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Factor in your morning commute. We do have some winds that are higher elevations, but not what were going to be noticing as were driving and temperatures are in the 40s to 50s right now. Concord and fairfield at 54 dublin livermore at 50 was santa rosa at 47 after a cool start. Daytime highs later today. 70s to low 80s for ya. Little bit warmer than yesterday. Was talking more in this pretty nice monday forecast. Still ahead, back to you. All right. Lets take at all those people so they were up in its not like its a huge backup. But you can just see have company. Think of it that when its nicer company at the bay bridge. Teams company 17 minutes from the maze. Youve got plenty of company equal time. 17 minutes here in san mateo on the westbound 92 side of the bridge there on the right hand side. And this spot that that has been full of people is not a backup. Its just theres a lot of people. The Russian Center fell bridge. So thats the indicator i use because normally the first couple hours of the morning show, this is pretty quiet. And the Golden Gate Bridge is pretty quiet at this minute. 21 minutes, which is the actual drive time. If youre going to speed limit from highway 37 down to the tolls. Oh, by the way, 37 reopen this morning. Member of the weekend was closed for ok, back to the news. Now. 71 the time developing story out of the south bay where police shoot and critically injured a gunman in san jose kron fours. Michael thomas is live there with more on what happened. Michael . Well, its still an active scene here about the core of story road in homer drive. Take a look. Police not only have comber road blocked off, but also some of the surrounding Shopping Centers. And just to give you an idea, they are not allowing people in and out of this street who live here and you can see it in front of an apartment complex to give you a better idea of exactly where we are. Take a look. This is a map. Its in East San Jose. Its on comer drive. Its near the intersection of story road in capitol expressway. And to give you a look at what the scene out was looking like yesterday. This is video on your screen. It happened at around 4 oclock in the evening. Police say they received calls about a man who was actively shooting a firearm. When they arrived. He was doing just that. That man was shot by San Jose Police causing serious injuries. He was taken to a nearby hospital and his firearm was obtained by police. As of this morning. That investigation is still ongoing. And you can see back out here live police talking to a few neighbors. And again, this road is completely closed off. Have not been given any more detail regarding the man who was shot or his condition this as we get more, well continue to keep you updated. We have been trying to speak with neighbors, but again, nobody is allowed in or out of this street. So theres about one or 2 people who are waiting in their cars this morning trying to get back to their home. But theyre not allowed to go into that street. And here theres a tropicana liquor, the grocery beer and wine outlet that is open. However, their entire parking lot is blocked off. So once we learn more this morning, we will continue to keep you updated. All send it back to live in the studio for now. Thank you, michael. Its 703. And a man has been arrested for a fatal shooting. That happened where a 2 yearold died. This happened march 23rd in clear lake which is 70 miles north of petaluma. The Police Issued a warrant for 31 yearold Fernando Lugo garcia and he was arrested in petaluma last week for this killing that happened. He is now in jail with no bond set. The man who was convicted of attacking paul pelosi in San Francisco at his home in francisco with a hammer that happened in 2022, he is going to be sentenced because what happened is, as you know, david de pap got a 30 year prison sentence. Last friday. We reported that. But the federal court said that it didnt give him the chance to make a statement. And thats a requirement for federal criminal procedures. Theyve been notified the court of this mistake and the air is unlikely to affect the 30 year sentence that he got. But it does give him a chance to speak and asked for leniency. That will happen on may. 28 dip happes still faces a separate trial on state charges and the jury selection for that is this wednesday. Well, sad morning for raider nation fans, mister rader himself, jim otto died yesterday. The hall of fame center join the team in its first season in the american football league. Back in 1960, never missed a game. He was in 210 consecutive regular season games and 308 straight total contests despite undergoing 9 operations on his knees during his career. Jim auto was 86 years old. Happening right now, fairfield has launched its click it or Ticket Campaign ahead of memorial day. The Police Department says the campaign is supposed to remind drivers to buckle up, then also secure their children in proper car seats. So they say drivers are going to see police on patrol looking for those who arent wearing their seat belts during this campaign, which, by the way, runs through june 2nd, police say theyre also looking for cars where children either arent properly secured in car seats or arent in the right seat for their age. The Department Says the number of people who died in california crashes who werent wearing their seatbelts actually went up y more than 12 percent back in 2021. 705. And a man is rescued after being thrown from his car that went over a cliff. In sonoma off of the coast there. Look at this. There he is being hosted to safety. He crashed yesterday morning in the jeweled gold myers, great area of highway one near jenner. The car went flying and a ranger spotted about the car about 200 feet down from the roadway and the car was stopped. Look, there by this giant tree. So it didnt go for the down the cliff, but the guy was ejected. So he went flying and the ranger and cruise ended up searching. They searched for in the woods in bush is there for almost an hour and then they located him. He was lying in a patch of brush at the bottom of tree was about 350 feet away and down from the crash site. Its a pretty credible that they able able to fly him to the hospital and he is expected recover. Well, it looks like a pg e and other utilities are going to get the green light as they want to charge an extra 24 bucks a month as a fee. Not based on how much electricity use this bill that would have scrutinized the electricity fee isnt not moving forward. The Assembly Appropriations committee killed it on friday. The peuc which is made up of Governor Newsom appointees, not elected officials. They approve this new fixed rate charge of 24 15 per month to your bill. And in exchange, they said they were going to lower the rates for power. Like for kilowatt hours just a little bit because California Power rates are the second highest in the nation. But the new fee, you know, it goes no matter how much you use sparked outrage for this. The committee did not explain why they dropped it. In the east bay, teachers in Contra Costa County now have reached a tentative agreement with the office of education over a new contract. The Contra Costa County School Educators association will get a raise starting on july. 1st, once its ratified and that will include a 6 raise retroactive to last july. Plus, a one percent raise for this year. The agreement allows the salary for next school year to be renegotiated for a cost of living adjustment. Its 707, and. And the bay to breakers is in the books now more than 21,000 people ran in the annual foot race through San Francisco. You can see a lot of them wearing costumes as they do every year. Just a fun time had by all prof or sara stinson was actually in the middle of all of that. Thousands of people woke up early sunday for bay to breakers. Race is 113 yearold tradition in San Francisco. You know, i think its probably one of the longstanding traditions in San Francisco participants gathered on main street around 8 in the morning to walk jog and run to ocean beach on the other end of the city, was like super positive energy. Its his first is yeah, it was fantastic time. Definitely saw all of San Francisco come together. A lot of clock ticked rooms, the costumes at the quirky 12 k run never disappoint this San Francisco couple. Gina and brad dresed up as hot dogs. We money and really recognizable really ran the whole race. And everyone was dog and my kids than ever. And its just plain that these girls dressed up as the inflatable tube man. Often people dress up in group costumes, whether it be traffic cones or minions was really fun. Everyone came out out its a super yeah, really good vibe. Lots of partying on the side. Bay to breakers at its peak used to be the largest road race in the world with 100,000 people participating. Race director kyle buyers says theyre starting to see registration numbers rebound from the pandemic. 21,000 people registered this year, which is after back, you know, 20 from last year. So not quite. Prepandemic numbers yet, but definitely trending in the right direction. Meyer says they work to ensure everyone is safe while having fun with alcohol checkpoints along the route and patrols. Yeah, we have our own private Security Companies and then we work with very, very closely with sfpd crews could be seen cleaning up as people continued to party in the panhandle. Need ow. And everyone was dancing and having that, have these longstanding traditions are all about celebrating vibrant city. I fell in love with it. When i moved here, i just think its one of those things that just kind of brings the city together. Were giants fans and there was a dodger fan that we made friends list. So if you can one thing to breakers is that it brings people together. Im sara stinson reporting in San Francisco kron. 4 news. Well, after the race, San Franciscos oldest musical band performed out of the music concourse in golden gate park. Dozens showed up to enjoy the free concert there. It was. This banned, by the way, case you didnt know was founded back in 18. 82 predates the great earthquake of 19. 0, 6, every year since their founding, they posted a 6 month long summer concert series. The band played fun songs inspired by people actually participating in the bay to breakers do a program called a cast of characters where each piece kind of represent interesting character like the characters, too. In the bay to breakers like the funny outfits costumes. Yeah. If youd like to see this historic band perform, they are out there every sunday at the Spreckels Temple of music in golden gate park. Its freeze. So just show up and enjoy. Wait, theres more music and fun. Check this celebration out to the city by the bay getting a warm welcome. To the golden state currys to the golden state currys will take you there. Network io 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. 30, right now. Were just talking about all the stuff that went on in the city where, i like big breakers yesterday. And by the way, tons of stuff going on all throughout the bay area. Yeah, i mean, youve got up in the north bay. Youve got battle youve got card of all in San Francisco isco. Lot of folks going to be outside. John, whats the weather looking its wild. How cool its going to be in some of those spots like napa 70s. Its going to be really comfy. This is your camera situated along highway. 24 a little further inland. Got that sunshine up about the cars are moving in so does that coverage is likes to pause, but we are looking at radar showing you those clear skies that were seeing across the bay area. High pressure right there behind me did move out of the way. Quick enough, but it is creating just enough of a push northward of the jet stream to keep any storm tracks away from us. So we are remaining consistently drivethru this forecast. The High Pressure does building a little bit more tomorrow as it does temperatures. Well, see a little bit of a boost along with it. Now, futurecast shows relatively calm winds today. Not a lot of cloud cover marine layer just present enough to keep us moderated. Nothing too warm. Nothing too windy. A super pleasant monday to start the week. 60s for your highs in sf as well as at the coastline. Pretty nice day at the coast. Its not all that windy out there. So a good day to head that direction. A lot of 70s along the bay shore as well as the south bay, upper 70s for you. San jose and santa clara at 78 east bay temperatures mid 70s along the east bay shoreline close to 80, if not getting to those 80s further inland like in concord, antioch, back and delivered in napa today is going to be one of the warmer days of this forecast. You can see after tomorrow the general trend of weather is downward into the 70s at the warmest by this upcoming weekend with some 60s along the bay shore. So definitely nothing too terribly warm ahead in the near future. Back to you. All right. Lets take a look at the traffic. Were going to go reverse direction here because were the quietest spot first, which is the Golden Gate Bridge. Which looks really good right now. Although 101, to get to this southbound just a little bit of traffic at 25 minutes. Now its 12 minutes. So actually the commutes got. These are here at the Richmond Center fell bridge taking you from the east bay Marion County that way. Now, if youre going over the san mateo bridge westbound 92 is about the same. You can see plenty of company there and all 3 lanes kind of stop and go. But 18 minutes, isnt that bad . And then its been the same 18 minutes that weve got the dueling commute here in the bay bridge as well. Looking at the exact same drive time this morning. And for your money this morning, amazon is hosting a massive book sale. Deep discounts. Also Frontier Airlines has done away with change fees. Jane king is live in the nasdaq with those stories and hi, jane. Hi, diane. Good morning. So Frontier Airlines eliminating change fees on some flights. This is part of its effort to appeal to more travelers. The changes aim to simplify the ticket buying process frontier previously charged for Additional Services like seat assignments carry on bags, similar to spirit and Allegiant Air younger workers are increasingly looking to line their work with their values. About 86 of gen z and 89 of millennials say having a sense of purpose is important for job satisfaction. The screen to a Deloitte Survey and about threequarters of the younger worker said in organizations, Community Engagement is society impact. Its a big factor in choosing a workplace was on has big book sale running through today. Ebook prices start at one dollar print books are going for as low as 5 and every shawnee can think of is covered from classics to childrens if youre a fan of boneless wings, buffalo, wild wings has a promotion. The company said its offering all you can eat deal, boneless wings and fries for 20 bucks every monday and wednesday for a limited time dinein only live from the Nasdaq Market site. Im jane youve raised a lot pete, a lot of interest over here. Thanks to the food that it 2, 0, yeah. Haha. All right. 7. 18 right now and and California Forever. That group is trying to build a utopian city in Solano County says that they can provide more than 15,000 jobs in the next decade. And they can bring employers from multiple sectors for everyone said theyre saying ranging from Construction Companies to ai. They released a list of the companies that they say they are committed to bringing in and then are already proposing having something in the city that will, you know, be ready to hire. So theres robotics company. Theres all these Different Companies that say they are committed that they wanted do this. Now were still a few years away from them. Breaking ground, California Forever says that some of these companies have already started their in negotiations right now for their terms of doing business there will be you know, contracts in construction and is all got to be a ballot measure, though, that has to be on this november about still these a lot of approval. Theyre jumping through the hoops and just kind of releasing more and more information to try to get the votes they need to make it a reality. Well, a program in california is now using gift cards to combat drug addiction. The state is spending one 60 Million Dollars in this effort. And Officials Say its working in the coming fiscal year. California is expected to allocate 61 Million Dollars to the program which focuses on addictions, including meth and cocaine. So heres how it works to start out. Patients must show up to their designated clinic twice a week to provide a urine sample. And if theyre clean, they receive a small stipend on the gift card that increases as they continue. And if they fail, well, there are no consequences. Theres just encouraged to show up and start again. Now the approach is called contingency management, which is based around rewarding people for behavior instead of punishing them for it. Since californias Pilot Program launched back in april, 19 counties throughout the state enrolled almost 3,000 participants. We spoke to a Program Director at a Treatment Facility in Nevada County here in california who admits the program doesnt work for all patients, but says its another tool to combat addiction. It starts off a 10. The end of the first weeks they might be making 20 if it goes up like a dollar and a half, every to so does increase. And thats another important part is that were increasing its a certain hooks them into it. It took them into participating more and more and they dont want to lose a day because that resets the clock to back to 10. And california has dedicated a significant amount of money in the effort to curb drug addictions. The state says the rate of residents dying from drugs now doubled from 2019 to 2023. So there is a lot of work to be done. 7. 21. The time. Take a look at this amount line caught on Home Security cameras probably through a san jose. Are you see it there on the fence . He shoot. Amazing how much balance there that looking around like you standing on solid ground. Thats at little beam at the top of the fence line. And then this was saturday morning out in the amount hamilton foothills neighborhood. And mary was he was leaping guys walking along fence line just jumped on bamboo hedge. Pretty cool. The homeowner Tom Blackburn actually had a chance to speak with us. He says hes lived in that neighborhood for more than 30 years. Now and never saw anything like this before. This is actually the first one. Weve we get a lot coyotes and what a deer. But this is the First Mountain lion weve kind of amazing. I mean, if you look in the video is just percy is so you just what you know just when hes walking or jumping you to sleep, some you know, just just amazing that how they can move around like have their graceful but also blackburn says that his familys German Shepherd there for for house cats are going to keep a close eye on all of them going forward. Can you, matt . Its good you doesnt leave a mile line. Oh, and he also said the good tip to is going bring a newsmaker with him when he takes his dog out for a or or so they dont they know youre coming. Thats not a bad idea. But let you could see. I saw coyote this morning on the sidewalk outside of it this morning like for the morning into town and there was a guy walking, by the way, on a block away. And i thought lucky hes going to be okay, 7. 22. Right now and a historic Oakland Church needs your help after this fire that destroyed a lot of the building. Back at 7. 25. In the north bay, a man has been arrested suspicion of driving under the influence in connection with a hit and run chase or a crash in petaluma. So this crash happened on East Washington street a little after 1 oclock sunday morning. Police say the crash involved 2 cars, a man and a woman were involved. They were hurt when officers got on scene, they say they saw a different man, though, identified later as Frank Monticello running into a creek that runs between East Washington street and maria drive. They say resident told them to monticello was actually hiding in their backyard for a time and then jumped the fence. Police eventually found him hiding in the creek. They say hes now arrested and facing multiple charges. In the east bay. The chp arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal hit and run in san leandro. Officers say the driver hit and killed someone wednesday night. The victim was found lying in the street at boulevard and embers way. Police say they later found the car wanted in connection with that hit and run on friday. The suspect has since been booked into the santa rita jail and is now being held on 125,000. Bond. Its 7. 26. And and we want to show you the scene of a crash that injured 6 people. This was on highway 4. It happened a delta gateway boulevard around 2 oclock on saturday. And the collision forced all the westbound lanes to be closed. Why contra costa fire got out there and 6 people were rushed to the hospital. Were not sure of their conditions. Im Michael Thomas live in East San Jose where a man was shot yesterday by police shot yesterday by police heatin up the kitchen we got somethin different spreadin good vibes all day livin in the golden state nada se puede comparar livin in the golden state vive en el Estado Dorado ow network is no thats why more l 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. 29 right now start the workweek on monday heading into a holiday weekend. Absolutely. Weve got john with a look ahead at the forecast. And whats the whats the temperature story for this week, john . So we have a brief a jump in temperatures today tomorrow and wednesday will be our warmest days. And then we had actually cool down things into the 70s for some of our inland areas on into next weekend. Has been a cooler than average month for a lot of us. You look outside at san jose this morning. Daytime highs later today will be in the upper 70s paired with that sunshine. Definitely a a day for you. Were not seeing any cloud cover really across the region, which is certainly nice and at the coastline, even some relatively calm winds. So this is a very pleasant start to the week. Temperatures right now are in the 40s 50s to low 60s brentwood as well as vacaville at 61 to 64 degrees sf and oakland at 53 right now later on today, mostly 70s, a few low 80s in the forecast. Im breaking down. Everything you got to know for the rest of it. Still ahead, back to you. Thanks a lot of 7. 30, right now and we want to get a look at the commute because the traffic has been pretty consistent all around the bay this morning with a lot of people up early and you can see the company that have here at the maze over the bay bridge into San Francisco about 18 minutes at this point. And lets take a look at the san mateo bridge and you can see this one is now 21 minutes. So thats grown just by a couple of minutes as the commute has got more crowded there. You still see the cars moving pretty good there. And all 3 lanes of traffic w stbound the right hand side. And the traffic has gotten a little bit lighter here at the Richmond Center fell bridge 15 minutes now to head over from richmond in december fell. And then if youre working your way through marin county down to this spot on the Golden Gate Bridge, the commute is gotten slower through moraine county starting at highway 37 in novato and down to this spot. Its 32 minutes now. To developing news in the south bay where police shoot and critically injure a gunman in san jose kron fours. Michael thomas is live. And michael, tell us what happened. What we know right . Well, more than 12 hours later, Police Continue to investigate the scene. Take a look the corner of homer drive and story road. You can see police have the street blocked off with multiple units as they speak with neighbors in search for evidence outside of an apartment complex. And you can see the Shopping Centers nearby also closed off. You can see that pep boys completely taped off with caution tape. And to give you a better idea of exactly where we are. Weve got a map up on your screen. Its in East San Jose on homer drive. Thats near the main intersection of story road and capitol expressway. And this is video we have from yesterday scene at around 4 oclock in the afternoon. You can see dozens of Police Vehicles outside of that apartment complex. Police say they received calls about a man who was actively shooting after arriving. Police did shoot the man causing him serious injuries. He was taken to a nearby hospital and remains there this morning. We havent gotten any updates on his condition for the details of what may have caused the incident. Police say no officers were injured during this incident and the department is expected to hold a press conference later today. As of now, comer drive remains closed off along with those surrounding Shopping Centers. And when it comes to neighbors being able to go in and out to get to their homes, will theyre not able to there multiple cars out here. Nobody has been willing to chat with this quite yet, but they are waiting to be let back into comer drive. I would assume that police are possibly looking for maybe shell casings or anything as they did report that the man was opening fire. But again, we havent learned any major details as of yet. So as of now, this is all that we know, but we will continue to be here on the scene and we will keep you updated at very latest reporting in san jose and Michael Thomas story. And james, well send it back to you. Thank you, michael. 7. 33 is the time in the east bay, a historic Oakland Church damaged in a fire and you can there they damage that they have to recover from. And its going to take a lot of money. And so the pastor is asking the community to pitch in concourse. Theresa has their story. To the experience. You deal with that a lot and consoling people that went through it. When that happens to you really . In the moment to review you dont have emotions can. Processing. Pastor robert lacey junior says in a flash, everything has changed. His church, a historic landmark with a focus on helping people now desperately needs assistance. Pastor lacey says last friday a massive fire broke out at Saint Andrews Missionary Baptist Church in oakland. He was inside with others praying before choir rehearsal. It started to get hot. In the building and what i will open. The windows is kind of warm and year. And were in the choir stand the years. Thats where the fire started. And the house next door to church. Open up one of the windows in the sanctuary. And i heard the fire crackling and popping pastor lacey says that he and a parishioner grabbed fire extinguishers, but the flames were fears. I spoke with pastor lazy as he returned from getting food for workers, clearing the burned debris. Westerly shares of the church is an historic landmark. Fact, the history of the church. 1916, it was built. By the African American episcopal church. To provide support for earthquake victims of San Francisco in 19. 0, 6, and it has always been. Community service center. He and each day they help the community with meals. And were gearing up to help west oakland residents with a Summer Lunch Program for children. The building is restricted free use temporarily faster. Lacey says that they want to rebuild and continue to serve the community. Pastor lacey says that they helped service outside in the parking lot last weekend. They have set up a gofundme account, but it will take a lot to recover. Our engineers actually looking at the project and there theyre in the hundreds of thousands. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Theresa kron, 4 news at 7. 35. And another mail carrier has been robbed in the bay area. It happened thursday. In the parking lot of the Southwood Apartments on middlefield road in palo alto. A 60 yearold postal worker was delivering mail when 2 men approached him, they demanded his postal keys and his personal belongings. Now he turned over the keys, but he refused to give up his personal items and thats when a fist fight broke out. There was a struggle. The the robbers knocked him to the ground and injured him. And those 2 robbers took off in an older model. Nissan altima. Well, the california Highway Patrol canine sniffed out more than 500 grams of fentanyl during a traffic stop in San Francisco. Chp says the officer stopped the driver for a mechanical violation on westbound 80 last week. And then turns out the driver didnt have a license. So that person was detained and the canine went to work, sniffed out the car and found a look at this. You can see on the righthand side there, 500 grams of fentanyl 158 grams of meth, 73 grams of heroin. And 80 grams of xanax. Was booked into jail, of course, now facing multiple charges. On the peninsula. Daly city Police Arrested a woman for stealing money from an old maybe Cash Register. This happened. Police say the theft was inside the ceremony Shopping Center earlier this month. The woman apparently through the Cash Register to the ground several times until it cracked open. And then she grabbed the 300. It was in it and ran off. She was, however, later detained at a nearby store. Police have arrested her book turnout for robbery. Its 7. 37 in the north bay, a woman was shot and killed in vallejo. It happened late saturday night on redwood parkway near hands. Park. By the time police got there, they discovered not just a woman was shot, but there was a man who was shot there as well. She died at the scene. He was taken to the hospital and as expected to survive. And now police are looking at exactly what happened. Its 7 37 and in the east bay, a man who died last week has been identified. Police were called to look at the sidewalk on Country Hills drive where someone was spotted that needed medical attention and thats where they found a 48 yearold a name raheem call. He ended up dying, but police have still not said how he died or if foul play was involved. Theyre investigating. The Sacramento County Sheriffs Office now increasing enforcement on rivers and lakes this summer. Their goal is to patrol the 300 miles of waterways. Its a tall order. So they are asking that you also help out by remembering if youre a vote on or you have to have a life jacket on board for each person that you have on the boat, kids 12 and under. Theyve got to wear it at all times. Also while passengers of the boat are allowed to drink alcohol, the driver can so just keep that in mind. Another important thing to remember with the current snow melt. The water is a lot colder right now than it typically is during the summer. Could be 100 degrees outside. But the water can still be 57 degrees, which which is pretty shocking on the enough exposure could potentially cause hypothermia. Well, this warning comes as sacramento firefighters just had to rescue a kayaker who fell out of there. A kayak in the american river. Crews say the incident happened just south of encinal hoffman park. Youve got the map there showing you where when they got on scene, crews say they found the man not wearing a life vest. He was clinging to a branch in the middle of the river. A rescue boat was able to bring him to shore. Luckily, nobody was hurt it. I think it just shows the power of things will be really get behind and support something that we believe in. We can make expansion so this, you know, weve asked for views and i cannot support has garnered over the last couple years to bring some attention to women in this sport. And we can make this happen and so many other cities that dont have a team make happen. Thats so cool. You saw a rapper e 40 earlier and then singer kalani. They performed for fans at the first ever. Golden state valkyrie is block party out at chase center. Looks like everybody had a good time interested in the merch. All right. Caller is a really great violet. I lets go our and they ruled out a whole violent red carpet. Purple. Anyway, other very excited in oakland for this new wnba lezla gooden has the story. Yeah. Been less than a week to announcement of the bay areas wnba team. The golden state boundaries and minivans are already showing their support. Some of them telling me theyre here because its more than just basketball for hundreds made their way to the chase center for the golden state. Valkyries first ever Block Party Fans like shannon engine me says having a wnba team in their backyard is long overdue. It is a dream come true. Its it is something you necessarily know what happened and it has and were very, very excited. The couple says the bakries arrival is sending a message to everyone across the country because weve been basketball fans alike. Time were fans of stanford, womens and the quality of just gets better and better and better at the party were performances and appearances from folks from around the bay. The overall theme was woman empowerment. A sentiment coming from the top of the organization be such a high level of notoriety together having women leading women on court showcasing a peoples really beautiful right now. Specifically the in the world really took a closer noticed a petition to get along with during the bubble, right. When they look understood theres so many signs for this aptly going, by the theyre also incredible and important and fans are making sure to stack up on the balcony violate gear and theyre already predicting a championship win from the team. Womens basketball just as good as men. Basketball. If not its going to be a time can expect to see the boundaries play right here. The chase entered come 2025. But until then, to have their fans waiting on them and know whats going on for at 7. 42. And coming up on the kron 4 morning news for the First Time Since the pandemic, the Silicon Valley mayors, china nptrip. Is in china promoting. The east bay city in hong kong will tell you about connection. Plus, the giants trying to sweep the rockies at oracle park over the weekend to happen. Well have the highlights. 7. 44 right now, new this morning plans to reintroduce wolverines back into california. Had a major stretch, a snag in sacramento, wolverines disappeared from the state more than a century ago because of trapping and hunting this bill proposed a study to determine what it would take to bring the animals back to the california mountains, the state assembly, Appropriations Committee struck down the bill though, saying the state is in a budget deficit so we dont have the money. A similar effort to reintroduce wolverines and colorado is underway there. All right. Well, he filed the suit was later the last shot with that. 38. Yeah. We want to see will bring. You might have to see it on screen. Deadpool free tickets go on sale today. My god. Well, there you go. Thats a problem solved. Haha. Thats real. Lets go over to the weather center. A job, right . Thats view. Only way to see it for sure. But were seeing a lot out there from our cams this morning. Youre not having a lot of fog in this view this morning. A great day to be heading out to the coast. In fact, fog is kind taking a step back this week. All in all, we have clear skies out to the coastline and just the set up in general is not necessarily nudging a whole lot of that fog or right into the bay. Like was the case last week, generally northerly wind pushing up and down the coastline and not even that aggressive. If youre looking at the golden winds are actually really calm. So this sets us up for a nice, clear day at the coastline and temperatures that will still be warm but not too warm for inland areas. Temps today in the 60s for San Francisco and the coast with a good dose of sunshine out that direction. Lot of 70s for the rest of us really only a few low 80s. So today is a very comfortable day. Love those 70s. I think a lot of us, too. And thats where a lot of us are going to land. Fremont at 75 same for you in dublin while oakland, richmond, san leandro at 72 concord, in antioch, in the low 80s, same in vacaville and napa today. Looking ahead at what we have tomorrow, our warmest temps of the forecast. Well get up into the mid 80s for some inland areas. Upper 70s along the bay shore. Then its all downhill by the weekend for events like battle rock up in napa. Expect highs only in the 70s james. All right. Thank you very much, john. Lets check the traffic here at 7. 47, the bay still kind of on par with where its been over the last half hour or so about 18 minutes to get from the macarthur maze in the fremont street in San Francisco. So thats what its looking like. There were also tracking a pretty smooth ride so far at the san mateo bridge. The drive time is going up slightly. Its now. 22 minutes to get from the toll plaza on the hayward side out towards 101. There foster city and the like. Were also looking at a steady ride so far the richmond, sandra fell westbound 5. 80, ride across the San Pablo Bay still running about 14 minutes. And the final stop Golden Gate Bridge camera shot here shown us the ride on southbound 1, 1, into San Francisco. Again, youre going still looking pretty good at 36 minutes from highway 37 in novato down into San Francisco. Just to give yourself your normal about a time. Nothing really slowing down. Its 7. 48. And the mayor of antioch is in hong kong right now. Mayor hernandez thorpe is participating in the 2024 Silicon Valley mayors, china trip. Its organized by china, Silicon Valley, which is a nonprofit founded in 2012 that aims to foster Investment Business and tourism exchanges between Silicon Valley and china. The mayor is promoting antioch, strategic trade and economic strengths and potential job expansion possibilities. There is the first trip that does to to china organized by this group since the covid pandemic shut them down. So theyre back in action now. The harvey milk, lgbtq Democratic Club is planning to host a mayoral town hall, San Francisco mayor london breed and her challengers will face off. So the supervisor, aaron peskin will be there justify a former interim mayor mark farrell and non profit exact annular e this is happening at the First Unitarian Universalist Church and center in cathedral hill. Its tomorrow at 06 30pm. Well, the mayor is getting ready to celebrate harvey milk this wednesday for harvey milk day, its celebrated every year on his birthday. He was the first openly politician in california and would have been 94 years old this year. Harvey milk tragically became a martyr, though, not long after taking office with the San Francisco board of supervisors and becoming californias first openly elected official. Milk was assassinated in city hall. Back in 1978, and each year on may 22nd his birthday. The city use this an opportunity to help and celebrate the lgbtq community. To the north bay. Now where the bottle rock Music Festival is set to happen this weekend up in napa valley. Pearl jam. Yeah. And then on list, even huge list next of a headliner. And sharon is going to be all genres, all age groups. Its going to be happening. Friday through valley cool mix of performance, white cross that huge crowd. So expect delays if you even if youre not going to the festival just getting around the north bay, the streets are going to be somewhat jan, take that on board because this is holiday weekend. So, traffic and the eat learn play foundation. Theyre having a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the news playground. This is at Piedmont Avenue elementary and stephen aishah created this foundation. You probably know that their goal, it supports kids and their endless streams. Well, turning to bay area baseball now the giants hoping to sweep the rockies and snag a 4th straight win. Could they do it . Lets let kate rooney tell us. Its a tough time to play in the nationally west. The dodgers have created more separation of the top than any other division in major league baseball. But its only may and its a long season in the majors. This still a chance for every game and every series win to have a major impact. So after avoiding a series sweep against the dodgers earlier this week, the giants got out the brooms for their date with the rockies sweep in colorado. And earning their first series sweep of the season. Now the giants head east for the 3rd time this year. Theyll take on the pirates and the mets and manager bob melvin said theyre feeling pretty good after winning 4 games in a row. I think all along we have. We have a good feeling that, you know, were going to work our way out of these things. Weve done a lot better in every facet here recently during the stretch to win, you win. You know, you get bogged down with, you know, to cant get that 3rd one. Now weve got the 4th one. We get off day, probably so the 3rd east coast trip. Her whole. I mean, is what it is. When is it on and i just feel like were just going to keep it going at the moment just keep going have a better starts make it 5 saying what every vote were going were going to make it door, besting his work hard play hard. After getting the call up from the minors eligio the loudest cheers of the day here at the ballpark when he hit a solo home run in the 6th inning, it was his first home run of the year. He becomes the 14 different giants player to go yard this season. Time the giants for 3rd most different players to hit a home run this year at oracle park. Kate rooney kron 4 sports. 7. 52 right now. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news, kitty cat. Is it worth getting pet insurance . Lets say you have a cat or a dog. Were going to take a look at some of the costs that you encounter a specifically in california when it comes to past. Were back at 7. 55. And a new study says that san jose is the top city for Small Businesses in the entire country. The analysis was done by Financing Company biz to credit. It looked at multiple factors, including annual earnings Credit Scores the age of the businesses they took took data from 2023 to determine the winner and the study found the san jose had 66,000 businesses employed more than 430,000 workers and really just ticked off like number one spot and all those metrics. San francisco also made it to the list. It actually came in second on this years list. Meantime, san jose mayor matt mahan took to acts to say that forbes has also ranked san jose as a top city as well. Mayor mahan wrote, quote, we are working every day to create a cleaner, safer city for all. When we get the basics, right, we make it easier for our businesses to thrive and quote. Meantime, san jose state students are getting ready to walk the stage. The Graduation Ceremony set to begin wednesday. It will. And on friday the commencement will take place at the Providence Credit Union event center. Now, this comes as many colleges as you probably heard, decided to cancel or change their Commencement Ceremonies because of the protests have been happening on campus. There are protests in san jose state as well. Back early last week. Students theyre camped out on campus is part of those nationwide college protest. But so far it doesnt look like its going to impact this weeks Commencement Ceremonies. Its 7. 56. And coming up on the kron 4 morning news, your pga bill looks like is going to have that charge tacked onto it. After all. Well tell you why a bill to stop that from happening. Dead now on arrival in the legislature and a pro Football Player known as mister rader has passed, will have his legacy. Plus, police shot a gunman over the weekend in san jose and hes in the hospital now. Well tell you hospital now. Well tell you what happened. get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. Norman, bad news. 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Hardly any fog out there as were kicking a week off, right . And the weekends with a lot of travel. Live in sf all out on the roads. Taking a look at that and the weather for the memorial day weekend. Yeah, its wild to think its just a few days away. Well be getting to that official start of the er