Snowpack shows significant improvement, but it also says a dry start to the water year and a drier environment overall may still impact snow runoff. We saw a number of atmospheric rivers over the past two winters, with the extreme conditions becoming the new normal. State leaders say its important to invest in water storage. The snowpack in california has traditionally been about two thirds of our so what it means into the future is we need to continue to invest. Rest of the month. So that could mean more good news agreements have been made with Santa Clara County on key terms, including workplace safety. But a Sticking Point is money. The union is asking for a 15 wage increase through october 2025. It rejected the latest county proposal of 13. It wasnt because of the money, it was because of the working conditions and floating us to the other hospitals, jennifer hughes, a psychiatric nurse with the county for 11 years, says along with better staffing, she wants to see safety improveme
Keep up with the fast pace of orders. Now. Californias new 20 minimum wage aims to help those workers keep up with the states rising cost of living. A vast majority are adults. About a quarter have children of their own, and the pay is so low right now that one half of all fast food workers in the state either themselves or have a Family Member whos relying on one of our social safety net programs. Ken jacobs is cochair of uc berkeleys labor center. He says the new law applies to some half a million employees at chains with more than 60 stores. It creates a new Fast Food Council as well, made up of industry and unions to address future wages and working conditions. Some major chains including mcdonalds, chipotle, starbucks, jack in the box and shake shack say they will have to increase prices. We have soft sales. We have declining traffic counts. This bill, ab 1228, has really hit our operations hard, were no longer hiring. Were not back filling positions. Another Franchise Group owner
Joining us for kron. 4 news at 10. Im dan thorn. The driver of the car with a sign reading will run taped over its license plate crashes today and santa rosa. Running from police and it was all caught on video. Take a look. Chp says this happened just after one 30 this afternoon. Northbound 101, at the mendocino avenue offramp. You can see in the video here, black ford mustang speeding past an suv then crashing into a land rover. Discovery carrying a family of 3 inside. Police took the mustangs driver identified as an 18 yearold named Marcus Burton of healdsburg into custody. He was treated for minor injuries and booked into Sonoma County jail burtons passenger, a 17 yearold boy was treated for minor injuries as well. But he was released to his parents, the family in the land rover all had to be taken to a nearby hospital because of complaints of pain. Police say the mustang with the taunting license plates had led officers on a number of chases over the past month, but had always evad
Encampments are growing at bay area. Universities as a rest across the country are now topping 2000 people. Plus, its the end of an era wyatt beloved east bay comic shop has decide to close its stores. How longtime customers are now reacting. News station. Hes calling for news 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. Im Justine Waldman and there were some scary moments as a woman and her daughter were caught in the crossfire east. Oakland this morning happened just before 8 right near 98th and cherokee avenues about a block away from Bishop Odowd High School kron. 4 s Charles Clifford has the latest. Well, here in oakland on thursday, 2 people were taken to the hospital after their vehicle was caught in an exchange of gunfire. Around 7. 45. Thursday morning, a woman driving her daughter to school was caught in the exchange of gunfire here near 98 and cherokee. According to her husband, the woman tried to drive away, but their suv was struck by another car and flipped onto
Fire department. It started around 8 oclock this morning. And Officials Say that the muni buses being affected in this area. So keep that in mind as you head out, the fire is coming from the roof. So the department trying to get those flames down. They see right now theres no injuries, but they are continuing to battle this blaze. And when it comes the area, just try to stay away as best as you can. They say that theyre finding a smoke and all levels of the building at the moment. Next, investigators will try to figure out just exactly how the fire started. So as we get more information, well continue to keep you updated. But again, they do are are asking people to stay away from the leave in borth and jackson area. Ill send it back to 2. Ok, thank you, happening right now, College Students across the nation are protesting the war in gaza, as youve probably seen on the news, some of those demonstrations, unfortunately have turned violent here in the bay area. Uc berkeley last night, th