Theres like you at 6 Driverless Cars were the cause of yet another traffic backup. This time in San Franciscos north beach neighborhood. Citizen video showing the congestion crews vehicles caused late last night. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 6. Im noelle bellow and im dan thorn crews now stating that the traffic hall was caused by connectivity issues because of the large attendance at the outside lands music festival. A spokesperson telling kron 4, quote, were actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again. We apologize to those impacted. This traffic issue comes just a day after cruise and waymo both got the green light to expand services in San Francisco. The Driverless Car Companies can now charge passengers for rides. 24 hours a day tonight, kron 4 says magoon gives residents a glimpse of what to expect next. There will be more robo taxis on the road in San Francisco. Now that state regulators have allowed waymo and cruise t
In the area. Kron fours amanda hari spoke to witnesses and explains what cruz says caused the issue. Interesting. Amanda, very interesting. Cruz says this clicks in their system was caused by all the people on their wireless devices at the outside lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park. And some people are saying that this shows the technology is not ready to expand its usage just yet. Theres like traffic near ayers, street and grand avenue at a standstill friday night. Crews vehicles stopped for no apparent reason with their hazards left. People unable to go anywhere, just lined up and then lined up with the grown as you know, just a procession of michael was going on. Stephen giddings is visiting San Francisco from new york city. He was near the intersection when the backup started. Jeffrey bill bree was inside of his apartment. He heard the commotion here. All these horns blowing. And i look and theres all these Driverless Cars lined up all the way allay here. And theres one on he
This country in more than a century. 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. Im stephanie lin. It is sunday august the 13th, another warm one for us today. Lets get your day started with a first look at the weather with dave sphar made good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. And it will be quite warm. But again, for those inland valleys, it looks like by this afternoon as were Still Holding on to summer here. However. It looks like conditions will be much hotter away from home will be showing you this a little bit. Heres whats going on outside. Heres the leftover fog along the east bay shoreline. But right above and you can see the blue skies. Thats basically the future that were talking about. Our temperatures thus far were in the 60s in the east bay. For the most part. 71 in antioch, 50s cover most of the west to ken. Nice. Cool. 55. There and Half Moon
Been paying close attention to violence in the tenderloin. These images show urban alchemy worker darnell houston firing a gun near hyde in golden gate. He was charged in federal court and got probation after arguing it was self defense. Defense have more more power when it comes to things like like, you know, ammunition and guns and things that they can do and make happen. Now, the sfpd is investigating this case with the help of those recovered shell casing. Its quite possible the feds could get involved, assuming the gun or ammo was made outside california and they link the evidence to a suspect mike. All right. Henry lee live tonight there in the newsroom. Henry, thank you. This is a very shocking and tragic incident that we are investigating now. San jose police are searching for at least one suspect wanted in connection with a double homicide. We first told you about this story on friday when the victims bodies were found in an apartment on park moore avenue, ktvu, south bay repo
So weve had even this past Holiday Season between november 20th and the end of the year. Weve seen a significant decline in crime. And so we know this has nothing to do with that decision. Its really a larger business decision that macys has made. Macys says the closures are part of a shift in Business Strategy from large stores and malls to more boutique shops. Macys is the latest in the list of iconic union square in Downtown Retail stores to close, including nordstrom and the westfield mall. The mayor says the closure is disappointing, but shes hopeful for change. There are definitely possibilities here. This is not like nordstroms, where they say were leaving, were exiting, the president and ceo of Union Square Alliance shared this quote. I believe that we should work toward a solution that allows macys to keep this iconic store open. However, if that does not come to pass, our expectation is that a new owner for this iconic site will come forward to continue a fresh and vibrant vi