trauma center that is supposed to close. good morning. i'm daria and i'm james. we get to those stories in a minute. but first, let's step outside. we want to start the hour with a check of the weather and we've got beautiful looking start to wednesday that might deceive you. if you don't look at what's going to happen later, johnny yet today starts dry. doesn't end so much that way as we do look at showers pushing back in, especially late afternoon into the evening tonight. so if you're getting out there this morning, just don't forget the rain jacket and the umbrella. if you plan on staying out all day long, we're we're sitting down in san jose. actually some fairly clear conditions for you overhead. you're off to a cool start down in the 50's right now. as for current conditions on the radar, we do see those showers up to the north in mendocino, humble down or take counties. still several hours to the north of us here in the bay area. we may see a couple light morning sprinkles for northern sonoma county later this morning. and if you light a afternoon, sprinkles for the rest of us. rainfall really starts to pick

up around the evening commute and especially after that temperatures, as i mentioned down in the 40's to 50's right now, hayward at 50 degrees. oakland, 51 santa rosa down to 47 right now later on today, expect showers to gradually increase with our heaviest of rainfall overnight tonight, i'll get some more details on when to expect it. and how long do expected for ahead. back to you. all right, actually, we'll do the traffic in a little bit. we want to get right to our big story 7 o'clock right now, which is meeting. >> the new oakland police yes. so we've got floyd mitchell. >> he is formally going to be introduced at city hall there in crawford's michael thomas is previewing the story for us from oakland. good morning, michael. >> hi, good morning, everyone. today's news conference being hosted by mayor sheng thao really has been anticipated for over a year as she introduces oakland's new police chief floyd mitchell. we're hoping to hear more from him. the plans he has for the

city. but for now, this is what we know about him. so far. we've got videos and pictures of him up on your screen from what we found. floyd mitchell began his career in the kansas city, missouri police department where he spent 25 year prison before becoming police chief in temple, texas. then most recently lubbock, texas, and he parted ways with the lubbock department last september. after taking the heat for 9-1-1, calls going unanswered, which is also been an issue here in the city of oakland with the community members telling us the new chief does have a lot on his shoulders as reports show right now that in the city of oakland, there's already been more than a dozen murders this year with other crime statistics showing that robberies are up 34% from last year with majority of them happening at gunpoint. now we did speak with oakland mayor sheng thao recently regarding her announcing this new police chief. here's what she had to say. >> think that all oaklanders, including our officers are officers who go to work every single day. you know, whether there's a pandemic or whether

there has just been you know, officer shooting, you know, they wake up and they come to work every day and to have this kind of steadiness, you know, stability in the department is what everybody is looking for. and so, of course, the process was little interesting. however, we are here today and our chief is chief michel. >> and a question if chief michel is ready to take on oakland in the city in such a large capacity, given that it's much bigger than other cities. he's worked. we did speak with the president of 100 black men of west texas who worked with mitchell when he served at the lubbock chief. there. and he says his experience will show and that he is known to hold people accountable for things back out here live. that press conference is set to happen within the next few hours. and coming up at 8 o'clock, you'll hear a little bit more for oakland, mayor sheng thao of why she chose floyd mitchell to take on this position. that's very latest here in oakland. excuse me, i'm michael thomas story. james, we'll send it back to you. ok?

thanks all. good info. thanks a lot, michael. >> all right, 703, is the time. and happening today, san jose nurses at regional medical center are rallying to keep their trauma center open. hospital's trauma center is a level 2 trauma center, which means they treat everything from burn victims to those suffering from a stroke or a heart attack. the nurses organizing the rally say that closing the center will cost lives, especially because the trauma center is located at the center of highways. one, a one to 86, 80 back in february, regional medical center announced that they would be shutting down the center because of declining patients. the er is going to remain open. however, kron 4 spoke with mayor matt mahan after the announcement and he is understandably concerned about the closure. >> look, it's it's it's concerning. yeah, i'm glad to hear that they're committing to a 10 million dollar investment in expanding the number of beds and services in the emergency room. but we don't ever want to see lifesaving medical services cut, particularly in our lower

income neighborhoods. the fact that he side san jose will have to travel farther to get to a trauma center is concerning. our eastside residents should not have to travel farther than other people too. get lifesaving trump. >> a regional medical center will operate its trauma center as normal until august. 12th, the nurses rally today at 3.30. >> time now is 07:00:04am, another bargaining session is set for today between nurses and jon mere medical in concord. it's also the second day the nurses on strike, the 2 sides have been negotiating for almost 2 years trying to come to an agreement on a new contract, registered nurses walking the picket line yesterday said that they have safety concerns, staffing challenges, workplace violence issues and not enough staff to relieve them so that they can take a break. >> john mayer has a lot of their own. it. boards and meetings in place already. but

none of those really provide a seat for a nurse to be president and to have any and as the feet on ground, the people facing. >> patients every day, we really feel that it's most important that the nurses are t ones that have the most importt. >> era responded to the picket with this statement saying like l health systems, john muir health, this face staffing challenges have significantly improved as we continue to hire more nurses and then they go to say that they are concerned about health and safety and workplace violence prevention and that they have expansive new language in the contract to address that. >> well, a new report shows that san jose is struggling to divert 9-1-1. calls related to mental and emotional distress to the 9, 8, 8 mental crisis hotline. now the report found that county mental health teams were only given 2% of the nearly 60,009. 1, 1, calls. should have gone to them. policemen. us traitors have yet to answer why it's taking so long to figure out

which calls need to be directed to 9, 8, 8, >> time now 7, 0, 6, and 7. just go. mayor london breed has lost her latest fight to get more affordable housing in the city and the board of supervisors changed the plan. they vetoed her piece of housing legislation with kron four's will tran live in san francisco to explain. will. what they did was last night late last night. the supervisors voted to override. >> her veto. so what's going to happen is mayor london breed can continue looking for housing in san francisco, but not in certain neighborhoods earlier this month, supervisor aaron peskin introduced the measure that tried to protect certain neighborhoods to keep those neighborhoods and the charm of those places intact. we're talking like the northeast waterfront jackson square. well, mayor breed, she told that measure it saying

that she wants to continue building affordable housing housing complexes throughout the city because she says from now into 2031, san francisco needs about 82,000 housing units. well, late last night to supervisors voted to override her veto and basically resetting the clock. >> as if the veto never happened in the first place and therefore it making sure that those neighborhoods stay intact. as ken says, he doesn't want 200 foot luxury towers in areas that are very historic. you can continue looking around san francisco in other neighborhoods, but not just up but not in historic neighborhoods. well, mayor breed, she did not like that. and she issued a statement late last night saying this is a setback san francisco's attempt to get housing for people in the city. back to you. >> 708 and a san francisco

supervisor wants to speed up traffic safety plans in parts of the city that are considered very dangerous supervisor. connie chan got approval on a project that still hasn't been completed for more than 40 years. now. kron 4, sarah, since takes a closer look. given what we haven't spent the last 2 weeks is that we can no longer wait. supervisor connie chan wants the city to speed up vision, 0 projects to make san francisco streets safer for all vision. 0 is a policy aimed at eliminating traffic deaths all together. yet this year we've seen an uptick in deadly crashes, including the one that killed a family of 4 at a bus stop in west portal. and over the weekend, a man was injured by a car at a bus stop in the district. chand represents the supervisor is now asking the city attorney's office to draft legislation that would authorize an emergency declaration to prioritize projects that haven't been completed. we have these plan project. we

know that design and and its plan and it's been planned. well. >> let's move with that. let's go like let's finish chance says she's frustrated. several projects in her district aren't done yet. >> including a project on fulton street to build yellow bulbs, extending sidewalks for pedestrians, project planning for this began in 2019. here we are, you last 5 years, pedestrian fatalities has significantly increase. it is time for us to move and declared. the emergency chant also wants the city to speed up installation of to speed cameras on fulton street and install lights for people crossing in the busy fulton corridor so that when the class and will made aware that there's request for crossing. that was sara stinson reporting chand criticize the sfmta say it has a lack of urgency. >> and has failed to successfully complete major

projects. we reach out to the sfmta for a comment. but we haven't heard back yet. >> we're going to take a break at 7.10. still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. multiple people are planning to protest in front of nancy pelosi's house today. they're in support of tiktok will tell you more about what they want to do. meanwhile, a high-speed chase ends in a crash and 4 people are arrested. we'll tell you what police say happened prior to that crash. and after the break, trouble in the north bay after teenagers allegedly found in possession of a firearm. and today is going to be a dry start. but a wet finish to the day. take a look at those showers just to the north of the bay area. >> still under some dry weather for your morning commute all time out. the arrival of rainfall in your forecast before you leave you need to know your morning commute is looking our bridges. while the no accidents, things are slowly starting to build

>> 7.13, right now and we're waking up just fine determine extra folks. not going to be that way all day, though. yeah, different for the evening commute. john. good morning. yep. big change for the 2nd half of the day today. where is your morning? commute is nice and dry. your drive home from work tonight. expect some slick conditions for it. so don't forget the rain jacket as you're leaving the house today. you'll need it later on. this is happening bay right here. looking pretty good. actually. a good dose of sunshine for you overhead this next system in the making right across northern california with some showers already for air is like humboldt county, but that rainfall works its way our direction later for now, radar is quiet here locally. if we

zoom out, you can see what's heading down towards us and it's going to take several hours for it to get here late morning. expect a few light sprinkles possible for the north bay mid afternoon. those same light sprinkles drift our direction. really rainfall cranks into gear. more and more towards and after the evening commute tonight and overnight hours tonight is when we're going to see some of the very heaviest of it as we roll into tomorrow morning spots of heavy rainfall. also possible during the morning commute. so do watch for that. as you are getting to your morning drive. as for thursday. thursday afternoon, we should dry out for the most part, a chance of an isolated thunderstorm before an even more significant system that makes pretty rainy day on friday tonight to tomorrow's rainfall quarter to a half an inch, even more rainfall into the start of the weekend friday. that's going to amount to well over an inch in some cases before the week is up. as for the sierra winter storm warning taking effect here in just a few hours at 11:00am. this morning we'll be talking multiple feet of snowfall at

those higher elevations. once you get above 5,000 feet, that's where you start to see it really piling up donner summit. echo past. going to have a big impact, even some of our north bay mountains going to see some snowfall out of this one. it's 2 systems that both have a pretty cold impact that will drop snow levels as low as 3500 feet in elevation. and yes, multiple feet of snowfall all over again. expect travel delays likely into the start of the weekend in chain control. certainly going to be in effect. temperatures today will be in the upper 50's to low to mid 60's at the very warmest. not that are cool. this just yet those of successive cold front. we'll continue to cool us down in by friday. we're only in the upper 50's at our warmest radius of times will be tonight and again on friday, conditions starting to dry out pretty quickly after that, right? all right, john, thank you for that. get you moving here. if you are going to be traveling, taking our bridges this morning, no accidents hazards along and but >> traffic is growing. so about 20 woman is there. and

the last hour we've got to 30 minutes, but it is just a surge of traffic. no issues. now it's back down to 21. 22 minutes. 82 want to want means is getting busier getting on the bridge there. 13 minutes along richmond center fell bridge golden gate bridge around 27 minutes. these traffic starting to pick up along 101 in the north bay. check out a little in the south bay. a 43 minute ride. 85 to menlo park east bay cellan-jones. you're traveling down to milpitas. just 34 minutes on 80 oakland. both look good in the clear and in the east bay about 25 minutes are s is back to you. thank you. reyna 7.16, a new this morning. 2 of the world's largest credit card networks have agreed to lower their payment processing fees for businesses. this decision by visa and mastercard settles and anti-trust case where merchants accused the credit card companies of charging inflated fees for their services, notably swipe fees. the deal is supposed to save

businesses about 30 billion dollars over the next 5 years. and this settlement will most likely not safe. the consumer. any money is just when you go to the store, you'll notice, you know that they prefer you don't use a visa. that's why because expenses for them. well, for your money this morning, you may get sticker shock the next time you shop at dollar tree and half of americans consider their car to be. >> part of the family we've got jane king left the nasdaq to explain. good morning, jane. >> james, good morning. well, the survey of american car owners revealed that 51% of us think of are cars. part of the family and 53% keep their current car for ever if they could. now, for some, this is due to an emotional attachment. others have fond memories with their current cars. this is conducted by onepoll on behalf of meinecke and despite the attachment to the vehicle, only a 3rd of drivers surveyed said they purchased the same make and model for the next trader. joe's is known for semi healthy snacks and cheap prices. and now it's in the

spotlight for raising the price of bananas for the first time in 20 years. bananas once were priced at $0.19 each. they're increasing by 20% to $0.23. experts say higher demand higher temps and climate change are driving up prices. well, we are seeing dollar tree raising its price cap to as much as $7 on certain products. it also started pushing boundaries with the $5 price cap last june the $7 products include pet personal care items and some food items. wilson, you can get a doughnut with your big mac. krispy kreme doughnuts going to phase into mcdonald's locations nationwide. this will be happening now and to the end of 2026. that spells a successful pilot program in kentucky. the suite strategy a way of taking the doughnuts to more cities nationwide. live from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king back to james. all right, jane, thank you very much. >> time now, 7.19. we're learning some new information about a high-speed chase that happened around the bay area and ended with 4 people

arrested. police say those 4 people stole these items from a lululemon in napa on monday, 200 items worth about $23,000. >> and then on monday, we told you about that high speed chase for those suspects that went to into oakland where the car ended up crashing. here's video from the citizen app. you can see the car its side on lakeshore avenue and beacon street. a tourist says they're not surprised to hear about this. >> unfortunately, like in today's and it's like just training your team that like to almost just like let them do it because like also the sounds that like insurer didn't like your life isn't worth a couple. caroline kings. >> we reached out to lululemon, but we haven't heard back yet. in the south bay, san jose city officials launch a new pilot program to help detect homeless encampments. they are inviting tech companies to mount cameras on a city vehicle that would then collect video of streets and public places and

that video would be used to train ai to be able to tell where there are homeless encampments and people living in cars. advocates though homeless advocates are worried that this is going to use to push the homeless out. but city officials say this whole surveillance system will be used to better provide services. >> happening today, the hunters point tennis courts in san francisco will be having a grand reopening. the courts are right next to the willie mays, boys and girls club. mayor london breed will be their former mayor willie brown, along th sports stars are expected to be there, too. the court was originally dedicated by tennis legend arthur ashe almost 40 years ago. organizers say they partnered with the city to provide equitable access to sports and recreation activities. the grand opening is set at 4 o'clock this afternoon. now to the north bay where santa rosa police pull over a minor for driving with expired tags and discovered he had a gun. the officer first ordered everybody out of the car after smelling marijuana and then a search of the vehicle turned

up a gun and 2 loaded magazines hidden in a bag under the driver seat that 17 year-old driver admitted they belong to him. so police booked into juvenile hall. after the break. we're going to take right now. the search for 6 missing construction workers is expected to resume this morning in baltimore following a bridge collapse as this now transitions from a rescue. >> to a recovery operation will have the full details.

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>> 7.24 is the time police in san francisco now offering a quarter of a million dollars for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for a deadly shooting that happened at a playground. so that shooting happened back in april 2022. was at the alice chalmers playground, which is right behind longfellow elementary school in the crocker, amazon neighborhood. investigators say the victims were playing basketball when at least 2 people in a car opened fire. they say 20 year-old. kiran carlson and 22 year-old brandon alexander cheese were killed. 2 other victims were shot though they survived. police say the getaway car described simply as a silver honda accord. happening today, there will be a rally outside former house speaker nancy pelosi's san francisco house to protest her support in the banning of tiktok. the group says the pelosi's goal in bannock tiktok is because of young people getting uncensored information about gaza and america's involvement in that war. but pelosi says that's not true. she maintains that she wants tiktok ban because

it's a security threat. that protest is set to start at noon today. >> a new study warns chemicals found in common hose household products might damage your brain's wiring that chemicals are in all kinds of disinfectants cleaners, hair products, furniture, textiles, and they could be related to degenerative brain diseases. for example, ms this study is in the nature. neuroscience and researchers say their findings suggest more scrutiny of the potential impacts of certain chemicals. but they say more investigation is needed before they can make a causal link. it's 7.25. coming up next on the kron, 4 morning news. signatures are being collected to recall. governor newsom will tell you why.

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>> it's 7.28. and we are waiting for the rain. it's coming with anticipation. if you're excited with dread, if you're not at least the morning commute going to be a nice and dry. yeah, i don't think it's that didn't mean that big a friday might be friday's the bigger one for sure. that's the day we're looking forward to as far as rainfall from start to finish on friday today, though, look at this bay bridge behind me. not looking bad at all. and we're actually looking at a little bit of cloud cover out there seeing from mount tam that cloud coverage is sitting right there through the golden gate making for a nice view from up above. right now, rainfall is still situated well to the north of the bay area, really up along the humble and eleanor, take coastlines here in the bay area. we are still several

hours away from it. only a few light sprinkles for north bay into the late morning into the notch after the evening commute tonight in the meantime, it some 40's and 50's out there nevado and petaluma each at 48 degrees. berkeley and san francisco in the low 50's right now. later today, we're still going to hold on to some low 60's for your daytime highs. cooler weather still around the corner. i'll be talking the arrival of today and friday's rainfall still ahead right now. all right, john, thank you for that accident along more than 101 east charleston road. this is a mountain view. so these are a little slow there to 80 82 might an alternate. >> as you can see, a little further down the south bay, all those highways. 85 82 things are starting to pick up. 21 minutes into the city right now. no accidents there, but an uptick in traffic about. 24 80 to 101 little busier along getting on that bridge. 30 minutes tolls to want to enrich a summer feel rich in golden gate bridge

just short of 30 reasons. back to you. thank you. 7.30, right now and the state superintendent of schools is backing a plan to have kids has to be educated about financial awareness in public schools. yet earlier this year, we highlighted one of these programs being taught at an elementary school in oakland. we have our capitol correspondent eytan wallace with a closer look. >> well, here at the california department of education, thurmond told me he believes are required. personal finance course could be a game-changer for students. >> and soon you the voters. >> could have the final say. this is something that will have tremendous benefits for our students. that's the message. state superinlendent of public instruction tony thurmond hopes to convey about a proposal to make a course in personal finance, a graduation requirement in california. public schools. at the california department of education. thurmond spoke to this group of educators and financial literacy professionals about why he believes making such a course mandatory would have a long-term impact. what students have access to learn

about personal finance. they're less likely to have be able to make great decisions about their future. and their finances and they get education that often isn't provided in the home. in the past. members of the legislature have tried to introduce bills to mandate a personal finance high school course. but those proposals failed. but now supporters behind a new effort are hoping to bring the idea directly to voters. last month with the support of thurmont, they turned in nearly 900,000 signatures to qualify the measure for the november ballot. they need just under 600,000 of those signatures to be considered valid to officially qualify for the november election. we hope that people will support and we think this is a great thing for california kids. it's a message with which valerie chapman agrees and educator from oakland. she's the founder and ceo of financial literacy for kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching 4th and 5th graders about saving and investing. well, this is extremely important because studies have proven that students learn or

develop their financial habits at an early age habits that will, you know, last them a lifetime. still, some are skeptical. >> in an op-ed for the maers last fall columnist dan walters road adding new mandates takes class time away from basics that too many students are not already mastmedia. literacy classes are pointless for kids who cannot to map or read at their grade level and sees it differently. it can save a life report with students who are in tough neighborhoods or schools that, you know, i've had many challenges and we see students performing well academically, but being engaged in life and what their future is going to be. we think that personal finances, important ingredient to success for all of our students. >> and it's unclear where all legislative republicans, dan, on this proposal, but gop senator and former senate minority leader scott wilk says he supports arguing it will give students the tools they need. >> to succeed reporting outside the california department of education in sacramento. eytan wallace kron. 4 news.

>> thank you. ate on 7.33, is the time and people trying to recall governor gavin newsom can start officially collecting signatures. the secretary of state has approved the official recall petition submitted by the group called rescue california. that group cites the budget deficit, public safety, immigration and education is some of the reasons for this latest attempt to recall the governor. you may remember, though, californians rejected the last attempt to recall him back in 2021. they rejected by a vote of 61 to 38. 7.33. and your local election headquarters in presidential candidate robert f kennedy junior has picked. >> his running mate, a silicon valley lawyer and philanthropist kennedy made the announcement yesterday in oakland, the city where his choice vp nicole shanahan is from kennedy. call shanahan exactly the right person praising her as a gifted administrator. my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist. technology is a fears or your

mom. >> nicole shanahan. >> there's only antiwar candidate today and you all in the democratic party or the republican party is an independent. robert f kennedy junior. his commitment to peace and to the welfare. working people in america that shocked me as a person of compassion to his candidacy. >> shanahan is the ex-wife of google co-founder, sergey brin and she has a record of donating to democrats. but she says she left the democratic party because she feels it has lost its way. >> numbers are out showing just how much fentanyl the state of california sees last month, according to data from the newsom administration, the california national guard last month helped seize more than a million fentanyl pill statewide. and that includes nearly 600,000 pills along the california mexico border. that governor newsom is now calling on congress to take action to help him secure that border with mexico. well, uc berkeley

police are asking for your help in identifying 5 people that were involved in this protest last month on campus. these are some of the pictures they provided showing the protesters are looking for. they're accused of disrupting a campus event by hosting or that was hosted by jewish student organization. police say members of the crowd forced their way into the school's theater and injured some guests and police officers and caused property damage. the incidents are classified as hate crimes. time now 7.35. and we want to go to the very latest developments now out of baltimore, maryland, where it's no longer. >> a search for survivors, but a recovery operation after that bridge collapse. that was the francis scott key bridge that collapsed early yesterday morning after a cargo ship slammed into it, causing the entire structure to plummet into the river below our correspondent, then dennis, standing by in baltimore with the very latest on efforts this morning. ben.

>> other guys, good morning. it is 10 36 here in the east coast. our 4 of this recovery of 6 bodies of construction workers believed to have been repairing potholes on this bridge before that massive 1000 foot long cargo ship slammed into a take a look that partnership is still here right now lodged into what was the francis scott key bridge 50 year-old iconic infrastructure and baltimore city scape. new images this morning. take a look at this from the feds. a closer look at what happened on that ship. pieces of the four-lane highway blanketed the ship's bow tragedy struck here. one 30 am yesterday. we're told 35,000 everyday commuters take this every single day. no longer. now, officials believe that a mechanical problem from the ship's power gave out before careening into a key structural pillar. we've learned that the cargo ship was operated by a company in singapore. meantime, heading to sri lanka off the southern tip of india heroically. we're told that authorities had blocked traffic moments before this crash happened. a mayday

call was put out by the pilot of that boat. all of this no doubt saving unknown number of people's lives at a moment's notice. here's what's next in the recovery stage this morning. >> this is an excruciating day for several families. we do not know where they are. intend to give it our best effort. >> to help these families find closure going to work with structural engineers to help them understand how to navigate and address the challenges of having bridge structure in the water. that may be sharp and that could puncture issue. >> now, authorities believe that this was accidental. meantime, the fbi says that they have no reason to believe that there's any ties to terrorism here can expect in the coming weeks and months and impact america's commerce system. that's because of baltimore's major port operation. tens of billions of dollars of goods come in and out every single year. 800,000 cars and trucks just last year alone. time will tell if that

could impact consumer's wallets because ships right now can't get can't get out. and baltimore been dennis, back to you. and then i heard that the construction crews fixing potholes. >> and then a lot of these were migrant workers and what's being done for their families. what are they saying? right now? the governor is ensuring that this is remaining a recovery effort before addressing any. >> major concerns of opening up this channel here, mainly wanting to give those family some solace right now as their grief is no doubt only going to compound and continue into the days, months and years ahead for the rest of their lives. back to said, thank expect. >> it is >> because of the collapse in baltimore has a lot of people looking at our bridges here, you know, in the bay major shipping port as well. just like in baltimore. we see all kinds of cargo ships, you know, passing in oil tankers. i'm going to him throw through the bay and near our bridges and that's taken in consideration when the bridges were designed and built and also upgraded.

>> every one of them has a protection device around it. that's a fender system that either is completely different than the bridge foundations themselves or it's designed to absorb the energy. >> and actually, because of the way they're built, bart ney and caltrans, they say it's more likely that the bridge fenders well damages ship as opposed to the other way around and the bridge getting destroyed. caltrans admits, though, you can't plan for everything, which is why they say that they do have an emergency plan if something happens in a bridge is impacted are hit in any way they shut down traffic. they shut down the toll plaza. they don't let anybody on and they inspect immediately. as for the golden gate bridge is different and has the most robust ship collision protection of any bridge on the entire west coast. the north tower is partially on land. so a large vessel would have to run aground before it hit that pier and then the south tower is protected by a concrete fender. >> it goes 40 feet below the

surface that fender and it's filled with sand similar to a highway crash barrel. it's 27 feet thick at the base. engineers say that it has significant protection. >> alright, 7.40, is the time. and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. the warriors looking to get back on track in miami as they took on the heat. we're going to look at the highlights. you came out on top. the next total solar eclipse is coming soon. all explain what it is and how you can experience this rare. an amazing phenomenon. >> i'm rich

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>> 10. 43. the eclipse is coming up april 8th. yeah, we've been promoting it. plugging it here in the it's a chance to experience sites in real life. if you want to rich demero explaining in today's tech smart. a total solar eclipse is happening on april. 8th 2024. and according to the scientists at nasa. >> not only is it a unique experience, it's also a learning opportunity. >> it's been 7 years since the last total solar eclipse in the u.s. and the next one won't happen until 2044. just an amazing moving experience. jason rhodes is a senior research scientist at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory. he says the earth is a rarity because the moon and the sun look about the same size in our sky. and so when the moon passes exactly in front of the

sun, it's just large enough to block out the sun. and that's what we call a total solar eclipse. the natural event lets scientists study the atmosphere of the sun. but for the rest of us humans, it was really an amazing sort of life changing experience to watch the sun go dark and feel happened. all of a listen to the go silent because there are a bit confused. many will see a partial solar eclipse on april 8th. but if you're in the path of totality, which stretches from texas to the northeast will get the full experience, especially if the skies clear if you're going to look safety first. the important thing is as the eclipse is coming, you want to wear special eclipse glasses that are going protect your what's the eclipse happens? and the totality happens. you can take those because the sun is blocked to early humans and eclipse was scary and unknown, understanding them and predicting when they will happen is a win for humanity.

one of the things and understanding universe take allows us to create these technologies like gps, which take our lives a better and safer roads advice. just enjoy just being in the moment experiencing clips. look at and i tan guarantee you you will remember for the rest of your life, whether you have a picture of it or not. >> now, i know he said to just enjoy it, but i'm sure that urged to take a picture is going to be there. so coming up in my next report, explain how to safely take photos and videos of the eclipse. >> using your smartphone. i'm rich demuro and you are tech smart. >> and the total solar eclipse is causing an unexpected boom in one porta potties. yeah, they are in high demand right now all across the country because they're figuring large crowds are going to be gathering outside. i guess you when you got to go, you've got to so they they have these real reservations that they've made from portable bathrooms

months ago. >> trying to beat the surge in various places. so now port-a-potties are in short, a short supply. just yet this one of those things sometimes you forget about all the logistics that have to go into in part a large stretches. as say, you don't need to put a probably cause tacos, going to be dark. so, you in the dark, but you want to go while you're you want. i would not suggest that don't go when you a porta-potty with viewing. yeah. built and not. well, if you are staying in the bay area for eclipse viewing still a little bit far out to sea, that forecast. >> but in the immediate future, we do have some cloud cover that will be eclipsing the sunshine here soon. right now, little bit of brightness making its way on to the golden gate bridge next storm system in the works and working its way down our direction already this morning, we do stay dry the next several hours for the bay area. but if we zoom out on radar to our north, you can see what's going on. what you head north of sonoma county,

some widespread areas of rainfall already kicked into gear around eureka, specially now we'll see this rainfall kicking up later on today for the bay. a few late morning. sprinkles for the north bay. mid-afternoon sprinkles for the rest of us. really after your evening commute tonight is when the heaviest stuff starts to drop in. so some evening showers. time to bring the couch cushions in all that yard furniture. if you need to get in before tonight gets wet tomorrow morning. we will see some spotty showers through the morning commute should be drying out pretty nicely, though, towards tomorrow afternoon with a good dose of sunshine. watch for an isolated thunderstorm possible but not super widespread after tomorrow's little breather from the rain, we see our heaviest round of rain arriving on friday tonight into tomorrow's rainfall. a quarter to a half an inch. friday's rainfall will add up to well over an inch of it. now for the sierra winter storm warning is just hours away, kicking off at 11:00am this morning. we will see multiple inches if not feet of snowfall in the sierra. what

you had about 5,000 feet. that's where we're talking that feet of snow with a foot and a half to 2 feet of it up around donner summit. now, this is likely to result in definitely some chain controls, if not a few road closures or delays, especially into the start of the weekend. we will see our heaviest dose of snowfall friday into friday night and snow level falling as low as 3500 feet. so another round of winter weather just around the corner. daytime highs today in the meantime, will be in the mid 60's at our warmest san jose all the way up to 66 degrees tomorrow. a little bit cooler cooler yet come friday, rain and wind on friday itself. that low moves out of the area. so the weekend just gets progressively better by easter, john, thank you for that. well, posted our live drive times going up. >> one on one about 60 minutes to make 85 to menlo park mountain view at north ridge trough avenue. there's an accident there. we also just have congestion from traffic building 2.80, might be a good option along the peninsula.

2.80, in the south bay is busy along with 85 87. the ridge right now around. 21 minutes traveling into the city this morning, 7, 2 bridge just short of 26. so, you know, 8 80's little conge ted getting on that bridge. 44 minute ride, cilantro down to 37 88 82 oakland. now they're both pretty much equal in terms of your drive times. san leandro up oakland about 25 minutes crockett down towards the maze. 36 minutes you start to build as soon as you hit hercules. all right, james, back to you. thank you. reyna. let's talk basketball. the warriors on the road taking on the miami heat. they did a cropper. sports director jason dumas walks us through how it all went down. >> the warriors barely had any breathing room on the houston rockets right now, a win is necessary on tuesday night in miami, steph curry and the dubs. the team is hoping to turn things around only about 10, 11 games left. 1st quarter warriors up 6. here's how you do it. step patient with the ball navigates through lane

between a couple defenders. i saw floater off the back boards worries extend that lead to late in the quarter. heat now up by one draymond gets his shot, blocked by bam adebayo. we're going the other way. haywood highsmith. he scored on the other end. heat lead by 2 at the half 3rd quarter. same score. klay thompson had himself a game started. he was reinstated in the starting lineup team. so they stand. he's proved why that was a good decision. all right. now later, dream on 3 misses the 3. and it's kept around. step goes out, take care of it. drag nice little logo shot 17 6 on the seafloor step. closing moments of the 3rd. but his play this highlight miss by clay ends up with a nice little poster dunk from jonathan kuminga. if you don't get a body on him, he's going put you on a poster 18 7

from coming stretch. how about a cherry on top klay thompson coming off 3 of those. 28 points for klay warriors win one 13, 92. they're back in action this evening. taking orlando magic. all right. that's a look at sports. thank you, jason. well, as talking giants now they were back at oracle park hosting the a's in the >> second game of the bay bridge series. but one voice was missing from that game last night was the first game without the team's longtime announcer. we're now brooks moon. lot of fans picked up on that in the stands district. 24 years. she was the voice oracle park. but the team announced last week the giants and brooks moon. we're going to be parting ways. and before the game, fans of all ages sent their love out and best wishes for brooks moon and whatever adventure she has next. >> for years a lifetime, most of these kids haven't experienced a game without you so that will even now i can hear the pa that's notable

differences not run i wish you the best stick with the diocesan level. on this here. >> well, team president larry baer says they'll be using a rotation of announcers, at least for the foreseeable future. last night's game, the giants choose caroline veteran is cj silas. she's the baseball announcer for cal poly. all take a break. 7.52. is the time. but coming up on the kron 4 morning news we caught up with jed york at the nfl owners meeting happening right now in florida. and we'll tell you what he had to say about brock purdy and the say about brock purdy and the huge money he might command.

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we are back at 7.55, the newest cadbury bunny of the year is a species. we haven't seen this kind of money. well, i don't get it or people have spoken. and louis, the reckoning has won the grand prize, which includes 7 outs in and a starring role in the cadbury bunny. try out you, that will be around next year. cadbury holds the competition each year for easter asking fans on social media to vote for. >> the contest winner and there you have it. he's actually a rescue path. he spends a lot of his free time. they say hanging around painting is told he does not. he has painted toenails with campers 7.55. is the time other news we're following americans. speaking of the holiday are expected to spend 3.1. >> billion dollars on easter candy doordash looks at the top easter candies sold state by state. according to their data, the most popular candy

in california. and a couple of the shapes is the cadbury creme egg. i mean, yes, what you see in pink? yeah, i'm not so ok, that's not me like that. you know, let's look around. what else? how about reese's peanut butter? eggs are good. that's all the yellow with a lot of a lot of love out of lows. a peanut butter lovers throughout the midwest, the south southeast on the east coast mars bars. candy is in pennsylvania. well, tonight, you're going to kind of get, jelly beans, starburst, jellybeans, new hampshire in south dakota. they like the easter it back. >> i like the peeps james, where that he could see players the peeps a fading fast. whatever 7.56. it going over the next hour. the kron 4 morning news. oakland is getting ready to meet their new top cop. >> we'll take a closer look at an how about more affordable housing coming to san francisco? not like what the mayor wants any time soon. we'll tell you why.

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>> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> morning. thanks for joining us. and today is the day that we get to meet the new oakland police chief. been without one for a year. so that is much anticipated. plus, san francisco supervisors are pushing to end traffic related deaths. one supervisor says it's an emergency on the streets that needs to be fixed. and some nurses in the south faces an emergency and they're pushing to keep a trauma center open. we'll have the very latest on that. good morning. i'm daria and i'm james. we'll get to those stories in a minute. but let's switch over and taklo