( marty ) here is a live look at the embarcadero. ( marty ) here is dave spahr with the weather. (dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday

afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday.

( marty ) a flood watch is in effect for much of the bay area. stormtracker radar taking a look at the north bay. that's where we find kron 4's michelle kingston. michelle. we are still seeing that wet weather all across the bay area.i've been on the road since 4am and saw some real heavy rain in the east bay ... it was fairly steady in san francisco, but once i got on

the 101 to head north to where we thought we'd see a lot of the rain -- it was nearly dry! votake a look at some of this video shot in the north bay yesterday ...you can see cars having some trouble in flooded areas.we know there were some power outages, a tree that fell on a home and some flooding throughout the bay area, but here in santa rosa -- things were relatively calm. i actually just got off the phone with the fire marshal here in santa rosa who tells me it was a really quiet night and not at all like what they were anticipating.they thought they'd see a lot more heavy rain ... slicker roads ... but most of that was to the south. he says they really didn't related calls throughout the night.there were a lot of puddles the 101 today for us. just because it isn't raining as hard anymore, doesn't mean the roads are dry.you

definitely want to take it slow out there and be alert. live in santa rosa michelle kingston kron4 news thank you michelle, we'll check in with you throughout the morning. ( marty )crews in santa rosa were out in full force friday, preparing for the storm. kron 4's maureen kelly was there. we're anticipating up to 4 inches for the duration of the storm system. the 4 inches of rain is not necessarily the concern for us. it's the intensity so when we start looking and a half inch to an inch an hour that's definitely where we run into problems and for the potential for significant events to occur. santa rosa fire's assistant fire marshall says they've upped their resources in order to keep a closer eye on hillside areas affected by the northbay firestorm.....like the fountain grove area. we have additional fire fighters on hand a second battalion chief and we have roaming patrol's going along going around our hillside community. public works and water apartment are both doing patrols both checking on our

systems and making sure that things are flowing that need to be flowing so far the other big storms since the october fires have not reached their anticpated potential.....but this one could. but the city and sonoma county have had protective measures in place for months.....including grass wattles...which eariler this year kept hazaderous materials from fire ravaged homes from entering the watershed.....and now serve a new purpose.now the fire debris gone we have a lot of open muddy lots that's why it's critical those things we referred to as bmps best management practices remain in place that's those grass waddles, the erosion control measures because they really need to keep the silt and sentiments on the site and keep it from migrating onto the property and impacting our storm drain systemthis storm is also already creating problems outside the burn zone. these men came to the municpial yard on stoney point road to load up on sandbags.we went to home depot to buy

sandbags and try to buy 36 sandbags and they said they only had nine for us so we had to come here to get more sandbags otherwise our hot factory is going to flood (maureen)that sandbag filling station will be open 24 hours and is free to residents maureen kelly kron4 news106 bit 3 sot - ross video - audio afv: defaultmke north bay ( marty ) and in the east bay... the rain causing power outages, slick roads.. and for one lafayette family.. a dangerous surprise. kron 4's hermela aregawi has that story. (hermela) scary moments for this lafayette family.. when a tree comes crashing down into their home friday. crews were out cleaning it up bit by bit for most of the night..and fortunately no one was injured. road conditions in the east bay remained with the nonstop rain sherie and steve goulet/lafayettewell i'm contractor, i work all around the area and it's always a little bit of a drag dealing with traffic, there are always the accidents. people forget how to drive, just slowing things down, what's scary is that people are flying past you 75 miles an hour in this pouring rain.hunter johnson/lafayettei've felt my car drift off a little bit but nothing too serious. i've had

friends that have been in accidents because of rain, you know your breaks you're going to skid because of the rain you gotta give yourself that room. just keep both hands on the wheel be steady, be ready for anything that can happen out there you know. you don't want your car to turn and flip or anything like that.another issue caused by this rain.. power outages.. many in the pleasant hill area lost power for several hours.. vincent sumait/lafayetteleaving the contra costa pleasant hill, we saw a couple of apartment complexes on the way back home that didn't have power. it was actually a good maybe two or three blocks of apartment complexes that were completely out of power, you know you hear fire alarms going off and stuff like that so we kind of slowed down just to see if everybody was alright.pg & e says.. power was restored before 10 oclock at night. people in other easy bay cities includng oakland, berkeley, martinez and hayward also lost power due to the rain. pg& e says it'll have crews out working on those throughout the night. ( marty )coming up on the kron

4 morning news... whether you decide to go at it alone... or hire a tax preparer to help... we'll tell you the common tax mistakes to avoid. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. ( marty )(áááscandoááá) now tracking the storm in the peninsula.here is a look at westbound 92 at foster city boulevard in east palo alto.

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people don't use the correct filing status, we also find that they don't even report income correctly at times.">( marty ) for tax tips.... experts say go to the i-r-s website. there you can check your filing status -- find out who you can claim as a dependent -- and also find out if you need to file a return. ( marty ) people are outraged after a 14-hundred per cent proce hike for a cancer medication. the pill is used to treat brain cancer and hodgkin's lymphoma. five years ago lomustine cost 50 dollars a pill... now it costs nearly a thousand dollars. congress is demanding answers for what it calls "price gouging." on average, lomustine costs 21- dollars in canada. ( dave )still tracking rain this morning. but an improved forecast for your weekend. your forecast is next ! are you totally ready?

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more for your thing. that's our thing. visit att.com/internet. (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) ( marty ) a flood watch is still in effect for much of the bay area. as the bay area is being drenched. we continue to track the major storm that's hitting the bay area. here is a look at storm-tracker 4 radar. ( marty ) here's a live look at the embarcadero this morning. toss to weather. (dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions

will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday. ( marty ) dramatic images from the

north bay...marin county fire tweeted this video of crews rescuing two people from a flooded car. it happened in sonoma county. because of the storm, marin firefighters were helping sonoma county fire with this rescue. the driver of this car tried to drive through flood waters...and got stuck. crews used a jet ski to reach the car and pull two people out. they also rescued two dogs. no one was hurt. ( marty ) here's a live look at yosemite this morning... ( marty ) officials are bracing for severe weather in many parts of the state. they are asking people planning to visit the yosemite valey to make other plans. as the approaching storm gained strength, officials announced that the valley would be closed today. rain drenching the foothills could trigger mudslides, making

roadways hazardous. a river at the park's entrance is expected to rise nearly 15 feet -- which is well above flood stage. ( marty ) they plan to re-open the park as soon as the weather allows. ( marty ) our storm coverage continues now in the santa cruz mountains... where heavy rain is expected today. kron four's rob fladeboe was there tracking the flash flood watch. while not eaxctly a spring shower, the april surprise storm is making it's presence known here in felton and elsewhere in the santa cruz mountains. it has delivered an atmospheric river of woe on highway 17 where traffic has been plagued by several crashes amid what emergency services director rosemary anderson likes to call "storm amnesia," when drivers

let their guard down.rosemary anderson/santa cruz county emergency services "....last year we had a beautiful spring, it was a beautiful summer and then a mild winter, people get complacent about what readiness really means, when they should be ready all the time..."that said, sandbags are avaiable all the time here in paradise park along the san lorenzo river. there's only a slim chance the river could flood but residents will keep close watch on what happenes farther upstream says park manager paul polizzi.paul polizzi/paradise park manager "....it's not the water that we get here so much but it's the rain they get up high in the mountains, so even after it stops raining we have to be worried about it..." it rained good and hard overnight but then tapered off into a softer, more spring-like rain this afternoon. no major mud or rock slides have been reported and what's missing is the wind, which means few, if any downed trees and power lines. the santa cruz mountains appears to have escaped a direct hit, at least so far.rosemay anderson/emerge

ncy services "....we are monitoring it closely, because of it takes a turn like atmospheric rivers sometimes do, then we would see an increase in our rain amounts into the evening and tomorrow, so we're really not sure what's going to happen with it..." ( marty ) that was kron four's rob fladeboe reporting for us this morning. ( marty )make sure you download the kron4 mobile app to stay ahead of this storm. you can watch a live radar to see when the rain is headed toward your neighborhood. we will also send you alerts to your phone when there is breaking weather news and traffic hot spots. ( marty )coming up on the kron 4 weekend news... the giants were rained out, but the a's were in a slug fest with the angels. mark carpenter has the highlights... next in weekend sports. live look outside... richmond bridge richmond bridge (ácommercialá) ♪

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year against the angels, they had front row seats to the shohei ohtani show. seeing him pitch áand hit. tonight, they had a second viewing. --let's head down to l-a, the angels now have some stars on their roster. mike trout is one of them. --early on, the a's pounced right out of the gates. marcus semien... gets all of it to high and deep left center. a's ripped off 5-runs in the frame to take a 6-nothing lead -bottom 2nd-- ohtani at the plate... gone.. the 3rd home run of the season for the japanese star. angels would claw all the way back to

make it a one run game --then this happened in the 7th.. a's up 9-7..runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 out... matt chapman...throws it a little too strong, allowing the tying runs to come in game is knotted at 9 just a horrendous error for the athletics. --then on the very next batter...justin upton wastes no time. leaves no doubt about it... 3-run jack and boog powell would take a hard hit to the head. --angels roll 13-9. meanwhile, the giants were supposed to play the dodgers, but the storm made sure that didn't happen. for only the sixth time in at&t park history, a game was canceled due to rain. the last time it happened...12-years ago and

we dug into the archives for this video. the game is rescheduled for saturday the 28th....and they will play a double header. tomorrow's game is still good to go, however it has been pushed back two hours to 3-05. this weekend, we'll see the tiger woods effect on display because even though he barely made the cut... and the odds on favorite is now a longshot to win, people will still be locked in on 'el tigre' let's head to augusta...where it was a rough day for woods. coming off of a 73 in round 1, bogeyed his first hole... and then this happened on 5. his ball ends up in the forest... and would have to settle for a double bogey. ends the day 13-shots ( marty ) and make sure you tune into kron four hoop session tonight for your basketball fix. mark carpenter goes 1 on 1 with warriors center zaza pachulia as the dubs prepare for the playoffs. it's an interview you will only see on the hoop session. it tips off tonight at 11. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast.

(michelle) a major spring storm is hitting the bay area. i'm live in santa rosa with the latest. (dave)moderate to heavy rain

can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with

another chance wednesday or thursday. ( marty ) we're taking a look at stormtracker 4 radar. we're focused on the north bay where the storm has passed. but people are worried

about flooding and mudslides. that's where we find kron 4's michelle kingston. michelle. we are still seeing that wet weather all across the bay area.i've been on the road since 4am and saw some real heavy rain in the east bay ... it was fairly steady in san francisco, but once i got on the 101 to head north to where we thought we'd see a lot of the rain -- it was nearly dry! votake a look at some of this video shot in the north bay yesterday ...you can see cars having some trouble in flooded areas.we know there were some power outages, a tree that fell on a home and some flooding throughout the bay area, but here in santa rosa -- things were relatively calm. i actually just got off the

phone with the fire marshal here in santa rosa who tells me it was a really quiet night and not at all like what they were anticipating.they thought they'd see a lot more heavy rain ... slicker roads ... but most of that was to the south. he says they really didn't have any rain related calls throughout the night.michelle there were a lot of puddles on 880, 80 and the 101 today for us.just because it isn't raining as hard anymore, doesn't mean the roads are dry. you definitely want to take it slow out there and be alert. live in santa rosa michelle kingston kron4 news thank you michelle, we'll thank you michelle, we'll check in with you throughout the morning. ( marty ) breaking news this morning... one person is dead after the crash of a small plane in petaluma. a deputy found smoldering debris of the plane on 3620 manor lane at 10 pm last night. the plane was expected to land at petaluma municipal airport at 5 pm friday. police are still investigating the cause of the crash. no word if the crash was weather related, nor

if anyone on the ground was injured. ( marty ) two weeks after the deadly crash of a tesla in the south bay. a new video has surfaced, showing how the car's auto-pilot may have steered the car into that barrier on highway 101.the accident last month killed the driver. here's what happened when another tesla driver tried to replicate what happened. i decided to test that subsection of the road where that autopilot accident happened ...software developer shantanu joshi owns a tesla model s.as he approached the intersection of 101 and 85 in mountain view, he put his car on autopilot."... and the results are kinda freaky"with his hands off the wheel, the car begins to drift towards the barrier.he quickly took control.here it is again in slow motion.the company says its owner's manuals come with a long list of warnings..at the top is one saying "autopilot is intended for use

only with a fully attentive driver."data recovered from the crashed vehicle indicated that the driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive. the driver's hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.tesla says the driver had about five seconds and 150 yards of unobstructed view of the approaching concrete divider.the vehicle logs showed that no action was taken.tesla says the model x autosteer technology is not able to accurately determine lane markings.and in this case, the markings are not accurate.as you can see. the road striping leads directly toward the barrier.as for the severity of the crash, the company says it's never encountered anything like it. it blames caltrans for failing to repair the previously damaged steel safety barrier designed to protect the concrete lane divider.and says the autopilot feature has reduced crash rates by as much as 40 percent. ( marty ) facebook

c-e-o mark zuckerberg is preparing to testify before congress next week... he recently announced changes to facebook that he says will help prevent fake news and fake political ads kron 4's tech reporter gabe slate explains. facebook is introducing new rules for the facebook pages. pages are a lot different than regular profiles like most users haveuntil now pages could be run anonymously. gathering millions of followers without facebook users ever knowing who runs them.free to influence users with whatever their agenda is. russian trolls did this is 2016 on the social network during the run up to the presidential election.facebook admitted to lawmakers more than 3,000 ads were bought by 470 fake accounts and pages run by a suspicious russain research agency.facebook believes those 470 russian accounts pushed russian

propaganda that reached 150 million before they kicked them off the social network. they did this through ads targeting facebook users on hot-button topics like gun rights, gay rights, religion and presidential candidates trump and hillary clinton.on a conference call with reporters recently mark zuckerberg said they are taking steps to preven this from happening again.sound from marck zuckerberg - ceo of facebook. "we were optimistic at first, too much so, now it's clear we need to focus more on protecting people"in a facebook post on friday mark zuckerberg announced going forwardpeople who run pages with "large numbers of followers" will need to be verified."to get authorized by facebook, advertisers will need to confirm their identity and location. if the "advertisers do not verify. will be prohibited from running any political, electoral, or issue-based ads, until they are authorized.in addition to stricter regulation on the advertisers and page operators the social network will now clearly label political ads a banner will show up in the top left corner and next to that they will show a "paid for by" sticker so people know where the ad is coming from. coming up on the kron 4 weekend news.... new details

on the youtube shooter... including the type of gun the shooter used during her rampage... and why the fbi says female shooters are rare.

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tuesday's deadly shooting at youtube headquarters in san bruno. we're learning more about how the shooter -- 39- year-old nasim aghdam -- got ahold of her gun. kron four's philippe djegal reports from san bruno where he spoke with police and city leaders. (philippe) on january 16th... san bruno police commander geoff caldwell says nasim aghdam legally purchased the gun she used in tuesday's shooting from a gun shop in san diego. a 9 millimeter smith and wesson pistol similar to this one. commander caldwell says aghdam opened fire at youtube headquaters, shooting several rounds... then reloaded

another magazine, and continued firing before turning the gun on herself. rico medina/mayor- "it does shake the community -- it was a crisis." san bruno mayor rico medina, says he's working with city manager connie jackson and other local agencies to try to move forward... evaluate what happened, and find ways to prevent another shooting like this. for the first time since it was lockeddown tuesday -- youtube headquarters is back open. though police and security guards are still monitoring all e ntries and exits. jackson says the first three officers on-scene tuesday entered the building quickly and helped minimize the damage. connie jackson/city manager- they deployed in a spectacular manner and we are very very proud, uh, not only of the work they did, but the results." shortly after the incident... san bruno police say six officers

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this morning. but an improved forecast for your weekend. your forecast is next ! (michelle) and we're tracking the storm in the bay area. i'll have a live report saturday morning is off to a

wet start. we're tracking a major storm that's soaking the bay area. here is a look at storm tracker 4 radar. ( marty ) here is a live look at the embarcadero. ( marty ) here is dave

spahr with the weather. (dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday.

( marty ) thursday. ( marty ) breaking news this morning... one person is dead after the crash of a small plane in petaluma. a deputy found smoldering debris of the plane on 3620 manor lane at 10 pm last night. the plane was expected to land at petaluma municipal airport at 5 pm friday. police are still investigating the cause of the crash. no word if the crash was weather related, nor if anyone on the ground was

injured. ( marty ) a flood watch is in effect for much of the bay area. stormtracker radar taking a look at the north bay. that's where we find kron 4's michelle kingston. michelle. we are still seeing that wet weather all across the bay area.i've been on the road since 4am and saw some real heavy rain in the east bay ... it was fairly steady in san francisco, but once i got on the 101 to head north to where we thought we'd see a lot of the rain -- it was nearly dry! votake a look at some of this video shot in the north bay yesterday ...you can see cars having some trouble in flooded areas.we know there were some power outages, a tree that

fell on a home and some flooding throughout the bay area, but here in santa rosa -- things were relatively calm. i actually just got off the phone with the fire marshal here in santa rosa who tells me it was a really quiet night and not at all like what they were anticipating.they thought they'd see a lot more heavy rain ... slicker roads ... but most of that was to the south. he says they really didn't have any rain related calls throughout the night.michelle there were a lot of puddles on 880, 80 and the 101 today just because it isn't raining as hard anymore, doesn't mean the roads are dry.you definitely want to take it slow out alert. live in santa rosa michelle kingston kron4 news thank you michelle, we'll check in with you throughout the morning.

( marty )crews in santa rosa were out in full force friday, preparing for the storm. kron 4's maureen kelly was there. we're anticipating up to 4 inches for the duration of the storm system. the 4 inches of rain is not necessarily the concern for us. it's the intensity so when we start looking and a half inch to an inch an hour that's definitely where we run into problems and for the potential for significant events to occur. santa rosa fire's assistant fire marshall says they've upped their resources in order to keep a closer eye on hillside areas affected by the northbay firestorm.....like the fountain grove area. we have additional fire fighters on hand a second battalion chief and we have roaming patrol's going along going around our hillside community. public works and water apartment are both doing patrols both checking on our systems and making sure that things are flowing that need to be flowing so far the other big storms since the october fires have not reached their anticpated potential.....but

this one could. but the city and sonoma county have had protective measures in place for months.....including grass wattles...which eariler this year kept hazaderous materials from fire ravaged homes from entering the watershed.....and now serve a new purpose.now the fire debris gone we have a lot of open muddy lots that's why it's critical those things we referred to as bmps best management practices remain in place that's those grass waddles, the erosion control measures because they really need to keep the silt and sentiments on the site and keep it from migrating onto the property and impacting our storm drain systemthis storm is also already creating problems outside the burn zone. these men came to the municpial yard on stoney point road to load up on sandbags.we went to home depot to buy sandbags and try to buy 36 sandbags and they said they only had nine for ( marty ) and in the east bay... the rain causing

power outages, slick roads.. and for one lafayette family.. a dangerous surprise. kron 4's hermela aregawi has that story. (hermela) scary moments for this lafayette family.. when a tree comes crashing down into their home friday. crews were out cleaning it up bit by bit for most of the night..and fortunately no one was injured. road conditions in the east bay remained with the nonstop rain sherie and steve goulet/lafayettewell i'm contractor, i work all around the area and it's always a little bit of a drag dealing with traffic, there are always the accidents. people forget how to drive, just slowing things down, what's scary is that people are flying past you 75 miles an hour in this pouring rain.hunter johnson/lafayettei've felt my car drift off a little bit but nothing too serious. i've had friends that have been in accidents because of rain, you know your breaks you're going to skid because of the rain you gotta give yourself that room. just keep both hands on

the wheel be steady, be ready for anything that can happen out there you know. you don't want your car to turn and flip or anything like that.another issue caused by this rain.. power outages.. many in the pleasant hill area lost power for several hours.. vincent sumait/lafayetteleaving the contra costa pleasant hill, we saw a couple of apartment complexes on the way back home that didn't have power. it was actually a good maybe two or three blocks of apartment complexes that were completely out of power, you know you hear fire alarms going off and stuff like that so we kind of slowed down just to see if everybody was alright.power was restored before 10 night. people in other easy bay cities oakland, berkeley, martinez and hayward also lost power due to the rain. pg& e says crews out working on those throughout the night. ( marty )coming up on the kron 4 morning news... whether you decide to go at it alone... or hire a tax preparer to help... we'll tell you the common tax mistakes to avoid. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast.

( marty )(áááscandoááá) now tracking the storm in the peninsula.here is a look at westbound 92 at foster city boulevard in east palo alto.

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check your filing status -- find out who you can claim as a dependent -- and also find out if you need to file a return. ( dave )still tracking rain this morning. but an improved forecast for your weekend. your forecast is next !

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still in effect for much of the bay area. as the bay area is being drenched. we continue to track the major storm that's hitting the bay area. here is a look at storm-tracker 4 radar. ( marty ) here's a live look at the embarcadero this morning. toss to weather.

(dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or

thursday.

( marty ) dramatic images from the north bay...marin county fire tweeted this video of crews rescuing two people from a flooded car. it happened in sonoma county. because of the storm, marin firefighters were helping sonoma county fire with this rescue. the driver of this car tried to drive through flood waters...and got stuck. crews used a jet ski to reach the car and pull two people out. they also rescued two dogs. no one was hurt. ( marty ) here's a live look at yosemite this morning... ( marty ) officials are bracing for severe weather in many parts of the state. they are asking people planning to visit the yosemite valey to make other plans. as the approaching storm gained strength, officials announced that the valley would be closed today. rain drenching the foothills could trigger mudslides, making roadways hazardous. a river at the park's entrance

is expected to rise nearly 15 feet -- which is well above flood stage. ( marty ) they plan to re-open the park as soon as the weather allows. ( marty ) our storm coverage continues now in the santa cruz mountains... where heavy rain is expected today. kron four's rob fladeboe was there tracking the flash flood watch. while not eaxctly a spring shower, the april surprise storm is making it's presence known here in felton and elsewhere in the santa cruz mountains. it has delivered an atmospheric river of woe on highway 17 where traffic has been plagued by several crashes amid what emergency services director rosemary anderson likes to call "storm amnesia," when drivers let their guard down.rosemary anderson/santa cruz county emergency services "....last year we had a beautiful spring, it was a beautiful summer and then a mild winter, people get complacent about what readiness really means, when they should be ready all the time..."that said, sandbags

are avaiable all the time here in paradise park along the san lorenzo river. there's only a slim chance the river could flood but residents will keep close watch on what happenes farther upstream says park manager paul polizzi.paul polizzi/paradise park manager "....it's not the water that we get here so much but it's the rain they get up high in the mountains, so even after it stops raining we have to be worried about it..." it rained good and hard overnight but then tapered off into a softer, more spring-like rain this afternoon. no major mud or rock slides have been reported and what's missing is the wind, which means few, if any downed trees and power lines. the santa cruz mountains appears to have escaped a direct hit, at least so far.rosemay anderson/emerge ncy services "....we are monitoring it closely, because of it takes a turn like atmospheric rivers sometimes do, then we would see an increase in our rain amounts into the evening and tomorrow, so we're really not sure what's going to happen with it..." ( marty ) that was kron four's rob fladeboe reporting for us this morning. ( marty )coming up on the kron 4 weekend news...weekend the kron 4 coming up on ( marty )

( marty )coming up on the kron 4 weekend news... the giants were rained out, but the a's were in a slug fest with the angels. mark carpenter has the highlights... next in weekend sports. live look outside... richmond bridge

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when the a's opened the year against the angels, they had front row seats to the shohei ohtani show. seeing him pitch áand hit. tonight, they had a second viewing. --let's head down to l-a, the angels now have some stars on their

roster. mike trout is one of them. --early on, the a's pounced right out of the gates. marcus semien... gets all of it to high and deep left center. a's ripped off 5-runs in the frame to take a 6-nothing lead -bottom 2nd-- ohtani at the plate... gone.. the 3rd home run of the season for the japanese star. angels would claw all the way back to make it a one run game --then this happened in the 7th.. a's up 9-7..runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 out... matt chapman...throws it a little too strong, allowing the tying runs to come in game is knotted at 9 just a horrendous error for the athletics. --then on the very next batter...justin upton wastes no time. leaves no doubt about it... 3-run jack and boog powell

would take a hard hit to the head. --angels roll 13-9. meanwhile, the giants were supposed to play the dodgers, but the storm made sure that didn't happen. for only the sixth time in at&t park history, a game was canceled due to rain. the last time it happened...12-years ago and we dug into the archives for this video. the game is rescheduled for saturday the 28th....and they will play a double header. tomorrow's game is still good to go, however it has been pushed back two hours to 3-05. this weekend, we'll see the tiger woods effect on display because even though he barely made the cut... and the odds on favorite is now a longshot to win, people will still be locked in on 'el tigre' let's head to augusta...where it was a rough

day for woods. coming off of a 73 in round 1, bogeyed his first hole... and then this happened on 5. his ball ends up in the forest... and would have to settle for a double bogey. ends the day 13-shots off the lead, ( marty ) and make sure you tune into kron four hoop session tonight for your basketball fix. mark carpenter goes 1 on 1 with warriors center zaza pachulia as the dubs prepare for the playoffs. it's an interview you will only see on the hoop session. it tips off tonight at 11. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. (michelle) a major spring storm is hitting the bay area. i'm live in santa rosa with the latest.

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( marty ) dave spahr has your forecast... (dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday.

( marty ) we have breaking news out of germany. several people were killed after a car crashed into a crowd in the city of muenster. police in germany say the driver killed himself. it's too early to know if it's a terror attack. we'll haveupdates for you throughout the morning. ( marty ) we're taking a

look at stormtracker 4 radar. we're focused on the north bay where the storm has passed. but people are worried about flooding and mudslides. that's where we find kron 4's michelle kingston. michelle. we are still seeing that wet weather all across the bay area.i've been on the road since 4am and saw some real heavy rain in the east bay ... it was fairly steady in san francisco, but once i got on the 101 to head north to where we thought we'd see a lot of the rain -- it was nearly dry! votake a look at some of this video shot in the north bay yesterday ...you can see cars having some trouble in flooded areas.we know there were some power outages, a tree that fell on a home and some flooding throughout the bay area, but here in santa rosa -- things were relatively calm.

i actually just got off the phone with the fire marshal here in santa rosa who tells me it was a really quiet night and not at all like what they were anticipating.they thought they'd see a lot more heavy rain ... slicker roads ... but most of that was to the south. he says they really didn't have any rain related calls throughout the night.michelle there were a lot of puddles on 880, 80 and the 101 today for us.just because it isn't raining as hard anymore, doesn't mean the roads are dry. you definitely want to take it slow out there and be alert. live in santa rosa michelle kingston kron4 news thank you michelle, we'll check in with you throughout the morning. ( marty ) two weeks after the deadly crash of a tesla in the south bay. a new video has surfaced, showing how the car's auto-pilot may have steered the car into that barrier on highway 101.the accident last month killed the driver. here's what happened when another tesla driver tried to replicate what happened. i decided to test that subsection of the road where that autopilot accident happened ...software developer

shantanu joshi owns a tesla model s.as he approached the intersection of 101 and 85 in mountain view, he put his car on autopilot."... and the results are kinda freaky"with his hands off the wheel, the car begins to drift towards the barrier.he quickly took control.here it is again in slow motion.the company says its owner's manuals come with a long list of warnings..at the top is one saying "autopilot is intended for use only with a fully attentive driver."data recovered from the crashed vehicle indicated that the driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive. the driver's hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.tesla says the driver had about five seconds and 150 yards of unobstructed view of the approaching concrete divider.the vehicle logs showed that no action was taken.tesla says the model x autosteer technology is not able to accurately determine

lane markings.and in this case, the markings are not accurate.as you can see. the road striping leads directly toward the barrier.as for the severity of the crash, the company says it's never encountered anything like it. it blames caltrans for failing to repair the previously damaged steel safety barrier designed to protect the concrete lane divider.and says the autopilot feature has reduced crash rates by as much as 40 percent. ( marty ) facebook c-e-o mark zuckerberg is preparing to testify before congress next week... he recently announced changes to facebook that he says will help prevent fake news and fake political ads kron 4's tech reporter gabe slate explains. facebook is introducing new rules for the facebook pages. pages are a lot different than regular profiles like most users haveuntil now pages could be run anonymously. gathering millions of followers without facebook users ever knowing who runs

them.free to influence users with whatever their agenda is. russian trolls did this is 2016 on the social network during the run up to the presidential election.facebook admitted to lawmakers more than 3,000 ads were bought by 470 fake accounts and pages run by a suspicious russain research agency.facebook believes those 470 russian accounts pushed russian propaganda that reached 150 million before they kicked them off the social network. they did this through ads targeting facebook users on hot-button topics like gun rights, gay rights, religion and presidential candidates trump and hillary clinton.on a conference call with reporters recently mark zuckerberg said they are taking steps to preven this from happening again.sound from marck zuckerberg - ceo of facebook. "we were optimistic at first, too much so, now it's clear we need to focus more on protecting people"in a facebook post on friday mark zuckerberg announced going forwardpeople who run pages with "large numbers of followers" will need to be verified."to get authorized by facebook, advertisers will

need to confirm their identity and location. if the "advertisers do not verify. will be prohibited from running any political, electoral, or issue-based ads, until they are authorized.in addition to stricter regulation on the advertisers and page operators the social network will now clearly label political ads a banner will show up in the top left corner and next to that they will show a "paid for by" sticker so people know where the ad is coming from. coming up on the kron 4 weekend news.... new details on the youtube shooter... including the type of gun the shooter used during her rampage... and why the fbi says female shooters are rare. (ácommercialá) (áábreakáá)

( marty ) new details from the investigation into tuesday's deadly shooting at youtube headquarters in san bruno. we're learning more about how the shooter -- 39- year-old nasim aghdam -- got ahold of her gun. kron four's philippe djegal reports from san bruno where he spoke with police and city leaders.

(philippe) on january 16th... san bruno police commander geoff caldwell says nasim aghdam legally purchased the gun she used in tuesday's shooting from a gun shop in san diego. a 9 millimeter smith and wesson pistol similar to this one. commander caldwell says aghdam opened fire at youtube headquaters, shooting several rounds... then reloaded another magazine, and continued firing before turning the gun on herself. rico medina/mayor- "it does shake the community -- it was a crisis." san bruno mayor rico medina, says he's working with city manager connie jackson and other local agencies to try to move forward... evaluate what happened, and find ways to prevent another shooting like this. for the first time since it was lockeddown tuesday -- youtube headquarters is back open. though police and security guards are still monitoring all e ntries and exits. jackson says the first three officers on-scene tuesday entered the building quickly and helped minimize the damage.

connie jackson/city manager- they deployed in a spectacular manner and we are very very proud, uh, not only of the work they did, but the results." shortly after the incident... san bruno police say six officers traveled down to southern california... and with help from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives... executed two search warrants related to this case. those officers returned to the bay area wednesday night. the 36-year-old man who was critically injured during the shooting is the only victim still receiving treatment at san francisco general hospital. condition has been upgraded to fair. in san djegal, kron four news. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. (ácommercialá) (áábreakáá)

(dave)moderate to heavy rain

can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday.

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( marty ) "ready player one" blasted it's way to a big box office win last weekend. and this weekend, it's defending its title against four new films. david daniel looks at whether any of them has a chance to dethrone the champ. "...fighting a massive invasion...""...around the world...""...an attack..." "...total devastation..." (nat) "a quiet place" could make a loud splash at the box office

this weekend. emily blunt and john krasinski star in the thriller about a family hiding from creatures who hunt by sound. opening weekend estimates range from 20- million dollars to as much as 30-million... possibly enough to top the chart.(singing) "we're gonna light it up like it's prom night!"the r-rated comedy "blockers" is about three teenage girls who decide to lose their virginities on prom night, and their parents' attempts to stop them. box office watchers expect a debut of 16-to-20 million dollars. "my dad once said to me... tragedy has a way of defining people."two other films figure to make more modest debuts. "chappaquiddick" is based on the 19-69 incident involving senator ted kennedy, played by jason clarke. it's looking at a two-to-four million dollar opening."how many schools do you think have one of these? dozens. how many teams have earned two back-to-back? almost none.""the miracle season" is also based on a true story, about a high school volleyball team dealing

with the death of their captain. it's tracking to score three-million dollars in its debut. in hollywood, i'm david daniel. ( marty ) a camera caught this eagle's startled reaction when an earthquake hit earlier this week. the quake shook the bird's nest on santa cruz island. the eagle flew away... leaving three chicks behind for a time. both parent eagles were raised at the san francisco zoo and released into the wild in 2005 and 2006. as for the chicks... the parents did return a short time later. ( dave )still tracking rain this morning. but an improved forecast for your weekend. your forecast is next ! (michelle) and we're tracking the storm in the bay area. i'll have a live report with the latest ... next.

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the embarcadero. ( marty ) here is dave spahr with the weather. (dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday

afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday. ( marty ) we have breaking news out of germany. 3 people are dead and 20 injured after a car crashed into a

crowd in the city of muenster. police in germany say the driver killed himself. it's too early to know if it's a terror attack. we'll have updates for you throughout the morning. ( marty ) breaking news this morning... one person is dead after the crash of a small plane in petaluma. a deputy found smoldering debris of the plane on 3620 manor lane at 10 pm last night. the plane was expected to land at petaluma municipal airport at 5 pm friday. police are still investigating the cause of the crash. no word if the crash was weather related, nor if anyone on the ground was injured. ( marty ) a flood watch is in effect for much of the bay area. stormtracker radar taking a look at the north bay. that's where we find kron 4's michelle kingston. michelle. we are still seeing that wet

weather all across the bay area.i've been on the road since 4am and saw some real heavy rain in the east bay ... it was fairly steady in san francisco, but once i got on the 101 to head north to where we thought we'd see a lot of the rain -- it was nearly dry! votake a look at some of this video shot in the north bay yesterday ...you can see cars having some trouble in flooded areas.we know there were some power outages, a tree that fell on a home and some flooding throughout the bay area, but here in santa rosa -- things were relatively calm. i actually just got off the phone with the fire marshal here in santa rosa who tells me it was a really quiet night and not at all like what they were anticipating.they thought they'd see a lot more heavy rain ... slicker roads ... but most of that was to the south. he says they really didn't have any rain related calls throughout the night.michelle

there were a lot of puddles on 880, 80 and the 101 today for us.just because it isn't raining as hard anymore, doesn't mean the roads are dry. you definitely want to take it slow out there and be alert. live in santa rosa michelle kingston kron4 news thank you michelle, we'll check in with you throughout the morning. ( marty )crews in santa rosa were out in full force friday, preparing for the storm. kron 4's maureen kelly was there. we're anticipating up to 4 inches for the duration of the storm system. the 4 inches of rain is not necessarily the concern for us. it's the intensity so when we start looking and a half inch to an inch an hour that's definitely where we run into problems and for the potential for significant events to occur. santa rosa fire's assistant fire marshall says they've upped their resources in order to keep a closer eye on hillside areas affected by the northbay firestorm.....like the fountain grove area. we have additional fire fighters on hand a second battalion chief and we have roaming

patrol's going along going around our hillside community. public works and water apartment are both doing patrols both checking on our systems and making sure that things are flowing that need to be flowing so far the other big storms since the october fires have not reached their anticpated potential.....but this one could. but the city and sonoma county have had protective measures in place for months.....including grass wattles...which eariler this year kept hazaderous materials from fire ravaged homes from entering the watershed.....and now serve a new purpose.now the fire debris gone we have a lot of open muddy lots that's why it's critical those things we referred to as bmps best management practices remain in place that's those grass waddles, the erosion control measures because they really need to keep the silt and sentiments on the site and keep it from migrating onto the property and impacting our storm drain systemthis storm is also already creating problems outside the burn

zone. these men came to the municpial yard on stoney point road to load up on sandbags.we went to home depot to buy sandbags and try to buy 36 sandbags and they said they only had nine for us so we had to come here to get more sandbags otherwise our hot factory is going to flood (maureen)that sandbag filling station will be open 24 hours and is free to santa rosa city residents maureen kelly kron4 news106 bit 3 sot - ross video - audio afv: defaultmke north bay debris pkg.mxf00762436 00762441 ### asst. fire marshall paul lowenthal ### santa rosa fire dept.00762437 ### firezone mudslide santa rosaó1:36-1:39 dylan morris ### filling sandbags ó1:39-1:48 00403267 ### maureen kelly ( marty ) and in the east bay... the rain causing power outages, slick roads.. and for one lafayette family.. a dangerous surprise. kron 4's hermela aregawi has that story. (hermela) scary moments for this lafayette family.. when a tree comes crashing down into their home friday. crews were out cleaning it up bit by bit for most of the night..and fortunately no one was injured. road conditions in the east bay remained with the nonstop rain sherie and steve goulet/lafayettewell i'm contractor, i work all around the area and it's always a little bit of a drag dealing with traffic, there are always the accidents. people forget how to drive, just slowing

things down, what's scary is that people are flying past you 75 miles an hour in this pouring rain.hunter johnson/lafayettei've felt my car drift off a little bit but nothing too serious. i've had friends that have been in accidents because of rain, you know your breaks you're going to skid because of the rain you gotta give yourself that room. just keep both hands on the wheel be steady, be ready for anything that can happen out there you know. you don't want your car to turn and flip or anything like that.another issue caused by this rain.. power outages.. many in the pleasant hill area lost power for several hours.. vincent sumait/lafayetteleaving the contra costa pleasant hill, we saw a couple of apartment complexes on the way back home that didn't have power. it was actually a good maybe two or three blocks of apartment complexes that were completely out of power, you know you hear fire alarms going off and stuff like that so we kind of slowed down just to see if everybody was alright.pg & e says.. power was restored before 10 oclock at night. people in other easy bay cities includng oakland, berkeley, martinez and hayward also lost power due to the rain. pg& e says it'll have crews out working on those throughout the night.

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also find out if you need to file a return. ( dave )still tracking rain this morning. but an improved forecast for your weekend. your forecast is next !

( marty ) here's a live look at the embarcadero this morning. toss to weather. (dave)moderate to heavy rain

can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday.

( marty ) dramatic images from the north bay...marin county fire tweeted this video

of crews rescuing two people from a flooded car. it happened in sonoma county. because of the storm, marin firefighters were helping sonoma county fire with this rescue. the driver of this car tried to drive through flood waters...and got stuck. crews used a jet ski to reach the car and pull two people out. they also rescued two dogs. no one was hurt. ( marty ) here's a live look at yosemite this morning... ( marty ) officials are bracing for severe weather in many parts of the state. they are asking people planning to visit the yosemite valey to make other plans. as the approaching storm gained strength, officials announced that the valley would be closed today. rain drenching the foothills could trigger mudslides, making roadways hazardous. a river at the park's entrance is expected to rise nearly 15 feet -- which is well above flood stage.

lot of rain and higher temperatures at certain elevations which will melt the snow and combine with the rain.">( marty ) they plan to re-open the park as soon as the weather allows. ( marty ) our storm coverage continues now in the santa cruz mountains... where heavy rain is expected today. kron four's rob fladeboe was there tracking the flash flood watch. while not eaxctly a spring shower, the april surprise storm is making it's presence known here in felton and elsewhere in the santa cruz mountains. it has delivered an atmospheric river of woe on highway 17 where traffic has been plagued by several crashes amid what emergency services director rosemary anderson likes to call "storm amnesia," when drivers let their guard down.rosemary anderson/santa cruz county emergency services "....last year we had a beautiful spring, it was a beautiful summer and then a mild winter, people get complacent about what readiness really means, when they should be ready all the time..."that said, sandbags are avaiable all the time here

in paradise park along the san lorenzo river. there's only a slim chance the river could flood but residents will keep close watch on what happenes farther upstream says park manager paul polizzi.paul polizzi/paradise park manager "....it's not the water that we get here so much but it's the rain they get up high in the mountains, so even after it stops raining we have to be worried about it..." it rained good and hard overnight but then tapered off into a softer, more spring-like rain this afternoon. no major mud or rock slides have been reported and what's missing is the wind, which means few, if any downed trees and power lines. the santa cruz mountains appears to have escaped a direct hit, at least so far.rosemay anderson/emerge ncy services "....we are monitoring it closely, because of it takes a turn like atmospheric rivers sometimes do, then we would see an increase in our rain amounts into the evening and tomorrow, so we're really not sure what's going to happen with it..." ( marty ) that was kron four's rob

fladeboe reporting for us this morning. ( marty )coming up on the kron 4 weekend news... the giants were rained out, but the a's were in a slug fest with the angels. mark carpenter has the highlights... next in weekend sports.

when the a's opened the year against the angels, they had front row seats to the shohei ohtani show. seeing him pitch áand hit. tonight, they had a second viewing. --let's head down to l-a, the angels now have some stars on their roster. mike trout is one of them. --early on, the a's pounced right out of the gates. marcus semien... gets all of it to high and deep left center. a's ripped off 5-runs in the frame

to take a 6-nothing lead -bottom 2nd-- ohtani at the plate... gone.. the 3rd home run of the season for the japanese star. angels would claw all the way back to make it a one run game --then this happened in the 7th.. a's up 9-7..runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 out... matt chapman...throws it a little too strong, allowing the tying runs to come in game is knotted at 9 just a horrendous error for the athletics. --then on the very next batter...justin upton wastes no time. leaves no doubt about it... 3-run jack and boog powell would take a hard hit to the head. --angels roll 13-9. meanwhile, the giants were supposed to play the dodgers, but the storm made sure that didn't happen. for only the sixth time in at&t park history, a game was canceled due to rain. the last time it happened...12-years ago and we dug into the archives for this video. the game is rescheduled for saturday the 28th....and they will play a double header. tomorrow's game is still good to go, however it has been pushed back two hours to 3-05. this weekend, we'll see the tiger woods effect on display

because even though he barely made the cut... and the odds on favorite is now a longshot to win, people will still be locked in on 'el tigre' let's head to augusta...where it was a rough day for woods. coming off of a 73 in round 1, bogeyed his first hole... and then this happened on 5. his ball ends up in the forest... and would have to settle for a double bogey. ends the day 13-shots off the lead, just makes the weekend. . --moving on to the rest of the field, a lot of movement up top. jordan spieth...entered as the overnight leader...not as sharp as yesterday. double bogeyed to start his round, but he'd straighten out on the back nine to fire a 74 and is 5 shots back and tied for 4th --everyone is going after this man tomorrow. patrick reed...just a machine in round 2...birdied 9-times for a 66, his 2nd straight outing in the 60s. he is the sole leader at 9-under...but tiger... looking forward to saturday and

sunday... and that's sports. ( marty ) and make sure you tune into kron four hoop session tonight for your basketball fix. mark carpenter goes 1 on 1 with warriors center zaza pachulia as the dubs prepare playoffs. it's an will only see on the hoop session. it tips off tonight at 11. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. (michelle) a major spring storm is hitting the bay area. i'm live in santa rosa with the latest.

(ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) ( marty ) here's a live look at the bay bridge. ( marty ) dave spahr has your forecast...

(dave)moderate to heavy rain can be expected this morning as an atmospheric river moves through. drying conditions will develop saturday afternoon through monday with warmer temperatures. rain chances return tuesday with another chance wednesday or thursday.

( marty ) we're taking a look at stormtracker 4 radar. we're focused on the north bay where the storm has passed. but people are worried about flooding and mudslides. that's where we find kron 4's michelle kingston. michelle. we are still seeing that wet weather all across the bay area.i've been on the road since 4am and saw some real heavy rain in the east bay ... it was fairly steady in san francisco, but once i got on the 101 to head north to where we thought we'd see a lot of the rain -- it was nearly dry! votake a look at some of this video shot in the north bay yesterday ...you can see cars having some trouble in flooded areas.we know there were some power outages, a tree that

fell on a home and some flooding throughout the bay area, but here in santa rosa -- things were relatively calm. i actually just got off the phone with the fire marshal here in santa rosa who tells me it was a really quiet night and not at all like what they were anticipating.they thought they'd see a lot more heavy rain ... slicker roads ... but most of that was to the south. he says they really didn't have any rain related calls throughout the night.michelle there were a lot of puddles on 880, 80 and the 101 today for us.just because it isn't raining as hard anymore, doesn't mean the roads are dry. you definitely want to take it slow out there and be alert. live in santa rosa michelle kingston kron4 news thank you michelle, we'll check in with you throughout the morning. ( marty ) two weeks after the deadly crash of a tesla in the south bay. a new video has surfaced, showing how the car's auto-pilot may have steered the car into that barrier on highway 101.the accident last month killed the driver. here's what happened when another tesla driver tried to replicate what

happened. i decided to test that subsection of the road where that autopilot accident happened ...software developer shantanu joshi owns a tesla model s.as he approached the intersection of 101 and 85 in mountain view, he put his car on autopilot."... and the results are kinda freaky"with his hands off the wheel, the car begins to drift towards the barrier.he quickly took control.here it is again in slow motion.the company says its owner's manuals come with a long list of warnings..at the top is one saying "autopilot is intended for use only with a fully attentive driver."data recovered from the crashed vehicle indicated that the driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive. the driver's hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.tesla says the driver had about five seconds and 150 yards of unobstructed view of the approaching concrete divider.the vehicle logs showed that no action was taken.tesla says the model x

autosteer technology is not able to accurately determine lane markings.and in this case, the markings are not accurate.as you can see. the road striping leads directly toward the barrier.as for the severity of the crash, the company says it's never encountered anything like it. it blames caltrans for failing to repair the previously damaged steel safety barrier designed to protect the concrete lane divider.and says the autopilot feature has reduced crash rates by as percent. ( marty ) facebook c-e-o mark zuckerberg is preparing to testify before congress next week... he recently announced changes to facebook that he says will help prevent fake news and fake political ads kron 4's tech reporter gabe slate explains. facebook is introducing new rules for the facebook pages. pages are a lot different than regular profiles like most users haveuntil now pages

could be run anonymously. gathering millions of followers without facebook users ever knowing who runs them.free to influence users with whatever their agenda is. russian trolls did this is 2016 on the social network during the run up to the presidential election.facebook admitted to lawmakers more than 3,000 ads were bought by 470 fake accounts and pages run by a suspicious russain research agency.facebook believes those 470 russian accounts pushed russian propaganda that reached 150 million before they kicked them off the social network. they did this through ads targeting facebook users on hot-button topics like gun rights, gay rights, religion and presidential candidates trump and hillary clinton.on a conference call with reporters recently mark zuckerberg said they are taking steps to preven this from happening again.sound from marck zuckerberg - ceo of facebook. "we were optimistic at first, too much so, now it's clear we need to focus more on protecting people"in a facebook post on friday mark zuckerberg announced going forwardpeople who run pages with "large numbers of followers" will need to be verified."to get authorized by facebook, advertisers will need to confirm their identity and location. if the "advertisers do not verify. will be prohibited from running any political, electoral, or issue-based ads, until they are authorized.in addition to stricter regulation on the advertisers

and page operators the social network will now clearly label political ads a banner will show up in the top left corner and next to that they will show a "paid for by" sticker so people know where the ad is coming from. coming up on the kron 4 weekend news.... new details on the youtube shooter... including the type of gun the shooter used during her rampage... and why the fbi says female shooters are rare.

new details from the investigation into tuesday's deadly shooting at youtube headquarters in san bruno. we're learning more about how the shooter -- 39-year-old

nasim aghdam -- got ahold of her gun. kron four's philippe djegal reports from san bruno where he spoke with police and city leaders. (philippe) on january 16th... san bruno police commander geoff caldwell says nasim aghdam legally purchased the gun she used in tuesday's shooting from a gun shop in san diego. a 9 millimeter smith and wesson pistol similar to this one. commander caldwell says aghdam opened fire at youtube headquaters, shooting several rounds... then reloaded another magazine, and continued firing before turning the gun on herself. rico medina/mayor- "it does shake the community -- it was a crisis." san bruno mayor rico medina, says he's working with city manager connie jackson and other local agencies to try to move forward... evaluate what happened, and find ways to prevent another shooting like this. for the first time since it was lockeddown tuesday -- youtube headquarters is back open. though police and security guards are still monitoring all e ntries and exits.

jackson says the first three officers on-scene tuesday entered the building quickly and helped minimize the damage. connie jackson/city manager- they deployed in a spectacular manner and we are very very proud, uh, not only of the work they did, but the results." shortly after the incident... san bruno police say six officers traveled down to southern california... and with help from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives... executed two search warrants related to this case. those officers returned to the bay area wednesday night. the 36-year-old man who was critically injured during the shooting is the only victim still receiving treatment at san francisco general hospital. his condition has been upgraded to fair. in san bruno, philippe djegal, kron four news. coming up on the kron 4 morning news... if mindless eating is getting in the way of your weight loss goals... you'll want to stay with us. our health expert karen owoc is here... giving us the skinny on how to combat those cravings.

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one" blasted it's way to a big box office win last weekend. and this weekend, it's defending its title against four new films. david daniel looks at whether any of them has a chance to dethrone the

champ. "...fighting a massive invasion...""...around the world...""...an attack..." "...total devastation..." (nat) "a quiet place" could make a loud splash at the box office this weekend. emily blunt and john krasinski star in the thriller about a family hiding from creatures who hunt by sound. opening weekend estimates range from 20- million dollars to as much as 30-million... possibly enough to top the chart.(singing) "we're gonna light it up like it's prom night!"the r-rated comedy "blockers" is about three teenage girls who decide to lose their virginities on prom night, and their parents' attempts to stop them. box office watchers expect a debut of 16-to-20 million dollars. "my dad once said to me... tragedy has a way of defining people."two other films figure to make more modest debuts. "chappaquiddick" is based on the 19-69 incident involving senator ted kennedy, played by jason clarke. it's looking at a two-to-four million dollar opening."how many schools do you think have one of these? dozens. how many teams have earned two back-to-back? almost none.""the miracle

season" is also based on a true story, about a high school volleyball team dealing with the death of their captain. it's tracking to score three-million dollars in its debut. in hollywood, i'm david daniel. adlib seven day. thats kron 4 news weekend for this saturday morning... i'm marty gonzalez. from all of us thanks for watching. join us for kron4 news weekend tomorrow morning starting at 8 o'clock ... and tonight for kron 4 news at eight.

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is sponsored by russell's fine furniture. (upbeat music) - oh good grief. yes, time is short, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to bay area bargains. we are at russell's fine furniture in santa clara as we have been for many years now. today is special. because today, can i get a little sad music there? today we are bidding a fond farewell to richard russell, the founder of russell's fine furniture here. try to look sad, thank you. the founder of russell's fine furniture in santa clara. josh, his grandson, is gonna be taking over. try to look sad, thank you. and so richard is retiring. and richard has memories, unbelievable. - i kept a few of them in the back room