>> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> good morning. thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm stephanie lin. it is saturday, february 18th that we're covering a lot of news for you this morning. start by getting a look at the weather with mister dave spahr today. hey, good morning, stephanie. good morning, everybody. out a little bit of a cold start to get things started. but it looks pretty good into this afternoon and in fact, for this weekend. so so come on up here a little bit. >> looks like some hazy sunshine going on here on the east bay shoreline. get a little time for the sun to kind of do its magic as kind of paint the skies a little bit here for us. meanwhile, a

look at area temperatures santa rosa you're holding on to 30 is the only sub freezing temperatures livermore. 31, okay. only 2 spots sub freezing this morning. a lot of 30's on the board, both of the east bay inland. also up in the north bay. 44 san francisco, and even some upper 30's along the east bay shoreline. give you some contrast to yesterday. we're about a half a dozen degrees behind yesterday. it's the dry air and all that business that's working with us along with the inactive winds which were going to get this afternoon to maybe a little bit the way some high cloudiness both today tomorrow. but we'll go ahead and call and on balance. pretty much mostly sunny. get ready for 60's, maybe even popping about 70 or so in some select locations tomorrow. but your 7 day forecast is quite get more to that coming up in a bit. stephanie. >> breaking news we're following out of oakland. firefighters are on scene of a building fire in oakland. this is video you're watching now from the citizen app. we know that this fire started around

5.30, this morning on the 1500 block of alice street. so far, no word on any injuries or how many people may be displaced. we are reaching out to the fire department for more information and we'll bring you more updates as soon as we learn more. and another big story we're following for you this morning. at least 2 people are recovering, including a child after a shooting in richmond. this happened in the area fleming avenue and ella street police are still investigating, but they say the shooting was between at least 2 people and the victims were innocent. bystanders. they tell kron 4 the adult victim was in a car and the child was outside of the car. just look at that damage there. both victims are expected to be okay. we know the shooting happened in the same area where a car crashed into an apartment complex. and as you take a look careful, look at this video here. you can that there is a car that's completely inside of that apartment. there. we are working to confirm if anybody was inside the building at the

time. we have also reached out to police again to find out how or if this is connected to the shooting that happened in the same area. we will keep you updated as we learn more. new this morning. police are looking for the person who shot a man outside a tesla distribution center last night in livermore. police say it happened around 8.30, outside the building at challenger and discovery drive. the victim was found on the roadway with non-life-threatening injuries. meantime, the shooter is still on the loose. >> happening now, one person is recovering after being shot by a police officer in oakland. >> it happened yesterday afternoon. officers say they saw a motorcycle driving recklessly the opd helicopter following the driver until he crashed. police say the man then tried to carjack another vehicle at gunpoint. officers in the area told the man to drop his gun, investigators say, but the man then refused. and that's when officers opened fire. the man was taken to the hospital and is listed in stable condition at the

moment. neither the officers nor the carjacking victim were physically injured. a street vendor beat up over a hot dog outside the s ap center in san jose kron four's justin campbell spoke with the eyewitness who caught that brutal fight on camera. >> so phone video captures the moment a street vendor really kicked in the face. multiple witnesses say the assault came after a disagreement over a hot dog. theoguy know wanting to pay for some hot dogs or i think like the speed of service him. the man being a little too slow. i guess kim laura shot this tiktok video. she says the fight happened thursday night after a mexican singer's concert at the sapd center. laura says growing up in the hispanic community, she was taught to look out for the street vendors, someone >> within your own community and hispanic and knows the trouble that us that are street vendors go through. >> decide to lower himself and

the be the reason of it's very heartbreaking. so. it is it's a loss of laura says the vendor eventually got back up, started selling hot dogs and then was attacked again by the man being left unconscious. the vendor was taken to the hospital. >> i wouldn't have record of this would have just been something to the and the man gone. how with, you know, the root celebrates pays san jose police confirmed to kron 4 that the vendor was physically assaulted. >> at this time they say they do not have any information about the suspect reporting in san jose. justin campbell kron. 4 news. >> well, business owners in antioch say they are not happy with a series of break-ins and now as kron four's dan thorn reports, there is a growing disagreement between the police and the mayor's office. >> muscle maker grill in antioch was one of a series of small business is burglarized in the city over the last week. hundreds of dollars were

stolen and the restaurant's back counter was left trashed. samir salais says it's tough running a business in the east bay city. you're trying to do that good. you know, you try work hard to. >> for all of this and somebody come destroy. it just feels like horrible seller will be in. the slight joins the business owners of hillcrest restaurant in tap house and co seen a medina as victims of recent break-ins facing pressure from the public in antioch, police. lieutenant apologized about police response in an open letter reading in part, quote, we know that folks in antioch do not like to hear excuses, especially from their police department. the lieutenant concluded the letter by saying the department will share positive news on the burglaries soon. kron 4 news confirmed an arrest in the case was made thursday morning. we had to like. >> most of us thought that basically like a they couldn't hide. that guests are. >> but any act police have not posted about this arrest. the

police officers association says it's being covered up by mayor lamar thorpe. they say the mayor is doing this because he does not want our officers to be highlighted positively, but rather wants an opportunity to craft the message himself to take credit for the work our officers do. the mayor is not responding to the union's comments, but police chief steven ford says the withholding of information is not true and he is troubled by the antioch police unions attempt to create divisions. their circus antics will not in any way interfere. so lay appreciates the police department acknowledging they can do better but says when a crime is resolved, the community should be informed. it's not fair. it's not fair to as a small business owners, you know. >> that and they just let it go as it is like nothing. >> and they let them out on the street when they see no consequence. so that just go back and do it again. >> reporting in antioch, dan thorn kron. 4 news.

>> coming up on the kron 4 morning news. why a man accused of blowing up a home in the sunset district will be released from jail. the response from a neighbor who lost his home in the blast. plus, oakland's forme police chief speaking up after getting fired. what he claims is the real reason he lost his job and how some community members are reacting. and after the break, one answers about your sky-high gas bill. also to the feds, the possible also to the feds, the possible market manipulation that could

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>> in national news, u.s. officials have gathered all the debris from the chinese spy balloon shot down off the south carolina coast. the final pieces are now headed to the fbi for investigation. officials add analysis of the debris so far reinforces conclusions. it was indeed a spy balloon, but it's not clear how much information, if any, the chinese were able to get from it. the military also called off the search for the airborne objects, shot down over alaska and lay karen. the biden administration says those objects were likely federal officials are taking a closer look into what's behind the natural gas price spike in our state regulators are looking into whether any market manipulation took place. they say if they find any violations they will pursue an investigation. utility companies have blamed the spike on a combination of things, including the colder

weather and speaking with the colder weather. dave, what's up? it is coming by the way, stephanie. but this weekend, we got a little bit of a whisper of kind of some spring-like weather to for you, particularly on sunday for today. let's call it mostly sunny. those temperatures into the 60's temperatures into the 60's well inland. we'll take a look overactive bladder, or oab, can change your world. like going hiking, just to hike to the bathroom. reaching for the bar, just to reach for pads. waiting for the sunset, just to wait for the stall. discover gemtesa. a once-a-day pill proven to reduce all 3 key symptoms of oab: leakage episodes, urgency and frequency in adults.

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>> give me a week. can we?

>> good news is it is finally the weekend taking a live look now over at the golden gate bridge where it is just looking so pretty as the sun does beams down over it. we can already see some people are gettingaan early start on those a weekend road trips today. yeah, it's a it's a great weekend. and even with that, stephanie, good morning. and good morning, everybody. >> enjoy it, too, because it's a little flavor of spraying. before all we get hit by another dose of winter coming our way. here's the east bay shoreline. but with that hazy sunshine as we're cooking here, because it's still a little early in the day after getting little more sunshine, you can see it off to the distance here. getting funny, some brighter rays of light. so for today, basically some high cloudiness just want to make note of on balance will called basically mostly sunny both today. tomorrow we're bumping up those temperatures a little bit for tomorrow. but these morning starts will be on the chilly side even tomorrow. we're 30's. you can see santa rosa. 33 for napa in the east bay livermore valley. look about 31 east bay shoreline is in the business of the upper 30's right now.

44 for san francisco. so overnight, we don't have the winds in the air still fairly dry. yeah, we still drop off. it's almost like the desert a little bit, you know, drops off at night. and during the day it warms up nicely in a 30 degree movement with temperatures. that's pretty impressive. you need have usually dry air to do that. high pressure is basically responsible for us again, we'll get some high cloudiness a little bit throughout the day today, but definitely for the season will call it now. look ahead of the game plan sunday, by the way, 60's near about 70. we're kind of 84 tomorrow. early the week. sunny and mild on your monday. we continue with that program and then breezy tuesday, cold showers by wednesday into thursday. that's going to be interesting zone here wednesday night through thursday and then lingering on the friday. that's when we got to watch will carefully coming up for the week ahead. rain and low snow with all of this, particularly off to the east bay hills. this is one of the chances you might see the chance of seeing a little dusting of snow up there. windy with highs near about 50 with all of that, too. so where that system is bottled up. way up here. the north

gulf of alatka. this is the pathway for winter storms will be monitoring that later on for the week. ahead today, 60 san francisco, 63 oakland, 66 meanwhile for san jose. again, we're going to be adding to these numbers when we get to tomorrow. but for today, let's go with mid 60's own little bit more in your extended forecast a bit. stephanie. >> all right, dave, thank you. the suspect in last week's deadly explosion at a home in san francisco will be released on house arrest. he appeared back in court yesterday and faces a string of felony charges. kron four's gayle ong reports. >> at a friday morning arraignment, the judge ruled 53 year-old darron price was criminally careless about last week's house explosion in san francisco's outer sunset district. but does not need to be detained. defense attorney sierra be lebron. there was not evidence that mister price would be a substantial danger and would cause great bodily injury to someone if released. and that's because the prosecution has chosen. >> and that's what they think

the evidence shows is that mister price at best acted with negligence. they are not so much active with intentional car, investigators accuse price of producing hash oil with butane a highly flammable gas. they claim on the day of the explosion prices caregiver reported having a headache and feeling dizzy. >> she turned on the dryer and that triggered the explosion. the caregiver separate severe burns and prices. 51 year-old wife died in the blast. the explosion also damaged several other homes. kron 4 spoke with david garth off camera. he lived next door to price. he says he is surprised to hear price will be released from jail but is focusing on being thankful his family was not hurt. and for the support from the community. meantime, the judge ruled price has to find a place to live within 50 miles of the court will be on full home detention. he's not allowed to leave the premises. >> unless he has prior approval from law enforcement or the sheriff's department.

and obviously we heard the other conditions that the court posed, including searches of his electronic devices and his search history and things of that nature price is facing multiple felony charges that include involuntary manslaughter. >> arson, drug, manufacturing and child endangerment prices. next court appearance is next. friday. gayle ong kron. 4 news. >> in the north bay police arrested a fairfield man reported missing earlier this week on suspicion of killing his wife. police say 61 year-old greg hobson and his wife a not hobson reported missing on thursday. fairfield officers were eventually able to find greg but not his wife. police say based on evidence collected so far they believe a non was killed. they did not say why they believe hobson to be a suspect in his wife's death at this time. officers are also looking for the 2021 toyota tacoma. the pair were last seen in anyone who may have spotted hopson or any

suspicious activity involving the tacoma with the license plate on your screen. there is asked to please call fairfield police. and stay comics who believe they are. it is it may get a second chance at justice state attorney general rob bonta announcing the creation of a new post conviction justice unit. the first ever some da offices throughout california have similar units, including contra costa and napa counties. >> argument is an extra layer, a review to ensure integrity and transparency and justice in the criminal justice system. but we don't want repeat that. we do. and we do want to make sure we're taking advantage of the existing units that are there. but have a broad range of of oversight and rev%ew to do what we know is necessary to make sure that no it is convicted of a crime they didn't commit. >> bonta announced the unit yesterday and oakland citing the national registry of its of exonerations which found there have been more than 3300 exonerations across the

country since 1989. the art gallery owner arrested for spring, a homeless woman with water is expected to enter a plea in court next month. his attorneys appeared in court on friday. collier. glenn says he tried to repeatedly get the homeless woman to move. and that's when she became violent. he claims he had initially offered to help her, but she refused that help. when faces a battery charge and could be fined $2000 and get up to 6 months of jail time. also in court yesterday, the man accused of firing blanks in a san francisco jewish center has that we're getting more information on what's going to happen to him. prosecutors are requesting to keep 51 year-old dimitri valerie mission in custody. and that's been granted by a judge. he faces a slew of charges, including 6 counts of brandishing a replica gun and disturbing a religious meeting. a preliminary hearing is set for next week. for your health this morning. a new study suggests that vaping isn't any better for you than

cigarettes. researchers analyzed cells taken from the mounds of vapers and smokers and compared them to people who had never vaped or smoked. they say they smokers both had more than twice the amount of damage. the study also found popular products like flavored vapes also appear to be the most harmful. still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news and east bay school broken into for the second time in 2 weeks. >> the video showing the >> the video showing the thousan go the extra mile this presidents' day in a volvo mild-hybrid vehicle.

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lanes on interstate 6.80, between soon on pleasanton and alameda county are closed. >> and will remain closed through the end of presidents day weekend. caltrans crews are working to repair and replace entire sections of the highway. that highway will reopen tuesday morning. the southbound lanes will not be affected by the work. happening right now, a heads up for east bay, bart riders. the transit agency says some trains will not be running this weekend. crews will replace more than 7,000 feet of rail between the rock which and lafayette stations. they will be a free bus bridge in place. but writers are being told to expect delays of up to 30 minutes. still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, some bay area counties face a doctor shortage. why some lawmakers say we need to start bringing health care workers from other countries. >> and a programming reminder coming up at 8.30, this morning here on kron 4. we bring you college basketball. what if you prefer to continue

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it is 7.28. this beautiful saturday. start off this half hour with a look at our forecast. dave spahr in the weather center with the very latest. hey, good morning, stephanie. good morning. everybody give you a little shot here. san jose we also see all the sunshine that's going to be at work for this afternoon as well. >> i'm very pleasant weekend. it looks like even minus some of the winds going on as w ll. now it's a chilly start. that's where the dry air and clear skies taking over 30 for santa rosa. 33. >> for napa, we've got 32 for nevada with 31 for livermore. going make up for this with highs ultimately today, these inland spots. well, in the business of the 60's, maybe even popping near 70 in some selective spots as we get into tomorrow, the wind's going to be an basically for this weekend. there are more of a player when we get to tuesday of next week. there you see the satellite picture here. not much to see except some high cloudiness that will be in the skies a little bit for today. so let's break it down for you about 56 at 11:00am by 2 noting a few scattered clouds at 62 again, looking for warmer temperatures for

tomorrow and a big change for you by tuesday with wind clouds and cooler temperatures into the middle of the week. i'll have more in your extended forecast a bit. stephanie. all right, dave, thank you. >> in the east bay, former oakland police chief leronne armstrong spoke publicly for the first time says the city's new mayor fired him. the city parted ways with armstrong over his handling of officer misconduct cases. here's armstrong on friday. >> my termination was about federal monitor. robert warshaw and the mayor's failure to fight for the oakland community. we still warshaw's history of incentives. our crystal clear that the elephant in the room is being uncovered. he's supposed to be neutral, supposed to be a compliance director that helps the department move forward. but clearly. continues to move backwards. >> armstrong called the federal monitor robert warshaw a bully, accusing him of continuing to find problems with the police department has

a way of collecting a paycheck. a washout has served as federal monitor since 2010 and is paid about a million dollars a year in taxpayer dollars. chief armstrong is not the only person blaming the federal monitor for oakland's policing problems. kron four's terisa stasio spoke with a former oakland council member who shared some choice words. >> chief armstrong may call a bully, but i i called him a disrupter and i call him, you know, somebody who is a threat to public safety. quite honestly. lynette mcelhaney was elected as the first african-american president of the oakland city council during her tenure. she dealt frequently with federal monitor robert warshaw. >> who oversees the oakland police department? >> i'm deeply concerned about the destabilizing influence of chief for because he continues to leave us on a carousel of rotating chiefs. and that has nothing to do with the public's number one priority, which is public safety. she says that she is alarmed by the outside law firms. 57 page

report saying it supports the chief statements that he did nothing wrong >> so respect what you've read. what was your analysis? >> i think it's a very poorly written smear job. honestly, that there's nothing in it that had not been discovered around covered in the city's records. i think that there's more to be done in terms of a true investigation. and i hope that the separate will do its own independent investigation. a 15 page public summary claim the chief mishandled the misconduct of an officer involved in a hit and run. >> causing $15,000 in damages. well as firing his weapon. >> in police headquarters yet the chief has maintained an internal affairs investigation was underway, but the monitor took over before he could act. the federal monitoring of opd began in 2003 is part of the negotiated settlement agreement or an essay the nsa was created following an explosive case of officer

misconduct where the city paid out 10.9 million and agreed to dozens of reforms. >> leave that the department and the thanks to our taxpayers. we put together the infrastructure for accountability and the best practices internally that says we we no longer need to be under the thumb of a of his 2 roles, both the monitor and the compliance director so we can get rid of that conflict of interest and allow for the work to speak for itself. the time has come. michael haynie says that she and other activists plan to keep speaking up. >> and hope the monitor and others are listening. theresa kron, 4 news. >> and we learned to other oakland police officers have been put on paid administrative leave in connection to the independent report that ultimately led to the chief's termination on monday, the naacp of oakland and community leaders plan to hold a rally in support of

armstrong in front of city hall. if former contra costa deputy faces several charges for crimes he's accused of committing while working at the sheriff's office. prosecutors say 41 year-old matthew buckley committed the crimes in 2020 2022, he was arrested last august. prosecutors charged him with grand theft, unlawful use of an assault weapon filing a false report destroying or concealing evidence and evidence buckley had worked at the sheriff's office for 15 years. in the east bay and encounter between an oakland city council member and a homeless advocate is now being investigated by police kron four's haaziq madyun reports. >> you're looking at video that shows the tail is oakland police describe as an assault. that said, williams says he is the alleged victim in the video punched me in my face. my class went flying off. >> he slammed me to the ground. continue to punch me. continue to choke me out. and then at one point, he just

grabbed my head with his other and it started smashed it into the into the concrete. >> it happened on february 14 just after 08:30am, near 34th street and peralta in west oakland. williams says he was there doing some outreach at an encampment of unhoused residents. at the same time that oakland city council member carol fife in the city of oakland where there to close the encampment them. he says that he approached the council member, yelling his disapproval. i told, carol, this is your fault. >> this is your fault because you have these advocates out here working for you and they're lying to people in your line to people why we're having this back and forth. barreled into the conversation and pushes me back and he's yelling the whole time. you need to back up. you need to back up. don't try to walk towards. are you kind of saw her. don't do that. and i'm not trying to do any of that. whether council member, carol 5 says that she felt threatened and concerned for her physical safety. >> so i and well within my right as is every human being

to be safe, we all deserve to be safe. and if someone is it is it is choosing to take that safety from you. then the law says that you are within your rights to defend yourself. >> in this case, 5 says her close friend did the defending this incident comes on the heels of last week's press conference at city hall where 5 flake by mayor saying towel and others as for help in dealing with voicemail messages and emails threatening to harm her and other female politicians. >> i can take all of the profanity, whatever. but when you come in my face and you're yelling at me and then york pressing towards me, that's a completely different situation at no one. no one should have to endure. 2 days after the incident, carol, 5 tweeted, aggression and harassment masquerading as free speech is a justification for violence. know the difference. >> some see this as the

council member justifying violence. but she says no. >> i'm saying that my opposition is using free speech as a justification for their harassment, a >> this william says he was hospitalized later that night as a result of injuries he suffered during the incident. oakland police officials say their officers world the scene during the assault and immediately intervene that the responsible individual was cited and released and that the investigation is ongoing. i think that crime for news. >> in the south bay, san jose police are still looking for a woman accused of kidnapping her 2 year-old daughter. the little girl was found thursday safe with relatives in oakland. but the woman has not been caught. crystal mendez is accused of abducting the child from her ex husband's home in san jose. police say she's a known drug user and does not have legal custody of her daughter. mendez was last seen wearing a white hooded jacket, black, skinny jeans and dark colored sneakers. she also has

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person tells us a school spokesperson rather tells us, but this was the second break-in at the school to happen within just 2 weeks. just look at them moving everything out. all that. there's they say that thousands of dollars of instruments were stolen, including one that costs $6,000. various community groups have since donated money. so the school can increase building security. chp officers say they're seeing a spike in illegal bicycle activity on the bay bridge. like what you're seeing here, surveillance video shows more than a dozen kids riding bikes headed eastbound towards oakland. the chp says there was a similar situation that unfolded in august of last year than twice in january. the chp says riding a bike on the bridge is not only illegal, but it can also be pretty dangerous. >> well, we have good bike weather and those selected areas now for this afternoon with those temperatures reaching up to the middle 60's, we're going to up that for your sunday as well. but it's different story into next

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>> let's take a live look now at the bay bridge. traffic is moving along quite smoothly at this hour. and quite a number of cars out there on the roadways for this early in the morning to which is kind of nice to see people getting a jump start on some road trips, hopefully headed somewhere, fun and dave, what kind of weather conditions can people expect if they're heading on the roads right stephanie is

looking great all over the place for their weekend. i'm sitting up here to a diamond peak in not bad up there as well. different story though, this week. so if you're headed up there for the whole week by any chance. >> it's going to be a different climate coming your way this weekend. enjoy almost a little flavor of spring. and then after things change, check it out. the tahoe forecast. these are highs now. 45 tomorrow popping near 50 on monday. tuesday. here comes the snow. not unusual, but it's going to continue to cool beyond that point. only thing is we don't look like a doesn't make a lot of quantitatively from the series of systems. we're watching storm tracker for just some high cloudiness of basically it's all up in the gulf of alaska getting its act together. temperature check for you were 30 santa rosa. 33 for napa. 31 meanwhile, for livermore, it gets kind of the the clear skies, calm on the winds, allow those temperatures at night to fall. but we're making up for this afternoon and particularly tomorrow afternoon to getting beyond that here gets its act together. and that's freezing about here. now, it's not

particularly juicy. this is wednesday afternoon, but this is going to be some serious cold air upstairs really pushing those snow levels down. we could get a dusting in the east bay hills to the entire saga of this heading into next weekend. we get a breather next weekend and then off into the following week, it looks like this is actually some deeper moisture coming our way. but again, to underscore middle of the week, winter is going to be clearing its throat again. 60 san francisco for today along the coast into those upper 50's near about 60 lower 60's along the bay side. 62 foster city, 64 for palo alto in the south bay mid 60's. 66 san jose east bay shoreline mid-sixties tri valley still trying to catch up there in the lower 60's. 63 walnut creek and concord. 61 for berkeley set a 59 rather for a vallejo. and 64 fairfield napa. you're looking at 63 today. 64 for santa rosa. maybe at a half a dozen degrees or so for tomorrow to check out the 7 day forecast here got the winds coming tuesday. things must be changing. a 52 for a high

wednesday thursday. this is probably the coldest zone. we're going to experience here. low snow levels. that means to the east bay hills lows, meanwhile, will be dipping into the even the upper 20's, very contingent on how dry we get at night, though, to with 40's along the coast will get the mittens out. stephanie. all right, dave, thank you. >> a new film pays tribute to the city of oakland and it premieres this weekend. kron four's ella sogomonian reports. >> tales of the town is a new movie that captures a landscape and people of oakland in a poetic tribute. filmmakers abbas meant to cayman de lancy par him set out to document both present day and the history of the city as they first did years ago with the podcast that bears the same name, document. and, you know, our families, great migration coming from the south. >> fleeing the tears of the jim crow south and white supremacist terrorism. >> and then coming all the way

you know, i know great, great grandfather. he was by initially, you know, you know, and left by himself all with easy end of the that is sent a car back for the rest of the family. also be able to preserve those stories and we know our history and how that informs our current. i think that this both say their intention with the pieces to uplift the black community. >> by revisiting their roots and liberation movements that were born in oakland, like the black panther party. >> i contribute to that cycle raising constant. is that the way that we talked folks like up moving into a little of the king of been able to do for us, you know, is. i think it is a sign that we're moving in the right direction. it in our impact in the community in the way that, you know, we strive to do the bus to he'll inspired unite eventually for with the main objective being, you know, organization immobilization for change in our on to cayman. parham want audiences to be inspired by tales of the town.

>> to continue to make strides and give back whether in their own way or by joining in on their initiative called the people's programs which organizes free breakfasts, a mobile health clinic. >> and legal support among other things. >> and that was kron four's ella sogomonian reporting for us this morning. assemblymember kevin mccarty is calling for schools to offer a personal finance class and make it a graduation requirement. it's one of more than 2000 proposals formally submitted by friday's deadline to submit new bills in the state legislature. >> this is an important life skills, whether it's buying goods with a credit card or debit card. these financial tools are lifelong skills. that would be very, very handy. >> staying in education, berkeley senator said nancy skinner introduced a bill that would set guidelines limiting the amount of sodium and added sugars permitted for high school or other school meals in general and republican senator kelli say also introduced a bill to create a

task force made up of professionals, too, understand the effects of the fentanyl epidemic and they see it up close every day. all these bills will need to go through various committees before we know if they can make it to the floor for a vote. that process could take several more months. and the union representing contra costa county doctors and dentists say there are not enough positions in the county's health system. they're arguing the problem will only get worse next year. this part of an ongoing nationwide healthcare worker shortage that's forced hospitals to send hundreds of millions of dollars to spend hundreds of millions of dollars rather on travel nurses from other states as well as temporary staffers and part of the problem these hospital say is worker burnout. the lawmakers say a solution could mean bringing in workers from other countries. >> our government is just not doing the interview is necessary to bring people in that would help dramatically reduce our nursing shortage. what could we do with an immigration reform? that's

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>> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> good morning. and thank you so much for joining us on the kron. 4 morning news. i'm stephanie lin. happy saturday to you. we're covering a lot of news for you today. let's get to start with the weather with dave spahr. good morning, dave. stephanie, good morning. and good morning, everybody. it's of sunshine going on for the entire weekend. a little flavor of spring. we're going to have with in the morning hours a little bit on the chilly side as we're

experiencing. 32 santa rosa still. >> right there, the freezing mark. we see also for livermore, everybody else at least above freezing. we have 33 fremont other cold spot. 36 up to napa with 46. meanwhile, for san francisco, windsor temperature contrast, half a dozen degrees or so behind where we were this time from yesterday's just the dry air in the lack of the winds that are allowing temperatures in order to fall. we see high cloudiness going on for this afternoon and also tomorrow, the real action coming up from the northwest, however, won't be until tuesday with winds in some very cold temperatures coming our way with a little bit of precipitation. and i said precipitation advisory. 59 at high noon by 3 o'clock. we're talking 62 tomorrow. we're probably see a couple of 70's poke their heads out a little bit more in your extended forecast to and take a look. what's going on for the whole weekend, too. all right, dave, thank you. >> and breaking news we're following out of oakland. one person is rushed to the hospital after an early morning fire. this is video you're watching now from the

citizen app. we know the flames sparked around 5.30, this morning on the 1500 block of alice street. just take a look at how active that scene is there. and we have learned 5 victims had to be rescued from this building. the victim taken to the hospital is being treated for smoke inhalation. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. we're continuing to work our sources on this and we'll bring you any information, new information, rather as soon as we have it. and another big story we're following for you this morning. at least 2 people are recovering included a child after a shooting in richmond. it happened in the area of fleming avenue and ellis street police are still investigating, but they say the shooting happened between at least 2 people and the victims were innocent. bystanders. they tell kron 4 the adult victim was in a car and the child was outside of the car. both victims are expected to be okay. that shooting happened in the same area where a car also crashed into an apartment complex. take a look at that video and

you can see that the vehicle completely made its way inside of that apartment complex. there. we are working to confirm if anybody was inside that building at the time. that collision happened. we've also reached out to police to find out how or if this is connected to the shooting that happened. in the same area involving that child. we will keep you updated as soon as we learn more. and new this morning, police are looking for the person who shot a man outside a tesla distribution center last night in livermore. police say it happened around 8.30, outside the building at challenger and discovery drive. the victim was found on the road with non-life-threatening injuries. meantime, the shooter is still on the loose. happening right now. a carjacking suspect is recovering from injuries after being shot by police in oakland. that shooting happened yesterday afternoon. looking at video now from the citizen app. officers say they saw a motorcycle moving about recklessly and the opd helicopter followed the driver of the motorcycle until he

crashed. police say the man then tried to carjack another vehicle at gunpoint. officers in the area told the man to drop his gun. they say he refused. and that's when police opened fire. the man was taken to the hospital and is listed in stable condition. neither the officers nor the carjacking victim. the suspected carjacking victim were physically injured. a street vendor beat up over a hot dog outside the sapd center in san jose kron four's justin campbell spoke to the eyewitness who caught he brutal fight on camera. >> so phone video captures the moment a street vendor really kicked in the face. multiple witnesses say the assault came after a disagreement over a hot dog. the guy know wanting to pay for some hot dogs or i think like the speed of service him, the man being a little too slow. i guess kim laura shot this tiktok video. she says the fight happened thursday night after a mexican singer's concert at the sapd

center. laura says growing up in the hispanic community, she was taught to look out for the street vendors, someone within your own. >> community and hispanic and knows the trouble that us that are street vendors go through decide to lower himself and the be the reason of it's very heartbreaking. so. it is it's a loss of laura says the vendor eventually got back up, started selling hot dogs and then was attacked again by the man being left unconscious. the vendor was taken to the hospital. >> i wouldn't record of this would have just been something to the and the man gone. how with, you know, the root celebrates pays san jose police confirmed to kron 4 that the vendor was physically assaulted. >> at this time they say they do not have any information about the suspect reporting in san jose. justin campbell kron. 4 news.

>> and business owners in antioch say they are not happy with a series of break-ins. and now as kron four's dan thorn reports, there is a growing disagreement between the police and the mayor's office. >> muscle maker grill in antioch was one of a series of small business is burglarized in the city over the last week. hundreds of dollars were stolen and the restaurant's back counter was left trashed. samir salais says it's totgh running a business in the east bay city. you're trying to do that good you know, you try work hard to. >> for all of this and somebody come destroy. it just feels like horrible will be in. the slight joins the business owners of hillcrest restaurant and tap house and co seen a medina as victims of recent break-ins facing pressure from the public in antioch, police. lieutenant apologized about police response in an open letter reading in part, quote, we know that folks in antioch do not like to hear excuses, especially from their police department. the lieutenant concluded the letter by saying

the department will share positive news on the burglaries soon. kron 4 news confirmed an arrest in the case was made thursday morning. we had to like. >> most of us thought that basically like a they couldn't hide. that guests are. >> but any act police have not posted about this arrest. the police officers association says it's being covered up by mayor lamar thorpe. they say the mayor is doing this because he does not want our officers to be highlighted positively, but rather wants an opportunity to craft the message himself to take credit for the work our officers do. the mayor is not responding to the union's comments, but police chief steven ford says the withholding of information is not true and he is troubled by the antioch police unions attempt to create divisions. their circus antics will not in any way interfere. so lay appreciates the police department acknowledging they can do better but says when a crime is resolved, the community should be informed. it's not fair. it's not fair

to as a small business owners, you know. >> that they just let it go as it is like nothing. >> and they let them out of the street when they see no consequence. so that just go back and do it again. >> reporting in antioch, dan thorn kron. 4 news. >> coming up on the kron 4 morning news. why a man accused of blowing up a home in the sunset district will be released from jail. the response from a neighbor who lost his home in the blast. plus, oakland's former police chief speaking up after getting fired. what he claims is the real reason he lost his job and how some community members are reacting. and after the break, want answers about your sky-high gas bill? well, so did the feds the possible market manipulation that could spark an investigation?

>> in national news, u.s. official officials have gathered all the debris from the chinese spy balloon shot down off the south carolina coast. the final pieces are now headed to the fbi for inspection. now, officials at analysis of the debris so far reinforces conclusions. it was a spy balloon. but it's not clear how much information, if any, the chinese were able to get from it. the military also

called off the search for the airborne objects, shot down over alaska and lake huron. the biden administration says those objects were likely civilian own. and federal officials are taking a closer look into what's behind the natural gas price spike in our state regulators are looking into whether any market manipulation took place. they say if they find any violations, they will pursue an investigation. utility companies have blamed the spike on a combination of things, including the colder weather. speaking of cold weather, let's check in with dave. yes, we're going to more that ch for the next couple of days. why? because temperatures will be plummeting but enjoy the flavor spring this weekend, temperatures into the 60's this afternoon. >> essentially mostly sunny skies. we'll put it all together for you coming up with a bit. the kron 4 morning news continues. welcome back

kron. 4 morning news. good morning, everybody. and a pretty sweet weekend. we have on tap with a lot more that blue skies as you can see there from the golden gate bridge. not much the way of fog and all this morning. so. >> with the dry air clear skies minus the winds. temperatures been able to do a little bit of a freefall. stormtracker 4 just tracking some high cloudiness. but this will be the pathway, the highway. in fact, for a little flavor of winter, come the middle of the week, 30 to show the degree still in livermore at this hour. but at least they're above the freezing mark matching that for a santa

rosa. everybody is at least at the freezing mark or better. well, palo alto coming in a 31. but most readings in the 30's and some 40's to be had already. 45 for antioch. 46, meanwhile, 4 san francisco going to place the high pretty close to home. it's going to be a nice blocking mechanism, actually warming us up a little bit more. so tomorrow before departing and allowing the traffic from the gulf of alaska. now storm system we're talking about of the series doesn't appear to be real juicy in terms of having a lot of moisture with excuse me. but it looks like it will be packing a cold punch with that. so this is not called pans out. sunny and mild warming up a little bit tomorrow, 60's near about 70 on sunday, too. now for early in the week. it's sunny and mild for your monday breezy tuesday. that's the change day again. and then we get into wednesday, wednesday night thursday. that's when you're going to feel the real thrust of the cold air in place. we've got showers for wednesday continuing for the end of the week and low snow levels. this will be that chance for that token. little dusting along the east bay hills. this is probably our

last shot of said he had with certainly this cold system we're looking at storm tracker 4. this is where it's going to come from up here in the gulf of alaska. right now it's being blocked. it's not really well developed that will come later. 60 san francisco about 63 for oakland. 66 san jose. lot of middle to lower 60's to be had for high temperatures for today. again, we're going up that tomorrow. but boy, some really winter weather going on free into next week. we'll have more on those details coming up in a bit, stephanie. all right, dave, thank you. >> the suspect in last week's deadly explosion at a home in san francisco will be released on house arrest. he appeared back in court friday and faces a string of felony charges. kron four's gayle ong reports. >> at a friday morning arraignment, the judge ruled 53 year-old darron price was criminally careless about last week's house explosion in san francisco's outer sunset district. but does not need to be detained. defense attorney sierra be lebron. there was not evidence that mister price would be a substantial danger

and would cause great bodily injury to someone if released. and that's because the prosecution has chosen. >> and that's what they think the evidence shows is that mister price at best acted with negligence. they are not acted with intentional car. investigators accuse price of producing hash oil with butane a highly flammable gas. they claim on the day of the explosion prices caregiver reported having a headache and feeling dizzy. >> she turned on the dryer and that triggered the explosion. the caregiver separate severe burns and prices. 51 year-old wife died in the blast. the explosion also damaged several other homes. kron 4 spoke with david garth off camera. he lived next door to price. he says he is surprised to hear price will be released from jail but is focusing on being thankful his family was not hurt. and for the support from the community. meantime, the judge ruled price has to find a place to live within 50 miles of the court will be on

full home detention. he's not allowed to leave the premises. >> unless he has prior approval from law enforcement or the sheriff's department. and obviously we heard the other conditions that the court posed, including searches of his electronic devices and his search history and things of that nature price is facing multiple felony charges that include involuntary manslaughter. >> arson, drug, manufacturing and child endangerment prices. next court appearance is next. friday. gayle ong kron. 4 news. >> in the north bay police arrested a fairfield man reported missing earlier this week on suspicion of killing his wife. police say 61 year-old greg thompson and his wife a not hobson, were reported missing on thursday. fairfield officers were eventually able to find greg but not his wife. police say based on evidence collected so far they blew. they believe a non was killed. it did not say why they believe hobson to be a suspect in his wife's death.

officers are also looking for the 2021 toyota tacoma. the pair were last seen in anyone who may have seen hopson warning suspicious activity involving that to como with this license plate on your screen is asked to call fairfield police. the art gallery owner arrested for spraying a homeless woman with water is expected to enter a plea in court next month. his attorneys were in court on friday. collier. glenn says he tried repeatedly to get the homeless woman to move and she became violent and he claims he had initially offered her help, which she refused. when faces a battery charging could be fined $2000 and get up to 6 months of jail time. also in court yesterday, the man accused of firing blanks in a san francisco jewish cen%er. prosecutors request to keep 51 year-old dimitri valerie in custody was granted. he faces a slew of charges, including 6 counts of brandishing a replica gun and disturbing and

religious meeting. a preliminary hearing is set for next week. comics convicted of they're in or other comics convinced of their innocence may have a second shot at justice state attorney general rob bonta announced the creation of a new post conviction justice unit kron four's philippe djegal explains. >> today my office is antouncing the launch of the departments first ever post conviction. justice unit state attorney general rob bonta says the unit will be staffed by 2 deputy attorneys general. >> and we'll review claims of innocence, wrongful conviction and corruption. we're walking the walk. >> we are already doing this work. taking a hard look at cases were handling on appeal and considering racial justice act claims with an eye toward systemic racism on to making the announcement during a news conference in oakland friday, citing the national registry of exonerations which reports across the country. >> there have been more than 3300 exonerations since 1989

new evidence may arise past mistakes can be uncovered and sentencing standards may change. weather issues arise as a result of new evidence or advances in forensic science. it is incumbent on prosecutors to make good faith efforts to correct in justice. some district attorneys offices throughout the state have similar units, including locally in contra costa and napa counties. attorney general bonta says in those communities his team will assist in reviews but will focus mainly on areas where this kind of unit does not exist or embracing our duty to seek justice, not to. >> blindly seek convictions and to make sure that convictions are just in a statement. the california innocence coalition says, quote. >> attorney general bonta is creation of the post conviction. justice unit is a powerful recognition of california's need to address the problem of wrongful conviction in our state.

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harmful. a new study suggest smokers trying to kick the habit might want to try cbd products. researchers at washington state university found small amounts of cbd can hinder the metabolism of nicotine, which can reduce cravings. cbd is one of the components of marijuana, but it does not produce a high, according to experts, it's going to popularity after claims that cbd can help everything from stress to insomnia. and the national weather service released its predictions for the first spring in a few years without the presence of la nina la nina is expected to end this spring. but experts say el nino will not immediately take over and that could make spring weather more unpredictable, leaving more room for climate related issues like global warming. still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, some bay area counties face a doctor shortage. why some lawmakers say we need to start bringing health care workers from other countries.

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