>> tonight at 5.30, blunt force trauma to the head and chest. that's what police say was the cause of death for a homeless man found dead last week, an antioch and as kron four's philippe djegal reports following an autopsy. >> his death went from being called suspicious to now being ruled a homicide. >> a block away from where he was found dead last wednesday, patrons of a gas station on-loan tree way at country hills drive in antioch. >> remember, raheem co? he was a nice guy. i mean, you know,

i mean, i think he had a issues. >> but the big, you know, you never did wrong anybody that i know. you know, mean, they were talking out loud little bit, you know, but >> that was just him. flowers have also been placed took his last breath. all homicides are taking very was homeless and well known by people who live and work in the always stuck to himself. he always had a small. his lap is very contagious. sadly, just after 7.15, wednesday morning, antioch police officers responded to reports of a man down on the sidewalk. and lieutenant desmond bittner says the 48 year-old had already passed away when they arrived. felt that the situation was suspicious. so they notified our set out to investigate shuns surgeon as well handful of investigators and following an autopsy, lieutenant victor says cole's death has been ruled a homicide. it was determined that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head chest.

investigators took a large rock away from the crime scene. but it's unclear if that was the murder weapon. man who neighbors say lived a tough life but did not take that out on anyone else. what happened is just very saddened. >> i yeah, i have no words for its terrible. i mean, you know, it's weird. i mean, and yachts. >> got to the point where it's like everywhere like this, you know, and it's light. those deaths all the time around you don't know what to think. you know, this is the city's 5th homicide of the year. >> none of them classified as justifiable in antioch. philippe djegal kron. 4 news. >> a gilroy resident killed after being hit by a car that was driven by a minor. this happened early yesterday morning in gilroy on a street called no name. you know, that's near saint louise regional hospital. the victim was 23 years old. the minor way did for police to arrive and is cooperating with the investigation. not clear what caused this crash. >> in the east bay, the chp arrested a suspect in

connection to a fatal hit and run in san leandro. police say a driver hit and killed somebody wednesday night. the victim was found lying in the street at welling boulevard and embers way. police say they later found the car wanted in connection with the incident friday the suspect was booked into santa rita jail bail set at $125,000. quite a scene here. the fire boat going to town all eastbound lanes of the bay bridge were closed for hours over the weekend because of a grass fire on your blade island, fire boats saturday were also brought in to help. their crews say the strong winds made really tough to put out the fire. no damage was done to any structures there. but those fire boats can the real age when you're trying to access a fire from all angles. obviously you have endless water to use yeah. it was really a mask on the bay bridge we're going to take a live shot right now.

>> at the san mateo bridge where traffic is moving along at slow pace, a little hazy out there. lawrence is back now to check on how the air quality is doing. yeah. get a little hazy around the bay area high pressure that's sitting overhead. brought us some nice weather today, of course, of the year to a little more stagnant outside. that's when you start to see some of the building up a little bit. that's what we're seeing outside right now. you can see some haze looking down. >> from mount tam out over the bay, some of that haze continuing, especially around a part of the interior of the base in the san francisco oakland, in parts of the north bay in toward miranda east bay as well in the santa clara valley. some of that haze continuing out there right now and likely to see that again tomorrow. we've got high pressure building in overhead overnight. tonight. those winds are more normally. think it was a little more northeasterly overnight tonight. that's going to be that offshore wind. it is going to make for some very warm temperatures. but the same time and maybe a little hazy outside of the afternoon hours, especially the east bay in the south bay air quality looking good in the north bay and out along the coast. all

right. your fog forecast for tonight. you can see it's clear right now and that is way it's going to stay for quite a while. you may see a couple patches of fog for coastline toward the san mateo county coast toward half moon bay and are not in further south pescadero. but otherwise you're clear in the san francisco inside the bay are looking good. so we start out mostly sunny side up looking good toward the afternoon across most of the bay area. late in the day. i think we'll see some of that fog. again. there are a filter back in along the immediate coastline. that will be a sign of some bigger changes coming our way as we head toward the middle of the week. so, yeah, looking ahead here over the next few days, how about tomorrow? because the mid 80's and some of the warm interior valleys. lot 80's in the santa clara valley, 70's inside the bay along the make sure 50's and some 60's. we start to cool down on wednesday. more cooling down on thursday and changes full holiday weekend to will talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. all right, lawrence characters and parade performers at disneyland. they voted to unionize. >> the 1700 employees will be represented by the actors

equity association workers are calling for higher pay and stronger safety practices on the job. they're also demanding better schedules, parade performers in particular have trouble getting full-time hours. other departments at the disneyland resort like food and beverage. they've also unionized character and parade cast members of walt disney world in florida been union, not unionized. other since the 1980's, disney has a week to file any challenges to the election results. they have not yet commented on the vote. >> federal regulators are recalling several cars. they include honda, bmw, ford 187,000. honda ridgeline trucks are being recalled for a rearview camera issue. bmw is recalling hundreds of its 2024 2025 vehicles. the models include the next 5 x 6 and x 7. the seat belt system may not detect passengers in the vehicle or belted. and ford is recalling 8700 of its

vehicles. the power train software may cause the vehicle. the shift into neutral unexpectedly. the ford escape lincoln corsair and ford maverick are involved. the model years are 2022. to 2024. >> plans to build a high-speed rail line connecting san francisco to southern california. well, it's actually cleared another hurdle. the la times says that high speed rail officials support the latest recommendations for a 33 mile rail segment connecting anaheim, los angeles. that clears the way for an environmental review which is expected to take more than a year to finish. construction is already underway on 119 mile stretch of the rail line in the central valley. >> students met with virginia senator mark warner today to tell him how troubled fafsa application upgrades have affected that. yeah. the delayed rollout of the financial financial aid service led to delays in college decisions for students. washington

correspondent basil john reports on what the students went through. >> garland by is one of many students were plagued by the fafsa application process changes. the whole process itself is hard. the rollout ran into glitches in processing delays and some schools did not push back their decision deadlines. this left students like of stressed you have to figure out the deadlines for a lot of things. scholarships, fafsa the college applications. when you're getting back from morning here at college joining but i do get the into a major book while submitting her application. i got a indicators saying that there was an error in that it was missing. my student signature. however, there was never the opportunity to fill out that student signature. and i wasn't the only one. so they spoke with virginia senator mark warner to express their concerns to improve college counselor will as swine to students challenging backgrounds are especially feeling the hit to see them struggling so hard. and the same students coming back day in and day out has been really frustrating. the education

department estimates around 30% of the class of 2024 have completed their fafsa applications. a significant drop from last year. does federal government have such an inability to a new technology platform in an efficient manner were is disappointed. the education department did not have a testing process before rolling out the new system. i feel for these first generation students who without this financially there's not going to school. he says there is no silver bullet to fix what happened this year. >> but he will press for improvements to not see a repeat next reporting in washington. i'm basil, john. >> stay clean. get the green. get the money. a new program, california is using gift cards to combat drug addiction. the state is spending more than 60 million dollars in this battle. and officials say. it's been working in the coming fiscal year. california is expected to allocate 61 million dollars for this. focusing on actions tocdrugs like meth and cocaine. here's

that works to start out. patients said to show up to their designated clinic twice a week to provide urine samples if the clean they receive a small stipend on a gift card out increases as they continue to stay clean if they fail the tests there are no real consequences there. just encourage to show up and started yet. this approach is called contingency contingency management, which is based around rewarding people for a behavior instead of punishing them for it. since california pilot program launched in april 19 counties throughout the state have enrolled almost 3,000 participants. we spoke to a program director at a treatment facility in nevada county, california, who admits the program doesn't work for everybody, but says it's another tool to combat addiction. it starts off a $10. >> the end of the first rung weeks. they might be making $20 if it goes up on dollar and a half. every to so does increase. and that's another

important part is that we're increasing its a certain hooks them into it. it took them into participating more and more and they don't want to lose a day because that resets the clock to back to $10. california has dedicated significant amounts of money. >> 2 efforts aimed at curbing drug addiction. the state says the rate of people dying from stimulants doubled from 2019, 2023. >> former player with the angels allegedly made bets with the same bookmaker who to wagers from shohei ohtani's former interpreter. espn reporting the david fletcher, a former infielder in the angels organization and a teammate of ohtani that on several sports but not baseball tonys, former interpreter. pay me to harra that with the same bulky and reportedly stole millions from the japanese superstar to pay his debt. major league baseball is expected to investigate fletcher who is currently playing in the atlanta braves minor league system. the sad day for raider

nation. mister rader himself, jim otto died yesterday. the hall of fame center. >> join the team for its first season in the american football league in 1960. he never missed a game. what and competing in 210 consecutive regular season games and 308 straight total contest despite undergoing 9 operations on his knees during his playing career. jim otto was 86 years old. >> coming up, one former nasa and astronaut is making his wish come true. we take a look at his journey get to space. plus today it was michael cohen's final day of testimony. is the trump hush money trial will break down what happened in the what happened in the courtroom. slow network is no network for business.

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overseeing donald trump's hush money trial briefly closed the courtroom. kick people out for us reporters into the hallway. >> after he admonished a defense witness for that witnesses behavior on the stand. it happened minutes into the testimony of robert costello, a former federal prosecutor who has publicly blasted the prosecution's star witness, michael cohen. costello, aggravated the judge repeatedly in his testimony by making comments under his breath and continuing to speak after objections worse estate costello testified that cohen told him trump knew nothing about the hush money payment to actor stormy daniels, that payment and trump's knowledge of it is at the center of this

case. >> meanwhile, the former president says he is close to making his decision on a running mate, ohio senator jd vance joins a list of republican lawmakers like new york congresswoman elise stefanik, south carolina, senator tim scott and florida senator marco rubio for the gig will be a was asked on nbc's meet the press about being trump's running mate >> i haven't spoken to the president have spoken to anybody in the campaign. the only people spoken to me about vice president for the most part are members of the media. >> political experts say trump is looking for loyalty in a vice presidential candidate. several lawmakers, including vance. alright, ending trump's trial in new york to show their support. >> alright, weather time here as we get a live look outside on this monday night. the top of mount tam there. we talked about how it's a bit of haze in the skies. but overall, very nice day in the bay. >> how long is this going to

last? yeah, you know, we should last forever, right? it's very, very nice out around the bay. i think we've got another day of some really nice weather. then we'll start to see the changes begin to kick in. but what a nice way to start out the workweek ahead. we have a lot of sunshine even along the coastline today managed to clear out most of those clouds will maybe couple patches of fog form along the coastline overnight tonight, but it's not going to be much stay mostly clear toward the golden gate bridge. that's the way it looks now to that sea breeze has kicked in just a bit to help cool things down. temperatures started to move up the board just a bit. in fact, nice big in the week. we're to even 5 degrees warmer than yesterday. and so these numbers we have are going watch of pop again by tomorrow afternoon as some of these highs going top out again in the 80's. they want the warmer spots. 81 degrees in concord. 77 in santa rosa. 77 also in livermore today, 78 in san jose, 68 degrees in oakland and 65 degrees in san francisco overnight tonight, skies going to stay mostly clear. calm. nice night to get outside. check out the stars. if you can tomorrow, mostly sunny and warm. maybe couple patches of fog moving along the coastline late in the day.

really the week ahead. looking nice, warm start to the week that we will start to cool things down as we head toward the end of the week. high pressure, though, overhead right now that ridge will eventually start to weaken somewhat as it does that allow for some cooler air. but not tomorrow should nice and warm around the bay area. numbers breaking down like this about 66 degrees in downtown san francisco. that's a nice day and sunny and bright, 70 in the mission. about 61 and cooler right along the water's edge. and that will be the coolest spot of the bay area. 68 degrees in burlingame. a beautiful 75 in foster city. warm. 74 woodside temperatures warming up in the 80's in much of the santa clara valley tomorrow afternoon. mid-eighties in places like pleasanton dublin. you're looking about 84 degrees. 83 in seminole as you work your way inside the bay temperatures a little bit cooler. really comfortable. how about 75 in san leandro? 74 brookly tomorrow and warm 78 enrichment. 82 of late on 84 watch out for that sea breeze kicking in late today through the delta. other than that, we've got some very nice weather tomorrow. then we'll start to cool things down on

wednesday. much cooler as we head in toward friday and next weekend as temperatures really take a dip. there's a weak system. the drops in over the holiday weekend. some of the models want to try and bring a chance of rain. i'm not on. yeah. i'm not feeling that rain right now. they want to ruin your camping plans. yeah. they want to get out there. sure you're not feeling but i'll be watching that very closely. you can make sure that. >> thanks, lawrence. sings for now to a historic launch at blue origin, the space tourism and exploration firm founded by billionaire jeff bezos flight delivered 6 people from texas to the edge of space, including nasa's first black astronaut candidate. >> reporter jennifer mcgraw is in exposition park to show us how the flight was decades in the making. >> dream of a lifetime taking launching from west texas, america's first black

astronaut candidate has finally made it into space and 0 g has started for our astronauts. the 11 minute journey has astronaut soaring past the karman line. more than 60 miles from earth for the 6 on board a perfect flight. there it is. touchdown of the crew capsule. and here at exits, ed white. >> this gentleman has waited a long time to go to >> in the 60's at dwight was championed by president john f kennedy to become the first black astronaut to fly. but he wasn't picked to every way as is most of been a most of as a look at the full suffering with my role in the low prices was >> over conversation about blacks and hispanics. and sauce served a and river prime now at 90 years-old flying with jeff bezos, rocket company, blue origin. >> he finally gets the

recognition to blast out of this world and the man. what a flight for >> the rocket is roaring and rumbling and the noise, that that i would enjoy the of and that he did. >> for space wrong made. right. and it's just kind of a really cool thing that somebody finally gets to go and do their dream and giving the youth the reason to dream big. it just proves that you can do anything at any age. you have a limit to what you can do. and i think it's an encouragement, a testament that. >> and you don't have to stop just because it seems like an opportunity was missed a mission complete and dream of a lifetime to become an astronaut. now at 90 years old place can bring people together. >> everybody space to say, oh, my god, what place is who workable go back and make the world.

>> love that story yet. let's go back and make it work. that was jennifer mcgraw reporting for us tonight. >> nearly 2 months after colliding with that bridge in trapped cargo ship is finally on the move. again, the dali cargo ship sailed to a nearby marine terminal this morning. salvage operations took place yesterday after controlled explosions removed a massive 500 foot section of the bridge from the ship's bow. officials used up to 5 tugboats and used high tide to their advantage to get the ship going. the ship's 21 member crew has remained on board the vessel since the march. 26 crash. >> powers now been restored to a majority of residents in houston who were blacked out for days following deadly storms. this is hot weather moves in. utility crews worked tirelessly to restore electricity after hurricane force winds, downed power lines and brought the houston area basically to a standstill. a tornado even

touched down in a suburb. the weather got very hot following the storms and people were without their air conditioning. officials say the power has been restored to a majority of customers. now they hope to get their power back on to those who are still without it. by wednesday. >> coming remember those debt cards sent out by the state to help with inflation? well, turns out some people still haven't use how much well over have before the cafor your mone

than 600,000 people in california still haven't use debit cards meant to ease the

burden of inflation >> the franchise tax board started issuing what they called the middle class tax refund by direct deposit and by mailing debit cards in october 2022. by september of last year, the last round of payments have been sent out the payments are as high as $1000. more than 9 million people received debit cards in the mail. only 90% of those cards been activated. california still have about 2 years to activate and use the remaining money. >> target says it's lowering prices on thousands of items starting today. the move is meant to lure back shoppers concerned about inflation and impact on their wallet. the big box chain announced that the price cuts are going to apply to name brands including clorox and prime energy as well as its own in-house products. target sales fell last year for the first time since 2016. the company has predicted a sluggish 2024. and will update investors on earnings this wednesday.

>> in the north bay, the bottle rock music festival returns to napa valley. this weekend's megan thee stallion pearl jam and ed sheeran are headlining runs from friday through sunday. be prepared, though, for extra traffic up in napa. >> the coast guard crew spotted a pod of orcas in there on the hunt. the u.s. coast guard's monterey station sharing this video on facebook saying that it shows for orcas stocking a group of seals and sea lions in montgomery, montgomery monterey bay. their post calls the video a pretty incredible sight. a local will watchers say april and may are peak months for spotting or cause out there in the bay. orders are no joke. know joe called killer with or reason. yeah. all right. that wraps up kron 4 news at 5, but we have a lot more ahead kron for news at 6. ken wayne is here with a look at what's coming up far as i know there is not one documented case of a killer whale attacking a person. >> which is killing a person

coming us. if they have if you're seal or yes, the line different storm watchers preface legend. all right. thank you, grant, vicki. see in a moment. here's what's going on. just days after be sentenced to 30 years in prison, the man convicted of attacking paul pelosi to san francisco home will now have to be re-sentenced. >> legal experts weigh in on a mistake that was made by the judge in the case. plus hiker and her dog been found safe after being missing in the east bay in a park area for more than 2 days. we have the details of what happened. i'm ken wayne. the news at 6 is next. norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? -but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better! now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds

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