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Year. And San Francisco city officials and nurses announcing new legislation to tackle a nursing shortage. From the bay station, youre watching kron. Noon. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im Justine Waldman will start now with a major roadway thats closed in fremont right now to to a a fiery and fatal traffic accident, a family on the scene is telling us one of their loved ones was involved. So well go to kron 4 s charles4clifford. He joins us now live from where this happened with an update. Thanks for joining us. Well, good afternoon. The Fremont Police Department Just a few minutes ago wrapped up their investigation here along fremont boulevard into this Early Morning crash in which one man was killed. Another was hospitalized. According to the Fremont Police Department Around 12, 30 tuesday morning. This car possibly an infiniti was traveling. Southbound on fremont boulevard near forton when the driver a male lost control and crashed into a tree nearby. Officer responded within seconds. Unfortunately, the driver succumb to injuries and the passenger was transported to an area hospital. The crash occurred right in front of bogeys pet supply along fremont. I couldnt process what i was witnessing it first. Angelo martelle is the manager at the story says the crash was captured on Surveillance Video and that if it wasnt for the quick actions of the officer and nearby neighbors, the passenger probably would have died. Want to see if it wasnt for the cops show first and the people who came out from department complex. I i honestly following the accident, the Fremont Fire Department arrived on scene and put out the blaze. Pet store suffered some cosmetic damage. The exact cause of the accident is still under investigation. But witnesses say the vehicle may have been traveling at a high rate of speed. All right, back live now, neighbors also tell me that right here where this accident occurred. Theres a very gentle curve to the left in the otherwise straight fremont boulevard. They say in the past that has caused problems. And some minor accidents, but never anything like this. But for now in the east bay, Charles Clifford kron, 4 charles, thank you so much. All right. Take a look at this. This is a garbage truck on fire in San Francisco. This was in the tenderloin near hide and ella streets from yesterday morning. Now in the video can see there the flames and the smoke coming from the back of the truck. Its not clear right now. What caused truck fire . Here we can see a broken fire hydrant in downtown San Francisco. This is video from the citizens app. It happened around 8 oclock this morning on Center Street between taylor mason, the San Francisco Fire Department asking people to avoid the area right now. Its a lot of water going out onto the street. We do have some breaking news now into the crowd for newsroom. Bart service stopped between Pleasant Hill and lafayette due to a Major Medical emergency. The walnut creek station is currently closed. Bart asking travelers to find other ways to get around between Pleasant Hill, walnut creek and the lafayette stations. The Transit Agency has set up Shuttle Train Service between the pittsburgh. They point and Pleasant Hill areas. Yellow line trains are turning back towards San Francisco International Airport at the lafayette station. We have some live pictures now into our newsroom. Can see whats happening. Which bart station is this that were live at . This is at walnut creek. This is the walnut creek, bart station. We can see that we have the contra costa Fire Department there as well. Some a Law Enforcement on the scene. So live pictures showing us at least the Police Activity of that is happening because of this Major Medical emergency that has stopped bart service as we get more information, well bring you all those developments right here during kron. 4 news at noon. Were also learning some new details on the shooting involving police in san jose. Officers say they shot a man who had a gun kron fours. Jack moment has the story. Well, the shooting here that happened sunday in the seaside san jose apartment complex is the 3rd officerinvolved shooting to happen so far this year having city leaders wanted to look further into these officerinvolved shootings when they do happen. It also has residents here at this apartment complex, a concern. It all started with a 911 call People Living at this east side. San jose complex reporting a man shooting a gun outside his van. He was later identified as 41 yearold ricardo view, every out and by the time Police Arrived shortly after 4 in the afternoon. This p4ompted a separate officer to discharge his firearm striking the suspect man was critically injured. One neighbor showed us this parking garage where she says police marks the bullet holes and Additional Details are still unfolding. But one things certain people here are on was scared. It was care. Mendoza moved here just this year and says his family was watching tv when fort and where we hear one shot. And simon, later, were late. 6 saying he heard what happened from a neighbor. She was in the on the guy is what you know . And the weather couple shows in view. Every al has served 10 years before for assault on a police officer. The gun he had sunday. Was unregistered frequency of San Jose Police officers being shot at or hit by gunfire. Hes gone from a rare occurrence. San jose police say the threat to officers is increasing and they want to form a group to study each time an officer was shot at in the coming days. I will bring together a group of internal and external partners for the purpose of analyzing these attacks. Now, San Jose Police says that the shooting is still very much under investigation. Questions as to why the shooting happened in the first place or why neighbors called saying that there was a man shooting out of his van. Those are still yet to be determined. Meantime, the every hour remains in the hospital in Critical Condition where he said jose jack moment. Kron 4 news. Tackling a nursing dilemma. Thats the goal of a major annouwcement today from San Francisco. Kron fours. Tiffany justice joins us now here live in the newsroom with more details. Good afternoon. Tiffany. Hello, yes, Francisco City officials and nurses at zuckerberg, San Francisco General Hospital announced new legislation that they say will address a nursing shortage. Now the ballot was specifically address a shortage of nurses in 911, operators in the city supervisor ahsha safa e who is running for mayor says the shortages run deep and that the city and county of San Francisco is down 49, 1, 1, dispatchers and hundreds of nurses. He says legislation would improve the retention recruitment of nurses. It would also give 911 operators, the same Retirement Benefits as first responders, the ballot measure will also allow fulltime registered nurses to bite back time worked as per diem. Nurses for retirement supervisor ahsha safa says this Charter Amendment will be on the agenda today and he is confident the board of supervisors will pass this amendment. Currently right now we have a 20 . They can see our 911 dispatch system. Were down 49, 1, 1, dispatchers, which absolutely impacting. Our Public Safety response system. On the nursing site. Were down hundreds of nurses and what our city does. What this mayor and this department of Public Health has chosen to do. Hes in perpetuity. I say perpetuity. I mean, for years they have relied on temporary nurses, hated add tional money and not encourage and allow those nurses in a really aggressive way to become fulltime registered nurses. If approved, the measure will be on the November November ballot. Well have more on this today at 02 03pm, reporting the newsroom to be just as kron. 4 news, cnn, tiffany, thank you. San francisco. Police help right now. Locating a missing 14 yearold girl. Police say genesis barrera. Hernandez was last seen in the area of turk and hyde streets. Shes known to go to the tenderloin as well as ride muni. She was wearing a yellow shirt, brown, leggings and black crocs. Anyone who sees her should call 911. Well talk about our forecast now with a live look outside here at sfo hours. The skies have been kind of a hazy today. Not sure if its air quality or fog or clouds, but the person who will now skyla, which is why we go. The Weather Center now and check in. Hey there. Yes, we do have just that slight marine layer presence in a little haze out there today. But other than that beautiful blue skies, as you can see here, quite our little bit of a breeze. And temperatures warming up. Thats the big story today. In fact, if youre in santa rosa right now, youre sitting at 12 degrees warmer than you were this time yesterday, but really across the board with the exception of San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, everybody, a little warmer. And thats the big story today. Our temperatures. 75 in fremont. 74 in san jose. 78 in dublin and pittsburgh. Same story in concord right now. But check out santa rosa, which has just been rocketing up now sitting at 85 degrees. 77 in nevado. So we obviously have some really nice skies out there. You can see the marine layer has pulled away for the most part with the exception of just a tiny bit of the coastline. California getting a lot of sunshine there. That marine layer again sliding down still a little bit in central and Southern California. But what that means is that our highs today are going to be very impressive. And it does look like inner east bay in north bay. Thats where were going to see some of the higher numbers. Having said that around the bay itself, you can see were looking out for 72 oakland, 77 in redwood city, some, you know, really nice numbers that are out there about 66 in San Francisco, the only place this stays a little cool today will be the coast because they do still have a little bit of that on shore flow. But everyone else kind of getting more of that northerly direction of wind thats bringing in a drier, warmer air mass. This does not last forever. Big changes coming as we head towards the weekend. Ill have details coming up in your sevenday forecast. Thank you. This city of san jose is expected to install 33 new traffic speed cameras all across the city. This is coming in an effort to reduce the number of traffic fatalities that the city has been experiencing by the end of next year. A total 33 speed cameras will be installed in high collision areas all across the city of san jose. So its part of assembly, bill, 6, 4, 5, which includes installing cameras, not only in san jose, but also oakland, San Francisco and 3 other down in Southern California by the year 2032 for the first 60 days of the program, drivers will get a warning, but then they will get fined. Lowincome drivers will also be asked to provide Community Service hours rather than paying Law Enforcement will not have access to the camera footage and the cameras only be used to enforce the speed limit. Most of it is being paid for by a grant from safe streets and roads for all program. But the city is also matching funds of around 2 Million Dollars, which will be voted on by the city council next month. And the City Council Also vote later this year where those cameras are going to be placed and city leaders say the goal is for the cameras to be evenly split across the city, making sure communities of color and low income neighborhoods get the attention that they need. Is your local election headquarters in San Franciscos mayoral candidates are also set to gather tonight for their first debate. The harvey milk lgbtq Democratic Club is hosting a mayoral town hall at the First Unitarian Universalist Church and center in Cathedral Hill at 06 30pm tonight. Mayor london breed supervisor aaron peskin supervisor ahsha safa, the former inter mayor mark farrell and nonprofit executive daniel lurie are all set to attend. Coming up, why home depot now has to pay over a Million Dollars following a fire at its location in san jose. Jose. Well be right back. When you host, your bathroom can feel like a revolving door. Keep things fresh with febreze small spaces. Its an outletfree air freshener that fights odors for 45 days. So even after every flush. You know your bathroom smells amazing. Lalalalala from the mountains to the coast. Heatin up the kitchen we got somethin different spreadin good vibes all day todos a la mesa que buena la mezcla it dont get no better livin in the golden state lovin this land everyday norte a sur lo puedes ver nada se puede comparar livin in the golden state vive en el estado dorado. Yeah theft may be to blame for a major change oakland intersection instead of traffic lights. There are now stop signs. Kron fours. Sara stinson explains why. Were traffic lights used to hang stop signs now greet drivers at the intersection of 12th street and 16th avenue in oakland right off 8. 80, the change at many drivers hesitant when going through on monday. Business owners in the area like bruce says the switch was made in response to frequent copper thefts, the spotlight right fight with my maybe. When 20. Just that just to get high. Makes this intersection is covered in skid marks from sideshows and sits in the midst of a 3 block long encampment is those. People were stealing copper. Even the buildings they has owned quality Tech Automotive for nearly 4 decades. He says the tents and rvs have been there for the last 8 years, 40 years. On top of the encampment, them says crime has become rampant in the area. If you get front. All the time. To water. Well, lot of mine. Associate on the and do long says he make sure his security cameras are always working to protect his employees. He says something has to change time right now us in open step say, you know what, this signifies we reached out to the Mayors Office City Administration and city Councilmember Nikki fortunato bas but did not hear back in time for this report. Im sara stinson reporting in oakland kron. 4 news. Taking a live look outside. Some can see whats happening on top of mount tam. There is the marine layer that kyle is going to chat with us about right now. Shes in the Weather Center and it looks like i love. This is the warmest day of the week. It is. Thats right. So if you want to get outside, this is your day to do it. You can see the blue skies are beckoning you here with us just that highest rates of marine layer here as we take a live look at the golden gate bridge. Its pretty nice day out there. A little bit of a breeze can see the flag there blowing on the right side of your screen. Temperatures in San Francisco about 68 degrees. Same story oakland and you can see it was we look into the inner east day north bay. Thats where the heat is right now. Santa rosa sitting at 85 degrees. Half moon bays a very different story out of the coast are staying cool. 57. So were getting that microclimate thing going on. And right now its just a light breeze out there. Were going to see this pick up as we get into the afternoon. It will be more of an onshore flow as we start to get a breezy this afternoon. But right now, not bad. We are going to be warming up today. As i mentioned, these are the highs yesterday. So santa rosa got up to 77 San Francisco, 65 concord. 81 and san jose. 78 today. Were expecting to best that by, you know, 10 degrees almost in some spots, not such a big difference in San Francisco. Conquer, though, about 5 degrees up. You can see about 4 degrees up in san jose. So in other words, were warming up and thats the story. So High Pressure still sitting off the coast. You see a whole lot of change in this except some low pressure has kind of moved along. But eventually we are going to see some low pressure move in as we head towards the weekend from the northwest. And when that happens, that will start to knock some of these temperatures down. But right now its all about that kind of air air mass thats coming in because of the more northerly northwesterly wind. So our warmest day today, lets take livermore as an example where the average high is. 76 degrees today are looking out for 86 tomorrow. Well cool it down a little bit and well get back to about seasonal as we get into thursday and friday. But you can see what happened here on saturday. Temperatures just drop like a rock because of that low pressure system thats going to roll. And we do start to recover as we get into sunday and then monday. But it is going to be a rather drastic dip. So heres that High Pressure. And just to show you whats happening is weve got these low pressure systems. Theyre going to be dropping in as we get towards friday and then into saturday. Thats why were going to see the temperatures roll down. Now, you might say to yourself if its a front, were going to have any rain. We might have a sprinkle or 2 saturday morning. I think that would be the extent of it. So doesnt look like much. But certainly we have a big effect on our temperatures. The good news is by monday, were actually gonna recover nicely for the holiday. Back to right. Thank you. Businesses in berkeley will need to decide if they want to pay to keep their parklets or moves that Outdoor Dining space. The city of bart berkeley now plans to charge rent for Parking Spaces that have been turned into Outdoor Dining in parklets. And its not cheap at all. Kron fours rob nesbitt reports. The city of berkeley has provided an example for how much it will cost to business to keep a parklet using the costs of how much it is to park in a paoking space. For example, 2 Parking Spaces with an hourly rate of the 1. 50. Will cost around 8100 a year for a parklet businesses and restaurants in berkeley. Were left with tough decisions during the pandemic. Many of them converted outdoor Parking Spaces into parklets, including solves restaurant and delicatessen during covid the park. That was a lifeline that enabled us stay in business and continue operating. I now its become just a wonderful feature. Coowner sam told us explain to me how saws has to Outdoor Dining options. Street spaces that were turned into a public park years before covid and Parking Spaces that were turned into Outdoor Dining back in 2020. The city is now requiring businesses to apply for permits to add or keep their parklets having an Outdoor Dining space has been free for the last 4 years. But starting monday, it will come at a yearly cost going to be a big expense. That was going to be hard for us to absorb. So we asked if you can pay the monthly they said yes to that. So are you paying them about 1500 bucks a month to read this outdoor space, 18,000 a year. A cost that many Business Owners at berkeley will have to decide if its worth it to keep their outdoor spaces. A tough decision to make but hopes hopes the city will work with owners who have struggled with keeping their doors open. Postpandemic in our experience, the city was accommodating of our request and was able to make it work for us. And we just hope that the city and other local businesses can also reach sort of mutually beneficial. Agreement so that we can keep more Outdoor Dining options in the city in berkeley. Rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. The Half Moon Bay Mushroom Farms involved in last years fatal shootings. Well now pay nearly a halfMillion Dollars in damages to employees over labor violations. The u. S. Department of labor investigation has now recovered more than 450,000 in back wages and damages for 62 people employed by the to Half Moon Bay Mushroom Farms involved. Federal investigators say both farms, house workers and sickening conditions where they slept and dirty mattresses and were exposed in sacks, trash and mold. Investigators say the farms owners also detected money from the workers paychecks for substandard housing, a disgruntled co worker fatally shot 7 Migrant Workers in january of 2023, which led to the investigation into the farms. Employment practice us. Still ahead here, elon musks neuralink continues to move forward. It has a green light now from the fda. So well see whats next now for this technology. Plus, a major reversal has been made from others with hiv to breastfeed will learn more breastfeed will learn more about this decision. With cascade Platinum Plus, i have upped my dish game auntie, in that dishwasher . Watch me Platinum Plus gives you the highest standard of clean, even in your machine. Clean enough for you . Yeah scrape. Load. Done. Cascade Platinum Plus. 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She says that led her into a spiral of postpartum depression. Not being able breastfeed. My first child was extremely depressed. Enough, though, toxic to home. I thought that i had carried him 7 and a half minutes and i was able to keep him safe free of hiv that long. But take my medication, you know, going the doctor doing things that i knew that i needed to do. But now since he was no longer my body, now like i was some type of harm could cause some type of harms cdc says the Health Care Team was able to help her successfully breastfeed her second child saying she took her prescriptions as directed and also gave the baby drugs to prevent infection before the medications to suppress the virus levels became widely available about a decade ago, about 30 of hiv infections transmitted from mothers to babies occurred during breastfeeding. Next, hear noon. One person has died after a Singapore Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing. Were learning more about what happened. 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You know your bathroom smenothing. Ing. Ahh gorilla super glue. Brush for edge to edge coverage, and nozzle for precise application. All in one. For the toughest jobs on planet earth a mural in San Francisco, snowy valley is grabbing peoples attention today as kron fours Tiffany Justice shows us its a painting depicting the war in gaza. And many people are calling an antisemitic. I think this is antisemitic at i think is just a message of was actually going on picture of the reality. People are looking at the big picture. And i think that. They dont realize how much of a bully israel is and the situation cities like sf and stuff like this. You actually have people who protest the mural has wording that says stop the genocide in gaza. Now it depicts bombs falling on rubble and debris. Along with painting splotches of blood monday, the Jewish Community Relations Council of the bay area speaking out against the mural. Saying this mural is blood liable. Fortunately, this mural is antisemitic and theres a couple things that we would point number one is its blood liable to. Accused israel of genocide with the blood dripping down. This is a horrific, horrific war, too many civilians have been killed. But this is not a genocide and take the queues israelis of genocide goes back to this antisemitic trope, a blood libel. Second, you see the star of david replaced with a dollar sign and that goes back and antisemitic trope of the money, june where the controlling the media where the governments and that indication is deeply inappropriate. Tyler gregory of jcrc says they have spoken with supervisor Rafael Mandelman about yearold. It is on private property in gregory says he hopes to see the mural gone and replaced. A lot of just dont feel safe in the area. Theyre not they dont feel a sense of welcoming us to help. The mural will be replaced with something that brings communities together. Some residents remaining neutral. I think this era. Such moves create conversation that you very critical and in todays environment, 14 Tiffany Justice kron. 4 news. In the south bay, home depot is set to pay over a Million Dollars following are sitting at one of its stores in san jose. Home depot has to pay more than 1. 3 Million Dollars for the fire that happened back in april of 2022. On blossom hill road. So from this video here, we can see the fire as it was tearing through the store. The santa clara countys District Attorneys Office says dylan koch. We started the fire as he was trying to steal tools. But there were numerous violations at the store that contributed to the fire getting so big the das office says firefighters were blocked from the fire lanes by hi piles of pallets and they later found a broken Sprinkler System that home depot was aware of, but did not try to fix. And since then, the das office began investigating other Home Depot Stores in the county. So from 2018 to 2023, 13 other Stores Across the county were issued notices of violation under this fire code. Home depot will now pay 850,000 in Civil Penalties and 150,000 to a nonprofit that focuses on Fire Prevention and outreach in the count in the county. And now dylan go queen has not entered a plea. Despite several court appearances, his 11th time in court is scheduled to happen next month for his arraignment. Also in some developing news, legal experts are now weighing in on the resentencing of david de pap pap was convicted of attacking paul pelosi at his home in San Francisco. Path was initially sentenced on friday to 30 years in prison. But after that hearing, a federal judge said that she failed to give to cap the opportunity to speak during sentencing, which is what legal experts say is important in this case. Take consideration whether the defendant, the accused now the convicted in this case, the pop is sorry for what he did. Kron fours legal expert Michael Turco dozer. Theyre saying the pops lawyers would try to continue appealing this case. Despite the judge correct in her mistake. Now the resentencing hearing has been set for a week from today. Next tuesday. The federal Transit Administration is investing billions into San Franciscos Public Transit systems. The portal is a project to connect caltrain and californias highspeed rail to the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco and we saw some images here of what it could look like on monday. The federal Transit Administration invested 3. 4 billion dollars into this project. Former House Speaker nancy pelosi says shes proud of how San Francisco is pushing the boundaries for public transportation. We show that San Francisco is in forefront that saffron model for the nation. And thats not just we need this. We need that is showing whats happening here. The project would extend the caltrain line by nearly 2 miles and about more underground stations reaching the Salesforce Transit Center. Once its done 11 transit systems will be connected. The project still needs 2 billion dollars to be fully funded. And the hope is to have it open sometime near 2030. All right. Were taking a live look outside. Can see what it looks like here in San Francisco looking out towards the bay bridge, little breezy, but real sunny out there. We have kyla in the Weather Center now to go over what the temperatures are like right now. Yeah, it kind of doesnt get any better than this is tempered. Ciscos. Absolutely gorgeous, but inland were getting a little warm and you can see that here as well. And the state map here, sacramento at 83 degrees. 81 in bakersfield. Were at 68 in los angeles. Plenty of sunshine in the bay area. This is san jose. You can see theyve just got walltowall cent a day. So really a good looking day. San jose read about 74 degrees. But head into spots like antioch in the inner east bay. 82 right now, 78 in concord. 85 up in santa rosa, obviously around the bay itself for a little bit cooler. 72 in hayward, 70 in san mateo, 62 in downtown San Francisco in Half Moon Bay hanging on to the cooler temperatures today as theyve also hung on to a few clouds out there, too. Now were not too bad on the breezy side right now, but we are going to see this pick up as we get into the afternoon. As you can see again, well start to see that on shore flow develop. And that will mean very gusty conditions. Weve had this over the last few days here in San Francisco. Thats for sure. And in the delta as well as we get into this evening, you can see it will pull back tiny bit. But then tomorrow expect again that were going to see that wind just start to rocket up. So that is going to be part of our forecast over the next few days. Also over the next few days. Just really nice weather. So not just a day when were going to see the warmest temperatures of the week. But, you know, tomorrow will be a lot like yesterday was going to drop it down a little bit. And same story on thursday. We shouldnt see a whole lot of marine layer president until we start to head towards the weekend. And thats when everything starts to change back a little bit. Well talk about that. Were also take a look at some of the tornado danger thats happening. The center of the country. Back to you. Thank you so much. Well turn now to some National News and neuralink which is elon musks startup. That is hoping to give new life to a quadriplegic. Patients has now received the go ahead from the fda to implant a second patient. The company implanted a chip in to the first patient in january and that allowed him to communicate with friends and family for the first time in years. So now this brain implant company has started to look for its first volunteer to take part in a Clinical Trial that started late last year during that procedure, a robot inserted a chip the size of a quarter into the patients brain. The device then collects data from the brain. It converts the patients thoughts into commands that the computer can understand neuralink plans now to implant the device into 2 more patients over the coming months. They plan to make some improvements. The goal will be to implant these ultra thin wires deeper into the patients brain. So it doesnt come loose like it did during the first patients procedure. And although these fixes are minor, the results have been pretty amazing. Where you put something thats long time prove the i but maybe a year or 2, can be approved for general use. The name of the first patient has been revealed. Hes 29 yearold and 29 years old. He is from the u. S. His name is nolan are by his paralyzed from the shoulders down the chip has also allowed him to move a mouse pointer on screen just by thinking about moving it. And since his transplant, hes been able to communicate with his friends and family, even some loved ones and even played some games with them. But this project has not been met without some controversy. Neuralink started testing the champ the chip on monkeys. And then it led to several of the primates dying, sparking some protests like this one in austin, texas. There were others across the country and now no link has mostly been value data but 5 billion dollars. Musk is hoping the future of the device will be able to treat other conditions like obesity, autism and schizophrenia. Well, today will mark the first days of 5 days of mourning in iran following the death of the president. Others in a Helicopter Crash of the weekend. The iranian government is focused on replacing the president quickly with a special election just over a month away. This is coming at a very tense time in the middle east as that war between israel hamas is going on. Well get the latest now from news nations tom dempsey. Inside the white house. President joe biden come out very much against this arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal court against israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it outrageous. And during an event here at the white house, President Joe Biden said the u. S. Would stand by israel during this conflict and even said he supported israels handling of the war against hamas. Take a listen. Let me be clear. Reject the iccs application. Rest want to get what wars florida is now a criminal is between israel and hamas. Let me be clear. Contrary allegations against israel made by the International Court of justice. Whats happening is not genocide. Reject it. President biden went on to say israel has a right to defend itself and no comparison should ever be made between hamas and israel as part of this arrest warrant, top israeli and hamas leaders face accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. They do not face, though, imminent arrest, but the warrant could make it difficult for them to travel to other countries. Also this morning, the investigation into the iranian Helicopter Crash that killed the countrys president and foreign minister remains ongoing. U. S. Secretary of defense lloyd austin has come out saying the United States played no role in the crash. And israeli leaders echoed those comments cruiser, although continue to search over the crash area after the helicopter went down in heavy fog conditions and the process to replace a president Ebrahim Raisi will see a quick timeline in iran with leaders there setting the date of june 28th for elections already the ayatollah son has emerged as a possible candidate to be the next president of iran in washington, d. C. , tom dempsey, news nation. Israels Communications Minister now backtracking and ordering the government to returned seized camera equipment to the Associated Press after blocking live video of gaza earlier today. Israeli officials seize this equipment in a town outside of gaza after accusing this News Organization of violating a new media law by providing images to al jazeera shortly before the equipment was seen as the ap was broadcasting a general view of northern gaza. Israel does have a long and rocky relationship with al jazeera accusing it of bias against the country. Been calling it a terror ul that spreads incitement. The officials who sees the equipment had a signed document from the Communications Minister alleging it was violating the countrys foreign broadcaster law. Singapore Airlines Says a 73 yearold british man died and more than 2 dozen other passengers were injured while they were on board a london singapore flight and encountered some severe turbulence over the indian ocean. The plane was diverted to bangkok where emergency crews rushed to help the passengers after the plane touched down. The airline said the boeing 7, 7, 7 from heathrow had 211 passengers and 18 crew members on board. Singapore airlines said that as 4 hours after that emergency landing, 18 people remained in the hospital. Another 12 were treated on an outpatient basis. The british man who died is suspected to have had a heart attack. 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One brand of a jet ski got drafted almost a year ago. You can just sense the quiet confidence he had in himself and it was on display all season long. He didnt start the year off in the rotation, but you heard the stories behind the scenes just super competitive getting on draymond green. One of the most respected voices in the organization over a turnover in a pickup game. Thats when everyone knew this kid had eventually before steve kerr is hand and became a mainstay in the rotation, even starting for a large chunk of the season. And on monday, the nba honored brandon for his efforts naming him to the allrookie team. He spoke about that honor and finding his voice as a young all the vets and that lack of it. I think my my leadership role within the team you know, the rookie. In organization like this, you know, you come in and you want to listen and learn and then you kind of take what you can from that and try to apply it. And for me being a natural leader, i think towards the end of the season, i was able to apply more. I think just getting more confidence, you know, not only on the court, but, you know, off the floor, talking teammates stuff like that. Fellow warriors rookie trayce jacksondavis missed the second team by one vote. Meanwhile, luis matos, he Won National League player of the week for the giants. The giants started series today against the pirates. Meanwhile, the as their home taking on the rockies. All right. Thats your look at sports. Happening tonight, the open ballers are kicking off their first season. Theyll be taking on the glacier range riders for a sixgame series tonight at 6 on the road. And if you want to see them play on the big screen, the athletic club. Oakland is hosting a watch party for the season opener. It will be at the sports bar on grand avenue near webster street. Thats from 5 until 10 oclock tonight. And with that, theres a new playground thats now open in oakland, Piedmont Avenue Elementary School held Ribbon Cutting yesterday morning for their new and improved school yard. The project part of steph and Ayesha Currys eat Learn Play Foundation. The schools Student Council even got to help design the new playground. The impact that this is going to have on my school is tremendous. Theres something for everyone on this playground, whether it is basketball, foursquare, the play structures or reading a book in our new nature center. This playground is great for kids to just engage and enjoy their recess. The eat Learn Play Foundation has been around since 2019 and they plan to transform. 25 schoolyards and oakland creating place great structures, outdoor classrooms and reading spaces. Kron 4 is celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month and innovative way of roasting a cup of joe a south bay couple recently quit their tech jobs to follow their passion of brewing coffee. And now theyre running a mobile cafe all fueled by their cyber truck. So we had to check this out. Their business is called wake Coffee Roasters from grinding to pouring the cafe is run 100 out of the couple cybertruck. Megan mabel say they realize their love for coffee while they were working at their tech jobs may actually work to tesla at the time. So he knew despite what people might say about it, the cybertruck was capable of serving their needs. And a bigger bed. So you can put a lot more stuff in there and air suspension so we can actually lower that working surface to the persons height. We still want to maintain that opened kind of transparent like interaction of our customers. So the great thing about the cybertruck set up is that its a very open platform, if you ever been by the farmers market, you know, we have our booth and then we stop right out of the back of the truck. And theres no walls. Comes to the bay from indiana. Mabel is a bay area native. She says her grandparents run a Chinese Restaurant in cupertino which helped her transition into hospitality. They also say they look to Asian Countries to enhance their coffee flavors and experience. Tune into kron 4 for more stories highlighting the bay areas api community and for special that airs this thursday night at 06 30pm. Were going to take a live look outside right now before we chat about our Weather Forecast just could see with the conditions. Look right now in. Walnut creek, sunny there and war meteorologist kyla grogan in the Weather Center with details on whats going on here and across the country. Yeah. Want to take a moment to talk about the severe weather, severe meaning storms that are capable of producing tornadoes because you probably heard this season has kicked off rather quickly and today in iowa, unfortunately, were seeing already these tornado warnings as this line of storms makes its way across. Can see just the son a lot of grass cut to the west of des moines, not one but 2 tornado warnings. This usually means that indicates that there is a tornado or at least certainly a very large possibility of it. So this is very dangerous weather and it is going across some areas that do have quite a bit of population. So this whole system set to get a little bit worse before it gets better as we roll through our day today. Thankfully, we dont have to deal with that in california today. We are beautiful. Lots of sunshine out there. Temperatures have been warming up. The marine layer is giving us a bit of a break and were just having one of those kind of banner days. And not only is it really nice in San Francisco, but if you head to spotlight the north bay, the east bay boy, we are warming up. Take a look at this San Francisco right now at 69 degrees. Oakland in the upper 60s, san jose. Not bad at 74, but take a look at whats happening in santa rosa. 85 degrees right now. And i just looked around at a couple of the gauges there to see like that. Just one is that just the airport know its everywhere around there, including in rohnert park as well, getting up to those upper 80s cool out of the coastal. You can see it Half Moon Bay. So i want to talk about the big overall pattern as we head over the next couple of days. You can see we stay quiet as we get to the weekend, though, things start to change with some low pressure rolling in what that does you can see its less likely to bring a little bit of rain to the sierra just a tiny bit and maybe the tiny is chance. I think itll be more drizzle. But of a sprinkle in the bay area. You see that early early saturday morning. And then as we get towards the holiday sunday to monday, hey, were looking good. Were going to have some nice weather. So if you have a new memorial day activities that youre going to be involved in here in San Francisco are looking out for mostly sunny skies and about 66 degrees. Heres a quick look at your extended forecast that shows this wild warmup. Well, it doesnt last too much longer are going to cool down a little bit wednesday and thursday and friday, even cooler still as we start to see the marine layer rebuild, but then brother its cola saturday. So get ready for that. Well be looking good, though, as we head through the latter part of the weekend. All right. Thanks, kylen. Next noon birthdays. Upon birthday first days that says all around the world. Even here in the bay area. So stay with us. So we can so stay with us. So we can celebrate after this. Did you know some dish soaps dont remove all the grease, even with scrubbing . Whaaat . I just cleaned those try dawn platinum. It removes 99 of grease and food residue. Thats why dawn is trusted to save wildlife affected by oil. Dawn platinum cleans to the squeak. Right. Lets cue the music streamers. Some cuts some cake here because theres a boom of birthday celebrations and zoos all across the world keepers are having their fun. During some parties for zoo family even here in the bay area. So thats where were going to go. Is the elephant at the oakland zoo celebrated his 30th birthday in style. Thanks to the caretakers there. The elephant named assia spoiled rotten by his care team with some special treats including popsicles watermelons peanut butter. Some brand snow comes even a personalized canada there. So this video sent to us by the zoo showing us ash snacking on fruit and breaking that watermelon pinata. The zoo said in a posted over 15,000 pounds, hes got a lot of room for a lot of snacks. Happy big guy. Doesnt look a day over. 21. All right. Now to the zoo in dallas for they held a mermaid themed party for hippo to celebrate the 5th birthday of one of them. There. The footage released by the dallas zoo is showing us what they did to celebrate, including some watermelons lettuce snacks as well as a refreshing, a swim in the pool. The zoo wrote on social media that theyre feeling 5 and fabulous and quickly staff at the cincinnati zoo is spoiled, tucker, the hippo for his 21st birthday with some juicy watermelons video from the zoo showing us tucker chopping away at one of those treats. The zoo said happy 21st birthday, tucker. He enjoyed some watermelons before his friends, a feeling and fritz and been be joined in to celebrate is like give me more. Put it in. 21 and just had to see that kind of finish there. Happy birthday. All right. Thats it from the newsroom today. Thank you so much for joining us here. Cheering crowd for news at noon. Im Justine Waldman. 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