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>> from the bay area's local news station. you're watching kron. 4 news at >> now at 5, more than 90
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people unknowingly filmed inside a starbucks bathroom. the youngest victim just 4 years old. a suspect is now in custody. thanks so much for joining us. everybody. i'm vicki liviakis and i'm grant lotus san jose police arrested a former starbucks employee. >> he's accused of putting the camera there. kron four's. rob nesbitt has the story. and employee at the san jose starbucks on covid ave first noticed the hitting camera on january 31st under the restroom sink and then called 9-1-1 to report officer tanya hernandez says the camera recorded 91 people the day before ages 4 to 85 years old. >> this recording. >> is graphic and includes multiple juvenile victims fully exposed after nearly 2 months of investigating police arrested war as junior on friday for possession of child. >> and installment of the hidden camera with audio or as is also facing several gun-related charges after police discovered roughly 20 firearms at his home,
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including high capacity magazines and assault rifle. i spoke with starbucks customers outside the coffee shop about the arrest and hitting camera first. heard about those like that's scary. >> i don't people are thinking world launched. that's i'm hey caught the person. starbucks released a statement wednesday saying, quote. >> this is a deeply disturbing incident and we are grateful for the quick and thorough response from the san jose police department and apprehending the suspect. we cannot overstate the importance of providing a safe environment for our customers and partners. >> and that was our rob nesbitt reporting. meanwhile, san jose police say a woman hit and killed an elderly man who was walking on highway 101. they say the woman was driving under the influence and had a toddler in the car happened. about 9 o'clock last night. just north of the mckee road exit. police say 25 year-old justine rivas was driving in the hov lane when she hit the man and there was a 3 year-old boy in the car at the time. rivas was arrested.
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no charges have been announced. she's being held at the santa clara county jail on $175,000. bail the driver who police say crashed into a san francisco bus stop killing 3 family members has. >> been released from custody. 78 year-old mary fong lau is currently facing several charges that include vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving. lau was behind the wheel of the car that plowed into the bus. stop muni metro west portal station while the family was just waiting to catch a ride to the san francisco zoo happened on saturday. 3 members of the family, including both parents and a one year-old child died. the 4th member of that family and infant remains hospitalized tonight and is now without parents or a sibling. lau's attorney released a statement saying, quote, ms lau and her family joined the community in mourning the tragic loss of life that occurred in west portal over the weekend. ms
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lau has been fully cooperating with investigators and we'll continue to do so loud remains hospitalized at this time. once release, she will be processed at the county jail. a charging decision could come within the first 48 hours or sometime after. >> new license plate readers are going up around san francisco, mayor london breed says the readers will lead to safer streets. breed is approved. the installation of 400 plate reading cameras saying they will deter crimes like break-ins, retail theft and sideshows. >> automated license plate readers can play an invaluable role in helping us to track some of the perpetrators of these crimes and hold them accountable. >> the city is using more than 17 million dollars from california is organized retail theft grant program to install the cameras. license plate readers as store security cameras in the east bay are being credited with the
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recovery of 3 stolen vehicles. alameda city police say the first vehicle theft happened at target. a license plate reader alerted police who then looked at security footage to identify the suspect, arrest them. police said the same thing to recover the second vehicle at kohl's. the 3rd they got wall greets. >> and internal audit firm bart shows 3 employees who claim to be working 10 hour days with briefly report to duty before going home for much of the portions of their ships. this report claims the 3 employees collected in an urn base salary extra earnings from shift pay overtime and double time. pay on holidays while their specific roles were not released. bart says that the employees were not approved for remote work and that their duties were not conducive to remote work. the report adds that one of the 3 employees retired once confronted by the park police department. >> alright, weather tight here as we take a live look out
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there on another gorgeous day and the bay looking live across the northern tip of san francisco into the bay. yeah. but lawrence has been warning us. we better enjoy. well, we've yeah. i mean, it has been phenomenal. this run of nice weather around the bay area. been gorgeous night to enjoy the sunshine and warm temperatures. basking in 70's across much of the bay area. but you saw some changes even this afternoon. those high clouds beginning to creep in. and that's a sign that ridge of high pressure starting to weaken just a little bit. we're going to see more of that on the way. coming up. still nice numbers around the bay area right now. i hope you're enjoying that beautiful. 71 in redwood city is 70 in lemore gorgeous, 70 degrees in san jose. very comfortable. 65 laos. 69 in concord, a cooler to san francisco now with the clouds moving in at 57 degrees. now. so far, so good. we are dry, but you see a little swirl off the coastline. that's an area of low pressure that's helping to move that ridge of high pressure pushing it eastward.
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that means it's getting out of town. it's going to open up the door to a very active pacific. in fact, it's looking unusually active for this time of year. it looks like things you can get going again, the rain department as we head toward the end of the week overnight, though, you're going to see those clouds kind of rolling on in lots of clouds across the bay area. no rain just yet, but there's more rain in the forecast. we'll time that out for you coming up in a few minutes. all right, lawrence, an update now to a story we brought you yesterday. a plan to get abandoned cars off city streets in oakland is moving forward. it this morning. the two-year program will focus on a number of things, including identifying and removing vehicles, increasing funds and staff to clean up the streets and creating more tow yards by repurposing caltrans vacant. lots under freeway overpasses. >> san francisco's board of supervisors approved a program to help unhoused people return to their hometown. so officials say this program will help the homeless crisis
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in san francisco. the homeward bound program started actually way back in 2005 initiated by governor newsom when he was mayor. the program provides people with travel and relocation assistance. the goal is to reunite 1000 people with their families each year supervisor ahsha he says in recent years the program has assisted fewer than 300 people. >> this is voluntary. so no is being forced to do it. what we know this has proven success. the average cost is a few $100 and the cost savings for the taxpayer. san francisco thousands and thousands of dollars. >> some people living on city streets tell kron for the program may result in some people being sent back to a place where they experienced a form of trauma. according to a new study, more than a quarter of an house, californians are black almost 4 times the
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state's population. >> only 7% of californians identify as black. but a new report from ucsf shows black people are 26% of the state's homeless population. the authors of the report say over representation is due in part to centuries of racism and embedded policies and practices. the study highlights a discrepancy in median monthly income prior to becoming homeless. $1200 lower for black people than other racial groups. that study says more than one in 5 black californians homelessness directly from incarceration. study authors say this is the first report of its kind since the mid 1990's. public health warning out of alameda county customers at a san leandro restaurant may have been exposed to measles crowd forcefully to call tells us about the urgency to contact people who may have been exposed at a place called sons of liberty restaurant. >> the alameda county public health department says the possible exposure happened sometime on march 9th between
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4.45 in the early evening until 7.30, that night. everyone who was in the area and visited the establishment during that time frame. caution to look out for measles symptoms for up to 21 days after the date in question. that includes fever, cough, runny nose. red eyes and a rash, worsening conditions could mean diarrhea, an ear infection and pneumonia. measles is a preventable virus. most of us are immune because most of us have been inoculated. but for those who have not been could be in jeopardy, mostly unvaccinated infants, 11 months of age or younger and pregnant women or people with weakened immune systems 2020 for 2023. >> is that we saw highest number applications for religious or other exemptions and schools for mandatory measles vaccinations. so we have had a decline in
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childhood vaccination rates. remember, the history of measles is that we got the vaccine first in 1963. before that, everyone's got the measles and they were for life. but it does have a mortality and morbidity rate young. so especially there are the most susceptible to getting very so we're really grateful to have measles vaccine. it is a live vaccine. so we start giving it around. >> 12 to 15 months of age and with those exemptions being rented with people not always vaccinating their young children, we have a chance more of spread, unfortunately. so make sure you and your children are caught up on your vaccinations. as for the business in question, the owner says that he is working through this. >> with the alameda county public health department in san leandro. philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> still to come on kron, 4 news at 5 college students across the state are staging a sleep in to protest the
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university's response to anti-semitic. plus, the fbi is sending out subpoenas wineries in the north bay, but venture say they don't know why. and a lawsuit verdicts might make buying a home more affordable. the big change coming to the real estate industry.
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>> the national association of realtors announced friday it has reached a 418 million dollar settlement agreement stemming from a federal lawsuit accusing the trade group of inflating real state agent commissions. that means that the sellers brokers won't get commission and a guarantee payment. kelly snyder is a professor of real estate development in urban planning at san jose state university. now the person who's doing the most work has a little more authority and power to to get compensated at a fair rate and they can do it at the expense of the of the broker, perhaps who isn't doing so much work in that they're you know, when there's to represent a transaction. >> most home sellers currently pay about 5 to 6% in commission fees split between their own broker and the buyer's broker for a 1 million dollar home. this could amount to 50,000 to $60,000 in fees. so the industry is going to have to just a little bit making sure that the buyers
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aren't agreements because right now the way we do it, we don't really put bars and dreams. we should have been doing we were not doing when you list to help you feel that sean is a broker for century. 21 real estate in dublin when you list the house for sell, was the listing agreement. now there's going to be a buyer agreement and it is positive in a way and we're all going to have adjust to not knowing what the commission is on the house. and if if a seller is not willing to pay a commission, then we're going to have to talk to the wise about paying a commission that people should seek help when buying property, especially first time home buyers and sellers. you need someone to represent the buyer. >> you want your own agent as a seller to represent you. you don't want them doing both sides. it gets a little bit muddled. so it's important that own agent and the buyer has agent agent is not going to work for free. who works for free? >> the settlement agreement still has to be approved by the federal court.
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>> gayle ong kron, 4 news. officials with the east bay regional park district are warning visitors about blue green algae blooms detected in several parks including lake chabot. >> low water levels, limited water circulation and increased temperature and light can cause blue green algae to bloom and release toxins. the algae blooms should not affect local drinking water plants and they tested regularly to make sure algae blooms do not affect drinking water source from the reservoir. danger advisory has been posted for several lakes, including tell foul and shadow cliffs. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with a look at what to expect. things are heating up, lawrence. yes, certainly doesn't quite feel like summer yet. not quite yet, but you can get some of those algae blooms. that's for sure. well, we're going to head back to some wintry weather that should kind of put a stop to that for a while. but of things are going to be changing as we're going further and further now in the
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spring and before, you know, it. >> that will start to heat things up. in fact, a nice day today. we have had some high clouds move in late in the afternoon. more of that on the way. i think we'll see another nice day tomorrow, though, we'll see some passing clouds throughout the day. the sea breeze is blowing right now. that onshore flow kicking in that that will carry with a little more fog overnight tonight into the bay and some of the valley's what's more high clouds by the afternoon overall, though, the pattern just about to shift gears. in fact, the pacific is still looking very, very active out there. we've got one cold front off the coastline that was going to fall apart. kind of run, right? the back of that ridge of high pressure that's sitting over california. but the next one that's taking aim on the bay area, that's going to be the one that will likely bring us some rain as we head in toward friday. it really kind of open up the door to not only more rain but some much colder temperatures. i think as we get in toward the weekend, here you go. you can see the first front about to make its way toward the coastline that was going to fall apart on its way. but the next will start to set itself up. but i think squeeze in one last nice day. before we start to talk about that rain making a return to the bay area. so enjoy some sunshine around the bay area.
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cloud passing clouds. so not entirely clear day, but at least it will be a fairly mild to warm outside tomorrow, starting out some patchy fog early on as we head throughout the day, you're going to see some passing clouds and then as we get to friday, here you go. rain moves through that first front coming through as we head toward the afternoon. those showers continuing on and off through saturday and a lot more snow in the high country. we'll talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. thanks. alerts in new report shows customers are not happy with pg and the oakland based company is. >> coming in at number. 23 out of 27, big utilities nationwide. the yearly customer satisfaction survey. the american consumer satisfaction index did the survey. it measured several factors, including reliability staff, courtesy and ability to restore service after outages. while the ranking is bad, it's better than last year when pg and e ranked dead last. the utility has been under fire as of late for in part, it's
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skyrocketing electricity costs when comparing all 4 major california utilities pg came in 3rd. the biden administration is enacting the toughest ever rules for tailpipe emissions. they're there to promote electric cars, but they're also seen as a crackdown on gas-powered vehicles. kron four's catherine heenan is here now with the details. we're moving this way, catherine? yeah, we sure are. and of course, californians already going down this path. governor newsom. >> wants to ban the sale of all new gas powered cars. remember by 2035. but today the biden administration is finalizing the plan to make sure that most new passenger cars sold in the u.s. are all electric or hybrid by 2032. >> new tailpipe pollution limits would transform the u.s. auto market. roughly one and a half million electric cars were sold last year. but that's only about 7 and a half
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percent of total sales way below the 56%. target set by the new climate regulations. if things go as planned by twenty-thirty to more than half the new cars sold in the u.s. would most likely be 0 emission, but a lot of problems need to be solved, including getting enough charging stations more than 172,000 were installed last year. some analysts say the nation will need more than 2 million by 2030. and overall the public's appetite for electric cars has been slipping. >> it is a lot of people discovered that, you know the place and the battery is expensive for the for the you know, if i tried to charge at that home, it's going to take a time. there's station for you to charge. mike are close to where i so those kind of infrastructure problems they need to take care of it. >> and of course, the issue has already been politicized.
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donald trump has promised to undo various climate change policies. if he is re-elected. president biden says the plan will create jobs but republican lawmakers argue that some u.s. auto jobs are at risk. >> the white house is more eager to peas, radical environmental activist. american people. >> idaho, washington gradual snap out of their climate danger in before it becomes nightmare. the epa claims that the regulation will reduce tailpipe emissions dramatically and save consumers. a lot of money on fuel and maintenance. but the plan is expected to face immediate legal challenges, probably ending up in the supreme court. still, experts say the changes are inevitable there's no going back. i mean, it's we have to make sure that >> we take advantage of this because of the environment because of the greenhouse gas emissions that we see all the time. because transportation is the biggest source of this kind of pollution. and and this this is what opportunity.
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>> one of the details that automakers like about the latest announcement. does allow more time to comply with regulations than initially expected. and it is a sign that the transition to electric cars. we'll take a longer then hoped grant and vicki. >> thank you, catherine. still ahead, dogs rescued from the war now here in the bay area. we're looking for a home. but first, a ceremony for community healing. most travel to an east bay city. remembering a dark past 12, hoping to create a brighter hoping to create a brighter future. ♪♪ when your child has moderate—to—severe eczema, it's okay for them to show off. show off their clearer skin
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>> the smell of burning incense and the sound distant out chants echoing down the streets of antioch about 200 buddhists made the pilgrimage to the city this weekend to mend wounds stemming from the horrific mistreatment of early chinese immigrants in the 1800's, thousands of chinese immigrants came to the area during the gold rush, but they were not welcome by all people who lived in antioch, for instance, where subject to sundown laws and the cities, buddhist temple where new immigrants congregated was burned out on saturday. monks and practitioners engaged a process of carmack healing, offering chants and prayers for peace. >> media or through education. these histories are a race. we can come together and we can learn about these histories.
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we can recover them. we can be resilient and we can repair our communities together. >> in 2021, antioch became the first u.s. city to issue a public apology for the mistreatment of early chinese immigrants storing the gold rush. >> next step tonight on kron. 4 news at 5. a call for more action on campus college students in the east bay protesting reports of violence antisemitism on campus. plus. time is ticking for congress to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. but some lawmakers are focus more on a different kind of tick tock. and it's a big birthday for a california political icon inside the celebr
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>> for the first time tonight, we're hearing from the professor who prompted asleep in a uc berkeley to protest growing concerns of anti-semitism. the u.s. department of education has launched an investigation into reports of violence. for more on the professor sleep in and how he says others are now joining his caused kron four's terisa joins us live from the newsroom with more theresa grant, vicki professor ron hassner provided some graphic descriptions of what he says he's been happening to jewish students on campus. he says that it is so disturbing he had to take action, which is why he has been in his office sleeping for the past 2 weeks. pastor join kron. 4 news just a moment at 2 o'clock to put a spotlight on what he called. >> cowardly actions against jewish students. this falls on the heels of a pro palestine demonstration last month

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