70s. What a change from where we had been with those triple digit plus temperatures last week podcast shows that we do have some low grade this morning. A lot like yesterday. Visibility has not a huge issue for most, though. Bit of good news is youre getting out there and drying conditions across the region. A lot of that tropical moisture that it made for the muggy feel over the weekend. The starting to exit the region now. So were going have a drier, feel to it. Were going to be on the cooler side to all of that bodes really well for what its going to feel like as were all venturing outside 50s 60s for current temps double in livermore, concord, in alameda each at 61 right now. Light jacket kind of stuff at the most. Hardly even need the jackets this morning. Upper 70s for inland highs today, 70s along the bay shore. Stick with the 60s at the coast. All of us looking really nice and comfortable today. Does it matter how far inland you are reyna. Tom, thank you for that, right. Lets get a look at your traffic this morning. Heading into the city right now. Its going back 7 minutes for you to make it from the maze to that 3 months, gx across the bay bridge, san mateo bridge. 82 want to one about a 12 minute ride for you. There. All Richmond Center fell bridge 8 minutes as youre traveling out of richmond heading across towards sandra fell and the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 of the tolls a 20 minute morning, right . Well, the time for you is now 04 00 02am, we have some developing news . The family of sophia mason found a wrongful death claim against alameda Child Protective Services. The 8 yearold girl from hayward was found dead immerse at home. This was back in march and her alleged killer was arrested over the weekend after a 6 month manhunt kron fours amanda hari spoke to her family as well as their lawyer about the decision now to take some legal action. I thought the one thing that we can do and owner of sophias legacy is change the law or at least change the system so that this doesnt happen to anyone else. A wrongful death claim against Alameda County, Child Protective Services accuses the agency of failing to protect sophia mason. It says beginning in january of 2021, Alameda County receive referrals, alleging that sophias mother hit her, choked her and covered her mouth to subdue her screams out of 7 referrals made to the county in the last 14 months of her life. Sophias relative Melissa Harris says 5 were not investigated all of these calls and complaints and anonymous tips with either an investigated unanswered or were told that they were unfounded. Harris says she found the Booth Law Firm in Southern California to represent them. And the petition is filed in sofias grandmothers name sylvia johnson. She cared for sophia between the ages of one and 7 until her biological mother took her back. My aunt is not the same. Theres a huge sophia size hole in heart that can never be field. What happened to ph tragic and heartbreaking an unfortunately common carly sanchezs, the child abuse attorney representing the family. She says their whole law firm focuses on representing children or their surviving relatives. Against cps. So the hope is with this lawsuit and all the lawsuit that i to make it more expensive for the county to do it wrong. Then to do what they need to do to make the countys safe havens for these children as theyre supposed to be. Sanchez says her firm is aware of issues with an Alameda County cps. Its very clear that the county of alameda more so than any other county in in the state is not investigating back coming in at much higher numbers than any other counties. Harris says she becomes emotional thinking about the last time she saw sophia, knowing what she does now. I notice a little breeze and her hand and i asked if she was ok, and she said, yes. But what i learned in retrospect from that is because of all of these previous calls that have been ignored, she had learned not to because when she complained she was punished. Well, that was amanda hari reporting for us this morning. Now the county has 45 days to respond to the claim. On the peninsula. The arraignment for man accused of beheading his exgirlfriend was postponed. The District Attorneys Office says 33 yearold jose lynn data attacked Karina Castro with a sword outside of her home in san carlos last thursday, he was taken into custody on the same day and has been held without bail when data was expected to enter a plea in the case yesterday. But his attorney requested he give it a psychological evaluation before making a plea . Well, the court agreed and to spin it. Criminal proceedings until that evaluation is completed. It is better to get this taken care of. Now to determine whether hes competent to stand trial, then to do it in 2 years when were about ready to start a trial, weve been going through the whole process of the criminal prosecution and then suddenly that the week before trial, the motion is made at least now we can get a determination made is what exactly is his mental state and how does it impact a criminal prosecution . Castro is survived by her 2 young daughters, her grandparents kron 4. Theyre working to regain custody of the children from county officials. Happening today, alex jones returns to the courtroom over his comments about the Sandy Hook School shooting be a hoax. Well, jury will determine how much he should pay to the families of 8 victims and an fbi agent who responded to the school. They sued jones for Emotional Distress as well as psychological harm. Jones now says he believes the shooting was real. But continues to insist that his comments were protected by free speech. Well, a judge found jones liable without a trial last year after he failed to turn over documents to the familys lawyers. The trial is expected to last about a month. And a judge has denied a bill request for an nurse accused of a deadly crash in los angeles last month. According to court documents. 37 yearold Nicole Linton was traveling 130 Miles Per Hour when she slammed into a crowded intersection on august. 4th sparking a fiery chainreaction crash. 6 people were killed, including a pregnant mother and her infant son as well as her unborn baby. Shes charged with 6 counts of murder, 5 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Lindsay could face life in prison if convicted of all charges. Her attorney argued that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and suffered a momentary lapse of conscious is before the crash. Clinton will be held without bail. In the east bay. Theres a renewed plea from the parents. Alexis k east bay couples only daughter disappeared nearly 9 months ago, gates car was returned to her parents this past weekend as kron fours terisa stasio report. It was a very emotional moment as the couple continues to try to find answers. The man not been it slashed by all of them memories that we have together. Alexis, gabes mom talking about the moment she said in her daughters beloved car this past weekend. To drive it home. Just. Its so unfair that can only her car and that. The car had been in fbi custody ever since the 24 yearold from oakley disappeared on january. 26 donations have been pouring in to help find alexis gabe, including 11,000 to pay off the car from the bank. Too and be able to keep that car. The car is now clean and decorated with well, she lov stop she have a sheath of there theres also a theres stuffed animal in there. Thats how her and connect right now. Theres a bunch of flowers there. A lot of a lot of followers stopped by and but some left them flowers and also some letters and there for her. Game went missing after visiting her boyfriend, Marshall Jones in antioch. Police say that evidence found in joness home and dna from gabes broken phone tossed in a field, identify jones as a suspect. Jones was killed in seattle in june during a confrontation with u. S. Marshals, investigators say jones left behind a note mentioning traveling to amman or county searches have come up empty. The games are depending on the public to bring their daughter home. And just continue searching. A cash reward of 100,000 is now available for the person that finds her body. Its not just important for so, you know, so we can give her good, nice memorial and we can bring our own. But its also crucial the investigation. Terry says stasio kron, 4 news. A man was stabbed multiple times in oakland last night. Police say the stabbing happened just before 5 on the high street. The man was taken to the hospital and is listed in stable condition. Police have not said what led up to that stabbing. And the chp is investigating a freeway shooting that injured one person in antioch. It happened all on highway 4 near highway one, 60 an hour around 5. 30, yesterday morning. Police say after that shooting, the suspect car and the victim car continued driving on highway 4 until the victim crash near hillcrest avenue. Police say the suspect car is described as a dark colored bmw. It was last seen riding west. The chp says when officers arrived, they found a victim suffering from nonlifethreatening injuries. Well, its unclear what exactly led to that shooting. So far no arrests have been made. Over 2 dozen vehicles participated in a weekend sideshow in San Francisco. Youre looking at video from the citizens app showing some of those cars do it doughnuts coming dangerously close to spectators at the intersection, harrison and 6th streets. Officers were able to disperse the crowd around 2 in the morning. No arrests or citations were made there. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news. In properly riding or parking a scooter can get you find it. New resolution passes in San Francisco. What city leaders say is time for riders to pay for breaking the rules. And an exclusive oneonone interview with governor gavin newsom. What he had to say about energy production, the recent heat wave and the states firefighting efforts. Plus by and congratulating democrats on the historic Inflation Reduction Act today we have more details from washington, d. C. , will be right back after the break. At last check, the mosquito fire has burned just under 49,000 acres across placer and el dorado counties. Containment has increased. Its 16 as fire crews. Thatll keep the fire from getting any larger. But we shot has the latest on the Fire Fighting efforts. Flames destroyed a couple of pine trees, a few miles from the forest hill road. But for the most think inversion layer and cooler temps help to keep the mosquito fire to moderate burn. Firefighters used that time to work on containment lines were building that containment lines that Everyone Wants to know what its going to increase. This is the work that it takes to actually do that and why it is so difficult for the first time firefighters were able to get some containment lines around the fire. At last check, it was at 16 along the ski tow road where the fire initially started last week. Crews worked to put out some hotspots once majestic pine trees. Look more like a silhouette of toothpicks on the hillside where flames have raged through. So were about to cross over on the bridge. Which is over the north the mayor. How things look on outside. Once in eldorado county, we met jamie mitchell, an officer who drove 2 and a half days from minnesota to help out with road closures. Its pretty anytime you get fire that destroys property in habitat ofuthe animals and stuff like that. Thats, you know, its you know, they said this was a beautiful spot. But, you know, i havent seen it for the past 5 years, he said hes helped out with the california fires. We hope the firefighters. Quick in. Can always seems like theres one fire after another. That was Rowena Shaddox updating us. All right. So were talking about the fires with fires, come smoke and with smoke, it can potentially really do some damage to the air quality. John, im we seen any issues with any of the neighboring or further out fires in the bay area. So what weve got is risky to fire really putting up the most smoke out of any sort of blaze burning across the region. Weve been really good as far as air quality goes for the vast majority of the season, which has been so nice. But right around the mosquito fire up in placer in portions of el dorado counties is were really seeing the worst of that smoke. Most of it is sitting right above sacramento has really no was talking about the story. We have that cool air and version shaping up there in the sierra. Thats keeping a lot of that smoke staying in place. But unfortunately, for those right around the blaze, its also not diffusing elsewhere. So weve got some very poor air quality on your way up to lake tahoe around donner summit. There along portions of i80 comparatively really good here across the bay area. In fact, weve only got improvements in our air quality ahead of us. We saw a little bit of smoke and haze over the weekend. Well see less and less of that as we work through this forecast. That westerly wind pushing in from the coastline. Its going to help us cleaning up some of the poor air also making for a continually cool forecast today. Tomorrow, some of the coolest days of your forecast with most of our daytime highs only staying in the 70s lot of moisture. The remnants of what was that tropical system working its way across the west coast of mexico. Having resulted in heavy rain and flash flooding for nevada, arizona. Portions of Southern California. All that moisture is working its way out of the region. Now were coming down across the state of california and really only in free cool fall. Like forecast ahead. Warm conditions remain for some of our inland spots, but really only in the 80s at or very warmest and here in the bay area, most of us only staying in the 70s. It will be 60s at the coast, including in San Francisco, 70s along the bay shore from burlingame foster city, down through mountain view, south bay temperatures also in the 70s with san jose right at 74 today, hayward through fremont, low 70s for you. Pleasanton livermore at 76 for your highs. Oakland, right at 70 with conquer down through danville at 78 antioch, close one of our closer spots to 80 degrees at 79 vacaville are only spot hitting the 80s today. 81 degrees kind of allowed to say that most of us across the bay area are even getting to 80 degrees today considering last week were blasting right past the triple digits wednesday and thursday will be much like today, mostly upper 70s inland, low 70s by the bay shore. Little warmer, but not by much on friday and saturday, just a few low 80s sunday looks cooler weekend with some upper 70s for you rain. Tom, thank you for that. All right. Lets get a look at your morning commute. A 7 minute ride into the city. Mays to that freeman street san mateo bridge, 80 to 101 about a 12 minute ride heading across towards the peninsula. A richmond sandra fell bridge 9 minutes at a richmond. And lets go ahead and check on the Golden Gate Bridge about 20 minutes. 37 to the tolls on this tuesday morning. Well, in national news, the House Panel Investigating the january 6 insurrection is now seeking information. Former House Speaker newt gingrich. The committee wants to know about his communications with senior advisers to trump in the days leading up to the attack on the capitol. The panel says gingrich exchanged emails with trumps associates about Television Advertisers that repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election. They claim greenwich appear to be involved in trumps scheme. 12 point fake electors. The Committee Says he also email trumps chief of staff mark meadows about those efforts on the evening of january 6th. Happening today, President Joe Biden is hosting a major event at the white house too. Celebrate democrats, expansive climate and Health Care Bill knows as the Inflation Reduction Act. Washington correspondent Raquel Martin joins us live from dc with what we can expect. Good morning workout. Rain in the morning. The president is definitely a ramping up his public schedule right now to try and highlight some of democrats. Legislative wins ahead of the midterms, which is just 2 months away. Now, the white says they expect over 1000 supporters at the white house later this afternoon to celebrate this bill. Expect to hear more details later in the day. Tuesday, President Joe Biden and democrats will celebrate the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. American people should have confidence. Were on the right track. Well, in boston monday, the president s at the 740 billion dollar plan will change lives by investing. Big on clean energy and climate policy. While lowering the cost of prescription drugs for some americans believe the economy and finally works for working families. Democrats insist the bill which raises taxes on some large corporations will also reduce the National Deficit and together with the passage of the bipartisan chips act will help lower inflation row and reduce the burden as well. But republicans call the plan daughter non on the senate floor monday. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell said in this economy, the spending is like throwing gasoline on a fire will not meaningfully reduce relation at all. Well, actually, make it worse. And then returned. A 3rd of the country says theyre struggling to meet basic family made huge thanks to falling gasoline prices and supply chain fixes. The white house says there are in courage. Inflation, which remains at a 40 year high, could be simmering following julys Consumer Index report. And we will soon see it. Inflation is, in fact, cooling down the Consumer Price index for august comes out in just about an hour. For now in washington, Raquel Martin, back to you right now. Thank you for that update. Recount. Well, still to come on the kron, 4 morning news, 60 years after president kennedys moonshot address President Biden is making his own moonshots beach in an effort to reduce deaths by cancer. Were going to be right back after the break. For your help. This morning, President Biden traveled to boston to draw attention to a new study that aims to be a game changer. In the fight against cancer, its called cancer moonshot in its and not to the 60th anniversary of president John F Kennedys moonshot speech and which he outlined his goal to land a man on the move yesterday, President Biden laid out his plans to reach a goal of cutting the u. S. Death rate from cancer by 50 over the next 25 years drawn attention to the study that seeks evidence for using blood test to screen against multiple cancers. Its being touted as a potential game changer and diagnostic testing to dramatically improve Early Detection and treatment of the disease. We focused on turning the moon, shot into a movement. Not just the shot, a movement to create a cancer researph and care system that most people think were already have. But they dont realize until i find can so that e dont. But one that we deserve. Cancer is the number 2 leading cause of death among americans. The initiative is deeply personal for president. His son died of brain cancer back in 2015. Still ahead of the core of the morning news, a womans dna taken to investigate her assault case ends up putting her behind bars. What shes doing now to limit how San Francisco police use evidence will be right back after the break. Well, welcome back to the kron. 4 morning news going on for 30 am on tuesday. Last week we were talking about just how hot it was. We finally got that much needed break over the weekend. John. And it is made a world of difference world. The differences, right . This probably not a better way to say it. From the triple digits. One 16 again yesterday or last week at the same time, livermore, you got up to that record. Breaking high 2 days in a row. This time around, were only looking at 70s this tuesday in livermore. What a change for sure. Looking out there at San Francisco right now, weve got the partly cloudy skies overhead. Some winds pushing in from the coastline. Going to keep us cool into the afternoon. Not much out there today to worry about honestly, which after last week its so nice to be talking about rainfall that we saw over the weekend. Just a couple light sprinkles for the bay area. Thunderstorms for the sierra. All that moves out of the region. Were going to dry out celeste that muggy, sticky feel as we work our way through the week. More your normal bay area weather just feel like a nice late summer bay area day today. 50s