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Transcripts For KRON KRON 20240703

Area. Good evening and thank you for joining us for kron. 4 news at 10. Im dan thorn students at Stanford University and uc berkeley have been camping for days calling on their schools to disclose the ties, 2 companies that but financially benefit israel kron fours jack moment live from Stanford University tonight with more. Jack. Dan, thats right that the protests here at stanford has only been going on for about 48 hours or so. And already University Officials say that theyve sent letters to about 60 students, they say, are involved in these protests that saying that camping here on School Grounds is against School Policy and they could face suspension or a possible arrest. But still students here at stanford and that uc berkeley tell me they dont plan on stopping these protests anytime soon. White saturday afternoon on stanfords campus. Its a weekend that newly admitted students can come tour. Its also the second day that dozens of students are setting up tents and making a pull request of administration. We want think that public support and the Student Support is crucial in being able pressure these institutions to do so. Emily smith, a junior at stanford, says the big request is making the private college disclose any financial ties to companies financially support israel. Protesters here say its a tough ask. I think they are stubborn to be quite frank. I think theyre actively trying to crack down on student letters were sent to students friday telling them that camping and stanford is illegal and they could face discipline or even arrest home. I think thats something students are taking day by day jen . Across the bay, a couple 100 people rallying for a similar cause. Music and flyers. The same use if the student at cal and says they have no signs stopping their protest any time i earlier uc berkeley sent kron 4 statement saying in part we continue to carefully monitor the situation and to date there have been no disruptions of university operations. The school telling us they have not called the police yet, but are prepared to do so. Yeah, if you are running anything, theres also that table up front. We have a ton of food, its let me also the crowd grows at stanford as a University Police cruiser watches on. Carlos ramirez is a sophomore and says they will keep camping here as long as more students show up. A lot of people can sign up will be safe because and community and being and commune with each other. Thats how were keeping us safe. And now they know how there has been 0 protest as of yet at either stanford. Nor uc berkeley. But for uc berkeley classes ended on friday. So we could potentially see those protests may be ending soon, whereas here at stanford, theyre not on the semester system. They go by the quarter system and they have classes that go through june. So if thats just as much time as we could see students last with their protest and well send it back to you. All right, jack moment live from Stanford University tonight. Thank you. In the meantime, propalestinian protesters at Columbia University are occupying their encampment for a 10 day and theyre refusing to leave until their demands are met. They want the school to also cut ties with israeli academic institutions and commit to a complete divestment of funds from entities connected to israel. Last week, more than 100 protesters were arrested. And proisraeli. Demonstrators are also gathered outside Columbia University gathering for the release of the hostages being held by hamas in gaza. This comes as a new hamas hostage video has been released showing keith siegel, an american israeli taken hostage more than 200 days ago. His family now begging for israel to do anything. It can to bring him home. For the very latest on all thats happening with the situation in gaza, the war between israel and hamas and also whats been happening on College Campuses all across the United States and right here in the bay area. You can go to our website kron 4 dot com. In the east bay. Homeless man is arrested after attacking an elderly man and the Piedmont Police chi. The first attack happened friday at ace hardware on grand avenue in piedmont. Police say they got a call about an elderly man getting hit from behind the suspect will be gomer ran away until police saw him next door. And police say gomer looked like he had taken some kind of drug and then attacked officers. Gomer was pepper sprayed in tased but kept fighting and eventually broke into a home and threatened a resident. There he was then confronted by Piedmont Police chief jeremy bowers. Gomer got into bauers car and ours went into the other side to keep him from driving away in it. And thats when gunmen attacked the chief. He was later arrested under several charges. Sausalito ferry remains closed this weekend in april, 19th inspection found one of the pier pilings was damaged. Ferry spokesperson said that they can only do their work during low tide. So these repairs could take some time. The golden gate ferry hopes to have the sausalito service back up and running by sometime next week. And while those repairs are being made, a transit bus to be taking passengers across the golden gate bridge. Bart service is suspended this weekend between rockridge in oakland and the lafayette station. The Transit Agency is upgrading one of its tracks. Free buses are available at impact stations. Bart says to expect about a 20 minute delay. Highway closures are continuing this weekend as well across the bay area. This is the 4th closure of the southbound lanes of 6 ad. It will be closed around the 5, 86, 80 connector in pleasanton and down to koopman road. Caltrans says its reopening monday morning at 4, caltrans says to expect delays and detours throughout the weekend. And this is the second closure in parts of the westbound lanes of highway 37 in blaine whole as well. Theyre also going to be reopening monday morning at 4. Then next weekend, the 8 eastbound lanes of highway 37 will also be closed for repairs. All right. Lets get you checked your 4 zone forecast tonight as we take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. It was a nice breezy and sunny one across San Francisco today, gayle ong joining us with a look now at what to expect a and that wind will stick around for the next few days. But we will be breezy mild pretty nice weather. Youll notice a chill in the coast, though. So here is the golden gate bridge. Patchy fog out there tonight. Temperatures right now were in the 50s low 50s in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay and live for more. So its pretty cool out there this time. And san jose close to the 60s as well as santa rosa. We learned that the same mild for overnight lows, though. So current wind speeds, you can really feel it over by the coast point raise reporting 30 miles an hour. 21 miles an hour that sea breeze kicking up tonight in San Francisco, relatively calm everywhere else. For now. But a future wind gusts is showing will be seeing another pop in the 20s tomorrow. So another breezy day for your sunday. So sunday morning, the coast already seeing numbers in the 20s while everyone else will remain relatively calm. But towards the afternoon that breeze will kick up again, possibly upwards of 30 miles an hour. So secure those news items very similar to what we saw today. And this looks like well have some wind with us until monday as tonight, though, overnight lows, pretty mild in the upper 40s low 50s a few clouds tonight with that breezy those breezy conditions. And a look ahead, though. We all warming up. So were in the low 70s today. Now it looks like well warming up to the mid 70s. Even warmer towards the end of the week. So well be rebounding in the bay area. Well see upper 60s the coast low 60s upper 50s. So seasonable weather. I want to come back. We are tracking some dangerous Severe Weather here. So there are tornado watches across 5 states right now and the southern and Central Plains here and even a Tornado Warning in tulsa, oklahoma, at this hour, well take a closer look when i come back in a few minutes. All thanks a lot. Today is National Prescription drug. Take back day. Its way to provide a safe and easy way for people to get rid of prescription drugs. There were dropoff sites in sausalito and daly city. The day is also used to educate people on the dangers of getting addicted to prescription drugs. A celebration of life is being planned for glide cofounder reverend cecil williams. It will be held on sunday. May 12th at one in the afternoon and glide church on ellis street here in San Francisco. Williams died monday at the age of 94. He was a civil rights and lgbtq activist and he was known for making everyone feel like family opening the church doors to all and helping to serve those in need in San Franciscos tenderloin neighborhood. The group together as seth action is urging voters to support 2 measures. They say oprah improve the mayors ability to respond to the citys needs and cut red tape they say is created by too much bureaucracy city officials joining residents in chinatown this morning to push the reform package forward in the upcoming elections. I mean, here today is collecting signatures put about mister ford to help against remind the Commission Says some so that the lines of authority are clear and that we know whos actually response for that, the of the decisions that are being made and responsible for what were seeing out on the streets. The group is actively Gathering Signatures to qualify the measures for the november ballot. Hes plus renovations are right now underway in San Franciscos japantown. It was a groundbreaking ceremony today with Assembly Member phil ting saying its important to invest in a api communities. He said this is a step in a toning for forcing japanese americans out of the neighborhood in the past. Mayor london breed and former House Speaker nancy pelosi were also and attendance. Take a look at coyote was spotted just trotting through north beach today on telegraph hill. Is video from the citizen app and just passing by the humans out there like no big deal. Todays coyote was spotted on montgomery street. Course, you can see them hopping around the city every once in a while. Just always avoid. Being near them. This weekend. San francisco is hosting chocolate makers from around the world. The craft Chocolate Experience is being hosted San Franciscos dandelion chocolate at the palace of fine arts. The marketplaces hosting worldclass artists in this class is demonstrations. There are chocolate makers south korea, new zealand, brazil and dubai and several tables are also from local makers here in the bay area. And besides chocolate, you can even try deadlines, big goods and delicious hot chocolate. Tomorrow. Around 3. 30, theyre going to be aiming to make the largest smore in the world. Be curious to see how that turns out the tickets for tomorrow cost 40 bucks. Still to come here at 10 oclock mass destruction in the midwest. The latest after tornadoes tear through several states. Plus, a hiker in danger. Firefighters rushing to rescue a man stuck in a state park. And tonight marks one year since the killing of banco ground outside of a walgreens. Weve got a look back at that day that raised a lot of questions and fueled frustration. Tonight. San jose police are investigating after a woman was shot and killed near downtown. Investigators say the shooting happened in the area of north 4th and east saint john streets last night. The victim was found laying in the street unconscious and not breathing. Police say the shooter took off from the scene. This is the citys 12 homicide of the year. Today marks one year since brown was killed outside of a walgreens in San Francisco. This is security video from last april. The private Security Guard claims brown was shoplifting when he confronted him. Michael earl Wayne Anthony shot brown as he was trying to leave the store for a second time. The das office did not try anthony because he argued selfdefense claiming brown allegedly threatened to stab him. Brown was later found to be unarmed. Walgreens, the guard and the company that employed him were fined. Brown, a black transgender man was on house at the time of his death and was a volunteer organizer for the young womens freedom center. The center is issuing a statement tonight writing in part, quote, bankers life was worth so much more. Then what was taken for in the face of he was resilient and courageous he fought fearlessly for the rights and dignity of trans people. A proposal to equip new cars with speed Safety Systems in california is moving forward the bill was first introduced in january and would have mandated new cars made or sold in the state to have speed limiters. Those systems would restrict vehicles from going more than 10 Miles Per Hour over the speed limit after hearing feedback about the potential dangers of physical speed limiters. The bill was amended to only require visual and audio signals that alert drivers of excessive speed, the mandate would apply to half of new vehicles starting in 2029 and then all vehicles by 2032, the bill passed the state Senate Transportation committee and now heads to the Senate Appropriations committee. New drone video is coming out of nebraska right now showing hundreds of homes and businesses in suburban omaha in ruins after a destructive tornado tore through the area. The tornado demolishing buildings, shutting trees and scattering debris as it plowed for miles along farmland and in the subdivisions, displacing residents and leaving them to pick up the pieces and it was just one of dozens that are hitting several midwestern and southern states. Weve got kron 4. So gayle ong now joining us a little bit more on these major storms that are hitting the midwest scale. Yeah, im dan. Were in the heart of tornado season. You can see right now this strong line of thunderstorms. Theres actually at least efi states. You can see shaded in yellow here. Those are tornado watches. And at this hour there is a Tornado Warning in tulsa, oklahoma. So you can see these are the storm reports of the blue circles are hail the reds there. Those are reports of tornadoes at last check. There is at least more than 75 reports of tornadoes last night. So very active out there. So if you know, anyone in this area in the southern and Central Plains here, you want to check on them and make sure they are in their safe place. End zones. And now we want to go to news nations emily finn for the latest on the damage. Residents of suburban omaha spending their saturday sifting through the rubble after a vicious tornado tore through the area friday. We just came many areas of the county which can clearly be considered in my opinion, a disaster scene. People gathering to survey their homes now reduced to piles of lumber, knocked over fences and trees stripped to their skeletal remains very unfortunate. Many people have lost everything their homes. Ive seen lawnmowers wrapped around trees. Ive seen bicycles wrapped around trees. Ive seen steel sticking walls of homes. Thankfully, no casualties, only minor injuries are reported. Douglas county sheriff urging residents to secure their homes and stay home. Please do not drive in impacted areas. Not only are you causing traffic jams, but people can get hurt on the responses to these disaster areas. And they may require Emergency Services as well. And if the traffic is jammed and all the cars are parked in other side of the road, you could put them and and their loved ones at extreme risk. This tornado, one of more than 70 generated by this storm system. Another one of which passed over Eppley Airfield on the eastern edge of omaha, destroying 4 hangar buildings with dozens of privately owned planes inside after hitting the airport. The storm moved into iowa, destroying at least 40 homes as the National Weather Service Works to assess the damage. Millions of residents of the plain states are bracing themselves for more storms coming saturday. Nws issuing a Tornado Warning for parts of western oklahoma and northwest texas calling the tornadoes large hail and wind gusts there, a particularly dangerous situation. And that was emily finn reporting for news nation for us tonight. And the Severe Weather threat is not over. This is the future cast model showing more storms are expected through sunday. So certainly thinking of the folks out there, some dangerous weather. Meanwhile, it is quiet here in the bay area along the west coast. As you can see, we are dealing with some gusty conditions. Pretty much wind advisory. Wind warning was issued there in Southern California and we saw a little bit of snow in the sierra and some rain a few days ago. But tonight were going to see a few clouds, breezy conditions tomorrow, mostly sunny, mild with those gusty winds back in the forecast and then we have a nice warming trend on the way for the middle the week. So heres the future cast model in our area. As you can notice. Its pretty quiet right . So sunday, youll notice the clouds coming in in the morn

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