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>> when fun time from the bay area's local news station. you're watching kron. 4 news. now at 10 teams like everybody's, grandmother robbed at gunpoint in the east bay while on a stroll with her 15 month-old grandchild. the child now recovering in the hospital after being hurt in the scuffle. plus, i don't
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think that there's anything wrong with california attorney general or anyone else to review the case? the push for more investigations of the deadly shooting case of banko brown h s a prominent lgbtq condemns his killing tonight. >> and thank you for joining us tonight at 10, i'm pam moore. i'm ken wayne. tonight, the district attorney in san francisco standing by her decision not to charge the security guard for shooting and an armed brown who is suspected shoplift. we have team coverage on this case tonight. kron 4 sarah stinson has reaction from the harvey milk, lgbtq democratic club which is condemning the killing of brown. but first kron four's also the moeny and joins us now live from our newsroom with the push from say leaders to get the department of justice involved l a. >> pam. and ken, there have been polarizing opinions about this case board. president aaron peskin is now demanding that the state and federal government get involved with some oversight here. well, the
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mayor and police chief both say they support the d a >> people have been outraged in the aftermath of the shooting of an alleged shoplifter at a san francisco walgreens. rallying cries for surveillance video were finally answered and footage leading up to the last moments of a young trans banko brown was released along with that evidence clips of the testimony from the security guard who shot brown phil iphones despite public opposition district attorney brooke jenkins continues to stand by her decision not to press charges against anthony insisting evidence shows him protecting himself from ground. and at this time there is nothing to rebut. >> his statements regarding the fact that he acted in self-defense. on tuesday, san francisco's mayor and police chief wade in backing the d a >> saying the entire situation is heartbreaking, but they believe jenkins is responding
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accordingly to the evidence. i do support the border wholeheartedly. i know people don't like it, but we have to support the system in the process was a different tune in tuesday's board meeting. we're board president aaron peskin instead called on the california attorney general and department of justice to step in to look at the evidence in this case and come to their own conclusions. meanwhile, defense attorney john burris who is representing brown's parents. >> plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the guard. >> the board of supervisors will vote on the resolution whether to involve the state and feds next week in the newsroom. ella sogomonian kron. 4 news. hello. thank you. tonight, members from the lgbtq community gather to discuss brown's death. many of them expressing deep concern over district attorney. but jenkins, u.s. decision not to file the charges. 4 sarah stinson was at that event. sarah, you talk with some of the members. so what did they say? >> yeah, it was an intense conversation among the people who showed up a friend of
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banko brown came to this panel discussion explaining how her that they are about the da's decision and the effect this could have on the transgender community. keep in mind, the friend of banko brown did not want to be on camera but did want to express their opinion. >> for the da for hold them accountable because for like for a person of color this season, community is i really can my people, but i don't juju pikes. prince was friends with banko brown. >> well, like a lot of it. really good team consists of a leader about that. the leader he was about to become and i think he was going to check of the world. but pikes prince says no one knew brown with spark change like he is. now. brown was a transgender man who was shot and killed by a walgreens security guard late april >> on monday, people, ryan, san francisco's streets
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demanding justice for the 24 year-old missing have started think, oh, this could have been started. a person should have gone many gathered tuesday night at milk assaf expressing deep concern and loss of confidence in district attorney brooke jenkins after she declined to file charges against the security guard who shot and killed brown. >> so we have say also the harvey milk, lgbtq democratic club held a panel discussion. >> one of the topics included the surveillance video showing the security guard michael anthony shooting brown. you know, we are outreach that the da is not prosecuting. >> i don't know which video there looking out, but the video that we're looking at is inspiring outrage that has not stopped. >> you didn't have to do with many expressed wanting not only the security guard to be held accountable, but also walgreens and an independent
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investigation. another discussion included more housing for unhoused transgender people as brown was an house at the time of his death ankle wanted a place belong won it protection >> and the city was unable to provide that's a tragedy. >> and many who attended tonight's event planned to be at tomorrow morning's rally at da jenkins office. it starts at 10 o'clock. i'm sara stinson reporting back to you. >> sarah, thank you for that. we're following this story on air and online scan that qr code on your screen to go to a special page on our website there you can find reporter stories and up-to-date information tracking the developments in this case. other news tonight, a 15 month-old baby is recovering. that's after being hurt during an attempted robbery. while out on a walk with her grandmother in oakland kron four's theresa talk with neighbors who are demanding action to combat the rise of violence in their city. >> a baby struck in broad daylight. oakland police say
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it was around 11:00am tuesday when 2 men tried to rob the baby's grandmother in the trestle, glen neighborhood, a gun went off and shrapnel struck the baby in the leg. >> woman screaming. so she had a stronger lori johnson says that she raced outside after hearing a woman in distress. she and other neighbors trying to care for the 2 as emergency personnel arrived criminals leaving. >> and you not see. what she >> i'm alert to other cities throughout the bay area and even across the nation, the city of oakland is experiencing an increase in. >> and improper come. police say that this coupled with an attack just around the corner this past weekend are indicative of an increase in robberies in the area. teams like everybody's that hard. lynn malad job says she's on guard all the time these days walking this way. i'm watching the cars coming this way. i'm
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going to watch behind me. i'm going to watch of cars are going slow and it's just it's how everybody i think when they come out around town, it's just kind of how you have you have to be. and, you know, sometimes you don't even want to go out. >> i want to see some action. i want to see i don't want to live in. >> late in the afternoon, a police car drove the neighborhood where the child was hit. the baby is listed in stable condition. >> though the city needs to do something. i think we as neighbors in it talk about doing some to recess. stasio kron. 4 news. >> a big story we're following tonight. water rates are going up in county coming up tonight at 10, 30. we'll explain why officials say the increase in rates is needed. plus how much more rain county residents will be paid for their water. now to the 4 zone forecast as
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we give you a live look at sfo tonight with the >> out of focus looking marine layer behind the control tower and that chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is here to tell us what to expect the rest of the night into tomorrow. that fog is creeping back on shore right now. it's kind of a shallow marine layer. so i think it moves inside the bay and not too many of the valley so you can stay free and clear fog as you make your way in the east bay. but boy, it looks beautiful. looking now from up above. you can see some of those clouds in the bay right now looking from our berkeley cam and yeah, certainly the light shining through that shallow marine lair. so not going to be around very long tomorrow. and then we're off and running again with what looks like a similarly warm day out around the bay area toward the golden gate bridge. we've got that fog that is moving into maybe a little drizzle along the coastline overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. today. yeah, these numbers really bumped up as much as 10 degrees warmer some places in the upper 80's into the tri valley. a little more at 89 to
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89 in concord, 82 in san jose. 67, even warmer temperatures going. 73 in oakland outside right now. we're still holding on to warm temperatures away from that marine air. 71 in dublin. 68 very comfortable. in livermore, 72 in pittsburgh. and 75 in brentwood. but a cool 53 foggy skies in san francisco changes are on the way. we'll have more on that. you're 10 coming up in a few minutes. thank you, lawrence, though. tonight at 10 bubbly looking ads about the fentanyl crisis are popping up around san francisco. some of them showing on your screen now. >> a nonprofit called together as a of launched a new campaign called the fed to life. the campaign accuses san francisco for a string of failed dr g policies that the campaign says have created an inhumane reality that is not only killing people, but also drastically hurting public safety and the economy supervisor dean preston is slamming the campaign tweeting with this billionaire funded
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political pac stoop so low as and distribution of lifesaving narcan in their billboards is clear they aren't serious about helping our city address the overdose crisis. such a gross campaign displaying a complete indifference to human life. another supervisor matt dorsey is asking for federal help to address the city's fentanyl crisis. he introduced a resolution today asking for a full force of operation overdrive. something former house speaker nancy pelosi has been asking for as well. operation overdrive would bring in federal help from us them. the u.s. department of justice and the u.s. drug enforcement agency with a focus on the supply side of the fentanyl crisis. >> there's a lot of investigative work that goes into building a case against drug markets and the usda is food does. this is what they do. about breaking out the fentanyl trafficking it right
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now a foothold in san francisco with some level we've never seen before and it's costing was the we've ever seen there is no doubt it's happened. supports more support here. we need to do everything we can to disrupt, dismantle and struck games, get them off. >> operation overdrive started in february of 2022, it currently covers 57 cities in the nation, including atlanta, chicago and washington, d.c., the resolution by supervisor dorsey to endorse a program coming to san francisco still need support by the full board and a vote date has not yet been set. kron 4 is putting the focus on fentanyl by tracking the crisis here in the bay area. you can scan the qr code that's on your screen to go to a special page on our website there. you can find our reporter stories, stories and up-to-date data tracking overdose statistics in the bay area. >> in the south bay, san jose
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city council members are deciding whether or not to reallocate millions of dollars to mayor matt mahan. ys homeless plan. this has some community members are upset saying the money should be used for what taxpayers initially voted for force. justin campbell reports from san jose. the mayor wants to take 87 million dollars in move on house people like you see behind me that have this shelter makeshift on the side of the road. >> in 2 tiny homes, which is not what taxpayers voted for in 2020. >> at tuesday, san jose city council meeting a long list of speakers torn over may or may hands proposal to reallocate millions of dollars from measure e i would wholeheartedly be against it. what the mayor is proposing is brilliant. roughly 87 million and measure the money is generated from a transfer tax on home sales. 2 million or more. the city allocates the money to permanent supportive housing. but mahan is requesting a onetime change to
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allocate the money to put in quick build tiny homes right now, all that's happening is people get on the >> tiny home. mary grand yet on your go around around around for 6 months and then you're put back on the streets that re traumatized people. the request comes at a time when the city just finished today's of sweeping nearly 200 homeless from coyote creek valley. water plans to start a flood protection project. there will able to >> get a lot of people out of streets and on the beaches safe place with neighbors say they're excited not to see the area full of later. >> and fires. these are not just warming cooking fires. these are fires to get copper. so they're burning pvc. they're burning, plastics and things like that to obtain the full metal value a lot better because now i can go back to the protected past that it is.
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and then hopefully this deal had salmon can run again at the city is working on rehousing people from coyote creek. there is money that has been already allocated for that. but as far as the mayor's plan for the 87 million dollars, the council will vote on whether they will take up his plan. >> in june, reporting here in san jose, justin campbell kron. 4 news, a relatively new state law could be a game-changer for thousands of bay area residents, san francisco lawmakers and community advocates want to make sure people are aware that they can't erase old convictions from their records. >> the law took effect on january. first, it allows people who have been arrested but not convicted. and those with old convictions for minor offenses to have their arrest records electronically sealed, which could help them in applying for jobs. >> what happens when people serve a sentence and pay their debt to society. but then 20 years later, 30 years later, 10 years later are still met
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with over 40,000 legal restrictions. i promise you what you'll see is a lot of what you see happening in our communities today. people locked out of opportunity. people who are in an endless cycle of trying to move forward because being pushed back. >> the new law does not apply to anyone who was a registered offender or anyone convicted of a violent felony. >> disgraced and convicted former ceo of theranos elizabeth holmes will soon have to start her prison sentence. an appellate court denied a motion filed by her lawyers to keep her out. the court ruled that holmes had not raised a substantial question regarding the conduct of trial or show that any trial errors were likely to result in reversal or result in a shorter prison sentence. holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison after a jury convicted her of misleading and defrauding theranos investors. us district judge will now have to set a new surrender date for homes. meanwhile, her appeal will continue to move forward as scheduled. >> the former ceo of silicon
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valley bank getting grilled by lawmakers today on capitol hill. it was the first time gregory becker spoke publicly since the bank collapsed in march. kron four's catherine heenan reports. lawmakers wanted to know what went becker blamed a lot of things from regulators that the media. >> to the speed at which people can make withdrawals these days because of a smart phones didn't seem to take a lot of the blame. as for the industry turmoil caused by the collapse in march of the silicon valley bank. he says he is sorry, but he told members of the senate banking committee it was unforeseeable and committee members on both sides of the aisle. we're not buying that. this all comes back to the power of your industry from the rules and big banks, including yours, lobbying 2 weekend. to the impunity with which executives have been allowed to operate, the largest banks in the people who run them have been impervious to consequences for far too long. the leadership team and i made the best decisions we could with the facts and forecast available
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to us at the time. >> this was bone deep. down to the marrow, stupid. you put all your eggs in one basket. >> there are times like right there. backers seemed at a loss for members also pointed out that he still did get a fat bonus of 1.5 million dollars last year. becker was asked if he will keep it. he says he will comply with regulators if they seize the bonus is not offering it. he also denied that he acted on nonpublic information when he cashed up some of his stock options in the weeks before the bank collapse. ken and pam. >> thank you, catherine. the oakland a's are on the wrong side of history last night reaching a near record low and the number of people who showed up to their game. the a's hosting just over 2000 fans in their home opening series against the arizona diamondbacks. that is the smallest crowd recorded in oakland since september of 1979. when just over 1000 fans
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showed up as well as say that their beef doesn't lie with the team. but with the owners who already have a second mining agreement to purchase land for a new ballpark in las vegas. former a vendor how gordon, who's known as a hot dog guy at the coliseum, says he's not shocked by the low attendance. >> i want to support the fans, but i want to support the it's completely owns an surprising that so few people are going to these games. it's very strange thing. there. i think there's that combination of of wanting it not to end being so furious. how that he mistreated. it's community. >> the team also ranks last in attendance among all 30 major league baseball teams. >> students in oakland back in class today after the district and the teachers union reached a tentative contract agreement. the teachers went on strike for more than a week. now there are only 7 days left in the school year and the district says it will
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not add any days to make up for the last time. some parents told us they're just happy to get their children back in school. >> helping her? everything to go smoothly. we're thankful that the teachers were able to reach agreement. i'm just excited to be back in school at my son is going to be in the little. they were working on a vital the after school program. so we're looking forward to, you know, kind of seeing him and see the kids just happened with each other. again. >> the agreement was made early monday morning and it includes a 15% raise and a one-time $5,000 bonus more facility resources, more resources for black and on how students. it also includes investments in school. librarians guidance counselors and school nurses. >> we have some breaking news to tell you come. police are asking the public to be on the lookout for this chevy pickup in connection to a possible kidnapping. police say just before 2 this afternoon, they got a call about 2 men forcing a woman into the truck on the
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street near 100st avenue in east oakland. you can see the license plate number there. 8 y 5, 1, 4, 5, 1, one of the men is described as being in his 30's with dreadlocks wearing a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans. the second man was wearing a red mask and white shirt. the only description of the woman is that she has black hair. anyone who has any information about this case is asked to call oakland police. still ahead tonight on kron 4 news at 10, a kim kardashian lookalike dies after receiving some silicone injections here in the bay area. >> what the prosecutor in the case is saying about the woman who gave her those injection. plus, the new parking rules coming to san francisco this summer. that will not only cost you more but limit the times you can park for free. and the creator of chatgpt testifies in congress. the warning he has tonight from lawmakers about the fast-growing artificial intelligence technology.
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>> san francisco's most famous cricket street has received an irrigation makeover. city officials gathered lombard street today to talk about the abrasive, the antiquated irrigation system before the of graze. the system uses much as 50,000 gallons of water every month. now lombard street will use an estimated 8,000 gallons of water every month. and that will save more
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than half a million gallons of water every year. >> new parking rules are coming to san francisco and they're going to cost you more. that's right. starting this summer, the city will extend the parking meter hours, raise prices and eliminate some 3 times. kron four's gayle ong has more. >> i don't could put you be to be read out. i don't think are kicking up at the meters in the video right? sure that you want more. if the city has got to do is kind of do i don't see why not. >> san franciscans reacting to sfmta modernizing parking meter hours. plan starting this summer. the city will be extending parking meter hours until 10 at night monday through saturday and on sundays. hours will be added. it will be between noon and 06:00pm. >> yeah. you'd like to get a break all the costs. so sunday was nice. the reason for the new hours are facing fiscal cliff. looking at 130 million dollar budget deficit. >> that means without without any changes without any new
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revenues, that would mean significant cuts to muni service. hank wilson is a parking policy manager with sfmta. will we, of course understand that nobody likes to pay for something that they used to get for free meters are there for a reason. and they are the best tool that we have to actually create parking availability to help people who want to come in to our neighborhood commercial districts and shop and spend money beginning july first, the new hours will go into effect in the fisherman's wharf and doc patch neighborhoods. ski says he avoids driving if possible. ride the bike most of the time because of just hard to find spots that so. >> that's the hardest part of the plan was encouraged back in february 2020, right before the pandemic. meantime, sfmta staff plan to get more feedback from the community. the new plan will be rolled out in 6 phases to different parts of the city beginning in july. >> will be operating under new hours by the summer of next year reporting in san francisco, gayle ortiz. >> coming up on kron, 4 news at 10, a california lawmaker
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is hoping hidden fees become a thing of the past. he wants to hold merchants accountable for what's called junk fees and what scientists say one man has said could lead to a cure for alzheimer's. >> and here comes the fog rolling along the coastline right now. more of that on the way. but we've got some warm weather ahead to. we'll talk about that with your 10 coming up next.
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>> a big story we're following at 10, 30 people in marin county will be seeing their water bills. increase them are in municipal water district voted tonight in favor of proposed rate increase. yeah. kron four's amanda hari was at that meeting and she explains how much more money people's bills will be. >> with this rate increase, a typical single family. we'll see about a 20% increase in the first year. and then smaller increases in the 3 following year. it's hundreds of members. county community turned out in person and over. zoom for the does pull water districts meeting the public had the opportunity to weigh in on rate increases, the improved increase is expected to be reflected on people's july. first, bill. and we'll continue increasing every year until 2026, for example, if your current by monthly bill is $138, it would go up to $170 on july. 1st by 2026, it would be $218. the district board spent more than an hour
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explaining the increases board. members say they don't take this decision lightly, but the water district is losing a million dollars a month. they don't have enough employees to operate effectively and infrastructure needs to be updated. community members were both for and against the increases in plan represents the vision we need to ensure the long-term functioning, resilient. >> things from our system. there's a concerning impacts of climate change with the action to make it happen. if i feel is important increases respectfully request that you not do what you're proposing, seeing water and the environment for gardens is not waste. in fact, it's an environmental asset to such a that the first thing that would happen with what you're suggesting is that people would stop water, that acts. and unfortunately, then it would all be on the watershed. and the problem that i see with that is it's the same as the assessment of this on us.
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we all are paying as rate payers. >> for going and i can't order that despite a lot of rain this year, the district members say they're anticipating more droughts in the future. members voted in support of the increases. florida won. the district says the last rate increases were back in 2019 in warren county amanda hari kron. 4 news. to get a check on our weather forecast. 4 zone forecast and we're looking live out over san francisco on what you see growing there in the center of the screen. >> blue and white. i don't know exactly what it is other than it's the top of the sales force. it looks send those men those little steel, clacking that used to see back on office desk. we're back in the day. something like that, lawrence, one day. what do you think your guess is as good as my? the fog, it's, you know, below right. i mean, boy, it's shutting down below the sales force building. but we're seeing that around the bay
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area kind of that thin dec. >> sliding on shore right now. it's making its way back into the bay as we speak. but it's very thin. it's going to be gone in a hurry tomorrow and then we're off to the races again with what looks like temperatures going to be very close to what we had today. and it very toasty in some spots, especially inland today, up there over san francisco. right now, you can see the fog moving overhead right now in san francisco. kind of thickening up, maybe even a little drizzle along the coastline overnight tonight. and it's tomorrow morning. here's a look the east bay. you can see the fog just patchy. been coming and going here into parts of berkeley and also in oakland. but it just a thin layer out there now. and that's likely a much thicker overnight tonight. so going to govern a hurry. and that means we're going to see a lot of sunshine, warm temperatures. good news is you get the sea breeze. get that fresh air really moving in from the ocean as well and looking good all around the bay area right now. air quality. fantastic going stay that way to i think tomorrow, a stronger sea breeze by the afternoon. high pressure will start to weaken. i think late in the day and that will be a trend that takes us into this next weekend. temperatures are going to start to cool down a
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bit into the weekend, too. hey, check out those low of this is impressive. looking low, spinning off the coastline. at least looks if sailor. yeah. maybe some issues out there on the water, but otherwise, california not going to worry much from that. the system actually going to run all the way over the top of the ridge of high pressure along the west coast. that means we're not going to see the system is going to run right up the ball, the jet stream that we're going to see just some sunshine and a passing couple passing high clouds and that is it tomorrow. it will be warm inland. you got the fog along the coastline to keep you on the cool side. temperatures this time of year, you can see a wide variety of numbers are going to see that tomorrow. 65 degrees. downtown san francisco about 61 in the sunset. low clouds hovering there all day long. 16 pacifica. 61 in half moon bay. but inside the bay will start to heat up the sunshine richards. 68 burlingame. then you're running in the 70's in redwood city. 72 in palo alto, the south bay, a mixture of some 70's and almost 80 degrees in saratoga in campbell. tomorrow, cupertino, you're looking at some sunshine and 79 in beautiful. 76 in santa clara, as you head
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to the east bay, though, i get very warm tomorrow afternoon. maybe not 89, but still you're at 87 degrees in pleasanton. 87 in dublin, a cooler breeze blowing in the castle valley by the afternoon about 72 83 to read about 87 degrees in concord. and 75 degrees in hercules yeah, it will be warm. 85 in fairfield again. 82 degrees in pittsburgh in about 77 it. but he should do expect that breeze that delta breeze blowing in the afternoon. fog camped out along the coastline. keeping those temperatures, coolest in some beach. but over the next few days, i think we're seeing that a ridge of high pressure finally started weekend. temperatures going to cool down as we head in toward the weekend as well. the warming back up just a little bit on monday and tuesday. but right now, things kind of steady as she goes. i think we like that pattern. just that fog and low cloud cover out there tonight. but looks pretty nice. specially dance around some of the buildings. it's true all right. thank you. health officials say don't worry about mercury poisoning in martinez. any more officials lifted their health advisory for downtown martinez. >> after a mercury spill at
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the amtrak station. the advisory was issued last week. people were asked to avoid that area while crews cleaned it up. the source of the mercury remains a mystery and is under investigation. 3 people hurt after a crash between a car train and a pickup truck in oakland. it happened late last night. >> when the train struck the truck between the coliseum in lake merritt stations. officials say the train operator was taken to a hospital. a passenger on the train was also hurt. >> the truck driver was arrested on suspicion of dui about 45 passengers on the train were evacuated. >> so a bunch of sparks along the window in the car. we are in. so the big collision when the train came to a people are talking about some was on fire. >> there were no delays reported on the tracks related to that crash. developing news tonight, alameda county district attorney pamela price is asking the county to pay more than $300,000 to cover her team's training. price
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said when she and her staff took over the office, they had to hire contractors from a private firm before her team could be officially registered into the county system. and the da blames the expenses of the previous administration saying she they didn't offer any support for her and her team when price took over the office, several prosecutors who served under under the previous administration resigned because they disagreed with prices. new policies. we reached out to former da nancy o malley s office for comment but have not yet heard back. >> california's attorney general rob bonta says he wants to do more to alert customers about hidden fees. he introduced new legislation that would make it a crime for a person or business to engage in false or misleading advertising practices. that includes a ban on drip pricing as it's called, which is when customers are charged a higher price price than what was actually advertised. >> other states have made some inroads in the space, including some states which
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have prevented hidden fees and certain sectors, specific industry sectors. but our bill applies in the biggest state in the nation and applies across sectors for all hidden fees, no matter what the industry is. >> is urging members of the public to share their experiences with hidden fees by using the hashtag hidden fees uncovered. lawmakers on capitol worried about artificial intelligence today. the ceo of the san francisco based company open ai told lawmakers they should take steps to protect americans. ceo alt ma is the creator of chat gpt which has raised major concerns among other things. it has been used by some students to cheat on exams and write papers. in fact, in today's congress, it a congressional hearing, connecticut senator richard blumenthal put the capabilities of artificial intelligence on full display using the technology to emulate his own voice.
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>> this is not the future we want that voice not mine. the words were not mine. we are on the verge really up a new. >> many lawmakers and experts say it may be time to form a new agency to help govern artificial intelligence to protect the public and hold companies accountable. a woman who made money as an influencer and a kim kardashian look-alike is dead. this after receiving silicon injections, investigators say the woman responsible gave her the injections illegally at the burlingame hotel is now being extradited back to the bay area from florida. kron four's rob nesbitt has the story. christina ash ago, connie made a living off of looking like kim kardashian on only fans that same desire to look like a celebrity may have been the cause of her death. >> a caring and loving spirit is how christina ashton gore counties, family described. ron, this go fund me page. the
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34 year-old died of a heart attack on april 20th. but san mateo county district attorney steve wagstaffe says 24 hours before that gore county was here at the san francisco airport, marriott hotel to receive silicone injections into are rare and so that it would enlarge are rare and to make the victim look more like. >> kim kardashian instead, what happened is the drug that was injected into went right into her bloodstream is ultimately cause j a pulmonary embolism, causing her death. >> according to wag staff, the injections were given by vivian gomez who was arrested at a florida airport just hours after the kim k look alikes death. the 50 year-old has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and practicing medicine without a license that cause death. >> it's very dangerous and it's not approved by the fda and she's not even if it were. she's not licensed to do it. she's she's a cosmetologist, an licensed cosmetologist. they shouldn't be using needles to inject drugs into. but how many other people she's done this with other than there's a web site is, you we don't know.
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>> gomez waived extradition in florida and is scheduled to appear monday before san mateo county judge was told she will be here later this week or over the weekend. counties cause of death is still being investigated by the coroner's office. family members reading online that the models charismatic, joy and positive energy will be missed. it's tragic what occurred here. this is a young woman's life lost over this. >> tone on guy like me. i don't understand it. it's nonsensical. so, yeah, we take it very seriously. that's why we charge felonies and are going to the step of extraditing are spending the resources to have her extradited from she's to be held accountable for what occurred here. >> if found guilty of the 2 felony charges against her gomez faces a maximum of up to 4 years in prison. reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. >> researchers at harvard university say one man with a rare gene could help protect people at risk of say the man inherited a gene mutation that causes people to develop memory loss at a young age. but it didn't happen until he
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was in his 70's. a genetic analysis revealed that the man had a rare change in the gene that helps nerve cells communicate researchers say understanding how this gene change defended defended his brain may help prevent alzheimer's and other people. and that wraps up kron. 4 news at 10 coming up next is sports night. force force director jason dumas is here with a look at what is coming up day sunday. we're cooking up a lot of stuff, guys. coming up next, steve kerr. >> had his end of year press conference and boy, did he have a whole lot to say you won't want to miss. >> his take on the drama at the beginning of this season and how that impacted the rest of the year. >> we also go right up the road from our crop for studios to oracle park, where the giants. >> we have begun to play better baseball slowly, but surely baby steps spend more. coming up on sports night coming up on sports night live.
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>> any time some trust is and it makes the process much more difficult. and there was some trust lost.

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