>> 5 begin with breaking news. >> well, we're starting this morning. big breaking news. take a look at this. more than 100 firefighters respond to a huge fire in san francisco is actually burning multiple residential buildings. powers will tran is live in the cities in a richmond neighborhood with the latest will can you tell us what's going on? >> the numbers are actually a

little bit know we're hearing as much as 140 firefighters at its peak. and many of them are still here and we'll move our camera just to show you what it's currently doing right now. the huge flames have been knocked down and they are going through the units to make sure that the hot spots don't flare up again to cause this. let me show you video. this fire started several hours ago and my goodness, huge flames reached into the night sky to the point where they actually had to call for more firefighters and more firefighters in at the end. i as i mentioned, about 140 firefighters, multiple units have been impacted. it's so bad that actually had the call a city bus out here to pick the people inside the buses to take them to shelters because it's been hours and obviously it is cold in the overnight hours now. kind enough to join me now is san francisco fire department chief dean crispin to give us the very latest or what happened this morning.

>> warning so 2 of 4 in the morning received a report of fire in the building. if it's we dispatched a full first alarm assignment upon arrival evidence many people, the for the public back the building had a large volume of fire which appeared to be in the rear of the building and extended it to the second and 3rd buildings multiple buildings involving you said one resident had at least 8 people inside. that's what our report is. yeah. there are many occupants of the building at this point. we have 35 people being evaluated by red cross that that are potentially displaced. now, these homes basically touch each other, said the fire. i would imagine race from one unit to the next unit to the next unit. correct? so these abilities of 0 lot lines the right up against each other wood-frame strucou es. so have one side against wood siding. so one building catches on fire. highly likely that it will extend to the other if we don't get those lines in place advance of those. i think you did a great job getting people out what or anybody injured. anybody taken to the hospital to be checked

out and just continue to so at this point, no firefighter injuries, no civilian injuries. we do have are part of a lost cat were still searching for they're good. and what are you doing moving forward from this point on? so we put what's called the fire watch on this bill that we have a fire engine, a fire truck in. but i'm chief on scene throughout the night to check for hot spots and extinguish as needed. very good. thank you so much for joining us. let me show you a map of this location. we've already told you and the chief also said this happened at 5th and balboa just to give you a little perspective, golden gate park not too far away from the scene. a major thoroughfare is also fulton, which is a couple of blocks from this location. as far as the cause of the fire. obviously, it is way too early to tell. and i can tell you because of the age of the building, more than likely, according to chief. >> if they did not have butthe good news is nobody. and we're talking about 35 people displaced. nobody was injured, much less kill. it's breaking news this

morning. we're going continue to check in with you throughout the morning. >> thank you for that report. >> we have very good news that it sounds like everyone got out of there. we are seeing conditions this morning that are cool and a little bit cloudy to even foggy out in the richmond district. winds right now, not too terribly aggressive either. here's your view at sfo. once the sun comes up, you'll be able to see that. we do have quite a lot of cloud cover overhead. that blanket of grey quite familiar at this point. and it isn't rooting back inland with pretty familiar fealty yesterday. much more dense across the north bay, the coast and settling into san pablo bay. where is comparatively clear conditions further south this afternoon, we grow sunny yet again. now winds right now are actually not too terribly strong, nor much of an onshore breeze right now actually coming out of the south and a lot of areas we are going to be looking at a day today that is going to still be moderated by cool coastal breeze, especially along the bay shore and the coast inland areas.

you are in for a bit of a bump in temps right now. we're in the 50's for current temperatures later on today. daytime highs reaching as warm as the mid 80's inland 60's and 70's towards the bayshore the weekend, much the same as will be next week. i'll break that down in your full forecast. >> it's still pretty light so far anyways, but it is also super early 8 minutes across the bay bridge at this time. the mateo bridge at 12 minutes for your crossing rowling at the limit on our other spans as well. just a little gray overhead, but no visibility issues at bridges. great. we're now hearing from the sister of a woman. >> detained by ice in san francisco on wednesday. the moment was one of at least 15 people, including for children, were arrested by ice agents during a check in one of those children is just 3 years old. speaking to a translator, the sister said yesterday that she last heard that everyone detained spent the night at ice field office on sansom street.

>> i don't know why they detained even the children making them sleep on the floor in the cold hungry. it is an injustice. what they're doing and i don't know why they do that to the children. >> well, this morning, doesn't know what happened to them since immigration attorneys say some of the families are in route to an ice detention center on in texas. others of us into a center in the central valley. all the peninsula. foster city police say they've arrested a driver was not only driving under the influence of alcohol, they actually bottle tequila in the car. police say they made that arrest after responding to a collision at edgewater park. you can actually see the suv seriously damaged a fence. police did not say if the driver was hurt in that. 2.13, year-old teens in custody for allegedly yelling homophobic slurs, on fireworks into a crowd at annual pride event in redwood city. 7 of the courthouse square right near marshall street in downtown redwood city on wednesday. police are saying one of the 2 victims as minor injuries. the

2 teens were arrested and taken to the san mateo county youth services center. well, new this morning, a former ucsf professor now suing the university for allegedly violating her first amendment rights. doctor mira. so she was fired because she spoke out in support of palestinian people. doctor meyer claims she endured a year's long pattern of racist discrimination, retaliation and harassment from ucsf officials before she was fired. she also says she was the target of threats and online comments including alleged harassment by california state senator scott wiener. students and teachers and san francisco are now fighting against the trump administration's effort to dismantle job corps. it's federal program. it gives housing job training for low-income students. federal judge this week blocked the trump administration's effort shut down job corps. but the ruling is only temporary last announcement by the trump administration to pause operations of job corps has already resulted in more than

200 students, treasure island being sent away. only 100 remain. that also includes a 19 year-old eddie lopez. he says that before you came to job corps, he had no place to live and a limited education view, job prospects and really no direction in life. >> being your job corps. i have grown so much. much more than i ever thought was possible. i've learned different soft skills while also getting hands-on experience in my trade. but most importantly, i've gotten a second chance on my future. >> well, the trump administration initially planet in the program by the end of month, it will be a hearing in 2 weeks. today's action, the last day of a san francisco marin, food bank's pop-up pantries in san francisco and marin county. there closing all 13 pantries as pandemic care program start to end. we do see critical food safety net programs. more than 6500 household. at a time when families really need it

at the same time, the food bank is urging elected officials to reject proposed cuts to snap benefits because he critically impact. 9 million americans nationwide. a federal judge now 7 in on the removal of a homeless encampment berkeley, judge edward chen is that you place a temporary pause on the removal process. police and city crews. they all descended on the homeless encampment at asian harrison on wednesday morning. they started clear now people's belongings, intent items were hauled by a dump truck. now most items are back in place. but city officials argue this encampment is a safety hazard with rats, needles and combustible materials. the most recent homeless count shows out of approximately 845 people in berkeley, a little more than half of them do not have shelter. a coalition of mayors from california's 13 largest cities, including san francisco. mayor. they're urging the governor and members of the legislature not

to cut a local homeless is funding. the mayor says they're concerned uses proposed budget. as of now does not extend 1 billion dollars in funding for local homeless housing assistance, along with grants, also known as happ, according to data from the big city mayors, coalition have fun to state tribute to local government over the last few years resulting in a combined 17,000 shelter beds serving more than 150,000 people nationwide about this funding. >> we alone in san francisco stand to lose 1000 shelter beds we as san franciscans in california we need to move forward, not backward. >> well, governor newsom said difficult decisions our head is the state faces a 12 billion dollar deficit in response to the mayor's. a newsom spokesperson writing this in part, quote, california has made unprecedented investments to support local cities and counties investing more than 27 billion to help them

address homelessness. it's time for local governments to step up and do their jobs. the deadline for newsom and that legislature to pass a balanced budget is june 15th. meanwhile, governor newsom announced the plan to boost literacy area. literacy achievement for california students. golden state literacy plan will deploy over 1000 literacy coaches and specialists to schools and have the highest need. it's gonna build off current existing effort on literacy, education, including recruiting, also retaining educators. governor newsom is saying, quote, literacy is the pathway to success. all of california's kids deserve to discover the joys and benefits of reading and the power to formulate and express their ideas. all right. still ahead, a community in the north bay is keeping up the fight after a school board. >> woakes to cut support services for black students. and privacy concerns in the east bay, as officials say they're tracking the real-time

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near the intersections of 5th avenue and balboa and and streets. you can see first responders on the scene trying to get things under control. we now know this fire is burning multiple residential buildings. we're asking firefighters what led up to this fire and how many people are displaced and if anybody is hurt, their covers will tran is there right now? we'll have all those answers for you. coming up in a report throughout the morning. >> see that least as far as firefighters are concerned that they do look like they've gotten the spread of that fire under control. we've got another morning with the low gray, a little bit of mist and drizzle out there at times. not super windy this morning. in fact, winds a little calmer than yesterday, which is a bit of good news we are seeing in francisco, some of the low gray pretty evident overhead that low stratus really dense across the north bay through san pablo bay, where we did see yesterday. now, yesterday itself brought thunderstorm activity all across the sierra

nevada. we've got another round of that potentially into this afternoon as well as through the weekend. so if you're heading to the sierra this low, that has so present, it doesn't want leave, is still going to be resulting in a little bit of that. tropical moisture firing up a thunderstorm or 2 4 mountainous areas. that low is absolutely anchoring some cooler air across the region, but it's also dragging in a bit of wildfire. smoke from canada, the same exact factors that we've really been talking about day after day throughout the course of the week. temperatures in the 60's for your highs in san francisco as well as at the coastline and then some 60's to 70's along the bay shore today. today's daytime highs are set to be a touch warmer than they were yesterday with most of our daytime highs in our inland areas. rising back up into the 80's, such as the case and the tri valley all the way on up through areas like walnut creek and concord, oakland, you'll be in the upper 60's. same up in richmond and berkeley benicia mid 70's while fairfield hitting 83 degrees today. santa rosa at

74. tomorrow's temperatures that to be the same as today is as will be sunday. that modest warmup inland could get a few of our for this to inland areas into the low 90's. monday, exactly. the same u.s. will be tuesday wednesday into thursday, holding pattern of clear afternoons foggy mornings. roads are doing great so far. it's not just early, but it is also friday so hoping we get some friday light. 8 minutes across the bay bridge as well as rolling up a limit on your other spans that cloudy blanket is sitting above bridge level. so yet again this morning, even at the golden gate, not really running into any visibility issues, all right, john, thank you for that time. 5.17. >> parents and students and teachers in red county disappointed with a controversial school board decision. the board voted to not renew consultant contracts, a black student support services. this is at tell applies high school in mill valley. overstreet stasio has that story. >> not backing down. we've been telling them all year

don't put this program on thursday morning about 100 people held signs and taped coasters to speak out about cuts to the black student support team and pius high school. i'm hoping that they'll see that this is really meaningful to the students and the entire community on hand with the 2 employees at the center of the cots, paul austin and to miesha tate austin. >> it shows that the community cares about our children. i think that the children need to see this is really important that this work continues, right? we're just started. >> on tuesday, that help highest union high school district board slashed their jobs stating that the contract positions were not sustainable. in a statement to kron 4, the board president defended the action by saying, quote, a majority of the board found that mr. austin and miss tate austin, we're doing the same work as district employees and at a value not fair and reasonable because their pay was far greater than market rate for comparable

work. they were not providing specialty services. therefore they did not meet the qualifications for government entity, consultant and quote, yet another board member sent kron 4. this statement, quote. >> i fully support the work that has been done by the b s s s t and believe that renewing the contracts of tunisia, tate and paul austin is critical unless someone year the program has shown remarkable success and the data shows that are black students are feeling support. it and are finding academic success at rates not seen in recent history, unquote students and staff say that they will take up the matter once again at the next board meeting, promising to continue push for the program to be by the they may think that they've done and, you know, with their attack on our recalls on the table and their elected officials. and so we can much that we can foster. but right now the main focus is finding another way to protect our black kids from these people in mill valley,

theresa kron, 4 news. >> president trump and his former adviser elon musk are now in a very public feud. the dust-up erupted on social media on thursday after days of must criticizing the president's signature tax and spending bill, wash spotters on hudson joins us live with the latest can you break this down for us? hey, good morning to you. quite the dramatic escalation of the world's wealthiest man and the president of the united states. >> not holding back their feelings toward each other on social media. they were once allies. now elon musk is calling for president trump to be impeached. >> today it's about. >> a man named elon just one week ago, president trump praised elon musk. now he's taking a very different tone. very disappointed in the land. i've helped a lot a president trump's comments followed days of intensifying criticism for musk who blasted the president's massive budget bill, especially cuts to

electric vehicle mandates. >> the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here mosque unloaded on his social media platform x not just slamming the bill but also accusing the president of ties to jeffrey epstein. >> claims the white house strongly denies president trump fired back on truth, social threatening to cancel billions of federal contracts for the world's richest man. if you want to go after elon musk's contract like we are here for the 5 borough democrats see an opening while republicans are caught in the middle president. a lot information via text hopeny reason and considers it. this is a personal policy. differences should not be first. >> and all eyes will be watching today to see if this very public feud continues to play out. >> rania. all right. was shopping for that report. still ahead morning news. >> and they are under fire

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take a look at this. more than 100 firefighters are on scene. a huge fire in san francisco. it's burning multiple residential buildings. members will tran is live in cities in a richmond neighborhood with the latest. well. >> well, right now, firefighters at the very least can breathe a little bit because for several hours, they had their hands full moon, as you mention, for residential buildings. we will zoom in and show you the damage. firefighters of the past 90 minutes or so. they have been going through the building's punching holes, letting it ventilate and also keeping out. i look out for hot spots. you don't see any huge flames, but this is what happened in the overnight hours. the fire started around 2 o'clock in the morning and it raced through the buildings because the building's pretty much touch each other. if you know, san francisco, you know, there is no room between the homes. so the fire went from one building to the next building to the next building

and ultimately damaged, if not destroyed, at least 4 buildings at this particular point. they don't know the cause of the fire, but it was so hot. so intense that at least 35 people had to rush out in the overnight hours just to save their lies. they had to call in a san francisco city bus, put them on the city bus to give them and then ultimately drive them to a shelter. here is an update. if you saw my live interview at 5 o'clock in the morning, they were looking for a cat. they have since found that cat and that that that cat savvy has died from the smoke or the flames. and also the update is one firefighter during the battle was injured by twisting his ankle. he is being checked out and possibly even taken to the hospital for his injuries. let me quickly show you a map misses at 5th and balboa. it talked about theer richmond district. t far away from golden gate park.

fulton is a main thoroughfare r as the firefighters at the height of this, they had about 140 firefighters fighting this. they are starting to scale down just a bit. but of course, because they have taken up and tire 5th between erie and bolton. you cannot drive through at this particular time. and of course, they will be here throughout the day looking for hot spots and ultimately it's too early right now. but ultimately send investigators inside to find out the cause of the fire. in fact, going out to those families impacted by all of this. >> thank you for that. >> well, has not been the windiest the morning. so a bit of good news there. we are seeing yet again, another foggy impact in some low gray up and down the coastline. staying in san francisco. you can see this live view right now. some of that low gray that is hanging out with us mostly above the city. we do have a bit of coastal drizzle

up in the santa cruz mountains and up in the marin headlands but all in all much, as we've seen the past few days, such a familiar pattern morning gray and then afternoon, sunshine temps not changing much today. either mention winds being a little bit calmer this morning. you can see most of us around 10 miles per hour for a current wind speed. temperatures in the 50's currently fremont at 59 conquered 58 degrees. petaluma nevado right at 55 to get your morning started. all of this is so familiar. get ready for more of it. at least we're not stuck in a heat wave. this is very seasonable and the weekend, although a couple of degrees warmer inland will be a lot more of the same. >> it's below 10 minutes to make their bay bridge crossing. typically around this time, you'll start to see the first signs of a pick-up in traffic, but not really yet. as for the san mateo bridge, 12 minutes for your crossing. that is the limit for you. you are looking at the cloud cover. but at the golden gate bridge here, not really dealing with any visibility issues and actually

a pretty calm wind as you make your crossing. all right, john, thank you for that. and east bay city strategy. >> to try and improve marketing campaign is raising some eyebrows chamber of commerce. they started tracking visitors to the city. some people say they're worried about privacy from for stephanie rothman explains. >> monitoring happens via the location services feature on your phone. that means any one of the people coming up and down this street could have their movements tracked making some wary. but the chamber of commerce to say this will be a positive step forward while helping boost tourism. so this last weekend. >> we had want to take our mind festival. we expect to have drawn about 35,000 people. we want to measure who travel to cs. and it helps us with marketing decisions. >> ceo and president of walnut creek's chamber of commerce and visitor bureau bob lynch. it says using enable location services on people's devices

will help the city manager where to allocate their resources. when you track to visitor it tracks somebody. >> that potentially could be long-term stay. and so we're trying to estimate based on that data where we should average highs. >> he says he understands privacy concerns but emphasizes all data remains anonymous and he's not shared outside. the organization. maybe get more resources. >> the benefit of the community. but unfortunately the same time a little bit interest me personally, i wouldn't feel comfortable just because he's striking me. others are more critical already having their location services turned off. i'm always worried about invasion of privacy everything. that's okay. so >> having someone access my location and know where i'm going or where i'm coming as very scary. so my location is turned off information being compromised and small data breaches. you just never know. and so for me, privacy is important and diligent about

seeking out what it is i'm interested in doing versus it does actually being provided to me. that kind of me out a little bit. >> the chamber of commerce will argue the very first report coming out on march 18 where they will look at all the information from last weekend's festival reporting in walnut creek. stephanie rothman kron, 4 news. all right, jose police actually arrested that man accused of sexually assaultinl 2 women on a popular trail. >> police say the women they were targeted wednesday morning on moscow's creek trail. that prompted officers to patrol the area through the night. investigators have not given out the name of the suspect. they also did not provide details on when they found him and where they found him. >> yes, thank you. motion passes unanimously. >> tell county board of supervisors of actually wanted to move forward with that process to remove sheriff christina corpus. this comes after voters approved measure a giving the board the authority city share for cause. accused of these of power retaliation against

employees. also for having an inappropriate relationship with her chief of staff. she's denied these allegations. now there will be a series of meetings and commerce is with the sheriff before the board votes on whether to officially remove or no date has been set for that vote. the mayor of fairfield under fire after she was caught on a mike making inappropriate comments. take a listen. well, this happened during a city council meeting tuesday where dozens of city workers attended to talk about wages and working conditions. mayor catherine moye was heard whispering that of the city workers don't she's going to every time. >> when markets since front online, told kron 4 that her words were. >> taking out context and that she was joking to the city manager, know, ever is demanding a public apology from the mayor. it released a statement saying in part, quote, was verbal threat is unacceptable in a serious breach of public trust. no

city workers should ever be subjected to intimidation, especially not from the fair feels highest elected official. and a 5.36, avenue today. san francisco officials will gather to honor those who've lost their lives to gun violence in recognition of national gun violence awareness and wear orange day community leaders, advocates and survivors and elected officials. we'll gather to have a call for continued action to keep communities safe. event's going to highlight the urgent need to prevent gun violence and protect young people. the event's going to happen right outside of city hall at 10 this morning. it is the end of an era. today is chief bill scott last day is the head of the san francisco police department. he's heading down to los angeles to start a new law enforcement agency for metro. sara stinson said down to talk with the chief about his time serving the city. >> chief bill scott is the city's longest serving chief since 1970. he says he's

lasted sfpd headquarters will be bittersweet. we talked about the highs and lows of him serving in the last 8 years. and i've so i've you choking back tears in the final hours as san francisco's police chief bill scott sits down with kron 4 to reflect on the last 8 we have had challenges in our ups and downs. and i know that, you know, it's in my tenure year, but >> overall, it's been a great experience. scott has been in law enforcement for 35 years. he was hired in january 2017 by then mayor ed lee with a call to make changes within the department. >> to reduce use of force a reform initiative came from the united states department of justice with more than 270 recommendations. chief scott says that's now 97% complete. >> our officer-involved shootings, you know, a lot of what drill the call for reform. they've been cut in half more than we went almost

2 years over a year and a half without even having one. scott says he was 3 years into working on reform within the department when the pandemic hit. there's a lot of ks and after the murder of george floyd, there was a nationwide call to change policing some of what was being called for, like changes in use-of-force policies. we've already done that. >> so we were ahead of the game. looking back. scott says he takes pride in the fact that no officers died in the line of duty under his leadership. and it's something that i'm very happy about is something that i'm very >> proud of because you look at the wall in the hallway just next to us. and you have over 100 officers that have given their lives in service of the city. scott says overall he feels like he's leaving the city in a better place than when he started. >> crime is going down and we're at, you know, 60 year. plus 60 plus-year those and homicides car break-ins that have plagued the city for decades where we are 73% lower than we were in 2023. >> robberies of them burgers.

and now the chief says one of the biggest challenges has been tackling the opioid epidemic. what was controversial as we really kind of >> kicked into another gear. enforcement open air drug use. if people had a lot of things say about that, i'm not positive. >> a lot not positive. my opinion. it was and still is the right thing to do because still still open air drug use in the city. what advice would you give your successor continue to embrace and implement new technologies that are going to make us more efficient? and of course, we've had some hiring in staffing challenges right now is still over 500 officers short. >> as chief scott prepares to start a new chapter in law enforcement in los angeles. he wants to thank the city for shaping him. met some great people and learned a lot and take that with me. so that always you part of what i do and why. and before starting the new job in la scott says he will be taking a much

needed vacation with his wife in tahiti. meanwhile, back here at home, mayor lurie will be working with the police commission to find his replacement. for now, the city's chief of public safety and former sfpd commander paul yep, will be serving as interim chief. >> i'm sara stinson reporting kron. 4 news. >> and new this morning, oakland, native and r b singer kehlani is no longer slated to perform at the san francisco pride. 25 block party concert battle artist has been removed from the festival lineup on the flyer. we don't know the reason for no longer before me. the san francisco pride 2025 block party that concert is happening saturday. june 28th in the mid way at 900 orange street. ryan in the dogpatch neighborhood. all right. still ahead, an iconic san francisco project ishan. >> what makes this year's trial extra special and how you can get involved with putting it on display. and we're keeping you updated on the breaking news. more than

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fiber multiple residential buildings and over 30 people had to evacuate and find temporary shelter. officials say the for progress on this fire has been stopped. thankfully, no one has been hurt. red cross is helping the people that are affected. we are asking firefighters now what led up to that fire, however, will tran is there right now who have reports for you throughout the morning. happening this morning, pg updating the public on the wildfire prevention and preparedness strategies. the company said no major fires were caused by any other equipment in the last 2 years. officials are going to talk about the methods they use to monitor fire us like a i data gathering today's discussion happens at 10:30am, at pg e's lab in san ramon. >> we are seeing another gray start to the morning much as we have each and every day this week, it's 5.45 and we're back under the clouds. but by

the later part of the morning into the afternoon, it's going to be right back to the sunshine yesterday. the sierra got a solid round of thunderstorms do expect a potential of isolated thunderstorm activity in the sierra as you are heading up there during afternoon hours. so do watch for that. otherwise beautiful forecast. this low is still in place. still incurring the dip in the jet stream that's brought at least more mild weather but also drug in some wildfire smoke from canada. so a bit of a hazy view all over again today. 60's for your highs in the city as well as out along the coastline. so familiar everywhere else back to the 60's from brisbane to san bruno. back to the 70's for most of the peninsula and back to the 70's to low 80's for the south bay. change to know we will be a touch warmer inland try valley on up through walnut creek and concord. back to the eighties today. well, berkeley and oakland, you hang on to those upper 60's. the at 73 vacaville hit 90 degrees after yesterday's a tease for you. a vacaville as well as antioch.

and brett, what you can expect a few more low 90's this weekend. well, the rest of us mostly hang out and 60's 70's 80's for your highs. roads are doing okay. we have the metering lights on. but hardly do need them. so far. it's 9 minutes across the bay bridge. love to see easy drive. time on a friday san mateo bridge, 12 minutes, which is the backs for your crossing. richmond center fell in golden gate, also moving along without hardly any traffic just yet rated r let some of these bridges they didn't work on. the richmond. sandra fell bridge is expected to calls some travel delays were all whole week. caltrans is going to be close in 3 lanes starting next week on monday. tonight. >> lane 2, 3, will be closed on a lower deck and linked to will be closed on the upper deck. workers say one lane will be open at all times. it. lot look out, take an alternate route. work should wrap up next friday, june 13th. and a a going green. the city welcomed their first ever electric bus on thursday. it's one of 4 running this year. city officials say wrapping an operator training are underway

for the buses to hit the streets pretty soon. >> we did it walking river, good children, fundraiser. let's go. well. >> and area started walking barefoot to raise money for a cause. he reached his destination, patrick mccolley success. we walk from san francisco to santa cruz. that's 100 mile walk felt. connelly says he want during the day camp tonight during a six-day journey raised $17,000 to help immigrant children. his goal was 50,000. he's open more donations or match. the college says his feet are pretty beat bit. he's feeling a whole lot of gratitude. and the south bay, the santa police department in team in a prime on tradition. well, actually, the 7th year in a row, the police department honor guard raise the lgbtq+ pride flag outside their headquarters on thursday. elected officials and lgbtq+ rights advocates join that ceremony. the department also requesting all officers

receive lgbtq+ awareness training. jose police chief paul joseph says the flag symbolizes acceptance and inclusion. our hope is that when you see this flag flying above this police department, you will know that in this city. >> your scene, you are respected and you are safe here. >> there's a celebration comes as the federal government continues to target lgbtq+ community, whether it be attacks on transgender policies or the u.s. navy being ordered to strip the name rights icon harvey milk from one of their vessels. a huge milestone year for san francisco, iconic pink triangle. similarly the commemorating 30 years on twin peaks tomorrow. each year the annual displays put together by hundreds of volunteers want to stop. it could be seen for miles across the city founder patrick carney. he says that nazis used the pink triangle to label k prisoners in concentration camps. he says now the symbol represents community building and

resistance as the lgbtq+ rights are under attack. >> the only city in the world that has a giant pink triangle hovering over the city as a backdrop for its pride festivities and is there for a reason. it's a giant educational tool and its incoming community building project. there's so much negativity and anti lgbtq legislation is proposed around the country and especially from our current administration. >> carney says the pink triangle is a symbol of sadness, but also brazilians and visibility. myles insulation is, of course, just a start. volunteers are especially needed for it to be taking down. that happens. media lee following the pride parade on june 29th carney says they would thave as many people as possible to help in that effort. kron 4 feuring stories on pride every thursday for the entire month of june. and join us for our pride ecial hosted by very own johns island, rob nesbitt, june. 26 at 06:30pm.

now let's talk a little basketball. the bakries on the road taking on the mercury. they were hoping to break a three-game losing streak. they didn't have much luck with that. ours was reporter aaron wilson has all those highlights for us. >> well, and they'll have to do it without tiffany hayes, but they have someone named veronica byrd she's been one of biggest producers for the closing moments of the 3rd is will pick it up about downright to watch a nail salon. baseline jumper very good about everything tied up. it's 61. 4th quarter now, cecilia than balinsky. they get to that the right way but probably not for 3.10, points, 5 rebounds and evaporate. they pick the lead on couple of moments later, stock up by 3 caleb jordan corner. 3 is good. points. 4 rebounds in the valkyrie. they lead by fix later on is julie vanloo the bounce pass to veronica burton for the layup and burton his 16 points and 2 stealsson the the mercury reached lexi hail to drop it in the trade barrett where she had 24 points off the for the phoenix

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with the details >> if that fire fire twisted is a goal. and another update is for a while. they were searching for at misplaced cat. unfortunately, they did find the cat not cat died from either the smoke or the flames. as far as what's going on right now, they're doing a lot of mop up work. a lot of firefighters have left the scene at its height about 140 firefighters were here. but a lot of them have left. of course, they will keep maybe a dozen or so. still on the scene, just in case hot spots are a problem. let me show you the video. this fire broke out at around 2 o'clock in the morning in a race from home to home to home. and this is an area that homes are basically right next to each other. so it did not take very long for flames to race from one place to another and ultimately for buildings. pretty much destroyed. 35 people were