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Angelous early years in the bay area. This is a full hour of your choice for prime time news. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Happening now at 8 catherine a memorial is getting underway on the uc berkeley campus. To mourn the victimsof the shooting and stabbing rampage in isla vista. Six students were killed. Three of them were from the bay area. Kron 4s Philippe Djegal is live in berkeley with the story. Catherine philippe. . Catherine. Reporter the Spring Semester ended about a weeked and a half ago here at uc berleley. So, not as many students are oncampus as usual. Still, event orginzers are hoping for a big turnout. The lead organizer of this memorial will open the ceremony with a few words. Then read a message from the chancellor. The dean of students will then talk about the Mental Health Resources Available oncampus. Before opening up the mic to anyone who wishes to say a few words about the victims. Reporter uc berkeley is providing some 800 candles for this event. The lead organizer is jo downes. Shes a graudate student here at uc berkeley, having graduated from Uc Santa Barbara in 2011. She was in Santa Barbara last week when the killings took place. She doesnt know any of those killed, but says it was important to hold this memorial. And, remember the innocent lives lost. It is a sister campus, so like as the uc system, as students of the uc system, we need to band together and, um, support each other, but also because it could happen anywhere. Like, its just a reminder, like it happened in isla vista, but it could have happened here or it could have happened at any of the uc campuses which is really terrifying and sad. In all. Reporter the vigil is expected to run for about an hour here at the memorial glade on campus. The surrounding community and ucsb alumni living here in the bay area are welcome to come take part. Live at uc berkeley, Philippe Djegal, kron four news. Reporter new at 8. Reporter a survivor of the deadly rampage speaks out. Patrick eggy of san rafael was in the path of the man who went on a killing spree near the Santa Barbara campus. But he considers himself fortunate. He was riding his bike. And like his friend and waterpolo teammate nick was also hit. His injuries minor. Pachy, as he likes to be called, spoke with me late this afternoon about his experience. Money will have your test but that is about it mine need. My knee will heal fast bu that is about it. And thats about it. While pachy is recovering from his knee injury, hes clearly still struggling to cope with the tragedy. Catherine . Catherine classes resumed today at Uc Santa Barbara. Students were back a day after a memorial was held to honor 6 murdered classmates. Catherine the mood was somber on the campus. Throughout the uc system flags are at half staff. That will be the case through sunday. Among tributes the house of representatives oberved a moment of silence today. Catherine some california lawmakers are now proposing tougher state rules on buying guns. The bill would allow temporary restraining orders aimed at stopping potentially violent people from buying guns. Catherine it was proposed by berkley Assembly Member Nancy Skinner along with two Santa Barbara lawmakers, under current state law, people can be banned from buying guns only if theyre involuntarily committed to a Mental Health facility. Gary catherine a threealarm grass fire is out tonight. After breaking out this afternoon near two highway connector ramps in vallejo. Catherine it was a traffic mess for awhile. This was the scene from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. The fire was near the off ramp drivers use when heading eastbound 780 to westbound 80. Authorities ended up closing those connector ramps between 780 and 80 as they tried to get the fire under control. Catherine the blaze started about 345 this afternoon. Tonight the west bound 780 connector ramps are now open while the east bound ramps are still closed. Catherine new tonight at 8 people in antioch are talking about how to tackle a growing crime problem. A Task Force Made up of city officials and Community Leaders held a Public Meeting earlier this evening to come up with ideas. Kron 4s Charles Clifford is live in the east bay with details. Charles. We have a crime problem in this area thats antioch mayor wade harper and the area hes talking about is here. Along sycamore drive. Over the past few years, neighbors here have seen an increase in violence and drug related problems. Im really tired of hearing about shootings on a regular basis and we need to do something about it. Reporter wednesday evening, a Task Force Made up of city officials and Community Leaders sat down with neighbors in order to brain storm ways to reduce crime. Among the suggestions. Restarting Neighborhood Watch programs, better lighting along city streets, more after School Programs for kids and community outreach. Reporter at this point the city doesnt have a specific plan, they just wanted to get input from residents this has to be a partnership with the community. We have to get buy in so we are coming here to ask questions. Lets get past the Crime Reporter fred hoskins was at tonights meeting. Hes lived in antioch his entire life and he feels that the best way to deter crime is to get people involved in their neighborhoods. Reporter this community has the resources if individuals will just take some interest in their area. Harper feels it will take a combination of ideas in order to turn things around. Outreach, resources, availability of resources. All of these things together and i think we will come up with a plan to improve this area. Reporter a man police say sexually assaulted drunk women and collected trophies to remember them is behind bars tonight. Catherine Santa Cruz Police say james sharp would meet his victims at local bars. And target heavily intoxicated women. Catherine they say hed have sex with them while they were blacked out or too intoxicated to consent. Sharp was arrested twice for two different sex assault cases. On may 9th and may 24th. This latest time. His bail was raised to 5Million Dollars. Jacqueline the attorney for a woman accused of choking her childs alleged bully. Says she is innocent and the Attorney Says he can catherine the alleged assault happened last week in santa rosa. Now the defense claims that the bully hurt himself and then blamed the woman. Kron4s jr stone reports. Reporter not so fast her Attorney Says reporter page report conducted close three witnesses can find no evidence of any sort of an assault. When chalices he actually sold the bully joking himself is to press both comes together and cortisone she wants to i have a child that would is that and i was not my client that did it. Reporter when a system give account and this report have made clear as to what really happened. He choked themselves and lied about it ahead because he did not appreciate her confronting him. He is basically a little jerk. Reporter the matter is currently under investigation and we did receive some and promotion in any well and some funds to Contact Contact the sheriffs office. The next court date is june 19th. Believe about ourselves. Reporter catherine tonight, the world is remembering poet and writer maya angelou. She died today at her North Carolina home. At 86. Kron4s grant lodes is here with the details. Grant . Reporter years before the world knew maya angelou as a groundbreaking poet, author, and activist, the bay area knew her as an innovator. Reporter she had a distinguished career as an author and film director. Angelou left her mark on the bay area. At 16 she became the first female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Reporter those who knew her well. Say she used her heart and her words to make the world a better place. She did it as a poet and writer and as a person that i call a full human being so full of information and down to earth and intelligent. A great woman. Our relationship when that over 30 years and just want of monthly highlights of my life. When i decided to end my broadcast career at the one person and when to be sure what maya angelo we talked about friendship and those words will carry me belva davis. Is a former kron 4 anchor and reporter. Reporter she says maya angelo valued honesty and truth over flattery. And that she did not realize how big her impact was on people around her. And theres more to come. Catherine tonight at 8 30. We will take a look back at the inspirational life of maya angelou. Catherine ahead at eight. Catherine concern that bay area traffic has reached the crisis stage. One of the reasons drivers are spending more time behind the wheel. Also the search for hidden money has the bay area in a frenzy. Catherine where an anonymous millionaire may be headed next. Giants star hunter pence has his stolen scooter retunred. Reporter why the right fielder will no longer be riding it to and from games. Despite having his prized posession back. New tonight at 8 reporter a tech start up hoping to expand in the bay area is bringing jobs here. Our tech reporter gabe slate joins us. So whos hiring . Reporter the company is called blue apron, like the cooking apron they are based in new york but the service they offer is expected to be popular here so they need more workers these are good jobs you dont need any special tech skills for. Reporter they have a full fillment center in richmond right off the 580 they are looking for 400 full time employees. We will tell you about the jobs and how to apply. But first blue apron is a pretty cool idea, its a neat service. Let me tell you what they do reporter blue aprons mission is to make gourmet cooking in your kitchen easy. They deliver to your home everything you need to cook a fancy 5star restaurant style meal. Plans start at 60 a week and go up. Reporter that basic plan includes 3 meals for 2 people delivered weekly. You can cancel or change your meal plan anytime. Reporter your meal is delivered in a cooled box with all the ingrediants, condiments, whatever is required for the recipe. Reporter and there are color cards that lay out the directions step by step how to prepare the meal. All you need is a kitchen, cooking untencils, and the will to learn how to cook a high end meal. Now lets talk about those jobs reporter the 400 jobs are for the fullment center in richmond this is where they prep the food. Pack the food reporter ship out the food jobs start at 12 an hour you get a free lunch every day. They offer some good benefits these are full time jobs. I posted a direct link to where you can apply for those jobs on my tech page on our website at kron 4 dot com. So catherine what do you think about that service . Would you use it . Reporter its back reporter giants star hunter pence has been reunited with his scooter which was stolen over the weekend outside a restaurant along the embarcadero. An Unidentified Group of people brought it to police today at at t park. Pence learned the good News Reporter a Police Report was never filed. So nobodys going to jail. Pence had already ordered a replacement scooert. And he recently tweeted. Indicating the would auction the stolen scooter. And give the money to charity. Reporter face value of the Battery Powered scooter is four thousand. Pence is pulling in about 16 million this season. So this sounds like one of those deals where everybody wins. Jacqueline as we look live from mount tam cam ranh bouncing around through the evening we still have a gusty winds and around the bay area. And the teens and had ample places like Half Moon Bay same thing it was the clear as well were listening mount temperatures into the evidence that we do have big changes in the extended forecast will take a look at the the forecasts in the hour. A look back at the life of novelist and poet maya angelou. Reporter kron 4s Justine Waldman tells us what to look for. Female narrator sleep train challenged its manufacturers sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. But the mattress price wars ends sunday. Now its posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to 400 off. Serta icomfort and tempurpedic go headtohead with three years interestfree financing, plus free sameday delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. When brands compete, you save. Mattress price wars ends sunday at sleep train. Your ticket to a better nights sleep phones ring constantly at the center for environMental Health in oakland. We have gotten a lot of calls from parents ever since the law changed asking where i can get safer products . Reporter in january of this year, california no longer required some baby products. Like changing pads and foam chairs to be doused with a flame retardant. After evidence showed the chemicals didnt do much to make the products safer. Judy levin with the ceh tells me if anything the flame retardant has horrible Health Impacts on children. Hormone disruption, obesity ,reduced iq reporter the ceh asked 17 popular baby Product Companies to complete a survey asking if it now offered products without the toxic chemicals and if it labeled the products as such. Almost half had taken the toxins out. But did not attach a new label. Reporter we think companies have done the right thing by taking the flame retardant out but they shouldnt keep it a secret anymore reporter what to look for . A label like this on a naturepedic product that clearly says no flame retardant chemicals. We think that is the Gold Standard take out the toxins and let your consumers know so they can make informed decisions. Reporter to see the results of the survey on which companies have eliminating toxic flame retardants head to our website kron 4. Com. In the newsroom Justine Waldman kron 4 news. Ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. Wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. Find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at Universal Studios hollywood. Ballstill ahead one of the worlds Biggest Tech Companies is revealing exactly who works for them. Our viewers weigh in on the surprising results. Also do you gridlock. Teacher layoffs. And a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. Thats what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. So he partnered with Governor Brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. For the first time in thirty years. Today, the deficits are gone and weve invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. Now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. Democrat john perez for controller. Catherine renowned poet and novelist maya angelou died this morning at age 86 at her North Carolina home. Fredricka whitfield takes a look back at her life. The hells we have lived through. And live through still. Have sharpened our senses. And toughened our will. Reporter celebrated poet and activist maya angelou may have been speaking about herself on that day in 1995. Reporter born Marguerite Annie Johnson in saint louis missouri, april 4th, 1928, the hells she lived through began at the age of seven, when she was raped by her mothers boyfriend. Reporter after she spoke out against him, he was beaten to death by a mob. Young marguerite blamed herself. I was seven and a half. And my seven and a half year old logic deduced that my voice had killed him, so i stopped speaking for almost six years. It was during those years of silence. That she discovered poetry and her love of art. Reporter her poetry was first physical. Reporter winning a dance and drama scholarship in San Francisco, then later touring europe in 1954, in porgy and bess. Reporter but her growing love for the written word took her to egypt and ghana, where she became a newspaper editor. Reporter in ghana, she met malcolm x and returned to the u. S. In 1964 to join his fight in the civil rights movement. After malcolm xs assassination, dr. Martin luther king asked her to join him. He was killed on her birthday, 1968. The following year, her first memoir was published reporter i know why the caged bird sings. More bestsellers would follow. Reporter her books detailed personal struggles like having a baby as an unwed teenager that son later became novelist, guy johnson. Cut reporter blazing trails on the big and small screens. She directed documentaries. Reporter her screenplay for 1972s georgia, georgia was nominated for a pulitzer prize. Maya angelou was nominated for a tony award. She won 3 grammies and, in 2011, president obama presented her with the president ial medal of freedom. Reporter she called herself maya, which was her brothers nickname for her. Angelou came from her first husbands name, tosh angelos. Reporter she had created her own name, just as shed created poetry. From pieces of herself. I am the hope and the dream of the slave. And so, naturally, there i go rising. Reporter fredricka whitfield, cnn, atlanta. Reporter new at 8 reporter Business Owners are targeting tourists in San Franciscos fishermans wharf. But theres another group of people who are also targeting tourists. Thats the focus of this next edition. Of people behaving badly. Reporter would appear that he is someone the mike i digress. Tight end on our sneakers shriner he only targeted tourists with a dirty rag and white bottle of on a liquid by the way he said he would sue me if i placed them on tv. When people do not give him money for a shine he often uses harsh language. Reporter just another unique way to get money from tourists. He bangs the bucket on the sidewalk alleged no he was satisfied with it not helping. Reporter he had a drink cup brought to him from this mail that umbrella. Then of the people out nickname the travelers they bounce from un to sun approves is to San Francisco and hugely have a doll. They are the most aggressive on icon to panhandling. Reporter on to say is is just another day of paradise. San franciscos then the robbers conference race. Kron 4 news catherine we are hearing many of them are being allowed to return more holmes might still need to be evacuated. Reporter couponing clean in regards to the faces of its company and has always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of its work force. Senior vp of people operations as it is hard to address these kinds of challenges if youre not prepared to discuss them openly with the fat. Here are some of the numbers 70 of google workforce are composed of men and 30 percent of women 91 percent is white or asian 2 identify themselves as black. Reporter hire without thinking of race just think of who you feel as qualified. Reporter plenty of us with the qualifications that never see the Selection Process lead along the interview. Catherine jacqueline taking a look at Current Conditions pretty mount along the bay area. We are in for some changes this moments of certainty. When you know, you know. The allnew volvo v60 sportswagon. The s60 sedan and the xc60 crossover. Test drive one today. Model year end sales event. The s60 with 0. 9 apr and up to 2500 in allowances. Heat shields are compromised. Weare those thrusters burning . Thats a negative. Whats that alarm . Fuel cell two is down. Im going to have to guide her in manually. This is very exciting. But im at my stop. Come again . Im watching this on the train. Its so hard to leave. Good luck with everything. With the uverse tv app, the uverse revolves around you the uverse revolves around you catherine of cyber crime is on the rise for u. S. Businesses and organizations. Thats according to a new survey with some chilling numbers the survey covered businesses, Law Enforcement services, and government agencies. More than 75 percent of them had detected a Security Breach in the last year. At about a fourth of them said the attackers were insiders including current and former employees. Catherine an outbreak of salmonella linked to a california Chicken Company continues after more than a year. Catherine foster farms chicken is still dealing with the outbreak. Catherine it was first reported over a year ago but new cases are still being reported. Catherine within the past 2 months there have been 50 new illnesses. And since march of last year nearly 600 people have been sickened. Catherine the cdc says the new illnesses are mostly in california. Catherine so far, theres been no recall. Return to index of reporter the incident is not only bad for your brain with your body to time for power powerful positive thinking. Being a cynic jacqueline here is a look a futurecast temperatures running in the 50s to start the day. As we move into the now and our 70s even 80 system on a share and a screen. The coastline. More a degree readings. Of the coast not much has changed. It will be a degrees in redwood city print for east bayshore lines. 76 in oakland. 78 out in fremont. 86 and antioch 84 in concord along the creek. 85 and morgan hill and san jose and finally the north that a lot of these tomorrow. , lance a much cooler as he hit into friday and especially saturday we will want back up into next week catherine still ahead while some drivers say theres the driver is a scar the future that could be available sooner than you think plus no gas pedals no bricks in a reporter is this the future of driving . Google released this video of a prototype of a driverless car. The twoseater vehicle has no gas pedal, no brake pedal not even a steering wheel. Passengers just get in and tell the car where they want to go. Reporter according to tech website cnet, its part of a project google is developing to create a self driving car thats safer than human drivers. And it could be coming sooner than you think. Cnet says most major automakers expect cars like this to be available by 20 20. Catherine apple is acquiring the Company Beats electronics. That includes the streaming Music Service beats music. Also beats audio equipment. Apple will pay 3billion dollars for the company. Its the most expensive acquisition in apples history. male announcer now, the Orchard Supply sports report with gary radnich. Gary giants cubs tim lncecum weird outting today top 1st Pablo Sandoval makes another great diving stop and guns out the runner at first lince cum likes it gary bottom 2nd gary 50 giants gary Jacqueline Gary very good news we have good news, ladies and gentlemen. The scooter has been returned the power of prayer pam catherine laughter the power of praye byr prayer. Why didnt he lock it up for heavens s ake gary thanks to all of you who gave up your self ish needs to return the scooter to a man who just signed a 90 Million Dollar contract hong gary vern glenn doing his annual balldude appearance cant handle the hard foul the great vern glenn top 5th lincecum strikes out Edwin Jackson he has not allowed a hit but after walking his 4th batter George Kontos is summoned to the pen gary bruce bochy pulled lincecum after the 5th with the nohittwer intect lincecum 5 ip, 4 walks, hit a batter gary bottom 6th scorelss Gary Sandoval singles up the midle angel pagan scores 10 giants gary top 7th 1 out gary Jeremy Affeldt gives up a single to alameda native john baker to break up the nohitter 8 outs away reporter bottom 7th after sandoval was walked intentionally gary Hector Sanchez makes the cubs pay with this drive into the leftcenter ally buster posey and sandoval score sanchez is safe at third advancing on the throw home 50 giants gary combine for a 2hit shutout gary after the game Bochy Lincecum after the 5th with a nohitter return to index gary hunters pences scooter which was stolen sunday in front of a restaurant near the embarcadero was myteriously returned to at t park today by a group of unidentified people who gave it to the police at the park gary scooter to the clubhouse none of the people who returned it are being investigated and the police are treating it as Found Property since pence never reported it stolen pence found out during the game his scooter was returned jim harbaugh and the 49ers hit the field for their first full squad organized Team Activity of the offseason gary aldon smith who plead no charges and will be sentenced july 25 was back on the field as well and Colin Kaepernick has to deal with the Ongoing Investigation of that some reports had him involved in a Sexual Assault ocurred kaepernick talked today about the ongoing turmoil while his coach offered a unique description of female narrator through sunday, its posturepedic through sunday, its posturepedic versus beautyrest with up to 400 off. Serta icomfort and tempurpedic go headtohead with three years interestfree financing. Mattress price wars end sunday at sleep train. Your ticket to a better nights sleep hit reporter senate and San Francisco today san jose few weeks ago no one had heard of atm calling him the cash died. He became something of a sensational on twitter found in san jose the self described of japan nor in making millions in real estate like to share the wealth credit to our goal each pleaded random acts of kindness do not be set up cenacle hears this in the world in love. Catherine kind of sweet. I sat there will not only person there. We just started running to all of the fire hydrants and there it was hidden cash. Reporter is out there but he may have missed out. 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