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>> our top story this half-hour used baseball team has been left heartbroken after thieves broke into a concord sports complex and still more than $15,000 worth of their equipment with the teams league season in full swing, the theft is really a crushing blow. our kron four's philippe djegal reports.
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>> normally in this we keep our generators and we to large a tv. but when anthony northrop opened con x box saturday night noticed one of atv's was gone, tv and as he continued to survey the junior only complex and conquer. it realized thieves took a lot more. they still generators. they stole water pumps. >> the water pump for used to pump water off the field so that when it rains we can get a field playable in a couple of hours. multiple connick storage boxes ransacked that tools stolen to you're targeting someone who just can't recover easily. i don't understand that mindset. market north route is the league's board president. his brother anthony is the facility's director. both continue volunteering for the organization, even though no longer playing it. >> that's why this angers all of the volunteers whose league just incurred $15,000 in losses. i understand you need something, but why? why? a
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nonprofit organization in online fundraiser has been established to help replace what was lost and the north rips are grateful for that. it hurts because, again, equipment out here, the volunteers out here, the parents out here, the people out here. are here for children. despite the burglary. the northrop say volunteers are working hard to ensure it does not impact play as the spring season continues in concord. philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> a man has been arrested and charged with murder a year after a vacaville woman was killed just north of sacramento last april, yuba county sheriff's detectives say somebody found 27 year-old amory may sweeney's body in an orchard. authorities say sweeney was hit and killed by a car last week. police arrested ricky laster in connection with her death. he made his first court appearance earlier this week. he is being held in jail on 1 million dollars bail. investigators have not released a motive behind the killing. chp says its retail
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crime task force recovered a record number of stolen goods. >> and arrested hundreds of suspects this year alone. the agency released the numbers on your screen there since the beginning of 2024. officials have made nearly 500 arrest. they've recovered more than 160,000 stolen goods worth more than 4 million dollars statewide. organized retail crime task force started back in 2019. and since then, chp has arrested more than 25 100 suspects and recovered more than 42 million dollars. as we mentioned, worth stolen goods. so in february, governor newsom deployed units to oakland and greater alameda county da help fight violent crime and retail theft. most recently, the chp recovered 400 stolen cars in oakland and arrested 200 people last week. members of the public and retailers can also report a crime tips directly through the chp is website former san
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francisco city commissioner has resigned from his job at a nonprofit after he was accused of domestic violence and assault. 3 women have recently come forward with allegations against cobo. according to a report published in the san francisco standard. cobos director of community development for the housing nonprofit tenants and owners development corporation or todd co until he resigned yesterday. women told the standard they all filed police reports, but they say they didn't. they didn't go anywhere. coble was first publicly accused of rape in a different incident back in 2021. it's unclear what action police have taken regarding those reports. francisco police chief bill scott address the allegations writing on x, quote, the sfpd is working diligently on these open investigations. we take assault cases very seriously. and we work closely with our victims. we urge anybody who is a victim of assault to come forward and report your case
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to the sfpd end quote. well, take a look at that. a massive water main break, a shooting water. nearly 8 stories high in san francisco's mission bay neighborhood about a midnight really early this morning. you can see water flowing onto the street there. crews say they responded after a car reportedly crashed into a fire hydrant near china street. there. no word tonight on any arrests. santa clara county residents could see higher water bills in the upcoming year valley. water big time to fix several dams that could hold the county's water supply. the region's main water supply or is proposing raising charges and on cities and private water retailers and this could add up to nearly $9 a month to customers bills and upcoming fiscal
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year. a final decision is going to be made in may when valley waters board approves the upcoming budget. more layoffs coming to google. a company spokesperson says the layoffs were companywide and part of a broader effort to try to cut costs. that's according to reuters. still no word on the number of employees being affected, but it's specifically affecting workers in the real estate and finance departments. this latest round of layoffs follows job cuts made earlier this year where the company laid off about 1000 employees at our 4 zone forecast. as we get a live look there at the quay tower. a cloud in the sky. just a light breeze. just get out there. enjoy today's. know for a little hike. so beautiful. everything grown out there. some 34 lizards. what come on i know they were loving the sunshine they've been waiting for know. did it was a great day to get out there and enjoy all that sunshine to. why not? i mean, just beautiful right now.
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little hazy. >> inside the bay at this time. but overall, air quality looking good couple of spots in the san jose and you get into oakland that stretches through berkeley in crockett in the blair was well seeing a little bit of haze there, too. but overall, i think they're quality looking good tomorrow again, we'll see that nice seabreeze kicking in late in the day. and so they're good from the north bay, the coast, the east bay and the south bay. tomorrow afternoon, speaking of wind. so i've got a little bit of a normally when a san francisco right now, the sea breeze, those kicked in the and half moon bay. that's where you see those cooler temperatures developing outside right now. high clouds moving up above. we're going to see more of that again for tomorrow. but staying dry, that's just some really high level clouds are cruising on by otherwise. tonight, here we go. here's the forecast. you can see some more of those clouds moving on through couple patches of fog likely to form along the coastline by early tomorrow morning. but then we're off and running again with another beautiful day. lots of sunshine, warm temperatures, 70 some 80's again by tomorrow afternoon, fumo. so those high clouds moving in by late in the day. but other than that, you're looking good now as we get to friday, things change.
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we're going to see more of an onshore breeze kicking and all of a sudden we're going to start talking about more low clouds and fog and maybe even some drizzle along the coastline. that's going knock down the temperatures around the bay area starting on friday as we head in toward the weekend. all that being said, i think tomorrow, another gorgeous day to get out there. enjoy, however, you'd like to about 81. a nice day in san jose. oakland should have a beautiful day starting out with maybe couple patches of fog in the morning. but by the afternoon, just a few high clouds and sunshine is 73 degrees. and in the san francisco, you a little fog in the sunset, sunshine toward the bay and temperature of about 65 degrees. a lawrence, it's been exactly a week now since oj simpson died. >> one question being asked is, does his death make it any more likely that the families of ron goldman and nicole simpson? well, finally collect the millions of dollars. he owed them kron four's catherine heenan time to a bay area civil trial attorney and she joins us from the newsroom the answer cast. yet, while there's been a nearly a 3 decade long fight to collect
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roughly. >> 33 million dollars awarded by a civil court jury. that was a 1997 that you're you might remember found oj simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, nicole simpson and her friend ron goldman. if it doesn't fit. you must acquit. >> about a year after o j. simpson's 1995. acquittal on murder charges. he was back in court facing civil charges. only a small fraction of the 33 and a half million dollars. he was eventually ordered to pay out after that trial was reportedly ever delivered and attorney for the family of ron goldman says with interest, the amount is now 114 million. so to the families have a better chance now of collecting a bay area. civil trial attorney says it depends on how much of simpson's assets are successfully found or marshaled always what's actually going to be marshall.
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>> you can't hide a mansion. you can hide a boat. can my core you can hide money, you can jewelry. we talked earlier. you can you put some jewelry and a cough canterbury in the desert that stuff is not going to be reported. attorney her job at ryan says if simpson and his attorneys. >> we're hiding assets. his death won't necessarily bring them to light. now. >> i suspect that they spent 20 plus years. heidi assets. my suspicion is this was already planned, wasn't as if his death was surprise to given understanding was that a cancer diagnosis result death. so i'm not sure that going to advance the ball for the colemans on the collection efforts. but if the attorneys are forthright in the trust and estate documents are done properly. >> he should give him maybe a degree of. >> some like the otherwise than half the father and sister of murder victim ron goldman released this statement after simpson staff
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for 3 decades. we tirelessly pursued justice for ron and nicole. and despite a civil judgment and his confession if i did it, the hope for true accountability has ended. i asked job a culture and what advice he'd offer them being aggressive. >> let's get one last effort. i know it's got to be tiring for the family. it has to bring bad images in your mind. every effort that reminds him of the death their but, you know, you've got to go after you got to do for at least for that semblance of justice. >> it is not clear at this point anyway, how much money some some had when he died. one of his attorneys is now his executor, the executor of his estate. he said publicly a few days ago he hoped the goldmans got 0 as he put it after a blast of criticism from the public. he is now trying to back off on that statement. vicki in cannes.
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with michael jordan, larry bird magic johnson that won the gold medal in barcelona. 1992 steve kerr will coach this year's olympic squad. mali said this was basically one of those. what can you get? the guy who has everything type of things and steph didn't have a team usa fit now. he does rw with all his success at curry has never played in the olympics. so many deep playoff runs left in prioritizing his rest and family time. but now he's trying to add gold medal to his remarkable list of accomplishments and hardware. a former warriors is joining curry on team usa. kevin durant is trying to win his 4th gold medal. lebron james and fellow laker anthony davis joined them on the team. as does clipper superstar kawhi leonard. they are joined by younger all nba performer such as joel embiid, devin booker and jayson tatum. the americans will enter the olympics. the favorite to win the gold medal.
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>> and now kron 4 sports. >> the warriors season came to a sobering and last night it wasn't the last that was so bad. but who is more the manner in which they lost? the kings just bullied. it does push them around at will. they looked like the tougher team, the more athletic team and obviously the better team. it made many question whether the dubs can ever win again with the big 3 as their core. that's a topic for another day. what is relevant right now is the future of klay thompson. he will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. and although both sides would like to see the partnership continue, you just never know. wants folks start talking about money. clay says he's still dealing with the emotions of the season, but what is most important is winning another >> i really haven't thought about. that deep in the future because i still need to process. the year we had and it was. one filled with ups
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and downs. ultimately we for city and our team did everything we could to try and win as many games we possibly could. when you've been a part of winning seasons, don't really want to go away from that. would like to win again. one for the thumb will be nice. so think it's an reach. just going to take huge for other than that. i think about that. what really make you happy in the last, you know, few years, your career. >> former stanford star cameron brink has been on a whirlwind tour since being drafted. number 2 overall in the wnba draft. she is the newest member of the los angeles sparks and will soon begin her wnba career. it's been nothing but bliss over the last week for brink. she's been celebrated and frankly just told how great she is very often has of late. and she is. but she is also ready to get to work. she will join team usa training camp for the 3 on 3 team this week and then head back to la for wnba training camp in cam knows this next chapter. it won't be
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easy. >> i think giving ourselves grace is extremely important. i think we just have to remember for that. we're going to be playing at the best about players in the world. it's going to be a challenge. i think one we're all looking forward to. and then i'd also like talk about how i mean, i have amazing rookies with me, rick. yeah, i had so much fun with you at the draft. i think we're going to making things together. i think we're just going to lean on each could it the more excited about our draft class? >> down in miami, the giants were taken on the marlins. look at logan webb. he's allowed him proud. kings you know, he's happy today. top of the second. no score man offer tyro estrada. he laces a shot to the corner in left jorge solera comes into score. it is one nothing. giants. bottom of the 3rd same score rookie win on the mound for the giants. looking for his first victory with the squad. he pitched 6 innings only gave up 4 hits.
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one run and had 4 strikeouts. all right. top of the 7th runners on the corner, 3 quarter giants, great defensive play by the marlins. san francisco is able to score a run in the process. they go up to the the giants added on into a matt chapman scald the shot to right. that brings in jean hooley. that was enough for when to get his first win. giants win it 3 to one and take the series from the marlins out to the town hall of famer rickey henderson looking on as the a's look to salvage one against the cards. bottom of the 3rd, no score history ruiz was raking before he got sent to the minors and he still is his second home run since being called back up. and it's 2 nothing a's. bottom of the 5th, 3, 2, cardinals now shea langley years finds the gap in left-center. that plates. 2
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runs the a's. go up. 43. how about some insurance? tyler, nevin? coming up right here. here we go. well, rbi single past the second baseman. they beat the cards. 63, they head out on a 10 game road trip starting friday in cleveland. all right. that's your look at sports. back to you guys. all right, jason jarrett, cisco, mayor london breed continues her trip through china. she posted a picture to where social media. >> from beijing today, there it is, where she met up with the u.s. ambassador to china. nicholas burns in her post. she says that they talked about economic development and cultural exchange between san francisco in various cities throughout china. today is dat 4 of her 8 day trip. >> happening tomorrow, san francisco is holding a ceremony to mark the 118 years since the bid 19. 0, 6,
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earthquake. it will be held at lot as found a fountain starting at 4.45. in the morning city officials will honor the day with a wreath laying laying ceremony in a moment of silence, followed by sirens from a fire truck. now to our 4 zone forecast and a live look outside and the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. and a lawrence karnow is here and you're familiar with that whole 19. 0, 6, quake. i wasn't around quite that. well, i mean, but as these temperatures for commemoration, haha commemoration, yes, the weather began to look for them for 19. 0, got some of changes coming our way. but not just yet. we're going to squeeze in. >> another nice day tomorrow. you're going to see some sunshine. just a couple of patches of fog, a little haze out toward the golden gate bridge this evening. but overall, we are looking good outside. think that's way it's going to continue for tomorrow. temperatures out the door right now. 75 degrees and san jose. 78 in dublin, 69 degrees in alameda. 75 in napa
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and 71 degrees in so overall, the pattern looking good, although i think we're going to see some changes starting on friday, a few more clouds going to begin to roll in. in fact, maybe a little drizzle along the coastline as we head toward friday, the first party week and then a cold front swings through. but staying dry. so the first right weekend, some time. but then late next week, the clouds roll in. and yes, there's a chance of rain by the following thursday. so let's enjoy this nice weather. while we have a temperatures around the bay area tomorrow, looking good about 70 degrees in the about 61 elder, not a she d inside the bay of find warm sunshine all day long and warming up as you head down the peninsula finally some 80's and much of the santa clara valley to 80's in the east bay to about 82 degrees in livermore should be about 79 in walnut creek. 75 in orinda. 74 in richmond tomorrow about 82 degrees in pittsburgh. as we look at over the next couple days, temperatures coming down just a little bit as we head toward the weekend and then warming up slightly as we head in toward early next week. chance of showers by next thursday.
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a bay area residents know. these gloomy skies is called the fog. and now san francisco residents could know karl, as mayor, the infamous bay area county posting on x y people should cast their votes for carl, the countless 3 reasons why karl should be mayor, including a proven track record of reaching across the aisle. being a natural
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protector of harm. full uv rays and making a side of guac free for residents. >> there you go. alright of them are humane society. want you to meet a special dog. they call pepperoni this little guy. got his name based off of his rescue story. see last week, animal services found an abandoned chihuahua living under round table. pizza restaurant after they caught him shelter. workers were able to evaluate him. and now they say that he's thriving at his foster home. no pop aroune there even made friends with another chihuahua and and a cat. so if these photos us steal piece of your >> you can contact and humane on his adoption status. >> ballet dancers in new york broke a world record for the most answers on point. at the same time, i guess that's when they're on their tippy toes right? take a look. hundreds of dancers gathered at the plaza hotel in new york city
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today prepared to beat the guinness world record for most ballet dancers on point for one minute. the announcer probably declare the group had beat the 2019 record 306 dancers today. 353 dancers on point at the same time and finally an unusual sighting in montana, places yesterday, an elephant stop traffic causing people to pull out there. phones. we have officials say she's an asian elephant with the jordan world circus was pre show bath when she was spooked by the sound of a car backfiring. so she broke through a fence. she took a brief little walk there for circus staff used another elephant to lower her back to her little star trailer, but the show must go on. she was still able to participate in 2 performances that day. he mentioned sitting there in your car. i mean, they see
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