Quickly found out he was right. Ive been running into quite a few different scams. So far this year the ftc received 18,235 reports of scams related to covid19 and collectively, americans have lost 13. 4 million to this type of fraud. Including fake apartment listings. Where a scammer uses social distancing as a convenient excuse. Aj showed us a series of emails from a suspected scammer named adam. He tells aj due to social distancing, he cant see the unit in person. He gets to the cell pushing aj to reserve the place before someone else does because other people are showing interest. The most interesting part about it is the price that he had on the property was probably 50 of the market rate. So it was really obvious that something was going on. So aj asked, is this a scam . Adam was ready with another excuse. This time blaming the federal government, saying the property was initially listed at a higher price but all homeowners had been asked to lower rents during the pandemic which
Were actually dealing with just the opposite some pretty dense fog out towards conquered in livermore this morning watch out for patches where it gets very thick, especially as you head out to the Central Valley, the Central Valley is actually where weve heard of commuters having a lot of issues traveling up and down 5 99 this morning. So showers as you can see here in future cast they stay offshore, you can see that far also in future cast burning off into the afternoon we got a dose of sunshine later today for the bay area. Tomorrow morning. It does look like a better chance of rain to start the morning and then some a clearing and drying conditions into the afternoon this sets us up for what should be the driest day of your forecast and that will be on thursday before the rainiest day your forecast on friday whether cannot make up its mind. Dry on thursday very much so rainy on friday, thats the day actually got to watch out for todays temperatures well right now were in the 40s and
Following breaking news out of San Franciscos intercept sunset neighborhood. A fire burning the second floor of Apartment Building in the area of 8th avenue. And irving. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 10, im ken wayne. That fire started just after 8 oclock tonight. Kron fours amanda hari live at the were more than 100 firefighters were called out. Amanda. Yeah, all of these firefighters are working right now. Still very much trying to finish up the job here, but it is all contains. So that is the good news. I just spoke with the firefighter who told me that you can see them right behind me here working right now. As you said, it is on irving and 8th avenue. It is 2 different buildings. So it is one fire that spread to 2 different buildings. The tell me that they got a bunch of calls after 8, multiple, 911, calln came under fire and they sent out one fire truck initially and quickly grew to over 100 firefighters. A 3 alarm fire. Like i said, it is now contained. There are no
That breaking news tonight. A man has been shot and killed outside oaklands lake merritt bart station. And weve just learned bart police now have a suspect in custody. Thank you for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 5. Grant lotus. Im vicki liviakis. Police say the shooting happened just after 2. 30 this afternoon. It was at the corner of 8th street and oak near the stations bus zone. The station was closed for about 40 minutes while police investigated the scene. But trains are moving now on schedule. Police say after searching the area and looking at Surveillance Video. They were able to identify and arrest a man in connection with that shooting. Officials say theres no indication the suspect or the victim was riding bart. We have a crew headed to the scene right now and we will have more on this story in a live report coming up tonight at about 5. 30. Our other top story this evening. 4 months after home depot employee was shot and killed after confronting a suspected shoplifter
Areas local news station. We now with breaking news. That breaking news coming from oakland tonight 2 deadly shootings happened just minutes apart. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 6. Im justine waldman. Im ken wayne. The most recent shooting happened about 2. 30, this afternoon right in front of the lake merritt bart station at 8th and oak streets. Thats where we find kron fours amanda hari with the very latest demand. police have been here on the scene for about 3 and a half hours. It looks like theyre starting to wrap up their investigation, but they are still here working near the bart station. So this part of the bart station here on oak street is closed off. You have to go around to the other entrance to go down into bart. But bart is operating year now. The shooting happened just after 2. 30, in adult man was fatally shot on the street level here at 8th and oak street near the lake merritt bart station by the bus stone. So far, police and Oakland Police r