again. and this time it could lead to a bombshell moment the los angeles innocence project is stepping into this infamous case requesting a mountain of evidence to see if there's any truth to peterson's claim that he is innocent of killing his wife and unborn son. >> kron four's terisa stasio joins us live from the newsroom with more on this big hearing. >> why grant and noelle, one item of particular interest is a van that reportedly had blood stains found inside a day after laci went missing. >> here's a close-up look at that burned van with a mattress inside with apparent blood stains de los angeles innocence project wants to review all of the report to the van and most importantly, use current forensic technology. and what's key is that now the innocence project brings technology in dna and other forensic evidence. that's 20 years down the road from the time. >> of laci and conner's murder. is that dna evidence

available to be tested? what does it show? legal analyst steven clark says it is significant to have the group get involved, but the innocence project has taken on the peterson case speaks volumes and it suggests that there is a potential here for peterson to get a new trial if they can show that laci peterson was still alive when scott peterson went fishing christmas eve, 2002. >> in addition to the van, other evidence requested includes reports collected from the search of the bay area. marina. we're laces remains were found. police reports on a burglary across the street from the peterson home and access to interviews conducted on eyewitnesses that reported seeing lacey after she went missing analysts. clark says that the bottom line and digging into this case years later is to ensure the integrity of our legal system since project may not show that scott peterson.

>> didn't commit the murders. they want to look at this to make short that the jury got this right one way or the other. so it could be that the innocence project's information suggests that the jury didn't get it right. i mean, ceetainly there was a lot of evidence in the peterson trial to suggest he was guilty, including his behavior during the time of the homicide. >> in january, the innocence project has to take a closer look at 16 pieces of evidence. a judge tomorrow could make a broad ruling on this in order prosecutors to hand it all over. we have you covered. we are going to be in the courtroom first thing tomorrow morning. to provide you the very latest updates. cameras are not allowed but weekend block from the courtroom in the newsroom to i'm theresa stasi. back to you guys. all right. thank you, theresa. >> in the north bay, a fairfield school resource officer has been arrested after police say he sent inappropriate text messages to 2 teenage girls. fairfield police say officer james lewis

was working at rodriguez high school when he sent the messages. lewis was later booked into the solano county jail on several charges, including contacting a minor with intent to commit a crime in response to the ongoing investigation, the department posted on social media saying we are simultaneously disappointed, infuriated and saddened by this information. acts like these violate trust are wholly inexcusable and failed let exemplify what the fairfield police department stands for. and, quote, the school district also posted on social media saying children's safety is its utmost priority. >> take a good look at your screen. oaklandpolice need your help finding the man on the left side of your screen. they say sola dog during a burglary. you're looking at pictures of the dog there on the right hand side of your screen and the vehicle police say is linked to this robbery. officers say the burglary happened at a business on clara street near the oakland

airport around 11 o'clock last tuesday night's almost a week ago. police say the suspect was with a group of people. anyone with information is asked to contact oakland pd. as gun violence continues to plague the nation. and california attorney general rob bonta says the state is taking action to ensure guns are kept away from people who are prohibited from owning them. our capitol correspondent eytan wallace reports. well, just take a look at all of these guns. these represent just a handful of the more than 1000 firearms. the california department of justice seized last year. >> from people prohibited from owning them gun after gun after these make up a tiny portion of the 1443 firearms. the state's season 2023 from california is not legally allowed to have them. among the items seized more than 327,000 rounds of ammunition. 683 handguns, 364 rifles, 216

shotguns. 88 ghost guns as an unregistered guns that can be assembled at home. and 39 of what the state considers assault weapons. the goal is simple here. keep the number of illegally armed individuals as low as possible. that attorney general rob bonta says is specifically the goal of california's armed prohibited persons system program. also known as apps. it takes date of all the legal gun purchases and 3 plus million legal gun owners in the state and cross references it with a list of the more than 23,000 californians who are prohibited from owning a gun most of the time either because they were convicted of a violent felony or misdemeanor were placed under a domestic violence or other restraining order or are experiencing severe mental illness. >> if they're found with a gun or deemed to about one before ending up on the list, the state will come and take it away because of this program. organs. are off our streets and out of dangerous hands. more schools, places of worship, dance studios, workplaces and neighborhoods.

they are all safer. he notes the program is especially crucial in the state where more than 3,000 people die of gun violence every year bonta has long maintained the program does not target legal gun owners, something republicans in the legislature agree with. but while they acknowledge the state has ramped up investigations to confiscate guns from people banned from owning them assembly. minority leader james gallagher points out. the state still has a backlog of some 8,900 people who are under active investigation. in a statement he wrote while attorney general rob bonta chased headlines, the department of justice has barely put a dent in california's backlog of the legal gun owners removing fewer people from the app system last year than the year before reducing the backlog of illegal gun owners must be the doj absolute highest priority. we can save a life through a common sense institutionally compliant action. we should. and with our apps program, we are and bonta says his team will continue to go through

the list of prohibited gun owners regularly. something he hopes will lead to more progress in the year to come reporting at the state capitol. a tom wallace kron. 4 news. >> new report says tuitiot at private schools across the bay area has skyrocketed in recent years. the san francisco chronicle reports the average tuition in san francisco. it's going to cause people about 23,000 bucks a year for primary school. way more for high schools in marin county tuition is more expensive than that. 26,000. then they say that says for elementary school and that's even though student enrollment has dropped more than 20% in recent years at private schools, san mateo county, private schools cost about 22,000 a year to a tent. >> gas prices are surging right now nationwide hitting a 4 month high. the price hike could affect the u.s. economy's recovery from inflation. although gas prices usually rise around this time

of year due to higher demand and a switch to a more expensive blend of fuel. here's a look at prices across the bay area right now. they're about $0.5 higher than they were last week, $0.30 higher than last month. excuse me, the most price, the priciest gas you'll find is in san mateo county at $5.8. >> for a gallon of regular gas throughout the north bay. gas is above $5 in the east bay gas in alameda county costing about $4 and $0.94. cheapest gas is in solano county at $4 and $0.85. you know, the really get you where going up to this year. >> because you have no other 80 50 there. this is 6.80, here in the bay area in walnut creek where people are getting by really nicely. yeah, it's pretty clear out there on the >> grant just mentioned the sierra lawrence. what's going on up there? yeah. head up the high country. don't forget those chains. we've got a late season winter storm rolling

in. >> back that snow is not that far away. it will be pushing in as we head through the evening tonight and it looks like it's tomorrow to see the high country. yeah, you're getting the snow up there and looks like it will come down fairly heavily overnight tonight. not as big some of the previous storms. here's a look at incline village to see some of the snow off the side. and you notice all the waves out there on the lake. they're going to see some strong winds generated maybe 2 to 4 foot waves out across a lake tahoe. so here's the very latest on the doppler radar. you just beginning to see some snow showers possibly moving up along. i-80 near the donner summit. i'm not so much just clouds rolling through on 50 right now, but things go ahead. start to pick up as we head through the night tonight. in fact, that snow level going to be dropping down winter storm a rolling on through a right through tuesday. so more snow on the way. the snow level right around 4500, about 6,000 you can see as much as 3 to 6 inches about 5,000 feet. so that's a pretty decent storm rolling on through. of course, that will affect all the mountain passes up there. so you can expect some likely delays up there and change from time to time, especially

overnight tonight and into early tomorrow morning. watch out for some gusty winds headed over the summit. see the area shaded in purple there. that is where your current winter weather advisory is in place until 5 o'clock in the afternoon on tuesday. snow amounts not going to be gigantic, but still this is adding to some very impressive totals we've seen so far. so the good news is if you're a skier boy, you're probably enjoyed last weekend. will you now you can enjoy some nice, fresh powder again, as we head toward wednesday and thursday, things start to clear out the road should open up. looks like some great conditions and travel in the high country. then you're going to able to scan all that fresh powder. in fact, some of highest peaks you could be talking about maybe 8, maybe 10 inches more fresh powder. guys, back to you. lauren, thank you. it was a historic night at the 2024 oscars. some 19 million people tuned in last night. >> that's the biggest number. the show has drawn in 4 years. oppenheimer came away with several awards. and sam rubin now has a recap of the winners at the 96th academy awards.

>> a wild sunday night in the hollywood. the oscars. well, many of the anticipated winners were winners. there was one big surprise. and overall, i think a very successful evening. let's take a look at who were the big winners on sunday night. but only one. >> we'll take the award for. >> best picture, oppenheimer. as predicted oppenheimer at very good night winning 7 academy awards, including the big one. you best picture. best actor was killian and the oscar goes to kelly murphy. >> chris nolan and emma thomas spin the wireless most exhilarating, most creative flee, satisfying journey. taking me on over the last 20 years. i owe you more than i can say, oh, my fellow nominees, i remain in all of you guys truly best supporting actor robert downey junior and the oscar goes to >> i'd like to thank my terrible childhood. and the

academy. in that order. >> you know, what we do is meaningful and the stuff that we decide to make this important. so back to my publicist. >> and in what many see as a career achievement award oppenheimer director christopher nolan finally wins his oscar and the oscar goes to christopher nolan in the supporting actress category. no surprises here, dave. i'm joy. randolph has dominated all of the awards season, but this was her most emotional speech yet the oscar goes to a violent. >> i think i was supposed to be doing this as a career. i started off as a singer. my mother said to me, go across street to that theater department. there's something for you there. and i think my

mother for doing best actress was the one category that was little up in the air with most pundits suggesting that lily gladstone would win. but in the end. >> it was a genuinely shocked emma stone for poor and the oscar goes to analysts, though. i'm mike i think it happened just so deeply honored to share this with every cast member. with every crew member with every single person who poured their love and their care and their brilliance into the making of this film. ryan gosling's performance of barbie's. i'm just almost broke the internet. reporting from the oscars. i'm sam rubin. >> actually watched the whole thing. i haven't watched in entire oscars in a long time.

i usually get kind of border whatever. it was a really good show. and they had some great award presenters this year. >> for i didn't catch all of it caught last bit of it. we were in a little league a lot on, you know, you look at yeah. today it seems like it was well-received. yeah. everything went off without a hitch. a did some different things where they had past winners coming out to give the actor and actresses awards, which is really cool. mage gave a little like, >> you know, a homage to each one of the nominees, which was like different. i thought they had arnold schwarzenegger and danny devito, ca mau give 2 awards. and they were probably my favorite part of the night. they were talking about, you know, being villains in batman and making some jokes towards michael keaton. and so i it was really well this year. i thought they they hit the right notes. so hopefully they can continue doing that because viewership has been down previously. so always giving get that winds ease back to. yeah. exactly. that's one of the miners was like i'm

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even though the forty-niners already have. >> a lot of expensive players on their roster. they're getting in on the action. the niners are set to sign defensive end leonard floyd, an nfl veteran who was with the rams most recently spent a year with the buffalo bills reported to be a 2 year 20 million dollar deal. the team is also working on the current roster. they tendered a one-year contract to wide receiver juwan jennings. he's a restricted free agent so that means that if any other team makes him an offer, the forty-niners have the opportunity to match it if they don't match it and jennings signs with another team. but he granted a second round pick as compensation. so pretty good deal there. lot of negotiations and restructuring going on with some big names. defensive tackle eric armstead will be released by the team after he refused a proposed pay cut. armstead was a team captain and the longest tenured forty-niners player at 9 years with the franchise. and then fullback kyle use check has reportedly also been

asked to take a pay cut and linebacker fred warner deal has been restructured as well. so 40 niners could be moving this money around maybe in hopes of signing another big-time free agent or making some room for some of the contracts. they're working to extend this summer players like charvarius ward on the door lenoir and probably most notably brandon knight. all guys, the forty-niners are looking to a lock-up for the foreseeable future. it's an exciting time for sure. this week grant well, indeed, know you'll be on it. thanks, kate. lot of buzz around vegas this weekend. the a's hosted the brewers there in a spring training game saturday. >> team management admits it is tricky to say the least 2. stay in the moment and focus on their season in oakland while also getting lots of questions about the organization's departure and moved to vegas. >> it's nothing new for me. it's something that i understand my role in this organization as a as a leadership position that i'm

going to have to do with this and answer these questions. you we've made to where most of these players that are here gone through this last year with these types of understand you it's a part of this process that we're in. >> poor guy manager mark kotsay a bit. if you gave truth serum, he would say he doesn't want to go to vegas but you don't hear from the owner, john fisher. dave carroll, too often so there you have poor mark fielding questions about this. by the way, as of right now, say they plan to open their new ballpark in vegas in 2028. >> meantime, in the south bay, the san jose earthquakes donated hundreds of soccer to a local elementary school. last week. the earthquakes visited mckinley elementary in east san jose. kids got 160 soccer mls all-star christian

espinosa was there. he says it was a special moment for him. >> i always been to opportunity to for mayo? just doesn't it? yeah, i think that's already put out the into showed this moments with this for the kids at the u.s.. but it's bishop the hubbell and they have the opportunity to play with with the ball and share with kids. >> earthquakes also donated $15,000 to a nonprofit inspiring kids to lead healthy lives. let's get you a check of the forecast. taking a live look at the embarcadero in the bay bridge of those trees. look pretty still. too much wind going on. it's a call monday night in the bay getting ready for another storm. >> lawrence is here to give us a long-range outlook. he's going to have the specific forecast for the next 4 weeks. yeah, hard to believe we're going to be hardly going to be talking about spring. but yeah, it is not that far away.

next monday. >> that's right. we're talking spring already. so we're get ready. i think we'll see a major change in the pattern here, at least for a week or so. but that the door right now, the clouds are gathering out there toward half moon bay around the rest, the bay area's. we get ready for another chance of some rain overnight tonight. in fact, it looks likely now as the storm system begin to move in, the clouds gathering, start to thicken up toward the golden gate bridge. so far, not much of the way when it's not a big storm. so tonight increasing clouds, rain going to be spreading south throughout the night tonight, especially after midnight tonight. and then tomorrow morning early. yeah. if you've got to commute early tomorrow morning, be careful. likely see some puddles out there on the roads. it is going to be a little bit wet early on and then you can see some clearing skies as we head toward the middle of the day by the afternoon. looking good long range forecast building high pressure, sunny and breezy offshore winds kicking in as we head toward the latter part of the week. step outside right now, cloudy. 54 in pacifica is 59, partly cloudy and hayward. 58 in concord. 57 degrees in napa and 55 degrees in the battle. so temperatures not bad outside, but throw some rain drops in the forecast overnight tonight.

this may be it. that's likely going to be the last storm. you see this winter. of course we get to spring, maybe some more coming our way. in fact, you see this one beginning to make its way into northern california that front moving in the showers begin to pick up. and here we go as we head throughout the night tonight, start dropping further south. so a likely to see that rain throughout the night early morning. the good news is it's going to be gone for most of the day tomorrow. so really lets you get up earlier going miss most of it and then return to some sunshine. some partly cloudy skies, not a huge rainmaker, but we'll take it. how about a quarter of an inch? maybe a 3rd of an inch in some of the wettest spots around the bay area. so nice little soaker overnight tonight. here's your long range forecast model showing the front coming through after that. we'll move on by high pressure. really starts to take over. you start to get the sense the winds begin to turn more northerly out there and then as we head towards thursday and friday, we're talking about some offshore winds building in looks like some nice weather ahead as we head into the weekend. so looking good ahead. temperatures tomorrow going to be not bad numbers generally in the 50's maybe couple mid 60's out over the next few

days. we're going to see the clouds beginning to part as we get into thursday and friday. here we go looking good. going to see those 70's by saint patty's day. really some nice weather around the bay area next. monday is the beginning of spring. it is going to feel like it outside to and it has been one heck of a wind, right? a lot of folks and they'll say, ok, c'mon, we need some nice weather this is like a gift for all we've been through. you have go through that suffering for yeah. you get this and feel so good when that sun comes out of spectacular this weekend. can't wait as f. a lot of alongside. thanks. >> well, age is just a number for some people. this couple we hear from the bride, the we hear from the bride, the groom who plan to

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