The elegant brick line beauty of the United Nations plaza has changed. Becoming a Gathering Place for the homeless and drug take into accounted. One day a week the atmosphere changes thanks to the sundays Farmers Market. And this Farmers Market was founded on that principle. From day one we had a line of people in this neighborhood waiting to purchase fresh produce. Reporter the presence of so many people discourages the troubled element from congregating and officials have taken notice. They asked if the market could operate seven days a week. But when that wasnt possible, the city quietly developed a plan to move the farmers out. Instead the plaza will soon contain a Public Recreation area including skateboarding, pickle ball, and tech board courts and pingpong and chess tables. My understanding in what we have been told is it is an experimental Pilot Project to try to improve conditions on u. N. Plaza. Weve been told that if it does not work out, if it proves to be unsuccessful, the
Oaklands police union called on city officials to speed up the search for a new chief as they continue to deal with mounting crime. And some Council Members in santa rosa are concerned changes made to a no camping ordinance. Well do more harm to the un house instead of actually helping people. Well have that and more coming up. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good morning and thank you for what you get with this bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news today is wednesday. August night, the middle of the week. All right. Well, we started the week per any warm and then we are gradually inching closer and closer to a cool down. John tables been tracking that since the start of the week. John, where we sit today. Good morning. Yesterday was the first day of that cooler seasonable feel. And today were going to keep that around. So. Were definitely out of the heat that we had over the weekend and providing a nice break for those of you, e
Had enough of the situation in the city. She explains why she has no choice but to pack up and leave. Plus just a symbol of life. The symbol of celebration. A symbol of happiness . A fresh new look in San Franciscos chinatown. How the Community Came together to beautify their neighborhood. And its another cool day for us here in the bay area. Waking up to some coastal drizzle once again and well have more on that coming up in the first alert forecast. Yeah, you might need thwipers this morning along highway 1. Theres a hotspot on 280. Plus looking a little gloomy at the Golden Gate Bridge. A look at traffic coming right up. Good morning to you, thank you for joining us at 5 00 a. M. On your wednesday morning. Halfway through the workweek, with a buff shot that were looking at right here, you can see some of the clouds out there and jess says its actually going to be a little cooler out today. Absolutely. I mean, especially compare that to monday. We went from 90s and triple digits to 8
Cut county fire says their bomb squad is still working inside of that shed. There is 8 large amount of chemicals in there and they could possibly toxic or explosive. We take a look behind me. You can see that they are still here working. Theyve been here for hours just trying to get all of this sorted out. This home is on stand avenue near giant highway con fire says they found hundreds of boxes with several hazardous materials. Evacuation is impacting a 6 block radius. Police and firefighters responded earlier in the day to report of the smell of gas in the area just before one initial shelterinplace alert was issued for that hazmat event. That was updated to an Evacuation Order around 4. 30, this afternoon, i spoke to a woman who said she didnt know about the evacuation until she drove home and shes worried about some people she saw standing outside. Up heal from that where they were standing you its kind of concerning people would be allowed to stand if its dangerous, you know, with
In miami. Now, we have a live report from abcs lana zac. Reporter good morning. Fidel castro will be cremated today and his remains will travel around his country during the next nine days of official mourning in cuba. It is so different from the reaction here in the united states. This is the scene from miamis Little Havana, a few hours after the announcement of castros death at 90. [ speaking Foreign Language ] reporter he was born on august 13th, 1926 in orienta province, cuba. As a child he was educated at private Catholic Schools and later went on to study law at the university of havana. Castro became an advocate for the poor but went on to rule cuba for more than 40 years with an iron fist. I am not afraid. I feel honored of being a communist and i hope i will be to the last breath. Joined forces with the soviet union. The u. S. Retaliated by breaking off diplomatic relations with cuba and opposing a trade embargo. In 1961 president john f. Kennedy approved a cia invasion force