New at 5 still trying after more than a year without a Permanent Police chief. Oaklands Police Commission tonight is hosting potential candidates at a public forum. The meeting starts in just about an hour. Kron fours dan thorn is there now giving us a preview. Dan. Yeah, were coming to you from a very quiet City Council Chambers here at the city of oakland. Were just about an hour out from that Oakland Police candidate, public forum where people are going to be able to ask questions of the 4 candidates that have been presented by the Police Commission included in that list of candidates is at least one person whos from the San Francisco bay area. And thats former police chief or san leandro abdul pridgen. And then the other names include former lubbock, texas police chief floyd cincinnati, ohios assistant police chief lisa davis and louis molina, who is the assistant deputy mayor for Public Safety in new york city. As weve been clinton is without a police chief and has been for over a
Continues across the bay area this morning when the next round of rain is expected. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Its good to have you. Im stephanie lin. Its saturday march the second and youre likely waking up to some wet weather outdoors. Lets check in now with dave the morning dave. Well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. Were being treated to a bay area winter. Finally, this is the real feel for what weve got going on. Weve got some cold winds at work here. We have some rain thats going to be spotty through the day. But it will pounce at times. Kind of coming and going throughout the day. Cant rule out. A couple of flashes are clashes of lightning in there. Potentially some hail those snow levels have really dropped, though. So you might start to see some snow collect in our local mountains. Heres the shot from a radar you can see in th
Friend, liz mac donald. Elizabeth thank you so much is, larry. Its good to see you again. Lets get right at it, bring in tom dupree and former doj attorney hans von spakovsky. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. First to you, tom, it got really heated in the closing arguments today to disqualify Fulton County t. A. Fani willis due to misconduct charges. Tom, where do you think it leads . Well, liz, today was an explosive ending to what has been an explosive proceeding. The testimony that we heard, the evidence that we saw was stunning. I think whats going to happen next is the judge said he wants to take everything under advise isment. Thats judge speak for he wants to look back over the evidence, the testimony and figure out what the law requires. Hes going to rend or a decision in about two weeks. My hunch is he was probably very disturbed about a lot of the testimony he heard both from fani willis, from mr. Wade and from the other witnesses because so much of what they said
There enjoying that wind that is now picking up along the coastline will be an issue as we head through the evening hours. In fact, ill show you more on that in just a moment. But yeah, were looking for those waves to continue to build as the winds push that water up words. And here we go. Maybe some 15 to 20 footers as we head throughout the day tomorrow, too. So be careful out there along the walks course. The storm system being generated out in the middle of the pacific and all that cold air coming in from the gulf of alaska. Numerous thunderstorms rotating across state. We did have a Tornado Warning in the Central Valley for a brief time and thats what you can get with this cold, unstable air and these thunderstorms outside. You see some heavy rainfall in parts of the bay area. So the winds, yeah, theyve been kicking around 2. Were seeing winds of 2030 plus miles an hour around the bay area. Now theyre going continue to ramp up as we head throughout the evening. In fact, we could s
District. Roads are closed in this area. We do have a crew thats on the way to the scene. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus. You just hope those people are not going to be hurt too badly. But it could be dangerous out there. Its wet. Its windy around the bay area. The snow is just going nuts in the sierra and the worst of it they say is yet to come. Heres a live look outside. Right now and you can see ominous skies above. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with a look at this storm. Its a. Meanwhile, yeah, its with it out there in spots. Were seeing some of that cold, very unstable air beginning to come in now on. So were getting these thunderstorms start to pop up. So you get underneath one of those. You can see some strong downdraft, some very gusty winds and of course, some heavy rain to go along with that, too. Heres a live look look for the east bay back out over the bay. You see the dark clouds up above has been raini