Tower always know where on a clear trend when were looking at a view like this. Now visibility is good for most areas. A couple of spots of fog likely forming down in the south bay around 101, but very spotty. Nothing widespread. So if you do run into the spots, you know what to do. Otherwise, were pretty much in the clear current temps range anywhere from the 50s and even low 60s in brentwood, pittsburgh and alameda to the 40s up in petaluma at 46 degrees. One of our cooler spots right now. Berkeley in conquered at 58 while San Francisco and pacific up each at 59 later on today. Daytime highs will be warmer than yesterday as rising back into the 80s inland 70s along the bayshore holding in the 60s at the coast. This is part of a warming trend that gets us right near 90 degrees. Come tomorrow and then will reverse course. I have all the details on what to expect for the week ahead. Still to come right now. All right, john, thanks for that. Lets check on your bridge camps today. A 7 minute ride into the city maze to that fremont street exit. The san mateo bridge heading across towards the peninsula, a 80 to 101, about 13 minutes as youre traveling across towards the peninsula. Richmond center fell bridge 8 minute ride that stole still want to one there. And lets check on the Golden Gate Bridge for you. 37 to the tolls about 19 minutes on this tuesday morning. Well, happening today, were talking about the suspected stockton serial killer, Wesley Brownlee. Hes going make his First Court Appearance and now he faces at least 5 murder charges in stockton and one in oakland, but his criminal history in the bay area dates back to 1997. Kron fours. Justin campbell has more on Wesley Brownlee is passed and what happens next in this case . 43 yearold Wesley Brownlee, the suspected stockton serial killer responsible for 6 shooting deaths. Finally in police custody. Stockton Police Arrested him over the weekend while they say he was out searching for the next victim. He was on a mission to kill. He was out hunting. Brownlee is now in San Joaquin County jail facing 6 murder charges. His criminal rap sheet dates back to 1997 when he was arrested for possessing crack cocaine. Court records show he served 2 years in san quentin in 2014, arrested for selling crack cocaine in Alameda County. Now back in jail. No bail. This clearly is the potential for the Death Penalty because its special circumstance involving multiple murders. Legal analyst steven clark says the District Attorney is likely to decide on pursuing the Death Penalty after speaking with families of the victims. But he says the prosecutions case will have to rely on circumstantial evidence from what weve seen in the reports. There are no eyewitnesses to these killings and theyre going to have to build their case piece by piece to show that hes responsible for every one of these killings because the defense is going to say. If hes not responsible for all of them, he might not be responsible for anyone. Clark says the defense will have to do a complete brown lees Mental Health history. How did you get . To this point where youre now accused of committing this number of murders. Reporting in san jose, Justin Campbell kron. 4 news will charges are expected to be formally filed today during rallies. Arraignment hearing. Our goal in the east bay, a man is facing charges for shooting that injured. A mother and her child in pittsburgh. That shooting happened friday in the area of dhabi and civic avenues. Officers say 35 yearold Javier Gonzales fired multiple rounds into a pickup truck. The mom and son were both riding in now the woman and her 8 yearold son were both injured and theyre still recovering at the hospital. Police say this was a Domestic Violence related crime and that gonzales was specifically targeting the woman. The da says booked on attempted murder and child endangerment charges. Meanwhile, in oakland, a police chase through the city on monday in it with the death of a person who was not even involved in that pursuit. Now, the police chief is defending his officers that were involved. Proffers theresa has that update for us. Our officers observed hernandez inter in the same vehicle used in the hit and run collision. As officers attempted to make contact with hernandez. He got into his vehicle and fled from the officers. Oakland police chief Leronne Armstrong revealing what lead. To this crash that killed a driver in the Early Morning hours. Monday. This is video of the scene from the citizen app. He says the suspect, Jonathan Hernandez of oakland led officers on a chase. Before crashing into the victims truck. But the chief says that this case actually started. Back on friday and the individual was actually recording the entire incident. Hernandez got out of his vehicle, threaten the individual by brandishing a firearm. Theyre racking the slide at the individual. And threatening to cause harm to that individual. The chief says it was on friday when hernandez rear ended a driver near 73rd avenue and international boulevard. And then threatened the driver with a gun. The driver reported the incident to police and a warrant was issued for hernandez. The chief said when officers tried to stop hernandez on monday, he got into his car and sped off. The pursuit ended here at snow and 69th when hernandez rammed into a truck and killed its driver at the scene, fortunate my heart goes out. To the family the person who lost his life get since this crime that. Could have been avoided. The chief defended his officers saying that hernandez posed a threat to the community as he pulled a weapon following the friday hit and run the officers involved are now on administrative leave with several investigations underway to examine their actions. The driver of the truck killed in mondays collision has not been identified yet. Hernandez was booked into the Alameda County jail. To recess stasio kron. 4 news San Francisco police are now looking for the person responsible in a double shooting. This happened in the city fillmore district. Video from the citizens at shows police at the scene. This is by street park. Police say it happened just before 9. 30, sunday night. 2 people were shot. One is expected to survive, but the other died from their injuries. Witnesses reported seeing a sedan leaving that scene. But the gunman has not been identified. The shooting was one of several in San Francisco within 3 days. And according to police, 10 gun fire incident broke out in the city since friday. Heres a map of those incidents showing you one person was injured in a shooting on saturday on broadway as nightclubs are just letting out. Another person was hurt early sunday before 02 00am on mission and 30th. Then another person was found shot near a fight that broke out in the area of 11th in folsom. So far, no arrests have been made in any of those shootings. Well, Governor Newsom says he will be ending that nearly 3 year long covid state of emergency in february of next year. Yet Health Officials who say that this decision came after examining hospitalizations and death rates. The administration also declared its going to have a set of actions and tools to keep the state from dipping into another emergency. But the specifics have not been announced. Youve got Health Officials who hope that people are still going to keep their guard up against covid. Well, a California Assembly member is looking to turn offices that were left behind during the covid pandemic into homes coffers. Amanda hari has the details on how some leaders want to repurpose those buildings. I spoke with Assembly Member matt haney. He says he wants to take the large supply of offices and turned some of them into housing. He says it will help with the housing shortage and make housing more affordable. When the pandemic lead closures first began in march of 2020 Office Buildings and once been filled with people became empty more than 2 and a half years later, many buildings in San Francisco still are. Its likely that the way people work not just in San Francisco, but all over the hes changing were not going to see these massive Office Buildings full of people in cubicles Assembly Member and former San Francisco supervisor matt haney says many of the companies have announced that they will permanently keep their employees home. He says using these buildings for housing could make all housing more affordable. One way that we can actually increase Economic Development and spur our economy is by making it easier to live in San Francisco, cheap live in San Francisco. A lot of companies are choosing not to locate in our city because of the cost of housing. He says hes working on how the state can make the process of converting the buildings easier and more affordable. He wants the state to streamline zoning guidelines and provide assistance. We can actually provide direct support and to cities and counties that want to do these conversions. The governor has talk about putting hundreds of millions of dollars forward and allowing folks to apply for these to do the conversion to the city of calgary, canada hired the Architecture Firm gensler, which was founded in San Francisco. To create a system to determine which Office Buildings would be ideal to become homes. Project director says her team is applied their findings to San Francisco. They found that Office Buildings built in the 50s and 60s are good candidates and over a building site that has a location that has that very walkable and located close to transit, something that has access to natural light, the shape of that building for plate. And is it easy to planned residential units within that existing workplace . She believes creating more housing in the city could make the city more lively after the 9 to 5 ers go home, feel a lot of potential for that. And the belt to really impact positively and the downtown and to really help. Tampa go are resilient future Assembly Member haney says theres still plenty of commercial space available. And hes not concerned about running out of that in San Francisco, amanda hari kron, 4 news. Still to come on the kron, 4 morning news. A proposition on the ballot next month would provide billions of dollars to help shift the state away from gas, powered cars and the states most wealthiest residents would be footing. The bill will talk more about that. And you have students and borrowers who can now sit in their application for student debt. Relief have more details, dc when we get back from break. Welcome back. Were talking about said her health and theyve agreed to pay 13 Million Dollars to settle claims that they improperly billed the federal government for toxicology tests center is alleged to have billed the government for lab tests. They did not conduct, which is considered health care fraud. It said the tests were conducted by a 3rd party center has already paid half of the 13 million and has 30 days to pay the remaining portion. Also for your health, a Health Advisory has been lifted in crockett contra costa. Health Officials Say they no longer detect Hydrogen Sulfide in the air coming from the crockett Wastewater Treatment plant. We brought you this story last week . Now the advisory was first issued on october 7th after air quality readings near that plant showed elevated levels of Hydrogen Sulfide stinking up the city with an older that people describe smelling like rotten eggs or sewage officials have identified wastewater from cnh Sugar Refinery as the source of so that stench. They smell it. They say they have not received any public complaints. Resident since late friday, but well continue to monitor the situation. Well, thats good news, john. A lot of folks having to go outside today and not smell those smiles if theyre in crockett and the weather is going allow for that to as welcome morning. Yeah, just from the inconvenience point of it, its going to be nice to step outside the door and not have to to with that. We are going to be seeing a day that brings us of sunshine. Were already in the midst of some clear skies this morning. Golden gate bridge. Sure does. Look nice. Its nice that you can actually see it unlike last week where it was consistently foggy and low cloud all day, all at least all Morning Hours. Last week, weve got some passing clouds aloft this morning, but not really resulting in too much going on to the south and west of the bay areas. Its a low pressure area. All thats doing for us is really pushing a few clouds up our direction. Thats going to bring us are mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies today. But aside from that, theres really not a lot whole lot going on out there. This is a Holding Pattern of really nice weather today. Temps just a little bit warmer than yesterday. Now tomorrow is going to be the warmest day of this forecast. Some of our inland highs will peak near 90 degrees tomorrow, but only for one day as will reverse course and start to cool down after that point. As for todays daytime highs, it 60s and 70s for San Francisco 60s and 70s. Also along the coastline. One of our warm days along the coast havent seen numbers like that right along the coast in well over a week now. So its nice to actually tap into some sunshine for the spots that have just been so consistently great. Its back to the low 80s for the south bay with 70s along the east bay shoreline 80s for our inland east bay danville, 86, while oakland and richmond at 77 north bay temps mostly in the 80s sonoma. 83 napa. 82 santa rosa down through center fell also in the low 80s. Heres a look ahead. Temperatures tomorrow at our very warmest as they promised. Yeah. After that, well start to cool down a little bit by friday. Its j by the weekend, low 70s at or very warmest rain. John, thank you for that. Lets get a look at your bridge. Check this morning. 7 minute ride into the city. Mays to that fremont street exit san mateo bridge. 82 want to want a 13 minute ride hate across towards the peninsula. If youre traveling out of richmond tolls to 101, still 9 still pretty quiet. And the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the tolls. 19 minutes on this tuesday morning. Well, a jury has reached a verdict against ruben flores. Thats the father of the man accused of killing kristin smart following a College Party back in 1996. Relive floors is accused of helping his son cover up that alleged crime. The verdict will not be ready until a separate jury deliberating the fate of his said paul flores reaches a decision. Its unknown when that might be as the panel is continuing. Deliberations. And were talking about political strategist steve bannon and could face some jail time when he sentence in his contempt case on friday, bannon was convicted of defying a congressional subpoena to testify before the january 6 committee. Now the Justice Department argues that he should spend 6 months behind bars and pay a 200,000 fine. Prosecutors say bannon acted in bad faith, but bannons attorneys deny that. And theyre arguing for probation. Instead. Well, a congressional investigation has found that trump hotels charge the secret service unreasonably high rate while the former president was in office. The Washington Post reports the former president and his family visit Trump Properties hundreds of times during his stay. They charge nearly one and a half Million Dollars to age is protecting them and they would often charge 5 times the established government right. So one night in 2017 age is staying in trumps dc hotel. It almost 1200 a room while protecting donald trump junior. The government right for that night was 200. In a statement the Trump Organization denies any improprieties. And hearing aids are now available to buy over the counter across the u. S. Its all part of the recent fda rule that allows adults to purchase hearing aids without a prescription or exam. The white house says nearly 30 million americans are going to benefit from this and say its going make hearing aids more accessible and more affordable for folks the doctors say scene and medical professionals still very important to make sure the hearing aid you buy is the right fit for you. This is a new way to access a device. But it does not include the care and the services that an audiologist can provide. The over the counter devices are not cleared for children or people with severe hearing loss just yet. Happening now, you millions of americans of federal Student Loans who can apply for up to 20,000 in debt forgiveness, President Biden formally kicked off the application process yesterday. Opening the door for millions of americans to apply. Washington correspondent jessi tenure joining us live with those details. Good morning. Jessi. Good morning to you as well. Right now, you can technically submit those applications until the end of 2023. But the Education Department says the goal here really is to forgive the debt coming from a and then im also to kind of walk you through the application process a little bit. You essentially it just go online, put in your name in a couple other basic information. And the department of education or someone else with the federal government will be following up with you potentially in some way if they have more questions about if your income bracket qualifies, things of that nature. But ultimately the entire process from when you fill out this form to potentially when you could be Debt Repayment is about 6 weeks. The president said and hopefully, again, like the Education Department said that this should a lot of it. The happening before even the end of the year. Thats the goal. But of course, things can happen as well. And theyre expecting, of course, a lot of traffic. There is 8 million already that head applied using this over the weekend during a testing period. Theyre ultimately expecting about 40 million. And so they are encouraging you to do this as soon as possible. Theyre also telling americans to be patient as well as they kind of work through all of this. All right, jesse, thanks for walking us through that. And i actually it was one of those americans. Who filled out that form in the beta testing period. So i know they asked for your name, your Social Security number, your email address. It was very quick, really, really simple process. Thanks for breaking that down for us. All right. Well, still to come on the kron, 4 morning news, a Bay Area University gets a visit from. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken. Were going to tell you where the topics he discussed. What he t on the peninsula, secretary of state Anthony Blinken and House Speaker nancy pelosi visited the bay area yesterday, both taking a tour of stand for of lincoln spoke at Stanford Universitys hoover institution. The conversation they had focused on the importance of National Security diplomacy as well as technology. Were thinking about supply chains and particularly for semiconductors. Weve seen what happened when these get destructive. Were designing together an Early Warning system so that if we see a disruption anywhere supply chain for a critical component. First of all, going to semiconductors. But broadening out to other technologies. A flashing red light goes off and we can act on it together. Doubling also discussed how the u. S. Is aiming to outpace china and also keep russia in check amid recent tensions involving ukraine. Happening today, Vice PresidentKamala Harris is coming back home to the bay areas going to be in San Francisco to talk about the climate crisis. Harris, who was born in oakland and became the first person of color to be elected to San Franciscos District Attorney in 2003, she was reelected for that position in 2007 before becoming the attorney general of california in 2010, she was the first female and first black and Indian American to hold that position. Still in the call for morning news, San Jose Police arrest several people in connection to an underground casino. Want to talk more about the operation. We get back from break. All right. Well, welcome back to the kron. 4 morning news. We are going on for and the early start to your morning. Traffic conditions looking nice in terms of the weather. I think the weather going to be in for a surprise next few days. Good morning yeah, definitely a surprise to actually see something the during your Morning Hours because were not seeing as much of the fog. As what we saw last week each and every morning last week brought us low grade, the low visibility yesterday and this morning have been much the opposite. Theres downtown San Francisco. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. All that looking pretty good as we kick this one off, visibility will remain good throughout the day today, which is partly cloudy skies later on a few passing clouds much like we saw yesterday, but really nice afternoon ahead right now, most of our temps are in the 50s with San Francisco and berkeley at 58 degrees. Livermore at 57 some low 60s in alameda, brentwood and pittsburgh n a couple of 40s up in the north bay petaluma. Youre at 46 degrees. So get those jackets on further north later today. Daytime highs will be a bit warmer than they w