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An anguished Family Member mourns a teenager killed after he pointed a gun at police. Whoosh steve and a Major Medical center east bay. Youre watching kron four news in prime time. Return get the baby. Vicki panic outside an oakland home as people rush inside a burning home. Sparked by illegal fireworks. Return to vicki good evening, im vicki liviakis. In for pam moore. Steve and im steve aveson. This was just one of several fires over the long Holiday Weekend caused by fireworks. Reporter the bone dry conditions didnt help. Reporter the fires, which kept crews busy all weekend. Caused thousands of dollars worth of damage. Reporter this is video of crews battling blazes in vallejo and brentwood. Steve kron 4s alecia reid joins us live from the scene of one of those fires. In brentwood, alecia . Return to reporter in fact the temperature in brentwood right now is 75, when you factor in the hot temperatures, dry conditions and the wind, it was great ignition for fireworks. Reporter fireworks are illegal in all of the cities where these fires startedbut that didnt stop people from lighting them. The calls started pouring in on sunday, when a grass fire on marsh creek trail turned into a 2 acre fire in brentwood. Neighbors were in fear for their homes, sot the fire got really really big and i went over there again to make sure it wasnt spreading to this side reporter but it bypassed them and scorched 100k worth of supplies at a Roofing Company nearby. It took crews 12 hours to out it. Sot the district ran out of resources several times over the weekend, having to rely on our neighboring Fire Agencies to assist us because all our resources were being used reporter paul are being irresponsible and adding to conditions. Reporter are no rest. They found the highest the the number of illegal fireworks this year compared to previous years. Reporter on the july 4th holiday, 2 people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation in oakley. Fireworks are also suspected to be the root cause of starting a 5 acre fire near illegal toys not only cause damage, they put the community and First Responders in danger. Sot unfortunately we saw professional type fireworks being shot off in neighborhoods across the district all weekend reporter in vallejo, the 2 adults and child that live inside this home had to find temporary fireworks monday night, then improperly extinguished fireworks started a fire next to the garage around 1 inside were ok, but the house now has 100k worth of contra costa county. Reporter the contra costa fire to continue going off evenings and weekends for the rest of the month. Reporter we reached out to all the Police Departments in these cities and so far there are of. Vicki thank you alecia. Return to as one gets older i am going to be up in my 80s by then i am going to be proximity of a hospital. Steve alta bates summit Medical Center the only hospital in berkeley has announced it will be closing in the year 2030. Kron fours Spencer Blake is live in berkeley tonight. Catherine Catherine Catherine Vicki Spencer why did they announce a closure that is 14 years away . Return to reporter the hospital is not earthquake standards. The building would have to stability by 2030, but Sutter Health doesnt want to deal with the renovation. I was born here, actually. Ive lived here my whole life, so ive been here quite a few times. Reporter its not hard to find people no other hospital in town. But unless the city can convince Sutter Health to be an er in berkeley at all. In a recent letter to berkeley city council, alta bates ceo chuck prosper reaffirmed that the renovation required to get the Medical Center up to code by the last day of i was very concerned to hear about it, and quite surprised. It seems like its a pretty good facility. Reporter even people who live nearby havent all heard about that distant, will change the way they live. I guess id look around for mean, what else can i do . Reporter and thats another thing mentioned in prospers letter. There is another sutter hospital just three miles away in oakland. Prosper says operating both of them is inhibits our ability to be most affordable to patients. Reporter the letter also says center for outpatient treatment. Then were also concerned we depend on them for all kinds of non hospital services. Reporter the hospitals ceo plan to retain all services, patients, physicians and clinicians. Reporter we reached out to the city of berkeley today, but they comment today. With a plan more than a decade in the future, there dates set yet. Live in berkeley, Spencer Blake, kron four news. Thank you spencer return to steve family demanding answers in san jose. Wanting to know what led to the deadly confrontation between police and an 18 year old. Kron fours rob fladeboe has what police and the mans family are saying today. Reporter Sandy Sanchez fought back tears as she questioned how and why her nephew, 18yearold anthony nunez, whom she had raised since he was a child, was shot and killed monday during a confrontation with police. Reporter officers had responded a suicidal man with a gun at a home here on feller avenue in the east foothills. Chief happened next. Sot eddie garcia san jose officers followed with two months trekking across the street. Striking across the street. Reporter as they approached the house, nunez came outside and began to wave the gun himself. The officers then retreated across the street drop the weapon. But he says chief garcia. Reporter Family Members are discounting reports that nunez was depressed. They say he had a learning disability and may have been upset because he missed a recent family reunion. Sot Sandy Sanchez victims aunt i do not understand why every time a has to be a tragic incident. Steve new at eight. The fifth of the july is typically the busiest day of the year for animal shelters. And, this year is no county Animal Services. Steve today, Animal Services says there were long lines all day. With people looking for or bringing in stray dogs and cats who got spooked by the Independence Day fireworks last night. Steve Animal Services says on an average day, the intake of stray pets is 25. But today, 49 dogs and cats were brought in. Return to sot 32 dogs actually, and 17 cats. And, those numbers are down slightly from last year. Last year, we brought feel that the reason for the reduced numbers is that we closed our night deposit boxes in february of this year, so that avenue of intake for us was closed off. So, its not surprising to us that our numbers were slightly lower from last year. But still, its a very big day for us. Steve if your pet ran away during the fireworks last night in contra costa county. Contact Animal Services immediately. Steve its possible your pet may be at the martinez or pinole shelters. Adoptions and surgeries on recent strays wont be allowed for at least 72 hours up to a week after they were found. But if you dont react soon, its possible your animal may eventually be adopted to someone else. Brittney as we go into the rest of tonight and the next few nights we will continue to see clouds moving in and say what began as we go into the evening. You see that the clubs are much thicker here as they were earlier. Brittney as my microphone drop spirit hold on one second. I will show you where our temperatures word. 80 degrees and antioch, 64 degrees and concord. And you can see the storm trecker for and showing us where the f o g is located. We do have a chance of low pressure systems. It would not bring us a chance of rain fall. Brittney at 545 and the morning visibility is down to zero and half moon bay, one in oakland and hayward to. 67 degrees in San Francisco, san jose is typically at 81 and same thing and concord. We will stay below average as we go into the next few days. Livermore was only reached a high of 82 instead of the the normal 86 degrees. Brittney temperatures and napa with 60test with 76 degrees. Steve in the east bay a somber tribute to a uc Berkeley Student who was murdered this past weekend. 18 year old tarishi jain was bangladesh. Vicki she was among the 20 killed by islamic militants during bakery in Dhaka Bangladesh this past weekend. A crowd of more than a hundred gathered on the campus of uc berkeley to pay their respects return to tarishi was one of the most. We were one steve jain was reportedly with her two friends, students at Emory University in atlanta, who also died during the attack. Steve the Hayward Police department is refunding more than three thousand dollars National Lawyers guild when they requested body camera footage. The ruling was made by an court judge today. Steve the nlg wanted footage for a lawsuit connected to a black lives matter protest in 2014. That lawsuit alleges that officers clubbed and shot tear gas at nonviolent protestors. The city of hayward charged the nlg for than 3 thousand dollars for the costs of editing portions of the video. Steve the nlg paid the amount, but department to get their money back. Return to index steve ahead at eight. The bay area road being called a death trap for wildlife. Vicki plus. Running into a burning home while others are trying to get out. A Good Samaritan saves a life in the east bay vicki a warning for you tonight a dangerous malware called humming bad has infected over ten million phones. Steve the mobile Security Research firm check point discovered the chinabased group of cyber criminals that has been using this phones. Over a fivemonth period they generated three hundred thousand per month in fraudulent ad revenue. Steve they did this by taking over peoples phones and then forcing them to download aps and click on ads. Malware on smart phones is a growing problem and something you need to protect yourself from. Kron 4s tech reporter gabe slate. Gabe for some help adding those mobile security apps to your phone gabe talked about reporter not download an application by clicking on winks cutback could be risky. They used to be a thing where by guys did not goal after apple devices but that has changed. Mall where i text are popular. Malware attacks are popular vicki visit his tech page on kron 4 dot com or on our mobile app. We have posted links to some of the ones gabe recommends that are free. Return to steve the Mega Millions jackpot. Is up to 454 Million Dollars the prize increased today an extra fivemillion. Its the seventh largest Lottery Jackpot in us history. Steve and here are the numbers. Steve good luck please visit kron4. Com to r etrieve numbers brittney saturday could be the coolest day in the entire week. Nicosia at the San Francisco airport with the clouds. Passing into the rest of tonight. Speaking with us and you can also see the f o g returning with a coastal drizzle heading into tomorrow. After the fall we will see a sunny afternoon. After the fog brittney lee why not the picture and we are going to see they drive. As we will not see any rainfall. It will help our share and cooler temperatures with this new lows system. And a marine layer which means clouts each night. And a possibility of coastal drizzle at f o g. Along with cooler temperatures i had before us. We get up tomorrow morning at 645 in the morning you receive visibility down to zero. Brittney 2 and hayward. The low average temperatures would 68 in oakland and 64 in San Francisco. Seven brittney day forecasts shows that temperatures will continue to drop as we head into friday and saturday high 70s for inland locations which is well below average. Closer to the bay of about 70 degrees and warming things up on sunday and monday for the rest of the week with lake cloud and coastal drizzle. Vicki there is one road in california where the most frequent collisions occur between animals and vehicles. And it happens to be here in the bay area. A roadkill researcher says that the most frequent incidents happen along interstate280 from san jose to San Francisco. Vicki the researcher says that lower speed limits and crossings could help prevent wildlife collisions. One report of last years collisions. Found that 6 thousand of them involved wild animals. Return to vicki it will soon be easier than donor. Steve apple announced today that its mobile operating system add their names to a National Database of potential donors. Kron 4s Charles Clifford is newsroom with details what this could mean for the thousands of people waiting for a transplant and why apple may have decided to include this option in their software. Charles . Reporter when apple launches the next version of its mobile operating system, ios 10, the pre installed health app will include an option to register as an organ, eye or able to quickly add their names to the National Life registry, which connects those in need with potential donors. Nationwide, 120,000 people are in need of an Organ Donation and a new name is added to the list about every ten minutes. The non profit donate life america people die every day waiting for a transplant. The group is hoping that by making it the help they need. Reporter apple ceo tim cook says the decision to include the Organ Donation option was inspired in part by watching struggle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs received a liver transplant in 2009, but died from complications in 2011. Before jobs passed, cook offered to donate him his liver, but the ailing ceo declined. Reporter the experience apparently recently told the associated seeing him every day, waiting and not knowing it stuck with me and left an impression that ill never forget. Reporter this is not the first time that a tech giant has embraced Organ Donation. In 2012 facebook began allowing users to show their status as registered donors. That led to tens of thousands of people being added to the National Life registry. Reporter apples Organ Donation option will be included in a developer version of ios 10 later this month and available to all iphone users in the fall. Steve so far, the Organ Donation available ti the us. Reporter in the newsroom, Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Return vicki new ahead at 8. The hits keep coming for users of infidelity website Ashley Madison. Who the Company Revealed was really behind some female profiles. Steve and next. Who could soon be checking your bags instead of the t sa at Airport Security. Gary we will update you from the ballpark. We would talk about the as and the giants. A little bit later in this broadcast with sports rooms come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are big rooms, tiny rooms, rooms that are whoa. With eight times more fragrance control, the new air wick® Scented Oil Warmer lets you dial up or down to fill massive minimalist rooms. Small secret rooms. And tall rooms you climb to. A treehouse is totally a room. You get the perfect amount of fragrance. No matter the size of the home. No matter the size of the room. Air wick®. Home is in the air™. Vicki federal officials are trying to speed up Airport Security lines. Grant lodes is here with who might soon be checking your bags. Vicki grant . Grant the transportation security inspect carryon bags at the phoenix airport. Ct scanners are already used to screen checked baggage. The tsa says the changes will then expand to airports in chicago, dallas, los angeles and miami. The agency says the scanners and other changes. Will cut the time travelers spend in line. By about 30 percent. New statistics might prove to be good news for californians. Return to grant steve . Steve thank you, grant. Steve the world Bank Released its annual rankings of countries gross domestic products on friday. California ranked sixth world last year. The us bureau of Economic Analysis reports that the states gdp is up about 4 percent from last year. Steve the unites states as a whole. Saw Economic Growth up at 2point4 percent. China, the united kingdom, the us, germany and japan were the top5 that produced more than california in 2015. Vicki kittens from a pet store in the east bay. Have now returned the animals. Steve the crime happened sunday. At a pet food express in lafayette. Police say two woman. Grabbed two 11weekold kittens. Who were up for back exit of the store. Then this morning. Two days later. The same two women walked into the store wearing sunglasses and left the kittens in a box on the have not been identified or located. Vicki ahead at eight. A big controvesry in a small town. The president obama parade floats some are calling racist steve plus. Thousands of women and children held captive as sex slaves for isis. How one woman escaped and the message she has for the terrorists. Vicki and next. Fireworks trigger a fire at an east bay home while someone is stuck inside. Now two men being called heroes for jumping into action. Return to index of give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. Its the final days of the lowest prices of the season sale, with our bestbuy rated c2 Queen Mattress now only 699. 99. Only at a sleep number store. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Vicki east bay neighbors calling one of their own a hero. After he and another man woman inside a burning house. Steve that fire ignited by illegal several in the bay area in the past few days. This time a Good Samaritan was there to help stop anyone from getting hurt. Kron4s dan kerman talked to neighbors and shows us the dramatic video of the fire rescue. Reporter a close call in east oakland 4th of july night. And heroism caught on video neighborhood fireworks set a tree in dorothy oakleys front yard on fire flames then began lashing at the roof, and heat began cracking the living room windows. Inside oakley was with her 59 year old bedridden daugther dana who suffers from multiple sclerosis there was smoke everywhere so i was concerned about getting her out for safety we just noticed a bunch of smoke was brewing from around the corner reporter neighbor Deshawn Holcomb was family at his home around the corner and decided to investigate when i got to the corner i could hear somebody screaming help reporter without regard to his own here, entered the burning home sot Deshawn Holcomb rescued neighbor from fire 57102 once i knew there was someone in the house i thought let me see what i can do, how i can help they came in and said is anyone else in here and i told them that she didnt walk. Reporter so with the help of another suffers from asthma battled through the smoke, picked up oakleys daughter from her bed and carried her out the back door and onto the street to safety. This is what its all about, my family, these people have family, i know they want to see their family , family want to see them again reporter another neighbor put out the Fire Department arrived other than a few bruises and so is she. Im thankful that god brought this young man and this other young man here because otherwise it might have been a different story reporter holcomb brought his family over to meet oakley on tuesday its something no one will soon forget especially holcombs godson. Sot issac walker holcombs godson 158 202 i learned from this experience to help people when they need help. Reporter in oakland, dan kerman kron4news this just in to the kron 4 newsroom. Grant on northbound lanes are blocked as related to an accident. We do not know of a time of when the lanes will be very open. Just from spencer ave. Its where the accident is located. All northbound lanes on 101 r block right now. Steve we have a little bit of a cool spell. Brittney summer weather and the city. Temperatures will save pretty close and below average for it will continue to see more conditions. When see the clouds developing. Uc the petipa the f o g sticking allaround. You see the patchy fog brittney right now, and temperatures in San Francisco are at 54 degrees at factoring in be wed speed. And half moon bay, 50 and santa rosa and half moon bay. Hayward and other locations are all in the 50s already. A High Pressure is starting to weekend and we are tracking another area of low pressure. Brittney our future temperature shows the difference of cooler weather here for the next couple of days. We will notice by a 8 00 p. M. Some locations will still be in the low 50s. As we get closer to 11 00 a. M. Only 50 francisco but other areas are around the region will begin to warm up. 81 degrees and concord, 5 degrees lower than usual. Brittney take another look at the 7 day forecast at the end of the show. We will take vicki as isis is losing territory in iraq they are tightening their grip on thousands of women held as sex slaves. Steve right now it is estimated three thousand women and girls are enslaved. The terrorist group are using phone apps to adverstise and sell the women. And to keep track of them so they cannot escape their quote owners. Steve left scarred and blind in one eye. Lamiya bashar tried to escape four times before finally getting away. She ran toward safe territory with isis fighters right behind her. Steve she barely survived when a landmine exploded. But she says she is lucky. And that even if she lost both eyes it would have been worth it to get away. Steve and while smugglers had managed to free more than one hundred women a month. Those numbers have dropped to under 50 in recent weeks. Steve hilleray clinton got the decision she wanted from the fbi. But the way is was delivered could cause her some problems. Vicki director james comey investigation into clintons use of a private email a crime. But as Catherine Heenan shows us, there was plenty of evidence of her careless decisionmaking. Return to none of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system. Catherine comey said the yearlong investigation found clintons setup allowed classified emails to be read and stored on networks with poor security. Although we did not find colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of the classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. Catherine the fbi investigation directly contradicts clintons public statements. I am confident that i never sent or received information that was classified at the time it was received. Catherine in fact, the fbi found that of the 30 thousand emails clinton turned over, 110 contained classifiedand a small number of emails were marked classified at the time she and her staff sent them. And while the investigation had been hacked. Yes it is possible that hostile actors did gain access to secretary clintons email account. Catherine the fbi directors harsh quickly picked up by republicans. I think what is most telling is even though they say there is no criminal intent, they do say she is guilty of gross negligence. Catherine donald trump took to twitter to say fbi director said crooked hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow there has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than hillary clinton, ever. cheers applause steve a resounding endorsement from president obama. Today he said hes ready to pass the baton to hillary clinton. The two made their first appearance together in north carolina. Steve where the president south to reassure voters about clintons character. He also made a dig at donald trump. Saying the next president needs to have more qualifications than knowing how to tweet. Some Hamilton County neighbors want to know why a controversial float was allowed in a parade. In sheridan, a golf cart featured president barack obama, with the words, lyingafrican, underneath. Vicki today, the creator is defending his actions. All new at 530, 24hour news 8s nick natario joins us now to explain why he did it. Donald christy insists hes not racist. He created the float to highlight, what he believes, is a broken government. Vicki but some in town are upset, to prevent these floats from marching down main street. These are the parade props that have several sheridan neighbors talking. Resident i couldnt believe it. Thats ridiculous. Its mind boogling that somebody would do Something Like that. We will be right back hey, theyd be lucky to have you. Dont be nervous mommy. Youre so smart. Good job. Just like bunny ears. You got this. Do i . Really . Come on nature valley. With you every day. Everywhere. With the energy you need. Vicki police in rio having an alarming message for people visiting the city. Steve we wont be able to protect you. Grant lodes is here with whats happening in brazil just weeks before the Olympic Games in rio. Grant violence is on the rise in brazil and police say they havent been paid in months. Today they protested at the Airports International terminal. Grant some Holding Signs saying welcome to hell now some military police are speaking out. Grant saying theyve watched officers died protecting rios image. Not its people. Protesters also say the citys scant resources are being used to patrol popular tourist spot instead of ares were gangs run the streets. Human Rights Groups say when they do go to those neighborhoods its to raid homes and put people in order. It seems like there is an order to put fear in people so they stay calm, so they dont cause trouble in the city because the foreigners cant see that the city is chaotic. Grant the situation might get worse before it gets better. Federal government is expected to flood rios tourist zones with troops in the next month. But for rios residents thats security they will likely never see. Return to steve coming up next on kron4. Steve cheating on the cheaters . What the infidelity site Ashley Madison is now admitting to doing. Admitting to doing. male announcer its now time for gary radnich with sports . Gary good evening gary we were talking about the camps and were trying to see how much they cost. I guess the parents go on vacation and bandit children get to hang out with curry. A sure enough looks like they are having a good time. He is as cool as ever. Look at the reaction of the key is to foster it on to his back in disbelief is priceless as he runs over and pick some up. Then a different room curry in assets in the case began the reaction of three young girls as he surprised them. Great stuff. Gary the bay area will have one player starting in the allstar game a week from today. Buster posey as expected was voted in as the starting catcher for the national league. He surged past the cardinals yard here molina and the last week of fans voting. Gary this will be posies fourth allstar game and first start in the spring classics which will take place in san diego. Here are the other giants to make the team plus the long a representative. Lone a rep gary there may be an all williams final at wimbledon for the fifth time after both venules and selling advanced to the semifinals today. The top speedthe top seeded some reno earned a spot in the scene in the semis by talking anastasia of 6464 today gary the defending champion and winner at wimbledon six times. Sterling will face only not in the seathursday in the semis thursday. Vicki jupiter needs in juneau. Cnossus fiveyear galactic trek a success what they are looking for on the planet . Vicki movie right back we will be right vicki nasa says it has received a signal from 540 million miles away. Confirming that the cutting edge juno spacecraft. Has reached jupiter. Vicki the spacecraft has the 5th planet from the sun. Vicki cool. Steve jupiter is the Solar Systems largest planet. And may have been the first to form. It is a huge ball of gas. 11 times wider and 300 times more massive than earth. Juno. Was launched nearly five years ago to study jupiters composition and evolution. Itll spend 20 months exploring the planets vicki the well known website nameberry has released the most popular baby names of 2016. A new girls name has taken the top spot while 2015s most popular boys name remains at number 1. Olivia. Is now the most popular name for baby girls. While amelia and charlotte arent far behind. With the second and third spots. Ezra. Remains the most popular boys name. Asher. Landed at number 2. But the biggest suprise of the list. Is the name atticus. Made famous by the popular 1960s book to the top 3 boys names of vicki thats it for the kron 4 news at 8. Stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news developments at kron4. Com or download one of our mobile apps. Our next newscast is tonight at 10. See you then. Goodnight. At 10. See you then. Goodnight