Now at 6 oaklands new police chief officially taking over the department today. This more than a year after the firing of lebron armstrong. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 6. Im noelle bellow. Im ken wayne is kron fours terisa stasio tells us tonight the new appointment. Also comes at a time when the city is seeing an increase in violent crime. Oakland police chief Floyd Mitchell behind the scenes at opd headquarters monday meeting and greeting members of the department. Only one news camera was allowed in a no questions were permitted. Mitchell was shown on the job tackling tasks such is going over. Crime statistics got to crime helices for myself beating a right to a little bit. He spoke with employees. This is the departments wellness counselor. And he introduced himself to a new recruitment class. Tell that ive been in this profession probably longer for almost 35 years. This is one of honorable. Greatest professions that you can metro says that his top goals comin
On Bethel Island in contra costa county. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 5. Im noelle bellow and im grant lotus. It is really a scary reminder of just how important it is to stay safe in the summer months. Kron fours rob nesbitt. Spoke with a First Responder and joins us now in the studio with their advice this evening. Rob. Granda, well, more people will be spending time by the water as temperatures warm up. But this is also when rivers are moving dangerously fast during the snow melt and important time to be vigilant. The middle of may and californias rivers are moving fast and cold. Its a dangerous time to be in the water and First Responders have been busy. The waters of the San Joaquin River in stanislaw county clarmed the life of a 30 yearold woman after she jumped in the water to save her 11 yearold daughter. Weve had, you know, multiple. Fatality incidents just in the last week contra costa county, a 5 yearold boy drowned over the weekend on Bethel Island. Larr
Top cop. What had to say on this first monday on the job and even fathom that i can do Something Like that and get away with it. Its yes. Be the list. Neighbors taking action to protect each other. How customers at the San Francisco cafe. Stop the guy who had just stolen a womans laptop. Well, 4 news at 11 starts now. News station, this at 11. Good evening. Thanks for being with us tonight on kron 4 news at 11, im grant lotus are for top story tonight is the search for an 8 yearold boy who police say is in danger. They say a ortiz was last seen around 6 oclock tonight in Mountain View on california street and its quell avenue. Its about a block from rainstorms park and el camino, they say a teen was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt. Blue pajama pants. Police are not saying how he became missing but he is believed to be on foot. If you see him, youre asked to give Mountain View police a call. For people in East San Jose are without a home tonight as crews look into what started this
Does the grain compare this morning . Yeah, civil are great so yesterday, but it is burning off a little bit quicker along the bay shore. So were seeing it kind of being a little less stubborn, i guess you could say the un outside this morning from mount tam. You can see that blanket thats sitting right above us. That should cool there. Thats been sweeping through the past couple of mornings. Still very much so present in the north bay, especially pockets along the bay shore. Winds are a little bit calmer than yesterday. Still a bit breezy towards the latter half of the day as that cooler ocean breeze sweeps back in tonight. Likely a little less breezy, though, as we move into tomorrow and thursday. It will be good news, especially for our g suffers. Temperatures right now are in the 50s to 60s heyward. Pittsburgh fairfield in the low 60s. Brett, what in vacaville . Some of our warmer spots. Kelsey bill already near 70 degrees later on today. Daytime highs do reach the 70s and low 80s
Can to do blend together this week. Not a whole lot of changes going on out there. Were repeating a lot of factors from yesterday, including some of the great that were seeing out overhead this morning. Youre saying that as far south as san jose with some very gray skies overhead burn off occurring at a very similar amount of time as to what we saw yesterday as this blanket of mostly low clouds, but also a little bit of fog is affecting visibility on some of hillsides in the east bay, south bay and the north bay, too. Fog remains pretty steady and stubborn at the coastline. Winds are a little bit relaxed as compared to yesterday and im expecting less fog into tomorrow morning. That will allow temperatures to rise a little bit further for your wednesday tomorrow. As for today, though, its 40s to 50s for current temperatures later on today. Daytime highs will rise right back to the 70s to low 80s. Much like they did yesterday right now. All right. On eve of that get busy out there on our