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transportation. the south bay is getting ready to break ground on a big undertaking. how the vta is making that possible. and another gun buyback event is happening in san jose. the latest on the effort to get weapons off south bay streets. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> good morning. thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm stephanie lin. good saturday to you. let's get you started with a look at the weather with dave sphar. good morning, dave. hey, good morning, stephanie. and good morning. everybody. we're being treated to a little bit of rain going on here. some spotty shower activity. and that's pretty much. >> what you can expect through the day today and quite a bit of cloud cover is what we have is. well, there also appears to be some breaks happening a little bit as we approach noon and early this afternoon, but don't expect too much the way of sun quick radar shot for you to see can see where everything is. looks like a clump of some moderate showers try to work around midday and

along the coast out to the santa cruz mountains a little bit there. and also you can see another clump off to sacramento as well to give the whole picture in the motion. you can see how we're being sprayed from the north. so we're kind of little zone here between some shielding from that high pressure zone that's way out of the pacific. it will be a little play or early next week. and of course, the systems coming in off the pacific. this is relatively mild. and i'll get to those temperatures in just a bit. but your beauty shot right now, if you will, quite a bit of cloud cover, a little bit of an offshore wind from the flag. you will notice temperature check for much more mild due to those cloudy skies and rain and mild air from the pacific. lower to middle 50's. and that puts us way above. we're numbers were about 24 hours ago. look at napa, 70 degrees ahead. fairfield 15, 10 for oakland and 12. meanwhile, 4 a concord. here's a quick look at end of those winds, you can see them are a little bit offshore off to the east bay and the peninsula. and the breakdown today has quite a bit of cloud cover. but again, noting some patches of clear in some rays of sun coming

through tomorrow. looks like to be a little more rain free, but we're not expecting much rain from all those put together. a more on your forecast for the weekend and a peek into next week as well. stephanie. >> all right, dave, thank you. and when the pandemic hit, tech companies hired up significantly, experts say that's why we then saw a massive tech layoffs this year, along with other ripple effects. >> but there are a lot of companies acquired all of extra office space during the pandemic when they were hiring. all these people. so inevitably they're going to have to downsize because they just don't have enough people to fill those spaces. >> as a result, downtown san francisco is seeing its highest rate of office vacancy. 35% according to cbre, which studies how tech impacts commercial real estate and the office vacancy rate in the city is predicted to increase around 5% next year. in the south bay, more affordable housing will be coming to the area in an effort to reduce homelessness and improve housing as kron justin campbell explains the county plans to build hundreds

of units on government own property. >> right now, this lot is for the t a writer's to park and ride. but soon it will be a place to settle down these renderings show a new affordable apartment project that is expected to surround the capital light rail station near capitol expressway. and guadalupe parkway in san jose. really look forward to the day we see all these new residents with their transit passes, able to get light rail. >> or a boss and get to their school, their doctor's appointment to to their jobs opportunities. more than 230 affordable units are being planned for this property. the first of 7 provided by the valley transit authority to help santa clara county create more cost-efficient places to live. the vta has these properties in a development pipeline that could eventually bring thousands of affordable units to the south bay projects that are going to deliver that better future, that more sustainable convenient. >> for a double inclusive

future, an economy for all of our residents. san jose mayor matt mahan considers homelessness. >> and affordable housing on the top of his agenda. he says he appreciates the vta is willingness to lend a hand, not their primary job. but i think it's a major agency. >> on a lot of land, it understands just how critical it is that they step up and play a role in providing housing. the county is hoping mid penn housing which will build and manage the housing will break ground sometime in 2026. >> in santa clara, justin campbell kron. 4 news. >> in the east bay, oakland, police are investigating car break-ins that reportedly happened during the city's tree lighting ceremony. let's take a look at video of the ceremony thursday night shared by the city on its facebook page. look at well, police say at least 2 people, though, had their cars broken into sometime between 5 and 7 near city hall. so this was such a joyous event. it's unfortunate

this happened. each victim said they had a laptop stolen from their car. >> police say that they they managed to find the stolen items in an abandoned boat in bethel island. >> no arrests made yet. a bit of a scare for shoppers in the east bay on friday night. the targeted albany was briefly closed because of a possible hazmat situation. let's take a look at video from the citizen app showing people outside of the store firefighters and police officers on scene. now, this target is near golden gate fields. firefighters were investigating a strange chemical odor, but the source of the smell was never found. the scene was cleared and the store reopened. and other businesses permanently closed san francisco. but not because of crimes or homelessness. autos in the mission posted this sign on its window will get you a closer look at that right there. say that the bike lane actually affected business. that bike lane runs along the middle of of valencia street and sparked controversy among local store

owners because it restricts parking some say in motto is also saw major flooding during pride weekend in june, which forced it to close its basement venue. matos posted on social media back in september saying that incident cut revenue in half. san francisco police are investigating a homicide and the city's pacific heights neighborhood. officers say they found a woman's body after responding to a request for a welfare check a home on clay street just after 7 thursday night. no other details have been released yet. and take a look at this. pima police say they found all of these items in the car, including marijuana and open bottle of tequila. and a lot of cash, as you can see, police say the driver was planning to sell a number of the items you see here and was on probation out of contra costa county for illegally having a gun. now to national news, the loss of a trailblazing american justice. sandra day o'connor, the first woman to ever sit on the supreme court died this week

at the age of 93. she started her legal careers here in the bay area. kron four's dan thorn has the details. >> sandra day o'connor, the first woman supreme court justice is being remembered in the bay area. o'connor kick started her careers with the san mateo county district attorney's office. shortly after graduating from stanford, current da stephen wagstaffe says at the time it was difficult for women to get a paying job as a lawyer. but it was a compelling letter that got a young sandra day. that first job. we still have the letter have been here in my hand and it's just beautiful letter talking about her desire why she wants to practice law. >> and she applied office because heard that the da's office in redwood city would hire women 2 years later day would marry her law school classmate john o'connor, and moved to arizona over the years. her influence grew in the legal and political worlds. and in 1981, president

ronald reagan nominated o'connor as an associate justice on the u.s. supreme court, i think will reeve. we will remember her as being somebody who tried to find consensus. >> tried to find compromise. and with the center of the court that frankly, this point really doesn't have a center loyola marymount law professor jessica levinson says o'connor understood the pressure of being the first woman on the supreme court. the judge was a moderate and the deciding vote on important decisions affecting civil rights, the environment and voting rights among others, her guiding principle was being practical. wagstaff says he's saddened by her death but remembers o'connor as someone who really cared. he was the most gracious, wonderful, a humble person. despite having a person of such importance in the history of the united states. >> that was kron four's. dan thorn reporting for us o'connor, retired from the nation's highest court 2006. the court said in a statement friday that she died from

complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. in the south bay, the santa clara county sheriff's office is hosting another gun buyback event is today at the reid-hillview county airport. they're offering $100 for handguns, rifles and shotguns. $200 for ghost guns and assault weapons. there is a limit of 5 firearms per weapons must be unloaded and transported in the trunk of your car. you must remain in your vehicle. funds are limited. so it is on a first come first served basis. >> happening now, a crash in the east bay walking lanes of traffic on i-80 of 5.80. this is a live look at the scene right now. again, this is a crash blocking the lanes. some lanes of i-80 and i-580. we can see law enforcement on scene right there as well. some tow trucks. this happened around 06:00am no injuries reported. but you are advised of delays happening as you can see live right there on your screen that are and that area right now, again, a crash blocking several lanes on

i-80. >> and coming up on the 4 morning news holiday shoppers in full force is stanley and grow. what police are doing to prevent retail crime this holiday season. plus, ski season is in session. we have a look at the slopes coming up. >> we get those folks, a little snow later in this forecast period before this weekend. yeah, we're going a little bit of a mild sprinkles and showers going on here. but the breakdown for you today has quite a bit of cloud cover temps pretty much uniformly in the lower to middle 60's. a look at that weekend forecast. we come back to kron. 4 morning news continues.

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>> and there will be no bart service between the daly city and glen park stations this weekend as crews remove potentially hazardous trees near the trackway union samtrans run bus shuttles between 2 stations throughout the closure. but riders should expect delays of up to 30 minutes while traveling through that part of the system. this marks the latest efforts by the transit agency to remove hazardous trees were parties calling the largest tree removal project in the agency's history. >> taking a live look now from mount tam to the san francisco skyline. looking gorgeous out there this morning at 7.13 this saturday, december. the second and quite chilly at that elevation today. it is a look at the cloud cover. it's above us. it's in the lower levels. we've got several layers cooking here. going to be hard to kind of clear that out. it looks like. >> there's a little ray of hope. by the time we get to the mid afternoon, might see the sun poke out a little bit

going on here, but expect a lot of cloud cover the morning hours. certainly lower 50's across the board. and as i showed you earlier, these are relatively mild numbers. way ahead of yesterday morning because thursday night was so clear in all we are able to kind of cool off for a nice to that radio cooling. but we have a different scenario now. this cloud cover. we have some rain showers going on and this is relatively mild air coming in from the pacific. here is shot of the is obviously the lower level cloud cover or noting little bit of a breeze coming off shore. not much of one, but a little bit of that. most of the activity with this system, however, is up towards the north. and that pattern is going to continue. it looks like for the next several days really into next week as well as we're on the southern fringe of all of this action coming in from the pacific. give you an idea here, you can see how drop south kind of fans out a little bit right across the bay with very spotty shower activity, 20's, kind of things. you kind of shuttle the rain a little bit here, rain or go home or, you know, stop whatever is that kind of annoyance type of rain that the sticks around a bit.

here's the bigger picture. we have a lot of these lows developing up around the gulf of alaska. that actually is not going to impact us. but the general trend is this west to easterly pattern? but down here, this nice clear space, high-pressure zone. we're just too far north to get a lot of that influence like southern california is getting, for example, let's go through future cast for relatively uneventful outside of what you see here. we see those spotty showers continue through the day. little hope of some clearing happening in here by mid-afternoon. that's almost early evening because it's getting close to sunset. and then the cloud cover fills back up again tomorrow. looks like some spotty showers. still technically in the forecast. but relatively modest in terms of what we're going to get, most of that will way up towards the north and we'll be even lighter than today. so although it may not really open up real nicely for us tomorrow, at least the rain will kind of hold off a little bit more. so and this takes us to monday morning. we're going get a little break by the time we get to early next week because of this high, this frontal pass by temperatures will actually recover. nicely

will actually warm up towards the early part of the week until wednesday. now that's the next day to look for something to happen. but again, number, we're on the southern fringe of everything. this is kind of frustrating for remember during the drought because we get these little waves coming in and they were just so weak. we need something more juicy to help us out today. we've got mostly cloudy, scattered showers, cool, lower 60's going on. thaa's pretty much coast to well inland tomorrow. maybe a little bit warmer. mid 60's variable clouds will call it. that means little bit better. son, but a spotty shower here. and there next week, showers for wednesday as we get a break early into the week, actually warm up a little bit. temperatures will approach near about 70 or so and then unsettled into the weekend. but the weekend looks to be ok from this vantage point. check it out for the day now. 62 san francisco, a few showers afternoon sun for a time. 62 going on for oakland. 65 for san jose. and that's mostly cloudy with a shower. almost like a question mark here. lower 60's for highs going on here. 59 napa. 64 for nevada. win san francisco coming in at about a

60 to not a lot of mercury movement, although we're starting things off. kind of a mild note for today, though, but it's kind of annoyance type of rain is just enough. that just is like kind of need something. but again, feel stupid. it's not raining much. it's like light dusting on your car. but things just a little bit kind of like, yeah, because it's not it's not a downpour, but i think you might have had enough rain to kind of watch the car off a little bit, though, came out that it has been going on all night a little bit. so it helps up and that. >> okay. i will take whatever little bit of moisture we can. we can get around these parts up to >> all right. the shopping season is in full swing and retail traffic is up in san leandro. that means more officers on patrol. but ford's philippe djegal reports. >> the tree is up washington plaza in san leandro and the city hopes people head downtown into the rest of shopping corridors and feel safe spending locally for their gifts this holiday

season. the holiday spirit in sunland risk quite vibrant. mayor juan gonzalez says the police department is taking steps to ensure shoppers are at ease during their visits with the undercover patrols in our retail space being increased. we're doing things to make sure that shopping and sally is both fun. >> and safe near gonzalez says the officers are also heightening their responses to license plate readers reporting hits and stolen cars and intentionally making uniformed officers more visible during busy shopping hours. see have safety, including ambassadors working. >> 7 days a week from 07:00am until 09:00pm executive director of the downtown san leandro benefit district morgan max rose says those ambassadors can help escort shoppers to and from their cars by request. >> just flagged them down there all through the core of downtown leandro hearing. tyson carries a safety whistle just in case she finds herself in trouble but feels confident she can shop. >> without becoming a victim of crime. it is the holiday

season and it's the season of giving and sometimes you got to just not be scared and just, you know, hope for the best and know there will be several pairs of eyes in public safety. watching your back. >> in san leandro, philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> was that just lovely? the holiday spirit is in full swing. a caltrain is unveiling its 2023 holiday train stops will be made across the bay area starting tomorrow. it's san francisco. you can find the full schedule online. now, donations will be all aboard for kids in need. and you can take part. >> as long as you bring an new toy. that's exactly what we're looking for, that we're going to get into the salvation army and the marine program helped about needy families. a happy holiday. >> and holiday train runs all weekend long. it's not look

beautiful. get to meet the ballerina and other caltrans workers addressed in fun costumes like santa and missus, claus. >> it's a lot of fun. definitely check it out. >> well, to tahoe resorts open up on friday. kron four's to resist also tells us about the conditions and tips. >> for hitting the slopes. it is that time of year again, time to step in to some skis are strapped into a snowboard and hit the slopes. kirkwood started running chairs friday morning. this is general manager ricky newberry. >> conditions are good. we've got 7 inches new snow on top of some snow making snow. we added a couple trails with the new natural snow and scams. fun. >> newberry says that with the holidays here, there will be some specials going on the mountain. >> he after the holidays, we'll have our traditional torchlight parade coming down 5 or chair 6 behind us. and then we do fireworks in the base area in a big bonfire in the base area and some music. so, yeah, looking for that.

>> and sugar bowl, it was all smiles as they also took in first visitors for the season where? well, you know, we actually got about 2 inches of snow overnight last night. so that next with that nice light, fluffy stuff. >> and the conditions pretty you know, a lot of times during early season you know, we'll have to make some snow to give mother nature a little fred. that's just in a very was awesome out there. and here is a look at palisades tahoe, a spokesperson tells kron 4 news that they will be opening more lives than terrain on both palace aides. >> and alpine sides of the resort throughout the weekend. all of the resort's remind visitors to check conditions before heading up. make sure you check roads to be safe. parking reservations are also required now at some resorts like palisades tahoe. i got to make some runs myself this morning and we're pretty fired up. theresa kron. 4 news. >> still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, san francisco

all aglow with holiday isn't that gorgeous? a look at the new light displays around the new light displays around the city.

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>> downtown san francisco is lit largest holiday projection event in the country kicked off last night in the city by the bay. our photo journalist, tahir aside, was there.

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call or go online today. now on the kron 4 morning news. a santa rosa high school faces a lawsuit after a 15 year-old student is stabbed to death. what we know about the allegations. and we have a live. we have live details on a gun buyback event planned in the south bay. >> the latest effort to get weapons off the streets. welcome back to the kron. 4 morning news. thank you so much for joining us today is get you started this half hour with a look at your forecast. dave spahr in the weather

center tracking it all for a sunday. lot of people waking up to a bit of a damp morning. >> yeah, it's kind of spooky type of the day as we take a look at kind of gloomy going on here. but it's not all last. we'll see some rays of sun going on for this afternoon. and, yes, some spotty shower activity that is almost more trouble worth. but there you see what's going on. we have a layer, some thick, saturated air above is probably the best way of phrasing it. if you just go up a couple 100 feet, it is saturated for thousands of feet. beyond that. it's almost like a very, very thick fog. here's a live shot coming in from our sutro camera. you get the idea there's no golden gate. we can see it from this vantage point because it stuck into this while almost like a fog bank. but basically this layer of moisture that we're talking about 50's across the board right now as we speak, those are very mild or almost lofty numbers, particularly compared to yesterday because we have a different air mass in place. we didn't have the clear skies like we did thursday night into friday. so hence our temperatures. double digits ahead of where they were this time from yesterday.

of course, we'll start to close the gap on that as we get later in the morning hours. winds are kind of a little bit offshore a bit, not having much in the way of an impact. we don't see really any winds over the next 48 time period. we're on the southern fringe of most of what we're seeing and what we will see getting into the early next week. but for today, let's going call kind of mostly cloudy again, thrown in a few spotty showers throughout the day. we some patches of clearing going on in the early afternoon to mid-afternoon. we'll get more into that and also checking your longer range forecast in a bit. stephanie. all right, dave, thank you. police arrested 3 15 year-olds in connection to a fight at a mall. >> santa rosa police shared an image of a ghost gun found on the team. they say police say this unregistered weapon was loaded in total, 18 teens were involved in the fight yesterday at the santa rosa transit mall on second street. officers say the group were wearing clothing consistent with active gang participation and we're yelling gang one another most of the group ran off when police showed up.

montgomery high school in santa rosa faces a lawsuit in connection to a march stabbing that left one student dead. sixteen-year-old jayden pn to was stabbed multiple times inside our class in front of his classmates and teacher. the teen's parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school and district. the lawsuit accuses school staff members of failing to help the teen. a 15 year-old was arrested in connection to the stabbing. earlier this week in juvenile criminal court. a judge ruled the 15 year-old was not responsible for manslaughter because he said he had to was the aggressor up the fight and orchestrated the attack. we have reached out to santa rosa city schools for response to this lawsuit. we have not yet heard back. >> florida, we show the conservative principles work. this country must choose freedom over failure. you attack, you to communities. we view it at we made sure they and blacks. i can handle it. i'm used to bully. you're nothing but a bully. your

understanding? >> well, that's what it sounded like for much of the 90 minute debate between governor newsom and desantis thursday night. that event moderated by conservative political commentator sean hannity. now the debate is over the fallout and fact checking continues. and that includes a claim made by governor desantis about how california law regulates health care for trans children. that claim left state senator scott wiener of san francisco pretty upset four's catherine heenan reports. >> senator wiener is saying he's not surprised, but discussed it. the flurry of post-debate analysis and reaction is always heated. but here is a specific claim about california that has him upset. florida governor ron desantis said and later tweeted, if you are a parent and iowa or new hampshire or south carolina, your minor child can go to california without her knowledge or consent and get hormone therapy. puberty, blockers change operation.

that is extreme. that is an assault on parents rights. senator wiener was watching and listening. he wrote the bill in question asked b 107. he quickly shot out this tweet saying desantis cannot stop lying about lgbtq people. i talked to the senator to explained why the claim is inaccurate. >> ron desantis completely straight wide about 01:00:07am, you want to 7? no such thing. certain red states like texas and other states we're literally threatening to arrest and criminally prosecute the parents of trans kids because those parents, we're supporting their kids and accessing gender affirming care. the age of consent is 18. you need the consent of your parents or guardian. if you are under 18. and so if

they can to showed up in california, i went to a doctor and said i want to owns or i won other gender affirming care. the doctor would not be able to provide those services. >> the senator watch the debate he said was bracing for misinformation. he claims for years. right wing extremists have lied about the lgbtq community to score political points and in this case who says they are lies, which are affecting children, just trying to live their lives. now to israel's war with hamas. nearly a full day after a ceasefire collapsed. >> israeli fighter jets have struck 200 targets in the gaza strip. israel dropped leaflets warning hundreds of thousands of palestinians who fled there to safety. but they're now in a dangerous battle zone in the north. gaza's hamas-run ministry of health says 178 people have been killed. hundreds more wounded. and now

there is increased concern about the fate of the remaining hostages in gaza, including 8 americans. >> we remain intensely focused on getting everyone home, getting hostages something that i also worked on the day. so we were still at this. >> all right. now negotiators are working with israel and hamas over the potential release of hostages from gaza. and just days after to jewish groups filed a lawsuit against the university of california for alleged unchecked spread of anti-semitism. the president of the uc school system faces backlash over a new proposal about how to train faculty on how to teach about the middle east. the program would present a, quote, viewpoint, neutral history of the middle east. now in a public letter, 150 uc professors condensed the school system, president michael drake, the letter accusing drake of questioning the, quote, academic integrity of university of california

scholars already engaged in the historical study and teaching of the middle east. the letter going on to say drake statement has worrying echoes with other countries governments have attempted to introduce policies that would punish critical speech. letter comes after drake earlier this month announced 2 million dollars to help schools develop educational programs to understand anti-semitism and islamophobia. the university of california responded to the letter in an emailed statement saying in part, quote, the president's remarks were referencing voluntary educational programming on our campuses, not classroom content or curriculum. we're working with our campuses to determine how to distribute these funds in ways that benefit our campus communities. in national news. police are investigating a deadly shooting that killed at least one person and wounded 4 others friday in las vegas. all of the victims were homeless. that shooting happened around 5.30 friday night near the u.s. 95 and

charles boulevard in east las vegas. police are still searching for the gunman, but they have very limited information at this time. >> this is all a black male in a hoodie, flee the area in a dark sedan right now. we're trying to confirm that information, but we do have not been able to confirm is that accurate information of what our suspect is? >> now this comes as the search is underway for a serial killer who has been targeting homeless people sleeping alone on the streets of los angeles, las vegas. police say it's too early to say if this shooting is related to the la case. detectives in los angeles released images of a possible suspect believed to be responsible for 3 deaths so far all of the victims, homeless men sleeping alone. the la police chief, thanks. one suspect is responsible for all of the killings as of now, no arrests have been made yet. happening today, the santa clara county sheriff's office.

well, they're holding a gun buyback and it's the latest effort to get dangerous weapons off of the streets. was tiffany justice live for us hillview county airport with the latest on this. tiffany. >> yes, good morning, stephanie. it's a pretty big effort by the santa clara county. sheriff's officers already a line of forming of people ready to drop off some fire arms. and it's a pretty organized event here cones directing to drivers where to go when this event starts. and that is at 8 o'clock this morning. so it starts very shortly. today is the gun buyback event for the santa clara care, clara county sheriff's office, a community initiative aimed at enhancing public safety by inviting people to drop off their guns and providing a secure an anonymous opportunity to do so. this event will start at 8 o'clock this morning and we'll go into one this afternoon and is open to all residents of santa clara county. now participants are encouraged

bring a by any unwanted firearms, including handguns, rifles, shotguns and assault weapons. the sheriff's office says no questions will be asked. a big incentive is some hard cash. those handing in guns today will receive cash in exchange and the amount of cash will depend on the type of firearm you are bringing in and dropping off today. now all of these guns will be properly and safely destroyed. the sheriff's office saying they will also take ammunition and non functioning firearms as reporting live to justice. back to you. all right, stephanie, thank you. >> coming up here on the kron 4 morning news santa rosa fire department adding a furry friend to their team. >> more on office of his role after the break. but first, the forty-niners preparing to take on the eagles here, how they are preparing for the big game after the break. >> and whether we're still keeping a track on some very widely scattered light rain showers still appearing on

radar as you'll notice here, going to keep the cloud cover around for most of the day. but though he some breaks of sun as we get into the afternoon check on that weekend forecast take along with the law take a look at the longer-range one as well. the kron 4 morning news the kron 4 morning news continues. [narrator] covered california is a free service from the state that's already helped millions of people like you get

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>> the santa rosa fire department added a furry friend to help crews cope with job stress. crawford's ella sogomonian introduces us to maverick. >> maverick join the team at the santa rosa fire department about 2 weeks ago. he's expected to help alleviate short-term anxiety and lessen

the effects of experienced trauma. the dog was trained by the national institute of canine science and training. that's designed to help improve the psychological well-being of first responders. they say just petting a dog can reduce the stress. chemical called cortisol. he lives with his handler. captain corey record and together they're spending 6 months bonding before they graduates it breaks up this the >> the seriousness of the situation and you have kind of a dog. is there staring at you asking to play? not. rick is taking on a crucial role. >> firefighters with the santa rosa fire department respond to emergencies every day. but for the last few years, there have been significant traumatic back-to-back wildfires that have leveled neighborhoods like the one fire marshal paul lowenthal has had to rebuild. went through a lot, obviously 2017 and subsequent fire since then. one of our goals has been better. not only are our community for how we respond to wildfires and disasters. >> but also how we better respond to the needs of our own employees that are going to some of those same

traumatic events. >> the nonprofit santa rosa fire foundation who paid for it all plans to bring a second onto the team very soon reporting in santa rosa. i'm ella sogomonian kron. 4 news. >> all right. and let's take a live look now from our sfo cam this morning. looking quiet, overcast out there at this hour 7.44. this saturday morning and people probably want to have their jackets on there planning to head to the airport this morning. day. >> yeah, good morning, stephanie. good morning, everybody. and a little wet to start off with it. looks like will be some spotty showers. we have to keep in the forecast live radar to give you an idea how we looks like we're collection down here in the peninsula. a bit in the santa cruz mountains little bit up sloping. there was sometimes milk those clouds a little bit more. but on balance, you could almost call this like a very, very thick fog. that's right. above us is purely saturated air. and then it dries up. when you get more aloft. so with all of this in mind, most of the traffic remains towards our north.

here's quite hour for you. overcast is probably how the best we can freeze it for now. again, we'll break up the skies a little bit this afternoon. but you can see we're on the southern fringe of everything, a drop south, a kind of fans out across the bay relatively mild air we have. it's not as cold as it was yesterday morning by a big step. and we do see a little bit of warming up going on for highs for tomorrow. 46 for tahoe. 51 monday tuesday, 54 kind of on a warming pattern. that's until mid-week. and that's when we get another system coming our way. and then a little bit unsettled as we finish. and by the way, that for tahoe looks like that will be some snow showers coming your way towards the end of the week. but here's what looks like the big pacific. you can see the traffic west to east but kind of going up and around because we have a high here what's going to be a player to do just what i just described. that little warm up open up the skies will its moment to shine hasn't gotten here yet. so we're going to go through this right now west to from the pacific. and later on subsequent systems by the middle of the week is what we'll be watching a future

cast for today. again, uneventful, pretty much cloudy. those spotty showers, clear patch tries to develop as we get post noon, say 1, 2, 3 o'clock, that kind of business in into 6. you will notice. and then tomorrow looks like quite a bit of cloud cover. but again, poking in those skies a bit for more sunshine. and again, spotty rain showers up north. everything pretty much remains to the north until we get to the middle of the week. here's a longer range forecast for, you know, all right. we get to monday tuesday with that high has its moment. boom interrupted by wednesday, then kind of unsettled. as we finish off the week, we get the little pieces of the storm systems that it looks like next weekend. looks to be pretty good. but by monday, a new system drops into town. that's a pretty good pattern as we get into. when are we gonna get some rain somewhere in the 7 day forecast when you know those winter months, a look at the 4 zone. 62 san francisco lower 60's off towards the coast. 63 going on for burlingame. not a lot of variety for those temperatures for today. at least mid 60's heading to the south. we've got about 65 san jose

cupertino. 62, michaela at a couple degrees for this for tomorrow. so maybe us much warmer, lower 60's east bay shoreline, tri valley. you also look to be in the lower 60's. well, the creek 63 along with concord, 58 for berkeley, 62 richmond, 58 allay 59 for napa and 61 santa rosa. so minor warm-up to start high pressure has its moment. get to about 69 as we get to tuesday dropping off considerably. that's post the front. clearly unsettled into next the end of the week. but by next week, it looks like we will dry out a little bit, stephanie, before get a new system comes our way. the following monday doesn't look exciting. the systems coming our way in terms of how much we're going to get from it looks like the kind of business we're getting now. maybe a little bit more. so it's a bit of a nuisance to drive. so keep that in mind for probably the wednesday morning commute, ok, good to keep in mind and just have an umbrella handy. sure. yeah, i'm hurt. all right, dave, thank you. >> okay. well this morning on dine and dish local say fond farewell to a san francisco neighborhood tradition. >> kron four's vicki liviakis

explains. think it is high. we discovered hip arrive ago and in fact, we're here pick the right to talk to the chef who could be arguably be. >> basque chef of his generation chefs share the so good to see patrons are passionate about everything from paper piccolo peppers and all things authentic basque. this is the fish it's very sort st. cuisine i think has been you know, the last few years and the last 10 years, i would by the great chefs of the basque region, which, you know, we all yourself and well and i'm here, but they're not all of them all back in the in the country. and i think really put cuisine and about. and i think it's a very tasty, very straightforward. the cuisine seen. it's a bit french spanish and uniquely after 21 years of serving up san francisco. >> this is the final week for

the house is packed with neighbors fans basque and ricotta for so many it's small. but you know, like it's time when it's time you got to do ships are all not saying what he has up his sleeve, but you can bet he's cooking up something good in san francisco, vicki liviakis kron. 4 news. >> forty-niners are preparing for their rematch against the philadelphia eagles and the san jose sharks dominated the new jersey devils kron four's. erin wilson has a look at bay area. sports highlights. 4 hours away from the forty-niners and the eagles rematch last season's nfc championship game. and we can all get pinellas is over and just play the game. when to like that. i would like that is well, now we all know what happened in the game in philly last season. you know, broad

party again, knocked out early from the game, which pretty much derail the forty-niners offensive game plan from the start. while jalen hurts. >> he led the eagles to an early lead coasted into the super bowl when a 31 to 7 win over the forty-niners. so other than a few injuries for most for the most part, teams will have a majority of the key players this time george kittle whose play will absolutely dictate have the team's offense performs on sunday. he doesn't buy the games hype. he just wants to hook up with philly. get this we get a win and get back home. take a listen. >> there's more media people this week of practice and all you guys you know, make things a little bit bigger than they yes, it's good to philadelphia eagles. yes, one fighting yes, that's a little bit. and i are if you guys there, i don't really has a you're actually saw a clip from talked about said the head last year's last we've got one of their best players in heart rate on our

roster. it's just different not holding on help. nasa football game the get better and i would >> figure out a way to win. tell you who did the shark. they play their second game in as many nights last night facing the devils where former teammate timo meier was. that's where he resides. and i don't know if you wanted that after this one losing last night in the bruins on the night before the shock get out to an early lead. them are up it with the pretty pass right onto stick of a covid. do you see that with the risk their life to that starts mainly one to nothing after that one now tied one apiece in the second period donald getting his second goal of the game. >> with every direction from right there, now he'll get a few handshakes right there for his teammates and right here, anthony where in front knocks in the his second of the game, the shark, they win their first road game of the season. 6 to 3. the 6 goals are actually the most. they've scored all season last night. so a great night for the sharks. >> you know, on the road,

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affordable housing with easy access to transportation. the south bay getting ready to break ground on a big undertaking of the vta is making that possible. and another gun buyback event is happening in san jose. the latest on the effort to get weapons off south bay streets. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> good morning. thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news on stephanie lin. >> it is saturday and let's get you started by giving you a look at the weather with dave sphar. pretty wet. want to start the day off with day. yeah. a little bit on the soggy side. yeah. good morning, stephanie. good morning, everybody. and also gloomy at that sue. now we will get some sun to kind of poke out here a little bit. >> by the late afternoon, we say late afternoon this time of year because the sunset sorely it's almost early evening, but quick check on the radar. there's how we stand. you can see kind of the clumps down to the south bay a little bit and a certain the

santa cruz mountains, spotty showers of the best. we're going to phrase it is what it looks like for today. giving a general idea when it's in the motion, you can see we're being sprayed in the southern edge of all of this traffic. all right. a quick check sfo. it looks like a couple raise. a son are already poking in. however, they do have delays that are related to staffing is very contingent on your destination. so want to check with the airline to see if you're being impacted that by that. but it's not really just necessarily the weather are running this. this is more of a staffing issue. temperature check for lower to middle 50's us how we stay in. and that's actually very lofty compared to how numbers work. 24 hours ago this because the cloud cover the drizzle. we're on the mild sector of air. so we didn't get the cooling overnight with the clear and clear skies in the dry air. there you see numbers in some cases beyond 10. and that's in the far east bay and up north, little bit offshore wind puff, if you will, not 2, not too much for the breezy conditions are really don't see any of them really pop over the next about 48 hours today. quite a bit of cloud cover again. some but some rays of sun is you

get to the noon looks like the rain will be less of an issue tomorrow, although it's still a nuisance factor. kind of out there a little bit. we'll get more into your forecast coming up in a bit, stephanie. all right, dave, thank you. and many offices around san francisco are sitting empty with new data showing the city's vacancy rate. >> is at an all-time high cbre, a company that studies how tech effects commercial real estate says around. 35 1% of offices are vacant in san francisco kron four's rob nesbitt reports. >> the office vacancy rate pre-pandemic was around 4%. so covid has clearly had an impact on san francisco's downtown from tech layoffs to work from home. the pandemic brought changes for everyone, but tech companies over time hired like crazy president of technologists research. bob o'donnell says that's why we saw massive tech layoffs this year along with other ripple effects as well. a lot of companies acquired all of extra office space during the pandemic when they were hiring. all these people. so

inevitably they're going to have to downsize because they just don't have enough people to fill those spaces as a result. downtown san francisco is seeing its highest rate of office vacancy. 35% according to cbre in about a 30% increase from pre-pandemic years. jeff belisario from the bay area council economic institute says work from home still present a challenge for companies questioning if they should keep office space in the city work from home trends correlate pretty well at the office vacancy numbers of places like san francisco that have a high proportion of tech jobs or office jobs. >> those are the same places with a high proportion of people working from home. rios as homelessness and crime are top concerns for employers looking to recruit new workers to san francisco. but it's not all doom and gloom. the tech expert says more empty office spaces will result in lower rent prices as going to top off and that they can see rate rents will come down. i do think that provides an opportunity now as we think about the next wave growth allows us to plan for that in a better belisario predicts and even higher office vacancy

rate next year predicting a 5% increase. then. but he says if all goes well in the economy continues to move in a good direction, the office vacancy rate should decrease from there reporting in san francisco. i'm rob nesbitt. kron. 4 news. >> in the south bay, more affordable housing is coming. the county plans to build more than 230 housing units on property owned by the valley transit authority renderings show the new project surrounding the light rail station near capitol expressway and guadalupe parkway in san jose. it's the first of 7 properties provided by the to help santa clara county create more affordable places to live. >> really look forward to day we see all these new residents with their transit passes, able to get light rail for a boss and get to their school, their doctor's appointment to to their jobs, to opportunity. >> the county is hoping to break ground sometime in 2026. when the east bay oakland police are investigating car

break-ins. that reportedly happened during the city's tree lighting ceremony. let's take a look at video of the ceremony itself thursday night shared by the city on its facebook page. police say at least 2 people when this happened, had their cars broken into sometime between 5 and 7 near the city hall. now each victim said they had of laptop stolen from their car. police managed to find the stolen items in an abandoned boat in bethel island. no arrests have been made yet. a bit of a scare for shoppers in the east bay on friday night. the target in albany was briefly closed because of a possible hazmat situation. video from the citizen app shows people outside the store with firefighters and police officers on scene. this target is near golden gate fields. firefighters were investigating a strange chemical odor, but the source of the smell was never found. the scene was cleared and the store reopened. another businesses permanently closed francisco. but not because of crimes or homelessness. autos in the mission posted this sign on its window. let's get

a closer look at that right there saying the bike lane in the neighborhood is affecting business. that bike lane does run along the middle of valencia street and it sparked controversy among local store owners because they claim it restricts parking. in addition, tomatoes also saw major flooding during pride weekend in june, which the business admits forest it to close its basement venue. autos posted on social media back in september that the incident cut revenue for them in half. francisco police are investigating a homicide in the city's pacific heights neighborhood. police say they found a woman's body after responding to a request for a welfare check at a home on clay street just after 7 o'clock thursday night. no other details have been released. we'll take a look at pima police say they found all of these items in a car. they include marijuana, an open bottle of tequila and a lot of cash, as you can see, police say the driver was planning to sell a number of the items you see here and was on probation

out of contra costa county for illegally having a gun. now to national news, the loss of a trailblazing american justice. sandra day o'connor, the first woman to ever sit on the supreme court died this week at the age of 93. she started her legal careers right here in the bay area. four's dan thorn 100 o'connor. the first woman supreme court justice is being remembered in the bay area. >> o'connor kick started her with the san mateo county district attorney's office shortly after graduating from stanford, current da stephen wagstaffe says at the time it was difficult for women to get a paying job as a lawyer. but it was a compelling letter that got a young sandra day. that first job. we still have the letter have been here in my hand and it's just beautiful letter talking about her desire why she wants to practice law. >> and she applied office because she heard that the da's office in redwood city

would hire women 2 years later day would marry her law school classmate john o'connor, and moved to arizona over the years. her influence grew in the legal and political worlds. and in 1981, president ronald reagan nominated o'connor as an associate justice on the u.s. supreme court, i think will reeve. we will remember her as being somebody who tried to find consensus. >> tried to find compromise. and with the center of the court that frankly, this point really doesn't have a center loyola marymount law professor jessica levinson says o'connor understood the pressure of being the first woman on the supreme court. the judge was a moderate and the deciding vote on important decisions affecting civil rights, the environment and voting rights among athers, her guiding principle was being practical. wagstaff says he's saddened by her death but remembers o'connor as someone who really cared. he was the most gracious, wonderful, a humble

person. despite having a person of such importance in the history of the united states. >> that was kron four's. dan thorn reporting for us o'connor, retired from the nation's highest court in 2006, the course shared in a statement friday that she died from complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. >> and happening today, the santa clara county sheriff's office is holding a gun buyback. it's the latest effort to get dangerous weapons off the streets for stephanie justice is live for us now at reid-hillview county airport with the latest on this. tiffany. >> yes, stephanie, do know that they actually started this event early because there was already a line forming a big effort by the santa clara county sheriff's office to put this event on today started at 8 o'clock this morning. but as you guys can see, it's right behind everything has been set up right behind us. really easy to maneuver. you just drive and drop off the drive out and you can drop off your

gun anonymously. today is the gun buyback event for the santa clara county sheriff's office. they say this is a community initiative aimed at enhancing public safety by inviting people to drop off their guns. today and providing a secure and anonymous opportunity to do so. this event started at 8 o'clock this morning and will go until 01:00pm this afternoon and is open to all residents of santa clara county. now participants are encouraged to bring by any unwanted firearms, including handguns, rifles, shotguns and assault weapons. the sheriff's office says no questions will be asked. and a big incentive is hard cash. those handing in gun sunday will receive cash in exchange and the amount of cash will depend on the type of firearm you bring in today. all of these guns will be properly and safely destroyed. >> yeah, we're doing a gun buyback for the community. anybody can come down all they need to do is drive up. we're here reid-hillview airport will be here till 1 o'clock. >> receiving guns, no questions asked. they have a

gun rifle, assault weapon, ghost gun doesn't matter. we're going to take and we're going to be cash for that gun. it's really important just to establish an environment where they can turn in unwanted firearms. and that's exactly what this is about for individuals of had those guns stored in a closet or something for years. don't use them. don't want this is a place to bring them. >> the sheriff also saying that this is a great opportunity for people to get rid non-functioning, firearms and ammunition as well. reporting live to justice. back to you. all right, tiffany, thank you. >> coming up on the kron, 4 morning news holiday shoppers out in full force in san leandro. police are doing to prevent retail crime this holiday season. and plus ski season is in session. we have a look at the slopes coming up. >> and we'll get a little bit of snow towards the end of the week. it looks like, but for now, kind of quiet up there. meanwhile, some spotty showers. we're tracking here

on the the storm tracker. 4 coming up. we'll take a look at that forecast for your saturday.

>> and there will be no bart service between the daly city in glen park stations this weekend as crews remove potentially hazardous trees near the trackway union samtrans run bus shuttles between 2 stations throughout the closure. but riders should expect delays of up to 30 minutes while traveling through that part of the system. this marks the latest effort by the transit agency to remove hazardous trees. well, bart is calling the largest tree removal project in the agency's history. and

taking a live look now at the bay bridge where it looks like traffic is actually. >> had a heavier than usual. i would say they've at time of the 14. >> what kind weather can people expect on their morning commute today? wet roads, definitely with that. good morning, stephanie. good morning. all and some of the signs and will let you know that along the way there. so little bit of caution and member those windshield wipers when you get the lights on. >> lower to middle 50's is how we report these numbers and they're actually a little higher >> than they were this time from yesterday substantially. so half moon bay not a shocker, but at the coast, cloudy, gloomy drizzle going on and you can expect a lot of that for today, although i think some of the drizzle might start to lay off a bit. but getting the sunshine to the coast today is going to be pretty rough. so really what's going on here? we're being sprayed by this traffic coming in off the pacific. most of the major action up north. but it is producing some of the way of some light rain showers and that will repeat itself a little tomorrow. there's where the source of all of us is

this nice, juicy low here. that's not going to be impactful for us. but we are looking for system by the middle of the week to come in. meanwhile, this nice clear space to the south. well, the tug and war is what's going on. high pressure trying to clear us out of stone that of the south or from the socal. but it's not helping here. so we're kind of in the middle with everything up north and the high to the south. there's a spotty showers. little clear patch develops by late this afternoon. phil is back up again for tonight's will. probably have mild start your day on sunday variable clouds, although the mostly cloudy side and maybe hit or miss of us. few little light rain showers with all that to let's say clears out earnest by monday morning. so today, mostly cloudy, scattered showers, cole, lower 60's will bump that up. a couple degrees for tomorrow. looks like okay. so that account will be variable cloudy with a spotty shower here. mid 60's going on. well inland. and then there's a minor warm-up for the early part of next week because the high pressure has its moment and then maybe some showers to the middle of the week and getting a little

unsettled to the weekend. but the weekend looks to be pretty good, though, next weekend. 62 san francisco, a few showers afternoon sun try to work in here a little bit. 62 oakland also in 65 meanwhile for san jose there your high temperatures for today. everybody gets to the lower 60's from the coast to well inland. that looks like now and a bit will be going through some of the longer range forecast to talk about that. no, the weak system coming in. it looks like the bulk of the lion share will be to the north, which so typical for the winter months. but it looks like my clear out in time for next weekend. so we'll have kind of an unsettled finish to the week. okay. and then kind of clear up the weekend. ok, very good to know. thank you so much for the update. >> okay. well, the holiday shopping season is in full swing and retail foot. traffic is up in san leandro. that means more officers out on patrol kron four's philippe djegal reports. >> the trees up at washington plaza in san leandro and the city hopes people head downtown into the rest of it shopping corridors and feel safe spending locally for their gifts this holiday

season. the holiday spirit in sunland risk quite vibrant. mayor juan gonzalez says the police department is taking steps to ensure shoppers are at ease during their visits with the undercover patrols in our retail space being increased. we're doing things to make sure that shopping and sally is both fun. >> and safe near gonzalez says the officers are also heightening their responses to license plate readers reporting hits and stolen cars and intentionally making uniformed officers more visible during busy shopping hours see have safety, including ambassadors working. >> 7 days a week from 07:00am until 09:00pm executive director of the downtown san leandao benefit district morgan max rose says those ambassadors can help escort shoppers to and from their cars by request. >> just flagged them down there all through the core of downtown leandro hearing. tyson carries a safety whistle just in case she finds herself in trouble but feels confident she can shop. >> without becoming a victim

of crime. it is the holiday season and it's the season of giving and sometimes you got to just not be scared and just, you know, hope for the best and know there will be several pairs of eyes in public safety. watching your back. >> in san leandro, philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> holiday spirit is in full swing. as you just heard there, caltrain unveil a is 2023 holiday train stops will be made across the bay area. starting today in san francisco. this is really such a special event every year. you can find the full schedule online and toy donations will be all aboard for kids in need and you can take part. >> as long as you bring an new toy. that's exactly what we're looking for, that we're going to get into the asian army and the marine corps reserve toys for program helped about needy

families. a all >> and the holiday train does run all weekend long. this is such a fun and festive thing that happens every year. so i highly recommend it. i believe giving a free hot chocolate at these 2. head out there and find out yourself. >> well, to tahoe resorts opened up on friday. kron four's terisa stasio tells us about the conditions and tips. >> for hitting the slopes. it is that time of year again. time to step in to some skis are strapped into his snowboard and hit the slopes. kirkwood started running chairs friday morning. this is general manager ricky newberry. >> conditions are good. we've got 7 inches new snow on top of some snow making snow. we added a couple trails with the new natural snow and scams. fun. >> newberry says that with the holidays here, there will be some specials going on the mountain. >> he after the holidays, we'll have our traditional torchlight parade coming down 5 or chair 6 behind us. and then we do fireworks in the base area in a big bonfire in the base area and some music.

so, yeah, looking for that. >> that sugar bowl, was all smiles as they also took in first visitors for the season where? well, you know, we actually got about 2 inches of snow overnight last night. so that next with that nice light, fluffy stuff. >> and the conditions pretty you know, a lot of times during early season you know, we'll have to make some snow to give mother nature a little but that's just in a very was awesome out there. and here is a look at palisades tahoe, a spokesperson tells kron 4 news that they will be opening more lives than terrain on both palisades. >> and alpine sides of the resort throughout the weekend. all of the resort's remind visitors to check conditions before heading up. make sure you check roads to be safe. parking reservations are also required now at some resorts like palisades tahoe. i got to make some runs myself this morning and we're pretty fired up. theresa kron. 4 news.

>> residents may have some of the best taste in music according to a spotify wrapped new feature. well, this week, spotify released their annual list of top songs and customers that customers listen to throughout the year. a new feature called sound town shows users the cities that share the same listening habits and berkeley was one of the u.s. cities that matched to the most users. spotify associated artists, including says a and lana del with the east bay city he go for those of you who listen to spotify. lots of people apparently have the same music cases. people who live in berkeley. pretty interesting stuff. well, still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, san francisco is all aglow with the holiday cheer. a look at the new life displays around the city.

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the rain we saw last winter helped with this year's crop of christmas trees. and we stopped by abc trees in san mateo. check in on how things are going there. >> business has been pretty good on this weekend is when we're expecting to be really busy. that's, you know, the person second weekend in december is most people buy their trees. but so far, so good. we have seen a little bit of a difference in the economy this but so so >> now, mcnab, a recommends picking out picking out a tree is sooner than later. well, there isn't a shortage this year. they say that you'll have more options to pick from earlier. but you go to a tree makes sense. downtown francisco is lit largest holiday projection event in

the country kicked off last night in the city by the bay. our photojournalist to hear us. was there. >> show is custom needs soundtrack is its location. and this one right here is from an artist group from france. >> i think they're pretty amazing so far. think jellyfish was my favorite, both from the united states and the international world thank you to the >> 14 amazing art is for your wonderful creations. >> i just gorgeous. well, let's go. sf will be on display every night until december, the 10th. so you have plenty of time to check it out. all right. well, still

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>> now on the kron 4 morning news. a santa rosa high school faces a lawsuit after a 15 year-old student is stabbed to death. what we know about the allegations. and we have a live report on a gun buyback event planned in the south bay this morning. the latest on the effort to get weapons off the streets. welcome back to the kron. 4 morning news. if it does get you started this half hour with. >> a look at your saturday morning forecast with mister

dave sphar. hello, dave. well, good morning, stephanie. good morning, everybody. yeah, it's a little gloomy. we have some light rain showers. drizzle going on here a little bit. that's going to probably subside. >> but we'll be left with lots of cloud cover. it looks like for the day today. this is a motion to give you a general idea what we're talking about and it looks like most of the light rain showers are starting to dissipate, but the cloud cover will stay. and we've got to keep it still in the still bubble up. a letter on today as well. here's a live shot of half moon bay. you get the general idea overcast and some drops of water there on the lens. temperatures are mild, though to start. we're in the lower to middle 50's and that's the current readings which as you can see as well above what we saw from yesterday with complete different conditions thursday night the clear skies, drier air. so we able to get all that radiational cooling this case. we have mild pacific air over us with rain showers and cloudy skies, not able to do much cooling bit of an offshore wind at hand here, but there won't be much of a wind factor in the next 48 hours. so basically

mostly cloudy again, pencil when maybe a little passing little sprinkle or shower with all of that. and temperatures pretty uniformly in the lower 60's. now, tomorrow probably could see a couple raise a son, a little warmer. well inland. but then we're watching for another dose of some rain showers by the middle of next week. we'll get all into that coming up in a bit. stephanie. all right, dave, thank you. >> police arrested 3, 15 year-olds in connection to a fight at a mall. santa rosa police shared this image of a ghost gun found on one of the teens. police say the unregistered weapon was loaded. they say in total 18 teens were involved in the fight thursday at the santa rosa transit law on second street. officers say the group was wearing clothing, consistent with active gang participation and yelling gang terminology of one another. most of them did run off when police showed up. high school in santa rosa faces a lawsuit in connection to a march stabbing that left one student dead. sixteen-year-old jayden pm to was stabbed multiple times inside our class in front of his classmates and

teacher. the parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school and district. a lawsuit accusing school staff members of failing to help the teen. a 15 year-old was arrested in connection to the stabbing. earlier this week in juvenile court, a judge ruled the 15 year-old was not responsible for manslaughter because he said paean to was the aggressor of the fight and orchestrated the attack. we reached out to santa rosa city schools for response to lawsuit and we have not yet heard back. >> florida, we show the conservative principles work this country must choose freedom over failure. you attack, you go to communities. we view it we made sure they and blacks. i can handle it. i'm used to bully. you're nothing but a bully. your understanding? >> this is what it sounded like for much of the 90 minute debate between governor newsom and desantis thursday night. the event moderated by conservative political commentator sean hannity. and

now the debate is over the fallout. in fact, checking continues. and that includes a claim made by governor desantis about how california law regulates health care for trans children. that claim left state senator scott wiener of san francisco pretty upset four's catherine heenan reports. >> senator wiener is saying he's not surprised, but discussed it. the flurry of post-debate analysis and reaction is always heated. but d here is a specific claim about california that has him upset. florida governor ron desantis said and later tweeted, if you are a parent iowa or new hampshire or south carolina, your minor child can go to california without her knowledge or consent and get hormone therapy. puberty, blockers change operation. that is extreme. that is an assault on parents rights. senator wiener was watching and listening. he wrote the bill in question asked b 107. he quickly shot out this tweet saying desantis cannot stop

lying about lgbtq people. i talked to the senator to explain why the claim is inaccurate. >> ron desantis completely straight id about 01:00:07am, you want to 7? there's no such thing. certain red states like texas and other states. we're literally threatening to arrest and criminally prosecute the parents of trans kids because those parents, we're supporting their kids and accessing a gender affirming care. the age of consent is 18. you need the consent of your parents or guardian. if you are under 18. and so if they can to showed up in california, i went to a doctor and said i want to owns or i won other gender affirming care. the doctor would not be able to provide

those services. >> the senator watch the debate he said was bracing for misinformation. he claims for years. right wing extremists have lied about the lgbtq community to score political points and in this case who says they are lies, which are affecting children, just trying to live their lives. >> and now to israel's war with hamas, nearly a full day after a ceasefire collapsed, israeli fighter jets have struck 200 targets in the gaza strip. israel dropped leaflets warning hundreds of thousands of palestinians who fled there to safety that they're now in a dangerous battle zone in the north gaza's hamas-run ministry of health says 178 people have been killed. hundreds more wounded. and now there is increased concern about the fate of the remaining hostages in gaza, including 8 americans. >> we remain intensely focused on getting everyone home, getting hostages something that i also worked on monday.

so we were still at this. >> right now, negotiators are working with israel and hamas over the potential release of more hostages from gaza. and just days after to jewish groups filed a lawsuit against the university of california for alleged unchecked spread of anti-semitism. the president of the uc school system faces backlash over a new proposal about how to train faculty members on teaching about the middle east. the program would present a, quote, viewpoint, neutral history of the middle east. in a public letter, 150 uc professors condemned school system. president michael drake, a letter accusing drake of questioning the academic integrity of university of california scholars already engaged in the historical study and teaching of the middle east. that letter going on to say drake statement has worrying echoes with other countries where governments have attempted to introduce policies that would punish critical speech. the letter comes after drake earlier this

month announced 2 million dollars to help schools develop educational programs to understand anti-semitism and islamophobia. university of california responded to the letter in an emailed statement saying in part, quote, the president's remarks were referencing voluntary educational programming on our campuses, not classroom content or curriculum. you're working with our campuses to determine how to distribute these on these funds in ways that benefit our campus communities. in national news, police are investigating a deadly shooting that killed at least one person and wounded 4 others friday in las vegas. all of the victims were homeless. that shooting happened around 5.30 friday night near the u.s. 95 and charles boulevard in east las vegas. police are still searching for the gunman that they have very limited information at this time. >> witnesses saw a black male in a hoodie, flee the area in a dark sedan. right now. we're trying to confirm that information, but we do have not been able to confirm is that accurate information of

what our suspect is? >> this comes as a search is underway for a serial killer targeting homeless people sleeping alone on the streets of los angeles, las vegas. police say it's too early to say if this shooting is related to the la case. detectives in la released images of a possible suspect believed to be responsible for 3 deaths so far all of the victims, homeless men sleeping alone. the la police chief, thanks. one suspect is responsible for all the killings as of now, no arrests have been made. >> happening right now, the santa clara county sheriff's office is holding a gun buyback. it's the latest effort to get dangerous weapons off the streets. well, justice live for us now at reid-hillview county airport with the latest on this. good morning, tiffany. >> good morning, stephanie. yes, it has been a busy morning for the sheriff's office. they have received so 100 guns within the 1st half hour of this buyback event, very well organized as well.

all you got to do is drive and drive up. drop your firearm off anonymously. and then a drive out. today is the day for the buyback event for the santa clara county sheriff's office say say this is a community initiative aimed at enhancing public safety by inviting people to drop off their guns and providing a secure and anonymous opportunity to do so. this event started at 8 o'clock this morning. it will go until 01:00pm this afternoon and is open to all residents of santa clara county participants are encouraged bring by any unwanted firearms, including handguns, rifles, shotguns and assault weapons sheriff's office saying no questions will be asked a big incentive as well as hard cash. those handing in guns today will receive cash in exchange in the amount of cash will depend on the type of firearm you are bringing in today. and all of these guns will be properly and safely destroyed. >> yeah, we're doing a gun buyback for the community. anybody can come down all they

need to do is drive up or hear reid-hillview airport will be here till 1 o'clock. >> receiving guns, no questions asked. they have a gun rifle, assault weapon, ghost gun doesn't matter. we're going to take and we're going to be cash for that gun. it's really important just to establish an environment where they can turn in unwanted firearms. and that's exactly what this is about for individuals of had those guns stored in a closet or something for years. don't use them. don't want this is a place to bring them. >> the sheriff also saying they are taking non functional firearms and ammunition. if you have those and you want to drop those off anonymously today as well. stephanie, back to you. all right, tiffany, thank you. >> coming up on the kron, 4 morning news, the santa rosa fire department adding a furry friend of the crew. more on the pop us of his role. and the forty-niners prepare take on the eagles, how they are getting ready for the big game this. >> and a look at today. it

looks like quite a bit of cloud cover hanging around and some very spotty showers on the board here. we'll probably see a similar performance going on for tomorrow, though. temperatures up a little bit more. so put the weekend forecast together for you to the morning news.

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>> santa rosa fire department has added a furry friend to help crews cope with on-the-job stress. kron four's ella sogomonian introduces us to maverick.

>> maverick join the team at the santa rosa fire department about 2 weeks ago. he's expected to help alleviate short-term anxiety and lessen the effect of experienced trauma. the dog was trained by the national institute of canine science and training. that's designed to help improve the psychological well-being of first responders. they say just petting a dog can reduce the stress. chemical called cortisol. he lives with his handler. captain corey record and together they're spending 6 months bonding before they graduates it breaks up this the >> the seriousness of the situation and you have kind of a dog. is there staring at you asking to play? not. rick is taking on a crucial role. >> firefighters with the santa rosa fire department respond to emergencies every day. but for the last few years, there have been significant traumatic back-to-back wildfires leveled neighborhoods like the one fire marshal paul lowenthal has had to rebuild. went through a lot. obviously 2017 and subsequent fire since then. one of our goals has been better. not only are our community for how we respond to wildfires and disasters.

>> but also how we better respond to the needs of our own employees that are going to some of those same traumatic events. >> the nonprofit santa rosa fire foundation who paid for it all plans to bring a second onto the team very soon reporting in santa rosa. i'm ella sogomonian kron. 4 news. >> good boy. well, taking a live look now from our golden gate bridge cam this morning. a 44 quite a bit of traffic out there at this hour. and people or probably waking up to some slick roadways out there day. >> this is true. forget the windshield wipers but your headlights good morning, stephanie. good morning, everybody. radar doesn't show too much more. just getting an idea where everything is at this right moment. we see some light rain showers up towards the north. and that's going to be the case today and probably tomorrow we'll get these little patches of some very, very light rain showers going on here. overcast, though, does kind of rule the day. there's quite hour checking in here. kind of overcast in the city. however, later today, it

looks like they'll be a little opportunity to open up a little partially, but don't get too excited of the clouds come back again. just kind of given motion to get an idea of where it's coming from. it's being sprayed from the north. and really we're a battleground right in the middle between the high pressure far to the south. and meanwhile, all the traffic coming in off the pacific towards our north tahoe forecast. not much the way of snow now, not from this weekend and early into next week. it looks like we warm up a bit until we kind of go over the cliff again, dropping with precipitation coming our way. and for tahoe to. so this may get a little bit more interesting towards the middle portion of the week. back to the larger pacific. there's the high pressure i referenced. it's going to take control probably by sunday night into monday. open up the skies gets a warming up here. we'll see some temperatures climb to the middle upper 60's at that. maybe 70 or so before another system drops in from the gulf of alaska are least part of it. does. and that might bring some mountain snow into motion. there's a little patch opening up late this afternoon. also tonight, sunday, kind of the same

thing, although it looks like some patches trying to open up a little bit in the east bay. and then we start clearing out by the time we get to monday. that will be monday. tuesday zone. longer-range. let's do it this way. all right. so we get all that through. there's the high pressure building. boom, wednesday's a little opportunity for some showers. and we have more subsequent systems after that by the weekend next weekend. looks like we're ok until the following monday. so if this timing, everything holds up. okay. that means at least next weekend. we'll get some more sunshine for 4 zone forecast today covering your saturday. 62 san francisco, not a lot of movement. lower 60's at the coast. we know we start off in a mild note. we don't have a lot of sun. so therefore, temperatures will be somewhat reduced. a shorter day to burlingame 63, some mid 60's. this pocket here, palo alto and in the south bay, too. 65 san jose east bay shoreline, lower 60's. and that's pretty much mirrored off the tri valley. 63 walnut creek and concord, 62 richmond, the les, chilly 58. even with a little bit of a breeze offshore to 59

for napa and 61 for santa rosa. so again, tomorrow, probably the last of the light, rain showers and more spotty. you may not actually see them, but a lot of cloud cover still lingers. a few rays of sun possible. here's the minor warm-up trend by tuesday. new system wednesday. obviously a drop and we have unsettled weather with some showers potentially next weekend. looks like we'll be ok and the dry. so something to kind of look out for his looks like to be about wednesday. and that does look like a morning hit 2. okay. got it. so have the umbrellas on hand. yeah, we're going the winter months. you've got to do this anyway. yeah. that makes sense bundle up. all right. thanks so much that all right. >> well, this morning on dine and dish local say a fond farewell to a san francisco neighborhood tradition. kron four's vicki liviakis takes us back in time. >> i think it is high. we discovered hip arrive ago and in fact, we're here pick the right to talk to the chef who could be arguably basque chef of his generation chefs share the so good to see patrons are passionate about everything

from paper piccolo peppers and all things authentic basque. this is the fish it's very sort st. cuisine i think has been you know, the last few years and the last 10 years, i would by the great chefs >> of the basque region, which, you know, we all yourself and well and i'm here, but they're not all of backing the in the country. and i think >> really put the cuisine and about. and i think it's a very tasty, very straightforward. the cuisine. >> seen it's a bit french and spanish and uniquely after 21 years of serving up san francisco. this is the final week for the house is packed with neighbors fans basque and recovery shaft for so many it's small. but you know and

when it's time you got to do ships are all not saying what he has up his sleeve, but you can bet he's cooking up something good in san francisco, vicki liviakis kron. 4 news. the forty-niners are preparing for their rematch against the philadelphia eagles. >> and the san jose sharks dominated the new jersey devils kron four's. erin wilson has a look at bay area. sports highlights. >> well, we're a little over 24 hours away from the forty-niners and the eagles rematch last season's nfc championship game. and we can all get pinellas is over and just play the game. when to like that. i would like that tpis well, now we all know what happened in the game in philly last season. you know, brock purdy get knocked out early from the game, which pretty much derail the forty-niners offensive game plan from the start. while jalen hurts. he led the eagles to an early lead coasted into the super bowl on a 31 to 7 win over the forty-niners. so other than a few injuries for most for the

most part, teams will have a majority of the key players this time george kittle whose play will absolutely dictate have the team's offense performs on sunday. he doesn't buy the games hype. he just wants to hook up with philly. get this we get a win and get back home. take a listen. >> there's more media people this week practice. you know, you guys you know, make things a little bit bigger than they 13 yes, it's good to philadelphia eagles. yes, one fighting yes, that's open. and i are sitting here. if you guys there, i don't really have year. actually saw a clip from talk about said that last year's last coaches. we've got one of their best players in heart rate on our roster. it's just a different not holding on and help. nasa football game the get better and i would >> figure out a way to win out ou d the shark. they play their second game in as many nights last night facing the devils where former teammate

timo meier was. that's where he resides. and i don't know if you wanted that after this one losing last night in the bruins on the night before the shot get out to an early lead, market it with the pretty pass right on stick of a covid. do you see that with the risk their life to that starts mainly one to nothing after that one now tied at one apiece in the second period donald getting his second goal of the game. >> with every direction from right now he'll get a few handshakes right there for his teammates and right here, anthony in front knocks in his second of the game, the sharks, they win their first road game of the season. 6 to 3. the 6 goals are actually the most. they've scored all season last night. so a great night for the sharks. you know, on the road. hopefully they can bring that energy back to the shark tank. but for now, i'll it back to you at the dais. >> all right, aaron, thank you. and taking a live look now at stormtracker 4 radar. >> looks like up much of the rainfall we were seeing earlier this morning has started to disperse just but i

know that keeping an

>> all right. take a look. window washers dressed as superheroes help clean windows at the lucille packard children's hospital as chair for friday. look at that. how well, batman flash, mister, incredible spiderman among others. they join forces to lift the spirits of kids. and steph, so wonderful. it's when doesn't i one of those webs he shoots into the sky. was the attached to a was one. i'm sure it's meant flag pole or the clouds just a

>> well, you know, he's there. he's he's a entertaining the kids today. and, you know, this is the story that you've been waiting for another shake on the to the bay area. the new location is opening in san jose's bascom square. no official word yet when the eatery is going open. but this new location once it does open is going to be a total of 12 stores in the bay area. so, dave, i don't think it goes without asking if i asked you know, are you an internet fan or shake shack and, you to cull and that's the thing there. have to say. we're probably have to do with like what the? >> where i am and so forth because they're not always readily available over the bay to pay another one. opening up. and, you there's hope there's help for those fast food guys. yeah, and jose up. all right. well, december a reminder here is national cat lovers month. all feline adoption fees are. >> waves that are when animal services where there are a record number of kittens and cats and you can see the available animals on your screen right now. and you

could take home sprinkles, for example, moonstone chopsticks, bubbles or how about a bonded pair puzzled awful. really cute names that they come up with dr. yeah. it was so many wonderful options you can consider adopting one and saving a life or 2 today. one of the back story when you get the name, ok, bubbles, have that happen. all he loves bubbles. the tolls. yeah, that's you funny. we just kind of monitoring a few little spots spotty showers which could look like they've almost like evaporated, almost gone. it's really the cloud cover that lingers. >> it's a nuisance type of a little sprinkle that goes on your enough to kind of dirty the roads up or the roads a bit. so little caution if you're on area roadways there a here's what it looks like in the 7 day. we have a little warming trend early next week. we're looking at the middle of the week when things should start to change. now. >> and then unsettled as we start to finish off the remainder of the week. okay. looking good. yes. yeah. for the winner. yeah. that's good. not a whole lot of rain from all of this. just enough to be kind of that nuisance. not a big dump around that. so all

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