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half-hour, several sideshows spotted all over the bay. >> this weekend from a mountain view. >> all the way to oakland, all of them happening between late saturday night into early sunday morning. we begin with the first one in menlo park around 11 o'clock saturday night. police say more than
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100 cars blocked the intersection of willow road and new bridge street around 200 people gathered to watch this one. some of them, as you can see in the video were even standing in the middle of the road, almost getting hit by the vehicles. police say some people even started kicking and jumping on the hood of a patrol car. no one was hurt there. nor was anyone arrest. yeah. well, that about 30 minutes later, a sideshow. it's stanford or near stanford in palo alto that broke out. police say dozens of people. >> took over the intersection of coyote hill road in page mill road. no word on any arrests. >> and then in mountain just after midnight on sunday, another sideshow broke out on middlefield road and bernie avenue. police say a woman hurt her ankle after being hit by one of the vehicles. they're no arrests reported in that one and in the east to sideshows happening in oakland, one just after 2 o'clock in the morning sunday.
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>> on international boulevard with a map, 100 cars and then about 45 minutes later, a mother sideshow on park boulevard. police say that when they got there, everybody just took off again. no arrests were made. the final sideshow of several happened on the westbound lanes of the bay bridge around 3 o'clock sunday morning. that one also involving more than 100 cars. police say traffic came to a complete stop as those cars did donuts and >> let off fireworks. chp says when they showed up the crowd dispersed. officers say 4 people were detained. 2 of them were arrested. their vehicles were towed. the other 2 who had been detained were minors. so they were just cited. >> tht are investigating to see off. all of those sideshows are linked in any way. last year. oakland and alameda county leaders increased fines for those attending organizing sideshows. and other news tonight in the north bay put petaluma. police say that they
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issued more than 20 citations within 10 hours to distracted drivers. they say those citations were given out during a distracted driving enforcement operation on friday. officers made 49 traffic stops targeting drivers, they say were distracted by their phones. petaluma police say that that going to continue this operation through wednesday as the department continues to recognize distracted driving awareness month. >> right place, right time tonight we're hearing from the neighbor who saved a man from a burning home on treasure it happened just a before 8 on friday night on howlett court. fire crews say that the house was supposed to be pay cut, but then they found evidence of squatting and hoarding a ban. reyes lives across the street and the rushed in to the scene when he saw the bpack smoke coming from the windows and doors. he is a certified lifeguard, walked up to the house. he found a man passed out in the entryway and with the help of other bystanders raise was able to get the man to safety before
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the flames got worse. >> i was just like. happy i was able to beat has the right place right time. i'm sure anyone house with the same thing given, you given the situation, you just never know what you you know, hunt until something like that happens. >> the man later regained consciousness and left the scene before fire crews arrived to raise set was treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation. >> in the south bay, santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen wants to eliminate the county's death row. he's looking instead to re-sentenced the 15 men now on death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. rosen called death row a, quote, antiquated racially biased error prone system. he says it also cost the state millions of public dollars more than 600 people currently sit on death row across the state, which is the highest number in the country. in
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2019. governor newsom placed a moratorium on executions. the states working to move inmates out of san quentin's death row and into other facilities. santa clara county officials say that they are seeing low income residents lose their medical benefits. >> the county says from june of last year to january of this year, medical members dropped from 458,010 to 425,000 health advocates say that the decline is because of people having to reapply for benefits again, now that the pandemic is officially ended, that meant that the county needed to determine if they were still eligible the social security administration says this could be due to residents applying for a covered california plan. instead. >> in the east bay uc-berkeley, nonprofit is suing the state of california over its vote by mail program because they say it discriminates against blind voters. disability rights advocates filing lawsuit on
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behalf of several people with visual impairments who normally vote by mail with assistance or at a polling location in person. the suit alleges the program is discriminatory because it requires people who are blind to rely on assistance to return their ballots, compromising the privacy and independence of their votes. the group asking california to give voters with print disabilities. the option to electronically returned their mail in ballots. the suit will go before a judge on may. 20th here in san francisco, california school superintendent tony thurmond is sponsoring a bill that's aimed at cracking down on hate crimes in public schools. our capitol correspondent eytan wallace has the story. >> well, thurmond and others who spoke here at the california department of education say they've heard too many stories about students facing hate at public schools. and now they say it's time for action. we're standing together to say that there is no place for hate. that was california superintendent of public instruction tony thurmond, messages he urged support for 3 bills. he says we'll fight
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against hate in california public schools when something happens, even if it's awkward or uncomfortable that must be addressed. but he says addressing and investigating acts of hate in california k through 12 schools has been challenging because the state lacks a fully dedicated office on that very topic. but he argues that will change was senate bill 14. 21, it will create the department of education's a very own office of civil rights. thurmond going one-on-one with us about why he's backing the proposal. no room for we want to address anti-semitism islamophobia, any kind of hate, you know, black, white, racism, whatever it is, we want to dress it. hate that they often face theresa dry. nick of the anti-defamation league says her office has routinely been notified about anti semitic incident in particular taking place today in and day out across california. public schools, we're seeing jewish students who identify only jewish by maybe what they wear.
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>> the a necklace that they wear being called dirty. were being told by parents and by students on a daily basis that kids are afraid to go to school wearing anything that will identify themselves jewish. those here say social media platforms, some led to misinformation and more hate. that's why thurman says he's backing a bill allowing school districts to establish policies limiting social media use on campus. >> in another bill establishing a collaborative to teach school staff about the holocaust and other genocides. the author of those bills, senator henry stern believes both will ensure students are better educated to know that almost two-thirds of american youth don't even know what auschwitz is and half don't even know the holocaust that ignorance is part of a deeper trends. students in attendance from the richmond area shared why they believe the proposals will make a difference going to school and not having to worry about being. assaulted
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anything because of what you present yourself. >> everybody should be excepted of who they are and you shouldn't question on why some buddies like this way or was somebody has to step in a city are race like. >> and as of now, the bills have no formal opposition reporting at the california department of education in sacramento. eytan wallace kron. 4 news. >> they'll all eyes were on the skies today all over the country for the solar eclipse at the exploratorium on san francisco's embarcadero. hundreds of people gathered to watch the solar eclipse there with a glass is on the eclipse. about 10, 15 this morning and then peaked at about 11, 15 didn't reach totality here. only covered about a 3rd of the sun in the san francisco bay area, but still, you know, pretty good view for everybody who came out. it was exciting. exciting, especially explore time. you know the local science center for families
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that for the community is this great. i live for stuff like this because as a science educator. >> i get excited when people get excited about natural phenomena. dave spahr gets excited when people get excited about my old college town, a rural ohio was right in little hotel that people always used a little in. >> triple quadruple the price. a snow. yeah, or late last night. so hence, that's why you are at yeah. exactly. save your money going away. 20 years. the next anyway. this is what things look like right now as we take a look at what we have for you. hey, how about this of the golden gate bridge up looking pretty good. just excuse me. for just one moment, though. there we go. looking at pretty much mostly sunny skies for right now. a little bit of an onshore wind at work. now the flag is kind of noting there that says the local winds that we get driven by the inland heating and that starts to dry things a bit. those temperatures mostly 60's. now we've dropped a bit some lower 70's hanging on for pittsburgh, brentwood, fairfield, but it's going to 60's department looks like as we settle in for the night, going to warm up a little bit more so tomorrow. here's the
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comparison, though, from 24 hours ago, some of these inland spots popping it 10 degrees above where they were this time from yesterday are years. the plan are going on for 06:00pm. looks like sunny and mild. those temperatures resting pretty much into the 50's 60's. we saw them out there in the 60's for the most part, mostly clear and mild with a lot of 50's that work by midnight tomorrow morning. maybe some bay clouds to get things started. but on balance will be mostly sunny. we do see, though, the interference of a little bit away. some clouds, high clouds, maybe by the time we get to wednesday, 50 san francisco cool patchy morning clouds and work as reference. also for oakland about 50 52. meanwhile, 4 san jose on the big board numbers come in like this for lows tonight. now, 51 for any off. we see a lot of 40's off to the east bay up north. also in the upper 40's, 50 for napa 50. meanwhile, 4 san francisco. now we do see big changes coming into our forecast. we're going to be talking about some into next weekend as it was just time for that. but before we get
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there to nice, little warm up based on the 4 zone forecast, an extended later on. you could hear the kr
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>> and now kron 4 sports. >> the wait is finally over. giants fans will finally get to watch the new prize possession up close and personal tonight, reigning cy young winner, blake snell will make his debut kron. 4 sports reporter kate rooney joins us live at oracle park in case i can imagine there's probably a buzz in the air because this is one of the most anticipated debuts in the last couple seasons.
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>> you took the words right out of my mouth, jason. there's definitely a buzz in the air here tonight. not just because the giants won their first series of the season against the san diego padres this past weekend. but also because blake snell is making his debut in the black and orange tonight on the mound. definitely one of the most highly anticipated debuts in the last several years among giants players, snow signed a two-year contract with the giants after one historic season with the san diego padres last season he pitched to 25 e r and a historic 1. we in his final. 23 starts only the second pitcher with an e r a that low over a stretch that long in the modern era all of that made him the reigning national league cy young award winner. so fans and teammates alike have had to wait a long time for tonight. starts know himself said he would have loved to debut against his former team. the padres. but
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so did have spring training with san francisco. he just wasn't ready. now that he is, though, even manager bob melvin admitted the whole team is excited for tonight. >> we signed him was a big deal and it really kind energize our clubhouse spring now, the bill, not ideal, you know, it's not perfect, but it is what it is. but i think in general, yes, everybody's excited about having see get the same picture. you know, first time first, look at part of right there with them. >> now know did reveal that snow will be on a pitch count tonight. however, he declined to state how many pitches that will be. so we don't know exactly how many innings we're in for. we do know it likely won't be a complete game, but fans are hopeful that we'll get a couple quality innings out of snow. and his first start tonight here at oracle park game just about to get underway, jason and will be here tonight with a live report to let you know how it all went down after the game at oracle park. kate rooney
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kron 4 sports. all right, kate, what happened when in with you in a couple hours? >> don't look now. but klay thompson. he is on a heater and at this point event on it really for about 3 months in what is even more impressive is the fact that clay is on pace to lead the warriors in games played this season. he's only missed 4 games all season. a really amazing feat for someone who missed 2 and a half seasons with a torn acl and a torn achilles in back-to-back seasons. it's no question that clay has had his ups and downs over the last few years. but he seems to be in a great spot both physically and mentally. he doesn't care about starting or coming off the bench at this point. he's just grateful to be playing high-level lou. after all, he's been >> he fallen the great, great shooting nights and big scoring outputs put. unless you've been through accuse re our a c o, it's very difficult
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in the lineup nba season is strenuous. it's long. it takes a lot of. this a plan to be able to do it nightly. that's one thing i am very proud of the season is just my ability to playing this amount of games. >> it's been a long, long journey for klay thompson already. that's your look at sports. back to you guys. i think jason bay area lawmakers introducing a bill targeting ticketing company ticketmaster at a press conference today, oakland assembly member buffy wicks announced a >> new bill to stop what she describes as ticketmaster's monopoly in the sales market. according to wicks as it stands today, ticketmaster handles the ticketing pricing for a vast majority of major concerts and sporting events. but with the introduction of assembly bill, 28, 0, 8, to legislation would require more competition and a of
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ticketmaster's control over ticket sales wicks believes that this will lead to lower ticket prices and better customer service. >> it's pretty fundamental. i mean, it's a basic premise of capitalism. so when you have more competition, you have a better product, right? and that is the foundational to to our side here. so ensuring that we have that competition, the primary point of sale to is one of the most critical things that we can do to end the monopoly. >> the music artist, coalition and black music action coalition. they're opposed arguing that the bill would make it harder for artists to set their prices. in a statement, ticketmaster says in part, we support reforms to improve to cutting the baby 28. 0, 8, will not do that. it will instead undermine the efforts of artists, sports teams and primary ticketing companies to minimize ticket scalping. right now time for 4 zone forecast. as we give you a live picture outside on this. solar eclipse day. yeah, the weather so nice. we have
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to keep giving a look over and over is our final check of the forecast here with dave sphar. what's going okay. we see a little bit more warming going on for tomorrow and the sunshine continuing. maybe with a little >> a few morning scattered clouds in and around the immediate bay. there's the golden gate looking good as well. onshore wind checking in. we see that pretty much across the wider bay here. >> they pick up a little bit of the late afternoon. we'll see the same thing again for tomorrow. basically driven by the inland heating effect for the next 3 hours. just a minor little drop in temperatures. getting chilly. it looks like in some of the inland valleys as temperatures fall into through the 40's. now, the longer range forecast has this high breaking down a little bit and we'll see not just the induction of cloud cover. don't you know what? it's another low. and this is a cold core low. so therefore, it's going to drive potentially some thunder showers with it and maybe perhaps a little bit of hail as well sunday, although with some of the moisture starts to clear by that point and mountain snow, as we should point out as well. we may get some clear patches and they're just to drive some instability, though. so
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unfortunately, it's not time the greatest, but stick with us. that may change and later model runs. let's check it out. your 4 zone forecast. 67 tomorrow, san francisco pretty much in the 60's along the coast with that afternoon breeze, 70 from burlingame, 72 foster city. 73 from mountain view in the south bay, upper 70's. however, we do see a few little 80's poking out here and there mid 70's along the east bay shoreline, tri valley. you're looking at upper 70's, 77 for walnut creek, concord checks in at 78, a chilly 71 for vallejo and windy. 78 going on for fairfield. 74 for napa and 78 for santa rosa. here's your flavor of spring to the lower 80's. we go for wednesday. thursday, things change on friday and unsettled heading into the weeknd. unfortunately story for the timing there. but little flavor of looks like winter. what's to come back to? well, thanks, dave. >> global shipping companies are voluntarily taking steps to protect whales on the california coast. according to a marine conservation program. 33 shipping companies have lowered their speed in the san
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francisco bay and monterey bay region between may through april of last year was the peak time where we see the greatest abundance of endangered blue humpback and fin whales. the conservation program says this was the highest level of participation even after phasing out financial incentives for ships to slow down the shipping companies also reduce their release of nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gases by 27%. >> the oakland zoo is being recognized for the facilities commitment to the highest animal well-being, conservation and education standards is receiving new accreditation from the association of zoos and aquariums. the zoo is first accredited by the aca. back in 1988, institutions have to repeat the entire process every 5 years to ensure that they uphold the continuously evolving standards back in december, the facility underwent a thorough examination by leading experts % to determine that the zoo has met the world's most rigorous
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standards. the oakland zoo home to more than 850 native and exotic animals. coming up, 3 original rosie, the riveters are set to be honored for their service during world war. 2, a closer look at their send off from sfo.
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>> a group of original rosie the riveters. that's who you're looking at right now. they're receiving a congressional gold medal in washington, d.c., the women will be honored this week for their service during world war. 2 united airlines
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sponsored a send off this morning as the trio flew from sfo to dc a river says it is nice to be honored in this way. >> there are so l a i just one of the survivors. >> that was a genie give saint. she was a welder in seattle. she made destroyers during world war. 2 pretty cool job. yeah. to say you had, of course there is a rosie the riveter. >> museum enrichment. yeah. so it here at all. curious about what these amazing woman dead you can head on over there. yeah, it's a great trip over happening tomorrow, photographers are going to line up on california street in san francisco to get this. >> rare shot of the sunrise. yeah, it happens twice a year
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where the sun, the street and the tower of the bay bridge. they all align to create this really stunning view as some call it san francisco hinge. that's kind of a nod to stonehenge england, which is known for its alignments with celestial bodies. lot of celestial events going on. a lot going on right now in the skies. >> meantime, a comic book featuring superman's first appearance sells for a record breaking amount. a copy of action. comics number one, which first introduced the world to superman. back in 1938. has sold for 6 million dollars. heritage auctions says action comics number one is hailed as the most important comic ever published previously. the highest auction record for a comic book was the debut of spiderman which sold for 3.6 million at heritage auctions back in 2021, this one for 6 million dollars. speaking of money, the billion dollar jackpot is now over the winner of the 1.3 billion dollar ticket.
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>> was in the drawing was delayed 3 hours because of procedural problems, but at least one person woke up sunday morning to find out that they are indeed a multi millionaire. that's because a lump sum payout is more than 608 million dollars. congratulations. congrats to them. that wraps up kron for news at 6. we'll see you tonight at 10 tonight.
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