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>> 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 will
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raise wages for childcare workers to address the shortage of qualified professionals. >> he says parents spend an average of nearly $40,000 between infant preschool, karen mount. and if he's elected as mayor, he promises to change that. >> state reimbursements failed to cover the true costs of this care. exacerbating the financial strains on families here in san francisco that are still trying in many cases to recover from the covid-19 pandemic. and these early years are so critical. but mayor london breed's team says >> barrels idea. it's coming straight from her own child care. >> and early education platform and shared the following statement in a desperate attempt at relevance. mark farrell has been digging through the recycling bin outside mayor breed's office for his policy ideas and listed off what she says are her accomplishments, including that she doubled the number of children receiving early care and education subsidies. and we from 6,000
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to 12,000 in just 5 years, adding that the also cut the waitlist for subsidized early care and education by 72% making real rally off whatever staff so they want right now. but the honest answer is. >> they have not use these funds and they are sitting there and francisco lezla gooden kron. 4 news. >> and mayoral candidate daniel lurie called farrell's plan recycled want. lori said in a statement, quote, our city needs a lot more show and a lot less tell from the people who spent the better part of a decade in city hall and failed to act affordability. health care, public safety and homelessness will all remain in a state of crisis. if we keep turning to the people who got us into this mess. >> new at 6, a former college professor will spend more than 5 years in federal prison for arson. 49 year-old gary maynard pleaded guilty back in february to 3 counts of arson on federal property.
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prosecutors say maynard said a series of fires in shasta-trinity national forest in july of 2021. cruz as crews battled the destructive dixie fire. maynard taught criminology at sonoma state and santa clara university's. >> unfortunately, this is their new norm. i think this this kind of behavior has happened. decades before this experience today. >> in the east bay, a high school went on lockdown for several hours today after they got a call the school about explosives on campus and a gunman who is going to shoot up the school. it all started around 10 this morning at cal high in san ramon. police say they got several calls telling staff that they were explosive devices all over campus. and there is somebody who plan to come there with a gun and opened fire as a result. police in specialty units responded, bomb-sniffing dogs, drones were used. students stayed locked in their classrooms. >> we have to like block out the door us all the lights are
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turned off can learn all are not always the bathrooms, norm. now right? >> all the school shootings that happened over the last couple years. yeah, that's what we always have. these lockdown drills as well. that's also also was a long happened. and then that's when he found about the serious. >> sobering sign of the times. they were all ready for this police say they plan to do extensive investigation now to try to figure out who made these calls. >> california leaders are developing a plan to address gun violence. attorney general rob bonta among the officials at a roundtable discussion today. they met with community leaders in the central valley working to bring attention to gun violence and prevent shootings. the attorney general also shared his own experience with gun violence when his daughter's school was put on lockdown because of an active shooter. >> and of course, as a parent. sends chills down your spine and youth fear the worst.
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there are was helples1 90 miles away, not knowing the situation course wonder what i could do. >> no one was hurt. and that instance at his daughter's school. looking ahead, the attorney general says he plans to keep advocating for so-called common sense gun laws and he will continue meeting with community members to come up with solutions. >> developing news now at inmate who escaped today, southern california correctional facility has been arrested in san jose. 38 year-old daniel lopez zavala escape the san benito correctional facility in hollister. this actually was on tuesday. so not southern california. the sheriff's office says he jumped over a barbed wire fence and the authorities say his girlfriend helped him escape. he was arrested last night at a hotel in san jose. the sheriff's office says of all associates with northern gang members and has been charged on several felonies, including child abuse. on the peninsula. the san mateo county sheriff's office is moving into its new
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headquarters this week. it will fully open its doors to the community. the first monday in june. so that's monday. the new state-of-the-art headquarters is located at 3.30, bradford street in downtown redwood city. >> a nearly mile-long water main replacement project in san anselmo will cause a few months of traffic disruption. it all starts mid-june. according to moran water, which provides water nearly 200,000 customers in marion county. the projects going to run along sir francis drake boulevard from san francisco boulevard to butterfield road. the projects expected to wrap up in november and it will replace 4500 feet of aging cast iron pipe. >> alright, summertime project. they're the they do it because they will be rain and they know there hasn't been rain in a while. beautiful day in the bays. we look above san francisco. >> prior reminder, too, want to keep the water bottles being a lot that's right. so we do have hot temperatures coming again tomorrow. but
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we're going to take a break come this weekend and build it back up again for tomorrow where we left off like we didn't miss a beat on that front. hey, how about this picture out of half moon bay? checking out nice cobalt blue blue skies, blue bay looking marvelous, accept you still got to bring a sweater. it's chilly onshore. winds working this as well. the ocean is cold. so still going provide nice cooling effects, particularly with our winds out of the northwest and onshore as they will remain to be. they'll pop in the afternoon as we start to get that inland heating. nice. got going on here, decibel mostly clear on balance tonight, mild with a lot of 50's going on. maybe some 40's at the coast potentially now tomorrow, mostly sunny, but hot inland. still, we'll have some spotty 80's, but some 90's going on even inland. we saw that for today. then for the weekend, this gets interesting. we have morning clouds. then breaking up. we might see a couple stray showers in parts of the east bay shoreline ever. so briefly, don't let that scare you just what the roads sky comes clears back up. going kind of the cobalt blue yet
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again. and then for sunday, keep some variable clouds still in there. so weak system of our backyard. before things start to change, you can see it here on the graphic. little weak system drops towards our south. i know that looks pretty threatening there on monday afternoon evening, but it's the high pressure, the controls everything all the way back to hawaii and beyond. so a good chunk of the pacific. this specific high is taking its southern place and will control our weather. looks like into next week, a 66. san francisco will do about 60 ish at the coast with 73 going on for burlingame. 75 foster city alo alto already at 82 86 san jose pitas about 86 tomorrow. lower 80's going on these numbers here in a couple of days by tuesday or wednesday. next week may pop near 90 tri valley, upper 80's 78 for castro valley hercules. 76 71 for vallejo. 88 fairfield, 82 going on for napa and santa rosa at 87. here it is in our 7 day forecast, a little drop for the weekend. there's the big
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warm up the big day. we're watching out for right now appears to be wednesday. grant. san francisco city officials helped break ground on the new is building for. >> the nonprofit united play us former house speaker and representative nancy pelosi as well as mayor london breed were there today. this organization was founded by formerly incarcerated people who grew up in the soma neighborhood. now they're returning to their roots with their headquarters located in that same community. pelosi donated 4 million dollars. see united players calling it a full circle moment. >> this building will be to dispel. fear and isolation and story with hope and community. he's pace for people. >> the new space will be a place where kids can go after
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school during summer break. and it's a space where kids can be mentor. it. in the north bay, a popular nonprofit conservation corps, north bay. is preparing to give on-the-job training to underserved kids looking for careers in conservation by providing paid on-the-job training. the non-profit hopes to prepare young adults for the workforce. trainees between the ages of 18 30 and are typically low income or unemployed. the non-profit says services involve paid training for green jobs along with wraparound support to ensure participants basic needs are met. >> a popular asian grocery chain is opening in the east bakery and grocery store h mart opening in dublin sometime soon marking its 4th location in the bay area. the store will open at the dublin retail center, which is on the other side of i-580, from the stoneridge shopping center in pleasanton, the dublin h mart will have outdoor dining to complement its mega food hall
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featuring a variety of asian cuisines. no word yet on exactly when the location will open. but as we said sometime soon, so get ready for that. meantime, dozens of shuttered $0.99 only stores could reopen as dollar tree stores. dollar tree has made a bit for about 170 of the shuttered stores in california, arizona, nevada and texas. $0.99 stores originally opened in 1982. that quickly expanded to 371 locations before going out of business in april. dollar tree also operates family dollar stores here in california. >> san francisco is getting ready to host a rave. the massive dance party featuring skrillex. and fred, again will take over the city's civic center saturday. the event is expected to draw in 20,000 people and just one social media post got this whole thing going last week skrillex posted on x or twitter that he infrared again need to test
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out some new music and they want to do it in san francisco. there will be a number of street closures and muni service changes as a result. you can find those specifics on kron 4 dot com. >> the power of social media. when we came, we want to go. here we are. yeah. exactly. 20,000 people. hey, up next, we hope you stick around a really exciting to part special. yeah. area back roads were doing a big this week. it's after the break and we'll take you right up until 7 o'clock. it features the one and only, christiane, i cannot wait to watch definitely stick around for that. and we will see you right back here at 10 o'clock.
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>> everybody, grant lotus. i'm chrissy engaging and this is accurate. >> miles is a small fremont neighborhood with a big history. it's a town that charlie chaplin helped put on the back. >> back before hollywood was hollywood. it's where that ramp was filmed. >> and it's where one of the most famous figure skaters in the country. i think that was my dad. >> today, olympic gold medalist kristi yamaguchi joins me for a the silent film museum her hometown said yeah. well, we learn all about
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sunday filled company from niles historian david keene. studio was active in niles from 1913, to 1916. this door the only surviving element. and it was this too right here. that's stage. the location provided a welcome change in weather from the company's chicago headquarters. the studio was run by bronco billy anderson. they told him, oh, you should go down the southern california. that's part really enjoy. southern california. keep kept coming back in hollywood. the hollywood hills sign in here? we have the little miles yeah, that's for a reason. and reason. yeah, hollywood sign hollywood land for housing development i'll sign on the hill was an aerial marker for >> i'm trans continental training through nearby niles canyon was the first rail connection between the bay area and the rest of the country. it also provided a
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perfect backdrop for making westerns. they had a baggage car that they converted into role laboratory so they can develop they had white car with stagecoach. >> even had their own blacksmith's shop. >> ironically, the trains also led to the demise of us in a film company wants movies with sound talkies came onto the scene. >> there were 24 trains a day coming through. niles, you could not to talking pictures 50 feet away from the reverend track. so the owners of the building just tore down, but not before that ramp. and america's first cowboy movie star made rockabilly won an oscar for his contributions to motion. pictures is and made in 1958. the actually had this oscar in our collection. where is it? we didn't bring it here today. unfortunately, it's a >> safekeeping in safekeeping.
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that's like, where's your gold medal? here. >> about that gold medal. >> in 1992, christie became the first asian american to win one at the winter olympics. she's also a u.s. champion, a 2 time world champion and a four-time world growth figure skating champion ducked into the u.s. olympic hall of fame in colorado springs, which where you can find christie's gold medal. all that christinia private screening. we silent films every saturday night live parodies. >> here. we're watching some of the last known footage of san francisco's market street before the 19 0, 6 earthquake. this film from after the quake shows the devastation. >> and demonstrates the important work the museum does to restore these rare and historic niles today kind of feels like a place out of time
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and anachronism. and that's just how people here like for try to break something. we're taking the edge off at a local favorite. we're having to >> this my first time. so i'm a little nervous. all right. time for tea is a quaint little shop where we it, of course, and begin to come or adus with chicken pecan on hold? use these are harder to christie's at the end. >> i would be a test of not at double play right. what's this really feel? >> and it looks like a comma. i think this is the hard to no, i mean, do we deserve now known? christie's been coming here since she was a kid and now she takes her own kids, the quaint little town. and i think people are like, never heard of any more. you know
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what aisles. but i think because kept its quaintness and you know, feel for kids teens that really special place. this is like gold medal winner of the shots and islands. >> oh, for sure definitely give it stamp of the goal. >> only want yeah. >> and in the back, there's the chance to be a kid. again, that's about >> the best have best of the >> he traded. kentucky there. and is the bogo in front around about need to have your pearls i mean, for your boa. ready for tea.
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>> just >> down the road is a former gas station and diner called the flight a the railroad open until 1938. over the decades the fell into disfepair. today. it's an event space that draws people with beautiful beyond classic car. we've got a lot of people just stopping by just all the time. it's a museum of sorts as well as social club where locals
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hangout chopping getting their cars face. all the money that we raise go into time. place. kristen husband, rene, began restoring the flying. a has a passion project in 2021 last score. his got this yesterday better my the largest crowd and drag me history. jams the strip in fremont, california. her culture is huge in all of fremont. we had a free might drag strips up until the 1980's. you're just a baby. whatever all right. here's what here's play.
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>> you can still take a train ride through niles canyon 2 weekends a month from spring to fall. but that rain flights only comes around for the holidays. it's super popular and run by volunteers like henry merry christmas and happy new year. kwanzaa or all of these are known as successful whether it's the wally annika, all about the lights. so our train is all about a training life. >> and people, you know. >> when they see her are on. >> now you brought family the street. we had many trips on train of life special. >> you know, tradition for but
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we have down to our last is it more exciting to have to learned about movies? >> ride this train. when dancing with the stars or win a gold medal? >> well, while you know, she is pretty on the list days. so. >> what was the dancing thing? was that crazy things that you did now? it was pretty crazy. it was exhausting so much great. i was never so dark and or orange. of course, she won. >> and over the years she's been helping young kids when by learning to read through her nonprofit always dream beyond being mom. that's probably my next most important role, you know, foundation of >> life is really education and literacy. that's where it all starts. when you can build that love of reading that love of. >> bucs, i'm early on. it's, you know, hopefully going to
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serve them for the rest of life. >> always dreamed it's part of its money from tickets sold christiane, the holiday ice rink, bishop ranch san diego. well, this day she's teaching skate. this is but as you can see, i'm not the best >> what's it like to christiane, i think you don't realize as an athlete competing at that's how many people are at home. caring for and supporting and i coming home to feeling and seeing that, it's amazing what would be the most daring thing you is do these >> why asked me to do it. probably.
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>> chris has been so much fun getting to know you and seeing these special i guess now you want to show me that double southtown. yes. alright. southtown. let's live.
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