People there who are prepared and talented to be the next place. Former San Francisco police chief tony rivera agrees and inhouse candidate who knows the community. Can be extremely helpful, but he says there are also other considerations being a 6 successful in a command position. In any police organization, its very, very important. I think educational background. And you know, what was your major . You know, id be dead. They have a criminal justice background or Public Administration background that would be helpful. How this all plays out remains to be seen. But civil rights attorney jim chanin. Who was also part of the armstrong selection committee, says the mayor and the Police Commission need to stop the infighting. They need to stop it and they need to. Down and talk work out a process that they all can go a long way out and pick the person who would be best for the Police Department and from the set of sensible plan. And clearly thats not happening now, that public far more, youre going to see these police chief candidates will be taking place tomorrow at 6, 30, both at city hall as well as online. Live in the newsroom. Dan kerman kron, 4 news. Thank you, dan. San jose is searching for a police chief of its own and officials are asking residents for their help. Feedback can be submitted through a survey and a number of virtual and inperson meetings taking place next month. The current chief anthony mata has served the department for 28 years. He is stepping down this month just headed across the street to a new position as the Investigations Bureau chief for the santa clara county, district attorneys office. Police are asking for your help in identifying the person who they say started a fire inside a target store saturday afternoon. Police believe the man on your screen there lift the flames in the paper towel aisle. The fire forced evacuations and a store closure thats in place until saturday. The damage estimated to cost around 3 Million Dollars if you happen to know this person or have information about this case are being asked to contact vallejo pd, the man charged in connection to the mass shooting at 2 farms in half. Moon bay will be back in a San Mateo County courtroom tomorrow. Certainly chow was supposed to enter pleas to grand jury indictments last month. But that didnt happen after the defense asked for more time. Last years tao pleaded not guilty to all charges and remain in custody ever since. Prosecutors say they hope the trial will happen this year. But admit that it could be delayed until 2025, we now know the identity of the woman strangled to death on a santa cruz beach. 21 yearold. Zainab mansour of san ramon was found unresponsive. Fat seabright state beach friday. Police say her boyfriend, samuel stone, strangled her and they say he was found next to her body. He made his First Court Appearance yesterday. Court documents state. He called 911 and confessed to the homicide. We know mansour was a student at uc santa cruz and that the suspect still on was a student between the summer of 2021 and last fall, stone was denied bail and is expected to return to court in march for an arraignment. Uc berkeley leadership is speaking publicly against a protest that went horribly wrong monday night. The University Chancellor says protesters they turned violent and they tried to break into a campus building to try to stop an event that was set to feature and israeli speaker kron fours. Rob nesbitt joins us live in the studio with reaction now from members of the jewish community. Good evening, rob. Grant, the israeli speaker and audience had to be evacuated from the zeller buck playhouse monday night out of concerns for their safety. The protest was organized on social media by a group thats calling for an end to the war in gaza. From quite tower to the bay bridge. There have been a number of protests in the bay area calling for a ceasefire on the gaza strip. On monday, around 200 protesters rallied at u c berkeley to stop a speech by ron bar. Yosef at and israeli attorney and former member of the Israeli Defense force. What we saw the other night was. Harassment, violence and overt antisemitism, ceo of jcrc bay area. Tyler gregory. Heard about the protest from the main Jewish Student Center on campus and says there were 2 assaults against jewish students during the protests in a letter sent to the campus community. The office of the University Chancellor said protesters broke down doors to the seller. Buck playhouse, the audience and speaker waiting inside had to be evacuated. But nowhere in that statement, todays mention anything about jews being harassed or use the word antisemitism once. And so i think there are a lot of Jewish Student Center feeling alienated. The letter called the attack on the building and event an attack on the fundamental values of the university and said the event was moved to a more secure location. When it comes to the war in gaza. Gregory says many people are forgetting the israeli hostages that are still being held by hamas. Israels goal is to remove from austin, get those hostages back in the war can stop. And its unfortunate that people are forgetting hamass role in all of this. I also reached out to the group that uc berkeley that called for monday nights protests for comment but have not heard back reporting in studio. Im rob nesbitt kron 4 news. Thank you, rob. The Antidefamation League has filed a federal complaint against the Berkeley Unified School district for what they say is severe and persistent antisemitic bullying. According to that complaint, berkeley administrators have ignored parent reports allowing its k through 12 schools to become hostile environments for jewish and israeli students. It accuses the board of education of not disciplining teachers and students who have engaged in the harassment. The atf report instead of principles addressing the bullying, they moved the offended students to different classrooms. Students and staff at West Lake Middle School in oakland held a walkout today in support of a ceasefire in gaza. And again, swat, theyre calling censorship from the Oakland School district. The group claims over the weekend the district tried to stop and organizing meeting of more than 20 unions to discuss the ongoing war. The union says the night before the event, the district canceled the meeting due to staffing shortages today. Union members are calling the move politically motivated. We will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated. History is not rally and with palestine, we can also not be that same group also said it plans to rally outside the usd School Board Meeting which is happening right now. 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A new study is out revealing how regular smoking of marijuana is linked to an increase risk of heart attacks and stroke. Yeah, the findings from one of the largest ever to examine the relationship between cannabis and cardiovascular events. For more on these disturbing findings conference, theresa joins now in studio. Theresa lot of people will be a Pay Attention to this will close attention. No doubt. Vicki and grant Health Experts are calling the study a wakeup call, saying that it sheds and important light on the subject, especially. As you use of cannabis is on the rise among all age brackets is specially though now americans. 42 increase in strokes. 25 increase in heart attacks. That is the finding from a recent study examining the frequent use of cannabis and cardiovascular disease published in the journal of American Heart Association and backed by nih. The study drew its results from nearly half a million cannabis users. Nearly 75 consumed cannabis by smoking the drug 25 by vaping drinking or eating the drug. So a very interesting study and of a timely a study, given the fact that more and more people using cannabis doctor joseph wood was the director of Stanford University cardio vascular institute. The study drill down on how toxins released into the body when cannabis is burned is similar to tobacco smoking. But the doctor says that the active ingredient of thc and cannabis causes even more of a heart risk. In addition, he says eating cannabis products also not hard help. So when you smoke, you get to those one is the particular matter cause and damage feel alone. And it thc causing damage to system. When you take the edible, theres no particular meta involved. Its just goes to that. Got upstate edible. Kids see gets released and the tsa causes a basket debits. So the notion both completely say this also not medicinal use of cannabis is now legal and more than half of the country with Recreational Use allowed in 24 states. Most part most people in the public think because its legal, it is safe. But there are a lot of products the goal that safe one example is tobacco smoking legal, but it can kill you lung cancer Heart Disease said the public should be aware that smoking marijuana is actually not in the form of smoking. On the format that we just discussed. I think for the Health Care Provider with the use of cannabis on the rise and soaring Heart Disease rates. Medical experts say that the study is an Important Public Health Issue to address. And i hope public especially degrees. Also in the study. Will help the public be aware that marijuana is not safe at yeah. Not safe at all. Although the study focused on frequent users even weekly usage was also linked with higher rates of stroke and heart attacks compared to those who did not use marijuana at all. Grant vicki. All right, thank you, theresa. Take a live look out at the san mateo bridge tonight where traffic is. Flowing smoothly, but it was a different story earlier today. 2 crashes caused traffic to be backed up for several hours in the westbound lanes near foster citys see cars there on the right trying to get to the peninsula. The chp says one crash involving 5 cars occurred and another crash involved. 2 cars. Both happened about 10 oclock this morning. So it was a mess. Officers say there were minor injuries in the 5 car crash. No injuries and the other one, the causes of the crashes are under investigation. Historic wildfires are burning out of control right now in the texas in the panhandle area right now, Texas Governor greg add is issuing disaster declarations for some 60 counties there. The Smokehouse Creek fire. It has chewed through more than 500,000 acres since it started on monday. The fire northeast of amarillo is now the second largest fire in texas history. There is no containment yet. Authorities say that the fire is being fueled by high winds and unseasonably warm temperatures. We reached out to cow. Oh, yes, to see if the state is sending fire crews to help out texan teams so far count. Says texas has not requested help. The crews are on standby. Should that call com . Back here at home . Taking a live look outside of 4 zone it is magical. What a Beautiful Day in a beautiful shot. Yeah. Lovely out there. And weve had plenty of rain so far this winter. That we do have to worry about wildfires. Fortunately right now and more rain is coming holiday baking ater back pedal. Wendys is now saying that it will not be using surge pricing, too, raised prices during the peak luncheon dinner. Rush is fast. Food chain now says that its new system is actually dynamic pricing. Wendy says that surge pricing is when costs are increased during high demand. But with dynamic pricing, the Company Claims the prices of certain items would actually be lowered wednesday. A wendys that plans to implement that change coming up next year. Video game. A company is laying off 5 of its work force more than 650 employees are expected to lose their jobs. Eas cuts with the latest layoffs that rocked the video Game Industry since last year. The Video Game Companies that have laid off workers so far include microsoft, riot games and unity. And just yesterday, sony announced that it was laying off 900 people from its playstation division. Dating app. Bumble is cutting about a 3rd of its workforce. The company says the layoffs will help drive stronger operating leverage and align its model with future strategies. Bumble posted a 32 Million Dollars net loss in the latest quarter. 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