Now at 2 after being without a police chief for more than a year, the city oakland may be one step closer to naming its next top cop. We will introduce you to the finalist. Plus community releasing a ridership report and the Transit Agency says its investments are paying off. And what will happen to some of our favorite events in San Francisco after macys has announced the closure of its Flagship Store in union square. News station. News 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news to im bald man. Our top story this afternoon, the city of oakland has a fresh list of candidates in the search for a police chief. The Oakland Police commission released their names last night and right now kron fours Catherine Heenan joins us here live in studio with a look at them. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. As you know, just in the search for oaklands next police chief has dragged on. For more than a year been kind of a mess. This is the commissions second attempt to find a replacement. 4 former chi
Justice department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. This is the 3rd criminal case brought against the former president this year. Were taking a live look at where the special counsel will be issuing a statement on the charges the former president will be facing todays indictment focuses on schemes by President Trump and his allies to keep him in office. Despite his loss to president biden. Again, we are standing by for special counsel jack smith to make a statement. This is a live look at that room. We will bring it to you live as soon as it begins. But right now, we do want to bring in political analyst michael michael, we were speaking just about an hour ago about all of this in anticipation of this indictment coming down. The indictment has come down. Ive just kind of skimming through it right now. And in the first few bullet points, the grand jury does acknowledge that the former president has like any american the right to, you know, speak publicly abo
Nationwide. The company says it will close about 50 of those stores this year. And this is coming after it posted a 4th quarter loss and declining sales kron fours. Tiffany justice joins us now live from union square with the macys there with the latest on this breaking news story. Thanks for joining us. All right. A staple here at union square will be closing its stores. Kron 4 confirming with San Francisco board of supervisors. Aaron peskin ys that this macys location here at union square is slated to close its stores. His office says it will stay open for the rest of the year. Well, they work to sell the property. But heres what we know so far today the Company Announced that they will be closing 150 Stores Nationwide over the next 2 years. They say that they will be closing about 50 of those stores during the first year. The company has not announced which locations will be closing their doors first. But we do know and have confirmed the Union Square Location is included. Now this
Just evolve and well start off with a look at the conditions in the sierra right now because there is a lot of snow on the roadways that were expecting and we could see a lot more of this and overturned big rig truck blocking all the lanes on eastbound 80. Thats is from earlier this morning. The chp sharing this video of clearing that big rig and there is more of that kind of nasty weather. 2 cop. Here is a look now at conditions in the bay area. This is our camera on top of mount tam. And you can see there it is raining. Meteorologist kyla grogan is in the Weather Center now to kick us off here with the latest. Whats happening here in the bay area . Yeah. And you know, just said reiterate this year, were going to talk about that a little later in the show as well. But the big takeaway is stay off the roads. We are definitely dealing with some very blizzardlike conditions that are going to get worse as roads the next couple of days. Right now, you can see theres just some light rain ar
A massive fire in San Franciscos hayes valley neighborhood. Just how many buildings are being checked for damage. And the very latest details on the fire coming up in a live report. From the bay station, youre watching kron. Noon. Thanks for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im noelle bellow, our top story this afternoon. A mans body was found following a fire near i 9. 80, in oakland. That fire was reported shortly before one 30 this morning. Chp says the Oakland Fire Department saw a man starting the fire in the westbound lane of the 17th street offramp. Firefighters later found a burn victim with head trauma at the offramp. That offramp is now reopened. All lanes are open as well. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, fire crews have contained a massive fire in the citys hayes valley neighborhood. 8 people have been displaced. No injuries reported. Kron 4 Charles Clifford joining us live from the scene with the very latest information charles. Still an active scene out there with fire