Todays presenter, mark obmascik. Mark is a native of chicago southside. Hes a graduate from the Medill School of journalism at northwestern. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic Columbine High School shooting in april of 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. Thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. Mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. Thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and wherewithal to spend
But the congressmans decision could mark the start of a turning point moment. Will other candidates follow suit . Youre seeing the Second Quarter fundraising numbers coming in, which are demonstrating the strength and viability of some campaigns. Yes, i think we are getting into the time when the field will dwindle substantially. Reporter there is still one new face that could emerge, bay area Billionaire Tom Steyer is reportedly close to jumping in the race despite publicly announcing he wouldnt run in january. We asked swalwell today if if he has any advice for the potential incoming candidate. Its rough out there. Reporter and steyer also said excuse me. Swalwell said he wishes steyer well, but swalwell says he really has no regrets about how he ran his campaign. We asked him why he thinks he struggled to breakthrough. He said he thinks its because he was up against such high profile candidates. Bernie sanders, joe biden, senator kamala harris, people with really high name recogniti
Oversees the Financial Assistance program says that this applies only to single adults between 18 and 65 years. Old. And that right now about 5200 people are receiving the Cash Payments anywhere between 10700 per month. But at this time, people qualify for that money by self declaring that they are suffering from Substance Abuse disorder. So the mayors plan would change a few things. It would require people to be screened to prove their addiction to drugs. That process has yet to be determined and they would have to get into treatment. Mayor breed says that part too many people are refusing available help and are dying from drug overdoses. So its time for new approach. People are not accepting help. And so now its time to make sure. That were cutting off resources that continue to allow this behavior to occur with out the economy, liddy, without someone involved in a Treatment Program that could lead to a better life. So i reached out to all board supervisors to gauge their stance. Let
Thieves used a car to break into in steal from the store in San Franciscos marina district. We have the latest on the investigation. And why San Francisco mayor london breed wants people in the city to have Substance Abuse, screening and treatment before they can collect government assistance. News station. 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news of 2, im justine waltman and we will begin with yet another big company blaming theft and organized retail crime for its departure target announcing today it is closing several stores over safety concerns. Some of those stores are here in the bay area. Kron fours to joins us now live to breakdown this big announcements which stores are closing. There are 3 stores here in the bay area. Justine, you may recall this viral video from earlier this year. It was taken inside the target on folsom street in San Francisco showing aisles and aisles of product locked up. Behind security glass at the time. A Company Spokesperson told us the glass
Announcer live where you live. This is abc7 news. Gunfire on the road sits off a series of crashes leaving at least eight people injured. One with gun shot wounds. Good evening. Thank you for joining us im dion lim. Im eric thomas. We begin with the search for a gunman who opened fire on a road in fairfield. Waterman boulevard, where the crashes happened reopened just Tiffany Wilson has our story. Reporter police have the overpass shut down. The shooting happened on the far side, i80 east. And the shooting happened close to the on ramp for i80 west. We didnt know whether it was an he can change of gunfire or not. What i do know is that the victim was in a silver honda accord, that a vehicle pulled up next to him and shots were fired in his direction. Reporter the shooting apdaround 3 30 saturday afternoon. The driver this honda accord was hit multiple times. The other driver sped of. Thinks vehicle collided with other cars. Reporter first he crashed into this suv and then this car . He