Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you so much for joining us here during kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waltman. Well start today with acting San FranciscoDistrict AttorneyBrooke Jenkins announcing that she will formally run for the job in november. Technically, shes serving the rest of former da chesa term. Today she announced her intention to get her name on the November Ballot to serve her full term. Her main goal, she says, is to crack down much harder and drug dealers in San Francisco. Nice. You know, were in a different state of affairs with the drug fentanyl, right . That didnt exist. You know it in the capacity on the street that it does now 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. And so it is it is a lethal drug thats killing our it and we cannot continue to allow people to summit without any consequence. Shes already started making policy changes to be tougher on crime since taking office. Jenkins says she has revoked over 30 plea deals involving drug cases. Her office will seek felony charges that include jail time as part of their new offers. Now noon a man is facing Assault Charges in connection to an attack on a former San Francisco commissioner. Greg choose. The assault was reported last week just after 07 30pm, when sfpd officers were called to folsom and 3rd street. 2 respond to report of aggravated assault officers on scene found chu who told officers he had been struck and knocked to the ground. He was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries on sunday. Officers noticed a man in the area of 8th and Market Street that matched the description of the suspect and he was later booked on several charges which included aggravated battery and elder abuse. Investigators will be attempting to interview the suspect and see if they can determine whether or not race or bias was a factor in the attack. Police are still investigating this incident. Happening today, students, teachers and staff in Oakland Unified School district are back in the classroom for their first day of school. Oakland is the First District to return to classes in the bay area. And this school year is bringing some changes after the controversial decision to close or merge several campuses rise elementary had merged into New Highland Academy to create one school. 6th and 8th grades were eliminated at last goalie to and hillcrest schools, parker elementary and Community Day school. Both closed entirely at the end of last school year and 6 other schools are supposed to close sometime during the 2020 to 2023 school year. Parents will also need to drive a little bit slower around schools in oakland, the city has cut the speed limit around many schools to 15 miles an hour. The move is partially in response to several crashes in the area. Several people have been hurt or have died from Car Accidents trying to cross the street near schools and some of those accidents around Garfield Elementary on foothill boulevard. So far, oakland has added the 15 Miles Per Hour zones to 10 neighborhood schools. It was in july, but that new School Speed Limit was announced. Mayor libby schaff at the time period. We had 3 fatal traffic accidents. Moms. Simply getting their kids to school killed in our crosswalks. District leaders say by the end of this school year, at least another 10 schools will have lowered the speed limits to 15 Miles Per Hour. Another big change for families. Oakland unified is no longer requiring vaccinations and there are no more mask mandates when it comes to covid. Weve got a chance to talk with doctor George Rutherford of ucsf about what parents should be expecting in terms of covid as they send their kids back to school. School districts are going to play at each one is going to do it differently in terms of masking and social distancing and things like that. I suspect were not going to see and well just call or background levels of infection, which with the omicron variants that were seeing now, its probably not the worlds worst idea. Its not going to be. I you dont anticipate that theyre going to be lots of hospitalizations or severe disease in this younger population, not impossible. And the vaccines to a great job credit that. So the first and foremost is to it, get vaccinated. Doctor rutherford also said you can leave the Hand Sanitizer at home, at least when it comes to catching covid while Hand Sanitizer can help prevent other germs from spreading. Theres almost no surface transmission from covid. The berkeley Unified School District is making it easier for students looking to get their covid19 vaccines before the start of the school year on thursday, the district is holding a vaccine clinic at Willard Middle School from 9 until 4 for kids 6 months and older. The saturday another clinic will kick off at the king Childhood Development center from 09 00am until 04 00pm that is open for children aged 6 months and older. And as the bay area gets ready to go back to school carefully. Today is the first day of school oakland. We would love to see your pictures over the next few weeks. Send us your kids with their backpacks on those new school shoes. Lunchboxes might show some of them on air. Just use the kron. 4 app and the reported tab to send us your photos. They will also be posted on kron 4 dot com. Well go now to the latest on the monkeypox as San Francisco generals vaccine clinic is closed today, but it will be open tomorrow. The Citys Department of health says it received its latest shipment of more than 10,000 shots. The clinic will be open from 08 00am until noon on tuesday through friday. The Department Says kaiser permanente, ucsf and Sutter Health will be administering the shots as well. You have to schedule an appointment if you want to get vaccinated by these groups. The Department Says hes working with communitybased organizations to get shots out to as many people who may not have access to those walkin clinics or other health care providers. And later today, activists will be protesting in downtown San Francisco to call out the federal government for its response to monkeypox. The protests will be in front of the Regional Health and Human Services building at 4 oclock protesters are calling on the Department SecretaryJavier Becerra to increase access to treatment, testing and vaccines in the city. While they say recent Health Declarations are bolstering the response to monkeypox, they say more immediate action is needed. First. Its time now to talk about our forecast as we take a live look outside here at the city of San Francisco on this beautiful monday. And with us today, we have a first 4 meteorologist kyle grogan is here. Now. Youre going to be joining us during the noon and 3 oclock shows also doing some work during kron. Were so happy youre here and youre bringing the sunshine with you. I am. Thank you. Just seeing for the lovely welcome. It is so nice to be here with everybody to be back in the bay. And yeah, what a day. We started off a little fog in spots, but boy, its pretty nice. One out there. But notice youre eye probably going over to this lightning thats popping in the sierra right now. We do have some of that monsoonal. What are you hear us talking about a lot thats rolling in today and that is kicking off some storms. The National Weather service a little concerned about burn scar areas. Theyre fighting. Downpours happens. Theyre keeping an eye on that. Thankfully much quieter here in the bay. As you can see temperatures right . Ill today. 68 degrees right now in San Francisco. You can see that 75 in santa rosa, 70 down 73 in san jose. Gorgeous out there. Right . So once that fog kind of dissipated, unless youre at the coast, youre not dealing with a whole lot of clouds right now. Looking at today high about 68 in San Francisco. 72 in oakland, 78 in san jose. We have a warmup on the way, though. And ill be back in just a bit with more on that. Just in back to you. Looking forward to it. Thank you. President biden is in kentucky following the flooding that claimed more than 3 dozen lives following a briefing on the recovery efforts. The president and the first lady. Toward an Elementary School damaged by the floods in lost creek, kentucky. He will later visit the families affected by the disaster. At least 37 people died when rains dropped over 8 inches in about 48 hours in parts of the state. The president said that hes committed to doing whatever it takes to help these neighborhoods rebuilt. People conduct. Made it clear to governor members of congress. Rogers, Mitch Mcconnell and others anything they well, know, these guys are going fight like to get a 4. I promise you it is. Do it. Was not legal will figure out a this is president bidens first trip since being released from covid isolation. He tested negative for covid for a second day after experiencing a rebound infection last week. The Biden Administration managed to pass its marquee economic rescue package. Its called the Inflation Reduction Act and it aims to reduce costs for a number of key industries. Our washington correspondent Trevor Shirley has all the details. Well, democrats who helped get this bill passed are hoping voters not only feel the impact of the legislation soon, but also remember that impact as the midterm elections get closer to this november. The bill as amended is passed. During a rare weekend session lasting more than 17 hours. The Senate Passed the 740 billion dollar Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, this bill is going to change america for decades. Vice president Kamala Harris cast the tie breaking fiftyfifty party line vote. It happened after Democratic Senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. Both political moderates agreed to the deal. Its been a long, tough and winding road. At last we have arrived and we are elated. The legislation provides 400 billion dollars to fight climate change. That includes things like tax credits for buying electric cars and money to help power plants lower emissions. The bill also lets medicare negotiate Prescription Drug prices for the first time. It also caps out of pocket drug costs at 2000 a year for seniors on medicare. But republicans blocked an amendment to cap the price of insulin at 35 for almost all americans. Its not going to do much to help. Inflation were have a problem there. Republicans say the bill will make inflation worse and criticized how the bill is largely paid for by a 15 tax on corporations that make at least a billion dollars a year. Democrats have already robbed American Families wants inflation. And now their solution is to rob american yeah, the shocking democrats say average americans will see no tax increase themselves. Really confident that the Inflation Reduction Act will endure as one of the defining feet. Of the 21st century. And now that this legislation is through, the senate expected to easily passed the house as well. That house vote is expected to happen this coming friday reporting in washington. Im Trevor Shirley. Coming up here at noon and east bay Early Education program gets a failing grade from regulators will explain what happened here and a north bay ice cream and shes shop is closing its last store. Well hear from people who are lining up to get that last taste of cowgirl creamery. And the father and son convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery will face life in prison. Well be right back. 2 of the men found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery had been sentenced to life in prison for a second time. Travis and george. But michael was convicted on federal hate crime charges today, along with attempted kidnap being and weapons charges. This is on top of their state murder conviction. But arbery was killed in february of 2020 while he was out in it for a jog in georgia. Travis with michael claims that he shot arbery in selfdefense. Arberys parents say they still feel the pain from their sons death. Every single day. At first. A 3rd man, William Bryan is also serving a life sentence for murder. He will be sentenced on this additional hate crime charges later on today. Well give you an update during kron. 4 news at 3 5 oclock tonight. The oak fire burning in Yosemite National park is now 94 contained has burned more than 19,000 acres in mariposa county. There are closures near the area in the Sierra National forest. Fire crews patrolling the area say they have seen minimal activity today. The main goal right now is to mop up all the heavy fuels and the mckinney fire in Siskiyou County has now burned more than 60,000 acres. Its 40 contained. It has destroyed 87 homes. So far we do get a chance to speak with one fire victim who is trying to get enough resources to build back a place to call home sac botelho has their story. After a wildfire ravages a community, you either move on or rebuild. You know, theres not really much to go back to, but i that still the place where i want to be who was riccardi, his wife, his dog tango and their 3 cats lived along the klamath river. And they were working to restore an old golf course off of walker road. We were going to have somebody come out and do the the sot on the side of the turf and a couple of the next month. But the mckinney fire burned down their home. And took their livelihood. People you know, its its just stuff. But i mean, its you know, for some of us to make this a slide. Yeah, its its your entire life committed to keeping his house safe. Lewis state as long as he possibly could. It was 38 minutes from the time that first tree lit and i i literally like i wanted to stay. You know, i just i i was afraid to die, honestly. I mean, like it. The fire was still 102 yards away and it was like so hot. Reads, you know, that was like a it was dark. There was ash coming down. I sent my weiss out with my truck in my trailer and i. I rode one of our 4 wheelers out and it didnt have headlights, you know, so it was dark you know, it was it was pretty scary. One thing kept him going to get out and get to safety. My wife, you know. If not for her than i think i surely would have stayed. His home was one of the 87 residences destroyed and 132 total structures destroyed by the mckinney fire. Now the rebuilding efforts begin. Its its going to take time, but one thing i really love about this community is like a really hard working. You know, really good good people. Working to help rebuild the community. They will once again call home. Talk about our local Weather Forecast right now as we take this live look outside here at San Franciscos quite tower. Blue skies, no fog of miss shot and were not dealing with any extreme heat. But as we talk about our forecast, were going to be joined right now by our new meteorologist kyler grogan. Shes here with details about. But theyre also experiencing as theyre trying to fight these fires in Siskiyou County. Yeah, thats right. Just cnn and you look at a couple things, right . Look at temperatures. You look at wind and you look at whether that the money. Dry lightning, the team coming their way. And thats what theyve been dealing with. Unfortunately, some of the storms rolled through there. But you can see right now to take a look at reading, probably the closest number on the map show you right now, 90 degrees. So theres certainly some heat up there and that is not helpful for them. Big difference as you look at San Francisco right now, its 59 in, of course, an la about 87 at this hour. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that weve got High Pressure in the Desert Southwest that drag some of that moisture in it kicks off some of the storms that unfortunately make it a little difficult for firefighters. The low pressure off the coast is whats helping to keep us a little mild right now. So thats keeping things rather, you know, relatively cool. Were not seeing any high numbers in our inland communities right now. Its our weather headlines. We have this Beautiful Day today. Just a few clouds out there. If youre out of the coast, a little breezy onshore wind returning as we get into the afternoon and then mid week, were going to watch for a little bit of a warmup