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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> as students gear up ftr the upcoming school year. many parents might be focused on shopping for school supplies and clothes and preparing to return to in person. learning and experts are saying it's important for parents to provide emotional support for their children as the new school year begins one way to do that is to have a discussion with your child about what in-person learning. well, look like. >> encouraging parents to talk to the kids what school is going to look like. they'll be still masks on indoors. and the safety layers of what they're going to be doing encouraging the kids to feel like what they do washing hands wearing their masks is actually a way of protecting other people is a really hopeful message for young children. us are going back. they feel like they're part of it and they have a sense of control as well. >> the pediatrician they're also says another good idea is to in

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> some quick breaking news to tell you about san jose fire department and san jose police are on scene of a gas leak in the area of race, street and park avenue that seems to be in the east san jose area. there are some evacuations taking place right now. pg crews have been notified and officials are asking people to avoid the area. so be sure to stay with us for any developments. we also have updates on our website kron 4 dot com. and on twitter. new details surrounding the california family found dead along the sierra hiking trail. we're learning more about what may have contributed to their mysterious deaths. nancy loo spoke to the mariposa county sheriff and has the details. >> the body of john gerrish was discovered in a seated position next to the lifeless bodies of one year-old daughter miju and the family dog and the sheriff's department says the body of ellen chung was located further dow

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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> welcome back. eliminating need to neck restraints for officers in an east bay city. that's among the goals of a new legislative proposal kron four's haaziq madyun spoke with the mayor behind the legislation. >> a new police policy could be on the horizon for officers in the antioch police department in the form of a legislative proposal that would ban officers from using their knees to restrain people. any police technique that that can cause positional asphyxiation including, you know, i need a neck restraint. antioch near lamar thorpe is introducing the legislation to the city council and he says it doesn't stop with bending the knee on the neck can be anything from the techniques. it can be anything from when your hand on somebody's back and using all of your body weight. to keep them down. that's that's something that can cause position of fixation. so anything that obstructs the airways. >>

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> in our coronavirus coverage this afternoon, president biden has a classified report from us intelligence agencies on their investigations into the origin of the covid-19 virus. some lawmakers are pushing for a declassified version immediately. our washington correspondent jessi turnure has more details. >> this is not a political statement. this is not a g. >> people democratic congressman troy carter's home state of louisiana hit a grim milestone this week. the most covid-19 deaths in a single day since the start of the pandemic. republican congressman mike walters, home state of florida said the same record and nearly all of them were unvaccinated. i have taken. >> the vaccine as have my family, i that's our way out of this walton carter said they are seeing promising upticks in vaccinations since the fda gave ful approval to the pfizer shot. >> with similar authorizations for the other vaccin

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> we turn now to several bizarre deaths that has investigators stopped the california family, including their dog were found dead on a hiking trail in a remote area of the sierra national forest. no signs of damage to their bodies and no obvious revelations from the autopsies. the question now is what caused their deaths and should others be concerned about hiking in that area. nancy loo reports on new theories that authorities are looking into. >> exactly a week later, the mystery deaths of john gerrish, ellen chung. their one year-old daughter me do and the family dog oskie remain a mystery. their bodies were discovered on a hiking trail in the sierra national forest south of yosemite. the family enjoyed hiking and had recently moved to marry posts up from the bay area. think a great way to describe that would just be like universal friends because they just made. >> everybody feel comfortable a

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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >>we're back right here on kron is it 3 in a once popular way to treat covid is now back in the spotlight, thanks to a push from to southern governors. texas governor greg abbott says he is receiving regeneron right now after testing positive for coronavirus and florida's governor ron desantis is now making it available for people who qualify. but just how effective is regeneron reporter brian entin is in miami with the answer. >>in a strip mall in lauderhill florida, 23 year-old heather is inside an urgent care clinic hooked up to an i v receiving regeneron after testing positive for covid so unlike pretty sick last couple days the chi fever to to that little consultation they do that the little ivy and the need to secure. get it done. nurse practitioner jeanna de runs the clinic and says her phone has been ringing off the hook for the monoclonal antibody treatment how in demand is there a in them

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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> new at 3. the cdc released a report today revealing how unvaccinated marine county teacher started a covid-19 delta variant outbreak at an elementary school. the teacher reportedly read out loud to the class while unmasked on some occasions. now the unvaccinated teacher first became symptomatic on may 19th here. she continued to work through may 21st. all while reporting feeling nasal congestion and fatigue which he or she attributed to allergies the teacher, then begin showing more symptoms including cough and fever. and at this point the teacher got a covid-19 test on may 21st and then reported to the school on may 23rd. but the tests came back positive. the cdc reports that the students began showing symptoms on may 22nd and were tested in the following days and that showed that 12 of the 24 students in that class all came back positive with covid. now here's a map from the cdc of the classro

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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better it comes to our drought emergency, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration is predicting little early for early fall. this new map released just yesterday shows a high likelihood of warmer and drier conditions for much of the west. that's what we're seeing right now on the screen. those brown areas. that's what we're talking about now. the agency expects drought conditions to persist through november warmer and drier through november usually get to see a little bit of rain. come at least late october. we'll check in now with our meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez. she is tracking the drought conditions for us with that very red map there behind you. yeah. very red and maroon unfortunately. so we're under that extreme to exceptional drought category. >> fortunately holding steady. but it is the case with warmer and drier weather through the fall. we could all be under hxceptional drought co

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better welcome back to kron 4 news at 03:00am in the chaos in afghanistan. afghan women say their rights have been stripped away. >> a swift return to the strict rules put into place by taliban leaders. felicia bolton brings a story. >> amid the uncertainty of the taliban takeover women in afghanistan are terrified for me. i'm afraid of these things for stuff on my lai. but they but ford's on a is a member of the afghan parliament for sure. i'm afraid of my says, my life in my my feed them to work in my freedom to speak up. according to the un, nearly 250,000 afghans fled their homes since the end of may ahead of western countries withdrawing all their troops 80% of the displaced are women and children neilo far is one of them. she's a teacher and a mother of 6 afghans fear. the taliban will soon impose their strict interpretation of islam eliminating women's rights and bringing back brutal punishment for

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> for your money right now. us consumer prices rose yet again in the month of july. according to new numbers from the labor department. the report shows that last month's inflation rose a little over 5%. washington correspondent raquel martin reports that more republicans are sounding the alarm. the white house says they remain optimistic. put more money in your pocket wednesday. president joe biden announced his administration is taking new steps to lower consumer prices at the pump and the grocery store after new report showed higher inflation for the 3rd month in a row, a crackdown some major players are. >> do we not in the economy that are keeping prices higher than they need be president biden also announced plans to fix supply chain bottlenecks. he says are likely causing price increases. so my administration is bringing together port operators shipping lines, labor unions to speed up the p

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better kron. 4 news at 3 o'clock where we continue to follow the chaos happening in afghanistan. the taliban's seizure of a afghanistan comes 2 weeks before the u.s.. >> was sent to complete its troop withdrawal after costly war that went on for 20 years. here is how afghanistan arrived at this place. the taliban is a military group that took over afghanistan in the early 1990's after a 2 year civil war. the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan shortly after 9.11 terror attacks ousted the insurgents from power and then over the next 20 years, both president obama and trump. called for plans to withdraw u.s. troops from afghanistan and that day just kept getting pushed back on april 14th of this year. president biden announce the full troop withdrawal from afghanistan and that would be completed by september 11th and then in may, the u.s. started the withdrawal process earlier this month. the taliban started c

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