New at 5 still trying after more than a year without a Permanent Police chief. Oaklands Police Commission tonight is hosting potential candidates at a public forum. The meeting starts in just about an hour. Kron fours dan thorn is there now giving us a preview. Dan. Yeah, were coming to you from a very quiet City Council Chambers here at the city of oakland. Were just about an hour out from that Oakland Police candidate, public forum where people are going to be able to ask questions of the 4 candidates that have been presented by the Police Commission included in that list of candidates is at least one person whos from the San Francisco bay area. And thats former police chief or san leandro abdul pridgen. And then the other names include former lubbock, texas police chief floyd cincinnati, ohios assistant police chief lisa davis and louis molina, who is the assistant deputy mayor for Public Safety in new york city. As weve been clinton is without a police chief and has been for over a
Bit breezy out there so far. But as far as rain goes, most of us have just seen light showers, really heavy mist at this point. Coastal areas in north bay. You are seeing wet conditions on the roads. So take it a little slower in these areas. You can clearly see the where the rainfall is. A already is up along the north coast and you see all that speckled cloud cover offshore. These are called cellular clouds right here. And oftentimes for when its cold and unsettled, this is a sure sign of some Thunderstorm Development thats likely to work its way on into the bay area later today and on into tomorrow, too. You can actually see some of those thunderstorms developing later on today. And future cast those deeper areas of green and notice that blue becomes a lot more widespread leading into tomorrow and saturday. Thats because cold air rushes in to the bay area and in particular, the sierra resulting in very heavy snowfall. Blizzard warnings in effect the next several days. Roadways going
Exclusive poll that shows which candidate is in the lead for californias open senate seat. And the man charged in connection to the Half Moon Bay mass shooting appeared before a judge this morning. And we have a live report. Recapping what happened. Light rain falling in the bay and weve got snow falling in the sierra. Weve got a multiday weather event. Ill have all the details to get you ready for news at noon starts right now. From the bay news station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waltman. The man charged in connection to the Half Moon Bay mass shooting appeared in the San Mateo County courtroom this morning. John liu zhao was supposed to enter pleas to a grand jury indictment last month. But that did not happen because the defense asked for more time to review the charges. Well go now live to kron 4 s charles clifford, who is outside of the courtroom in redwood city. He has the latest details. Thanks for joining us
We opened a 5 yearold deadly shooting case in the south bay after developing new leads. After being without a police chief more than a year, the city of oakland might be one step closer to naming its next top cop. Residents. Want to hear from them for the first time and form happening tonight. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good thursday morning thank you weigh in with his bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news. Here on thursday, february 29th. Im reyna harvey. All right. Well, we want to start this morning with a check of weather john shrable. John, youve actually been preparedness for the storm and it is inching closer was sprinkling on my ride into work. Yeah, a few sprinkles. Misty areas out there so far. Really just the first signs of this change of pace that is really going to grip us here in the bay area. But in extreme impact up in the Sierra Nevada where that snow is going to be falling. Unprecedented plea heavy over the
Just evolve and well start off with a look at the conditions in the sierra right now because there is a lot of snow on the roadways that were expecting and we could see a lot more of this and overturned big rig truck blocking all the lanes on eastbound 80. Thats is from earlier this morning. The chp sharing this video of clearing that big rig and there is more of that kind of nasty weather. 2 cop. Here is a look now at conditions in the bay area. This is our camera on top of mount tam. And you can see there it is raining. Meteorologist kyla grogan is in the Weather Center now to kick us off here with the latest. Whats happening here in the bay area . Yeah. And you know, just said reiterate this year, were going to talk about that a little later in the show as well. But the big takeaway is stay off the roads. We are definitely dealing with some very blizzardlike conditions that are going to get worse as roads the next couple of days. Right now, you can see theres just some light rain ar