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And we are going to see that sunshine a little quicker than we did that yesterday. For those of you that are in the gray, san jose, youre one of those spots. In fact, were seeing that stretching all the way up the bayshore on up into the north bay, even a few spots along the carquinez marine layer but enough. So to have that cooling effect this morning, burning off quicker means warming, great care. And daytime highs today will be just a touch warmer than yesterdays oakland and alameda at 53 degrees right now looking at pacific as well as a few spots in the north bay. Down in the 40s later on daytime highs. Lot of 70s in a few more 80s than yesterday. Ill give you all the details. Still to come in your full forecast rain. All right, john, thank you for good news. Weve been tracking that overturned big rig in 80 westbound west grant. And now looks like theyve got things back up, right . At least still that west grand avenue exit. If you are into going into the city this morning, its still closed because they got to get this now told off of that overpass. There showing you exactly where that is on your screen right up here. As for that big rig overturned. So its been about 3 hours now and at least they got it back up, right . So well be watching. But toll that off no major delays traveling into the city is not really impacting any the traffic along 80. If you are going hit the road. San mateo bridge about 20 minutes, were starting to pick up along 8. 80, in the east bay. 12 minute ride. Richmond, sandra fell bridge is still looking really good. And the golden gate bridge. 22 minutes. The fog is not really slowing you down there too much. All right, james, back to you. All right. Want to get to our top story now. A date is set for the recall election of Alameda County District Attorney pamela price. Voters will decide in the november general election. That question we have kron fours will tran live in Alameda County. Thats a date thats apparently good for one side, not for the other. Now the other side, the people who want her out of her job, they actually wanted to decide this as early as august. Lets get right to the video last night. Many people on both sides of the issue, those for and against pamela price. They showed up at county board of supervisors meeting in Alameda County and they voice their opinions. Now, supporters say november 5th is fair because thats when she won her position in 2022. During the general election, they also believe more people will turn out during that time. So a bigger sample size is good for District Attorney pamela price. Now people who want her recalled, they want a special election, a standalone election because they want this issue settled sooner than later. But ultimately the board of supervisors unanimously voted november 5th because it was a lot cheaper. Then a special election both sides of the issue with reaction. Da price won her election fairly. It should be allowed to serve her entire term. This recall is ridiculous. So many businesses that are closing down because they are the da is not prosecuting. These criminals says the selective recall election. Has violated the county charter. It is actually illegal and undemocratic. All we want is justice. Accountability for the citizens. Alameda county. People want her recalled and were talking 75,000 and more signatures verified even get it to this particular point. They believe pamela price is soft on crime and soft on suspects. And thats why they want her out of the job. But supporters, they obviously dont. And they are looking forward to november 5th when in Alameda County, there are 960,000 registered voters. And just a final break down a general election for this will cost about 4 Million Dollars, a special election as much as 20 Million Dollars. And that is why they chose the cheaper option of 4 Million Dollars. Back to you. Thank you very much. Well 704, and new this morning, teachers in the south bay are rallying this morning. Theyre demanding better pay. Yeah, they want that and other things on the bargaining table as a talk with the district now proffers Michael Thomas following it all from los gatos. Michael. Hey, good morning, everyone. Teachers and some parents are going to be here this morning at 7. 45. Rallying for better pay. They see there are some of the lowest paid in the entire county. Take a look. This is general video that we have of Los Gatos High School now today at around 7. 45, or so los gatos saratoga, High School District Teachers Association plan to rally for awareness here in Los Gatos High School asking for that was better salaries saying the district is not paying them livable wages for them to live here. In addition, they say that most teachers also have to take on second jobs just to survive in this area. Lastly, theyre asking for smaller class sizes and more help when it comes to specialty classes saying its all about student safety back out here live again. Its set to start within the next hour or so. Were hoping to not only from some of those teachers, but possibly some parents. As for now, well send it back to live in the studio. Michael, thank you. Time now 705. And we want to get to the north bay and show you a map of where this happened. There was a shooting and a man was killed yesterday afternoon in vallejo. As you can see it happen on marquette avenue. By the time police got there, they had found the victim with a gunshot wound in use taken to the hospital where he died. We dont have his name at this point or anything surrounding the shooting. So well keep you posted. Well, meantime, an east bay Fremont Police are investigating now after several vehicles were vandalized at the tesla factory in fremont yesterday. They say several parked vehicles had their tires damaged. On the peninsula. A motorist was killed in a crash that happened last night on southbound 2. 80, right near redwood city. The california Highway Patrol says it was a Hyundai Accent and a pickup truck that crashed into each other near the edgewood off a road offramp. They say theyre trying right now to confirm which of those 2 drivers died. On the peninsula, a San Mateo County man is in jail. Hes accused of having with a child younger than 14 Redwood City Police arrested 19 yearold andre gomes yesterday in east palo alto. They say the incident happened in redwood city and now theyre investigating to see if there are any other victims involved. San jose police are asking for your help. They want to locate a man who sexually assaulted awesome. One. 50 yearold Julian Martinez is accused of pulling a young girl under 14 freeway overpass and sexually assaulting her. The attack happened on april 9th. You can some of those photos here. The girl managed to fight him off and then he took off on a bike. Well take a look at this video thats going viral on tiktok. It shows charging cables cut had a tesla charging station of the layup. The thieves are believed to targeted the stations in order to get the copper from inside the cables. All of the charging stations are back in service this morning. But kron 4, sarah spence and spoke to the person who posted that video. All the charging josh posted this now viral tiktok showing tesla charging cables slashed in stolen from multiple charging stalls on sunday. This happening at a tesla supercharger station in vallejo. Behind the target on admiral callaghan lane. And i noticed that only at. Couple other tesla charging stations had not been cut. After looking at one of the cut cables, becker says he knew exactly what happened and the suns have a little copper poor so i catch it spent 17 years investigating these kinds of crime we would find generators in the back of big box retailers stripped of their copper right now. Copper sells for 3, a pound on average and you get up to around 10 to 12 miles. And youre looking to push probably 100 pounds. Tesla quickly replace the charging cables on monday. But 8 stalls remained offline until tuesday night at 7 oclock. Im glad it didnt take all of the copper cause. I actually was pretty low right now. I had like outlets. So that would be pretty bad as that some push and i hope it doesnt happen again. Clears tiktok got nearly 1 million views in just 48 hours. He says while its angered a lot of people, he wants everyone to know that stealing copper is not a fast track to cash. You really had to work hard and then. Take it to a, you know, recycling center. God knows how far down the road strip it just a symptom of. How desperate someone can be and how far theyre willing to work to put a couple of dollars on the table. The tesla charges are back online and working. Says the Security Guard is the one who filed a police report. We reached out to vallejo police, but we did not hear back in time for this report. We have seen security monitoring the station. Im sara stinson reporting in vallejo kron. 4 news. 79 is the time and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news concerns of covid cases rising. Once again, were going to tell you about a new variant that Health Officials are warning you about. Plus San Jose State University orders protesters to clear their encampments. They may get in trouble now with the university. And today is going to be a little bit warmer than yesterday was that will get us into the low 60s at the coast where as our inland and bay shore cities in the 70s 80s, full forecast. Still ahead. Weve been following an overturned big rig along 80 west west grand. That overpass here on your screen. Thats shut down for the past few shut down for the past few hours, but they network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. Were up to 12 times faster than verizon, at t, and tmobile. And existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds. At no additional cost. Its ultimate speed for ultimate business. Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to comcast business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today 7. 12 right now checking out the weather with the weather is not less great than was yesterday and i think temperatures are yeah, were going to warm towards the middle of the week which is kind of right around now. Good morning jog. Yeah, i think you saw this camera, daria, that looks wet, right . Its little misty out there. But yeah. Its just cool. We are warming a little bit. Says james mentioned temperatures today will climb into the low 60s at the coast. And even though that marine layer is very present towards the coast, actually burns off a little quicker than it did yesterday and temps are going to warm just a little bit further. All are changes in this forecast are very shallow changes. Its kind of some light ups and downs, know roller coaster weather fog at the coast. Warm inland. And yeah, daytime highs today rising a little bit further for inland areas that will take more of us into the 80s coastal spots. I expect some 60s for you now we will see a return of marine layer fog into tomorrow. And i do expect that to be a little bit denser, but also burning off pretty quickly in today. And tomorrow are ever so slightly. The warmer days of the forecast. Highs in the 60s for San Francisco and for the coast and looking at a lot of 70s along the bay shore today for a few of us like redwood city getting close to 80 degrees right along the bay. Some low 80s for the south bay with san jose. And campbell is 82 solid 80s for the tri valley today. Heyward up to oakland. Youll be in. The 70s will are very warm. A spot today is vacaville just shy of 90 degrees for your wednesday. Santa rosa also reaching the low 80s tomorrow. Very similar to today. Likely not quite as hot but very similar friday, saturday and sunday, just a little bit cooler by the end of the weekend. In fact, will be in the mid 70s inland. A nice break from those warmer temps, rain. All right, john, thank you for that. Keeping a close eye on 80 westbound west grant. And at least to the big rig is back. Right . Weve been following the story throughout the morning for at least the past 3 hours. Big rig overturned the Early Morning hours and shut down the overpass. Overpass still shut down. But the big freeze back up, right . No longer overturned. And but its still closed up there. So you still cant take that if you are going to be traveling. Hopefully within the next hour, they able to pull that off of the overpass and open things back up. It has a really big of issue for the bay bridge, though, if youre traveling into the city to fremont street exit, still going take you just 20 minutes to those folks to exit off of that over am 20 minute ride on the mateo bridge. 8. 80, starting to pick up just a little bit in the east bay, 101 by 7 minutes. Last check in. Were at 30 minutes. We got up 7 to 88 e 2 good options but not necessary in the Early Morning hours like this. So then the 2. 37. About 33 minutes. 5, 88, 80, both pretty light. Well, looks like 5. 80, a little congestion might be a better alternate if youre trying to decide between the 2 along 80 crockett up towards the maze. But 30 minute you start to build soon as you hit san pablo james, back to you. Thank you very much. Rain 7. 15, is the time at highway one in big sur is reopening to traffic this friday. Part of that highway collapsed. You may remember last march following one of our winter storms. It happened just after a mile of just about a mile north of the famous bixby bridge. Crews say when it reopens on friday, they are going to have some signals there because this will be oneway traffic getting around that area in both directions. Youre going alternate. There is a projec3 to construct a permanent repair on that highway. But thats currently in the design phase. But theyre hoping to have it finished by spring of next year, 7. 16, and the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are opening an office. For Asylum Seekers in oakland. Its located on clay street and it opens today. Its just a temporary location. However, they still have that office in San Francisco, but theyre looking to increase the capacity there and hold asylum interviews. The agency is urging applicants double check your interview. Notice because you can now expect to have a notice to attend an interview at either the San Francisco or the new oakland office. In the east bay, a group of city workers and Union Leaders rallied at Oakland City Hall yesterday. They are demanding answers to the allegations that the city failed to collect millions of dollars in taxes from businesses in oakland. Officials estimate nearly 35 million in unpaid business taxes still outstanding with some businesses failing to file their taxes altogether. Union leaders and workers are asking for more transparency and a better system when it comes to collecting taxes. For your health, a new set of coronavirus variants known as flirt is now sparking concerns about a potential uptick in cases this summer. Officials say for 2 weeks in april, the variant made up about 28 of new cases across the country. Ucsf Infectious Disease expert doctor peter chin. Hong says many of the symptoms are similar to previous variants of covid. Yeah, its probably going to be very similar doesnt mean that everybody is going out of a mild you know, were still seeing covid in the hospital, believe it or not, just not that just the lowest point in the pandemic. But common theme of everyone that ive seen last with serious diseases that they didnt get a single vaccine in the last year. Doctor chinhong is encouraging everyone now to get their updated vaccine so they dont fall into that camp, particularly older people. And those with compromised immune systems. Also for your health this morning, travel experts say that americans are looking for adventure this summer and new Inflation Numbers were just released. In fact, weve got jane king standing by in new york at the nasdaq to talk more about the stories. Good morning, james. James, good morning to you. So its an Inflation Report day the Consumer Price index us what we got. It says a basket of goods and services and how much they cost compared to previous times and yearoveryear. This basket continues to go up. 3. 4 . That is what we thought. Now. 70 of that gain was gas and housing. U. S. Household debt has reached a record and more borrowers are struggling to keep up. Federal reserve data says the persistent rise the prices of essentials like food and rent of strain budgets thats pushed people to borrow against their credit cards to pay for necessities. In fact, as of march 3. 2 of outstanding debt in the u. S. Was in some stage of delinquency. Well, americans and travelers around the world continue to place a high priority on a summer vacations. Tripadvisor says 95 of respondents are planning to travel as much or more than last summer. Thats despite some worries about the economy and over a quarter of americans are planning. Its been 5,000 or more on their getaways. Americans are looking for adventure. The Top International destination is cancun, mexico in the top u. S. Destinations. Las vegas. Finally, some mcdonalds customers are bidding a bitter farewell to free drink refills of latest casualty of inflation. A company rep told business insider, but charging for refills will be left at the discretion of the individual Restaurant Owners and operators. Mcdonalds tends to be a leader in the industry very often when they make a change like this other restaurants follow suit live from the Nasdaq Market site. Im jane king back to james wright la so to refill stations are out where customers are be kind of hard to police that well see. Thank you, jane. All right. In the east bay, tesla now is accused of violating federal clean air acts. Hundreds of times by letting its fremont plant emit harmful pollutants. Thats the charge in this lawsuit filed by the nonprofit. Called environmental democracy project. It says that elon musks Company Exposed nearby residents and workers to excess nitrogen oxides, arsenic and other chemicals, mainly through its paint Shop Operations was back in february. The tesla agreed to pay 1. 5 Million Dollars to settle a separate lawsuit by more than 2 dozen counties claiming that it mishandled Hazardous Waste at locations across california. A new study finds abortions in the u. S. Are increasing. Researchers at uc San Francisco. Notice this happening despite the u. S. Supreme courts decision overturning roe v wade in 2022. In 2023, there were 86,000 abortions per month in the u. S. There are about 82,000 abortions per month, the year before the increase took place, even as 14 states have total abortion bans. The study says the increase is due to telehealth consultations where patients talk to doctors and other state women can get Abortion Pills providers in states that are protected by shield laws. Its 7. 21, coming up on the kron. 4 morning news. Another store closes. In union square. Theyre moving to the peninsula. Will take a look. And another incident involving a united flight headed to San Francisco airport. We had to make an emergency return after taking emergency return after taking off. Well tell you why. get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. Network is no contac thats why moreailer choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. Were up to 12 times faster than verizon, at t, and tmobile. And existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds. At no additional cost. Its ultimate speed for ultimate business. Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to comcast business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today 7. 24 is the time taking a live look here at sfo. We got word that United Airlines flight out of singapore bound for San Francisco was forced to turn around and go back to singapore now because of engine troubles. That wasnt boeing 7. 87 aircraft. Officials say it had more than 200 people on board at the time everybody landed safely. Theyre going to be rebooked later today on to another flight to get back here to the bay area. But this is the latest in a series of incidents related to united aircraft, many of which have involved flights to sfo. So that flight eventually land safely. Meanwhile, Surveillance Video captures the terrifying moment that the nose of a delta plane burst into flames. Look to see the smoke coming out of the nose of the aircraft. It happened last night after the flight flight 604, landed at Seattle Seatac airport. It was coming from cancun, mexico. The aircraft is carrying 189 passengers. 2 pilots, 4 flight attendants. Investigators say that fire started when an electrical cord that was plugged into the plane shorted out. Delta airlines is everybody on the plane managed to deplane safely. The irs is warning if you use a tax preparer and you claiming get some, you know, lets say that how you can get some extra cash do in your tax return a certain way and get refund. You can get in trouble for filing fake or incorrect tax return. The irs warns you not to fall for any scammers. They say, for example, that they can use the fuel tax and the sick and family leave or Household Employment tax credit when you dont qualify for those some tax preparers. Also, falsley claim fictional household employees for credits. So they just say that, you know, beware because any amount fraud or failure or you know anything that suspect on tax return. Youre the one that pays the price and youre the one that is responsible, not a tax preparer. Next on the kron 4 morning news. Give the homeless treatment, not jail time. Thats the message from Community Leaders in San Francisco will see how they. Thank the Overdose Deaths in the city and the homeless in the city and the homeless problem should be dealt with. ominous music yes, ahh mom what is going on with you . Get out andy get out of my room get out mom andy. Fight fight i didnt say anything. Yes you did. ominous music ominous music welcome back. It is 7. 20, right now and you can see thats easy. Little some spots have a lot of sun this morning already and more on the way for this afternoon. Good morning, john. Yeah, weve got a little bit of a grey this morning, but a plenty of sunshine later today. Were already seeing that sunshine per inland areas, but obviously not right here at the golden gate. Nor in some of our other views across the bay. This is your view from up above that blanket of cloud cover that shrouding a lot of us out this morning from mount tam. Now we do have some drizzle at the coast, but generally this fog is sitting just above us just above bridge level, which is good news for visibility. Actually going to burn off pretty quickly. Cool sea breeze, a little calmer today and that will allow temperatures to climb a bit further. Right now were sitting in the 50s all across the bay. A few low 40s mixed in later on today, though, its going to be all about the 70s and a lot more 80s than we had yesterday. The details in your forecast. Still ahead, rain. All right, john, thank you for that. Were still waiting for at 80 westbound west grand to reopen. Overturned big rig about few hours ago. And thats been the holdup here. Theyve been slowly but steadily get things back up, right. So now we still need to off of the highway there. The overpass just as youre approaching the bay bridge is where thats located right at the air. Its where everythings been going on. Not impact in any of the traffic flow into the city right now about 21 minutes for that drive or send it over around. 23 80 to 101, center fell bridge just short of 15 minutes of things are starting to pick up there. Were about 7 minutes last few times i checked things are growing and a 30 minute ride. The fog that youre seeing not really showing slowing you down too much today, but one of the north bay is just a little sluggish darya. James, back to you. Thanks a lot. Lets get to the big story that were following this morning, which is the status of the protest, the bay area colleges that have seen student protesters. 3 weeks. Kids have been camped out and others that uc berkeley and that ended yesterday for weeks, the campus of popped campuses across the bay students demanding universities cut ties. With israel as to other universities now set deadlines for students to clear up the tents that theyve set up. Yeah, and those deadlines for yesterday. Lets take a look at the encampment at cow. As it stood yesterday, students have been there for 3 weeks at sproul hall and the chancellor. Sent a letter out yesterday saying that the School Leaders and the demonstrators has halved reached an agreement. And that the university for its part would be creating a committee to look over the investments they have in israel. They say they will be able to fully divest, but they are going to look into specifically weapons, manufacturing and surveillance industry investment. Meantime, student protesters at San Francisco state also reach an agreement with the administration after more than 2 weeks of demonstrating, the Group Announced that the schools president and other leaders have committed to divest from weapons manufacturers. And create workforce to develop new screenings for investments. The student protesters scheduled a press conference for this afternoon to discuss the matter further and in the south san jose state, there was a deadline of yesterday at 06 00pm that the school gave for the protesters to clear out their encampment. But as kron 4 jack moment reports, they have no plans to leave any time soon. What started as daytime the states campus is now a 24 7 encampment. Because i understand that our campus is very silent and complicit with not only genocide, but also as 9 isnt. Around 70 protesters asking the university to abide by their demands. Professor of justice studies saying kill is the adviser for some of the students here. The students in solidarity each other decided to launch a Popular University for gaza. And another point of contention is tommy smith, the 1960, at olympia who famously raised his fist and the support of human rights posted an instagram. His support for the protesters said as a state. On the other hand, says they for the opposite from smith and the other and libyan bear. John carlos, i do think that makes the administration a little bit nervous about this encampment, even existing so close to graduation. Meantime, back on campus, the deadline to move out has passed. No police and no forcing out saying kill says she iants to keep advocating for her students. So thats why i risk my own skin in order to protect their right to free speech and Academic Freedom to speak out against this genocide. Now officials with san jose state tell me that many of the students and of violating the student code of conduct what that punishment may look like remains to be seen with the administration telling me were just so close to graduation. Reporting in san jose, jackie moment kron 4 thank you, jack. Well, from san jose to San Francisco now where students at ucsf are also given a deadline of 03 00pm yesterday by School Leaders. To leave these encampments or face consequences. Just like at san jose state. They instead held a rally. The schools graduation, as we know is on saturday. And these demonstrators say they are prepared to stay at the encampment even beyond graduatoon if their demands arent met. Says the suspension or explosion. So you are at risk of being suspended or expelled. And we just think thats a scare tactic. We think that we understand that we have so much power as a collective of what we did here. Either encampment has been really unifying for all of us. Well, the university has been in talks with those protesters. They say theyve been working to keep an open dialogue. In a statement, the University Says there are no plans right now to clear those encampments or involve law enforcement. As long as the demonstrators to remain peaceful and nonviolent. The family of a man who died after being in Police Custody in antioch has settled with that city now for 7 and a half Million Dollars, the Antioch City Council voted to approve the settlement in a closed session. The civil rights suit against the city was filed on behalf of the family of 30 yearold angelo keto was a Filipino American veteran who died bikes fix em after being knelt on the neck by antioch police. According to the lawsuit, can tell was forcibly restrained during what his family says was a Mental Health emergency back in december of 2020. Its 7. 35, and the sand with a City Council Unanimously approved a resolution to regulate smoke and vape shops in the city. This resolution would require a conditional use permit to operate a vape and smoke shop. It introduced into the city theyre hoping that the to curb illegal activity such as cannabis and magic mushroom sales that are happening inside the stores. And this is in response to an increased concern, particularly about young people getting a hold of these products. There has been a growing number of smoke and vape shops in the city of san jose. Theres one shoppers reactions. San francisco about the closure of a highend jewelry store. Sure, even company, they have a whole building and store San Francisco and theyre going to be moving now those headquarters to palo alto. And with news of this Real Estate Experts say that other businesses are already waiting to take that spot in union square. Were actually in advanced negotiations with the local tenant to take the entire ground floor and potentially the mezzanine as well for a very special concept. The store, a sharif is going to be having a big sale starting friday with discounts and jewelry and watches of up to 60 off. American eagle outfitters is out of San Francisco, closing their store in the San Francisco center. This comes from a state filings on Employment Development website. We know that in september last year, American Eagle sued westfield for breach of their lease agreement. And overall unsafe work conditions for employees. And that shortly after westfield announced hes leaving the mall. And since then, several other wellknown retailers, including nordstrom lego and hollister, also decided to leave the San Francisco center. American eagles last dating shop there at San Francisco centers june. 12th. In the east bay, a 22 yearold hayward man riding a scooter was killed in a fatal collision with a car. It happened near the intersection of mission boulevard and orchard avenue last wednesday when officials arrived, they found the scooter rider unresponsive suffered from injuries that he later succumbed to at the hospital. The driver was unharmed. Police say drugs or alcohol are not believed to have been factors in this crash. But this is the citys 4th fatal collision this year. Health workers and Community Groups are demanding San Francisco do more to prevent Overdose Deaths. And that includes the argument that the problem is only made worse if drug users face the risk of incarceration instead of treatment, trump horse. Catherine heenan has the story. Members of the Group Carried signs that said things like care, not cages in dealing with addicts. They argue against what they call car several measures and other words, jail or prison time in 2023. We saw a crackdown on drug users. The sheriffs were activated to arrest. People use drugs in the heart of our city. 60 of those arrests involved. People of see the ways that disrupts peoples lives and actually contributes to Overdose Deaths. District attorney Brooke Jenkins sees the problem in a very different light. I think the fact that we have enabled drug use that we have condoned it and weve allowed it is what has caused this problem to everyone that i talked to who is in recovery right now, it has been successful, said that it was the criminal Justice System that really propelled to decide that treatment was what they needed for themselves. They had to be forced in a way to make that choice for what was best for them. And so thats all that were trying to do is to make sure that we protect the most vulnerable from drug dealers, but also use this system to try to to to influence people to choose a better life for themselves. Coalition members argue that crackdown measures only lead to more overdoses. They say San Francisco needs to spend more money on prevention, treatment and Community Care facilities and say treatment should be available on demand. No waiting. We put so many barriers in peoples way from meeting to have id from meeting to show up at a certain place at a certain time of day. Wait, lance. But among those agreeing that tougher measures are critical supervisor matt dorsey, who has overcome his own drug problems, he says with progress being made to reduce street level drug scenes advocating to turn San Francisco streets into arrest free for all of public drug use is a lunatic fringe and are key, not sound Public Health strategy. We have an obligation. As a body of government to intervene and help people again choose to a life worth living. Catherine heenan kron. 4 news. Well, a controversial plan from San Francisco city leaders to give free alcohol to Homeless People suffering from alcoholism is getting some pushback. The cityrun initiative is called the managed Alcohol Program or map for short. And its been around for about 4 years. It cost the city roughly 20 Million Dollars in total supporters say the goal isnt to eliminate alcohol use, but rather the keep individuals at a quote, safe level of intoxication with the goal of increasing their safety and overall quality of life. But critics say this is only making the problem worse and the city should instead be focusing on helping these people beat their addiction. Wheres the medical supervision for when someone does hit that Tipping Point . If we were treating politics as attics, then we would find a substitute to that is don addicted. That would help their brain and a comparable way. Well, we did reach out to San Franciscos department of Public Health for comment. We havent heard back, but well let you know when we do. Its 7. 41 and still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, were learning new details about the 5 yearold boy who drowned behind a home in Bethel Island. And we are looking at a day today that will bring some low 60s to the coastline. A little peek of sunshine out that way. Where is the rest of us . Lot of sunshine and some us . Lot of sunshine and some 70s to even low 80s for get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. 7. 44 is the time and rafting companies will be running on the Truckee River near tahoe city this season. And thats noteworthy because last year they were unable to do that. The water flowing out of the tahoe damning to the Truckee River is regulated by the federal government flows have been to to allow for rafting, even with all the snow we had last season, the flow from the dam never really met the criteria. We had tons of snow. And because of that, the runoff was really heavy. So because so much runoff with hitting reno, they werent letting any water out of the lake up here. Just minimum flow, which isnt rest or aft. Yeah. But this season, lake tahoes nearly full for the First Time Since 2019 and water regulators have already notified rafting companies that they can run in july and august Truckee River raft company in Truckee River rafting are both taking reservations right now for those 2 months. And there is hope the season could actually started june. If federal regulators decide to increase the flow sirleaf on viewed on the float you to versus the actual white water year after once. Yeah. And up in the water, i just looked at my foot in there. Im like, nah, whatsapp, fun. Jon actually keeping an eye on conditions here and up in the sierra we seeing right now is that were talking about the sierra thought. Id show this fee right here of half dome up in Yosemite National park. Still got some snowfall in those upper peaks that is going to be flowing into those mountain streams like the merced river. So do expect high water levels over the next couple of weeks. Really frigid waters. Take it easy when youre up there to the sierra and maybe not rafting season just yet. Also, glacier peak road is open back up. And that means that people will be seen in this camera. Now its a nice little addition to yosemite after a couple years of construction there. Now we are going to be looking at conditions today that are a little foggy towards the coast. Lots of sunshine elsewhere, High Pressure ridge to the west, low to the east. Its pretty typical weather for this time of year. Warm inland, foggy in cooler towards the coast. Todays marine layer is a little less deep than yesterday. That means that burns off quicker and we are going to see daytime highs a little bit warmer. Daytime highs in San Francisco rising into the 60s towards the coastline. Also some low 60s. Where is the bayshore pretty solidly in the 70s today and for a couple of us, redwood city and mountain, even close to 80 degrees. South bay temps in the low 80s for the most part. And even a couple of the mid 80s in some spots like dublin up to 85 oakland, youll be at 70 while berkeley and richmond in upper 60s vacaville. Our warmest spot on the map today near 90 degrees. Today is ever so slightly. The warmest day of the forecast after today. We very subtly cool down enough to bring our averages inland back into the upper 70s bayshore cities out of the mid 70s and back into the low 70s by friday rain. All right, john, thank you for that west grand avenue off ramp is still closed. Because of that overturned big creek. Thankfully, the big rig is back up and now were just working on trying to get off of that offramp so that traffic and start moving there again, if you are going to be heading into the city this morning and youre wondering where that is exactly right. There is where that big rig overturned. Now, it has been a problem for any of the traffic coming into the city right now. In fact, about 24 minutes to make that drive 80s starting to pick up bill. Get a little busy this morning as youre traveling through berkeley in emeryville, 15 minutes on the richest overfill ridge. We consistently been there for most of the morning. Look at this kraken out towards the maze. About 40 minutes. Some possible avenue might be a good alternate runs just directly adjacent to that trying navigate get around. Those delays were seen. I wait for 43 minutes. Antioch in to cover. But no accidents along highway 4. I would probably take the surface streets. 24, youre picking a wannacry. Dana, 5. 80, about 18 minutes there with a look at what a lot of the south bay. 60 minutes. 85 to menlo park. The good time to hop onto a year, even 82 to bypass all those delays starting. James, back to you. Thanks. A lot rain at 07 40am, the 5 yearold boy who drowned behind home on Bethel Island has been identified. Lucas zang was his name. He was from livermore and he was found in the water about 40 minutes after he was reported missing. A neighbor says that the boy was visiting family to cows in complex near the water when he fell off of the dock behind the home. We dont have any other details about this, but they are still investigating. A man suspected of shooting and killing 2 women in san jose, san lorenzo at their home earlier in the month has been arrested in. Kansas is being extradited. Now back to california to face charges. The Alameda County das office is charging howard reed with 2 counts of murder. Investigators found the 2 women dead in their home on dermody avenue on may. 4th. And it turns out that the suspect reid had been living with the women. He is being brought back to california. In the north bay. One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after this big crash that happened in napa. This is on Wooden Valley road and monticello road early yesterday morning from the looks of this. Wow. I mean, the impacts and one of the cars into a tree is just amazing. It was just minor injuries. Concord man who struck and killed an 86 yearold man while driving under the influence has now been sentenced. Police say the damian lopez was intoxicated when he crashed into 2 cars last thanksgiving. The first incident happened to treat boulevard and oak grove road. Police were responding to that crash when they later found out that there was a second crash near oak grove in ryans road. You see them both here on the map. Its that second location where the 86 yearold passenger of another car identified as Thomas Oconnell died. Mcconnell was taken to the hospital. But again, he did make it. Lopez pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Governor newsom. Take a look. Touring a facility in redwood city and soon its going to expand a house people who have Behavioral Health challenges. The governor says the plans are in place for similar facilities to be put up as well because voters narrowly passed proposition one and the governor is promising 6. 4 billion dollars in bond money to allocate towards the Treatment Facilities and 11,000 plus Behavioral Health beds. We need to do better and do more. And we need to all held to a higher level of accountability. Ive never been more enthusiastic about our prospects to actually make a dent in address the issue of what happened on the streets and sidewalks in the state that i am today. These next 2 to 3 years will be transformation. Critics have argued that prop one is just going to throw more money at the problem. Take a look at the new sign that up in a south bay water park. Its long been known as raging waters but now and says callie bunga. The raging waters had been there for 40 years. Lot of kids enjoyed that over the summers. But they said last summer that they were going to be closing, not ruling renewing their lease and then last february, San Jose City leaders really quickly reached a deal. A new lease with a new Management Company for that water park. We dont have an opening. Get a date, but that the new sign is up there. So hopefully look for that. Maybe this summer when its hot out. Heres Something Else look forward to the largest butterfly festival on the west coast is coming to layout. The inaugural bay area butterfly and pollinator festival is taking place this coming sunday may 19th. It will be from 10 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon at the mare island prom. A dog on nimitz avenue. Theres going to be beer garden main stage with some live music. The children stage and the a lot of fun and activities there for everybody. Its just 5 to attend and kids under 12 get in for free. So sounds like a pretty cool fun Family Activity this weekend. Alright, meantime, a couple of fun events are happening today in the east bay. We have taste of North Berkeley thats taking place on vine street between shattuck and walnut between 5 and 8 this evening. The Event Features 30 restaurants and bars and bakeries and cafes. So enjoy that. And todays also the town tourism day in oakland. This is video from last years inaugural event. Organizers say its a good way to get connected and hear from city leaders. Mayor sheng thao is going to be there along with the citys new police chief floyd mitchell. If youd like to meet him, it all starts at 2 oclock at the bridge yard by the bay bridge toll plaza. Democratic and republican lawmakers come together to take on social media companies, they say have not done enough to protect kids online. Capitol correspondent tell you about their new tell you about their new legislation. Ow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. 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The official full schedule do set to be released tonight at 05 00pm. So well see what the rest of the schedule holds. 7. 56 right now. And coming up on the kron 4 morning news. Why teachers in the south bay say they want more money. Were live. At the schools where one where there are rallying. And we knew we now know when you can vote on the recall of alameda District Attorney pamela price is going on the ballot. Plus, thieves target a tesla charging station in the north bay. They made off with all of the cables. Why well have more information on that. Right now, the kron, 4 morning news. The recall election against Alameda County District Attorney pamela price is officially on as leaders finally set a date for the election. Teachers in the south bay plan to rally today as they call for better pay and smaller class sizes. And thieves target a tesla charging station in the north bay taking off with the charging cables. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at good morning and thanks for waking up with us. Im and im james. Weve got lots to get to today, including the weather. Were starting off great for some. But this already starting to come of cleared out much earlier in the last couple of days, john, the gift that marine layer a little thinner this morning. So burning off very quickly. And that is going to allow temperatures. To get a little bit warmer than yesterday. As for a lot of us, lets get a look a little bit further inland where weve got plenty of sunshine. This is your view right ar