No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. robin in our top story this morning. Wildfires continue to burn in Southern California. Forcing people from their homes and scorching hundreds of thousands of acres. The thomas fire is the largest blaze. It has burned 230 thousand acres and is 10 percent contained. Some of the strongest santa ana winds in recent memory are fueling the fires. And conditions are expected to remain in place through at least the next few days. Kim hutcherson has the latest. Mark brown ca dept. Of forestry and Fire Protection weve experienced some extreme fire behavior on the fire. California officials. Warning that the massive thomas fire is still advancing. And nearby communities must be prepared for the worst. Sheriff bill Brown Santa Barbara county this fire has acted in an unpredictable manner. It has been very rapidly moving and its going to be a multiday event, so please do what you can now to prepare to evacuate. The thomas fire is one of several wildfires burning north and south of los angeles. Fueled by strong santa ana winds, abovenormal temperatures, and low humidity. Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes. Robin berkimer evacuee from Santa Barbara co we literally jumped into our clothes, grabbed our son, i grabbed some pictures, but because i was doing that, i put my phone down, and we just literally ran out the door. Those who evacuated and whose homes are still standing. Allowed in for just a few minutes at a time to gather what belongings they can. The fires. Linked to climate change, according to governor jerry brown. Gov. Jerry Brown D California cbs60 minutes the fire season used to be a few months in the summer. Now its almost all year long. These fires are unprecedented. Weve never seen anything like it. Scientists are telling us, this is the kind of stuff thats gonna happen, and weve gotta deal with it. His statement. Echoing the one made after touring the damage saturday the governor calling extreme fire activity, the new normalim Kim Hutcherson reporting. robin boxes a winter spare the air alert will be in effect throughout the bay today. Air district officials blame the High Pressure ridge over california. Reducing winds and trapping smoke near ground level. For the unhealthy air quality. Officials say the Southern California wildfires. Will not impact air quality here today. During spare the air alerts. It is illegal for residents to use their fireplaces. Wood stoves. Outdoor fire pits. Or other woodburning devices. robin a shooting sent east bay shoppers running at an oakland strip mall. One person was hurt. And this morning. The shooter is still on the loose. Kron 4s Ella Sogomonian has more. Sot heard gunshot it was small but loud, a pop, real loud. Shoppers scattered to the sound of a gunshot at this oakland plaza. It happened around 3 o clock at the Foothill SquareShopping Center off macarthur and 108than area people say is no stranger to this sort of violence. Sot heard gunshot it concerns me in this area, absolutely concerns me. A person was shot in the parking lot between a ross and shoe store. A kron 4 viewer called in saying she saw a man on the ground shot in the face with two running up to him crying, possibly a friend and brother who ran to help. Police wouldnt give any details on the victim and had no mention of a suspect. Sot lt. Rachael van slaten, Oakland Police department weve called out cid investigators with the Oakland Police department there is an Ongoing Investigation right now and really no further details can be released at this time. robin happening today. People in oakland should be prepared for another day of limited City Services because workers plan to strike again. Though, progress could be made. As both sides have agreed to meet with a mediator to try to settle the strike. Almost 3thousand city workers walked off the job last week to protest unfair labor practices. They represent public works employees, Parking Enforcement officers, head start instructors and Early Education teachers. Both sides have agreed on the first year of the contract, at issue is the second year. Seui says the strike is not over wages, but over understaffing and cost of living concerns. Oakland mayor libby schaaf says the city cannot spend money it does not have. Going to have to layoff workers and that will make working conditions worse it will also reduce services to our residents. robin seiu, which represents 2thousand of the 3thousand workers on strike, tells us. The meeting happening today with a mediator is a small step in the right direction. robin the contract talks with the unions are now in their seventh month. Follow kron 4 news for the latest updates throughout the day. robin also happening today. The men charged for the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire will be back in court. Derick almena and max harris are charged with 36 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter for the fire in december of last year. Prosecutors argue that they were negligent by creating a warehouse full of obstacles and flamable items. During the preliminary hearing last week, several witnesses who lived in the warehouse told the judge about their concerns living in the building. The purpose of this preliminary hearing is to determine if theres enough evidence for almena and harris to stand trial. It is expected to wrap up by wednesday. robin authorities are investigating what may have been a shooting on interstate 80 in san pablo. It happened just after three yesterday afternoon. A woman driving says she heard gunshots and that her cars rear window shattered along with the passenger side mirror. Officers discovered bullet holes on her door and the back of her car. No shell casings were found at the scene. Chp has not released any information about the suspect or car they are looking for. robin a woman is dead after a hitandrun crash in downtown oakland. It happened early yesterday morning near the corner of 14th and franklin streets. Police say a woman in her 60s was hit while crossing the road. She later died at the hospital. Police say the driver may have been speeding and that the driver may have been in a dark, four door sedan. robin a man is dead. Following a head on crash in hayward. It happened saturday morning on cypress avenue. Officers say a man driving a black honda civic. Crossed over the raised Center Median and collided headon with an oncoming white toyota ravfour. The female driver of the toyota ravfour suffered moderate injuries. The man in the black honda died. Officers say it is possible the man suffered a medical emergency while driving. robin coming up on the kron 4 morning news. A woman found dead along a trail in the southbay. Well give you the latest on the investigation. robin plus. A man is behind bars after committing several robberies. We will tell you what police found when they finally tracked him down. robin and. San francisco native actor danny glover returns to the city to shed some light on the Human Rights Violations that are happening here in the bay area. robin and heres a live look outside. At the san mateo bridge. robin welcome back. Checking in on your morning forecast. Rebecca High Pressure will remain over our region most of the week. Daytime highs will be warmer than normal and nights will be seasonably cool. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 robin we are now learning the identity of the woman found dead in the water along a trail in the south bay. 23year old chuchu ma was a Software Engineer at google. Kron 4s ali reid has more. On a popular trail with lots of foot traffic, police say a bicyclist spotted the body of 23 year old chuchu ma in the water along the San Francisco bay trail in sunnyvale. The google Software Engineer was discovered on thursday morning the same day she was reported missing in Mountain View, where she lived. This is an aberration. Something strange happened. This is a safe area. According to mas linked in page, chuchu graduated with a bachelors in Computer Science from the univerity of texas at austin where she received a National Merit scholarship in addition to multiple scholarships as part of the engineering honors program. Shes been an engineer at google for a year and a half where she was also excelling. A main google and lots of subsidiary google campuses are within a mile of herein a statement, a rep from google tells us . Chuchu was an excellent Software Engineer in our developer product team. We are devastated to learn of her passing, and our deepest condolences are with her family and friends. . Police are being tight lipped about the details surrounding mas death. It isnt clear if she was the victim of a crime if it happened there, or if the body was dumped at the scene. The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety says as the investigation continues, they are awaitng the coronors autopsy results. robin we now know the name of the woman who was hit and killed by a car in san franciso. Police have identified the victim as yin ching tam of San Francisco. The collision happened saturday afternoon on 19th avenue and quintara street in the citys sunset district. There officers say the driver of a blue toyota sedan hit tam who died at the scene. The driver is cooperating with police. robin in the south bay. A man is behind bars accused of committing multiple burglaries on december sixth. Officers were called to an Armed Robbery at a gas station on Stevens Creek boulevard in santa clara. Once at the scene officers found and arrested freddy reyes. Officers also found an iphone reported stolen from a san jose burglary Drug Paraphernalia and two wallets. Reyes was booked into Santa Clara County jail. robin Hillsborough Police have arrested a man they say kidnapped a child more than 20 years ago. Authorities say Southern California resident kevin lin kidnapped a nineyearold girl back in 1995. Hillsborough police was contacted by Los Angeles Area authorites. Who were conducting a followup investigation on lin. He was arrested friday on an active warrant in connection to the kidnapping case. Lin is being held at the San Mateo County jail on five Million Dollars bail. robin minimum wage is set to rise here in california on the first of the year. It will increase by 50 cents from tenfifty an hour to eleven dollars an hour for large businesses. It will rise to 10. 50 an hour for small businesses. Governor jerry brown signed legislation last year that helps the state reach a 15 dollar minimum wage by the year 2022 for large businesses. robin boxes human rights day kicked off the start of a yearlong celebration of the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. Kron fours Spencer Blake was in San Francisco as actor and humanitarian danny glover was honored. reporter danny glover is a San Francisco native, and someone who regularly does work for unicef around the globe, so he was an easy choice for the Human Rights Commission to invite as their honored guest. pkg you may know him from Lethal Weapon or angels in the outfield, but sunday actor danny glover was speaking as a philanthropistand somewhat of a historian on civil and human rights. Theres a history where art has always been a force used as a platform in which people could certainly provide information. Art one of his own platforms is something he says provides the radical changes that have improved human rights. Glover also talked a little bit about albert einsteins role in human rights. Aside from studying the behavior of light and atomic particles, einstein was a cochair of an antilynching campaign. Human Rights Commission executive director sheryl davis says glover reminded everyone at the event that you dont have to be part of a Huge Movement to advance human rights. Theres something for people to get plugged into and you dont have to look far or hard. Its just about what you can be passionate about. Glover talked about helping the country find its way back to god, and mentioned gentrification as one of the smaller, less egregious examples of Human Rights Violations that people often forget about. This whole concept of the market this and the market that its crap. You know what im sayin . And tell me what does that have to me about human beings and their existence . While it used to be radical for people to talk about human rightsglover says thats exaclty what helped things get better over time. reporter davis told me human rights day isns so much a day of major events because those events for civil and human rights should happen all the time. Rather, she called the day a reminder of what needs to be done. In the newsroom, Spencer Blake, kron four news. robin still ahead on the kron four morning news. A christmas time tradition for this group of harley riders brings joy to kids at a bay area hospital. That story. Coming up. robin and heres a live look at the thomas fire. It is the largest fire burning in Southern California. At 230 thousand acres. It is just 10 percent contained. Well be updating you on the fires all morning. Welcome back. In entertainment news. Steven spielbergs the post is drawing rave reviews and oscar buzz, but the famous filmmaker also has another movie coming out soon. David daniel has a sneak peek in the hollywood the first person to find the egg will inherit halfa trillion dollars and total control of the oasis itself. Talk about a Treasure Hunt heres a look at the first full trailer for ready player one, based on the ernie cline novel about a futuristic Virtual World and a contest based on 1980s pop culture trivia. The adventure, directed by a guy who contributed to that 80s culture Steven Spielberg hits theaters march 30th. Jeff was my first date ever. And my mom came. A lot of people came out to see i, tonya. The film about figure skater Tonya Harding debuted in just four theaters, but grossed 245thousand dollars a per theater average of 61 thousand, the best of the weekend and one of the top 10 averages of the year. 4. 8. How do i get a fair shot here . We also judge on presentation. natyell speaking of i, tonya, its part of an extremely strong field of films this award season. Heres proof three big critics groups picked their Award Winners this weekend, and while the San Francisco film critics cirle chose Margot Robbie for best actress of the year, the Toronto Film Critics Association went with Frances Mcdormand for three billboards outside ebbing, missouri, and the Boston Society of film critics picked Sally Hawkins for the shape of water. For best actor, the boston critics chose Daniel Kaluuya kalooya from get out, San Francisco picked andy serkis for war for the planet of the apes, and the Toronto Group went with daniel daylewis in phantom thread. Thats a lot of praiseworthy performances in one year in hollywood, im david daniel. robin and heres a live look outside. At the bay bridge toll plaza. Well be back with more of your kron 4 morning news after the break. Welcome back. Checking in on your morning forecast. Rebecca High Pressure will remain over our region most of the week. Daytime highs will be warmer than normal and nights will be seasonably cool. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. robin we continue to follow the situation in Southern California. Where wildfires are forcing people from their homes and scorching hundreds of thousands of acres. The thomas fire is the largest blaze. It has burned 230 thousand acres and is 10 percent contained. Some of the strongest santa ana winds in recent memory are fueling the fires. And condition