Oaklands police union called on city officials to speed up the search for a new chief as they continue to deal with mounting crime. And some Council Members in santa rosa are concerned changes made to a no camping ordinance. Well do more harm to the un house instead of actually helping people. Well have that and more coming up. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good morning and thank you for what you get with this bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news today is wednesday. August night, the middle of the week. All right. Well, we started the week per any warm and then we are gradually inching closer and closer to a cool down. John tables been tracking that since the start of the week. John, where we sit today. Good morning. Yesterday was the first day of that cooler seasonable feel. And today were going to keep that around. So. Were definitely out of the heat that we had over the weekend and providing a nice break for those of you, e
Out within minutes of each other in oakland inning with 2 people dead. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 8. Im ken wayne and im justine waldman. Investigators are still going over the scenes of both shootings right now. The first one happened around 2. 30, this afternoon at the Martin Luther king junior regional shoreline boat launch. Thats near the oakland airport. Officers opd and east Bay Regional Parks both responded and they found a man dead with a gunshot wound 10, just 10 minutes later, police say they found a man shot and killed at the lake merritt bart station. Kron fours amanda hari joins us live in the studio with the latest on that shooting. Amanda. People use bart tell me theyre concerned to see Something Like this happen at such a busy station in the middle of the day, but relieved to hear someone was taken into custody so quickly. Police tape blocked bart riders from the oak street entrance to the lake merritt bart station tuesday afternoon. This after a man was
Areas of this town, it looks like its night. Yeah, you know, it wouldnt surprise me. Just the mass hysteria thats been going on there with people actively trying to escape illustrated. The people added to jump into the water there matches just to escape everything thats going on. And its exacerbated. But 911, emergency lines. Yeah. Yeah. A large portion of the island there. They got no 911, service, no cell Service Really to speak of. Hardline services down all this, according to the Lieutenant Governor there, sylvia. Luke, she was talking to media this morning, kind trying to illustrate that. The dire nurse of the situation out there, state of emergency has obviously been declared. Theyve mobilized the coast guard. Theyve got the National Guard working as best they can to clear some of these roads that have downed trees, downed power lines. Thats really been impeding fire crews that are trying to get ahead of the fire to fight it. The can even get to it because of all the debris thats
Is here. Richmond bridge. Did i hear that or is that better . What well, yeah, we can start on the rich. Know you start wherever you want. Sal. Its your show, steve. I take requests, you know that. Especially from you. Lets go to the Richmond Bridge as the man said, and show you that traffic is moving along very well. No major issues there. I do see a bunch of slowing on a highway four westbound and its not unusual. However, the speeds are down and you can see that the speed here is down to 11 miles an hour. Thats pretty slow. Bay bridge is backed up all the way out to the macarthur maze. Metering lights are on san mateo bridge, moderate if youre driving west and if youre in the Silicon Valley right now, westbound traffic still looks pretty good. Getting out to sunnyvale and cupertino. Its 701. Lets get right back to the headlines. Sal, thank you. We are monitoring the developing story of a fire at a steel recycling plant near the port of oakland and ktvu studios at jack london square.
Humanity behave, right . And this is a great experiment on that as the frack Natural Gas Boom happened Around The World, especially in that its thats it was sold as like a cleaner alternative fuel, but thats only true if it never, ever leaks and it leaks a lot and methane makes up about a third of global warming. So stopping that, especially in the near term, is key to straightening out things yeah, seeing is believing at least we hope we will. Bill weir. Thank you so much. Appreciate it it, is not am on the east coast and that means more than a dozen states now have their polls open on this Super Tuesday and more states will soon be joined morning. What voters are saying and what everyone is watching for. Just how far some of Donald Trumps key allies went to illegally overturn the 2020 election and keep donald trump in office after the january 6 capitol attack. We have the newlyreleased Text Messages that reveal more about that fake electors plot. And its a party on the International