we're live in berkeley. gayle ong kron 4 news like, you know, will. this was just the appetizer what is pg and e doing to make sure that there isn't a bigger problem as the storms get stronger. >> throughout this weekend into early next week. >> yeah, right grand and i'm hearing a lot about those concerns from residents in the area will be. jeanne did say that they are targeting certain neighborhoods specifically in the east bay. so they didn't get ahead and watch some power poles over in richmond and they're going to work through el serino and i guess there are some power poles in albany. they're going to have to look at as well. all right. get along. >> live for us tonight. appreciate that meantime, the city of pleasant hill has opened up sandbags stations. officials there say that there are 3 locations for you. >> one is at the city hall parking that is on gregory lane at telling the road behind michaels, the community center parking lot on civic drive. and at the parking lot on the north side of hawthorne drive. the sandra fell police department i

thank you, dan thorn reporting for us now live in berkeley. and while a red flag warning issued for parts of the north and the east bay expired. this afternoon. the recent weather conditions are really keeping firefighters busy in the south bay over the last couple days at san jose firefighters responding to at least 3 brush fires recently, one of them right along 6.80 late yesterday kron four's taylor spoke with san jose fire officials tonight about their concerns. she's live with more taylor so early in the season to see so many fires. >> grant. that's exactly the concern. you know, firefighters say that they're seeing these fires and they're here way sooner than expected, but it's not unprecedented. however, they are concerned. of course, this year is especially because we're seeing those it's extremely dry conditions ahead of the fire season. >> it tells us in the fire department that need to be prepared. the take away message after battling several fires over the weekend and on monday in san jose. there's there was saturday afternoon's fi

set in place by the school as well as berkeley. health officials. >> i don't know that some miscommunication made. maybe there is. it's it's truly the guidance from berkeley public out this followed by the university of california. and then we execute the guidance. so, you know, not you know, i'm sure this confusion because that, you know, this week of of dealing all of this has been confusing to all of us. but you know, that's that's where we are. >> officials say that 99.5% of the 117 member football staff is vaccinated. that's players and coaches. when asked how many were not vaccinated knowlton jim knowlton, the athletic director said that there were 2 people currently on the staff who are not vaccinated or he cannot clarify exactly who they were or the reasons why they have not received the vaccine. but he did say that those 2 people who have not been vaccinated yet. had covid contracted covid-19 previously. now the game against usc has been rescheduled for december. 4th. the team is set to next take on stanford in stamford on

president of safe berkeley's neighborhoods. the group's mission is to protect the quality of life in the area which they feel has diminished as the university's admissions have grown. there isn't enough housing for the students. >> and they're doubled and tripled and quadrupled out. i mean, i've heard stories of, you know, for students living in a one-bedroom apartment. >> in alameda county judge found the university's rising enrollment has also caused displacement and unacceptable noise within the surrounding communities. baca boy wants the school to come up with mitigation plans. some students tell kron 4 news housing and the cost of housing is a big issue. terrible. everyone i know is that issues finding housing specially portable housing. it's ridiculously overpriced a university spokesperson responded to the judge's order saying there are no plans to grow the university. more than one percent. the school is also confident they'll be able to continue after the judge put a hold on a large development project. the behavior of

he's live from uc berkeley with the latest. >> some good ken and pam earlier today uc berkeley football team got a chance to actually practice a day after that news of that covid outbreak here with the

we're live tonight in berkeley jonathan mccall kron 4 news. >>thank you jonathan still to come on kron 4 news at 9 another brutal attack on an asian person once again in oakland, a local leaders and law enforcement are responding to what has become a very troubling trends. >>and then a disturbing attack caught on camera what led to this ugly ride in an uber. and the latest on a recall effort not for governor newsome but san francisco da. >>jason wu we'll tell you who's >>this is a live look now at our storm tracker radar right that the moment as you can see well plenty of rain still moving through the bay area. we're going to get another update from learned to just a few minutes. meantime san francisco department of elections cleared campaign to recall a district attorney chesa boudin which will allow them to collect signatures for a recall the coalition will be required to collect more than 51,000 signatures about 10% of the city's voters by mid august. >>in order to qualify for a special election. for sale of the second joins us live from th

>>kron four's gayle ong is live in berkeley tonight. she has the details on these latest cases, gayle. >>the uk variant was spotted days after a campus surge at u c berkeley, but researchers say they can confirm that these 2 new variant cases are not linked to that search. >>the faster spreading variants of covid-19 known as the uk variant has shown up in to u c berkeley students. researchers say the infected students tested positive for covid in january contact tracing revealed both recently arrived in the united states from abroad and we're connected in a statement the university health services medical director says it is unfortunately no surprise that this and other variants are being detected locally even the extent of viral spread happening currently regionally nationally and internationally the more efficiently we can contain the spread. the better chance we have of nipping this in the bud the new variant known as b 1, 1, 7 was discovered in the united less than 2 months ago. alameda county confirmed 6 cases of the new strain, in

berkeley high did nothing. >> stop it. phillips says she reported the abuse of behavior to anyone who would listen as soon as it began in her freshman it was, you know, assistant coaches, head coaches, athletic the english teacher that i had my freshman year. it that the administration wasn't there for me. i reached out to the berkeley unified school district public information office to hear what they have to say about these allegations. i received an auto reply saying the office is closed for summer vacation. matthew, this was the subject of multiple complaints alleging abuse of former students. >> and after learning this rachel phillips decided it was time for her to speak out again. >> if i felt like if there's something i can do to help healing young woman. then i need to do this. >> has it made kron 4 news fencing coach in sunnyvale faces crime charges involving a child. police say this man roderick by first groomed his victim by purchasing her gifts treating her differently than other students and traveling alone wi

other news now a recent study done by stanford, yale and u c berkeley. big ducks confirmed that mask-wearing is effective way to decrease the transmission of covid-19 researchers found that surgical masks prevented. 35 1% of symptomatic infections among people 60 years and older kron four's. taylor sec is joining us here now live in the studio with more on the study. taylor. what did it show? well, i know many of us often wonder which masks are most effective, especially now with the delta variant 10. you know. >> some people may perceive the surgical masks as flimsy or non reusable. but researchers found that the surgical masks are more affected than cloth. ones. >> even after you wash and reuse them several times. >> researchers at stanford, yale and u c berkeley found just how effective masks can be reducing the spread of covid-19 in the largest mask study to date their recent study was done in bangladesh across 600 villages and more than 350,000 adults. well, they found masks in general provided a 9% reduction in covid-19 cases. surgical masks were m

last week the city of berkeley issued a new order after a spike in the delta cases. most indoor businesses like restaurants bars, clubs and gyms will now require customers to provide proof of vaccination for those 12 and older. i'm feeling great about that. i have absolutely no problem with the i believe in public health. i feel like public health should be more respected as of friday. the new rule is enforceable. but this business owner had no idea. >> yes, some people some people did until i to find the say move. >> and businesses have until mid-october to require proof of vaccination report%ng from berkeley. gayle ong kron 4 news go before we let you go. some of the video that you showed the show customers were out and how are they reacting to this new mandate. >> what's been about a week. so people seem to know the drill and i didn't stop to talk to another restaurant that was off camera and they're just saying some, you know, some people really didn't know much about it, but people but they haven't really been getting any difficult customers. they think they jus

that's the latest here live in berkeley on taylor's second reporting. back to you. >> thank you so much. taylor coming up, arrests have been made in connection to a homicide of a bay area rapper what details police have revealed about one of the suspects and the relationship with the victim. and read racing back up in the bay area. we'll take a closer look at where things stand after. >> brent prices took a big tumble during the early days of the pandemic. >> some bay area real estate agents say a better act fast because time is running out to take advantage of low rent prices kron 4 says the money and reports now from san francisco. >> the rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in san francisco. is going up or is it trending down. >> it is going up once it's been going on for the last couple months. actually. >> apartment list. senior research associate rob warnock cites data founded their website monthly written report showing rich being on the rise of the city this past month in san francisco. we saw prices go up 3 percentage points month over mont

and berkeley unified school district teamed up together in order to make this clinic happen. kron four's phillipe djegal reports appointments were fully booked within hours of availability. >> 10 year-old sage gold he was a little nervous before he was inoculated at malcolm x elementary understandable considering the dragged on for months alright, in the he says it was not bad at all. it was like a small pinch. you have that's it. after receiving a pediatric pfizer's covid-19 vaccine. sage is just one more shot away from being fully inoculated. it was very important it now i can finally go see my grandparents. i'm excited for him. i mean, it's it's important to protect not only himself but everybody around overall at the elementary school the city of berkeley partnered with the berkeley unified school district to provide 200 doses of the vaccine for district students, age 5 through 11. we know that vaccines are safe and effective superintendent bret stephens says it is important for you to get vaccinated headed into the winter months when case rates could possibly just last w

we do know if you're black or you're latino in berkeley. >>you're more likely to be stopped by police a greater compared to white residents. according to data collected by the center and police equity would behind the wheel of blacks are 6.5 times more likely than whites to be pulled over and almost 5 times more likely to be stopped little foot. berkeley mayor jesse out of the we adopt a groundbreaking. >>police reforms to do several things one too. to limit unnecessary police stopped the new police policy among other things police stops for low level offenses that do not impact public safety. >>police stops for things like not wearing seat belts are having expired license tags requires consent for consent searches and officers will no longer requests parole or probation status. the president of the berkeley police association says the new reform as is a danger public safety releasing a statement reading in part quote at stake is the safety of berkeley citizens and its police officers as the propose reforms will turn officers into filing cl

>>kron four's gayle live in berkeley tonight with the efforts to track the mutations in the community, gayle. >>you see berkeley research have been monitoring the coronavirus since the pandemic and they haven't found any significant variation of the virus until recently when the uk variant showed up in 2 students. >>it's tesia women leads the sequencing effort with an uzi berkeley's innovative genomics institute, she worked at labs like this one with machines that the text covid-19 test samples looking for highly infectious variants of the coronavirus women's team discovered the uk variant known as b 1, 1, 7, into u c berkeley students who both recently traveled abroad, this just emphasizes that that be 1, 1, 7 is on campus. it's more transmissible all we need to be extra careful. >>make are very about wearing good mask and washing hands and staying socially distance. >>u c berkeley officials have been urging students to stay inside their dorms to avoid community spread after a recent covid outbreak the uk variant is known to be more contagious and may carry a higher risk of death. th

we're thankful we're able to reunite the teen with her family in berkeley. michelle kingston, kron 4 news firefighters in the east bay have gotten a handle on a 2 alarm grass fire that started this afternoon in antioch. it burned into a 4 unit apartment building at james donlon boulevard and to board drive in antioch. >> only the people in the apartment building were asked to evacuate. see crews there dousing hot spots. no one was hurt there. still no official word on a cause. and kron four's also tracking the latest wildfires burning across the state right now. there are new mandatory evacuations for that dixie fire in total more than 91,000 acres have burned in plumas and. >> turns the dixie fire still only 15% contained. people living from highways. one 47 an 89 to corey road are being told to immediately evacuate more than 2000 firefighters are battling this fire at least 2 buildings have been destroyed. >> accusation orders remain in place for markley feel as the time or ak fire burns out of control. it is still raging in alpine county. that is east of

the berkeley unified school district learned that 8 people on campus. a campus have tested positive for covid-19. >> kron four's. phillipe. your dog reports that those people are now in isolation. >> 8 students and or staff members at berkeley high school are isolating at their homes after testing positive for covid-19 berkeley unified school district spokesperson trish mcdermott says 7 positive cases were discovered thursday during the district's weekly testing on campus in a case was added friday and because several of these cases were epidemiologically lanes and happened within the 14 day window that public health uses to assess cases. >> our local public health partners city of berkeley called this an outbreak. mcdermott says the school district cannot report which cases represent students or staff. >> but add 7 of the cases are associated with the athletic department. we had more than 700 close contacts. >> our school. so that staff and those are students that could be in a variety of classes that can be on sports teams. the district's contact trac

he joins us live in berkeley with more. dan. >> well, catherine, this idea here in the city of berkeley has been getting chewed on last summer and then back in february, city leaders voted unanimously for police to focus primarily on investigative stops and dangerous drivers. and this is all in an effort to help rebuild mistrust of police by people of color in this community. we spoke with some city leaders today who say that yesterday's police killing in minnesota is just a glaring example of why traffic enforcement needs to be re. imagine. in the moments before dante wright was killed by a brooklyn center. police officer. he was being stopped for expired. registration tags. >> the violation is considered a low level traffic offense and leaders in the city of berkeley say this killing could have been >> my heart is broken and infuriated. but this moment is a reminder to all of us just how important the work that we're doing in berkeley to re imagine traffic enforcement its south side councilmember rigel robinson and others

all of those students that use housing on campus here at u c berkeley. >>have to get tested twice a week in the meantime health services is handling quarantine and isolation management and they are expecting that students that have been exposed they will be able to house right now, but again they are concerned that this may get worse. reporting live at u c berkeley dan thorn kron 4 news, the news, nobody wants to hear dan. thank you meanwhile take a look at this. >>pictures from a massive party at santa clara university. the school's newspaper says this enormous party took place back on january 23rd in the yard of a frat house. the theme according to the paper was aspen in the 80's. the gathering would be in violation of local and state health orders. kron 4 has reached out to the university for comment about this. but so far we have yet to hear back. 481 more californians dying from covid-19 in the past 24 hours. the news comes just one day after the state's death toll from the virus topped more than 40,000. california recorded its first 10,000 deaths i

let's go now to the east bay where families rallied in berkeley urging the berkeley unified school district to reopen schools for in person, learning students, parents and doctors say the distance learning has been a failure. >>they tell kron four's phillipe djegal that they believe that schools can welcome the kiddo's back to class safely. >>i'm not claiming he runs build their kids are falling behind their peers across the to county in the have already returned to classrooms in some form of in person instruction adding that pro long distance learning has been costly we see increasing rates of depression anxiety social isolation children falling further and further behind academically and socially on saturday families rally that martin luther king junior civic center park thankful the berkeley unified school district finds a way to at least bring entry school children back on councilmember rashi kesarwani says it can be done all public schools in alameda county. >>including the city of berkeley as of yesterday friday february cobb permission to reopen because we are below 25 cases per 100,

. >> the 30th anniversary of the oakland berkeley firestorm is this week and the fire in 1991 killed 25 people and change so many lives forever today. a number of fire agencies like oakland and berkeley along with cal fire teaming up with neighbors and even city leaders. >> kron four's taylor. the sacking takes us there. >> dozens of first responders community members and families of victims gathered here on sunday to pay tribute to the lives lost and to also recognize the lessons we learned and how we can better prepare ourselves for these fires tuesday marks 30 years since the oakland berkeley fire storm that killed 25 people. >> injured. 150 others and destroyed more than 3,000 structures. >> mary brantley. grant. >> should make mary and her sister internet mcherry garbin say their father louis mcnary junior was one of the victims of that fire. they say their dad died. a hero he really passed away in part to the fire as a hero. >> he had a home there. he was able to actually get out. but then a neighbor was not able to get out. he went back in in trying to save him. that's when he

barbecuing and open open fires for cooking and things of that nature in the city of berkeley. those living in the hills are urged to be prepared for an emergency and know your evacuation zone. >> the national weather service says the main threat for dry lightning is over. the diablo range for the east bay, the red flag warning expires monday at 05:00pm. >> berkeley. gayle ong kron 4 news. >> right now. there are at least 11 named the fires burning across the golden state tonight. one of them, the dixie fire burning near paradise. evacuation orders remain in place tonight as it continues to spread in butte county. the fire has now grown to more than 15,000 acres and is set to be 15% contained. cal fire says its crews having a tough time trying to contain it because of the steep terrain in the area. >> and directly to the east of the dixie fire in the plumas national forest crews work to get the upper hand on the largest fire that's currently burning in california. the beckwourth complex fire has burned more than 105,000 acres. it is 73% contained mandatory evacuations remain in

the hope is to raise more youth voices. >> in berkeley. gayle ong kron 4 news. >> earlier today we talked with one of the founders of the group. stop a p. i hate about the community. ambassador program and the positive impact. they say they're already seeing, but they also stress that it's not enough and that there are a lot of ways that everyone can help. >> we need to really focus on intervention and prevention support community based organizations that are working with their use. across communities. most importantly or equally important that we support organizations that are trying to build. racial unity that we have so much to work together around to address the drivers of violence in crime and racial bias and that's to hearing that's your educational programs and rent to efforts that bring our communities together around racial and economic equality in this country. >> choi adds that it is important that these types of conversations and efforts are continued far beyond the recent uptick in violence that we're seeing right now starting

rob fladeboe kron 4 news. >> city leaders in berkeley say they are now the first city in the nation to require their police department to document the use of militarized equipment, things like the city leaders say the use of weapons like specialized guns, projectile launchers and the times 30 inches or longer are now regulated by this new police equipment and community safety ordinance just approved by berkeley city council. there will be an annual report that will include an inventory of current police equipment. the official policy for its use and the circumstance. >> frankly, a lot of this grows out of concerns for black lives matter. and this sense that sometimes weaponry is appears more in lower income african-american neighborhoods. it does in my neighborhood. and so we want to know where it was or was it a lot of crowd control. do we have a lot of demonstrations where it was used. so that kind of information we're looking for right now. we don't know how often it's used or where because there is no reporting on it. >> the berkeley police department responded to the new legislati

here's the shot from u c berkeley. see, the fog is all settled in current temperatures now around the bay already into the 50's. you go inland. they dropped to 74 pittsburgh 66 for fairfield. the 5775 even saint helene. and so we're feeling the effects all over. we compared to 24 hours ago and look out this. we're cooler than we were from 24 hours ago, even at this 9 o'clock hour by almost a dozen degrees. so as we go forward for tonight, temperatures around the 60's and 50's. they harder going to move now with this fog. pretty much in place and or lets the computer models are saying somewhat partly cloudy. it's that stratus around the bay. a look at the winds now. yes, they're on shore. but you're going to get better clearing happening inland because of the daytime heating that mixes out that marine layer. however, it can be kind of tricky around san francisco. southern ran sticking around a little longer and you'll see that even in the east bay too little, all kind of dampen things and keep temperatures down a bit as

and it looks like a hercules 6765 for berkeley, chilly spot blasewitz 63. but up to county we warm up to the lower 70's again 74 napa and sonoma. and santa rosa. again with a lot of cloud cover but this air mass is coming from the south so that helps out looking ahead to things in the seven-day forecast holding steady with those temps sure. cloud cover redevelops on saturday and by sunday, here's that rain chance and by monday between us kids here we'll probably see the rain return. again, but hey we needed organ the springtime temperatures with itself. 2 thumbs up back to you. >>in national nears a busy monday for president biden who had a virtual video meeting with the president of mexico, the 2 of them talked more fully about immigration confronting the coronavirus and cooperating on economic and national security issues. mexico's president has been talking up his idea of creating a guest worker program for mexicans and central americans looking to make their way into the u.s.. >>meanwhile president biden has made no secret of his plan to push for immigr

the illegal activity involved a carjacking in oakland and a laptop theft in berkeley. >> the group was caught yesterday after crashing the stolen car. but first, dan thorn has more now on this story from berkeley. >> police say an 11 year-old was among the 5 teens and preteens who were detained after committing crimes across 2 cities. police say they also heard a man that was sitting on a bench as they tried to take off in that stolen car. this peet's coffee shop on 4th street in west berkeley was the scene of a laptop theft that later turned into a chase for a stolen car full of juveniles. investigators say this all started just after 2 o'clock tuesday afternoon, witnesses were able to help identify the toyota camry which was spotted by police in another part of the city and then chased to university in san pablo avenues. the ages of those detained were shocking to some local parents it's very concerning and its something must be, you know, going on. there must be. >> something deep or what they feel like. it's ok to do that. the 11 to 15 year olds are also accused of striking a man w

in berkeley. >>first chief meteorologist lawrence karnow he's joining us with more on that quake on not a big one, but felt that. yes one of those ones you probably feeling you see tonight just really feel an earthquake. boy if you're right on top of it. it can shake it quite a bit this one are pretty shallow quake though only 6.3 miles so certainly feeling that. >>if you're right there on top of berkeley and some of the surrounding areas, too but things are going to be changing here in the bay area weather wise. we have some showers this morning little bit of a break this afternoon but we're gonna get back to some more rain least some light scattered showers a possibility i think as we head through the day tomorrow, nice look from our mount tam cam looking good out there over the bay see the planes up above down below not bad at all just some partly cloudy skies. storm system moved through early on this morning a few leftover showers in the morning today in parts of the south they really just kin

. >> but first, dan thorn live for us in berkeley tonight. he joins us with more on this investigation. dan. >> baking grand police tell us, thankfully this a victim thought quickly and acted quickly and was able to get away from this man before calling 911 the situation definitely concerning for police officers. but now they need help in identifying the suspect. berkeley police say this home security video shows an unknown man following a high school aged girl and making demands. he told the teen he was a police officer. he had a gun and he wanted a hug from her. >> it's it's this person who you don't know as a pro taking a step further and saying that no, you need to talk to me because i'm police officer and then also that he has a gun officer byron white says this happened in late september along gilman street. >> it was the evening when the girl was on her way home and the man approached her. he then stepped in our path to try to keep her from moving on. but she got away the victim in this case of the right thing. she ran from the person

. >> outbreak at berkeley high school. several people testing positive. but it is not clear whether the outbreak is among students, faculty. both kron four's ella sogomonian live with us in studio tonight with what we know so far. good evening. l a. >> grant 7 tests came back positive this morning at berkeley high school. those people were sent home where they will stay until it's safe for them to return 6 people who contracted covid are tied to the school sports program. the berkeley unified school district released a statement saying that they notified hundreds of close contact to these cases and notified the school community about the outbreak during which public health can require additional safety protocols like in this case public health has asked some people on campus to get more testing as well as both the rapid antigen and pcr tests which were provided immediately today antigen tests came back negative so far for other people and pcr test results will take between 4872 hours. these tests will be provided again on monday. that's because b usd scho

. >> right track lives in berkeley and drove out to pleasanton for a run. his wife reached out to police after she couldn't find her husband several hours after he should have come home. lieutenant chris near house says they're doing everything to find him. we're using fixed wing aircraft drones clear. >> quite a few of up to about 50 volunteers to come out and doing the searching and teams with dogs. he says, well, they've searched his route. that rain makes it difficult to easily spot. anything or anyone. >> this area behind me a very steep rugged canyon type of environment and there's lots of little deer trails that go off left and right. this is the trail where dogs lost track of pride checks we are concerned obviously due to the heat in the lab. we don't think he has a large water source near how says right now they don't suspect foul play. >> or that crytek wanted to disappear their equipment can't see through all the vegetation. so people have to physically go into it and out running in the morning in this on police patrol sharma is one of the volunt

berkeley unified school district officials and the teachers union they've agreed on a tentative timeline to reopen campuses is no agreement teachers will be able to get vaccinated as early as next week. >>it will take about 3 weeks to get the vaccine to all 1500 district employees teachers will be able to sign up online for the designated slots on your screen now the tentative timeline for children to go back to the classroom. >>it includes preschool through second graders going back on march, the 29th 3rd through 9th graders will go back to school on april the 1210 through 12th graders would return to campus on april 19th, this of course is all dependent on the city able to provide enough doses of the vaccine. >>in san francisco, a lot of frustration, it is building over the delay in getting schools reopened so far 6 schools have been deemed okay safe to return to in person learning those schools are sunset elementary of arrow, alvarado cobb glen park laughton and john muir elementary school officials say though they still don't have a date to give parents for when they might be able to

>>in berkeley fleet and all kron 4 news. >>and a time when millions of americans are waiting their turn to get a covid-19 vaccine. there are reports of some vaccines going to waste more than 150 viles had to be tossed this was a clinic in l a and it happened after people who signed up to get shot. they didn't show up. now county officials want the public health department to create a standby list for people over 65. vaccinations for those 65 and older and people working in education childcare emergency services and food and agriculture are expected to begin next month. >>after powerful storms churning in the pacific. the question is when will they had in our direction. we may see one coming our way we'll talk about that coming up. and as vice president-elect kamala harris gets ready to take off a scrum for taking a closer look at the political glass ceiling she's broken from here in the bay area across the state and washington dc. >>join our pam moore who is hosting kamala harris first but not last that's >>for sports. >>the

we saw as we were heading over from berkeley earlier. how much smoke was really starting to just get carried south from american canyon causing a lot of people to pump the brakes 80 eastbound, of course, looking out and thinking, oh, my goodness. look at that fire that's burning out there. so. for people that are in this you these are the dangers that happened during red flag warning. so make sure that you have, you know, go bags, ready. fire crews always suggesting that also heeding the warnings whenever there is any sort of fire danger of listening. the fire crews areas that get closed off. understand that the reason why they're closed off is because they want people to stay. stay we're up to 50% containment again. we'll continue to monitor the conditions out here and also give you any updates as as we receive them. catherine grant. >> all right. dan thorn, thank you very much for that report and let some of on to whether you're looking at the view from our camera on top of mount from way up there. you can. >> see quite a bit and i'm s

. >> the berkeley fire department is working to be as proactive as possible. this fire season. it's now recommending that people living in the hills get out of their homes during extreme fire weather even before any actual fires break out. it is an aggressive step. it comes as fires in the state have grown more frequent to more severe kron four's maureen kelly has reaction. >> during the 1991 oakland berkeley hills fire. some people were forced to flee on foot as the fire raged around them. and that's something the berkeley fire department does not want to see repeated the roads in the hill areas remain narrow and winding in parts, which is why they're now planning to recommend that people get out before trouble starts particularly those living in zones 2, 3, when the fire weather conditions are extreme that goes beyond red flag warnings greater than 90 degrees. >> arik sustained winds greater than 2025 miles per hour. and our relative humidity below 10% acting battalion chief nate gerard says they'll pull the trigger after the national weather service. >> provides them with a

berkeley mayor jesse air again says they'll be deployed as soon as possible. so i'm very pleased that our entire council recognizes that this is a smart. >> strategy to. deter violent crime and also bring accountability when it does occur. >> this camera project was just one part of a 5 million dollars funding package approved by the city council. the money will also go toward a new ceasefire program in the city as well as traffic safety projects reporting live in the newsroom. dan thorn kron 4 news. >> thank you, dan. coming up, new documents are out on one of the most speculated history of events. new information in the jfk assassination and all that fresh powder in the sierra means it's time to hit the slopes. we're checking in on. skiers and boarders are doing. it's opening day at sugar bowl. and we continue to track the rain. this hour. and boy, oh, boy. there. it is lit up like a christmas tree. >> the bay area covered in green. the rain persist through the evening. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow will be back with us shortly with the latest. 4 zone

this one in berkeley and police say a man stole over $1000 worth of clothing from the uc berkeley student store. investigators say a student employee was injured while trying to stop the suspect from running away. police describe the suspect as an african-american male who is 5 feet 9 inches tall with a thin build. he was last seen wearing a green beanie and a pair of black and red sweat pants. if you have any information you're asked to call. you see police now to the incident where police have arrested 5 adults for giving alcohol to minors during a park. police say they were able to make the arrests after those adults agreed to buy alcohol to undercover agents who are posing as minors in front of a liquor store. police then arrested and cited the adults for furnishing alcohol to the minors. the penalty for doing this is a minimum $1000 fine and 24 hours worth of community service. a mcdonald's is. >> mcdonald's into dispute with a minority franchise owner and agreed to a settlement fast food giant said it will pay 33 and a half million dollars to former at oakland athletics. baseball pl

we're at the berkeley hills home on the edge of strawberry canyon. i called and they said you need to get down here. >> there's a fire up in the hills. there were flames on the hill and they were basically tracking us as we were driving down. you can see them moving and there were the fingers of flames coming down. the covert is from the from that. >> her son and his father made it to the claremont. >> but the house like thousands of others did not survive. >> everything was gone. everything. i'm the only thing left to me in our little boy was then turned the flames. toys and things that might be left behind. you did fine a little truck that survive. >> after the fire liviakis and her husband went their separate ways. she opting not to stay in the east bay hills. he opting to rebuild. and while he has no regrets, the choice to stay in these majestic hills does come with increased concern. >> if there's a red flag day, if it high winds, if that high temperature or if there's no fires, which they have been for for years now. i think about that because

there's been a new audit of the berkeley police department and it suggests that officers are more likely to stop and search people of color. >> than any other race. the report looked at data over a five-year period. dating back to 2015 and found the police pulled over black people and 34% of traffic stops, even though they only make up 8% of the city's population. this is coming as berkeley is making national headlines for its sweeping police reforms that were approved earlier this year, including preventing officers from stopping cars for low level offenses. the mayor says the goal is to reduce the opportunities for potential uses of force by police. >> and required greater and. minutes around the types of of force that police can use on a variety of different incident. >> as part of the reforms. officers could no longer poll over someone for not wearing a seat belt or having expired tags, but they also must obtain written consent before searching a person or their car. the mayor says the changes have resulted in less use of force by police and is hopeful that reform will soon occur at

it is locuted in berkeley. san pablo park neighborhood. and when goodwin went outside to see who was there. he was killed. a mural painted on the home serves as a reminder for the community. but the musicians case is still open. the people involved. >> every time they pass this house, they're going to see this remind you of alex. >> in 2019, the berkeley city council approved the police department's request to increased the reward money in this case from $15,000 up to $50,000. and that reward is still on the table. >> in the north bay. a family says that they're concerned and also issuing a warning for others to be on the lookout for delivery person who they say broke into their home and stole valuable items. it was all caught on video and as kron four's, theresa stasi reports, the family says they're just sickened by what they lost. >> and a home and robbed us of. >> jewelry. >> sentimental items items that to others might just be worth a couple $100. but us where that is a sonoma county man talking about this. >> on thursday, his surveil

>>and this just in the berkeley city council has approved sweeping police forms here are some of the changes. ending police stops for low level offense, not impacting public safety, ending stops for things like having expired license tags no longer requesting parole or probation status. requiring written consent for consent searches and creating a berkeley department of transportation which will transfer traffic enforcement duties to train civilians. the berkeley police officers association released a statement earlier today, urging the city council to reject those changes. >>now developing news, san francisco police are looking for a group of they say attacked a man in a wheelchair last week have been here on mary street in the city's south of market area where the suspect allegedly drag this victim out of the wheelchair. >>and then stole the wheelchair police released a picture of the motorized wheelchair. that was reportedly stolen by the victim on like this police say the suspects made comments about the wheelchair and then hit the victim in his face while another dragged him out

. >> you see berkeley infectious disease specialist doctor john swartzberg, who you just heard there says that this policy is really the right thing to do. ucsf is mandating health care personnel be vaccinated in stanford will make the same requirement in august and yes, marin county with the highest vaccination rate in the state has seen an uptick in covid cases and they're sounding the alarm and emphasizing the fact that children are still very vulnerable. our first theresa has more now from roane county. >> karen warren county, 4 of those breakthrough cases ended up in the hospital. that's the bad news. the good news is that the vaccines are showing that they are strong, strong enough to prevent people from dying. but again, my county officials having this message that the pandemic is not over because they are still seeing increased cases. >> we're seeing it's breaking 3 more were frequently doctor matt willis marin county's public health officer talking about new information coming in on rising covid-19 cases and how vaccinated people are testing positive. >> breakthrough cases a

you can get your card indoor to over 15 to collect the vaccination status of all in berkeley. the leap to go don't like to hear this, but covid has new cousin. vicki. it is you. that's the spelling there saying it's he would know tonight. >> doctors say we shouldn't be worried, at least not yet. but we did speak to some local health experts who tell us the same health and safety guidance for covid-19 and the delta variant will work against this latest variation of the coronavirus. >> the same recommendations they apply to any variant which is getting vaccinated washins your hands mean being inserted. the stance. wear your mask. >> doctors say the move variant was initially discovered in colombia and has been recognized in nearly 30 countries, including here in the u.s. that have been a few 100 cases here, but it is not the predominant variant from his hospital bed. boxer oscar de la hoya announces that he's been hit hard by covid his big comeback fight next week that her bellfort is not going to be happening de la hoya says that he got infected despite being fully vaccinated r

they're getting think looking for the east bay hills back toward the oakland and berkeley. you can see some of the clouds moving on in right now. more on the way toward the golden gate bridge. plenty of cloud cover. a little drizzle along the coastline to and that's something we're going to be contending with the next few days high pressure good a week as a trough moves along the coast that is going to ramp up that marine air pushing further and further on shore pollen 60's in san francisco tomorrow. if you head to the beach grab a jacket 50's and some 60's there inside the find 70 millbrae 63 in south san francisco. breezy, though, in the afternoon 71 in san carlos 73 in redwood city, 72 in woodside the south bay. you've got to make sure 70's and 80's all around. it will be warm by the afternoon. but some cooler numbers and those places that have those hot 90's. those will be gone tomorrow. 84 degrees in pleasanton 70 and breezy in hayward rog 83 in walnut creek. but 86 degrees in concord, 76 in the napa valley and about 81 degrees and snow. a nice cool breeze is going to

>>i spoke with doctor john swartzberg with u c berkeley school of public health and ucsf joint medical program to sort out. why vaccination distribution seem so riddled with problems. he says in many ways it was doomed from the start when the vaccines first got approval, the rollout was an adequately funded leaving massive states like california behind the 8 ball before the first shot was taken. >>the congress and people looking at the distribution of the vaccine back in september estimated that the 50 states needed at least 8.4 billion dollars to really get program up and ready and they needed at least 2 or 3 much to get that program up and running. the state's forgiven by the central government. back in october about 400 million therein lies the biggest piece of the problem. >>that enormous gap and funding meant critical resources to pay for logistics people and places to manage the initial small number of vaccines that had to be carefully transported. and administered and documented their websites wasn't there and is still not there. he adds adding more people to the eligibility lis

>>doctor john swartzberg an infectious disease expert at the u c berkeley school of public health says one issue with this expansion is verifying the severity of someone's health condition health care providers have been told by the state as of march 15th, they can use their clinical judgment to give out the vaccines trying to parse out these kind of issues is really. >>you're a difficult. in any circumstance specialist in the middle of a pandemic and when people need to get their actually even with current issues can get the vaccine. the amount of doses has been low across the state and appointments have been filling up quickly. >>expanding the eligibility pool will likely build upon those frustrations if the supply continues to not meet the demand. doctor swartzberg expects it will take until at least april 4 things to run smoothly. what we need to do is have the logistics working hand in glove are sitting here in glove. >>with the vaccine supply and we're not there yet. >>the state is still working on how to verify those underlying health conditions and whether or not there will be

the new administration is going to make a profound difference in how we handle this pandemic u c berkeley infectious disease professor doctor john swartzberg agrees. >>he says simply having a plan in a coordinated group to execute that plan, we'll go a long way in terms of prevention and vaccine rollout he says president by this commitment to be honest with the american public. we'll also go a long way. >>i think the trips are cheats critical was that change is critical as every all the end of this pandemic. we the american people need to know what's going on. we can we can do with that news just need to see we can trust. >>dan kerman kron 4 news. here's a look at the latest numbers in the covid-19 vaccine rollout according to the centers for disease control and prevention close to 36 million covid shots have been distributed in the u.s. but only 16 million americans have actually received the vaccine that's less than half of all the available doses. the california state department of public health says a little more than a million of the state's 3.2 million doses have been issues and giv

nonetheless warming up to an above average with berkeley at 69 degrees richmond in the low 70's, the laos 78 degrees in benicia a degree warmer than that at 80 degrees as is so once again tracking widespread low 80's for inner most valleys and also our allergy pollen count changing a little bit oak ash and mulberry. we'll be medium to high levels of pollen counts. so fewer senior allergies acting up. that is why a few weeks ago we had juniper an elder that certainly affected my allergies. but fortunately pollen count is changing. but for those of you who didn't experience your allergies few weeks ago. now we're noticing those changes. so just keep that in mind. taking a look at your next 7 day outlook gusty day and cooler temperatures on tuesday, but then rebounding with above normal temperatures widespread low to mid 70's returning to our inland valleys and no rain for the next 7 days. feel like a broken record. justin and jonathan, because i just keep saying no rain, but i hope to change that soon. we do hope so as well. we definitely need every drop we can get. >> but first, a tha

. >> berkeley police have arrested a 37 year-old man for hate crime after they say he walked into the congregation that a vote shalom this morning yelling threatening anti semitic reports. then police found him in front of the chabad house after the people inside prevented him from entering the name of that man arrested has not yet been released in san bruno an elderly resident recovering after being pistol whipped during a home invasion. police say it happened about 5 saturday morning in on a redwood avenue near the parkside middle school. police say 5 men entered a home. how the elderly residents at gunpoint while they look for valuables. one suspect pistol whipped a resident causing a serious injury. the man took off in a dark colored suv. the person who was injured has been hospitalized. >> on the peninsula. palo alto. police say 2 women reported being groped by a man on a bicycle on separate occasions over the last 2 days. the for battery was reported around 4.30 saturday afternoon on middlefield road near lifton avenue. the woman told police bicyclists rode up and grab ear and h

ashley zavala explains the latest numbers and how the governor is responding. >> this latest berkeley igs poll says governor newsom's approval rating is under water. among those who are most likely to vote in this recall. >> we're going to defeat this. a partisan effort. governor gavin newsome responding to recent polls showing a growing number of voters are leaning in an unfavorable direction for him now weeks before his recall election. a new berkeley igs and la times poll released tuesday showed 47% of likely voters would vote yes to recall the governor with 50% saying they would keep him in office. the poll echoing results from an inside california politics and emerson college poll which showed a similar scenario. if the recall were held today, pointing to recent budget action. he's taken in fresno tuesday. the governor says he's confident he'll overcome the special election on september 14th continue to do that. good work. >> i think we're going to be okay on election day. the california republican party pounced on the ball chairwoman jessica millan patterson tuesday tweeted we'r

not as bad as it is in hayward up to 5 miles here in berkeley. but hayward visibility at or near 0. so please drive safely tracking the poor visibility in parts of the east bay shoreline right now. downtown san francisco 66 degrees. exactly where we should be for this time of year for the 2nd half of your weekend going to see that cool sea breeze influence bringing us some widespread patchy drizzle right along the san francisco peninsula coastline traces amount of rain at best with half moon bay in daly city in the low 60's, low 70's from millbrae and burlingame. so very pleasant temperatures there and 72 degrees apiece for san mateo and san carlos redwood city, though, in the mid 70's and widespread upper 70's and low 80's for those of you in the south bay santa clara 78 degrees with san jose in the low 80's and tracking 88 degrees for livermore. you should be in the mid 80's. so few degrees above average there. but it beats being in the 90's like you were the same with concord mid-nineties. but cooling down into the upper 80's as well. and we are seeing widespread low to mid 70's