>> from the bay area's local news station. you're watching kron. 4 news at 6. >> we need very innocent man. >> now at 6 history made in new york city today, former president donald trump found guilty on all 34 charges in a hush money case. good evening.

>> i'm noelle bellow and i'm grant lotus. the guilty verdict makes trump the first former president to be a convicted felon. kron four's washington correspondent hannah brandt has the story. >> this is a hugely consequential verdict for former president donald trump. and even though his trial is over, he says the fight is not. >> very innocent man. in a stunning verdict, a new york jury found former president donald trump guilty of 34 felony charges. prosecutors convinced the jurors that trump illegglly falsified business records to cover up a hush money scheme. our job is to >> follow the facts and the law without fear or favor. and that's exactly we did hear that the former president complains the trial was unfair. this was the real is going to >> november by the people. but manhattan district attorney alvin bragg disagrees. the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury. and the

jury has spoken. the charges could carry jail time for former president trump. that will be up to the judge. sentencing is scheduled for july. 11th, but trump's legal team is expected to appeal the decision and we will fight for our constitution. this is about the biden campaign applauded. the verdict saying in a statement, quote, in new york today, we saw that no one is above the law. >> in washington, i'm hannah brandt. people across the nation are reacting to the guilty verdict, of course, including our bay area. political analysts and kron four's. catherine heenan joins us now live from the newsroom. catherine, we're always hearing from these folks they think about this momentous day. yeah, i think grand regardless of anybody's politics. the news today so dramatic. so >> unprecedented. even some of our guests regular analysts a little more quiet, more somber than usual. >> we asked david mcewan chair of the political science department at sonoma state to talk about why he finds it. so sobering. >> his sentencing occurs, july

11th. that's just 4 days before the republican convention in milwaukee. so setting aside the legal components, the impact of this, the reverberations of this on the political and constitutional side, those 2 sides are huge on the political side. this has ramifications beyond november. if donald trump order when the white house back what that looks like for the rule of law, it has implications for the constitution and what happens. and just to remind your viewers, it was 50 years ago this summer, august 20th that richard nixon resigned the presidency. the united states. this is a different animal. and in some ways come full circle. and that means that we're going to see a pressing of a political campaign and election season that we haven't seen anything like this since at least 18, 60. so this is a very sobering day. but it has at least these 3 components of legal, political and constitutional problems or issues all wrapped around with donald trump right in front and center. >> and this was trump arriving back at the trump tower a

couple of hours getting a mixture of applause and cheers from some loud boos from others. we also talked to john dennis chairman of the san francisco republican party. he argues the trial was not fair. he agrees with trump that the process was politicized. denis argues people should not be surprised by the verdict and referenced the new york district attorney and new york's attorney general. >> for those of you who are not following other news sources that would be considered on the left, you would have learned that that alvin bragg and teacher williams and we're going to the white house on a regular basis and you know visiting with presumably discussing some of these things is completely inappropriate and should have led you know, to some sort of sanctions or, you know, we're moving of the venue. but none of this was discovered are discussed. and so that's where we are. so this is coming as a surprise.

you shouldn't be just hope you expand your your sources of information. >> few other examples of the immediate reaction to today's verdict as we watch the trump team leaving the courthouse, there were cheers and fist bumps outside of the courthouse but also a trump supporters who were spotted bursting into tears. meantime, not surprisingly, politicians on both sides of the aisle are lining up either to declare justice has been done or to be mon what they consider to be an unfair trial and conviction. now the only trump family members in the courtroom today as the verdict was read was trump's son eric. he posted today that may 30th 2024 might be remembered as the day donald trump won the election. and remember, this is just the first few hours since the verdict came down the days ahead could be very interesting. no alan grant. >> interesting indeed. with the sentencing, we have appeals that are expected. so a lot to come. thank you, catherine. share.

>> trump is expected to be in san francisco next thursday for a fundraiser in his campaign to retake the white house. the events being co-hosted by billionaire venture capitalist, david sacks and his wife, jacqueline sachs. she is ceo of children's clothing line saint haven. the event will be in the pacific heights neighborhood. his arrival comes just one day after vice president kamala harris will be visiting the city. she will attend a reelection fundraiser hosted by manny's in the mission. the specific venue, though, and time have not been revealed. >> other news tonight, 2 brothers from oakland have been charged after police say they were caught with 18 pounds of illegal drugs. officers say they were also trafficking drugs in san francisco's tenderloin. police say 36 year-old jose ramos are also and 33 year-old jonathan ramos so were found leaving a parking lot on bush street in san francisco with fentanyl, meth, cocaine, heroin, and cash. the brothers pleaded not guilty to all the drug possession charges. the da's

office says they'll stay behind bars as they await their trial due to the public safety risk. they pose. >> a new bill aimed at increasing access to opioid addiction. treatment is one step closer to becoming law. it was authored by san francisco assemblymember matt haney and would expand methadone access in the state by allowing doctors to give their patients up to 3 days worth of methadone to take home rather than a methadone clinic that's only being able to do that. it would also increase the amount of methadone a patient can take come from a clinic and remove some requirements needed for accessing the treatment. the bill did pass unanimously out of the state's health committee. it now heads to the state senate. >> there's a surge in palo alto tonight for the people who broke into a couple homes while the residents were in there. the first happened tuesday around 10 in the morning on seal avenue. police say the victim, a woman in her 60's noticed or door had been pried open. she says she believes the burglar hurt her and then write off. officers say nothing was taken and

nothing was moved around. the second incident was around 7 o'clock yesterday morning on palo alto avenue. police say the victim here woman in her 30's told them she heard her front door open and then close. she says she thought it was her landlord until she saw her phone and wallet were gone. the victim says she went outside, saw her items on the sidewalk near the house. they just got tossed. she tells police her door was likely unlocked and nothing else was taken. officers say the 2 incidents do not appear to be connected. >> crews are on scene of a large fire at an egg farm in the north bay this evening. the facilities on skillman and kavanaugh lanes just northeast of petaluma city limits. the fire sending a large cloud of smoke hanging over petaluma. as you see here, crews say the fire started inside of an empty barn, but the flames did pose threats. >> so it's a working farm. many of the barns to have

chickens. they also have supplies and there's full shot here. >> no one was injured. the cause of the fire is under investigation. our kron 4 sarah stinson is there. she's going to bring us a full report tonight on kron for news at 10 11. >> all right. obviously weather can be a factor with these fires. as we take a look at the golden gate bridge. meteorologist dave spahr is here now to let us know what the winds are doing. >> okay. all right. now we're dealing with some warm to hot temperatures going on. well, in that we did talk about some of those out lower 90's working here. we're going to see more of that come tomorrow as well. look at this picture coming in from half moon bay, nyce cobalt blue. how about that action? not bad, but it is chilly. there's a look at your winds out of the northwest and being felt even in half moon bay. that's kept temperatures down and that will be the case for tomorrow to. so we have a big difference going on here where the coast is struggling in the upper 50's to inland some lower 90's. so that's going to drive the thermal gradient. that contrast is going to drive some more wins for us

tomorrow. even at this hour, pacifica, 64, half moon bay. by the way, 55 92 for brentwood. and you can see even the east bay shoreline, plenty of 70's at this hour with cool 70 relatively speaking san francisco for lows tonight. we've got about 53 going on 4 oakland, 52 of the santa rosa about 58 san jose waking up tomorrow at 10:00am mostly sunny. we'll have 74 going on inland of the coast. 56 still in the 50's by noon. 83 already in london and by the mid afternoon. nice and toasty inland near 90 with still a chilly 59 at the coast. well, we have more heat to come. we'll be talking more about that was going on for tomorrow. grant. >> thank you, dave. it was a nice day for a group of seabirds who are now back in the wild weeks after they were found suffering from starvation. and these birds were rescued by the international bird rescue. >> and here we go with kron four's gayle ong. >> the first group of rehabilitated brown pelicans are back in the wild after

spending weeks being treated for starvation. >> soaring over the san francisco bay. brown pelicans were released at fort baker in sausalito thursday afternoon. they are fat and healthy and ready to go back out to the wild. all 8 of them were monks over 320 brown pelicans found suffering from starvation and injured by fishing hooks. the birds were found in mid-april. most of them came from the monterey and santa cruz areas. jd bergeron is the ceo of international bird rescue base in fairfield where the birds were treated. some of these birds have been in care as little as a couple of probably were found and brought in still doing quite well. >> others were more like 30, 40, 50 days, even so those are birds that probably had a bigger challenge to overcome. the free birds can be tracked on the international bird rescue website. >> in the meantime, bergeron and his team are trying to figure out the cause of this

crisis. i think there's clearly some access to food problem, whether that's caused by climate change. water weather. there's all been a whole lot of different theories. i think there's probably a combination of things. >> and the state fish and wildlife department is also investigating the cause of what has been making these bird sick here in sausalito gayle kron. 4 news. >> coming up, how san francisco mayoral candidate mark farrell plans to lower the cost of childcare in california. >> plus, one of the nation's biggest insurance companies says it's dropping 10's of thousands of pet policies and the new approach san jose's mayor is taking to try to clean up city streets.

>> render residents packed a town hall last night concerned about their home insurance policies. many of them say they've either been dropped from their insurance or they're on the brink of it due to wildfire risk. the state does offer a policy for homeowners who can't get insured in the marketplace, which officials say 1000 people are applying for every day city of ur will be holding its second annual wildfire prevention safety fair. this saturday at the community park. now those homeowners concerns are not unique to that area. in fact, homeowners across california are seeing rate hikes and outright cancellations. the state insurance commissioners working on a multifaceted series of changes to try and bring insurance companies back to california. well, at the same time, protect consumers. the governor is also weighing in with the proposal, but it's not seeing unanimous support. kron four's dan kerman reports.

>> we've got to move this process along the process. the governor spoke of earlier this month is reforming california's insurance industry with homeowners across the state dropped by insurance companies, mostly due to fire risk. the governor has proposed a first step speeding up the review of insurance company rate hike requests to just 60 days. time. >> is important in terms of the rate decision making and that's what we're promoting as short-term step and continue to promote the larger package in partnership with the insurance commissioner. it's an important step that's realistic. >> rex frazier with the personal insurance federation of california, which represents large auto and home insurance companies in the state says this is only a first step towards reform. that has to be accompanied by fixing the overall rate system as well as making the fair planned sustainable. but those 3 things in place the market will improve. not the right plan of the governor has abandoned home insurance

consumers with this proposal. but carmen bell burr with the group consumer watchdog, thanks. the proposal gives away too much what it does is facilitates faster higher prices with no guarantee that a single insurance company is going to come back into the market. the ball is now in the hands of state legislators who will decide whether to include the governor's insurance proposal as it stands or change it when approving this year's budget. dan kerman kron, 4 news. meanwhile, the company nationwide says it is cutting about 100,000 pet insurance policies to companies citing inflation. >> and the cost of that care is one of the reasons for this policies will be cut between this spring and next summer nationwide says affected policy holders will be notified in writing. but his solar project in orinda will help the east bay mud cut down on greenhouse gas emissions sends kron four's. philippe djegal reports tonight. this

should also contribute to the utilities goal of being carbon neutral. >> more than 8 years in the making on thursday, the east bay municipal utility district launching its orinda photovoltaic, solar energy project with its partner to tell energy is renewable very excited that a project like this is possible in our service area. more than 12,000 solar panels, the size of dining tables have been installed on 12 acres of land in orinda. >> all of them tracking to the sunlight. each panel generates kilowatt hours that will feed back into the grid. so tell energy's vice president eric but says east bay mud can buy those hours at a discounted rate. because clean energy is affordable every year, there 10% of their total energy costs being offset by this project. we cannot be successful in our mission >> without protecting the environment, the partnership between east bay mud into tell energies is slated for a 25 year contract the 10% savings

in energy costs are projected to save the utility. 26 million dollars during that span. right pairs will not that would be associated with continuing the way we we are weeks away from really powering this up and getting energy flowing. and so, you know, just in time for the nice weather here and that the long days in the sunshine, this project brings the utility another step closer to reaching its goal of being carbon neutral by 2030, in orinda. philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> with that, let's get your check of the weather forecast. taking a live look at mount diablo used to be nice and green. now it's brown. >> while and those hills have taken a turn. meteorologist dave spahr is here with us now to let us know what tomorrow in the weekend might look like. >> all the grass is okay? yes, we're going in the summer mode. we are in is going to feel every bit like it as

well. the ocean is a little bit behind and so is the bay little cooler. but the air certainly is jumping into check out the shot from half moon bay. that is beautiful, although it's a bit chilly in some winds, cobalt blue and also for the bay as well. check out those winds. we have out of the northwest little bit of a pop happening in the afternoon. that will continue over the few days when we get the daytime heating, you've got 90's happening inland at the coast or in the 50's. that's a big contrast. and that tends to drive our onshore winds. 51, maybe some late patchy fog to throw in there for the mix just a little bit cooler. 51 53 meanwhile for oakland, 58 san jose in the big board there you see still 62 for antioch. so some of that he's being retained chilly at the coast with 49 half moon bay with a lot of 50's. meanwhile, up towards the north. all right. future cast. not a lot to see here. some coastal fog tomorrow morning, blah, blah. but let's get into saturday. real briefly here pre-dawn we might get some drizzle along the east bay shoreline, potentially, although i would

necessarily go to the bank on all of that. not a major deal, but it will mix out in the afternoon. so don't let that scare you. and into sunday, we might have some scattered clouds to. but this weekend we're taking a breather before yet another surge in temperatures in search of winds. we're looking for 2 here. it is tomorrow. on shore. they are and they actually get a little more aggressive. we get into saturday to don't forget level system helping out you getting up to the 30's. you can see up there to santa rosa. rosa. meanwhile, off towards the east, a lot of teens in some 20's. i'm to getting more into those temperatures, particularly the longer range forecast to let you know, it is really summer. so brown lawns, more to come. like it today. it definitely did so on the little interest. >> thanks, dave. san jose residents can now sign up to adopt a block. it's a new volunteer program. mayor matt mahan launched an hopes of keeping streets clean. the pilot program will require volunteers to clean up litter and their neighborhoods. the city will provide participants with litter kits, safety vests and gloves. residents interested can sign up at the

mayor's office. >> residents to take acts of service and state of the city back. >> to their communities will be following neighborhoods across the city and via e-mail to offer residents. another chance to come so a little competition. the worst district has the most doctors watch out. everybody district. one already nearly >> people can commit to a weekly or monthly cleanup. there's going to be opportunity to volunteer at this saturday's state of the city address as well. >> coming up, millions of americans are now facing the effects of student loan debt, especially talking about people, 55 and older. what they're saying about impact to their financial future.

>> the community college in pittsburgh is paving a path to higher education for high school students at east contra costa county, los madonna's college is offering a free dual enrollment program which allows high school seniors and juniors to take college classes at their high school. dean of students success david belman reported about half of east contra costa county high school graduates do not go on to college. those who are currently enrolled in the program are passing with a c or higher. the program is free. it's offered at 9 traditional and alternative high schools in the districts that you see here on your screen, antioch, pittsburgh and liberty. it will soon offer more than 50 courses

including american sign language. many older americans are concerned their student loan debt might get in the way of their retirement data from the federal reserve board's 2022. survey of consumer finance found about 2.2 million people over the age of 55 still have outstanding student loan debt. federal data also shows it may take an average of about 11 years for workers between the ages of 55 to 64 to finish paying off their student loans. this comes as a growing number of americans are questioning a college to whether or not a college degree is worth it. a pew research center survey found only 25% of respondents believe a bachelor's degree is a must to get a well paying job. up next, they were all ready for it, which is a sobering glimpse into gun violence at schools in america. we'll break down what happened today at a high school in the east scared. >> plus, inmate who police say jumped the barbed-wire fence was found in san jose who is

now accused of helping this guy get away and it's party time in san francisco. the rays coming to town and what's going to happen as a result. keep it here. kron. 4 ne

>> kron 4 is your elections headquarters in san francisco. candidate for mayor mark farrell says he wants to ease the high cost of childcare in the city and he plans to make it happen. >> the former mayor also called current mayor london breed out for not doing enough in this space kron four's lezla gooden is taking a look at what exactly this all means.

>> on thursday, mark farrell and now to plans to create universal health care for children in san francisco, adding that the city has been slow in making progress in the childcare department. problem is not a lack of funds. >> it's since simply a lack of leadership and accountability. voters approved the tax in 2018 dedicated for this. you specifically. but nearly 400 million dollars sitting unspent and city hall today, he's referring to proposition c. >> that pass and is aimed at giving early child care and education services for children up to 5 years old for low income families. but due to legal challenges that tax revenue cannot be spent until april of 2021. farrell says he has a plan to help struggling families faster. >> we will offer subsidies to help low and middle income parents and guardians of 4 local child care services, enspring accessibility across all income levels here in our city for child care. we