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Comfortably. So kind of morning and into the afternoon, a little bit of a warmer day nearing 70 degrees today. Im talking your weekends forecast. Still to come, right . All right. On the even that move in here on a thursday morning. You can see meteor lights are already on the bay bridge drive times. Still under 13 minutes. So you still seeing light conditions there. Mateo bridge around 13, 80 to 101. Get a look at the richmond. Sandra fell bridge about 8 minutes and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 19 minute ride. Arias is back to you. Thank you. Reyna 6 oclock. And in these say u. S. Postal inspectors need your help. Theyre looking for a man who robbed a postal carrier. Yeah, this video here shows the mask man who was armed with a gun ripping the keys away from the carrier in oakland. Earlier this month, now, postal inspectors say these types of crimes continue to be a problem, but they are cracking down. Kron fours. Dan thorn has more. Screams coming after a letter carrier was robbed at gunpoint in oakland, video from the u. S. Postal inspection. Service shows the crime happening in the afternoon of march. 2nd, its one of many letter carrier related crimes in the bay area over the last year. At this point across the country. I think all that it bears are going to work every day wondering if this is the day theyre going to get robbed u. S. Postal inspector Matt Norfleet says the recent number of threats and attacks on mail carriers has gone up dramatically. According to data obtained by the associated press, u. S. Postal carrier, robberies climbed above 640 in 2023. More than 60 of those resulted in injury. Was something that was almost unheard of. Few years ago before the pandemic. Now its a constant threat. A letter carriers not just here in the bay area, but it everywhere across the country in response to the crimes, lawmakers in congress have put forth the bipartisan protect our letter carriers act. The legislation would accelerate the replacement of mailbox keys with digital locks, boost prosecutions and review sentencing guidelines. Norfleet says people should keep an eye out for their neighborhood mail carrier and always report anything suspicious. Also for those looking to commit these crimes, norfleet has a message that this is not a crime, that smart committee. Its needlessly violent and its making letter carriers here just going out delivering people their mail, which they need. Usps is offering 150,000 reward for this mans arrest and conviction in oakland, dan thorn kron. 4 news. Police in oakland are warning of a spike in smash and grab robberies. Several recent victims have been in their cars when thieves walked up, smashed the passenger window and grabbed items from the passenger seat right there. Well, card, first. And thats the next year or whatever. So they say additional officers are going to be in parts of the city whereethis has been happening. Robberies have gone up. 32 over what we saw this time last year. Well, happening today, the Alameda County board of supervisors will meet with the as as they once again discuss the sale and lease extension of the coliseum. Kron fours. Michael thomas is in the newsroom with the latest on this. Michael. Hey, good morning, everyone. Alameda county officials tell kron fours dan kerman that todays meeting could actually lead to 3 more years of the as. Staying in oakland or at least until the teams new stadium is built in las vegas and the sale of the coliseum. Whats still up in the air . The meeting is set to happen at 10, 30 this morning and will include oakland. Mayor sheng tells chief of staff Councilmember Rebecca kaplan and Alameda County supervisor david huber. Of course, the oakland as officials and the last meeting regarding the teams lease and the sale of the coliseum is said to have went well right now the team is considering signing a threeyear lease extension. However, the city of oakland is suggesting that in return for that threeyear lease extension, the team leave behind its branding and logos when it actually does leave. It also wants the team to play an active role with the mlb, bringing an Expansion Team to the city when it comes to the sale of the coliseum. Well, Alameda County officials want the team to sell its half of the coliseum to the African American sports and Entertainment Group in oakland. More details are set to be discussed today along with increases and changes to the current Lease Agreement in regards to how much days pay and the current revenue sharing right now, the teams last payment of 45 Million Dollars for its portion of the coliseum is set to be paid to the county of alameda in april, though, the actual title may not be handed over right away. And thats due to ongoing legal battles between the county of alameda and the communities for a better environment. So again, that meeting set to start at 10, 30 as we get more word regarding if and lease expansion is signed or if a deal comes you know, a parent with the actual sale, the coliseum in that half. Well keep you updated live in the newsroom. Im Michael Thomas started djing. So send it back to you. All right. Thank you. Michel 605, is the time. And a former San Francisco state title 9 administrator. Who was in charge of investigating discrimination claims on campus is suing the university she says administrators failed to respond to multiple claims of discrimination and allegedly swept all under the rug. Was will tran is at Francisco State now with the details the very offensive to many muslims. She was looking into that and she claims that was when the university professor, as well as the vice chancellor, told her that what the professor did was protected by academic freedoms academic leeway and that to halt or investigation. She says that when she inherited her role as the not title 9 administrator at San Francisco state university, there were hundreds of cases that were never looked into. She wanted to look into those cases as well to get in compliance. Title 9 is a federal law that bans discrimination. Also, her job is to look into other misconduct and harassment. It doesnt have to be it could be racial could be a lot of other things. How you treat one another. That was her job. She says ultimately those cases were never looked into. And as you mentioned, that she claims university tried to teller to cover it up to that point where ultimately she was placed on paid administrative leave and then eventually fired. She is filing a lawsuit against San Francisco state university. I can telluniversit misconduct. Back to you. Interesting. All right. Thank you very much. Well, 607, is the time police in redwood city of arrested a 17 yearold High School Student for bringing this gun to campus. The gun was found on the teenagers waistband after he tried to run away from the police at the school on tuesday. And police also found ammunition and his home in east palo alto. He was booked on multiple felony charges. Well, over at willow, Glen High School in san jose students had to shelter in place yesterday afternoon after reports of a student bringing a weapon to campus. Police say that student was found with a bb gun. In the end, nobody was hurt. Happening tonight, the bay area law firm is hosting a town hall meeting to discuss recent chemical releases and lpflaring out at the martinez refinery. The law firm has been helping residents that have been harmed by chemicals. The meeting will take place at 6 oclock tonight at the Martinez Event Center 608, is the time in the south bay. San jose mayor matt mahan is urging. Support for a new city budget strategy that he says will prioritize issues such as homelessness and crime. The mayor proposes the march budget message and in it included money toward safe sleeping sites for the unhoused, police recruitment, more technology for safer neighborhoods and cleaning up the city of Illegal Dumping and graffiti. Theres so many things we wanted to. What we put in this budget the time when were facing a shortfall. But the things that our Community Knows that we need to do to continue improving our collective quality of life. And create greater opportunity for future generations. The City Council Votes on the mayors plan next week. If its approved, the city manager will move forward with an operating budget. 609 and the iconic bay bridge lights. We know they went dark more than a year ago. Gosh, i was there back. Look at him so gorgeous. Well, it should be not too long now and they will be back and lit up again. A nonprofit. Called the lumen 8 created the light installation more than a decade ago. And then last year they said it was time to fix an update. The broken strands. They spent the last year raising 10 Million Dollars to do so and they need 1 million more. They say to bring the lights back to life. Okay. Well, i guess well keep of breath that i was all excited to have a date on theyll find all right. Still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news east bay families and his family home and cars riddled with bullet holes. Now after a father confronts wouldbe thieves while his family was inside. Well tell you what happened. And still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news from Council Policies to rising rates. The crisis in california as homeowners say its been nearly impossible. The 5 Homeowners Insurance coverage. And after the break, a bill that would ban tiktok nationwide is now headed to the u. S. Senate. Why supporters of the bill say its necessary. While others say its unconstitutional. 6. 13, here for things you need to know the Biden Administration recognized bart as one of several agencies taking part in the white house challenge to save lives from overdoses since 2019 bart staff, they say of say more than 400 lives using narcan. Restaurant week begins in oakland today restaurants can offer specially created lunches and dinner menus to showcase the diverse culture and cuisine of oakland. It runs through march 24th, allstate state farm farmers and us a a have either limited Homeowner Insurance policies in california or simply left the state. And they say they no longer have a choice because they could face massive losses in destructive wildfires. The states insurance commissioner has suggested Insurance Companies the allowed to consider future environmental risks when they set rates. Governor newsom says this crisis is one of his priorities. This weekend. Some of the countrys most elite pilots are going to be soaring through the skies in the wings over solano, airshow at Travis Air Force base. The blue angels will be there 22 demo team in about a dozen other aerial acts. Its saturday and sunday. All right. Its 6. 14. The state now apparently rolling back some of its proposed water restrictions after receiving criticism for them being too strict. The issue is in regards to a draft of the California Water resources control boards policy to drastically reduce water usage by next year. A recent report shows the cost of the plan outweigh the benefits. The new draft plans still has some areas in california making big cuts. But many of the largest bay area, water agencies where consumption is already relatively low will now not be required to make cuts through the year 2035, i mean, i just feel like its been forever that weve learned not to waste water so i think were all pretty good at it now. Just keep it going. 6. 50, right now. Want to check. Were not going to get any water anytime soon. Windy out there yeah. Felt that on the bridges job. Yeah. Those increased water allocations. A sign of the fact that we hardly have any Drought Conditions out there anywhere across the state, which is certainly good news, obviously. But like you guys mentioned after what has been too wet winters in a row, we are drying out over the next several days here today. The catch is indeed the wind, which is going to be picking up today. The very windiest of todays forecast, High Pressure ridge to the west low to the east of us and a dry northeasterly wind working its way into the bay area really peaking today. Winds gusting as high as 45 to 50 Miles Per Hour, especially this afternoon. Tomorrow morning stays windy as well, but eventually calms down towards the latter half of the day tomorrow. So what are the key things you need to know during this offshore wind . What we will be seeing, the windiest conditions today into tonight. Power outages are possible in a few areas and watch out for a few tree limbs down as well. Otherwise todays forecast is going to be gorgeous with daytime highs just shy of 70 degrees mid to upper 60s out there all across the bay area today. Burlingame at 67 saying carlos at 68 san jose, youll be at a nice comfortable. 69 degrees today. Freeman through hayward on up through oakland beach, at 68 for your highs and that much different for the north bay. With those mid to upper 60s for you as a look ahead at the rest of this forecast that actually gets warmer into the weekend with some 70s for your last weekend of winter and Saint Patricks day, of course, spring insight next tuesday and doing so with sunshine and 70s, right . All right, john, thank you for that. Were also the start, though, we do have an accident this along northbound 2. 80, line, a jon daly boulevard in daly city, not seeing major issues there. You could take 101, but again, just slight delays. The other highways are off to a pretty decent start this morning. As you can see, lots of rain over the east bay highway for an 8. 80. Youre just starting to pick up gradually. There. They bridge right now about 13 minutes meter lights are on heading into the city this morning. Mateo bridge just short of 14 80 to 101, checking on some of our highways still at the limit along 1, 85 up to menlo park to 88 who even to 37, not seeing any issues there. Kellyanne shut down to 37 about. 25 minutes. Slow us just as youre traveling through hayward decision. Make it past that smooth sailing all rises. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much. Rea to 6. 17, the time in a man and a woman were arrested in connection that of several robberies at bay area banks all the way from san jose to even modesto in the central valley. Police say they arrested Brandon Lopez and his alleged getaway driver. Tamara bush yesterday in antioch. Police say we just saw there a moment ago was a handwritten note that lopez would use in his bank heists. Note, as you can see, reads, quote, i need all the money in both your drawers. Be quick. No games. San jose police say they launched the investigation after bank was robbed of 1000 on west capitol expressway last month. Its 6. 18, and a developing story that were following. The California State Supreme Court is going to hear arguments from berkeley residents over the con. The conversion of peoples park. Historic landmark is set to be turned into more Student Housing for cal. The park now owned by cal uc berkeley owns it was listed on the National Register of historic places. But in recent years it has been called dangerous when used by the unhoused despite the crime filled reputation back in january, protesters ah demonstrated against the housing plans trying to stop Construction Since then. Officials blocked access to the park with shipping containers. Uc berkeley plans to build housing for more than 1000 students on that site. But construction right now is still on hold until the state Supreme Court hears the arguments on this case thats supposed to happen in los angeles next month. 6. 19, and kron 4 is your local election headquarters. Republican steve garvey is now leading congressman adam schiff. In the race for the u. S. Senate, theres 4800 votes mhat separate them. Whatever the outcome of the primary, both men will be on the ballot in november. And and vie to fill the late senator Dianne Feinsteins seat. A recent la times poll finds in a twoway matchup, democrat schiff hold a 53 to 38 lead over republican garvey. A republican has not won a statewide election in california since 2006. We will be following that race for sure. All right. It is almost 6. 20 now. And lets talk more national news. Weve got house lawmakers as we know, voted yesterday to pass a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of tiktok, which is one of the worlds most popular social media apps right now. Kron fours Anna Wiernicki has more on whats next for the bill as it now heads on to the senate. Good morning, anna. Good morning. Thats right. The house passage of the bill is just the first step and now as it heads to the Senate Lawmakers there dont seem as concerned or eager to bring it up. The house voted 352 to 65 on wednesday on a bill that would give tiktok 6 months to cut ties with its chinabased owner or risk being removed from app stores in the u. S. With every dance challenge in lip sync video. American users are unknowingly contributing to a vast surveillance apparatus. Supporters of the bill argue tiktok poses a National Security threat because of its ties to china. Putting users personal data at risk. Congress is stating that to data rights of americans got to be safe from Foreign Government regulation. But those against the bill argue its unconstitutional. The bill seriously undermine Civil Liberties by essentially banning a platform. That 150 million americans use to engage in free speech and expression and say as it now advances to the upper chamber, i think it will die in the senate. The ball is now in the court of the senators and i trust leader Chuck Schumer. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer indicsted the senate is in no rush to address the house bill saying in a statement that the senate will review the legislation when it comes over. And President Biden has said if the bill reaches his desk, he will sign it into law. For now live in washington, im Anna Wiernicki. Back to you. Okay. Thank santa will continue to follow that 6. 21. Is that im coming up on the kron. Morning news at theater in the south bay is trying to recover because thieves stole from them days before Opening Night of a new play. Well see what theyre doing. And San Francisco city workers are preparing for a possible strike. Well see what their demands are and how it could affect you if you use city services. Its 6. 24 and happening now in the south bay, congressman ro khanna is headlining at a memorial to honor restaurant workers who died of covid. The event marks the countrys first covid food service workers. Memorial just 4 years after covid shut down and resulted in 6 million restaurant workers losing their jobs about 12,000 or in the Restaurant Industry ended up dying roe conn. Well be joined by senator Bernie Sanders on zoom for the memorial, which is 2 oclock this afternoon happening today, security screeners plan to rally this afternoon out at sfo over alleged unpaid wages. Hundreds of security screeners at the airports say they filed a complaint with the department of labor claiming their employer covenant aviation is withholding a pay raise of the tsa mandated last year. The workers claim that covenant aviation is refusing to pay the new rate. The rally is set for 01 00pm at terminal 3. Meanwhile, officials in charge californias highspeed rail project say it will take another 100 billion dollars to complete that la to San Francisco route ceo brian kelly told state lawmakers the project has about 28 billion dollars on hand. Kelly says the project Needs Partnership from the federal government and the private sector who wants to keep moving forward. Its 6. 26. And still ahead next on the kron, 4 morning news. Some kids in the east bay are helping to create costumes for marvels latest spiderman video game. Were going to take a look at how going to take a look at how they did that. It all starts with a chevy truck. 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We have high Wind Warnings in the sierra and high wind advisories for a lot of the bay area, including the inland east bay, north bay and the santa cruz mountains. These remain in effect through 11 00am tomorrow. Winds gusting as high as 45 to 50 Miles Per Hour out towards the delta. Our mountain passes and on some of our more expose bridges as well. So all places that youll see that tug as youre driving into work this morning, temperatures are actually pretty mild. Hayward alameda and San Francisco just shy of 60 degrees right now. It will be in the upper 60s later on today. And are Crystal Clear skies right don, thank you for that gusty morning. So take your time and on the bay bridge for me. Car was moving back and forth. So certainly keep both hands on your Steering Wheel today. Thankfully, we dont have any accidents on our bridges. 14 minute right there in the meter lights are on. San mateo bridge just short of 15, a 80 to 101. So still really easy getting on and off the bridge. There. Richs ever feel rich just under 12 minutes and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls around 20 minutes. Arias is back to thank you. Reyna 6, 30 staff at a san jose Theater Company are trying to recover. From a weekend burglary that just happened right before Opening Night. Yeah, there are. New plans are in final preparations. Unfortunately, this wasnt the first time the theater has been broken into sadly with kron 4. Sarah stinson to explain. We spoke with the production manager here at city lights, Theater Company. He says theyve been broken into multiple times since he started working here over a decade ago, costing hundreds of dollars each time. The latest happening on sunday. Security footage shows 2 people walking up to city lights, Theater Company in san jose sunday morning. Just before the alarm goes off. Its very frustrating. Its a its a violation run. Guess pernetti is a production manager at the nonprofit Theater Company on south second street. He says Police Responded quickly but not before thieves took off with items. They took props from the some iphones and ipads are props in the show. They took some personal belongings the actors had left in our dressing rooms. It hurts because we have to replace that stuff. Gas pernetti says the theater has experienced far too many burglaries over the years. Ive worked here for 12 years. I would say a good 6, 7 times weve been broken into its time its a significant amount of money to do repairs to the damage caused by a by a forced entry. All the while the theaters preparing for Opening Night of the play. King. Liz, starting next week, the Theater Company puts on 6 shows a year in the 100 seat venue. But every break in becomes a setback for theater. Still recovering from the pandemic was 4 years ago today, actually that we were shut down when the pandemic started and were still trying to recover from that. And you know just trying to stay above water with that. And then that Something Like this happen needless waste of money, it durts gas. Panetta says the show must go on. In fact, they have that show coming up on march. 21st there still replacing items before that. The best way you can support them, they say is to come to one of their shows here. Im sara stinson reporting in san jose. Back to you. Thank you very much, sara. 6. 32. Is the time in the east bay. San lorenzo homeowner says hes lucky to be alive after trying to stop people from stealing his car. The attempted car theft happened early monday morning joe, a hawker says when he confronted the suspects, they immediately started shooting at him. Hawker ended up slipping on his front doorstep, which may have saved his life as the front home is now riddled with bullet holes. You see them there. Doctor believes one of the weapons fired was an ak. 47. The bullets not only hit his walls and cars, but they also came close to hitting his wife and 2 daughters. Heres the bullet holes. Right where i was standing. Theres bullet holes here and the first one hit right at my head level after they missed me. They unleashed havoc on my car. My house, the front window. And it was just complete chaos wow. A gofundme has been set up to help the hawker family recover. From this incident repair their homes and cars. You can find a link for that actually on our website. Kron 4 dot com. Well, a woman was robbed at gunpoint right after roll right in front of her home in alamo. That robbery happened about 2. 30 tuesday afternoon. It was on biltmore drive. Contra costa Sheriffs Office says the woman was getting out of her car when 2 crooks with guns stole some of her things. Deputies say they broadcast the suspects vehicle description to other Law Enforcement agencies and that led to a brief chase down highway. 24 from lafayette to oakland. The suspects, though. Got away. Time now, 6. 30, for a Rideshare Driver is facing a hate crime charge for punching a rider in the face. According to the indictment, the driver was called as a foe to pick up a ride. And when the driver got there, he asked the rider if he was jewish or israeli. And ended up punching that rider in the face. The driver now faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Stop the stops, stop the stops, stop the stops. Here you to people in their chanting outside the State Capitol urging support for a bill called the smart act. It aims to make it illegal for police to pull over drivers in bicycle riders for a faulty tail light or improper position, a license plate, an issue with the bumper, you know, a small backers of the w people of color because they point to data that shows that black californians make up just 5 of the population. But they account for 13 of all traffic stops. Well, thousands of City Employees in San Francisco are calling on the city now to fix what they say is an urgent staffing crisis. Employees represented by several labor unions gathered last night at an event called Strike School. Union representatives say the purpose of the gathering is to make sure that members know their rights and to prepare for a possible strike. They say the citys negligence has resulted in more than 2700 vacant positions. Me myself. It took 600 calendar days actually get hired and promoted their to Civil Service process. And so the city needs to fix to hide process. They need to staff up and they need to stop sending money. 2 outside contracts and on city workers. Well, the Strike School is just one step towards a possible walkout at this point. We dont know when that strike might happen. Many of the major union contracts, though, are set to expire in june. Now to the Home Insurance crisis thats hitting california over the past year. Well, more than one year past several years. Insurance companies, a handful of them now are pausing or ending all together their service for California Homeowners leaving many now wondering how theyre going to check their homes. State lawmakers are asking for immediate action. Weve got a ton was with a closer look. It is a crisis in need to we need to act on it now. Some one member Joe Patterson appealing for immediate action to address the states ongoing Homeowners Insurance crisis. In the last year and a half 7 of the 12 major home Insurance Companies in california, including allstate, state farm and Farmers Insurance have either limited their business within the state or in some cases stop selling new policies altogether for homeowners living in some of californias most fire prone areas. That resulted in some californians struggling to find any coverage at all in my district in el dorado and placer counties. This is a crisis. We get calls on it every single day. And we need to do something immediately on insurance for their part. Insurance companies have said they have no other choice but to pause or stop selling policies out of concerns. They could face huge losses. Should a major disaster like a wildfire destroyed homes and atrisk communities. And as for patterson. It just got personal last week, unfortunately, informed that my carriers california. Thats right. Hes one of the california to isnt sure hes leaving. He made the announcement at this Assembly Insurance Committee Hearing focused on the fair plan. It is a statebacked last resort. Home Insurance Plan for california to have either been let go by insurance provider or have simply not been able to obtain coverage in the private insurance market. As more Insurance Companies leave, the state data from the state chose between 2019 2023, the number of californians covered by a fair plan. Insurance policy, more than doubled. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and knowledge. Fair plan. Premiums are often much pricier than those provided by private Insurance Companies all the more. So why they say its vital private insurance states and california, homeowners and businesses need to have more insurance choices. And should hopefully be returning to admit market. It all comes after insurance. Commissioner ricardo, lara last year announced a new strategy to keep Insurance Companies in the golden state. All part of a deal that will allow them to consider future environmental risks and Climate Change impacts when setting their prices. Theres a huge sense of urgency. But patterson believes immediate change must come to regulation reform. If not, he worries californians like him could face tough road ahead. I feel like you need more voices like myself that are actually feeling the pain. This insurance crisis for this building to at the State Capitol. A tonn wallace. Kron 4 news. If you like the costumes and the new spiderman game, you can thank some oakland students. Yeah. They were working with playstation to design part of this marvel game. They even got paid to do it. As a matter of fact, its an opportunity that comes from the work of a nonprofit that aims at helping underserved and underrepresented communities get into the tech sector. San francisco native Damon Packwood founded game heads. A decade ago and it teaches hundreds of kids and young adults, the skills they need. To break into the gaming business. Yeah. We do that in a such a way. Thats fun because of you told a student were going to teach to the deeper learning impairment. Theyre not going to be excited, right . But if you say were going to teach you how to make a video game or like an interactive film or film visual effects are things like that. Theyll get excited about that. And then you kind make it well, this year, 6 of packwood students partnered with insomniac and playstation to come up with stickers. And the latest suit pac called fly and fresh for 2 characters in the new spiderman twogame peter parker and miles. Morales. The designs by marisa diaz were inspired by 90s, fashion. Weve got to work, we work with their team. Or about . I dont know 6 to 8 months or so. Coming up with concepts, you know, they they, you know, like beans. They through these out. We finally settled on an idea which was beautiful idea because that the student that created it for latina from oakland who was inspired by her dad. Well, could cold house. Theres you know, they cost about 5,000 in the game and 100 of the profit is donated to game heads. If you purchase those, the seats are available for purchase. Until april 5th packwood says more than 35 of his current classes working in the gaming industry right now and many more have gone on to have a gaming career. There are a few spots currently open for the game has program and applications are still being accepted. Its 6. 41. And still ahead on the kron 4 morning news com for continues to celebrate remarkable women of the bay area all month long. Were going learn from this woman whos helping underserved seniors in San Francisco. Were back at 6. 44. And here are 4 things to know the postal inspectors now are looking for the man that robbed a postal worker earlier this month on euclid avenue. They say at a gun robbed that worker of the keys and ran away. Police in oakland are warning about a spike in smashandgrab robberies. Police say several recent victims were sitting in their cars when thieves walked up specially passenger window and grabbed items from the passenger seat. We say they will have additional officers. Parts of the city where theres been a surge in these robberies. And happening tonight, a bay area law firm is hosting a town hall meeting to discuss recent chemical releases and flaring out of the martinez refinery. The law firm has been helping residents that have been harmed by chemicals. The meeting will take place at 6 oclock tonight at the Martinez Event Center and the california Supreme Court will hear arguments from berkeley residents over the conversion of peoples park next month. Uc berkeley says they plan to house more than 1000 students on that site. But construction is on hold until state Supreme Court justices hear arguments on the kids. Firefighters used to catch a break in a fire activity at night. You know, thats when they could really get a handle on things. Not really the case anymore. Theres a report that just came out from the journal nature and it says ongoing drought is the biggest factor in whether a fires going to continue to be strong at night or die down a bit. Researchers believe the conditions will get worse because of global warming. And that makes it extra hard for firefighters for their strategies. For evacuations. The new Research Also shows that fires are stronger overnight in the first couple of days, which out actually thats kind of a good thing because they say they can figure out a tackle in early days. But i dont think they have a lot fire to be particularly now. I want to make a correction to just clarification, by the way, for into that spiderman game. And you want to buy the costumes to benefit the oakland, a group. Its 4. 99. Thats a pretty good deal. And up to a Million Dollars. Thats raising go right to that program. A mask. All right. Support them. If you can. 6. 46, the time weve got john in the Weather Center with a look at a very nice clear start will be windy this thursday morning. John, i know the one catch today is the wind because Everything Else is going to be picture perfect. This is your view outside from the east bay hills. Not a single cloud in the sky. Certainly nothing close to anything like fog because we are saying a dry offshore wind pushing from the interior out towards the coast. High pressure to the west, low to the east and that gradient. Is a really stirring up some strong winds today. 45 to 50 Miles Per Hour gusts, especially for the delta mountain passes and are exposed bridges this afternoon. Tomorrow well start to calm things down, especially in the afternoon. So what weve hear, what we do have wind advisories through 11 00am tomorrow after that point, winds will start to temper of it. We are going to see the possibility of some downed tree limbs as well as maybe even a few Power Outages because of the strong winds. So things to know maybe dont be parking under any of those larger tree limbs today that are looking a little susceptible 60s for your daytime highs today getting close to 70 degrees. But were going to say that number for the weekend. Warm enough, though, if you stepped outside yesterday, you notice that warm feel in todays going to be even warmer than that. Fremont hayward up through oakland, egypt, 68 degrees, walnut creek and concord at 67, north bay temperatures just as warm as well. A look ahead shows those 70s as we move into the weekend from friday. Well, into the final days of winter and the first day of spring next tuesday, beautiful Saint Patricks weekend ahead of us, right . All right, john, thank you for that. Well, accident on or san matteo bridge, this is on the eastbound side of the bridge. You are going to traveling. However, were seeing delays on the westbound side. Theyre a team in rye. 81 want if you are traveling right now, so you probably got a few people there stopping to look at that accident again, accident on the eastbound side right near the high rise. They regional accidents there. But again, gusty conditions will certainly take your time travel and 15 min iran and the meter lights are on. Check some of highways where things are slowing down a bit. Highway 4, 40 minute one, antioch, into conquered. 24 want to quit down to 5. 80 your slow as soon as you hit or its going to take about 17 minutes there and southbound 6, a doubling down to fremont 16 minute ride steal fairly decent. All right. James, back to you. All right. Thank you very much. Rain in the San Francisco building housing a church and a roller skating rink has been deemed a historic landmark. It was built back in 18 97 and it hosted Catholic Services for more than a century. Later, it became a hub for civil rights leaders in the city. Its now known as the house of 8 wheels 2014, the building was repurposed into a disco style roller rink. And its now historic site. Well, part, by the way, is getting a shout out from the white house. 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Good morning and thanks for waking up with us. Im sorry and im james. Were waking up to a very windy thursday morning. Be ready for that. Its within pretty good. You can hear. And john, especially on the bridges and bridges definitely exposed to some o