Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the Digital Markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide member was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto this software to give people tools to communicate, share, and explore information through decentralized platform that was designed to be open and nondiscriminatory. An internet pioneer and codesigner of the internets early architecture testified in 2006 on behalf of google that the overarches principle of the open internet was no central gatekeeper should exert control over the internet. As he noted this open and competitive environment meant ent
More about the family killed in that fiery crash in pleasanton. And dozens of firefighters working now to contain a massive fire at a commercial building in concord. We are live there with details. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thanks for joining us here on kron for news at noon. Im just and were going to start with that massive fire that burned a commercial building in concord nearby. Roads are closed is impacting the commute for drivers right now. Kron 4 s Charles Clifford is live in concord with details on this fire and the aftermath. Thanks for joining us. Well, good afternoon. Yeah, this was a very dramatic scene late last night. Look across the street there. You can see crews are in the process of cleaning up that building right over there. 3 stories pretty much a total loss of garage on the ground floor. Some retailers are also some Apartment Units on the top. There is completely destroyedm good news today. Nobody injured, but this is going to impact traff
Him with their kids playing he writes, when i right my by that. Yeah, its really and neighbor too upset to be on camera. Talked with kron 4 news. Got home this way. That was the next day. I was pretty the names not being released to kron. 4 news from the Alameda County Sheriffs Department include. 2 run george. 41 rowan george 13 and aaron george 9, the identity of the 4th victim, Authorities Say cannot be released yet. But sources tell kron 4 news that it was the wife rienzi george. 2 run worked in tech. He was with aruba and Networking Company for 11 years. In a statement, a spokesperson said, quote, we are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic accident. 2 run was a valued alumnus of our hpe, aruba family, and our thoughts are with his familys loved ones at this devastating time, unquote. The boys ruin aaron attended pleasanton schools notes from their classmates. Were on a poster at the crash site. Grief counselors have been called in to help children with the grieving process of
From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Good morning. Thank you for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. It is tuesday. April 30th, im James Fletcher in from harvey. And lets start with a check of the weather as we like to do first out of the gate. Trouble standing by with a look at our forecast for this tuesday. Good morning, john. Good morning, james. Were looking at a pretty nice day ahead of us today. Lots of sunshine in store across the bay area as we move into the afternoon. Eventually. Lets get a look outside right now in our view, from the east bay hills camera. Usually a telltale sign of any sort of fog that is streamed its way through the golden gate. Not really seeing a lot of that this morning. We do have some midlevel stratus that is hanging out right above the bay. Currently now radar showing dry conditions and we are not seeing any chance of rainfall this morning for sure. Futurecast winds does show a pretty steady sea breeze co
Suspect should still have been behind bars. And officers serving a search warrant in North Carolina coming under fire nearly 2 hours later. Authorities are now saying the neighborhood remains on safe. Station. 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron for justine waltman. Our top stories. The police have arrested a man accused of attacking 2 people in one of the victims includes piedmonts police chief. The chief is now questioning why the suspect had been released from jail before serving his full sentence for kidnapping kron fours. Tiffany justice spoke with the Piedmont Police chief and joins now with details. And so what happened here . Tiffany . All right. So she bowers telling us that hes going to follow through with this investigation. Right now, detectives are working to gather evidence before it headed over to the Alameda County das office. Yeah, significantly injured in an unprovoked attack and older gentleman. And he had just gotten injuring my officers. And so it was at that