>> now to the couple wrongly accused of faking their own kidnapping, featured in the popular netflix documentary american nightmare. now calling for police reform. also about a month after the list of police chief candidates handed over to oakland mayor sheng thao. she just provided an update on the process of selecting the city's next top cop. >> news station. he's calling news 2. >> thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. i'm justine waldman. we begin with some developing news on a story we've been following out of san francisco where the driver was behind the wheel of a speeding suv that hit a

family of 4 has now been released from the hospital. 78 year-old mary fong lau was released from custody yesterday. and police say she was behind the wheel of that suv that barreled into a bus stop. and last night, san francisco police confirmed the 3 month-old who was seriously hurt in that crash has also died. so that means all 4 family members who are hit have died. this crash happened saturday in the city's west portal neighborhood. and police are saying the family was waiting at the bus. stop to take a trip to the zoo today. the site of the crash is a growing memorial honoring the lives lost. >> it's just a tragedy. i mean, the whole thing from the family and i no idea what happened. with the woman who was the driver. that sounds like an awful thing, too, because she 78 years old but was going on. it's just impressed with how much good stuff there is here. the people have left that is really. heartwarming support.

>> lau is facing charges that include vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving formal charges from the district attorney's office are still pending. the couple wrongfully accused of staging a kidnapping in valais in 2015 speaking publicly now about their experience, the story of denise huskins and aaron quinn featured in a netflix documentary called american nightmare. kron 4 s charles clifford has the details. >> well, this coming weekend, it will have been 9 years since the nice huskins and aaron quinn were wrongfully accused of staging denise is kidnapping today. they spoke to law enforcement hoping that by sharing their story, they can keep this from happening again. speaking to a packed room of law enforcement from across california, denise huskins and aaron quinn reed told their story in great detail starting with the moment they were awoken in their home by voices and what they thought was an armed robbery. >> instantly, i know. we're surrounded. they have guns were defenseless. the couple was restrained and drug. denise was then kidnapped and raped by this man. matthew

mueller. >> when aaron awoke the next morning, he reported the kidnapping toledo police, but was almost immediately made the main suspect, anthony says disappearance he endured hours worth of aggressive interrogation. >> it's clear in their eyes and no longer. a victim. i am a suspect. >> 2 days after she was taken, mueller released in east near her family home in southern california. the vallejo police department then accused the couple of making the whole thing up. mister quinn. >> and this huskins. has plundered valuable resources away from our community. >> although they were safe, the couple could not yet returned to their normal lives. >> our work will last back because they believe the hoax theory. to me says receiving hundreds of hateful messages on social media. and we don't feel safe anywhere. because the world leaves and they're liars. >> several months later, mueller was arrested in dublin, california for attempting a similar home invasion. investigators in that case were able to connect him to denise is kidnapping,

confirming the couple story and bring them a certain amount of relief. and almost time we were no longer seen as hoaxers. >> victims. we always work. matthew mueller was sentenced to 31 years in state prison for kidnapping huskins. he's also serving out a 40 year sentence for federal crimes. >> huskins and quinn have since married and now have 2 daughters. they chose to speak at this conference in hopes that law enforcement can learn from their experience. >> you don't have to believe every person who comes to speak to you. but as soon as you say, i don't believe this person. and that cuts off the opportunity for you to find out more. possibly find out the truth. >> now, denise huskins and aaron quinn were awarded a 2.5 million dollar settlement from the city of vallejo. but they say that to this day, no one from the vallejo police department has apologized directly to that in monterey county, charles clifford kron. 4 news. >> in the north bay, one person is dead after a house fire in marin county. this

happened just before 9 last night on hillcrest court in san anselmo about a mile north of archie williams. high school. firefighters say when they arrived, they saw flames coming out of the second story of a 2 story home crews put out the flames in about an hour and that's when they say they found the victim dead inside of the home. that person's identity has not yet been released. the cause of the fire is under investigation. it has been almost a month since the oakland police commission delivered its list of candidates for the city's next police chief to mayor sheng thao. no one has been hired to fill that job. as of now. and that list includes cincinnati police department lieutenant lisa davis, new york a-sistant deputy mayor for public safety. louis molina, former san leandro police chief abdul pridgen and retired lubbock, texas police chief floyd mitchell at the beginning of the month. the list of candidates was handed over to mayor sheng thao so she could review the choices and then possibly conduct her own interviews of those 4 finalists. today we spoke with the mayor during kron 4 news at noon and asked her where

she is in the process of appointing a new police chief. >> i have to do my due diligence. do a thorough review. you know, i can tell you migration of a panel interview has been conducted and i am moving forward and in a steadfast, wait moving expeditiously. but at the same time, i'm going to take my due diligence to ensure, you know, any checks and balances are implemented, making sure that this person is going to be the right person for the city of oakland. oakland has been without a permanent police chief since armstrong was fired in february of 2023. mayor thao says she fired him for failing to discipline officers. >> who committed misconduct? san jose mayor matt mahan joining community leaders today advocating for policy hoping to prevent the displacement of residents due to high rent. the tenant preferences program would give favor for affordable housing to tenants who already live in the neighborhood where these units exists or will be built. the groups at today's rally

expressing that the harsh conditions, many resident residents live through without this policy in place. >> i love that double that families intended have endure the harm of the harmful effects of this placement cars, but a lack of affordable and stable housing. living in the streets and caused that. we also witnessed so many struggle in trying to find foot of the house and buildings. >> the city council set to vote on this policy next tuesday. if approved, it would go into effect immediately. less than 24 hours after projection showed prop one will narrowly passed today. governor gavin newsom officially declared victory. welcomed with applause at the ronald reagan state building in los angeles. newsom promised that the prop will make an impact in the state's response to the mental health and homelessness crisis. the

6.38 billion dollar bond measure will fund more than 11,000 behavioral health beds. nearly 27,000 treatment slots for california is experiencing severe mental illness or substance use disorders. also fun new mental health facilities and housing projects. people want accountability. people want results. people are exhausted with the time. the way exhausted with the promotion, exhausted with the promises they want. >> to see results. they want to see program stood up. they want to done cost efficiently. they want them done in a way that actually produces outcomes. and i hear you loudly and clearly. and what i would say about propcsition one, as you will be proud >> opponents have expressed concerns that the bond will simply throw more money at a problem without results. but newsom 1000, the revenue raise will immediately fun. new behavior, health projects in the coming months. and mayor london breed says that san

francisco is ready to implement prop one. she says her office is already preparing to expand mental health and addiction treatment in the city to, quote, make real change in the city, adding that they have had to be aggressive and proactive her office adding city departments are planning to meet in the coming weeks to discuss how to implement prop one. let's talk about our forecast now of looking outside here. there's a ferry hiding there behind the palm trees cut. so nice to see the sun out there today, trying to enjoy it while it lasts. yeah, that's right. because we are going have a big change in our weather as we get into tomorrow. but right now, still very nice. as you can see, those blue skies are out there. >> visibility looking good and temperatures are pretty nice. 71 degrees in san jose and fremont into those upper 60's in spots like dublin, even downtown san francisco in the low 60's today. so temperature wise, you've done pretty well. little cooler up in the north bay. 65 in santa rosa. but we're looking good wind, not bad. this is another thing that will change tomorrow. this time tomorrow they will be talking about gusts that

are upwards of about 20 miles per hour in parts of the bay. so i think the big story today is just yes. get out and enjoy what you can because tomorrow and saturday, frankly, into the first part of sunday, things will start changing out. we've been looking at this kind of low and high pressure stacked on top of each other all this week. now you can see that low pressure has moved on. high pressure is relenting and now our focus goes to the pacific where the next systems will start to move in. that will bring us some rain. but really just overall have change the pattern that we've been in for the past few days. so in the next 5 days, this is the rain we're looking out for. it is going to be bay area wide and it will certainly get going as we get into tomorrow. it does look like it holds off at least for the morning rush hour before it starts to move in in the afternoon. i'll be back in just a bit. we're going to track all of this for you. get you ready for your weekend. back to you. >> coming up here, a reward has now been doubled for infwrmation on a san francisco cold case. but first, a new study out of ucsf shows that fatty liver disease is

disproportionately affecting latinx children's. we'll speak with the author of the study with the author of the study about why this could

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study out. a ucf shows that fatty liver disease is impacting latinx children more than any other group. so joining us now to discuss this is the author of the study. >> doctor, sarah maxwell, thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much for having me. what's behind the surge in showing how this group is impacted more than any other? >> yeah. and so we actually found that exposure to household food, insecurity and family is of mexican and central american descent and living in san francisco was

associated with nearly a 4 times increased of massell, which is the new name for a fatty liver disease in middle childhood show that this and this relationship has been found in adults that this is one of the studies to find missing children. >> so sorry it was able to show how food insecurity leads to fatty liver disease. how how do those 2 things relate to each other? >> yes, so we found an association with people with children who wear expensive food insecurity of for years of age and fatty liver disease. we don't understand mechanism at this time. and that's actually one area a few that further research that we're currently we're working on. but children and who households with food insecurity may have less access to sufficient quality and quantity of healthy and nutritious food. so people may be eating more. children may be eating more sugary drinks or more processed food or fast

food, potentially and food insecurity may change higher body. actually stories 5 and manages glucose, which is one of the mean roles of the liver. and adam. and it might also alter how the microbiome works with the liver and the got. so we think there's a lot of potential mechanisms that, again, are areas future research work on in the future. and what is fatty liver disease? what are the consequences of it? it may be as a child and even as the child grows up into adulthood. >> that's really good question. so adding that there are actually it was just be named metabolic dysfunction associated it had equipment to the east. and this means baton in the liver and a shot at kerr says can actually turn inflammation scar tissue. and if it turns into scar tissue, it can turn around. can actually lead to end stage, liver disease. so basically a

fatty liver. old is going to be soon in the next they predict 5 or 10 years. the leading indication for liver transplants in adults. and so it's really important to try to identify risk factors now so that hopefully we can intervene unfold, run before this progresses to a stage, whereas young adults, they might be needing liver transplants and since this is one of the first studies done on. >> children trying show these connections. i found it interesting that the study was saying that it also that highlighted the importance of public health food programs like school lunch, that that could be a way that this group that's experiencing food insecurity could get some food that's nutritious and then try to prevent this disease from happening later on in life. >> exactly. so we think it's really important for the medical system and especially for pediatricians to team up with organizations that help provide access to healthy nutritious food for families at risk. and so actually some

of the future work we're doing is actually piloting fruit and vegetable voucher programs for families with food, insecurity, and fatty and trying again try to promote. but pediatricians and schools to try improve access to adequate quantity and quality of healthy nutritious food because sadly is just too many children, especially minority children, do not have access access to healthy and nutritious then it seems children, especially those who might be overweight of mexican and central american origins that that then this food insecurity could read, increase their risk for fatty researchers are recommending that screening should just be happening sooner. >> now we're starting to kids, a fatty liver and even either. this is a scar tissue in their liver earlier and earlier ages. so they are starting to change the guidelines now. but

we think that just based on what seeing is that even especially for those higher risk in there, then send genetic mutations associated with i'm answering, think groups. so those mexican central american origins there, if you know and mutations that increase risk celebs. it's the on so the risk of not just if you have this, gene, you know, get this disease that what in addition to the gene can increase press corps and then if we find that increases risk, what can we then do to try to mitigate this additional rest? and so this is one potential avenue. so for people where we know at higher risk for development of mass called, it's potentially we also know that they have food insecurity. can we try to reduce food insecurity and then potentially could reduce that risk for you.

>> here's what it looks like outside right now on this sunny day, as we're waiting for some more clouds and rain, the role in kyle, it's going to time that all out for us. this going right now. are we waiting? i let's not let's get too into as happily awaiting. i know. i know. but it is a beautiful day out there today and certainly can see some folks out at half. moon bay are enjoying that sunshine. we're going to that mix of sun and clouds, particularly more clouds as we get into our evening tonight, an indication >> of that change in pattern and then we're going rain and wind tomorrow right through saturday into the first part of sunday and some serious snow on the way. so a lot going on. let's talk future cast challis. this is this evening. you can see a few clouds rolling in, but it really isn't until tomorrow that things get going and taking 2 to about 11:00am. so i do think we get in tomorrow in our morning commute. okay. but by the time we get about 11:00am, we start to see the showers rolling through the north bay in the afternoon. they make their way through the bay area so that the evening commute, it's going to

tough one because we're going to have some wind out there. some rain, some wet roads. you get the idea as we get into our saturday, we'll see more of this roll in and some of these could be thunderstorm cells. so you can see where we start to see some of these reds and oranges popping up. that is saturday up friday and saturday but have a slight risk of those thunderstorms that could pop up as well. so this is saturday night and in particular, you see a really big line really through on saturday night. so just make sure you're aware this if you've got plans and this will start to wrap up early sunday, but the first person they could have a little bit of a a kind of a little delay until we get some clear weather. and so we're looking at from a half inch to an inch for most areas. but if you get into those spots, one of those thunderstorm cells pops up. we could get higher totals there. we could even get tiny hail from things like that. so the other component to this is wind. and as i take you into tomorrow, you can really see it's going to start off as a bit of a southerly flow in this front goes through. will then turn to a westerly flow goes through friday and saturday. so here's your saturday afternoon. you can see some of those gusts

upwards of, you know, 2025 miles per hour. so what that means is now is the time to secure the trash can folks because, you know, you can get these things blowing in these gusts up to 25 miles per hour. it's enough to send something that is not full or, you know, just sitting there flying of the other thing you're going to notice is temperatures are really going to roll down as we get to saturday looking at highs just in the 50's across the bay area and notice next week. we still have a couple chances of showers there. so we've got a little bit of an interesting run. after all the warm beginning to spring. back to you. thank you. a san francisco supervisor is proposing to bring a full service grocery store to the tenderloin. >> supervisor dean preston calling on city departments for any potential sites for a store. according to preston, the closest full service grocery store for most tenderloin residents. it's about a half mile away. ongoing problems for teenager, shoplifting of loitering now have a bay area. top cop reaching out to safeway executives. so best of all, police chief ronald nelson

wrote a letter to safely as regional president expressing his concerns about the safeway on north main, which is just on the street from a high school. he says the problem of high school students loitering and engaging, in fact, is creating problems for customers, especially in the afternoon when school lets out. so in the letter, the chief says that his department has been providing additional patrols during school hours and off after school. but they just don't have the resources to do that all the time. the chief wants safe way to hire security and loss prevention staff and work together with the police department. a safeway spokesperson tells us they're now looking into the chiefs concerns. still ahead this afternoon, a second lawsuit has now been filed involving east bay teacher accused of assault. >> what the victim says should have happened. plus, the first nor linked nusra link patient made some moves. we take a look at what he can now do with the power of his might.

the first patient to use elon musk's tell a path nor link brain chip play chess just by thinking about his move. snow and arba is a purple egypt who became the first person to have. >> this brain chip implanted. he did a demonstration live on acts from his wheelchair yesterday moving the cursor by brain power alone. >> i love playing so this is one of the things that all enabled me to do often. see the cursor around the screen. what's that's on

>> as you keep song just for it also done with your brain. >> i'm from are about be seen showing off its new skills with the help of the implant. he lost movement below his shoulders after a diving accident. the video shows him moving a computer cursor using his thoughts while playing online chess moving a cursor is with a brain implant is not new but are but also demonstrated the ability to multitask by talking while also controlling the maps. he admits there has been some challenges with the implant, but overall, he says it's already changed his life. doctors in boston have completed a historic medical procedure by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living person. this experimental transplant was performed over the weekend at mass general. the 62 year-old recipient is said to be recovering well and could be discharged discharged soon for years, scientists have tried to transplant animal

kidneys into humans with no long-term success. and now they're modifying the dna of a pig. and those kidneys to make them more compatible with humans. more than 800,000 americans suffer from kidney failure. 100,000 are on a donor waiting list. >> coming up next, we have some new details on the victim from a wrong-way crash during a police chase in oakland. also the department of justice filing a landmark lawsuit against apple. the accusations in this antitrust case. also a celebration nightmare in the north bay. parents celebrating a birthday at sonoma county kil it's the work behind the scenes, let's take a look at this knee. that truly matters. [ physical therapy staff discusses results ] for your mind. for your body. and for the community. -team! kaiser permanente. - my childhood was kind of rough. my parents loved us but, they had a hard time showing it, you know.

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couple is being remembered as kind community members who lost their lives way too soon. >> the couple has now been identified as jt and a true they died coming back after celebrating a birthday party kron four's theresa stasi reports the couple leaves behind 2 young voice. >> a ray of sunshine to somebody was carrying gave so much others. loved every animal that was around. she just. she loved her kids, her husband, she loved the community. >> paul aca narrow fought back tears as he lovingly shared memories of his daughter. amanda amanda and her husband, jay to true died march 12th. the couple was in their chevy blazer on river road in santa rosa when they hit a tree. the couple was returning from celebrating jay tease 42nd birthday. the chp spokesperson says that both were found

deceased in their overturned vehicle as a family attempts to deal with the terrible loss. they are sharing stories, anything for anybody. they give the shirt off their back in. >> they did. they love the animals. they found the school. they nursed him back to help. they raise them and then like a little cage. and now he runs around the property. so he sees he's not afraid of the dogs because he grew up with them. so the dogs play with the score on the back yard. so it's great. they're you know, and that's just one thing. i mean, they found dogs site and would take him home with them. >> and it was well known for making sour dough bread. >> her words or sour dough and chad, she was proud of her starter. she called the king arthur its image, our that sitting there. so got there the very first he was sitting on the counter. so we're at had people reach out from better follow her and asked for her starter people coming over today to actually help us make more starter. the couple leaves behind 2 young boys may soon to travis 11. >> paul, a former petaluma

police officer says that he and his wife appreciate all of the support they have received is a figure out what will come next for the boys suddenly losing. both parents is like, you know, the rooms of the rooms, exactly what they have to everything is going to be the same. so trying to keep everything as normal as can. but >> one on the left >> in santa rosa, theresa kron. 4 news. a reward has now anyone who can help identify the person in this sketch. he's wanted in a double homicide from december of 2016. police say the lindsay column and eddie tate were shot and killed inside of a wooden box that they were living in. this happened on the corner of 16th street south van ness the reward for information leading to an id arrest and conviction. we've also learned the name of the

person who was killed in a wrong-way crash during a police chase on 5.80, in oakland. the victim has been identified as 57 year-old lee david winner of lafayette on tuesday, a burglary in else to led to a police chase involving 2 men in a truck. the suspects ended up driving the wrong way on westbound 5.80, in oakland where the interstate interstate then merges with 80 and that's when they crashed into winners. car. the suspect suffered major injuries. we do not have an update on their conditions now, the chp and also rita police are pursuing criminal charges against both men. and amended civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the san ramon valley unified school district and a former teacher. a second victim has now come forward alleging claims that the school district failed to act. kron 4 to call spoke with the plaintiff's attorney. >> initially filed last month in contra costa county superior court, a civil rights

lawsuit against the san ramon valley unified school district and a former theater arts teacher has been amended to add a second plaintiff named jane doe. number 2, just like jane doe. number one, she claims the teacher groomed and sexually abused more than a decade ago while she was a student at san ramon valley high school based upon our investigation, this man enjoyed a great latitude and freedom to conduct his affairs as theater teacher in whatever manner he wished attorney robert allard with the san jose based law firm of scary boskovich and allard represents the 2 plaintiffs. he says jane doe number ones alleged abuse happened multiple times on and off campus during the 2011, 2012 school year. >> and jane doe number twos abuse allegedly occurred shortly after the first plaintiffs graduation. he would stay late in the theater with children alone. he would pull them from class and transport them on campus.

>> he would engage in grooming behaviors which included him playing favorites and engaging in inappropriate language behavior. the lawsuit seeking monetary compensation claims the school district failed to appropriately address the complaints about the teacher. >> at the time, allard says the plaintiffs parents notified law enforcement but no charges were filed. >> which is why kron 4 is not sharing the defendant's name or picture here. the school district covered it up >> they did not act appropriately in did not document his final. so that subsequent employers would know about these allegations. they did not submit the matter to the california teachers accreditation agency to ensure that his license was taken away. ballard says the defendant eventually left the school on his own and is now a vice principal. >> a k through 12 private school in the east bay, the san ramon valley unified school district has not responded to our inquiry.

philippe djegal all kron. 4 news. >> and we did just get a response from the school district. they request that we put in for comment. this is what they've our it back to us. they don't comment on active litigation. state senator scott wiener's bill addressing lgbtq health disparities passing in the senate health committee. the bill requires state health agencies to collect orientation and gender identity data alongside other demographic information from patients last year, a state audit found that the failure to collect that data impacted the ability to deliver critical services to members of the lgbtq community. the bill now heads to the senate judiciary committee. senator alex padilla urging for support on a bill that would allow emergency responders to know exactly where a person is when they call the national suicide and crisis hotline. as of now, that technology directs callers to help center's when they dial 9, 8, 8, and it's based off the area

code and not the person's actual location. senator padilla says this information can be come a matter of life and death. he made this announcement today that the fcc is already moving forward with the first step in implementing this change. >> a young student who may be away at college. and in crisis in the same way 9-1-1 calls in the case of an emergency. our right local providers, local first responders. so members can come out and help quickly when you call 9-1-1, 9, 8, 8, should be tied to a caller's location. >> senator padilla worked senator tom tillis to introduce the spill in 2023. california attorney general rob bonta alongside the u.s. department of justice and a coalition of 16 states. attorneys general are now filing a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against apple. they're accusing the tech giant of engineering legal monopoly and

smartphones. the boxes out competitors and stifles innovation. it also alleges apple uses its control over the iphone to engage and in the legal course of conduct held a press conference today. and here's what he had to say about it. >> apple has time and time again gone out of its way. to make it difficult. 4, i'm certain products and services and features to be used on their phone it this is not just that they have done nothing and have been in different. they have actively locked in their customers kept a competition and better quality services out. i'm making customers forcing to to stay within the ecosystem. >> apple has defended the digital fortress known as it swelled garden as a featured prized by consumers who want to protect their personal information. the lawsuit is

the latest example of the justice department's approach to ensuring a fair and competitive market. the late winter and early spring storms, mother nature's delivered have now brought a surprise to the northern sierra. the area is nearing its greatest march snow recovery and 27 years. all of that snow treating people who live and work up there to some new the sierra at tahoe ski resort posting this video of a 30 to 40 foot snow crack ski patrol tells us the crack was located on middle castle run. it has since been filled in cracks can lead to slab avalanches, which then can create the risk of dying from suffocation for anyone in that area. meteorologist kyla grogan here now what's going on in yeah. let's talk about the fun accepted and found so far. but you do have to be careful this time of year. >> so i will tell you that i was looking at a little bit of snow here earlier this morning. and now you can see it's pretty much melted, but fear not. le've got more snow on the way you can see right

now that we now have a winter storm warning on the western facing slopes of the sierra this morning was watching out, kicked up to a warning that starts at 06:00pm on friday and goes until 08:00am on sunday. so the rule of thumb here is that when you don't want to be traveling because we're expecting one to 2 feet of snow, we could see upwards of that at some of the peak. so that means we're going to have, you know, a lot of wind with this as well, gusting at 45 miles per hour and reduced visibility. so if you're heading up there, have to take you right now to friday at 5 o'clock. you really want to get that up there early friday, if you can, because once this gets going, it's really going to keep going right through the weekend. and you can see it here that saturday in the overnight, some very heavy snow set to fall. but once again, as we get to saturday afternoon, it will kick up again and you can see there is well on sunday in the morning. so even a little snow expected on monday. believe it or not. we've got a couple shots at a little more snow next week. this is what we're looking out for, though. the highest peaks could see upwards of 2 feet. so it will be a significant storm. notice cold enough, even to get a little snow here as well in

some of the peaks in parts of northern california. so it is going to be a beautiful day today. enjoy it. and then we get into tomorrow afternoon will certainly start to see the weather there turn as well. and you can see saturday and sunday it's going to be a snowy run. i'll be back in a little bit. we'll talk more about the rain coming to the bay for now. send it back to the test. thank you. >> coming up, we continue to honor women's history month here on kron 4. and next up, we're going to meet a woman in the south bay was dedicated her life to supporting cancer patients for more than 4 decades. also, halle passenger without a ticket was able to board delta airlines flight. but first, dodgers star shohei ohtani's interpreter fired and is accused of stealing millions of dollars from the superstar slugger in order to cover up gambling debts. details after the break.

>> some developing news now as the personal interpreter for the los angeles dodgers superstar shohei ohtani has now been fired. he is accused of stealing millions of dollars from the player in order to pay for alleged illegal gambling debts. chip yost has the latest. >> what was supposed to be a celebration of shohei ohtani's first official games in la dodgers uniform has quickly turned into something else. ohtani's longtime friend and interpreter. mizuhara is now at the center of a gambling scandal that has taken multiple turns in the last 48 hours, the la times reported wednesday that ohtani's name had popped up in a federal investigation of an orange county minn and in illegal sports betting operation

earlier this week, mizuhara told espn that he had gotten himself into a jam and that his friend ohtani helped him get out of it. he told espn obviously ohtani wasn't happy about it and said he would help me out to make sure i never do this again. he decided to pay it off for me. i want everyone to know show he had 0 involvement and bedding. i want people to know i did not know this was illegal. i learned my lesson the hard way. i will never do sports betting ever again. but the story took a turn when ohtani's lawyers, slater told the times that that wasn't true. they said instead that ohtani had been the victim of a massive theft as the story was playing out. mizuhara was fired by the dodgers. tony's level of involvement is could have major implications. not only is sports betting illegal in california, but major league baseball has longstanding roles regarding

sports betting, especially against betting on baseball, sports, writer, j paris wrote a book about ohtani and had this to say about all these developments. knowing there are only 24 hours in a i don't know how you could be a prolific gambler and be young award candidate and the so i would be surprised it show hey. >> was actually making the wagers. that's that almost doesn't matter. you know it when you get into these waters with federal laws and getting a crossing state lines the fans are involved. these guys don't usually miss. and i think it's a dark and sad day for baseball. that was chip yost reporting for us. >> federal authorities investigating yet another incident involving someone boarding a plane without a ticket. this time it was a texas man who made its way onto a flight in utah. the 26 year-old man was arrested in

salt lake city over the weekend after he boarded a delta flight using a photo he had taken of someone else's boarding pass. court documents say the man boarded the plane and then immediately went into the bathroom and then came out after the plane's doors closed, a flight attendant noticed this confronted him and then the flight returned to the gate. the fbi says the man used a boarding pass given to him by a friend to get through the security checkpoint. he now faces one felony charge as being a stowaway on an aircraft. and a live look outside here at quite tower in san francisco. blue skies here trying to enjoy those keilar. why they last do this next couple days are going to look a lot different. different even next week is going to look a lot different, right? we've been so warm. so sunny, we started off our spring with a bang. it was just last weekend was terrific. >> and this week has been terrific. and as we look outside, i still think it looks terrific. but we are going to see a big change. and so that means tomorrow. if your dog like the one long

walk, make sure you do in the morning because of a time we get to the afternoon. i'm really excited about my dog walking graphic, everybody. the time we get to afternoon, we are going to see that rain start to roll in and it will be quite so pleasant to be outside and walking. i'm showing you a future cast tonight. it's just going to be dry. but clouds rolling in. and then tomorrow morning when we wake up will start to notice this system. but by 09:00am you can see really not happening yet, right? so i t ink we get where we're going in the morning. okay. but by noon, that's when we're really going to start to see this roll across the bay area. some of these have the slightest chance of becoming a thunderstorm cell. so the take you into saturday morning, i particularly think saturday night is going to be the one to watch. but you can see how to watch. but you can see how some of these cells popping up showing some of those characteristics. but right there that line, that's the one that concerns me with any thunderstorm issues. now with this is also going to come some wind. so the rain totals are going to be about an inch of rain. maybe a little more. if you get caught one of those thunderstorm areas we could take on quite a bit of rain

quickly. as far as the wind is concerned is going to start friday afternoon will be a southerly flow and then it will turn into a westerly flow after the front starts to pass us by. so now's the time to secure anything that might fly around or cause any problems. the other thing you'll notice when these storms roll through, we're going to see temperatures really get chilly below average by saturday. looking out just for 50's for our highs. i mention next week we have another shot at a few showers on wednesday. so we're certainly making our way through march in an interesting fashion. back to you. thank you. we continue on our women's history month hsre on kron 4 south bay resident crawford. >> has pioneered cancer support for more than 4 decades. her cause all started when she was diagnosed herself and she says she found services so dismal. she set out to make some changes. kron four's to assist su has her story. >> if you go behind area here we have a number of weeks and we have trained volunteers who will help you fit. crawford

excitedly shows off a well-stocked cancer care point center in san jose. the bag that we send home with patience is really very special as well. and we often give them an arm pillow. some of them have lymphedema crawford knows better than most. she was diagnosed with cancer in 1974. >> i became my own advocate because in those days they were doing things radical mastectomies and i had to search what what are my options? after winning a battle crawford set to work helping others face down that demon. >> devoting her life to guiding people through the early often confusing days of a cancer diagnosis. she is the most passionate. >> advocate for best work 2 of would not be here or doing the things that we can do. if it weren't for her heart. don

hoak is the executive director of cancer care point. >> she has lost count of how many people crawford is touched throughout the years. she's a blessing. jenny maggot lost her husband and daughter to cancer. she recruited crawford into hospice of the valley. back in 1978, what are you most grateful about with her? her ability to sense. >> what's going on? not only with the patients because she was a patient or but also what was going families but tour involvement, cancer care point. increase kids. >> crane just kids has helped 20,000 families with children who have cancer once a year. the group holds a mother's day event. >> a great america. they come from all over california. some in nevada and they look at it as a picnic they can being with other kids, not in the hospital.

>> plaques. newspaper clippings and other mementos tell the story of crawford's 50 year career as a cancer fighter volunteering with more than a half a dozen other programs in an advocate for volunteerism. all my life. crawford also had a hand in creating a state cancer registry, which collects in valuable research data that can be used to save lives. nothing has stopped or not. a second cancer diagnosis back in 2004 and certainly not her age. crawford recently turned 80 telling friends and family her husband roy retirement isn't an option. >> rhinos at dinner time, the phone rings and i disappear. >> i'm working with the patient trying to get them >> to recess stasio kron. 4 news. kron. 4 honors. remarkable women of the bay area all month long. read more about our finalists by scanning this qr code on your screen. we are new stories each week night right here on kron 4 and on kron 4 dot com.

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>> now from the area's local news station. this is kron. 4 news at 3. >> thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. i'm justine waldman. a north bay couple is being remembered as kind community members who just lost their lives way too soon. this couple has now been identified as jt and amanda, true and they died coming back from celebrating a birthday. that deadly crash is still under investigation. but right now, kron four's theresa stasi reports and what the couple has left behind, including their 2 young boys. everybody wants to help. you