>> now at 5, painful past hope to help the healing journey. tonight, we remember the lives lost in the devastation devastating half moon bay mass shooting. >> also, a federal judge temporarily blocks one of president trump's biggest executive actions ending

birthright citizenship. we a joining us for kron. 4 news at 5. i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. 2 years ago today, 7 people were killed in half moon bay. one employee just >> opened fire at 2 mushroom farms. a grand jury indicted suspect a 66 year-old chunli zhao for those murders. the trial is set for april and tonight the city and its residents are paying respects, laying out flowers to honor the victims and releasing renderings of a permanent memorial park for the victims. >> it was for my it was it was sad everybody felt shocked and now i think 2 years after we're seeing how slowly, you know, and then surely we're coming out of that trauma. the proposal you see are 3 of the designs that were hoping one of them will be selected to be the actual final memorial and

work. today. we're gathering community feedback. we invite them to come drop by their comments share their thoughts what they like. but they don't like anything else that we should consider. and we'll take all that feedback report back to the committee and report back to city council commissions and committees. >> the space would also be a tribute to the farm workers legacy. the shooting exposed farmworkers deplorable conditions at the 2 facilities. many were living together in container boxes with no running water or electricity. there will also be a vigil tomorrow night to pay respects to those who lost their lives 2 years ago. president trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is on hold. now a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order saying taking away citizenship from those who were born here to undocumented parents violates the u.s. constitution. percent. herman is here tonight with more on this. dan. well, you know, the hall to redefining birthright citizenship comes less than 72 hours after president trump

signed the executive order. >> he says his administration will appeal. a federal judge in seattle is temporarily blocked. president trump's executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship. press right. it's a big one. the order the president signed would take away u.s. citizenship from those born here. if neither of their parents are u.s. citizens. the judge, an appointee of ronald reagan, said the order clearly violated the 14th amendment. this is step one. >> but to hear the judge from the bench say that in his 40 years as a judge, he has never seen something so blatantly unconstitutional sets the tone for the seriousness of this effort. >> those who run la raza community resource center in san francisco's mission district. we're gratified with the ruling. it's see that this trend has started on the right foot that we will fight back against the trump administration attempting to take away our our our basic rights. if the ruling is affirmed in 2 weeks, the trump

administration could appeal and eventually the case could land at the u.s. supreme court. >> this federal judge and i believe other federal judges look at this executive order and view it as directly contravene in the 14th amendment. and i think there's states as well as various organizations. while the order now is on hold, the 2 sides have 14 days to submit more extensive briefs and their positions. the judge is set to

make a final ruling on february 6th grant vicki. >> thank you, dan. in response to the growing concerns of the undocumented community about president trump's new immigration policies, california attorney general rob bonta along with 10 other state attorneys general, they have sent out a joint statement saying the constitution prevents the government from forcing state and local authorities to enforce federal laws saying that they will continue to investigate and prosecute crimes regardless of immigration status, assuring they will not be distracted by the president's mask deportation agenda. >> there is mass devastation across la is fire. crews have been battling several wildfires, of course, over the past couple of weeks. the latest a cause, a bunch of destruction. the hughes fire hasn't destroyed homes but has torn through brush burned about 10,000 acres and only 12 hours or so yesterday. this thing just took off.

fortunately, that constant aerial attack is helping crews to start to get the upper hand on it started late yesterday morning along the 5 near santa clarita and gusty winds caused it to spread really fast through steep terrain. it is 24% contained now. yeah, thankfully, no homes were destroyed, but evacuations still remain in place. kron four's chief meteorologist lawrence karnow here with more la is bracing now for rain this weekend or yeah, we've got just all kinds different types. whether southern california course been the winds. >> and the terrible fires, those gusty winds overnight just raging across those fires and fanning the flames and more fires breaking out. >> again today, the winds have backed off a little bit now, but still a very gusty, much of southern california. some new fires have begun this up over the fire. also near oxnard. we've got another fire that continues to burn in that area. and while the winds continue to rage on all right, the one near castaic lake, you can see the flames continuing

there. the humidity, extremely low down to a 5, 10% in some cases. and that means some very dry conditions. there. and those offshore winds continue to howl in places like that. so we've got a fire weather watch is continuing and warnings all the way up until at least friday morning. and then things are likely going to begin to back off a little bit. but but all of southern california is in danger right now. and in these fires can break out in the next 24 hours. could cause more damage. not only the in los angeles area, but all the way down to san diego. what we need is some rain but not too much rain. will that happen or not? we're going to talk more about that coming up a few minutes. >> all right, lawrence, the city of oakland has cleared out a homeless encampment near east 12th street following a homicide near that location earlier this month. back on january, 17th, the person was shot and killed in that area. the city also cited hazardous living conditions, including fires and criminal activity. they also say multiple stolen vehicles were found near the

encampment. >> families since city leaders are still trying to piece together what exactly happened to that caused that deadly crash to take place sunday night in san francisco in the south of market neighborhood in there looking for ways to prevent future such accidents. our lezla gooden has been following the story and is getting some answers tonight. she's live in the newsroom with more lezla. >> yes, the investigation continues into this multi-car collision that took the life of 27 year-old the cal from an aco sunday night. we're able to speak with his mother and city leaders about this intersection for the crash took place. and what is being done to address speeding in the city? >> and he was known like and will be remembered by julia roman aco lost her youngest son on sunday and the 7 car crash has 6 and harrison street in san francisco. >> when a car was traveling at 98 miles per hour. according

to supervisor matt dorsey of district 6 where the crash took place. the city has already been planning to take necessary steps to reduce speeding in this area. >> basically ticket people. >> he tells me that most areas in south of market with ramps going on and off the highway have been flagged for areas of traffic violence. we've been advocating to deploy

>> you know what, what the circumstances are that would cause. >> we also spoke with says in a statement they are in the process of installing pedestrian bulb outs at this intersection as well as accessible pedestrian signals and adding new traffic signals and there have been proposed speed camera locations on the years in between 4th and 5th streets and several other nearby intersections to deter speeding in this neighborhood overall. additionally, there are automated red light cameras at 6 in folsom and 6 and brian street. there's going to be appearing. >> more people will get notice. >> the public safety should be

high on officials list. and if there are improvements to be made >> intersection, it should be. there shouldn't be young man losing their lights. >> and we are told these new speed cameras will be put into place around the city in the upcoming months. and there have been proposed became a locations on harrison between 4th and 5th streets and several, several other nearby intersections to just her speeding in this neighborhood. overall reporting live in the newsroom was going kron. 4 news. >> bank, you a person has died after driving their car off highway 4 on the bart tracks. officers say the car crashed through barriers and on to the tracks near the pittsburg bay point station around 3.45. this morning, multiple lanes of the freeway near bailey road were temporarily closed and train service had to stop as a result. bart says the car cause significant damage to its rail and repairs were

needed full service resumed about 7.40, this morning. the exact cause of the crash is still under investigation. young people exiting foster care and san jose are now being offered new opportunities. >> the program called my first place is moving 9 of them into transitional housing kron four's rob nesbitt got to tour some of the units. >> the first 9 people to move into the apartments here at roosevelt park apartment, screw up in foster care. their new apartment is a way to make sure they can stay in the community. they call home the san jose apartment is empty now. but soon it will be fully furnished at a place to call home for someone exit foster care like giselle during who got to move into her apartment last month. thanks to the my first place program. i love the area. i love the floor. a little bit everything about it. i love how it just makes me. >> ali independent, no, no room. that mine, even though like to an independent, my first place provide stable, affordable housing for foster

youth exiting the system in santa clara county. >> duran first went into foster care when she was 15 years old. it's really difficult, though. the group home time to move from place to nearly nothing stable. that was my biggest like i don't do well with change. so having them will home to foster home is just it's just a lot of to help. she's one of 9 people ages 18 to 25 who will be first to live here at the new roosevelt park apartments. >> affordable housing options with studio and one-bedroom units to pick from ceo of first place for youth. thomas lee says it's about more than just providing a home. that's the foundation so they can focus on work in school and be on the shamed about going after their hopes and dreams and goals when it comes to being really ambitious. san jose mayor matt mahan welcome the young people to their new homes thursday. >> his city has about 4,000 people experiencing homelessness, apartments like this. make sure young people exiting the foster care system. don't add to that number. so this during subset

of the apartments, a to allow them transition long is a really powerful idea. first place for youth has many other projects like this in the works to help people exiting foster care there next to apartment projects are happening in san francisco. >> reporting in san jose. i'm rob nesbitt. kron. 4 news. still ahead. >> usd is on track to run out of money soon. what they're doing in oakland to try to find a solution. when you're talking about 152 billion dollar budget deficit. plus, president trump love visiting southern california tomorrow to tour the wildfire devastation. >> and it's on the heels of his recent criticism of state. and local officials and after the break, a multimillion dollar settlement. why purdue pharma is being blamed for pharma is being blamed for fueling the opioid crisis.

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joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma or other medicines without talking to your doctor. ask your doctor about dupixent. >> a bipartisan coalition of 15 states including california. they've reached a 7 and a half billion dollar settlement with purdue pharma, california attorney general rob bonta says purdue invented manufactured and aggressively marketed opioid products for decades putting profits over people. this is a major settlement against a company accused of fueling the opioid crisis. >> no community remains untouched by this epidemic, rural or urban high or low income republicans or democrats, children or adults. it's touched us all rest assured if any industry or provider tries to impede on the health of californians for tte sake of turning a profit.

well, be that. >> preliminary data from the san francisco medical examiner reveals more than 630 people died from overdoses in 2024. in san francisco, bonta says on a daily basis, 130 americans lose their lives due to opioid overdoses. the settlement will prevent purdue from ever selling those drugs in the u.s. again. >> county review shows bandaging and kicking budget problems down the road is rendering the oakland unified school district fiscally strappld as our kron four's. philippe djegal reports the district could run out of cash during the next academic school year. >> in a letter from alameda county superintendent of schools, alice castro sent tuesday to the oakland unified school district's superintendent and its board. castro says the oakland unified school district is operating on an unsustainable budget stating the school district's budget deficit is

projected to reach 152 million dollars this year and without implementing the budget solutions approved by the board in december, the district could run out of cash by more than 30 million dollars in november. last month, the school district filed a negative certification to the office of education. in castro's letter, she agreed with the district self-assessment saying, quote, without significant intervention, the district is projected to run out of cash during the 2025. 26 school year leading to significant destabilization for students and staff necessity to another bankruptcy loan from the state and forfeiting local decision making authority the office of education points to the district's increasing deficits resulting from approving employee pay increases without approving reductions to pay for the raises. that combined with years of the board, differing big decisions, changing plans or delaying their implementation has led

the school district to the difficult position it is in right now in response, castro has appointed a fiscal advisor to help the school district rectify its budget woes. the last usd received a negative certification was just befrre it went into receivership in 2003 back then the state of california took control over district business and resulted in the district taking out 100 million dollar loan which the district says has taken 21 years to pay off in full plus 20 million dollars in interest. currently the county has oversight over the district's budget with power to override board decisions. now county superintendent castro says usd will be the only state school district to have both the fiscal trustee and fiscal adviser. the adviser is slated to help the board through june and in the coming weeks, help balance the 2025. 2026 budget. the board has considered merging 10 schools that share campuses.

the school district says the move would save millions of dollars. but the board still has not voted on the option by the end of next month. castro says the board needs to make hard decisions on reducing personnel for the upcoming school year. in the letter, castro continues to say, quote, if the board does not make decisions now, it will rapidly lose the ability to make them at all. she says the district operates too many schools for the number of students enrolled and operates too many and or enrolled schools. philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. and the north bay, the of allay city unified school district has narrowed down its choices for possible. >> school closures and consolidations. the district held a town hall meeting earlier this week to get input from the community. currently, there are 19 schools in the district of about 9,000 students. the superintendent says the district needs to cut about 8 million dollars from its budget. the board will now

vote on one of 3 options and first option mare island, health and fitness academy is going to close and the lie charlie or school will move to the mare island campus under the second option. loma vista, environmental science academy would be converted to a tk through 5th grade school and the 6th through 8th graders. they would move to solano. why leadership academy and then under the 3rd option, the district would completely close the loma vista, environmental science academy. these options are going to be voted on at the next board meeting on february 19th. whichever option is chosen will go into effect next school year. >> let's talk weather as we get a live look at the golden gate bridge. >> florence here to bring us up to speed on our weather. wow. what a day again around the bay area. amazing weather all the way. the coastline clear skies temperatures well above the average had a couple 70's again popping up outside. so beautiful out there right

now. working on a spectacular sunset. if you want to check it out, look at this. we've got beautiful, a setting sun out there on the bay looking gorgeous out there all the way the coastline and what you don't see ronnie clouds out don't see ronnie clouds out there right now and a little think as we head toward tomorrow, that is all going to begin to change. and that's going to be a bigger change the leads in the weekend. but look at the numbers today. how about 74 degrees in san jose? that is 14 degrees above the average for this time of year. 68 in half moon bay. 69 in santa rosa. 69 also in concord, a beautiful 69 in san francisco and 66 degrees in oakland. so dry as can be the up that has been the story pretty much all of january. but finally, starting to see a change in the forecast model showing this ridge finally breaking down, going to be getting out of the way. and that's going to be some good news. but yeah, those howling winds continuing those offshore winds in southern california. this ridge going flat. now all of a sudden we're gonna be talking about a change in the pattern, but still some gusty winds developing here in the bay area. high wind advisory

expect over the north bay hills as we head in toward friday and the weekend to some of those gusts as high as 45 to 50 miles per hour across some of the mountains. all right, lawrence. well, after the break, costco is defending its diversity policies as other u.s. companies are scaling theirs back.

>> other u.s. companies scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. costco is rejecting a shareholder proposal that calls for a review of the business. >> risks that are posed by its dei policies. the controversy

comes as several major u.s. corporations have retreated from similar programs, fearing legal and reputational risks on monday, president trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminatlng dei programs within federal agencies echoing longstanding conservative critiques that such policies violate the u.s. constitution by factoring in race, gender and orientation in hiring and promotion practices. well, a popular busters cheese steak in san francisco's north beach is closing down indefinitely after inspectors found cockroaches and evidence of rodents. the business is on columbus avenue in vallejo street, specter's reported seeing dozens of live co droppings and say that the ent restaurant lacked a food safety certificate and was storing food non approved temperatures. owners have to eliminate the past. and pastor reinspection test in order to reopen. >> still ahead, we continue our coverage of this

devastating fires in southern california. plus, talking about new efforts suit recall governor newsom. why organizers of this new campaign say his years in office have been a total failure. and on a brighter note, the nba all-star weekend is coming to the bay area. it's coming soon. there's a list of offense released today and a big honor for

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