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francisco. this is new video now into our newsroom from the citizens app. >> you can see there there's a muni bus and san francisco fire department also on the scene right now. there's a structure there in the middle of the road. emergency crews working to help the 2 people. we understand who has been hit. this is in the outer richmond district kron four's less. the gooden is on the way to the scene right now to get us more information as soon as we get updates, we'll bring them to you right here on kron. for news at 3 updates are always on our website. kron 4 dot com. >> and them unlike after that, as you see, everyone started running. >> also, 3 gunfire at a high school graduation. police say they have now made an arrest in the shooting that sent dozens of students, parents and staff scrambling for safety. thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. i'm justine waldman. and the shooting happened last night at skyline. high school in oakland kron four's terisa stasko joins us now with new information on the investigation and also details on this arrest. thanks for joining us. i police telling us that the 3 people shot are
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thankfully in stable condition on a night that should have been only full of joy. some families are now dealing with being the victim. >> of a crime. violence turns a graduation ceremony into a crime scene. it was around 8 thursday evening when 9-1-1 calls rang out, reporting gunfire at skyline. high in oakland, hundreds had packed a school to attend high school graduation. the oakland unified school district tells us graduation had ended, but there were still many people on the field and on campus. the school district now announcing additional safety and security measures for remaining graduation ceremonies. in a statement friday, the district said, quote, what happened after skyline high schools graduation on thursday evening was heartbreaking and absolutely unacceptable. our behavioral health staff is at skyline high today and will continue to provide support to students. staff and families in the days to come. according
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to oakland, police is groups relieving thursday's graduation ceremony. a fight broke out in the parking lot with multiple suspects firing from multiple weapons. 2 people injured were taken by paramedics to the hospital. a 3rd person also shot was later found at an area hospital. police say that all victims are adults. those in attendance say it was a chaotic scene. >> 1005 and they had like a bad man. unlike after that, as you see, everyone started running. it was like 20 shots. those light. >> you know, graduation, >> welcome place. tell us that they are actively still looking for shooters. in this case. they are also looking for additional witnesses. they're asking for anyone to come forward to help with this active investigation. reporting in the newsroom. and theresa back to you. theresa, thank you so much. the recall
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of alameda county district attorney pamela price is not the only we call east bay- voters might have to decide come this november members with a group called oust oakland unified oakland, united to recall. thao says it has already collected more than 30,000 signatures. just 25,000 are needed to force mayor thao into a recall election this november. recall is happening. >> it is going to be on the november ballot. and voters in oakland will be able to live that. the mayor know that we are not pleased with her leadership. oakland has gotten just worst on practically practically every metric. >> we did reach out to towns office for comment so far have not heard back. the mayor does maintain that crime and homelessness are dropping in oakland, she says over the last year she has overseen the
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re implementation of the ceasefire program that would reduce crime. also investments in the city's 9-1-1, if a structure and then increase in neighborhood foot patrols. all right. take a look at this here. a big rig caught on fire on the upper deck of the bay bridge this morning. it happened just east of treasure island and multiple westbound lanes were closed for hours. the fire has been put out. the scene is clear. but right now the left and center lanes remain blocked that big break was carrying produce at the time that it caught on fire. investigators are still trying to figure out how this fire started and will take a live look now here at the huge backup that's going out into the east bay. this is just before the toll plaza at the bay bridge. there. again, the last update we had was that the left and center lanes remain blocked. that's on the upper deck going into san francisco right now. so traffic basically looks like it's at a standstill on this friday busy travel weekend. we're going to keep our eyes on what's happening here in the bay bridge and keep you posted right here on kron 4. you can see those gray clouds
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as well as we talk about our forecast for the weekend. we'll turn now to our meteorologist kyla grogan for an update on what's happening outside. yeah. and the clouds are there. at least the weather isn't stopping the traffic in any way. but unfortunately that traffic looks like in a start for a while. we do a little bit better here in san francisco. you can see it's been a mix of sun and clouds. >> got a cruise ship in here. people visiting. it is very breezy out there. so they're getting a real taste of said bay area weather today, 20 miles per hour in san francisco. 23 in fairfield 22 in concord. so these numbers have been going up a bit and you can see we're stormtracker 4 showing some of this cloud cover that's rolled into in particular along the peninsula east bay and the south bay. so you can see these temperatures are a little chilly right now. 66 in san jose. 63 in concord. 56 in downtown san francisco, the sunshine where you saw there on the stormtracker 4, little more prevalent up in the north bay in spots like santa rosa, where they've gotten up to 73 degrees. so as we take a look tonight, we are going to see those clouds continue to increase. we are going to have a little bit of gusty wind as well.
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temperatures not bad. so we're looking between 47 54 degrees, but sometimes with that wind, it feels a little bit cooler than it is. and then here we go at the airports. everyone is talking about how this is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. so far so good. we do have that. 23 minute delay at sfo, but all things considered that's not bad. that is generally because they have a little construction of one of the runways be can see our other local airports are all looking pretty good. but as we take a live look from mount tam, you can see the cloud cover is here. this will be the story today tomorrow and then things will be a little bit better forces into sunday. i'll be back in a little bit. we'll talk more about that. back to sounds good. thank you so much. the summer travel season kicks off today for memorial day weekend through labor day. the tsa >> is thinking it's going to be screening a record number of travelers. many of them flying in and out of san francisco bay, oakland, international airport, which is where we find kron 4 suit. philippe djegal. he spoke with people heading in and out of town. >> the flight board is filled
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and airlines are expected to be packed from now through monday at san francisco bay, oakland international airport and even frequent fliers caught off guard by how busy the transportation security administration projects the nation's airports will be this weekend through labor day. i didn't really realize and then suddenly i saw a clip on the late. >> late night show about that. that 18 million people are traveling. >> so it's like, oh, wait, i go a little earlier. good idea to be on dollar m behind sign up for tsa precheck to speed up the screening process and use your smartphone to keep track of your trip. downloading your airline's mobile application is a fantastic way to make sure that you have the latest information about your travel itinerary. airport spokesperson kaylee scan says more than 3.4 million passengers are expected to pass through oakland during the summer travel season. and this memorial day weekend kicks it off. we expect over
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130,000 passengers to pass through the airport. >> it's about similar levels to what we saw in 2023 travel, light and plan ahead for a holiday weekend that playing out of burbank. it was not as busy as >> i it was smooth 10 minutes earlier than normal. normal. i'm always kind of an hour before i leave. >> but i had nothing to check in. so. >> and while you are enjoying your families, take a moment to remember the men and women who have served in the u.s. armed forces and paid the ultimate sacrifice at san francisco bay, oakland international airport, philippe djegal, all kron. 4 news >> triple a says nearly 44 million people across the country will be on the roads this weekend. aaa is predicting this will be the busiest start of summer weekend in nearly 20 years. nearly 44 million people expected to drive at least 50 miles from now until monday. and if you are planning on driving, you of course, expect to be paying more than the national average for gas,
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which is at $3. and $0.61 here in california. people are paying 5.17, on average for a gallon of gas. so we'll take a look now at the prices at the pump across the bay area. the cheapest gas you'll find is in solano and santa clara counties. the most expensive is in napa, which is averaging about $5 and $0.48 a gallon for regular gas and over the long memorial day weekend, the chp will be out in full force, looking for unsafe drivers. extra officers will be on the road starting at 6. tonight. law enforcement says last year 46 people died and more than 1100 per arrested for duis during the holiday weekend. this maximum enforcement period will remain in place until midnight on tuesday. there's lots to do memorial day weekend with some. >> festivities now already under way. so coming up, we're going go today. want a bottle rocket check in with those battle rockers. and see how things are going so far in napa. also happening tomorrow. enjoy brews for a great cause.
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how you can participate in the pints for paws event and lots of bills passing the california legislature. we're keeping track of these stories and more coming up here on and more coming up here on kron. 4 news at 3. network is o network for business. that's why more choose comcast business. and now, we're introducing ultimate speed for business —our fastest plans yet. we're up to 12 times faster than verizon, at&t, and t-mobile. and existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds... at no additional cost.
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>> in the north bay, thousands of concertgoers going to napa this weekend for the bottle rock music festival and kron 4 s charles clifford is already there. >> well, here in app on friday, it is the first day of the three-day bottle rock music festival. this really kicks off the beginning of the bay area's a music festival scene for the rest of the
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summer. now there are 75 fans playing on 5 different stages. there's a lot of food here. a lot of great gourmet food really well here at bottle rock. and then there are lots of things to explore that got wine cabanas. they've also set up a record shop this year. the headliners for this years festival are on friday night. stevie nicks, megan, thee stallion on saturday, it's pearl jam and then ed sheeran and queens of the stone age on sunday. now everyone here is expecting some really good weather. maybe a little cool over the weekend, but everyone is very excited for what they hope will be. some great shows where you're from and what you most excited about from santa rosa just over the hill and musk's it pearl jam tomorrow. so we have 3 day looking for for tonight's be the next. i was a little worried. it might be cold today, but this is pretty nice. i think today's this holiday tomorrow, there's a little chillier. so will dress in layers like we do in the bay area. so we'll be good. >> now at last check saturday and sunday were sold out. there were still some tickets available for friday, starting about $242 and going to the website. the bottle rock website. it's more information
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about that. if you're headed up here to napa, keep in mind, traffic's probably going to be terrible. this is memorial day weekend people, lots of people out on the roadways trying to et to lots of different places. there are some shuttle buses being operated by the venue leaving from san francisco, oakland, sacramento, san jose on the website again, get some more information about that. >> but for now in the north bay, charles clifford kron, 4 news. >> all right. let's talk about that weather for bottle rock. here's a live look in san francisco. now we go to the north bay and napa work. i was going to chat to us it seems like it's going chilly if you're going to go to bring some layers that i was right. we know in the bay area we don't trust the warmth anyway when we get it right to bring the jacket. but tonight going to start off with a jacket, folks, because it's already a little chilly today. >> but it's going to be a good time. so if you are headed out there, you know, it's in the 60's right now. we're not going get much warmer than that. so tonight and tomorrow, 1st, half of the day are going to be very cool and cloudy. so just be prepared for that. things do get better 2nd half of saturday and then sunday is
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looking good. we'll start to pick those temperatures up. but right now in napa, it's just 66 degrees. so it is a little cool. and obviously once the sun drops off there at about 08:15pm, tonight, it's getting a whole lot cooler. 56 in downtown san francisco. we're at 66 in and san jose about 73 in santa rosa. this is the difference in temperatures from 24 hours ago to now. so, yes, you're not a you're not you're you're hit feeling it because it's actually accurate, especially here in concord where it's 18 degrees cooler right now than it was this time yesterday. also, we've got the wind to contend with her very gusty tonight. we'll see that continue throughout the night tonight. so the evening will be a little cool and a little bit windy and certainly a chance. just chance. a little drizzle overnight, too. so we've been under the influence of high pressure. that's what's kept us with the kind of nice sunny skies. nice temperatures. now we've got low pressure that's rolling in. that's changing everything. the temperature profile, the cooler moister air mass and certainly the onshore push of wind that we're starting to see. so as we take a look at stormtracker 4, you see where that low
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pressure kind of pressing those clouds in bringing a little bit of that moisture in as well as i show you through future cast. you can see this moves in tonight. more clouds expected and then we get into the overnight early morning hours. i think that's where we have a little drizzle, if any. and then by saturday afternoon, this is the good news. it clears out and we kind of stay that way with the exception of a few clouds on sunday morning and monday morning. other than that, we're looking really good. so for memorial day celebrations on monday, if we have anyone is going to commemorating memorial day, 66 degrees and sunshine in san francisco. that will be some pretty good weather for that in inland will be up to about 79 degrees. so again, any of those any of those commemorations that are happening on monday? good weather for that. good weather to begin next week as well. it sounds great. nintendo's opening up an official store in san francisco. the company announced its plans today open up a store in union square. >> the company says it will be a place for wide range of visitors to experience the world of nintendo, its products and characters. the store is set to open in 2025.
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and this will be nintendo's second official store. the others in new york city. nintendo's announcement coming at a time when many retailers have closed their union square locations. in honor of cow animals first ever. california adopt a pet day east bay spca is hosting a community run with shelter dogs at the dublin location. officials say community members come enjoy the outdoors while helping shelter dogs get some exercise and even meet their possible next new four-legged companion. all right. so all adoption fees will be waived at both the dublin and oakland occasions. the event starts june first from 9 until 11:00am at the dublin adoption center. also participating in the first-ever california. adopt a pet day is the berkeley east bay humane society. it's going to be hosting its award-winning 10th annual pints for paws craft beer festival. this event is planned for next saturday. june 1st and they are thinking
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more than 2000 pets for more than 180 california welfare organizations are going to be offering fee waived adoptions at their shelters or out in the communities. and they hope that you'll be out there too. kron 4 is celebrating api heritage month and celebrations of all kinds continue to happen across the bay area, including a culinary extravaganza in san francisco this weekend is the chalfont event and dozens of delicious and local restaurants in the excelsior, an ocean or said heights ingleside neighborhoods are taking part and during kron for news at noon we spoke with the organizers about the significance of having this event. part of san francisco. >> i'm live here in exception for 44 years. and we've never really had patient specific celebrations and 50 by 55% of the residents. here are asians. so i thought would be great to api heritage month by
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supporting our small business owners as well. is no better way to get to not culture done through food. >> the event starts tomorrow will last until the following saturday. for more information you can go to our website which is kron 4 dot com. the white house now sending millions of dollars to law enforcement agencies to help address the overdose epidemic and also crack down on illicit drug trafficking. our washington correspondent reshad hudson has more. >> in cities, suburbs and small towns, there's hardly a family or a community that has not been touched by this doctor, gupta, director of the white house office of national drug control policy, says drug trafficking is impacting far too many people. we know that we're losing an american 5 e is providing more than 276 million dollars for law enforcement to help address the overdose epidemic. the
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target areas getting drugs like fentanyl off the street, reducing drug-related gun violence and dismantling money-laundering operations. but west virginia republican senator shelley moore capito says the biden administration has fallen short on prosecuting many of these crimes from the drug dealer on to the carjacker. >> new preliminary data from the cdc shows overdose deaths were down 3% last year, but it didn't offer reasons for the drop. gupta credits president biden and congress for making lifesaving tools like the locks on more accessible. but we want to make sure that every life that we can say we work to see that right. capita says the work needs to start when kids are young, we have to begin teaching our children when they're in kindergarten. that. pill can kill money from the white house to combat the opioid epidemic will cover all 50 states reporting in
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weekend, those burgers and hot dogs and salads are going to cost you more. the price of a frozen beef patty, up more than 15% hotdogs. not that far. behind up 14%. the same gobng for their buns. each costing more than last year. so even if you want to do a lettuce wrap or make some sort of healthy salad, it's going to be more expensive. studies are showing let us prices are up nearly 14% fresh tomatoes up 5%. so some ways the experts are saying you can save some money here. compare prices at different supermarkets. look for store brands and use coupons. the biden administration is calling for new protections for those buy now pay later, shoppers, the consumer financial protection bureau says businesses that offer buy now pay later should allow users to demand refunds and dispute transactions. the new rules are meant to be similar to those that are already in place for credit card companies. major buy now pay later, companies such as
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affirm and klarna say they're open to these new changes to allow for greater transparency. and you could get hundreds of dollars from apple if you have an iphone 7 that had audio issues, issues. apple has settled a lawsuit over this problem. for 35 million dollars. so anyone who paid out of pocket for repairs to their iphone 7 or 7 plus and are on the record for could receive about $350. people who reported that issue to apple but did not pay for repairs could get 125 bucks. you will have to have received an email or a postcard notification containing a confirmation code to be eligible for more details. you can log on to smartphone, audio settlement dot com. next here at 3 making california a safe harbor for abortions. the new law that's going into effect to help patients in arizona. >> access the procedure here. also a state ban on plastic bags might be doing more harm than good. we'll tell you
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>> governor gavin newsom has signed a bill into law allowing arizona doctors to come to california to perform abortions on their patients. this coming after the arizona supreme court ruled in favor of an 18 64 law banning nearly all abortions in the state. and since then, the arizona legislature and the governor repeal that law. but that repeal will not take effect until the fall. so in the meantime, governor newsom hopes in california can be of help to those who need the procedure. in a statement,
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newsom 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. the state senate passed 2 bills this week that will close a loophole in california's ban on single use plastic bags. lawmakers say that this loophole allowed the use of those thicker reusable bags, but they've actually made the state's plastic bag problem worse. the bills would also require stores to provide plastic bags made out of 100% recycled material instead of the current 40%. lawmakers have until august 31st to pass the bills. road safety. top of mind at the state capitol as new bill aimed at regulating autonomous vehicles passed the state assembly yesterday. the bill would make autonomous cars the port, any accidents or malfunctions to the dmv. the agency with that make the data available to the public.
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san francisco assemblymember matt haney says the goal is to make ab companies more accountable and improve public trust. for your health. this afternoon, lawmakers approving a bill banning snacks that have certain kinds of food. i in california schools ab 23. 16 cleared the assembly on a unanimous 59 to 0 vote yesterday. 29 lock. 21 lawmakers abstained from voting on this measure. it would ban food products like flaming hot cheetos and fruit loops from being served in public and charter schools across the state. the bill now heads to the senate. uc berkeley plans now to do some brand updating and go from being called cow to the letter b school officials say the changes so more people are aware that cow is and berkeley. they say that in their research, many people thought that cow and uc berkeley were 2 different schools. but there has been some pushback from students over 2000. people have already signed the petition to reverse
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this re-branding. but some people say they like logo. >> my first thoughts were is that it's like a super simplified which now like set with it 2 minutes. i kind of he is 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 do. i look at and be like. nice yellow. and i think it's like half the year will be written and evebybody like, okaw, that's been >> alright, previously the school had suggested it might also change its sports team names. but so far have decided against that. san francisco now one step closer to establishing a historically black college and university in the city. mayor london breed says 60 in turns from hbc use across the country will be living and learning in san francisco the summer. she says this is the first step to building the long-term future
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of hbc use in san francisco, mayor breed says local organizations have already partnered up to form and help push this plan forward. santa clara county's vector control district says it plans to conduct a more comprehensive treatment regimen in order to get rid very invasive mosquito. they say this particular mosquito carries the zika virus and other diseases. the district says they detected 12 mosquitoes in the area of machado lane. this has happened since early april and they have been trying to treat them ever since. but so far it has not worked. so the district says it will be starting this new plan on the 29th. that's next week. and they will be giving us an update on how that goes next week. hurricane season officially underway now in the atlantic. actually, it starts next week. but we do know now with the storms names are going to be called. so here's the list of the 21 names released. so we've got some on here are alberto chris debby
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ernesto gordon kirk, leslie, oscar patty. i don't know if you think it's rough. l rafael. unclear sarah tony valerie william hurricane season starts june first runs to the end of november. and we're getting update now from kyla about what she thinks about this above average hurricane season. yes, so it's interesting. you know, part of the reason of this is that they have been seeing increased water temperatures across the world. and the debate, of course, is whether or not that has to do with global warming. a leave that for you to figure out folks that but >> water temperatures are a big part of what fuels our hurricane. and just to show you kind of the elements come together. converging winds forced the air upwards. then they encounter moisture and then they have the moisture source. and then it's all about the upper-level winds. and right now we're kind of an nino pattern. we're coming to the end of it. nino pattern means that basically it will let it cuts it off a little bit. a little stronger when la nina, which we expect will be in quickly here that allows it
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to grow unchecked to write because those upper level winds are not as strong. you get weaker upper-level winds. the storm can continue. so as we look at water temperatures here, you might think, well, the atlantic waters so warm. 85 degrees, right? how in the caribbean is the water temperature? it's because warm their current is coming from the south and going to the north very different profile than for us here in the pacific where we have what's called our northerly current, which comes down from the north to the south of that brings much cooler water and obviously see that here off the coast of california at just 55 degrees. so we'll keep an eye on that. they're expecting 4 to 7 major hurricanes this year in the atlantic. that would be category 3 or higher. so that would be a very significant season. meanwhile, back in california, we've had a cooler day here today, but some 80's showing up in spots like bakersfield and fresno, reading at 83 right now, la sitting at about 67. they had some cloud cover there, too. we are dealing with little mix of sun and clouds. clouds are starting to win over where the sun was are taking a live look from the east bay current temperatures, san francisco about 55 oakland, 57. so
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obviously we've cooled it down greatly today. 73 in santa rosa. that's my highest number. but a whole lot of 50's 60's across the bay. i'll be back in just a little bit. we'll talk more about the weekend and your 7 day forecast. thank you. police in daly city looking for 2 suspects accused of assaulting a store employee. >> while they were attempting to steal boxes of candy. this all happened at the smart and fiocery store on mission street. officials say the store manager asked a man and woman leaving the store allegedly with a card of 40 to 50 candy boxes for the receipt. the male suspect then punched the manager 3 times in the ribs before leaving the scene with 45 candy boxes. the stolen merchandise of value that $175. anyone with information should contact. daly, city police. people living in the camp meant in sandra fell are speaking out. they say a nearby business has been blasting loud music at them for the last 3 nights as
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kron four's. sara stinson reports a federal judge is now involved and has ordered the business to stop. >> 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 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 co. i called the police tend the police did nothing about it. so he decided to call homeless
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advocate paulsen, who came down to the encampment to start documenting it. we take took good decibel readings of the >> of the sound and we measured that the metal the decibels were between 5218 decibels in general. it was far above the center-field noise 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
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24th. there will be another federal hearing against the city if sandra fell winds from people who live here would be kicked i'm sara stinson reporting in sandra fell kron. 4 news. >> traveling for memorial day can be a hassle. also going to talk with an expert from triple a after the break about how to make the most out of your travel this holiday weekend. as you head out of town. and bacteria spreading in california waters. what you need to know if you're planning to head to the coast.
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>> the summer travel season kicking off with what triple a is calling one of the busiest memorial day weekends and decades. 44 million americans are supposed to be traveling over the holiday weekend all across the nation. and joining us now to talk about this is john trainor, a triple a from northern california. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. thanks for having appreciate you. working late on friday. i feel you here on this. the official holiday weekends has started for us yet. why does triple? i think this is going to be the busiest memorial day holiday travel weekend in 20 years. >> yeah, i'm not in my car right now. americans are 5 and half million californians north that are going to travel this weekend. it really we've seen this want to travel this appetite for travel, suspended restrictions lifted a few years ago and certainly record numbers are taking advantage >> so when do you think will be the busiest time on the roads, especially in the bay area since that's what we're focused. if you're not on the road right now, we're probably
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if you want avoid the traffic, early bird catches the worm. to speak, wake up, get out before 11 o'clock. >> and what because i feel like that's what people are going to start to head back home. >> yes, a lot of people dreading it already. but you head back monday 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock. it's going to biggest rush time. so might as well try to enjoy as much as the departments possible that he can to relieve until 07:00pm or later. >> so also talking about people flying. we had one of our reporters at the airport today and in oakland saying so many people are heading out there, do more people drive. is this like all kind of a local holiday or to more people fly for memorial day? >> most people are going to drive, but 80% of people traveling or going driving. but we are expecting record numbers airport as well. 3.8 million people. we fly over memorial day weekend. tsa says they're going to scream
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13 million americans going both ways. it's going to be very crowded airports. so what we really recommend get there early extra you can to avoid things like trying for apartment spot or that tsa line that is going to be >> so since more people are driving, according to your figures from triple a, you have any advice for people who are probably going to be stuck in traffic this weekend. >> it is and get out early. know that there's millions of other people just like you. you want to get your destination, get your destination safely. that is the number one so give people some extra space, extra courteous. as we get some patients after patients, as they say. but do yourself a favor. take your car to get ahead of time. check things like your battery, your fluids in your tire pressure was of the 3 most common reasons. the aaa will be called to help people on the side of the road. 89,000 californians last memorial day weekend to want to do better. avoid being stopped at the side of the road. just preventative maintenance or go to a service station have and give your partner wants
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>> and if you had joined via zoom from your car, no judgment at all. >> yes, this topic around. >> john trainer, aaa, northern california, thank you for joining us. and talk about memorial day travel. appreciate your time and have a safe weekend. well, summer on officially starts this weekend. there is a warning, though, before you head to the coast in order to cool off the list of the top 10 locations, but the highest bacteria levels in the water does include a popular spot in the bay area. linda mar beach in pacifica reportedly has about 54% bacteria rate the surf rider foundation, which focuses on improving coastal waters and the quality of it across the world released its report saying water quality conditions could be putting public health at risk today during crawford is at too. i spoke with chris devine who with surfrider out of san mateo about the findings. >> what you want to do is you want to check local water quality reports before you get
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into the water. we the surfrider foundation posts are water results on instagram, facebook and online. you can find us and that this information, sir. fred, a downward but also pay attention to swim advisories and avoid swimming right after it rains. i don't swim or surf near a creek such as pedro creek or other outlets, where storm water drains and then important you know, you want people rinse off with clean fresh water before you when you leave the beach. >> alright, water testing reports are posted online every week. kron four's your local election headquarters and we're tracking the batch of bills passing their house of origin. yesterday was the deadline. and our capitol correspondent eytan wallace has the latest. >> yeah, we're talking more than 800 bills on all kinds of matters from speeding to child trafficking. >> we have a serious problem holding back tears, bakersfield, republican state
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senator shannon grove delivered emotional remarks on the senate floor about the issue of child trafficking across the state. we cannot sit idly by children are bought and sold in california like pieces of meat and underground grocery store. that's why grove says she's been fighting to get her bill sb 1414, past from its house of origin of the state senate and get it over to the state assembly ahead to friday evening's deadline groves bill would classify the purchasing of a minor for commercial as a felony. that could increase penalties and jail time for those convicted. but to groves, great frustration. democrats on the senate public safety committee added amendments to the bill to exempt 16 17 year-olds in the legislation out of concern. some in that age range, maybe taking advantage of in lord into the purchasing of commercial notion that 16 17 year old children. >> are somehow less deserving of additional protections is absolutely absurd. stockton, democratic senator susan talamantes eggman called up members of her own party for
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adding in the done. i'm done with us protecting people who would buy. and abuse our children. i'm done. >> i don't want to send more black and brown men to prison. i don't want more people in prison, but i don't want people buying girls. i don't want people buying little girls anymore. and i'm tired of saying it's okay. i'm not arguing that we opened the gage to flood our prisons with people. but i am arguing that we have a moral responsibility to say enough, we have given away enough on this area and we've got to move back into the we all look like fools. it seemed for colleagues agreed. >> i was 36 0. the measure passes in the assembly. members passed a bill refer to as the pet rent bent. in essence, requiring landlords to accept tenants with pets. but landlords still would be allowed to limit the number of pets apartment buildings with fewer than 15 units would also be exempt. on the issue of
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transportation. senator scott wiener's bill to place technology known as speed governors into vehicles to slow them down. if they go over the speed limit also passed its chamber. the goal of this legislation is to save lives. too many people are dying and calibration made. >> another these bills passed the house of lords and they will now be up to the other house to determine whether to send them to the governor's desk reporting at the state capitol. a tonn wallace kron. 4 news. >> all right. a live look outside here showing us the traffic already building up in walnut creek there ruin everyone's hitting the road talk to triple a as he said just a minute ago, you're going to be sitting in traffic. yeah. well, only one with that great in the bay bridge looks bad a bridge looks bad. but the weather, it's ok, let's send good vibrations to everyone who is in their car. yes, the weather is on your side, albeit a little cloudy, a little cool and certainly will breezy if you're going crossing the bridge. is your feeling that? >> i'm a little bit of sun in san jose. may be a tiny little
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bit parts of san francisco. but take a look at this picture. we watch. this gets steadily more gray as we go throughout the day and the trees have just gotten crazy to last couple of hours. so we're very breezy out there. you can see are about 20 miles per hour in san francisco. same story in napa. of course, that's her bottle. rock is getting going tonight. so just be ready for that. it's a little chilly out with temperatures and gray skies, but it's also going to feel a little bit cooler with some of this wind that is out there. i mentioned it's chilly half moon bay. 53, we're at about 58 in fremont. 66 in san jose, 60 in dublin, oakland. 57 at about 73. rows of the one spot that kind of hanging on to a little warmth. today's got a little more sunshine going on there. and you can see that on storm tracker for some of these clouds of really been really socked in on the peninsula and parts of the east bay and south bay. but north base gotten a little bit of a break in spots. as we zoom out, though, you do see that low pressures influence those clouds starting to kind of roll in. and there is just the tiniest bit of moisture with this. so we're going to see rain per se, but we could
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see a few sprinkles as we get into the overnight tonight and early morning hours. but it's all about the temperatures in taking wannacry example here where, you know, we're in the sixties today tomorrow and they're going to pull back up as we get to sunday monday, of course, being memorial day should be looking pretty nice to get some of that sunshine going by the time we get to saturday afternoon. so check out futurecast here. this is tonight to see plenty of clouds tomorrow morning that pop of a little maybe sprinkle drizzle that comes in. then we get saturday afternoon and things are looking much better. and that is really the way it's going to stay as we go through the rest of the weekend. so it's just tonight and the first part of tomorrow and then we'll start to see some improvement. but tomorrow will be cool. temperatures to be prepared for that. we will start to rebound on sunday and then we get into next week with some nice sunshine as well. rapper sean kingston arrested yesterday at fort irwin army base in san bernardino county. >> he's facing fraud and theft charges in florida. swat raided his home in a town about 15 miles west of fort
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lauderdale. his mother also arrested. she pleaded guilty in 2006 to bank fraud in a previous case, kingston is accused of defrauding a company by not fully paying for $150,000 232 inch tv in this lawsuit that was filed that saying that kingston put down a $30,000 deposit for that tva promised to promote the company with singer justin bieber. the company says it installed that tv, but kingston did not make the rest of the payments or promote the business of. according to this lawsuit, bieber and kingston no longer work together. kingston did post on social media saying that his lawyers are handling everything. it's not clear why he was at fort irwin. the kentucky police officer who arrested the top ranked golfer scottie scheffler outside of the pga championship is now being disciplined for not having his body camera activated. new surveillance video showing
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scheffler trying to make his way around a car accident while entering the golf course. and you could see one officer there start to run towards the car before scheffler comes to a stop. others then start to approach the vehicle. that first officer claimed that he was knocked down and dragged by scheffler's car. he faces felony charges and his attorney is saying this new video proves that he did nothing wrong. coming up next, we're going to check in. >> on this point, we've got a huge surprise. the 3 of 3 is huge surprise. the 3 of 3 is next. network is no network for business.
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>> all right. welcome back, everybody. it's time for the 3 at 3 where we tell you about some relief. and stephen, this is going to start with some heartwarming video to start this afternoon. please meet 10 year-old anthony mckay. he's getting his wish to go to disney world. granted, gosh, that's so happy. adorable. he is battling sickle cell disease and thanks to the make-a-wish foundation. he was met with this surprise that mississippi children's museum anthony's family says he is a strong fighter who spreads joy and happiness with his loving smile. you can see that. and he said he's going count down every day until june that sunday's heading to disney world most excited to meet spiderman, which i love and also built his own lightsaber at the star wars exhibit. i got to work with make-a-wish as at the weather channel. it's a remarkable organization. so pretty amazing. i mean, you get to make smiles like that. and he has even gone yet. it's amazing. we do have some video from the largest known living tree in the world, standing tall at sequoia national park. it's known as general sherman.
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>> and you can see here it's getting a little health checkup. park officials making sure that the tree is healthy in testing out some drones that can be used to monitor some tall trees at the park. currently the biggest threats to the giant sequoias in california. are this in insect invasion? and i'm also wildfire. so they're checking see if the beatles are on it. but government is doing good. all right. we've got a special and now check this out. >> should we get permission from him can is an amazing journalist. obviously we have celebrated him all week. this is last night tonight. he is always dignified and wonderful. but this is why we love him because he goes out with the staff. he hangs out with the city karaoke bar. we had such a good time. can we love you so much? i cannot even put into words how much miss him right to his last
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