>> now from the area's local news station. this is kron. 4 news at 3. >> thank you for joining us here on kron for news at 3. i'm justine waltman. our top story this afternoon is the death of oj simpson. the nfl star turned actor passed away at the age of 76 after battling cancer. oj was born and raised in san francisco's potrero hill neighborhood. he grew up in government subsidized housing after graduating from galileo, high school, he started at city college of san francisco before he took his football career to usc. that was in 1967. simpson ended that

career with the san francisco forty-niners and now reporter rick chambers takes a look back at his life off the field as well as the controversial case that captivated the country >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant or jump on james simpson not guilty of the crime of murder. >> it was the trial of the century. oj simpson star football player and hollywood actor accused of savagely murdering his ex-wife, nicole brown and her friend ron goldman. an estimated 150 million people watched the verdict come in life. the trial was broadcast in classrooms at workplaces and even on the oprah winfrey show where audience members both cheered and cried as he was acquitted. emotions usually falling along racial lines. before the trial. simpson was a popular actor starring in naked gun movies. he gained fame in college, though, winning the heisman trophy while playing football for usc. nicknamed the juice. he

went on to the nfl and shattered both rushing and touchdown records. as a member of the buffalo bills. all that changed, though on june 12th of 1994 as brown and goldman's bodies were found outside her la condo. simpson was an immediate suspect. and 5 days later he was ordered to surrender to police. instead, he led them on a slow speed chase down the 5 freeway to the 405, in that now infamous white ford bronco, his friend and former nfl player ac collings behind the wheel that evening. he surrendered at his brentwood mansion. the trial began in 1995. with an all-star lineup of lawyers nicknamed the dream team one by one. they dismantled the state's evidence claiming systematic racism and sloppy police work. the defining moment came when simpson tried on gloves that were left at the murder scene. he struggled

to put them on and his lawyers use that in closing arguments to show it couldn't possibly be him. >> remember these words? if it doesn't fit. you must acquit. >> shortly after simpson was found not guilty, he went to trial again for the murders. but this time in civil court, he was found liable for brown and goldman deaths there and ordered to pay more than 30 million dollars in damages. well, simpson never served time for murder. he did go to prison in 2008 for armed robbery and kidnapping in las vegas. simpson claimed that he was simply taking back sports memorabilia. that was his however, he spent almost 10 years behind bars. 14 million people tuned in as he was granted parole in 2017 at the age of 70. >> after wonderful >> thank oj simpson, a larger than life figure whose life and alleged crimes captivated

and entire nation. >> that was rick chambers reporting for us and taking a look back at the kron. 4 archives here. some video, oj simpson running out onto the field for his last professional football game with the forty-niners. simpson played for the niners for 2 seasons ending his career december 1979. he was the all-time at the time. he was the nfl's second-leading. >> all-time leading rusher. and during kron news at noon i spokn with cal state east bay, professor of communication, nolan higdon and he says a lot of people point to the murder trial as the start of reality television. >> here you had cameras following are a celebrity through a trial and people tuned to to watch the whole trial and the verdict in the reactions and that signal to along the entertainment industry that, you know, maybe we can take these people with some degree of fame and create programs around them. and so i

think it was hugely influential in the way we think about from there on forward. >> hayden says the oj simpson story has 3 acts. first, the talented athlete who made his way onto tv and film second, the murder trials and also the trial for that theft of memorabilia. and then the 3rd, his social media presence for oj would comment on stories and ta aot about football. stay with us here on kron. 4 on air and online for continuing covera oj simpson and our other top headlines. you can download the free kron 4 app to get push alerts sent directly to your mobile device. any time news breaks. a man connected to a deadly shooting in san francisco's mission district has now been charged with murder. police say 30 year-old alexander martinez from richmond shot another man near the intersection of mission and 20th on friday afternoon. the victim died and martinez is scheduled to be arraigned next wednesday. if convicted, he faces life in prison without parole. in the east

bay. all lanes have now reopened along highway 2.38. in san lorenzo following hours-long closure. that's because a big rig tipped over kron. 4 charles clifford has the latest. >> we'll here along highway 2.38, the truck and trailer that were involved in this early morning crash have been removed. but caltrans spent hours cleaning up the mess. according to the california highway patrol around one 30 thursday morning, a big rig truck pulling a trailer full of frozen foods crashed on the connector ramp between westbound to 38 in 8.80, in san lorenzo. officers arriving on scene from the trailer on its side truck leaking fuel out onto the roadway. the highway patrol says it appears the driver may have fallen asleep. >> causes looks like the driver fell asleep on never hit the brakes and hit a about 55 miles an hour hit the 10 waitr new entered his job. the driver wasn't hurt, which is the main thing now to spain up. and that's the highway patrol initially closed all

lanes here. but by mid-morning, 2 lanes have been reopened. but the slowdown created a backup that stretch for miles around 10, 30. the trailer was loaded onto a flatbed truck and moved to another location before being turned up right? >> it's unclear at this point the driver will face any everything's under investigation. so we'll do a collision investigation certain be cited in san lorenzo. charles clifford kron, 4 news. >> highway one in big sur bacd open after part of it gave way last one month. caltrans working now to stabilize the edge of the highway. in the meantime, there will be a temporary one-way traffic control around the unstable parts. and caltrans will suspend the convoys. but it's only going to allow and local residents or essential workers because there's rain expected this weekend. we'll talk about that right now. this live look outside here at san francisco. callous in the weather center enjoying today's sun because the weekend looks a lot different. that's right. we're going to have some pretty

interesting changes in our weather right now. it is just beautiful blue skies all the way from half moon bay where it's a little bit cool today to san jose where it is not cool at all. the hair in the low 80's. they've been in this afternoon. >> here's a live look at coit hour again at those beautiful blue skies here in san francisco and current temperatures. livermore right now leading the pack with 83 degrees. but, you know, as i mentioned, san jose at 80 degrees right now, 81 in concord, 78 in santa rosa 60's and san francisco and oakland and certainly a lot cooler at half moon bay where we did start with a little bit marine layer hanging out there. we are getting a bit breezy along the coast. you can see that and from point raise to san francisco, right on down to half moon bay. but some of it now moving also over to spots like oakland rate. you're up to 30 miles per hour. even san jose as well. this is the low pressure system they're keeping an eye on. this is going to be the big weather changer, right? everything's going to change when that rolls in. but it's not here yet. and that means that we're still enjoying these beautiful blue skies and he's above average temperatures. and tonight we'll see that continue in looking at our mostly clear sky. and just a

really nice night out there to be just a little bit of a sliver of a moon tonight with the skies. i think we're probably going to be able to check it out. temperatures pretty mild there. you can see our lowest number in the 40's. and of course, we're beautiful out of half moon bay, everyone taking the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine because by tomorrow, temperatures cooling down and then you can see that rain rolling in as we get into the early morning hours of saturday. i'll be back a little bit. we'll track that rain for you and talk about your 7 day forecast. thank you. the oakland international airport could soon add san francisco to its name this afternoon. the port of oakland. >> it's going to vote on this controversial name change that san francisco officials say they're ready to go to court over kron four's. will tran has more ahead of the vote. >> it's still metropolitan oakland international airport that you didn't know that the word metropolitan is actually the first word in oakland international that we know it as oakland international, but the people who run the airport, they would like to add 3 words in front of

oakland, san francisco bay. if that doesn't sound right with you, well, you're not the only one because sfo, san mateo county, as well as the city of san francisco. they don't like it, which is why the next destination could be a courtroom now. right now, travelers are going through oakland international, but according to their studies, the executives, they say one half of international travelers could confuse that. they don't know. oakland is part of the bay area and they say one-third of domestic travelers don't know that oakland as part of san francisco as far as the bay area and they would like to clear up the confusion by adding san francisco bay got a chance to talk to travelers. they say that's a horrible idea. i think it's crazy. i mean, it's in the airport is in oakland, y lose your identity being oakland airport. >> i mean, you're losing losing all your franchise. worst team. i mean, oakland just seems like they can't.

they're not able to keep what they have. >> san francisco doesn't think it's a good idea as well. and it's just not an opinion. they believe it is illegal believing that san francisco international, they own the copyright. yes, nobody owns the words, san francisco, sfo is copyrighted and they believe that they will win in court. the bottom line is the executives here. they will make a decision today, but it looks like they've already made the decision claiming that a lot of people from oakland, they are very comfortable with the words san francisco bay in front of their hometown. >> ac transit in the city of oakland partnering up to make international boulevard safer. this we along east oakland's international boulevard corridor. 1.8 million dollars will go towards extending safety enhancements from 14 to 100 and 7th avenues ac transit. as well as the oakland apartment, transportation and the oakland

fire department working to identify where ad these enhancements construction is expected to start late spring and be done by the end of summer. coming up here, new policy that could impact workers all across the state of california who work for the statewide. governor newsom wants to spend. >> remote work and san francisco's smallest dive bars now on the brink of closing. but the owner says it's going to take stay open. but first, invasive mosquitoes carry viruses could be deadly, have been discovered in the south bay have the story. what to do to find after the break.

>> all right. the pacific fishery management council has voted to recommend a full closure for this year's salmon season. the request is for to to protect salmon populations and support the fishing industry. regulators say salmon numbers have been impacted by droughts and wildfires. and our kron four's rob nesbitt got us some more information. >> so we're trying to design fisheries that allows for fisher allows for fishing of the more typically more abundant target. stocks also trying to protect distance, docks and minimize fishing impacts. there. >> california once had millions of salmon in its rivers and last year. there were so few the commercial fishing season was close, does it? it is expected that the national marine fisheries services will enact a closure and midwest may and this will

be the second year in a row that the season is going to be cut short. now, they're still been no signs of a grey. well, whose tail is tangled up in fishing that the whale was spotted tuesday near pacific up. but then it disappeared. this is video from the marine mammal center. yesterday. crews were set out by boat and they covered a 70 mile area between pacific point raise. they were unable to find the whale fog, wind and waves hampered the search. today. there was some bad weather off the coast. so as a result of the marine mammal center said there was no search that was going to happen today. likely not again until next week until after the storms over the weekend. pass by crews are saying they're reaching out to various agencies to keep an eye out for the whale from the shore. once spotted crews hope to put a satellite tracker on the whale and then down the road, we connect with it and remove the fishing that. and

invasive mosquito that carries deadly viruses for humans has been discovered in the south bay, santa clara county vector control says the mosquitoes were found in an east san jose neighborhood kron four's philippe djegal reports and what can be done to eliminate the bucks. >> it's time for east san jose residents to inspect their properties for standing water and get rid of it. that's the message from the county of santa clara vector control district pots, pet bowls, tarps checked them all by removing that water. it stops the ability of the invasive mosquito called 80's aegypti from reproducing and spreading viruses that cause deadly diseases for humans like she can go ya, gai and yellow fever and county of santa clara consumer and environmental protection agency director edgar nolasco says 6 of the non native species were found in routine vector control traps last week on machado lane in east san jose. this is the first time

they have returned to the south bay since 2022. when the las cosas vector control and the communities cooperation helped lead to its eradication. we're unsure how it arrived here in our county. >> it has been established in 19 counties out of the 58 in california. we assume that it probably came in some type of container or in some type of >> vehicle. victor control, district manager, 9 years of hearings says the public needs to be vigilant trying to. >> make sure it is not a >> vector ecologist, doctor taylor kelly says the mosquitoes have distinct characteristics. 8. >> i the beautiful mosquitoes. so they have these sort of iridescent white scales, black and white lakes, which people may be able to recognize that they're getting it. and then they also this beautiful liar pattern on the back foot further sets this species apart from others is that it bites during the day? >> in san jose, philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> let's talk about our

forecast now with this live look outside shown us what's going on across. >> the bay bridge, quiet traffic wise, quiet weather rise until the weekend arrives. things are really going to start to not quiet. not be so quiet anymore. one last blast. winner help. well, yeah, i mean, you know, spring storms happen, right? but if it's a good thing because we still this green as we take a live look here. >> from the hills of the east bay. want to keep that green. hang on to it a little bit. not a bad idea to have a little rain come in here. but i think the temperatures things could be. >> a little bit shocking. so the average temperature in livermore as an example, it's 68 degrees out today. we're, you know, 80's, which is kind of wacky. then tomorrow we're going down about 66. and then we just plunge all the way down to a high of just mid 50's as we get to saturday. that has everything to do with the rain. that is on the way. i see that after that, we do start to rebound and it gets pretty nice again. but this low pressure system accompanying front that's going to go right through here. and what that does is it creates a little stormy weather ahead of it. and cooler air moves in behind that system. so as you can

see, once we get into friday evening, that's when those rain chances are going to ramp up throughout saturday. and then the first part of sunday after that, we dry out and we've got a really nice pattern, kind of wind up this month. but we do have this spring storm and not only is it going to bring a little rain but some sierra snow, not until late night friday. they so this is friday afternoon. you can see we've got some clouds moving in. we start to cool down and then we've got the front moving in as we get into the late evening overnight hours friday into saturday, sierra snow kicks up on saturday by sunday. this low pressure system will start to drop to the south of us but will take a little bit for it to get out of their right to the first part of sunday. we still have that chance of some showers. now it does look like we're going to have some significant rain between a half inch and an inch for most that you can see that the models this afternoon are really getting a little more bullish on heavier rain totals for the peninsula and even parts of the east bay and certainly a south bay and really down in the santa cruz mountains. that's where it's really picked up. we've also got a little wind expected with this, a little breezy as we go throughout our evening tonight and then tomorrow. notice this wind is going to

be interesting to see the direction because we've got about of a southwesterly flow tomorrow afternoon that says opthat front kind of approaching. and then as we get to saturday notice it turns to offshore wind as that starts to roll so a little bit breezy as well as we go through this. here's your extended forecast. it's a little up down and sideways, but tomorrow we will stay dry during the day will get cooler. those you might want to take that jacket with you. and then saturday, you're going want to look out for that rain throughout the day by sunday. we'll start to get some clearing later in the day and the next week, as i mentioned, looking really beautiful and nice and calm back to you. thank you. the newsom administration has unveiled a policy that could impact all of the 240,000 people who work for the state of california. >> in this memo, 2 high ranking newsom, administration officials, cabinet secretary and patterson said all state agencies must implement a plan to require workers back into the office at least 2 days a week starting june 4, 17th up until now, many state workers have been allowed to work remotely since the start of

the covid pandemic. but in this memo, paterson noted each of the state's 150 agencies has started to implement their own policies with some already requiring workers to return. so in the memo, the patterson wrote it said here, unfortunately, the varied approaches have created some confusion around expectations and are likely to exacerbate inconsistency is across agencies and departments. she said returning to the office 2 days a week will lead to enhanced collaboration and better communication. exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis. the memo went on to say the state will inform public employee unions about this plan and some of those unions have already saio they are opposed. and san francisco, a crunch gym in the city's downtown has closed after 30 years. it's the latest business to fail to recover from the pandemic and remote work. the now empty business located inside the historic share building at 55 new montgomery street gym

members have already been transferred to the chain's your brain, a location on 3rd. >> still ahead, the deadline to file your taxes is right around the corner. why officials say your refund officials say your refund could be higher this year. norman, bad news...

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brackets and the standard deduction by about 7%. so agents say that put some people into a lower tax bracket and lets taxpayers who are not itemizing deduct more of their taxable income. if you have not done your taxes yet, the deadline is monday. and despite not winning the national championship on sunday, caitlin clark in the iowa hawkeyes to week huge impact on the community. according to a study from the university, the iowa women's basketball team gave th a big economic boom. >> and even the mayor is saying that the women's team generated 82 and a half million dollars for the local economy. he gave that message at a ceremony for the team yesterday. clark who took women's college basketball by storm this season with her amazing play is giving fans a sense of what she's going to be bringing to the wnba, the indiana fever hold the number one pick in next monday's draft and clark is expected to be the top selection. a

beloved san francisco dive bar now on the brink of closing the black horse, london pub unit street is the smallest dive bar in the city and its going through a financial hurdle. right now. the owner of the bar says it may have to end. because he has not been able to raise $14,000 through a gofundme. the donations will help clear tax debts and also pay for licenses. the owner also says he received support from the community during the covid pandemic to keep his business open and he's hoping that people will come together again so he can continue to serve and be the smallest dive bar in the city. >> up next year at 3 o'clock drivers in the south bay are now pushing city leaders to implement some more safety measures. we're going to hear from the mayor of san jose on his plans to protect drivers and pedestrians. also, a local shelter needs help with overcrowding kennels. the way

that you can help ofrecen space before even adopting there. some other things you can do. plus, police have made an arrest after a mosque was

>> san francisco police have arrested a man who they say vandalized a mosque during ramadan kron four's gayle ong reports. >> broken windows could be seen at a scout or heat mosques in san francisco, a member tells kron 4 off camera on april 4th, a man parked his car in front of the mosque located on sutter street between polk and van ness. the member says the man walked over to smash a window with a

skateboard, then walked to the other side of the entrance to break another window. the suspect shouted islamophobic rhetoric and ran inside the mosque to drink water and then went back to his car. the member called 9-1-1. the incident was caught on surveillance video that was given to police on tuesday. the same suspect was seen outside the mosque but did not cause any damage this comes as the muslim community has been celebrating ramadan. it's really sad is unacceptable. a seal is a san francisco immigrant rights commissioner and has close ties with this mosque. i went to school at this mosque as a kid. i played almost every single payer. >> during ramadan. >> over here, last board members say over the past month there have been other acts of vandalism. the words on this now painted wall out front, read, quote, you will all burn in and the other were don't has been written at the entrance of the mosque. that attack on one of us is an attack on all of us and that we are a united front and

>> just cannot be condoned and we're peaceful people. and we just want to live in harmony with everyone else. >> a statement from the san francisco bay area office of the council on american islamic relations reads in part, quote, during this period of high in unprecedented islamophobia, we urge mosque leaders to take extra precautions to protect their attendees and elected officials and civic leaders to take heat at how israeli violence in palestine is having an impact here at home. on wednesday, prayers continued at the mosque as members celebrate the end of their holy month. >> that was gayle ong reporting. and according to police, the man who vandalize the mosque, the say returned last night, an officers arrived and they arrested. 35 year-old robert cray. >> where millions of muslims around the world not only forecast, not >> so this was a dinner for

graduating uc berkeley law students and it got kind of heated on tuesday night when a pro-palestinian protesters stood up to read speech about ramadan and the war in gaza. the dinner was held at the home of berkeley professors, erwin chemerinsky. also the dean of the law school and his wife, catherine. fisk, about 60 students were there. all of them had registered in advance. the professor say an anti-semitic posters showing a caricature of the dean was circulating online. they decided to go ahead with the dinner anyway because he says. they were prepared for there to be a protest, but they wanted to celebrate the students. so following the dinner, he said, quote, the dinner which was meant to celebrate graduating students was obviously disrupted and disturbed. i'm enormously sad that we have students who are so brewed has to come into my home in my backyard and use this social occasion for their political agenda. the foundation for individual rights and expression released

a statement it reads in part peaceful protests on public campuses is protected speech, disruptive protests and trespassing on private property is not the first amendment does not protect. seriously disrupting events on public college campuses. much less at someone's backyard dinner party. all right. a massive retail bust has uncovered about $3300,000 worth of hot legos. the chp says the lego sets were stolen from stores like target, home depot and lowe's for people in los angeles and orange counties are arrested in connection to this. authorities say the suspects were likely intending to sell some of the legos online or at swap meets. and now some developing news that's coming to us out of tracy, where fire crews are cleaning up a massive fire that spread overnight at a recycling company. the business is very close to an elementary school in homes and reporter claudette stefani has more.

>> firefighters have been able to gain an upper hand on this fire. and we're learning that residents who are asked to leave their homes while they can now return. and as we take a look right now, you can see that fire fight is well underway. and as we've been learning, they've been able to knock down this fire. but you can see the amount of water that's needed to keep all of this under control so that that fire doesn't kick up again. at some point, residents were asked to leave their homes. there was a nearby school that was closed for today to function as a shelter for those evacuees and water supply ended up being a huge problem in this firefight where there are no hydrants in the area and water had to be tracked in. and we're also learning from firefighters that, you know, this was something that just posed to be a bit of a difficult firefight because they were dealing with palace as well. that and we also had power that was out in the area. spoke to an evacuee who explained she never had to evacuate her home before. take a listen. >> i've never

>> so as i mentioned, they have been able to knock down that fire. but as you can see, we've been here for hours on end. their journey isn't done quite yet. that to continue to keep water on it. reporting from tracy covering local news that matters climate stefani >> new research is suggesting parts of the san andreas fault may soon trigger a major earthquake. scientists say that the section of the fault line central california known as parkfield shakes about every 22 years with the magnitude of about 6. the last was in 2004. so another quake could be hitting soon in past parkfield earthquakes, the fault cents off some signature sounds are seismic noise is right for the trimmer. scientists say there's no way of predicting exactly when it's going to strike, but they do say, quote, we are waiting. and cleanup is now underway after severe storm slammed into the gulf coast. at least one person died in mississippi.

>> my god. because that is a tornado. >> all right. this twister tearing through a neighborhood and southern alabama while another possible tornado causing some catastrophic damage happened just outside of new orleans where first responders had to rescue people who are trapped in an apartment building and major flooding. also swallowed up this road in alabama. a tesla cybertruck. they're trying to drive through those high flood waters out of new orleans. we're up to 8 inches of water, fell threatening some homes in poor drainage areas. kron meteorologist kyla grogan here now with details on what's happening in that part of the country and still looks like there's a lot of rain there. you know, that it's passed from where it was, but then it went to florida where it kind of started to get into yesterday. and there was a tornado watch in north florida this morning. but i'm happy to say >> that that has now lifted. and you can see that this line of storms is getting ready to push out to sea. and so the worst of it is gone. we don't

see any severe thunderstorm warnings are certainly any tornado watches or warnings there. bring it back to the west coast are having a pretty nice day out here today. we do have a low pressure system that you can see to the north and west. that is not only bring us a little rain, but it's also going to bring the sierra a little bit of snow. beautiful today, though, at diamond peak or you can see people out enjoying but they get into saturday. that's when the snow is going to kick up and then we'll have it finish up on sunday. it looks like got a little bit in the early part of sunday and then it will wrap up the also the lake wind advisory that kicks in tomorrow. so starting 11:00am until midnight looking at for wind could gust up to 40 miles per hour. and some of the waves on the lake, which is very calm today to be between one and 3 feet tomorrow. so here we go. this is the system that starts to bring rain to us in the overnight on friday night. there's the snow showing up in the sierra so little weekend snow, another spring system. we've had a few of these that it wraps up and as you can see, we're looking at totals. it's pretty impressive for this time of year how cold the system is.

you can see a few flakes flying up in north spots like upper lake in clear lake, even down perhaps of some of our peaks. and we could see another foot of snow in the sierras. so not bad. a kind of like this for the snow pack and insulate what we've got there and keeps it there a little bit longer. i'll be back in a bit. we'll talk about the rain in the bay and take a look at your seven-day forecast. thank you. police have been an arrest in a crash that killed a 9 year-old girl from oregon. the california highway patrol says >> jesus, a bond around to us is now in custody and faces multiple charges. the crash happened sunday morning on northbound 6.80, and conquered. the chp says and that's to be carrying. 6 people drove through the median and then rolled over multiple times. the 9 year-old died at the scene. her mother, 13 year-old sister and 2.17, year-old cousins are still being treated at the hospital. police say the driver. randolph following the crash but has now been caught. bail has been set at $200,000. and traffic deaths continue to plague san jose. 13 people

died in car crashes so far this year and city leaders are blaming the city's wide roads and speeding. we talk with the mayor about what the city is doing to try and prevent more deaths. kron four's jack molmud has the details. >> from a fatal crash on monterey road in january. to a man who spent months trying to recover but ultimately died in april after he was hit by a car off mckee wrote, we do everything right. >> we follow all the rules we wear bright clothing. and still we have a lot of close calls. matt siegel with the organization, families for safe streets says even when walking his daughters to school, it's just too close for comfort a close call can be. >> not paying attention to intersection. san jose keeps track of its car crashes on a public database so far this year we have seen twice as many fatal car crashes compared to just this time last year. so many of through ways that run through san jose rack up quite a few deaths from bad data set. but none may be more dangerous that

monterey road, which between 2018, 2023 logged 6 teen road fatalities here. when we most awesome and get it right now, we're acts off the corner of monterey and tully and has shot. >> cars driving into the bike lane. they're supposed to be separated by these posts. you work towards. designing our streets holistically. the public data also shows san jose's years long campaign to improve its roads like installing those bike lane markers and transforming final through ways in the summer. i grew up on this section of brandon road right here. a couple decades ago. you had 3 lanes and 3 lanes of cars going within 40 miles an hour in the city of san jose. recognize the problem here ended up reducing it to 2 lanes to 2 lanes and added in protected bike lane. one death one too many when it comes to our roadways, people should feel safe. san jose mayor matt mahan says the projects are improving streets slowly but surely infrastructure projects

are expensive and then the staff and actually carry them out there says he wants to hire more police officers, 4 enforcement and even the potential addition of security camera automatically issue first a warning. and then after the first 6 months a ticket, max says the city should not only focus on police staffing, but the design of the roads themselves. and so we need again to have a design, a design, our streets. >> that encourages people and forces people to >> behave better. now there's some funding set aside to improve. king wrote that's an east side, san jose and yet another statistically dangerous road in the city. now regarding the security cameras, the mayor says that if city council approves those cameras, they would start with around 30 of them and placed them around school zones in the newsroom. i'm jack moment. kron 4 news. >> all right. coming up here, it's national pet day and we're going to hear from an east bay adoption center that's overflowing with hats and how you can help find some of them forever. homes. and a therapy dog is stealing the hearts of some ohio students. how she's helping to keep

school finance safe. also, the biggest music festival in the u.s. right around the corner. we'll tell you about the bay area. who is taking the stage.

>> today, it's national pet day. and if you want to adopt a furry friend of your own, there is a local shelter that could really use your help. the contra costa animal shelter is overflowing. and i spoke with steve berta from there. he shared some factors that have contributed to this problem. >> it's a matter of the stray intake that we get predominantly so pets that of

become last one way or another. and, you know, we've been looking at this for a while there's no one thing that you could put your finger on, what it really is is we're seeing it's a confluence of issues. some of it having to be with people's living situations changing. and if you're if you are in a place where you're renting and now you have to move in, you're going to a place where you know, the you know, the new place doesn't allow pets. that's one of the reasons why we could see someone actually come in, you know, surrender their pet to the shelter. but asked for >> stray intake in in, you you know, just kind of other ways that animals come test you know, it's it could be a number of things that could be housing. it can be just like with everything the cost for owning an animal has gone way up. everything from the price of pet food to veteran arie to

grooming and basic stuff like that. so i think what we're seeing are, you know, the economic environment in the bay area here kind of playing go playing over into our world, which is having us see a lot of animals come through our doors in talking to people who have been in this industry for many, many years. they saw the same thing around the 2008 economic where intake just really shot up. and so i think that's probably the biggest contributing factor to why we're seeing this increased intake post-pandemic. but, you know, like shelters across the bay in the state. you know, trying outside of the box ideas putting in new programs and initiatives to help, you know, get more pets whether that's going casual. a doctor who was looking to adopt a new family member or to a rescue who's going to spend some time

with those animals that need a little more time to either decompress or maybe they have some behavioral or medical issues that need to be worked through before they're suitable to go to a casual doctor. >> and right now, adoptions are free and bureau says right now that the large breed dogs are the biggest space issue. he adds if you've been thinking about adopting fostering or even volunteering at the shelter right now is a great time to do that. all right. take a look at this because sammy the therapy dog is giving some ohio students a little extra encouragement. sammy. >> walks the halls of multiple schools just outside of dayton. >> and she's led by a therapist who is also sammy's dot com and sammy helps students days get a little bit brighter. and as a source of support, when they're struggling. the class of first graders from slain texas have been working on writing books for about 7 months and now they are published authors, their teacher at kathleen

thomas elementary school says she wanted to help her students with their writing skills and found the perfect opportunity to do this. we work really, really hard together to create something really special. and i know the time. >> and the effort that was put into it means a lot to me. and i know it means a lot to my kids to see their hard coming to life. so they chose their own animals to write about and thus even inspired some students to have more dreams to reach after. >> their hard work all throughout the school year, the students are walking into second grade as published authors. i love. i love first graham writing. all right. here's a look now at the golden gate bridge. there's a lot of fog there as we kicked off the day clear now and pilots here so we can chat about what's going today and tomorrow and the beautiful night tonight. but really nice. yeah. tomorrow, though. >> not going to see these temperatures tomorrow. we take a look at this right now. we're at the mid 80's in

bakersfield and fresno. really nice los angeles, which was a little warmer yesterday. still up. 72 degrees today. so pretty nice there as well. and obviously we are basking in the sunshine here in the bay area. >> beautiful blue skies as we take a live look here at the golden gate bridge. and i must say the traffic's running pretty nice, too. we love it. when that happens. it degrees in san jose right now. 83 in livermore, dublin at 82. you can see we're at 62 in downtown san francisco, oakland about 67 degrees. nice 80's, though, in other spots like the late show and nevado pretty nice there. a good day, beautiful day, but also a day when you might have been itching, your eyes and sneezing a little bit because we've had all this lovely sunshine. but we've also had some pretty high allergy particles kind of in the air. it's mulberry, ash and oak that are blooming right now. notice the big drop off once we get to saturday. the reason for that quite simply the rain is going to help us out a little bit. right now we're under the influence of high pressure. but once that low pressure roles and we get a little stormy weather ahead of the front, cool air rushing on in behind that front. and that

will change things for my friends who are having sneezing fits the moment. however, it's also going to change the fact that you may not have been wearing socks with your shoes like meet what i walked into work. let's take example today for those low 80's. but tomorrow in the 60's and by saturday, a high of just 56 degrees. that's the difference. that's what a cold front will do. once you get that frontal passage, though, let's take a look at futurecast. we stay lovely tonight. should be beautiful. tomorrow we start to see the clouds roll in and then late into the late night overnight hours, you're looking at about midnight here. this is what we're going to start to see this all take shape and roll across its cold air with this. no doubt about saturday stays very unsteady. and then once we get into sunday, things will start to look a whole lot better. and we will kind of clear out as we get the latter half of sunday. so here's a look at your said forecast. once we get past all this dramatic weather next week is looking lovely and sunny and just kind of average, which will be nice. >> nothing wrong. being average sometimes, you know. >> it's going to be a big

weekend for music fans. coachella kicks off tomorrow. >> this is the 23rd annual coachella music festival with a big lineup of artists that are set to play over the next 2 weekends. artists like lana del ray tyler, the creator, they are the headliners this year and bay area native tweet also taking the stage on saturday. a bay area high schools receiving some national recognition. so congrats to the students at livermore high school for winning the world strides onstage heritage festival music competition, these talented young musicians competed against 35 other ensembles from across the west. and after 2 days of competing livermore's band orchestra and choir earned. 23 combined. the warts are out of class for big trophies there. >> another space x rocket lifted off today. we'll tell you what is in store with this latest mission as it tries to

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>> a mid-market san francisco's ikea announced it's opening of its new food hall today. and mayor london breed was there to celebrate the grand opening. >> you know, we see outside with our friend out me and others. we see safe streets. we opportunity. we see a change. we see the sunshine and it's right on san francisco today because al uhaul is for all of the people of our city to enjoy and the people it will have an

opportunity to experience it as well. >> so salute hall lou. i think it cheers o excitations. it was much anticipated open to the public this morning. it features 2 floors of seating areas and event space for live music and community gatherings. and there are 11 different dining options, including yes, these swedish meatballs. there's also some bars and local food vendors from across san francisco that are in there as well. space x launching a falcon 9 rocket from vandenberg space force base this morning was carrying a military weather satellite that's going to measure wind, ice, thickness, even keep an eye on soil moisture. and then 8 minutes after takeoff, the rocket's boosters returned safely to earth and touch down at vandenberg. one last look at the forecast here. trying

to savor today was yeah. that's got to say. i love seeing the weather satellites going up. that's great technology improving every day in my area. everybody beautiful today. you don't have to be a meteorologist to know that this is going to >> blue skies out of half moon bay, everybody out there enjoying it podcast. tonight's going to be limited. but notice we get into tomorrow morning. we're going to see not just fog but clouds start to move in as we have a cloudy day expected tomorrow and that cloudy day bean's that the temperatures are going to be much cooler. so we're not going to see 80's on the map inland like we're seeing right now. we're going to go right back down to slightly below average for temperatures are going to be in the 60's and you can see some spots in our expected low 60's and the coast, some 50's. so just prepare yourself mentally for the walker going to take downhill here on the temperatures by overnight friday into saturday, looking out for some rain that cold rain and a little bit of wind coming for your saturday into the first part of sunday. then we're going to clear out and we're looking really nice for next week's the beautiful

temperatures getting more to kind of an average profile for spring but the next couple of days bring that jacket tomorrow. get ready to find that umbrella. figure out where you left. it. no kidding. and the umbrellas. thank you for joining us this afternoon here on kron 4. appreciate your time. i'm justine waldman. a see you right back here tomorrow. have a good one.

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