in her honor. Brooks moon also released a statement saying in part, quote, as a bay area native, it has been the honor of my lifetime to serve on the mic and in the community for the giants for 24 years. The job has always been bigger than me. She goes on to say Representation Matters and it is my great hope that my time in the boot has inspired little girls, young women and people of color to pursue their dreams, even if those dreams seem impossible because impossible dreams can come true. It was a sports talk radio today. A lot of fans seem upset about this in San Francisco Assembly Member matt haney is a fan who is slamming giants ownership over the decision to part ways with brooks moon on social media. Haney says, quote, the giants have decided that after 24 years, the woman who closely connects with their fans is expendable. Organization that could definitely use more diversity is announcing it was unable to find a way to keep their most visible nonplaying black employee. He goes on to say its a terrible move for a team whose majority owner Charles Johnson funds rightwing politicians that were supportive of undermining a democratic election and who have tried to disenfranchise black voters across america. Brooks moon was one of the few in the Giants Organization to publicly decried johnsons political activity. She was also outspoken in twentytwenty in support of black lives matter. It doesnt take a crazy johnson backed conspiracy theorist to connect the dots. Coming up, a reward in the search for those responsible for shooting a young dog. Plus, new video is a fire rips through a local high school gym. The latest on that investigation. Plus, former President Donald Trump responding to heavy criticism after he warned of a quote, bloodbath. If hes not reelected. Take a look at Police Chase Ends with 2 people arrested in a fiery crash at a saint rose. A shell gas station happened last thursday on the core of corby and hearne avenue use. But a week before the chase Officials Say the suspects scammed a person by posing as Police Officers taking their phone and credit card info a few days later, the suspects allegedly posed as the victim and his niece and got his tax return at 100. Check. The victim says he found out about the crime when he tried to pick up his taxes. The 2 suspects now facing multiple charges. San jose police are offering 1000 reward as they search for the people responsible for shooting a dog marlee. The young German Shepherd was shot early in the morning january. 11th on mckee road, according to officials. 2 people are believed to have been involved. One of the suspects is believed to be a man in his 20s, but they do not have a clear description of the other person. Police say a gunshot wound. Enter the but skull and exited below the jawline her right front. Paul was also injured in the attack. Marley is now in foster care and said to be recovering well. The ceo of United Airlines is trying customers at ease following a several mechanical issues with the companys aircraft. There have been several incidents recently. Of course, weve been reporting on all of them. One plane had an aluminum panels fall off. Another lost a landing gear wheel. There was one plane with a hydraulic leak at another with an engine fire. Scott kirby says all of the incidents were unrelated but have heightened to the companys importance on safety. He is making pilots take an extra day of training starting in may and is also implementing training changes for new mechanics. Kirby says the airline is safe and hell use what happened in those recent incidents to improve training overall. Former President Donald Trump continues to cause controversy on the campaign trail. And today both critics and supporters of the former president s continue to dissect some of the inflammatory comments he made over the weekend. Kron fours Catherine Heenan is in the newsroom with more on all of this, including the political fallout here, catherine. Yeah. And a lot of fuel for discussion came at a rally saturday in ohio. Where donald trump was appearing in dayton. One comment standing out in particular, trumps reference to a bloodbath for the country. If hes not reelected. Trump was talking to the crowd about the Auto Industry claiming china is trying to undercut the americ n Auto Industry by making cars in mexico. Heres what he said it. If youre listing president xi and you and i are friends, but he understands the way idea those big monster car manufacturing plants to give building in mexico right now. And you think youre going get that youre going to not hire americans and youre going to sell the cars us now. Were going to put 100 tariff on every single car. If i get elected. Now, if i do get elected, its going to be a bloodbath. What does that mean . Hes going to exact a bloodbath. Theres something wrong here. The president was clearly talking about the impact of of imports, devastating the American Automotive industry, whatever the intent that was not the only comment that got national attention. I dont know if you call up people in some cases. Theyre not people in my opinion. These are animals. Trump has long argued that among the millions of migrants crossing the southern border, a significant number include gang members, drug dealers and other criminals. You know, venezuela. Im 66 because they sent us members and gang serious. They sent us to others say theres no data to support trumps claim of immigration leading to increased crime. Clearly the president s rhetoric is reflected poorly. Many americans continue to wonder should President Trump be president . Also at that rally, donald trump open by saluting the january 6. Rioters calling them hostages a move, some say is impossible to defend and thats where hostages. Theyve been treated terribly when fairly. Meantime, a significant new financial problems for donald trump. His lawyers said today he cannot find an Insurance Company to underwrite his bond in the new york civil fraud case to remember that huge judgment. More than 460 Million Dollars. The trump team is now trying to postpone the bond until an appeal is heard. No. Alan grant. All right. Thank you, catherine. We switch gears here and take a live look from the top of mount tam noels new favorite mountain in the bay area. I saw where this camera wasnt everything. I got all the way up. There was a very cool view to see in person as cool as it is to see on these cameras as well. Lawrence, im impression walked all the way up there. You know, you and then theres little trail. Haha. I mean, thats big deal. You getting out there in the outdoors. Thats for sure. You noticed everything is starting to bloom outside and so we want to bring in the kron. 4 allergy forecast as we look toward the weekend ahead. You may have had some of those allergies popping up on last week. I mean, you get that sunshine and warm temperatures. Everything is blowing. So. The account is running high right now. The pollen count is way up on tuesday, wednesday and thursday of this week. Are expecting a big change in the weather pattern starting on friday that should knock down the pollen count, at least for a few days into the weekend and probably early next week. Beautiful shot out there from mount tam. You can see everything is green out there. All the hills are looking good, seeing a lot of beautiful and natural flowers popping up around the bay area, too. The fog begin to make a return. Thats another sign of spring in the weather department. You start to see some of that fog forming along the coastline that keeps your temperatures cool out toward the beaches as we head toward late spring and into summer months ahead, were going to see a big drastic change. Temperatures as we see that period with the cooler numbers. Sometimes 53 school route along the coast when still a bit of an offshore component, at least of the interior valleys. Right at the beaches, though, youve got that onshore flow. And thats, of course, keeping a little bit cooler overall, though, that ridge of High Pressure thats really the brunt of blocking the storms. But a part of the week now thats going start to break down, but not before bringing us another nice couple of days ahead. I think tomorrow looking like a nice day, the end of winter 506. The official beginning of spring tomorrow evening. And so i think by tomorrow night looks like another nice night around the bay area and then things change as we get lot of part of this week. I think by friday we could Start Talking about some rain returning spring rain spring rain more. Those flowers blooming allergies. Yeah, all that stuff. We keep the hills green another couple weeks that way. Right in that nice. Yeah, lets hope so. I think it actually is going to be a series of storms that will likely impact the bay area saw. Take a look at that. Coming up. Just Little Things arent. We will be held later this week to gather Public Feedback on the no turn on red downtown expansion project. 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A new study is naming San Francisco, the number one city in the United States for being ev friendly. The study by icy cars found San Francisco has lots of chargers available and has improved its ev infrastructure. San jose and oakland have almost 16,000 chargers per 412 residents. Thats the most in the entire country beating los angeles and san diego and california. I see cars used data from the department of energys alternative Fuels Data Center for study. San franciscos annual game developer conference is under way. Its a global game. Development community expected to bring nearly 30,000 members thats going to be this event will feature more than 700 sessions, including talks from the makers of critically acclaimed games like super mario brothers wonder the legend of zelda tears of the kingdom and star wars jet. I survivor. Its a great time for game developer seeking new Job Opportunities last years for this years conference runs through this friday. 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