Hail. The storm also flooding a neighborhood kron fours. Lawrence karnow is tracking the latest conditions. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 10. Im ken wayne and im noelle bellow. Police in santa rosa are investigating the death of a mother and her 10 yearold son. The 2 were found dead in their apartment earlier this morning. Neighbors in the complex reacting to the tragedy. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson has more from santa rosa. There are still so many Unanswered Questions about this case. Detectives spent more than 12 hours inside this santa rosa apartment trying to get the answers. I spoke with the mother and sons next door neighbor who says this does not feel real. She says the 2 daily she cant believe theyre gone. Neighbors like her are rattled by this. People who live in the spring Lake Apartments in santa rosa woke up to crime tape surrounding their neighbors apartment wednesday morning. I was shocked because its just its such a. Hes community. Theres never whenever any crime here, news quickly spread about Police Investigating the death of a mom and her 10 yearold son whose bodies were found inside their apartment on summerfield road and know most of the people. In the community here. Surprised that they didnt recognize Santa Rosa Police say they got a call just before 8 from someone concerned about the 2. No details were given about the color detectives spent the day going in and out of the home collecting evidence, trying to figure out what happened. Investigators also collected evidence from a parked car since the childs death is involved. The domestic violence, assault team responded to the scene as well. Police say theres no known threat to the public, but people who live in this complex didnt find comfort in that. Its so vague. It doesnt really mean anything. Does i wouldnt. Dont think that holds water its something something terrible happened and theres that theyre not even give give a clue as to what that might be at this point. Their next door neighbor says the mother and the child always seemed happy and she never heard anything out of the ordinary coming from their apartment. Police did not release the names of the mother or her son, but they did say they hope to learn more about the cause of death. Following autopsies later this week. Im sara stinson reporting in santa rosa, back to you. Some wild weather in the bay area today. This video sent in by our assistant news director, sophie showing small pellets of hail showering down. In san ramon and in south san jose, people had a deal is flooding there. Take a look at this is on ingram court near the santa teresa golf club. City crews responded to clear the storm drains there and get all that water out of the streets. Kron 4 storms karnow. Joining us now with a look at the conditions or its yeah, guys, we have thunderstorms rotating around the bay area. Dont see those all the time. But boy, if youre underneath one of those, you can see a tremendous amount of rain. Here was the doppler rolled back just a little bit. You can see as we have the scattered showers rolling on through a part of that system headed to Southern California and then the afternoon came weve got the sunshine that gave the atmosphere just enough energy to pop up some of those thunderstorms. So some of the rain rates beneath that re saw the issues with flooding about an inch and a half of rain per hour. And ernie, some of those thunderstorms. So tonight things are quieting down now, of course, the sun has set. Weve lost a lot energy in the atmosphere. Now were starting to see things breakup. Were not done with the rain across the state. Southern california still seeing some rain. A couple lingering snow showers in the sierra. Nevada. Looks like things are going to be changing toward the dry side. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. A qr to shoplifting investigation leads Alameda Police to tens of thousands of dollars worth of stolen merchandise. Take a look at this. Police say they found more than 85,000 in stolen merchandise and cash. Some of the merchandise was still tagged in on hangers. Police say they teamed up with chp to track down 8 truckloads of stolen items and several stolen vehicles after serving a search warrant at a residence in oakland last week. Thats say they zeroed in on the home after items from and Old Navy Store in alameda, South Shore Shopping Center last month were tracks to the open residents. Police say they arrested one person so far but they say they expect to make more arrests. A panera bread, franchisee and donor to governor newsoms. That Campaign Says he will raise the minimum wage for his employees. After all. This comes after a report claiming panera bread. Inappropriately benefited from an exemption in the states new fast food, 20. Minimum wage law. The laws expected to take effect next month. But an exception was made specifically for chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item. That includes panera bread. A bloomberg article suggested the exemption was made because newsom dont or at panera bread. Franchisee billionare greg flynn have expressed concern that the minimum wage would hurt his locations across the state. But since the story broke, newsom and flynn have both strongly denied ever even discussing the minimum wage lot together with newsom noting his legal team believes panera bread is actually not exempt. But flynn says exempt or not. He promises to increase minimum wage to 20 at his california panera. Bread restaurants. Tonight. Were closely watching the race for californias open u. S. Senate seat after last nights results were in. Are we are now set up for a matchup. Between democrat adam schiff and republican steve garvey. Grant lotus joins us here in the studio with analysis. All right. The projected top 2 vote getters can shift and garvey now advance to the november runoff after beating out more than 2 dozen other candidates, including democratic Congressmembers Katie Porter in oaklands barber lee over the last few months shift spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising targeting garvey. All part of what pundits have described as an effort to propel garvey, the republican and former la dodger into the top 2 in turn guaranteeing a garvey shift matchup in the general election and avoiding importantly, a battle with progressive. Democrats like quarterly. Some analysts say the strategy is likely to work in the long run, noting the democrat schiff has a huge advantage facing off against the republican garvey in a state here where registered democrats outnumber registered republicans about 2 to one. Republican voters only represent about 24 of the electorate. So when you have 2 to one advantage from voter standpoint, its very difficult for garvey to kind of overcome that. That bridge steve garvey really needs to do is one needs to raise some money. Which he didnt do in the primary to he needs to take some positions on some it its no longer going to be good enough for steve garvey to say that the status quo has messed up washington, d. C. , and its and the government is not working well for the people. Hes going to need to get more specific. So going into the november election, experts say schiff is likely to raise the topic of donald trump more than once and will continue. To ask rv whether he plans to vote for trump win the 2 face off on the debate stage and you can also bet plenty of baseball analogies from garvey. Noel cant back to you without a doubt. Grant. The results from super tuesday putting a President Biden and former President Trump head to head yet again for the seat to the presidency. This is President Biden prepares for the state of the union state of the Union Address. It will be happening tomorrow night amid a string of new polls showing President Biden losing to trump in november. Kron fours Catherine Heenan reports on the latest push from biden to win voters. Really . The political speech of joe bidens life. Analysts point out that among other things, biden has trip here to be sharp and clear thursday night navigating the continued worries about his age deal with the fact that whats happening in gaza has turned Many Democrats against his administration and sell his accomplishments as president. Yes, to lay out, if you will, the case for election. While delivers the state of the union because many voters while the update how these economic numbers dont necessarily feel that or give homage, if you to joe about that in terms of the economic pocketbook or whats going on with the stock market. So you got to out the case thats going to be hard to do as well. And he cant afford any flubs who cant afford a pause or any type of moment where he doesnt look like hes on his Game Tomorrow Night is the whole enchilada. I would say for bidens reelection efforts and to really kick it off for for november. President biden is trailing donald trump in polls of several battleground states. While Many Democrats thought trumps legal problems would have been his undoing by now, he has managed to make his Court Appearances work as Campaign Appearances and now the biden trump rematch coming into sharper focus because of nikki haleys decision to suspend her campaign. She did not immediately endorse trump and there are a lot of questions about where her republican supporters will land. So theres a contingent of republicans that are out there. And you see this expressed in polls. These are voters who are like an enthusiastic about joe biden but will not vote for for donald trump. That Group Overall is about 30 . And so how that group slice and dice is itself how it votes since a georgia, pennsylvania, arizona, wisconsin. That will be critical in terms of determining the outcome if they vote 3rd Party Candidate that hurts democrats at a slightly higher rate than it hurts. Republicans. Both President Biden and donald trump, of course, are inviting haleys supporters to back their campaigns. Meantime, donald trump says today he wants to debate joe biden. Remember, this is after he made a big point of avoiding the republican debates tonight, biden says trump is thirsty for attention and says thats a conversation they can have later. Can. And a reminder, thank you, qatar. That kron 4 will air President Bidens state of the Union Address live tomorrow night at 6 directly after that, katherine will be hosting a panel of political analysts. Still ahead tonight, a mateo safeway worker said she was fired for trying to do the right Community Members from walnut creek fight back after being targeted by antisemitism during city Hall Meetings twice in just 2 weeks. And what were learning from newly released images of california forever. A new Community Tech billionaires are pushing to build in the north bay. Bounced from one doctor to the next. Did they even send my lab work. . Wait, was i supposed to bring that . Then theres the forms. The bills. The not a bills. the. press 4 to repeat these options. [chaotic music] [inspirational music] healthcare can get a whole lot easier when your medical records, care and coverage are in one place. 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Shows baez and another worker confronting a suspected shoplifter. The persons arms filled with 500 worth of groceries. Baez says they did not pay for the confrontation cost baez and the other employee, their jobs and they would rather do that. People just from the store. Have an employee. And anyway interfere with the theft. So its basically an and open house for thieves by his attorney Neil Eisenberg says safeway has been cracking down on workers instead of thieves. Safeway fired by as in may 2023 and over the next several months, baez was unable to collect Unemployment Benefits because safeway said she was terminated for misconduct. Shes a single mother. She has had no income. And no benefits for the last year. And she hasnt been. And that be . Because her only job experience as being a cashier. It safely. Baez took her fight to the Employment Development department. And finally, this month, a judge ruled she was let go for performing her duties. The ruling means she will now get Unemployment Benefits from the time she was terminated. Eisenberg says after 22 years of working at safeway, baez deserves better. He was an exemplary. And coy and they simply kicked curb. Eisenberg says that he is planning on filing a lawsuit against safeway seeking punitive damages of up to a Million Dollars for his client. He says its not just about the money, but about the message that safeway employees should be treated better. We have reached out to safeway seeking comment on this. And as of this report, they have not responded in san mateo, dan thorn kron. 4 news. Hate speech at this weeks Walnut Creek City CouncilMeeting Council and Community Members to listen to another round of antisemitic remarks during Public Comment for some. And harry joins us live in walnut creek after talking was Jewish City Council member kevin milka will crowther about that incident. Amanda . Unfortunately, this is the second time in just 2 weeks. Something like this has happened. And councilmember wilkes says these people had something in common. They were 2 different people. But they both dont live here in walnut creek. He does not represent our values and he is not. Welcome here. Another disturbing incident at the Walnut Creek City Council meeting. This man took to the podium tuesday night to spread hateful comments directed at the jewish community. And jewish Council Member kevin wilk whites are blamed for nearly all of societys problems because a disproportionate power. Well, judy control the media information, Federal Reserve in money. So they are the ones with disproportionate power. Theres a proverb that you will cry out in pain as he strikes you as he walked away. Councilmember wilke tried to get more information from him. I think thats where Mister Hassan was from. You can hear them and respond off mic saying hes an american citizen. Wilkes says he believes people like this are doing this to normalize hate speech. But wilks says he wont tolerate it. We do respond. We will always respond strongly and certainly im going to respond if it said in my presence and the Community Responded as well, about a half dozen speakers took to the podium to push back against hate have been a resident of walnut creek for over 23 years. Thank you for our service to our community. Our community does not stand for hate or intolerance. The comments of previous speaker do not stand for the values of this community for the students who i work with or for anybody who is in any kind of invested leadership in walnut creek. This comes just 2 weeks after another man who identified himself as scotty. Spewed hateful comments and used a racial slur while wearing a shirt with the words white power on it. He also criticized city leaders for ending virtual Public Comments. Wilkes says theres not much they can do about these comments because of free speech, but he says he will always push back. Against hate live in walnut creek. Amanda hari kron, 4 news. Amanda, thank you. International travel at oakland airport, increased by 42 in january compared to the same month last year. Officials say almost 30,000 International Passengers arrived at the airport in january of this year. They credit the increase in passengers to better offerings from airlines. San Francisco Mayor london breed welcomed to irish politicians to city hall today for the raising of irish flag. Mayor breed announcing march is now officially Irish American heritage month honoring the roughly 67,000 people of irish descent living in the city. The mayor also explained the importance of this years theme for