in the past decade.friday police arrested a man who they say took advantage of those of them who were desperate to find a home. sot: sgt. raul aguilar, san rafael police department // "most of the communications were in spanish. targeted toward the spanish speaking community, and the locations he was placing his ads."they say 38- year-old tifiano ariel rodas maldonado posted ads along laundromats in the canal street area where many mexicans and guatemalans frequent. one victim came forward saying maldonado asked for 2-thousand dollars a month and sex.sot: teodoro cruz, san rafael resident// "it surprises me because here we are all latino we are a community, yes there is some violence but for the most part we are peaceful and we live together most of us know each other."in exchange maldonado promised a key to an apartment that didn't exist."he did not have any places to rent he was not affiliated with any real estate company or anything like that. he was basically taking advantage of the difficult housing situation in the area couple with the ongoing fear of the immigrant community to prey on people." detectives made a call to the ad and say maldonado answered using a fake name roberto mendez then met up with the undercover caller.maldonado was arrested for felony fraud and prostitution charges.sot: antonio cedenyo, san rafael resident// "the problem is without a rental record or bank credit history they don't rent you an apartment."sot: teodoro cruz, san rafael resident// "we don't have documents and a lot don't want to provide us housing." maldonado has since posted bail and been released. (justine) bart riders traveling on the fremont line will have to take a bus bridge between the fruitvale and lake merrit stations tomorrow. bart is doing major track repairs between the stations. the bus bridge in place could cause delays of twenty to thirty minutes. bart plans to have the stations opened in time for the monday morning commute. (jr stone) steven holcomb, the longtime u.s. bobsledding star who won three olympic medals... was found dead in new york today. the u.s. olympic committee and usa bobsled team announced his death...but the cause remains unknown tonight. however, police say there were no indications of foul play. he was only 37. (justine) in france, the nation is preparing for its pivotal presidential vote on sunday.... this as a hacking attack targeted one of the candidates. the election will have implications across europe. .... with everyone watching to see if the far- right's marine le pen, or centrist newcomer emmanuel win. president and we need to work for him today and not for her. but, on the last day of campaigning - and only one hour before mandatory blackout on campaigning took effect - macron's camp suffered a massive hack.campaign officials said the perpetrators accessed thousands of files.and mixed fake documents with real ones "to create confusion and misinformation." france's cybersecurity agency says it will investigate the attack... and see if there are any ties to russia.it's drawn comparisons to the allegations of election hacking by russia in the united states.the revelation did not seem to impact voters here.sot i think it's pretty nasty but at the same time it really shows the face of the other party when everybody's making a decision. sot you know i try not to be influenced and i did vote for what i wanted to vote despite all this information.it's unclear whether the document dump would dent macron's large poll lead over le pen going into the vote on sunday in france..> (justine) russia has denied tampering with the french election. though some are skeptical because le pen... met with russian president vladimir putin last month. and russian banks have provided her with millions of dollars in loans. (jr stone) it was a rough saturday around the east coast. with heavy rains drenching major areas...creating flooded streets. your looking at video from new york, new jersey, and missouri. forecasters say the big apple received up to three inches of rain in a two-hour period. heavy flooding has shut down parts of penn station, one of new york's biggest commuter hubs. some streets in hoboken, new jersey were left under several inches of water tonight. and near st.loius , missouri...some rivers and streams are receding after days of rain caused widespread flooding . the flooding is being blamed for as many as a dozen deaths and shut down transportation in parts of the region. the governor of new york spoke about how the city... wasn't prepared for suchheavy rain. (sot) more rain is in the forecast for all of those regions next week. (hermela aregawi)police are looking for the man that they say tried to break into this dorm this morning.around 10, a student living at roble hall discovered a man trying to pry his screen open.the suspect fled.this is one of several incidents in the last month. earlier this week, police arrested this jun nicado pegarido on prowling charges. police are also looking into whether he's responsible for two indecent exposure incidents last nmonth.also last month, two people were sexually assaulted within minutes of each other.both victims were groped around 11 at night.police are still looking for the suspects responsible for these incidents.reporting in palo alto, hermela aregawi, kron 4 news. (spencer blake)the brick yard was full for the first half of game three of the western conference semis.during the second half, it got even fuller.even though the team was in another state, the brick yard fan base still got to see some of the warriors dancers.team captain amira hosted a fundraiser for the leukemia lymphoma society, with a raffle for autographed warriors merchandise.but no worries about that - the warriors went up three games to none with a 102 to 91 win. in san francisco, spencer blake, kron four news. (justine) still ahead... first it was hot.. then cold and now the bay area is going to warm back up again....(jrs) meteorologist lawrence karnow is back with your complete forecast. who are these people? the environmentally aware. the ones with their eyes on the sky and our air. they say our climate's in need of repair. why do they worry? why do they care? the energy conscious people among us say small actions could add up to something... humongous. a little thing here a little thing there starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. limiting showers to only five minutes. turning off lights in a room unless they're in it. air filter changing, solar installing unplugging, dial-turning, thermostat-lowering off-peak-time users all joining forces. to help get our power from renewable sources. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? the celebrated lead-by-example crew. turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. (and yeah, it's him too) don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. lawrence karnow: it's been an up and down week with record highs midweek and then temperatures dropping 20 to 30 degrees. winds have been blustery at times today with some gusts near 30 mph. highs today were much cooler and in some cases 10 degrees below average this afternoon. winds continue to howl near the coast but i think they will subside into tomorrow. temperatures will begin to warm tomorrow too with some highs near 80s degrees. i don't think we'll see record highs next week but warmer weather is on the way. we'll talk more about that coming up. (justine) and we want to see your warriors pride pictures... these are just some of the viewer photos sent to us tonight...(jr stone) (justine) and we want to see your warriors pride pictures... these are just some of the viewer photos sent to us tonight...(jr stone) download the kron4 app and send us your warriors pride pictures. (justine) back in the bay area... a san bruno woman was arrested friday for yes, the toyota mirai runs on hydrogen. yes, the fuel is complimentary for up to three years. yes, it has an epa-estimated range of 312 miles. yes, you will probably have to answer lots of silly questions from strangers. yes, this is a mind-blowing marvel of technology. and, yes, you can buy it today- because the future doesn't start next week, next month or next year... the future starts now. in the hydrogen-fueled toyota mirai. - we've been following the floods in san jose. thousands, tens of thousands of people were evacuated because of all the flooding and now people are back home. so basically we're trying to find families that were evacuated and now they're back home trying to rebuild, whatever kind of restoration it is that they're doing. a few of these people are cleaning up too. and the good thing too about this block is that there's streetlights, 'cause the times when it's like there are no streetlights and it's scary when there are no streetlights. - so we just got word about a fire in south san francisco, a three-alarm fire. we gotta make our way down there now, try to get down there and see what happened.

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