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Can i know this weekend. Felt a little bit more like march than may, but thats okay. Weve recovered. And yesterday was still a cool day, but a dry and clear what. And today were up eating a lot of factors that we had yesterday looking outside from san jose, a few fairweather clouds up about, but still plenty bright out there. Skies are going to stay clear and importantly dry today. But were also going to stay kind of cool. Temperatures fell into the 30s for some of us this morning, especially in the north bay. Were back up in the 50s now and later on today, we will be seeing daytime highs climbing back into the 60s a lot like yesterday. Ill be talking the details of the rest of this forecast. Still ahead, michael. Hey, good morning, everyone. It is 901. Taking a look at the roads right now. If youre using 101, those southbound lanes, things are kind of congested right now. All the lanes were blocked, but they are some of them, i should say, are back open its in san mateo. Its near east poplar avenue. They are currently clearing everything out. So its causing delays on both sides. And there was 2 different separate collisions. So keep that in mind. If you are utilizing 101 this morning. Again, everything is currently being cleared out and they do have some lanes opened. But youre down to at least one to 2 lanes on that side. Those southbound lanes taking a look at the bay bridge, 19 minute commute into the city this morning. Those metering lights are still on a live look at the san mateo bridge right now. Its only 14 minutes over that. Taking a look at the richmond, sandra fell bridge 11 minute commute there. Theres not too much going on there and those who are heading into the city this morning taking that Golden Gate Bridge. It is a 20 minute commute. Tara and james, well send it back to you. Thank you. And speaking of that him, you too. Its going to get because falling controversy. Waymo has Just Announced theyre going to expand their services to the peninsula at this keeps happening. How we get around to look very different. 10 years from now. But lets talk about this expansion. More bay area city. 7 is a matter of fact. Crawfords will trend is in one of them this morning. Will. Things could look very different. 10 years from now because if you are driving around with a driver in front, how 2024 can you so whats going to happen is the waymo is heading south as far as the peninsula. Yes, theyve been in San Francisco and they got the green light from the California Public utilities commission, as well as the dmv to expand down the peninsula. Not everybody is happy about it. Mateo county actually trying to push back on it. But ultimately the state said it was ok for them to do that. Despite all the controversy that has sutrounded waymo in San Francisco a couple of months ago, we saw a waymo vehicle set on fire in san mateo county. They actually did not want it to happen for several reasons. They cite that they dont think its safe be in a car without a driver. And 2, if youre coming from San Francisco down to the peninsula. Youre driving at the way speed. And they say, obviously, if theres an accident, it will be horrific at freeway speeds. But nonetheless, the state says its ok. Waymo will start in a couple of weeks and many cities along the peninsula, including Burlingame Millbrae south San Francisco daly city. And the goal is obviously to keep moving south and ultimately into santa clara county. I can tell you that for now when it starts, its going to be employees only so you have to work for waymo. But if all goes well, you too. Can call for a driverless taxi cab. All right. Thanks a lot. Well. 903, is the time. And Cinco De Mayo is celebrated throughout the bay area. Over the weekend. We had thousands come out especially in san jose to celebrate in the downtown area. Lot of fun was had in general. Lets take a closer look at kron fours jack moment. Easily more than 1000 people paraded through the streets right here in downtown san jose along Cesar Chavez Plaza to celebrate Cinco De Mayo. But things here in san jose didnt totally go off without a hitch center that police had to detour section of santa clara street. What they want side. A long before San Jose Police did toward this section of santa clara street claiming sideshows took over the area after an afternoon of Cinco De Mayo celebrations. The road backed up with burnouts honking, cheering. But earlier in the day, both yeah. What are you guys doing today with the the we say really have you know, marco scalp on a san jose born and raised says hes happy the city is working to put a bigger Cinco De Mayo celebrations every year. You know my todays the day, you know, were all the gather not they would like. And all the political. Music and food. And that silva came to Cinco De Mayo at Cesar Chavez Plaza to sell her jewelry. And so san joses come a long way and how it that way. It. All its guys today. As though for everybody else out about they now that detour on santa clara street bystanders police cars, a backup of cars for at least several hours where downtown san jose job moment kron 4 news. And there was are on Cinco De Mayo. A double stabbing that happened on the east side of san jose to people are in Critical Condition after the stabbing that happened in the downtown area. You can see where police were investigating a was a sideshow and this double stabbing happened around 5. 30, in the area of south king road and way. And one person that was out we spoke to said that it was supposed to be a day for celebrations, but you just never now. Would say im not phase, but is is just part of life. And, you know, unfortunately things like that happen that people do do things that are reported it. But i dont think the majority other people should suffer at the scene where the mile. God bless and protect those people that were hurt. And at this point, we dont have any information about a possible attacker. It is 9, 0, 7, 1, person died in several crashes. Well, several cars were involved in a crash that happened in san jose was a little after 1 oclock in the morning on sunday morning in the dark, several cars collided on highway 101, near north mathilda avenue and that area southbound 101 was shut down for about 3 hours while police investigated. We do not know the name of the person who died. Well, elsewhere in the east 1 bay, oakland, police now investigating after a person was shot and killed near lake merritt. This is video from the citizen app. Police say the shooting happened just before noon sunday on first avenue. Victims name not yet released, but in that same area driver crashed into the parking lot at americas best value inn on east 12th street. And thats what this video shows. Police havent confirmed if the shooting in the crash are connected, but thats something there looking into right now. Meanwhile, police in open caught one person allegedly planning to take part in a side show last night, Oakland Police shared this image on ax saying the driver was identified as a side show promoter and rested for recklessly evading police. Opd says it did have Additional Units out on patrol last night. Prepare to respond to any sideshows if they popped up. Well, an arson investigation is now under way following that fire that destroyed horn barbecue in oakland. It broke out just a few days before thanksgiving last year and the owner of horn barbecue matt horn had always maintained that he thought it was a targeted arson. Well, officials have now confirmed that fire was, in fact, deliberately set. So theyre looking for a suspect now. Meanwhile, horn barbecue did reopen last week as we reported. Its now part of horns. Other restaurant called maddies old fashion in downtown some appear on the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, a testament to americas greatness. Californias greatest. We could be more proud to announce today. Record breaking tourism numbers in the state of california over 150 billion dollars tourism. Spend unprecedented in our states history. But the tourists dont get a view like that. They get a view like this driving over the Golden Gate Bridge. Got to be the governor to be able to go up there. And he was talking about the huge tourism gains that we this year in california. The governor Just Announced tourists spent more than 150 billion dollars in california in the last year that surpasses the 144 billion dollar record that was set in 2019. So tourism is actually better than it was before the pandemic. Governor newson says that also the state retained its title as the worlds 5th largest economy. And we have a growing population now for the First Time Since the covid pandemic happen. According to the latest data, the travel industry supported approximately 1. 2 million jobs last year, which is up 6 . Tourists created about 4 more revenue in 2023 and spent about 5 more. Now the governor did announce the big boost in San Francisco, but specifically San Francisco has not fully recovered from the rest like california is from the pandemic. San francisco made more than 13 billion dollars from tourism in 2023. That is a billion more than 2022. But still a billion shy of the prepandemic record which was set in 2019 at just over 14 billion dollars. And happening right now, the first day of the rsa conference is underway in San Francisco. Its an annual cybersecurity expo. Its at the must go any center and it lasts for 4 days. Starting today. The speakers included officials from google, secretary of state antony blinken. And there will be a special performance by alicia keys. Well, the month may is Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month. And this weekend, a korean american nonprofit celebrated 10 years of fundraising. The Korean American Community foundation of San Francisco hosted its 10th annual had a gala last night at the ritz carlton. The event raises money for translation services. For grocery deliveries for elderly korean americans and scholarships for young students. This year. The gala recognized judge lucy koh with a trailblazing award. Shes the first korean American Woman to serve as a federal judge on the 9th Circuit Court in california and by the way, tune into kron 4 every thursday this month as we show you stories highlighting the bay areas api community and its all leading to our special that will air thursday. May 23 at 06 30pm, right here on kron 4. The halfhour special. Youre not going want to miss a lot of fantastic stories were puttingptogether for that. All right. Still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news campus protests continue as another Bay Area College now braces for possible demonstrations will have more on the story. 9. 14, right now. And after last weekend, its hard to believe tomorrow there, you know, march comes in like the lion may does is are saying from april showers bring may flowers. Well, we didnt have that. We showers hours. Snow storms, wind craziness. Yeah. Little calling to the job. Good morning. Its it may not be may after all. Thats what it kind of feels like right . It just is a little out there. Even yesterday after the rain cleared out was still a little bit brisk and definitely cool. Even with that sunshine today is going to be much the same. Quite our looks good under sunshine. Temps are still in the 50s and this afternoon pretty much 60s at the warmest for most of us. So cool air stashed behind the rain and mountain snow that came through this weekend. Snow is now out towards the rockies and even an opportunity of Severe Weather out towards the plains and the south today from the same system that pushed through this weekend for us in the bay area. High pressure builds back in and this is going to keep the entire street state on a drier trend and definitely a warmer trend in the days to come. Todays daytime highs are going to be pleasant in the upper 50s to low 60s at the coastline, making the coast a little brisk. The rest of the bay, though, definitely ok with those 60s and sunshine, not going to feel bad at all. If you like that cooler feel today and tomorrow are going to be the days that you want to get out there, especially for those of us in land that dont necessarily get a lot of this cool weather from this time of year forward into the summer fairfield and vacaville are only 2 spots getting up to 70 degrees today. Most of the rest of us in the 60s. Tomorrows temperatures a little bit warmer in the low 70s inland 80s kickoff on wednesday and stay with us for inland areas through next weekend. Michael. Thanks, john. And good morning. Everyone at the roads are looking good for the most part we were dealing with some issues on 1, however, things are starting to open back up. You can see theres actually 2 different collisions, one in redwood city, another in the san mateo area, specifically this one you see on your screen there, san mateo, its east poplar avenue. At one point, all lanes were closed, but theyve opened majority of those lancers only one lane thats currently closed. So its causing some residual delays, but you should be good and on your way, by at least 9. 30, according to chp. Well keep an eye on that. But drive times for those who are leaving this morning. If youre in livermore heading to dublin, 14 minutes, dublin to fremont. 22 minutes, san leandro to milpitas. 29 minutes milpitas to sunnyvale. 10 minutes. So good drive times this morning. Any up to concord . Only 18 minutes if youre using westbound 80 crockett to the maze, its a 17 minute commute. Those were using the richmond. Sandra fell bridge to 8 minute commute this morning. That bay bridge metering lights are still on. But its only a 19 minute commute into the city this morning. Southbound 8. 80, oakland to to 38. 13 minute commute. No major congestion. There. Taking a look at dublin to fremont. 22 minutes. If youre using 6. 80, a live look at that san mateo bridge, which is only a 13 minute commute. And lastly, well take a look at some of the south bay areas morgan hill, san jose. 11 minutes and that 101 commute right now, san jose to menlo park. Only a 40 minute commute will continue to keep an eye on that accident on 101, near the san mateo area. I will send it back to to the desk. Thank you, michael. Time now to talk winners and losers on wall street. We have financial expert rob black joining us this morning. Robber. I see where green across the board. Thats looks pretty good up 100 points right now. What are you following . Yes, the markets are catching a little bit of a breather sigh of relief after the friday jobs report was kind of goldilocks. It wasnt too hot. Create inflation, but there were some job cuts to create some less spending, which inflation got create deflation. So its good for the fed. Theres now a 75 chance we cut rates in september. Wall street will move really the next level highcr when we start cutting rates. Disease report earnings this week. That could be a big one because theyve been a controversial stock up. 25 1 this year. And really big underperforming last 5 years. And im anticipating a highly apple. I know theyve got unveiling tomorrow. What was the theme . The theme was loosened up or Something Like that. Whats the thinking on what thats about . And for probably not be all that great is not pretty well known in that spot. Ipads in the pencil 10 years ago, 15 years ago when steve jobs is still around, he thought the ipad was replaced. The desktop in the desktop was be more like a truck for heavyduty i pens really never been. Thats been the phone that has replaced the fired the desktop computer. So well see tomorrow. There could be been 18 months since if thats new ipads, but i stopped buying ipads. I think probably 5 years ago. How much, you know . Yeah, minds mice pretty long in the tooth because youre right. Its been a good handful of years. All well see what maybe what they unveil will love will pique my interest to update the ipad. But thats the only apple device i have only because it was such a cool new type design, a product that tablet. I mean, they were the ones that really did get the tablet off the ground. But it really did a nice job, but it could erode cano. So but its faster chip, that you have a bigger screen theyre still trying. But just not a good multitasker percent. Yeah, i want to jump ahead because since were talking stocks, can we talk a little bit warren buffett, the oracle of omaha, your favorite and my favorite prognosticator when it comes to things, wall street. So they just had their annual shareholders what did i everybody waits to see what he had to say. What did you have to say . Lows in the 94 this year and in august, he is my favorite master. Everyone would be wise google. Warren and hes the best. He did say that he hopes everyone comes back the event next year. He says, i hope i come back, which kind of sent a little sadness down . My my my back 16,000 people showed up to like a rock star concert for an investor profits for the company were up. 39 1 to 11. 2 billion. He did trim some shares. Apple, which is important to note is the Bay Area Company says its going to be holding for the rest of my not for its bad timing, hes holding for Berkshire Hathaway for a long time to trim some of the cause. Its been a huge winner. He said its better than american express. And cocacola, tim cook was even at the event this weekend. The Berkshire Hathaway from tim cook, ceo of apple. That shows you how important it is of note. Is that 182 billion dollars earning 5 in cash . So true. Hes not buying stocks that tells you hes not really excite about stock market thrown out. He said one interesting thing. He said i hope you doesnt regret letting the genie out of ai battle. He sought deepfake video of himself same sell the stock that wasnt me weve seen other people thats happened to as you kind of like some scams. And he says he thinks a eye scans in biggest growth in the street and all of humanity. So try to warn your parents dont fall for deepfakes or at least, you know, call you think if theyre worried about something out, thats going to be the big thing Going Forward for scammers for sure. All right. Lets finish with that kind of a cool story here. The kentucky you know, sometimes when its neck and neck down to the wire, youve got 2 horses and one wins by a nose. But i guess this years Kentucky Derby took that to another level. Yeah. 3 horses with thats worthy of note. That hasnt happened in like 90 years or 80 years. Roughly now to relay all in forever. Young forever. Young was a japanese horse. So it was almost the first japanese horse to win at the Kentucky Derby. Look at numbers for you. 160,000 people attended pay between 275 for general admission. You cant see anything with 275. You literally cant see the race. You could about a sweet for 135,000 or experience for 2100 per person. The jackie gets 10 of the winnings. The trainer gets any means. So its a 5 Million Dollar purse to the owner, which kind of interesting what about the trainer would make more. But, you know, 16. 7 a big win for them. Their best audience since 1989 210 Million Dollars were bet on the race from people in attendance. 92 million was bet online. And one that came in from japan at 10. 1 Million Dollars. Thats the largest ever. And again, it shows International Sports live tv betting its all driving ratings high. Maybe we figure out are you do . You can wear red tomorrow about 10 prop. Thats the new thing. All right, rob, thank you as always. Well chat with rob tomorrow. In fact, well be talking with daria. On the segment. So let him her know. Now if theres a company or a story, you want him to explore. Youve got is him to explore. Youve got is california sky todos alcanzamos Las Estrellas sunny state of mind flexin all the time todo es dorado y nos gusta picante cause this place is caliente tamos enchilado feels so golden livin in the golden state with you feels so golden vive en el Estado Dorado oooh we got that drip, drip, drip come take a sip, sip, sip feels so golden vive en el Estado Dorado 15 years. Mayor and city administrator Justin Johnson. And we would like to wish our beautiful city and happy birthday. Oakland is now the city of oakland celebrating its 100 72nd birthday this weekend with mayor sheng thao. As you see there and city administrator Justin Johnson given out some props to the bay areas. And look at mistah fab also joined in, too, as did congresswoman barbara lee, the oakland roots were also part of this to a whole lot more. Oakland was first established back on may 4th win back in 18. 52 during the gold rush. Its now the bay areas thirdlargest city and seek Alameda County. More than 700 girls gathered in piedmont. They were there sunday morning, bright and early to do all kinds of sports. This is called the play like a girl tournament. There are some agility drills. This is at the piedmont Recreation Center and they have this athletic festival every year. And its free for young girls to a try. 29, different sports. You can see them look fencing, stuff that you may never have tried or you dont have the gear for a look. School get skateboarding at the has a speaking of so a lot of fun just to encourage girls to get out there and try new things. How cool . All right. 9. 27. Is the time. Up next on the kron, 4 morning news and east bay restaurant had to close its doors after photos of an infestation inside were made public will explain whats going on up at mcdonalds in oakland. 9. 29. Right now and were checking out the its been a little bit wacky. The anyway as yeah. We saw a little bit of everything, john, from snow in the sierra to rain and wind down here. But this week, i guess the sunshine warmer temperatures. Yeah. Nothing getting in the way of sunshine this week. Were still in the cold a little bit. But hey, that feels all right. As long as weve got some sunshine up about kind of like yesterday today is going bring plenty of cool sunshine looking outside from the east bay hills, all that fresh rainfall really keeping things pretty lush out there. Still looking nice and green and most of our hills. We are seeing nice clear skies today. Still some good skiing weather up in the sierra. If you want to get enjoy that fresh powder that we saw multiple on saturday. Now, temperatures after a morning in the 30s to 40s are pretty solidly back in the 50s at this point and will continue to rise into the 60s this afternoon. That is way cooler than average for this time of year. But we will gradually warm up for the rest of this forecast and ill get to that. Still to come, Michael Thomas is in parade in morning with a look at the roads. Hey, good morning, everyone. Thats right. Taking a look at the roads right now. Things dont look too bad. 101. We are starting to see things clear up earlier this morning there was 2 different accidents in the san mateo area. Its near east poplar avenue. So those lanes are currently back open. Theres only one lane thats closed down. Were just looking at some residual delays. So everything is good. Theyre taking a live look at your bridges right now. You can see the bay bridge. Those metering lights are on and people are heading out this morning. 16 minute commute into the city from the maze. Taking a look at the san mateo bridge onto the peninsula. Its a 13 minute commute. Just be aware that 101, residual traffic you may see once you get to that area, richmond, sandra fell bridge. Its an 8 minute commute over that. And lastly, that Golden Gate Bridge, youre looking at a 20 minute commute into the city this morning. Darien james, well send it over to you. All right. Thank you, michael. Tonight, 31 and students around the bay continuing to protest on College Campuses supporting the Palestinian People during this war thats going on in gaza. You can see some of the damage that they were collecting and picking up after the rain over the weekend. But they are preparing for more of whats to come. Kron fours jack moment has more. Well, some of the protests have been lasting for days, others weeks, but theyre continuing to press forward here in the bay area with students wanting their schools to divest or be transparent about their financial ties with the nation of israel. But it may be quiet here in san jose states campus. But pretty soon it may have its own protest as well. San joses gearing up for graduation, but online, theres chatter about a propalestine protest happening on may. Saw people next to Health Building just like painting a big sign. Robert cleveland is graduating soon and says he supports the ongoing protests, possibly reaching his i feel like it needs to be i wasnt. Its not happening with the government. At i mean, were were the ones that contain everything. Coming up, head north to palo alto. This group of students a propalestine protest camp out on their campus. But i that everythings good posters soiled by the recent rain. But wooden pallets and tarps were able to keep students sleeping here. But friday evening, a counterprotester violated vigil of candles. Students tell us they say Police Responded and took the counter protester away. Kron 4 reached out to stanford pd but did not hear back and also give them some support for to know that other people also thinking about the moment live act lives in the area and donated supplies to stanford students. She says her daughters are part of the student encampments around the country and wants things to go peacefully. I will. They dont understand why were fighting the students because all theyre trying to ask for is for ceasefire back in san jose state. Its very like is very sad seeing it, especially when. The asked people. Robert cleveland says he supports the cause of propalestine student protests have thought about. I have. But my mom said no, because you dont want and says hes looking forward to the possible protest this week. Gen z and next group are e future of the world, especially and we need to make a change now for not is not going to happen from the other san jose jack moment kron 4 news. In the east bay open police now offering a reward for anyone who has information on 2 homicides that took place about a year apart. They think the 2 might be connected. So police say multiple suspects now are being looked at in this homicide of henry to and the shawn roads to hot. It was shot and killed back on april of 2020 near foothill in church. Apparently a grain nissan without license plates was seen pulling up to him before multiple people got out and opened fire. He was just 23 years old. That car was later recovered and found to have been a rental at a reno, nevada. Meanwhile, roads was also killed by gunshots in june of 2021. The following year that was on the lakeshore and brooklyn right in front of lake merritt. As you can see here on the map, anyone with information about either case is asked to contact Oakland Police its 9. 34 and the man who was involved in a friday night standoff with the police on 80 in fairfield is in Critical Condition. The chp says. He shot himself originally. This was reported that he had died. But medical teams are able to revive him at the hospital. The standoff started after a multicounty pursuit that started in Sonoma County on friday afternoon and eventually lead to a Police Standoff in fairfield is shut down 80 in both directions for hours and you can see the thousands of area drivers that were affected by this. And now the Solano County das office is handling the case. Do you have a right when youre on your social media site to not to see or to see whats in your feet to control that content. A lawsuit has just been filed against facebook. Parent company, meta saying that they should allow people to unfollow. All of the content said to them by facebooks algorithms. The lawsuit asked the court to determine whether or not users news feed falls into the category of objectionable material and they say that we should be able to filter out what we want to enjoy the platform. The lawsuit comes after meta sent cease and desist letters to App Developers trying to create thirdparty software that would cleanse has declined to comment. Well, the story youll first here on kron, 4 Health Inspector shutting down a mcdonalds in oakland so you can investigate these photographs, these videos that come to light of an infestation inside. Were going to show him to you and they might be disturbing for a look at kron fours less than good and has details. I was right in the parking lot of a mcdonalds located at 13, 30 jackson street in oakland when a Health Department employee started turning customers away, who were inside and in the middle of the drivethru, i asked what was the cause of the store closure. This was her response from the Health Department. They have some sanitation and they need to clean up. What did you find mind telling and this comes while 6 mcdonalds employees are actively on strike from this location due to what they say is an unhealthy working condition. Now, take a look at this video captured inside by a worker where you can see a live rat on the counter. Now the mcdonalds employees say they have found rat eating food prepared for customers. The workers have now filed a formal complaint to cal osha with the help from the California Fast Food Workers union. When i saw that he is i was his is disgusting. And so this is problem not just the employees working on these conditions, but also for the coastal the communities i also spoke with the Alameda County Health Department about these concerns. I was told the location did receive an annual inspection back in february and no violations were found. And once we share some of these allegations made by the employees, the Department Said they would be sending an inspector by to investigate. And thats what we saw on friday. And i did reach out to mcdonalds earlier before the store closure and they sent us this statement from the owner and operator joseph wong. It reads in part, its important that employees have a safe place to come to work. When we became aware of the issue, we immediately contacted pest control and continue to work with them to address this. And we will continue to follow this story and were hoping to learn more about what the next steps are for this mcdonalds location. In the newsroom going kron. 4 news. Well, 9. 38 is the time in the south bay highway 9 is going to be closing in saratoga for 3 days starting on wednesday. Caltrans says crews are going to have to work on the Saratoga Creek bridge, which you see there in the video. The roads going to be closed from 9 at night till 7 in the morning. Again, thats every night starting wednesday. So wednesday night, thursday night and friday night, that bridge will not be available. Theyre hoping to have this all done by saturday. 9. 30, a and the mayor wants a new entertainment zone in downtown San Francisco. She says that she wants to allow restaurants and bars to sell alcohol during outdoor events. And hang out with your friends and have a beer. And listen to music without going through some lengthy city process sound permit drama, stuff. I am trying to get rid of the bureaucracy which takes aw y the fun in what so many are Small Businesses are trying to create to continue to ensure that the vibrancy and the excitement of why people love San Francisco remains. The mayors legislation is going to be introduced tomorrow at the board of supervisors meeting meantime, local employers are looking to fill 800 positions throughout San Francisco. So if youre looking for a job, the place to go is the 3rd annual hospitality and Small Business job fair. Its in front of the Ferry Building day after tomorrow. Wednesday from 10 in the morning into one in the afternoon. There will be more than 50 employers ready to see your resume. Well, San Francisco isnt the only city trying to boost its downtown. San jose opened up shops over the weekend to try revitalize the area. And the mayor was on hand for it. Welcoming 5 new Retail Businesses in 2 storefronts. All local womenowned businesses offering Retail Experience that highlights our citys unique energy and personality. Shops include a plant nursery, a candle making store and several unique gift shops that feature imported goods. Well, speaking of ports, the port of oaklands free harbor tours returns this friday. Its an hour and a half tour narrated. Organizers say its a unique opportunity for you to see the port up close while also enjoying a sunset cruise along the oakland estuary in the San Francisco bay. The season runs through october and you can reserve your tickets online. Now. Its 09 40am, and it might be a good time to pick up at the berkeley. Humane society has a pints for paws event coming up next month on june. 1st, the tickets are 95. And for that, you get a belgian beer glass, unlimited tastings of local craft beers, wines and ciders. And to celebrate this, the Berkeley Humane Society is waiving all of their adoption fees for the whole month of may. So if you want to adopt a pet, nows a good time. Its 9. 41. And still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news is while life sorry, wildfire preparedness weeks. And this marks a time when youre supposed to get out there and do some things to cut the risk of wildfire. Well tell you why. Could you go without your smartphone . How one couple is capitalizing on the dump own movement with an online store selling devices to reduc 9. 44 is the time in california is getting ready for wildfire season. We have both cal fire and Governor Newsom now bringing awareness to just how different state organizations are preparing. For instance, cal fires been using controlled burns and Vegetation Management to trying to lower the amount of natural fuel thats available for fires. Governor newsom reported that theyve actually treated more than 100,000 acres last year again, hoping to reduce the intensity of any wildfires that should break out. And from fire to ice. Now rare may snowstorm bring in a lot of snow to the sierra this weekend. Palisades tahoe, in fact, said they got more than 2 feet of snow in 24 hours. Thats a lot in one short period of time. And as you can see, it made driving, especially on 80 50 pretty difficult. There were a lot of delays, a lot of spin outs. And in this case, this is video of too big rigs. It had to be towed along interstate 80 because they couldnt hack it. It is where you that people are yesterday skiing. Yes, with 2 feet of fresh powder. Yeah. And john and i are sailing. Theres its just wacky around the bay. What you can do depends on where you are. John. Good morning. Its so true. Thats variety in california. That is makes it so unique, though. And i know you could literally go sailing one day and the today be up there in the mountains, enjoying some fresh may snowfall in the sierra. This is your deck at diamond peak right here. As you can see, those harder surfaces where it typically melts off. Quick are still seeing that couple inches of snow, multiple feet of it this year over the weekend, still making for some great ski conditions today. She can see from this live. Look now for the bay area. We saw a good amount of rainfall over the weekend. Mount tam on saturday got over 2 inches of rain, Half Moon Bay over an inch of it as nearly an inch of it. This in many cases exceeded your monthly totals on average for may in just the course of a few hours. So that shows you that really really remarkable rainfall was on saturday. Skies obviously have since dried out. Yesterday was a nice and sunny and cool. One snow is now well out into the rockies and in fact, a risk of Severe Weather for the Central United states today from this very same system. In the meantime, here in the bay areas most, the rest of the state were just coming down and seeing conditions warming up gradually through the course of this forecast ahead of us this week is going to come along with the return to normal mayweather today is still going to be a little cooler than average. If you liked yesterdays cool conditions. Cool sunshine for most of us today is going to be repeat of that. And if you do just generally like cooler weather, especially for those of you inland, were about to get a lot hotter today. And tomorrow are your days to enjoy as much as you can. Oakland at 64 today, pretty similar to san ramon further inland and only at 65 fairfield and vacaville right at 70 degrees. Only spots getting into the low 70s tomorrow. Well still be relatively cool. But after that, the heat is back with 80s inland. Even some 80s along the bay shore by thursday. Michael. Thanks, jen. Good morning, everyone. The time is 9. 47. Taking a look at your roads this morning. 101 is looking fairly good. For the most part. All lanes are back open. Just some residual delays in the san mateo area. There was a collision there. But again, all is well taking a look at 101 a little bit more in the south bay san jose to menlo park. A 33 minute commute. Taking a look over at 6. 80, southbound lanes, dublin to fremont 19 minute commute and some overall drive times for those are a little bit more inland livermore to dublin 12 minutes, dublin to fremont. 19 minutes, san leandro to milpitas. 31 minutes milpitas to sunnyvale. 7 minutes. A look over in the antioch area. Everything is clear there. Any end to concord. Only a 15 minute commute. Those who are in vallejo heading over towards the kraken, everything looks well there westbound he its 17 minute drive from the crockett to the maze and then taking a look at our bridges. Richmond, sandra fell bridge. Its a sevenminute commute that bay bridge, those metering lights are on. Its a 60 minute commute into the city from the maze and the san mateo bridge. Its a 13 minute commute over that. Lastly, the Golden Gate Bridge sent a 21 minute commute. So all looks well here. Darren james, well send it over to you. Thank you very much, michael 9. 48. Is the time and happening tomorrow, the man accused of killing a shop owner in San Franciscos Richmond District will have his first preliminary hearing. Santos de la rose is accused of beating to death. 60 yearold johannes to wal d with a baseball bat outside a Convenience Store on balboa street. It happened in august of last year. Thats when police say 2 while they tried to stop rosa from shoplifting to all the time of his injuries 5 days later. And de la rosa now faces several charges, including murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Again, hell be in court at 9 oclock tomorrow morning. Suzanne airbnbs, those are going to be 2 hot tomorrows agenda for the marin county board of supervisors meeting the supervisors are planning to discuss Overdose Prevention strategies and regulations for shortterm rentals like airbnbs and vrbo the board will also go over the countys plan on aging. Are you no refrigerator left side of history that impacts us whether we realize it or not, our families are not trash to where they should live in a community that has here you see volunteers gathering to beautify san jose over the weekend. And mayor matt mahan posting this on a social media of the big event where everybody picked litter. And picked up some big, for example, look at that discarded pieces of furniture just on the side of the road. They cleaned up road signs as well. And the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Mayor mahan says the goal here is to create a cleaner and safer city. Apple is inviting you that loosing cupertino tech giant hosting one of their fame is unveiling events. At 7 oclock in the morning tomorrow, the question is, what do they mean by let loose . Thats the slogan and they wont tell us anything else about what is the product. What are they going to be tweaking or leasing. If you look at some rumors online, they say maybe its something about the ipad. But that loosening vocal music well, maybe should be let go because theres one couple and thats done something about this new trend now among younger people to sort of let go of smartphones and adopt dumb phones in snow release. Flip it closely. Split a climate that will is kick the habit. Rich demuro has more. William stoltz was using a smartphone for 6 hours a day when he decided enough is enough. I think theyre designed to be used as much as possible and to give you everything you want instantaneously, which is a really cool idea. But it ends up being counterproductive. Sometimes. Along with his partner daisy, they decided to adopt a less screen filled lifestyle and help others do the same. Some people just cant function with the how addictive the smartphone currently is. They started a website called dumb wireless dot com. We should just make a onestop shop for the best non smartphone so people easily make the switch if they want to try it each morning, they check for sales, printout labels, pack up devices and send them off. This was ready to ones off to texas phones range from a simple flip to a smartphone with a small screen. Youll naturally want to use less. I really think that its. More human to spend less time on the screen. Theres also a phone with the kindle like display. So its less enticing and an nfc gadget that physically locks you out of your phone and the only way to unlock it. Now you have to unlock it. And tap the tag allow and now going minimal isnt for everyone. But the benefits are clear. I think you create opportunities to connect with people are eliminated when youre already preoccupied. And if youre thinking theres no way i can go without a smart phone because i need my camera. Well, theyve got that covered, too, with the camp snapped. This is a point and shoot camera. Take pictures digitally. The camera is 65. Phones range from 50 to 300. Its just to find a way to have a better relationship attack, especially if its really, really getting in the way of b your productivity, your your relationships. All right, 9. 52 is the time to give that a it. Saturday. 9. 55. Is the time. And in sports news today, mason black will be making his mlb debut for the giants. He was called up from the Sacramento River cats. The beginning of the season. Bob melvin, the owner said that the well, this could be a very special day for him. So a lot of folks will be watching todays game with that story line in mind. The giants are going to be finishing up their series against the phillies. First pitch is at 1 oclock this afternoon. And as for the as, well, they lost to the marlins yesterday, a whopping 12 to 3. Theyre going to take the rangers on tonight. First pitch at 6. 40. Lets see if they can get another winning streak going. Well, students around the bay area are going to be breaking out their big wheels and rollerblades and bicycles and Running Shoes too. For wednesdays National Walk bike and roll to school day marin. Santa clara and solano counties are all Planning Special events throughout the day for those students, National Walk bike and roll to school day is held every year. And a teacher students about Street Safety and how to make the environment cleaner and all around the healthier habits as well. Its 9. 56. And coming up next on the kron 4 morning news. Waymo is driving into a new area of the bay. Were going explain. Were going to see more of these Autonomous Vehicles and Governor Newsom. Were going to see him on top of the Golden Gate Bridge with a big announcement for the state and San Francisco. And a celebration ends with 2 people going to the hospital in Critical Condition. There was something that happened in san jose. Tamar, Cinco De Mayo jose. Tamar, Cinco De Mayo will have more. ominous music ominous music girl sydney, whats up . Sydney nothing. Girl are you ok . ominous music girl talk to me. Just shut up nicotines a neurotoxin that can escalate teen irritability. kron. 4 morning news. 2 people are in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries after a stabbing in san jose waymo gets the green light to drive more cars throughout the bay area. Could be more proud announce today record breaking tourism numbers in the state of california. And Governor Newsom a top the Golden Gate Bridge with a big announcement about california being tops for tourists. From the game, local news station, youre watching you. Morning team. Good morning and thanks for waking with us on a monday. We are starting off this whole. Month of may wacky way. All say john, between the snow, the rain,