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Good evening and thank you for joining us for kron. 4 news at 9. Im dan thorn and im Vicki Liviakis. Pacifica. Police are investigating this burglary and another incident where a pride flag was stolen from a high school. As hate crimes are countries. Gayle ong reports tonight. This photo shows the pacific. A daycare ransacked photo show dolls found with swastikas inscribed on its heads. The location, the campus of Sunset Ridge Elementary School can civica. Police say sometime on thursday, july 14th, the suspects got inside 2 portable classrooms and that the school staff reported several electronic and computer items stolen just said. And, you know, all the hatred and stuff, you know, is. Its really said were, you know, his longtime pacifica resident says she was surprised to hear the news. I think its it this day and age that people still have this type its not the first incident relating to hate at sunset ridge elementary. Back in june, a pride flag was taken down and burned on july. 13th officers responded to Oceana High School where a pride flag was taken from the flag pole in front of the schools gymnasium. In a statement, Pacifica Police captain says these types of hateful incidents will not be tolerated. Anyone with information regarding these incidents are encouraged to call Police Reporting from along kron 4 news. Some breaking news to tell you about tonight at sfo. The bart station there has been shut down because of Police Activity. Sam trends, buses are available right now between millbrae and sfo in both directions and directions as an alternate, they will be accepting bark tickets at as the fair. We keep you updated as we are working tonight to figure out the latest has to what is going on there at the bart station at sfl. Oakland, firefighters say a crash between a train and a rail road car injured 2 people today. It happened near 50th avenue in east oakland, stopping rail traffic in both directions. The oakland fire department, hazmat team also monitoring the situation after reports that 1200 gallon diesel tank ruptured Officials Say theres no threat to the public at this time. Cal osha is investigating and San Francisco Police Responded to a crash between a pickup truck and a muni bus this morning. This happening at the intersection of hate and coal, which is just a couple of blocks away from Golden Gate Park. Emergency medics treated both drivers and the passenger. Everyone was able to go home. Police made no arrests in this crash and no one appeared to be under the influence ef drugs or alcohol. U. S. Officials say hundreds of thousands more doses of the Monkeypox Vaccine will soon arrive here in the u. S. For the past several weeks around 800,000 doses of vaccine have been stuck in storage in copenhagen, awaiting fda approval yesterday the fda announced the inspection of that facility is now complete and more vaccines are on their way here. There are now almost 1500 confirmed cases across the u. S. Symptoms can include a rash of pottsville lesions, along with body aches and chills. The white house says vaccines will be much easier to access by the end of july or early august. I think by that time youre going to have hundreds of thousands of people havent gotten vaccinated. Having had access, i think within the next couple of weeks, youre going to see a very dramatic increase in the number of tests that are up. Also today, the white house announced a new order of 2. 5 million doses of Monkeypox Vaccines. The Administration Says by the middle of 2023. The National Stockpile should have around 7 mills million doses of the shots. And 2 cases of monkeypox are now confirmed in warren county. San francisco has 68 confirmed cases the most in the bay area. Sonoma county has 3 Contra Costa County reporting its first confirmed case yesterday, Santa Clara County has 9 cases. People wanting to get the monkey pox vaccine in Santa Clara County will have to get an invite. The countys Health Department is only making the limited number of doses available to those who meet specific criteria conference. Justin campbell spoke with the countys Health Official about who qualifies for the vaccine in Santa Clara County. I think we have enough. There is not currently enough when to expect seen to meet that need. Doctor george han Deputy Health officer at Santa Clara County Health Department says the county does anticipate getting more vaccines from the state in the coming days. But for right now, theyre giving out the shot. Only 2 people directly exposed to monkeypox as of the cases of monkeypox have been among men who have men. And so thats why were more focused on population because that risk doctor hans, as people noticing an unexpected rash or lesion should contact their doctor, the Health Department may also reach out to people if they came in contact with someone who tested positive. In San Francisco, its different first come first serve for the Vaccine Services kuz outbreak began a little bit sooner than ours. That ramped up much their case counts that might have up to 10 times as cases. So far, 11 people have tested positive for monkeypox in Santa Clara County. Doctor hahn says he doesnt dissipate a rise in cases. So i actually dont think that the rise will necessarily be at a similar rate. As for example, San Francisco, because our communities, our difference reporting in san jose. Justin campbell kron, 4 news for the latest information on the disease, including a monkeypox case tracker and vaccination sites. You can just scan this qr code take you right to our website. The washburn fire in yosemite grew 300 acres overnight. Crossing into the Sierra National forest forcing more road closures. Its now scorched more than 4700 acres and began near the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Theres now a Sprinkler System to help protect those ancient trees. A mandatory Evacuation Order remains in place for the community of wawona and the campground. The fire is now. 31 1 contained with more than 1500 firefighters assigned to it. Contra costa county fire crews work to contain a large brush fire in san pablo this afternoon. Its video from the citizen app showing the flames and smoke. Firefighters say the fire burned into the area of giant road reach. 26 acres in size before crews finally stopped the fires forward progress. No structures were damaged and no reports of any injuries. But they did. Stay on the scene. Just watch out for any potential hot spots. Take a look at this. This is fire crews flooding pittsburgh marshland today to put out that fire thats been causing. Poor air quality throughout the east bay Contra Costa County fire says that they are working with the Property Owner to bring more pumps online to increase the flow. The estimate millions of gallons of water will be needed for a week. Whats called the marsh fire started near bay point back in late may. Its now mostly burning peat. So fire crews say flooding the land was the only way to put it and because of the smoke from this fire, an air quality advisory for eastern Contra Costa County. Is being extended through the weekend to monday. Anybody with breathing problems. You know, youre being urged to stay indoors. For steve meteorologist to Lawrence Karnow joining us now with more on the air quality that were dealing with. Dont often hear about having a kind of flood that area with water. But thats because this fire, not your typical fires, not were talking not talking above ground were talking. Below are out there trying to soak some of that water to get down to that fire. So, quality has been an issue on off all week and then again today were seeing that. But you see the westerly wind pushing some of that smoke eastward. Now the fire located over year. Then you get to rio vista. Unfortunately, theyre taking kind of the brunt of it right now. As you see more of that smoke headed there in that direction. Now, the rest, the bay area looking pretty good. Lot of green out there again this evening is that strong sea breeze kicking in the afternoon. Thats where well see play out again for tomorrow. But its going to be a little bit weaker because High Pressure, well, that dome of High Pressure begins to move in overhead and that tends act like a cap on the atmosphere. You get less wind and it also things not mixing very well in some of the interior valleys. So were looking at the east bay tomorrow with some moderate amounts of pludes building up in the afternoon. Air quality. Still good and fresh as it usually is out along the coastline. Looking good in the north bay and the south bay, too. All right. Speaking of wind see here, the very latest in and around that fire. You see some winds gusting the 23 miles an hour in the pittsburgh. You notice the direction pushing some smoke in that direction that way. So headed on east with some of that smoke around the rest of the year. Again, this is your typical sea breeze kicking in in the afternoon and the evening hours. Of course, that will begin to settle down overnight tonight and then some of that smoke will also settled in right around the fire in the pittsburgh and the bay point area fog, low clouds, a little more patchy again tonight. And that means were not going to see the extents of all that fog and low cloud covers. High pressure gets overhead. Only does keep us from seeing as much wind then kind of kept the atmosphere, but it compresses the marine layer to that means less fog as we head in toward tomorrow, kind in chino. Weve got an area low pressure spinning up in the gulf of alaska. That looks pretty cool. But its really that dome of High Pressure thats going to be backing up toward the bay area. That dome High Pressure, the circulation around it, bring some of that monsoon. Some thunderstorms up over the Sierra Nevada out there this evening in the clouds kind of role in now getting a little dark outside in spots. But youve got temperatures running in the 60s and live more. 53 degrees in cool, though, in pacifica with that fog moving in. 59 in petaluma and 64 degrees in santa rosa. Todays highs. Yeah, this where were at today and i want you to notice this because tomorrow is going to be a lot different 60s in the San Francisco 68 into oakland, 78 in san jose. 85 degrees rather mild in live more and hot. 92 degrees in concord. 87 degrees in santa rosa. But were only going up from here. I think by tomorrow afternoon, these temperatures getting closer to triple digits in some of the interior valleys. And what a difference over 30 degree difference. And you got that patchy fog in that cool sea breeze at the coast. Lawrence, thanks a lot. Exactly. One week after taking on her job as San Franciscos district attorney. Brooke jenkins is reshuffling her office staff. Shes announced the hirings of 3 Senior Team Members on a gonzalez who worked in the das office before but was fired by chasing to dean will be second in command. Alameda county deputy da nancy tung, who ran against booting in 2019, will be jenkins, chief of special prosecutions and tiffany sutton, the director of the citys crime strategies division. Well, take on a role that is yet to be specified. And also today, staffers were fired racial marshall and rcl hurtado responded by tweeting that theyll still fight for criminal justice. Contra costa county prosecutors say that can Pittsburgh Police officers linked to 40 investigations cant be trusted thats until all criminal charges in each case are dropped. Chief assistant da cy mcconnell says there are multiple officers who are subjects of an ongoing criminal investigation involving a range of offenses which constitute crimes of moral turpitude he adds to the contra costa das office is actively engaged in evaluating these cases to determine whether the charge cases compromised or whether the case can proceed. The officers in question were not identified. San jose police are searching for a suspect involved in an Early Morning shooting at a shopping center, this happened at the Plant Shopping Center on monterey road around 6 oclock this morning when officers arrived on scene, they found a man with a gunshot wound. He later died from his injuries. Time last year, were at 24 homicides just slightly less. One homicide is obviously one homicide to many in the city of san jose. No word on the motive for the victims identity at this time. This is san joses 22nd homicide. So far this year Petaluma Police have an arrest in the citys first homicide 2017. Investigators say they arrested. 23 yearold Alejandro Sanchez and his twin brother, luis sanchez, in connection to the death of adolfo martinez, pena. Then you have died early sunday morning after he was reportedly hit by a baseball and stabbed multiple times on keller street in downtown petaluma. Both suspects are in the Sonoma County jail tonight. No word on what led to the attack. First, a knitting luh at berkeleys peoples park was apparently attacked with a baseball bat today. Uc Berkeley Police are right now investigating the park has been the focus of controversy since the university wants to build student housing. There. And they point to the fact that the park is hawhat they call a haven for crime and disruption. Some members of the community are opposed to the plans. Peoples park is on the National Register of historic places. In San Mateo County Police Officers in the city of san mat can now listen to 911. Calls in real time. Starting this week, the San Mateo Police department can now live stream 911. Calls through laptops in their vehicles. The goal is to give officers responding to a call as much information as possible about the situation. In addition to hearing the call, officers can now see the location of the caller on the map. But the officers will only be able to listen in not to directly talk to somebody on a 911. Call. Well here. What the actual color needs. Theyre able to hear what color is is feeling more or less through the call as opposed to getting relayed through the other party. The Department Says that so far the system has been wellreceived, was relatively inexpensive to set up a new hotline to help people with Mental Health problems is launchihito nationwide tomorrow and the service is free. 9, 8, 8, is a number that you can use to either call text chat in order to be connected to a Trained Health Care Specialist court. First theresa reports now on why many say the service could be a real lifesaver. Having 90 day with those call centers and people on headlines are get really going to be a gamechanger. It has been 3 years since town hall lost her son miles. Hall was shot and killed by Walnut Creek Police during a domestic incident back in 2019. His family says he struggled with Mental Health breakdowns. But when he had an acute crisis, his family could only call 911 which brought police, not health Care Specialists. 9 8. 3 easy to remember. But now there is 9, 8, 8, a free and Confidential National suicide crisis. Lifeline being launched that anyone can use. 24 7 in the united states. They actually just that conversation decreased discretion, anxiety, reeses hopefulness. So its just that one conversation enough to get someone on the right doctor, Jennifer Christian herman is a clinical psychologist with blue shield of california. Government data shows in 2020 the u. S. Had one death by suicide. Every 11 minutes in. And we does surveys looking at just like the impact of of concerns about Climate Change vertically, a new. So theres just theres the the acute, you know, covid and now monkeypox and youounow, everything thats happened in terms of Racial Injustice theres so many things it seems every day theres something new to worry about. And so thats thats taking its toll on him, particularly on you. With 20200 call centers in the united states, 9, 8, 8 will complement the National Suicide hotline that launched back in 2005. Its its for calling texting not. And i think that could helpful to play for you