lydia. ( lydia ) serra high senior... blake bottarini was driving to school monday morning when his car veered off an embankment on highway 35... crashed into a tree... andied. today... the school will hold a formal prayer service for the entire student body. everyone will wear solid white shirts in support of the family. it is not clear what caused his car to veer off of highway 35... but his car was not found for several hours. school officials say that grief caounselors will be on campus today for students to talk with. ( james )( james ) ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) in the east bay... an oakland police officer injured in a crash is still in critical condition this morning. the alameda county sheriff's office tweeted that officer jordan wingate is still fighting and having a tough time. the 22-year-

kron 4's lydia pantazes will be live at the transit center for the ribbon cutting. ( james ) a southrcyclist is recovering from serious injuries after a woman crashed into him as he was headed towards santa cruz. kron 4's ella sogomonian met with the victim.... and has his plea to the public. sot: ella sogomonian//"the victim says the driver hit him hard enough he flew across the median divider into oncoming traffic and is lucky to be alive tonight...he says she got out to make sure he wasnt dead then drove off."it's been two days since motorcyclist kyle de priest crashed on a south bay freeway thursday..a deep gash on his knee was stiched up and is now badly swollen.sot: tiffany de priest, wife// "it's kind of the fear of every motorcycle wife that you're going to get the call that you're husband has been in an accident."de priest says he was riding his orange harley southbound in the fast lane on highway 17 in los gatos a few hundred feet from the cats bar...when around 6:45 at night he was struck by a car and thrown across the center divider... sot: kyle de priest, hit and run vic

she made compared sarah huckabee sanders to aunt lydia.i was in australia and i had just been there a minute and a half and i was deep in jet lag. so i literally turned the television on for companionship. [ laughter ] as one does in loneliness. and it michelle wolf said this about lydia.ed "i lou in 'the handmaid's tale.'" or whatever -- i said wait a second, who's -- what --la i'm -- i'mng lydia. what's going on? [ laughter ] i was confused. and then i thought oh, this is an "snl" skit. [ light laughter ] i really thought that. because i said no e could sit there and listen to that. >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] and stay in their seat. i' seth: yeah, no. >> do you know whasaying? and then i thought who has the bravery to say those things, number one. and then i thought, ann, snap out of it, putt together, this real. and then i thought, aunt lydia would make mincemeat of you, missy. >> seth: oh. [ laughter ] >> sanders. and she would have trump, forgive me -- not forgive me. hello. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i'm going to chi

pantazes this kron 4's lydia pantazes this morning... morning... thanks lydia.e will check back with you through out ( james ) in the east bay... richmond's mayor is turning to businesses to help solve the homeless problem.. by asking some of the biggest companies to fund a city-sanctioned homless encampment. mayor tom butt has reached out to 10 companies.. including amazon, walmart, chevron and kaiser.. asking them to chip in about 150-thousand dollars each. the money would support a tent city with food.. bathrooms... as well as mental health and substance abuse services... an alternative to traditional shelters. ( james ) the mayor says at last count there are about 270 people in richmond who are permanently homeless. ( darya ) the mother of a missing iowa college student is making a plea to g

lydia. happening today... 49ers great dwight clark. clark died in june at the age of 61 ... years after of battling a-l-s. last month... clark's ashes were buried in a special place ... next to the same goal post where he made the famous play known as "the catch." that goal post was moved to a ranch in montana owned by former team owner eddie debartolo junior. ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) a big story this morning... investigators are trying to figure out what caused a plane to crash in mexico... just after take-off. more than four-dozen people were hospitalized. two people are in critical condition... but they are stable. no one died. 103 people were on board the aeromexico flight. one passenger says she felt the plane hit the ground twice during the crash -- the second impact was stronger. she then saw flames in the cabin. the plane's manufacturer says it is sending technicians to the crash site to help investigators determine why the plane crashed. (

lydia.... ( james ) thanks lydia. thanks ( james ) thanks lydia. lydia.s ... a cal fire inspector is killed by a "firenado" during the carr fire in redding. more of this incredible video coming up in just minutes. ( james ) and... president trump versus hundreds of newspapers across the country. the message they have for the president this morning. happening today.. hundreds of u.s. newspapers are banding together to fight back against president trump's war on the press. the boston globe has taken the lead telling president trump that journalists are not the enemy. the globe the globe has asked hundreds of other newspapers to join the cause. newspapers to join the cause. each newspaper has written its own editorial demanding president trump stop his war on the ws media. fear that the criticism of lead to ( darya ) coming up... the shocking find cops make inside an old school bus in the bay area. (ácommercialá) (vo) combine the right things. and something amazing happens. that's our inspiration for fancy feast medleys. wild salmon primavera. tastes amazing

(lydia) plus ...im in the deadly shooting on the bay bridge. ( james ) and bart is taking new emergency measures to keep riders safe. (darya) good morning i'm darya folsom.. (james) and i'm james fletcher. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... much like yesterday today's much like yesterday today's temperatures will be warmer than average inland boosting into the 80's and 90's under sunny but hazy skies. along the coast high temperatures will fall just a couple degrees with most temperatures peaking in the 60's and 70's. expect some fog this morning but more sunshine than not peaking out into the late morning and afternoon ahead. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. . richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 ( james ) a big story this morning... we now know the name of the person killed on the bay bridge yesterday morning.. ( darya ) kron 4's lydia pantazes joins us li

it happened not long after 10-year-old lydia gergos was cked into bed. the 911 call came in around 10:25 p.m. in the midst of a un rstorm, a tree had fallen trapping a child. emergency crews arrived quickly. >> the tree fallen through the roof, through the ceiling on to the bed and pinned her and - and they tried frantically everything that they could to try to free the victim and couldn't. >> reporter: lydia was pronounced dead at the scene. first responders shaken by the pay but taking time to their respects as the child's body was removed and drivenay >> that there was a tribute after the victim was moved from the house, that the first responders lined the driveway as she was brought out. >> the victim'sinamily is a for privacy right now, but friends are remembering lydia gergos as a girl who loved softball, a team mom who ceated a gofunage describes her as full of life writing her smile and laugh were contagious, and she always had a twinkle in her eye. lydia's family only recently moved into the home on high meadow place. now neighbors who were just

kron 4's lydia pantazes reports. the first fire started at about 3:30 this morning on g street between 16 and seventeenth.firefighters responded to a car fire that spread toward an apartment unit.that fire almost trapped two people inside.while they were on scene of this fire, they received a report of a fire less than a half mile away.in that case, it was a pick truck.they say the fire started in the wheel.because both of the fires started in similar parts of the car, which is in the wheel well, they think the two fires may be linked. they are both being investigated as suspicious. reporting live (vicki) on the peninsula... a driver is hospitalized a driver is peninsula... on the (vicki) (vicki) on the peninsula... a driver is hospitalized after a lumber truck overturns at a construction site in menlo park. it happened this morning at the massive "station 13-hundred" residential development project on el camino real. the 53-foot trailer was fully loaded with lumber-- and it

lydia. ( lydia ) serra high senior...riving to school monday morning when his car veered off an embankment on highway 35... crashed into a tree... and died. today... the school will hold a formal prayer service for the entire student body. everyone will wear solid white shirts in support of the family. it is not clear what caused his car to veer off of highway 35... but his car was not found for several hours. school officials say that grief caounselors will be on campus today for students to talk with. ( darya ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( james ) another big story we are following... a fugitive is arrested for the 2009 street racing crash that killed a 6-year old girl. ( darya ) kron4's will tran is live in menlo park where the arrest was announced. ( will )a man who fled the country after allegedly killing a 6-year-

well, it's a radical move for lydia marie child's. she wrote ♪ over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go ♪ maybe you know it? yes? she was an advice-giver in the american frugal housewife and she wrote children's literature. she came out as an abolitionist rather early, in 1883, and she lost readership from it, but now she was back in the game full force and she was printing jordan anderson's letter in this ledger. this is in this -- this primer for children and the american -- an anti-slavery institution, in the freedman camps. they said this is too radical. this is basically a recipe for reparations so they won't print it. she has to gather the funds herself and print it herself. she prints out 1,000 copies, tries to get them circulated, read publicly, even in churches, so that jordan anderson, along with articles about haiti, and frederick douglas, it radicalizes a lot of the students there. we never knew this was possible. the bible itself reading itself was radical. now here were all these black political

lydia what do we know. <> ( darya ) thanks lydia.ou about the shooting on 680 in san jose. stay connected to breaking news by downloading the kron4 mobile app. ( james ) breaking news from overnight... a massive tree in the east bay comes crashing down and smashes at least a half dozen cars. take a look at the video... you can see just how much damage was done. ( darya ) this happened in pleasant hill. kron 4's sara stinson is live at the scene this morning with the details. ( sara )take a look at the damage...this is just one of seven trucks and cars destroyed by a huge branch of a heritage tree. take a look at the video from earlier ...people who live here came out from their homes around 12:30pm to this wreckage here on hardy circle in pleasant hill. i spoke to the owner of the home where this tree stood for over 350 years...she says this is a city tree named emma. she believes the tree was rotting and thats why its branch fell. she says it sounded like a loud bat cracking and then a huge boom. her husbands work truck is nearly cu

kron 4's lydia pantazes joins us live from san jose. lydia... ( james ) thanks lydia.ck back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) in the east bay... alameda county prosecutors say they're now seeking the death penalty against the man who killed a hayward police office. mark estrada shot and killed sergaent scott lunger 3 years ago. lunger had pulled estrada over for swerving through traffic... and almost hitting several cars. estrada's trial is set to begin in november. ( darya ) police have arrested 2 people... for a homicide and robbery that happened at a vallejo hotel monday. 22-year-old devonte hicks and 31-year-old jessica mccraven were arrested and booked into the solano county jail. police found the victim in the hotel room in the 1400 block of enterprise street just before 10 monday night. his identity has not been released. ( james ) happening today... a fairfield father of 10... accused of child abuse... will be in court later this morning. jonathan allen is facing sex abuse... torture... and felony child abuse charges. he has pleaded ánot guilty. alle

thanks thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) new this morning... a south bay woman has died nearly 3 months after her son was arrested for killing her husband and trying to kill her. kim lan ly and her husband were both shot back on may 20th, the husband... thaou quoc luu... died at the scene. this is video of a vigil for him that was held days later. the suspect was identified as the couple's son. duong luu was arrested two days after the shooting along with madison muong. both men are expecte to be arraigned in court next week. ( darya ) also new this morning... a reward is now being offered for help finding the person who killed an 8-month-old dog in sonoma county. the dog's body was found in this back pack on the side of todd road and stony point in santa rosa last month. now the animal legal defense fund is offering a 5- thousand dollar reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. a necropsy revealed the eight-month-old chihuahua mix died after be

kron 4's lydia pantazes is live at the scene with the latest. lydia. we spoke with we spoke with the owner of the business that is here behind me.he did tell me that no one was injured but as you can see, the building behind me destroyed.(take vo)let's take a look at video sent in from a kron4 viewer of the flames.the fire started at about 3:30 this morning on the 3300 block busch road in pleasanton. valley road is the nearest main this is a metal building that houses a business. inside the business are several welding and torch devices inside that exploded. at this point we don't know how many ch damaged was caused by the fire. reporting live in pleasanton, lydia pantazes kron4 news. ( james ) we sent out a news alert to your phone at 4:34 this morning through the kron4 mobile app. you will also find full forecasts and traffic hot spots. you can download our app right now. ( darya ) a big story we ae following this morning... a south bay teacher arrested... accused of asking a minor for sexually explicit pictures.( james ) kron 4's will tran is live i

lydia.g news we are following this morning... a major fire birning in the east bay.( james ) a business in pleaston has caught fire. we do have a crew on the way way ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you the morning. ( james ) we sent out a news alert to your phone at 4:34 this morning through the kron4 mobile app. you will also find full forecasts and traffic hot spots. you can download our app right now. as high pressure builds back into the region a dual effect of deteriorating air quality and boosting temperatures will be experienced into the weekend. highs inland will return to the 90's with the bay also getting toasty into the upper 70's and low 80's. the coast will remain steady with highs remaining in the 60's although warmer than they have been this past week. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. ( darya ) three men were arrested on suspicion of an armed robbery of a market in s

(lydia) ( james ) thanks lydia.ll check back with you the morning. ( darya ) new this morning. a gruesome discovery in san francisco. human remains are found reportedly inside a fish tank at the home of a missing person. ( james ) kron4's will tran is live in front of the home in the south of market neighborhood. will. san francisco police are investigating remains found inside a home on the 2oo block of clara street. police will only confirm that remians were found in the home but there are reports that a headless corpse was found in a fish tank. the remians may be that of a missing man who friends reported missing in july. ( darya ) thanks will. ( james ) happening today... daniel gross -- the modesto man who killed an east bay woman -- then left her on the side of the road will appear in court. lizette cuesta was killed back in feburary. before she died she led investigators to gross and melissa leonardo. gross pleaded guilty to charges of beating.. stabbing and killing cuesta. leonardo pleaded ánot guilty. today

reporting in san francisco, lydia pantazes kron4 news.yor london breed will tour a public housing site in the bayview. newsom will also talk about his plans to expand housing in communities across the state... and he'll talk about the state's housing crisis. ( darya )(ááá2 shotááá) there's a growing movement to have a child taken out of an east bay school... for making violent threats. that student has already been placed in another middle school in the district.( james ) the original threat came in on snap chat. a student threatened to kill as many as 30 students at valley view middle school at the end of last year. the student was arrested and several guns were confiscated from his home. the d-a declined to file charges and the student was moved to sequioa middle school. now a petition is circulating - with as many 500 signatures demanding the 8th grader be removed from the entire district. but some parents think the student deserves a second chance.

lydia?son is in custody after chp san francisco officers broke up a sideshow on the bay bridge sunday morning. according to chp, the sideshow happened around 10:45 a.m. the video was taken by a passerby in one of the many cars that was stopped behind the sideshow as traffic came to a halt.officials say the driver of one of the cars involved was taken into custody for reckless driving and exhibition of speed. chp thanked those who called to report and handed over video to authorities. "we want to remind all of the danger involved to participants and innocent bystanders from sideshow involvement and reckless driving," chp said on twitter. in the east bay... c-h-p arrested one person after a thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out ( darya ) a big story we are following this morning... loved ones gathered in antioch to honor the lives of the two boys who were killed in a car crash in walnut creek last weekend. 17-year-old dakari fagorala and 18-year-old john wa-liz-ada of antioch w

lydia? >> thank you for having me today. when designing my talk, i was asked not to focus solely on the objects themselves, but why they are in our collection. i'm not able to show you everything. in fact, i'm i don't think i'm able to show you anything. ahh. i'm not able to show you everything associated with the united kingdom and ireland. only a few selections. so, to learn more about these and other objects in our collection, i encourage you to see some of our major publications written by my predecessors, who by the way are both here today. namely, the white house, its historic furnishings and first families and official white house china, as well as art in the white house, a nation's pride, essays by the art historian william klauss, all published by the white house historian association, i should add. furnish issuing e inings so tha finest objects would be found in the home of the president of the united states. what better place to begin than with the desk made by the timbers of the hms resolute? it was part of an ex

the tree crashed into lydia ' gerg home pinning her in her bed where she was sleeping. first resadnders to escort the parents from the home because it was not safe. friend set up a gofundme pao help the family. >>> a train derailed just outside of union station this afrnoon with nearly 200 people on board. authorities say the lead engine of the train had one s of wheels come off the tracks in a tunnel below union station 150 yards below the platform. all passengers are okay. this train started in new orleans and was n heading toew york. there's still residual delays along the northeast corridor this evening because of it. >> and we're working thatbr king news from reagan national airport this afternoon. an amber alert for w a child was kidnapped earlier this afternoon. >> that child i said to be i extreme danger. news 4's shomari stone is at the airport waiting for a news conference to start. shomari, what'she latest? >> reporter: good evening. we're waiting for the news conference to start right behind me mere. virginia state police are saying this 12-year-old girl is

lydia. ( lydia )sjfd and sjpd responded to reports of a vehicle into a houseinitial responding unitsfind an suv which had struck a parked car, which had then struck the exterior of the home the impact also sheered the support beams for the carport. the driver of the suv fled on foot. only information available at the time is a male in dark clothingthe vehicle as of 11:15 pm was not reported stolen, per officers at the scene ( darya ) happening today... two of the people charged in the murder of a milbrae father will be back in court. keith green disappeared in april of 2016 in milbrae and his body was found a few weeks later... dumped on the side of the road in healdsburg. green's ex- girlfriend tiffany li along with kaveh bayat and olivier adella were all charged in the murder. today... li and bayat will be back in court to set a date for their trial. adella has already pleaded no contest to charges of being an accessory to murder. he has also agreed to testify against the other two in exchange for a lighter sentence. ( darya ) in the north bay... a 5-year-old girl with a rare form

reporting in san francisco, lydia pantazes kron4 news. ( james ) news. news. ( james ) ( james ) on the peninsula.... a woman says she was raped on the stanford campus. she says it happened late sunday night... early monday morning. campus police did not release the exact location of the assault... but they say it happened on the main campus. police did not say whether the woman was a student. ( james ) police in vallejo are investigating a shooting that happened inside the m-and-m liquors store tuesday afternoon. the shooting happned just after 3 p-m... at the store on somona bluevard. two people were shot.. they both suffered non- life threatening injuries. ( darya ) police in santa rosa are noticing an uptick in theives stealing running cars. on monday a thief stole this black mercedes benz that was parked in front of a santa rosa home. but he didn't know there was a child in the back seat. the father of the child was moving out of the home and was only ten feet away when the theif took off with the car. the victim's neighbor heard the commotion from

(lydia) thanks lydia. this morning after being hit by a car in menlo park. it happened near willow road last night. police say the toddler was riding a toy car when a relative was backing his car on the driveway and did not see the child. the child is in critical condition at lucile packard children's hospital stanford but is expected to survive. the driver is cooperating with investigators, who do not believe drugs or alcohol were factors in the case. ( darya ) happening now... the manhunt is on for a northern california man believed to be on the run with a 16-year-old girl. the man... identified as phillip maglaya... was a volunteer wrestling coach at franklin high school in stockton. the 16-year-old girl has been missing since last wednesday. investigators believe the two are involved in a romantic relationship. the 16 year relationship. the 16 year oldús father says he found a note from his daughter saying she loved him and that she was safe. he says he had no idea she was seeing the wrestling coach an

lydia mary childs' vision and that of jordan anderson, was moving faster than congress was. now, you know, the movie "lincoln" they sort of dramatically pass the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery, right at the beginning of 1865, january 1865. but it takes almost a whole year to get it ratified. kentucky is a holdout, a union holdout, that was trying to preserve slavery and will do so to the last. so, finally, 1865, the 13th amendment, but it has to come in stages. three consecutive amendments. the 14th amendment, because you have a radical republican majority in congress who can override a far more conservative andrew johnson and the presidency, and we get the 14th amendment ratified in 1868, which grants citizenship, and then we have the 15th amendment ratified in 1870, which gives african-american men the vote. of course, it will take another 50 years to get women the vote. but jordan anderson, along with lydia marie childs vision, she actually, right on the heels of publishing the freedmen's book, she publishes what she says are going to be the next harriet beech be

"> thanks lydia.heck back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) all of these wildfires are burning through the state's firefighting budget. california already has spent more than a quarter of its annual fire budget - at least 125-million dollars. we're only a month into the budget year. governor brown warned the state could expect more huge, costly and devastating fires in future. ( darya ) and in napa county...the steele fire is now fully contained. the fire has destroyed 8 buildings and damaged four more. this burned a total of 135 acres. ( james ) a big story this morning... police are investigating a possible sighting of mollie tibbetts. the missing iowa college student is from oakland. she was last seen july 18th in brooklyn, iowa. she was reported missing the next day... after she didn't show up to work. now... investigators say a woman -- matching tibbetts description -- was seen at a truck stop in missouri... about 240 miles from where tibbetts was last seen. the woman was seen with a ma

white house curator lydia tederick was joined by rufus bird who is the surveyor of the queen's works of art for the royal collection trust. this hour-long program is part of a daylong symposium hosted by the white house historical association . >> for those of you who are not here this morning, i am curtis sandburg. i am the director of the david m. rubenstein national center for white house history. considering 200 years of the uk and ireland connections in the white house, we have examined the role of design and contributions of scottish donations. -- scottish stone missions. for this part, it is now time to address decorative arts in the white house. we are incredibly fortunate to have two. it is a double hundred -- doubleheader. we have rufus bird who is the surveyor of the queen's works of art for the royal collection trust. he looks after the royal collection which is, frankly, one of the most important art collections on earth. now, rufus is an author , he is a curator, he will place the decorative arts and fine arts connections. so, rufus is going to evaluate decorative and f

antioch and concord. ( james ) thanks lydia.e morning. ( james ) investigators say say a tesla driver who said he áthoughtá his car was in autopilot mode... crashed into the back of a firetruck in san jose. c-h-p says says the tesla rear-ended a fire engine that was stopped with its emergency lights turned on along highway 101 on saturday. 37-year-old michael tran told officers "i think i had auto-pilot on." tran was later arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. it was unclear whether autopilot was activated. tesla says in a statement that it has not yet received any data from the car, but they are working to figure out what haened. ( darya ) verizon says it has changed its policy after a bay area fire chief filed a lawsuit claiming the company slowed down their data speeds while they were battling the mendocino complex fire. the lawsuit states that slowing the internet speed was actively impeding firefighters' ability to provide essential emergency services. just days after the lawsuit was filed ... verizon says they will ánow

antioch and concord. ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you the morning. ( darya ) a big story this morning... two people are dead and three others are injured after two separate shootings in oakland. this is a picture of the scene of the first shooting on the 95- hundred block of 'e' street. one person died in that shooitng and another was injured. then about 90 minutes later... another person was shot and killed near 11th avenue and international boulevard. one man died in that shooting and two others were injured. right now it is not clear if the shootings are related. the gunmen are still on the loose. ( james ) in the north bay.... a man is under arrest this morning after two people were stabbed outside of a restaurant. it happened at la-perla tapatio on santa rosa avenue in santa rosa. police say jose lopez-mendoza stabbed two security guards after he and his friends were kicked out for being intoxicated. both of the victims are expected to survive. lopez mendoza was also taken to the hospital after he was fou

lydia tederick was joined by rufus bird to talk about design similarities. it was part of a daylong symposium hosted by the white house historical association. >> i'm dr. curtis sandberg at the national center for white house history and we spent the morning considering 200 years we have examined the role of scottish stonemasons and have seen the roads emerging back there. is now time to address decorative arts and we are incredibly fortunate to have 2. we have rufus bird who is the surveyor of queens works of art. the royal collection trust has lots of things but it looks after the royal collection which is, frankly, on the website one of the most important art collections on earth. rufus will place the fine art connections and we've had lydia tederick, the white house curator on the phone he's going to evaluate fine arts connections and place it in a larger connective and will be honoring other guests. since 1979 she has lectured far and wide and published articles on the collection and is a valued partner of the white house historical association. she wil