Industry. We look at the potential impact. We are in the dairy mountain. Where the winds and the fog can come in and keep the grass a little more moist. It is a great place to have dairy farms. That is why we have a concentration of it down this way. Reporter there are about 3,000 farms in Sonoma County. But a new measure on the November Ballot is targeting two dozen of the biggest. Christina garfinkel. A local initiative that aims to stop concentrated animal feeding operations in Sonoma County. Reporter measure j. Would outlaw larger animal farms and those defined as polluting the water in Sonoma County. They are called cafos, or factory farms everything is wrong with measure j. A disaster for Sonoma County. The chair of the board of supervisors and opposed on every level including the hit to the economy. Half a billion impact to the countys economy. You would dispute that . I would. Reporter a consulting economist supporting the measure. So the Economic Impact analysis says suppose w
Nice to open up the windows yesterday i agree. And it looks nice today. Theres very little fog though. Only a few patches of it. So were clear. Ready to go. Santa rosa airport. But i dont think downtown does. Has a slight northerly breeze, which is why there are 55 but upper 40s low 50s. And were all set for what looks to be a sunny day, but cool and cooler, i should say. And breezy with temperatures 60, 70, 80. Have that north wind holds in santa rosa. Will get to 80s of a dozen and turns southerly. Theyll probably be about 77. All right. Sals here. Anything are quiet . Its mostly quiet. However for steve, we have a yeah. However, we have a pretty serious crash out there right now on 580, heading over to harbor way, we do have a fatal accident involving a pedestrian, and we do have some video taken a little earlier of the scene. This happened at about 130 in the morning, and at one point they did block all the lanes. But then a little bit later, they did open some lanes. Now this happ
Begin. Thats nightline for this evening. Catch full episodes on hulu. Well see you back here same time tomorrow. The Contra Costa County fair went on without a hitch this weekend, but going to the bank to deposit the profits is now a much more unfortunate story. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Its a nearly 90,000 heist in antioch, and it involved the money you may have spent. Police say the two victims were employees at the fair. Abc seven News Reporter j. R. Stone spent the evening in antioch and has more on this investigation. Jr. Police say the two employees went to go and try to deposit the money in the night drop box at 218 in the morning. They had thousands of dollars with them when they were held up at gunpoint. The Contra Costa County fair ended late sunday night, but its what happened in the overnight hours after the fair at this bmo bank, a mile and a half down the road in antioch that is raising eyebrows. Two of our employees possibly were taking a very large cash deposit to a b
Little girl in that car. A heroic rescue from a father in antioch. How his decision to act saved a young girl. Trevor shirley in washington today, the doj filed an antitrust lawsuit against live nation. Ive got the details on that coming up just ahead. From the bay station, youre watching kron. News. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im stephanie lin. The Memorial Day Travel weekend is here and its expected to be one of the busiest for us. Jessica for joins us live now from San Francisco International Airport with what you should know before you head out, charles. Well, good afternoon. Its been extremely busy day here at sfo. Lot of people looks like are getting an early start to their memorial day weekend. Triple a says there are so many people traveling in the next couple of days that it could break some records. According to triple a 38. 0. 4 Million People will travel by car this weekend possibly making this the busiest memorial day for vehicle trips si
Its happening at the sims Metal Recycling plant in redwood city, close to the shore of the bay. The smoke drifted as far as sunnyvale. Sara donchey is following the latest for us from the newsroom. Reporter a lot of people have probably seen the smoke from this especially if youre down. We are learning more about what caused this fire. Live right here above the scene, crews have made a lot of progress compared to what it looks like earlier. The flames erupted from a recycling plant. This is a look at the fire at its height. There it is. Sent a lot of smoke in the air, which is typical. The Fire Department says that scrap pile consists of things like water heaters, even cars and parts of car. And this is some citizen app video a shows the dark smoke billowing into the earth earlier. Its smelling like plastic. This is not what i wanted. It was a 20foot high pile of scrap metal that caught fire that time. It sent toxic smoke into the neighborhoods nearby and even caused a shelter in place