. >> news conference right now with new information regarding the missing runner philip kreycik. >> i believe that news conference is going on now and we will take a listen in. that ended. they have announced that they found a body. it has not been identified as of yet, but again this is the area where they have been searching for runner philip kreycik. they said the area this body was found is an area not designated for recreation. it is possible whoever was out there possibly went off of a game trail where an animal trampled down some of the grass and one of the areas that is hard to know exactly where you are. >> it certainly does explain in fact it took three weeks perhaps not confirmed yet but he yk. had been missing for three weeks. authorities and an army of volunteers has been searching for this husband and father that went missing after taking a run with his cell phone left in the car. everyone has been worried sick and if this is in fact philip kreycik, not the outcome that everybody was hoping for. this news conference ended as we came on the air. >> today at approximately

today we expect to hear from philip kreycik's family. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> moderna has released new data showing many are still protected from covid-19 months after being vaccinated. a steady found the vaccine is 93% effective six months after the second dose. the company's president explained what this means for protection against the delta variant. >> we know the vaccine has efficacy and protection against delta variant right after you receive it but knowing if that will hold up through the winter is not something we have information on now. given what we are seeing with delta, the way it is ripping to the country, we need to be vigilant. >> watch more of the interview coming up at 7:00 on gma. moderna is testing a booster shot and also developing a flu vaccine. researchers want to create a single shot that prthat pr 19 and the flu that people would get one time for the year. >>> business and health experts will talk about how the delta variant could impact the economy and reopening. a mutation of the delta variant has been d

is 93% effective six months after people get their second dose. >>> number four, the family of philip kreyciks to speak publicly this morning. the body of what is believed to be the missing runner was found monday. kreycik vanished while jogging july 10th. >>> number five, widespread drizzle this morning. you can see how wet those solar panels were. up to a tenth of an inch in some areas. even up into h y. >>> it is very packed at the bay bridge toll plaza right now. metering likes coming on at 5:20. >>> number seven, broadway is back. live performances of pass over started last night. this is a limited nine week engagement that reopens broadway after a long pandemic closure. >> i'm happy to see that. >> absolutely. >> reminder that hamilton is opening in san francisco at the orpheum theater in five days. >> boots and cats. >> can we bring that back? i don't want to be a part of it but you two. >> no, you have to join. >> you are the beat boxing champ. >> yes. >> mike and i learned how to beat box a little bit from the hamilton cast. no big deal. >> no big deal. >> just casual. >> it's what w

. >> i'm juliette goodrich and for elizabeth. 38-year-old philip kreycik of berkeley was last seen on july 10th when he headed out for a run at pleasanton ridge regional park. >> kpix 5's andrea nakano is there with the grim discovery that was made just hours ago. what's the latest? >> friends and family have organized a vigorous search effort for philip kreycik over the last month. today, authorities say it was one of those volunteers that found a body matching the description of the missing man. now, philip kreycik has been missing since july 10th after he took a run at pleasanton ridge regional park. investigators say the body was found in a remote northern part of the park roughly 250 yards off a game trail. the game trail is mostly used by wildlife, and that trail was about a quarter of a mile away from the main trail used by hikers and runners. authorities had the body was in a heavily wooded area with a lot of brush and would not have been spotted by crease flying over the area. now the pleasanton police department, along with the east bay parks regional district and the alamed

it is believed to be those of 37-year-old philip kreycik. this morning abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live at the search site. amy. >> reporter: hi there, kumasi. yeah, his car was found here in the molar park ranch staging area. authorities say his body was found about 250 yards off of this trail. it is such a remote area with such thick terrain that it's so rough in there we could only get video of it from up above in sky 7. how did he get so far off the trail? one investigator i spoke with speculated maybe he fell. they will be investigating to try to find out as much as they can about philip kreycik's disappearance. the father of two from berkeley disappeared about three and a half weeks ago. it was on july 10th. a saturday. he went for a run in pleasanton and was never seen again. first responders and volunteers who have looked for him all say they are just heart broken. >> once we heard that they found philip, it was, you know, it's devastating. especially for the community. this just doesn't happen a lot here. >> reporter: poli

. >>> volunteers will continue their search for missing runner philip kreycik. police are continuing their investigation. was last seen three weeks ago when he left home to go running in pleasanton ridge regional park. abc7 news reporter dustin dorsey explain to the family continues to hold out hope. >> reporter: across the city of pleasanton, you can help us see the face of missing berkeley runner philip kreycik. volunteers are still searching and expanding the coverage area of posters dublin, fremont, castro valley, hoping someone will see the face and have information. even after three weeks of constant work, his wife, two's, and parents are still waiting for that breakthrough. >> we are hopeful. that things will turn around. >> we miss our son so incredibly. he is a delightful person. he has such spirit and love emanates from him. he is a big hole that we need to have back. >> reporter: pleasanton police pulled gps data from search crews from and find new locations they hadn't checked. saturday morning, crews from 17 bay area agencies and more than 100 volun

remains under this brush. >> that person located a deceased individual matching the description of philip kreycik. >> reporter: kreycik was a husband and father. the 37-year-old runner was last scene on july 10th. while an official i.d. has yet to be made, authorities are confident that this is, in fact, kreycik. the remains were found just off of a game trail used by animals. one that could look like a normal trail. >> he was located about 250 yards off of that trail, near a tree, and that's what we know at this point. >> reporter: you can see homes in pleasanton in this shot, and then the area where the discovery was made. from the ground we couldn't get close because of the terrain, bit from our sky 7 mapping system, you can see interstate 580, and then the northern ridge. >> once we heard they found philip, it was devastating, especially for the community, because this just doesn't happen any round here. >> reporter: fisher just one of the many who had searched and hoped for better news. >> i know our search team has never wavered, never given up. we are heartbroken. we wanted to bring him al

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a body matching the description of philip kreycik.e is the man who was a went missing in pleasanton last month. that body has been found. thank you for joining us tonight. i'm catherine heenan of jonathan mccall grant and vicki have the night off the heartbreaking discovery announced just a few moments ago. we brought it to you live on the kron on. >> philip kreycik last seen back on july 10th. he told his wife that he was going out for a jog at pleasanton ridge regional park his car wallet and phone were found inside of the parking lot of that park. this past sunday saturday. i should say, actually marking 3 weeks since he was last seen for weeks volunteers along with a number of law enforcement agencies have been searching that park working for leads into his disappearance in that press conference that we just heard a few moments ago we learned that the a volunteer for so many volunteers have been out there searching for him for those last 3 weeks of volunteer was out in that area when retracing some of those areas that volunteers a

philip kreycik left on his run wearing particular shoes and clothing on those, from what i understand were on the body that was found, along with personal items. pleasanton police said that could include a biometric watch. it is essentially wilderness when you go off trail in the 125,000 acres of east bay regional park. a man was foby a volunteer in pleasanton ridge tuesday afternoon, leading to the belief it might be philip kreycik, who vanished july 10 during an extreme heat wave. an exhaustive high-tech search for the missing runner turned up nothing. pleasanton police say the body was found under a tree in a heavily wooded area, 200 yards away from where they searched. while they wait for confirmation of the identity, family and friends took to facebook to offer condolences and thinks to the volunteers. police say they believe kreycik likely suffered an injury or heat -related stress and missed a turn on his carefully plotted route, continuing on the wrong >> cell phone conductivity in the park is spotty. >> reporter: they get hundreds of calls every summer from people who get los

remains under this brush. >> that person located a deceased individual matching the description of philip kreycik >> reporter: kreycik was a husband and father. the 37-year-old runner was last scene on july 10th. while an official i.d. has yet to be made, authorities are confident that this is, in fact, kreycik. the remains were found just off of a game trail used by animals. one that could look like a normal trail. >> he was located about 250 yards off of that trail, near a tree, and that's what we know at this point. >> reporter: you can see homes in pleasanton in this shot, and then the area where the discovery was made. from the ground we couldn't get close because of the terrain, bit from our sky 7 mapping system, you can see interstate 580, and then the northern ridge. >> once we heard they found philip, it was devastating, especially for the community, because this just doesn't happen any round here. >> reporter: fisher just one of the many who had searched and hoped for better news. >> i know our search team has never wavered, never given up. we are heartbroken. we wanted to bring him ali

. >>> volunteers will continue their search for missing runner philip kreycik.re continuing their investigation. he was seen last three weeks ago when he went to go running. justin dorsey explains how the family is holding out hope. >> reporter: across pleasanton, you can't help but see the face of missing berkeley runner philip kreycik. volunteers researching and expanding coverage of these posters in dublin, fremont, and castro valley, hoping someone will see his face and see his information. after three weeks of constant work, his wife, kids and parents, are still waiting for the breakthrough. >> we are hopeful that things are going to turn around. >> we miss our son. he is a delightful person. he has such spirit and love. he is a big hole that we need to have back. >>> police pulled a gps data from search crews over the past three weeks and found a locations that they had not yet checked. law enforcement from 17 agencies and 100 volunteers hit the trails to comb through the new area but found nothing. >> we feel we are 100% covered where he could have been.

philip kreycik. >> tonight at 5.45 kron on, of course, always tracking local stories. here's a look at some of the headlines happening in your neighborhood tonight in the east bay a preliminary autopsy report has found that no signs of foul play in the death of berkeley jogger. philip kreycik, the alameda county medical examiner's office announcing those findings project. you may remember, went missing during a run in the pleasanton hills back in july. he had been missing for more than 3 weeks when volunteers who had been searching for him found his body about a quarter mile off of a path. there's no word on when the results of that full autopsy will be completed. >> in the south bay santa clara police are asking people to be on the lookout for this man. he was reported missing last night. his name is rudy solorio considered to be at risk. he is nonverbal. police say he vanished from the 400 block of winchester boulevard. he's 5 foot 625 pounds last seen wearing a blue beanie dark shirt, dark pants. anyone who sees him should call 911, immediately. some say police have

that's some of the technology that was used to try and find philip kreycik, but in the end it was one volunteer with a good eye to distinguish phillip's body underneath a tree. his family thanked the army of volunteers who never quite gave up hope. >> accidents can happen. >> reporter: it may have been a domino effect of bad and perhaps avoidable circumstances that led to philip kreycik's death. the 37-year-old was a pg&e analyst from berkeley who went missing on july 10th after telling his wife he was going out for a run in pleasanton ridge regional park. >> i like to imagine him setting off on his final hike with joy, embracing the outdoors, running free as the wind. >> reporter: there was hardly any wind that day with temperatures peaking at 99 degrees in pleasanton. criesic's widow says her husband wasn't used to running in that park. >> philip was a very experienced runner. >> a volunteer discovered a body matching philip's description a mile north from his running route. >> we wanted to locate him sooner. >> the lieutenant says based on their mapping, search and rescue teams cam

family, search crews, and volunteers looking for philip kreycik since july 10, when he did not returna run. he was found about one mile from the route. >> are you hopeful that the biometric watch he was wearing could give more information on what happened to him that day? >> i think so. i think that will give us more insights. i want to know, but scared to know. >>> his wife there, is preparing for the future in raising their two young children without their father. >> of course, my focus is always on the kids. for the to make this period as a gentle for the children as possible. >> reporter: heavy told a 3- year-old anything about what has happened this week? >> i'm working on that. we will tell them stories. we will show them pictures. they will grope knowing with her father was like. >> whether there will be a public memorial service. >>> a new this morning, the july's jobs report was released by the statish the ster than expected numbers. july's unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since the pandemic began last year. 942,000 nonfarm drive jobs were created last month. >>> s

search crews and volunteers had been looking for philip kreycik since july 10, when he did not return a run. his body was found a mile from his planned route in pleasanton regional park. leslie brinkley spoke with the family today. >> we lost a son, but we gained a huge family. i feel so close to so many of these people. >> and they provided just unbelievable support for us. >> reporter: the family thanked volunteers and search and rescue personnel who swarmed the regional park for over three weeks, searching for philip kreycik, the 36-year-old who vanished july 10 while out for a run during a heat wave. >> it is so easy for something to go wrong. >> the moment he went out was not particularly dangerous. it did get warm in the afternoon. but one instance led him down the wrong path. >> reporter: what appears to be kreycik's body, clothed in his running gear, was found in dense brush on a ridge top on august 3. are you hopeful the biometric watch he was wearing might give you more information on what happened to him that day? >> i think so. i think that will give us more insight. i wan

. >> on tuesday a searcher found a body matching description of 38-year-old philip kreycik on the northern part of pleasanton ridge park. that ended a three week long search. investigators are collecting evidence to try and figure out how he might have ended up there. >>> this has a lot of people asking what is happening? a passenger leaning out of a car holding ak47 on a san francisco street. it looks like something out of an action movie or video game. the police department says it was on july 11th at barn ville and mckenen during what they called illegal exhibition of speed. police managed to track down the car and seized it yesterday. >>> let's get the latest on the covid crisis. a disturbing projection from dr. anthony fauci. he thinks u.s. can see 200,000 new cases a day by fall. that number was just 10,000 a few weeks ago. the response to the surge has been different depending on where you live. >> reporter: health officials say they are concerned about how quickly the delta variant is spreading. latest models project there could be from 350,000 to 1.8 million new covid cases by end

we're live this morning with the swirling questions of what happened to philip kreycik. >>> no vaccine no service. the bubbling talks requiring proof of vaccination for indoor activities here in the bay area. >>> and we always like this term. news you can use. it is national cookie day. fully dedicated to the treat. we have a full list of the places handing them out today for free. >>> well now that hot girl hot boy summer has been canceled let's get into the cookies. let's just get into them. >> still have hope. >> me too. >> i'm not ready to let go. >> mike, we can eat cookies. good morning. you're watching abc 7 mornings live. we're going to check in with mike nicco. >> let's take a look at what's going on with our winds. the sea breeze is cranking up. and that is why you see the cloud cover already over to the east bay hills and starting to topple the east bay hills and head into the east bay valleys. we have clouds that'll spread through the morning commute. it'll be a little slower to get back to the coast where they'll keep half moon bay at 60. 63 in san francisco. 68 in oakland

. >>> the family of philip kreycik plan to speak publicly tomorrow morning.the body of the runner was found yesterday. he went missing on july 10th. >>> new at 11:00, a cans got a chance to see four of the men who want to replace newsom in the election next month. the candidates tackled the question of mask mandates. >> i do not favor mandates. i favor educate. you're not going to mandate your way out of the coronavirus. >> of all 50 states, we have the largest lockdowns and the longest school closures. we were the last open just about everything. >> 99.9% survivable by people who are in decent health who aren't elderly. >> reporter: the debate was held at the nixon presidential library and hosted by fox 11 in los angeles. the moderators asked about how they would handle the state's beleaguered unemployment system. >> it's time for a whole new team of people in california, at all of our agencies. on day one, i will bring in a whole new team. >> reporter: and for all of those people trying to get through on the phone to the edd? >> just answer the phone. all r

and for the first time today we're hearing from philip kreycik family on the loss of a father husband friend. and a new kind of tourism in the bay area. people who cannot get vaccines in the countries they live in are coming to sfo to get the shots. plus an entire town destroyed by the massive wildfire burning in northern california. and it's not only ripping through the state. we'll have a live report with the latest on the dixie and river fires. >> now from the area's local news station. this is kron. 4 news at 3. >> if your because you really don't know what's going to happen in the next moment. >> now at 3, a family in mourning amid tears and heartbreak. we hear from the family of philip kreycik just days after his remains were found in hills near pleasanton, thank you for joining us this thursday here on kron. 4 news at 3. i'm sanaz tahernia kron four's charles clifford was at the family's event this morning in pleasanton. he joins us now live with more. charles. >> yeah, well, philip create check disappeared on jet, july hundreds of volunteers search rescue teams from all across

. >>> volunteers continue their search for a missing runner philip kreycik.ice are continuing their investigation. he was last seen three weeks ago when he left home to go running in pleasanton ridge regional park. abc7 news reporter dustin dorsey explains how the family continues to hold out hope. >> reporter: across the city pleasanton, you can't help but see the face of the missy birthday runner, philip kreycik. volunteers are searching and expanding coverage area. that someone will see a face and have information. even after three weeks of constant work, his wife, two's, and parents are still waiting for that breakthrough. >> we are hopeful. we are hopeful that things will turn around. >> we miss our son so incredibly. he is a delightful person. he has such spirit, such love. it emanates from him. he is a hole that we need to have back. >> reporter: pleasanton police pulled gps data from search crews over the past three weeks and found new locations they hadn't checked. saturday morning, crews from agencies in more than 100 volunteers hit the trails again

of the pleasanton police department, we would like to extend our sincere condolences, to the philip kreyciky and offer support we can to the family and friends, who have been searching and spending countless hours looking for philip. we have numerous outside agencies, neighboring agencies who have assisted with the search effort and investigation. we would like to thank all of those agencies at this time as well. we are unable to positively identify the decedent at this time, we will wait for the county sheriff's bureau to make that determination as to the cause of death as we move forward. i encourage members of the community who have any information to assist us, maybe they saw philip to this incident, or other information, please contact the pleasanton police department as our investigation still continues, as we try to find out the -- everyone what happened that day, and also come up with a concrete time line. that is all i have right now, i will hand it over to sergeant kelly. >> well, as you just heard, i will say that we are very heartbroken here today, our team, our collective group

. >>> the family of philip kreycik plan to speak publicly tomorrow morning.e runner was found yesterday. he went missing on july 10th. >>> new at 11:00, a cans got a chance to see four of the men who want to replace newsom in the election next month. the candidates tackled the question of mask mandates. >> i do not favor mandates. i favor educate. you're not going to mandate your way out of the coronavirus. >> of all 50 states, we have the largest lockdowns and the longest school closures. we were the last open just about everything. >> 99.9% survivable by people who are in decent health who aren't elderly. >> reporter: the debate was held at the nixon presidential library and hosted by fox 11 in los angeles. the moderators asked about how they would handle the state's beleaguered unemployment system. >> it's time for a whole new team of people in california, at all of our agencies. on day one, i will bring in a whole new team. >> reporter: and for all of those people trying to get through on the phone to the edd? >> just answer the phone. all right? just ans

philip kreycik.ll have the very latest that story. >> 6.28 right now look at the camera shaking. i think that means windy or just so now it's a lot of focusing is going on here. up and then the clouds got a whole lot of them once again out there this morning took for ever. i average clear by my john. >> yeah. it's going today to those clouds are going to be pretty stubborn across much of the bay area coastal areas just expect a mostly cloudy day are bayside and inland areas. you will get a solid. this is sunshine. the cherry on top of it is going to be temperatures cooler today down from the 90's to the 80's for inland areas. a look outside in the gray shows you coit tower in san francisco, sitting under that low cloud cover that is resultiog in some lower visibility pockets for portions of the eastern north bay. please be mindful of that. as you do make your way into the office or out on to the roadways in general as these areas right here could be seeing some lower visibility and us got to take it

they were devoted to the search for philip kreycik. they spent almost a month here. i'm standing now at foothill high school looking for this was their base and then they went up into the terrain which was difficult and unfortunately it came to the most heart breaking and on tuesday a body matching the description of philip was found and he the husband. he's a father. he's a friend. and you know, a lot of people who cared about coming out here and finding him at the remote area of the pleasanton ridge regional park and that body matching his description was found about a mile north of his planned route. that area was searched by teams, however, not exactly where he was located. and it really goes to show you how dense that terrain is. drones search dogs overnight. aerial flights multiple law enforcement agencies search and rescue crews mean taking hundreds and hundreds of people, including those friends and family members who will we will hear from today. hundreds of them dedicated their time to find philip for nearly a month. he told family was going for a run on ju

. >>> it is a heart breaking bit of closure for the family of the missing berkeley runner, philip kreycik . they found the body and confirmed it with him. the remains were found about 250 yards off of a game trail, about one quarter outside of the route he plan to take when he set out for a run on july 10 and the person who made the grim discovery was part of an army of volunteers and search and rescue crews and law enforcement who spent nearly a month looking for him. >> there are no words to really express our gratitude and i have told several people that if i can i would really like to meet every single person who helped us. >> reporter: the cause of death is still unknown but investigators say there were no signs of foul play and in addition to his wife, he leaves two small children. >>> still to come, before students start raising their hands in class, many parents are raising questions. >> my big concern will be for the school to be safe for the kids. >> what local districts will be doing and what they won't be doing. >>> how one bay area city is trying to clean up its act with pres

after more than 3 weeks of intense searching a body matching the description of philip kreycik has been found. the 38 year-old father of 2 and has been of from berkeley went missing back on july 10th at pleasanton ridge regional park. he told his wife he was simply going on a run this afternoon. police announcing that heartbreaking volunteers searching in that area found what is believed to be his body around 2.30 this afternoon that body spotted around about 250 feet off the trail in the northern part of the ridge. this is a sound bite from sergeant ray kelly with the alameda county sheriff's office. >> his and his family is forefront in our thoughts and prayers right now. i can just say that collectively, that our our our mood is very somber pretty heartbroken over this. we've invested a lot of time and energy and care as a community, as one teen to find philip and to bring them home. we want to bring him home alive and safe. and so to deliver this news today, it's hard for for all of us were starting big will move in small with our personnel. obviously. >> we we have a we believe the

the body of philip kreycik didn't show any signs of trauma. sheriff's deputies saying he may have suffered a medical emergency. toxicology results are still pending. kreycik's remains were discovered at the park on tuesday. >>> new at 6:00, just as in person classes are about to restart in san jose, school officials in the alum rock school district have new environmental concerns on their hands. >> as kpix 5's len ramirez reports, officials are worried about lead exposure for students in schools near reid hillview airport. >> that's right. s to come in for this study that links airplanes taking off here and landing at reid hillview airport with high levels of lead in the blood of children who live around here. now school officials are calling for the airport to be shut down. >> reporter: there are 21 schools and childcare centers within a 1 1/2 mile radius of reid hillview airport, and for decades planes have taken off and landed just past the field and jungle gym at meyer elementary. but a new study links the airport's piston engine airplanes

was found earlier this week in pleasanton ridge park investigators believe it is the body of philip kreycik kron four's, michelle kingston has new details on the investigation. there. >> you have some sort of injury. did he have succumb to heat exhaustion and become disoriented. it appears looking at his route that he planned to take that you may have missed a turn which would have taken back down to his car. the several weeks long search for the missing east bay runner came to an unfortunate end on tuesday. >> a body matching the description of philip kray-chick, a husband and a father was found in a remote area of the pleasanton ridge regional park about a mile north of his plan drew the ad that area was was searched on subsequent search. why are search however. >> i'm not exactly where he was located they probably came within, you know, a couple 100 yards of individual was recovered yesterday. and that just goes to show on that rain really have to be very close in order to. >> find drones search dogs overnight. aerial flights multiple law enforcement agencies search and rescue crews frie

the family of philip kreycik as a message of thanks to share. >>> they are making a hard situation harderse. >> the edd is asking him to pay back his benefits. that is why 7 7 7 7 michael finney got involved. >>> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >>> we do not want a repeat of the winter surge. >> we do not want to repeat and it looks like we might not get one. the summer surge might not be with us much longer. thank you for joining us, i am ama daetz. you are watching abc7 news at 6:00, live on abc7, hulu live, and wherever you stream. >> there is only one bay area county without a mask mandate, solano county. napa county announced it was joining the mandate. it requires everyone, regardless of vaccination status to wear a mask indoors in public. >> abc7 news has confirmed zuckerberg san francisco general has started giving supplemental shots to people who received the single-dose johnson & johnson vaccine. sky 7 was over a hospital staging tent where people lined up before going in. some people without appointments were turned away. the cd

temperatures top 100 degrees on july 10th, when philip kreycik decided to go out for a trail run. found tuesday about a quarter-mile off course from his planned route. investigators say it appears he simply set down in the shade of a tree and never got back up again. >>> preliminary autopsy results found no signs of head trauma, >>> and the woman in this car somehow got out with only minor cliff in santa crews. police say that she was sitting in her parked car in the lighthouse parking lot when a stranger opened her door by mistake. she was so spooked she stomped on the gas. >>> calls are growing this evening to shut down reid hillview airport in san jose. some say it's creating an environmental hazard for children. a 20 year study by mountain data group found high levels of lead in children who live nearby, levels comparable to those found in children during the flint water crisis. business owners at the airport say they're just weeks away from switching to a new unleaded fuel, but that may be too late. as school boards join the call to shut reid hillview down. >> the results of

preliminary autopsy results for philip kreycik don't show any signs of trauma.now the alameda county sheriff's office is saying there were no broken bones or signs of an attack. toxicology results, those are still pending. sheriffs say that he may have suffered a medical emergency. kreycik's remains discovered on tuesday, about 250 yards off a trail in a remote area of the park . >>> in the south bay, san jose firefighters worked fast to put out flames that broke out at a homeless encampment. it happened around 8:00 this morning near mill pond drive. fortunately no one was hurt and there was no word on how it started. >>> at first glance, this may look like snow flurries, but it is actually ash falling from the sky in reno overnight. it's coming from the massive dixie fire raging out of control in plumas county. >>> let's get back to paul. the air quality, we haven't seen the ash falling certainly the smoke. >> there has been a little bit of it settling down on outdoor surfaces. one of our dogs has black fur and he was rolling around on the outdoor carpet that w

search and rescue personnel who swarmed pleasanton regional park for three weeks, searching for philip kreycikhile out for a run during a heat wave. >> it is so easy for something to go wrong. >> the moment he went out, it was not particularly dangerous. it did get warm in the afternoon. but one instance led him down the wrong path. >> reporter: what appears to be kreycik's body was found in dense brush on a ridge top on august 3. are you hopeful that the biometric watch he was wearing might give you more information on what happened to him that day?

today a volunteer searcher found a body matching the description of philip kreycik, the berkeley man that has been missing since july 10th. now authorities say the searcher found the body on the northern part of the ridge. they added it was about 250 yards off a game trail, and that's a trail that's usually mostly used by wildlife. investigators say kreycik deviated about a quarter-mile from the trail used by runners and hikers, and this is an area where a body wouldn't have been spotted from a flyover. >> based on the terrain there, you could continue on straight and not realize that you had gone off the trail, potentially, so we're looking into all that now, and we are reaching back to our search and rescue people to see where, and the areas that we searched, and you know that the environment out there plays tricks on your eyes. you're trying to look through multiple layers of density, foliage, vegetation, and so there's a lot of factors at play. >> now as you just heard sergeant kelly say that they are going to be looking over all of their search maps to see how much of this area

. >>> alameda county sheriff's investigators are rolling out foul play in the death of philip kreycik autopsy results released today showed no signs of traumatic injury while toxicology results are still pending, officials say they're unlikely to determine cause of death because of the decomposition of the body. he disappeared wh wh wh near pleasanton on july 10. a search team found his body under a tree a mile north from his intended running route. >>> get ready for more chaos at airports across the country this weekend. spirit airlines ceo says flight cancellations will continue through next week. this is now day six of the travel nightmare with nearly 1900 flights canceled so far. today up to 50 percent of spirits lights were not expected to take off grade at oakland international, two flights were canceled but two others did depart as planned to orange county in las vegas. spirit blames the ongoing issues on the weather and staffing shortages. >> when we started canceling, our cruise got dislocated her the system and they were in the wrong places at the wrong time and we needed to

northern region of pleasanton ridge regional park, and it's the same area where 38- year-old philip kreycik went missing three weeks ago. investigators say the body does match kreycik's description. a coroner will have to make the final identification. >>> our mood is very somber. we are pretty heartbroken over this. we've invested a lot of time, energy and care as a community, as one team, to find philip and to bring them home. we wanted to bring him home alive and safe. >> we brought you the pleasanton police presser live on cbsn bay area. you can watch any time on kpix.com. >>> new at 6:00, tonight is national night out. law enforcement agencies across the country, including oakland, joining people in r neighborhoods, and it's an effort to build community partnership. oakland's police chief says the city is seeing a drop in crime since he's been there nearly 6 months he's been in the position. when he came in, the numbers were skyrocketing, but he says the new violence reduction strategy is making a big difference. >> our cease-fire team has been working collaboratively with the violent

today a volunteer searcher found a body matching the description of philip kreycik, the berkeley man that has been missing since july 10th.

wrecking news is in pleasanton were just an hour ago, police say they found a body in the area where philip kreycikappeared. kreycik went for a run at this park and was not seen since. just this past weekend, there was a search. the body was found today near a tree. >> we are heartbroken and we have invested a lot of time, energy and care as a community. as one team. to find philip and to bring him home. we wanted to bring him home alive and safe. so to deliver this move this news today is heartbreaking for all of us. >> the corner will need to deliver the news. the body found today was located in the northern part of the pleasanton ridge regional park. >>> we continue to follow that story but for now we say good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> and i am dan ashley. you are watching abc7 . comes to coronavirus in california, mixed messages. the positivity rate held steady at 6.7% today and did not go up but every bay area county except santa clara now has a high transmission rate according to the cdc. the state's total number of coronavirus patients in the icu has topped 1000. that is a number we have no

philip kreycik's wife and family has confirmed that the body was indeed philip. thanked the hundreds of volunteers who helped search. >> i thank everyone for all the support you have given us. it's been incredible and it makes me feel humble and gives me the strength to keep going. >> even when we think we are strong and capable, accidents can happen. >> his body was found a quarter mile off the fail he charted on a fitness app. >>> amazon is the latest tech giant to delay return to the office. corporate workers were slated to return next month but now that's pushed back to january 3. at least one company is g uber's new ccinn differen worker's role. uber's ceo says it requires in houseworkers to get shots because they spend more time in the office together but force millions of drivers who constantly move around each month, he says it would be too great a task to over see. >>> july jobs report is in and searching for safe places to eat just got easier. elise preston joins us live from the new york stock exchange with these stories and more with today's money wat

friends and volunteers who pelped in the search for missing bay area runner philip kreycik are expected to address the public today. family and hundreds of volunteers have been dedicating themselves to finding philip for nearly a month now. he told family he was going for a run back on july 10th, but never came home. it's still unclear how he got into that part of the regional park where they discovered the body. but police are hopeful that they'll find answers as they continue to investigate. >> such a nice family you know, our hearts go out to them. and we're you know, just got a somber time right now because you would hope that this would a little, you know, concluded better. and unfortunately this isn't what we're looking for. but at the very least, it does provide the family with some closure. >> and again, the body they found that they believe is fill create check was found in a remote area of the pleasanton ridge regional park about a mile north. his planned route. still ahead on the kron 00:00am morning news schools are preparing to welcome students back. >> well, one bay area s

it's almost been a month since philip kreycik went on a run and never returned home and ever since then, family and friends and strangers even have been in this parking lot of foothill high school meeting every morning with their boots on and ready to go up the hill into the tough terrain and it ended. unfortunately, the most heartbreaking way. people had hoped that philip was still alive. unfortunately, they did find a body that matches the description of philip kray-chick. he's a husband, a father, a friend and he was a, you know, going for a run in that remote area of the pleasanton ridge regional park just body was found about a quarter mile north of his planned route. that area was searched by teams. however, not exactly where he was located and it really goes to show you exactly how dense this terrain is. that's why they use drones, search dogs overnight, aerial flights multiple law enforcement agencies search and rescue crews. and as i said, friends, family hundreds of volunteers. they dedicated their time to finding philip for nearly a month he told family was going for a run on

search and rescue personnel who swarmed pleasanton regional park for three weeks, searching for philip kreycik, who vanished july 10 while out for a run during a heat wave. >> it is so easy for something to go wrong. >> the moment he went out, it was not particularly dangerous. it did get warm in the afternoon. but one instance led him down the wrong path. >> reporter: what appears to be kreycik's body was found in dense brush on a ridge top on august 3. are you hopeful that the biometric watch he was wearing might give you more information on what happened to him that day? >> i think so. i think that will give us more insight. i want to know, but i am also scared to know. >> things like that might be useful for providing help for people in the future who might be going out on a trail hike. >> it of course, my focus is always on the kids, to make this period as gentle for them as possible. >> reporter: have you told the 3-year-old anything about what has happened this week? >> i am working on that. we will tell them stories. we will show them pictures. they will grow up knowing what their fath

. >> officials announcing new details in the death of philip kreycik, a preliminary autopsy showing no signs of foul play in his death. try wake tech was reported missing after going for a run in the pleasanton hills last month. search crews worked for more than 3 weeks to locate his body at the height of the search. there were nearly 170 personnel and volunteers looking for him. his body was discovered last week about a quarter mile from his intended route. authorities say did not say when the final autopsy results might be n he leaves behind a wife and 2 young children. >> new developments in a story out of the south bay this evening. authorities have identified the teenager who was killed while attending a house party at a sunnyvale air bnb over the weekend. officers say between a 150, 200 people were at the home saturday night according to reports, shots were fired while officers tried to contact the homeowner. 2 people were struck by gunfire and taken to the hospital. 18 year-old honea died at a san jose hospital. a second man underwent surgery and is expected to survive. so far n

. >> for the first time today we heard from the family of philip kreycik just days after remains believed to be his were found in the hills near pleasanton. he went missing back on july. the 10th today, his parents and his wife. thank the hundreds of volunteers, the search teams, members of the community, all who spent weeks searching for him even as they now mourn his loss. >> life is chilly fragile. and 3, '04, weeks. show me crystal clear. there are really no words to really express how difficult this is just how much you everybody's come. your because you really don't know what's going to happen in the next moment now our focus is on preparing for the future and making sure >> it feels kids and his family have what they need to do the things that we know who would want us to do it. >> philip reay check leaves behind 2 children. the exact cause of his death is still under investigation. but authorities have said they do not suspect foul play. >> turning now to our wildfire coverage. thousands of firefighters are working to try to put out 2 major fires continue to rage northern californ

. >> ridge they have positively confirm the identity of, but they do think it is the body of philip kreycikn four's. dan storm has the story. >> the puzzling several weeks search for a missing east bay runner finally comes to an end. a body matching the description of philip create check was found tuesday afternoon in a remote area of pleasanton ridge. regional park will >> a positive identification. but leads us to believe that that it's likely that we did find philip up there. >> on the rich investigators and volunteers have been searching for create check for nearly a month. he went on a run on the morning of july 10th and did not return alameda county deputies, pleasanton police and other crews as well as create chicks family trek through the park tirelessly very heartbroken here our our teams, our collective. >> a group of law enforcement partners as well in our community, search team has never wavered. never given up. >> we are going to be looking into further details on transpired. but at this point it's a very preliminary investigation. and i just want to reiterate that our hearts a

search for missing runner as authorities reveal what they believed to be the fate of 37 year-old philip kreycik. as for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 10. i'm ken wayne and i'm pam moore. investigators say they believe the body found today at pleasanton ridge park. is philip gray check. >> the berkeley man, a father of 2 young children had been missing for nearly a month kron four's. dan thorn live for us in pleasanton. not tonight. and he joins us now with the latest on the search. >> well, ken and pam, police say this was not the way they wanted things to end. but it does provide some closure after weeks of searching a community volunteer found some human remains today at pledge in pleasanton ridge regional park and they are believed to be philip kray-chick. he was found off of a game trail near a tree. and despite this discovery tonight, there are still a lot of questions that remain an answer. >> the puzzling several weeks search for a missing east bay runner finally comes to an end. a body matching the description of philip create check was found tuesday afternoon in a remote area of p

an autopsy is scheduled to identify if it is philip kreycik. a volunteer found the body in a remote part of pleasanton ridge regional park. it was found more than a quarter mile off the public trail under a tree. kreycik told his wife he was going for a run in the park on july 10th. that day temperatures were above 100 degrees. investigators say it is possible he mistook a beaten path as a trail he was supposed to run on. >> we're pretty heartbroken over this. we've invested a lot of time and energy and care as a community, as one team. >> hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement spent weeks searching with helicopters, drones, thermal cameras, dogs, people and other tools. >>> turning now to california's ongoing drought. this afternoon, state leaders are expected to talk about the dire situation in a virtual briefing. experts plan to present the biggest challenges including the extreme heat and the wildfire risk. this comes as state water board moves forward with sweeping cuts to thousands of farms from fresno to the oregon boarder. they must

an autopsy is scheduled to identify if it is philip kreycik, a volunteer found the body yesterday in a remote part of pleasanton ridge regional park, the same area where the search teams were looking. it was found more than a quarter mile off the public trail under a tree. kreycik told his wife he was going for a run in the park on july 10th. that day, those temperatures were above 100 degrees. investigators say that it is possible he mistook a path as a trail he was actually supposed to run. >>> governor newsom heading to the site of the largest wildfire in state history. the governor will go to glen county, one of the places hit hard by last year's august complex fire. he plans to talk about state and federal collaboration on managing fuels in that area. >>> turning now to california's ongoing drought, this afternoon, state leaders are expected to talk about the dire situation in a virtual briefing. this comes as the state water board moves forward with sweeping cuts to thousands of farms from fresno to the oregon border. property owners with less sep orty must top withdrawing wate

. >> search in that disappearance for philip kreycik kron four's, camila barco brings us the latest. >> officers scaled back and slow down their operations about 2 weeks ago. but crews came back saturday morning to revisit some areas they believe can help find before really well supported by the that >> we feel much credit its overwhelming. what people have done for us. it's a incredibly lonely journey and. but the support we have received so the family of philip kray-chick expressing gratitude. saturday for every person who has tracked the pleasanton >> in search of the missing runner saturday morning. phillips wife jen doll and his parents keith and marsha watched at 17 agencies a 125 professionals, friends and family set off yet again to search for her husband. >> we've enormous support from the local search and rescue agencies on july 10th philip one for a run on a new trail and he never returned home. >> since then, crews have combed that trail. but there's been no sign of the 37 year-old. >> now new data from the rescue teams mapping half crews focusing their efforts in t hawk

alameda county sheriff's investigators are ruling out foul play in the death of philip kreycik, the berkeley runner whose body was found tuesday, almost a month after he vanished. preliminary autopsy results showed no signs of traumatic injury. officials say they are unlikely to determine cause of death, due to the decomposition of the body. at this point they suspect some sort of medical emergency while out on the run. kreycik disappeared july 10. >>> the longtime music director announced he is undergoing treatment for a brain tuner. he tweeted today he was diagnosed and underwent successful surgery. he says treatment will continue for the next several months, so he has to step back from public appearances until november. after 25 years, he stepped down from the symphony last year but has continued involvement in other symphonies nationwide. >>> a's. the drive to the postseason took a huge hit, because major league baseball suspended outfielder ramon laureano for 80 games without pay. he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. the 20 six-year-old expressed shock in a statement, say