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university officials kron four's terisa stasio joins us now live from there. and what is the situation? >> well, just in the situation is that these are very passionate students with a lot to say. cover the quad campus in san francisco state university. a protester setting up to speak up. >> similar to statements being made other college campuses around the country. these protesters say that they are out here to push university officials and u.s. officials to disclose expenditures. the college may with foreign investors divest. if those are controversial and have controversial ties to the region defend palestinians declare the occupation of gaza as a designated spokesperson talked to me about the group's schools. i important for the entire this encampment and other cameras around the country across the not about
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the university not about it is. >> lot and some of the rhetoric that we've seen in some extreme cases like at ucla and columbia university, it's clearly crossed the line where jewish students are being blocked from accessing common spaces. >> tyler gregory's with the bay area, jewish community relations council. >> and so we're looking to take proactive steps to prevent some of these more extreme things from happening here. >> at issue for campuses here nationwide, the balance of free speech and student safety. this is rory little a constitutional law professor with you see law school, san francisco 3 weigh them. it's really between. >> that the right to protest or freedom of speech, the right college campuses to ensure safety public safety as well as student body safety pact. safety and the right of students to have their education. so some students are protesting and other students would just as soon
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not have anything to do with the protest would like to go on with their education. so it's a very difficult law enforcement then has their abilities to come in, use force to effect the rest need to. >> and back here live on the campus, you can see some of the signs that have popping up here on the quad. we reached out to campus officials. they sentences statement saying, quote, we will respect the rights of students to peacefully protest. i will work to keep them and the entire campus community safe. the university has a tradition of honoring the rights of its community members to peacefully protest while preserving a safe environment. so that is the latest here at san francisco state university. you can say it's pretty much a pretty peaceful crowd and many are hoping that it will stay that way. reporting live in theresa stasi. back to you. just a >> theresa, thank you. there was a similar situation that's been unfolding at stanford
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demonstrators camping out there since last thursday. they want the school to disclose investments and cut any financial ties with israel. some jewish students say the campus protests have created an anti semitic atmosphere that makes them feel uncomfortable. and in some cases intimidated. >> live in great these people are taking advantages of the freedoms afforded by this country. white will simultaneously chanting death to america. almost nightly basis. and so i think it's good for them to recognize that. maybe they should be thankful for the country that they're protesting in. >> a group called stanford for palestine says 9 of their student members were cited by the university for discipline perry violations for protesting. we did reach out to stanford for comment when we get a response will let you know. and the student-led pro palestine protests are continuing across the nation. also in the bay area will go to uc berkeley were demonstrators remain at an encampment at sproul plaza for a second week. those involved
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are calling on the university to stop investing in companies that work with israel, especially if they're involved in making weapons of war. students have been camping out there since monday of last week. tyler gregory, the ceo of the bay area's jewish community relations council posted the following message on social media in response to signs at uc berkeley at the protests there that red glory to the martyrs victory to the resistance. it seemed to be in response to the hamas terror attack on october 7 that killed 1200 people and took more than 250 people hostage. gregory's message reads in part here, these berkeley signs are not pro-palestine their pro-hamas and its support of terrorism against jews and do nothing to help the cause of palestinian statehood. and standoff between pro-palestine protesters and u.s. college administrators appears to be coming to a head at columbia university in new york. the protesters took over a
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building this morning by barricading themselves inside. this is coming a day after demonstrators ignored an ultimatum to abandon their encampment. the school has promised that these people would face expulsion. police removed move to a club. they wanted to clear out this encampment at yale university in connecticut. but at northwestern university, which is outside of chicago, school officials and protesters have reached an agreement to allow the demonstrations through the end of the spring classes. lawmakers on capitol hill are watching closely. >> this is not the free marketplace of ideas. this is open threats to jewish students because of their faith and the rampant anti-semitism. requires action by the federal government. >> but democrats say that this legislation is not the answer, saying that they are constitutionally bound to protect free speech. more importantly, when it's speech that they don't agree on. and stay with us here on air and online for the latest information on the
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israel-hamas war from the campus protests to what's happening in gaza. also, the latest on hostages. you can go to our website kron 4 dot com. and congress is taking on anti-semitism with the new bill that would make hate speech against jews punishable by law. the house is set to vote this week on the anti-semitism awareness act the bipartisan bill would codify the definition of anti-semitism by adopting the international holocaust remembrance. alliance's definition. supporters say the move would give the education department more clarity and authority over anti-semitic speech at college protests. but opponents argue the bill is too broad and threatens free speech. also on the state has opened up an investigation into the group that's paying for the effort to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price kron 4 sleep to call reports the california fair political practices commission is looking into potential violations of the political reform act.
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>> alameda county district attorney pamela price. as back in december, her campaign protect the win for public safety filed a complaint with the california fair political practices commission against reviving the bay area. the political action committee finance the save media for everyone safe is the group leading the effort against toronto on tuesday during a news conference in oakland is price confirmed the fppc has formally opened an investigation between. 2023, and october, november 2023, they donated approximately $578,000 to safe without complying with the laws that govern all political committees in california. in a letter the fppc says it is investigating supporters to recall pamela price for potential violations of the
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campaign disclosure provisions of the political reform act. >> but it has not made a determination about the possible violations been a lot of financial irregularities, coupled with. >> the a practices of the signature gathering company, pci communications that literally paid for hundreds of people to come into our community and gather signatures using bait and switch tactics and misleading people and engaging in fraudulent signature gathering for a speaking ahead of tuesday's alameda county board of supervisors meeting where the board is set to vote on approving the registrar of voters certification. >> of the results of the examination of the petition to recall price. the registrar of voters determined earlier this month that the number of valid signatures were sufficient to call for a recall election. proponents of the recall also held a news conference tuesday. we here.
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>> all of that's why again, it pay have is not we call is going to happen. guess what? and you guys made history. safety right the fppc investigation could take weeks to several years and penalties could range from a warning to fines. >> in oakland, philippe djegal, all kron. 4 news. >> let's talk about our forecast now with this live look outside showing us what's going on here across the city. looks pretty out there today. not a cloud in the sky. we have meteorologist kyla grogan with details from the weather center. yeah. beautiful blue skies yet again today. we do have a little breeze going. you can see that flag kind of flying there on the right side of your screen. >> temperatures are getting nice and warm. in fact, santa rosa, just it's 75 degrees. we've got low 70's in livermore, concord, san jose at 70 degrees. 50's still in half. moon bay and san francisco and oakland about 66 for use a pretty nice
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afternoon. i've noticed these numbers start to go up just like they did yesterday. so we're now getting a little gusty here, san francisco, 21 miles per hour. but notice this wind is also now over at oakland hayward out in san jose. so getting a little bit more widespread. and if we head out to the water and we take a look at the buoys, some of these wind gusts you can see now picked up upwards of 40 miles per hour. 35 miles per hour or so. unfortunately, that's creating a little bit of danger out in the water where they have a gale warning that goes until 03:00am on thursday. so we see gusts up to 40 knots, which, you know, are are just starting to see in some spots and waves 10 to 15 feet can see central and ssuthern california also have a high surf advisory. so what this means is not only another windy afternoon, but we kind of got more wind as we head across the week, in fact or get some offshore wind once we get into tomorrow afternoon and we'll have kind of both of these happening at the same time. so the breezy conditions will be sticking with us, but the sunshine will be sticking with us, too. and in fact, we're going to warm up over the next 3 days before we have a very dramatic cool down coming and a chance of rain will talk about that in your
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seven-day forecast. back to you. >> all right. today, a california, california attorney general rob bonta hosted a roundtable discussion south bay community leaders highlighting the ongoing efforts to prevent gun violence and identifying the best practices to help keep communities safe. his focus was on giving locals the tools necessary to stop the shooting as well as implementing rules and other cities. >> we status quo, state of affairs where we have more mass shootings in a year than days in the calendar year where leading cause of death for our youth. is gun violence. where we lose 45,000 people each year to gun violence. we have more guns in more places and that creates more gun violence and morgan death. >> fatah says investing in the community will be to meaningful change. >> coming up here, raising
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awareness for serious but preventable condition. coming up, why a lawmaker wants to bring more attention to hepatitis b during a api box. plus for following a car fire that started on the bay bridge earlier this morning. a cause some serious delays. we'll have updates on that as we approach the evening commutes. but first, we're looking into a massive fire that burnt a vacant building in concord earlier today. coming up during kron for 3 will take a look at what's happening there tonight. we'll
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concord nearby. roads are still closed and this will impact the commute tonight. kron 4 charles clifford has the details. >> well, here in concord on tuesday, the cleanup work continues across the street there you can see a three-story is a complete loss after a dramatic fire overnight. fortunately no one was injured, but it's going to take some time to clean up the mess. late monday evening, fire broke out in this vacant three-story building at the intersection of clayton road and park street in concord. this is just across the street from the concord bart station. according to contra costa county fire. there were no active fire alarms or smoke detectors inside the building which allowed the flames to grow unchecked until a passerby noticed smoke and called 9-1-1. when there's system >> alarm in place, we only get the call a good citizen lets us know. >> when fire crews arrived on scene, they searched the building, recognize no one was inside with defensive because i was going to be a safer way to fight the fire. the fire eventually grew to a second alarm. the roof also
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collapsed, but crews were able to contain the blaze by about one tuesday morning. they were also able to keep the fire from spreading to other buildings in the nearby bart station was not impacted. crews are now keeping an eye on the building to make sure the fire doesn't kick back up again. they're still going to be a few hot we're monitoring, but the fire is out at this stage or just do a mop up making sure those hot spots don't reignite the exact cause of this fire is still under investigation in concord, charles, clifford kron, 4 news. >> all lanes in the bay bridge are back open. a car fire from this morning temporarily shut down several lanes. the chp share this photo of what was going on and saying that all the lanes reopened by noon. this happened just west of treasure island. it's unclear what caused the fire or if anyone was kurt hurt. but there was pretty bad back up earlier this afternoon. a dead gray whale that washed up off the coast of alameda likely
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die due to a vessel strike. that's according to the california academy of sciences and april 20th, the great well identified by scientists as a 40 foot adult female washed up off the shore of crown beach. it was then towed to a dryland, the state park where scientists performed a necropsy and that determine the whale likely die due to blunt force trauma from a vessel strike. however, the official cause of the whale's death could not be fully determined due to its decomposed state and body position. golden gate ferry service between sausalito and san francisco is scheduled to resume tomorrow. the commuter ferry service posted on x saying that the repairs to the sausalito appear were done this week. ferry service has been closed for about 2 weeks after dam, which was founded. one of the piers piles. and again, it's starting up again tomorrow. the windy, if you took a ferry today. here's a live look at the golden gate bridge right now. karl is here now with details. nice and sunny out their best. the
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breeze, though, you've got it is mess everybody. you could say that about facebook's i did interviews with people getting off of the ferries in oakland when we have one of these kind of wild, windy days and people are like. >> it's a different ride, isn't it is a little breezy out there. so steal your nerves for that folks. but >> you know, this is kind of the profile we're going to be. and for the next few days with some of these windy conditions. take a live look outside here too, said this is the embarcadero. feel like the cameras taken a little bit of a fall here. it's not quite as pretty as it usually is. usually it shows you the blue skies in the sunshine and that would be courtesy of the high pressure that's sitting off the coast. and that is going strengthen increase a little bit as we get to the next couple of days. so you can see where the blue skies are here. as we look at stormtracker cloud staying well off shore. and right now temperatures are reflecting that, right? we're warming up. it's quite nice 70 in san jose. 71 in dublin. 62 in downtown san francisco. notice the coast still in the 50's. but you had to napa. we're at 71 degrees up in the north bay. san jose now is up to 75. so that is courtesy of
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high pressure. so it means that tonight if you're headed to oakland baseball game as they take on the pirates, that should be really nice about 65 degrees. when they threw out the first pitch at 6.40. but watch out for those breezy conditions, i would take a jacket because it has in that wind gets going in the gates. some of the sunshine that we've got out there, especially you're sitting higher up in the stadium there. you can get some of that wind going. going to stick with oakland. we're taking a live look from the east bay here or there and give you full day and let's talk temperatures because over the next few days we are going to warm up in oakland as we will all across the bay to above average temperatures. then saturday. will we go down and i do mean quickly and that is because we are going to see that high pressure start to break down. when that happens, it's going to allow a front through now. the models are going back and forth on this. but right now, this is the latest. where brings this through on saturday? you can see it also wants to bring in a little sierra snow. we're going to see if that holds. but i do think we'll get a little something. and at the very least we're going to get a whole lot cooler. and you can see that they're from friday to saturday. so get ready to enjoy the sunshine
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and warm temperatures along with the breeze is for the next couple of days and then get that jacket out on saturday. maybe even a jacket with a hood. i think i don't know if you need the umbrella, but >> we're going to be awfully cool. that's for sure. back to you. >> there's a new memorial on display at sycamore park in davis honoring the life of bu najim. one of the victims killed the davis stabbing spree last spring. a bench now sits for the 20 year-old uc davis student died. he was 6 weeks away from graduation when he was attacked while riding his bike through sycamore park. hundreds of people including the uc davis marching band, joined his family members in a procession as they remembered kareem's life. >> we lost someone on april. 29 last year. that and i we lost our son and you lost a friend student. i'm not to. fellow they've a citizen. >> people also gathered of the weekend in davis's central park to honor the other victim
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with a second victim that was killed in the stabbings a year ago. creams family says this latest memorial will stand the test of time and serve as a reminder to the uc davis community. the importance of protecting future generations of students. san francisco supervisor joel and gardea wants to raise awareness about hepatitis b. he introduced a resolution to call the month of may happen. titus awareness month in san francisco. he says that there is a dire need to address the rising rates of hepatitis b and c hepatitis is caused by a virus in the blood. he wants the state department of health to expand services to treat people and expand awareness. he says the api community is at risk for getting hepatitis b and c. only 6%. >> of the u.s. population is a a p i but that 6% accounts for 58% of americans living with hepatitis b, san francisco has one of the largest api
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populations in the nation which makes hepatitis b awareness and essential local issue. >> and estimated one in 12 americans has hepatitis b and majority of them are not even aware that they have it. still ahead, the deadline to apply for student loan forgiveness is today. how to check if you qualify. plus more job cuts. a tesla, for
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least 14,000 workers. the ev company is laying off hundreds more, including 2 high-level executives, the executive director of tesla's supercharger group and the head of new products. according to a report by the tech site, the information there was e-mail sent by elon musk to those executives and it's leaving room now for even more layoffs to come calling the cuts absolutely, saying that any employee who does not pass the excellent necessary and trustworthy test would be out of a job. a previous report by bloomberg says the tesla could end up cutting more than 20,000 employees in total. and today is the deadline for college students to qualify for a federal loan forgiveness, students who enrolled in income-driven college loan repayment plans or public service loan forgiveness programs are eligible. some parents who borrowed through the federal family education loan program can also get the spate break. the biden administration's loan forgiveness can cover all
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or some of remaining college loan debt. and you can see if you qualify at student aid dot gov. pg and e is saying it has heard your complaints and will start lowering electricity bills. the utility company claims rate increases over the past year were to raise money for infrastructure improvements. more than 10% of a jump happened this past january. and that sparked some outcry and scrutiny from state regulators to allow the utility to hike up the prices. response pg new ceo is saying bills could start dropping as early as next year. cause they will be done with those improvements. coming up, california's population is growing. how many more people added were came here just last year alone. plus the campaign to build a new city and california is now moving forward. so we'll see what happens next. now that the group, california forever says it has enough signatures to qualify for the november ballot. and the dea is
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>> california forever. the group working to build a new city in solano county has reached yet another milestone. they say they have received enough signatures to qualify their initiative for the november ballot. they made the submission today to the county elections office kron four's tiffany justice has the latest. the group says they have 7,000 more signatures than needed and they're confident all 20,000 signatures collected. >> will be verified.
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>> so i don't voters have made that first decision. and they have made loud and over 20,000 to lionel residence have signed the petition. >> the campaign to build a new california city is moving for jan tram make ceo of california forever say4 they are gaining the support of locals submitting more than 20,000 signatures tuesday to qualify the east. a homes. >> jobs in clean energy initiative for the november ballot. 7,000 signatures. more. >> than was required. for the 1000 signatures are required. that's over 60 for something that was more than was required. >> it's now up to the solano county's elections office to verify each signature. is there a voters will decide whether to allow urban development on land. currently zoned for agriculture. the new town is being described as a green city for up to 400,000 people in the san francisco bay area. but it has faced
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some opposition. representative john garamendi speaking with kron 4 in january saying he has some concerns over water use and funding for schools and a local fire department. the travis air force base as a group did address their concerns and plans and minimize the impact this development could have on local training flights. an exercise a place like this system. almost almost anyone. you can't do so i'm i'm really just the storm is to do so much opposition vacaville vice mayor greg ritchie endorsing the plan for the new development as does area resident can clue, sir jack up is mansion is with california river. looks like these essentially a townhouse like to a lot of are like santana row. we have a wasn't off and you have stories below or offices or so i like the idea. not just a building new housing building new housing
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that doesn't take a lot closer, says he's concerned for his 2 grandchildren, one in college. now he says affordability of houses in california. >> it's hard to obtain. also the idea that the housing is could be a for a double to me, that's big selling point. the group forever, california says it may take up to 30 to 60 days for the signatures to be verified. but again, they do say that they are confident. >> that the signatures will be verified and that the measure will make it onto the november ballot. reporting to justice kron. 4 news. >> people are moving to california and fewer people are leaving the state. that's according to the california department of finance. last year, california's population increased by 67,000 people. the growth being attributed to an increase legal immigration and just natural population increasing. this is the first year since 2020 that the state
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soon receive $1000 every month. thanks to a new initiative that's been funded by google and other local nonprofits. the pilot program called it all adds up aims to test the concept of guaranteed basic income across 5 different years. 450 families are going to receive these cash stipends half will receive $1000 a month. the other half will be a control group receiving $50 a month. the payments will be distributed exclusively to families who are about to lose access to city funded housing subsidies. the program is part of a broader 1 billion dollar effort by google to increase the bay area's housing supply. hundreds of people in the bay area just excuse me in california of the muslim faith just wrapped up a full day of advocacy at the state capitol. there were people from the bay area there, including a 600 muslims and they were taking part in the 13th annual muslim day at the capitol. they want to see several pieces of legislation move forward,
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including a proposal to grant california public school students and exemption from physical education classes. if they are fasting advocates also urging support for a resolution resolution denouncing a surge in islamophobia amid the war in gaza. >> muslim community absolutely shows art. the reason it was 600 this year probably because so many of them wanted to be there and cushion. calling for, you calling for up to to be heard for themselves to be heard and intro lawmakers to listen. >> this day was put on by the council on american islamic relations in california. and organizers are hoping that their priority legislation will make it to the governor's desk. also, for your help today, california is going to go into the drug business in order to combat the ongoing fentanyl crisis as kron four's rob nesbitt reports, governor gavin newsom says the state will begin selling its own generic version of narcan.
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>> on monday, governor gavin newsom announced that his administration has secured a cal rx branded over-the-counter naloxone for $24. a pack. that's how much the state will pay. but doctor mark galli from california, health and human services says most of the twin packs used to reverse an overdose will cost consumers. nothing in san francisco. you picked one of many harm reduction or substance use disorder service providers. >> public health clinics. some of the commercial clinics will provide narcan to make it available. free of charge. the goal with the program, according to governor newsom's office is to make sure lifesaving medication. >> doesn't result in people going into debt. i spoke with bronze, courtney, from the hiv education and prevention project of alameda county or helped pack about the financial struggles. those facing addiction often face. some folks were talking about like, am i going to eat? >> or am i going to have narcan or am i going to have, you know, some basic needs
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some hygiene stuff or my going to have nor can he does harm reduction, work out in the community and non-clinical settings to have pack. >> harm reduction has become a contentious topic when it comes to dealing with addiction. >> san francisco mayor london breed spoke out against it earlier this year because, you know, i reduction from my perspective is not reducing the harm. >> those who work in reducing drug overdoses by handing out narcan disagree, referencing years of research and statistics. it's about getting people education information and access to resources that literally keep them alive. that's what harm reduction is about. >> governor newsom's office says the orders have been made for the cheaper narc can and should be arriving as early as next month. >> reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. >> a historic step towards easing marijuana restrictions. the dea today proposing reclassify cannabis to a schedule. one drug which would put it alongside tylenol and steroids. marijuana had been a
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schedule 3 drug in the same category as drugs like heroin and methamphetamines. since 1971, the proposal must still be reviewed by the white house the risk of calling a spare the air alert for unhealthy air quality becomes greater. karl is here now with details today. we have a breeze like this, though, that would help with some of the the small. it depends right have that very much. depends on what's going on. but i'm happy to say that what's going on today is that not only do we have the blue skies, but we have.
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>> really nice air quality out there. and that's we're expecting good portion of this week. we really have anything in our purview that would say that things will change, but it's certainly something i definitely keep an eye on for you. as you can see, stormtracker 4 showing you these beautiful blue skies that right over the bay area. and as we look over the next few days, our story is going to be they're going to keep that sunshine. we're going to be warming up and you can see our inland spots could get very close to the 80 degree mark. i think a few of them will likely hit it. then things changed pretty drastically. we have a front coming through. likely to bring us a little bit of rain on saturday and then that got me looking at the sierra because we get rain. sometimes they get snow right. this late in the season, though, obviously it's very beautiful out there right now. they're looking out for some gorgeous sunshine over the next few days. but the models are getting a little interesting here. now. we're a little early to say whether this is going to hold. but right now, you know, we're getting these very kind of a bullish on snow models that are coming in. this model runs. this could go
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back and forth over the next few days. so something to keep an eye on. but i think the big point here is if you're planning to be in this year this weekend, keep an eye on the weather because we could see some slick road conditions depending on what happens with this and how low snow levels would go. now likely they would stay pretty high. but the timing would be saturday afternoon to sunday morning. so i will be keeping an eye on that for you just check in with me for get to the weekend. i'll be back. we'll talk a little bit more about our 7 day forecast here in the bay. back to you. >> well, if you've filled up your car lately, you've noticed it's not cheap. and over the last month, average statewide gas prices have gone way up. but now the head of california's well watchdog division is out with some new data. he believes he's going to show oil companies are raking in the profits. while we all feel the pain at the pump. our capitol correspondent eytan wallace gives us a closer look at the numbers. >> there's an urgent need to protect california consumers from price down. that's the
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message from time. milder director of the state's brand new oil watchdog known as the division of petroleum market oversight. its creation last summer. the division has been collecting data from the oil industry and working with the california energy commission to determine whether or not to annex some sort of penalty on oil companies if they are found to be taking part in price gouging. we are working to provide active oversight and to make sure that the market it's setting the prices that these are fair prices. milder says while it's too early in the data collection process to conclude whether price gouging is taking place, he says he does have some early concerns. californians have been paying too much at the pump for too long as of today, the state average cost of regular unleaded gas is five-dollars $0.39 per gallon. milder note over the last month between late march in late april, gas prices on average, increased by $0.44 in the state. but he says that the same time the price of crude oil on the market increased by just $0.3 while the industry margin, which is
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how much is made per gallon went up by $0.41. >> his conclusion, the recent price spikes. >> really profits. thanks for industry. looking at the data, we're seeing some clear fronts. when prices at the pump went up over last month. that was because the oil industry profits will go but those in the oil industry say it's not as the scenes. the date is there. price gouging is not happening. 7 slagle is with the western states petroleum association representing oil industry stakeholders over the past month. >> there's a number of refineries that were off line maintenance. and when you have >> refineries down supplies shrink. you know, any commodity when you have less supply the needed, the costs, you know, typically will go up. and that's probably a lot. what we saw his position is that the state should invest in more oil production to drive down costs. >> the state of california has been the last couple years implementing policy after policy that's meant end production in but in the end, what consumers care about, they care about higher costs and that is the path our state
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has its own. >> and to the state conclude price gouging is taking place. the california energy commission would still need to determine what if any penalty would be imposed. reporting at the state capitol. eytan wallace kron. 4 news. >> coming up, new abortion restrictions go into effect in florida tomorrow we'll hear from young people are pushing back. and a memorial not growing for the north carolina officers killed in a shootout. how the charlotte community is paying its respects to the fallen heroes. new at 3 a
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commercial brotha was busted in san jose following a months long investigation. police say they got a tip in november regarding suspicious activity. >> possibly connected to human trafficking at a home on north 16th street. investigation was launched. then a 53 year-old was identified as the primary suspect. detective scott an arrest warrant and arrested him on april 19th. they search the home and say they found evidence of a commercial brothel. the suspect was booked into the santa clara county main jail. and then charged with pimping and pandering. former president donald trump has been found in contempt of court for violating a gag order in his hush money trial in a written decision, the new york judge presiding over the trial says mister trump violated that order 9 times. the former president have been fine. now $1000 for each violation. coming up with that $9,000 number. and under this gag order, mister trump is not allowed to comment on witnesses. jurors, court staff
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of lawyers. he spoke in court in the hallway earlier today about it. >> this is a disgraceful it's a disgrace. and the new york state and city courts is >> the case is including the civil they >> prosecutors say trump violated the gag order through social media post. the trial resumed this morning with the questioning of michael cohen's former banker. he's the 3rd witness to take the stand in the case. florida's six-week abortion ban is set to take effect tomorrow. and many young voters are already fighting to overturn it. seniors at jupiter high school in florida are encouraging their peers to get out and vote on a measure set to appear on the ballot this fall. that would wipe away the abortion ban. the measure is expected to bring more young people to the polls but will need bipartisan support to
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pass. >> we have a 60% threshold here in florida to get an amendment passed. i think we're going easily clear that because of the youth turnout, but i think we're going to see a lot of republican crossover. i think they're tired of their own party with this issue. we're handing out free plan condoms cones just to try to spread awareness because that really catches people's. i like, oh, what is this like? what are you doing? >> young people could be very important in florida's election this year with more than 8 million people becoming eligible to vote for the first time this year. dozens of law enforcement officers and hospital staff lined the streets and driveways and north carolina as the 4 men killed in the line of duty were transported from the hospital. samuel polo chi, william alden elliott. they worked with the north carolina department of adult corrections. both had worked at the department for 14 years. officer josh air died at the hospital after responding to a call for help. he had just been recognized
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for his hard work in the queen city. >> we'll always be indebted office or i are for his bravery. his sacrifice for this profession. it's just last month i was in this very congratulating also are become officer of the month. in april. he certainly dedicated his life. in gave his life to serve our citizens. >> 4 other officers were wounded in yesterday's shootout. switch gears and talk about the weather and how breezy it is outside. today right here on the screen. and kyle is here now with details. alex? yeah, brisk the flags. you yeah, we're going to go. and again, it's one of those days right into from my sunglasses on just going to keep any dust from flying into as walking around. >> you can see san francisco at 21 miles per hour. so yeah, it might be doing that again
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today. we are breezy out there now. this is where get a little interesting because you see we have a wind advisory like, well, that's not for us. really it sacramento, but it is part of our viewing area that is in this and it goes into effect late tonight till tomorrow because there's actually be some offshore winds developing inland. so spots like of slanted county, yellow county. you're in this gust to 45 miles per hour. you can see coast throughout the day on wednesday to about 5 o'clock. so starts in the overnight hours tonight. let me show you kind of how this is going to because right now the wind that we're dealing with is an onshore flow, meaning coming from the ocean heading in towards the land. now, this is this evening. you see it's getting quite gusty particular along the coast now and take you to tomorrow in the early morning hours. look what's happening here. this is that offshore wind that wind advisory is for for those of you in solano and yolo counties. now we get to wednesday night and you start to see the onshore flow happening again. and then they kind of both happen as we get into thursday. right? so you've got this pushing on shore. so we get this windy
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profile coming from different directions but still very windy over the next couple of days. so just be ready for that. you might feel that as you're driving across bridges, but obviously we've got a blue skies with us to. we've got beautiful temperatures out there right now. our inland spots getting into the low to mid 70's while the coast stays cool because of that on shore flow still sitting in the 50's. so pretty nice night out. there should be relatively clear, i think at best we could see a few coastal clouds maybe, but that's about it. and even think that will be a stretch. temperatures low 40's to about 50 degrees tomorrow. these are the highs so you can see we are going up up up inland to the upper 70's and low 80's. looks like we'll at 68 in san francisco. it's a nice 70's around the bay. then we have a little chance of rain coming in on saturday. that front is going knock those temperatures down. we'll start talking about that a little bit clearer as we get into tomorrow. but notice the temperature profile is just wildly different. once we hit saturday, whether we get some rain out of this one or not. back to thank you. kyla
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democratic state lawmakers and environmental advocates hope in california can reach its offshore wind goals. they're proposing a one billion-dollar climate bond to fund. >> construction seaports to create more spaces, resources for the construction assembly and transportation up massive, offshore wind turbines set to go off the coast of california. california has a goal to have offshore wind supply. the state with enough electricity to power. 3.7 million homes. the proposal needs at least two-thirds approval from the legislature to qualify for the november ballot. and southwest airlines has now launched a compensation program for the 2022 holiday travel meltdown. nearly 17,000 flights were canceled due to bad weather and outdated computer software. 2 million passengers were stranded. the compensation program is part of a 140 million dollars settlement with the u.s. department of transportation. it provides travel vouchers of $75 or more. 2 passengers who
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are delayed at least 3 hours in december of 2022, the airline said yesterday had a quietly launched this program in april. 16th and the carrier has already heard from about a few 1000 customers seeking vouchers. but now, you know. >> all right. it's getting very crowded on pier. 39 coming up, why you might see in her
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help you form a stronger bond with people around june. the report found 73% of pet parents have connected with someone of a different generation culture, ethnic background because of their pets. so if you're interested in fostering or adoption, this your local pet shelter. the most recent billion dollar powerball jackpot winner has now come forward. he's an immigrant from laos has been battling cancer for the last 8 years. this is 46 year-old charlie safe. and he says that he his wife and a friend all chipped in 100 bucks for the ticket. they're going to split all that money. he believes he manifested the big win, revealing them the weeks leading up to the drawing. he rode out the numbers for the game on a piece of paper and then slept with it under his pillow and prayed. the jackpot has a cash value of 621 million dollars before taxes. he says now he can get the health care that he needs to help battle cancer. all
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right. now is a really great time to go visit the sea lions at pier. 39 in san francisco. officials are saying that the sea lion count is the highest it's been in 7 years. so pier 39 shared this photo on social media showing some of the nearly 850 see lives who are currently out there enjoying the sunshine and more sea lions are out lounging around on the pier because there is an abundance of anchovies this year. that's according to officials with the pier. that's just what you want to do. a sunny day, go out and visit them and just walked some distance land around having a good time making a lot of noise. you've got sunshine. they've got snacks. what? day. hey, i hang out too. why people hanging out of half moon bay? it is a little breezy out there. you can see the sunshine is out there, too. >> just beautiful. we do have some of that window. you could see 20 miles per hour and a half moon bay. the coast is where it's mostly picked up here, but it's moving inland, too. >> and those breezy conditions will be with us over the next couple of days. let's talk temperature ends because we're going to warm up over the next couple of days and then
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cooling on down as we get into saturday. ready or not. we've got a front tracking through. i'll be watching that for you, justine. i know you want to know that weekend first thing i asked her when i came in on monday. what's the weather going to be like weekend? thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 this afternoon. i'm justine waldman afternoon. i'm justine waldman of say tomorrow.
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