>> tonight at 5.30, some good news to report on california's snowpack. new measurements from the state department of water resources show that it's slightly above average for this time of year, which is good. kron four's capitol correspondent eytan wallace reports. >> just take a look at all of this snow elevations, 6800 feet. it's a site. researchers with the california department of water resources say they want to see, but they remind

us that this is just the beginning of the season and they make clear we need way more where this came from. if you're looking at the california department of water resources for snow survey of 2025. >> the results show in california snowpack stands at 110% of average for this time of year. and 39% of average of where we should be by april. first, i feel pretty good for today and you're icing as the california department of water resources, snow surveys and water supply forecast. a manager he helped facilitate the measurements here at the phillips station upper his results, the snow water content in this area stands at 9 inches and the snow depths 10 to 24 inches. that's significant because the depth of the snow tells us how deep it well, the snow water content tells us how much water it contains water that will eventually flow to reservoirs, agricultural areas and your faucet. so far this season. rice and says things are looking promising thanks to mother nature. we have had a good series of storms that

have got is a good portion of the way. but he notes that really applies just to the northern sierra region. in fact, this data from the state shows the northern sierra snowpack is more than 160% of average for this time of year. but the central sierra is much less at 94%. and the southern sierra is even worse at 75%. southern california, which doesn't have as many mountains there. they're very dry. >> so we do need more storms regardless to fill our reservoirs and build our snow pack for that april. first date. >> all of it coming after governor gavin newsome made a stop to this very area last spring. his message then take a deep breath this year. but don't quadruple and not a time in your shower. it was. then he unveiled this plan that want to connect natural waterways with manmade storage, all in hopes of capturing more water before it goes to the ocean. today, though, the focus here is on the months ahead. months rising says will be key for california's snowpack each we're expecting to increase.

>> and every day that we don't get something, our numbers going to drop it snow pack is a good chunk of our water supply. so we'd like healthy snow. >> and the california department of water resources will continue to conduct snow surveys at the beginning of every month through april. we should have a much better idea about the state's long-term snowpack outlook. then reporting at the phillips station elevation, 6800 tom wallace kron 4 news. >> alright, 6800 feet 8 and i will raise you castle peak interstate 80, which is what we're looking at here about 9100 feet. i lawrence, what do you make of that? i think we're going be seeing snow everywhere around those spots overnight. tonight. >> and tomorrow we've got a winter storm warning going up as we're going to see some heavy snow. >> in the sierra nevada, adding to some pretty impressive totals. but what a nice evening out there right now. you're looking over lake tahoe at this time and just a beautiful evening over that gorgeous lake. more snow on the way the winds will be kicking up to winter storm

warnings there moving up the foot hills. we see that snow level all the way down to about 5500 feet and upwards of a foot of snow across some of the higher peaks. so if you're traveling there tomorrow, that winter storm warning goes into effect, starting at 07:00am so it's going to kind of wrapping up throughout the day in the high country, be extra careful plan on some delays. if you're heading that direction right now, looking good. just some partly cloudy skies in the high country. yep, as you might expect is going to be chilly. 41 south lake tahoe right now for even climb. and 39 degrees now in homewood. but overall, the pattern going to start to shift again. we've got one more storm. there may be a secondary storm coming in on monday that could affect this year, nevada. but this will be the big weather maker for them here in the next 24 hours or so as it begins to move in. so we're going to add to these totals and so far so good, at least in northern california, 161% normal really, you've seen that north of the bay area get to the north. tremendous amounts of rain have fallen lots of snow in the sierra nevada central sierra. you look at the 94% of normal. almost surprising.

they have 74 5% enrolled in the southern sierra nevada. they just have not had that much. in fact, after the storm system moves on by, they're not going to be a whole lot of snow going up there. so might want to get up there. do some skiing now and then wait for those next storms. probably not coming until the middle of the month. all right, lauren, so we have developing news out of new york city where 10 people were shot outside an event in queens. >> police say the venue was filled to capacity for a private event when 4 gunmen approached shortly after 11:00pm. and they just opened fire and people waiting to get inside 6 women. 4 men ranging in age from 16 to 20 years old. they were taken to the hospital. they are expected to survive. the gunman got away, though. police are investigating whether the incident is gang related. a man is in custody after he took over the driver's seat of a self-driving robotaxi happened just before 1 o'clock this morning on 5th and hill streets in downtown l a and the man was in the driver's seat of the driverless waymo car refused to get out.

several officers, though, moved in the door, open them and finally did get out. he was taken into custody. we still don't know if he was a waymo customer. >> san francisco police use the fight retail theft. it's part of a growing trend for law enforcement in california. officers say the technology is helping them get all kinds of situations. but some are concerned and questioning whether law enforcement agencies are using this technology too much. chip yost looks at both sides of the issue. >> he's he committed a crime and he's in a position of advantage, basically walking out of the car. >> in anaheim, corona, police used a drone to keep eyes on an armed man in a car on the 91 freeway. and i want let but don't people fighting about health in forward to a drone beat officers to this home in gave them a timely warning based am i?

>> and what looks like day for 7 and so i told him to hold off. >> there is no immediate threat to the other person. >> and in fountain valley, you're buying. police had a training exercise that involves sending the drone indoors to look for a barricaded suspect. >> one of the advantages of drones is it allows us to remain at a safer distance while sending in eyes to be able to figure out the situation. the common thread in all of those enarios is that the drone use was in response to an emergency situation. what what's going on in beverly hills is next level at the entrance to our cities. we have big sign board to say welcome to beverly hills police drone in news. >> that's right. in addition to the roughly 2500 surveillance cameras throughout the city that are monitored here at the police department's real-time watch center, beverly hills also

employs pilots who fly a drone from the watch center to actively patrol the city 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. lieutenant todd withers oversees the program. >> and they can fly remotely to any call for service. any suspicious activity and then we can go and check out. critical infrastructures will maintain security. >> so whether you're here on rodeo drive or somewhere else in beverly hills, it's quite possible. a police drone could be up above keeping an eye on. >> you think that's a good or a bad idea to use a drone like that? i think overall it's probably a good idea. i think it can be a good idea as far as like safety miss. but i also think that it may be. >> invading some privacy and the ways she's not the first person to raise that 2023 report by the aclu. >> did well? law enforcement likes to tout certain success stories that are appealing to everybody.

>> but the real question is, where's what are the limits going to be here? jay stanley authored that report and he believes beverly hills is use of drones goes too far. don't think anybody wants live in a world where when you walk out of your home, there's police drones buzzing overhead with powerful cameras. you don't know if they're focused on you and that they're up there all day and you get home at night should be limits on when law enforcement departments launch drones. they should be for true emergencies. only on that last point, lieutenant weathers disagrees. mean, going to be hearing and white manderino he says the pro active use of the drones has proven useful time and again in stopping and solving crimes. but he says he does understand. >> the privacy concerns. and i think that they have valid concerns and we try to alleviate those concerns through policies through. >> ensuring that we're we're transparent what we're doing. certainly don't want someone

flying over my house and looking at, you know, my family and my backyard so. we try to adhere to that unless there's a call for service. >> that was chip yost reporting for us as of 2022. the last year we have numbers here. more than 1000 police departments in the u.s. were using drones and that number has only grown since. >> still ahead, as the nation prepares to say goodbye to former president jimmy carter. >> we have reaction from plains, georgia. first, though, a mother opens up about how fentanyl killed her 2 children. we dig deeper into what's being done. try to keep what's being done. try to keep the drug off the streets.

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>> the synthetic opioid fentanyl is cheaper than ever easy to find and is responsible for a surge in overdose. deaths across the country so dangerous. the drug is often called the invisible killer because the victims don't even know they're ingesting it. kareen wynter gives us a look at the devastation. it's leaving behind. >> 2 siblings with an unbreakable bond. >> 18 year-old tyler gordon and his younger sister, jenna. 16 sailed through life together. both renditions. so. both loved music and both teens died in the bedroom of their homes riverside county. 2 separate incidents from fentanyl related overdoses. got on my knees and i i begged pleaded with god begging him to take me instead to please save them. you know. >> and the fact i was in that

position twice with both of my kids, it's just it's surreal to me reading parents like tammy line. gordon are at the center of a deadly opioid crisis, crushing communities across america. >> line gordon son, tyler, passed away in 2020. he took what he thought was percocet, but it contained fentanyl that tyler purchased on snapchat. 10 months later, her daughter jenna, died after unknowingly taking counterfeit xanax that investigators told line gordon was pure fentanyl. neither one of them to end up dead. most fentanyl shipments are trafficked into the u.s. from mexico. this poison, this drug that's coming in from the cartels is out there. >> and you need to be careful because if you get your hands on the wrong stuff, you can die. the drug enforcement administration says seizures of fentanyl, both the powder and pill form ere at record levels over the past 2 years. seizures of fentanyl powder nearly doubled with federal agents taking in more than 13,000 kilograms. that's about

30,000 pounds in 2023. as for fentanyl pills, the dea seized more than 79 million of them in 2023. almost triple the amount from 2021. we're taking everything we can off the streets trying to make safer. but the synthetic opioids, there's just an endless amount of that. just the amount of fentanyl that we find. it's it's it's unbelievable. 23. we've recovered with 3 million fentanyl pills over 150 kilos of powder, fentanyl and my family. that's enough fentanyl to kill the entire state of california. the sheriff's department overdose response task force works with the feds on prosecutions that carries a stiffer sentence. so it's a phenomenal the turn. >> we have over 27 cases in various stages of federal prosecution currently and all those individuals are looking at a 20 mandatory minimum, every drug seizure, every arrest. every conviction is saving lives. but for those didn't get the help in time like tyler and jennifer gordon, they're mom also has a powerful message to spare other families. the heartbreak don't ever assume you're except fentanyl does not discriminate. talk here. kids educate them. what fentanyl

is. >> tell him that you're scared that you're going to lose them because the stuff is so dangerous. you that quick. >> preparations are ramping up in plains, georgia, following the death of former president jimmy carter. the small town only had a population of that. what 400 people mr. carter was growing up 10 decades ago and now the population is just shy of 600. his loss is especially tough for members of the former president's family. brad means says the story. >> but yeah, up with press. that's all on when you walk into lee and smith's house, you enter a one-woman national archive, a tribute to the former president of the united states of america in americus, georgia, curated by his knees at roseland what i talked to her smiths, dad and the former first lady were siblings. this carter section of your house

pace was all things political that especially memorabilia from her uncle's political career and the people who helped him get to the top. the allman brothers told a prominent position on these walls. >> really important in helping get elected to be president. i mean, they did concerts to raise money how about this for a keepsake, a signed copy of a poster from carter's run for governor of georgia in 1978, so is this a young lance madison and what it do? and this is a young lee and this is chuck smith and statements brothers and this is downtown planes. >> one of the primary. you know, we will wait for election returns to come back for primary primary that sent her uncle to washington and years later earned her a perfect score on her high school senior i'm all about some politics. >> smith is also all about

family. >> actually, i don't ever remember a day in my life without, you know. i mean, they were just even though, matt, i mean, like when he was governor or whatever, they were always in our life. smith is also all about family. >> no fancy titles. just fond memories of fun. times christmases were special app with we had a certain chair at rosa. was it a certain place? >> you know, my dad, my grandmother always was in the rocking chair lee and remembers when things went to the next level, though, when her family became the first family. >> getting to spend the night the white you know, my senior year, my grandmother taught me up there their christmas couple weeks before christmas and we spent a week. >> and now another time of transition for this family. a time to mourn to celebrate and to wonder what's next. >> when he went into hospice, i just kinda. you know, it was just who's going to step up.

you know, the grant. yes, a but i think he was the good, you know, good in the world in. and it's not who's going to feel as she used while lee and waits to see who will pick up where her humanitarian uncle left off. >> she'll continue to contribute to this hallway. remnants of a time gone by and reminders of a powerful couple people who went from a small town to the world stage. i may not be able to step out into the world and make the impact that he may. but if i make a few steps every day and try o >> the better person and nice to people and show kindness and empathy and compassion that, you know, we all can hail. >> that was brad means reporting for us, lee and their and other members of the carter family will be preparing for the events to honor him in the coming days. >> it all starts with a motorcade that will take body through town one more time on

saturday morning before heading to atlanta and washington, d.c., for services for the former president. the first meteor shower of the year is expected to reach its peak tonight. as many as 200 meteors could potentially light at the sky. and maybe you can even see with the naked eye, depending on the level of light pollution, weather conditions in your particular area. >> lawrence is here. how will the skies be learned? yeah, quadrantids is what we're expected to see tonight. but boy, it's a tough one to get. if you get a nice clear skies could be a spectacular display. >> unfortunately, we've got an approaching storm and that's going to factor into especially starting out the north bay and well, the best time to see this is right before sunrise early in the morning. that coincides with when those storm clouds really start to move in. so, yeah, we're going to see you want to look toward the northeast and you possibly see the quadrant. club went. let's say that again, quadrantids as we head toward tomorrow morning. temperatures going to be chilly. you're gonna see a lot of clouds kind of thickening up throughout the day. best chance probably to see that in the south bay, just because they'll have less cloud cover

out there. temperatures are going to be cool. and in the 40's out there right now, working on a nice evening, just a few high clouds there in the distance, but will soon watch those clouds thickening up. as we head through the night tonight, temperatures for highs. stay pretty comfortable. lot of 60's how about 68 degrees? almost 70 in san jose. well, above the average, 60 in livermore, 60 in concord. 64 in santa rosa and also in half moon bay and 58 degrees in san francisco. all right, around the bay area. now those temperatures begin to cool off as the sun to set down to. 48 now in fairfax. 51 now and snowmen. 55 in calistoga. not going to be quite as cold. we've got that cloud cover moving into. that's going to hold up the temperatures. but expecting to get wet out there most the rain so far northern california. so far the bay area looking good to start out your evening. so if you're headed out this evening, don't have to worry about rain. light winds continuing out there right now. the golden gate bridge, seeing some of those breezes to about 16 miles per hour. those likely pick up those this front begins to move overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. and here you go. if

you headed out the commute tomorrow, yeah, a little soaking as the system comes by rolling through the morning hours. turning to scattered showers around noon or so. and then tapered off in the afternoon, probably going to clear things out. see a little sunshine lot of part of the day. but this may be it. this may be the last storm we seeing quite a while and pack things are really going to change. we're going to get a big dome of high pressure building in behind the system. then as a ridge builds boy, we're going to dry things out. we're going to be talking about maybe some temperatures may be in the 70's around the bay area's we get in toward a lot of part of the weekend, some offshore winds and boy, it stays dry through about the middle of the month. maybe you start talking about some rain again as we head toward about the 17th. but in the meantime, tomorrow, yep, it'll be a weapon out there, especially the 1st half of the day planner temperatures in the 50's and the 60's looking out over the next couple days but returned some dry weather on saturdays for your weekend. looks good. if you want to get out and about looking like some nice temperatures. in fact, warming things up. pretty nice as we look at some dry conditions. well, into next week and way beyond. ok, so make your plans. yeah,

they'd right now. and you have to wonder some winter headed up high country. do a little skiing. those kind of things. i mean, this me the time to do it for a tempting. thank you. our excellence. still ahead. >> this little warriors dreams are coming. true. have. >> team is pairing up with make a wish. make those dreams come true. tonight.

>> francisco kicking off the new year with a first thursday. tonight, the free concerts going to feature dj toro. even walk a bay area native. he has collaborated with travis scott and tyler. the creator, the event is free. it runs from 7.30, to 9

on market and second street art. the warriors are making a dream come true. teaming up with make a wish tonight to help this little guys. >> life 8 year-old you and joe and his family will be at tonight's game against the sixers in the city. un's a big sports fan and is flying all the way from iowa to see the game. this will be his first pro sporting event and make-a-wish wants to make sure it's a memorable moment for him because, you know, those kids deal with all kinds of health issues and it's a great organization and hopefully the warriors will come through. there we go. all right. that's it for kron. 4 news at 5. the news at 6 is next. >> coming on properties at 6, a new year means some changes to your pg e bill. we're going to break down the numbers and tell you how much. >> you should expect to spend 2025. the news at 6 is next.

>> now at 6 new year, price hike pg and e says your gas bills going get more expensive. >> but first, police in san francisco are investigating 2 shootings. one of them deadly. >> is at 6. >> everybody on the will kids and i'm grant lotus. our top story tonight at 6 o'clock just a couple days into the new year in san francisco, police are investigating 2 shootings, one of them resulted in a man being killed and a woman and a toddler were

injured. our kron four's rob nesbitt was at the scene today where family members talked about what they believed happened. >> san francisco police say today's shooting was an isolated incident and there's no threat to the public. the father, the man who was killed says his son shot himself after shooting 2 others had to that. anthony thomas was in tears while police investigated the home where he says his son, antoine thomas, was shot and killed according to thomas, the 24 year-old shot himself after shooting his one and a half year old son and the child's mother. is >> for for some strange i i i i didn't i didn't get a chance to make it here. time. stop it. now he's gone. >> police were called to the residence on tompkins avenue. san francisco just after 08:00am thursday for reports of a shooting responding. officers found a man and woman injured. the man died at the scene and the woman was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. a toddler connected to the