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Transcripts For KRON KRON 20240703

Wonderfully the muggy again . I saw somebody and and they came up with it. They said its muggy. I was like, did you hear one usually notice, john, i know i said it like but yeah, it was definitely a guy. I got up to Golden Gate Park and i was like its 60 likes a little today. Not as muggy. Good news. There is actually going to be a brisk, northerly westerly wind replacing that southerly wind from yesterday. Its going to help us out a lot with that. Feels like condition. Your view outside right now is showing a lot of cloud cover sitting up above. We are going to see peaks of sunshine today, but definitely a mostly cloudy one. Again, winds have shifted direction. As i noted, it is going to be breezy towards the coast. Tomorrow, though thats going to be an especially windy one as a cold front passes across the region. Temperatures right now are in the 50s low to mid 50s currently oakland double in concord at 54 while san mateo at 51 degrees looking outside later today, we will be in the 60s yet again under mostly cloudy skies. I know this trend of greater days. Maybe isnt your favorite, but there are some changes ahead of us that will get rain. All right, john, thank you for that. Lets get you rolling on a thursday for everybody making their way into the city. The meteor lights are on. No accidents are hazards on the bridge. Thats good news. 14 minutes right there. 7, bridge, 15 minutes, a 80 to one of one seen any major delays on i80 perez was ever feel bridge 7 minutes and the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 of the tolls 18 minute morning, right, daria, just back to you. Thank you, reyna. And now lets get to our top story. A man is in jail after fighting. With a security guard, an offduty Police Officer protecting the san jose mayor. Yeah, this all happened right in the middle of the kron 4 interview and our kron fours dan kerman reports on what the arrest has uncovered. Its this attack thats led to the arrest of 35 yearold leslie pollard, san jose. Police say pollard has been booked for battering a Police Officer and resisting arrest with violence. The incident was caught by kron 4 cameras during a tuesday evening interview with san jose mayor matt mahan at first in san fernando as steps right next to the mayor. Both he and the plainclothes san jose Police Officer providing security for the mayor inform pollard. That interview is under way do it. Were moving talking for reduced. Mark. Pollard uses profanity and tells the officer to mind his own business. What happens next is off camera. Its unclear who touches who first. But pollard is heard saying all smack you right right now 9 seconds later, he does just that hitting the officer in the face and head at least twice at that point. A scuffle in season. Police are called witnesses say at some point pollard begins yanking on the officers tie after 2 more minutes and police nowhere in sight. A customer from a nearby business comes to the offices. Rescue removing pollards hands from the officers tie and allowing the officer to handcuff him. Police eventually arrived and took pollard into custody. One person who witnessed the confrontation but didnt want to go on camera says hes not even sure that the suspect knew the mayor was even involved in all of this and was definitely clear that the person did not know that the security person protecting the mayor was actually a san jose Police Officer. While kron 4 has posted edited version of the video online sent as a police point out in a statement, the video does not contain the entire incident in particular. It does not include the officer identifying himself, nor does it include the many attempts teammate to deescalate the situation and avoid using force or taking any enforcement action. Police confirm pollard has an outstanding arrest warrant out of georgia for resisting arrest with violence. The officer hospitalized overnight with head and neck pain. But its now been released. The case is now under review by the Santa Clara County district Attorneys Office. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Happening today, classes will resume as normal at San Jose City college after police say they found nothing suspicious on campus. But San Jose Police reported at one point a possible bomb threat shortly after 5 last night. Video from the scene shows police blocking the moore park avenue area there at bascom officers cancel classes and evacuated the school for about 3 hours before ultimately reopening campus. County Sheriffs Office is asking for your help. Now, if you can share any information about the victim of a cold case dating back to the 80s, this is a picture of Jeffrey Thomas. Ruben. They say his skull was found in 2001 and turned into the Sheriffs Office in santa rosa. Investigators categorized it as a homicide case. They say it took investigators more than 20 years to finally identify robot. The Sheriffs Office says the group and came from the east coast and was rumored to have worked as a house painter in california. Time now 605. In a bill thats making its way through. The state legislature aims to double the fines for protesters who block highways and freeways. This comes a week after protesters blocked the Golden Gate Bridge calling for a ceasefire in gaza. California has seen a number these types of protests. As we know over the past few years, especially here in the bay area. This is a bipartisan push coming amid the protests that are related to whats going on in the middle east between israel and hamas under current state laws. These protesters are fined between a 10500. But this bill wants to deter protesters by increasing the fines, making them up to 1000 depending on past convictions. Because we see that these laws on the books are are not enough right there tie chart. Whats happening now . We believe in doubling that would give them our tools in their tool box to go those that are continually putting others lives at risk. Keeping parents from dropping off their children school, things like that. The california Highway Patrol is in favor of this. They say the protest prevent First Responders from being able to do their jobs. The executive director of the council on American Islamic relations has spoken against the bill saying that legislators are using the pretense of transportation, Public Safety to quell First Amendment activity. The bill passed in the Transportation Committee and now it goes to the Assembly Appropriations committee. Ok, well, there are new laws now to protect airline passengers. Lets talk about that as we take a live look here at sfo. Wonder where theyre going right now. The Transportation Department is cracking down on all of those fees that airlines charge you and they are requiring an automatic refund. If your flight is delayed or canceled about that with kron fours will tran out live at the airport now with more of these rules. Good morning. Well, james daria, theyre calling them junk fees. And explain why in just a few moments spent. I can tell you the new rules will not protect you during the Summer Holidays when so many people travel but come thanksgiving and christmas with millions of people visit family and friends, those new laws will protect you. You will get an automatic refund. And heres how its going to happen. So, you know, cancellations, delays. They happen all the time and experienced travelers. They know what to do. These new laws are actually trying to protect the inexperience travelers or those who dont travel that often are dont really go through the process. You will get an automatic refund if your flight domestically is delayed more than 3 hours. And if you take an international flight, if you are delayed more than 6 hours, automatic refund baggage fees, lets face it. We all pay that as well. If your bag arrives 12 hours after you land, then no questions asked you to will also get a refund on that. Many laws will go into effect. Explain that right after we listen to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. Theres are already supposed to be refunded for a cancellation or a major delay in practice. It often doesnt work that way. Isnt just about enforcing when something goes wrong. Its making it less likely something would go wrong. Buttigieg says this is the biggest protection for passengers in u. S. Transportation history. Lets talk about those junk fees. So often times guilty of it. You look at a fee or well, that is so chief say from San Francisco to new york 100, you go through it and all of a sudden you realize other fees add up and now it might cost you 350 400 now with the new laws they will have to disclose that all up front. Basically an out the door pricey. You know, exactly what youre paying for. Its not a bait and switch wifi. You pay for that. And if the airline doesnt have the aircraft doesnt have it, youll also get a refund. This should save consumers about 500 Million Dollars every year. And again, this is not to punish airlines. Its to make them better for all of us will get reaction. Coming up at 7 oclock from back the now. Hes got me thinking i want my money back to if they lose my bag or paid for the bags could be huge impact. A lot of people will. Thank you. Its 6. 10, right now and barts expansion to the south bay is taking shape. As you can see here. Crews are working on it. They are out in santa claras. You can see there and this is the site of a new maintenance yard that theyre getting fixed up and ready to roll the Maintenance Facility should be built and soon. Its going up right now behind the Santa Clara Transit Center across from san jose where 3 other bart stations or going to be built. Transit officials expect. But the bart expansion will serve about 55,000 people. Every weekday. By the year 2040. So theyve got a ways to go. We are finally getting a look at the future of San Francisco stonestown shopping center. Brookfield properties shared the renderings of the project. Includes plans for a civic town center, affordable housing, open spaces and retail. The company says the idea for this has been for years in the making. A man who is live near stonestown galleria for decades says that its hard to imagine the area transforming so dramatically. Pretty surprised that theyre theyre going to do because its been like that for, you know, as long as i can remember since the 70s, its a good area. And its its a great place to be. You know, they got libraries here and, you know, schools and things will get educated. Its a great place. Wow, look at how different it would be. The San Francisco Planning Commission has been gathering public input on the project for the past year. The project still has to be approved by the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors and kron. 4 reached out to city officials about it. We havent heard back yet. All right. Well, 6. 11 is the time and still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news. Nearly 3 dozen Death Penalty cases in Alameda County are now in limbo because of potential misconduct. Legal experts are weighing in will 6. 14, in your 4 things you need to know. Fairfield police are looking for to solve this accident where a woman was hit and she was killed. A semi truck hitler yesterday morning near 80. It was in a parking lot on cotton also drive the semi truck was pulling out when it hit woman. Redwood city police have arrested henry fun sega in connection with. This package that was stolen. And we told you about it was a big deal because there was a Wedding Dress in that package. A concerned citizen ended up finding the dress and returned it to the bride. The mets beat the giants 8 to 2 last night and their second game of the series. Theyre going to start a new series or game. Now theyre going to start a new series tomorrow. Well be watching what happens when they play that one. The first round of the nfl draft is tonight. The fortyniners have the 31st pick. The draft starts at 05 00pm. Ok, time now, 6. 15. Lets get a check of the weather here on this thursday morning as weve got a live look outside that shows once again, gray skies overhead, anything could happen. And john knows. Good having weve had a lot of stuff going this week. So at this point, its like, all right. Whats next . Right . We are going to be looking at a slim chance of a couple sprinkles tomorrow to finish out the week and its going to be cool and cloudy. Kind of like weve gotten used to these past 3 days. This is your view from the east bay hills. Lot of cloud cover overhead. A bit of relief from that muggy feel yesterday today shouldnt feel as humid, which is good news. We are going to be seeing a cold front sweeping in from the north and west. Thats already resulted in a shift of wind direction. And so this cooler, drier air mass generally moving in from the north and west, definitely he4ping us out with that feels like conditions. We will see better chance of showers for northern california. The sierra and the Central Valley. Were just a little bit too far. West of the storm track is going to take the system a little further inland. That means the bayarea right at the edge of precipitation. Potential. And thats just a slim chance of a sprinkle or 2 as we work into tomorrow. You can see that reflected here in your futurecast rainfall totals. Nothing much to look at. Literally just trace amounts this year. Well see a couple inches of snowfall. This is mostly above lake level. If your traversing Donner Summit reco past, you may see a little bit of snow. Its not going hold you up much at all, though. Temperatures today, very familiar at this point. Were right back to the low 60s. The good news about today, its a little less muggy. So thats going to make the 60s feel. Kinda nice, cool and crisp. We are going to be seeing a northwesterly wind picking up into tomorrow, though. And you may notice that later on today, too. So a bit of a blustery one, especially towards the coastline and on your bridges, concord, antioch, vacaville and napa among are few spots that will barely get to 70 degrees today. Tomorrows temperatures will be our coolest of the forecast courtesy of a cold front ruling in across the region. A windy one tomorrow, too. With that chance of sprinkles. The rest of the weekend looks great, though. Lots of sunshine and 60s to low 70s for your highs into next week rania. All right, john, thank you for you make great time here at 6 oclock. You are going to be traveling in hit the role you see mostly green out there. But you start to pick up along. I80 through hayward highway for use in a little congestion, even on the bay bridge because of the meter lights. No accidents. The richmond, sandra fell bridge also getting a little orange. 17 minute ride into the city right now. A little busy for 6 oclock hour. 14 minutes. San mateo bridge is still no accidents. Hazards on our bridges. One of the south bay still under 30 minutes. A while to 88 who you make a good time to. 37 is nice and light. So answer dana milpitas at 25 minutes. Because of that little slowing. Starting to build as youre traveling through hayward, kerry. James, back to you. Thanks a lot at 6. 18, and a former president of San Jose Elementary School enrichment programs has been arrested. Accused of embezzling. More than 400,000 from the organization between 2019, 2023. Investigators say that yes at night, road herself up to 45 fraudulent checks claim to be reimbursement for services that were not rendered. Aurora werent was served tuesday and knight was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and forgery. San Jose Unified School District says theyre working closely with the das office and Law Enforcement. In the east bay protests calling for a ceasefire in gaza are growing on the campus of uc berkeley. In fact, demonstrators created a tent city in front of sproul hall in solidarity with other universities across the country. Now, so far, the camp at uc berkeley has grown to about 70 tense. You can see that here in the video. Participants say they will continue protesting until their demands are met. So what are their demands . Well, they include that the University Call for a ceasefire in gaza and that they stop any Financial Support to israel. Uc berkeley spokesperson says School Officials are monitoring the situation. He says as of now, the free palestine camp has not disrupted campus operations. It comes to nonviolent political protest. The campuses are not to use Law Enforcement unless it is absolutely necessary. To prevent bodily damage or threat to anyones life. Were not at that point. But uc berkeley Officials Say the safety of all students continues to be their top priority. Meanwhile, newly released video shows an israeli hostage from berkeley not seen since hamas attacked israel back in october. So 23 yearold hersh goldbergpolin. You see him here. He was kidnapped at the nova Music Festival back in october of last year. We reported on his story back in january as his parents fought to bring their son home. Experts say he appears appears that he is speaking under duress as he blames the Israeli Government for neglecting the hostages for 200 days. Gobert poland is missing his left hand and part of his arm

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