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>> a family from merced said county taken against their will at gunpoint. now we're learning more about their tragic fate. what police are saying about this multiple murder investigation. and a violent massacre at a daycare in thailand leaves more than 30 people dead. many of them children. we're following the latest developments. and first lady jill biden is scheduled to land in san francisco today. how the biden administration is promoting cancer awareness with her visit. >> from the bay news station. you're watching kron. and news.
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>> good afternoon. and thanks so much for joining us on the kron. 4 news at noon. i'm stephanie lin. a tragic ending to the search for a missing family for family members kidnapped earlier this week have been found dead. the merced county sheriffs office got a call saying a farm worker found 4 bodies around 5.30, wednesday evening. they've been identified as an 8 months old and her mother, her father and her uncle were also among those discovered the 4 had been missing since monday when they were kidnapped at gunpoint from a trucking business in merced said. >> horribly. horribly senseless as to what happened here. we don't know motivation we are making the determining factor on that investigation now is going pursue a full conviction i'm hoping our district attorney's files for the death penalty that talk to. >> investigators arrested this suspect, his manuel salgado. they say he is in the hospital
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after trying to kill himself. the sheriff said he did speak with the suspect and says he strongly believes there is another suspect potentially involved in this case. well, no ransom demands have been made. the sheriff also believes this was a financially motivated crime. and tragic. developing news out of thailand where at least 36 people mostly preschoolers, have been killed in the deadliest rampage in the nation's history. authorities say the gunman burst into a day care center and went on. they went on the attack while the children were napping. kareen wynter has the latest. >> northeast thailand, the scene of one of the deadliest rampages to rock the region, a gunman who witnesses say we'll get a knife, walked into a day care center and killed dozens of preschoolers and this frantic teacher came face to face with that attacker and said she put her hands together to pray in front of him as he reloaded after
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realizing the carnage all around her. she said that attack are keeping a window after shooting at a door inside the room as a targeted innocent people. one by one, the age range of the children were from 2 to 5 years dozens were killed, mostly children, according to authorities, searching for his own child there when the killing spree began. >> that is sale and then took his own life after killing his wife and child at >> after the rampage, emergency responders carry coffins out of the daycare center surrounded by family members still shocked by this gruesome crime. >> authorities still have not released a motive. they said a former policeman had just appeared in court earlier in the day to face a drug charge after being fired this year for a drug offense. >> and that was kareen wynter reporting for us. the white house issued a statement today saying they are, quote, horrified by the tragic shooting in thailand and will assist in their will assist their longstanding ally in whatever they need. and dozens of people packed the church in stockton last night to learn
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more about the serial killings. police are investigating there. detectives say 7 shootings this 6 of which were fatal appear to be committed by a serial killer. investigators say ll the victims were alone during the overnight hours when someone shot and killed them. those of victims that is they've also detectives have late one killing last year in oakland to the same person. one woman says she went to the town hall because she wants answers. >> and to find what they know, if anything, i want do something and do something about it. now, next year, year >> there is a $125,000 reward for anyone with information leading to an arrest of a potential suspect here. and the number of homicides in the city of oakland this year has now surpassed 100 in oakland. construction worker became the city's latest victim late it earlier this week. police say are coronado was shot by
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catalytic converter thieves. justin dawson who was coronado's friend tells kron 4 news that tornado was shouting at the thieves from his home when he was shot. dawson says the coronado was passionate about his work and about helping others. he would help anybody like you would do anything for anybody. >> he's just just a really good kind person who never hurt anybody. and did the best he could. and, you know, it's just it was just a really sincere, genuine person. >> coronado is oakland's 100 and first homicide victim of the year. caltrans has begun the final phase of clearing out a large homeless encampment in oakland, several large fires and safety concerns prompted caltrans to remove people who've been living at the wood street encampment. and now council member is pushing for the unhoused to be moved to an old oakland army base. but city staff say the site is to environmentally hazardous and it would be too costly to make the area livable. but what's
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residents who hang in the balance? the situation has become desperate. >> in time of greatest need, there's not a single lawmaker in the state of california. that is shown a touch a shred of sympathy >> and at their meeting earlier this week, the city council asked city staff to come up with a plan to temporarily house how what street, what residents at the old army base. and that plan is expected to be revealed appeals court has upheld a 2021 ruling that the obama era dhaka program is unlawful, but then sent the case back to a lower court to decide a newer biden narrow ruling meant to preserve and fortify the program dhaka was created in 2012 to provide support for so-called dreamers. those are undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. the ruling will not affect the more than 600,000 people already in this program. but new applications
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will be blocked. happening today. more sights and sounds of fleet week. the blue angels will be taking in the skies to practice ahead of tomorrow's big show. kron four's charles clifford cut to talk with one of the pilots and he's live now at oakland airport with more on saint charles. >> hey there. yes. so right now the blue and their c one, 30, a big fat albert their park here at the airport at the moment. but i was told they might start getting the aircraft ready to take off and do some %est flights over the bay area starting at noon. so anytime now, they might be taking off. earlier today we got a chance to get up close. look at the planes. talk to some pilots is going to take a look at some video here now. this is the 76 season of the blue angels. this is the particular aircraft, which is an f 18. >> super it's the 41st air show in san francisco and they are saying that, you know, if you've seen the show before, you might be used to them, the
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pilot we talked to today, he's promising that there's some new things are going to try this year. >> for folks he's seen the show before, which will see a little new twist on some of the allman everson maybe a couple new, a new maneuvers and of themself a both a c one 30's. well, as the f eighteens, you know, we have a chance to come out here every fleet week into a prison. our service over 100,000 active duty and reservists and civilian support personnel we're we're really honored and take great pride to be able do that over over the bait. >> all right. now the fog is pulled back. we are expecting the blue angels will fly this afternoon. they're going to do big circles to kind of a site survey and then the going to do some practice maneuvers, probably between 3 and 5 o'clock this afternoon. that's very flexible depending on what they're doing that to do some briefings as well. and then, of course, the big air is tomorrow friday, saturday and sunday. the airshow usually starts around noon. the blue angels generally fly around 3 o'clock. mort, more or less. so it's me i'm a big couple of days around the bay area with fleet lee fleet week kicking
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it into high gear. but for now in oakland, charles, clifford kron, 4 news and sounds like it's going to be a great show. thanks so much, charles, for that live report. >> and speaking of little angels in the friendly blue skies up above. let's talk a bit about our forecast as you take a live look outside at the golden gate bridge where the angels will be flying tomorrow where at least from this perspective, the skies are looking quite so blue, perhaps maybe of a lot of fog out there are going to have. i'm meteorologist kyla grogan clarify for us. hey, yeah, i can help you out. so it's another one of those just the coast in the bridge kind days like we had yesterday or you can see we've got plenty of blue skies as we take a live look here. >> at the transamerica pyramid and even start to see what looks like. somebody has been flying out of its blue angels yet. but it's getting pretty cool to see all of that happened over the next few days. 57 degrees right now in san francisco, even saying a little cool today. so far, oakland, 60 to 72 in san jose right now are at 80 in livermore. concord, 78 in santa rosa coming in at 73 degrees. nice and calm wind. it's going to be between about 5.10 miles per hour. start to
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get a little bit of a westerly flow today. that will pick up as we get to the afternoon, a little bit of haze that is out there as we take a look from the east bay. but a pretty good looking day here. we did start off with some clouds and a little bit of fog out there. we're going to get some nice sunshine. so today we're going to call it mostly sunny again, i mentioned kind of minimal wind out there. if you're going to see some of the ship tours today there from 10:00am til 04:00pm in the upper 60's. we're going to top out today in san francisco about 71 degrees. so nice day out there today. if you are inland, the numbers are going to be higher just like they were yesterday. so that's where we'll kind of find some of the heat today in spots like cancun, antioch, up at 89 degrees, 90 in morgan hill. and you can see up in santa rosa expecting that. 84 86 in nevado but out of half moon bay, much cooler where they were likely not be kicking the clouds sitting at 64 degrees the high today. so a live look again at golden gate bridge. not to say that we're all seeing sunshine, but there is an awful lot of it out there on the back of your extended forecast in just a bit. stephanie, back to you. thanks very much, kyra. happening today, first lady jill biden will visit san
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francisco. >> she's making stops around the country to promote cancer awareness for a campaign called cancer moonshot. october is cancer awareness month. the first lady's visit will start at ucsf cancer center. and after that, she's scheduled to speak at a democratic committee women's lunch and conference at around noon. so she should be there just around this time. coming up on the kron, 4 news at noon, a former security chief for uber is found guilty of a data breach coverup. we explain. >> plus, a dozen alameda county sheriff's deputies heading back to work despite failing psych evaluations that show there apparently unfit for duty. what the department is planning to put them back in uniform. and it was a storybook ending to the career of one of the bay area's favorite players. how this his final chapter at the coliseum next.
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it has helped me an awful lot. alameda county sheriff's deputies are back on the job. >> after retaking their psych evaluations. this comes after the sheriff's department deemed 47 deputies psychologically unfit for duty. now community advocates are demanding the sheriff's office keep those deputies off the force. kron four's amanda hari explains. >> community advocates in people who have been negatively affected by the alameda county sheriff's office tried to make sure the
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here's their concerns. they gathered outside the sheriff's office wednesday morning loudly chanting and using a bullhorn to call on sheriff greg ahern not to re-hire. 47 deputies who are stripped of their arresting powers and firearms. late last month, it was after an audit determined they failed their psychological evaluation before they were hired. i looked into that fight >> like integrity, permit racial bias, basic things. and it's unconscionable. grant it is absolutely horrific. know about this. >> turned a blind eye. the group consisted of people from the ella baker center for human rights, the urban peace movement and the anti police terror project. among others. they wrote a letter of demands
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to sheriff or we need to know name so we can know. >> those officers are resting in testifying against him, putting in that jail. and so we can know whether they were the people who suffocated. people to death in santa rita jail. what years talk ties and spit hoods and other uses of force that are unconscionable to begin with, but certainly should not be used by people who don't have the authority or training over capacity. item in addition to publicly releasing the deputies names, they want investigation into each of them. >> all cases resulting from their work to be dismissed for the sheriff to apologize and to audit all staff and has already been of the map about how many families. >> that the sheriff's deputies have effect. how many scandals? this particular administration has been a part of and tried to cover up. it sounds to me like this for me. a larger investigation. the protesters tried to hand deliver the letter to share earn b t were kept in the
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lobby. >> amanda hari kron, 4 news. >> the sun valley mall in concord was evacuated yesterday after a man entered a store with a gun. police say the man went into a jewelry store just around 03:00pm saying he had a firearm and that he threatened to shoot anyone who came near him. the mall shut down for 2 hours while officers investigated the scene. the incident happened a week after a nordstrom rack near the mall was evacuated because of a standoff. all right. talk a bit about our forecast now as we take a live look outside at mount tam looking into the san francisco skyline. one of my favorite views from our cameras and top prop for meteorologist kyla grogan. here she's a she's got more on what the weather situation is like kyla. from one of my cameras behind me, those going a little crazy. blue skies fortunately see that. yeah, the full screen isn't really
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with us, but it's one of show air quality are going to see in the east and the south bay today. >> a little bit of moderate air today. nothing too bad. the of the air quality index right in between 0 and 50 is considered good. and we're talking about just 51 to 52 today. so not bad for use in south bay, but just to let you know, there's a little haze out there. high pressure is building in. and of course, that's been happening over the last 24 hours or so. we're going to see that continue towards the weekend. and that's why we're going to stay warm inland, least through saturday that we see those temperatures in the upper 80's and even a few low 90's out their inner east bay and inner north. a little bit of that, too. so here is one of the spots that will not be getting to our were at half moon bay where you can see the clouds have definitely been hanging on. so that ocean influence is certainly going to keep those of you at the coast. a little bit cooler these next few days. and you won't really feel that warm up. we could get a few breaks in those clouds today. but i think for the most part, they're going to stick around currently right now about 60 to 3 degrees in palo alto. just 54 at half moon bay. we're just looking 64 in san francisco, but notice concord already up to 78 degrees. 84 in saint helene, a word about 73 in
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santa rosa. and if you look outside beautiful blue skies as we take a look here, so today, mostly sunny skies unless you're at the coast, we're going to be a little warm inland. as i mentioned, clouds increasing tonight, a bit gusty as we get later into the afternoon with some westerly wind. if you are coast or bayside and then a pattern change coming our way as we head towards the weekend. we're going to start to see a little bit cooling in the latter part of the weekend. and then much more of that as we head into next week. but today about where we should be in san francisco, looking after 71 degrees. 74 in oakland and notice as we get inland spots like san jose livermore, concord, santa rosa getting up into those 80's. well above where we should be this time of year. so in some spots like concord, you know, should be about 82 were looking for about 89, but we will see those clouds hang out at the coast and just to show you future cast, we get to 5 o'clock tonight starting to see those move back in. so certainly going to see some of that patchy fog as we go over the next 24 hours. get into tomorrow morning and then we'll start to get some clearing as we get into the afternoon. a look at your sunday forecast really quickly shows you that that pattern
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does start to break down as we get to next week and notice that cooling will be looking at inland valley, a 20 degree drop between now and when we get into say next tuesday and wednesday. but for the weekend looking good. we've got the blue angels in town. i think we'll have some great skies to fly and stefani. back to you. yeah. great conditions for the air show. thanks so much, kyra. >> on the last day of baseball's regular season, there was a little magic in oakland, veteran catcher stephen stephen vogt plays his last game after a 10 year career and it was one he'll never forget. >> that's just the sweetest thing. his 3 kids got to announce their dad before his first at-bat against the angels. they also got to threw out the first pitch. look at that's that's so much fun. but the highlight of the day happen in votes. final at-bat.
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what a moment votes slams a home run to right field off angels reliever. >> zack weiss said it was pandemonium at this the 37 year-old not highs in his excitement. you can see there as he circled the bases and touched home home plate. he's and they'll be career came to a close. >> around the bases, i just. got every emotion out just i was. are you kidding so happy. so elated. i just was like, let your 2 year-old boy just come out. but but the little kid and you used to play on this front yard and pretend to be will clark. but let that come out. and i didn't. and i just enjoyed every second of it. feel very, very honored. loved. i feel very loved today
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it feels good. >> that's very special in a decade long, major league career stephen vogt has was a 2 time all-star and won a world series last year with the atlanta braves. meantime, the giants who ended their season down in san diego and after a season that was probably a disappointment to some the team did end on a high note. the giants won 8 to one and finished the season with a 500 record. this one year after winning 107 still ahead, a concerning spike in one bay area's one bay area counties, homeless population. >> what advocates say is forcing more people onto the streets. and filming of the movie. rust will continue after an unusual settlement between actor alec baldwin and the family of the cinematographer killed on set. we explain.
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jurors decide the fate of the man accused of killing kristen smart. >> she then is 26 years ago from a college campus in san luis obispo. closing arguments for the suspect, paul flores and his father, ruben wrapped up tuesday. prosecutors told jurors paul flores, quote, hunted 19 year-old smart and killed her during an attempted rape. the suspect's father is accused of helping hide smart's body. defense attorneys argue there is not enough evidence against either man to convict them. smart's
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body has never been found. actor alec baldwin and the family of hutchens hutchens a cinematographer killed in 2021. on the set of the movie rust have reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit last october. hutchens and baldwin were rehearsing inside a chapel on the new mexico set when the gun baldwin was holding went off. baldwin has said repeatedly that he was told the gun was safe to use. the family argues the actor should have checked the gun for any live bullets and should not have pulled the trigger. the exact terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. but the victim's husband mask you will executive produce the film which will return to production in january next year with the original cast. coming up next here at noon, more relief checks for californians now less than 24 hours away. >> how you can make sure you qualify for those payments. plus, gas prices approaching record highs here in the bay
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area. what experts say is fueling those high prices at the pump. and students are back in class on oakland's kings is state campus one week after a school mass shooting. what's being done to prevent something like this from happening again, oakland mayor libby schaff joins us live to discuss after the break. more
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today in east oakland after 6 people were shot on campus one week ago. that shooting happened on the kings state campus, which houses a cluster of schools, including rudsdale high school police release surveillance video showing 2 shooters entering that school. officers say the shooters fired at least 30 rounds and both are still at large. they take students return to campus yesterday. 4 excuse me, so-called community building the oakland police department shared photos of officers greeting students and school leaders are now talking about whether they need armed guards on campus. we also know that school leaders created a donation page. and for those who want to support students, families and staff of those affected, you can find a link to the donation page on our website. kron 4 dot com and joining us live now to talk about this and all the big headlines coming out of oakland today is oakland mayor libby schaff. thanks so much for joining us. thank you for
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having me. so a quick check in with you. you know, how are you feeling now? you can track the covid late september. so first of all, we just want to ask how you're doing. thank you. you know, it was rough. and, you know, it took down almost our whole family, but i am back at work, i would say are 90%. i do have a little bit of that lingering fatigue that that you hear everybody talk but i am absolutely 1000% for the people of oakland. right now. we are glad to hear that. >> and this morning you announced a new 5 million dollar investment from the state to help oakland teachers find affordable housing. can you tell us a bit more about that and how teachers can apply? >> church a couple years ago we launched trio teachers rooted in oakland to address not only the representation gap, but the affordability that teachers are struggling with that in many ways are driving the teacher shortage here in the bay area. and what
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it means is that we basically subsidize the housing costs, part teacher residents that are giving their master's are giving their master's degree was student teachin our public schools. what was great is this last budget from the state of california included 5 million dollars to continue this incredibly successful demonstration project. port than that. today we announce very innovative expansion that actually can potentially reach hall 2000 oakland public school teachers. and that's real plus. it's an online platform. a virtual marketplace that matches public school teachers with landlords that are willing to discount their rent just to help out in this moment where we know our teachers are underpaid but certainly not undervalued. >> all right. very in interest of time. we're going to turn to a topic that's also very top of mind for a lot of
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people. we were just talking about this, the shooting at the kings, the state's campus of we know that the schools are back open this week. have you had a chance to speak with the families affected by this? you know, i've talked to the school our sympathy goes out, not just the people directly impacted, but >> this tom entitles the whole community and we are busily trying to wrap our arms around these school communities and ensure that they feel loved and supported and we can help begin to restore a sense of safety. now our oakland police department has responded very visibly with increased hot spot deployments. i want to appreciate our officers who have canceled their days off that are working extended shifts to ensure that there is visible presence, particularly in the locations that we think are most vulnerable to potential retaliatory violence. we're also staffing
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up some areas that have long needed more officers. thanks to our successful acade-ies. we're at 8 new officers in investigation so that we can hold these people accountable as well as bringing back the traffic division to stop the reckless driving. but also they play a big role in taking illegal guns off our streets. now, the city of oakland had its 100 and first homicide victim just this week. >> and you've called for more federal regulation of firearms. we know that attorney general rob bonta was in the east bay this past week or rather this week talking about his new office of gun violence prevention. what kind of conversations have you had with his office about addressing the issue of gun violence? well, attorney general bonta has just been a great leader on this issue for a long time. >> and one thing that we are talking with him about it better utilizing a restraining order or kind of take away
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border. and that's something that has been very successful in san diego that oakland has not adequately deployed. we also are continuing to be grateful and wants to speed up the installment of security cameras on our freeways. and that is something that was in the governor's budget that the attorney general support it. but i know we both agree that best of all, we want to stop violence before it happens in the first place. and i'm so thankful to a huge grant from the state of california that is going to our department of violence prevention and it's going to expand not only family based behavior modification work, but also work in our schools, which could not be more timely. okay. >> and before we let you go here we are hearing the city and the a's are getting pretty close to a deal on the howard terminal project. is that true? >> it the negotiations have been very active, very
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positive. we don't know if this will actually end up coming for a final vote this year. it is really important. we get this right and that the deal not only safeguards, oakland's long-term fiscal health, but also delivers all the community benefits that we know this project can and should, including those parks, those good jobs and that transit-oriented housing that the bay area so desperately needs. >> alright, oakland, mayor libby schaff, thank you so much for your time this afternoon. we hope you have a fast and full recovery soon. thank you so much. all right. as we talk about the city of oakland, let's take a live look outside at the bay bridge coming from the city into san francisco. checking in with on our forecast as well on how conditions are looking like kyla. yeah, we're ready to get for a very nice day. i did want to start 70 with the drought monitor because that was released this week. every thursday we get the new one. no real surprises here. you can still see exceptional
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drought in the center. part of california and here in the bay. we are in what is considered severe drought. so this is the time of year when starting to look out for that storm that could kind of start to change things, right? they would let us know that our pattern is going to be changing live. look right now and you can certainly no rain in the forecast today, but certainly a few clouds out there at the coast, keeping us cool. and as we zoom out, you really have to go to the desert southwest, a fine, any rain right at this point. so right now, nothing major in our forecast. however, this is the month that we do keep an eye out for that kind of big soaking rain hopefully will come in by the end of the month. here we are taking a live look outside a little hazy out there today. we're getting a little bit reduced air quality in our east bay and south bay today. 57 degrees right now in san francisco. 62 in oakland, but we're warming up inland as expected. you can see some 80's there in antioch, in livermore, 72 in san jose. napa. >> city about 69 degrees. a nice day today. if you're heading out to see the ship tours for fleet week, pretty cool. they've got that going on until 4 o'clock today. we'll see some upper 60's
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topping out today in san francisco at about 71 degrees. but as we head towards the weekend, notice we're going to stay warm as you get to friday and saturday. and then by sunday we start to see the sunshine stick around. but the temperatures start to break down. that's going to be the beginning of a bit of a pattern change. that's coming our way as we get into next week and what that could mean for us, of course, is that we could start to see the possibility of a little offshore wind and even the potential as we get further into the love that i think will necessarily get it. next week, southern california looks like they'll get a little rain possibly next week. but for us, it's just be those clouds like you see right now hanging out at the shore here at half moon bay. i'll be back in a little bit. extended forecast. stephanie, back to you. all right. thanks very much. >> new at noon uber's former security chief has been found guilty in federal court of covering up a massive data breach at the company. a jury convicted joe sullivan of one count of obstructing justice and one count of concealing a felony. uber was investigated back in 2016 about a hack that took place 2 years earlier. and during that investigation, the company was hacked again.
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data from 57 million riders and 600,000 drivers was stolen. sullivan did not notify the ftc of that second data breach leading to criminal charges and his conviction. a judge still has to decide when he will be sentenced. and after several delays due to the pandemic, we now have an official count of alameda county's homeless population as kron 4 sarah stinson explains the number has risen significantly over the past 3 years. >> account of the homeless in alameda county from this year shows a 22% spike since before the pandemic since 2019. and there's a lot of data that came out this week. but for people who live here, this is stuff they see every single day. what you do see our families living out there in their cars. there was a 62% increase in people living in their cars. 16% of the homeless people being surveyed
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say they lost their homes during the pandemic. this data was just released from the point in time report where officials go out and survey to find out how many people are homeless and it showed nearly 10,000 people in alameda county are homeless. this is usually reported every 2 years, but it was delayed due to the pandemic. the community-based organization, everyone home releases these reports, the acting executive director says there are many economic factors that drive homelessness, including the fact that a resident must make $44 an hour to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in alameda county. and that's 3 times minimum wage. tim damron has lived in alameda for 7 years. he's even volunteered to help the homeless >> and this is what he's seen. i've seen people washing in the bay of seeing people taking their infants to watch their infant in the bay. people sleeping in their cars to cross the bridge to hope. and much worse. there's thousands of people sleeping and dismembered vehicles. more than half alameda county's
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homeless population is in oakland rising 24%. >> oakland mayor libby schaff says they've made progress and housing the homeless. in fact, the number of sheltered homeless people doubled in the last 3 years. she says most likely due to more money from the state and federal governments and the challenge for the city council >> is to not only hire qualified police officers but have sworn volunteers that can manage this crisis because it is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. this month, alameda county is applying for 15 million dollars in funding that they will use if they get it to combat homelessness. >> i'm sarah stinson reporting in alameda county. back to you. thanks, sarah. >> california start sending out inflation relief checks tomorrow. the middle class tax refund will be delivered in 2 ways direct deposits and debit cards you must have filed 2020 taxes by last october and make less than $150,000 to qualify payments range between
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$201,050 depending on your 2020 income. the state says 90% of payments will be completed by the end of this month. coming up next, we're only weeks away from the midterm election. >> kron four's on the ballot program. we'll break down everything you need to know tonight. stick with us. >> and draymond green could face suspension from the upcoming warrior season. we have the latest on what's next for him. but first, our hispanic heritage month celebrations continue featuring one of the a's. newest players is inspiring journey to the big leagues. when we come back.
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>> here at kron 4, we are celebrating hispanic heritage month. one of the newest members of the oakland a's made his way from columbia all the way to the east bay. he's the youngest player on the team. kron four's camila barco takes a look at how this players cultural roots got into the big leaks. >> just look warm and columbia into oakland, california and stored india saw his dreams come true when he recorded his first hit in the major leagues, there's a base hit. jordan diaz, a line drive single to center. and that's his first major league hit on september 18 against the houston astros. diaz singled to center field in the 7th inning of his first career.
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mlb game and be good day. that >> diaz says he was anxious but then calm down and felt happy and proud after getting first hit. it's been 10 years in the making. go get them 100 is in the diaz was born in one video, colombia, a country we're soccer is king. but the colombian decided to pick up a back and started playing baseball. >> when he was 12 years old, calling it the best decision of his life and point that is watch. major league baseball on television back on d a on his 16th birthday. his dream to play. major league baseball moved. >> one step closer to becoming a reality when he signed a minor league contract with the oakland athletics and fun. but it as saying it's a dream even waiting for since he was a kid after posting impressive numbers for 5 seasons in the minors. >> he got the call to join the basically
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>> the first baseman diaz making his major league debut. great play by george. >> diaz is the 3rd colombian player to play for the a's. the first since 2009 and the first ever from his hometown to play in the majors. >> get a bit of and we buy, as he says, he feels proud to represent his country. >> his people and his family, it's their support that motivates him. yeah. and a lot, course, playing in south america. he's learned some valley of the people he works with and you see advice from others to help him in his >> he is grabs it to a way he hopes to have a long one guy has as many more goals he wishes to accomplish, including being selected to an all-star team and maybe one day play for his country. and with the goal of playing in the bigs already completed, who's to say those other milestones are within reach. >> so cool moment for the youngster. just 22 years old. >> reporting at the oakland coliseum. camila barco kron. 4 news. and now taking a live
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look from sutro tower at that fog. we mentioned earlier. >> checking in with tyler broken now with more on our forecast cuyler, how long is that fall going to be sticking around for? you know, if you're at the coast, it's probably not going it's one of those days. we're going to get a little bit of a mix, but certainly a lot of sunshine out there to want to start off, though, with futurecast just to talk about, we're talking about, you know, we look out for rain this time of year, but we've got high pressure off the coast generally shoots everything right over the top of us. you can see that as we head through the weekend and take you into sunday night, staying dry next week. i mentioned it's going to be a bit of a pattern change. so taking into tuesday here and you start to see some rain trying to pop up kind of the desert southwest, potentially into southern california midweek doesn't look like anything is, you know, slated to come our way. but it's just interesting to start to see those patterns change up a little bit here. the blue skies i was talking about as we take a look at the transamerica pyramid. a really nice out there. mostly sunny skies today, unless you're out at the coast, a little bit warm inland, certainly above
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average. tonight, those clouds will increase as we do start to see some of them really roll back and gusty at the coast in bayside as well. and then looking ahead, that pattern change of talking about a little late weekend cooling and then things changing up a bit next week where we start to see places that are looking out for, you know, upper 80's, low 90's, getting into the 70's right now. beautiful in los angeles. 76 degrees moderate about 60 in the 80's as you go sacramento and here in the bay. a little cool out of the coast. 55 in half moon bay, you can see 58 in san francisco, but those 80's certainly are there inland. no doubt about it. here's that cloud cover there. talking about, you know, it's not too far away. it's kind of hanging out there just waiting for a chance to return. but high pressure is going to keep it at bay as we get into the next couple of days, particularly inland. we start to see that warm up. as i mentioned through saturday. so today high temperatures are going to be a little bit above average for most if you're inland, if you're around the bay, it's about where we should be this time of year. so 71 in san francisco, you see those upper 80's in antioch. 85 in santa rosa and 82 in san jose. there is that consistent forecast right through the weekend and then we head into sunday
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things start to cool down and there's a pattern change. i mentioned potentially we're looking out for possibility of offshore wind but not locked in on that yet. we'll be keeping an eye on it. back to you. thanks very much. this just in president joe biden is pardoning thousands of americans convicted of simple possession of marijuana >> and what his administration is calling a dramatic step towards decriminalizing the drug and addressing chair chart charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color. biden saying in a statement, quote, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. he is directing the secretary of health and human services and the u.s. attorney general to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. he's also calling on governors to issue similar pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses which reflect the vast majority of marijuana possession cases. >> kron 4 is your election headquarters here. looking ahead to a local measure on the november ballot this
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morning. we're breaking down. measure are for the city of oakland. this is a measure. advocates say that will make the city's charter more inclusive. >> if passwords in the city charter would be replaced with gender neutral language, for example, words like firemen would be replaced with firefighters. this measure was put on the ballot in an effort to recognize women and non-binary persons as well as men qualified for and who already hold such positions. the measure aims to avoid any gender stereotyping and discrimination needs a majority of more than 50% of all votes cast to pass. and besides the local measures this year, every california voter will be asked about 7 statewide propositions from online sports betting to a flavored tobacco ban. join us tonight at 6.30, for a crime for special on the ballot. our anchor catherine heenan. we'll break down. everything you need to know before going to the polls. san francisco
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officials say they are working to crack down on open air drug markets. but one former drug dealer doubts the city's plan will work. kron four's haaziq mod-yoon explains. >> get all say, ok, you're looking at video recorded back in july of students exiting muni in the midst of an open air drug market on a thin mission street in san francisco. the fact is, you know, we have so many people who are publicly using drugs without any consequences whatsoever. and that's what we have to stop my approach to dealing with the open air drug markets has been that we have to have consequences. so we're all in agreement. we should all be an agreement to do something about it. >> and that is what we are committed to doing. san francisco's top public safety officials presented a unified front at this press conference bowing to work together like never before prioritizing
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narcotics arrests, prosecutions and expanding drug services and treatment. san francisco has to draw a firm line >> behaviors that harm that injure and kos neighborhoods, peace of mind every day, safety and quality of life. and part of that means we must be more aggressive. what the rest and prosecution, according to officials that sfpd so far in 2022. officers that made 600 arrests for drug sales and possession citywide. >> in the tenderloin, they say 68 kilograms of drugs were seized, including 42 kilos of fentanyl. >> i promised the public the day that i was sworn in, that i was committed to doing something to eradicate the open air drug markets in san francisco has been steadfast. this is today. >> former convicted drug dealer and current san francisco anti open air drug market advocate richie when showing recent video of that same open air drug market on mission that we saw earlier in the story doesn't appear that
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much has changed. my question to you is. >> do you have any confidence that >> these? >> or city leaders and tried public safety. i want to be able to turn to sing or if they stick to the script to what they're putting out there. >> what the headline that you get ready. absolutely. >> if they >> fall back into harm reduction and i don't think so. >> this is a heart issue. >> however, the san francisco city leaders say they are committed to leading with services and programs for drug addict. >> our officers and they come in contact with people who need help. they are directed to try to get them to help. has made kron? 4 news? >> here at noon, this fly during the warriors practice the players involved in what could happen next.
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kevin: i've fought wildfires for twenty years. here's the reality we face every day. this is a crisis. we need more firefighters, more equipment, better forest management to prevent wildfires and reduce toxic smoke. and we need to reduce the tailpipe emissions that are driving changes to our climate. that's why cal fire firefighters, the american lung association, and the california democratic party support prop 30. prevent fires. cut emissions. and cleaner air. yes on 30.
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>> and there could be trouble for warriors player draymond green after getting into an altercation with jordan poole during practice kron four's will tran has the latest. on it. looks like we're going to share that story with you some other time. that will do it for us here at the kron. 4 news at noon. let's kick it on over to live in the day with olivia horton. hey there, olivia. hey, stephanie, how's
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it going today? we have a great show for everybody. coming up. >> from the art to the food and the traditions. we have a first preview of kron four's hispanic heritage special. plus, there are many and food festival is happening this weekend. we're checking out what delicious eats and treats that they're serving up this annual event. then its coming season, everyone. the expert tips from its just one san francisco to make the most of your next state. >> and get ready for one of the scariest theatrical horse shows in the bay area. the iconic peaches christ is giving us the lowdown on the summoning. >> all of this happening today on live in the bay. welcome to live in the bay. and thanks for tuning in today. i'm olivia horton. now we always
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like to get everybody caught up with some of the topics that you may have missed. so let's get started with in case you missed it. >> a bay area woman is making history as the first indigenous woman to go to space. astronaut nicole mann graduated from rancho coat at a high school in runner park in 1995. >> and as part of the crew heading for the international space station, the rocket blasted off from cape canaveral, florida today and man is joined on board by one other american and japanese astronaut and a russian cosmonauts. now it will take them about 29 hours to reach the space station where they will then spend 6 months carrying out science experiments. and speaking of making history, talk about child being a team of ocean explorers discovered a shark tooth this week that they believe may actually date back to millions of years ago and could trace back to extinct. a monster of the deep sounds a little scary. i know the
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exploration of vessel nautilus team described the 2 as an awesome find on wednesday and the potential age and large of and large size of the twos could hand towards its origin. now, the fossil find came from an expedition to johnston atoll, which is part of the pacific remote islands, marine national monument located west of hawaii. this tooth was first found in the ocean at a depth of 10,000, 130 feet. scientists are now studying to see if the 2 can be traced to a make a lid on. well, speaking of teeth, it was all smiles in oakland last night as a's catcher stephen vogt had some special guests introduce his at-bat on the pa system during his final professional baseball game of his career votes. and 3 children announced his name as he came up to the plate. and let's just say this super serious veteran cracked quite
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