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KRON KRON July 4, 2024

Tonight at 5. 30, in oakland Business Owner has been in a years long tug of war with the city over constant Illegal Dumping outside the establishment. Now overtime stead of helping the business fix the problem cut forcefully to call reports the city is holding the business responsible and actually hit the business with a 10,000 fine. Were not taking it anymore. Its dot. Jason, her burrs has owned stay gold. Deleon san pablo avenue in west oakland for 7 years. And he says for most of that time on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis, he and his staff have filed 3, 1, 1, reports to the city about the mass amounts of trash being illegally dumped outside of the business. I think that people know that and feel that they can come down to this neighborhood and commit that will be investigated will go on and thats just the way its been for years rather than working with her burrs to mitigate the problem. He says the city is holding him responsible for the trash and begin fining him for negligence. Back in 2021. And at this point, the total amount due has reached 9,658. And 0. 53. Are we being fined for operating a you place. Her birds has appealed the fine. The city replied by agreeing to reduce this years texas litter fee by more than 800 because the business has an onsite litter removal program. And customers dining on site. But a letter from the Deputy Director of economic and Workforce Development says, quote, the appeal is not granted in fuel duty serving food and beverages in or on disposable plates, containers and napkins that can blow away or be littered by customers after they leave the business area. Mostly make sandwiches and barbecue. This stuff gets its wrapped in disposable biodegradable. A paper painters, you know, we compost. We recycle. We you know, we huge dumpster. We are the problem. With live her burrs is refusing to pay the fine and is exploring legal action against the city. Philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. We did receive a response from the city of oakland this afternoon, which says business is kim. Appeal their feet to reduce or eliminate based on their business being improperly classified or having a litter reduction program. In this case, stangel deadly filed an appeal for the 2023 charges and their businesses fee was reduced by 90 leaving their feet. Just 91 this year, adding the deli likely did not appeal or pay prior years. Fees. San Francisco Unified School District leaders are reviewing security measures after in an house person somehow got inside lowell high school. The district says several students at a coach found this person sleeping in a locker room saturday morning. Police escorted the person off campus. The district says there were no signs of forced entry or other damage and that theyre making sure now all doors are locked after school hours. Chp responded to to paragliding accident in the same location on sunday. That video showing rescue crews including the vallejo fire department, saving 2 people from the hills above columbus parkway. The first paraglider was taken to the hospital with some major injuries. The second was rescued place into a harness and also taken to the hospital. Their injuries, however, are on know. We have some absolutely beautiful weather. So cant blame people for getting outside and trying to enjoy it in some ways. But you got to be careful. Be careful. Yeah. And we took a liking a live look here at the golden gate the Marin Headlands would would be nice to just walk around in that right now. Safe enough, lawrence. What what euro . Whats your Favorite Outdoor activity . Beyond what my paragliding. That be too bad. But yeah, a little. Maybe safer. Staying on the ground right his safe about it. But got to be careful. No matter where you go out there, beautiful weather all the way. The coastline. Walk along the beach. Not a bad thing to do today. Walk in San Francisco, looking gorgeous out there, too. But things are about to change. Weve got about one more day of nice weather. Then really everything begins to change right now. Dry conditions outside clear skies around the bay area. But just to our north, well, weve got a very cold storm developing in the gulf of alaska to see rotating there. So this coming from entirely different direction. So the worries for the storms coming from the last a month or so. Those had a little subtropical tap this one. Yeah, this has some of that cold alaska air tapped into it. And boy, it is going to get frigid around the bay area. So High Pressure going to hold on. But we can throughout the day tomorrow, i think will notice some high clouds drifting in late in the day. Overall, though, temperatures staying rather mild generally in the 60s outside around the bay area. Lets take you through time as we head through the night tonight. Skies staying should be a cool night but not really cold. And then as we head through the day tomorrow, we see late in the day a few clouds begin to drift into our skies and then everything changed on thursday that Summer Winter makes return some popup showers in the morning. But that main front doesnt come down until the afternoon. Thats when you see a little pop in the weather there. Some moderate some heavy amounts of rainfall coming through. Once that front comes through, we get a lot of cold air on the backside of it. So temperatures going to be hovering in the 50s maybe low 50s for highs as we get the weekend. So enjoy days like tomorrow about 68 in san jose. 63 in oakland about 60 degrees and sunny in San Francisco. Thanks, lauren. President biden is facing heated backlash in michigan as the state holds its president ial primary today. Many arab americans are upset over his support of israel as the war rages on with hamas, theyre demanding the president pressured israel to agree to a ceasefire. And last night on a visit to an ice cream shop in new york, biden said a temporary truce is just days away. Talk of a truce could help biden in the crucial swing state of michigan. The state is home to the largest Arab American Community in the united states. Propalestinian activists are urging democrats there to vote uncommitted in todays primary to send a message to biden for supporting israel. He has grossly disappointed on this shown a complete lack of humanity and he cannot come campaign on the idea of being the lesser of 2 evils when the greatest evil that weve seen in our lifetimes is playing out right on our screens with his signature to on the republican side, former President Trump is y in michigan so he can lock up the nomination for his party. Nikki haley is staying in the race though. Polls ave her trailing trump by double digits. Now. One week to go until election day ballots havent been mailed out to millions of registered voters up and down california. The state democratic and republican parties are now doing all they can to try to get out the vote. Kron fours capitol correspondent Eytan Wallace spoke with leaders from both parties and has their message for voters. At the for democratic party, its all hands on deck. Republicans are feeling great. One week from primary election day leaders from californias democratic and republican parties say theyre doing all they can to reach voters. It comes as 20 plus million ballots have already been printed and mailed to all the states registered voters. We have a lot at stake in this reproductive freedom protections for you know, just a lot at stake. You that martinez is the executive director of the California Democratic party. She says heading into the primary and looking ahead to the general election, the party is organized across the state. We have an on the ground operation are organizing team is out there in the field. So lucky that this president ial Election Year we can actually campaign in person reach people in communities, go canvassing, knocking on doors. She makes clear the California Democratic party has not made an official endorsement in the race for u. S. Senate. But martinez says shes excited about all 3 leading democratic a candidates. And as for the balance of power in the u. S. House of representatives, she notes a major focus is on keep toss up seats across the state. We can take back the house if california turn some of these red states blue. So were very exciting and were doing everything we can to turn out every boat change things in california. So could be a cult and state Jessica Millan patterson is the chair of the California Republican party. She says volunteers and her party have been out in full force. That includes a partnership with the Republican National committee to open with the party describes as Community Centers across the state, including the antelope valley, bakersfield and little saigon. These arent the typical Campaign Headquarters where we test launch precinct lots bumping. We do that, really theyre engaging in the community, whether its our headquarters in little saigon, where we have Tai Chi Classes or our at Engagement Centers in the latino community. And it seems to have worked according to data from the secretary of States Office between october 2023. In january of this year. The California Republican party gained more than 45,000 registered voters while the California Democratic party last about 30,000 registered voters, even so registered democrats outnumber registered republicans by about 2 to one in this blue state. Still, patterson believes gop congressional candidates in key tossup races can win. And while her party has not officially endorsed in the race for u. S. Senate, shes optimistic about steve garvey is chances. Are you confident a republican can win that seat . I feel really good about it and having a political outsider, its really been engaged and many communities around our state over the years. This is that part, not just republicans, but for californians. And a reminder, once you filled out your ballot, you must put it back in the official return envelope who then must sign the back of the return envelope and make sure its postmarked no later the march 5th reporting in tom wallace kron 4 news. San francisco leader is questioning pg any about why there have been so many frequent Power Outages unrelated to recent storms. Supervisor near in a metal bar says in january before the storms, there outages in neighborhoods lasting more than 48 hours. Some up to 7 days pg and e saying many are due to improving the infrastructure. They presented a graph saying before the storm this year there was more than 150 outages. 80 of them were planned. 77 unplanned out of those unplanned outages. 25 had to do with the power pole lines. 12 were underground, but the pg and e representatives did not give specifics on. 21 unknown outages. Supervisor melgar asking pg and e how the recent rate hikes relate to the infrastructure and parts of the city that have been affected by the outages. And a lot of what our rates have gone up on is to invest in infrastructure to improve art. Our systems and much of that is also though its not felt in San Francisco. Were doing 10,000 miles of undergrounding throughout the territory to stop wildfires and maybe someday that will be in our communities because it is absolutely very to have outages that because we have wires, im in the air and around trees. Many residents were not happy with pg and es responses. They felt they were still left with a lot of Unanswered Questions from the utility company. Supervisor melgar said she would be following up with pg and e to get those answers. Frustrated by crime residents are speaking up after thousands of dollars worth of items were stolen from a well store right after a sideshow. Is it possible to count on my internet like my Customers Count on me . It is with comcast business. Keeping you up and running with our 99. 9 network reliability. And security that helps outsmart threats to your data. Moaire dida twoo . Your data, too. Theres even roundtheclock customer support. So you can be there for your customers. With comcast business, reliability isnt just possible. Its happening. Get started for 49 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to a 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet package. Dont wait, call and switch today what do i see in peter dixon . I see my husband. The father of our girls. I see a public servant. 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Dozens of people running into 7. 11 at the intersection of springs road and rolling would drive and rating the storefront jis and shelves. The manager of the 7. 11 says no employees got hurt, but thieves took off with 8 to 10,000 worth of goods. Police say the crowd came from a side show that was happening nearby. I saw a lot of them running towards way towards my house and they were getting a vehicle and they had like back the chips just random items. This woman lives in the area. She wants to remain anonymous but says sideshows happen here often. But you could not believe all the crime that she witnessed afterwards. I thought chaos and destruction and violence in my own neighborhood a block away and im tired of police say 911 calls started coming in around 5. 30, sunday night about a fight that broke out at the sideshow. Police say a man was shot at least once and he ran into the 7. 11 for shelter. And once he was taken to the hospital, police say the looting began windows boarded. Up next to the entrance of the store as it was shattered during the raid. Neighbors expressed frustrations saying nothing is being done to stop this type of crime from occurring in their city. As much as the cost to live in california. And this is what we have to deal with is just ridiculous. Police is still investigating. The department is asking anyone with information or videos to contact them. Im sara stinson reporting back to you. The u. S. Army is slashing its force to prepare for future conflicts. The pentagon says it will cut the army by about 5 or by about 24,000 posts. Officials, most of Officials Say most of those eliminated positions are already empty and not actual soldiers or staff. About 3,000 cuts will be from Army Special Operations forces. According to the army secretary, the branch is reorganizing moving away from Counterterrorism Operations and preparing for largescale combat at the same time, the army is eliminating post. New plan will also add back about 7500 posts for other critical missions. The faa has released a scathing new report critiquing boeings Safety Culture and recommending an overhaul u. S. Regulators need noted a disconnect between boeings Senior Management and others over safety matters and they cite insufficient safeguards to prevent retaliation against employees who flagged safety issues. This all comes after that door plug blew off of Alaska Airlines jet mid flight earlier this year. Our weather time here as we get a live look outside the hustle home on a tuesday people. Getting over there in the mateo bridge. Absolutely beautiful shot there. Lawrence is here. Hes tracking our forecast. Hey, lauren, to turn on. They were going from some springlike weather. To write back to the heart of the winter, maybe some of the coldest temperature who felt all season long just have to be a march. So here we go. Big changes coming our way. Want to know about this . Weve got mostly clear skies outside right now. Beautiful evening around the bay area. Gorgeous all around the coastline. Just a nice evening. Not much in the way of wind out there either. And so want to get out there and enjoy these days while we have. Theyre not gonna last long. I think weve got one more. And then everything begins to change tonight. Mostly clear but cool. Overnight lows dropping down the 40s and spots tomorrow. Mostly sunny. A couple high clouds begin to move in late in the afternoon, but not before again, going to see these temperatures soaring up into the 60s and then the cold storm start to roll in as we head in toward thursday in the end of the week number, talking about not only rain but likely some snow on our local mountains. Thats right. Maybe the snow level dropping all the way down to 2000 maybe 1000 feet to get a downdraft highs today. How about this . Lot of nice 60s right around the average for this time of year. Beautiful weather all around. But head out the door now still clear conditions. A beautiful evening in half moon bay. 55. 57 now in san mateo. Still 60 in oakland. 61 in blair and 60 degrees right now for our friends in napa. Were going to see that onshore wind continuing right now. Overnight tonight are going to see well, this storm system started to track a little further south of that cold air. You see speckle clouds out there, giving it out. Cold air is now beginning to drop here

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