i'm sarah stinson reporting live in san francisco. back to dan. >> sarah, thank you. new at 10, it'll be up to the oakland city council to decide whether or not to renew the city's contract for the shot spotter program, the city's public safety committee voted tonight to send the contract over to the city council to be discussed on october. 15th, the shot spotter technology uses microphones to detect the sound of gunfire in high crime areas. its 20 year contract with the city expired back in june and the decision to renew the contract or not comes oakland has been grappling with millions of dollars and a budget deficit shotspotter program cost more than $840,000 to operate a year. there's also a question over the program's effectiveness. members of oakland's privacy advisory commission have been critical of shotspotter are recommending against renewing the program. this just in san francisco. police are on the scene of a wild crash this evening. this happened around 9 o'clock tonight at the intersection of 9th and howard, witness telling us that one of the cars involv

i'm sarah stinson reporting kron. 4 news. still ahead here, too. for all the anime and digital illustrator lovers out there releasing a new collab. >> where you can get this special arts. and after the break, the warriors fresh off win and san francisco is in crisis and we need real experienced leadership. we need mark farrell. our interim mayor who got things done. who showed we can clear tent encampments, fight crime, and address the drug crisis. who will make the tough choices for our city's future. "i'm mark farrell. i'm running for mayor because san francisco deserves better." "i'm ready to deliver that change on day one." mark farrell. a proven leader with the experience we need. >> all right. let's talk football now. there's big home game for the forty-niners on sunday. they will be hosting the team that they lost 2 in the super bowl. yeah. the kansas city chiefs kron four's erin wilson. >> live now at levi's with how the team is getting ready. also, some injury updates should be a good >> justine, we should be in for quite the treat with th

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. new at noon, the judge hearing the case of 3 alameda county officers involved in the death of. >> alameda officers involved the death of mario gonzalez has dismissed charges against 2 of the defendants. that's james fisher and cameron leahy. the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charges because of the alameda county da's office failure to timely file charges and paperwork charges have not officer allegedly involved d that eric mckinley, the alameda county district attorney's office has responded to a statement to us here at kron 4 saying this, quote, it is unfortunate that all 3 defendants will not be held accountable for their alleged roles in the death of mario gonzalez. it's important to note that the court's decision was not made based on any lack of merit. our prosecutors will proceed to file an amended complaint against officer mckinley. we'll have more on this story coming up during kron. 4 news at 2. livermore. police blasting the alameda county district attorney pa

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to all right. still ahead on the kron, morning news. >> check now. >> ballots gone out across california are in here. what election officials are expecting this year. total is now underway. plus, a man is dead after he was run over by car in east bay following a fight. witnesses tell us what started it all. and after the break, fleet week in full swing right here in the bay where you can expect twe're her things. you today. >> the man is concord is dead after police say another man intentionally ran him over outside of bonn. fair market sunday evening. police say the suspect attempted to flee the area. was caught down the road. he was arrested and booked for murder. and a san jose woman has died after she was hit by a car last tuesday. police say she was walking to a marked crosswalk on the san fernando street when a driver hit her. police say she was taken to the hospital but died a few days later. the driver is cooperating with investigators for families now without a home in san jose this mornin

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. october is national pedestrian safety month. and the chp just received over a million dollars that will go towards making our roads safer. this is part of a >> federal grant that will put in one and a half million dollars to chp offices across the state. it's part of a year long initiative to educate the public about safe practices for pedestrians on roadways and improve enforcement of existing traffic safety laws. for drivers. this comes as the state faces a concerning rise in pedestrian involved crashes, including students being hit on their way to and from school tomorrow, the chp will be joining schools nationwide as they celebrate national walk to school day. they will monitor crosswalks and other school areas to make sure that there is pedestrian safety. happening tonight, one lane on highway 37 near the novato creek bridge will be closed for drilling work. it is set to start at 10:00pm. caltrans says the drilling is required to determine the placement of the bridge's foundation requirements. one of the 2 lanes will be clo

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. >> well, october is national pedestrian safety month. and chp just received over a million dollars has got to go towards making our roads safer. is all part of a federal grant that will put in one and a half million dollars shp across the state. it's part of a yearlong initiative to educate folks about safe practices for pedestrians on roadways and improve enforcement. existing traffic laws are drivers. so the state faces a concerning rise in pedestrian involved, crashes, clinton students being hit on their way to and from school tomorrow sees people rejoining schools nationwide as they celebrate national walk to school day. monitor crosswalks and other school areas to ensure pedestrian safety. if you see smoke in the sky santa clara county, don't be alarmed. counties partner up with cal fire to a prescribe burn and joseph de grant county parks starts 8.30. till it started at 8.30. this morse. they've been doing this for about an hour. cal fire says that describe fires many benefits for the public helps them fight wildfires as well. >> w

it's happening a year after the owner jen angel was robbed and killed kron 4 sarah stinson talk with the co-op owners about their efforts to keep her legacy alive. >> it shook me to my core after the owner of angel cakes, jen angel was robbed and killed in february of 2023. her employees were left with the difficult decision to keep the popular oakland bakery open or close it down. so was a very planned person. she did have her business interest in case something were to happen to and the rules of her trust everybody has to come together and make a decision on what has to happen. it was so heavy on so many levels and they decided to keep it open together, running it as a worker lead co-operative called angel cakes collective. at the moment we are worker for people. however, we have 2 people who will soon become worker owners if they choose to. we have and we have a horizontal work structure. so there's no no one is essentially about each other. this is just surreal. to be honest, because it's been quite a journey of the last couple years to get here. >> the 4 co-op owners finally got

kron 4 sarah stinson has more.allies. >> instead of going home after the final bell tuesday, the school community at jean parker elementary took to the street in front of campus to raleigh. this is one of 13 san francisco schools on a list to possibly be closed or merged next school year is the essence, course, they're breaking our kids to miss. ryan has a 4th grader at jean parker. she held up her sign proud before getting the opportunity to voice her concerns out of family meeting with superintendent dr. matt thinking send our kids to school they don't know far away and all the kids they don't know each other. they have to re-learn all the teachers and staff and don't do teachers like sarah karp also rallied. i mean, it makes hard to come every day. she's been teaching in this district for more than 20 years. but with the future unknown, she says it's hard to focus on this semester. so many questions that we have no control over a little over a mile away. >> young students also rallied at san francisco public mon

kron 4 sarah stinson has the story. >> instead of going home after the final bell tuesday, the schoolarker elementary took to the street in front of campus to this is one of 13 san francisco schools on a list to possibly be closed or merged next school year is the essence, course, they're breaking our kids miss. ryan has a 4th grader at jean parker. she held up her sign proud before getting the opportunity to voice her concerns out of family meeting with superintendent dr. matt wayne sink in send our kids to school they don't know far away and all the kids they don't know each other. they have to re-learn all the teachers and staff and don't do teachers like sarah karp also rallied. i mean, it makes hard to come every day. she's been teaching in this district for more than 20 years. but with the future unknown, she says it's hard to focus on this semester. so many questions that we have no control over a little over a mile away. >> young students also rallied at san francisco public montessori before their parents session with the superintendent. and as a member of the pta, i'm here t

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. >> coming up here, jury selection beginning of the trial for the man accused of killing cash app founder bob week. and after the break, mega millions, maybe a chance to get a huge payoff, but it will come at a higher cost. we'll talk about those ticket prices when we come back. does mark farrell have the right experience to shake up city hall? in nearly ten years as supervisor, mark grew the bureaucracy by authorizing or creating a commission almost every year. he rubber stamped hundreds of millions to homeless nonprofits with zero accountability and orchestrated a pay-to-play scheme that sold out taxpayers to the highest bidder. mark farrell has all the wrong experience for the change we need. >> for your health this afternoon, sanford blood center asking people in the bay area for help. the center needs all blood types and platelets quickly for patients who are in critical condition. the center says an east bay hospital needs the help and it was also a major fire in san leandro. they're trying to help those victims and these hurricanes in the

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. >> october is national pedestrian safety month. and chp just received over a million dollars there. go towards making our roads a whole lot safer. this all a part of federal grant that will put in one and a half million dollars. the chp offices across the state as part of the yearlong initiative to educate the public about safe practices for pedestrians on roadways, improving enforcement traffic safety laws for drivers. comes the state faces a concerning rise in pedestrian involved crashes, including students that were hit on their way to and from school tomorrow, chp, they're going to be joining schools nationwide as they celebrate national walk to school day. monitor crosswalks and other school areas to ensure pedestrian safety. so have the proper morning news. oakland mayor sheng thao responding that. >> after a local group pushes >> after a local group pushes for recalled. here's what ok, 500 deluxe garden gnomes. wow. i only meant to order five. there's not enough money in my account for these. i'm gonna get charged. two thing

i'm sarah stinson reporting kron. 4 news. >> take a look at this. the comet of the century was spotted in oakland last night and across the globe. this is called the atlas or a 3 comment. experts say it only comes around every 80,000 years. just incredible. if you missed it, don't worry because it will be visible until the end of october. but the comet will fade as it starts to move farther from the earth. >> and incredible sight there. all right. let's talk a bit about our forecast now as we take a live look outside at mount tam. will he bit overcast out there? it's head over to gayle on now for more details on what we need to know gayle hello will stay on the comment. that was my plan and it was really cool to see notice. we have clouds right now this afternoon. but it looks like that will be breaking apart and mixing out by the late afternoon about 4 o'clock this afternoon. it looks like mostly sunny. and then let's go to. >> around sunset sunset is around 06:30pm, tonight. wait about 2.30. minutes after sundown. i took that photo 7 dirty around.

i'm sarah stinson reporting kron. 4 news. well, meantime, mayor london breed says the plan to close or merge the schools is something that needs to stop immediately. take a listen. i am asking for the school district to hold off on this process. >> and the fact is hard decisions are going to have to be made. there are going to be school mergers. they're going to be changes and these are hard conversations. but this school district needs to know the basics what are we talking about financially? what do we need to do? are these complete school mergers versus closures like we have a lot of unanswered questions. >> but the mayor says the superintendent is also not listening to the team that she sent there to help the school district. while the martinez police department is investigating the false threats made on monday of a possible school shooting. so if you weren't aware, officers received reports through the crisis line of a person in a restroom for high school. the caller stated that he was armed with a rifle and was threaten

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to are coming up on the kron. morning news. oakland mayor sheng thao responding back. >> after a local group pushes for recall here which and say we'll be right back. does mark farrell have the right experience to shake up city hall? in nearly ten years as supervisor, mark grew the bureaucracy by authorizing or creating a commission almost every year. he rubber stamped hundreds of millions to homeless nonprofits with zero accountability and orchestrated a pay-to-play scheme that sold out taxpayers to the highest bidder. mark farrell has all the wrong experience for the change we need. money this morning, banks even raising those credit card interest rates and fees. they fear losing from the new cap on late fees. so that means cardholder struggling pay your bills might not see much relief. the average credit card rate. 21.5% back in may. also for your money. gas prices are falling again, might not last. he has reported on monday that the average price of a gallon of regular gas dropped $0.3 that brought prices to $2.99 a gallon.

i'm sarah stinson reporting kron. 4 news. >> well, meantime, mayor london breed says the plan to close and merge the schools must stop immediately. >> i am asking for the school district to hold off on this process and the fact is hard decisions are going to have to be made. there are going to be school mergers. they're going to be changes and these are hard conversations. but this school district needs to know the basics what are we talking about financially? what do we need to do our these complete school mergers versus closures like we have a lot of unanswered questions. >> the mayor says the superintendent is also not listening to the team that she sent to help the school district. the martinez police department now investigating the false threats that were made monday of a possible school shooting. officers received a report through the crisis line of a person in a restroom at alhambra high school who stated that he was armed with a rifle and threatened to shoot students. well, police placed the school on lockdown. there were no reports of any shootings. the officers say they didn

sarah stinson has more after she attended some of those rallies. >> instead of going home after the final bell tuesday, the school community at jean parker elementary took to the street in front of campus to raleigh. this is one of 13 san francisco schools on a list to possibly be closed or merged next school year is the essence, course, they're breaking our kids miss. ryan has a 4th grader at jean parker. she held up her sign proud before getting the opportunity to voice her concerns out of family meeting with superintendent dr. matt wayne sink in send our kids to school they don't know far away and all the kids they don't know each other. they have to re-learn all the teachers and staff and don't do teachers like sarah karp also rallied. i mean, it makes hard to come every day. she's been teaching in this district for more than 20 years. but with the future unknown, she says it's hard to focus on this semester. so many questions that we have no control over a little over a mile away. >> young students also rallied at san francisco public montessori before their parents session with the

yeah, this is where a family of 4 was tragically hit and killed by a car over sarah stinson. has that story. >> the changes include restricting cars and adding a transit only lane at the intersection of west portal avenue and hilo, a street there. you can see several of these do not enter signs. the newness of it all through off some people and had others skeptical of how these changes will make a difference. >> driving through the intersection of west portal avenue and you lois street in san francisco is west portal neighborhood. looks a little different now will be says nearly all make this my first day that i had to drive through here. traffic changes, confuse pedestrians and drivers. some had to make illegal u-turns on going through the new one way on lenox way. sfmta crews spent the day guiding people through the city is making these safety improvements after a family of 4 was hit and killed by a driver at the bus stop here on march 16th. the tragic crash still fresh for the community. i-5 by crash happened hours after happened. the changes include no left. turns from no

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. >> sarah, thank you very much. it's 10. 22 coming up on the kron. 4 morning news. oakland mayor sheng thao responding after a local group pushes for a recall will tell you what a recall will tell you what you had to say. (♪♪) when life spells heartburn... how do you spell relief? r-o-l-a-i-d-s rolaids' dual-active formula begins to neutralize acid on contact. r-o-l-a-i-d-s spells relief. sounds like you need to vaporize that cold. dayquil vapocool? it's dayquil plus a rush of vicks vapors. ♪ vapocooooool ♪ woah. dayquil vapocool. the vaporizing daytime, coughing, aching, stuffy head, power through your day, medicine. 10. 24 in for your money this morning. banks have been raising credit card interest rates and fees because they are. >> afraid of losing from new cap on late fees. that means cardholder struggling to pay their bills might not see much relief after all the average credit card interest rate was 21 and a half percent. that was back in may. also for your money. gas prices are falling again, but it may not.

i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. over 100 ac transit.n the east bay have new ai cameras ready to ticket drivers. this is the view from the camera's perspective. you can see identifies vehicles parked in the bus lane. it captures their plates and tickets. the owner for up to $110. recent trial run show these new cameras captured almost 800 violations while the old cameras only got about 22. less than one week after the assembly advance governor newsom's oil and gas proposal on monday. it was the state senate's turn to take up newsom's plan. it will oil refiners in the state to hold minimum fuel reserves. and the governor argues that this will result in more fuel supply, which in turn will lead to lower prices at the pump. he also argues that it will prevent price spikes. should refiners have to temporarily go down for an plans or planned maintenance? but republicans, on the other hand, say representatives from the oil industry believe newsom's proposal, ali, to increase regulation and to higher prices. >>i know it's going to drive up pric

i'm sarah stinson reporting kron. 4 news.ushing gears now to weather a taking a live look now at downtown san francisco. pretty foggy out there. it's a cool night, but dry conditions are and high winds are expected hit the bay area to thursday night bringing with it a red flag warning for many areas with a high risk of fire danger. for a look at what we can expect. let's check in with cough or sheep. meteorologist lawrence karnow lawrence. >>coming days we're gonna see those offshore winds kicking in. and that's a concern you get cut off from that nice moist ocean air. you start to see the humidity running upwards of 80, 90 even close to 100% time. sometimes that onshore breeze. and then we go back see the other way to get almost a dry desert air effect rolling in the bay area with the moisture level down in the teens out there right now. got some patchy fog out there tonight. we are looking at some bigger storms out there in the middle of the civic. they are generating some big-time swells. so be careful out along the coastl

kron 4 sarah stinson has the details. sleek prompted evacuations in san francisco's bayview neighborhood tuesday afternoon, forcing people out of their homes and into the hot weather got a heat advisory. i think it was over 90 degrees in the city today. and the last thing you want to do is leave your comfortable air conditioning. we want to make sure that folks, when you do hear an evacuation order, understand that it's for your safety. the gas leak was first reported around 10:30am, pg and san francisco fire responded. officials say construction crew not affiliated with the utility company struck and damaged a gas line while excavating on paul avenue right near digital realty's data center. while crews work to stop the release of gas. people who live in the nearby neighborhood got evacuated as a precaution. we have firefighters and police officers going door-to-door to make people make sure people that there was danger of people like doris molino came home from work to several street closures. molinos eighty-year-old par

kron 4 sarah stinson joining in studio now afters attending some of those rallies. sarah. >> parents, teachers, students, they held up signs. they rallied, as you just saw, putting up a fight against the potential closures since only a tentative list has been released. many still hope they can convince the superintendent take their school off the list. >> instead of going home after the final bell tuesday, the school community at jean parker elementary took to the street in front of campus to raleigh. this is one of 13 san francisco schools on a list to possibly be closed or merged next school yearnis the essence, course, they're breaking our kids to miss. ryan has a 4th grader at jean parker. she held up her sign proud before getting the opportunity to voice her concerns out. a family meeting with superintendent dr matt thinking send our kids to school they don't know far away and all the kids they don't know each other. they have to re-learn all the teachers and staff and don't do teachers like sarah karp also rallied. i mean, it makes hard to come every day. she's

kron 4 sarah stinson has more. >> the race for san francisco mayor is in its last leg. many businesses and homes in each neighborhood are proudly showing off. who is their first choice candidate in north beach support is shown for several candidates, including daniel lurie, cautious off i mark farrell and mayor london breed and a lot of places are showing support for aaron peskin who is currently the supervisor for this district. the owner of a flower shop on columbus avenue hopes to see past can leave city hall support him because he's cannibal us. we care about support for peskin was also seen in the window of the restaurant, arum x in the missions and we think he can get the job done. adult of his ali has owned the restaurant for 10 years. he says he does not plan to rank mayor breed out. know i'm not gonna vote for her and she's not, you know, not nothing promises and promises things change. nothing happened. he says this election could make or break his business. he explained the hardships he's endured. >> shoplifters. you know, we really get to the point we're not

i'm sarah stinson reporting in orinda kron. 4 news. all right. the other big story tonight is our weather. here's a look at your forecast for taking a look outside. >> at our sutro tower cam zoomed into sales force tower. calm evening right now. but things are going to be turned up by tomorrow. a red flag warning will be in effect across the bay area bringing with it that high fire danger. our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow here to give us a look. >> at the forecast once look at critical fire danger as we head in toward the next couple of days, dan got to be careful out there. take extra care about anything you do that could possibly start a fire. these kind of conditions that can rapidly spread. right now you're seeing a bit of an onshore breeze, but we're kind of in that transitional point waiting for that offshore wind to kick in. i think by tomorrow afternoon we'll see that right now. high pressure building in behind an area of low pressure that brought a few scattered showers. the bay-area that low kind of setting itself up across the g

closed before the end of the school year for the district faces a takeover from the state kron 4 sarah stinson one to the school board meeting tonight and has reaction from parents. >> it's pretty heartbreaking. i mean, we we've been through a very complicated lottery process to get shock. we knew we were, you know, projected to be on this list students and faculty of harvey milk civil rights academy showed up in volume at the san francisco unified school board meeting tuesday night. many speaking out against the academy being on a list of 13 schools meeting the criteria to either be closed or merged. it has civil rights curriculum that is unmatched the potential closure of schools is a part of the superintendent's plan to cut 113 million dollars next school year. >> an effort to combat a massive budget deficit which the district says is partially due to a decline in enrollment. difficult decisions, but they're necessary for us to set our students for success in the future. take a look at the proposal includes eldorado, merging with visitation valley and students move to visitation valley camp

sarah stinson reports from vallejo. >> one vallejo family living right here off of columbus parkway says sideshows continue to happen in this intersection and they say the latest was the worst they've seen so far because spectators climbed onto the roof, took over their lawn and damage their property. that's the nobody has never came on the app economy. causing terror and damage. patricia williams says hundreds of spectators climbed onto her roof saturday night to watch a sideshow at the intersection of columbus parkway in georgia street. so here, as you can see. >> damage done to rule. williams says her family has lived here for 4 years now and sideshows seem to only be getting more frequent and dangerous. it's out of control has a very tired of the williams security cameras captured video of the chaos. my walker lives were destroyed. my gutters are destroyed. >> who's going this white? what? i have to come on my pocket. >> to pay for damage that i didn't cause. and this is just one of the locations where a sideshow took place on saturday, lasting through the early morning hours sunday.

. >> due to a major gas leak kron 4 sarah stinson reports a gas leak prompted evacuations in san francisco'sview neighborhood tuesday afternoon forcing people out of their homes and into the hot weather. that heat advisory. i think it was over 90 degrees in the city today. and the last thing you want to do is leave your comfortable air conditioning. we want to make sure that folks, when you do hear an evacuation order, understand that it's for your safety. the gas leak was first reported around 10:30am, pg. e in san francisco fire responded. officials say construction crew not affiliated with the utility company struck and damaged a gas line while excavating on paul avenue right near digital realty's data center. while crews worked to stop the release of gas, people who live in the nearby neighborhood got evacuated as a precaution. we have firefighters and police officers going door-to-door to make people. >> make sure people that there was danger of people like doris molino came home from work to several street closures. molinos eighty-year-old parents were home at the time. thankfully thei

i'm sara stinson reporting back to you. >>thanks, sarah.l, taking a live look now at downtown san francisco. finally, cooling down. looks like a pretty clear night. let's get a check on our forecast for that. we turn a cough or sheet. meteorologist lawrence karnow lawrence. >>to those temperatures really take a nosedive last couple of days and let's back to normal around much of the bay area tomorrow. going to be a fantastic day outside. you're going to see a couple batches of fog special on the coastline and a few more mid to high level clouds passing across the rest, the bay area. but overall, yeah, we're going join nice cooler temperatures compared to what we had this past week. but the right now, sfo, some clouds lingering along the coastline just over the hills or as well. we're going to see a few more of those tonight, at least out toward the beaches and some mid to high level clouds elsewhere tomorrow. patchy fog in the morning. then partly cloudy cooling trend continuing. then as we get in toward the weekend. well, i got a cold fron

kron. 4 sarah stinson joins us live from san francisco. residents are now being allowed back inside sarah. >> in san francisco fire, they lifted that evacuation order around a 15 people are finally in their homes. but as temper as the temperatures start to cool down it was rough out here in the afternoon on people were stuck outside. meanwhile, paul avenue remains partially closed as pg. e crews remain on scene. they are inspecting and trying to repair the damaged gas line. a gas leak prompted evacuations in san francisco's bayview neighborhood tuesday afternoon forcing people out of their homes and into the hot weather. it's he's got a heat advisory. i think it was over 90 degrees in the city today. and the last thing you want to do is leave your comfortable air conditioning. we want to make sure that folks, when you do hear an evacuation order or a reason to get out, understand that it's for your safety. the gas leak was first reported around 10:30am, pt knee in san francisco fire responded. officials say construction crew not affiliated

sarah stinson joins us live from the orinda police department. sara, the woman says that she reported this to police. have we heard back from that department to confirm this? >> no. you still have not heard back from the orinda police department about this case. the victim says she was raped and sexually assaulted at a home about a mile away from the police station year. she says she reported to 3 different law enforcement agencies, but no one took her seriously. we do want to warn you, the allegations in this story are sexually explicit and violent in nature and may be disturbing to some. new lawsuit filed by a bay area woman alleges sean diddy combs sexually assaulted her with the tv remote back in 2018, the woman is publicly named in the 62 page lawsuit as ashley part him. her attorney ariel mitchell speaking on her behalf. >> and i think goes is that covid that you feel rains that he would even think to do something like that. court documents say it all started when part him met a man named shane peers at a bar in february 2018 where he facet

sarah stinson shows us how community members are coming together to help the shelter. >> right off of highway 80 in san pablo lies a safe haven for cats and dogs will get your home. i permits julie bainbridge has dedicated the last 7 years, sir. her animal shelter, jellies place. right now. we have 196, i believe. >> yeah. and 60 of those are capped. the rest are large and small breed dogs like this little girl right the shelter uses donations and grant money to take in stray cats and dogs and provide free vaccines as well as spay and neuter services. they also rescue dogs from kill shelters. >> over in fresno, one of puppy comes in injured. they would euthanize it when it comes to the door. don't know how that happened. but as you can see, he's quite healthy and fentanyl. >> but they've had to stop taking in strays after learning that their lease won't get renewed next year. caltrans says they need the property to stage equipment for an upcoming construction project. on i-80 in richmond and i spend a lot of sleepless nights worried about. >> somebody will bring an animal and i can't

kron 4 sarah stinson has more after speaking with businesses.he race for san francisco mayor is in its last leg. many businesses and homes in each neighborhood are proudly showing off. who is their first choice candidate in north beach support is shown for several candidates, including daniel lurie, cautious off i mark farrell and mayor london breed and a lot of places are showing support for aaron peskin who is currently the supervisor for this district. the owner of a flower shop on columbus avenue hopes to see past can lead city hall support him because he's scannable we care about support for peskin was also seen in the window of the restaurant era mix in the missions and we think he can get the job done. adult of his ali has owned the restaurant for 10 years. he says he does not plan to rank mayor breed out. know i'm not gonna vote for it. she's not, you know, not nothing promises promises things change. nothing happened. he says this election could make or break his business. he explained the hardships he's endured. shoplifters. you know,

sarah stinson has more details. >>one vallejo family living right here off of columbus parkway says sideshows continue to happen in this intersection and they say the latest was the worst they've seen so far because spectators climbed onto the roof, took over their lawn and damage their property. it was that's the most scared of being because nobody has never came on the opportunity causing terror and damage. patricia williams says hundreds of spectators climbed onto her roof saturday night to watch a sideshow at the intersection of columbus parkway in georgia street. so here, as you can see. >>and that done to rule there. >>williams says her family has lived here for 4 years. now. damaged onto the roof there and sideshows seem to only be getting more frequent in dangerous out of control. has a very tired of the williams security cameras captured video of the chaos. my walker lives were destroyed. my gutters are destroyed. and who's going fight? this fight would have to come on my pocket to pay for damage that i did

sarah stinson has the latest.ew lawsuit filed by a bay area woman alleges sean diddy combs sexually assaulted her with the tv remote back in 2018, the woman is publicly named in the 62 page lawsuit as ashley par ham. her attorney ariel mitchell speaking on her behalf that he filled a range that he would even think to do something like that. court documents say it all started when par him met a man named shane peers at a bar in february 2018 where he face timed diddy. but mitchell says her client was not impressed and instead made an accusation against the rapper that he thought mr. combs had something do with to box murder in the lawsuit says diddy remarked that per him would pay for her statement over a month later, piers invited par him over to his home on loma vista drive. and she says did he showed up with his entourage? the complaint claims pardon was drugged and violently raped by diddy, his bodyguard, pierce and 4 other people not identified. mitchell says before her client tried to leave the home, she grab

sarah stinson has more from tuesday school board meeting. >>pretty heartbreaking. we we've been through a very complicated lottery process to get shock. we knew we were, you know, projected to be on this list students and faculty of harvey milk. civil rights academy showed up in volume at the san francisco unified school board meeting. >>tuesday night, many speaking out against the academy being on a list of 13 schools meeting the criteria to either be closed or merged. it has civil rights curriculum that is unmatched the potential closure of schools is a part of the superintendent's plan to cut 113 million dollars next school year. an effort to combat a massive budget deficit which the district says is partially due to a decline in enrollment. difficult decisions, but they're necessary ones for us to set our students for success in the future. take a look at the proposal includes el dorado, merging with visitation valley and students move to visitation valley campus. harvey milk will merge with sanchez elementary jean parker students attend gordon lauer. johnny wh

kron 4 sarah stinson reports from san ramon. >> and assistant principal was attacked in the parking lot here right outside of the dance. a california high school. we still don't know what led up to this, but parents and students, they tell us this has the entire community concerned the absolutely shocking like it. when i heard about it, i thought i couldn't believe that something like that was actually happening here. well, that's that's going crazy. and that's that's well, the homecoming dance at california high school in san ramon ended with a violent attack. police say on saturday night around 8.45, an assistant principal was approached by 2 teens in the parking lot. they say a 16 year-old boy from another school in the district assaulted and dragged her by the hair. then the 2 students took off later that identified the boy at his home. the teen was arrested and charged for battery causing serious bodily injury and kidnapping. he was booked into juvenile hall. very concerned about that that any student philip shields make an assault, staff adams daughter, addie, was at the dance. sh

kron 4 sarah stinson joins us live from the newsroom with more sense. >> dan, firefighters say now is not the time to let our guards down and instead of time to prepare, really, the majority of the bay area should get ready for this fire weather watch. that's in effect from thursday until saturday. every year. october in california brings increased levels of fire. danger. time of year is actually when seen some our most destructive and deadliest fires. gusty winds coupled with lower humidity, has the national weather service issuing a fire weather watch thursday at 11:00am through 08:00pm saturday. strong offshore winds are forecasted to be 30 miles per hour with wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour in the hills. if a buyer to where ted kerr that you're going to see more. >> extreme fire behavior and can also aid in a fire growing more rapidly than it. normally one chelsea burkett is with the santa clara unit of cal fire's. she says this kind of wind event cause for concern after the hot summer we've experienced to all the vegetation throughout the state has had the whole summer to cure

i'm sara stinson reporting back to you. >> all right, sarah, thank you for that report. now, kron four's parent company nexstar is fundraising to help those recovering from the hurricane. damage. go head scan a qr code on your screen. it's gonna take you to a link where you can donate and support the long road to recovery. >> well, hearts watching. >> effective down florida and be watching the next few days as those recovery efforts take place. >> we're at here in the bay area. we are looking at that affected the cooldown continuing today and something that will continue for the remainder of the week on into this upcoming weekend 2. here's a look live from the east bay hills looking down into the bay. what's the thing that you notice most different from yesterday? it's a lack of fog. yesterday we saw a whole lot of that low gray pushed right in over the bay area this morning seeing hardly any of it. high pressure. ridge is still in place, but it is not influencing our weather quite as much. this low to the north and west of us is anchoring a nice little trough in the jet

i'm sara stinson reporting kron. 4 news. >> sarah, thank you. 10 await the time and faith leaders in oakland are asking the community to vote against the recall of mayor sheng thao. they alleged this recall effort is being funded by cold investor who doesn't live in oakland. these faith leaders say they believe a recall with through the city into complete disarray at a time when oakland can least afford it. they're rallying at 11 o'clock this morning. they'll be at the democratic party election headquarters office in oakland on telegraph avenue. elsewhere in the east bay, a man now under arrest for the shooting of 3 people in hayward that left one dead and 2 injured. investigators took the suspect into custody last week. one year after the shooting took place. it happened near the intersection of be alice streets last october. the suspect he's now in alameda county's santa rita jail facing charges of homicide. in the north bay. you may have noticed some flaring over night out in benicia. the fire department says that the valero refinery informed them they were going to be doing it in

i'm sara stinson reporting back to you. >> sarah, thank you. now there are a number of obviously candidates on the ballot you're going choose from, but also propositions to. so we wanted to kind of take a look at a few of them in in this update will update you on what is one of the biggest propositions on the ballot. it's propped 32. it would raise the minimum wage for businesses with more than 25 employees to $18 an hour starting in january of next year for businesses with 25 or fewer employees, their minimum wage would be $17 in january, but then they would also have to go up to $18 in january of the next year 2026. supporters of the measure say it would help workers and single parents afford the cost of living here in california. but opponents say it would do nothing more than increase the cost of living for everyone and eliminate jobs and make the state's budget deficit even worse. we're going to take a break here at 9.53. but coming up next hour of the kron, 4 morning news officials say hundreds of people >> die every year on our roads. an

kron sarah stinson has that story. >> a lot of muck are mixed reviews from people who live on shotwell street. some say they are relieved because they're starting to spew are workers there. but others say the barriers have caused a whole new set of safety concerns. >> so happy this longtime san francisco resident says the minute the city put up barriers on shotwell street, she could rest easy. it's like dan, ok, literally, i have my first night. good sleep. because i get woken up almost every night even when they're close. sfmta installed barriers a week ago to deter work in the traffic flow. it causes in the middle of the night and many people who live here say it's working. you are set something. >> before and it's no longer racetrack. at 3. it's gotten a lot quieter. i hear the >> erasing cars down the street. residents, a prostitution got worsen, shot. well after the city put up barriers on capp street last year and now the same system has been put in place on shotwell street between 19th and 21st streets. but some say they've got new problems throughout the day. cars regularly com

i'm sara stinson reporting in the newsroom. back to you. >> sarah, thank you. speaking of fires, cal fire put out a 4 acre grass fire up in cotati. that fire was burning in the area of leach, al and cold springs roads. yesterday afternoon. crews had to stay on scene there for several hours to put out hot spots. no injuries reported and no structures threatened. thankfully. >> yeah, you're talking fire danger again. indeed. thankfully, winds were calm and that fire that james were just talking about. you can see that this morning. winds are nice and calm as well. mostly out of the northwest. but let's advance towards later this week. and of course, is sarah's was telling us about that story. we have a whole shift in wind directions. winds towards thursday will begin to move from our inland areas out towards the coastline. and in the process of that accelerates as well. we'll have gusts as high as 42, even 50 miles per hour. and these dry offshore winds. they come along with humidity, really starting to lower. so you got the dry brush, dry grasses. this time of y

i'm sara stinson reporting in the newsroom. back to >> all right, sarah, thank you. and speaking of fires, cal fire had to put out a 4 acre grass fire in cotati. that fire burned right near the area. lu chao and cold spring roads. this was yesterday morning crews had to stay there on scene for several hours. just putting out hot spots. but you can see from the aerial photograph here, it didn't get very big. thankfully, no structures threatened. nobody hurt by it either. >> 17 keeping the fire danger coverage going? is it nice and calm day today? so if you do need to get some yard work done, not only does today feel great, but you also don't have quite as high fire danger. >> as later this week, it really is thursday, friday into saturday when those offshore winds kick into gear. here we go thursday morning, still relatively out of the north. but look at how that wind direction shifts as we move to move into your thursday afternoon near friday will see winds gusting as high as 40 to even 50 miles per hour. so even though we don't have a major heat event ahead of us, w

stinson reporting in the newsroom. back to you. >> all right. well, sarah, thank you. and just a point of clarification, as we take a look at this fire out in cotati, which i'll tell you about second. you probably heard the fire marshal in her story saying that this is a fire weather watch in that no red flag warnings have been issued. well, that's changed in the last half hour or so. fire weather watch has been upgraded to a red flag warning. so that increases the danger in johnell. talk more about that in a minute. but as for this fire in cotati, it broke out yesterday. 4 acres in size. crews were able to put it out fairly quickly. only took them several hours to do it, but they had to hang around just to make sure all the hot spots were out. luckily, no structures were threatened and no injuries were reported. >> glad to see that fire crews were able to get on top of that fire in cotati and glad that it happened yesterday because winds as of now are pretty calm. they later this week. it's when those dry offshore winds kick into gear. and as you mentioned, we're righ

. >> well, 4 sarah stinson reports. >> new lawsuit filed by a bay area woman alleges sean diddy combs sexually assaulted her with the tv remote back in 2018, the woman is publicly named in the 62 page lawsuit as ashley par him. her attorney ariel mitchell speaking on her behalf. >> that you feel range that he would even think to do something like that. court documents say it all started when par him met a man named shane peers at a bar in february 2018 where he facetime diddy. but mitchell says her client was not impressed and instead made an accusation against the rapper that he thought mr. combs had something do with 2 murder in the lawsuit says diddy remarked that for him would pay for her statement over a month later, piers invited par him over to his home on loma vista drive. and she says did he showed up with his entourage? the complaint claims pardon was drugged and violently raped by diddy, his bodyguard, pierce and 4 other people not identified. mitchell says before her client tried to leave the home, she grabbed a knife for self-defense. and when she got to the backyard, the

all 4 sarah stinson has a response from the school. >> and assistant principal was attacked in the parking lot here right outside of the dance. a california high school. we still don't know what led up to this. but parents and students, they tell us this has the entire community concerned the absolutely shocking like it. when i heard about it, i thought i couldn't believe that something like that was actually happening here. well, that's that's going crazy. and that's that's well, the homecoming dance at california high school in san ramon ended with a violent attack. police say on saturday night around 8.45, an assistant principal was approached by 2 teens in the parking lot. they say a 16 year-old boy from another school in the district assaulted and dragged her by the hair. then the 2 students took off later that night. officers identified and found the boy at his home. the teen was arrested and charged for battery causing serious bodily injury and kidnapping. he was booked into juvenile hall to very concerned about the that any student philip shields make an assault, staff member, adam

now, police say at least 2 people got hurt, no arrests, however, remain at kron. 4 sarah stinson takes a closer look at what happened. >> one vallejo family living right here off of columbus parkway says sideshows continue to happen in this intersection and they said the latest was the worst they've seen so far because spectators climbed onto the roof, took over their lawn and damage their property. that's the most scared of being because nobody has never came on the app economy. causing terror and damage. patricia williams says hundreds of spectators climbed onto her roof saturday night to watch a sideshow at the intersection of columbus parkway in georgia street. so here, as you can see. >> damage done to rule. williams says her family has lived here for 4 years now and sideshows seemed to only be getting more frequent and dangerous. it's out of control. has a very tired of the williams security cameras captured video of the chaos. my walker lives were destroyed. my gutters are destroyed. >> and who's going this white? what? i have to come on my pocket. >> to pay for damage that i di

kron 4 sarah stinson has that story. >> the mayor has given the union square alliance, a universal permits so they can design and build big concrete barriers in front of stores to prevent thieves from driving into storefronts at san francisco's union square will soon look a bit different. mayor london breed in the union square alliance are working together to install bollards or planters on sidewalks to prevent thieves from ramming into luxury stores. this after it happened on monday morning at the louboutin store and a year ago at dior, a welcome improvement for shoppers. know, we got that out of the car being driven through. so, yeah, like i said, absolutely. any measure that we can take make this city. >> shyness, former glory. i think goods good. we time our trees so that it actually like in the union square alliance says they're still working out the design for the bollards, but they may use these cement planters in front of neiman marcus as an example for what they might put in front of other businesses here to make them look good to make them blend into the neighborhood. >> but to s

murder victims do not agree with his efforts to remove capital prisoners from death row kron 4 sarah stinson reports. >> the among 15 families have been forced to relive their nightmare. well, da jeff rosen tries to reduce sentences if convicted murderers in tears. this family begged the judge not to do it. >> truly disappointing that we as victims have to be our own advocates against the district attorneys supposed to be doing their job. tony la is spearheading an effort to recall santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen. his sister rosalie know was killed nearly 40 years ago. her life was taken on my mom's birthday in 1987 and she never recovered on monday. her convicted killer eric chapman was re sentence from death row to life without the possibility of parole. bush says his sister's murder trial is still fresh on his mind. he said it actually felt good to stab my sister. 52 times. and letter bleed to death said that in court. still to this day, it brings chills to me to sit there and relive that moment. the andretti family also wants the da out of office after a judge reduced the

be close before the end of the year or the district could face a takeover from the state over sarah stinson has that story. >> pretty heartbreaking. i mean, we we've been through a very complicated lottery process to get shock. we knew we were, you know, projected to be on this list. students and faculty of harvey milk, civil rights academy showed up in volume at the san francisco unified school board meeting tuesday night. many speaking out against the academy being on a list of 13 schools meeting the criteria to either be closed or merged. it has civil rights curriculum that is unmatched the potential closure of schools is a part of the superintendent's plan to cut 113 million dollars next school year. >> an effort to combat a massive budget deficit which the district says is partially due to a decline in enrollment. difficult decisions, but they're necessary for us to set our students for success in the future. take a look at the proposal includes el dorado, merging with visitation valley and students move to visitation valley campus. harvey milk will merge with sanchez elementary jean p