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Now at 3, a joint operation aimed at cracking down on fentanyl in San Francisco, starting to show results. What one local Business Owner says he wants to see next. Plus, its the final day of voting for thousands of san jose workers on whether or not to go on strike. Mayor matt mahan weighs in on the negotiations. And the pac 12 suffers another crushing blow with more teams set to leave the conference with the new deal could mean for our local universities. From the areas local news station, this is kron. 4 news at 3. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. Im stephanie lin. The fight against open air drug dealing continues in San Francisco. The Sheriffs Office made an arrest of a suspected drug dealer in the tenderloin. And folks in the area remained frustrated with the problem from forces with you and has our top story. Youre looking at a Photo Provided by the San Francisco Sheriffs Office showing what they say is evidence from the recent drug seizure, including 815 grams of fentanyl, 180 grams of its a lot for one individual. Obviously more than personal use. The arrest was part of the Sheriffs Office Operation Safe streets. It is also connected to a joint sf Law Enforcement action aimed at cracking down on the citys open air drug market in the tenderloin. San francisco sheriff Paul Miyamoto says he cant reveal the alleged drug dealers name because the investigation is ongoing but says the suspect is known to Law Enforcement. This individual is on our ankle Monitoring System electronic Monitoring System. So it is concerning to us that somebody is still engaged in this sort of activity, persistent open air drug dealing is also one of the Major Concerns for this frustrated tend to line shop owner amanda venice corridor, tenderloin. Very close to city hall, 2 blocks away from city hall. You describe what it is like trying to operate a business in this area. While the city struggles to close down open air drug dealing. He asked not to reveal his identity. Its unsafe. You cant walk around. Theres open air drug market everywhere. I do see the chp. Patrolling theyre pushing on from one block to the other. Theyre just theyre just moving them around. So why doesnt he just pack up and move his business to another city . This is still my love the city. I grew up here, but a little continue to hang on. This is my town i can see this place just deteriorate. For me just to walk away from that, thats not going to happen San Francisco Law Enforcement leaders heard some of that same frustration from folks that this recent tenderloin Public Safety town hall meeting, one of the Community Members from the tenderloin. Talked about how actually who was the child . The daughter of the individual who said that she didnt feel safe walking on the street. So im going to say that we want to be out there and we are going to be out there until the families feel that they can walked. In their communities on the streets in a safe and San Francisco haaziq modyoon kron. 4 news. A bay area, firefighters staying busy this week. Crews in hayward say theyve contained a small vegetation fire on harder road and west view way near cal state east bay. This is time lapse video. Youre watching now from the pg and e camera. No word yet on what started this fire. Firefighters are still on scene monitoring for any hot spots. And crews continue to make progress containing the clayton fire burning in east san jose. But that 66 acre blaze continues to threaten multiple homes. Take a look at this video of the scene that brush fire started just before 2. 30, yesterday afternoon off clayton road near san joses eastern foothills in the unincorporated area of santa clara county, a total of 70 firefighters from both san jose fire and cal fire responded to this blaze. The team used aircraft to drop retardant and water on that burning brush. No damage to has been reported are still ongoing assessment day. We have one Charlie Strike Team which are engines and also a which is to hand crews. Theyll be out here throughout the day. Homes in the alum, rock area off clayton road and via deal of this do were at risk. But were prepared as to what caused the blaze. Cal fire says they are still investigating that. Adding that the cleanup for this fire may still take some time. Speaking of wildfires that talk about our forecast now taking a live look outside our mount tam camera, gorgeous view of the bay area from here. Gorgeous blue skies. Lets check in now with kyla grogan for what else we need to know. Hey, kyla. Hey, there will, stephanie. And were seeing the wind pick up just a little bit as expected when we get our sea breeze in the afternoon. But im happy to say down in san jose looking in the south bay where we are dealing still with that brush fire. About 15 miles per hour. So thats picked up a little bit in the last hour or so about 18 miles per hour. Right now out at getting a little sunshine out of half moon bay. Its been a minute since ive been able to say that the marine layer clearing just a bit here for people to kind of get their nice friday walk and also some beautiful sunshine as we take a live look from the east bay, too. You can see a little marine layer presence that is out there. But we certainly started to get some nice. Nice afternoon. Temperatures out there getting into more normal territory. Weve been so cool for so long. So San Francisco right now in the upper 50s upper 60s for you and oakland, san jose, upper 70s. You can see where upper 80s and live more conquer concord. And then santa rosa about 86 degrees right now. So running warmer than we were this time yesterday to the tune 15 degrees. If youre in livermore, thats a big warmup nevado up about 11 in the last 24 hours. The only place thats running the same. Theres half moon so that just goes to show you are starting to see that High Pressure move in start to compress that marine layer a little bit. So tonight we will see a return of some of the clouds, a little bit of fog. Notice temperatures are going to be just a touch warmer, my lowest kind of north bay valley. Theyre looking out for about 53 degrees in the overnight. My warmest antioch, about 63 for you overnight. But of course, the big story is weve got a warmup on the way. So if you are in our inland valleys, were talking about warming up to the tune of some low 1. 100s. If youre in the inner east bay and close to it, if you are in or north bay, ill be back a little bit. Well talk more about that. And when all of this will kind of calm down and we move back to normal temperatures like we have today, which i vote for having more often back get rid of that, too. Thanks, kyla. Well, developing now, San Jose Police discovered 2 bodies during a welfare check. Officers say they found the pair around 10 oclock this morning inside a home on park. More avenue just off to a t no word on whether these deaths are considered suspicious. This remains an active investigation. And new at 3, a fire at a historic bakery in San Franciscos north beach neighborhood caused a bit of a scare today. This was the scene of the la gloria bakery on stockton street around 11 oclock this morning. The owner tells us that fire started in a brick oven. Thats big news since 1911. Well over a century. Whats happened is some of the falling down. And i guess when the oven by flame, which theres no direct heat in there, i guess the flames caused the fire stevens from the water on the because the bricks are hot. It be like if you pour water on your barbecue . And fire crews responded quickly and contain the blaze to the kitchen area. No one was hurt. The owner says he hopes to reopen his business sometime next week. East bay family is asking for the communitys help after someone stole it. Family work truck. Javier a cause. Auto runs kids on a garden service. He says he was a berkeley. Last weeks when someone took off with his truck carrying all of his tools with more than 150,000. A surveillance camera captured part of the theft around 7 oclock last thursday morning. A black car is spotted next to cause out his truck as that truck drives away. His says he called police. The theft couldnt have happened at a worse time for the man. His passport and documents were also in his truck because he and his family were planning to go on a vacation the next day. For 14 days in mexico to visit my family and think of, you know, very about my for the last february. Next, stay in the hospital 10 days. Tv . So i opted when happened. So i fit in that. Could you know, betty, that bad and mad about it because i dont have no animus. To has been able to keep working, thanks to friends and neighbors who some old landscaping tools, but he says he does need to get a new truck to run his business. Hes at his daughter has started a gofundme page to help her dead get back on his feet. Police in san mateo released surveillance videos today or excuse me. Surveillance photos today of 3 suspects from 3 july burglaries. Officers responded to 3 residential breakins in the 1300 block of palace versus drive. And the 2300 block of ticonderoga drive on july 14th and 16th. Police say neighborhood cameras showed the 3 suspects at each location. Take a good look at your screen right now. You can see those images on your tv set now, if you have information on this case, you are urged to please call the San Mateo Police department. And today is the last day for San Jose City workers to cast their vote, deciding whether or not they will go on strike roughly 4500 City Employees have been voted over the past 3 days on whether to authorize that strike. They are calling for improved pay and benefits and are proposing pay hikes of up to 7 over the next 3 years. Meantime, the city wants to increase pay up to 5 . I spoke with san jose mayor matt mahan on how negotiations are going from the citys perspective for us to give more than a 5 raise will have to identify painful cuts would have to reduce staffing and police and fire cut Library Hours or pay few roads. And these essential services that our residents also rely on. So we have to have a deal thats fair for everyone. We have a great workforce here. They deserve a raise. Thats what were offering them. I just dont see how we go beyond 5 without having to cut services, which is not a position in any of us want to be in. The results from the strike or on whether or not there will be a strike will be announced monday. And the city of santa rosa may change its ban on camping in public spaces. A measure thats been in place since 1994 now federal law says cities cannot force unsheltered people from occupying public spaces. If there are no other options available to them. The Santa Rosa City council is considering an ordinance that restricts campmng to specific locations under special circumstances. All right. And bad news for stanford uc berkeley, the pac, 12 conference might soon become the pack for university of oregon trustees have just voted unanimously for the ducks to join the big 10 conference and the university of washington is expected to follow. There are also reports of both arizona and Arizona State are in serious talks to leave for another conference. The big 12, these would be the latest dominoes to fall after usc and ucla left the conference last summer. That move cost the pac 12, including stanford and uc berkeley. An estimated 13 Million Dollars in losses. We reached out to both schools to see if theyre considering leaving the pac 12 as well. And we will update you once we have more on this story. Coming up on kron. 4 news at 3 north bay counties launching a new initiative to keep their beaches clean. We have the details. But first, the city of sunnyvale is making sure students have everything they need to be successful. The school year after the break, we take a look at the back to school or drivethru happening eveverery y bubusisines dedeseservrveses a a g gre. Ththatatss w whyhy c comoms isis l lauauncnching the mobile made free event. 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And other essentials in order to qualify for the School Supplies. Parents have to live in sunnyvale and have schoolage children. The program is really meant for lowincome families who might need help getting their kids ready for the new school year. Community services hopes to provide School Supplies to 2500 children during the month of august. Were hopeful that child feels like theyre excited, ready and theyve gotten issues. And you either new other supplies that will make them feel very special and very, very, very much ready to learn in the fall. In addition to the School Supply giveaway, sunnyvale Community Services also does work here around helping people deal with. Homelessness and hunger. They are always in need of donations and volunteers. If you want more details on the School Supply giveaway or want to help out in some other way. You can visit their website which is Community Services, dot org in the south bay Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. Charles, thank you. A new piece of technology is helping keep lake tahoe healthy and clean. Supporters say, well, this pixieodrone that youre seeing on your screen there, its skims the water of lake tahoe of the tahoe keys area, rather scooping up Invasive Plant species. It works to prevent pieces of the plant from drifting into the main body of water in lake tahoe. It also collects humid, made debris like plastics and styrofoam. It sufficient its fully battery powered. So it doesnt put out any emissions. Its highly maneuverable, low draft and they can collect in points that other technologies can. In just a matter of moments in just a few runs, this robot can gather about 50 pounds of plants and other material. Right now, data is still being collected to see how good it is at its job. The trial period runs through september. The pixie drone comes from the same Company Behind the be bought a robot that cleans speeches. And in the north bay marin, sonoma and mendocino counties back here in the bay area are launching a new initiative to keep their beaches clean. An estimated 10 million visitors visit these beaches every year. The cleaner, California Coastal Initiative Says cruz picked up 55,000 pounds of trash around the coastline just last year, residents are encouraged to participate in several upcoming cleanup events. The first is set for august. 12th that door and Regional Park sonoma county. Hopefully the weather will cooperate with that says speaking of the weather, lets take a look at this live shot here. Pretty San Francisco Sales Force Tower right in the middle of your screen there, although just slightly obscured by that cloud. Just one little piece of im still case you missed me. Yeah, miss it today. I dont think im not so to see the sunshine and it is that on our facebook very take a live look from our mount tam cam. Yes, we have a little marine layer is going to be rolling in as we get into our evening. We also, however, have High Pressure, though thats going to be rolling in from the South Central part of country through the Desert Southwest and right into california. This is where that heat dome has been. As you can see, these heat advisories and warnings now. Extending into california. In fact, just this afternoon, we just have this one go up. That is from basically san louis obispo, kind of all the way down to Southern California. And that one is a heat advisory. And then of course, we have an excessive heat warning in areas and hot pink that you can see that include palm springs. So no warnings or watches up for northern california. But that doesnt mean that were not going to warm up. We are temperatures right now already getting pretty warm h