i need to give you one warning about our mayor -- telling jean kwan that she cannot do something just makes her work harder to prove you wrong. before she speaks, and i actually bring her to the podium, we will hear a very short clip that presents a side of oakland that you may not be aware of. >> i think what makes it special is something called the music genome project. 15 musicians have work force for almost 10 years. they listen to songs one by one and analyze them along with 400 musical after this. that is how we power pandora. pandora is a technology company on the cutting edge in terms of utilizing the lead, but the underlying technology has helped handbill divide humans. we have to focus a lot of our efforts and energy on the modernization part of pandora, which is advertising. -- the modernization part of pandora. we have a website that draws users i am and causes them to click through and do all those things advertisers want. we also have invested heavily in our advertiser sales team. we have a lot of people who support the sales team to help put that forward. you can feel i

. >>> oakland mayor jean kwan painted a gloomy picture as she unveiled three two-year budget scenarios to deal with the expected $58 million deficit next year. public works and oakland's library staff would be hit especially hard under the mayor's worse case budget. the calls for the elimination of 368 jobs. the least painful and most optimistic case depend on passage of a parcel tax and added pension contributions by all employees and that still cuts 80 full-time jobs. >> over the last five years, it has already cut about a fifth of the same budget. most employees, given that 10%. we've run out of reserves, run out of buildings. run out of any kind of cushion at all. so we'd have to cut really for services. >> she called it one of the saddest and toughest days she's had in 20 years of public service. none of the proposals calls for any additional police layoffs. >>> and the weather in the bay area is beginning to feel like spring. let's check in with meteorologist rob mayeda. >> pretty nice day. you can see the very comfortable folks walking across the golden gate bridge just behind y

oakland mayor jean kwan is said to travel to china. she is looking to settle a partnership that would bring in money to her city. she's looking to increase trade volume and go with experts that will generate jobs. >>james: we are born to take a quick break. a live look from our brief can. blue skies. weather, traffic coming up. do not forget to. you about, this saturday we will airing "chase" right here on kron4. and then the kron4 news will be on after that, because the giant's game will be airing on nbc. the drama talking a lot of other we're born to be cooling down today for mother's day coming up this weekend. >>james: al live look from the airport space as president barack obama boards airforce one. taking off here. heading to meet with the special teams. this seal team 6 as we come to find out those who are part of the raid on osama this compound. he is going there to congratulate them. we will not build a see any pictures but that is what he can do to thank him. the dow was up. 240,000 new jobs were created. much more than what

. >> reporter: brewner says oakland mayor jean kwan has provided the city with three proposed budgets to consider. they are facing a $58 billion deficit. >>> san francisco is preparing to mark the second statewide celebration of harvey milk day. members of congress, city officials and others will gather in front of milk's former camera store on castro street tomorrow morning at 11:00. they will be celebrating the grand opening of a call center for the trevor project which offers suicide prevention for lgbt youth. he was a supervisor becoming the first openly gay politician. >> the steel is to be used to create the sculpture for the napa 9/11 memorial garden. it is expected to stand near main street at napa creek. a ground breaking ceremony is planned for september 11th of this year. and the hope is to have that memorial completed by spring of next year. >>> well, all eyes are on the mississippi river this weekend. it crested at a level slightly lower than expected in some places in louisiana. but now isn't the time to ex hail. elizabeth pond tells us more rain is expected in the comin

. >>> oakland mayor jean kwan spoke with voters today about the parcel tax she is pubbing in an effort to deal with the p.m. multimillion dollars budget shortfall. the 0 he can observing residents gathered for her second to last promised town hall. the mayor acknowledged that voters are concerned about having to pay a proposed five- year $80 parcel tax. but she says it's necessary with the city facing a $58 million deficit. >> without the parcel tax we will be laying off another 300 people and closing the librairies and firehouses. and i don't think people want to do that. >> the oakland city council has not backed kwan's plan to hold a mail only ballot for the proposed parcel tax. the parcel tax would bring in an estimated $11 million a year for the fund. >> the army corp of engineers opened an emergency flood gate today in louisiana for the first time in nearly four decades. we watch now as water from the mississippi river rushes through the flood gate like a waterfall. the idea is to spare heavily pop lat -- populated areas like new orleans and baton rouge and funnel it to small com

today oakland mayor, jean kwan, joins a council member in welcoming the council general of mexico for the important mexican holiday. it commemorates an 1862 battle with poorly equipped mexican soldiers successfully fought off a french army invasion. >>> senator boxer's plan to keep gas prices from spiraling out of control up next. and governor brown is recovering this morning. the surgery doctors performed on his nose.

today oakland mayor, jean kwan, joins a council member in welcoming the council general of mexico for important mexican holiday. it commemorates an 1862 battle with poorly equipped mexican soldiers successfully fought off a french army invasion. >> and the weather should be delightful for that parade. >> that's right. today warmer than yesterday but not the warmest day of the week. we will warm up further in the middle of the week. 80 in concord, 74 san francisco. so about 3 to 8 degrees of warming. a little breezy at the coast. mid-60s half moon bay, 80 watsonville. after a little dip tomorrow we will continue the warming trend tuesday. wednesday, the warmest day of the week, and still nice and warm inland throughout the end of next -- well, this week. >> sounds good. thank you, lisa. thank you for joining us. our next newscast starts at 9:00 this morning. i'm carolyn tyler, and she's lisa arjen.

. >> talking at a town hall meeting saturday morning, mayor jean kwan discussed three possible scenarios to shore up the budget shortfall. she said her plan would share the pain among the city's employees and residents. because she's left with few options. >> over the last five years of cuts, we've cut about a fifth of the city budget. most employees have given back ten%. we've really sort of run out of reserves. run out of buildings to sell. >> reporter: kwan did say that public safety is a first priority. she hopes to bring back 20 police officers this year, by rehiring those that were let go. the same time, save about $40 million, she could close the police academy. none of it is sitting well for residents. >> the primary reason i'm here is i know we're in financial difficulty and i have a huge concern that the least-connected to power are going to suffer the most. >> reporter: and under the worst-case scenario, public works and oakland's library staff would be hit hard. it calls for the elimination of 368 jobs. >> so, yeah, i am worried about it. >> and that was elise kirshner report

it's among 15 oakland libraries that would close under one cost-saving proposal by oakland mayor jean kwan. >> to just put it in a warehouse some place would just be -- oh, it would be a nightmare, a total nightmare. we need this home for our history. >> reporter: the scenario is one of three floated by kwan to save the struggling city $58 million. but she hopes to avoid those cut ifs she can figure out a different solution. >> the scenario i would like is both the employees contribute and the city council puts a parcel tax on the ballot and it passes. >> reporter: at the same time, kwan says the city has already cut 500 jobs and 20% of city funds. >> there's really not a lot left. we have to now cut the services that we would never cut. >> reporter: community members are waging their own battle to keep the libraries and the museum open. members of code pink spent the day making signs for this evening's oakland city council meeting, where the budget will take center stage. >> even in 1929, the big depression, people kept their libraries open. it's so important for us to keep libraries open

mayor kwan is hoping toen courage more business conditions. she said that will jeanrate jobs and investments. she also wants to promote more are a service. mayor kwan said the port is paying for the trip, not taxpayer. >>> san francisco's shr river is getting ready to release illegal immigrants from jail. it will allow them to go free bang june 1st. the plan would treat them the way u.s. citizens are treated. it's meant to uphold the sanctuary ordinance. >>> just within the last 30 minutes we found out of a major deal. this one involves one of the nation's largest record labels. warner music group is being sold to rush is' access for $1.3 billion. a formal announcement will come today. this deal comes at a difficult time for the music industry. sales are half of what they were a decade ago and cd sales keep falling. >>> it would have been the first law of its compliend in the nation, but now legislation requiring retailers to labor phones with radiation levels is on hold. the supervise said he will introduce changes to the law. a cell phone industry trade group has f