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visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc? >> tonight at 5.30, there is a new effort underway to address abuse and harassment in san francisco politics. more than a dozen people stepping up to the microphone last weekend. a special meeting organized by the san francisco democratic party. this comes after recent allegations against prominent figures in local politics. survivors of harassment sharing their experiences with party leaders. we spoke with nancy chair of the san

francisco democratic party who says this is long overdue. >> the party that time did not but this is something that i was very supportive of. what s wpc first came to us and given some of the recent events in the process. i felt like this was the time to act. not now, then when. >> this comes as les young people are engaging in politics. according to tom, she says that's because many of them do not feel safe. the organization hopes to draft a code of conduct that members of the democratic party and affiliated groups must abide by. tom tells us this hearing is the first of many sessions to come. but the first was a success. >> i i was i was overwhelmed by it. it was really something that we strove to do was to get very survivor said trick. we had a a assault therapist

on hand. we had marsy's law expert. >> san francisco representative nancy pelosi also throwing her support behind this committee, sending a letter addressed to tom pelosi urging the committee in part to, quote, implement a robust standard of independence thoroughness and due process as the effort moves forward. >> it's the parties duty to address so that we could make sure that we have the safe environments are free from harassment, free from violence that people can exercise the right to be a part of the political discourse and that we continue to grow generation of leadership of the democratic party. >> meantime, san francisco city leaders held their own hearing last night to examine how top officials have handled some of these types of cases. nearly 5 years ago, san francisco founded the office of harassment and assault response and prevention are sharp supervisor. hillary

ronen saying she will require that committee to report regularly on its efforts moving forward and work to enhance confidentiality efforts to better protect survivors who do come forward. >> parts of highway 37 between toledo and sonoma county will be shutting down once again for repaving this weekend. caltrans says eastbound lanes will close starting at 10 o'clock tonight, they will reopen early monday morning. major public transit issue today led to some big problems for people. 6 bart stations in these bay on the red and orange lines between richmond and macarthur had to shut down for 7 hours this morning due to mechanical problems. the issue started around 5 this morning. bart spokesperson alicia trost says workers were sent to help riders connect with buses to get to their destinations. >> partner, transit agencies don't have the extra buses and drivers this morning. but those stations have great bus

service already. and so it's just getting you on the right bus based on where you need to go. >> the problem has been fixed, but it is still unclear what caused the issue. cios there says the agency understands the hours-long closu e is a major inconvenience and it's especially not good at a time when bart is asking for a bond measure and a couple years. alright, weather time here as we get a live look outside above san francisco on a better night in the don't know why anyone would want to go anywhere else with weather like this. but i guess it is mother's day weekend to folks might be headed out of town. lawrence, what's going you know, mom, i want to travel somewhere. why not get away and enjoy the beautiful weather. >> around the state this weekend, of course, last weekend, a very stormy in parts of northern california. things changing, though, out the door tonight as it looks like high pressure overhead. look at that beautiful shot incline village lake tahoe. take mom there, enjoy the beautiful lake and of course, all the water, full-size to be had lake tahoe as well.

looking good up there, too. you can see the snow capped over the mountain tops. otherwise some storms popoing up a little further south. more showers and a couple pop-up thunderstorms. you make your way toward the u.s. some of the valley and them out of there that likely continue into the weekend. little breezy out sets a full right now. they do have some delays just to the some of the departing flights. there was some of the construction going on. some of the tarmac there. but it looks like are a good conditions in oakland and san jose. no delays being reported at those airports in the monterey bay. kind of a mixed bag. you've got cool temperatures and fog in the san francisco santa cruz. 65 degrees and sunny in the afternoon in monterey and 67 degrees in carmel, southern california. going to be a partly cloudy skies about 80 warm in pasadena. 68. >> in san diego in about 72 degrees in downtown los angeles. and if you do plan to head to the high country yet the time we get to ski boat out there now, temperatures are changing no more snow. we're up in the 60's and the 70's this weekend, the tahoe area, 80 degrees in reno,

beautiful all around. if you plan on sticking around throughout the weekend throughout the holiday, there you go. some very nice weather hovering near 70 degrees throughout the weekend. thanks, lawrence. santa rosa man convicted of murder has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. >> juan martinez was arrested in june of 2022. for killing a man in the windsor area after killing a martinez tried to pose as a kidnapper and extort the victim's girlfriend for more than $100,000. martinez was eventually arrested and confessed leading investigators to the body. one person is recovering tonight after being shot in oakland near lake merritt. police yesterday responded to grand avenue near the mcilroy fountain where they found a person who had been shot. police say the victim got into some kind of verbal fight with another person and then things escalated and there was a shooting. now that person is hospitalized in critical condition. this is an ongoing investigation. firefighters battled a big fire at a commercial building. there's about 2 in the morning on mill

moment. drive in fremont. these are pictures here that the fire department shared. they say when they arrived, the fire was extending through the roof. the fire was knocked down by 03:00am. no injuries were reported. >> hard hats, chainsaws and lots of hammering as kron four's philippe djegal reports habitat for humanity kicked off its annual women's leadership build in the east bay today. >> 5 years ago before the first males were hammered into walls. thanks, around you, lisa. and then is applied for home ownership at habitat for humanity. east bay, silicon valley's affordable housing community since under construction in walnut esperanza place. cody ceci will last year she was accepted as part of altercation and that is partner. will help put in about 250 construction hours to help build a new home, which they will. their 11 year-old son with special

needs. i thought it was an amazing program. there's way that i'll be able to stay in the bay area. >> and native on from the bay area. it was going to be a program like is and her family are among the first of 23 family set to move into their homes next on friday during the nonprofits, anyone women's leadership volunteers joined for the first of 2 days, constructing walls for phase 2 of the project, which is scheduled for completion next year. training 19 homes for the rest of this development will be 42 homes here when we're down. and these women's leadership older more than just an event with weather and pandemic related construction delays, these volunteers are essential to completing this project to work. they're taking it to level. there's

nothing like being able to be part of building your home with so much love. i don't know many people that are able to see. >> say i built this house from the from the ground the second day of the event is next. friday and applications are still being accepted for the homes under construction for phase 2. >> in walnut creek, philippe djegal kron. 4 news. >> just a tremendous loss for the journalism communities today, ktla, entertainment news anchor sam rubin has passed away. yeah, he was a staple at our sister station ktla. sam joined the ktla morning news in 1991 and he was vital to making it the success that it is today. sam is a multi award winner and >> legend in the entertainment community hosting countless red carpets, beloved by co-workers and celebrities alike. many of those celebrities offering their condolence as and shock. today, sam was just 64 years old. he died suddenly this morning in los angeles, his work spanned the world. he was

also a contributor for uk and australia. news programs but he loved his role as husband and dad the most. our hearts are definitely with his wife, leslie and his 4 children today as well as his ktla family. i actually got my start in news back in 2010 and turning for sam in the ktla entertainment news department. he was just incredible influence and presence in my life and my career kept us on our he was known for forcing a lot of us behind the scenes to do silly skits and appearances on air. >> before he was a matchmaker, this is video of him trying to play matchmaker for me and actor taj marie. i'm live on the air one year. it did not things never did usually for him. but we supported him in his delusions. and i've continue to work in the industry. of course, he's always been so so supportive of me. he's giving shout-outs on air for different%reports. i've done and different milestones that i've made when

i got to kron 4, he was just really excited, especially for us to be sister stations and nobody conducted interviews quite like him and i really did try my best to learn by osmosis his comedic timing. he was an incredible writer and incredible storyteller and i will forever be grateful for his kindness and his willingness to teach younger folks in the industry. i always tell young kids trying to get in the you need to do an internship. you need to understand how it works. how newsroom works. and he was definitely vital to helping me learn that. and kind of help sparked this fire and meta be on tv. so thank you, sam, for everything. and i'm like i said, our hearts are definitely with his family. well, today, i'm sorry for your loss. you you can hear your voice, what he meant to you, what he means to you. >> it seems that, you know, every red carpet he was there. he was gonna miss with la that

entertainment scene. but it sounds like we're saying he was like super into his family and just a silly nice guys. super silly. really just fun. he was taught me, you it's ok if mistakes are made. >> you can laugh about it and roll on, you know, call it out. sometimes it makes it, you know, it makes tv more fun that way. and you know, i like i say, i just i tip my hat to to him. and everyone who has worked with him knows it that same person that he is on air is who he was and his real-life very, very kind and a generous to anyone who wanted to learn about the industry. so, yeah, it's a a big, big loss for sure. may his memory be a blessing in obviously touched a lot of lives. and yeah, that will leave a legacy. no doubt. yeah. funny one we let i'm i'm trying to like, you know, laughing joke a little bit with. >> different things about him but that he would have wanted. yeah, no, definitely. he was incredible. we have to take a quick break. more news coming up right after this.

>> all right. first, the good news. northern lights are expected to appear this weekend and maybe even be seen as far south as northern california. but where northern california, more on that in a minute now. the bad news, they're part of a rare and powerful geomagnetic solar storm that could disrupt mobile phone networks, gps satellites, internet service power grids. yikes. that's like everything. this follows a series of solar flares on the sun. that blast at least 5

massive streams of plasma toward the earth. space weather forecasters have issued a severe g 4 geomagnetic storm. watch for tonight. that could last a weekend. >> what earlier today we caught a glimpse of the sun spots that could cause the geomagnetic storm. this is wild lawrence, what do you know about all this? yeah, you know, that's called a coronal mass ejections. so what happens? you see the sun spots and the sun rotates. so if the sun rotates and it's aimed right at the earth and they have one of those solar flares that ejects all that plasma. those cosmic rays headed our way in before. you know what? we've got the possibility of really a space storm out there tonight. so could be really fascinating if you get a chance if you got clear skies, go out and take a look right around midnight or thereafter. here's the latest forecast for where we might see likely going to see it across much of the northern tier of the united states across north dakota, minneapolis, all the

way possibly in a new york. but there's a chance. you know, these things forecast on the solar storms really difficult others possible that we could see maybe a chance of some of that activity and even northern california toward reading. there's about a 4% chance that you might see it there. but with the last event that we had here locally, we actually saw some of that on the rise. and so go check that out tonight. boy, it's a nice sight to see if you get a chance to do it. you we're looking good out there at the airport right now, except for sfo has got some issues there. they've had the delays there just because the work going on some construction. they're out there on one of the runways. otherwise a beautiful evening around the bay area. nice and clear out there right now. temperatures today. yeah, we cool a little bit along the coastline. a sign of things to come. a few degrees cooler there. cooler to oakland and also into hayward, but warmer in spots inland. in fact, check out these temperatures. yeah, we're up in the 70's and the 80's. even some hot 90's today in concord and santa rosa, quite the day around the bay area. now, tomorrow, what we're going to see the cooling beginning along the coastline. we're going to see more fog to start out your day.

temperatures tomorrow. yes, so the 70's were in the 60's and much of san francisco along the coastline. don't go expecting it to be really, really warm up toward the beaches, 50's and 60's. you're going to see that fog out, hugging the coastline inside the bay. it's going to be nice about 69 degrees in san bruno. 76 in millbrae further down. you're going to see those temperatures warming up in the 80's in some spots. then we go maybe couple low 90's in the south bay again tomorrow afternoon. little hot side there. 88 in pleasanton, 79 in hayward, a breezy in the afternoon. 89 in concord about 86 degrees in hercules 80 and napa back along the coastline. temperatures generally in the 50's and the 60's next couple days. those temperatures coming down just a little bit as we head in toward mother's day. otherwise, it looks like it is going to be sunny and bright, especially inland. that moving along the coastline that can keep those temperatures little bit cooler toward the beaches. i'm sorry. what is with all that again? yeah. coronal mass ejection cme. so yeah, it is basically when the sun kind of a rough. so you get a solar flare to the jax. all that hot plasma.

and it's really interesting because the sun rotates and the son just comes around rotates and is aimed at the earth at the same time, they have one of those coronal mass ejections were just like right in the target area. so hard to forecast, but boy can mess with all of our satellites. all of our should kind of sounds like what everyone was worried was going to happen when that. sounds like they can do that. we could have some outages overnight tonight. so if you have something on, might be it. but that map should candidate is like likely yeah, have yeah. definitely have definitely looks like the you see put building posted online right? you see all the beautiful roars out there and it's it's something to see. i've never seen personally. but i've talked to people that have they said you can actually hear it too. yeah, really, really interesting cool. thanks thanks, buddy. >> well, the forty-niners begin their rookie mini camp today, which is the first opportunity for them to put their draft picks and undrafted free agents through

the paces see what you got in the draft. darren wilson has been in santa clara all day. she is with us now live. aaron. how did these young bucks look? >> i'm going for one you guys ahead of time. they there may be some geometric plasma missing with them. i get there. some popping found. we're going to try to get through this. i think we're already experiencing these outages that lawrence was talking about. however, today, as was the first day of rookie mini camp for the rookies and look, this is all about first impressions. you know, you want to have a nice first day. tonight's first impression, a nice first day of school with that's what the rookies were up against today in some great impressions were made some not so great impressions were made, but that doesn't necessarily hold much weight today. but explain now. obviously the niners use their first draft pick at 31 for ricky parcell out of florida. now that being said, everybody is excited. but with the wide receiver can do for the team. but i am here to tell you today that although he looked comfortable initially when he

was kind of do some drills on his own kind of what the coaches some catching. he looked comfortable out there on the field. but when they started the 7 on 7 drills, it did kind of seemed like he wasn't as comfortable as maybe he seemed earlier in practice today because he wasn't really able to really many kitchens. they target in the few times. they definitely were trying to feed them the ball, but he had some trouble bringing those catches it can't be that all of them were overthrown underthrown. some of them were. but a few of them are couple of them. at least hands in. they just fell straight through. so that's not great for personal have parts are, however, it's early. so it's a very early impression. he still has time to make up. get is, you know, nerves down and get comfortable with his new team in his new teammates. now, someone who didn't need the time to get comfortable was actually renardo green. now we spoke to an green yesterday and when he when he came to us to speak, he actually think kind of nervous like he was trying to find his footing back out there on the field. today, his footing came very easily to him. he is a

cornerback. everyone is excited about him. he was their second pick at 64 in this draft. and that being said today, he showed every bit of why he was drafted is their second peak here with the niners as the quarterback. he was definitely on his game today, defensively, even a poor saw sometimes he was not giving up much of anything. he showed that he was ambitious, that he was determined that he had been studying the playbook, that he pretty comfortable being at the next level coming out of florida state actually being coached by coach norville definitely has prepped him and get him ready and what? i'm sure that nick sorensen, the new dc was actually headed into his 3rd season with the niners. but his first season at the defensive play caller is excited about what he saw but not all green. we'll take a listen to what he had to say ahead of practice today during mini camp. i think i think you learn every year. i think for me it's more just. >> getting prepared for the season getting our players prepared and our staff and everybody prepared that we're playing and presenting it to our players in this, you know, with one voice we're doing it all. it was the same direction

and again, like i said, it's p violence and finishes what i want to look like. but it's just technique. it's more mindset than anything you have to think about it. and yet the train that thought and then it becomes habit, whether it's attacking it or protecting it. and the main thing is that everybody's involved. if you're blocking your ball security, you know, for the guy who has the ball, if you're at on defense and you're attacking it, whether you're the first man in second man in high point, tipton overthrows. got to get those know that. okay. >> all right. so quickly, lawrence, i'm about to give you a call because we have to figure out what's going on with the geometric waves and how we can figure out this sample for my next at 6. and i'll give you more about what rookie mini camp. you know, what happened here taking place at levi stadium. i'll toss it back to you guys in toss it back to you guys in the studio. i'm erin ( ♪♪ )

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>> that wraps up kron. 4 news at 5. a lot more ahead on kron. 4 news at 6. stick with us. ken wayne is here. >> with more lca minute. thank you very much. grant. here's what we're working on theirs about the new chief in the town. after more than a year without a top cop. the oakland police department finally introduces the chiefs new start date. >> and it is a warm start to the weekend. but will he sticking around for mother's day? brunch is tracking the trend. i'm ken wayne, the news trend. i'm ken wayne, the news

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