their three-day strike tuesday. they're demanding higher pay than what the county is offering. the nurses also say right now operating procedure dictates the county can tell a nurse which hospital they are needed now to help with short staffing. the nurses claim despite being run by the county, each hospital has its own policies and procedures last mediators proposal wasn't voted down by the membership because of the money. it was voted down because the county wants to be able to send us to different hospitals. and we believe that's unsafe for nurses and unsafe for our patients. >> it's all because the county failed to integrate the 3 hospitals together. the county is offering a 10.5% pay raise over the next 3 years. and hurses want a 15% pay raise to keep up with inflation. county officials say nearly 1000 traveling nurses have been brought in to work the shifts during this three-day strike. >> and so we do have a nurses are all licensed. they've received orientation specific to our system over the last

few days. but they do come from all over the country. >> pleased to report this morning that said despite the labor action, our hospitals and clinics remain open. and we are continuing to be able to provide all emergent and critical services to the community, including our level one trauma center at valley medical center. >> the county executive says this is costing the county of santa clara more than 20 million dollars to provide this coverage. we're told the county is facing a 250 million dollars structural deficit as a county organization. they are asking the nurses to come back to the table after they rejected the mediators proposal which led to the strike. >> county officials go on to say here at the valley medical center there. trauma center was closed down for a few hours on friday due to what's being called the sickout by some of their nurses in reporting to justice kron. 4 news. >> tonight we're learning more about the 2 people killed in a plane crash shut in trucking

on saturday. friends and family of the victims have identified them as little wrong. and naomi, truce ca and the ron worked with palo alto venture capital firm up west, which invests in israeli lead start-up companies. the company says the couple quote, we're a significant force in the building in successive up west from its inception, friends and neighbors also remembering the victims. >> feel this is a sacred spot for me now. i i you know, had to come and pay my respects it's just a beautiful day. and it's so odd >> yeah, it still so tragic. >> the israeli soccer team that lebron patrice kept played for also sending their condolences. the couple's friends and families as well. the statement, the soccer team says, quote, the club bows its head with the death of l'wren

patrice kai and his wife run grew up in the club since the age of 10 and passed all department groups, including the senior group, may his memory, the a blessing and a quote, applications open today from san francisco's first affordable housing development geared toward school teachers and school staff. the shirley chisholm village. >> we'll have 135 affordable homes will prioritize the cities unified school district employees. applications will remain open until april 23rd. the village is expected to open in the fall. good news for california as we head into the spring and summer months, new measurements show the state's snowpack is above average for this time of year. our capitol correspondent eytan wallace reports from the northern sierra with more. >> well, take a look at all of this snow at elevations, 6800 feet. it's a site. governor gavin newsom says he wants to but he makes clear californians should not get complacent. >> governor gavin newsom

walking in snow shoes as he took part in the california department of water resources. monthly snow survey at the phillips station just south of lake tahoe. haha survey results of the phillips station showing the snow depth. there stands at 64 inches and snow water content that 27 and a half inches. that's significant because the depth of the snow tells us how deep it is. well, the snow water content tells us how much water it contains. all of us helping researchers determined the phillips station snowpack stands at 113% of average for this time of year. well, the state snowpack stands at 110%. you can take a deep breath this year, but don't quadruple. and at a time in your shower, newsom says that note in california has recently gone to extremes on all fronts from floods to fires to droughts referencing this moment just 9 years ago this week when then governor jerry brown stood at the same exact spot at the phillips station to show it was totally dry at the time. no snow. we're here. 9 years later, reconciling the

extremes as it relates the hots getting a lot hotter. the dry is getting a lot drier and the wets getting a lot wetter. and that requires us to have the sophistication, the approach that includes new strategies, new strategies he's unveiling for the first time in this 5 year water plan for the state. he says the plan includes a goal to connect more natural waterways with manmade storage. all in hopes of capturing more water before it goes to the ocean. one of the hallmarks of this plan is the integration. the connection between built infrastructure and natural infrastructure, department of water resources. director karla nemeth stressing underground storage is also major component of the really need to have good quality, clean water. >> in there so we can bring that water up and help california through those dry periods. while the governor expedited construction for the sites yeservoir north of sacramento, california's first new reservoir in 50 years, republicans say. >> that's not enough. what is the message? the message is >> we need more infrastructure. we need sooner. we need to streamline the process to get it done

because california will go through a drought again. we can do it just has to have the will of the legislature and the governor to push it forward. >> so what happens next? well, in the weeks to come water, researchers with the state will crest on the latest data to determine how much runoff reaches our reservoirs in the coming months. reporting from the phillips station at elevation, 6800 feet in the northern tom wallace. kron. 4 news. we are continuing to monitor the situation in taiwan where a 7.4 earthquake shook that country, damaging buildings and >> causing a tsunami warning. yeah, so you've got the big quake. and aftershocks which could go on for a while and that tsunami, an aftershock of 6.5. can you imagine that? and then numerous 5.5 or more after that. so. >> yes, minorities being issue, we're looking to salami, maybe 3 feet, maybe 9 feet in some parts of that area in asia. so here's a look at them wide map here. you can see a and you can taiwan right here. you've got china behind.

and of course, you've got the philippines. so you can imagine this is going to radiate outwards. the moves on by affecting parts of parts of the china as well. and of course, the philippines headed in that direction to the good news. the united states not expected to affect the united states right now. but yeah, this has been an amazing event that's been happening right now. and boy, it is just continuing to go. you can see all the circles out there, the ones in yellow, those are the earthquakes that have happened a little bit over an hour ago. the ones in red that is within the hour. and you can see the numerous earthquakes along that area that continue to cause problems there. likely damage there as well. of course, you have initial earthquake that won a major earthquake at 7.4, 07:58am. then you've got another one. was a 6.4 following that up. so just a few minutes later, can you imagine a 7.4, then a 6.4 and the ones after that, we continue to have more earthquakes rattle in around that one. that's a 5.0. 2 behind that. a 5.5. and then

another earthquake, a 5.7. so damage being there right now continuing in that area, we just actually had another earthquake right at the moment. here's the very latest on that one. that one showing up as a 5.1, a shower earthquake just off the coastline of eastern taiwan. all right. let's get you back a toward the sierra nevada and the snow continuing to fall in the high country. they've had a ton of it already. they've got more on the way affect winter weather advisories are going up wednesday through friday and get this. this could be so cold. the snow level dropping down to about 2500 feet. may we talked about several more feet of snow on to what we've already had. that's been a banner season already. guys, back to you. all right, lawrence, we are getting our first images out of taiwan. look at this. this is from that 7.4 earthquake and the many aftershocks that have taken place. now, we do know it exactly where this is? if this is the city the quick took place? >> or if it's in taipei, they're not too far apart from

each other, the epicenter is closer to a city of about 100,000 people on the east coast of taiwan. there's about 25 million people who live on the island. it's very heavily populated island city of taipei is about 2 and a half million people and they felt the quake, in fact, was felt all the way on the mainland. china. so a very powerful 7.4 quake. and you can see the damage there in. and vicki, you know, when you talk about earthquake country, which highway taiwan is part of this ring of fire, of of earthquake areas of they in taiwan. it particularly it's a modern country, told coats, exactly. are can you only imagine a 7 point? >> if they weren't reinforce, but look at those buildings like 45 degree angles on on on them. back it. i would imagine people are fearful that those things topple over. absolutely. and this is just a sliver of the information that we're getting. >> we're checking in with our stephanie lin, families from

taiwan. she speaks chinese. she's monitoring her sources over there. we're going to get more from her a little bit later soon. as we set that up. but of course, there's a taiwanese population here in the bay area. lot of family connections between the bay area and taiwan. imagine a lot of very concerned people tonight. we'll get these images in as soon as we're able to live to pull them >> little closer to home here. united airlines asking some of its pilots to take voluntary unpaid leave from flying because boeing is experiencing a backup in plain deliveries and production. this ahead of very busy travel season. ahead of u.s., boeing has cut deliveries to united by about 40%. a pilot's union memo says availability of work block hours is being reduced. voluntary leave will help reduce the excess staffing. the leaves would take place in may and what extend into the fall. united is also reducing

pilot hiring this year because of all the problems. >> a new bill would require all state employers to not contact employees outside of work hours or they could get fined. the bill introduced by san francisco assemblyman matt haney would give employees a right to disconnect from emails, texts and calls after work. it does, however, make exceptions for emergencies or to discuss scheduling certain companies like those with unusual hours or on call, employees may also be exempt. >> today, the first partner, jennifer siebel newsom and the governor's counsel for career education. they're meeting at sierra college in rockland after a full tour of their mckenna tron ix department at the community college this morning. riley carroll reports. >> today first partner, jennifer siebel newsom and members of the governor's counsel for career education were able to come to sierra college and see the students working firsthand with real world technology learning

quite literally how to build the future of california. >> so building the stem pipeline through programs like this. and this what tier colleges doing needs to be replicated across the state. the megatron ix degree at sierra college combines the hands and the brain creating a job training program that translates into well paying careers across the state that learning durable future-proof in very human skills. so they're learning collaboration, problem solving. >> the you interpersonal relationships that learning teamwork. a tour of the vast were coming out of the mecca. tron ix programs included conversations with students achieving big things in the automotive, mechanical and manufacturing >> and time with the first partner and other state leaders working towards more opportunity in education gives me hope. >> and these young people, some older, some mid-career switching careers. they are

our future. something. siebel newsom love to see where the women involved in the stem field clubs in degrees. she spoke with eric u.s. know a member of the automotive club who just won a prestigious award. the club, the girls, the young women were telling me was not open to women before. >> and erica, kind of was very alone. but then because erica was there, this whole notion. >> you can see you could be some graduates work for statewide and even national companies after graduation. >> but many of them keep their skills local. some of them were talking about how they're trying to build this community in particular. so i love that connection to the broader california community. because it basically >> allows us to fill gaps and then create stronger economies, local economies, the council for career education in the first partners seized megatron ix as a cost-effective. > time efficient solution for people looking to upskill their current abilities and transition into high paying

stable careers. when you're intentional about how you're serving the person, the community and everybody. >> then you can actually achieve all the goals. all wants really excites me about the possibilities for. >> everyone, diverse communities, but especially women who have left out of the sand pipeline and some careers. and this is a solution. >> in sacramento riley, carol kron, 4 news. >> good basketball for the warriors going to decide whether or not they get into the playoffs. next in sports, we'll have a live report from chase with the jobs are going up against the red-hot mavericks.

>> and now kron 4 sports. >> well, in the west is heating up. and as we get down to the last few regular season games with the playoffs on the horizon. meanwhile, the warriors just 2 games ahead of the rockets who are hot on their tail course in trail. if you want to put it that way as the play-in game is, you know, on the horizon as well as the warriors trying to hold on to the 10 seed in. our jason dumas says actually out there as they get ready to host the dallas mavericks tonight. now, obviously you get little good. you got kyree. you get the need for a big matchup tonight and a big win for the warriors. how crucial is this when jason? >> it's very crucial. and for the reasons that you said at

the time, they're just 2 games ahead of the houston rockets. and when you just blindly look at the standings, easy to say the warriors have been having a mediocre season. you can see why got nation had been kind of concerned and rightfully so. the warriors have set such a high standard over the last decade that when you see him in a position like this, it's concerning. but when you look between the lines a little bit and actually look at the standings will see that the warriors, 21 in 10 in their last 31 games. they've won 4 straight games. they actually been playing pretty good basketball. they're on pace to out when there's record last season on a pace to win one more game last season, they finished 6th in the standings and right now they're only 10th in the standings. so what does that tell you? i as steve kerr that exact question. and he says this year, it seems like more than ever the western conference is loading up. there's about 6 or 7 teams that has a really good chance at advancing to the nba

finals. he said the west is deeper than it's ever been since he came here. so what does that tell you tell you that even though the warriors have been playing really good basketball, they haven't been able to make up any room in the standings. so instead of standing watching, like some people have been doing. steve is more concerned with worrying about this. how his team is playing and he says over the last month or so, he thinks they've been trending in the right direction. >> yeah, i mean, winning 4 straight on the coming into tonight. i think the team performing well too. the situation that we're you know, got to play in trying not only make the plan, but hopefully improve our seeding as best we can and you never good evening. you know, go higher than that. but we just every game's important in our way. and we're we we were playing

with a sense of urgency, which we need to. >> i talked to draymond green to before game. he's said he's not worried about the standings. what matters playing their best basketball every game is really like a playoff game. he's not worried about the houston rockets. he's not worried about the los angeles lakers worried about stacking wins and playing the right way. once they get to the postseason. tonight know, jonathan coming annual miss his 4th straight game with knee tendinitis. the steve kerr did say he's expected to play on thursday in houston. the scrimmage today in place, some 3 on 3. and you're just waiting to see how that the response on the other and klay thompson will make his return as the warriors try to get a win against dallas in the next 3 dallas houston ballet's. all 3 of them are very important. we'll have postgame reaction soon as this one wraps up. for now, we're live at chase center. jason dumas all right,

jason, steve kerr has no one to blame, but his cell for the west, you know, stacking them sales because he started it did me. >> all right. that's all we have for sports right at 6. we'll be back tonight at tampa sports night live. but i'll toss it back to you all right. thank you, aaron. oakland's first fridays makes return this week. kron four's a photo journalist malcolm johnson caught up with business owners and residents were pretty excited to welcome back. the event. >> it's of like no good combination of. >> good food. the people. >> just good vibes as news. it is just a sense of community. there is love is it's inclusive. the space for everybody. i believe it's a lifeline for the city of anything that is a pofitive say space in within the city of oakland is vital. there's so much negative narrative that's going around throughout

the city and anything that's positive should be supported. >> opportunity to show that we are part of the town. we are together any any opportunity that we have to live show to connectivity between all of us, the common denominator between us a safe space to be in a neutral environment to wear. it's not us. we feel home. you know what i mean? we all outside of our covers on. we are fighting the comfort zone like that's the beauty about first friday. i'm excited. that is coming i mean. >> first fridays is what i consider a town experience. it has an installed history year bringing people out. >> what experience that first friday and that staple, i feel i'm excited to see how at this homecoming is going to turn out and i hope it will be for the long haul. >> whether time now as we get a live look at the san francisco bay city off there in the distance, a little hazy out there today. kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow has a look ahead at the forecast. but first we'll have the latest on that big

earthquake in taiwan. boy, it just continues to a rock. there's we're going to see a series of earthquakes. they continue to see those. well almost minute by minute now. and they continue to shake there. you can see the map. you see where they're located. you see china, japan, to the north and the philippines to the south, even vietnam. so many of those locations could be affected by a tsunami that has been generated by this massive earthquake in this earthquake. we're talking about a 7.4, so that he's pretty phenomenal that are rolling in that direction. bay area, though, we're looking at a big change in the weather coming our way as it looks like storm clouds going to finally make return again and so much for that spring weather. cool fog begin to move in along the coastline. we're going to see more of that overnight tonight into tomorrow morning racing well onshore into the bay and many of the interior valleys. in fact, yeah, we're going to get things going here is of a fog is concerned. big cool down tomorrow that will drop the temperatures. still mild the santa clara valley by the afternoon. but the clouds really come to thicken up. then as we get in toward

thursday. well, here comes that rain rolling back in the bay area. some cold showers rolling on in and then watch. you'll see some pink. it's a blue showing up over some of the mountains. can you believe it? some mountain snow in april rolling in this late in the season. very cold. maybe some record cold temperatures rolling on into so tomorrow it will be a transitional day. it will be a dry day around the bay area. not the same on thursday. clouds and showers rolling on in snow in the sierra, nevada. in fact, several feet of snow likely over the high country. big changes are in the works next couple of days. we returned the nice spring weather to some wintry weather with maybe record cold temperatures thursday and friday drying out as we head in toward the weekend, but only a little bit warmer. not really warming up until next week. all right, lawrence, coming up, how you can experience the upcoming eclipse at the exploratorium.

>> and may not be on the best path to see a total eclipse, but that's not stopping the exploratorium in the city from hosting an eclipse watch party at pier 15 next monday. event starts at 10 o'clock in the morning. it's free with museum admission nas estimates people in the bay area will see just over 35% of coverage on the eclipse starting just about 10, 15 in the morning. and the peak is at 11:13am, ending at 12, 16 pm. so it's quite a while about an hour. if you'd rather watch from home, there will be a live stream from texas and mexico where you'll be able to see the full eclipse. >> i'ts. if you like maybe you can splurge on some tickets for outside tickets for

francisco's biggest music festival going on sale tomorrow this year, either. three-day passes for outside lands starts at $425 for general admission. tickets going on sale despite nobody knowing exactly was going to perform the lineup has yet to be announced. the three-day festival kicks off august 9th presale begins at 10 >> and at eager was one of the fans.