kron. 4 morning news police in the south bay bust a brothel and arrest a man for pimping. we'll tell you where this happened. universities across the nation start cracking down on pro-palestinian demonstrators pushing tensions even higher. we'll tell you what's happening here in the bay area. and that's also it will ferry back in service today after damage to the piers finally fixed. we're live there at the terminal. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> good morning and thanks for waking up with us at 7 o'clock on a wednesday. there you go. do i want a prize or just good job. remembering that we are james. you've got john here. but it's for and out. first day of the new month that

john, what we've got yeah. and a solid start to the new month. we saw. >> a nice round of sunshine and warmth yesterday and today we're actually going to be even a little bit warmer yet. >> bay bridge behind me looks nice with that sunshine overhead and getting a little peek of that sunrise now well over the horizon from mount tam skies are going to stay clear all day long today, wind for our inland areas, vacaville and fairfield around 30 miles per hour. gusts right now, high wind advisories out towards the central valley. lot of us a lot calmer near the bay shore. now temperatures are a little chilly to start. so don't forget that extra layer over the next hour or 2 40's to 50's for our current temperatures later on today, though, it is going to be right back to the 60's 70's and even a couple of low 80's. it's not going to stick around, though. another weekend cooldown in a another chance of rainfall just around the corner, which i'll get to your full forecast. back to you. all right. let's take a little ride around the bay and check out the commute before you head out the door and into traffic that you weren't expecting. look, it's not bad.

>> at the bay bridge, just lots of sunshine in your rearview mirror. if you're heading from the east bay over into san francisco's just 15 minutes through the maze right now, the san mateo bridge westbound 90 to the right hand side. that's gotten a lot busier like double the drive. time from about a half hour ago. so now it's 28 minutes 80 to 1, 0, on westbound 92 on the right hand side. you can see this slow traffic. it's a little slower at the richmond. sandra fell bridge. that was to some more people are up. and adam today you can see it's a 13 minute ride and then from warren county into san francisco. if you're starting in nevado and highway 37, when you work down to this spot, it will be 21 minutes, which pretty much is at the limit. >> 71 is the time 702, now and this morning we've got the golden gate ferry service between san francisco and sausalito. >> working so you don't have to be in a bus over the golden gate, you can just say lawn and i think they should be showing off for the first shortly. here michael thomas is live in such a way michael.

>> hey, good morning, everyone. you just missed all the dozens of people getting onto that ferry. unfortunately, all move out the way so you can see it is here and it has not been working for at least the past 2 weeks or so. but i did speak with a few of these commuters who say they were actually taking the bus over and the reason that it you know, shutdown essentially was because of part of the bridge was they needed to replace part of the barriers. and so they said that was really just closed out of precaution. but let me sir, can i ask you do take the ferry every usually usually how did you get there without the ferry being reading? >> the bus, you see it there and we still have people coming in this morning who are just trying to get on for that first very. but there was a lot of excitement, ma'am. can i ask you really quick now? she's got her headphones and well, hopefully in the next hour you'll hear from some of these commuters. overall, what i heard from people, some people actually still took the bus this morning because they were nervous that it wasn't going to open, but it got here right at 705. and we'll give you that live. look before i

send it back to you, too. in the studio. >> because you said it takes off at 705, >> thanks, michael. all right, 703, is the time. >> entire world to this encampment and other cameras around the country across the world. that not about the university not about it is going get with a lot? >> yeah, this is the other big story that we've been following. these pro-palestinian protests are continuing in several college campuses nationwide, including right here in the bay area. in fact, this is video of the tents that are covering the quad out of san francisco state university. the protesters there say they're pushing their university and u.s. officials to disclose any expenditures at the college may have with foreign investors. that's what they want to see happen. and over uc berkeley, more and more tents are popping up at sproul plaza. you can see them here. >> this protest is now in its

second week and today, faculty and staff plan to join the demonstrators at noon. they are calling on the university to divest from israel. now take a look at what's going on at stanford. there's protesters there as well. camped out and some are facing disciplinary actirn. they say now from the school, the students say some of them got letters from the university for participating in a protest. >> it start off with 19 for out of like 2 or 3 more. can't exactly remember who have gone letters from the office of community standards and are basically being put through their internal disciplinary process. the language is very vague. >> so they would like a clarification on the language because they want to know exactly what kind of punishment or penalties they face for doing this demonstration. we did reach out to stanford asked, but we haven't heard back yet. >> well, in the south bay today, students at santa clara university will be joining in on those protests they want administrator is to pressure the government to end military funding to israel. organizers

of today's solidarity demonstration are asking people to gather on campus at the alameda lawn from noon until 08:00pm. >> and with these protests escalating around the bay and around the country, congress is looking at what to do to prevent anti-semitism. house republicans are launching an investigation to into the federal funding tied to the university and they're also pushing for to pass new anti-semitism laws. we have dc correspondent hannah brandt with a closer look. >> house leaders accuse university officials of failing to keep the protests under control and they say not enough is being done to protect jewish students. fireworks erupted at ucla and protesters clashed on campus >> across the country of colombia, new york police stormed university building to arrest dozens of protesters who have been occupying it. this thing is out of control from capitol hill. lawmakers are watching with concern and house speaker mike johnson warns if universities don't get the chaos under control,

you will see congress respond unkind. you're going to see funding begin to dry up. you're going to every level of accountability that we can muster. he says several house committees will investigate the protest and may decide to take away federal funding. and this week, congress is gearing up to vote on a bill to change the federal definition of anti-semitism under anti-discrimination law. the rampant anti-semitism. requires action by the federal government. congressman mike lawlor introduce the legislation and supporters say it would allow universities to crack down on harmful speech. this is not the free marketplace of ideas. >> this is open threats to jewish students because of their faith and who they are. but some worry it goes too far like congresswoman teresa ledger, fernandez, we're constitutionally bound to protect. >> free speech, even more importantly, when it is speech with rich. we do not agree. and congressman pete aguilar prefers letting universities respond. they have guidance. they have they need to enforce

those before congress. kate snow once the white house as well, president biden does support peaceful protests. he is concerned about antisemitism on campus and doesn't agree with protesters occupying university buildings. >> in washington, i'm hannah brandt. >> all right. thank you. and we'll continue following the latest with those demonstrations. but also in the news today, we have 450 homeless families in san francisco that will now soon receive financial help. they've been chosen as part of a five-year pilot program funded by google and a local nonprofit. so half will receive $1000 a month and the other half will receive just $50 a month. it's all part of a study into show that guaranteed basic income programs can work to combat poverty and homelessness. the payments will be distributed exclusively to families who are about to lose access to city funded housing subsidies. the program is all part of a broader 1 billion dollar effort by google to increase the bay area's housing supply. in the east bay. the alameda county board of supervisors has voted to certify the results of the recall petition

for district attorney pamela price. this comes as the state now is launching an investigation into one of the groups behind that recall effort. price. as in december, her campaign team filed a complaint against the group claiming that it did not comply with certain laws that govern all political committees in the state. but this recall investigation could take up to several years and penalties could range from a warning to fines, but it will not have an impact if voters decide to recall price in the end. time now 708. now now that the recall signatures are certified. the county board supervisors has to set a date for the recall election kron four's dan kerman now. >> walking us through the timeline of this recall process. >> this is a frivolous, fraudulent and road are only u.s. election campaign to recall da price. alameda county is at a re us but da price been in office. i have no trust in pamela price. ask me, i am a victim's family. the problem is not pamela price. the problem is the

people who are getting a lock the people who are using drugs. and are out the streets and they're creating all kinds of crime. now that the board is move forward to certify the results, they will hold another meeting on may 14th to set a recall election. >> the special election can be set 88 to 125 days in the future. alternatively, the recall can also take place during the november 5th general election, which would save the county a boatload of money. if the recall is successful in prices voted out of office, it will be up to the board of supervisors to appoint someone to take over the appointed da will serve 2 years until the next general election in november of 2026, whoever wins that election, we'll finish out prices term which runs until january of 2029. supervisors. no, the da pamela price believes the recall is illegal because the process did not follow the county's charter. in fact, one

county supervisor said she hopes the county is sued. so a judge can make a final determination on that. >> nevertheless, the board of supervisors is moving forward on the recall. they will hold a special meeting on the 14th of may which point they will set a date for that recall election. dan kerman kron, 4 news. >> 7.10, right now and less than 2 weeks after cutting 14,000 jobs, tesla is going to lay off even more hundreds more employees, including 2 senior executives. there's a report in the tech site, the information and they say that elon musk sent a letter to those executives saying that any employee who doesn't pass the quote, excellent necessary and trustworthy test would be out of a job. a previous report by bloomberg says that tesla could end up cutting more than 20,000 employees in total. we don't know yet if or how or how many of these jobs are in the bay area. it's 7.11 and still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news.

>> a bee keeper says these thousands of them were stolen. >> from right in front of her oakland, home. we'll talk about more about this unlikely strange crime and a proposal to reclassify marijuana is being celebrated in the cannabis industry. we'll be just like buying tylenol. >> and today is going to be a very pleasant one, a little bit breezy at the coast with highs in the 60's out that 70's to even low 80's for the 70's to even low 80's for the rest of us, though,

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>> 7.14, it's may 1st. and right now the spare the air summer smog season officially kicks off. agency that looks

at our air quality says that they want to solve the pitch drive less. that would help them just try to cut down on the trips that you make out doing, you know, worker. >> aaron's, whatever and yard work. that's nothing like often. it a lawn anymore. but if you at that, you know, it's just mocking junk and militia of like an electric trimmer, the warmer temperatures that we start seeing increase the risk of spare the air alerts because the air it creates kind cap. yeah. and then all that unhealthy smog which you guys call hayes i know it's like it easy out there. look so gorgeous. it does make for nice sunset. absolutely. just that. but every now and then you like a system to come through, kind of clean out the air. and as long as you get that every now and then we should be fine. that's going to happen this weekend. hi, guys. sure is. little sweeper coming through. helping to clean things up not air quality has been that bad lately, though, as you can see, we do have that notable

layer of hanging out across the bay. >> and we can actually think some of that wind for it that northwesterly breeze has swept things out already for us. we've got the east bay hills looking really nice on such a crystal clear start to this morning. >> today is going to be another gorgeous one. i already mentioned the winds breezy out towards point raise as well as in the delta and the central valley winds out of the north and west are resulting in some gale warnings up and down the north coast of the state as well as some wind advisories in effect through 05:00pm today for solano county as well as out into the central valley side for some breezy conditions for a few spots that high pressure ridge is in place in keeping conditions out there very favorable for getting outside the next couple of days today through friday will continue to look at warm temperatures. lots of sunshine really, really inviting conditions. come saturday, though, a huge change of pace, cold front dives in from the north and along with that comes a rapid cooldown in temperatures as much as 20 degrees cooler come

saturday of this weekend. we showers now models are indicating around a 3rd of an inch to three-quarters of an inch of rainfall for the bay area. as we move into saturday. so maybe not the day to plan a whole lot of time outside. it's almost like clockwork here that we have these really nice work days. and then right in the middle of the weekend is when we see our rain now, this is a late season system right here. we are going to see, as i mentioned, at least a 3rd of an inch of rainfall for urban areas in the day. come saturday, you head north of the bay area and it's multiple inches of rain and the sierra is actually going to see some even lower snow line elevations. that is going to mean snow down into the foothills and a couple feet of snow at the crest of the sierra. nevada said not done building that snowpack just yet temperatures today. you'd never know. we have that. we can cool down because it is going to be actually a little bit warmer than yesterday was daytime highs rising well into the 60's 70's to even the low 80's and a couple of spots south bay temperatures will be just shy of the 80 degree mark in san jose mid to upper 70's

across the east bay hayward and richmond at 74 while conquered pittsburgh and fairfield are 3 warmest spots. each hitting that 80 degree mark today, tomorrow's temperatures as well as friday's very similar to today's lots of sunshine, really inviting conditions. saturday comes along and you see that temperature plunge barely make in the low 60's with rainfall likely throughout the day today. that storm is out of there on sunday, john, because when you're saying though, and it will be is give you a bit breezy freezes good. yes, we >> all right. well, let's take a look at the traffic in here. we've got the bay bridge toll plaza where you're looking at conditions moving. well, it is building, though, 18 minutes to get from oakland and san francisco are was checked the san mateo skimmers to f 35 minutes. everybody's up unless you're a motorcycle split lands, which takeover fast? i was worried about looking at the richmond center fell bridge. >> 13 minutes, the drive times

been about the same all morning long. lots of sunshine. not too much of a delay there. and if you're going over the golden gate bridge and traveling on one from novato at 37 down here to the toll plaza. it's a 26 minute ride which is just about adding say 6 minutes to what it would be. fewer rolling at the speed limit. not too bad. once you hit the deck. >> all right. well, 70 teen is the time. let's talk news for your money this morning. scammers are targeting your young job seekers and new u.s. cars will be required to have automatic emergency braking in 5 years. we've got jane king live, the nasdaq with these stories and more. hi, jane. >> james, good morning at the u.s. government will require automatic emergency braking systems in all new cars beginning in 2029. now this rule won't have a huge impact. most of the new car sold this year already have it. the national highway traffic safety administration says the rule will save at least 360 lives a year. and for that, at least 24,000 injuries every year, automatic emergency braking systems detected an

object, even a small object in a car's weight and break to try to avoid an accident. well, scammers latest targets. new college grads on the job hunt. the wall street journal says recent college grads are particularly vulnerable because there's so much information about them online. so bad actors may be able to find a name of a professor and then say that professor recommended them for a job. then they'll still the grads idea in bank information. workers paychecks grew faster in the first 3 months of this year. that's great for workers, but it's also inflationary. it could be something that reserve considers when they make that decision on interest rates today, consumers are expected to spend a near record. 33 and a half billion dollars on mother's day this year. it comes to $254 per person court. the national retail federation's little bit less than last year. flowers, cards and brunches are where we will spend the most money from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king. back to you. all right, jane, thank you very much. 7.20 is the time and >> this was the theft of all thefts in oakland. really

bizarre. a bee keepers. bees were stolen. her entire colony of 15,000 bees and the queen, which she had put out because she had a special event and she has been a bee keeper in oakland for 3 decades. never saw anything like this. she was about honey tasting events in her rockridge neighborhood saturday morning for some kids and she set up the table with this be observation. hive went back to grab the honey. and somebody swiped the bees. >> and saying the kids come looking for that observation hive or to see the bees and then having explained to them. that they got stolen. and that somebody would steal bees is really. disheartening to me. just getting tired cycle. we're not coming out of hand feeling really. and representative policymakers. >> and really, it sounds to her like it was just people

causing trouble because they go, oh, look, freebies. you kind of heard that. and then they were gone. and according to the alameda bee keepers association. >> apparently the commercial bee colony fef something like this happening. >> it happens in rural areas but not locally because what are you going to do with a bunch of you should not be keeper. and, you she filed a police report. everything she hasn't heard back yet about finding them. i am. and you know, if these people were just and then they set the bees, lewis nail these bees out there, i'd like to think they didn't realize was a beehive 2, they were in their car in half a block said freebies. and then all the tell you all the bigs, just saying just good idea. our world more about the learn a little bit more about what may have caused the death of that gray whale that washed up on the alabama coast. >> california academy of sciences say they think it was hit by a boat that 40 foot whale was found out on crown beach last month. they say the official cause of the whale's death. >> couldn't be fully determined due to the composed

nature, just decomposed too much. but that's their leading suspicion right now as it was a boat strike. well, san francisco officials are declaring may national hepatitis awareness month and it coincides with asian american pacific islander heritage month because according to the cdc, the api community is at increased risk for hepatitis here in the u.s. temperatures go. officials say they want to make appetites be public policy priority because the city has one of the api populations in the country. >> hepatitis b, disproportionately affects asian americans. only 6% of the u.s. population is a a p i but that 6% accounts for 58% of americans living with hepatitis b. >> san francisco supervisor joel and cardio is also demanding that health officials expand services to treat people and to expand awareness. it's 7.23. and coming up.

>> building a new city, a utopian city in california seems to be moving forward. we'll take a look at where california

>> it's 7. 25 and in the south bay, san jose lawmaker wants to put an end to trafficking in the city council member bn don't wants to put phone numbers on posters in bathrooms so that people know what number to call for help. and they can also report suspected trafficking. similar signs are already up at the san jose airport, according to

the south bay coalition and human trafficking, trafficking represents 77% of human trafficking and more than 60% of trafficking victims are girls, women and those of color. >> before your health this morning, there is a recall right now of organic walnuts. tied to an e-coli outbreak. the units were sold in natural food and co-op stores by hollister based gibson farms incorporated. now these potentially affected walnuts. have an expiration date between the may 21st in june 7th of 2025. e-coli bacteria can cause, as you know, severe stomach cramps, stomach cramping, diarrhea, vomiting, all of that symptoms start 3 to 4 days after consuming contaminated food. the fda says multiple bay area stores may have received these walnuts, including stores in berkeley, santa rosa, san francisco, palo alto, castro valley. the list goes on. in fact, if the want the complete list that the fda has put together of the stores that may receive the walnuts, just

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♪ ♪ >> 7.29 right now we're checking out the weather for you in the middle of the week on wednesday. may first, though, estimate first day of the new month, john, and it looks like we're going to get a little bit some various things this more of a variety. yeah, because april, we had nice sunny days, but we also had your rainy days ensure first week into weekend of may is going to bring both of those as well today, tomorrow

into friday, beautiful days, crystal clear skies kind of like we we have this morning at the golden gate bridge and this weekend gets here and saturday. it's a washout with lots of rainfall in much colder temperatures. that just means you've got to enjoy days like today with those crystal clear conditions, little bit breezy, a wind advisory for solano county and gale warnings out along the north coast of the state. do some pretty strong winds out there. temperatures are in the 40's to 50's right now. a cool start to what will be a comfortable day. so don't forget the extra layer over the next hour or 2 here later on today. daytime highs will rise well into the 70's and even a couple of low 80's. all of the full breakdown on all the variety that this may forecast is bringing still to come back to you. let's take a look at the commute as well because it's got a lot busier out there. you can see right now the approach to the bay bridge. you're looking at. >> 20 minutes to get through that. so plenty of company in the maze. >> and wow, things have gotten

a really bad at the san mateo bridge westbound 90 to the right hand side earlier this morning. you know, we're looking at a normal drive time like 15 minutes, but you can see it's 40 minutes. so there are delays at the san mateo bridge. that is the hot spot at the moment because the richmond fell bridge is fine. 14 minutes, as you can see here, all the lanes are moving ll plazas pretty well. and then if you're going from nevado at 37 down to the golden gate bridge, once you're on the deck, it's free and clear just a little bit sluggish going on. highway one on south through marion county. >> ok, let's go to the south bay where a brothel was busted by police in san jose following a months long investigation was just in somebodys home. they arrested a man for pimping. let's take a closer look now at what happened. 2 weeks ago. this house right here that's moving out was the site of a police raid where officers say they busted a commercial brothel. >> police say they've been looking at this home of 16th and saint james since november. tuesday evening, a

moving truck. the men here speak mandarin and tell me they were hired to move belongings out of here. they say they don't know anything about what happened here earlier in a broad week or 2 ago or use in its recently moved into the neighborhood and says a bunch of police officers showed up 11:00am several days ago busting what they say is a commercial brothel. >> disturbing details to shun who is a san jose state student for sure show. i mean, like any crime is a concern to but especially since i live like right across the street, police also arrested shoe chain the 53 year-old man now charged with pimping and pandering. they found 2 women living in the home who they say are possible human trafficking victims along with a bunch of cash and has been going off. hello, neighbor's of includes by say this has been going on for months. >> bound to have eye. it's been going off to fight 4th of july last year. anthony garcia has lived next door here all his life and says he's seen men come and go out of this house since last summer. just

wants a life safety for my sister, my niece stuff. and while the investigation is ongoing, garcia says now he has some peace of mind until now that they're here love. like us. i believe. in san jose. jack moment. kron 4 news 7.33, it is may first and may marks international workers day. >> and people will be honoring that san francisco with a march to city hall that starting this morning at 10 o'clock, there will be a group of immigrants rights workers, an anti were organizers that are going to be gathering at the bart station at mission, 24 street. and then they're going to march to francisco city hall. they are demanding an investment and workers in immigrant communities and they don't we're funding the city budget crisis is threatening critical services for immigrants. so they're calling on the city to spend on that. and speaking of workers, janitors in the bay area work in the biggest of buildings, tech campus. is there going to be rallying today because

their union contracts are going to expire soon and they don't have a new deal. thousands of janitors have been taking to the streets and they will continue to do so as their union. meantime, negotiates trying to reduce what they call excessive workloads and make things safer. they say that janitors get hurt a lot. according to the department of industrial relations, one-third of janitors in california were injured on the job last year. if they can't reach deals and the janitors plan to strike as early as may 7th. >> also happening today, we've got students from across the oakland unified school district planning a walkout in solidarity with the university protests in support of the people of palestine. oakland tech high school is going to be one of those schools from around the district participating. their walkout is scheduled at noon today. they're going to have students and teachers speak about the events unfolding in gaza. meantime, 50 former google employees are filing an official complaint now against the company for what they say is on lawful termination was 2

weeks ago that those employees were holding sit-in. protests google offices in sunnyvale and new york. the company fired him last week after finding out. their identities. the workers filed a complaint saying that google unlawfully retaliated against them. the protesters say they want their jobs back and they want google to allow workers to protest without retaliation. >> it's 7.35, a crowd for your local election headquarters and the recount is half done and the highly contentious race for silicon valley. 16th congressional seat. yeah, that's the latest. so we've got santa clara county. they finished part of their their part of the recount. san mateo county, which is the other county that has to do a recount. >> says they've also completed, but they haven't announced the results are going to that today. kron four's catherine haena takes a look. >> santa clara county voting officials say their recount shows evan low picked up 11 additional votes. joe summit, ian gained 7 so low lead summit, ian, by 4 votes in santa clara county. but that does not answer the question

of whether low one san mateo county still has more than a dozen challenge to ballots and omficial there told me they have finished counting them but won't announce the results until wednesday after campaign attorneys and others get a chance to review the numbers. meantime, sam liccardo published an opinion piece in which he again rejects claims that he's behind the recount because a former staffer named jonathan padilla requested it. he says the fact that padilla is a supporter of mine is not remarkable. every independent expenditure committee in history has been created by a candidate supporter. i think the cargo is doing the smart thing, which is. >> he's trying to get ahead of whatever the results are because someone is going to win that was going to lose and where it's going to lose main all probability trained, blame liccardo the fact and said of the 3 person race, it's a 2 person race. michael yaki also agrees with carter's call for.

>> automatic recounts in a close election which may have lessened the political drama. >> because you want to kind of get the politics out of this and just getting into that. the issue of voter integrity every vote counts. i would hope that the california legislature after this would mandate as a as a requirement in the california electoral process that automatic recounts be available in united states house of representative races in the case of a tie. as it was catherine hannah. >> kron. 4 news. >> 7.37 and audit finds in oakland. there's a lack of rship and a lack of guidance. this is according to a city audit. >> saying that that's the reason oakland missed out on getting money to fight organized retail theft. there was a grant that they had to apply for. and city officials learned about the grant in april. the oakland police department immediately started preparing an application, but the city's economic and workforce development department did not begin working on an application until june. and in the end,

the audit found that nobody knew who was actually in charge lying in both departments struggled to submit different elements of the application, even when the july 7th deadline had past the audit noted the application may have been submitted on time. if mayor sheng thao had exercised more leadership. but they missed out on that money to fight crime on the peninsula. a lawsuit has been filed in the san mateo county superior court against famous boxer mike tyson after a fight broke out on a jet blue plane. this happened on a fort myers bound flight that had left sfo in 2022. and tyson was on board. the lawsuit alleges that tyson started physically assaulting another passenger. name melvin, george townsend before the flight actually took off. and it goes on to say that the assault left townsend with injuries and blood on his face. tyson's

camp released a statement saying that townsend had been aggressive and had thrown a water bottle at tyson. the water bottle isn't seen in the teacher for alleged crimes derron smith, the music teacher from mill valley unified school district was arrested on suspicion of lewd acts with a child and continuous. >> abuse. smith has worked for the school district since 2013. he's now been placed on administrative leave. smith has been booked into the marion county jail being held now $200,000 bond. 2 adults have been charged with allegedly kidnapping a bay area. billionaires teenager from marin county and hiding that teenager in san francisco for 6 days. the marin county district attorney filed felony charges against christopher. does it follow? and sarah atkins, investigators say that

mint butterfield, the teenager voluntarily ran away from home, but that the 2 adults encouraged her not to go home. butterfield was later found by police in the tenderloin. the teen's parents are former ceo of slack. stewart butterfield and flickers co-founder catarina fake now atkins and does it follow our due in court today for their arraignment? >> 7.40, and we want to give you the latest in the north bay with the california forever utopian city project that they're working on building in county. they say they have more than enough signatures to qualify for an initiative on the november ballot. >> so i don't voters have made that first decision. and they have made loud and over 20,000 to lionel residence have signed the petition. >> it's verified the voters will decide whether to allow the construction of the new city to built on land that is currently zoned for just

agriculture. they described the town as a green city for up to 400,000 people. >> the dea has proposed reclassifying cannabis and making it more like tylenol. >> instead of a schedule one drug, it would be a schedule three-drug. the cannabis industry is happy about that. they say would make a big difference in the way that they pay their taxes and do business. they say that this is a big change for the marijuana business which has had to deal with a difference between the federal rules and the california rules when they're filing their returns and trying to classify the money they make and be able to hold it bank accounts and such. they say that this will be a big a solution to those tax problems. >> the marijuana businesses are unable to deduct things like to rent their payroll marketing expenses, their compliance costs, the cost of the security cameras in their in their facilities. >> some dispensary owners say that if this change does

happen, then they'll be able to attract more investors and free up capital, changing it to a schedule. three-drug would put marijuana in the very same class as tylenol. this still has to be reviewed by the white house. but according to the national cannabis association ceo, they're predicting that this change could happen before the november election. >> okay. we're going to take a break at 7.42. still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. the oakland a's coming out on top again as they take on the nirates were going to have those highlights for you coming up in the moment. plus, it's a good time to pay a visit to pier 39 to check out the sea lions. there are so many out there right now. way more than normal. we'll take a

7.45 and it looks like more people are moving to california and fewer people are actually leaving. that's all according to the california department of finance last year that found the california population increased by 67,000 people and that growth is being attributed to an increase in legal for an immigration and natural population increasing. this is the first year actually since 2020 that the state has seen a net increase. you know, we've seen the population increase of sea lions. yeah, at pier. 39. look at all. >> it's a sea of sea lions change. there you go. and the tourists love it. they're on the side. look at this crowd on the right hand side floating platforms for yeah, everyone, no room for your beach chair. their land out asking is son apparently there are about 800 of them. they said the most they've seen in

7 years here on the plains, by the pure. and they say it's because there's a lion trophies and they love to snack on those and then just lay out about jess. okay. nothing like picnic in the sun >> and a nap, too. and that's that's the kind of weather we expect to continue at least for now. another few days. yeah. and then things change and then digs and it's may first which is weird to talk about snow. i it feels like that should be behind us, but not quite yet. we've got rainfall this weekend on saturday. >> and some sierra snow fall on its way too. now today is going to be a nice beach day, though. this is happening today. not running into see lines out there. but i do see some folks walking up and down the coast right now enjoying what is a calmer day than yesterday for coastal areas. still a bit breezy, though, as you can see, we do have happened 10 miles per hour. winds point raise around 23 miles per hour. bigger winds for the interior specially out to that's the central valley. a gale warning still in effect for the point rays and sonoma

coast lines. this is through tomorrow morning. and we still also do have an effect, a wind advisory for solano county as well as the central valley through 05:00pm today. so really as the delta, the central valley and some of the north coast that's looking at our breezy as tough conditions today. high pressure ridges built up to the west of us. it doesn't have an immediate impact. that's one of the reasons we haven't been super hazy as we still have this northerly flow that's cleaned up some of our air. but we're still nice and warm, which is something that will hold onto through friday after that is a huge plunge in temperatures. and with that comes that opportunity of rainfall late friday night into saturday models are in alignment for some pretty decent showers anywhere between a 3rd of an inch to three-quarters of an inch of rainfall for parts of the bay area. and you head up north up into mendocino and humboldt counties will be multiple inches of rain. and speaking of inches, the sierra is going to be seeing inches to feet of snowfall and lower elevation snowfall. this time around donner summit naicco

past likely to have chain controls in effect starting friday night through saturday. as we do see so much snowfall. it may but we are definitely not done with winter weather just yet. temps will be cool at the coast in the 50's to 60's today. it's 60 70's to 80's elsewhere. you'd never know. we have this wintery resurgence just around the corner. if you are just a look at today tomorrow and friday because these days are going to be super pleasant. really nice. pretty days to venture out oakland and berkeley at 73 each at 80 degrees. our warmest spots today tomorrow and friday. very similar. lots of sunshine saturday, whole different story as much as 20 degrees cooler and rainfall likely throughout the day on saturday. all right. thank you very much, john. let's check the roads this morning. as we're looking at the bay bridge commute. >> climb up to about 24 minutes now to get from the macarthur maze into san francisco, at least to the first exit there, fremont street. so all in all, not bad, but obviously give yourself the time. you're

going to need to get through that back up. the san mateo bridge westbound 92 a 39 minutes. slight improvement over our last update. but still in the red. so again, give yourself enough time to get across that span. the richmond, sandra fell bridge do a little better. 14 minutes for you to cross from richmond out towards marin county on westbound 5.80. and then our final stop golden gate bridge where the traffic on the span seems nice and light. it is 40 minutes to get you from the battle in the san francisco. but as you can see, the colors green. so that is within your normal drive time expectation. there was. >> riding a moped near the bay bridge and he died in a collision with a big rig. it happened yesterday morning on eastbound highway 80 at the connector ramp to southbound 80 in the macarthur maze. we haven't heard the details of how that moped collided with the big rig. we just know that it killed the writer of the moped. in the south bay police in sunnyvale are investigating a deadly shooting that happened around midnight early

yesterday morning on south bernardo avenue near highway 2.37, that's where police found a man in a car who had been shot. he was taken to the hospital where he died. no word on a possible suspect. >> now let's talk some baseball. the oakland a's taking on the pirates at the coliseum. this is the second game in the series. that's right. we have sports director jason dumas with a look at the good highlights. flying under the radar. the a's have been one of baseball's hottest teams over the last couple of weeks. look to keep it going. >> on this day, let's head to the town as they were hosting the pirates at the coliseum. looking to make it 2 in a row over the pirates. second ending. we have a tie game to offer tyler, nevin first. i've been raking. if that one out to right. that brings in the go ahead, run lead it 2 to same score in the 50's until jj bleday. turns on this one.

that lands in budweiser receipts, his second of the season. he wasn't done later in the game. in the 7th, he hits another one. this today center. the a's go on to win 5 to 2 after the game. talking about >> think our camaraderie is really good. i mean, it's a night and day difference from last year to this year. you know, we're doing the little things, you know, coming feel prepared, ready to go. mean, you can see the difference in spring training and leading up until now. and star pitchers have been doing a great stars and bullpen. now starting to swing the bat a little bit better looking to continue to do that. you know, i think we're going to go well. >> all right. other news, the red sox took down the giants in the opener of their series. that series continues tonight. all right. that's a look at sports. thank you, jason. well, it's official. the oakland ballers will be renovating. >> raimondi park, the oakland city council approved the 1.6 million dollar plan. the ballers executives say they

are. turn lead grateful. these are their words, quote, eternally grateful to the city. the residents in the fans who helped end quote. now the ballers for the bees as they're known plan to released new renderings of that park today. so we'll have those pictures to share with you. the opening day is set for june 4th. so stay tuned. we'll have those pictures as soon as we get them. all right. the raiders, by the way, inviting fans to come party on the high seas. they put together a seven-day cruise to the mexican riviera. that sound like fun. thetship will have an open bar. that sounds like fun. mini golf. a casino. all part of the amenities of this crews. there will raiders alumni on board as well for autograph sessions and dining experiences to what they call that the black hole is not what they call with the call and the college. yeah, big right like diehard fan the bleich body painting know nice weather. absolutely body. now it is going to cost about 2600 to maybe 16,000 depending on the type. >> so just keep scene.

>> all right. coming up in the next hour, we're going take a look around the country and here in the bay area at the protests, some of them turned violent over the war in gaz

>> we're back some 55 the time state lawmakers and environmental advocates are proposing the state use 1 billion dollars to create space and ed wind turbines across the coast. california has a goal of having offshore wind supply the state with enough electricity to power. 3.7 million homes by the year 2030. the proposal needs at least two-thirds approval from the legislature to have it added to the november ballot.

apple is working to fix an issue that's causing some iphone users to sleep through their alarms. some people on social media have reported that their alarms are going off silently. it's unclear how widespread the issue is, but apple says it is working on a fix. wait a minute. we've some are blaming apple's attention awareness feature on ios or those recommending that you turn off that setting. in the meantime, we better find that setting right now during the coming because as dangerous. >> 76 right now and coming up on the kron morning news, the sausalito ferry is back up and running, saying it to san francisco that way instead of taking the bus or swimming out to get an investigation is launched into the group that wants to recall. alameda county district attorney pamela price. plus, the protests are spreading to more college campuses in the bay area and nationwide. we'll take a look at what congress take a look at what congress is doing

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>> right now on the kron, 4 morning news police in the south bay bust a brothel and arrest a man for pin. think we're going to tell you where it happened. universities across the nation starting to crack down on pro-palestinian demonstrators pushing tensions even higher. we're going to tell you what's happening here in the bay area. and that's also when the ferry back in service today after damage to the piers finally fixed. we're live at the terminal. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news >> good morning and thanks for waking up with us. we have plenty of sunshine to go around