news. a massive fire in san francisco. its a 4 story apartment building will have the very latest on that blaze. >> today, mourners from around the bay area will pay their respects to a fallen oakland police officer jordan wingate. and lawmakers have a plan to protect homeowners as thousands are dropped from their home insurance plans. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. good morning and happy friday to you. i'm daria and i'm james. we've got a live look at sfo behind us this morning on a day where we're waking up to some. >> drizzle and mist out there. yeah, you might notice roadways are wet. dave. >> yeah. good morning, james and ari, good morning, everybody in the morning layers around a bit. we have some fog to, but that's going to part to give us a some kind

of variable clouds will be sun and clouds mixture there. but a lot of folks in lynn, particularly going to see a lot of sunshine for today. first things first radar not to be very active, but just want to note. and some of the higher elevations there, they are actually getting some light rain showers. here's the golden gate. look at the opening up. we have. but the winds still with us because we still have that low in our backyard. just does everything will work with the flag is going remain like that. as we see the winds get into the 20's and even 30's. some nice, big area of low pressure. you'll notice here. some heavier winds expected down in southern california, though. so these onshore winds in place in the teens and even lower 20's. we expect a pop along the coast this afternoon, middle to upper 50's. that's a warmer than yes. time from yesterday. so looking good on that front, 60 by 11 o'clock. it too, will talk about 62 and we'll warm up those temperatures also this weekend as well. nice warm to get about 80 or so by tuesday. here's what's going on. a bear at traffic yeah. we've got a busy start our friday morning. dave, if you are going to be traveling into the city right now.

>> we have a disabled vehicle on the bay bridge to drive times of on up about 22 minutes. that's near the treasure island exit other bridges, not seeing major delays. still a 15 minute ride on the san mateo bridge. there, which was a over up by a few minutes. 13 minutes. no major issues, golden gate bridge just under 21. we do have an accident. this is along northbound 6.80, and marcus road and fremont. things are a little slow there. southbound side, no major delays. you can always take 5.80, even 84 to get around that darya. james, back to thanks. a lot rain. a 701. let's get back to that massive fire. >> firefighters in san francisco have managed to put out the blaze burning in an apartment building on line in clay street boy at its peak, it was raging. this was in the presidio heights neighborhood in kron. four's will tran now on scene for us with more on the. >> mop up operations will. >> james firefighters are starting to wrap up operations here, but they will send saint n investigators shortly because there's the building. it is not in danger of

collapsing. you can see the scaffolding. in fact, we will zoom in on the top floor. that's how safe it is. now for investigators to be inside to try to find out exactly what happened. it was unoccupied during the time of the fire. let me show you video from the fire department when they arrived here at around 4 o'clock in the morning. it was so intense that they say breathing was difficult for them. so was visibility in look like thick fog, but it was not fall. it was the smoke coming from this apartment complex. one complex, 6 units, 4 floors were on fire at the time. they immediately called back up. the good news is it was on occupied in the people near this place. they were told really quickly shut all windows. stay inside because breathing was very difficult. they told me, fortunately, nobody was injured, not even being treated. were any smoke

problems as far as what happened. but we do know that he was under construction. of course, they looked at the sign outside we can come back live. now you can see neal's painting. so they called meals painting and meals painting confirmed that yes, work was being done at the time, although not in the overnight hours. so will try to find out exactly what caused this fire. but again, it is safe enough at this time to allow investigators to be literally on the top floor there without any fear being hurt or killed. if anything should dropped and sending them down to the floors below. so right now it begins the effort what caused this fire. we do know that they were doing some roofing on top as well that there was no work done in the overnight hours, took them a few hours to knock down the flames, get people to finally, as you can clearly see. now people are starting to come out of their buildings and shortly a lot of people who were evacuated next to the building. they will be

allowed to go back in sight. james started. all right. thanks for the update. will we'll check back with you a little later. >> 74 is the time. the other big story we're following this morning. the fact that an east bay community now coming together to mourn and remember. a man who should say, a family who died in a crash whole family. yeah. that for the car crashed into a tree and caught fire. kron. 4 sarah stinson has details >> people continue to drop off flowers here on foothill road where a mom dad and their 2 kids died in a car crash. neighbors of the family say they were headed home from a friend's house when the crash happened. >> it's sad and tragic. >> a community grieving the loss of a family of 4 killed in a car crash wednesday night in pleasanton neighbors, family, friends and co-workers pulled over on foothill road thursday to drop off flowers at the crash site sits very

shocking. hassan shaikh says he worked with the dead of the family. great >> whether work great >> police say the crash happened around 9 at night. it appears the family's electric car hit a pole before striking a tree and bursting into flames. the tree has fresh for marks on it and the road is covered in flame retardant phone. neighbors of the family say they want police have only released limited information saying they're thoroughly investigating the crash and there's no indication of alcohol or foul play involved with family crash, right where the road emerges from 2 lanes to one people who live nearby say driving on this stretch of road is dangerous. that no lights at all? it's really dark. >> and i a lot of people speed here, at least one of the kids who died in the crash was a student in the pleasanton unified school district. the

district says it's providing counselors and resources to support those affected. this off all the loss of an entire family >> our our focus is always and how we support. how do we support students and staff and families? the family was driving a vinfast car. >> that's a vietnamese electric car manufacturer. it's only been around a few years. and i spoke with a family friend off camera. she tells me she wants police to investigate to see if the car malfunctioned. other stopping by say they hope this is a somber reminder to all to be extra careful on the road. i'm sara stinson reporting in pleasanton. back to you. >> 706, is the time and happening today in the east bay, oakland, police are honoring one of their own local police officer. jordan wingate died last saturday from injuries he sustained in a 2018 car crash while on duty. the memorial service will be held at 3 crosses churchcin castro valley at 11:00am. it is open to the public. new this morning lanes

now open on the maze at 5, 80 80 right before the toll plaza following this solo car crash that happened earlier this morning. you can see in the video the car was on its roof. no word yet if anybody was hurt or how many people were in the car at the time of the crash. but good news for the morning commute anyway is that it's all clear. so all lanes back open again, 707. and today in the south bay, the man who attacked a police officer was protecting san jose mayor matt mahan. >> is due to be arraigned for this is what happened tuesday. welcome for was doing interview with the mayor in downtown san jose. wesley pollard. you can see here on the camera seen punching the plainclothes police officers assigned protect the mayor. he has been charged with felony resisting officer by means of threat or violence and a misdemeanor as well. and san jose police say he also has an outstanding arrest warrant out of georgia for resisting arrest in the east bay. 27

year-old mark simon faces attempted kidnapping and child charges and walnut creek and police want you to take a look at his mug shot here in case there are any other victims out there. he was arrested for a report of an attempted kidnapping of a child and a downtown library on north broadway 2 weeks ago. and police say they found 600 images of child on the electronic device. he was carrying. 708, is the time right now. james police in concord now looking for a man who they say tried to grab a little girl while she was on her way to school. >> it happened just after 7 o'clock wednesday morning, right near nuala street and dartmouth way. that girl who is in middle school told police the man tried to grab her by the arm while he was also trying to open the door of a parked car. police say she told them the man had a small black car. hopefully they'll track this person down. sfmta workers say they were blindsided by the agency's new plan to increase ticketing for illegal parking.

about 200 workers held a rally in front of the sfmta headquarters. those workers say the recent announcement to crack down on illegal parking is putting targets on their backs. one parking control officer that we spoke with said that she's already been assaulted on the job. but you still want to take who was illegally part. he didn't like that. he got a ticket because he was doing doordash. >> so i continued on my my route. follow me about 2 or 3 blocks. waited until i stopped at a stop punched a window. and as a result, last 2 years. >> workers say they want safer vehicles and they also want a seat at the table with us. if mta leaders, when important decisions like this are made, we did reach out to the agency regarding these concerns and were given the following statement, which reads in part, quote, safety is our top priority at the agency. thanks to first crime is down. 48 1% since 2018 within our system. our parking control officers

or provide a de-escalation training, self-defense tools and have access to our internal dispatch center that communicates directly with the sapd for any assistance they need end quote. the workers are hoping that improvements will be made once the agency and workers complete there. labor negotiations. 7.10, right now. and still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, the city of alameda is suing a company. >> that owns this houseboat community will tell you why. and a walmart is closing in those people. these bay live near it are pretty upset. they say goal here for years. they decided not to force you to slow down with a built-in speed limit. however, they are certainly going to warn you. this is a bill that's making its way through. the california legislature will tell you what it would do to make you slow down. >> increasing the speed of those temperatures as we get into early next week for today, though, shaking off the drizzle, opening up the skies

with it. sun and cloud mixture with lower 60's and work. all have that forecast right now. would be speeded today since it's wet out there. as you're traveling. seen a few

>> 7.13, is the time right now. and the roads and the runways just a little bit slick. i don't think it's actually raining. no, in fact, the sun starting to pop out. so hopefully that will drive pretty quick. but >> a chance of maybe a raindrop or 2, not out of the question. you know, we're going into the weekend. let's see what's up. hi, dave james and are a good morning. good morning, everybody. or just referencing sfo there. by the way, they are having some because of construction. just 45 minute delay. not weather-related. so and we're

seeing skies open up radars even settling down to but >> just noting a couple little patches of drizzle hop out this for the golden gate bridge is the fog trap. have some leftover clouds onshore. wind going to remain. that's a given. look at this pattern to this. just severe prediction center, the paint this out and they just see this whole swath of area in the western rockies. the heck, you might get some thunder showers. there is all means that's all it means. and that means the sacramento valley will see this. but normally this kind of pattern that looks like this that usually we see during the monsoon not from a low dropping south. here's what we have. but it might scrounge up enough moisture. the higher levels to get some thunder showers going on. but that is just barely in our viewing area. that will be pretty much off towards the east mid to upper 50's and the east bay for night right now, some lower 50's up north. 54. meanwhile, for half moon bay, futurecast for here, we have it. there's that little chance you might see it in our neck of the woods. but meanwhile, the lion share is off to the sacramento valley and also looks like some snow showers

coupled with that to still left over up in the mountains. but the tahoe forecast over but the tahoe forecast over the weeken lots of sunshine for you as will see tomorrow. maybe some marine layer to kind of deal with early on. but then we clear it out. looks pretty good. we have the consistent wind, though. highs will be still a bit cool side in lynn, only about 70 or lower 70's warming up a touch more tomorrow here. the winds today quite active in onshore. very noticeable and pronounced along the coast. yeah, take a picture because we'll do this again. and boom. there you have it for saturday afternoon to say headed to the coast. you have to fight some more of this fog clouds a little bit and we'll have those winds working morning drizzle, breezy with taking care. most the drizzle, sun and clouds mixture cool with 60's. we've got 70's for the weekend in bump that up to about 80 or so by tuesday. that will back off a little bit at the end of the week today. 61 san francisco. 64 going on for oakland. meanwhile, for san jose coming in at 66 in the big map only

has green on their board change the colors, though, this weekend or next week because it's warming up area traffic, right? what happened? that's good news and accident. tracking along northbound 6.80. that is clear. >> so drive time to start to go down just a little bit. there. southbound not seen major issues. a 60 minute ride and down to fremont. also, we had a disabled vehicle on the bay bridge. not seeing that there anymore. drive times drop from about 20 to 18. still going to see residual delays because we already started to slowly, but thankfully no more hazards on the bridge. san mateo bridge, 15 minutes. we consistently been 15 throughout the morning. there. well, no one bought up 5 minutes started at 38 5 to menlo park. no need to hop on to 80 or 80 to kuz looking good. 32 minute ride to land or down in milpitas deciding whether or not take 5.80, 80 to oakland. both of them are moving at the limit. so you can take either james, back to you. >> thank you. reyna 7.17, is the time and for your money. this morning, a new study answers the question. what is the perfect movie length? i'm

curious to find out. and according to new research, americans spend nearly $500 a year tipping more than they'd like to. thank you. i've been saying tipping is getting out of control. jane king live the nasdaq to explain. hi jane. >> i james, a lot of people agree with that. the this new survey found the average respondent reluctantly tips. $37.80 a month due to pressure or awkwardness of the options presented to them. and this comes to $453 a year and guilt induced gratuity over a quarter feel they're often or always forced more than they would like. now the survey was conducted by talker research and it's on the average respondent tipped more than they'd like to on 6 occasions in the last 30 days. the federal communications commission voted to bring back net neutrality. the rules to prevent internet service providers from cherry picking web content by speeding traffic. some slight slowing it to others. for example, it could prevent internet service providers like verizon or

comcast from blocking or degrading delivery to things like netflix and youtube. now opponents say the rules could lead to more and unnecessary government oversight of the industry. home depot is selling its highly sought after halloween decorations much earlier than in previous years, including skelly that viral 12 foot skeleton that sells out every year. well, this year the company began hosting a halfway to halloween sale yesterday to give customers more time to get the spooky goodson. those products are available at home depot dot com. now, according to new research, the perfect movie length is just 92 minutes. a poll of 2000 americans conducted by talker research found the average person wants to spend far less time at the movie theater in the past 60 days, average respondent fields of watched 2 movies that were too long 23% except through 3 of them or more from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king back to james. all right, jane, thank you very much. sorry we had to ram 7.19. is the time right now. a lot of people have been ranting about costs for.

>> home insurance because the big companies have pulled out of a california or said they're not doing new policies. state farm said it's not going to renew elect 70,000 property owners here in california is a fire. it's looking a lot of them in a crisis situation, how to get their home. in short robbers, gayle ong takes a closer look. this. >> fema grants for homeowners in designated areas and a tax credit for property owners. that's a 30% tax credit and a $10,000 grant. >> the 2 key components that make up. congressman mike thompson disaster resiliency and coverage act co sponsored by representative jared huffman. when you put it all together, this is an important piece of making sure that insurance remains available. and also affordable. >> to the folks that we committed almost 7 years ago. to continuing to stand with him to serve. the proposed bill is aimed to help with the property insurance crisis. >> it is modeled after a program in alabama after homes are impacted by severe

weather. it was the same want same story from every insurance company. >> and it was. >> make sure that there's disaster resilience in a building that homeowners did everything necessary to protect their home from any type of disaster. same thing with landowners, the backdrop of thursday's press conference took place in santa rosa's coffey park neighborhood. >> and the area that was virtually wiped out by the 2017 north bay fires among the speakers, sonoma county elected officials and also wildfire survivors. this bill will support efforts like defensible space clearing enhanced emergency water access, fire, oppression systems, technology, and automated systems that assist first responders and much more education is on the rise. but we have to acknowledge that the financial increases in the cost of insurance is leaving many without funds to do the work to protect their homes, families and communities. when

asked about how much this bill will cost taxpayers loss of insurance to homeowners is going to be devastating by itself. >> you add to that a disaster too. and the price tag is over the top. so i would argue the cost of this is going pale in comparison to what the cost of be passed by congress. the co-sponsors of this bill say they hope it happens as soon as possible. reporting from santa rosa, gayle ong kron. 4 news. >> 7.21 is the time and tonight southbound lanes of 6.80, from pleasanton to signal are going to be closed again over the weekend. this is because of an ongoing paving and construction project that they've been doing. that starts at 9 o'clock tonight. the closure, it reopens monday morning. >> caltrans will be demolishing in removing deteriorated. pavement. we're all familiar with what it's like on southbound 6 saying in that area, you can definitely

use fresh. the detour is a long one. >> would normally is a 7.10, mile stretch that takes people 15 to 20 minutes. it is now a 25 mile detour that goes through solano county. napa county and sonoma county. >> yikes. so get a good look at that map. and in addition to the roadwork, bart is going to be suspended service between the rockridge and lafayette stations. well, crews are replacing some lighting in the berkeley hills tunnel. they'll have free buses at those locations so that you can get around it. but i've even noticed the golden gate bridge is configured like to handle stuff heading out from san francisco is going to affect when we do big projects around the bay effects, alternate routes and whatnot. so just be aware that this weekend. all right, 7.23 is the time up next on the kron, 4 morning news. thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise recovered in the east bay. we'll tell you how arresting one pair of thieves led them

>> and we're back at 7.25. multiple bay area. law enforcement agencies recovered more than $300,000 worth of stolen goods in oakland, the chp and faxes. they found products from stores like walmart, tj maxx and sunglass hut in the suspected fencing operation. these are just images showing what they discovered. investigation began last september in san mateo county when sheriff deputies arrested several people linked to a retail theft ring in the area. well, just 2 months later, san ramon police linked to women to that very same retail theft operation after they were arrested again for stealing from a local surf for a the 3

agencies, then obtain search warrants for 2 homes in oakland and a storage container. and this is just some of what they found inside. >> it's 7.26. and new this morning, a plan for cars to have speed safety systems is moving forward in sacramento. it's a little bit different than the original building introduced in january. that would have mandated the cars made or sold here have speed limiters. were you physically wouldn't be able to go over the limit more than 10 miles over the speed limit. the after hearing feedback about potential dangers of something like that. this bill has been amended. so it would just require a visual and audio signal that would alert you that you're going over the speed limit. that mandate would apply to half of new vehicles starting in 2029 and then all vehicles in california from 2032 on it passed the california senate transportation committee and now heads on to the senate appropriations committee. it's 7.27 in coming up next on the

kron. 4 morning news. san francisco has a new dispatch center. and guess what? it's got a faulty computer system supposed to help with 9-1-1, supposed to help with 9-1-1, were going to s

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♪ nada se puede comparar ♪ ♪ livin' in the golden state ♪ ♪ vive en el estado dorado...yeah ♪ we're checking out the weather for new things are clearing out. if you're up early or you might have lot rain. yeah. now really it's later and you go. what rain? yeah, are we out of the woods yet. they were still in store for a raindrop or 2. maybe. >> well, in the far east bay, there's a possibility it may fire up a little bit later on because that extends in the sacramento valley. but for the most part, most of the bay, we'll be seeing a mixed bag of some sun and clouds are on the

western edge of this little low. this trying to dig into the west coast and really as a lot of barking going on, it's going to be more of the deliver of winds for southern california. but we're going to get our fair share, too. and they will be the onshore variety. here's a quick check on the radar. couple little splotches hanging together a little bit. let's zoom out a little further away stand to get a little bit of snow out of this to over the next day or so as a foe. only some construction delays pushing things back about 45 minutes. there's the onshore. winds are referenced up to 22 and san francisco elsewhere. pretty much into the teens. there will be a little pop along the coast. we expect middle 50's. that's a pretty consistent temperature that we see complements this morning. layers kept temperatures support a little bit here. 60 looks like by 11 by 2. we'll try about 62 and again, variable clouds with this program and for highs for this weekend, pretty close to average is lower 70's again, sum sun and clouds mixture here. but for the most part, a lot of sun looks like on your saturday in a bit. we'll check it out. 4 zone forecast right

now. here's a look at traffic right all right, dave, start on this friday morning. >> we had a few traffic hazards on the bay bridge. thankfully now clear 20 women, right, though, but on a friday to be much lower than that 18 minutes, san mateo bridge people have been traveling. things i'm going up there. 13 minutes on a rich, a summer filled bridge. golden gate bridge around. 25 j and those highways. you can see 80's. a little busy is a traveling to every villain. berkeley. before you see a little congestion, earlier accident along northbound 6.80, that's no clear. you're just seeing slight delays there. darya. james, back to you. thank you. are in a 7.31, go to walmart in the east bay is closing. yeah, stunning. a lot of longtime shoppers there. the retail giant making that announcement that the storm fremont closing for good kron four's. dan thorn has the story. for nearly 20 years. this walmart, he's served customers on al brace street in fremont. >> next month, it's closing for good. i am very shocked.

that explosion >> india for so long, this kind fortunate they're closing the store shoppers tell us this is been there. go to walmart since it first opened back in 2006. >> a sign at the store's entrance sharing the closing date next month as well as reduced hours. the company says this location is one of several nationwide that have not been making enough money. start always been very busy. the reason that given again for not having enough revenue to keep the store open, his is is is questionable. a walmart spokesperson tells kron 4 the closure affects more than 150 employees. those workers are being encouraged to transfer to other bay area stores, including one. that's roughly 3 miles away. fremont shoppers will now have to go to the city's osgood road location come next month or travel. even farther to union city or milpitas. it's kind of disappointing a because this punt this place is like the closest to where is. >> the store's new hours are from 07:00am to 07:00pm.

>> and this location officially closes on. may 24th in fremont. dan thorn kron. 4 news. >> we'll take a look at this allegheny county's narcotic task force team executed a search warrant yesterday in connection with an illegal possession and sale of multiple guns. the seizure happened on crosby avenue in oakland where police say they found you can see on the screen 9 guns, including for illegal assault weapons and a stockpile of ammunition. police ended up arresting a man on charges related to the investigation. well, there is now a hotline in alameda county for victims tf the 35 people whose death penalty cases are now being reviewed. district attorney pamela price says her office uncovered what might have been a pattern of misconduct in those trials dating back 30 years where prosecutors perhaps purposefully excluded black and jewish people from serving on those juries price as family members of the victims of those on death row are now being informed of what's going on. anyone who has not yet

been contacted those asked to contact the alameda county district attorney's website. >> time now 07:34am police in pacifica are looking for this man who they say started a fire. a pacific is fairway park on april 10th, they say, visited the archery range at the park several times over the past month that so if you know him, police would like to talk to him. san francisco city workers are trying to improve their computer system after it went down yesterday. a kron four's dan kerman reports the computer system is integral to dispatching 9-1-1. calls. >> one day after the ribbon was cut on san francisco's new 9-1-1, dispatch center. the computer system that integral to dispatching emergency service personnel went down. we had it what we call a cad outage where we had a failure, had our computer aided dispatch. >> went down san francisco's computer, aided dispatch system or cad allows those taking 9-1-1. calls to take incoming information into a computer which police and fire

dispatchers in another part of the 9-1-1 center. can see and send help immediately when the system went down at 05:00am. that automatic communication had to be done manually, meaning notes had to be written down and then appropriate dispatcher to send help and something like this happens. it's all hands on deck. so we bring people out of key. why we bring our supervisors on the floor. whoever needs you know, jump in. >> we have runners, you know, we it's it's a building with a lot of people working in it. so when we have the scenario, we just bring in a few extra hands to make sure we have all the people we need. mary. ellen carroll is the executive director of san francisco's department of emergency management. >> she says dispatchers have trained for this. and as a result, there was no delay in answering incoming 9-1-1, calls or dispatching emergency personnel during the 2 and a half hour outage. >> we're really good at switching gears in order to

handle this when it happens. while san francisco's 9-1-1, dispatch center is brand new. >> the cat is a decade old and well past its life expectancy at the beginning of this year, a contract was executed for a new cat system. as for the new cad system, city officials hope to have it up and running in the next 2 to 3 years at san francisco city hall. dan kerman kron. 4 news. >> it's 7.36, and a person has died after being shot earlier this month in san francisco. that happened in the early morning hours of april. 13th. the person was shot at 6 and jesse streets in the south of market neighborhood rushed to the hospital where they ended upidying of their injuries. we don't have their identity at this point. in the north bay. true drivers have been arrested one for shooting at the other as part of a road rage incident that took place in santa rosa wednesday morning. this is at presley street near martin luther king junior memorial parkway. both

drivers left the area where this road rage shooting happened. but one of the drivers later pulled over on andrews avenue when he saw multiple police cars. and then the other person continue driving and led police on a chase that reach mendocino avenue and 5th street where he abandoned the vehicle and tried to get away. police ended up catching arresting him. police say that both of the drivers actually had guns in their cars. neither was hurt. >> city of alameda is suing an investment company that owns a house poe community for violating the city's rent control rules and also allegedly harassing some of the communities. elderly residents. so the marina is a community of more than 50 floating houseboat. you see examples of them here. the houseboat owners have to pay rent to the landlord for the spots, though, at that marina, they want to access water or electricity. well, valley

investments, redwood llc bought that marine a couple of years ago. and according to the alameda city attorney, that's when the company started hiking. rent prices. we're talking nearly 200%. in some cases. they also apparently stopped paying city fees while also creating problems for people who are now trying to sell their floating homes and simply can't. lost my wife to cancer 2 years ago. >> this was our retirement and i have not been able to sell the house. because of what's going on here right now. there's another neighbor a little cell. where longer than me? again, because of the he had a buyer that was. i think they said 2 days away from mom. that school closing and he would even talk about ways would awesome. want. >> well, alameda city attorney says the investment company so far owes the city $120,000 in

unpaid fees. we reached out to the investment company for comment haven't heard back. we'll let you know when we do. >> lawmakers have blocked a bill that would have prevented state politicians from entering into non-disclosure agreements while crafting bills. the legislation proposed by some member vince fong would ban the use of non-disclosure agreements in the law-making process. he argues it would increase transparency in the state legislature and include the public as part of the process. >> it is my biggest concern that we are actually trying to shield the public for information and and from legislators as well. that is critical to our votes in to help laws are being made. and so nda is being used in the lawmaking, a crafting of laws that that process has to be discouraged and eliminated. >> opponents, however, include the california restaurant association and the california chamber of commerce. they say

confidential. discussions are required in the process of making laws. >> but, you know, the greens between private parties can often help to allow a difficult issues and difficult issues to be worked through between parties that don't necessarily always a >> now this has failed to pass the house at this point. several gop lawmakers want to see the bill reintroduced next year. however, they say that not enough information was available for this bill. add of the vote so they would like to reconsider it. >> but lawmakers in california are once again introducing a universal health care bill. the latest bill would establish a framework for a single payer state-run coverage system called cal care to help control health care costs for californians previous bills faced pushback because of the expensive price tag attached to it. but experts said it would cost around 500 billion dollars to fund that program. but supporters say they remain hopeful that the pandemic change people's minds about health care by making sure others don't suffer and die

because of lack of care. >> a new park is open in san francisco, the new china basin park. it's been in the works for more than 15 years. it includes 5 acres along the county cove across the water from where the giants play and also a recently installed statue of area legend willie mccovey. as you can see there, mayor brown, sorry, mayor breed lauzon million years ago. willie brown really mayor london breed says this is just the first step in part of bigger plans to redevelop area. >> it includes residents, families, a new school being built so much has changed in this, right. this is a new neighborhood of san francisco. >> thank you, mayor breed. she's excited about it. china vincent park is open right now to the public. so you can check it out whenever you want. there will be some special events to from time to time where they're going to have food trucks out there,

concerts and outdoor exercise events. james, now it's easier when you see a bunch of people tip all be hanging out by the while he worked at time. now 7.42, we are going to take a quick break, but still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news that the forty-niners making a picture of the first round of the draft. and this was the reaction of the player. they chose. >> we'll tell you more about it in a minute. >> and on balance, a mixed bag of sun and clouds going on for today. we'll get into the lower 70's into the weekend. we're take a look and your 4 zone forecast and als

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>> 7.45 is the time right now and things are trying to clear out. there are still some cloudy patches. but yeah, i think it's going to be pretty nice weekend. yeah, the weekend ahead. looks good, dave. good morning. yeah. good morning, james and darya. good morning, everybody. radar starting to get pretty quiet to kind of hard believe we have this low in our backyard, but get used to that because it's going to be heat. spike buster. it's going to live up to that with some cooler temps that we've had and that will have for today will not that cold. this is up you're 70. they get the general idea. they some quote, kind of stormy weather going on a little bit more snow to be added and some of the higher elevations potentially there you can see what the party happened a lot of melting going forward as we will have by this weekend got 50's on tap and we'll get some lower 60's in here by monday. lots of sunshine. but like a last hurrah in terms of having some snow showers going on there for today. and even this afternoon as well. and that's what i kept saying about portions of the far east bay. a little bit on the western edge of what fires up as you can see in sacramento valley

and up to tahoe as well. saturday looks pretty good. we might start things off with some cloud cover along the coast here a little bit. and then another weak system plays out on saturday. but that's states pretty much to our north. and we should clear out a little bit better on your sunday. there it is a pun right on past us. high pressure kicks in for a couple of days. you know what that means? warming up. it breaks down in time for the weekend. that means some scattered clouds and yet, look, another low in this backyard here. it does anything to work with here. so we probably shouldn't have too many issues with that. as far as it being looks like it's going to be dry. 61, san francisco to the coast. let's keep it in the upper 50's at that. 62 for burlingame. by the way, that wind makes it feel a bit chilly to mid 60's in this pocket here in the south bay mid 60's as east bay shoreline. 64 union city and for fremont much the same looks like an tri valley. for walnut creek, 68 concord, 62 berkeley, 63 69 fairfield map

of 67 and santa rosa at 69. so here's our little heat bump, if you will, by tuesday or so approaching about 80 or so and then backing off again next weekend for what looks to be another dry, low pressure system right now is traffic. busy. busy start this morning. tracking an accident. this is along northbound 17. >> in los gatos at summit, so drive times. look at almost an hour there. 44 minute ride to traveling from santa cruz up to los gatos. there other highways and bridges also impacted by earlier hazards like on the bay bridge. we had a disabled vehicle not too long ago. drive times about 19 minutes on the bay bridge, san mateo bridge. while there's no hazards drive times almost 20 minutes things are busy far from friday. light traveling along 80 crockett outdoors made about 30 minutes. start to build a synergy at richmond. you could take pablo avenue as an alternate. if you like checking on highway 4 for you. 30 minutes, antioch, into conquers to 42 darya. james, back to you.

>> thank you very much. rain to 7.48. the time and check it out. steph curry has been in the nba clutch player of the year. he led the league in clutch points this season. what a clutch points. well, we know them all too well. do scoring when a game is on the line within 5 points or 5 minutes less, i hold state fans. they've grown accustomed to step coming up big when it matters. most right. those incredible threes. yeah. put that to bed. curry was one of 3 finalists to make the list. but he came out on top. from basketball to football. the 40 niner faithful gathering at levi stadium for day one of the nfl draft watching it live there on the monitors. action packed day here in the first round. it was it was a tense or but wonder what was going to happen on the 49 er front. well, they welcome a new addition to the roster. sports director jason dumas has the recap.

>> the forty-niners were on the clock on thursday night and there were a lot of storylines surrounding their first-round pick. it's rumor season and they were swirling all night long. but once the dust settled, the niners stay put and made their selection at 31 and the pick was a bit of a shocker. take a listen. >> 31st. pick in the 2024. nfl draft. francisco forty-niners select. ricky pearsall wide receiver. >> we have or >> i love those moments when the guys dreams come true in there with their families, they're out rather see those in the guys at the draft shake the does hand anyway, raking played at arizona state with brandon aiyuk and then he finished her his career at florida. he had just under 1000 receiving yards last season in gainesville. he is

known as an athtete who can also play special teams. he can rip current punts returned kicks kyle shanahan even mentioned his blocking ability is something that stood out on tape. but overall it was his versatility that really stood out the most. >> he just plays a well, i mean, whether he was outside either receiver, all 3 of the positions you can separate down the field separate underneath. got really good hands. extremely very well-developed. you can tell he is. i guess it called a gym rat or some cause you to seize. worked on trout's put a lot of hours because you can see it on tape. then as i know, nothing you can do and you can fit based off the other guys. >> round 2 tonight and we'll have all that coverage. of course, all ready. that should look at sports. >> and you know what else the oakland roots are updating their roster. they just signed a former united states men's national champion player a team. our team player dom dwyer. he's a veteran striker

who played 10 seasons. that means he may schools champs and it played 10 seasons in thor and then won the mls cup with sporting kansas city. dwyer is the biggest name to the east bay club has signed so far. pretty cool. >> we're going take a break. coming up in the next hour of the kron. 4 morning news. it's every kid's dream. what some state lawmakers want to change in classrooms to help elementary kids with their elementary kids with their mental health explain. ( ♪♪ )

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on the kron. 4 morning news. breaking news. a massive fire breaks out in an apartment building in san francisco. we're live at the scene as firefighters continue to clean up. today. mourners from around the bay area will pay their respects to a fallen oakland police officer jordan wingate and lawmakers have a plan to protect homeowners as thousands now are dropped from their home insurance plans. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> good morning and happy friday to you. i'm darya and i'm james. we're waking up this morning to some drizzle out there in a in some spots, not everywhere, but just some spottings are going to start to clear out if they haven't already. dave. yeah, good morning, james and good morning, everybody. really looking up here, we're seeing some nice breaks of