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>> right now, the kron 4 morning news. 2 people are hurt after shots are fired in east bay high school graduation ceremony. oakland mayor sheng thao outlined her budget plan how she's hoping to meet the city's needs financially without cutting any jobs. and busy roads and air travel pack your patience as more. they travel begins. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> good morning. thank you for joining us here at 07:00am on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm james fletcher and a radar be in for darya folsom today. >> as we're getting ready for the holiday, we a lot of folks have a lot of tlans. john, how's the weather going to hold up one? yeah, it's definitely cooler and a lot cloudier than it had been the past few days. >> temperatures out there
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today are dipping into the 60's for a lot of us that had been in the 80's just a couple of days ago. >> we're looking outside at a little bit of fog pushing in from the coastline. in fact, some really rapid fog formation off the san mateo coast this morning and a pretty generous onshore breeze. you can see that pushing in towards the coast right now. most of it is low cloud cover. so visibility has been okay. but you just got kind of a grey start to the morning and a cool windy feel to it. temperatures currently are in the 40's to 50's oakland and berkeley 51 wall dublin at 52. some 40's up in the north bay to start things out later on today. a lot of 60's and only a few low 70's and tomorrow, just as cool. if not even cooler. i'll talk more in your forecast as we rain. all right, john, thank you for get you moving on a friday and conditions are still pretty light. >> 15 minutes for everybody headed into the city this morning. no accidents on your bridges. 14 minute ride on the san mateo bridge. richmond center fell bridge around 12
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and the golden gate bridge. 37 to toast 20 minutes. >> 71 is the time to our developing story this morning. a high school graduation ceremony ends with gunfire. local police say a man and a woman were hurt and 2 people were detained in all of this. now that shooting happened around 7.45 last night. >> this is at skyline. high school's graduation ceremony. police say some sort of fight might have led up to that and they're looking now for other possible suspects as well. >> there are some reports some kind of that is being looked into. we do know there multiple suspects, but we're trying to identify exactly how many. >> some students told us they heard the gunshots as the ceremony was taking place and that people are running as the students are taken to a gym locker room for safety. >> everybody was graduation.
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she people's to rest of the house. fire was 1005 and they had like a bad man. >> unlike after that, as you see, everyone started ready use it was like 20 shots. those light. good >> police say this was an isolated incident. now a 3rd person reportedly took themselves to the hospital with a gunshot wound. but police haven't confirmed that there was a 3rd victim, but we'll let you know if they do. meanwhile, police in san francisco are investigating a shooting at the bayview where they say at least one person, one officer opened fire. citizen app. video shows officers here in the area of jennings street and carroll avenue. this was yesterday afternoon. they received the report of someone in the area with a rifle. officers arrived. they say they found the suspect. and at that 0, one officer ended up firing their gun. they say the suspect was not hit by bullets, but he was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries for what they described as a
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less than lethal use of force. but they didn't specify exactly what kind of force they were talking about. the police department says they will be holding a town hall meeting, though in 10 days to explain more. >> said to be a pretty busy week for attorneys representing david to pop the man convicted at a federal level for attacking paul pelosi. the husband of congresswoman nancy pelosi at the pep right now set to be re-sentenced on tuesday for his federal conviction. >> at the state level, though, things are just getting started with kron four's ken wayne out talking with attorneys michael cardoza. the judge in the federal case said she made a mistake. what happened? well, what she did was after she's sentenced a pop. she realized she didn't give him the opportunity to make a statement to the court and then federal court, i think over 80% of defendants want to say something to the court. one of the big things. >> i noted was that the prosecution after the case said he showed no remorse at
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all. and a lot of people sort of giggled at that. and so we'll wait a minute. didn't give him a chance to show any remorse or to talk. so basically it's not a small point. it's not going to reverse this case. it's not going i think have much effect would be shocked if the judge after listening hip-hop, if he decides to talk whether she reduces that or not. and he still has a state case which could add more prison time to what he's already. >> yeah, well, i i when i was a prosecutor a lot of state prosecutor to case and the federal government had a case they would often times just drop in and say, ok, you've got convicted in state court or vice versa. in this case, they're not doing that. a lot of people are asking. >> well, it's not double jeopardy. you're being tried for the same thing is really not because the state has added 4, 5 different counts. one of which is, of course,
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the attempted murder case and issue is, are elements to for improving the cases in the state court in the elements are different and federal the south, the what's going on in state court. so i don't think jumper double jeopardy will hold. >> cardoza went on to say the judge in the federal case might be worried about the whole case been reversed. that's why she's pushing for a re-sentencing. we'll be following both the federal and state cases on air and online kron 4 dot com. >> we will not lay off or city workers, most of whom are oakland residents a news conference in oakland yesterday. mayor sheng thao made it pretty clear. >> her new budget will not lead to cuts in city jobs or public safety. oakland is facing a 117 million dollar deficit this year, 275 million dollar deficit for next year to help fill the gaps. the mayors also proposing hiring freeze on nearly 100 positions. they're not currently filled. none of these are public safety positions.
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>> i will protect city services. my budget will not reduce public safety. my budget will not close firehouse is or libraries or recreation center or animal services. i will not cut cops. >> the mayors, formal budget proposal will be unveiled today and then go to the oakland city council to be voted on. >> meantime, the group working to recall mayor thao will update the public today on where they stand in that effort. oakland, united to recall sheng thao also known as oust, says it has already collected more than 30,000 signatures in support of the recall. they need 25,000 in order to get on the november ballot. they need the signatures by july. the group says they are pushing for a recall because they're fed up with rising crime. oust will be holding a press conference at 11 o'clock this morning. mayor thao says the recall campaign is being organized by political opponents who she previously ran against. road
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safety was top of mind at the state capitol is a new bill aimed at regulating autonomous vehicles passed the state assembly yesterday. that bill would make autonomous cars report any accidents or malfunctions to the dmv. the agency within make that data available to the public. san francisco assemblymember matt haney says the goal is to make a v companies more accountable and improve public trust. >> are bay area residents traveling for memorial day weekend. a lot of folks. are you hitting the road? yeah. in fact, triple-a says 44 million people across the country are going to be doing exactly that over the next few days. properties will tran live in walnut creek with more on what we can expect out there. good morning will live. >> we can expect a lot of people to jam onto the freeway. as you can see those drivers right behind me. i'm sure they're gassing up to go to work. and if not, if you're getting up to leave right now, you are very smart person because the window is now, but it slams shut at around 11
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o'clock this morning all the way until tonight. so this is your window to take off. and unfortunately, gas prices a little bit higher this year. then the same time last year for memorial day. right now you're waking up in california. the average interstate $5.17 little bit better in the last week at 5.22. so it's down a little bit, but a lot higher than the national average of $3 and $0.61 yesterday. we talked to flyers today. its drivers, it's their turn. a lot of people we'll be taking off 50 miles or more from their home to go see family or friends or even hang out in places like disneyland, which, of course, is a road trip. and that's going to cost you a lot of money in terms of gas. take a look at your screen. these are the gas prices. you're waking up to all of the bay area. so sf you feel a lot before you take off saying napa county, the average is $5.48 or your road trip in sonoma county,
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$5.40. marin county five-thirty santa clara county 5. 21 and in solano county 5.21. yes. can i talk to drivers? absolutely. keep your eyes on the screen because i've done so many road trips with my twins. i've got it down. pat, let me show you some of my tips trying personalize our experience. number one is obviously tell your children go to the bathroom before you hit the road. that always got on my nerves. when 10 minutes into the trip, daddy, i got to go to the bathroom. so make sure everybody goes to the bathroom. bring snacks, right? do that. drive-in shifts. i drive early because this is my body clock little bit later in the afternoon. somebody else's driving, but drive-in ships. number 4, the most important tip as far as i'm concerned, don't touch my radio on the driver. i control who deejays.
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it happens to be me and number 5 refer to item number one. everybody go to the bathroom and then final tip. once you get to your destination, this being memorial day. whoever is hosting make sure that they throw a barbecue. it's the long look at out. if not, you keep on driving to do is to and most important with have a good nobody wants to in a car. drive the smile. the music helps a lot. that's a good tip. a good list will up talk more about it in the given are subject think it's tough. all right. 7.10 is the time. meantime, the tsa expects 3 million people to pass through security checkpoints to airports across the country. >> triple a predicts this year's memorial day weekend travel period to be one of the busiest since 2005 and that the summer could break records for airlines here in the u.s. compared to memorial day back in 2019, aaa expects 9% more travelers to fly this year. the holiday travel period also
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comes after last friday and sunday. of course, the top 2 busiest days for 2024. so far free screenings at airports. of the morning news, the judge in the north bay side with a homeless encampment and not a nearby business was playing with conflict. the homeless are experiencing with that business. >> plus, it a woman gets her truck back after somebody stole. find out how the thief was able to get into a truck to begin with. >> we're taking a closer look at the new windows feature that remembers everything you do on your computer. will it protect your privacy? i'm rich
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>> well, this memorial day weekend is your last chance to hit the slopes this season. housing styles says the holiday will be their final full weekend of operation. the resort is known for having dollars longest ski season and this weekend they're expecting pretty big crowds. >> we're able to use our technology, our hard work in order keep this not going. and we have the passion for it. so it's pretty reliable that houses tahoe continues to have the longest season in lake tahoe. >> i palaces last day will be monday and a lot of people are going up because, hey, how can you resist the weekend might not hit the slopes if you're somebody who's >> profession and enjoy the snow. one last time while some of its still there. good and it actually feels a little cooler than it should be for memorial day weekend to do so. you'll have that cool vibe up in palisades as well as the rest of lake tahoe. >> your view outside right now from diamond peak is pretty bright. looking spring at the moment. but what you feel those temperatures later on today, it's definitely not
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going feel like memorial day. in fact, that's the case for the entire bay area to we're in for quite a cool down today. what's the reason behind this? what we've been influenced by this high-pressure ridge to the west, which is kept seasonable and warm the past few days. but as the sending low-pressure areas immediately to the east of us are contributing to this weekend, cooldowni definitely cooler field along with the potential of a couple of sierra sprinkles tonight into tomorrow. so watch for that. if you're heading up there, nothing to cancel plans over. but something maybe to adjust your wardrobe for as we are going to be seeing a cool down here in the bay to tomorrow is our coolest day. then come sunday and monday and temperatures will begin to climb out of the school. 60's were spending the next couple days. eureka around a 10th of an inch of rainfall for you over the weekend, northern border of california up to oregon releasing that most rainfall potential right behind you. those few sprinkles up in the sierra. how about are temperatures in the bay today? only 50's to
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60's and san francisco and 50's at the coast. it is a jacket where the day across the board a lot of our inland areas will feel more like the coast ship this time of year. now, the south bay upper 60's east bay temps mid to low 60's, even dublin. only 62 degrees today, san ramon at 63 richmond actually warmer than that at 68. as for napa, you'll be one of our warmer spots at 72 in santa rosa. the warmest at 75, of memorial day is the reason for the extended weekend. and if you are getting out for a memorial service on monday in particular, good weather for lots of sunshine, mild temperatures starting to see temperatures warming back up to those seasonable highs by monday, especially although sunday will technically be the warmest day of the weekend itself with highs right back into the mid 70's inland and plenty of sun reyna. all right, john, thank you that. hit the roads on n friday. things are looking good. >> 14 minutes for you traveling into the city this
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morning. san mateo bridge around 14, 80 to 101 that december fell bridge. 13 minutes and looking good across the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 21 a ride. >> 7.17, is the time and for your money this morning, a fast food price wars are heating up. burger king now reportedly set to launch a $5 value meal ahead of mcdonald's and home prices here in california crossed an important milestone. we've got jane king out live at the nasdaq to explain. hi, jane. >> james. good morning. so the median home sale price in california surpassed 900,000 for the first time. the california association of realtors says that's a more than 11% from a year ago. and experts say this new high is probably not the end. others a mix of seasonal factors, limited housing supply is likely to keep pushing the prices up in the coming months. the burger wars are heating up. bloomberg reports burger king will come out with a $5 value meal head of macdonald's fast food chains are in a battle to attract
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customers at a time when cost of living is force under shop for the best meal deals. the report says burger king plans to run this offer for several months where mcdonald's was only going to be for some weeks. and krispy kreme is offering discounted donuts in honor of memorial weekend. the donut giant offering customers a dozen original glazed doughnuts for $3.84. with the purchase of any dozen at regular price today through monday. now customers can redeem this in stores or online. you see the promo code road trip and chocolate chip ice cream once beloved could be obsolete some day it didn't even crack the top 5 flavors favor by consumers pulling to 8th place in the americas. favorite ice cream survey by the international dairy association just 2 years ago most popular. but those with the sweet tooth are gravitating toward like the fudgy chunks, the swirls and the proceedings live from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king back to james. all right, jane hate so we don't see you memorial day right on monday.
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>> that's right. the markets will be closed monday. so i'll see you tuesday. okay. we'll see you then. have a great holiday weekend. thanks. you too. rescue in the north bay of a man who fell about 20 feet while rock climbing. >> orange county fire posted this video of the chopper rescue. happened just after one yesterday afternoon. this is just south of stinson beach. firefighters say the man rescued sustained moderate injuries. and a busy day for firefighters in antioch. this fire started around 5 yesterday evening off of slaton ranch road. we have not gotten any details about how big it was or if it's contain. meanwhile, around the same time now, the fire started right near marine plaza that one burned about 5 acres. so what is the time? and new this morning, a new feature called recall is coming to the next generation of windows computers. we've got rich demuro to explain what that's all about.
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>> microsoft's new ai pcs come with a unique new feature called recall. it gives your computer a photographic memories. you can find anything you've seen on your screen later. question is, will it protect your privacy? >> a new feature in windows remembers nearly everything you do on your computer with recall. >> we're going to leverage the power of ai and the new system performance to make it possible taxes. virtually anything you have ever seen on your pc. the software. take snapshots of your screen and makes them searchable either through a timeline or 5 key were based on research that we've done. >> people spend one hour a day and just trying to find things that could be a file. a web page you visit or an image recalled gives you basically a virtual photographic memory of everything you've ever done. your pc. it's a potentially helpful tool. you can see here a timeline of everything that you've done on your computer with some serious privacy
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implications. this is something that we'll watch story only on your device. >> everything you've seen or done on your computer and then you can find it in this timeline later, you can search for and pull up that thing that you are searching for that project. you're working on that thing you saw on the web site somewhere that you can't fight anymore recall is turned on by default. there is an option to pause it or turn it off completely. >> it won't record when you're in a private browsing session and you can exclude certain apps or websites completely with some limitations in my tests. searching was impressively thorough, but it wasn't always flawless. they want find some trees. >> we're going hear there's some trees and i was working on picture. one more tap takes you back to that document file or web page. you can decide how much storage you want recalled to use on your hard drive. snapshots are encrypted by the fall and everything is process locally. nothing is sent to the built-in privacy
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controls. so you can always pause your content. you can delete your snapshot. >> microsoft says you will not be able to get the new recall feature on older computers. plus, it's in testing status, which means the features could change based on customer feedback. >> if you want to learn more, you can go to my website rich on tech dot tv. i'm rich demuro. that's richaun tack. well, coming up on the kron 4 morning news. how one man stole nearly $90,000 from a backpack. >> perry by workers at the >> perry by workers at the contra costa county. fair.
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>> oh, man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 29 year-old san mateo woman who officials say died of a fentanyl overdose. investigators say sarah tillman was found dead in a home last year. they tell us they found text messages with her alleged drug dealer. according to that lawsuit, 2 months before her death, tillman warn the dealer that he had nearly killed her with the drugs he sold or and in may of 2023, he sold drugs laced with fentanyl. again, that ended up killing her. the suspected killer set to return to court in september for a preliminary hearing. >> well, governor newsom has signed a bill into law allowing arizona doctors to come to california to perform abortion treatments for their patients who want them. it comes after the arizona supreme court ruled in favor of an 18, 64 law that virtually banned all abortions in the state. now, since then, the arizona legislature and the governor there have repealed a law, but that
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repeal won't take effect until the fall. so in the meantime, governor newsom says he hopes california can be of help to those who need that procedure. in a statement, he said, quote, california will remain a safe harbor ready to defend abortion access because we value women's health and trust women to make the most intimate decisions about their bodies. health and futures. >> well, san francisco is one step closer to establishing a historically black college and university in the city. their little breezes, 60 interns from hbc use across the country. all going to be living and learning in san francisco this summer. she says this is the first step to building the long-term future of hbc use in the city. mayor reed says local organizations have already partnered up to form and help push that plan forward. >> well, coming up next on the kron, 4 morning news east bay organizations are teaming up now to bring life and positivity back to lake merritt. they say they're going to bring a lot of joy you should too. we are back.
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coming up on 7.30, here on the kron. 4 morning news. a war they were. they come off the check that out. we have cruise ship in town. john could picked a better day great weekend. i think my auntie barbs actually coming her she left has been posted. those picks. it looks like it's been fun. but hey, we are looking at a day today that is going to feel maybe a little bit more like alaska for some of us as we are looking at a cool forecast as we make our way into memorial weekend, you can see that we are looking at a little bit of cloud cover overhead. >> visibility out there is doing just fine even though we
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are seeing some low cloud cover pushed in along with this onshore breeze and breezy out towards the coastline. >> 2030, even 40 miles per hour. wind gusts at times today. so be mindful of that as you're getting outside thinking about those outfits. so you're going to be wearing today and tomorrow? we're definitely looking at cooler than average temperatures. so it's kind of back to what you're wearing in march with those jackets and something a little bit warmer. our inland areas are going to feel a lot more like our coastal spots will today. and tomorrow before temps do eventually rebound into sunday and monday right now. all right, john, thank you for that. let's rolling here on a friday, 15 minutes traveling into the city this morning or san matteo bridge around 14 minutes. >> richmond center fell just short of 13 and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 20 minutes. >> 7.31 is the time developing news this morning. we're learning new details now about the contra costa county fair employees who were robbed over the weekend. yeah. we now know they were carrying nearly $90,000 in cash forcefully to
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kyle tells us how it all happened. >> long after the last visitors exited the contra costa county fair at the event park in antioch. police say 2 fair employees were tasked with taking the money collected from admissions fees to the bmo bank depository on summersville road to drop off the catch. they parked in the bank. lot at around 2.15, monday morning as they were in the process of opening a box. vehicle pulled up. suspect exited approach. the 2 victims >> the bag, which is a backpack full of cash. >> and their cell phones, antioch police investigations. lieutenant desmond bittner says the lone suspect was armed and pressed the gun into one of the victims backs were told the loss was right around $88,000. so to be exact and has 87,000, 800 and some change, the suspect left in a vehicle and has not been found. all we have and the suspect was a unknown race. male. we're in dark clothing
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and wearing a mask. we stopped by the administrative offices here at the event park with questions about the incident. but the ceo and manager job ringle declined to comment. it's unclear why the employees were told to deposit the money so early in the dark morning. lieutenant bittner says investigators are looking into whether or not the victims were followed from the event her to the bank. and if any fair employees helped commission the robbery. are investigators looking trying to find, you know, if we have any similar robberies with similar within the past few months and will you know, we did or will link them up and investigate best. we can call police if you were in the area during the robbery and can shed light on what happened. >> investigators are in the process of obtaining and reviewing surveillance video that may have captured the incident in antioch, philippe djegal kron. 4 news. >> 7.33 is the time and a truck is back with its rightful owner now after it was stolen outside a petco parking lot of castro valley.
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so stephanie, go see tips was out grocery shopping last week when she thought she had mistakenly left keys inside her blue tacoma to the tacoma. but after triple a unlocked her truck, she realized they weren't inside and thought maybe they were stolen. so she took out all of her belongings just in case the thieves came back to take the truck and sure enough later that night. that's exactly what happened. the thieves came by took off with that truck. stephanie tells us her to come is a prized possession and she is glad that it was ultimately found. >> i was jumping up and down when i saw it coming down the road because cops came in first and then the co we've got we've got it and they >> well, deputies checked over security footage and identified the woman that you see here as their suspect. she was ultimately arrested. they found her driving that truck sheriff's office says be vigilant. keep your keys on you and keep that vehicle
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locked. if you're not near it. >> well, the owner to long-standing restaurant, a fisherman's wharf suing san francisco. the suit alleges the city failed to do its job of maintaining the war and keep in the area to code to protect against erosion or earthquakes. the suit also blames homelessness and crime in the area for preventing the restaurant from being successful. asking for financial reimbursement for recent improvements made to the 2 restaurants. the city's attorney's office released a statement in response to the lawsuit saying, quote, over the last year, the owner has attempted a number of maneuvers to get out of paying the 1.7 million dollars. owes the city in back. rent. appears to be yet another tent. however, once we are served the lawsuit, we will review it and respond in court. >> well, people living in an encampment sandra fell are speaking out now. they say a nearby businesses been blasting loud music at them for the last 3 as kron 4 sarah stinson report federal judge is now involved and has ordered that business stop.
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>> people who live in this encampment say over the weekend music was blaring coming from the business next door they say was happening in the overnight hours. one man even described it as psychological warfare saying he's relieved to federal court, ordered the music to stop i'm thankful. >> that's how loud it was. rock concert loud, the second and 3rd night, i was unable to sleep at bruce moved into this refill encampment last year following a series of unfortunate events. >> i stopped to get medications for mental illness in barstow, california and mike rupp was stolen while it was in their says music started playing loudly overnight friday from the business east bay tire i called the police tend the police did nothing about so he decided to call homeless advocate. robbie paulsen, who came down to the encampment to start documenting it. we take took good decibel readings of
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the >> of the sound. and we measure that the metal the decibels were between 5218 decibels in general. it was far above the senate bill moyers that was. >> it was illegal. >> on monday, pao's and filed for a restraining order against east bay tire co a judge ordered the business to stop playing the music immediately house and says that higher company's response was the music was coming from their security system along the fence. we reached out to east bay tire co, but they did not respond to a request for comment calls and says they have another court hearing for the music order late next month. get to what they're trying to do. they say >> we haven't been good neighbors to them. but they didn't come up with any police reports. >> the music stopping may be a win for this encampment, but they are still fighting the city to stay here on june 24th. there will be another federal hearing against the
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city if sandra fell winds from people who live here would be reporting in sandra fell kron. 4 news. >> well, santa clara county's vector control district said they plan to hire and conduct a more comprehensive treatment regiment order to try to get rid of invasive mosquitoes. they say this particular mosquito carries the zika virus and other diseases. the district says they detected 12 mosquitoes and the area of china lane early april and they've been trying to treat them ever since. but it hasn't worked. the district says it start their new regiment on night. the final press conference at noon talk about the county government center. it's going to be on west hedding street. >> all right. now to a controversy at cal or b. that's the controversy right? the university has rebranded from cow to the letter b school officials say the change was so that more and more people would be aware that cal is in berkeley. apparently they did some research and discovered that a lot of people thought calland uc berkeley are 2 different
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schools. but there's been some pushback. not all the students are in favor of this. in fact, more than 2000 of them have already signed a petition to try and reverse this re-branding. we did speak to some on campus, though, that say actually like to be. >> my first thoughts were is that it's like a super simplified which now like set with it for their own 3 minutes. i kind of seems he was very like, well, it's cool colonial system and this is. he's like a rebrand maybe in the right direction. but at least it's simple. it's easy look at and be like. nice yellow. and i think it's like half the year will be redone and everybody like, okay, that's been >> previously, the school has suggested it might also change its sports team names, but they decided against that. well, california state senate has passed 2 bills this week that will close a loophole in california single-use plastic bag ban. lawmakers say that loophole allowed thicker reusable bags that have
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actually now actually made the state's plastic bag pop a pollution problem worse. the bills would also revived, revise the band's requirement for stores to provide plastic bags made a 40% recycled material to now 100% recycled. both houses of the senate's of the state's legislature will have until august 31st to pass the bills. >> california bill requiring landlords to allow pets without extra fees is one step closer to becoming law. the bill introduced by the san francisco assemblymember matt haney past that is simply with a few minutes. landlords still be allowed to limit the number of pets renters can happen. buildings with fewer than 15 units would be exempt. bill now heads to the state senate. and the birth police department. they're looking for the owner of the lightly coated brown wandering around berkeley on thursday, unusual discovery. the pig. was wondering, he's found wondering if this is on the key avenue band probably in berkeley. said the pigs now safe with animal control. if you know who's pick this is
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you're asked to contact berkeley police, animal services. >> several events are going to be taken over. oakland's lake merritt for the official start of summer tomorrow. the city is going to be kicking off the love our lake event, which is a summertime campaign aimed at revitalizing and bringing joy to the area. people can enjoy free, live music and a community picnic over the past few years, the lake has been the subject, as we know of some vandalism and crime and organizers behind this shared why she wants to invite oaklanders back to the area. >> we're gathering together to save the lake is a sacred place for openers. and so you know, basically memorial to labor day. we want people to enjoy things are already happening that you don't have visibility on walking dance classes. community clean-ups where elbowing out what it's negative and bringing back what is positive. and that's that's what this top of mind for us. >> well, a free concert at community picnic start tomorrow from one until 4 in
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the afternoon. events are scheduled through labor day weekend. >> coming up on kron morning news. the giants look to make it 2 in a row over the pirates and take the series. and after the break, a popular music festival starts today. what people attending can expect. >> and speaking about iraq, if you're heading out there today and tomorrow, going to be the coolest days with daytime highs in the low 70's warming up a little bit towards sunday up a little bit towards sunday and even more on memorial day o network for business.
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you'll probably be breaking out the grill this weekend. however, those burgers and hot dogs are going to cost you a little more grocery prices this weekend are up more than 10% from last year. price of frozen beef patties were told is up more than 15%. hot dogs are 14% over last year. in the same goes for bonds, too. each thing costing you more than it did last year. even if you want to do a lettuce wrap, say and be more healthy, that's more expensive. to fact, studies show lettuce prices are up nearly 14%. fresh tomatoes are up 5%. it adds up some ways to save money, though, is to compare prices at different stores and look for generic store-brand versions and they'll be use coupons. that's what they're there for. fact, some items will some of coupons will save you a few dollars per item c? enjoy the weekend. coupon into the way to go. >> happening today, the bottle rock music festival kicks off in napa. they're going to have wine food and of course, a whole lot of music. some of the headliners today are stevie nicks. megan, the stallion nelly are among those
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performing today. pearl jam and sharon and queens of the stone age are going to be also performing over the weekend. going to be a good time out there and the weather was nice. bottle rocket. also everybody that's out for the holiday cardiff. all paraded go on sunday. john. lots going on. yeah, i'm glad carnival's on sunday, too, because the weather for it is going to be out sunday year and a little bit warmer, too, because today and tomorrow are cooler days. >> lot of cloud cover above the bay area. this is happening bay right here. not the coastline. that's cool and cloudy. it is a lot of us across the bay that are going to be feeling like the coast this past week. we've had consistently mild sunny and seasonable weather. but now we're taking a dip today and tomorrow to that much cooler feel. and even a couple sprinkles up in the sierra as well as northern california as a result of some low pressures crossing just to the north and east of us today into tomorrow, some cloudier skies today will clear out pretty nice. but tomorrow, partly cloudy sunday into monday.
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warming back up. so like i said, for carnival on sunday, that's good news for you. if you're heading up to the redwoods in northern california, bring the rain jacket with you north of eureka, specially and be ready to go with a few extra layers heading to the sierra as it's just overall cool up there and a few sprinkles possible 50's to 60's seth and at the coastline today, where's the rest of the bay area? not much warmer than that. a lot of low to mid 60's for today's daytime highs. south bay temperatures in the upper 60's for your warmest temps of the day. east bay, mostly low to mid 60's for you, oakland, a thankfully some of our warmest for napa. that means bottle rock today. you've got some low 70's. definitely nothing too warm in your forecast for bottle rock. as for monday, it is memorial day. of course, the reason for the extended weekend and if you are heading out to any sort of memorials, mid 70's to low 80's for inland areas come monday
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itself. as for temperatures, the next 7 days, we will see a return to average for him starting on sunday into the middle of next week reyna. all right, john, thank you for that. let's hit the road this morning. traveling into the city right now. >> about 11 hey, things are looking good on your highways and bridges. 14 minutes on the san mateo bridge. if you take in that your december fell bridge around 13 minutes and the golden gate bridge. 37 of the tolls. 21 minutes. >> 7.47 is the time and we're looking at a possible strike now that could put san francisco's famous alcatraz tour in jeopardy this summer. the union alcatraz workers united says they've been fighting for a contract without that recipe. cruises for nearly 2 years negotiations between both sides actually ended yesterday. no contract insights. the workers operate the only ferry service to and from alcatraz and they voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike as of yesterday. now that's just authorized a strike. this mean are on strike just yet. they say they want a fair deal. >> want to get this thing done
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as soon as possible. we do not want to advance disadvantage the community. and, you know, folks that are trying to get back to the island, but we have to take care of our members and, you know, get this their ground. >> statement to kron 4 from alcatraz city cruises reads in part, quote, we are disappointed the union would threaten our passengers, partners and community with the potential disruption of those services. police take comfort that if there is a labor dispute, it will have no impact on our operations, end quote. as of now, there's no set date on when both sides will be back at the bargaining table or when a strike might happen. but we'll keep you updated. >> the biden administration now calling for new protections for buy now pay later, shoppers, consumer financial protection bureau says businesses that offer buy now pay later should allow users the demand refunds dispute transactions. the new rules are meant to be similar to those that are already in place. the credit card companies major buy now pay
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later, companies such as firm klarna say they're open to new changes to allow for greater transparency. new this morning, the santa clara stadium authority and the forty-niners reaching an agreement to resolve long-standing disputes related to operations at levi stadium. city of santa clara says the settlement agreement reduces the amount of money the stadium authority owes to the niners now will provide the city a performance rent payment. the bill also amends various agreements and will result in new revenue to santa clara on a yearly basis. >> well, the giants rallied pulling off a comeback to beat the pirates on the road again. kron 4 sports director jason dumas with the highlights. >> the giants blew a four-run lead in the bottom of the 9th on tuesday. they came back from a five-run deficit all wednesday. what would the rubber match on thursday bringing us in pittsburgh and the pirates fans. they came matching their starting pitcher with mustache costumes. bottom of the first,
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the pirates jumped on the giants immediately. no score. andrew mccutchen. who has just been so good for so long he gets them out. to a one. nothing lead matos made a great effort. just couldn't come down with it. bottom of the 4th now tied game bases loaded for former giant joey bart. he had a lot of potential in san francisco. he never saw it but he saw that ball through right there. that's a grand slam. and the second straight day, the giants find themselves in a major haul. it's 5 to one, but everybody likely wednesday night, the giants rally down 62 in the 8th matt chapman who have been raking continues to do just that. it is gone. his 3rd home run in 3 days. all of us and the 6, 5, let's get it going later in the inning. wilmer flores. that's a single
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down. the right-field line is state fair is going to come around and all of us and we're tied up. guess what i think done bret lives all people. another slider facing a lefty to why you would think the lefty had advantage on the bump. but he doesn't see on giant give 5 runs in the 8th best game. they come back to 76 just a great when the giants playing some great baseball. the a's also got great win, too. all right. that's a look at sports. thank you, jason. 7.51. the time. and we also have some huge news for college athletics. the ncaa and power 5 conferences have agreed now to a settlement that will allow schools. >> to directly pay its athletes. the ncaa along with leaders of the big 10, the sec, the pac 12, what's left of it, the acc in the big 12 conferences announced the settlement yesterday regarding 3 antitrust cases. and espn is now reporting the parties have agreed to a revenue sharing
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plan that would allow each school the share up to roughly 20 million dollars per year. all division. one athletes who have played since 2016 are eligible to receive a share. initial payments will take place over the next 10 years. >> all right. coming up on the kron, morning news across 4 news crew captures this travelers, as he's hopping into the memorial day weekend. talk more about that coming talk more about that coming up. (♪♪) (♪♪) (♪♪)
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hosting its annual award winning 10th annual, by the way, pints for paws craft beer festival participating in the first-ever california. adopt a pet day, which is a statewide initiative. we're all animal adoption fees are waived. this takes place saturday, june 1st, it will feature more than 180 california welfare organizations offering fee adoptions at their shelters or in there communities. and that equates to about 2024 pets in total. so if you're thinking about getting one, couldn't find a cheaper time to do it. and have it at the same time 7.55. on the clock. and ahead of memorial day, members of the army's oldest active infantry placed flags at the graves of military men and women buried at arlington national cemetery. it's a tradition known as flags in and it's been carried out by the 3rd infantry regiment known as the old guard for more than 60 years. it honors the military personnel who died while serving in the armed forces. >> all right. well, we got a lot to get to coming up in the next hour. memorial day
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weekend. it is what travelers can expect when hitting the road in a live report. plus, a new bill aimed regulating autonomous vehicles was voted on at the state capitol. how this bill can actually benefit our community. traumatized graduation. what we're learning about a school shooting during a high school commencement last night in the east bay. we'll talk about east bay. we'll talk about this coming up. ♪ (ominous music) ♪
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the kron. 4 morning news. 2 people are injured after shots are fired at an east bay high school graduation ceremony. >> oakland mayor sheng thao outlined her budget plan how she hopes to meet the city's financial needs without cutting any jobs. and busy roads and air travel. need to pack your patients as memorial day travel gets underway. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> good morning. thank you for joining us here on this memorial day weekend friday. i'm james fletcher and i'm reyna harvey in for darya folsom and how fitting airport right behind lot of folks already miss qaeda. so if if you're heading out, hope you have a good time. if you're staying he.e, the weather's going to be fantastic to and cornyn. yeah, it's looking gorgeous out there as we move our way into memorial day weekend. at least a few like that break from the heat. if you want the heat. well, guess what? wait until sunday. and then
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