A mother shot and killed in her east bay home tonight. Grief stricken family and friends struggling she had so much goinr her. She was such a good mom. Im just going to miss her so much. Loved ones say the 30 year old victim was a mother and college student. Good evening. Im julie julie haener and im mike mibach. Police in pinole say the victim was killed by her exboyfriend and her family says in front of her little boy. New at ten ktvu joey huerta, live at the martinez detention center, where the suspect is in custody tonight and also charged with homicide. Joey. Mike and julie. This loving mother was known as someone who could light up a room with her smile. And shes being remembered tonight as someone whose life came to a tragic end. Those who knew her best are sharing her story for the first time. Her smile will just light up a room. Friends and family are mourning the loss of brittany ligdus. Life will never be the same. Police say the 30 year old was shot and killed on the mornin
Strong winds whipping in the sierra as a powerful blizzard pummels the region. Tonight, communities bracing for dangerous conditions ahead also, one step forward in the long search for a new Oakland Police chief. Tonight, the four candidates speaking directly to the community as residents hold out hope for new leadership. As long as that position has not been filled, the crime keeps going up. The city of oakland now, without a police chief for more than a year. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im cristina rendon. Members of the Oakland Police Commission Held a Community Forum tonight introducing the public to the four police chief candidates, topping their list new at ten ktvu Jana Katsuyama joins us live with highlights from this meeting and what comes next. Well over the past year, it has been a battle trying to fill this position between the Police Commission and the mayor, who fired the last chief, lauren armstrong. The mayor refused to come to the meeting tonight, but man
Former san jose mayor leading in the race to fill the former u. S. Representative anna eshoo seat in district 16 as the Santa Clara County supervisor trails pretty closely behind. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news good morning. Thank you for waking up with his bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news. It is wednesday march 6. The day after election day. Im reyna harvey. Were going to go over those results of you this morning. But i start into work this morning, john. It was really, really slick and started really coming down on the toll plaza this morning. Yeah, specially down for the south bay. Thats where were seeing some of our heaviest of rainfall right now. Definitely an active day ahead of us. And were even picking it up a notch as compared to yesterday. This is where sitting on the east bay hills. Just a little bit of cloud cover up above. But as mentioned, we are seeing showers out there right now. The center of this system is sitti
City has gotten so bad she feels like she always has to be on guard. I will give you an example, like taking my son to the baseball practice. I make him take it all in fear if we leave that in the car, we will be robbed. Reporter they are not aloan. Many people have contacted matt dorseys office, complaining about the election the city is going. As a supervisor who represents the downtown of San Francisco, which includes the Convention Center and hotels and the warriors and the giants, a city that has so much of their economy rooted in being safe and welcoming and clean, we cant afford not to solve our Police Staffing problem. Reporter supervisor dorsey has long been an advocate for increasing Police Staffing in the city. He spent much of last year working on a measure that would create a five year plan to get them fully staffed. Retail theft conditions, drug dealing, public drug use. All of that is because we dont have a Police Department that is large enough to be policing the city t
Uproar a bay area later after waymo gets the final approval to drive on San Francisco into the south bay. Governor plan to improve oaklands streets will go over the specifics there here with city leaders. Think about it. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us kron for news at 10. Im vicki liviakis. Im grant lotus. Powerful winds are bringing down trees across the bay area tonight at tonights storm is also forcing road closures and up in the sierra spinouts and whiteout conditions have actually shut down. I80. It is a mess in the high country. We have Team Coverage tonight crow for some and harry is live in the east bay where the rain isnt stopping people from having a friday night out. First, though, we go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the storm arts. Yeah. Guys rocking around the bay area right now. Things really get going as weve seen the showers and thunderstorms seeing