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catch. but help help that throw. he was just the best for remembering the say, hey, kid, how the various celebrating the life willie mays. >> from the bay area's local news station. you're watching kron. 4 news at 6. >> great. and at the plate >> and tonight we continue to remember the life and legacy of the say, hey, kid, the trailblazer, willie mays and the effect he had on so many people on and off the field. thank you so much for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 6 o'clock. i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. >> willie mays died yesterday afternoon at the age of 93. he was surrounded by family. he is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. mays was born in westfield, alabama. he played his first professional baseball game with the birmingham black barons of the leagues when he was 17 years

old, 1951 may signed with the new york giants and made his major league debut. he stayed with the team when they moved here to san francisco some 7 years later. the say, hey, kid was not only >> a leader on the field but off it as well. he also served our country. >> for 2 years during the korean war and was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by former president obama in 2015 baseball fans have since descended on oracle park since learning of his passing. people out there paying their respects they ever our kron 4 sarah stinson has that story. >> just like today is day and you my respects and taken by fan after fan stopping by a growing memorial at oracle park wednesday to pay their respects to the late willie mays. >> news of his passing has both baseball and non-baseball fans heartbroken across the country. gordon bain in tears as he dropped off flowers mean

it just shows you how much he meant to everybody. >> and i've seen people out here tears like mine just overcome with emotion, because like said, he was a coach. james. >> mays died tuesday at age. 93. he's known as one of the best players in major league history. this is just my first sports hero. randy wright says he fell in love with baseball when he saw may's play at candlestick park in the 60's. see him in person. i mean, a lot of people aren't old enough to see way. we was really road. >> i want to see also just 34 years old at the in 1965. 52 home runs. i was hooked with james fever. you know, i was really, really kevin de jesus grew up in san francisco. he says he became a giants fan when he was just 10 years old after he got to meet haze, which turned out to be a major influence on his life. going over the mission. >> you know, sports kind of get me out of trouble. day has

to stop by the willie mays say, hey, experience exhibit is normally closed during away games, but the team opened it for fans to learn more about his legacy. there's memorabilia from his early days birmingham to time in new seals stadium. and part it opened in may. unfortunately, mays never got to see it. fans say he'll be missed but never forgotten. just baseball player ever. and there's never going to be another like the giants have decided to open work park for fans on thursday on the scoreboard. they will televise the giants first cardinals game at rickwood field. >> and there will be a lot of different things. fans can do to pay tribute to may's the game starts 4.15, but again, doors open at noon. i'm sara stinson reporting in san francisco kron. 4 news. so sarah also caught up with legendary filmmaker spike lee out there. he was in oracle park to honor willie mays.

yeah. he said on instagram that he had already scheduled to a business meeting. >> last week to be in the bay area. and it just so happened to coincide with this. and when he heard about the passing wanted to come down to. >> 24 willie mays plaza too pays respects in person. and spike lee has a suggestion about how major league baseball can kind of tippett's cap to the all-time legend. >> i think the greatest. >> baseball player and i put instagram last night, i think the major league baseball, she retired. the number. 24, all the teams. i want to have a beirut. nobody else i'm talking about. this is a kid. and i just remember growing up. my father would tell me with the giants. well, new york polo grounds. he can walk to pull over. also was he was living harlem and who placed ball with the kids before at the back. then only as old a game. >> yeah. there's famous video of may's playing stickball with kids outside is harlem

home and the death comes at a time when major league baseball is in birmingham paying tribute to the leagues. and willie mays, this ball parts ballpark here. rickwood field is where may's got hisn start. there's a big game that has been scheduled for a long time between the giants and the st. louis cardinals that is set to happen tomorrow and of course, all eyes will be on that. >> other news we're following for you tonight to recall. experts say there hasn't been a big city mayor to face a recall election since 2011, but that will change before the end of this year. the alameda county registrar of voters has confirmed those wanting to recall oakland mayor sheng thao. they have gathered enough valid signatures to force a recall election as kron four's dan kerman tells us most of those who face recalls end up losing. >> we cannot afford to have this mayor and on those who hold oakland mayor sheng thao

responsible for everything from crime to business closures gathered in front of oakland city hall wednesday to announce the registrar of voters has confirmed they've submitted enough valid signatures to force a recall election. she have almost completely ruin our city. >> and if you get more time. ruination of our city will be complete. >> more than 40,000 signatures were submitted, though, just under 25,000 were needed tower received less than 40,000st choice votes in the first round of twenty-twenty two's ranked choice election. that's why her opponent's called on her to step down immediately. you should see the handwriting on the wall if you resign. now you can turn november 5, 2, of action for a new mayor and say this city and county, a lot of money in the process over 60% of elected officials facing a recall. >> been kicked out. joshua spivak is a recall expert and research fellow with berkeley law.

>> he says not only do a majority of recalls succeed, but another 6% of those facing a recall resign in advance. he says if tallies is it could set up an interesting scenario. could be that. >> open would have 4 mayors in a very short time period. if tallies. the recall spivak says council president nikki fortunato bas becomes mayor until a special election is held within 120 days. however, bass's running for supervisor. and that means if tallies is in bass winds for supervisor would be mayor from november to january and another council member would be mayor until that special election. mayor thao did not respond to our request for comment. dan kerman kron. 4 news. well, the lights are back on at sfo after a partial power outage earlier this morning. the airport says terminals, 1, 3, >> and the international terminal were affected. power restored about an hour later,

but it did cause some delays at last check. sfo had more than 300 delays today. >> now to the latest on a few fires burning in california. the point fire near lake sonoma. that's now 60% contained and burning more than 1200 acres. it has since burned 2 homes and injured. one firefighter. but fortunately he's expected be okay. the site's fire, inclusive county about 60 miles northwest of sacramento. that's only 10% contained. it is burning some 16,000 acres right now. evacuation orders they are in place but no injuries reported or any buildings damaged. and then the arrow fire. that's about 60 miles east of stockton in calaveras county. now, that's about 45% contained burning more than 53 100 acres. we're learning that some buildings have been destroyed. no injuries reported, though. about the forecast right now as we get a live look at the

golden gate bridge, you know, with the fog out there. but as those wildfires are burning, a local air quality advisory, it's being extended through tomorrow. smoke mainly from the sites fire that's expected to continue to impact portions of sonoma, napa and solano through tomorrow. >> chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now. lawrence, is the weather helping hurting somewhere in between? yeah, it kind of whichever way the wind blows today. we've been fortunate we've had a westerly wind. they're quality really freshening up. dave, we've got numerous fires around the state. so that's what we're concerned with. is that you get a wind switch. one way to bring small from one fire. another. there you go. and that's what we're looking at. so i think the pattern is going to change a little bit as we head in toward tomorrow. so right now, not bad. you've got that onshore flow. we've had that westerly wind. we've freshened up the air quite a bit. you see the fog out there, too. that has helped firefighters slow the fires as well. and as you look at the air quality really good around the bay area, got a lot of green even in the north bay. we're looking at green, one

area of eastern parts of solano county. and that's to the sites fire in that location. also in the sacramento valley. but tomorrow, i think we see a little more haze across our skies. i think mostly that will be a lot. that means not right at the surface. so most are quality is going to be good. the coast east and the south bay, the north bay. yeah, you may be a little bit the hazy out there with clouds building up near the surface. but you see here on the forecast model so far. so good now by tomorrow morning. you start to see some winds change directions, but also to get a little bit of a normally been the wind and well, some of that smoke works its way back in the bay area. say that be a hazy afternoon by tomorrow, guys. all right, larry, it's coming up. san francisco city leaders are pushing. >> new plans for a park right along ocean beach. we hear from one of the people spearheading that initiative. >> plus, a 15 year-old found dead in the san francisco driveway with drugs in her system. the mother's message to other parents. >> leaked emails from the governor's office and even more drama here in the

legislature over how the state should handle the issue of retail theft capitol correspondent eytan wallace. tell you what's in those emails and all of reaction. governor gavin newsom.

>> broken hearted mother is pleading for help tonight so she can have some closure her 15 year-old daughter jasmine, was found dead in san francisco in april. but the circumstances surrounding the death are far from clear for mom who lives in bay point in the east bay told me through translator today the jasmine

started to suffer mentally a couple years ago after learning she had been abused as a child. she was in and out of hospitals, psychiatric wards and doctors gave are lots of drugs to help her cope. jasmine's mom says that she was released from an east bay hospital, april 17th and then found dead april 20th on a random driveway off lobos in plymouth avenue and san francisco's ocean view neighborhood. autopsy revealed she had fentanyl, cocaine, meth. antidepressants, an allergy medicine in her system. >> i that it was a much it's it's we at the center was family and the has any experience with drug jasmine had to. >> dot a and she has 3 siblings nobody has ever done drugs in the family. and it's

just blows my mind know that my beautiful 15 year-old daughter most her life because of droughts. it's just that's not right. what if anthony is like, i can't even comprehend how this happened. >> jasmine's mom, hopes that sharing the story helps people who may be facing a similar struggle and once gaps in the health care system tightened up. if anyone knows anything about the death are urged to call. police said we've posted a link to a gofundme to help with funeral expenses on our website. kron 4 dot com. >> san francisco's great highway could look very different soon. voters pass a a ballot measure this november, san francisco supervisors approve sending that measure to the ballot. it would at a 17 acre park to the 2 mile oceanfront highway and it would make it car free for good. the roadways. futures been highly contested sin. city officials closed off to cars back in the spring of 2020 on kron. 4 we spoke with

supervisor joel and cardio. who explains what a park on the great highway would look like. >> once it's a permanent coastal park, you could have plazas in playgrounds and benches to sit on and, you know, all kinds of things park needs and deserves. and it's up to our imagination. there's nothing being prescribed make one point because some residents in the richmond district are concerns. they wonder how will they be able to get into the sunset because they tend to drive around cliff house and down great highway because beach chalet. all of that is going remain. 24 7 highway. none of that's being touch. we're only talking about from lincoln to slow. >> their proposed park which spanned almost 3 miles from lincoln way to skyline boulevard. even if the measure fails, the southern portion of the highway would still be closed to cars. >> a group in east oakland is celebrating a milestone today. rise east says it is 1 million dollars closer now to reaching

its fundraising goal to build more affordable housing in create jobs cut for sleep to reports. >> fargo's 1 million dollar donation means the group rise east has raised 41 million dollars their 50 million dollar goal this year. i would trigger another 50 million dollar donation from a national philanthropic organization. these entrepreneurs in legacy residents of east oakland deserve affordable. >> and safe places to live but also recreate the money will help the black cultural zone. cdc purchase land to develop the liberation park market hole. >> and residences project in deep east oakland once the site of the eastmont mall and on 73rd avenue for decades, we envision a whole and revitalize oakland that honors. >> its residents, its heritage and the liberation park market cultural hub and residences and coma market. is that

legacy that dream coming? true. the project will include 119 affordable housing units, vending space for black, small businesses. >> as well as cultural and performance space. this is a deposit is not enough, but it's going to be enough to >> house with living stability. people from east opener really how to be from the but too many of us have left not because of all, but just because of the housing market and what it's done. and as cj always we want those folks to come goal from communities at right time now for our 4 zone forecast as we get a live look at and never get tired of that mount diablo. no great shot. here's alerts. they guys. yes, i'm on. nice. repeat from all the fire danger around the bay area. air quality. >> has improved today. we've got a lot more moisture in the atmosphere. we're going to see a lot tonight. probably some more drizzle developing along the coastline. so >> out the door we go today, the winds have kicked up

outside. we've seen some gusts over 40 miles an hour. if you can believe that into san francisco, that strong onshore wind really kicking in. and that's driving all that fog already inland in the bay. you can see it out there right now stretching across the bay to see those flags really waving out there in the wind this evening. so more that as we head through the night out of the winds will begin to back off temperatures as you might expect. your cool fog all day long. the coast line ali 50's there. 55 in downtown san francisco. still some warm weather inland. 76 degrees in concord. it is a comfortable 77, warm in calistoga and 67 degrees now in fairfax. but there it is. there's your summer pattern. fog, low clouds getting back onshore. that warm air lifts that as the pull that right into the bay in the gaps. and here we go. we're going run pretty well overnight tonight into some of the interior valleys to winds have been kicking up as well. we're still looking at some 30 mile an hour winds in the san francisco at this last hour or so. still pretty gusty out there in spots. and that's going to drive that fog well onshore all the way to the interior valleys. that being said tonight, if you're stepping outside, expected to

be pretty breezy along the coastal sections, still pretty comfortable. many of the valleys as we head through the evening hours. but the fog is going to be creeping further on shore. so cooling off faster overnight tonight and tomorrow morning that you can see it overnight. you can see the green beginning to show models picking up on some of that drizzle and early tomorrow morning. so maybe a little damp along the great highway there along the coastline tomorrow morning. and then as we head toward the afternoon, of course, that start to clear out tomorrow. first day of summer. hey, that looks like a summer weather pattern to kind of was pretty classic, right? agree difference. yeah. i mean, huge difference this weekend, though, we are expected to heat up and we'll have more on that coming up a few minutes. i learned look forward to that. the fight over abortion pill mifepristone is certainly not over. >> republican attorneys general from 3 states are vowing to revive a lawsuit. the supreme court struck down just last week. kron four's washington correspondent raquel martin has more. >> we still have work to do. erin hawley, who let the legal fight to be an abortion pill. mifepristone says it's now up

to republican states to finish the job. atf courage and hopeful that the fda will be held to account idaho, missouri and kansas are pledging to revive a lawsuit that accuses the fda of illegally bring the drug to market last week. the supreme court struck the lawsuit down. the justices unanimously ruled anti-abortion doctors did not have grounds to sue the fda. the decision based on a legal technicality allows the fda to continue this reckless disregard women's health. >> and as for now, the attorneys general are pushing to ban the drug nationwide. missouri republican senator josh hawley also has been of erin hawley. >> this is the suit is necessary to keep the drug out state with abortion bans like missouri. i don't want the federal government coming in over top of our voters and saying never mind what you want. we're going to mail and chemical abortion drugs into your state. that's wrong. >> for kansas, the legal challenges were complicated in 2022 voters there chose not to

restrict abortion access kansans. we have been. so clear kansas democratic congresswoman davids calls the push to ban mifepristone extreme. they're attacking something that has been safely and effectively used for. the wiles says move up. redstone has been proven to be safe and effective for more than 20 years. >> it is vowing to keep up the fight in washington. raquel martin >> coming up, we're continuing to honor june teeth tonight with a closer look at group of black veterans first honor flight in our nation's capital.

>> people across the country celebrating juneteenth today on this day in 18. 65 the last enslaved. people in the u.s. learned that they were free. they were in galveston, texas. the news came 2 months after the end of the civil war and more than 2 years after president lincoln's emancipation proclamation and since becoming a federal holiday in 2021. y juneteenth has become more universally recognized beyond black america. 26 black veterans greeted with a warm welcome at our nation's capital today after embarking on the first to juneteenth honor flight. the group included those who fought in world war 2, the korean war and the vietnam war. for many of them, it was their first time seeing some of the memorials that honor their fellow comrades. one of the veterans, a part of the group, 101 years old.

>> i want to know that in 1943. and that forgot all 80 and all of i feel like celebrity. >> but at been the matter. >> it happened. but >> 101 years old, the honor flight network actually is hosted nearly 300,000 veterans on flights and tours of dc landmarks for nearly 20 years. now. >> still ahead kron, 4 news at 6, we continue to remember the life and legacy of willie mays ahead of tomorrow's giants game in his honor in alabama. we hear from the first black mayor of birmingham about their close encounter with the say, hey, kid. plus why governor newsom is now pushing for kids to not be on their phones as much storing school hours and kron 4 continues to celebrate pride and juneteenth will meet pinole's first black and openly mayor right after the break. keep it here

>> welcome back. we're continuing to remember a true american icon, willie mays, and we're highlighting the effect he's had lives near and far. and that includes a life of birmingham. alabama's first black mayor who was a bat boy for the birmingham black barons. >> the team that jump started mays career mihai bulls reports. >> news of the passing of 93 year-old hall of famer willie mays hit home for richard arrington junior. birmingham's first black mayor. all of a sudden here.