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ford not only for the police department, but for the city. this is not for past- this is not about the police department or the city this is just about 04 minutes. --about performance. >> justine: are learning of lot more about this. but the braden news is that the chief of the san francisco police department has resigned. all have more coming up at 6:00 but that is the breaking news for now. >> vicki: the resignation of the chief comes after a deadly shooting officer involved reaction in san francisco. this time. a woman, shot and killed in a stolen car. >> vicki:and now comes word police chief's greg suhr's job is on the line. he's meeting right now with the mayor. and we are standing by to see what happens next. the news starts here. on kron 4 news at give.
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>> vicki:now at five. there has been another fatal officer involved shooting inthis time it happened in the bayview near industrial street. you are looking at video of the victim crashed car from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news >> grant:good evening every i'm grant lodus >> vicki:and i'm vicki liviakis this is the third time a san francisco police officer has shot and killed someone since december and once again there are some police chief's firing. >> vicki:kron 4's dan kerman is live at city hall tonight with more. dan? >> reporter:today's officer involved shooting is the second this year. in april. officers shot and killed a homeless man who reportedly would not put down the knife he was holding. >> reporter:but last year. there were six deadly officer invovled shootings. the most controversial. the mario woods in december. >> i have to hold the to the conable with all the things that the officers to do it including the shootings.
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>> many more of these incidents and do we need before the chief decides to do the right thing and move on? -- how many >> this latest incident shows is what many of us have been saying for a while is that unfortunately this sheet is not in control of his force. and i believe we need the chiefs switched. >> reporter: the mayor asked for the police chief's resignation creek and san francisco city hall. kron 4 news. >> grant:cell phone video shows. officers ordering the
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stabbing suspect to drop a knife he was carrying. and after using non- lethal methods. they ended up opening fire. >> grant:in november. police in tactical gear, converged near saint luke's hospital. where a man who had stolen a rifle from a sporting goods at officers. >> grant:a month earlier, police struggled for a gun with a man who had been breaking bottles near a constructionseven months before that.in march 2015. a woman who stole a car then charged at officers, was shot and killed. >> grant:last february, a man allegedly armed with a knife chased a bicyclist. two on- duty plain-clothes officers saw the confrontation and when the man did not drop the knife, he was shot and killed him. >> grant:and on january 4- th. a suicidal man was killed during a confrontation with officers at the mission police sub- station. after he flashed what appeared to be a gun --- but turned out to be a b-b gun.
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>> grant:kron 4 was the first to tell you about the officer-involved shooting through our mobile app. we sent a push alert at 10:45 this morning. make sure you download the kron-4 app to always get the latest breaking news. it's free for iphone and android users. >> vicki:today's shooting is just the latest controversy for thekron 4's steve aveson sat down with the chief just a day ago. and talked about his future. and steve.another police shooting certainly does not help the public perception of chief suhr. >> grant: >> vicki:the driver of a truck that crashed through a fence and into a backyard died last night. anitoch police say the man.joseph barton.was just
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20-years-old. he was thrown from his vehicle after crashing into a tree and through a backyard of a residence near cavallo road and sunset drive. >> vicki:barton was reportedly heard driving in donuts before loosing control of his vehicle. footage from the scene last night shows his crushed truck. neighbors say this crash isn't a surprise. speeding and reckless driving is becoming a big concern in the area. >> vicki:also in antioch. emergency crews recovered a body from a canal this morning. contra costa fire reported to a call that came in around 9 a-m of a potential body in the water. >> vicki:the fire marshall and crews searched for about an hour in that canal until locating the body. a large emergency unit was on hand to help remove the person. >> vicki:the fire marshall says they knew the body was deceased when they arrived.and everything is being investigated as a crime scene. the case is now being handled by the antioch police department. >> grant:tonight there is an intense search for egypt-air flight 8-0-4. after the plane disappeared over the
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mediterranean sea. the airbus a-320 was flying from paris to cairo with 66 people on board. >> grant:it lost contact with egyptian air traffic controllers. and while nothing has been confirmed. u.s. and egyptian officials have both said >> grant:cnn's dianne gallagher has the latest from washington, d.c. >>if you analyze this situation properly, the possibility of having a different action aboard, of having a terror attack, is higher than having a technical problem. >> reporter:chilling words, echoing around the globe and investigators search for answers in the disappearance of egyptair flight 804, which vanished from radar shortly after entering egyptian airspace thursday morning. >> reporter:the u.s. military has reached out to counterparts in greece and egypt to offer our support. a navy aircraft has joined the search and u.s. intelligence is talking with its french and egyptian counterparts. so far, they haven't found any passengers names that are on terror watch lists. >> reporter:flight 804 left paris just after 11 p.m. wednesday, and everything appeared normal, until greek officials say they lost contact with the cockpit just before the plane appeared to plummet thousands of feet and then
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disappeared. >>it's too early to definitively say what may have caused this disaster, >> reporter:but u.s. government officials tell cnn the was an act of terror and the initial suspicion is that a bomb brought down the plane. >> reporter:french officials say the plane passed a security sweep before taking off from paris. egyptair maintains they have good security. >>we are part of an international organization and we abide by international security laws. >> reporter:in washington, dianne gallagher. >> vicki:and shame on these warriors fans stationed near-courtside at oracle arena. scary moments for all of dubs nation last night. as steph curry went flying into the crowd while chasing a loose ball. >> vicki:nobody made an attempt to catch him, so he fell to the floor. and what resulted-- a swelling knot in his right elbow. >> vicki:thankfully -- it didn't hinder curry's performance. the mvp silenced the oklahoma city thunder in less than two minutes. with 15-straight points in the
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third quarter. the warriors have evened up the series at 1 game a- piece. the champs had the day off, but we have an update on curry's elbow. >> grant: how is he not on the injured list? >> mark: what happened here is that he goes all around people. you don't need to catch him but maybe you could embrace him a little bit. >> grant: you cannot go diving audubon's like that. --out of bounds >> mark: know. nope. >> mark: curry, will be ok. and he didn't seem too concerned after the game.
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>>steph --"obviously, one step too many and went over. but i came out of it all right. elbow's fine. it looks like it has a tennis ball on top of it, but it doesn't affect range of motion or anything. it's just some pain, so i'll be all right." >>iguodala --"i was hoping the fans would like, it's like a dive at a concert. if you see a guy like steph go out there, just catch him. and i was like, why did you move? just catch steph. anybody else you let em fall, but if you see steph fall, there was about four people, just catch him." >> mark:the fans not catching curry.didn't stop him from catching fire. the mvp with one of his signature flurries.as he dropped 15-points in 118- seconds. >> mark:the underrated storyline is the warriors defense. an attack that held kevin durant to just six points in the 2nd half. >>draymond -"it was important for us to be active, and we did that. now we need to continue to do that for the rest of the series, because that's the key to us winning, it's the defensive end."
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>> mark:the warriors improved to 12-and-0 after a loss. but-- the more important number is coming back home up 3-1. >>bogut --"their goal was obviously to try and get a 1-and-1 in oakland and take the series back tied and they've got that. the momentum in a sense is in their favor and we are gonna come out and take that away from them from the start." >>kerr --"we know it's a tough place to play and we're playing a great team. so i don't think there will be any problem getting that appropriate fear from our guys." >> reporter: >> mark:the warriors return to practice tomorrow. and leave for oklahoma saturday morning. games 3 is sunday at 5pm pacific time. >> mark:grant and vicki? >> grant: you are looking at new video was shot fans. in san jose getting ready for the game. getting all painted up. vicki? we may
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have to bring some of that to the senate to get ready for game 4. = = we may have to bring that to be set >> grant: 6:00, at the shark tank. in game 4 after tonight that will also be played saturday. and that game starts late afternoon, 415. >> grant: going to get painted up. and hopefully we win. >> grant:still ahead at five. scary moments for an east bay family boy is cut by a drone.during a gymnastics routine. now his mother is questioning why the aircraft was being used *inside. >> vicki:plus, crews in the south bay gearing up for what's expected to be a long, hot fire season.
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that gymnastics was a place where you would want to fly a drone. >> grant:kron 4's terisa spoke to the mother. it's a story will see only here on kron four news. >> this is great to see what they can do. but i do not want them to be heard. -hurt >> ended up hitting at and the cut was pretty minor. so i am really grateful for that this >> reporter: see the collusion here creek at the end his foot hit the drunkard his mother says the drone was being used for promotional video. >> not want to get anyone in trouble. i just want safety and applied. now marketing.
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orpen's anything else. --or, anything else >> reporter: i tried to talk to them about the drop striking the young boys but but there refuse to talk to me. >> it is okay. they are trying technology. that is fine. but when someone get hurt that is the most important kelly need to review how we can encourage those kids. with the equipment. but, they continue to use it. >> reporter: his mother is speaking out to other parents as well. --her son was back to practice the next day. she is hoping that he will continue to keep
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going without a strong to worry about it terisa estacio, kron 4 news. >> we have a pretty good pulse about what has been on a crane. it takes a long time to get any type of cooperation. gang members do not want to cooperate. and very hesitant to talk about what they know. >> grant: coming up at kron 4 news s six and would talk about successful technology and the and burton wrote that he may have played on the violent throes of city
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streets and--and the highways. >> vicki:a wildfire burning at a southern california national guard base is now 70-percent contained. the fire is burning at camp roberts in northern san luis obispo county. >> vicki:the wildfire broke out last night and has already burned 15-hundred acres. and no one was injured. >> vicki:the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >> grant:fire season has arrived. bay area hills have gone dry and grass fires are now occurring almost every day. kron four's rob fladeboe in san jose today that might have been a lot worse. >> grant: >> reporter:firefighters
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made short work of a small but potentially disastrous grass fire here in a place called dove hill, off yerba buena road. it threw a scare into lucy >> reporter:breceno whose home is nearest to the fire. >> lucy breceno/home threatened by fire-- she bought the house was on fire. --she thought >> reporter:brought under control after it scorched about a half acre, the fire was sparked by a man using a torch to cut metal according to a member of the work crew who said it was an accident. >> reporter:indeed, san jose fire crews are being dispatched to fires like this one almost every day. often in areas like this where even the smallest fire on a windy day like today can be trouble. capt. chris salcido -- out here, the gentleman at all your working try to do their best to remove think spirit sparked the in the grass and takes off and endangers the hillside. and the homes are rounded. --
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around it. >> reporter:in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. >> brittany: we have a chance to see if you bring showers moving in our later on friday. let's look outside to see an increase in cloudiness as we had a pretty nice warm up for part of the week. now we are back to average. >> brittany:with windy conditions. and that is the change of the environment. 56 and livermore, seven degrees in santa rosa and here is the land speed sustained at 24 mi. an fairfield. 28 and half moon
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bay. if you are closer to the coast is definitely a windy day today. >> brittany: 7:00 p.m., temperatures are still fairly mild for the inland locations. we will stay mainly in the '50s through out the rest of tonight. but take a look at in the clock .. start to drop down in the '60s into the mid '50s as we clear the 9:00 hour. >> brittany: it was still a little bit cooler because we have been so much warmer for the last few days. >> brittany: mainly to the north of our region should see a system that will bring this rainshowers into the weekend. we would take a closer look at what to get at spec as we go into saturday and sunday breaking down the we get forecast for
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you. that will come out and another 10 or 15 minutes. >> vicki: ok brittany, we are looking forward to it! >> vicki:apple is set to open it's new bay area flagship store in union square our tech reporter gabe slate shows us how apple is changing its approach to retail next at five. >> grant:and later. stanley roberts catches some rideshare drivers that have gon grogue--rogue.
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>> vicki:union square in san francisco is about to add a new landmark. apple's flagship store opens to the public saturday. >> grant:they have been working on this building for three years. our tech reporter gabe slate got a tour of what apple calls it's most innovative high-tech store yet. >> this is the future of what you will see going. >> reporter: there are real trees. the tables are high tech and respond to touch. they are also building a small retail space called the plaza 420 people. with the freeing-- free wifi and a waterfall.
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>>the natural light comes in. >> reporter: reminded me years ago that when apple said they would move into retail no one thought that it would last. >> people laughed at them but because of this this is the real force of what they are trying to do. making this the destination spot. >> gabe: member of the controversies surrounding the apple fan tanker it and that they were removed the fountain there was a huge outcry from the community that was worried about it. so coming up at kron 4 news at 8:00 we would talk about what is happening to that water fountain. gate oxalates, kron 4 news. -- gabe slate >> grant:hillary clinton is on the verge of locking up the democratic nomination
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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> grant: tonight, at 530 we continue to track breaking news and san francisco. >> vicki:chief suhr is out! >> grant: due to another shooting officer related incident. >> reporter: the steve did or hand in his recognition earlier today. the mayor told us that he continue to support the chief. however, a fatal police officer shooting has happened again. the point of the former mayor is coming through and
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people are trying to get his reaction. so why do we quickly go to what the mayor has said about the chief. >> the chief has given many decades to the the progress we have made has been meaningful but not fast enough to rid not for me and not for grit. --greg. and that is why i have x that the chief for his resignation. this city that he loved so much, he tendered his resignation today despite the political rhetoric of the last few weeks. i have nothing but a profound admiration for him. >> reporter: tony chappell and is now being at the end chief of the police department for san francisco. he has 26 years
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of experience. and public servant and has also served on the gained taskforce and homicide division. --gang taskforce >> reporter: these are members of the first 05 that went on hunger strike because the chief was needing to be resigned. of his position. --members of the frisco five >> reporter: the war may be over but the battle still goes on because they are concerned about who the mayor and also the police commissioner could appoint permanently. because there will be a search for a permanent solution with a
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the appointed chief just been that a temporary resolution. now, back to you! >> grant: the former mayor, will lead brown showed up and we will update you with his response to the chief's resignation creek. >> brittany: temperatures today at a point in the day war was almost 20 to 25 degrees cooler than what we saw yesterday. we will drop dow and du more degrees tomorrow creek--we would drop down a few more degrees tomorrow. >> brittany: breezy conditions are expected for us once again and then this weekend we will have little
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bit of low pressure correct that will give us a chance of rain showers for friday and heading into saturday. >> brittany: temperatures right now would 61 degrees and san francisco and 68 in oakland, 783 and concord and 73 in santa rosa. what a bit of f o g developing and half moon bay. we did see some clouds moved and but we did manage to see a little bit of sunshine. fretted, will be cloudy start with moisture moving into fremont but after that we will track rainshowers in the sierra and snow showers as well. >> brittany: the latest model run bringing debt stashed not bringing as much rain shower into the bay area. we will continue to update this and if you
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minutes. >> you get into the general election. if you're the nominee for your party. i will be the nominee for my party, chris. that's already done in effect. there's no way i won't be. " >> grant:a frustrated frontrunner. watches her poll numbers drop. with the nomination nearly in her grasp. >> vicki:nearly. that's the key word. hillary clinton is now just 86 delegates short of becoming the democrat's presidential candidate. she's virtually guaranteed to pick up those votes up in the california and new jersey primaries on june seventh. her road to the white house. not quite so clear tonight. (cheers & applause) >> vicki:bernie sanders supporters. hillary clinton's headache. >>presidential candidate "the democratic party is going to have to make a very, veryprofound and important decision." (cheers & applause) >> vicki:in the bay area and elsewhere, sanders hammers her as a pawn of big
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business. >> "secretary clinton has a number of super pacs." >> vicki:last weekend's raucous nevada convention, raising fears of confrontation in philadelphia. >>california "it worries me a great deal. you know, i don't want to go back to the '68 convention, uh, because i worry about what it does to the electorat as a whole, and he should too." >> vicki:in a new fox news poll, clinton's unfavorable rating has now reached a record high of 61 percent, up from 58 percent last month. she is now more unpopular than donald trump, whose numbers dropped from his all=time hihg last month, she loses to trump in a head to head contest, while sanders wins. today clinton says she expects sanders supporters to rally to her. and cited her own example from eight years ago. >>"when i came out and withdrew and endorsed senator obama, about 40% according to polls, about 40% of my supporters said they would never support him. so i worked really hard to make the case as i'm sure senator sanders will that whatever differences we might have, they pale in comparison to the presumptive nominee of the republican party,.
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>> grant: still ahead at 5. all right sure drivers to get the benefit of unsuspecting passengers. what happened when stanley roberts hit the streets to catch it on camera permit >> grant: and speaking of >> vicki: and speaking of on-camera a gas station attendant attacks a customer's car we will explain why and next
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get high speed internet from at&t with 99.9% reliability for just $30 a month. keep calm, your internet's on. >> grant: well. >> vicki:the next time you're at a gas station you may not want to take your time filling up your tank. at least not at one particular gas station in southern california. >> grant:a gas station worker. busted the tail lights of a man's truck because she says the man was taking too long at the pump. let's take a look at the video. >> grant:it happened on tuesday afternoon at a valero gas station in lancaster. the man was getting gas, cleaning his truck, and texting when the worker came outside the first time and told him to leave because he was taking too long. >> vicki:witnesses say the man responded by saying he would leave when he was done. the gas station manager says the man had been there for nearly three hours, and the worker came out a second this time with a long, plastic pipe. telling him to leave again.
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>> vicki:when he didn't listen. the woman bashes his left tailight out and hits his truck six times. the woman was arrested and spent the night in jail. >> vicki:but was back at work the next day. >> grant: apparently, that is not a fire will -- fireable offense. >> vicki:another case of road rage in houston. caught on camera. this time between two women.it happened on tuesday morning. the lady in the green s-u-v swerved into the next lane causing the lady curb. >> vicki:so the woman in the black see if any damage was done to her car. the driver of the s-u-v also stopped. and that's when the lady of the black car
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approached the woman and started arguing. >> vicki:one woman got back into her s-u-v, while the other tried to take a picture of the s- each time she tried. the woman backed up into her. moments later the driver of the s-u-v took off and the woman in the black car sped off after her. >> vicki:the was no record of the accident reported, so no word on what happened to the two women. >> grant: salinity now-- serenity now.
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has something to do with the chief resigning today. >> reporter: will bring you more on what the chief said yesterday on the news as 6:00. now back to you. >> vicki:alright. we will look for to those reports. >> vicki:your uber rides in the behind the wheel. uber says it is testing its first self-driving car on the streets of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> grant:the car is a ford hybrid. it's equipped with radars, resolution cameras. >> stanley: describing to her supervisor in detail. he happened to be a sergeant
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for the police department. the lady is and plainclothes police officer. >>if you're a uber, lyft or a limo driver you should be very careful who you pick up >>so he pulled over made eye contact and rolled down his window >>and he asked you were you looking for a ride he said are you looking for a ride i said yea he said where you going to i said tadish grill he said oh it really close i can take you 15 bucks >> stanley:he is overseeing a sting targeting rouge drivers picking up passengers illegally .oh and the lady she is a plain clothes police officer >>the reason why i pulled you over .you pulled over and solicited a fare you're not a taxi no but my regular passengers these are your regular passengers >> stanley:you see every
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driver show in this segment picked up a passenger who happened to be a police decoy. believing it was a fare where they could make some quick money basically pretending to be a taxi >>you are aware you are not allowed to pick up passengers.you did not know you not aware your not allowed to pick up passengers? yes i know the law >> stanley:i say pretending because under state law only a pick up passengers if waved down on the street .that uber and lyft drivers pretending to be taxi's >> stanley:this driver in the volvo stopped to pick up two decoys and in the process he almost ran the decoys over. so officers pull the over the driver. >>im officer reynolds of the san francisco police department can you guys stop step out on the sidewalk for me please >> stanley:he poked his head out he said are you guys looking for an uber so he asked you guys were you looking for an uber before you even said anything >>are you uber no are you lyft no >> stanley: random guy who driver around and picks up random people off the streets but wait it gets worst so let go ahead and grab him out quick so he got a suspended driver's license >> stanley:yes apparently
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this driver's license has been suspended for the last 4 years but he tells officers he found out two days prior to being stopped >>nats: so you say you didn't know your license was suspended? i didn;'t know yes i did know >>over near epic restaurant on the embarcadero .a black suv stops to pick up the decoys >> stanley:the driver was soon pulled over >>nats: he said do you need a ride i said yea to ah broadway and columbus he said do you have the uber app i siad no he said ok get in i said how much he said twenty bucks >> stanley:the same thing with this town car driver except he is a repeat offender hes been pulled over for picking up passengers illegally 10 different times >> stanley: would you like me to expalin whey i pulled you over today or you already know ok just sit in the vehicle >> stanley:in the next segment we'll talk to some of the drivers caught in the sting >> stanley:what if i told you the two people that you picked up were undercover police officers in san francisco stanley roberts kron 4 news
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>> grant:uber reached out to kron 4. a spokesperson told us. picking up passengers.who are hailing rides on the street. is against policy. and any uber driver violating the rules. would be de-activated. >> grant:the company also emphasized. drivers to find passengers, is only by using the uber app. >> brittany: we are seeing windy conditions. 17 in livermore, 14 and san jose and 24.. >> brittany: we are watching this weather disturbance near seattle. we will continue to see another error--another system of low pressure bridge that will bring out the chance of rain showers going into saturday. >> brittany: will seem more
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moisture heading into the sierra. again, the latest models are not showing alto lot of rain showers on saturday. so, it looks like everything is dame to the coast. we could see rain showers near livermore and concord and fremont. >> brittany: your way up temperatures, authorities are back on the map. --are back on the map. >> brittany: mainly in the '60s and '70s... even the '50s are back on the map. so we are down with those '80s and '90s. >> brittany: 3 day forecast shows a slight shower for friday. and temperatures
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will continue to drive down in the next few days. pretty much the average for us as we push towards the weekend. we will stay closer to average and see another cool down as we head into next week as well. >> vicki: we are getting into the end of may so to have this weather is sort of unusual? right? >> grant: >> brittany: things will change next week. >> grant:a television news icon has died. >> grant:morley safer was one of the definitive names in the news over the last several decades with his unique story-telling style showcased every weekend on 60 minutes. >> vicki:safer made a name for himself with his eye- opening coverage of the vietnam war before going on
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to become the longest- serving correspondent in "60 minutes" history. he joined the c-b-s program in 1970, just two years after it launched, and worked there ever since, contributing 919 reports over the years. >> vicki:c-b-s announced safer's retirement last week and televised a special hour-long retrospective about his career on sunday. >> vicki:in a statement last week, safer said, "it's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at c-b- s and the dozens of people who kept me on the air." morley safer was 84-years- old
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i don'or wonder whether i theshould seek treatment.c. i am ready. because today there's harvoni. a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. harvoni is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've had no prior treatment. it transformed treatment as the first cure that's one pill, once a day for 12 weeks.
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certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. harvoni is a simple treatment regimen that's been prescribed to more than a quarter of a million patients. tell your doctor if you've had a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv, or any other medical conditions, and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. taking amiodarone with harvoni may cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. common side effects of harvoni may include tiredness, headache and weakness. i am ready to put hep c behind me. i am ready to be cured. are you ready? ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you.
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>> grant:if you watch house of cards you know robin wright's character. clare underwood. will stop at nothing to get what she wants. >> vicki:and just like her character. wright is going public with her demands for equal pay! the insider's debbie matenopoulos is in hollywood with more on this story. >> reporter:grant and vicki. all i have to say is: hell hath no fury like "claire underwood" scorned! >> reporter: last bit right to be a topic of equal play. --pay >> you better pay me or i am going to go public. >> reporter: >> we can't fight everything off one by one, frances barrett. >> reporter: was looking at statistics and can clear underwoods character was
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more popular than his and that season. so i went off of that. when >> reporter: right behind that $120,000. >> it is a male-dominated society and that has always been that way >> it is a pandemic. what women are at 82% at what their counterparts make on average. and you have to shame and guilt them into it. >> reporter: have more on the insider from kron 4 news. >> grant: the equal pay should be a no-brainer. >> vicki: yes, come on?
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>> pam: think gil vicki and grant the writ and the resignation of the disease has demonstrators moving to city hall. -- resignation of the chief hi. is the internet still out? yes! i have nothing. come on! work together. work together. work together. do you got anything? i don't have anything. no i don't have anything. please come back internet.
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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> steve:a bombshell from san francisco city hall and a shake up at the police department. >> steve:one the left. now former police chief greg suhr. he resigned just hours ago. on the right. the new man in charge. toney chaplin. >> steve:he has be named the acting chief, good evening im steve aveson. >> pam:and i'm pam moore. kron four's justine waldman was there when the mayor made the announcement just a while ago. she joins us live outside city hall where this story is still unfolding. >> pam:justine? >> reporter: inside the
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press conference with the mayor he says he agreed to express his confidence and the chief but that changed today following up another deadly shooting. and, a meeting held today with the chief. he had to move forward with the gut to had request the resignation of the chief. >> i know that he agrees with and stands for reform of falling the officer involved shooting this morning and the meeting with chief today i arrived at a different conclusion with the question of how best to move forward. the progress that we have made have been meaningful. but has not been fast enough. not for me and not for greg. and, that is why i have x the chief for
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his resignation. >> reporter: we have protesters outside of this city hall. some of them are a part of the san francisco 5. that went on a hunger strike when requesting the chief's resignation. they do know that there is still a lot of work to be done to reform the san francisco police department. she >> scott was a the leader of this police department and what we are saying today is that this is one step closer to the chapter that this city deserves. and we have to have a choice in the next police chief appointed to the department. and how this will affect the culture for me in the police department.
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>> reporter: tony chaplain was standing right next to the mayor today when he asked the chief to resign. he has 26 years of experience, the mayor called tam and committed service a public community spirit he also worked on the nikkei gained force and homicide division. --he also worked on the gang taskforce >> pam:thank you, ju stine. >> pam:as we mentioned it was another fatal officer involved shooting that proved to be the final straw for the chief. >> vicki:
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>> steve:kron 4's dan kerman has that part of the story. >> reporter:this latest incident happened off of industrial in san francisco's bayview the 27 year old woman who was shot and killed was behind the wheel of this white sedan. police say officers with the vehicle theft abatement team identified that vehicle as stolen. police say when they approached the driver she took off, crashing the vehicle into a truck sgt. michael andraychak/san francisco police -- she's struck the driver once. >> reporter:the woman was pronounced dead a short time later at san francisco general hospital >> ed lee/san francisco mayor-- we need to look at this case specifically. >> reporter:at an unrelated news conference mayor ed lee this latest shooting and said it would be fully investigated >> reporter:up to now the mayor has stood by the chief but this latest shooting has sparked renewed calls for his firing >> pam:san francisco's
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public defender jeff adachi had to the shooting: quote - "police reforms and policy changes are meaningless. if they aren't accompanied by a major shift in police culture. i am reiterating my attorney general's office. open its own civil rights investigation." - unquote >> pam: police officers'--we also heard from the police officers association. president says, it is too early for him to comment on what happened. >> pam:todays resignation by greg suhr comes just one day after steve interviewed the chief about the turmoil going on in the department and his efforts to make things better. >> pam:steve. what did chief suhr say to you yesterday. >> steve: he felt like he made certain changes but there was still more to be done. the question of would
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you resign, he said no there are too many balls up and the ear and we are trying to accomplish too many things i would not want to leave in the middle of this. >> pam: did you think that one more as a bit like what happened today what pushed the skills against him. -- scales against him this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. >> steve: it did not seem that way. he thought that he would stay the course. the mere thought the heat had to ask for their resignation pricked--resignation. >> steve:kron 4 was the first to alert people about the big shake up at the police department. we sent
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out the alert through our mobile app at 4-43 this afternoon. you can be one of the first to know about big stories by downloading the app for apple or google devices. >> steve: >> pam:also. we have posted the enre news conference. where mayor ed lee announced these changes. you can view it. by going to our website kron 4 dot com. >> steve:there are other stories we're following tonight. out in the east bay. they are still trying to figure out who is responsible for the rash of shootings on freeways. >> pam:investigators have described it as high-speed, gang warfare. and police are now trying to do everything they can to stop it. >> pam:in a story you'll see only on kron 4. haaziq madyun went for a ride along. to find out what officers are doing. >> reporter:24-shootings on bay area freeways since november of 2015, no suspects person arrested in connection to only one of these shootings >>"a lot of times we know who is doing what, we just need confirmation" >> reporter:but richmond police officer felix tang says. getting confirmation has been difficult. >> reporter:because of the connection to gang activity.
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>>"well unfortunately with gang investigations it is really challenging for detectives to crack the case, that is due to the fact that the gang members don't want to talk, they don't want to cooperate and witnesses are very, very hesitant about what they know" >> reporter:so. law enforcement agencies across the bay area are turning up the heat on them >>"so then we have to go into our plan, our strategy, sometime it can involve surveillance and sometimes enforcement" >> reporter:.and sometimes it involves technology >>"all the officers have shot spotter in their cars, so it pretty much immediate notification" >> reporter:in addition to that crime fighting tool..the city also has surveillance cameras on the street all over town. >> reporter:but there might be an unitended side affect. >>"a lot of the gang members, the criminals, they know about this, and did we push them outside of our city? perhaps, but there is no one clear answer to why they are going on the freeway" >> reporter:investigators say since the forming of a
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special joint law enforcement task force. 29 firearms have been confiscated and 77 individuals with gang ties have been arrested for felony crimes associated with gang activity. >> reporter:in richmond haaziq madyun kron4news. >> steve:thank you, haaziq. >> steve:we've been tracking bay area freeway shootings. and highway four has become a hot-spot for violence. >> pam:grant lodes is here to map out the highway- four shootings. including one just this week. >> grant:one this week, one last week.also one last week on interstate 80. these are the seven highway four shootings since last june. >> grant:on monday.people in two cars were shooting at each other as they drove westbound on highway four. the confrontation started at a gas station in antioch. >> grant:police arrested
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people in both suspect cars.and found a gun in each. in total since last november.the last seven months.there have been 21 shootings on bay area freeways. >> grant:10 of those on interstate 80. we'll continue to track this highway shooting crisis. >> grant:on kron4.com.we have a timeline of the shootings.and locations.and what some local communities are doing to try to stop the violence. >> grant:pam? >> pam:a showdown is looming this november. over the death penalty in california. today, supporters submitted nearly 600-thousand signatures. to put a measure on the ballot that would streamline the prisoner appeals process. >> pam:due to various legal challenges, noone has been executed in california since 2006. there already is a measure which will be on the ballot. to abolish the death penalty. >> pam:california has the largest death row in the nation. with well over 700 - inmates awaiting execution at san quentin. >> pam:lawyers are once again pointing the finger at gary condit. in the death of chandra levy. levy disappeared back in 2001. and the story took off after she was linked to the
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california congressman. >> pam:condit was considered a prime suspect in her death. but eventuall, y investigators ruled out his role. >> pam:another man. ingmar guandique. was convicted of killing levy in 2010. >> pam:however, he was granted a retrial last year, after concerns were raised about one of the government's witnesses. >> pam:his attorneys say, they have evidence they will present at the new trial this october, which will point once again, to condit as the culprit. >> pam:the hiker who disappered in the donner summit over the weekend has been found this afternoon. >> pam: coming up at six! are you missing mail? that's of milk was discarded and the support system. coming up! >> pam: we are filing break the news out of san francisco as the police chief, greg suhr resigned.
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through everything. but the big question is how did it get there. >> steve:a man working on his neighbor's clogged drain made the discovery when he put a snake into the line. he then went to try to find the source and found tons of mail in the sewer. the postal service says it hasn't heard of any thefts in recent weeks. whatever happened. it says this incident is disturbing. >> someone is in deep trouble. (laughter) >> this is not old male. -- mail >> reporter: do you have mail or robberies? >> we do have mail robberies but none was reported over the weekend. >> steve:the postal service says it will deliver the mail as fast as it can. it is now looking into whether the mail was deliberately dumped by one of its workers.
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>> pam:one day after presidential candidate bernie sanders stormed through through the bay area making a number of stops. we now know. his rival - hillary clinton will be here again soon. >> pam:she is slated to be making a stop here next tuesday. you may remember she was just here earlier this month. we haven't heard yet if there are any public rallies planned. the bay area and california are of course frequent stops for democrats looking to raise money for their campaigns. >> steve:witnesses informed police that a car speeding atcrashed into a santa rosa home's garage last night at around 8. p.m witneses say a car was racing along franklin avenue when the driver lost control and crashed. >> steve:the car.a black bmw sedan. allegedly flew through the front yard of a home. and into the garage and wall of the home directly next door.the suspect in this case. is at large. >> the young men then drove his car was obviously traveling at a very high rate of speed. i speak of
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distance from where he entered at the house next to ours and continued street for to the grudge. --garage >> steve:officers are currently investigating this case. and are trying to determine the exact speed the vehicle was going when the incident occured. >> steve:san francisco mayor ed lee. has promised the city he will improve the overall quality of life for residents.and businesses. earlier today mayor lee launched the "safe and clean neighborhoods practice". the initiative will focus on enforcing existing laws such as illegal dumping , street camping , graffiti abatement , and disorderly behavior towards fellow residents. >> steve:mayor lee also launced neighborhood "fix it" teams to individually go to different areas of san francisco.and literally.fix any issue they can.on the spot. >> then neighborhood, as is very important to our mayor and our city. i am grateful that he trusted me to trust his interaction for me our
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community. >> steve:mayor ed lee plans to invest more $6.1 million dollars enhanced street cleaning in neighborhoods across san francisco. >> pam:federal regulators now say, a texas oil company. connected to the more than 120,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the pacific ocean near santa barbara did not do enough to detect the leak. >> pam:officials previously said, severe corrosion was the cause of the spill on refugio state beach but a new report shows, that the "plains all american pipeline oil company" did not own sufficient enough equipment to detect the spill. >> pam:the 'plains all american pipeline' may have to pay up dollars in fines because of the oil spill that happened in may of last year. >> pam:hundreds of birds and marine balls were found more than 100- miles away on neighboring beaches. >> steve:another sign tonight the california drought is improving. state water officials have decided to let local water districts decide their own conservation goals. >> steve:this lifts last
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year's order that requires at least 20-percent savings. it will now be up to the more than 400 water districts to decide what is best for customers. >> steve:you may remember east bay mud became the first water district to decide it was time to stop fining people for usage. that move happened earlier this month. .. >> pam:there is training for fighting fires. and then ofcourse, there is the real thing. >> steve:in san jose today, as kron four's rob fladeboe reports now, firefighters got a taste of both. return to >> sirens >> reporter:i was shooting this video of san jose firefighters practicing with live fire here at santa teresa county park, getting ready to interview captain chris salcido, when a real fire broke out across the valley.
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>> reporter:lights and siren going, captain salcido and i followed the smoke to another grass fire, the real one here off yerba buena road, sparked by a crew cutting metal with a torch. a nearby home was briefly threatened. >>sot captain chris salcido/san jose fire this is what we are training for a period. >> reporter:back at the training exercise, crews ordered to standby in case they were needed at the real fire, were told to stand down and carry on here, practicing their back firing technque, which might just come in handy one of these days. >> reporter: and interface your between housing developments on one side and the wild land on the other rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >> pam:we are moving closer to the weekend. people are starting to make plans. >> steve:our meterologist brittney shipp is here to tell us what to expect.
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return to >> brittany: are already dealing with our cool down. the current model does not show as much rainshowers. reconditions headed into tomorrow. cooler until we saw today with a chance of rain showers for the weekend. starting friday and into saturday. temperatures as 69 degrees, in santa rosa and 59 and said francisco carried 70 and concord and 65 in san jose. we will >> brittany: dealing with an off shore flow that is what our temperatures drop so quickly. --we were >> brittany: it is pretty wednesday in santa rosa as
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well. and it will continue as we go into the rest of tonight. --it is pretty windy >> brittany: of unsettled whether dropping down from the north and moving into california, some parts to marleau. --tomorrow. >> brittany: could see a few sprinkles between livermore and fremont and then a lot more moisture is pushing and with the sierra and some snow showers. as we head into saturday, against the base model is showing the rainfall all the way down but not this seems to be standing next to napa up. >> brittany: other than that, it is scenes like it may be a nice and dry. however, still keep showers
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in the forecast. with a 50 degree temperatures along the coast. 54 and was a 10 and 50 in san francisco with the three days for press showing temperatures dropping down a little bit more into the weekend for the 7 day for tests showing that we are pretty much going to stay in the 60 as we go into saturday and sunday. guys? >> pam:thank you, brittney temps keep dropping into the
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requested his resignation. >> justine: holding their protest today,frisco five requested the chief's resignation as well. due to all of the shooting and lack of confidence in the chief having control over his department. >> it shows a power of the communities and they gave and showed the community that when you stand united. there is literally nothing that can stop you. as long as you are committed to do with unconditional love. and that is what we did for the past three weeks. we put the pressure on corporate the police commissioner has the authority to hire a new
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police chief and we need to be a part of that process. >> justine: 3 of 3 that this police chief--through out three decades police chief, suhr resigned today. there was some reform but is not fast enough. >> justine: the new interim police chief with the experience over 25 years. including the homicide division and the gang taskforce.
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>> justine: the mayor and in turn chief are hoping to help this city heal. reporting live also a city hall in sap francisco, justine waldman kron 4 news. --san francisco >> gabe: >> and of the gang members know about this and we pushed them farther out of our city. perhaps? >> reporter: and mother is upset after a call after a drawing collides with her son. --drones
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>> reporter: barzun but hit the drum and cut his the record the mother does not believe that the strong should be all and children inside the facility. -- the drones hit his foot >> reporter: today, giving the media a sneak peek inside the front window of the giant 40 ft. glass wall opens up. there are real trees inside of the apple store blending the outside and inside the world. they respond to touch, the tables are tech savvy. >> pam: what happened to egypt air flight 804 as
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this one disappeared heading to paris from cairo. it crashed into the mediterranean sea which people on board for it. >> steve: the investigation has an ongoing try to find out what happened. >> grant: so far, no one has come for to klay the responsibility of this being a terrorist act. >> grant: later determined the debris is not from the missile wreckage. the plane was flying at 37,000 ft. when it up really disappeared from radar. there was no distress signal or call for help from the pilots. and at this point, officials aren't about to point the finger. >> everything is on the table, we are waiting to
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gather all the information weekend and then we will move for from there to see what really happened. >> grant: he egyptian officials have been under fire since a russian plane went down last october. that is when and pom--a bomb brought down a russian airliner over the sinai peninsula killing all 224 people on board. we will keep an eye on this story and bring you need any new developments. >> grant: steve and pam? >> brittany: our latest model is showing a slight chance of rain showers. with the increase in clouds and wind speed is a pretty strong. cloudy and breezy was 66 degrees is the average. 61, if you are closer to the bay. but at a
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clock dropping to the '60s mid '50s. with a chilly night ahead. 55 in oakland, and san jose los '60s. >> brittany: if you remember we have been at the 80 degree temperatures are run this time. we will drop a few more degrees pushing into saturday was 66 degrees 4 hour inland high. our 7 day for tests i will have at the end of the show. pam? >> pam: thank you! >> steve: we will be right back.
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>> pam:according to his attorney.golfer phil back the money he made through alleged insider trading. >> steve:officials unveiled a federal indictment against the michelson received a tip four years ago from gambler of "dean food". the stock later took off. >> steve:and the indictment says michelson made close to one-million dollars. michelson's attorney says the "securities and exchange commission". will receive the entire amount back from michelson. >> steve:the golfer faces
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>> pam:yes. >> gary: here we go! >> gary:steph currry and the boys pulled away in the 2nd helf and it was curry leading the way. exploding for 15 straight points in the 3rd quarter on his way to 28 >> gary:warriors won 118-91 to even the western conference finals at 1 game a piece >> gary:the warriors now leave for oklahoma city for game 3 sunday here is the team on looking ahead to sunday. >> game 3 will be another dogfight and we have to be ready for from the jump. with the environment sole we
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will see. i like or our focus is at barrett and have to go out and play hard >> we know that is a tough place to cut debts to escalate and we are playing a tough team. --know that this is a tough place to play. so we have to go out and play this tough team and played with all our hard. -- heart >> gary: a lot of people jumping on those folks... you did not save curry. >> gary: but he exploded with 15 striplings right after. in the third quarter. --15 straight points
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