several of her backers include attorney general rob bonta, his wife assembly member mia been to council oakland council vice mayor rebecca kaplan and councilmember nikki fortunato boss. >> i want to be that champion. i want to be that mayor, that collaborate so that we can make a government will i will i will your next people come together and build a play. and i believe that during my time on the city council. i have been ineffective. progressive leader. it's so important that our leaders. >> not just leave with their heads but they lead with their hearts and she she loves the city. she loves the people of the city. she has compassion and empathy, which is a so critical. >> and in leadership. >> town now joins district 6 oakland council member lauren taylor in the mayoral race live in the studio. ella sogomonian kron 4 news thank you, now to the latest on the pandemic governor newsome and the state's top health officials say they're gearing up for a possible winter covid-19 surge. always some kind of surge to gear up for a guest governor newsom says he will be announcing an executive o

rob, right. the middle of the day, why we think that person was probably targeting an individual. keep it here. see trn ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ are investigating a human trafficking case involving a 17 year-old girl. >> from honduras. police have arrested 2 san leandro residents who accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl and forcing her into prostitution. kron four's. dan kerman has been following up on this case. he has the latest now from san leandro wanted lauren margaret wilson have been arrested and charged with human trafficking and forcible rape. >> of a 17 year-old girl from honduras. aguilar has also been charged with kidnapping that girl. police say they kept her in a shed in the back of the san leandro home. >> you never know who your neighbors are. you never do those who live along hutchings drive were shocked to hear about the arrest really quiet over there. another was that girl locked in that shed in the backyard. no idea. late last month.

i'm rob nesbitt kron 4 news. >> thank you, rob. if you started your holiday shopping, there is a warning from scam experts who say this is the time of year. it's important to be vigilant because it is prime time for thieves to steal from you. they're all sorts of scams in-store purchases. but this especially online. >> so the things we have to be watchful for fake advertisements online. e-mails with links texts with links your best bet choose the retailer. you want to visit online. go to your web browser and type that exact web address in. >> if carts. also a big go to for so many shoppers. experts say make sure if you're getting them at the store. they say that's a good idea because if you don't get them at the actual store. sometimes they may have been manipulating it. for your money tonight. california officials are offering another opportunity for pandemic. unemployment benefits that for about a 100,000 people who were previously denied. >> eligibility has been expanded under federal rules. it now includes workers who refuse to

rob fladeboe kron 4 news. >> all right. we'll switch gears here on a tuesday night thanksgiving we can talk about the 4 zone forecast. our first rebeca strong. joining us with a frosty yeah. guys, it's definitely going to be cold during the overnight hours. and we're seeing clear conditions. so no clouds in the sky to keep >> a little bit warmer than normal, right. we're seeing nothing but a clear sky. so it is gorgeous out and you can see more stars, but we're going to temperatures really drop during tonight into early tomorrow morning. right now, though, this is what the east bay looks like. a nice clear shot all the way across the bay into san francisco. but a frost advisory has been issued and it's also been extended now into the north bay. a lot of the valleys there as well as the east bay interior valleys. now from the national weather service because we're going to see a lot of those cold temperatures in the spots. so this going to be in effect until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. so definitely want to cover those outdo

rob fladeboe reports for us tonight. a developer is accusing the city of scuttling the project without warning. >> a proposed mixed use housing development what is now vacant land jointly owned by the city of santa clara and the vta across from santa clara university. it's said to be in jeopardy after the city quietly tabled, the project prompting a formal complaint from developer republic metropolitan whose attorneys and ravel the day. >> allow the developer to believe that they were going to come to some kind of an agreement which they have not yet come to a agreement. but they never had any discussion whatsoever about the legal issues or any other questions republic. metropolitan was planning a 240 unit development with retail and space for recreation. >> the developer claims it has invested millions of dollars in the project and accuses the city of meeting behind closed doors to kill the project suddenly without any notice to the developer. >> the. >> town went into a closed session to discuss this matter apparently

it's part of the first of its kind judgment announced today by california attorney general rob bonta at a news conference bonta said amazon failed to adequately notify workers at its warehouses and notify local health agencies about its coronavirus case numbers as part of a deal with the department of justice. amazon has agreed to modify its covid notification system. it also has to submit to monitoring and pay $500,000 to the state for further enforcement. >> the key focus here is that the health and safety of our workers. the practices that are enshrined embodied in 8685 to make sure that workers are being notified when they're exposed to make sure that there's a sanitation plan to make sure that the local health agencies are notified so they can intervene as appropriate. >> across california. there are about 100 amazon fulfillment facilities and 10's of thousands of workers, but it would not say whether the state is looking into other big companies, but he says he hopes the amazon judgment will send a message. >> starting today. the city of oakland is making it easier for resident

when joiner was approached by several suspects who tried to rob him. and that's when the shootout occurred. join your shot and killed one suspect. the others got away. but this afternoon we learned that one person was arrested in houston and 2 others were arrested near sacramento. joyner was critically injured in the shootout, but. he's now recovering. san francisco where the city's main shopping district right around union square looks a lot different. >> than in years past. you have a heavy police presence out there for everyone to see. it's in response, of course, to the louis the time getting annihilated friday night. other recent smash and grabs in that area. kron four's dan kerman reports. yeah, in and around union square was flooded with police officers again on monday. >> and it will continue to be for the foreseeable future. this after groups of thieves burglarized and vandalized more than a half dozen stores in the area on friday night, including the louis that on store. i think it's just so because i mean. >> people are taking advantage thes

rob fladeboe kron 4 news. >> whether time as we take a live look above downtown san francisco. and on this veterans day city hall. >> lit up in red, white and blue all right. it was one of really great days. it felt like spring. crawford's chiefmeteorologist ed lawrence karnow tells us what is going on? yeah. when that gorgeous around the bay area today. plenty of sunshine all the way. the coastline looking good. temperatures running above average for this time of year. high pressure. >> begin to camp out and giving us a break from all that rain that's headed well north of the bay area now and beautiful skies out there for tonight, mostly clear at this time coming patches of fog may try to form a little bit later. but what a day it was a look at these numbers already above the average for this time of year. 69 in san francisco 68 in oakland, 73 degrees just beautiful in san jose 69 in livermore, 71 in concord and 73 degrees in santa rosa. all courtesy of high pressure. a little bit of an offshore wind really help to warm those temperatures. a very, very nicely come over the map

rob fladeboe reports from the south bay where a gallon of regular is now selling for more than 5 bucks a gallon. >> here on the corner of blossom. hill and snow avenue in san jose. 2 stations are selling a gallon of regular for over 5 bucks. a gallon. well, a 3rd is at 4.99 and people are digging deep to pay for it. and a college student. i commute an hour away. so it's really expensive. regular gas prices have hit an all-time high in some parts of the bay area. aaa says the average price for regular unleaded in san francisco is $4.84. a gallon. it's 4.76 in san jose. and for 75 in oakland discount outlets like rotten robbie are some $0.40 cheaper. robinson oil ceo tom robinson. what's going on? you always have to start with crude oil. >> and crude oil wasn't that long ago in the 40's and now it's over. 80 and so where crude oil goes gasoline prices will go california's gas prices are among the highest in the nation in the bay area is tops in california. higher taxes are partly to blame but supply and demand is also at work here with the pandemic. also playing rule says robinson. and t

rob mcduff with the mississippi center for justice argues the u.s. supreme court has already decided and reaffirmed that states cannot ban abortions prior to a fetus is viability. >> which is around 24 weeks. you shouldn't be able to go back and overturned several flights. >> simply because the composition of supreme court is but that's exactly what anti-abortion advocates want and expect the court's new 6, 3 conservative majority to overturn roe v wade. we have an opportunity say millions and millions of lives in the future. if this is to be rolled up favorably, mississippi governor tate reeves shepherded the law in question through the state legislature. >> and fellow republican governors like south dakota's kristi noem support it. we actually got to go out and take actions that offend lives and save lives. the justices are not expected to rule until next summer. >> but if they overturn roe many states, including mississippi and south dakota already have measures in place that would automatically ban abortion in washington. i'm jessi tenure. next a

kron four's rob fladeboe brings us up to date on the shopping and security in the south bay. >> extra security here at the outlet shopping center in gilroy included police on horseback. a good idea because horseback was among the fastest way to get around a strong of shoppers that turned out looking for black friday bargains i i guess one say it didn't make a more during the there was another security to as most people didn't seem too concerned about getting caught up in the organized theft occurring in shopping malls elsewhere in the bay area a little bit. >> we obviously came really earlier. we're going to be leaving really running out. i was okay and thinking about it now. more like i just want to go home because it's so crowded. haha, let management declined to comment on anything related to black friday. police did not respond to inquiries about its security detail, whether there were any reports of theft. >> one customer of the nearby home depot said he witnessed security chase another customer who left without paying for a car load of merchandise. >> it's just open the door in

. >> the storming and robbing of several bay area. retail stores has had communities on edge. the brazen and sometimes violent deaths are not random but organized crimes says san mateo county prosecutor steve wagstaffe. and we never seen anything like this at all. it's a mob and rg and unacceptable and the only way it stops is if it's not allowed to occur. the san mateo county da has joined 6 other bay area prosecutors to fight organized theft, a key component to the joint action is the exchange of information. but we certainly have learned in san francisco walnut creek san jose stanford shopping center and the like. is that the people committing this often are moving between counties. one example, wagstaff points to is the arrest of 9 people in connection to the theft of a san francisco louis. but on at least one of those suspects was wanted for a crime in san mateo county with that information available. the punishment can become harsher. but these swarms of thieves might be a part of something much bigger. i think the people doing the shoplifting for the looting, whether ti

clara county breathe a huge sigh of relief after getting their kids vaccinated today and kron four's rob fladebof witness some of those first shots. he brings us the story. >> a day after the covid-19 vaccine was officially approved for kids ages 5 to 11 many wasted no time getting vaccinated against covid-19. among the first to get the shot was 11 year-old. evan weinswig of menlo park. >> i was just completely excited. i just wanted it to happen right then and there and it was it. it was incredible. santa clara county is among the first in the region to offer the vaccinations at county run sites like the fairgrounds by day's end. the county expected to have vaccinated more than 2000 of the newly eligible kids will be no. this age group is certainly had we don't yet know that much about the long-term effects of covid in this age group. >> so i am happy to see that they'll have an added layer of protection. >> the fairgrounds, another county run sites are by appointment only so far mobile clinics will offer doses near schools beginning thursday. a little dose vaccine for kids requires 2 s

year-old man to try and sell a car through the app offerup but instead strange investigators say strange robbed and shot the victim. it happened on tyler street thursday around noon. the victim died at the scene. strange is now behind bars at the solano county jail for charges of homicide. >> now to sacramento where a police dog is recovering tonight after it was stabbed while its handler was trying to make an arrest reporter want to shout. x has an exclusive interview with the veteran credited with saving this canines life. >> k 9 officer from the sec pd had been stabbed doctor chris wong was already home when he got word that a sacramento police dog was stabbed and headed to the vca animal hospital friday night. officers were on the 5300 block of 9th avenue trying to arrest a man who had an active felony warrant for stalking and threats. the suspect fled through a back door armed with a knife. the k 9 handler and ranger went to catch him. and that's when the suspects tab ranger in the abdomen stab wounds to the abdomen potentially fatal time is always of the essence. so officers drove doctor

. >> then the robbed as they walk to their car or to get to their car and find broken glass everywhere because their car has been broken into. >> this has to stop. >> and in the wake of these crimes. the city says there will be limited access to vehicles in the union square area that will take effect in the near future and san francisco, gayle ong kron 4 news. >> and now back to the east bay where yet another person has lost their life an interstate 8.80, in oakland. this time, police are saying a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian earlier this morning on south on 8.80. it heggen burger road no other information on a cause of this crash or the names of the people involved have been released at this point. we will keep you updated. contra costa county sheriff's office believes that they have found the body of adela de la pena a woman who had been missing since tuesday. the sheriff's department is saying around 9 o'clock this morning, someone on marine circle in bay point found an unidentified person in their backyard. and when officers arrived on the scene, they discovered that the

assignment in oakland with the kron 4 news reporter oakland police say he was shot during an attempt to rob our reporter of her camera equipment medics rushed him to highland hospital where he underwent surgery. the shooter died from his injuries this morning. meanwhile, tonight there are new developments in the search for his killer. police are still looking for the shooter or shooters involved today, oakland police released this picture of a car believed to be connected to his murder. it is a white four-door acura tl the model years from 2004 to 2008. meanwhile, the reward for unrest in the she does murder continuing to grow tonight nearly $33,000 now officially on the table for information leading to an arrest in the case. anyone with details now urged to call oakland homicide detectives for oakland crime stoppers. kevin worked as a private security guard with star protection agency. but before that, he also worked as a police officer in hayward san jose in coma before retiring from the force kron four's, gayle ong. talk to those who knew him best. >> this smile would light up a room for