now on the kron 4 morning news bart police made nearly twice as many arrests last year as they did the year before. we'll take a look at why they were able there how they really do that. plus, businesses in oakland are joining forces now in spending some pretty big money to increase safety for their employees. and we're tracking the storm making its way across the bay area. heavy wind gusts expected throughout the day and a lot of rain. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the

kron. 4 morning news at 7. >> morning to you. and good friday and i'm james yet we've got a live look here at sfo behind us where things for the most part are dry. but that will be the case later today. no pa and when is the rain rolling and john yapp, it's only increasing today. so we've already seen some light sprinkles here and they're really over the next few minutes. the north bay will start to see more and more of it. >> the rest of us in the bay area gun to be looking at it towards the very end of the morning. late morning, the site today, san jose not looking bad right now. we're definitely looking at a lot of cloud cover overhead in a few light sprinkles here. and there this is your well formed system. you can see that rotation right there offshore just to the west of us. and we're already seeing some offshore lightning just northwest of the bay area. as for the bay itself. yeah, it's relatively quiet, particularly in the san francisco right now. you are seeing a bit of a low in rain. we are seeing a few light sprinkles here and there across the east bay really just some heavy mist.

still light sprinkles at this time. santa rosa through petaluma looking at a few light showers right in there. it's nothing that is causing us any issues just yet. but you can see in future cast that really just minutes away from now areas of western marion county will start to see more and more of it. will see by 08:00am some pockets of really heavy rain right bilena spay right here. definitely looking at some good stuff coming down again. sonoma and marin counties. by the time we reach 09:30am, this morning. good coverage for the north bay. and then here's 01:00pm today and you see how that rainfall just kicks up more and more into the early afternoon. winds are also going to pick up along with it 30, 40 mile per hour gusts regularly along the coast. peak gusts could exceed 50 miles per hour today. so watch for any sort of down trees, little debris on roadways as well as maybe even a few power outages. 40's to 50's for our current temps. honestly not much different later on today with highs in the mid 50's

right now. all right, john, thank for that. you're off to a great start this morning. like conditions and no accidents on your hazards. no major hot spots. 9 minute ride into the city. if you are in the traveling there right now. >> san mateo bridge, 14 80 to 101 looking good. you're our full just short. a 9 minute and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 22 minute morning ride during his back to you. thank you 87 0, 2, and the 4 biggest employers in oakland are partnering up to protect their employees from crime. yeah, it's been a problem. crawford's michael thomas joins us from oakland now to explain. >> this new partnership and how it works. michael, good morning. >> hey, good morning, everyone. its private 10 million essentially plan for public safety is being put together by these for big corporations because their employees are essentially falling victim of crimes right here in downtown oakland, whether it's getting lunch or heading to and from the office. take a look. we've got video up on your screen. will a break it all down. the companies involved are blue

shield of california. clorox kaiser permanente and pg and e all pitching in to split the bill for added public safety in downtown oakland. this conversation begin earlier this year when crime force the companies to hire private security guards to escort its employees to and from bart stations parking garages in nearby businesses in crime. statistics currently show that robberies are up. 34% over the last year with majority happening at gunpoint. the new plans will add and complement existing efforts from both mayor sheng thao and oakland police. according to blue shield website, the plans include creating an uptown and downtown safe zone. it will essentially partner with opd to improve visible and responsive security funding for oakland, uptown downtown community benefit district ambassador program, which essentially allows people to be escorted from one local downtown place to another by calling, are asking these ambassadors on the streets and they're listed in yellow shirts. lastly, employees will

get safety training and subsidize transportation to and from work, which includes nearby parking garages and also local businesses. this is a statement up on your screen. this is from mayor sheng thao saying in part, quote, i'm so grateful for the deep partnership of our 4 largest employers and see this as an example of strong public private partnership. i applaud their engagement as true civic leaders to improve conditions for everyone. i know we will be successful in quickly bringing safety growth in vibrancy back to our streets. now, these plans are set to roll out over the next few weeks and essentially last throughout the rest of 2024, when it comes to those ambassador programs, they currently already have some investor programs here in downtown oakland. i've seen them myself. there's phone numbers listed around where you can call and have escort. you other places we've seen places like over uc berkeley. they hire them as well to do it for students there. so as to if it will actually bring the crime rate down, only time will tell. and as we get more

details as to what other initiatives they plan on doing with these 10 million dollars over the next year. we'll keep you updated. that's a very latest reporting live in oakland and michael thomas story. james, we'll send it back to you. all right. thank you. and in oakland, the crime violence continuing now, one person >> was shot and killed in oakland around 4 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday on louvain avenue not too far away from the oakland airport. police have not yet identified the victim and we don't have any info on arrests. time now is 705. and san francisco police have detained 2 people for a shooting that killed a person near union square. this happened just last night around 9.30. the shooting was near the bart station off of market street. police are still trying to piece together exactly what happened 705, is the time and other news. james. yeah. take a look at this. dash camera footage captures the moment the bullets shattered the passenger side window of this vehicle. >> in the middle the afternoon in hayward now the chp released a video of that freeway shooting, which was

again wednesday on 8.80, just south of el dorado. niles road. they say the driver luckily only suffered minor injuries from that flying glass. the shooter. you saw a clip a moment ago. there he is. police arrested him and he's now in custody. for your health this morning. health officials are warning about an increase in hooping cough cases up in marin county, especially when teenagers kron four's will. tran is live now in mill valley with what you need to know will. >> here's what you need to know if you have a baby 2 months or younger, you have to seriously protect that child because it still too young to be vaccinated against whooping cough. this school right behind me. tell month televise high school seems to be the epicenter when it comes to cases. 65 of the 113 cases in marin county come from this high school health experts are still investigating why it's happening here. more than other places. but in the

meantime, they're telling students if you want to feel safer by all means wear a mask on campus and in class. it is not mandated, but it is up to you. how much is the explosion? well, last year, marin county had about 11 cases. and so far we're looking at 113 cases and it looks like probably will go up and up. and the reason being those vaccines? well, when the kids were a lot younger and high school, right when they were by 5 or 4 years old, they got vaccinated. they are getting to the age now where that vaccine is not as strong. so it's not a surprise to health experts that high school kids are coming down with whooping cough. here are the symptoms behind that cough. >> one of the most contagious the infections that can afflict children and adults who has severe parents a coughing to the point just violent productive cop, violent, dry coughing or coughing to the point of

nausea. it's very important that they get identified, that that they get in touch with their position that they get tested and then that they get treated. it's very important that during that 5 days they isolate until until the infection clears into the bacteria's cleared. >> so you heard him say 5 days, 5 days at home after you started your medication. but if you don't do that, then they're telling you to stay home for 21 days. and again, the good news is it's not fatal to high school kids or adults, but definitely possibly fatal to kids 2 months or younger. back to you. all right. thanks a lot. well. >> 708, is the time and police i should say, raid and illegal drug lab in the east bay home this week. fact that lab was discovered tuesday at a home on shasta daisy drive right next to liberty. high sc brentwood resume the map in. so you can see authorities say the lab was being used to make the psychedelic drug dmt. in

addition to the drugs, investigators say they also found a possible explosive compound stored in containers. police arrested. 29 year-old jonathan mccarthy and they're looking for 2 others who they believe helped him run that operation. time now 07:00:09am. >> everybody knows that pg e bills have really been going up. and now the high costs are actually forcing. >> movie fear to cut back days of operations that in the east bay costs got so high that the are in the theater now has to shut down a couple days a week. kron four's dan thorn has the story. when it's dark, the theater usually has its iconic marquee lit up and drivers from highway. 24 can see it. but that was not the case. thursday night. >> as one of the cost-cutting measures, the owners of the orinda theater, a taking and now they're also closing the theater on mondays and tuesdays after getting a more than $6,000 energy bill from pg and e. the historic movie theater in orinda is making difficult decisions over ever

increasing energy bills. the orinda theater will no longer have showings on the silver screen on mondays and tuesdays. you know, obviously you like to be open 7 days a week, but >> if you know, we can be opened and have lost every day. you theater owner derek xem racks as it was this $6200 charge from pg any that's forcing them to cut back. the bill was 2 grand higher than what they usually see. and it came as a shock may peak the 5,000 dead of winter. >> yeah, never $6,000 in 15 years since i've been doing year in the theater opened in 1941, and place classic films and new releases. its large theater can seat up to 750 people. and during chilly evenings, heat is required to keep the audience comfortable zimmer acts as the enormous jump in utilities is forcing them to not only close the curtains. 2 days a week, but also cut back on powering up their iconic marquee. no shining sign is a disappointing site for locals. the marquee is

>> the probably the most iconic part of orinda. you know, the symbol that we all think about we think of orinda. it kinda makes me sad. i hope i hope they find success is amber acts as they've always been grateful for the support of the year in the community. and word spread fast about the high pg any bill zamra copes. the utility will help them out. >> i did i didn't get a call from thing. you know, like, wow, they could try to you know, but, you know, we'll see where that goes. so >> the monday and tuesday closures are set to begin next month. but senator acts as the popular once a month classic movie tuesday, matt will not be affected. reporting are in doubt. dan thorn kron, 4 news. >> 7.12, is a time and breaking news overnight. sad news out of hollywood. actor louis gossett junior has passed away. he was the first black man to win best supporting actor for his role in an officer and a gentleman. fantastic movie 1982. costar

richard gere. and before that, he also won an emmy for his role in that tv mini series in the 70's routes that was seminal. but you can watch that on is an amazing yeah. it wasn't asked he also won star broadway. many of his fans will know that he start fact just recently in the 2023 remake of the color purple as well, working right up until the and no cars have 87. no cause of death revealed just yet 87 years old. and what a story career louis gossett junior. >> it's 7.12, right now. still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. lawmakers want to lower the speed limit around california school zones. too many kids. we're getting by car. and a lot of california to find themselves without a home insurance. now that all the big carriers, some of them are pulling out were not renewing. we'll take a look at what they plan to do to help us. >> and if you love skiing and boarding, it's another great one. the sierra is getting hit by another storm yeah, they are. and that's just going to

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francisco right now. a lot of cloud cover and we've seen some light sprinkle so far. let me zoom in on the bay area and what you are seeing out theirs actually pretty quiet conditions up and down thep coast. not a lot of rain there. we are seeing some lighter showers around antioch, into solano county. really nothing that's hardly even getting the roadways wet yet. which is good news. first of all, your commute. sliders. rain will tell you and we are holding off on the heaviest of rainfall until after the commute. really? you can see marine county, especially towards the coast and coastal sonoma county will be the first to get in touch with some heavier areas of rainfall. we'll continue to see rainfall, intensity becoming a little bit more and becoming more widespread towards noontime and into the early afternoon. our greatest hit of the strongest of winds and also the heaviest of rain, too. we'll continue to see that into the mid afternoon after that rainfall becomes a bit more spotty, but pockets of heavy rain and thunderstorm activity. we'll be seen overnight tonight leading into

tomorrow. here's a bit of good news for tomorrow. we're getting closer to your saturday. so we've got your forecast with a bit more certainty actually fairly calm around noontime. this is going to be good if you want to get outside for your saturday for a little bit. we'll see some afternoon thunderstorms, mostly building in the late afternoon in mostly for the south bay. so this is actually boding well for any saturday plans. you may have sunday itself will come along with some drying skies. good news for those easter egg hunts. you may see a brief evening shower on sunday night, but sunday itself will be the calmest day of the weekend. rainfall this weekend. well, over an inch for most areas, some further inland spots could see lighter amounts. and those winds definitely goinr to be something you're noticing today, especially at the coast and in the east bay hills gusts as high 50 plus miles per hour this afternoon. the gusts of wind up in the sierras going to be the biggest problem. actually, a winter storm warning goes into effect at 11:00am today. still looking at that multiple feet of snowfall at the very crest of the sierra that compounded

with the winds could result in some low visibility drifting snow on roadways. this also will result in some travel delays. absolutely. bring the chains with you. snow level falling tonight as low as 3500 feet. best skiing days will be a little bit later on this weekend in particular monday. looking nice. if you can take an extra day of the weekend, enjoy the sierra 50's for your daytime highs today. one of our cooler of the forecast we will be seeing gradual warming temperatures through the remainder of the forecast by monday, tuesday and wednesday of next week. we're back to the 70's right now. all right, john, thank you for that. your help on any of bridges right now, you are making great time. >> all under 15 minutes to make your commute this morning. they bridge mateo bridge and richmond, sandra bridge all under 40 minutes of the bay bridge around 9 minutes. there. checking on those highly still in the green 30 minutes. 85 menlo park 2, 80 82 2. 37, you're at the limit there. east bay selling edge of town to 37 about 24 minutes. and let's take on things along 80

rocking out towards the maze. when do you see it? this light about 16 minutes for your drive during his back to you. 7.19 spring is here. and with the cleaning the house or maybe you're cleaning up your finances, j. maybe. yeah. jane king with a look. >> spring is often associated with deep cleaning your home for a fresh start. but this year you can apply a similar approach to your financial plan. financial experts say a good place to start is simply to make financial spring cleaning a priority, commit to give your financial plan the attention it needs and set aside time for it. review your financial plan, at least once a year to ensure you're still working toward the right goals. and next transfer money to saving set up an automatic transfer that contributes money to your savings account. you should do this for each time. you get paid, then assess your bills and payments to make payments with no timeouts bills like insurance or your mortgage and the minimum payment on your credit card to avoid late fees and missed payments. don't

automated payment that can vary widely month to month. many creditors. we'll allow you to set the payment dates that align with your pay schedule that start knocking out that debt. financial experts, a regions bank recommends starting with small debts. first hang up. the small debts can give you a win and reduce monthly payments. consider consolidating that other debt under a lower interest rate. but be sure to ask about fees for a loan consolidation and shop around your current bank may not have the best terms. finally, spring financial cleaning is a great time to make a charitable donation. you can donate an old car eyeglasses, mobile devices, rather household items to different organizations keep receipts. and if you plan itemized tax deductions, you can write that off from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane king. >> if i kept receipts, i would have a to clean newly named naval ship uss harvey milk is going to be visiting a docking in san francisco today. the ship honoring san francisco's naval veteran lgbtq activists. harvey milk. the event not

open to the public, but city officials say that the community can view the ship from piers 30 32 along the embarcadero and 11 o'clock this morning, the ceremony will honor military veterans by presenting official lapel pins to bay area veterans who served during the vietnam war. >> all >> pam moore kron four's own remarkable woman. you know, we're highlighting remarkable women. we have one of our own su retired, but she still despite special projects for us and she got an award for powerful women of the bay. she received this year's special recognition for her reporting here in the bay area. she joined kron in 1991. and then she retired from the anchor desk last year after 32 years. but she is still busy doing good pam. >> young women here have watching news is out of little just makes feel. it makes you

fabulous job. you get to really experience so much of the world that is outside your own light. and i just learned so much about people and living and what kind of person i wanted to be. through my >> ok, so now that she's now working full-time, james, and i want to tell you, because you could tell from her face, she's like a kid in the candy. looks so chic. she she's like candy store. she's going what kyler now? what can i where can i go? what can i read? what can i see? she's amazing. and now it's whatever you everyone. >> all right. we're going to at 7.22. here. take a quick look at stormtracker 4. and when we come back with the full forecast job because we've got rain heading our way and lots of it to plus snow in the sierra. we'll get the full forecast just a minute. we are

back at 7. 25 and in the south bay, san jose firefighters have a pretty cool new facility to help them prepare for emergency scenarios. the department unveiled this training facility which is located on center road yesterday morning. our cameras, obviously where they're the building has office space and training grounds to replicate what it would be like at the scene of a real fire. in fact, they've got a 6 story building to that's designed to train firefighters on how to handle a high-rise fire. well, a new digital mobile radio system in sonoma county will make communication easier during disaster and recovery events. the county's department of public infrastructure partnered with neighborhood

auxiliary communications services to train users and handle 500 handheld radios. some of these radios will be installed in department cars. others will be given to officers funding for the system came from pg and e settlement funds from that 2017 cinema complex fires and county roads funding as well. >> it's 7.26. and coming up next on the kron, 4 morning news, we're going to take a look at the storm and when it's going to move into your area causing rain, snow and area causing rain, snow and wind. we almost wind already. norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better! now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go. plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. i gotta get this deal... that's like $20 a month per unlimited line... i don't want to miss that. that's amazing doc. mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more.

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>> 07:29am getting it out on the bay that today. it's really windy up tomorrow. i was a little nervous about that. don't do it today for john. good morning. yeah. brave souls out there today of the bay. i would not do it for a second today on same a little closer to home. i know some people are going to try to venture up to the sierra in which case bring the chains and bring the patients because there is a strong possibility of some delays. it's the wind in the sierra. that's actually going to be the biggest issue. what we have here in the bay area's also quite the windy forecast and a wet forecast for the day today. your view outside from the east bay hills is not looking too bad yet. you can see the comma shape of this system, though, a very well formed low-pressure spending immediately to our west. that is just going to work its way our direction through the day today. we've actually already seen some lightning strikes offshore of sonoma and mendocino counties up in the north bay. we've seen some light showers so far. i'm looking at right around inverness up to bodega bay. some areas of light rainfall right now. that's about the most active area between santa

rosa and petaluma. few light showers too, really calm into the rest of marin and san francisco as well as some light sprinkles here and there up and down the east bay shoreline. really, the heaviest of rainfall is going to get here early afternoon. we'll see the north bay receiving some pockets of heavy rainfall late this morning. mostly light to moderate for the rest of us. and then we work just past the noon hour. yellow, orange and red. you know what that means? those heavier bands and along with those heavier areas of rain earlier this afternoon, our strongest of winds to that's when we could see gusts of wind around 40 to 50 miles per hour today. even stronger mountaintops up from the sierra to those hillsides in the bay. temperatures are in the 40's to 50's right now. it's a brisk, breezy start bundle up keep those rain jackets close at hand today into the afternoon. we're not going to be much warmer. only reaching the mid 50's at the highest rate all right, john, thank you for that. we'll get a look at a are bridges right now. is still very light here.

>> helping it's going to stay that way. but as john mentioned, as the rain starts fall down this morning, you might see some things start to slow down a bit. 9 minutes into the city, san mateo bridge somewhere around 14 80 to 101, like getting on and off a bridge. 8 minutes along richmond, sandra fell bridge and the golden gate bridge. 37 of tolls just short of 20 minutes reasons. back to you in 7.31, thank you. right now we want to focus on bart now because barr police believe the safety measures that they've been doing at their stations have made a big difference. yeah, they're seeing the results, in fact, have some new data to share. and kron four's theresa walks us through it. >> or not? no, i think we're going to do that story a little bit later that are okay. right now. we want to move on to what's going on in oakland. and the latest is there is a store in oakland that they think was selling cannabis and tobacco products to minors. yeah, they really some of the items that were being sold. you see it here on the screen and include everything from psychedelic mushrooms to marijuana. a

variety of thc products, too. and firearms. you see that there in the foreground. police say the store also did not have a valid license to sell these items. now police did name the business. they only said it was located on macarthur boulevard just north of 30th avenue. they did not say whether the store was shut down. take a look at what else was found. and this was from a smoke shop in the seminary neighborhood of oakland. police seized all of this stuff last month from a shop. cannabis crystal meth flavored tobacco. they say that nobody was arrested in that case, though 7.32 is the time and a san francisco mayoral candidate is calling for a fentanyl state of emergency. and we're talking about former mayor mark farrell. he also wants more california national guard members to close open air drug markets in the city. in addition, he says his plan would expand access to treatment for those suffering from addiction. mayor london breed's campaign doesn't think much of his ideas.

>> and here's what she said. it was a long statement. but in part, the gist is that she's equating what he's doing to sort of like a military takeover. as you can see here and where it would be. and here she says baghdad by the bay. so she's talking about how he would take this approach and she her approach is more of a behind the scenes governing. that is not so radical >> 7.33 is the time right now. other news in the east that yeah, police have identified the suspects who they say are responsible for this else to tobacco shop smashed in that then led them on a chase that ended with a wrong-way crash and the death of an innocent driver on 5.80. so this all happened earlier this month. surveillance video here that we finally get to see shows that white pickup truck smashing into the front of the shop. the 2 men get out and start rummaging around the store. police say in the video is patrick sheckells and from oakland and andrea huberty from san francisco. and when

police arrived, they chase the suspects who eventually got into the westbound lanes of 5.80, the wrong way right up there near the bay bridge. and that resulted in the truck crashing into 2 other vehicles. one of the drivers in those vehicles died at the scene. sareeta police department says it is working right now with the chp to pursue criminal charges and 7.34 and too many kids are getting hit and killed by cars in california. bay area lawmaker wants to change that especially around schools. we have kron four's dan kerman with the story. >> across the nation, school speed zones vary. but california is one of a handful where they can be as high as 25 miles per hour. we're doing everything we can to get more and more students to walk and bike and roll the school. but we need to create a safe environment for them to be able to do that. and it doesn't matter where you live in california. >> every student deserves that. that right to safety at a news conference thursday outside councilman elementary school in campbell. but low park state assemblyman marc berman introduced new

legislation which would drop california school zone. speed limits to 20 miles per hour or less. the bill would also replace the when children are present coffee at with specific times. no longer will. we asked drivers to take their eyes off the road and search for whether there's a child president because after our bill. >> drivers will know whether you're in shasta county or san diego county, the before and after school. you need to slow down. it was a year and a half ago in september of 2022, when 8 year-old jacob be a new wave, councilman elementary school 3rd grader died after being hit by a car while walking to school. we are determined that jacobs death not be in vain. and this is one more step in the right direction. the safer school zones act also requires improve safety planning within a half-mile of schools. backers of the bill say by creating similar standards around all california schools, drivers are more likely to comply if the bill passes the legislature and signed by the

governor takes effect january first of 2025. >> but it would be phased in over a period of years. dan kerman kron, 4 news. >> it's 7.36, and on the peninsula. san mateo county is out with new renderings of an affordable housing project that they want to put up in moss beach. be a big one. 71 be one to 3 bedroom home spread across 16 different buildings and a quarter of the units would be reserved for farm workers and other low-income residents and all of the units would be rented a household that make it less than they bathe in areas. median income. >> it's exciting. it's great to put roofs over people's heads on the coast. there is not enough affordable housing and even with this development, it's really exciting that work. we're we're doing it. we're still deficit. so we need to keep moving forward with projects that we have in the pipeline.

>> and there still is some resistance from neighbors who are concerned about adding all of these home saying that it could be traffic problems and there's limited public resources there. the county estimates construction could begin in 2028. and if so, to be done by 2030, its 7.37. and californians, as you may know, are struggling to find insurance for their homes because of the major companies. couple of pulled out altogether because the wildfire risk and that includes allstate. farmers and state farm. >> insurance is a requirement to get a mortgage for your home at the state capitol had a hearing to talk about what to do to stop this from getting worse. >> they do structural modifications and they do ongoing brush clearing to these things. are proven to reduce the risk, which does, in fact, make california more ensure double. what's at issue is 2 companies have enough money on a statewide basis. to pay their obligations.

>> and that's what we have to fix the president of the personal insurance federation of california trade associations says that insurance companies are leaving because they are struggling to earn a profit doing business. and california. >> will the sierra, as john's been saying is expecting another round of heavy snow through the holiday weekend. a lot of the resorts already talking about extending the season through april covers. gayle ong has a look. >> springsteen is my favorite time of the it's whatever those warmer temperatures as one of the best times to learn how to write and and now anyone who wants to learn how to write in ski has until may at palisades tahoe resort, pr manager patrick lacey is looking forward to extending the season we receive 31 inches in the month of march where to our average seasonal snowfall and we could possibly get there by the end of this motions are definitely a lot of excitement around the mountain right now. >> over at kirkwood mountain

resort, this ski season is extending 2 weeks later until the end of april. general manager ricky newberry march kind of came in strong. we've got a bunch of snow to start the month. >> we had a week of some spring weather, some bluebird skies and some warmer temps. and then i'm kind of mid month and has been the return of winter. so, yeah, the snowpack is healthy and the skiing and writing is top notch right now and looking forward to doing it for another month and more snow is on the way. this is a good system. this is cold, but anyone heading out to the sea want to caution safety periods of moderate to heavy snow in the forecast. >> prompted the national weather service to issue a winter storm warning director of communications for kelly past resorts. kevin coop cooper gets this reminder for drivers heading up this holiday weekend. make sure you still have those chains catch. you have that emergency road kit. make sure you fill your charger ev before you come up there. this is a winter storm will have impacts on i-80 highway 50 state route. 88.

>> coop is the king of out yesterday knows all about the conditions and palisades in kirkwood. they are going to have some special events which is cool are now again. and is this weekend again, it might be a little difficult to get up there. that's the one you can leave now. bring your chains. you're probably going infect caltrans says also a check out their social media because we're going to be posting alerts. >> with the traffic conditions. so you'll get the very latest right before you leave the door. friends of mine got caught 3 cars back when the road closed and they were stuck for 5 hours at like one of the morning. so don't do jack to that. alright, 7.40, right now. and still ahead on the kron, morning news and east bay city is closer to creating more protections for renters. >> and after the break, new giants manager bob melvin making his debut against his old team on opening day. we're going to highlight on that coming up. >> and we do have a lot going on radar right now. all of its very, very light so far, though. so having minimal impacts on you as of right now, we do have some heavier

showers right around point raise at the moment. some of the north bay hills. but it's only going to pick up from here. i got your forecast and you might be tempted to speed this morning because there's not much traffic out there on the highways. please don't, because like john just mentioned, things are slick out there. my minutes out there. my minutes traveling into the cityness.

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yeah, it's easter weekend. sooner the better i suppose because later on, john, not going to be the egg hunt, how old are your children now? i'm still kind, tina. 21 day that's just said, dad, no more easter egg hunts at 20. 0, i didn't say that. he said time to stop. and they're like, >> i'm sure if there's lots of cash involved, they do gets but we are looking at forecast. gets better by easter on sunday. today is the last day that you want to plan in a hunt for looking at the embarcadero little bit breezy out there. we have seen some light showers so far. nothing too terribly heavy just yet. most of that energy is still sitting out to the west here in the bay right now, right around half moon bay, believe us pay up into the hills right around the tri valley, looking at some decent showers there. 2.80, on the peninsula, seeing it right around woodside. but most of us, it's just some light sprinkles. so far, radars being kind and generous

right now showing a lot of that low cloud cover. we're not near as widespread as radar showing. we will see pockets of heavy rain most likely for the north bay over the next few hours with light to moderate showers continuing for the rest of us into the early afternoon just after noon time is when we are really start to kick that intensity up for most of the bay area, areas of heavy rainfall moving through the bay are right in the middle of the day today. so if you are leaving a little bit later, anticipates some poor driving conditions there, maybe even a little extra traffic with that getaway traffic today, we will see pockets of heavy rain continuing into the evening. a few rolls of thunder possible as well. here's right around midnight. a little cell developing right around san francisco in the marin headlands 04:30am, still kind of stormy out there. good news for your midday plans tomorrow. is we actually see kind of a lull in activity. this is great for those of you that wanted to get outside on saturday. tomorrow afternoon. our best chance of thunderstorms will be for the south bay and the east bay. further north, you get the

less likely that becomes and by sunday we do have a few morning showers here and there midday drying for your easter egg hunts and then a few evening showers are possible. maybe even a thunderstorm after the sun goes down on sunday night. after that, we're dry it out and staying dry for a lot of the forecast. rainfall this weekend going to amount to well over an inch for most areas. as for winds, this is going to be one of the biggest catches gusts as high as 50, even 60 miles per hour. high wind advisories at the coast and across the east bay. the wind is also going to the biggest catch up in the sierra winter storm warning goes back into effect 11:00am. still looking at that multiple feet of snow with those highest of elevations. even a little snow fall at the upper elevations of lake and mendocino counties. but it's the wind that could result in the worst travel impact today with some drowing snow drifting snow, low visibility on roadways, chain controls. absolutely. anticipate them anticipate a lot of delays getting up there with that increase traffic and

with the rain, the wind and snow best travel days will be tomorrow and sunday monday, the best skiing day, though, those bluebird skies after some fresh snowfall sounds super super nice. as for temperatures mid 50's today mid 50's for most of us tomorrow will be a little bit warmer. that increased sunshine will help us out a bit sunday. looking like the best day of the weekend. great for those easter egg hunts. after that. looking beautiful with lots of sunshine and highs in the 70's right i don't think that are in the green across the bay area. >> snapshot of the highways and bridges. and as you can see, moving up and limit along most of them, but resist the urge to speed because like don's been talking about, we are going to see what conditions out there already starting to see it to just take the time to traveling 9 minutes into the city. looking good. if you need to go there right now, san mateo bridge around 16 minutes. a 80 to 101, before. last time we checked in, we got up a little bit. we're at 17 now. we're back down to 14 traveling, antioch, conquer walnut creek down 5.80, looking green. 12

minute ride as you're traveling from orinda into 5.80, kelly down to 37 slight pickup. but nothing major is s ill under 30 minutes to make that drive. arias is back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. 7.48. is the time and authorities are now identifying the man who died after his car caught fire and crashed in novato on sunday. so the marin county coroner says the teary who gunned was driving southbound. i want to one. this was sunday morning when his car went off the freeway right near the del prado on-ramp, unfortunately died at the scene. according to the gofundme page was set up to help his family. he was a car enthusiast and is survived by his wife and 2 daughters. a concord man who tossed a pipe bomb at police last october during a police chase has finally been convicted this week, danielle garcia was charged with throwing multiple pipe bombs while leading police on a high-sweed chase for san francisco. garcia was convicted on multiple counts, including detonating an explosive device with intent

to injure. he faces up to 14 years in state prison and is set to be sentenced this april. >> it's 7.49 and a man has been arrested for a cutting down phone wires and disrupting internet access in richmond. police have not identified who they arrested, but they say that they searched his car and they found all of these stolen wires and tools. tnt estimates the damage to the phone lines about $20,000 and richmond. police say they have seen an increase in copper wire thefts in the city. the city of antioch is taking the first step to enhance legal protection for renters city council just told staff to create a draft of a just cause eviction ordinance that would protect renters from no-fault evictions like when a landlord of people because they want to renovate and raised the rent. antioch city council members say they'd like to see this ordinance include relocation assistance for people who are evicted. we don't have any word yet on when they might finish that draft. well,

thursday, mark opening day for major league baseball and the new giants manager bob melvin made his debut against his old team down in san diego. oh, wow. let's check it out. kron 4 sports director jason dumas takes a look. >> opening day to some. it's like a national holiday for 30 teams. it's a sense of optimism that this can be the year. the giants enter it retooled and looking to get off to a great start. they were in san diego on thursday taking on the padres in. there he is. bob melvin making his giants debut. the bay-area kid. >> playing his former team and the giants they got on the board. first top of the 3rd ad. the last one down to 3rd base line. michael conforto scores. it's one nothing fast. 47 tie game and again into left field. his second rbi single of the game and we're tied up once again. but bottom

of the 7th man on the corners and the giant bullpen a blow it for logan webb once again. xander boegarts. brings in a couple runs and then the next batter, jake cronenworth, he puts the game away. hopefully this is not a precursor of the season where logan webb pitch amazing. and then the guys can hold the wait for him. it wasn't like it was like that. padres win it 6 to 4 running back on friday. all right. that's your look at sports. back to you guys. but wait, what about hoops? we some college hoops to update you on legendary stanford women's basketball coach. >> tara vanderveer is in portland with her team and the stanford women's basketball team will continue their pursuit of a national championship preparing for their big sweet 16 matchup today. they're going to take on north carolina state. it's the 3rd trip to the sweet 16

for the group of seniors, which includes senior all american cam break who'll be playing in her hometown. >> it's amazing. it's so great to be home. i mean, i was 15 minutes from here. so got to see my parents. i say my grandmother, my dog. so life's good. i'm just soak in on for sure. >> there you go from 4 sports reporter aaron wilson, by the way, will be up in portland for that game again. that's today as stanford looks to advance to the elite 8. we'll see if they can do course, still make yeah, 7.52 right now in coming up on the kron morning news. >> another chance, james, for you to win big. >> we're going say what the big lottery prize is going for now. we're close to billion pretty close. yeah, just shy. and we're close to the rain moving into your neighborhood. if it hasn't gotten already wet for you, it will soon johnell. take a look at the johnell. take a look at the storm.

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>> 7.55 is the time you may want to keep your eyes to the sky. tonight, a spacex is hoping to launch another batch of starlink satellites into orbit from vandenberg space force base. it will be aboard that falcon 9 rocket and sometimes here in the bay area. we can see it are king across the sky for reasons unknown. the last night's launch was scrubbed. so raining tonight, james. i know. but you never know. you might catch a okay. it's set for 7.30. so again, keep an eye out. this will be spacex's 15th launch this year. skies were clear during the last launch so that it could be seen all across california. you'll see maybe you'll catch a i'd look like now. not tonight. haha. but there's the total lunar eclipse which we also can't see from here live.

but you feet of it on april 8. that's right. couple stray from now. and there's this thing going on with oreos. >> i didn't know they had the space version out so it looks like it's blue and pink. the enzyme and something they've seen him in stores already. but >> here's the deal. there's a limited edition qr code on these packages. you see it there on the front. just scan that you'll be entered into a sweepstakes to win a chance to board a 6 hour journey. okay. on the world's first basically it's a a balloon that will take you all the way up 9 miles up. but wait, i've got below, you know, you're in an enclosed like have trouble type thing. so the balloon takes me up and windows. yeah. and then you go all the way up and you hang out there for a little while and you just you get to take in a view of earth that nobody else ever gets to see. and then they slowly bring you back down there you can dunk those oreos. we all sort of that is going to be black like i'm going to see the earth down like the astronauts to kind pretty much. yeah. >> by a package that i-77 right now. coming up on the kron 4 morning news there for

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