Good afternoon. And thanks so much for joining us on the kron. 4 news at noon. Im Stephanie Lin in our top story this afternoon. And then they start cain. Velasquez has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges. Kron fours Charles Clifford joins us live now with the latest details on those proceedings. Hey, charles. Hey there. Yeah, Cain Velasquez is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder and hes been in custody for months. But today he finally entered a not guilty plea on all those charges. Friday morning, Cain Velasquez entered the courtroom wearing a face mask and quickly waving to his family and friends sitting in the audience despite being arrested back in february and appearing in court multiple times since then blazquez didnt enter a plea in the case until today. Kane is accused of trying to kill this man. Harry glory. In a separate case, color t is accused of sexually molesting a 4 yearold boy who is related to kane. Prosecutors allege that back on february. 2
Testing catherine. Yeah, thats what theyre hoping for, pam. And can Officials Say . In just the past week theyve distributed more than 600,000 doses of the Monkeypox Vaccine all across the country. And they say theyre now able to perform as many as 80,000 tests every week. The white house, as you know, has been criticized for responding too slowly to monkeypox. Local doctors say yes, they hope the announcement from the white house today. Well get Critical Resources out faster to people who need them. Most. We need to make it easier to roll this out to the people who need them most, which is that at msm population and trans people have with men until this is its probably going to bleed over into the general population and time is of the essence. Time is ticking. The longer we wait, the more and more expensive. Its going to be not only in terms of dollars, but in terms of emotional starts. With monkeypox now considered a Public Health emergency and the country. Some lawmakers in sacramen
The newsroom tonight and joins us with more on that part of the story. Dan. Well, catherine, vicki, the 1 31 yearold basketball star was found deliberately smuggling cannabis oil into a russian airport. Griner was arrested back in february, accused of having the illegal vape cartridges in her luggage. But there have been concerns that griner has been detained as a political because of the United States stance on russias invasion of ukraine. Today, sentencing brought about strong reaction, including what comes next for griner. The 2 time olympic Gold Medalist and wnba superstar with a blank expression, as she learned her fate 9 years in a russian prison. The guilty verdict for Brittney Griner was expected, but calls from the u. S. Continue to demand for her release bay area. Congresswoman barbara lee taking to social media saying the conviction was absolutely disgraceful and that griner should be home with her wife and loved ones but is instead being used by russia as a political, i thi
Slipping over to sfo. There are no asterisks after record highs year, still warmerthanaverage in the midtoupper 60s with total sunshine away from the coast. Leyla gulen . How is the morning commute . We start off busy again. 37 bart trains are on time with no delays. We have a sigalert in hayward, a car hit a power pole at mission boulevard and rose street northbound and Southbound Mission blast should down and will be for an hour and 15 minutes. Know you have to get around it. 580, tracy to dublin at 28 minutes, and antioch to concord, 20 minutes. And 101 is moving fine with a little bit of mist and moist roads so be careful for slippery conditions. We have new details in the bart shooting tragedy abut the officer involved in the shooting the. We have learned the name of the officer who shot the Sergeant Tom Smith accidentally. The officer is michael maes would previously worked for a police department. This is maes in a promotional video hired by former bart chief and we talked with
Door, now, through 7 00. It will be about 52 if you headed out at 7 00 this evening. The day planner the next 12 hours at the coast is cloudy and milder, and we are in the mid40s with decreasing clouds in the afternoon and we will top out in the lowtomid 60s by 4 00 and in the mid50s by 7 00. Enjoy. Leyla gulen . We have 48 bart trains on time and as we go back to san hand tremendous we have more chase on the accident involving a big rig which was trying to get on the southbound 880 freeway and it tipped over on the westbound Marina Boulevard onrank so we have that portion of the onramp shut down and we have an eastbound onramp to get to southbound 880 and traffic is going to have to be detoured. We still have an accident 580 at air boulevard a highspeed accident and we do not know if lanes are blocked but we have slowing approaching airway, westbound traffic is busy up to this area here. And the bay bridge toll plaza is looking busy and metering lights are not on, but, they could be s