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4 morning news evacuation orders are in effect is a growing wildfire burns more than 1000 acres near lake sonoma. 9-1-1, call about a carjacking in the east bay and with police opening fire on a man with knife will have the full story and dozens of staff or students walk out during their own graduation ceremony to protest the war in gaza. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. good morning and thanks for joining us on a monday. daria and i'm james got lots of news to get to this morning and that big story, the wildfires burning in the north. they will get to that in a second. the weather is all both for the fire reasons. and of course, we're ending spring going into summer this week job have i know huge transition from one season to the next and >> it feels like the summer season with all we've been talking about the past couple of days. >> with, of course, the new fire burning up in the north bay. now, weather conditions today are not ideal for the

firefight. first of all, it's dry, hot and windy on top of all of that. looking outside at the golden gate bridge. no evidence of fog in the least bit out there. winds are coming straight out of the north and west and will escalate, especially for the inland east bay and northeastern part of the bay area towards the afternoon 20 to 30 miles per hour. gusts. that's why we do have red flag warnings in portions of napa solano as well colusa and lake counties until 08:00pm tonight winds will at their breezy us this afternoon and humidity also at the lowest along with our warmest of temperatures, 40's to 50's for current temps. a nice calm morning. before we get to a warm and breezy rest of the day, 70's to 80's for your highs today. michael. >> thanks, john. good morning, everyone. it is 701. happy monday. taking a live look right now at your roads. for the most part, everything is pretty good. but there are some small delays in collisions. take a look over in the south bay right now. we've got a ramp that is closed eastbound to 37 over to

the south 8.80, in milpitas at connector ramp completely blocked off. it's been like that for about 20 minutes or so. so keep that in mind. if you're heading out and then for a lot of you in the east bay right now, there's a traffic collision on westbound 80. it's at the bay bridge near the toll plaza. looks like there's only one or 2 lanes that are affected right now. so hopefully doesn't cause too much delay. but taking a live look right now at the bay bridge, you can see it's only a 14 minute commute into the city. so we're not seeing too many residual delays from that. and hopefully they will clear that up soon. a live look at the san mateo bridge, 15 minute commute on to the peninsula. a live look at the richmond. sandra fell bridge. it's 14 minutes there. and lastly, that golden gate bridge. look at that beautiful shot. 21 minutes into the city. dorian james, i will send it back to you. all right. thanks a lot, michael. and as we want continue our team coverage, we want to give you the biggest fire that's burning now in sonoma county. yeah, this is the fire that's grown to more than 1000 acres in size. it's prompted evacuation orders. >> for some kron four's will tran following it all up in

healdsburg. joining us now live will. >> we have some bad news to pass along. we understand that is going to get worse before it gets better. it is breezy at this location and that breeze could push the fire to other locations. you can see people showing up right now in the chp officers are walking up to this lady making sure that unless she lives up at this locations, she is not allowed to go any further. we have seen them turn away workers who want to go back up there to grab their tools in case the fire spreads to this location and destroys their tools. but they say no, unless you have a reason to be here, meaning your home and they are allowing people to go in and grab their things and then tell him to leave this location. you're not allowed to go further. james dairy a look at the horizon. it's you can't smell it. obviously at home. but i can tell you it smells so smoky at this location. there is a big haze

on the horizon. 19 miles away in santa rosa. when we were driving up here, we could smell the fire. now, let me show you video of the fire broke out yesterday afternoon. latest numbers, 20% contained 1100 acres burned. some houses destroyed. fortunately, no injuries when it started as a vegetation, fire was only a couple of dozen acres or so quickly exploded because of the dry terrain. not to mention the windy conditions that day had to attack it from above. and then it grew and grew and coming into the overnight hours, it was 15% contained. fortunately, they were able to add a little bit to it. now being 20. but as far as the fight, they expect things to get worse before it gets better. so many people had to be evacuated. if go back out live right now, this appears to me maybe a lady who lives here based because you can clearly see she's with her fur baby. she's talking to the

chp officers. a lot of people showing up thinking, can i at least grab my equipment? can i least check things out? but right now the answer is no, because look at that. james darya more officers are coming to the scene and those cars that you see to the right of your screen. there are workers coming up to the vineyards and of course, because they don't live here. the answer is no, they cannot go any further. and it appears that lady has been able to convince the chp officers that, in fact, she does live here because you can clearly see she is allowed to go through. back to yeah. they don't want anybody in there who shouldn't be. and, you know, when they give a warning or an order really good. yeah, he did. nothing is worth now let's take a closer look at what's happening across the state because as we've got that fire. >> and were heading to the warmer weather. it's summer this week in sacramento, crews are battling a big brush fire and this one is threatening homes and forcing evacuations. it's called the excelsior

fire. so far it's burned about 900 acres in south sacramento. nobody has been hurt, but there have been some out buildings damage. the sacramento regional strike team. actually, the sect team was headed to los angeles to help there, but they were called back to stay in the area. meantime, strike teams from placer county and yolo county and los angeles are this morning helping with the post fire and this one started saturday night near highway 5 in gorman. this is in los angeles county, northern la county. it has exploded to more than 14 1000 acres. look at how tiny that shopper looks compared to this. you know, see, it looks like that, know, the world is on fire is a big was the biggest one we've got burning right now in the state. crews say it is burning out of control, unfortunately, too percent contained. so there is a lot of work to do there. meantime, farther east in san bernardino county, these are pictures of the hysteria fire. it is burned more than 1100 acres. it's

near highway one. 73. and this is prompted not orders but just warnings. so those people who live near this one are being told to be ready. it's just an evacuation warning at this point. they don't know how this brush fire started. but with the winds, they know that that's the reason it's quickly moving north. >> in the south bay, there was a grass fire that burned about 19 acres in san jose on sunday. now, luckily that's now 100% contained. so they got that one stepped up pretty quick, but fire crews had to stop that fire from spreading near san felipe and las animas roads. no buildings were damaged. thankfully, meanwhile, 3 buildings were affected by fire in san francisco. firefighters say that fire was between the walls of the building and we actually have some video from the citizen app showing the response this was yesterday on the 800 block of kearney and columbus right there at the stern school in the financial district. firefighters say nobody was hurt. nobody displaced. that school is not in session at the time. as for

a cause of the fire at this point, firefighters are leading towards accidental. we'll keep you updated. >> it's 707. and in the east bay, a police shooting center, a carjacker to a hospital in fremont. officers responded to a carjacking in what's happening here at this walmart parking lot on osgood road yesterday morning. police ended up stopping a man who matched the description of the carjacker on auto mall parkway and they say he was holding a knife when one of the officers shot him. >> immediately upon being hit, the officers rendered first aid to the individual. he was subsequently transported to an area hospital to receive medical treatment. and he is currently there. we believed him to be in stable condition. >> and the plan is that when he has recovered, then he will be charged >> stanford university graduate organized a mass walkout at their own graduation ceremony. all to protest the ongoing war in gaza. a kron 4 viewer sent us

this video from the commencement yesterday. the organization called stanford for palestine hosted the protest, calling the event the people's commencement. students are demanding the university divest from companies that are helping fund israel. and this is all just the latest in a string of protests that have broken out on stanford's campus since october. 7th. >> time now 07:00:08am. >> i don't know we're going to do election story or a story about mike's diner bar because at mike's diner bar closed, we do have a story later on in the community has been reacting to the closure. they've been in business for a decade anyway. we'll have more on that later. was sarah stinson. >> but we want to talk to about the san francisco mayoral election because there is another debate tonight in san francisco. so the 5 candidates vying for mayor going to be there. this video from a previous debate that we broadcast in tonight's event is being organized by the san francisco democratic county

central party. this is going to start at 7.30, and also at the university of california college of law in san francisco is going to host of this. it's free and open to the public. the moderator is our own theresa and we'll be streaming it live on kron-on. today. the final phase of the new harvey milk terminal at sfo is opening. so when you go the project cost about 2 billion dollars to complete. and if you got to spend a lot of time there, him as well, enjoy it. so they got a lot of stuff for all right, 709, is the time. we're going to take a break. but still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news, a south bay teen arrested for attacking a man who was preying outdoors. we'll have more on that story coming up. >> plus, how the city of san jose plans to clean up encampments trash and keep it from clogging up waterways.

also after the break, san francisco school board will have to make a difficult decision soon about which schools may have to shut down. >> and we are looking at a day the coastline. our inland areas experiencing a continuation of that fire danger that we over the weekend. we've got you covered in your forecast. hey, good morning, everyone. coming up, we'll take a look at the roads are some small delays but are some small delays but nothing too maj

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>> 7.13, is the time. and in the south bay officials now warning residents of another mountain lion sighting. this time in millbrae and san mateo county sheriff's office says

this mountain lion was spotted near vallejo drive and can a whole drive. officials are reminding you if you do run into about line several things you want to do, you want to stay calm, don't run. you want to stand your ground maintain eye contact and try the best you can to appears largest pass. it is so are, you know, to even big yourself in a position where you outline or a bear, something, you know. >> you all your freezer the longest, triad jackets. don't turn back and run because then they just that's an invitation to change its getting in to be warmer. we're going to have some are changes in summer this week out for all the weather. some point with the fires. back with house. get the latest a job. i know the fire weather. that's the thing that's like know. i didn't want to talk about this, but we are looking at whether out there that is making fire starts pretty dangerous. and of course, that. >> brand new fire burning up in sonoma county. you saw highway 24 right there winding through the east bay hills on a clear morning and not just clear through the east bay, but all the way out to the

coastline. in fact, skies today are going to stay that way because we're not looking at an onshore breeze, but rather a generous northwesterly wind moving its way in directly from the north coast. now that is resulting in the heightened fire danger. red-flag warnings for solano county inland portions of napa county as well as lake and mendocino counties too. these extended through 08:00pm tonight and humidity this afternoon, especially falling as low as 10%. some really dry air winds will accelerate, especially out towards the delta into the afternoon 20 to 30 miles per hour. gusts out that way. and that's where all our metrics out up to that high fire danger at its greatest again for inland napa, solano and colusa counties as well. some heightened fire danger for the inland east bay, too. now air quality is fortunately. all right. across the region, most of us are still hanging on to good conditions. if you notice a little bit of haze out there, really because of that high pressure ridge temperatures today are in the 60's to 70's for san francisco

60's out along the coastline that a lot of 70's to 80's elsewhere. burlingame, at 75 today, redwood 80 degrees while the south bay looking at daytime highs. also in the low 80's, some of our warmest spots will actually be the inland. the east bay today with concord up to 87 degrees, oakland and berkeley, warm afternoon at 78 in vacaville fairfield, down to pittsburgh in antioch, each 86 tomorrow. daytime highs around the same as today's same for your last day of spring on wednesday. now, thursday, summer solstice temperatures will begin to warm. and the start to the new season is looking hot with daytime highs in wind friday, saturday and sunday. all in the 90's. michael thomas is in with us this morning. what's the latest on the roads out there? hey, good morning, everyine. well, the latest is looking good, but of course, there's always some small delays. we've got a lot of traffic area to cover. taking a look right now over in the south bay. you can see. >> there's a traffic heather hazard on southbound 6.80, that ramp to 2.80, north is currently closed off and then

over in the south in your milpitas area, actually, there's a ramp that's completely closed. there's also a traffic collision. it's eastbound to 37 ramp to the southbound 8.80, that has been closed for at least the last 45 minutes or so. and over in the east bay, specifically right there in that bay bridge. there is a traffic collision right at the toll ppplaza. so there are some lane that are affected. but taking a live look at the bay bridge you can see right now, nothing too bad. it's 15 minutes to get over it one to pass up that stop and go traffic there at the toll plaza. those metering lights are on. some look at traffic times. taking a look right now. livermore to dublin, 13 minutes, dublin to fremont 18 minutes. stanley and erdem lp 32 minutes in milpitas to sunnyvale. 8 minute commute over in the antioch area. if you're heading to concord, it's going to take 27 minutes right now. we've got that normal congestion that we see every day you're using westbound 80 from crockett to the maze. it's a 23 minute commute. there. taking a look at southbound 8.80, oakland, 2 to

38. it's a 10 minute commute. not too bad. a live look at the richmond. sandra fell bridge only 19 minute commute. however, there is an accident on the actual bridge. and coming up in the next 15 minutes or so. we'll give you details on that. and everything else will send it back to 2 of the deaths. all right. seeing a bit. thank you. 7.17, and for your money this morning. mcdonald's is removing its ai drive-thru voice ordering system. >> and fewer employees are taking summer fridays off. jane king is live at the nasdaq with those stories and more. hi, jane. >> darya. good morning. so just 11% of workers say their companies are offering the option of summer fridays this year. that is a sharp decline from the 55% that have this park in 2019 gartner says one possible reason could be companies have other flexible work options such as work from home. fridays. 41% of workers would most want a four-day workweek or full summer fridays off. according to a june monster survey. well, travel is still going strong after the pandemic. closure stop it. they're also more

flight delays, technical issues, just random, bad luck. that's why some are turning back to travel agencies in a 2023 survey of american travelers. 38 1% of gen z and millennial respondents said they preferred a traditional travel agent over online booking and in a business insider survey, they found that millennials cited travel as one of the most important goals for the next 5 years will be donald removing its automated order taker technology from over 100 restaurants are a bunch of videos showing flaws with the technology at the drive through and they went viral last year. so some customers suggested that the ai technology messed up their orders, causing frustrations and annoyance and hollywood can breathe a bit of a sigh of relief. pixar's inside out 255 million dollars in ticket sales for more than 4,000 theaters in the u.s. and canada over the weekend. it is the second highest grossing animated film after incredibles 2 2018 live from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king, but a tory. all right. thanks a lot. j.

>> 7.19 and today is an important federal tax deadline for americans who are either self employed or business owners, freelancers or gig workers these are people who don't have taxes withheld when they work, where they work. so failure to pay quarterly on time could result in penalties. the irs says more and more people are falling into this category, including 14 million last year compared to just more than just over 12 million in the year before. dot com shows that two-thirds of gen x and millennial travelers have gone into debt in order to afford summer travel. the firm's ceo says this is troubling because winter travel is usually where he sees people racking up debt the most about 20% of respondents say they are putting summer travel on their credit cards because they can't afford to pay with cash. >> for your health, nearly half of workers who are under the age of 25 are struggling with.

>> feeling lonely and unappreciated at their jobs. there's a survey done by the american psychological association and they find that younger workers have a hard time connecting with older workers. they often say that people in the organization they're not close to their age and they seem to be, you know, different their values and their ideas. and they're not caught finding common ground. the age group reporting the most stress on the job are people between 26 and 43. and overall, the study suggests more attention needs to be paid to mental health at work. bilingual, california caught kindergartners may soon be exempt from taking an exam to test their english proficiency. there's a bill that just passed the state legislature and it's now heading to the governor's desk for his signature. the current exam is used to determine if new students will be designated as english learners. the test is given to all students who speak another language at home, teachers and advocates argue that the test

was not designed for 4 year-old and that the children were too young answer the questoons correctly. this law will take effect as soon as it's signed by the governor. >> san francisco school board will begin weighing criteria for which of its 121 public schools will close or merge in the face of declining enrollment. the district says enrollment has dropped by more than 4,000 students since the 2017, 2018 school year. they expect to lose an additional 4,600 students by the year 2032. the district is also having staffing shortages. fact that the start of this past school year, at least 15% of classrooms, we're staffed by substitute teachers or teachers in special assignment. the school board will be presented with recommendations at a june 25th meeting. >> it's 7.22. and coming up after the break, a nationwide scam has spotted in the bay area to the east bay. in livermore. police are saying you need to be wary will tell you need to be wary will tell you that the warning signs. you told mom to send her prescription

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>> 79 right now and we're checking out the weather getting really close to summer feeling it. yeah, temple has john, by the end of the week when summer is officially here, can get pretty it is. yeah, it's summer is on the goodwill about it is, hey, we got all that sunshine. the bad news is. >> fire danger is a concern as we round out this spring season in kick off summer. let's get a look at something that will lift your spirits this monday. gorgeous view out at the golden gate bridge skies, nice and clear overhead. now, part of the reason for that is is we're not really talking much of an onshore breeze, but rather a very strong northwesterly that will kick up even more this afternoon, 20 to 30 miles per hour. gusts out there, most notably for the inland east bay where that's going to pair with some really low humidity and some warm temperatures. the solano county, upper elevations of napa and lake

counties going to continue to be under red flag warnings until 08:00pm tonight. as far as temperatures go, daytime highs will eventually get pretty toasty. right now, though we're nice and comfortable in the 50's to 60's. so enjoy this morning. well, were nice and favorable out there later today. daytime highs as warm as the upper 80's. we'll save the 90's for later on this week as we transition into the new season. we're looking at some pretty clear roads for the most part. michael thomas for rain at this morning. hey, good morning, everyone. the time is 7.30. >> we're dealing for the most part, pretty clear roads. but we've got a small bit of congestion in some areas you can see right now there's a ramp that's closed. southbound 6.82, to 80 north that left lane and then over the milpitas area, there's actually a ramp that's closed completely eastbound to 37 over to south 8.80. so keep that in mind that connector not working at all. we've got a traffic collision on westbound 5.80, at richmond, sandra fell bridge. there's some lanes that are blocked

there. so if you're using that bridge, put that into your drive time this morning. lastly, there is an accident on the bay bridge right at the toll plaza. so i'll give you a quick live look at the bay bridge right now. you see it's an 18 minute commute into the city from the maze. and lastly, a live look at the richmond. sandra fell bridge. it's 25 minute commute there you can see it's kind of stop and go traffic because of that accident. so i will send you over to james and darya now for the all right. thank you. michel catches up with you later and gets more updates right now. we want to continue our team coverage of the fires. >> so the biggest fire, it's called the point fire. and it's in sonoma really driven by the wind. it's now grown to more than 1000 acres in size. it to the area of stewarts point skaggs spring road right near lake sonoma. >> this is actually time lapse footage that fire first started. you kind of see some of that smoke beginning to build right along the ground level. there at last word. cal fire says this fire is now roughly 15% contained early yesterday. plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around as it continued to grow.

>> the current evacuation orders want to take a look at this map that cover fall creek road to stewarts point skaggs spring road. those are evacuation orders. then there's an evacuation warning that is in place west of dry creek road. and there's an evacuation center for those that leave their homes in laguna high school in forest hill. >> well, stay with us on air and online at kron 4 dot com. we're keeping you updated on the very latest. we'll all these wildfires evacuation orders. numbers of acres burned. all of that, especially the progress to get these contained. it's 7.32 and san francisco park is renamed in honor of a grandmother who died after she was beaten their 5 years to come out. died from her injuries, family and friends that came together for this ribbon cutting ceremony over the weekend. and prop where sara stinson takes us there. >> she lived across the street from this park. so her legacy. >> her spirit is here sunday. yeas says it's healing to have this park now named after her

grandmother. you hong kong was walking at the park formally named visitation valley playground when she was brutally beaten in 2019. the 89 year-old died from her injuries a year later, it was a place of tragic loss. my grandmother, huang was attacked here. san francisco police arrested 18 year-old keon to gather and for the attack. he says while they continue to wait for a trial, this is a step in getting closure. we feel a sense of and healing because the trial has been delayed and it's been over 5 years. we still have >> the closed the case. and so this is victory for people. you worked with city leaders to rename the park. >> turning the pain of losing her grandmother into something positive for the community. people can experience joy and peace and harmony now years

trying to raise money to make more improvements to the park or want more lighting. we would want color rainbow crosswalks. >> we bulletin boards to just announce, you know what's happening here. he says this dedication will allowed long to be remembered for decades to come. her name means abundant love boy in cantonese. >> she was a very robust, resilient, happy woman who walked frequent this parking lot. >> well, police in fremont are investigating a deadly shooting at a cvs in the fremont hub shopping center. it happened thursday night. witnesses tell police a security guard got into an argument with somebody and then it escalated. the security guard was eventually shot and killed. the other person was stabbed multiple times. we're still waiting to confirm the condition of that person this morning. we know that one man, though, is dead following a shooting in san

francisco's mission district. police are still searching right now for that shooter. it happened in an alley on why street right near the bart 16th street location happened 4 o'clock saturday morning. the victim was taken to the hospital where they later died. anyone with information on what happened is asked to contact san francisco police 7.35. right now and san bruno police have arrested a 17 year-old boy for threatening to kill a man of middle eastern descent. >> the man was praying outside and he was threatened with. take a look at this knife in a shopping center. it was in the parking lot on el camino, real. and the teenage boy who is also of middle eastern descent, fairly approached them animated, drive a tree comment and then officers ended of tracking down the boy and he is now being charged with committing a hate crime. in the east bay residents public parks workers are concerned about a delay and collecting the money needed to make repairs and upgrades security to protect public spaces from crimes that have

been happening. the bonsai gardens at lake merritt. they're still trying to recover because a burglar broke in in january and made off with a whole bunch of bonsai trees. so now they're trying to raise about $100,000 for new security system. the thieves stole $20,000 worth of bonds, eyes. they have $87,000 so far, but they need more to get all that work done. >> 7.36 is the time and elsewhere in oakland, lakeside park duck pond and bird yard has been closed for repairs since last year in the city of oakland says that that pond is in dire need of restoration. they say the filtration system broken and they can't keep the pond running because it would create a hazard. especially considering amount of birds and the pollutants that would get into the water. the rotary nature center is working right now to fix the situation. but some residents say that work really should have been done by now. >> it's still it's been like this for. over year at this point. possibly 2. so there's

just i don't think there's any real reason they can't get fixed back into it's obviously not a priority oakland has lot of stuff on the table deal but at the same time, this is one of things that makes our city joy phone. and i think it deserves a little attention. >> before closing, the pond was a haven for migratory and local birds. and it created a place for families in nature enthusiast to gather and find joy in nature. people in parts of santa clara and santa cruz counties may spot some low flying helicopters and drones this week pg e says it plans to conduct what they're calling a public safety power shutoff drill. it will be today and tomorrow utility says they do not expect this drill to actually interrupt anybody's power. they just want to practice what to do in case there is a power loss and and san mateo county supervisors have approved raising the base pay.

>> for regular county employees to $30 an hour. the board immediately raised the base wage for more than 70 employees who salaries were under that their action aligns with a task force that is trying to find a livable wage for everybody. that task force a value of the cost of food and child care. health care, housing, transportation, taxes and other costs. >> well, as a hot time in the town this weekend, more than 5,000 people packed downtown san jose for a daytime rave that previewed for you on friday featured atm artists from around the country and brought critical business to that area. kron four's jacmel. but was there? >> saying it's a locals. this is a sight for sore eyes.

that's that's fun. ever was time to head back reduce born and raised in st. a she says downtown. >> the nightlife scene has been slow to rebound. pretty around life. >> jose on the seven-day foods hosted this grave outside the children's discovery museum on saturday. they say it's the first of its kind. by the way, i want to do this right is the ravens and san jose that doesn't normally happen, right? so anthony gomes, founder of san jose foods says the idea for this race started 2 years ago as a way to bring big business back to downtown san jose, which he says has struggled since covid larger scale events that trickle down into the local from the hotel's local businesses, restaurants, local vendors, everything from vendors to food trucks, places are kind of struggling to get people right now. even local deejays like alex mensa are here taking advantage of the crowd size spread the word try to get more people here because we're trying to build the

>> really revitalize is all of this shows that side of the isn't dead. >> that's down as they can have a big party and it's going to be like other people like there's this guy we could get same thing here as well. and san jose foods co-founder chris villa says the number of people in attendance was more than expected. >> showing them that there is new appetite for big venues in san san jose it is to get with to event hosted by san jose foods with a total success. they sold over 5,000 tickets and tell me they even are trying to plan more events starting later this reporting in downtown san jose. jackie moment kron 4 news. >> it's 7.40, right now. and over the weekend it was a 70th anniversary of the north beach festival in san francisco. so let's take a peek at that party. but 200 vendors across 11 blocks of north beach and thousands of i missed it saturday and sunday, they had local artists, food drink and

>> local beer there. mayor breed was there as well. she was fined some merchandise and there were a kid friendly zones where the kids can do look, chalk art, everything and also a blessing of the animals at 7.41. and coming up, still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news. >> san jose is one of the best cities in the country apparently to raise a family, but not for everyone will take a closer look at affordability crisis. and after the break, the giants hoping to avoid the sweep wrapping up their series with the angels. we'll see what happens.

>> 7.44 right now and the day after tomorrow. it's june 19th juneteenth, which is a federal holiday. and in honor of the day, all national parks are free. they're waiving entrance fees. camping fees and charges for other park things. there's charging up, but you can get and for free and just look at some of this highlights of the various parks that we have around california. so great muir woods, national monument right here in the bay area. it's free holiday and free for look at the rainbow. >> you never know. >> it's all coming up as is july 4th, the biggest of the big holiday, especially for lake tahoe and you know how the beaches get dirty? well, they've got the scanning robots. they scanned the beaches and they're going to try it in the north shore of lake tahoe. they're called the be bought electric fully-electric robots. they scanned the sand and they rake and collect trash on the

beach. and the idea that it's a it's an environment flint friendly way to clean up the be bought will make its debut today on kings beach and they're hoping to revolutionize beach cleaning with and then they could use it after july 4th, which is when it really won't. really needs? yeah, a helping hand to say the least, you know, beach and to see how that works with people on the beach and everything else that goes. >> it will be kind of cool. even the day after, remember, we show that track we're like, is that possible that people just left that trash? it is is. all right. let's get over to the weather center because john is tracking the forecast this week where summer officially arrives. good morning, john. yeah, we've got some are on its way thursday. going to be the longest day of the year. summer solstice and it's going to come along with some warm temperatures, too. now for this cruise ship pulled up there at the embarcadero. we've got a calm morning. crystal clear skies. california weather is they might have imagined it for us here in the bay area is some high fire danger, though, the downside to not having much of that ine lar is that

winds out of the north and west are really going to be pushing to the bay area at quite a clip today and resulting in what will be that fire danger. we may have a bit of a graphics closure right now our graphics are just not wanting to work. but all in area. the rest of the forecast for you. so as you can see, we do have these clear skies across the bay area as we do work our way through the rest of the day today. not going to be a lot that comes in the way of cloud cover. you will see an increase in wind speed later on today. and with that will come the continuation of red flag warnings through around 08:00pm tonight. now today is going to be seasonably warm with some 80's for inland areas. 70's along the bay shore 60's at the coase. and once we get these graphics actually show you that forecast. still to come. as forur roads, though, michael thas is standing goare looking good. of we do have some stop and go traffic in some small collision. so zoom in on those areas you can see over in the south bay right now.

>> we've got a ramp that's closing. that is 6.80, over to 2.80, northbound. that left lane is currently closed, affecting that ramp. then there's another ramp that's completely closed in that eastbound to 37 to south 8.80, in milpitas at connector. it's been closed for about an hour, almost going on 2 hours over the richmond, sandra fell bridge. there is an accident right there. when you're getting ready to pass up those tolls. so keep that in mind. and then there's also an accident on the bay bridge. this is just west of treasure island, the center lane is affected. so keep that in mind as you're heading out this morning, a live look at the bay bridge. you can see it's a 60 minute commute into the city, stopping traffic. those metering lights are on. a live look at the richmond. sandra fell bridge. 23 minutes and you can see very backed up there. that's not something that we normally see, especially at this time of the hour. 7.48, there is also a traffic hazard on southbound 101. if you're heading over to the south bay, it's in millbrae at east millbrae avenue. the left and center lane are both closed. you can

see that backup building almost over towards san bruno. so keep that in mind as you head out this morning. lastly, we'll look at some drive times livermore to dublin, 12 minutes, dublin to fremont. 22 minutes, san leandro to milpitas. 33 minutes milpitas to sunnyvale its an 18 minute commute. i will send it back over to you to the desk. >> thank you, michael 7.48. that i'm a san mateo police now arrest a woman for shooting. happened last week. so this was thursday night near the intersection of east hillsdale boulevard in norfolk street. that's where police found shell casings, a cell phone and blood, but no victim. they eventually found the victim in san carlos and took her to the hospital. witnesses then helped police find the shooter at an apartment on lago street. that person is now facing jail charges. i think you're in jail facing charges of attempted murder and assault. >> time now 7.49 gen x is gettng some cancer at higher rates than baby boomers. and then the silent generation as well. there's a pop up

published a study in the jama network and it shows that people born between 1965 1980, have experienced a decline in certain cancers, including lung and cervical cancer. but several other types of cancer are increasing, including thyroid kidney prostate and ovarian. the study's authors say that this could keep the overall cancer rate high for decades to come. a lot of new college grads are struggling to find a job armed with their degree. only 13% of entry level job seekers managed to find a spot to go to work in the last 6 months. this coming to us from goldman sachs. they did an analysis and they say there's a strong labor market, but employers are posting fewer joeningsfederal data shows that hiring in professional and business service industries has gone down 12% last year. and that includes tech finance consulting jobs. they say that most companies in th filds, they have openings,

but they're looking for experienced workers. >> 7.50, the time and a wallet hub survey recently ranked san jose number 7 overall in the country for the best city to raise a family. but experts say that's only for those who can afford it. that wall of hopes to directs san jose number 10 when it came to quality education and childcare. but when it came to affordability, it ranked 56 set of 182 cities making it challenging for families to stay local and enjoy the benefits of the city. people need to earn approximately $60 an hour to afford the asking rent of 3,000 a month while the city's minimum wage is sitting at 17. 55 in our. so that's a huge discrepancy. city's population shrunk 4% e high cost of in bse of able using. >> time 1.alk s an angels plan at oracle. and it was game 3 of therian pours. erin wilson ows us how this one finished up.

looking at still a win in the angel series after falling in the first 2. it was a happy fatheday awell at the ballpark celebratinl the te. >> with the some heads and hoping to see a giants win on a beautiful day out there and oracle. so that started the top of the 4th. where was the giants down by spencer bivens? well, he's making his debut for the giants after being called up sacramento. and here he strikes out they and his mom was right there watching from the stands. >> he would keep the angels that bay allowing only a run in 3 innings. and will the bottom of the frame is a little shaky. same score bases loaded tyro estrada here. ropes one in down the fair. down fair and on the left line there and will you see one score? comes a second run comes into score and just like that, the giants, well, they tied very next batter was brett wisely. he lines this one into right center gap and another to run. they come in to score the giant. they take the lead. now up by 2 later in the inning with the giants leading by 3 to offer jorge

solera the scene here. he hits a towering shot to left. and you can tell that one goodbye. so layer comes through with a three-run bomb. part of a 9 run 4th inning in. he wasn't even done bottom of the 8th. the giants up by 8 with one on it with where he lines into left and that will happen over the wall for a ground-rule double. and michael conforto will score. so he was super for today with 4 rbi and the giants. they win 13, this expense of it in. he had his first major league win. believe that suspect he threw at the desk. >> all right. thank you very much, aaron. it is 7.52. and coming up in the next hour of the kron, 4 morning news. why the u.s. surgeon general, he's calling on congress to add a warning label to social media like. what you see on a pack like. what you see on a pack of cigarettes, for instance,

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hey, flex. considering there's a heatwave, it's kinda chilly in here. oh, that's because i'm pre-cooling the house with the ac before 4 pm. then i'll turn our thermostat to a comfortable 78 or higher that way i could stay cool later. ooh, what about me? you're never cool. oh.

>> 75 right now and check this out. rockets, planes, helicopters soaring across the bay area on saturday. all part of the san carlos hiller aviation's biggest little airshow. look up. look at everybody looking at. let's take a peek. air stunts were done by drones and model rockets and had a u.s. coast guard helicopter search and rescue team doing demos and the museum hosts kid friendly event through this entire month and they're posted on their website. so you might want to check that out or how about a dance party on? we'll strive city of san francisco's chase center has been transformed into a sea roller rink over the weekend, people are able to skate there for

free. i mean, if you can, if you're able to the event was organized in partnership with the church of 8 wheels and they do plan on doing this again this summer. mark your calendars sunday, june 21st. my gosh. okay. so that's this. that's this. and next cummings. yeah. and plus a little towards the end of a july july. 26, which is a friday. >> very cool. alright, it is 7.56. and coming up in the next hour of the kron 4 morning news. check it out. the brand new terminal its after school and international airport is set to open today. we'll take you inside. plus, a north bay city now seeing an increase in violence and police say gangs have a lot to do with it. meanwhile, we have live coverage of the point fire burning up in sonoma county. more than 1000 acres county. more than 1000 acres has burned so far.

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on the kron. 4 morning news evacuation orders in effect is a growing wildfire burns more than 1000 acres up near lake sonoma. 9-1-1, call about a carjacking in the east bay ends with police opening fire on a man with a knife. we'll explain. and dozens of stanford students walk out during their own graduation ceremony will tell you what they were protesting. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> good morning and thanks for joining us on this monday. the last monday of spring. that's right about it that way. i'm daria and i'm james. yeah. summer officially kicking off this week and boy, it is. >> quite a week we've got wildfires burning which we talked about. so we better get the latest on the market. and we hope it's windy beca

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