yeah, you helped jon snow, i understand, cover a french presidential election. informed. it was one of those moments, it was a sliding door moment. i was kind of working for nothing, making the tea, etc, and thenjon snow's producer fell ill and he needed somebody to go to the south of france — we were in paris at the time — to go coverjacques chirac�*s rally. it was the eve of the election, and he was the prime minister and he was standing to be president against francois mitterrand, and he just released the french hostages from beirut that day. he'd used his power as prime minister to potentially persuade the french electorate to vote for him. these french hostages were national services and they'd been incarcerated in beirut for a very long time. national news bulletins every night started with their faces and the number of days that they have been incarcerated. and i went down to southern france to meet up with the crew. i was 21 at the time, 22, and managed to get an exclusive interview with jacques chirac and english. jon snow made it his lead story, and he

that was jon snow. leo reporting for us. >> and to make things worse. tropical depression. grace is moving towards haiti. it's expected to pass over today and tomorrow. now that storm could dump as much as 8 inches of rain there hampering the search and rescue efforts underway. well, coming up on the kron 4 morning news site shows over the weekend in the south bay. >> how the city of san jose is cracking down. and after the break, the great highway reopened to traffic today. but not everyone is happy about it for happening today, san francisco's great highway will reopen to traffic during the pandemic. you might remember. >> the highway was shut down for cars. they turned it into a safe recreation zone there. kron four's amanda hari has the latest. >> the majority of the people i spoke to said that they're going to miss having the highway behind me open to only pedestrians behind me. here is a cross walk that people are going to have to use from now on to get across the beach and they're going to have to be wary of cars like this sign right here. it indicates now vehicles w