Big win for the 49ers today, just one win away from going to the super bowl. After tracking a cold night tonight, more chances for wet weather on the horizon, all the timing in the accuweather forecast. Thieves stole thousands of dollars in computers weeks away from robotics competition. Abc7 news starts now. News to build a better bay area. From abc7. Tired of hearing excuses why im great. Were going to the super bowl, going to take it this time. 49ers playing with chip on their shoulders, dominate the Minnesota Vikings and wait to see who theyll play in the championship game. Eric thomas. Sports anchor Chris Alvarez is back from the game. Highlights and whats next, going to miami right . One win away. Who is joining me . Hopefully the 49ers. Byeweek did them wonders, healed bodies, three key defensive stars returned to the lineup, bad news for the Minnesota Vikings. Niners fans ready, first playoff game at levis, joe montana in the house, garoppolo to kendrick bourne, in a flash. Vik
Working partnerships usa applauds the tech giant. The Technology Industry and go google here as one of the first is beginning to recognize their responsibility for the housing crisis. They have contributed to rising rents. They have contributed to overcrowding and displacement. Reporter they plan to establish a 250 Million Investment plan to build 5,000 Affordable Housing units across the bay area and spend 750 million to build housing on its own land, but that may require rezoning to residential. Its up to negotiations and discussions, not just with google but the community and the council. Reporter sam liccardo say the as google gets ready to build a mega complex for 20,000 employees in downtown san jose the company has made it clear that any housing it builds will be offered to everyone, not just google employees. Google ceo says the goal is to build a lot of these new homes in the next couple of years, but there are a lot of moving parties here, environmental review, possibly rezon
A very good wednesday morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. It is a big day, back to school day for a lot of students across the bay area. Today were wishing a great first day and year for all of those returning students in palo alto. Welcome back to school today. Summer is over. Yay. Im not ready for back to school just yet. The weather is cooperating. It feels nice. Were not dealing with extreme heat, even in the inland valleys. Lets head to martinez where we are going to see temperatures in the low 60s as you head out the door. Then we see the trend going from 60 to low 70s. Not a big warmup, at least for the next few hours. We take a look at our high temperatures for today. Well reach 78 degrees there and in concord, as well as livermore and morgan hill, 83 degrees, matching temperatures for some of our warmer spots in the inland valleys. Most of us in the 60s and 70s from the coast to the inner bay. Overall, really nice for the afternoon. To
A hub for dry, where its at and also this morning, were talking about, yes, some great starts. But like yesterday, the sun really came out the afternoon. I loved it. I was out there so much yesterday and it would like keeps it just cool enough that like i didnt even break a sweat. All right. I just because it would do and it was doing some yard todays going to be just like that. So maybe you can get out there be productive again, try to be may be able nap. Were looking out there pier 17 little bit of a breeze overhead. Look at this. That gray that we had over the market there this morning is pretty gone at this point. Santa rosa, youve got some holdouts up there in northern sonoma county. Some of that low gray is not wanting to budge. We are seeing that onshore wind relaxing quite a lot. So its fairly calm at the moment into the afternoon today as per the usual, we will see that onshore breeze kicking back into gear. Thats going to push a little bit more fog into the bay during our ove
Now at 6 oaklands new police chief officially taking over the department today. This more than a year after the firing of lebron armstrong. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 6. Im noelle bellow. Im ken wayne is kron fours terisa stasio tells us tonight the new appointment. Also comes at a time when the city is seeing an increase in violent crime. Oakland police chief Floyd Mitchell behind the scenes at opd headquarters monday meeting and greeting members of the department. Only one news camera was allowed in a no questions were permitted. Mitchell was shown on the job tackling tasks such is going over. Crime statistics got to crime helices for myself beating a right to a little bit. He spoke with employees. This is the departments wellness counselor. And he introduced himself to a new recruitment class. Tell that ive been in this profession probably longer for almost 35 years. This is one of honorable. Greatest professions that you can metro says that his top goals comin