and i'm catherine heenan. kron 4 news at 6. coming up next. >> from the bay area's local news station. we now with breaking news. >> welcome to kron. 4 news at 00:00pm tonight at 6. we start with that breaking news from the east bay where a shooting investigation is ongoing at sun valley mall in concord. i'm ken wayne. and i'm catherine heenan. a concord police just short time ago tweeted that the mall is still on lockdown, but they say there does not appear to be any ongoing threat to the public will look at video from the scene that shows in part where you see the police presence, but then you'll see somebody being taken out of the there. somebody is being brought out will be put onto an ambulance. we don't have any details yet on injuries or how many people were injured. people are being advised by police to simply stay away. one of our reporters is heading to the mall will bring you any updates as soon as they come into the newsroom. how come one person get that lucky. >> consistently and don't i don't kno

heenan has more from the newsroom catherine? yeah, well, the short answer, ken and pam, very unlikely a biden nominee will be blocked. >> the republicans, of course, don't control the senate. unlike when president obama nominated merrick garland, for example, there may be delay tactics, but any nomination is probably safe. justice priors announcement does give the president time to pick a replacement before the end of june. and biden has promised to choose a black woman for the job. uc hastings professor rory little says california supreme court justice leondra kruger is among the possible nominees. >> the trigger is absolutely fantastic. i think she would be great on the supreme court and i would applaud president biden if you were to nominate her. i think she would be confirmed. she is a moderate. she is not a a radical left progressive type. she's a moderate democrat. she's got experience in front of the supreme court. she's obviously been on the california supreme court now for a number of years. so she'd be great. there are

catherine heenan joins us now from the newsroom to explain. katherine, very doctor. wachter is known for his long covid over the last couple of years. he likes to stay positive. he explains things in layman's terms. >> but now he's talking about what it was like when the omicron virus hit home. his 28 year-old son, his son was fully vaccinated, had a booster shot but still got sick. so on some recent days, the doctor has sounded more like a worried father, then a detached expert. he says it is important to share the story. he talked to or james fletcher today. >> and i decided to tweet about with his permission, mainly because it was so ordinary. it's the experiences that millions of people are going through yet a case. but i found the decision making finding tests and finding that the pcr funding and s that was incredibly hard the decision-making about should he take a medicine or not? and how do you do that and how do you weigh as risk? one morning i tried to call them at 90. didn't pick up 10. pick up. i knew his chances of having a terrible outcome. we're very, v

and our catherine heenan has more on that. she's in the newsroom tonight, catherine hype. and yet donna crane, she is calling a time like this. >> titanic by washington, dc standards, the political science lecturer having really as much fun as anybody in trying to figure out what happens next. she says there is a good working list of 5 or 6 women, black women who are ready and qualified to take over for justice briar and says the jockeying behind the scenes will get intense. but crimes says the judicial nomination process also tends to do something that people might not expect. >> judicial nominees tend to be unified parties in ways that broad pieces of legislation dot there. just a lot of details to pick apart of legislation. and you kind of see a little bit more wandering like mister mentioned but both on the democratic and republican sides of the aisle. what i've seen is that the people that expectation a part of leadership is that that the team will stay together. it is worth however, that when one of the nominees is one of the candidates is not what it says. the top o