maureen kelly kron4 news man. for for allegedly breaking into people's homes - stealing items and even groping some of his victims before running away. as kron four's terisa estacio reports, authorities say they have arrested this man before for a similar crime. >> reporter:it was monday - when san mateo residents living near cypress and kingston called 911. >>:sot/tc: 6 sgt. amanda von glahn/san mateo police dept. you caught him in the act? yes. as he was exiting a residence. sgt. amanda von glahn is with the san mateo police department. besides stealing - van glahn says suspect, 24 yearnold ismael espinoza vasquez was sexually assaulting his victims. sot/tc: he was groping them. von glahn says they are looking into whether there could be connections to other cases. sot/tc: we are looking into this. but the do know that vasquez was linked to a case last year here at this 24 hour fitness sot/tc: it is with the da - a spokesperson with the san mateo district attorneys office says they are now reviewing that case as

maureen kelly kron4 news a popular east bay park remains closed to the public today. the public areas of the park were flooded this week during the storm. earlier today park rangers gave kron4's haaziq madyun a tour of the flooded areas p >> reporter:this is what it was like driving through the lake del valle marina in livermore. the public areas were flooded during this week's storm.and the park remains closed says east bay park ranger paula odrain >>:"del valle is currently closed until further notice, we're estimating two weeks, this includes hikers, bikers, fishermen, campers" i followed the rangers through the park, getting a good look at the damage caused by the storm. the ride came to a stop here when we saw this "this is the road that goes to the other half of our campground" a little smething in the way? "there is a nice big tree that fell down and got washed down the creek and landed right across the road crossing" add this to the big clean up job down the road when the weather inally cleans u, until then.? "closed for the next two weeks, it's all going to d

maureen kelly kron4 news. we are just learning the name of the woman who was killed in a horrific accident in santa clara.when an amtrack train hit her car friday morning. police say it was 65-year-old bridget lo.who left her vehicle patrially over the tracks in the intersection of agnew and lafayette streets. this footage from friday.shot by our helicopter partners at a-b-c news.shows her smashed silver car after the train hit the back of it. >> britteny: below will write activity to the north ukiah we don't expect this to drop. and then as we are sleeping before we start to see any rainfall. and a dry commutes' more morning around 6:00 a.m. but that's all changes let your lunch hour and widespread rain before ag was in the aerospace on toward evening commute have your revenues and and then we don't see a break and so we get into this day on thursday on and off showers still continues and or overnight hours thursday and friday only statements as a movement. and then the second system as ago and are early morn

maureen kelly kron4 news orlando police chief john mina had this reaction to the arrest. quote - "nothing can erase the pain we all feel about the senseless and brutal murders. of 49 of our neighbors, friends, family members and loved ones. but today, there is some relief in knowing that someone will be held accountable for that horrific crime." >> pam:a big story tonight: another possible fatal case of meningtis in the bay area. this time a woman found slumped over on a muni bus. her family is in shock trying to deal with her sudden and untimely death. 53 year old laura robson's family tells kron four news that she was a warm sweet woman who loved being outside and spending time with horses. right now they don't know why she died, only that she was found on a sf muni bus at the end of it's route in daly city and a prelimary autopsy report suggests she may have had fatal case meningitis, the highly infectious disease. her brother lives in eureka and spoke to us by phone. sot/tc: david robson/sister died possibly of meningitis told to go to hospital immediately. we did got

as kron 4's maureen kelly reports. in most of the cases, the items stolen had been part of the home's staging dÉcor. police say so far the theives have taken electronics.including tv's.appliances.and even home dÉcorbut little things like picture frames. these theives aren't walking away with any big pieces of furniturethe break ins are happenign the same way. bite about lock boxes all 9 properties hit have been vacant.and most have been staged. here's an example what a staged home looks like.it's where the homes are filled with furniture and electronics to give the would be buyer an idea of what it would be to live here. and in some cases.like what happened with this home here.they aren't taking anything at all. that's what happened inside real estate agent gene williams listing. nothing was stolen.but then they'd de-staged it a few weeks before. he says he came in after finding out the front door was open.and found evidence someone had been here.including cigarette butts and carpet stains. the brokerage he works for h

kron4's maureen kelly spoke to people who say they were first on scene of the deadly accident. it looked like a pile of scrap metal 13 year old sadie asker took this video showing the fire department on scene of the single car collision on mountian hawk drive. she ran out after her father who heard the crash. it was totally wrecked it was not in good shape at all sadie's dad damion was too shook up to talk on camera.he says the wreck was so bad he couldn't i-d the make of the car.describing it as a twisted silver mass of metal. he says the victim was dead on impact. she's been identified as 18 year old michajla kostecka. this photo is from her go fund me page. police say the car she was riding in hit a tree. the driver id'd as 19 year old rebecca guillory suffered minor injuries. the witness i spoke to says she was unconcious when they first arrived.but came to as he tried to stabilize her. my dad used his jacket to prop up her neck she said what am i doing here.who was driving. guillory now faces gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. the day after the scene flowers h

maureen kelly kron4 news >> grant:coming up, if you ride bart you'll want to know about this story. the changes coming to parking fines at bart stations. we'll explain what you need to know. snow in the bay area, means even more in the sierra. we'll speak with ski report officials about the upcoming storm. plus mariah carey's new years eve meltdown. we have the video in case you missed it. plus.how she and show producers are responding to a slew of negative headlines. >> vicki:now to another big story today. it has been one month since the devestating ghostship warehouse fire in oakland. that killed 36 people. and today we still do not know what caused the fire during the party at the artist collective. in the wake of the fire. cities around the bay have been looking at the safety of similar artist collectives. tomorrow fire officials and building officials in san francisco will hold a safety workshop. kron4's dan kerman joins us live from san francisco with more. dan? the new year will come with a bit of a shock for some bart customers. that is because starting tomorrow there will

maureen kelly kron4 news.coming up:less than 24 hours before president donald trump announces his pick for the u.s. supreme court.. we look at the possible shortlist of candidates. then -- you probably see a lot of political news on your facebook feed these days.. tonight -- the surprising impact it could be having on your openminded-ness. and next: nearly five years after she vanished.. the long awaited trial has begun. we were in court for the dramatic start to the sierra lamar murder nobody told me to expect it. intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. it's not likely to go away on its own. it took my most honest friend to help me do something about it. she told me premarin vaginal cream can help. it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin vaginal cream treats vaginal changes due to menopause and moderate-to-severe painful intercourse caused by these changes. don't use it if you've had unusual vaginal bleeding, breast or uterine cancer,

maureen kelly kron4 news >> pam:the golden state warriors announced today the official groundbreaking ceremony for their new arena.the chase center.to be built in san francisco's mission bay nieghorhood. the state- of- the- art sports and entertainment complex will have an opening ceremony held on january 17th. at the site of the future arena. at 16th and third streets. 18-thousand seats, restaurants, offices, and a waterfront park will all be built into the 11- acre project. the chase center is scheduled to open for the start of the 20-19, 20-20 season.and will host a variety of events from concerts.to conventions.in addition to warriors basketball. >> pam:ahead at eight. with the rain. comes wet and dangerous driving conditions . causing accidents on some bay area roads. p megyn kelly has a new job. and a new network. where the star anchor is heading to. and next. he is accused of breaking into homes. and even groping some of the victims. how police tracked down the suspect. >> pam:police in san mateo arrest a man. for for allegedly breaking into people's homes - stealing items, and

maureen kelly kron 4 news. start to protect your home from any fighting several places around the bay area are offering sandbags for free. you can find the list on our website kron4.com . stick with kron 4 all begin long. we have everything you need to know about the upcoming storm . you can get updates sent right to your phone. all you have to do is download the free kron 4 mobile app. that we can track live radar abs prepared as possible. struck an update to a big story we are following tonight. a suspect shot by semper cisco police is now dealing with life- threatening injuries. the shooting happened around 4 am yesterday morning. officers responded to a dispute between residents in the oceanview neighborhood. police say confrontation led to officers she did the suspect after two cops were injured. the police officers union says officers were forced to shoot the suspect because the city's new police law bans use of a necco st. leaving them -- neck restraint leaving them know of the options. start please resp

maureen kelly, kron 4 news. >>> here at contra costa christian schools in walnut creek vandals target the school 's soccer field. >> first happened on monday night and then again last night. they came back. and did more damage. >> we can't play soccer here. can't really do anything on this field. >> this is my first year playing soccer. so i was really excited to come out here and then the rent of the school. >> reporter: so far there are no witnesses or surveillance video of what happened. >> no idea who would do this. >> reporter: haaziq madyun, kron 4 news. >>> out on san francisco bay there was more debris than there has been in years. talking about things like tires, trees and other junk. that's because the recent storms we've had have washed a lot of debris down into san francisco bay. that could pose a problem to boats and ships out on the water. both ferry services, golden tate and san francisco bay ferry say they have seen damage to their vessels and disruption of service so far this winter. california's rainy season doesn't end for a few more months so this problem could lin

maureen kelly kron4 news starting t >> reporter: or find this part in five nights. your screen, because tomorrow.the same citation is going to cost you more. starting tomorrow parking citations in the public lot will increase from 35-dollars to 55- dollars. citations for parking in an assigned space jumps from $40- dollars to $75-dollars. bart riders say the spike in parking fines. will be really tough on smaller stations like lafayette. bart says one reason for the change: people were deciding to just pay the parking fines instead of parking within the rules. since in many cases -- the old fines were cheaper than trying to park and pay the toll into san francisco. >> vicki:more information is coming out about the digital fingerprints in the election hack that is giving the intelligence community growing confidence that russia is to blame. but president-elect donald trump is still casting doubts. pamela brown has the story. president elect donald trump rang in the new year still casting doubt--- on the u-s intelligence community's assessment that russia was behind t

maureen kelly kron4 news >>steve:citing a pressing need to deal with california's drought.he white house is trying to fast track governor jerry brown's delta tunnel project. >>steve:the twin tunnels would route some of northern california's water to the central and southern part of the state. an executive order issued today is directing federal out a preliminary two weeks. this would speed up the federal permitting process for the nearly 16-billion dollar project. return to >> brittney: we still have rainshowers right now. pretty steady. no. they zones are starting to thin out a little bit. we was starkly-test we will start to see someone of down for the morning commute. the light steady rain showers should move off to the east. we should see more of sunshine as we go into the afternoon. >> brittney: snowshoe start tapering off in the late afternoon. but as we go into saturday and sunday we will see the return of a brain- snow mixed. --rain-snow mix. >> brittney: after our break from the rain showers on thursday and friday we are watching another round of rainfall. for all

maureen kelly, kron 4 news. >> reporter: continuing to search for her less take a look. this >> reporter: was the scene on wednesday afternoon. along alameda creek. outside fremont. >> reporter: again today that is her hands and the yellow jackets, at times and needy and the mud, searching every snag, determined to find their daughter. >> it has been ross. --rough >> reporter: 18 year-old tracy is thought to have somehow driven off the winding road. on saturday and ended up in the creek. her car was found. its windows were broken out but she was not inside. some of her clothing was reportedly found downstream. fremont fire launched a bold early wednesday answers upstream from the bay. >> reporter: the dangers current is hampering the search but as many as zero hundred people, many of them coming out for the first time today are scorned by sides of the creek from where j. the car was found working their way downstream. jayda, is a fighter, says her father's c j. >> reporter: who is to try to bring her home. --who is determined to bring her home >> we are not going to stop

maureen kelly kron4 news. another quiet day and then rain returns late wednesday through friday.'re hearing from the san francisco 49ers' new general manager for the first time. what he had to say -- coming up at 5:40 and next, the man accused of opening fire - killing several people at a florida aiport - appears in court. what he's saying tonight...that's right after the break. accused fort lauderdale airport shooter esteban santiago appeared in federal court today. he was arraigned on 22 charges related to the deadly january 6th shooting. the 26-year old plead not guilty. if convicted, he could be sentenced to life in a federal prison-- or death. five people died and six others were wounded when a gunman opened fire in the airport's baggage claim area. santiago served with the armed forces in iraq and has a history of mental illness. another big story we're tracking tonight... six people are dead and five others remained hospitalized after a shooting inside a quebec city mosque. canadian authorities are investigating the incident as an act of terrorism, and one suspect has been

kron4's maureen kelly talks to neighbors at noor salman's family home where she was taken into custodythis morning. >> reporter:noor salman was taken into custody here at the home she grew up at this morning around 7am without incident. she faces federal charges including obstruction of justice. this arrest coming months after she was questioned at length by the fbi following the june mass shooting at a gay nightclub in orlando florida. that massacre. at the pulse nightclub,. left 49 people dead. the gunman.salman's husband omar mateen.was later killed after a 3 hour standoff. in a shootout with police. salman told the new york times that she knew her husband watched jihadist videos but was unaware of his plans to shoot up the club. and that he was abusive to her. in a statement orlando's police chief said that he was glad that omar mateen's wife has been charged with aiding and abetting her husband in the commission of the brutal attack. while salman's attorney released a statement saying: "noor has told her story of abuse at his hands. we believe it is misguided and wrong to prosecut

kron4 maureen kelly was out in the weather or a date and shows us some of the trouble spots. >> reportermore heavy rain and high winds dealing with the new blows to storms. rocks and mud slides falling trees and power lines and all of the bay in spirit a call for residents to conserve water in the city of santa cruz. >> gary: sports coming up later in the broadcasts. the fastest waya to ruin pancakes.. that's why denny's uses fresh, never frozen blackberries that are fresh. and never frozen. did we mention they were fresh? >> pam:all to often we cover stories of people getting rescued from their cars on flooded roads. many times we wonder how they ended up there in the first place. >> steve:especially if the road is closed stanley roberts takes a closer look. >> stanley:we all have to get somewhere but some people take getting somewhere in the rain to a totally different level for example, this gold colored car just exited the mill exit on highway 101, then the driver comes to a stop puts the car in reverse. >> stanley:and heads a different direction, why because the road he was heading

. >> catherine:kron4's maureen kelly shows us the damage. >> reporter:this is the downed tree that ruinedt least two people's on top two cars parked on the other side of blythdale avenue in the sunnydale housing project early today. >> reporter:i talked to the owner of this black car here.who says he had a bad feeling about the tree when he parked his car there after getting off work at 530 this morning. >>when i got out the car i saw that tree and i thought i think that trees gonna fall so i was praying walking up the hill. >> reporter:while he's bummed about his new car.he's just glad he wasn't in it when that tree came down. >> reporter:the city's housing authority says they have been monitoring their trees ahead of the storm >>trimming trees removing trees at the end of it's life but we didn't think this one was at the end of it's life but the soil is so saturated that it fell. >> reporter:the tree's roots ruptured a gas line when it toppled.and the residents of 6 units were evacuated for just a homes were assessed for safety. >> reporter:but just around the corner two families had to

maureen, kelly, kron4 news. >> with the heavy storms setting in, residents may want to think about protecting their home from water damage using sandbags. there are a number of places around the bay area where you can get sand bags. you can sand bags at yard o on lincoln avenue. on chestnut road also offering sand bags. if you are on the east by a, you can pick up son at the municipal service center in oakland. and in the south bay, check out city central service yard on center roaded in san jose. for the full list of locations offering san bags. go to kron4.com. >>> and stick with kron4 all weekend long. we have everything you need to know about at upcoming storm on air and on kron4.com. we'll have live reports throughout the by a area. tips on how to prepare for the storm and the live radar showing exactly where this storm is. you can get updates sent right to your phone. just download the free, kron4 mobile app. >>> well, still ahead on kron4 news at 10. the national park advocated. this as enormous storm expect. ed. to sweep through the area. when the park plans to reopen. then, a bay are

maureen. >> a shake yum on "fox" news at megyn kelly plans to lever the network. >> and here's a liver look outside across the region. the time now, 4:36 and temperature 39 degrees. it's foggy. get ready to deal with the fog when you come outside this morning. back in a moment >> 4:38 is the time let's look at stories they're looking at on social media. >> holly morris and the realtime news trackerer. >> good morning to both ever you and everybody out there first uvr media world buzzing over megyn kelly jump from fox news to nbc and a number of 234e9 works battle today out to sign kelly. fox news offered her $20 million a year to stay. was not enough. at nbc she will have a triple role a daytime shorks sunday night show and she'll be covering politics. her last day at fox news will be this friday. >>> and next up as we get closer to a trump administration, trump's famingly is settling into the neighborhood. his daughters ivanka and husband are reportetly moving to colorama problems away from where obama's will liver post white house. ahead of frez farewell speech the white house is throwing

maureen and wisdom. >>> 4:48 happening today u.s. senate begins confirmation hearings for frez elect donald trump nominee. >> john kelly is up for homeland security and jeff sessions is up for attorney general. there's a number of groups opposing sessions nomination. >> melanie alnwick is live on capitol hill this morning with the details. good morning, mel. >> good morning, >> reporter: so it all kicks off 9:0 this morning in the senate sxwrishry committee and it's expected to be a packed house for two day contentious hearings. normally there's 40 seats available for the public first come serve serve and you bet there's a lot of people" vying for those sheets including those who have something to say about sessions record on community and civil rights and women's rights as well. and the day before sessions said he had full confidence. but in 1986 sessions was nominated to become a federal judge. the same judiciary committee turned into a bruising unsuccessful battle and once again allegations of racism are leveled this time around. but others do say that sessions has been unfairly criticized. now one other group trying to get into the h

kron4's maureen kelly talked to those who are worried that a crackdown on undocumented workers coulde even more of a labor shortage, and making dining out, even more expensive. we don't need to be cracking down the golden gate restauarant association says immigrant labor legal or otherwise is the backbone of food service industry.....she says the high cost of living in the bay area already has already created a labor shortage in restaurants..... she's concerned that if the president's immigration policy translates to increase of raids....that could make finding and keeping staff to prep and cook meals even tougher.if ice were to starting doing raids all of sudden you wouldn't have employees showing up anymore they don't want to be deported.it would be devestating restaurants would shut down they wouldn't be able to operate they wouldn't have enough staff.chef manuel hewitt says his industry would also be hurt because the farmers that produce the food that ends up on his plates also relays on cheap immigrant labor...and if that goes away....prices will go up.....it's absolutely going