Kids. That could not be who they were after. Top stories that we are following this thursday, july 18th. This girl was shot and killed overnight after answering a front door. Two other kids and an adult are in the hospital right now, we will have a live report coming up. Police in berkeley are investigating the citys second homicide of the year. Here is a live look at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. Erica says that a big warmup will start. We are dealing with a lot of cloud cover. It will be fairly fast clearing and most of us was seized sunshine before lunchtimewill se lunchtime. There was an incident on interstate 580. It was a overturned a semi truck. The good news is that because of a location it is not having an impact on the commute. There are a least two accidents that we are tracking. There is a motorcycle accident on 880 and tennyson road. Across the bay there is an injury accident northbound 101. Both of these crashes are only having minor impacts. We will now go live with our developing story out oakland or four people, including three children were shot. One of those children has died this morning. Kron 4 will tran is live at the scene. Everyone was inside of the home and children were still up. You concede multiple shots went through the metal and through this door. Unfortunately, because the children were up they came to the door and without even noticing who they were shooting, then shot through and hit 3 children and then a grandmother. Here is a picture of the eight Year Old Girl who died. She begged her family to let her sleep over. She has been here many times, her best friend which is 7 years old, it is in the hospital right now in stable condition. I had a chance to talk with her father and he seems very numb try to wrap his mind around what happened. And they were playing and i believe that they entered the door and gunshots rang out. About 11 of them. I believe they sprayed the door and the grandmother was hit as well. Where were you . I was at home, cooking. Do you know why someone would want to do this . It beats me. A house full of kids, normally, you only hear about thisi am speechless, i did not know what to do. He told the that he believes it is the case of mistaken identity. The grandmother ran out according to witnesses and she was screaming for help. The Oakland Police described the scene and the suspects had already left. They have no suspects descriptions. As far as the other victims are there is a four yearold boy and a 78 Year Old Girl, and the 64 year old grandmother is in the hospital unstable conditions. Berkeley police are investigating the citys second homicide of the year. Here is video of the scene. Police responded to reports near the intersection of derby and grant street. The shooting was reported just before 7 00 p. M. Police are talking to witnesses but have not identified and suspects. Juries have reached a verdict in the trial of two men accused of taking part in a gang rape. It happened outside of the Richmond High School homecomingce back in 2009. The girl was found by police stumped under a picnic table. Prosecutors say more than a dozen men were on the scene as she was raped and beaten. The verdicts are sealed and we will read them later on today. Oakland police are Promising Business owners that they will take action against protesters who vandalized their storefronts. Yesterdays the Alameda County d. A. Office filed charges against three of the nine people there arrested on monday. This is a Youtube Video of those protests. In a news conference, in turn police insean whent says a recent wave of violence is unacceptable. He says of his department is stepping up their efforts to hold demonstrators a combo. We simply will not tolerate this. The chief also says that he will increase the number of officers covering any future protest. Mayor jean quan was with the chief at that news conference. She thanked the committee for providing information that helped catch the police are repeople responsible for some of the vandalism. Oakland police have released new video and photo of some of the vandals, and holds that the public and help identify them. You can see in this video a man on a bike kicking and denting a car. Other photos show people trying to break the window of businesses in the downtown area app. Some people also call on camera spray painted slogans on the ground. A lawyer representing at least two of the passengers who were on a flight 214 that crashed into sfo says that he is angry with the airline. Michael verna claims that his clients suffering is at the fault of the asiana airline. Younga and her son and benjamin have both been released from hospital but they are from neck and back injuries. They were both sitting in row 15 when the plane crash. The lawsuit seeks at least 5 million in damages. 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The two sides are still part, and your commute could be impacted once again on august 4th. Members of the Transit Union have made it clear that if there is no agreement reached by that date, they will go on strike once again. We asked bart management about the possibility of using replacement workers if another strike happens. We are focused on trying to get a negotiation but the at the same time we have contingency plans going on. Were also looking at the operation of trains. In order to provide maximum readiness when the workers came back. The president of the Transit Union says that its board does decide to bring in replacement workers in the event of a strike, she believes the Public Safety will be at risk. Current content rules say the board cannot begin Safety Training of replacement workers until the union officially goes on strike. Here is a live look outside at San Francisco. It will kick in later on this afternoon. 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Today, a new york city is bracing for a another day of temperatures in the high 90s. It has been hot enough in some states the past few days to buckle highway pavement. Current temperatures in new york city as we take a look near times square. For the rest of the coast, here are some of todays highs. Erica is watching our weather. There is plenty of locations in the 90s. There are a lot of heat advisories outside. If you take a look at the numbers it doesnt seem too high but we will see it get higher. Because of the humidity being so high and the lacquerware and it will feel a lot warmer. This is a direct reference for people working in the sunshine and people without air conditioning. This will last for the next couple of days. This is due to High Pressure bring warm weather to about the eastern half of the country. The good news is that a cold front will mold through from the great lakes. We do have relief on the way and we do have our own many heat wave here in the bay area. You conceive barry overcast conditions. We are in the 50s on right now. It is 54 degrees out the door in santa rosa. Thanks to the sea breeze, we have this on shourd component. The marin layer is still an attack. Futurecast 4 is tracking the temperatures of by noon you could expect 60s. 80 degrees for the womans area sprea breaking down your afternoon highs we have 80s in campbell. 90s is on the board for places like pittsburg and antioch. Low 70s for hayward and 66 degrees for downtown San Francisco. Your extended forecasts shows warmer weather is on the way as we had to the weekend. The temperatures will be in the seasonal average. The time now is 7 18 a. M. We are tracking a few accidents to see if they become hot spots. The ride on 680 south bound, walnut creek. So far it is just flowing from to 42 in the southbound direction. There was a crash reported. In hayward, they have cleared the motorcycle accident. There is a sluggish traffic coming from to 38 but a lot of that traffic is turning off on highway 92. Across the bay, we have been watching this accident at 101. An ambulance was dispatched to the area. It is normally a troublefree commute on an estate to 80 but an accident was reported on woodside road that could mean delays for your commute. Looking at your commute 80, the bay bridge westbound the end of the backup you can already see that it is very early. 92 commute for the san mateo bridge is still a problem. The span of the volume is up. Looking at your ride to the Golden Gate Bridge is foggy but delay free. A wind shift is turning a Southern California wildfire back toward Populated Areas and has forced the evacuate more than 6000 homes, hotels and cabins in idyllwild. Huge areas of the wilderness and are re burned and the Mountain Community is just about empty at this time of year when it is normally booming. Residents and visitors streamed down the two highways that led down the mountain toward the larger cities. Seven homes were destroyed or damaged by the wildfire soon after it broke out on monday. The fire has burned over 30 square miles and is about 15 percent contained. College students applying for new loans may be getting a break from Interest Rates that doubled on july 1st. A Bipartisan Group of senators reached a deal that would offer undergrads applying for new subsidized stafford loans in the fall, 3. 85 interest instead of the 6. 8 which is now in effect. Graduate students will pay 5. 4 . The Interest Rates would increase as the economy would improve. A day after the republican controlled house voted to delay parts of a president of obamas health care law, he argued that it is working. At the white house today, the president will discuss half a billion dollars in rebates that consumers are receiving under the law. He will encounter present gop criticism that the law is unworkable. The u. S. House today is taking up the republican version of the sweeping no child left behind education law. That law governs every school in the country to receive federal education dollars. Under the revision that is being considered today, a teacher evaluations, School Improvement plans and academic standards would be up to each state. The bill faces a near unanimous opposition from both democrats and president obama. This morning, Texas Governor rod perry is set to sign into law a sweeping new bill. The bill was passed last week after the governor declared a another special session of august that the senate. Critics say that the bill will effectively shut down most of the clinics that perform abortions in the state. This will deny access to many. Only five of the states 42 clinics currently meet the new requirements under this law. 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Those experts will be in San Francisco today to test samples iphone 5 with its activation block and Samsung Galaxy s four with lojack for android. In the test, the experts will treat the phones as if they are stolen and try to get around its anti theft features. James we will take a quick break and return with more headlines. George welcome back to the kron4 morning news. An accident on north main street. It is backing up the work wanted to 42 also backing up onto 680 near Pleasant Hill road for the southbound ride. We continue to have problems in hayward. A motorcycle accident clear from the lanes is still slowing traffic in both directions. Then in north bound crash tico on one 01 is backing up traffic coming from the san mateo bridge onto 101 north bound. This accident here. Erica temperatures will reach the forecast that90s as we reached the afternoon. Pretty chilly conditions for those of you along the coast line. Waking up to a lot of cloud cover. A lot of that cloud cover will burn off and to the early afternoon. Warmer weather as we transition into the weekend. Full details on what to expect. The 7 day around the bay coming up at 545. Will mark first we want to start with the developing news out of oakland. A child has been shot and killed and three others injured in an oversight shooting. It happened on the 353400 block of wilson ave. Kron4s will tran join us live now with the latest. Will Police Believe at least 10 to 11 shots were fired into the apartment. One went all the way through the apartment through the back window here and i can tell you for people inside the home altogether including this young girl. Here is her pitcher. She was here on a play date. She does not live here but begged her family if she could come visit her best friend. A seven yearold girl. The family says yes. She has been over here many times and has never had any problems but unfortunately at about 1120 last night, someone came over here for whatever reason and shot within the house. Three children as well as the grandmother are in the hospital. Joining us now is to melt until us what happened. Erica vicki it was like explosions going off so quick where i had to lay down because it could have luanne hit me in my head. Anything is possible. I was dodging trying to keep kids away. Will did the person giving any warning. Did they not coryell. Now. It was pretty loud so you could seeyou could hear him coming down the street. Will you are the young man and the house. The believed someone was out to get to you. Now i dont believe that because i just got out of a situation where i got out of jail for it and the people who i was with everything is good on my side and they got what they wanted and i got what i need it. I served my time. Will after the shots were fired, described the situation of the kids and your mother. It was happening . They split us all up because it was too much going around. People were crying and so it was a lot of noise. It took me to the investigation downtowns to ask me questions until i was able to come back here safely. Will inside the apartment, described the scene once you came out. I came out this door because i was scared to go out that way. Will when were you able to look at your mother and the kids . When i did not get to see the kids because they left quicker than i did but i saw my mom on the stretcher. Will he is still busy cleaning up here and look at this. They tried to clean up the blood as best as they can and thats one of the things that he also has to do as well. Later we will talk about thisjudge we will talk about the step father of the young girl who died. He is still trying to wrap his mind. He so unemotional because he is still in shock. We will have more coming up at 8 00. The suspect is long gone so at this point no arrests and no suspect description. Mark we are learning the conditions of the others about th