number of arrests so far that are just in from the governor's office. some san jose business owners will be getting surveillance cameras for free as that city cracks down on retail thefts. we're live with those details and the conference city council does pass a rent stabilization measure after hours of heated debate. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> happy wednesday and happy valentine's day. i and i'm james. we're waking up this morning on this wednesday with a dry start. but a wet finish if you have any evening valentine's day plans. let's 0 in on that. good morning, john. a good morning. yeah, valentine's day. not going to be quite as crystal clear as the past few days have been. but it's okay. it's not super storm. even just getting a little rainy later on. you can see it's not holding anything up at sfo behind me. things are moving along just fine there. then you'll find the same on your roads. you get the morning commute started. >> san jose. you're definitely seeing a lot more cloud cover up above right now. and that

is a sign of the storm system that is sitting immediately to our west right now. right now, showers are several hours to our north really up and humboldt down or take counties up near the oregon border. we'll start to see those showers later this morning for the north bay and then into the early afternoon for the rest of us. so we get a nice dry morning commute. in the meantime, before a wet rest of the day, current temperatures are in the upper 40's to low 50's a fairly mild start get those light jackets on. get the dog out this morning before that rainfall gets here and it will be a little enticing to get outside later on. as for the afternoon, we're still staying mild, at least upper 50's to low 60's, mostly light to moderate rainfall says bring the umbrellas and the rain jackets, rain. all right. something of that the last hour. we had an accident on the bay ridge right near the toll plaza. >> that just cleared drive time. stay the same 15 minutes into the city this morning. all the bridges, no accidents or hazards to start 19 middle right. so it's a little slower gain on the san mateo bridge.

keep that in mind. if you're traveling, richmond center fell bridge 14 minutes. last time we checked in were still around 10 drive times are subtly growing. there. and a 25 minute ride on the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls darya. james, back to you. all right. thanks a lot, ryan. a 71 is the time. and today san jose in their officials are going to announce a new program. the trying to >> combat retail crime in the city. it's a problem we've seen not just there but all around the bay area rising across the nation as well. and they're doing something. >> innovative to try and help businesses protect their property, protect their merchandise and hopefully catch whoever's committing these retail theft. four's will tran is live in san jose with a closer look at what they're doing. good moary to be

their location to make sure that their place feels a little bit safer. and of course, when they do that, the police officers will have access to the footage so they can catch down criminals. should they pounce on those unsuspecting businesses? here's how it works. they actually started this floating. the idea from the previous administration, mayor sam liccardo and now he's termed out its mayor. matt mahan. he will be at their at the news conference at 10, 15 this morning to talk about it. they will mount they are reaching out to the businesses

to let them know if you want to be part of this program. let the city of san jose know about it and let them come there and install of the hardware for you. this is part of a trend that we're seeing in california that a lot of municipalities we talked about. governor gavin newsom last week. asking the california department of justice to issue more attorneys to help alameda alameda county fight crime. obviously san jose is in santa clara county, but you get the same trend that now athey're hoping to fight back against retail theft. >> back to you. all right. thanks a lot. we'll >> 704 is the time and new this morning, governor gavin newsom's efforts to crack down on crime in the east bay appear to be showing results according to information from the governor's office, chp officers in oakland have already made 71 arrests recovered 145 stolen cars and seized 4 guns linked to

crimes. just last week, governor newsom announced that he was deploying 120 chp officers to oakland help crack down on crime. governor's office says the people arrested were suspected of charges, including car theft, drug possession, felony gun possession. the chp will continue to conduct their operations in high crime areas in the east bay. and don't forget these operations are just one part of the governor's plan to fight crime. just last week he announced that he would be deploying additional state attorneys to alameda county to help prosecute those suspected of criminal acts. >> time now is 704. and the city of concord just passed a rent control ordinance. but the meeting was heated between landlords and tenants over the lot of back and forth. this ordinance, though, now limits annual rent increases and requires landlords to have just cause before they evict the tenant. still, the debate isn't kron 4 sarah stinson has more. >> a rally was held before the concord city council meeting

tuesday with both tenants and landlords shouting about their rights. every seat was taken at the meeting. people even wore a sticker on their church to show which side they're on the agenda. rent control for multifamily rental complexes with 2 or more units built before february. first 1995. what's being proposed is limiting annual rent increases to 3% or 60% of consumer price index. whichever is lower as well as just cause for eviction, which could apply to most rented units in concord, including single-family homes. however, many council members debated that for a just cause would not apply to dwelling units. just cause does not apply when a tenant is evicted for at reasons like non payment. if there's no phone with the landlord wants to evict the tenant, this ordinance proposes to require property owners to pay 3 times the fair market rent and an

extra $3,000 to cover moving expenses. both sides say this has been debated for 7 years and they're ready for city council to make a decision city ca. so really need see the real situations that all the 2 winters family and children are suffering with the rent control of the rent, rent increases every year. and it's a it's a really bright. and so what's going to happen is that we're going to be in living on the street. so this isn't really just about. >> you know, rental rights. it's about property owner rights. and that's what strikes at my core city council will have a second reading of these ordinances at the next meeting. march i'm sara stinson reporting in concord kron. 4 news line 707. and another developing story. the investigation is continuing into the heart wrenching murder, suicide. that happened in san mateo where 2 children and 2 adults were found dead in their home monday during a welfare check.

police just gave an update on the case. they say that officers checked all the doors and windows and found no sign of forced entry. and then inside investigators found the man and the woman dead in the bathroom. they had been shot and the gun was in the bathroom and in the bedroom is where they found the 2 children. both boys dead, but they're not positive how the boys died. >> children do not have gunshot wounds. and there was no signs of a struggle through the house >> all of the if there's any bruising or anything like that would come from the and we don't have any information about >> the investigation continues will give you an update when we know at this point we don't know the names or the ages of anyone either or their relationship. >> the police have arrested a palo alto, massage therapist on suspicion of assault investigation began back in

november of last year after police received a call from a woman saying she'd been sexually assaulted earlier that day by a sewer. she said it happened at massage envy on el camino. real last thursday, police arrested arturo gomez for that assault teen now faces felony charges. police say massage and the work collaboratively with them and fired gomez as soon as they learned he was a suspect. gomez has worked for other massage establishments in the south bay. and so now investigators are looking to see if there are any other victims. fremont police are looking for potential victims of a man who they say sexually assaulted a woman monday night. this is 27 year-old marvin velasquez of fremont. police say he attacked and sexually assaulted a woman who was walking in the area fremont boulevard and eggers drive about 09:00pm. police say community members actually held him there until officers arrived to arrest him. >> on the peninsula, san mateo county officials want the final say over autonomous vehicles on the roads in the county board of supervisors

just passed a resolution supporting a proposed law that would put control of driverless cars in the hands, a local governments instead of state officials and the dmv. the county's resolution comes as waymo has proposed expanding driverless fleets be on san francisco. the peninsula as far south as sunnyvale. the board of supervisors says that waymo's expansion is premature. >> the state agencies are allowing unfettered access to our roads and highways without any community input. went to some pains to ensure that provided correspondence the cpc just make clear again, we aren't taking substantive position as the county county attorney's office. with respect to the bill, it's more a question of >> ensuring that the county has as granularity in detail with respect to what's proposing that the decisions made at the appropriate the appropriate place. >> last week, the san mateo

county attorneys sent a protest letter, 2 utility officials about waymo's proposed expansion. the dmv had already okayed the expansion and this comes as waymo is recalling some of their software now because there were 2 incidents that happened in phoenix in december. a waymo vehicle crashed into a pickup truck that was being towed. and then a few minutes later, another waymo crashed in that same pickup truck. waymo says that none of those vehicles had any passengers in at the time of the crash. >> we're going take a break. 7.11 that i've still ahead on the kron. 4 morning news. a specialized team of firefighters is missing some of their valuable equipment after someone stole them from their trucks. plus, your utility bill could soon be based on how much money you make, why some lawmakers say this proposed law would do more harm than good. >> hey, good morning, everyone. i'm michael thomas live in berkeley. it's

valentine's day and we are live in a big green here. they are prepping for what they call their super bowl. coming up, we'll give you the details on how much it's going to cost you this special day

>> time now is 7.13, and we are wishing you a happy valentine's day was one of the rain on you. but it is we've got john in the weather center with that forecast on this day where people are going to have dinner reservations yeah. if you've got those dinner reservations, just bring the umbrella for it. it's not going to be too terribly windy, at least so. we'll call it as much of a stormy one as it will be just a wet finish to the day. >> looking out there at the embarcadero. got some of you taking your morning jog before

the showers do arrive. good for you for getting out there. taking advantage of a dry morning while we do have it. showers are still several hours to the north and west of us. little bit of snow falling in the northern sierra. but that's even yet to kick up yet. 1, 2, low-pressure areas lined up just west of us and a 3rd set to arrive late this weekend. so we've got 3 rounds of rain fall ahead of us. this first round of rain that we're eyeing down today is actually going to be the lighter of the 3. we will see showers late morning for the north bay, mostly into the afternoon to early evening for the rest of us on and off areas of light to moderate rain in only a few pockets of heavy rain. so shower activity should be something that shouldn't stop you, too terribly much from getting out there. if you want to do that. nice candlelit dinner indoors with the pitter patter of the rain outside kind of romantic for sure. as for tomorrow morning, a few morning sprinkles. but really tomorrow is going to be a dry one and friday for the most part, also dry friday night into saturday. that second round of rain gets here. that's going to be a little

heavier 3rd round of rain arrives sunday night into monday and tuesday. that will be the very heaviest one. this first round of rain anywhere between a quarter to a half an inch of rain for most of our urban areas. upper elevations could see over an inch of it. we'll add more on top of this into saturday and then especially into sunday night monday and tuesday by the middle to end of next week. we've got quite a lot of rain on its way. sierra nevada also getting a good dose of snow. a winter storm warning in effect through tomorrow at 04:00pm and snow level falling as low as 5500 feet in elevation. as much as 2 feet of snowfall at those upper elevations donner summit around 8 inches there. just an idea of what you'll be encountering as you do, drive up. i-80 temperatures will be in the upper 50's to low 60's for your daytime highs today. foster city through mountain view holding on to those 60's. just as you have been san jose. also back up to 60 degrees most of us will be upper 50's today, though, like to try valley on up through danville, berkley, up to

richmond and most of the north bay, the layover to sonoma in santa rosa down through mill valley. a look ahead shows tomorrow's temperatures back up in the low 60's tomorrow. as i mentioned, it is mostly a break from the rain friday, mostly as well. saturday going to be rainy and windy as well. also the be the case sunday night into monday and tuesday. all right, john, thank you accident along southbound 6.80, and bollinger canyon road right here in san ramon. >> not the other highways. and we're also seeing with delays along 82 hayward, san mateo bridge, no accidents, but an uptick in traffic southbound 6.80, also same thing slowing down as well. they bridge right now just short of 18 minutes last hour, we had an accident coming. go right near the toll plaza. they got off the ridge pretty quickly, though, 20 woman right along our san mateo bridge, 80 to 101, one of the south bay. things are starting to build. 41 minutes. 85 to menlo park to 80 82 gear. still pretty light. kelly and joe down to 37. 33 minute ride reaches back to you. it's 7.17, for

your money. this morning, surging restaurant prices are making dining out for valentine's day. a luxury. >> and amazon is hit with a lawsuit over the new prime video and fees that they have. jane king is live at the nasdaq with those stories and more. hi, jane. >> haidar good morning. so there's a recently proposed class action lawsuit is asking amazon to fork over 5 million dollars to compensate users who say they were deceived by the flip-flopping on ads to people who don't want to see as on prime video, let's pay an extra $3 a month. amazon says they've hiked the prices because any more money to turn out. original programming was becoming increasingly cheaper for americans to eat at home instead of dining out. that's going to the january consumer price index prices for groceries are up 1.2% every year. the price of food restaurants is up more than 5%. and overall food prices are much higher than they were before the pandemic. well,

harvard and stanford's graduate business schools have dropped in the rankings to shockingly low levels. the financial times says harvard finished 11th and stamford is 23rd. now. stanford saw drops in academic research post nba salary increases value for money calculation. the school's carbon footprint and also drops in the international mobility of graduates and international courses. the university of pennsylvania's business school ranked hops on this list. and let's talk soar. thanks to taylor swift and beyonce. all those rides to stadiums for concerts. it also sports events and music tours. they grew by more than 35% last year, lyft had its highest annual ridership ever in 2023. from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king. thank you rethink you. like the pain. happy valentine's day. and to you. people are preparing for valentine's day and for a lot. that means. >> food in the form cupcakes, cookies sweet. crawford's michael thomas actually

standing by for us live in berkeley at a local bakery. they're getting ready for the big o. >> you're already speaking my language, michael. >> exactly. i know to things on camera me and this cupcake. we're talking about valentine's day. the money you're going to spend and the treaty made by take a look. this a cupcake shop. it's called cupcake and bakeries in berkeley. they've been here since about this morning. they say this is their superbowl because this is when people order. >> were sweet. yeah. you know what cupcakes look like. although i did want to see him eat it because you have to eat at the special way. are you get the frosting up? you know, there's a special way you don't know about also. get screwed like this and then you put it into a of a little the frosting try twist and then i think is going to be daniel. let's see if we've re-established a signal there. michael, are you with us? >> yes, yes, i think that i'm

with you guys. aren't we just got so excited. you know, the screen went out. but take a look before we actually come back to me. but look at these details. we've got up on your screen when it comes to the cost of what people are spending on. actual valentine's day. you can see right now 53% of consumers are going to celebrate in valentine's day. there will be spending around 25 billion dollars in total today averaging about $186. a person, those ages that are going to be spending the most money. of course, my age range. 25 to 34 because we don't know any better because they're going to be buying are going to be candy sweet treats like the kind that we're seeing right now. of course, those cards and those flowers and the traditional things. but back out here live. so i've got my here. you've been here since what time this i got here at 6 this morning, 6 this morning. what are you making this a specialty for valentine's day, right? right now. this is the flavor of the month making. so we it's a chocolate strawberry feel the middle part with strawberry. >> it has a cream frosting and how many cookies you think around here right now? a

couple about like 4,000 cupcakes, a lot of before send it back. i'm going to try to make one cupcake. i'm innocent. can hear was one of the puzzle of like i don't think that's really going to happen. this is you to produce such a thing as probably going end in a round up the real but there we going to cost you in. this is a cupcake. i'm sending back to you guys. thank you very times it kind of like soft-serve ice cream. i think it's a little. >> and you go, ok, that's a clean way to all we'll take michael going dive into that cupcakes >> all right, 7.22. right now coming up on the kron 4 morning news. >> the man who police arrested for stealing this plane and crashing it in half. moon bay appears in court. he's asked to represent himself, but dallas tonight, we'll tell you why.

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low-income californians, but many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. mind you are skeptical. they're speaking out against the policy. they're concerned it could actually to higher costs for those it was intended to help. so we'll see where it goes. >> i'm frustrated because i get to calls. from the people whose rates are going up. yeah. the california public utilities commission has until the summer to figure out how to implement this new policy. >> it's responding to the pushback claiming that a b 205, will save californians money in the long run. >> one of the benefits of making this type of billing adjustment is it shrinks the kilowatt hours per hour. price for all customers. >> many republicans and some democrats in the legislature have launched a bill to repeal ab 205, but the governor has not directly responded to that effort. >> 7.26 right now and a sandro safeway is limiting the number

of egg cartons that you combine 2 because there's a limited supply. look at that limit is 2 a similar sign also seen is safely in san francisco. we're reaching out to see what the deal is here because last year we know what happened. it was surgeon avian flu that rattled the nation's poultry industry and that caused an egg shortage and record high prices. and now we're starting to see a limit of 2 cartons per person. >> 7.26 right now. coming up next on the 4 morning news, chevron commits to making changes at 2 bay-area refinery and drops lawsuits will tell you what's

>> 7.29 right now we're going to have some sprinkles today. and for a while to come to terms that, yeah, the storm door getting wide open today. genevieve today opens back up and we've got 3 separate systems that will be impacting us over the next several days. the first one is already starting to impact us. but mostly come this afternoon. look at the top about 10:00am this morning. we do have some light showers up there and a little bit of wind. this is not going to be a major storm. not a has had a wind out of it. and most of our rainfall is going to stay light to moderate. we've already seen a few sprinkles up in the north bay. and we are also looking at a few of those misty spots on the santa cruz mountains, too. not a lot to talk about just yet. and roadways are still for the most part as for the next several hours, though, rainfall will begin to push into the north bay late this morning. the rest of the bay area starts to pick up into early afternoon. so anticipate bringing the rain jackets in the umbrellas with yet as you're getting outside through the day, upper 40's to

low 50's right now. oakland, you're at 50 degrees. 7 tail in redwood city. chuck. 49 petaluma and santa rosa at 51. but that much warmer in the afternoon will be in the low 60's at the very warmest just a bit. those rainy, wet conditions may be a nice evening for a candlelight dinner indoors. all right, john, thank you for that. well, if you are hitting the roads this morning, maybe you're traveling into the city right now. >> about 17 minutes meter lights are on. and the 5 o'clock hour we had an accident there, but they got that off the bridge pretty quick and drive times or an impacted. looks like they hpmight be doing some sort of bridge work. as you can see crews here starting to set up cones and they're slowing traffic down just a little bit. 24 minutes along the san mateo bridge factor that in if you are going to be traveling this morning, 30 minutes on the richness ever fill regional not impacted by anything. and the golden gate bridge just short of 35 minutes. 37 to the tolls darya. james, back to you. thanks a lot. reyna. >> in the east bay fire crews, they were working to clean up the roads from last week's storm. when somebody decided

ups conned. well, yeah, i'm going start with the working so we decided to go into their truck and take some crucial equipment. yeah, obviously the firefighters disappointed with what happened. we have kron four's theresa stasi with the pictures of what they stole. >> drove up the lock and went through the mechanism, open it up in the sewer. this storm, most of the personal equipment that was was kept in gone. that is what a specialized team of firefighters discovered last wednesday morning say woke up out of pleasanton hotel. ready to get back to work but found someone had ripped into their trucks and stolen equipment and bags. >> and that we've been working for 4 days straight. >> finding out tomorrow went into the hotel and we came out. crew, buddy, both are pickup trucks are vandalized, broken into its toll change swdes and personal equipment from us. >> this is crew ate in action last week during the latest powerful storms that swept through the bay area. erik truax with alameda county fire

department says that the unit is new and designed to tackle emergencies such as downed trees and other calamities. we had to go out of service for unable to provide that service that we have been for the last week to the communities. you know, we're a new program. >> and that's that's what hurts the most is. we're still trying to get our feet and, you know, gain momentum and, you know, you get shot down like that. israel just come back and and get back to where we were. >> to access of the team was able to get some donations to bounce back. but the theft certainly hurt. >> tough. it's it's something you can't really replace its its sentimental, small things here. and there like 16 years. so you know that seth can replace in just a, you know, attachment are. so here's how to our size. i mean, they're they're part of other tool. they work on them. they customize them in making their own and that was really tough. >> although some of the equipment is back to act said to be great to have the thieves return, the items stolen, especially as they prepare for the next round of

storms knew about that equipment stolen, which take it back. >> absolutely. in a heartbeat. i it mean a lot to us you know, i guess that sentimental value, the relationship that we've all built around each other and our equipment. that's a part of a second the tools that we work with and yes, if it's out there, we would love to get or just anything. you alameda county, theresa kron, 4 news. >> well, florida man accused of stealing this small plane and then crash landing it in half. moon bay pleaded not guilty in court, luis, gustavo aires, is accused of stealing that plane for palo alto last week. he doesn't have a license to fly. he remains in jail right now in a $10,000 bond. he was assigned a public defender after his request to represent himself was denied. his next hearing is scheduled for later this month. >> in the north bay, sanibel, police are looking for a man who is accused of assaulting a

girl after touching her arm inappropriately. this assault happened in the northgate mall earlier in the week. police say that enoch couple ace went to a with a group of young people approached the girl, touch her arm and then she's a kid and her friends tried to take a picture of him. he ended up confronting one of them, knocking the phone from their hand and then ran away towards the terrell linda area. now they're looking for him. >> the skeletal remains of a body found 29 years ago have now been identified as that of a filet a woman. you see her picture there on the screen. her name is robyn fay hedrick. her body was found in a creek bed off pine flat road near healdsburg back in august of 1993. little is known about hedrick except that she was born in 1953. and was last seen alive in vallejo february of 92. was identified through the dna doe, a project which led them to hendrickson who

later identified that as his mother, the sheriff's office is now asking for any information about her life so they can determine how she died. >> time now, 7, 5, and a pedestrian was struck and killed in hayward. it happened tuesday night northbound on mission boulevard north of la some way and cheri landry land. it was around 7.30, in the evening that a car was driving in the second lane of mission boulevard and it ended up hitting a pedestrian who was standing outside of a crosswalk. that pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. police say drugs or alcohol do not appear to be a factor in this crash. 2 refineries in contra costa county agreed to reduce their emissions and pay more than 20 million dollars as part of a settlement reached by the chevron richmond refinery. the martinez refining company in the bay area, quality all reached a deal. so both of the refineries originally had sued the management district over the stricter emissions

standards. but now they agree with this to drop those lawsuits and commit to changes. chevron has agreed to reduce its emissions at the refinery by 70 to 80%. and pay 40 million dollars for past fines and future exposures. and the martinez refining company will install air monitoring equipment contra costa county supervisor john gioia says the settlement is a win for everyone. >> they is really improving public health for residents who live near refineries everyone no matter where they live deserves are has the right to breathe clean air. and that's what this announcement is about. >> and in the statement, chevn ys, quote, we're pleased to put this litigation behind us in a way that benefits our community and allows chevron refinery to remain an important energy supplier in the region. the air district is going says it's estimating chevron's going to take about 4 years for these changes to happen,

mainly because they have to install additional equipment. as for the martinez, refining company, they are very close to meeting those obligations already. >> well, this comes as a new report shows a bay area air quality has been getting worse in recent years and will likely continue to get worse research from the first street foundation shows that california will bear the brunt of increasingly worse air quality in the country, mostly because of climate change fueled wildfires. the report's author says the central valley and the san francisco bay area are already seen twice as many poor air quality days. compared to what we saw 20 years ago and over the next 30 years, the study predicts more than half of people in the u.s. will be exposed to unhealthy air. >> 7.38, kron. 4 is your local election headquarters and that. >> top 4 candidates for u.s. senate in california faced off right here in our studios as you know, yeah, alive. and we brought that to you. the running to take over the seat left behind by late senator

dianne feinstein. >> kron four's dan kerman. he spoke to a political analyst about the takeaways from that debate. >> democratic congressman adam schiff went into monday's debate ahead of the pack. according to most polls. and analysts say the debate seen live on kron 4 didn't change that. doesn't look like this debate has changed the state of play in the race with the 2 top vote getters regardless of party going head to head in november. that means the next 3 weeks or race for second place between democratic congresswoman katie porter and retired republican baseball player, steve garvey. if your adam schiff, you're in lead, you want steve garvey in second place. and obviously if you're katie porter, you're going to need a lift. and the question is that what what sense do you hit at of adam schiff and garvey kind of moving forward back and forth. sonoma state university political science professor david mckeown says republicans will not cross party lines and vote for porter. so she must wrong-way votes from fellow

democrat shift. if you're katie border, you've got to attack business as usual. you've got attack washington, d.c., and you've got a kind of seattle, adam schiff with that. as for garvey, he must not alienate any california republicans, which is why he's staying away from attacking or endorsing donald trump. trying to have it all ways whether whether it's just successful strategy not. >> you know, it's known to really didn't know the polling hasn't quite that. that detailed enough to understand how the republicans really view. steve garvey. ron, for political analyst michael yaki says as to who will get the number 2 spot, it likely will depend on turnout if it's a depressed republican turnout. and katie porter has a very good chance making it into the top 2. and and because of that, i think she's a very, very good chance winning the senate seat november. if you have. depress democratic turnout as well. if you have a higher than normal republican turnout because maybe they like steve garvey, maybe a lot of southern california during

the recent play baseball for the 2 teams down there. you know, he could he could have a shot to really is. i think horse race between between porter and garvey. >> well, that was dan kerman reporting. we are 3 weeks out from the primary and analysts say during that time will certainly expect to see more advertisements from all the candidates in hopes of moving the needle one way or another before election day. >> so i'm here today to officially announce the launch. of my campaign for mayor of san francisco. >> and that is former supervisor. and once interim mayor mark farrell joining the race for san francisco, mayor, he says if he does, in fact, beat mayor london breed on election day, one of his first actions will be to fire police chief bill scott farrell says chief scott isn't doing enough to inspire other officers to improve recruitment or to fight for a budget that's necessary to protect residents. pd, though,

responded to this announcement defending chief scott's record saying that new protocols by the chief have led to a 40% decrease in property crimes like break-ins and retail thefts. we're going to take a break at 7.41. still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. it was a somber mood, as you can imagine in santa clara as the forty-niners cleared out their lockers. >> we're going hear how some of those players are feeling following that big loss. how to spot a romance scam and keep yourself safe with o

>> 7.44 is the time and new this morning. it's valentine's day. there are numerous people trying to take advantage of others. loneliness. we're talking about this. the scam artists are preying out of the woodwork saying upon the romantics. rich demuro has some tips on how you can spot a scam. >> lying is a way of life for romance scammers. they're using the speed and excitement of online dating to hook you in and make you fall fast. >> here's how to spot a scam as you don't become a victim. if you've been to a wedding lately, you know that people meet online. >> but those same sites also have people that love to scam you out of your money. they're going to want time to move forward. really, really quickly and spawning that is really imperative. chris pearson is a cyber security expert with black cloak dot io. if seem like they are always far away, always traveling might be a romance scam. according to the ftc

losses from romance scams hit a staggering 1.3 billion dollars in 2022. with a median loss of $4400. it's fun. it's exciting. and sometimes when those things happen, your brain shuts down a new move. more over to kind of like you're leading with your heart as pows, your mind and you're more likely to be able to be victimized. several things propel the scams, including the fact that people do indeed meet online and how we can send money from our phones instantly operations that are all over the world actually have individuals that are just having repetitively. you know, 20300 different from an chat with different people. warning signs they asked to move to a more private outside the app. you met them on. they have frequent excuses why they can't meet in person and they ask for money for travel or medical bills. they were on the way to go see you. but then the end hospital and the bills too much as $5,000. and could you possibly help their birth? yes, try to keep your personal details as private as

possible, especially early on. it's also a good idea to scrub yourself from data broker sites. at the same time, try to verify their identity. and if you suspect a scam, stop communicating, kristen, to platforms that have some type number verification to that. >> whatever you do, don't send money, crypto or revealing photos when in doubt it's probably a scam. and if you think you've got scammed or someone's trying to scam you, you can report it to the fbi's internet crime complaint center or ic 3 for a link. go to my website. rich on tech dot tv. i'm rich demuro and you are tech smart. and by the way, because of a friend of a friend. this happened. don't be fooled even if they're talking to you and you're hearing a voice in all this is legit because it'slnot just checks sent. yeah. so you got to be careful. scammers are very ingenious. >> ok, well, let's talk about happier things on this valentine's day. was real

deal? if you've got a date or something planned for tonight, just know you're going to bring the umbrella where john? yeah, you know, it's been really nice weather the past few days. some maybe a little inconvenient that valentine's day is our first day back to some rainfall. but it is going to be on the lighter to moderate side of things and not too terribly windy. so couple under that umbrella. get out there. do those dinner plans maybe get back at home and do the candlelight dinner. you're looking outside in san francisco. got the joggers on the embarcadero this morning enjoying what is predominantly a dry start? we have had a few light and brief very light showers just enough up in marin county to get a few spots wet for the most part, though, really holding off on the rain until the afternoon with areas of showers north of the bay area up in humboldt and del norte counties. 1, 2, systems already in sight just offshore. a 3rd one actually to follow up towards the latter part of the weekend. so we have 3 rainmakers ahead of us in today's rain is going to

be the lightest of the 3. so at least there's that for this valentine's day will start to see showers drifting to the north bay late morning, mostly early afternoon for the rest of us spotty on and off. rainfall continues for the rest of the day and for the north bay, our best chance of any pockets of heavy rain, although we could see isolated heavy showers for the rest of us as well. showers will remain into the early evening tonight. mostly done after midnight and aside from an isolated sprinkle or 2 tomorrow morning, your thursday is going to be predominantly a dry day. friday should also be dry, at least for most of the day friday night into saturday marks the arrival of our second system. after that sunday night into monday and tuesday or 3rd system first round of rainfall, mostly around a 10th to half an inch of rain. upper elevations like the santa cruz mountains, the north coast mountains will see our way into saturday. a more rainfall. a 3rd round come sunday into monday. and yes, we're going to be looking at quite a lot of rain. once you add all 3 systems up one after

the next. as for the sierra nevada winter storm warning is already in the till 04:00pm tomorrow we have the potential of snow as lows. 5500 feet in elevation donner summit around 8 to 9 inches expected just from this first round of snow. that is definitely enough to get the chain controls in effect. probably not enough to result in a lot of closures, but do be wary and prepared upper 50's to low 60's for today's daytime highs. foster city through mountain view and into the south bay in the low 60's. you think rainy day cooler than yesterday, but actually not a whole lot. we will be very similar temperature wise. it's just adding in some of those showers that you do want to be ready for toledo, napa, sonoma, all in the 50's. tomorrow's temperatures will be back up a little bit more. so in the 60's, same on friday, friday night into saturday. our next round of rain arrives and our 3rd system sunday night monday into tuesday rain. all right, john, thank you for that. just how busy we've been across the

bay area, especially in the 7 o'clock hour. >> highways covered in red right now, especially in the east bay and in the south bay, you're seeing some of your highways. i 2.81, on one. 85 87, all congested right now. lot of folks out there traveling this morning and trying to get things them for the rain hits 14 minute ride traveling into the city right now. no accidents there. they have some crews setting up things on the eastbound side of 92. but the westbound side just a little slow getting on the bridge there. 80's a little backed up. still take a little time. 50 minute ride. silly. answer to 37 1, 0, one. 85 demillo park. you saw it. traffic building about 54 minutes to make it to 85 as a traveling from menlo park to little lighter, but not much better. doritos, back to you. thank you. reyna 7.51. is a time right now and the forty-niners. >> still have kind of a from what happened? yeah, i'm against the chiefs over last session and with so far and yeah, it's hard. it's so close

yet. >> some players reflected on that as they were clearing out their lockers at levi stadium kron. 4 sports director jason dumas says the story. >> there were very few dry eyes in the forty-niners locker room in las vegas on sunday. and you can tell the last was still weighing on them on tuesday as they cleaned out their locker rooms. these players understood the opportunity that was awaiting them in. they were so close that they could feel it. we can spend all day breaking down some of the turnovers and missed opportunities. but at the end of the day, >> they just didn't make enough plays. kansas city at some of the same turnovers and costly penalties to, but they found ways to make the timely plays that san francisco did not. now the bulk of this niners group will be back. so it is up to them to use this pain. and this motion and channel it the right way to save his remarks but i mean, that's the game that we and you've got to find find a way to sort out fuel. have a role

in the next year that taste in your mouth. always hungry. that's the feeling you always want. i think when you get there, you i think it makes definitely makes you more its worst. >> in other news, the giants signed jorge. so our he had 36 dingers for the miami marlins last year. great pickup. also the warriors go for their 6th straight victory tonight with the los angeles clippers in town. all right. that's your look at sports. >> it's 7.52. and coming up on the kron 4 morning news, heart disease is killing black women at an alarmingly high rate. we're going to show you the factors. what to watch out for factors. what to watch out for and what prioritize.

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for all that is you. >> 7.55. is the time and new this morning, the native american health center just announced their first indigenous red market of the year. it's set for saturday, april 6th in oakland, the indigenous right market is free to attend. and it's an event that brings together indigenous artists, entrepreneurs and vendors 2019 pulitzer prize finalist. tommy orange, by the way, is expected to be there for the release of his new book. so that should be fine. >> it's 75 right now. and coming up next on the 4 morning news, san jose has a new program. they're trying to cut down on thefts at shopping centers and concerns about crime. we'll see what they're doing. and congress just passed in ordinance to try to control rent prices. but it was a really heated debate over. we'll see why. and we're

going to take you to a bay area bakery serving up sweet, treats some ideas on what you plan want to give valentine today.

>> from the bay area's local news station. we now with breaking news. the breaking news is at the golden gate bridge. it is blocked and stopped mid span right now at the live shot behind us here.

northbound traffic. southbound traffic. yeah, well, it looks like southbound traffic now starting to move to get the very latest on this reyna harvey in the traffic center arena. what do you say? all right. well, what we know so far is we do have some police activity happening on the golden gate bridge right now. >> so as you can see, i'll step out here to see. you can see the frame northbound side of the bay bridge is completely blocked. now, the southbound side and the north outside, they were both blocked completely just before we went on air. now we can see from the camera lens ear to the southbound side is moving the northbound side as it is at a complete standstill. i know my drive time says 109 minutes don't factor that in just know that you cannot move on the northbound side of the bay bridge. now we're working with chp to try to figure out what is currently going on right now. we do know that police are there at the scene and they have shut this down another last time we've covered something like this story. and james, get a protest going on on the bridge that completely shut things down. we are not confirm