>> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> good saturday morning. thanks for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm noelle bellow. we've got dave spahr here to talk a little bit about the rain that is expected for today. saturday march 19th. dave, i know some spots are already getting a little bit of drizzle this morning, it's not a big dumping. no, but it's a strange substance. you know, it's it's liquid water. that's what we're looking at in this forecast. know, i love that and it's not even spring technically. so we're in the with winter season. storm tracker 4. this is no. i was mentioning we are getting a

little bit trying to traverse up here in the north. a typical winter type scenario coming in from the northwest. going to go through. >> to the southeast. now we do have a layer of the atmosphere. that's a little dry right above us. so it's going to take a while to kind of saturate that air pocket in 2 start to head to the ground. so the radar says it sees that, but you may not actually be getting. it will be tracking it this morning. but starting punter of penetrate a little bit into marine county and the next stop across the region here is to be the east bay through san francisco peninsula. and so on. and it looks like already hit kind of the big first spurt. here is reproach, rubble, lunch hour or so. so the morning is going to be kind of that drizzle thing working on its action. and then building for kind of a good kind of moderate rain going on by high noon. there you have the cloud cover the golden gate. a good little surface fog, but it's mostly the cloud cover. so you can tell that the skies are up to something east bay shoreline in for if if you full view temperature check, we got the lower 50's and hand because we have a lot of cloud cover overnight 49 fremont. 48 half moon bay. but most readings in

the 50's, which is a little warmer than we were this time from yesterday. again, cloud cover is working with that. what a mention about the fog here. we usually track it for the first couple of hours in the morning hours. yeah, but into the afternoon, it's interesting because that's we see a little pop happening and we get into the afternoon. that's that moderate rain shower activity, kind of working and here in the kind of clears out as we go into the evening hours, breaking your day down, goes like this. got some showers developing at 08:00am by 11, a little break. and then too, that's the light rain moderate, however, in spots with temperatures in the 50's, we'll be going through with you in the maps in terms of the projections with all of this and take a look at some rain also into next weekend as well. noel. all right. thank you, dave. >> even though the bay area is getting some of that much needed rain today, the state department of water says they have to cut back on the amount of water supplies that they're able to deliver to local agencies. kron four's camila barco is joining us live now in san francisco with a little bit more on the impact. camila.

>> as you can see, it's still dry out here in san francisco. we're expecting some rainfall at some time this morning and going to need every last bit of it. we can. the department of water resources says that january and february were the historically dry months. and because of that, they have to cut back on the water supply that they can deliver to local agencies across the state. take a look at this. these are the drought conditions. we're waking up to this morning. you can see a majority of the bay area is shaded in orange. and that means that the bay area is in a severe drought. and if you look a little bit to your left, you can see a little bit of sonoma county is under an extreme drought. and that's why today's rain is needed. we did welcome a few small doses of rain over the last month or so. however, it wasn't enough to escape drought conditions and that is going to be affecting the state water project. that project is a system of reservoirs, canals and dams that feat 29 water agencies across the state and

it helps provide water for millions of californians. california water officials say that they're cutting allocations from 15 to 5%. they're warning people to brace for a 3rd year of drought conditions. and forecasters are also predicting no big rain storms for march. and it's also important to know that right now statewide reservoir levels are about 70% of average. i know while the department of water resources is going to be making its next assessment for its allocation on april first. and hopefully by then we can hear some good news for now come. a little check in with you again in the next hour. see if any of that rain has reached san francisco. thank you. >> for that live report in other news this morning, one of the men accused of shooting and killing kron 4 security guard kevin nishita made his first court appearance on friday. should mid mitchell is one of 3 men charged with me. she does murder. was shot and killed back in november while

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counties here locally in the bay area had already gone into a stay at home order days prior as covid-19 was starting to spread rapidly. people across california were supposed to stay at home unless they were going out to get us a state like food, medicine or health care. 2 years later, things are quite a bit different here. data from the state's covid-19 dashboard shows california's averaging almost 2800 cases a day. those low case numbers have prompted the state and bay area counties to drop mask mandates and vaccine requirements. speaking of dropping mandates starting april first. this is not an april fool's joke. the state's going to be dropping the requirement for proof of vaccination or a negative covid test for indoor events and indoor mega event is any gathering of 1000 people or more. state officials say they're going to change the requirement into a strong recommendation. counties will get to decide whether to follow the state guidance or keep up with their own mandate. the oakland unified

school district is changing its masking policy starting on monday. masks are going to be optional outdoors. so when kids are at lunch or recess, but students, staff and visitors will still be required to mask up inside buildings and in classrooms. the district says concerns over spring break is why their mask mandate remains in place right now. they are going to be waiting until least april 15th to make a decision on dropping the masks. in the meantime, the district is going to be providing at-home test kits for all students and staff by the last week of march. just ahead of spring break. dave, i know spring is coming for us, but we've got some rain spring yeah, we do in the last full day of winter as well as we got today. there it is on radar. you can see it trying to march into the north bay a little bit. it's fighting to some dry air, but we have a dose of some moderate showers by the noon hour. >> we'll be tracking it for the kron. 4 morning news the kron. 4 morning news continues. everyone remembers the moment they heard... “you have cancer.”

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right. it is time now for a check of your weather forecast. we've got dave spahr here. talk a little bit about this rain that we're getting >> much a very, pretty dry right now. but i'd see north bay is still getting some some sprinkles well. it is aloft. the thing is he's got to fight to some dry air. still to mid layers of the atmosphere that's we're looking for right now this morning for that to saturate up, there is some deeper moisture behind that. that's the big golden nugget for us. >> as we get to around the noon hour into the early afternoon, the pictures for you this the east bay shoreline, again, cloud cover off towards the distance golden gate bridge. there you see at the low level moisture in place with the cloud cover. so that's going to be around just about all day today. only topped off a little bit of a wind to that. we'll see in the evening hours. so this isn't a motion. you can see from a large piece of geography. looks like a clear-out upstream. that's kind of tonight in our sunday. so the weekend is not a loss. it's just for really the next about 6 to 8 hours or so that with the sole traverse across

temperature check were mostly in the lower 50's. 48 for half moon bay. 49 for fremont center rose at 46 future cast for this is how it rolls on in. but this is the big pulse, as you can see with the deeper moisture to the after the atmosphere is kind of unsaturated. so it doesn't up the fight to that virga thing. as you can see getting into the afternoon hours. that's the big heavy lift and then clearing out already 4 our sunday. again, this is going to come with some winds, some scattered clouds kind of left over for sunday, but at least works on that overnight into monday. we should be going more much more into the clear with this high pressure building and a little warm up for you by the middle of the week. i want to jump to the humidity because obviously today, yes, filled with green. we've got rain going on. big surprise. but i want to show you how quickly at least the surface it dries out. this is tomorrow at around noon from 24 hours ago, we're getting a good moderate rain to this with humidity level readings into the 20's and this will be with high temperatures will be in the mid 60's going on at that time, too. so here's the recovery as we get into monday

morning as well. so kind of turns into a dry scenario, relatively speaking in a very short order. back to those winds. by the way. so the system, paul says for us with the heavier rain early into the afternoon here in the evening hours. again, a group, a good, strong onshore wind left over for our sunday morning. but a bit of an offshore wind try to develop the run. solano county just a bit. but again, we're insulated because this recent rain, winds kind of depart, high pressure builds and we go into the doldrums again. that's free. familiar to us in the winter or summer months with the heat spike, the same set up except it's a lot earlier in the season and very much. welcome with nice spring weather today. we've got rain and showers, breezy, cool high into the 50's. but then tomorrow pouncing to the 60's near 70 going on in love with mostly sunny skies and warmer again. a few scattered clouds kind of passed by the next week, mostly sunny, sunny, major warming at hand here. we're talking middle 80's going on inland. yeah, middle 80's. so you can go flavor spring going on today. 57 san francisco. 58 for oakland, 60

san jose and expect that rain again. 12, 1 o'clock for the heavier dose coming up a bit. we'll take it with a longer range forecast. good morning. that heat spike going on here for you. and also the extended as well. well. thank you, dave. >> turning now to the latest on the war in ukraine. ukraine's prosecutor general is accusing russia of kidnapping a ukrainian journalist who was covering the invasion. the official posted on facebook yesterday saying russia's federal security service and russian forces kidnapped the journalist on tuesday from a port city in southeast region of ukraine. the official says the journalist was reporting on the developments of the invasion, the eastern and southern parts of the country. the official didn't identify the journalists but the news outlet she worked for says her name is victoria rush keena and they lost contact with her last week. meanwhile, ukraine's deputy prime minister says russia and ukraine agreed to operate 10 humanitarian corridors. those include a court, our from our poll, several near kiev and

others. a ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, says more than 9,000 people have been able to our poll alone within the past day, the city's been constantly attacked by russian forces and it's been cut off now from food, water and medicine. president biden spoke with the president of china for the first time on friday about the crisis in ukraine. there video call lasting about 2 hours. president biden warned the president paying not to provide military or economic support to russia. china's foreign ministry was the first to issue a read out of the conversation saying, quote, conflict and confrontation was not in anyone's interest. china stop short of assigning blame to russia but did accuse the united states of fueling the ongoing conflict by shipping arms to ukraine. now, as the war intensifies, there is a growing need for medical supplies. a kron four's gayle ong shows us how one bay area

nonprofit is working to send essential medical supplies to ukraine and the surrounding areas. >> this is a somewhat unusual situation. measure director dennis robinson says the nonprofit typically response to natural disasters, but that changed after the first russian missile strike hit ukraine last month and the need for supplies has changed in the space of about 2 weeks. >> we went from real drastic need for hygiene kits to medical supply, the course of about the next week that evolved into more requests for sutures and turn. it gets more actual hard medical supplies because now fighting escalated and you're starting to see more injuries meant share sources and delivers surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world. >> with senators in georgia, new jersey, the warehouse in san leandro ships 50% of the supplies. >> for the last 3 weeks, the nonprofit has been coordinating with other

nonprofits on the ground in ukraine. now. >> you're seeing more destruction of medical infrastructure. so as hospitals are destroyed and clinics and places like that, now you hospital and things like that to replace the equipment and supplies that have been destroyed with the war intensifying men share is offering up to 100 pounds of supplies at no cost. >> to any medical mission teams traveling to the region. we were compelled to respond immediately and have the opportunity to do so. >> due to the generosity of some of our partners and and some of that medical teams that we're going to make an impact. and we anticipate that we will be involved in the region for quite some time. >> and if you would like to drop off donations or volunteer at med shares san leandro warehouse, you can just make an appointment reporting from san leandro. gayle ong kron. 4 news. >> to get the latest updates on the war in ukraine. all you have to do is head to kron 4 dot com. you can scan the qr code that you see on your

screen and you'll be directed straight to our website. all right. still ahead here on the kron, 4 morning news, stanford women on the way to their second round of the ncaa tournament. >> we've got details on who they'll play next. plus, we are tracking rain across the bay area. taking a live look at stormtracker 4 radar where we see a little bit of rain headed there to the north bay. right now we've got more details ahead after the break.

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>> and now kron 4 sports. >> favorite against their point of montana state. and that was the outcome. head coach tara vanderveer, her 33rd ncaa tournament. 1st quarter of this game. anna wilson. nice dish underneath to fran belibi 11, nothing cardinal wilson's big bro russell liking it still in the 1st quarter. cameron brink scores down low 20 zip stanford after the 1st quarter. well, we've got to the second the levy with the block. and look at what you've got. the ball on the brake throws it down. with one hand, we've got to take a couple more looks at this one. believe you with a 3rd. don't. >> stanford career at first in the ncaa tournament. woman since britney griner in 2013. >> by the way, her teammates going crazy after slams it. as does everyone at maples pavilion, even russell wilson on his feet for this one. got

to love it. all right. hannah jump one of her 5, 3, pointers. vanderveer has pledged $10 for every 3. the cardinal make to humanitarian relief and ukraine. she said she wrecked of $130. they had 9 total other coaches that followed her lead and joined in the effort as well. final score 78 to 37 stanford. they play kansas in the second round of the tournament. all right. from the college ranks to the pros we go. word up. nation has been in anguish. just waiting to learn the fate of their superstar. the warriors announced steph curry. >> has a sprained a ligament in his left foot and he will be reevaluated in 2 weeks now. that's after he had an mri wednesday night, to leave golden state's game against the celtics after boston guard marcus smart rolled up on his ankle going for the ball. no team wants to lose their best player during this final stretch of the season here. but head coach steve kerr said the warriors are trying to look on the bright side. >> he's going to be rejuvenated recharged. after

this time off. you remember last year the midst 8 or 9 games of the 2 bodies. amazing the next, you know, month or 2, partly because he was able to recharge his batteries. so the silver lining is that staff will. we'll get a break for the playoffs assuming everything goes now he'll be he'll be ready roll. it is so long to a rising star in the coaching world usf dons head coach todd golden is headed. >> to the sunshine state, taking over as head coach for university of florida. the dons are coming off their first ncaa tournament appearance since 1998, in 3 years with the team. golden has continued to build upon the success of the program. under his predecessor, kyle smith. golden finished his time at usf with a 56 to 37 record. his deal with the gators is reportedly rich. 1, 6, year contract. 3 million

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>> welcome back about 7.30, here on this saturday morning. almost got excited. cuz, it looks like more rain is hitting a other parts of the bay. important. still striking of the more sun up the ground or something atmosphere little bit in. the rain will come just a little delay to get started. sometimes will slow to get started. you know, shock to the whole system. the atmosphere is going. what's this this part of physics i'm supposed to do. we have cold rain and we're getting some finally. this is all delayed here it looks very impressive on here. but for striking the ground, a lot of it's being evaporated. but the deeper moisture still upstream in this as we approach around the noon hour, we'll start to get some good moderate rain showers across the bay. beauty shot for you if you will. still, you can see kind of a gloomy skies off towards the distance of the east bay shoreline into motion. you'll see kind of a clear patch all the way back here that due to arrive as we go into the evening hours with some winds, too. so this will just be during the day today. timing

may not be perfect but will make up for tomorrow on that front. so breaking down your day again, cloudy turns to showers. turns to light rain in spots. but again, we're going to be vetted moderate showers at times as a little sidebar with this, too. if you happen to hear the crackle thunder center imagination, there's some of that thrown in here, too, because the air above us is a little on the cold side. so that need ride that and potentially some hail in some spots too lower 50's. we stand at currently. 46 up to santa rosa. 51 san jose in our forecast. 57 for san francisco. 58 for oakland, 60 san jose. that's about it for today's highs. upper 50's on that noticeably warmer tomorrow with a lot of sunshine and bull. we hit the octane for the temperatures by the middle of next week. we're going to be pushing into the 80's. your extended forecast coming up in a bit. noel. >> police in the south bay made an arrest in what's being categorized as a dangerous social media challenge. it's called the orbeez challenge. we're teenagers use a gel ball

gun to shoot water pellets at people. in some cases, the shootings of cars and painful injuries. kron four's dan thorn talk to police with details on the incident. >> these tiny gel water beads might not seem like much, but police say they're part of a dangerous game called the orbeez challenge. the social media trend is had teens using an air soft or gel ball gun to shoot these circular water pellets at unsuspecting people. what we're finding is they're taking this and really causing some a little bit of chaos. sergeant marty built with pleasanton pd says they've heard from at least 4 victims who have been painfully shot with these gel water. >> pleasanton police along with other departments in several other cities have been warning their communities about the shootings and it's being taken seriously. we're talking about a potential and what could be a misdemeanor because you have a battery. >> or possibly other charges to felony. you really causing injury to a a body parts such as an eye.

>> morgan hill police arrested a teen on thursday after 2 people who were walking down the street were shot with water pellets. police say this be blaster was found in the back seat of a car used in the drive-by across the country. in georgia, police shared these pictures of a child who was shot by a group of teens. sergeant bill tells kron 4 news. he's hoping parents can talk with their kids about this dangerous prank. if your children own one of these, i think it's very important that you have these conversations, frank, certain conversations that it's kind of 0 tolerance. if we do catch you, there could be some serious consequences with us. >> reporting in pleasanton, dan thorn kron. 4 news. >> we do have a photo of a 13 year-old boy who was killed in a crash thursday in mountain view. the santa clara county coroner's office identifying him as georgia. george seda. police say the teenager was riding his bicycle to school thursday morning when he got hit by a dump truck at the

intersection of el camino real and grant road of was a student at graham middle school. there's now a growing memorial at the site of the crash. 2 boys aged 14 17 and an 18 year-old man from sacramento have all been arrested in the north bay after police say they were involved in 2 armed robberies. those robberies happened in petaluma and santa rosa thursday night. investigators say the first one happened at a in petaluma at a cbs store on north mcdowell boulevard around 06:30pm, employees there said to people with handguns demanded prescription pills and then drove off in a white sedan. that about an hour later. santa rosa police received a similar report at another cbs store officers soon located the 3 suspects on highway one. 0, one in petaluma. all 3 are set to be in custody. in the east bay. san ramon police are asking for the public's help in finding these 2 teen girls. officers say 16 year-old ruby

gonzalez and 15 year-old mean a con ran away from their homes on wednesday. ruby was last seen wearing black jeans, a black zip-up sweater and black converse shoes. mina last seen wearing baggy jeans and a hooded sweatshirt. if you have any information on their whereabouts, you're asked to contact san ramon police. the family of 8 year-old sophia mason is going to be holding a vigil tonight in front of hayward city hall. it will start at 7 this evening. last friday, police found sophia's body at her mother's boyfriend's home. anmer said her mother, samantha johnson has since been arrested. but police are still looking for the boyfriend. 34 year old dante jackson. he is still on the run this morning. coming up on the ground for morning news, republicans accusing biden supreme court pick of being soft on crime. why they say she's sympathetic to criminals.

>> and here at home continuing to track the rain across the bay area. taking a live look at stormtracker 4 radar. lot of moisture in the air. not a lot of rain hitting the ground just yet, though. we'll have details after the break.

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limited availability. >> welcome it's time for a check of your weather forecast. a spark new shot syria television's you think it's so easy that especially on a big day. today is a big day when whenever we get rain, i know daves excited because know it's just it's been forever since the jurassic era since we had some like real rain get some this afternoon story. but the timing isn't really the best here going on. that's we're looking at here. it is on storm tracker. 4. we do see rain actually over the real estate, but it has go through some dry air before it actually reaches the ground. so there you have it. the juice, your stuff, upstream. so give us a little time to march across the region to get that moderate rain. by the time we get the middle of the day, this comes with the winter type weather up in the mountains. this is true for today. now we have a winter weather advisory technically doesn't hit tahoe but elsewhere, maybe even pick up maybe half a foot of snow with all of this, too. and it's all

compacted to today. so after the witching hour, while the be technically maybe some more snow going on sunday should be clearing out with all of this. so you're still want to take a trip up there and so forth, that should not have too much trouble getting back home if you're there for a couple of days, you're going to see a big time seasonal change going on this. just a peak of that. we're going to be in the 40's tomorrow. now, not today, tomorrow into the 40's. 54 monday, tuesday, up to 59 might even reach some 60. so temperatures in tahoe by the middle of the week are going to be warmer than they are here today. that's not a good thing with the seats by because we're losing some of that snow that's being collected to that may swell up the rivers a little bit with some of that melting going on with temperatures into the 60's, although melting does tend to fight the temperature, climb a little bit. there you have it on the satellite and radar. what's going on with all of this are big line we've you can see in the satellite picture and again to enunciate the fact we might get a couple claps of thunder thrown in there just because of the ice crystals developing and so forth. so that's a

possibility. might get some hail to potentially. but the bigger issue most people want to get is yes, the rain and here it is on radar. but look how compact it is right for us. like a 6 hour opportunity. and then boom, we start to clear out which will happen for your sunday amounts. okay. they're not real world but again, we're talking about having a fight to some of this rain to get to the surface. these numbers have dropped off a little bit know maybe a nickel or dime for everybody going forward is a possibility to get through all of this. and again, the zenith of the activity will happen in the early afternoon. then you see the afternoon calculated with that. that's where gets a better dose because by that point, the atmosphere already moistened. so right now we're moisten the atmosphere. then a few more hours, we're able to go right through. it won't have that kind of resistance. here's what happens. long term. we've got that first hit going on today, clearing a little bit on sunday and also into next week. thursday may be some scattered clouds, but hold it. here's what's real interesting as we get into next that's juicy to mountain

snows with. that's what the cold system as well. just what the doctor ordered. and that again is for next weekend. looks like that will linger into sunday temperature. check for you today. role in the upper 50's. again, we may see tahoe, but in this by wednesday, tomorrow already impressive changes in one day course will be a lot of sun out mid to upper 60's found the far east bay. 69 for santa rosa in the seven-day forecast. look at this. the season's do change. 57 today sunday. 66, by the way, spring gets here tomorrow at 8.33. our time. but we're popping into the lower 80's tuesday and into wednesday. before we start to slip back a little bit finishing off the week. well. thank you, dave. the u.s. house has voted to ban hair discrimination on a federal level. the crown act says discrimination on the basis of hairstyles or hair texture is a violation of federal civil rights. the bill now goes to the senate where its fate is a bit uncertain. >> president biden has said he will sign the bill if it

reaches his desk all but 14 republicans have voted against the measure, calling it unnecessary and a distraction. they point to the fact that protections against hair discrimination already exist in several federal laws. governor newsome did sign the crown act into law here in california back in 2019. a republican senator is on the attack against president biden. supreme court pick ketanji brown jackson launching some harsh allegations against the judge. now democrats are hitting back correspondent raquel martin reports from washington. >> rangers claim illinois democratic senator durbin is slamming republican senator josh hawley. he says the missouri senator is intentionally spreading lies about president biden's supreme court pick. judge brown jackson is holly is accusing judge jackson of being too soft on crime, particularly crimes against children. she has a record of being consistently lenient too

soft on child offenders. hawley says after combing through jackson's record, he's found major red flags. she's question whether or not there ought to be a offender registry. i think it's very serious. but senator durbin says there's a reason judge jackson has the support of the fraternal order of police and also the international association of chiefs of police. >> and also why no other senate republicans are backing senator hawley's claim is just not true sort of that. senator hawley, who was a >> surely for the insurrections. mama january 6 is referred in the white house agrees. this attack that we've seen over the last couple of days. we're live on factual inaccuracies and taking judge jackson's record wildly out of context. still, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says he's concerned judge jackson's time as a public defender made her sympathetic to criminals additional nominee really does have special episode for some parties over others. >> a shot of it's a problem. still, he promises next week's

hearings will be civil serious and they're process. american people need answers to more important questions that what somebody wrote in the nominees, high school yearbook in washington, raquel martin. >> california senator alex padilla serves on the judiciary committee. so he's going to play a key role in next week's hearings. he paid a visit to south san francisco high school this week to hold a roundtable with students about the hearing process and the significance of judge jackson's nomination. >> i think it's an important opportunity to share with young people what it really means. every supreme court nomination is important, but this one is historic and why representation matters and the highest court in land. >> if judge jackson's npnomination is of the senate judiciary committee, a final confirmation hearing will be expected by the end of the month.

>> alaska, u.s. representative don young, the longest-serving member of congress has died. young is a republican and he was first elected to the u.s. house back in 1973. >> and he held that seat until yesterday. he was known for his abrupt style, which in his later years is in office, sometimes overshadowed his work young was born back on june 9th 1933. in meridian, california. he came to alaska in 1959. the same year, alaska became a state he credited jack london's call of the wild, which his father used to read to him for drawing him north young was 88 years old. stick with us. kron. morning news continues after the break.

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>> good saturday morning. thanks for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm noelle bellow got dave spahr standing by here as we are expecting some rain all across the bay today. it's already kind of started in some spots, a good chunk of the bay is still waiting on their to still win for the deeper moisture, noel. and that's what we're expecting for around the noon hour. short of this afternoon. clearing out in time for your sunday. so the weekend is still. >> kind of a decent package. we certainly need the rain that we're getting and mountain snows, by the way. but here's the deeper moisture just out to see some of this already making its way through an inch and thus far so you can see the progress already being made. but the radar looks juice here than actually getting. so that's what's cheating us, if you will. it's not so much what's coming from the ground is having to fight to some dry air. then the deeper moisture upstream. we expect as we approach around the noon hour, getting some radar echoes all the way up the concord, as you can see, extending back a little bit to the east bay shoreline. so putting into motion, you will see where it's all coming

from. pretty much looks like it's due west, too east with a little bit of a parking here to traverse town to the south east later in the day. so you folks and the alameda county will get latest. then the south bay probably last a long the journey. there's shot of the golden gate bridge and looks like a little bit away. wet roads going on here. just getting started buying this windshield wiper action. there's the east bay shoreline in the bay right behind it. temperature check. how we do now. lower 50's to middle 50's in some spots already any aka. 55. 46, santa rosa, by the way. but for comparison, we're already ahead of where we were yesterday. reason being was that the cloud cover overnight kept the temperatures a little supported on that. want to show you the fog real quick because in theory of breaks up, you know, around noon, we're always talking about this case. does the reverse of the afternoon? this is because a little false that we get say around noon one or 2 o'clock in with all of that, all the surface moisture will give you

a little bit of that fog. you feel a bit until that clears out again for tonight. it looks like and we actually do dry out the atmosphere pretty quickly. it looks like by tomorrow into monday, cloudy at high noon, depending on where you are. then here comes that second wave there with some moderate rain showers as we get to the afternoon, temperatures hold steady for much of the day. coming up in a bit. we'll show you the forecast models with all of that going forward. let you know is going to happen on your sunday. well, we will take all we can get. dave, thank you for that. of course, even though the bay area is getting that much needed rain today. >> the state department of water says they have to cut back on the amount of water supplies they're able to deliver to local agencies. kron four's camila barco is joining us live in san francisco with more on the impact. camila. still no rain out there this morning >> well, i guess you can't see it through the camera lens, but i'm feeling a few droplets over here. maybe it will pick up later on this morning or this afternoon, but no, well, we'll take it. we know it's been dry and the department of

water resources says that january and february were historically dry months. and because of that, they're going to have to cut back on the water on how much water they can deliver to local agencies across the state. now, take a look at this. these are the current conditions. we're waking up to this morning. you can see it is me. these are the current drought conditions. we're waking up to this morning. you can see a majority of the bay area is shaded in orange and that means the bay area is in a severe drought. if you look to your left, you'll see that a little bit of sonoma county is under an extreme drought. so any rain is needed. we did welcome a few small doses of rain over the last month or so. however, it wasn't enough to escape drought conditions in that is going to be affecting the state water project. that project is a system of reservoirs, canals and dams. >> that feat 29 water agencies across the state. it also helps provide water for millions of californians. now state water officials say that

they're cutting allocations from 15 to 5% and the warning people to brace for a 3rd year of drought conditions. forecasters are also predicting no big rain storms for this month. and it's also important to note that right now statewide reservoir levels are at about 70% of average. and while the department of water resources says that they're going to be making their next assessment as to how much allocation they're going to get to these local agencies. april, first, back to you doing all we can conserve water at home as well. camila. >> thank you for that live report. we'll check in with you again in the next hour. maybe a little bit more rain on you. then new this morning. we do want to let you know, the mount diablo unified school district and the county's teachers association have reached a tentative deal. >> on salary and class sizes. teachers, students and their families route rallying yesterday to demand salary increases for teachers. this new deal gives them just that.

the agreement includes a 10.5% increase over 3 years. it also preserves prep time for 4th and 5th grade. teachers. this new deal also ensures the new state law regarding staffing ratios in kindergarten classes will be followed statements from both the teachers union and the district say the groups believe this settlement is the best agreement possible. big story. we are continuing to follow one of the men accused of shooting and killing kron. 4 security guard kevin nishita made his first a court appearance on friday. should de mitchell is one of 3 men charged with me. she does murder. she was shot and killed back in november while on assignment with one of our reporters in oakland mitchell's hearing lasted less than 2 minutes. his public defenders requests to postpone the arraignment. for 3 weeks was granted by the judge which essentially delayed the entry of his plea. i'm hoping today

that there will be clarity and understanding. of this senseless act and other acts of violence. so today. god be with. mitchell is due back in court on april 15th. he will remain in jail without bail. until then he was arrested in san francisco. just back on wednesday and booked into custody thursday. police say 2 other men were also involved in the crime. hershel hale and lebron gilbert. gilbert is still at large. but all 3 have already been charged with murder, attempted second-degree robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. after learning the identities of the 3 suspects charged for the murder of nishida and their alleged ties to a san francisco gang. the san francisco police officers association tweeted out that throwing out gang enhancement penalties was a mistake. but the city's public defender's office use it a bit differently. kron four's haaziq madyun has that story.

>> before i was the the union. i was actually working cop and a baby district. so i was very familiar with one of and mister hale. herschel hill is one of the 3 suspects with alleged ties to a san francisco day who has been charged for the murder of retired police officer kevin nishita. >> having knowledge of his criminal history, the acting president of the san francisco police officers association, lieutenant tracy mcrae says social hill should have been behind bars instead of on the street. today the was gunned down 3 attempted murder weapons charges. i mean, he's a serious. >> crimes that this gentleman was committing. knowing the track that he was on. it's unfortunate that he is now involved something that ended in someone losing their life because the writing was on the wall. you can see that back in 2021, california governor gavin newsom approved several

criminal reform bills restricting enhancements that it's several years to the sentences of people convicted in gang-related crimes. lieutenant mcrae believes that was a costly mistake. >> with what she says are deadly results seen here on the streets in the bay area. a person died as a result. >> the system really failing potential victims in the future and not hold these young men accountable. >> the welsh at the san francisco public defender's office takes a different view of the state reform. again, it has been penalties. the first there's no evidence that charging gained enhanced mint increases public safety. the police made that assertion. there's no evidence for it. they overwhelmingly target communities of color. it's based on the area in which they live. so how do you the reality of those statistics with what we just talked about? >> i mean, you know, it starts basically starts in the home, right? and it's unfortunate,

yes, that these young men, these young black men are are seeking acceptance in a form of doing violence. that is not acceptable. has the lead you kron 4 news? >> coming up here on the kron, 4 morning news moderna and pfizer applying for fda approval of another booster shot. we're going to explain how the requests differ from each other. plus, police warning people about a popular tiktok challenge. why they say the trend is dangerous. and we are tracking rain across the bay area. taking a live look at stormtracker 4 radar. more moisture across the bay at this hour than last. but how much of it is actually reaching the ground got dave spahr after the break.

>> welcome back. 8.11 on this saturday morning. and police in the south bay made an arrest in what's being categorized as a dangerous social media challenge. it's called the orbeez challenge. we're teenagers are using a gel ball gun to shoot water pellets at people. in some cases, those shootings have caused some painful injuries. kron four's dan thorn spoke with police. >> these tiny gelb water beads might not seem like much. but police say they're part of a dangerous game called the orbeez challenge. the social media trend is had teens using an air soft or gel ball gun to shoot these circular water pellets at unsuspecting people. what we're finding is

that they're taking this and really causing some a little bit of chaos. sergeant marty built with pleasanton pd says they've heard from at least 4 victims who have been painfully shot with these gel water, pleasanton police along with other departments in several other cities have been warning their communities about the shootings and it's being taken seriously. we're talking about potential what could be a misdemeanor because you have a battery. >> or possibly other charges to felony. you really causing injury to a a body parts such as an eye. >> morgan hill police arrested a teen on thursday after 2 people who were walking down the street were shot with water pellets. police say this be blaster was found in the back seat of a car used in the drive-by across the country. in georgia, police shared these pictures of a child who was shot by a group of teens. sergeant bill tells kron 4 news. he's hoping parents can talk with their kids about this dangerous prank. if your children own one of these, i think it's very important that

you have these conversations, frank, certain conversations that it's kind of 0 tolerance. if we do catch you, there could be some serious consequences with us. >> reporting in pleasanton, dan thorn kron. 4 news. >> and some light rain making its way across parts of the north bay for now. but the bigger shoe yet to fall, as you can will be a heavy rain, though, the we're looking for today. but certainly a notable rain shower that we've got going on today. there is more far upstream. the kron 4 morning news continues.

>> 15, it is time for another check of our weather forecast as we monitor the rain that is falling here, dave, we've been raining waiting for some rain and yeah, spring is coming tomorrow tomorrow. know it's nice to get a little shower before that. i guess we'll get some of the rain going on here in a beautiful week ahead to a few road warmest. we've got that in the forecast as well. but for today will be the rain scenario here. you have it on storm tracker. 4 nice juicy line out to see here. that looks like i actually penetrate the peninsula little better. now, we should also note we're getting some light rain showers already. the man heading for the last couple of hours along the coast. but in the north bay starting to get a couple hundreds of an inch of rain dust far again, more is expected upstream from and a little cell developing out here that will be into the early afternoon. but again, looks like a late morning hit along the peninsula. but going forward lower 50's cover the

good chunk of the east bay. for now. 46 santa rosa, 50 san carlos and 53 san jose with the overcast skies and with the rain event that keep temperatures pretty uniform, not much movement upward in the day or much movement downward from last night tonight. little different story, though, because will clear out a little bit get some stronger on shore winds, but that's handed the future cast for as we go forward. as you can see and more mountain snows, by the way, continue today. they even have a winter weather advisory. but the deeper moisture plows on in here around the noon hour shortly there afterwards. and then right around sunset or so starts to clear out pretty quickly for the overnight and tomorrow morning now will be hit by several patches of clouds throughout the day. so maybe not total sunshine going on, but at least a different type of story that we're looking at today and a little bit warmer than today, too. and what we're doing this and big steps to by the middle of the week will be plowing about 80 or so. i want to show you real quick. the moisture levels, obviously now they're very high. we have a rain event going on. that's no

surprise in the afternoon. sure. into tomorrow morning and afternoon. boy, they really drop out into the 20's. you can see some doesn't take very long for the at least the atmosphere to really dry out pretty quickly with at least the ground has been hit nicely for all of that. so give us some insulation winds on shore. they are through tonight. so that will be the case as we go into the evening hours. and it looks like a little offshore of an up here to solano county to kind of cap it all off of that high pressure to get anchored at the right. little spot here for us. we'll get some of that offshore blowback here by tomorrow morning into the afternoon as well. and then the winds died down, which is typical with a bit like this again, think the heat spikes during the summer months, rain and showers breezy cool highs into the 50's tomorrow. mostly sunny and warmer again. just a patch of clouds here and there 60's near 70 well inland. but next week away, we go mostly sunny, major warming, middle to lower 80's expected for wednesday, thursday zone in there. and then we drop back off again as we watch another

system come next weekend. today, temperatures for highs, upper 50's maybe about 60 or so for san jose. let's keep that rain and showers for everybody. timed out pretty nicely for everybody during the day. ultimate highs in the big board. again, upper 50's expected tomorrow. a noticeable climb, though, as we start to build for next week and have more on that coming up in just a bit. noel, thank you, dave. >> now to some coronavirus news officials in china are reporting 2 new covid deaths in the country. these are the first deaths reported in china since january of last year. those deaths come as china's fighting a new surge driven by the omicron variant. chinese officials are urging the elderly to get themselves vaccinated as vaccination rate for folks 80 and above. it's relatively low. the coronavirus death toll in china is nearly 40 set. 4700 china reported about 2200 new covid cases yesterday. today marks the 2 year anniversary since california's

stay-at-home order was issued by this point, many counties in the bay area had already gone into a stay at home order as covid-19 was starting to spread rapidly. but today, 2 years ago, the entire state was put under that stay at home order. people were supposed to stay at home unless they were going out to get cities like food, medicine or health care. 2 years later, a lot is different here. data from the state's covid-19 dashboard shows california's averaging almost 2800 cases a day. the low case numbers have prompted the state and bay area counties to drop mask mandates and vaccine requirements. following the lead of the covid vaccine maker pfizer moderna is now asking the fda to authorize a 4th shot even though both request came this week, they are vastly different kron four's. dan kerman explains. this week. drugmakers pfizer and moderna both asked the fda to authorize a second booster dose. >> of their covid-19 vaccines. but while pfizer's request was

for those 65 and older moderna's request was for all adults 18 and over. it's going to depend upon how robust the data is from pfizer and >> if they've got really good data and large enough numbers >> then maybe we will have enough to make some decisions. >> but so far, infectious disease specialist doctor john swartzberg says >> the data on a second booster is a mixed bag. doctors say that 4th jab may only be needed for older people. it is that patient population that essentially may have good cellular immunity, but they need higher levels of antibodies to prevent severe disease not have as good of cellular immunity as younger people. doctor monica gandhi is an infectious disease specialist at ucsf. this is the science for now. the things that would change the equation away from just looking at the age of the patient for 4 shot is if we had another variant and that variant really throw. but he

says now. >> it depends on where mutations in not variants are. but for now, doctors say 3 shots is doing the job for most. even if there are breakthrough infections. >> these vaccines are still protecting us. if you against hospitalization and death, which is frankly, everybody's major concern. >> it's likely the fda will take up these requests in april. dan kerman kron, 4 news. >> still ahead here on the kron, 4 morning news. stanford women on the way to their second round of the ncaa tournament. we're going to tell you who they'll play next and continuing to track that rain in the bay area. this live look at stormtracker 4 radar. we can see a lot of moisture and some of that heavier stuff coming in. we've got dave sphar with more got dave sphar with more details after the break. oh, wow, barbara corcoran! good morning. sorry, we don't need any business help now. we're gigillionaires. what? we're gigillionaires now.

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>> and now kron 4 sports. >> favorite against their point of montana state. and that was the outcome. head coach tara vanderveer, her 33rd ncaa tournament. 1st quarter of this game. anna wilson. nice dish underneath to fran belibi 11, nothing cardinal wilson's big bro russell liking it still in the 1st quarter. cameron brink scores down low 20 zip stanford after the 1st quarter. well, we've got to the second the levy with the block. and look at what you've

got. the ball on the brake throws it down. with one hand, we've got to take a couple more looks at this one. believe you with a 3rd. don't. >> stanford career at first in the ncaa tournament. woman since britney griner in 2013. >> by the way, her teammates going crazy after slams it. as does everyone at maples pavilion, even russell wilson on his feet for this one. got to love it. all right. hannah jump one of her 5, 3, pointers. vanderveer has pledged $10 for every 3. the cardinal make to humanitarian relief and ukraine. she said she wrecked of $130. they had 9 total other coaches that followed her lead and joined in the effort as well. final score 78 to 37 stanford. they play kansas in the second round of the tournament. all right. from the college ranks to the pros we go. word up. nation has been in anguish. just waiting to learn the fate of their superstar. the warriors announced steph curry. >> has a sprained a ligament in his left foot and he will be reevaluated in 2 weeks now.

that's after he had an mri wednesday night, to leave golden state's game against the celtics after boston guard marcus smart rolled up on his ankle going for the ball. no team wants to lose their best player during this final stretch of the season here. but head coach steve kerr said the warriors are trying to look on the bright side. >> he's going to be rejuvenated recharged. after this time off. you remember last year the midst 8 or 9 games of the 2 bodies. amazing the next, you know, month or 2, partly because he was able to recharge his batteries. so the silver lining is that stuff will. we'll get a break for the playoffs assuming everything goes now he'll be he'll be ready it is so long to a rising star in the coaching world usf dons head coach todd golden is headed. >> to the sunshine state, taking over as head coach for university of florida. the dons are coming aff their

first ncaa tournament appearance since 1998, in 3 years with the team. golden has continued to build upon the success of the program. under his predecessor, kyle smith. golden finished his time at usf with a 56 to 37 record. his deal with the gators is reportedly rich. 1, 6, year contract. 3 million annually and usf has wasted no time in making gold and successor. it's chris carr, lips and the associate head coach for the dons under golden. previously. he was the top assistant at hawaii and now he'll take the reins for us at he's known as an offensive minded guy and also really good recruiter. >> we love a little march madness. all right. coming up here on the kron 4 morning news, both democrats and republicans say it's time to address the high cost >> of gas. how we get there depends on which side of the aisle you're on. we've got details on the

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>> welcome back. 8.31. on this saturday. time to take a check of the weather forecast. has rain is a arriving here in the bay area today. dave, yesterday was a really, really nice day at a lot of people on hiking trails getting it in before today's rain. yeah. in tomorrow's going to be too bad, will still be a little bit in the wet way of red for next week as well with nice temperatures climbing. but first, we need some rain and we're getting that on the radar. as you can see, stormtracker 4. >> nice juicy lined and that you can see down around san

mateo there holding together nicely. there's expected more upstream for the early afternoon hit with all of this going on upstairs in the atmosphere, you get about 15,000 feet initially. well, they had dew point values. get this at 40 degrees below 0. so very dry air. it had to fight through through all of this. that's why the impressive pictures on radar early on. we're showing you are not yielding what they typically should with a nice moist atmosphere. so that's the first major line marching through behind that. this will fill in with another dose. we expect into the early afternoon and by the time we get around 3 or 4 o'clock or so forth, it's pretty much all said and done lining up here for you. this is what it looks like. got temperatures in the middle 50's to finding a somewhat light rain, but we might get some moderate patches in there. you might hear a couple claps of thunder, not your imagination or potentially some hail if you get into one of those heavier spots a little bit there. just because of the colder air upstairs, a little bit dynamics of moving the the

little parcels up and down lower 50's east bay shoreline. 53 for san jose. 46 up to santa rosa. 55 checking in for any auc at this hour. forecast highs reach near 60 or at least the upper 50's rain and breezy in the forecast. we'll talk a bit more about the winds coming up in a bit. and also what lies ahead for your warming up week. noel. >> thank you. days everyone is talking about the high gasoline prices right now. state leaders weighing in now on various proposals to try and relieve some of that pain at the pump. our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala sat down with one of the leaders of the state legislature to learn what you can expect. >> we are here struggling another painful week at the pump for californians, but bucs coming up, a 7 yard over there as drivers decide how to divvy up their gas budgets. state leaders promised to help california's average gas price. breaking another record friday at $5.80 a gallon. according to aaa, providing

early relief would be great. but what's really important is getting it right. i sat down with assembly speaker anthony rendon about all the relief ideas coming out of his house in the legislature. one proposed this week by democrats would give $400 to all california taxpayers. brendan says it's a good start to all. californians may 400 a $400 or is there a way of making sure that those californians with the greatest need? >> are the ones that are really going to have really it's i think ultimately that's important. another proposal republicans want the state to temporarily halt. california's $0.51 gas tax. >> brendan is resistant noting there's no guarantee oil companies would pass the savings on to customers. republicans forced a vote to suspend legislative rules to consider the gas tax holiday this week in the assembly which failed. >> republicans say they're going to try again monday. you see them having the same result next week as they did this week. it's the same what they're trying to do is suspending the constitution. they're trying to suspend the constitution. that's not the way we do business here. the

way republicans nationally seem to be trying to do business. but that's not what we do in california. >> remnants as leaders of the legislature's budget committees are also working on other options to help but read denotes the ability to help californians isn't just up to the government. oil companies could take action to help 2 while the national average gas price declines, california's cost continues to go up. they can lower the price of it's fascinating that we're in a moment. what oil prices are actually dropping. but gas prices are going up. >> that's that's not the state that's doing that. that's big oil that's doing that. and that's just unconscionable. state leaders like round and say help is on the way. but in what form and how soon is to be determined in sacramento. ashley zavala kron, 4 news. >> let's take a look at what drivers are paying in the bay area today. san francisco averaging $5 and $0.91 a gallon. oakland stands at

$5.84. for a gallon of regular gas. napa has the most expensive gas right now at $5.92 a gallon for regular and san jose. sitting at $5. and $0.82. and assemblywoman in the east bay is among those fighting to get relief at the pump. she's joining other democrats this week to get behind some legislation. san ramon assembly member rebecca bauer, khan says she supports giving california's that cash or e-bay. >> and the economy is putting extra stress on individ calabrese, expensive place to live. we know that as prices have risen, it's gotten even harder. and so a little bit of relief. and we know this isn't everything you need, but it's something california can do for you. we know would be so helpful. look, i'm a mom of 3. i drive a minivan. i understand what it means to fill up at the pump right now. and so, you know, i want to make sure that we're doing what we can for all of our families that need us right now. >> after the war broke out in ukraine and sanctions are placed on russia. the price of oil did surge. however, crude oil prices have since come down. however, it's not really

showing up at the pump. high gas prices coupled with rising inflation is squeezing bay area residents, especially hard. coming up here on the kron 4 morning news, republicans accusing president biden supreme court pick. >> of being soft on crime. why they say she is sympathetic to criminals.

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>> welcome back. 8.39. on this saturday morning. an entertainment news today. grey's anatomy. it's been around for 18 seasons, always highlighting outrageous medical phenomenons. yes, it's still on. and yes, i am still watching this show, but now a writer on the long-running medical drama is under investigation for allegedly fabricating her medical history. sam rubin has the latest from hollywood. >> we start now with the story that his incredible drama, it is potentially so over the top and crazy and involves elements of the trail. so massive. the story i'm about to tell you involving the tv show. grey's anatomy could actually be a plot line on grey's anatomy. first, let me introduce you to the main player involved. she's a writer on the show and her name is elizabeth finch. she's written more than a dozen episodes of the series over the years. and this was a very emotional moment from the show. a little bit is playing one of the orderlies helping to wheel a patient into treatment.

>> this is home. >> so there is that seen. here is a closer look at elizabeth. she's been a very prolific writer, not just for gray's for other shows and for many magazines and what has elizabeth written about the incredible medical dramas in her own life? elizabeth has written about undergoing cancer treatment about having an abortion about assault. a lot of different things that elizabeth said happened to her in her own life except now now abc and disney are investigating charges that everything elizabeth said happened to her did not happen to her, but rather happened to her wife, elizabeth, in the process of what is being described as a quote, acrimonious divorce from jennifer buyer. some are suggesting that the various stories involving elizabeth's health didn't happened to elizabeth but actually happened to jennifer for her part, elizabeth finch has now hired a lawyer and the hollywood reporter among other

trades say that now disney's human resources and legal departments are trying to sort out what is true and what is not true. and did elizabeth make false claims about her own health struggles, including writing about things that she went through, but she never went through. all right. what is the best childhood toy ever who doesn't love get ready for a major movie based really on now what is played over sides. tons of fun. plato is a very familiar so well known. i p intellectual property. so get ready for plato. the movie, the woman rode the big sick gordon working on the screenplay and the great jon and shoe will direct chu says he hopes to bring a story about the importance of imagination. that is your entertainment report here in the hollywood. i'm sam rubin. >> by the way, the green is kind of taste little bit just a little that's the men to the

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is in jeopardy. a mass bleaching is happening to the great barrier reef and marine park authority says it's the worst one in the last 2 years. these bleaching events have happened 5 times before to the reef with the rise of ocean temperatures. the first one recorded back in 1998. this one, though, was sparked by weeks of unusual heat. and you can see the wants colorful coral is now turned completely white. the reef authority said global action is needed to soon as possible to reduce greenhouse gases in the air. on monday, united nations delegation is set to debate whether or not the reef should be put on the world heritage in danger list. so we'll keep and i on that let you know what they but yeah, usually those corals are nice and pink colors, that sort of thing. and and they're completely white they were talking about warming. i know we've got some warm-up on the way. but today, as you can see behind you of

this is a live look at the richmond center fell bridge. it is rain in this morning. rain drops there, too. as proof of the pudding. and we rosa that starts park and you go with some roses and whiskers. ok song? i didn't i never paid attention to the words of >> he just eats i just explains a lot, ok, here's we've got to get rain happening as we speak right now, a little bit of its kind, a very small amounts. we don't expect to pick a whole lot of this up. >> here's the heavier dose. you can see that's happened upstream. remember the first order business with this first line is it's very typical. we don't have a rain event for a while was got that dry air sandwiched in the middle to take care of that looks like we've done that. so anything more upstream. it's smooth sailing should reach into the ground here. also in this package is snow. that's right. a winter weather advisory until 11 tonight now the coverage area technically doesn't hit tahoe, but they could get anywhere from about a half a foot of snow with all of this going down to levels about 5500 feet there. so

staying into the winter tradition ahead, the next couple of days in the aftermath as a warm up, we go through the 50's to near about 60 or so come tuesday. same deal on wednesday, too. so in tahoe will be warmer by tuesday, wednesday, thursday, then here across much of the bay. it looks like so that's going to cause some melting, not the best thing in the world here. as we look at late march and having this melting going on. but it won't last that long. here's what we have again, this line right behind is providing this with some thunder showers. so you might hear a couple claps of thunder, maybe some hail with all of that. this clears through pretty quickly and we'll be left with a clear patch that your sunday forecast. so again on storm tracker, 4, this is today's traffic tonight. clearing out will be sprayed by some cloud cover. but on balance looks pretty good for tomorrow amount or not. real impressive. but i want to march through this real quick on this. here's what happens as we get to around the mid afternoon here. but he has about a dime or soaks up in the south bay and the far east bay. wait, we have this other little layer to go marching on through kind of helps get everybody up to at least the di level and some folks

getting your quarter so around the coast or near edges of water. so, you know, hey, we'll take it. it's a good day rain. we got going on here for today. so we take care of that order of business. and then by thursday, which kind of breaks the back of the nice warm up days. we have boom, not much action to some cloud cover reduction of temperatures. but hold that thought by the weekend. oh, yes, something juicy. it takes a long trip here. so hopefully that's a lot of moisture. and in that sense, no along the spine of the mountains there in california, down to the south for the farce of the should be another cold wave helping out adding to the mountain snows and any melting we had as well. highs today, upper 50's for the most part might scratch 60 or so for san jose. tomorrow. looking at 66 for san jose got the upper 60's in the east bay in the north bay as well. but hold on that. we've got more coming your way. almost walking into early summer with this tuesday wednesday. again, breaking the back on thursday. that front, i just showed you a 76 and waiting for rain to develop

into next weekend. spring gets here tomorrow. officially 8.33. local noel. we'll be togetier for it. thank you, dave. >> a bipartisan group of u.s. senators are headed to poland as russia's invasion of ukraine extends into its 4th week while their senators are going to get a briefing from nato officials about cyber attacks and will meet with some troops. this trip comes shortly after congress approved 13 billion dollars in military and humanitarian aid to ukraine. the group will also meet with some of the nearly 2 million refugees fleeing their homeland. some democratic senators say the u.s. should be doing more to help those displaced by the war. >> or should also be allies and partners in welcoming refugees. we know how to do it. and i think wisconsin did a great job. >> wisconsin senator tammy baldwin says the way her state welcomed refugees from afghanistan would be the model for accepting ukrainians into the country later next week.

president biden is also going to be traveling to poland for meetings with nato allies about the situation. an international court has denied russia an opportunity to play in a world cup qualifying match. according to fifa officials, the court of arbitration for sport dismissed russia's bid to have a ban to have a ban on their national team lifted. the decision means russia will not be able to play poland and a world cup qualifier next thursday, russian teams have been banned from competing in multiple sports student. national outrage over the invasion of ukraine. the russian soccer team could still play in the world cup if their full appeal before the court has upheld a decision on that is expected in a few weeks. here at home. a republican senator is on the attack against president biden. supreme court pick judge ketanji brown jackson launching some harsh new allegations and now democrats are heading back. correspondent raquel martin reports from washington, d.c..

>> rangers claim illinois democratic senator durbin is slamming republican senator josh hawley. he says the missouri senator is intentionally spreading lies about president biden's supreme court pick. judge brown jackson is holly is accusing judge jackson of being too soft on crime, particularly crimes against children. she has a record of being consistently lenient too soft on child offenders. hawley says after combing through jackson's record, he's found major red flags. she's question whether or not there ought to be a offender registry. i think it's very serious. but senator durbin says there's a reason judge jackson has the support of the fraternal order of police and also the international association of chiefs of police. >> and also why no other senate republicans are backing senator hawley's claim is just not true sort of that. senator hawley, who was a >> surely for the insurrections. mama january 6 is referred in the white house agrees. this attack that we've seen over the last couple of

days. we're live on factual inaccuracies and taking judge jackson's record wildly out of context. still, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says he's concerned judge jackson's time as a public defender made her sympathetic to criminals additional nominee really does have special episode for some parties over others. >> a shot of it's a problem. still, he promises next week's hearings will be civil serious and process. american people need answers to more important questions that what somebody road and the nominees high school yearbook in washington, raquel martin. >> stay with us forever. morning news continues after the break.

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absolutely loved says this is the moment that went viral. of course, the tallest guy on indiana's cheer team lifted his teammate up to get the ball down. commentators also made the moment extra special with that play by play that you just heard. >> as soon as it went out, i was jokingly in my mind like i was stunt. was going down right there. but obviously you never think that that would ever come to that. they have other things. and and once i saw the chair in march and the white the state didn't >> and i was like, well, this might actually end up being a real thing. and so then guess he said our cats. and with us mo, same us to we've got to go get that ball. got to >> i mean, that was pretty much that the highlight for indiana, though they got blown out by saint mary's final score 82 to 53. so go gales. but thank you to the cheer team there for helping them finish that game off strong.

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>> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. >> good saturday morning to you. thanks for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm noelle bellow dave sphar standing by as we are talking about rain here across the bay area today. some spots

of already gotten a good. dosing taking a live look there at the san mateo bridge. and he's got some of the san mateo bridge, a nice little juicy sell this one overhead. they're the first order of business was to kind of moisten up the atmosphere. we have done that. so upstream in the next week gets here. >> the won't be much in the way of resistance, but it was very dry air to try to get dew were about 40 degrees below 0 up to 15,000 feet in elevation is what is go through all of that to get to the ground here now that that's been accomplished here should be smooth sailing for this next batch. coming up. stream again around the lunch hour shortly there afterwards as we get to the afternoon. but here's what's left of that. nice, juicy sell run the san mateo bridge now a little up sloping over the east bay hills. you'll notice making it across tri valley as well. putting everybody into motion here. this is the next collection. we're looking for upstream here again, due to develop as we approach around the noon hour in shortly there afterwards. quantitative lee, not a maybe is an estimation you might pick up about a quarter of an inch of rain.

that would be probably you did very well. if you get that today, golden gate bridge, pretty much kind of overcast with some lower level cloud covlr here. not a lot. the way of winds expected to be on shore later today and we're going to actually switch briefly off shore up the solano county when it's kind of all said and done. here's the east bay shoreline. again, the cloud cover in the way temperature check. hardly any motion yet lower to some middle 50's. 55 antioch is still chilly. 48 up to 70 santa rosa. now we're catching up a little bit from yesterday because yesterday, of course, all the sunshine warmed up nicely, which we're not going to do for today. sort of start trailing as we get to the late morning and early afternoon. but overnight was mild to start things off today because of that cloud cover. check looking at the fog cast here. don't know. normally point the south of the afternoon hours. but with this rain event, you can kind of see the footprints that next hit expected to develop in the afternoon hours there. and once that said and done, we should clear out on balance here. you sometimes you get that radiation fall with all that surface moisture that will be with us. so

again, cloudy on balance today. light rain showers to moderate developing in the early afternoon, depending on where and when. but by the time we get around 4 will be waiting at that point into a quiet night. coming up a little bit here will kind of plot all this for you. what you can expect this afternoon here. well, thank you, dave. >> now, even though the bay area is getting that dose of rain today, the state department of water says they have to cut back on the amount of water supplies they're able to deliver to local agencies. kron four's camila barco joining us live in san francisco with more on the impact. a little windy out there. camila. >> yeah, a little windy, but no rain. no. well, that's not exactly what state water officials want to see. we did see a few droplets in the last hour. but right now it's pretty dry here in san francisco near the embarcadero at because of this because of the dryness that we've been experiencing, especially in january and february, they have to cut back on how much water they can distribute to

local agencies across the state. take a look at this. these are the drought conditions. we're waking up to this morning. you can see that a majority of the bay area is shaded in orange and that means >> that the bay area is in a severe drought. and if you take a look to your left, you'll see a few parts that are shaded in red. a little bit of sonoma county is under an extreme drought and that's why today's rain is needed. we did see a few small doses of rain over the last month or so. however, that wasn't enough to escape. drought conditions and it's going to be affecting the state water project. that project is a system of reservoirs, canals and dams that feed 29 water agencies across the state. it helps provide water for millions of californians and state water. officials say that they're cutting allocations from 15 to 5%. they're warning people to brace for a 3rd year of drought conditions and forecasters are also

predicting no big rain storms for march. it's also important to know that right now statewide reservoir levels are at about 70% of average and well, the department of water resources, california water officials are going to be making. it's next assessment for its allocation of water distribution on april. 1st, back to you. alright, camila, thank you for that live report. >> new this morning, the mount diablo unified school district and the county's teachers association is going to or has reached a tentative deal on salary and class sizes, teachers, students and their families were all out rallying yesterday to demand salary increases for teachers. this new deal gives them just that the tentative agreement includes a 10.5% increase over 3 years. it also preserves prep time for 4th and 5th grade teachers and it ensures the new state law regarding staffing ratios in kindergarten classes will be followed by the district

statements from both the teachers union and the district say the groups believe this settlement is the best agreement possible for both sites. well, one of the man accused of shooting and killing kron. 4 security guard kevin nishita made his first appearance in court on friday. should mitchell is one of 3 men charged with me. she does murder. was shot and killed back in november while on assignment with one of our reporters in oakland. mitchell's public defender's request to postpone his arraignment for 3 weeks was granted by the judge, which essentially delayed the entry of his plea. he's due back in court. april 15th and will remain in jail without bail. police say 2 other men were also involved in the crime. hershel hale and little ron gilbert. now gilbert is still at large, but all 3 men have been charged with murder, attempted second-degree robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. now after learning the identities of those 3 suspects, their and

their alleged ties to a san francisco gang. the san francisco police officers association tweeted that throwing out gang enhancement penalties was a mistake. but the city's public defenders offices viewing it a bit differently. kron 4 monday and has that story. >> before i was the the union. i was actually working cop and a baby district. so i w s very familiar with one of and mister hale. herschel hill is one of the 3 suspects with alleged ties to a san francisco day who has been charged for the murder of retired police officer kevin nishita. >> having knowledge of his criminal history, the acting president of the san francisco police officers association, lieutenant tracy mcrae. so social hill should have been behind bars instead of on the street today the was gunned down 3 attempted murder weapons charges. i mean, these are serious. >> crimes that this gentleman was committing. and knowing the track that he was on.

>> it's unfortunate that he is now involved something that ended in someone losing their life because the writing was on the wall and you can see that back in 2021, california governor gavin newsom approved several criminal reform bills restricting enhancements that it's several years to the sentences of people convicted in gang-related crimes. lieutenant mcrae believes that was a costly mistake. >> with what she says are deadly results seen here on the streets in the bay area. a person died as a result. >> the system really failing potential victims in the future and not hold these young men accountable. >> the welsh at the san francisco public defender's office takes a different view of the state reform. again, it has been penalties. the first there's no evidence that charging game in hand meant increases public safety. the police made that assertion. there's no evidence for it. they overwhelmingly target communities of color. it's

based on the area in which they live. so how do you the reality of those statistics with what we just talked about? >> i mean, you know, it starts basically starts in the home, right? and it's unfortunate, yes, that these young men, these young black men are are seeking acceptance in a form of doing violence. that is not acceptable. has the lead kron 4 news? >> coming up on the kron 4 morning news. a nonprofit in the east bay sending medical supplies to ukraine. the organizations leaders tell us how the need in ukraine continues to grow.

>> welcome back. 9 9.12, here on this saturday march 19th today marks the 2 year anniversary since california's stay-at-home order was issued. now many counties in the bay area had already gone into a stay at home order days prior as covid-19 was already starting to spread rapidly. but people all across the state as of today 2 years ago were supposed to stay at home unless they were going out to get necessities like food, medicine or health care. 2 years later, things are a lot different here now data from the state's covid-19 dashboard shows california's averaging almost 2800 cases a day and those low case numbers have prompted the state and bay area counties to drop mask mandates and vaccine requirements. now, speaking of

dropping mandates starting april first, the state's going to drop the requirement for proof of vaccination or a negative covid test for indoor mega events and indoor mega event is any gathering of 1000 people or more. state officials say they're going to change the requirement into a strong recommendation. counties will get to decide whether or not they'll follow the state guidance or keep that mandate on their own. i'm probably going stick with the strong recommendation and keep the mask on. if i'm around 1000 or more people, though people. it's a lot of people. that's that's little skittish writing. lot of humanity in a small area. so that's definitely to put the mask for we're tracking rain one out there. that's nice. but we're tracking rain on our radar. stormtracker 4 here actually getting a little bit of a breather for right now. so >> stay with us. we got 45 minutes or so to go. we're going to track some of the rain coming in this afternoon and longer range into next weekend. then we look for weekend. then we look for another shoe to fall i

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>> fire crews in santa clara county continued monitoring hot spots overnight from a four-alarm fire that had broken out in campbell, the santa clara county fire department says that fire started around 10:00am friday at a 3 story building in campbell started out as a 2 alarm fire. but it continue to grow eventually growing to a 4 alarm crews were able to contain the fire by the afternoon but as you mentioned, some firefighters still continue to monitor that area overnight for any hot

spots. we haven't heard of any flare ups. so that's good. and of course, >> the rain today is hopefully going to help that out. time for another check of our forecast. dave spahr standing by. >> i was looking the golden gate bridge was near. the roads are a little wet and damp, but no rain coming down right at this moment. not right now. we're take a little bit of a breather. everybody is going to be getting a breather. looks like the next couple of hours. so lets you kind of jump outside their gets around the noon hour late and on our walk that pick up the dry cleaning go to target, pick up a project for andrus, a side project or something, whatever going to get done. you can get that all done. and then more rain comes our way into the early afternoon storm tracker 4. here's the break that are referred to now. radar looks quite exciting off to the east bay brentwood up to the far east bay. there. now, look at rainfall totals there and they're not really picking up anything at the rain gauges but not impossible. see something. but looks very impressive on radar again at that dry air. think so behind all of this means the air column has been fillgd y rain that we get on radar will probably now strike the ground. here's the

next collection already developing. you can see out to see here get this again, another few hours to develop again, traversing across the bay so says futurecast for there we go to around 2.30, or so hit in the peninsula. east bay. and don, you folks in the south bay to santa cruz mountains, no less. meanwhile, it also continues up in the mountains with snow showers as late as sunday morning. well, past old statements that's nice to get the snow and all the problem is we get around the middle of the next week. we're going to get some melting up there in that may swell up the rivers a little bit because temperatures will be actually warmer up there than they are here today. now, as we get into sunday, did see some scattered clouds pass there. so we'll have a little bit of that going on, but certainly a lot more sun than we're ever going to see today. want to show you moisture levels of the surface because we talked about moy, sing it up. that's true. and here comes the rain all at. but then by tomorrow, look how quickly this all dries out. the service will be wet from what we already got. but the air itself dries up and we do have bit of an offshore wind building. but we have some

insulation from the recent rains that we're getting today. so that's good news on that front. let's get back to those winds now onshore. yes, with the storm we get that typical. then a little switch in the monday. i'm sorry, sunday into monday, it becomes offshore as that high pressure kind of anchors itself in the right spot. winds go away. temperatures climb. if this were august or september, we've been talking about a heat spike, but because we're into this time of year, this is a nice little flavor of almost early summer going on here. so we'll be losing some of these winds as we go into monday. that's interesting. lot of yellow and there in the green and all this is the east bay shoreline. little pop-up at rain and showers, breezy cool highs into the 50's tomorrow. we've got mostly sunny and warmer with 60's near 70 well inland because this building the next week, mostly sunny, major warming, lower to middle 80's as expected into next week. we're looking basically at tuesday, wednesday on this. then another interrupt this front gets here thursday. not going to do much parking little bit

here. then the weekend, a bike. it's more rain. so for today, 57 san francisco, 58 for open 60 for san jose. and everybody's got rainfall on tap here. the first wave, this kind of moisten up this column of their past us now. the next one won't have that resistance will be talking more also about the long-range forecast in a bit. well, thank you, dave. turning now to the latest on the war in ukraine. ukraine's prosecutor general accusing russia of kidnapping a ukrainian journalist who was covering the invasion. the official posted on facebook yesterday saying russia's federal security service and russian forces. >> kidnapped the journalists on tuesday from a port city in south and the southeast region of ukraine. the official says the journalist was reporting on the developments of the invasion in the eastern and southern parts of the country. the official didn't identify the journalist. however, the news outlet she worked for says her name is victoria rush keena and they lost contact with her last week. meanwhile, ukraine's deputy prime minister says russia and

ukraine agreed to operate 10 humanitarian corridors. that includes a corridor from our poll and several near kiev as well as other areas. ukra nian president volodymyr zelensky says more than 9,000 people have been able to our poll alone within the past day when this humanitarian corridor went into effect. the city has been constantly attacked by russian forces. it was also cut off from food, water and medicine. now, president biden did speak with the president of china for the first time on friday about the crisis in ukraine. there video call lasted 2 hours. president biden warned president jin ping not to provide military or economic support to russia. china's foreign ministry was the first to issue a readout of the conversation saying, quote, conflict and confrontation was, quote, not in anyone's interest. china did stop short of assigning blame to russia. but did accuse the united states of fueling the ongoing conflict by shipping arms to ukraine to

get the latest updates on the war in ukraine. all you got to do is head to kron 4 dot com. you can scan the qr code that you see on your screen and it will take you straight to that page on our website. still ahead here on the kron 4 morning news. stanford women on their way to the second round of the ncaa tournaments. we've got details on who they'll play next and their odds. >> plus, of course, we are tracking the rain in the bay area. taking a live look at stormtracker 4 radar. lots of us getting a bit of a break right now. but don't worry more rain on the way. dave spahr got details.

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does everyone at maples pavilion, even russell wilson on his feet for this one. got to love it. all right. hannah jump one of her 5, 3, pointers. vanderveer has pledged $10 for every 3. the cardinal make to humanitarian relief and ukraine. she said she racked up $130. they had 9 total other coaches that followed her lead and joined in the effort as well. final score 78 to 37 stanford. they play kansas in the second round of the tournament. all right. from the college ranks to the pros we go. word up. nation has been in anguish. just waiting to learn the fate of their superstar. the warriors announced steph curry. >> has a sprained a ligament in his left foot and he will be reevaluated in 2 weeks now. that's after he had an mri wednesday night. step out to leave golden state's game against the celtics after boston guard marcus smart rolled up on his ankle going for the ball. no team wants to lose their best player during this final stretch of the season here. but head coach steve kerr said the warriors are trying to look on the

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>> welcome back. 9.30, on this saturday. getting a little break from the rain. dave spahr says it's coming back, though, which is good because i know next week we're going to get really, really warm. so it's good that we're getting a dose of rain to kind of cope the ground shore right before our well drying out a little bit. yeah, that's so that will be good to get this rain. at least the surface. it's not good to play on tomorrow. so but yeah, we've got this rain that we definitely need. the first wave moves through kind of moisten up the atmosphere a little bit. that's what you see in central valley now in the far east bay, a bit of a breather until this that's here gets its act together. as we go into the early afternoon. here's a little shot coming in from the east bay shor line. and again, kind of strategy. stratus cloud cover. we're dealing with shredded up a bit and the sun will break the actually at the sun. poke out a little bit

might see before this next batch of rain redevelops going into the afternoon. so most of us are pretty robbed by that first line because it was so dry in the mid layers of the atmosphere, just keeping tabs on rainfall amounts and nick or so is about the best we've been able to muster has been concentrated around areas of water like the east bay shoreline and along the coast. not much happening in london over the east bay hills by comparison. so it lines up like this as you would expect, mid 50's. 4 o'clock is that second dose at 4 o'clock, by the way, that will be larger. the east bay and out of the south bay in the santa cruz mountains. it will be clearing up in the east bay or the north bay, probably by the late afternoon like that. temperatures at this hour. we're in the lower to middle 50's. we're catching up to where we were from yesterday. cloud cover kept those temperatures supported. so not a lot of mercury movement for today. rain and breezy is how what kind of freeze and unbalanced today. now we'll be getting a little bit in the way, a breezy early tomorrow, but that will be the offshore winds that will be very dry highs today. the best will do is the upper 50's and we'll

have a little bit look at what's going on for tomorrow. but into next week as well, because there's yet another opportunity for rain as we get to next weekend. well, thank you, dave. >> well, everyone's talking about the high gasoline prices right now. state leaders are now weighing in on a couple of different proposals to try and relieve some of that pain. capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala sat down with one of the leaders of the state legislature to learn what we can expect to see. >> we are here struggling another painful week at the pump for californians. but bucks coming up, a 7 yard over there as drivers decide how to divvy up their gas budgets. state leaders promised to help california's average gas price. breaking another record friday at $5.80 a gallon. according to aaa, providing early relief would be great. but what's really important is getting it right. i sat down with assembly speaker anthony rendon about all the relief ideas coming out of his house in the legislature. one proposed this week by democrats would give $400 to all california taxpayers.

brendan says it's a good start to all. californians may 400 a $400 or is there a way of making sure that those californians? >> with the greatest need are the ones that are really going to have really it's i think ultimately that's important. another proposal republicans want the state to temporarily halt. california's $0.51 gas tax. >> brendan is resistant noting there's no guarantee oil companies would pass the savings on to customers. republicans forced a vote to suspend legislative rules to consider the gas tax holiday this week in the assembly which failed. >> republicans say they're going to try again monday. you see them having the same result next week as they did this week. it's the same what they're trying to do is they're trying to suspend the - constitution. that's not the way we do business here. it's the way republicans nationally seem to be trying to do business. >> but that's not what we do in california. >> remnants as leaders of the legislature's budget committees are also working on other options to help but read denotes the ability to help californians isn't just up to

the government. oil companies could take action to help 2 while the national average gas price declines, california's cost continues to go up. they can lower the price of it's fascinating that we're in a moment. what oil prices are actually dropping. >> but gas prices are going up. that's that's not the state that's doing that. that's big oil that's doing that. and that's just unconscionable. state leaders like round and say help is on the way. but in what form and how soon is to be determined in sacramento. ashley zavala kron, 4 news. >> now today we did hit another record across california in terms of high gas prices. this is what we're paying here in the bay area in san francisco. drivers can expect to pay on average $5.91 a gallon for regular gas. oakland standing at 5.84. napa has the most expensive at 5.92. a gallon today and san jose sitting at $5 and $0.82. there's an assembly woman in the east bay who was among those fighting to get that

relief at the pump. she's joining other democrats this week to get behind that legislation. san ramon assembly member rebecca bauer-kahan says she supports giving californians that cash rebate. >> i mean, the economy is putting extra stress on individuals, calabrese, expensive place to live. we know that as prices have risen, it's gotten even harder. and so a little bit of relief. and we know this isn't everything you need, but it's something california can do for you. we know would be so helpful. i'm a mom of 3. i drive a minivan. i understand what it means to fill up at the pump right now. and so, you know, i want to make sure that we're doing what we can for all of our families that need us right now. >> after the war broke out in ukraine, sanctions are placed on russia, of course, and that price of oil surged. crude oil prices as ashley was saying, have come down. but that's not really showing up at the pump just yet those high gas prices coupled with rising inflation, it's really squeezing bay area residents, especially hard. well, people sometimes change up their habits to live a more

eco-conscious life. but it's not just people that have an effect on at your pets can have an effect on the environment as well. we spend more than 100 billion dollars on our pets in the united states every year. and pet ownership is on the rise and it turns out. products and food choices we make have an impact on the atmosphere. kacey montoya explains and shows us how to reduce the pit carbon paw print. >> if you're one of the millions of pet owners in the u.s., you know, the feeling of their unconditional in return, we spoil them with treats and toys. >> but have you ever thought about their carbon paw print where the numbers are ucl a professor gregory okin crunched the numbers and a 2017 study on the environmental impact of the 163 million dogs and cats in the u.s. and says the results were shocking. you know, when you go buy a car, it tells you what the gas mileage isn't. tells you how much fossil fuel you're going to burn.

>> and i start off with this with the same idea. if this is something you're concerned about, this is information that you can take into informed king calculated that meat consumption by cats and dogs creates the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. the same impact on the atmosphere as 13.6 million cars driving for one year. and then there's the waste that totaled who produced by american dogs and cats ignoring the poo bags and ignoring kitty litter. and all of that is equivalent to the total trash produced by the number of people in the state of massachusetts. so what can we do? part of being a pet owner is picking up after them. and it's estimated that we use 500 million of these around the world. >> every year, many dog waste bags on the market today are eco-friendly either. come postal are biodegradable. >> but professor open says the cleanest way to dispose of it is actually flushing. without

the back, of course. and then it gets treated as waste can says what you feed fido is an important part of going green. first thing i would say stop listening to the marketing. >> your dog is not a wall. write your dog is an animal that evolved with humans. over 15,000 years to have a diet, dietary needs very similar to ours, which means a plant based diet is possible for man's best friend. >> many dog food companies are using alternative protein. sources like beans, legumes and soy beans that have more nutritional benefits and are more environmentally friendly recess. anna griffin, editor of coco eco magazine says you can now find pet toys litter and even catnip that are naturally sourced. if you're looking to be more eco-friendly, you want to support small local business anyway and things made in united states. it cuts down on mileage, fossil fuels going into and oftentimes packaging. it's likely your pampered pooch has a comfy bed and plenty of toys. you can continue to make clean choices

by buying from eco-conscious companies like la based jackson bones known for its sustainable products. we use a fiber called sustain a trademark fiber. and it's a green fiber. it's made out of 7 up we recycle anywhere from 8 to 12 bottles. >> back into the bed. some things on a high price. but again, there are affordable options and just know that everything you've su, she will have a long duration. >> and it's much better your baby in westlake village, kacey, montoya. >> all good tips. some good things to know here at home. police in the south bay made an arrest in what's being categorized as a dangerous social media challenge. it's called the orbeez challenge. >> we're teenagers use a gel ball gun to shoot water pellets at people. and in some cases, those shootings have caused some painful injuries. kron four's dan thorn talk to police. >> these tiny gelb water beads might not seem like much. but police say they're part of a dangerous game called the orbeez challenge. the social

media trend is had teens using an air soft or gel ball gun to shoot these circular water pellets at unsuspecting people. what we're finding is they're taking this and really causing some a little bit of chaos. sergeant marty built with pleasanton pd says they've heard from at least 4 victims who have been painfully shot with these gel water, pleasanton police along with other departments in several other cities have been warning their communities about the shootings and it's being taken seriously. we're talking about. >> potential and what could be a misdemeanor because you have a battery or possibly other charges to felony. you really causing injury to a a body parts such as an eye. >> morgan hill police arrested a teen on thursday after 2 people who were walking down the street were shot with water pellets. police say this be blaster was found in the back seat of a car used in the drive-by across the country. in georgia, police shared these pictures of a child who was shot by a group of teens. sergeant bill tells kron 4

news. he's hoping parents can talk with their kids about this dangerous prank. if your children own one of these, i think it's very important that you have these conversations, frank, certain conversations that it's kind of 0 tolerance. if we do catch you, there could be some serious consequences with us. >> reporting in pleasanton, dan thorn kron. 4 news woo! whoa! what the heck? oh, it's all that nacho cheese flavor packed into my nacho tiny tacos. (coughing) i love it. i love it. it's good. get my nacho tiny tacos for $3.50. or try them bacon loaded for $4.50.

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bleaching events happened 5 times before to the reef with the rise of ocean temperatures. the first one was recorded back in 1998. this one, though, was sparked by weeks of unusual heat. and you can see what was once colorful coral has turned completely white. the reef authority said global action is needed as soon as possible to reduce greenhouse gases in the air. on monday, a united nations delegation is set to debate whether or not the reef should be put on the world. heritage in danger list. so we'll keep an eye on that. but definitely a lot of changes. there are a lot of changes in our weather forecast for this weekend. dave spahr standing by. we had a little bit of rain earlier this morning. taking a break right now. it's looks a little gloomy out there. it's come back. we're going to some sun sneaking in here just temporarily before the next dose. we expect to develop as we get into the afternoon hours for today. >> that's what it looks like on radar for right now. we have that first line pretty much in the central valley. here's the break with the

secondary one developing for our afternoon weather looks like, alright, this is also producing winter weather. don't you know, up in the mountains advisory a winter weather advisory. this is not posted for the tahoe area, but you can see very close by and even time we're getting some snow, too. so look at about a half a foot with all of this. time period for this advisory goes through from this morning all the way to 11 this evening by that time, still possible to get some snow going on, but at least will be out of the advisory period with that. and this goes down to 5500 feet in elevation. so it sends it down a little lower to which is definitely good news. a little problem is we are looking for a little warming things later in this forecast. you can see part of this through tomorrow up in the upper 40's. 59 by tuesday. so tuesday and wednesday, tahoe actually be warmer than we are right now. so we'll get some melting going on. probably start to swell. the creeks and rivers a little bit with thhereak we're about for tomorrow. we screw sprayed by some cloud cover. but at least decent sunshine

working here. what is all this ocean out here? this is where the high is developing. and as it gets placed over the right spot, we'll get some breezy offshore winds tomorrow and maybe a little bit into monday as well that we call this a heat spike at this. we're august or september with everything set up this way. but because this march, it's a nice little treat. so let's get the rain in here. first of this is what goes on as we approach around the noon hour, then into the early afternoon. that's when everybody gets a nice little dosing here. remember, won't have to fight to the dry air so much collection amounts might pick up a quarter of an inch of rain for big bonanza. but most readings will be from a dine approaching up towards a quarter with that future cast for going forward here. the only thing we see changing during the week is a weak system brushes by with cloud cover reduces temperatures ever so slightly. but the juicy stuff that will get here over next weekend. look at that. nice hit there all over the state. in fact, bring us some rain and some mountain snow is with that, too. highs today will be in the upper 50's is what we're looking for. but then tomorrow about

the 60's middle 60's at that, even upper 60's and the klein continues into early middle of next week. lower 80's going on tuesday and into wednesday. there's that front that interrupt things on thursday. 76 and again, waiting for some wayne rain. wayne rain into next weekend about those lows largely into the 40's with spring getting here tomorrow morning, a 33 local noel. >> thank you, dave. some transportation news for you. and nearly 300,000 volkswagen's are being recalled because of faulty brakes. the recall affects certain atlas. suvs from 2019 through 2023 as well as atlas cross ports from 2020 through 2023. the company says some of the wiring in the cars can corrode causing them to break unexpectedly even in traffic. the problem can also cause air bags to deploy late in a crash. vw's working on a repair to fix the issue. owners are expected to get a notice on by may. 10th. the

tsa is launching some new facial recognition software atn some airports designed to verify the identity of travelers at some airport security checkpoints. the new device captures a photo of the passenger and then compares the facial features on their photo id against the facial features of from the in-person photo. and it all bend confirms their identity officials at la x say the device will also pull up all your flight information for the tsa officer. so you won't have to show a boarding pass any more. they say the device is safer for passengers because it is touch less and increases security. >> it's it. it is common that someone may try to use someone else's government issued id. they look similar but not quite to the person that they claim that they are. that's the actual traveler. and so it you're not going to able to pull that >> the new technology is being tested at la x, among other locations. no word on when it could be here in the bay area. definitely going to see how that goes. in. entertainment

news now. grey's anatomy has been around for 18 seasons, always highlighting just medical phenomenon says it is still on television. i am still watching it. but now a writer on the long-running medical drama is under investigation. >> for allegedly fabricating her medical history. sam rubin has the latest from hollywood. >> we start now with the story that his incredible drama, it is potentially so over the top and crazy and involves elements of the trail. so massive. the story i'm about to tell you involving the tv show. grey's anatomy could actually be a plot line on grey's anatomy. first, let me introduce you to the main player involved. she's a writer on the show and her name is elizabeth finch. she's written more than a dozen episodes of the series over the years. and this was a very emotional moment from the show. a little bit is playing one of the orderlies helping to wheel a patient into treatment.

>> home. >> so there is that seen. here is a closer look at elizabeth. she's been a very prolific writer, not just for gray's for other shows and for many magazines and what has elizabeth written about the incredible medical dramas in her own life? elizabeth has written about undergoing cancer treatment about having an abortion about assault. a lot of different things that elizabeth said happened to her in her own life except now now abc and disney are investigating charges that everything elizabeth said happened to her did not happen to her, but rather happened to her wife, elizabeth, in the process of what is being described as a quote, acrimonious divorce from jennifer buyer. some are suggesting that the various stories involving elizabeth's health didn't happened to elizabeth but actually happened to jennifer for her part, elizabeth inches now hired a lawyer and the hollywood reporter among other

trades say that now disney's human resources and legal departments are trying to sort out what is true and what is not true. and did elizabeth make false claims about her own health struggles, including writing about things that she went through, that she never went through. all right. what is the best childhood toy ever who doesn't love get ready for a major movie based really on now what is besides tons of fun is a very familiar so well known. i p intellectual property. so get ready for plato. the movie, the woman rode the big sick emily gordon working on the screenplay and the great jon and shoe will direct chu says he hopes to bring a story about the importance of imagination. that is your entertainment report here in the hollywood. i'm sam rubin. >> don't eat your kids.

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that moment went viral. of course, the tallest guy there on indiana's your team lifted up his team made to get the ball down. commentators also made that moment extra special with that play by play. >> and soon as it went out, i was jokingly in my mind like always put a stunt. was going down right there. but obviously you never think that that would ever come to that. they have other things. and and once i saw the chair in march and the white the state didn't >> was like, well, this might actually end up being a real thing. and so then guess he

said our cats. and with motioning us to we've got to go that ball. got to this >> unfortunately, indiana did get blown out. i mean, unfortunately for them for us, exciting. saint ended up winning final score. 82 to 53. definitely a nice viral moment. so they won on viral moments that game. all right. we do want to give you a final check of the radar. before we go. more rain expected this afternoon to try and stay dry. thanks for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm noelle bellow. we'll see you noelle bellow. we'll see you back here tomorrow. for march madness the dave's single is just a buck in the wendy's app. reg! ♪ ♪ lunch time, baby! lunch time, indeed, reg! get a hot and juicy dave's single for just a buck in the app. choose wisely. choose wendy's. and now most admired alum!

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