>> right now on the kron, 4 morning news police in the south bay bust a brothel and arrest a man for pin. think we're going to tell you where it happened. universities across the nation starting to crack down on pro-palestinian demonstrators pushing tensions even higher. we're going to tell you what's happening here in the bay area. and that's also when the ferry back in service today after damage to the piers finally fixed. we're live at the terminal. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news >> good morning and thanks for waking up with us. we have plenty of sunshine to go around for everybody.

>> thank you for being with 08:00am as the time. nothing but sunshine outside right now. no, but i can't believe how things are going to change. i know now that we're officially in may john know a pro kept us on toes in may is doing the today tomorrow and friday. looking great. a lot of this going on out there. but as we work our way into the weekend, specially on that's the day that's going to be bringing some rainfall back to the bay area. the big cool down to for now, though, enjoying views like this. the top about 10:00am watch the sun rise up there earlier this morning from this view and now just getting that full dose of sunshine and not all that hazy. the reason why those northwesterly winds pushing out into the bay, still a little breezy at the coast. most notably, though, the state's interior, the central valley and out solano county under some high wind watches as we make our way through the day today, aside from that, it is calm along the bay shore with some mid 50's there. a couple of low 60's returning for brett would vacaville and fairfield at this time and the

rest of us are soon to follow its really, increasing temperatures pretty fast this morning. 70's to low 80's for your daytime highs later today, making today just a little warmer than yesterday was. i'm gonna talk all the changes that we have as we make our way into this upcoming weekend. still to come back to all right. let's check the bridges and the traffic before we go along and >> starting with the golden gate bridge, is now this looks beautiful on the deck. but look at the drive time. you see that from 37 in nevada down to this spot. yeah, it's a 48 minute ride which is. double the drive time. if you're moving at the speed limit. so traffic is definitely slow going through marin county right now, richmond saint fell bridge is if you're going from richmond in december fell just a 14 minute drive at the plaza here. and if we look at the san mateo bridge, scott, a little bit better, although it still looks jam-packed on the right hand side westbound. 92. 38 minute ride for you there and get through the maze to fremont street at the bay

bridge approach is going to take it. 21 minutes, which isn't too bad for this time of day. okay. do too. is the time in this morning's top story, the golden gate ferry service between san francisco sausalito finally back up and running again. it's been over a week or something helpful they had to repair up here. >> and that meant people. let's take a bus which isn't as fun, especially for tourists, right? and that that that very takes a lot of tourists. >> michael thomas is live in sausalito with a look at the riders. they just got on the first vote 7. i don't know. they've seen a second one roll through a lot of sunshine there. >> yeah, good morning, everyone. lots of sunshine. that's right. the sausalito pier has been deemed as safe. they did make all those corrections. in fact, we've got video up on your screen as you can see what it looked like this morning. the first right out happened at 705. the next ride is set for 8.15, and these writers were really excited. you know, since april 19th, the golden gate ferry service has been really stopped between san francisco and sausalito because they found damage on one of the

piers pylons during a routine inspection. officials say the closure was really just out of caution. but since then, they have had contractors come in and have fixed the issue. but, you know, the piers ready this morning and people headed out at 7 o'clock this morning. but take a listen to what one writer had to say regarding the entire situation. >> when little guys are not in school, they get through so it's a family i know people that we appreciate it. i think moving your bike on last image. >> now back out here live, that ferry is actually just pulling up. and as terry mentioned, writers were actually having to utilize the bus. so you'll hear more from them in the next hour. and they're all starting to gather around 8 o'clock right now is the next very comes in at 8.15. and i wish i could show you, but there's a bunch of polls that are in the way. so you will see it in the next hour at 9 o'clock. tara and james, i will send it back to thank you very much, michael.

>> i think what court for entire this encampment and other cameras around the country across the world that not about the university not about students, it is. going to get with a lot. >> well, pro-palestinian protests tontinue at several college campuses around the country, including here in the bay area. in fact, this video shows the tense that are on the quad there at san francisco state university. the protesters say they're pushing their university and u.s. officials to disclose any expenditures a college may have with foreign investors. >> and we've seen the protests grow at u c berkeley as well. here's a look at the cal campus and you can see the encampment growing at sproul plaza. it's now in its second weekend today, faculty and staff plan to join with the demonstrators at noon today. they are calling on the university to stop investing in companies that work with israel and this isn't the only

place that we've seen the protests. let's go over to stamford. we're monitoring the camp and happening there and you can see it's pretty big. they've got their flags out and tense out. and the students here say that some of them got a disciplinary letter from the university because of their protest. >> with 19 for out of like 2 or 3 more. can't exactly remember who have gone letters from the office of community standards and are basically being put through their internal disciplinary process. the language is very vague. >> so they want to know more and understand exactly what they might penalized or punish with for this protest. we did reach out to strand stanford for an explanation, but we haven't heard back yet. >> well, in the south bay today, students at santa clara university will be joining in on these protests as well. they want to administrator is to pressure the government to end any military funding or support to israel. organizers of today's solidarity demonstration are asking people to gather on campus at alameda lawn from noon until

08:00pm. the question is, do any of these infringe on the right of others? >> who have differing views or are are jewish and don't feel comfortable in campus. and that's something that congress want to take a look. fact, they're launching an investigation into federal funding for some of these universities. they're also pushing to pass new anti-semitism laws. this is the story that our dc correspondent hannah brandt has been following. >> house leaders accuse university officials of failing to keep the protests under control and they say not enough is being done to protect jewish students. fireworks erupted at ucla and protesters clashed on campus >> across the country of colombia, new york police stormed university building to arrest dozens of protesters who have been occupying it. this thing is out of control from capitol hill. lawmakers are watching with concern and house speaker mike johnson warns of universities don't get the chaos under control. you will see congress respond unkind. you're going to see funding begin to dry up.

you're going to every level of accountability that we can muster. he says several house committees will investigate the protest and may decide to take away federal funding. and this week, congress is gearing up to vote on a bill to change the federal definition of anti-semitism under anti-discrimination law. the rampant anti-semitism. requires action by the federal government. congressman mike lawlor introduced the legislation and supporters say it would allow universities to crack down on harmful speech. this is not the free marketplace of ideas. >> this is open threats to jewish students because of their faith and who they are. but some worry it goes too far like congresswoman teresa ledger, fernandez, we're constitutionally bound to protect. >> free speech, even more importantly, when it is speech with rich. we do not agree. and congressman pete aguilar prefers letting universities respond. they have guidance. they have they need to enforce those before congress. kate snow once the white house as well, president biden does support peaceful protests. he

is concerned about antisemitism on campus and doesn't agree with protesters occupying university buildings. >> in washington, i'm hannah brandt. >> thank you, hannah. also in the news today, we have 450 homeless families in san francisco that are soon going to receive financial help. they've been chosen as part of the 5 year pilot program funded by google and local nonprofits. half of those in this pilot program will receive $1000 a month. the other half will receive $50 a month. it's all part of a study aimed at showing that guaranteed basic income can work to combat poverty and homelessness. the payments will be distributed exclusively to families who are about to lose access to city funded housing subsidies. the program is all part of a larger 1 billion dollar effort by google to increase the bay area's housing supply. in the east bay. the alameda county board of supervisors voted to certify the results of the recall petition for district attorney pamela price. this all comes as the state is now

launching an investigation, though, into one of those groups behind the recall. da price says in december her campaign team filed a complaint against that group claiming that it didn't comply with certain laws that govern all political committees in the state. but this recall investigation could take several years to complete. the penalties could range from a simple warning to fines, but it will not have an impact if voters decide to recall price. >> and now that the recall signatures are certified. the county board of supervisors has to set a date for the recall. they do. you proper kerman actually walks us through what the timeline is like for all of that. this is a frivolous, fraudulent and road are only u.s. election. >> campaign to recall da price. alameda county is at a re us but da price been in office. i have no trust in pamela price. >> ask me i am a victim's family. the problem is not pamela price. the problem is the people who are getting locked the people who are

using drugs. and are out the streets and they're creating all kinds of crime. now that the board is move forward to certify the results, they will hold another meeting on may 14th to set a recall election. >> the special election can be set 88 to 125 days in the future. alternatively, the recall can also take place during the november 5th general election, which would save the county a boatload of money. if the recall is successful in prices voted out of office, it will be up to the board of supervisors to appoint someone take over the appointed da will serve 2 years until the next general election in november of 2026, whoever wins that election, we'll finish out prices term which runs until january of 2029. supervisors. no, the da pamela price believes the recall is illegal because the process did not follow the county's charter. in fact, one county supervisor said she hopes the county is sued. so a

judge can make a final determination on that. >> nevertheless, the board of supervisors is moving forward on the recall. they will hold a special meeting on the 14th of may which point they will set a date for that recall election. dan kerman kron, 4 news. >> and 11 is the time right now. and still ahead on the combo morning news. >> who stole a bunch of bees? thousands of them from a beekeeper oakland. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ my late father-in-law lit up a room, but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ask a retina specialist about fda-approved treatments for ga >> we are back 8.14, the time and on this first day of may. it's the beginning of the spare. the air summer smog season officially gets i thought you're going to be

spring is in the air. smog. is just me? >> if the conditions are right. but this is the time of year when they start to line up like that. so don't be surprised if here and there the barrier quality management district issues of smog alert. yeah, because when it gets warm, we get the lid have high pressure. >> but you can't really see it when you're like on sides. write looks like wispy and white and misty and great. yeah at night and makes a nice sunset. it doesn't have. the sun sets are nice. the days it's little less blue that. but we haven't seen much of smog the past couple days. and you guys know why was the yeah. and right. good for sailing. totally great for sailing. and this weekend, something else that's going to clean it storms or other way. and yeah, it's like what is this rare to get snow in made common? okay. definitely late in the season. yeah. in what we're looking at is another round of that snowfall at some pretty low elevations. so this is a late season storm for

sure. you're look outside from mount tam. you can see the air-quality is actually pretty decent today and we can think the wind for that, even though we are looking at crystal clear skies in the favor of a delay, the wind is kind of the catch to it point raise around 21 miles per hour. we have a strong enough winds out in the central valley, in fact, that we do have multiple advisories. we'll start with the gale warnings that we have on the point raised coastline up the sonoma coast line and then a wind advisory in effect through 05:00pm for solano county, as well as the central valley winds up there, gusting regularly into a 30 to 40 miles per hour range. aside from that, this high pressure ridge is aiding in keeping us dry for a couple of days as we make our way into the weekend, though, that changes and changes really quickly. we take the plunge from the 80's at our warmest to just the low 60's by saturday. and along with that comes this rainfall. now models are in alignment of some pretty decent rainfall for the bay area and some low elevation. snow fall up in the

sierra nevada. most of this on saturday before we clear back out on sunday. as for saturday's rainfall, the bay area will see anywhere between a 3rd to even 3 quarters of an inch of rain. well, the north coast, a couple hours north of us will see several inches of rain. so another big rainmaker in right in the middle of the weekend. that's where we seem to see the system is being placed. the sierra sees a decent snowfall that purple indicating the potential of 18 inches of it at the very top of donner summit as well as that go past these very high elevations, likely to have some chain controls in effect from friday night into saturday. so good travel days to the sierra will be friday and sunday. temperatures today range from the 50's and 60's at the coastline to some 70's and 80's atterbury. warmest today will be a little warmer than yesterday. notable in the south bay where you'll be just shy of 80 degrees mid to upper 70's in the east bay and for conquered pittsburgh as well as fairfield. even a couple of low 80's hitting 80 degrees each looking ahead to

tomorrow's temperatures are going to be very similar to today's as will be the case on friday. if you want some warm weather this weekend, take advantage of friday to saturday. not so warm any more low 60's and showers. sunday clears out but stays cool. back to you. thanks. a lot of dates. 17 want to take a peek at the traffic as well. the maze is looking good here at the bay bridge is just 16 minutes now. >> so not too bad there. the senate to bridge has been really sluggish this morning. 34 minutes is actually better than was like up to 40 something before. so just leave a little extra time. if that's your route richmond center fell bridge looks pretty good. 14 minutes is unexpected drive times right now and everybody is up and the golden gate bridge, the debt good. but i gotta tell ya, traffic is pretty slow from nevada highway. 37 down to this spot. 42 minutes when it should take about 20. if your run of the speed limit. so little slow through southern all right. let's talk about the stolen be unopened.

bee keeper pretty frustrated this morning after someone stole a colony of bees and its queen. >> right from the front who does that? that's what she wants to know. she filed a police report everything. and now the question is who done it and what is she going to do? because she's just about to have this honey tasting and the event for kids, which obviously they missed out on kron 4. sarah stinson has the story. >> meet the the lady. that's what susan donoghue is known as in her rockridge neighborhood in oakland where she's been living for nearly 3 decades be keeping is a real source of peace for me. donahue often host honey tasting events made from the 25 hives. she manages trying to teach the kids and families different. >> color and flavor and texture of honey. she was getting ready to do just that on saturday. she says she placed a brand-new be observation of i've like this one on a table in front of her home and then went back inside

to grab the honey. i had heard. >> somebody say, hey, look. >> freebies. it's then she realized someone pulled up and stole her colony of 15,000 bees along with its queen bee. it's the pink one on your screen. donahue says the thieves not only stole from her, but also from the kids who came for the experience having to explain to them that somebody would steal. these is really >> disheartening to me. do you explain to me what this bees are theft does to the bees left behind these that are left behind? >> we'll survive because i'm here. managing them that these that went in that hive. probably are going to die. she says she's heard of home an car burglaries in her neighborhood before. but now to be a victim of get another oakland crime. >> fields to feeding. >> just getting tired the

cycle. we're not coming out of hand feeling really. and representative policymakers, donahue filed a police report online. she's not heard anything back. >> i'm sara stinson reporting in oakland kron. 4 news. >> it's 8.20 and the city of pittsburgh is breaking ground on a new project to connect trails to bart and new housing and business development over a mile of new trails are going to be added along railroad avenue. they want let a fewer cars on the road and give residents a safe alternative to driving. city officials are hoping it will encourage public transit as well. >> for your health this morning, there are is a recall right now. organic walnuts tied to an e-coli outbreak. the nuts were sold in natural food and co-op stores by hollister based gibson farms incorporated. now these potentially affected not have an expiration date between may 20st and june 7th of 2025. e-coli. bacteria can cause everything from severe stomach

cramps, diarrhea, vomiting, and those symptoms usually kick in about 3 to 4 days after you consume contaminated food. the fda says multiple bay area stores may perceive these walnuts, including stores barkeley, santa rosa, san francisco, castro valley. there's a list if you'd like to see it. the fda has put that together on their website. on the peninsula. a lawsuit's been filed now and the san mateo county superior court against boxer mike tyson after a fight broke out on a jetblue flight years ago. this happened on a fort myers bound flight from sfo. back in 2022, the lawsuit alleges that tyson started physically assaulting the client. melvin george townsend before the flight departed that assault left townsend with injuries and blood dripping from his face. tyson's camp, though released a statement saying it was townson that had started it all by being aggressive and taunted tyson on this flight before it even took off at one point, even throwing a water bottle at the boxer. tyson eventually snapped and they've

been short video clips going viral on line since that incident showing what happened. the lawsuit, by the way, also claims negligence on the part of jetblue. >> it's a 22. and coming up on the kron 4 morning news, some video of protests turning violent and clashing at ucla overnight. we'll have the very latest.

>> 25 in the south bay, san jose lawmaker wants to put an end to trafficking in the city. councilmember bn tome wants to put phone numbers in

bathrooms and in public places so that people who are victims or want to report trafficking or human trafficking will know the number to do that. similar signs can already been seen at the san jose airport, according to the south bay coalition to end human trafficking, trafficking represent 77% of human trafficking and more than 60%, a sense trafficking victims are women, girls and people of color. the oakland city council has just voted to approve a contract for the new police chief. floyd mitchell, who you see here and under the terms you can see what is pay is going to be about $365,000 a year. and that includes the $40,000 premium pay that is required by the contract. and he also gets the benefit of a car allowance monthly, which is 750 bucks. >> may 1st is typically known as college decision day for high school seniors. but this year they're in limbo as to

which school they might be attending because of a problem with the student aid processing. the issue is with a new form of the fafsa and that was released late last year and the changes were made to make applying more simple. that was the goal. but that lead actually to processing glitches and now major delays. many colleges now pushed back their decision. deadlines, though. some haven't. and that's forcing some students to pay a deposit without knowing how much tuition is actually going to cost them. a 26 the time. up next on the kron 4 morning news, a recount is almost done in a highly contentious race for a congressional seat in the silicon valley. rumors are spreading as to who was the one pushing for this recount.

>> 8.29 right now. you just did that thing on college and i'm going to go see my kids college graduates. right. a lot colder in utah than it is here. i know they're going to 50. luckily for us. anyway, we've got a nice temperatures until the weekend. then what are we drop into the 50's to it seems like it right. max 60's this weekend. so a lot of us will be in the 50's come saturday, which is going to be a rainy and even snowy day for the upper elevations. you never know it. looking out there today. how crystal clear skies are berkeley hills camera looking nice and green up in the hills and blew up in the skies. that's that springtime weather that i think a lot of us look forward to. it is a bit breezy, especially for the stanley. and we do have a wind advisory in solano county today, other than that, really pleasant san mateo sitting at 60 degrees. same in pittsburgh, 50's for most of the rest of us right now. but temperatures are quickly rising and setting us up for an afternoon in the

70's to even low 80's. i'll talk a couple more really nice days. and then that weekend, rainfall and cooldown. still ahead, your forecast. all right. let's check the commute. if you're headed to work in your commute, takes you over the bay bridge. things are looking good here in the maze. just 14 minutes. >> so we really thinned out lots cars moving at the limit there. and this over. just gotten a little bit better is just 36 minutes till that's not what it should be is just you have plenty of company has been really sluggish and problematic. this morning been the worst commute this morning. as far as the bridges go, the richmond saint fell fine. 12 minutes to get your from richmond over into sandra fell. and then if you're trying to get from marin county like novato, for example, of highway 37 down to

if they found 2 women in that home. they believe. >> we're being human trafficked victims conference. jack moment has more. 2 weeks ago. this house right here that's moving out was the site of a police raid where officers say they busted a commercial brothel. >> police say they've been looking at this home of 16th and saint james since november. tuesday evening, a moving dropped. the men here speak mandarin and tell me they were hired to move belongings out of here. they say they don't know anything about what happened here earlier in a broad week or 2 ago or use in its recently moved into the neighborhood and says a bunch of police officers showed up 11:00am several days ago busting what they say is a commercial brothel. >> disturbing details to shun who is a san jose state student. >> for sure, show. i mean, like any crime is a concern to especially since i live like right across the street, police also arrested shoe chain the 53 year-old man now charged with pimping and pandering. they found 2 women

living in the home who they say are possible human trafficking victims along with a bunch of cash and has been going off. hello, neighbor's of includes by say this has been going on for months. bound to have eye. it's been going off to fight 4th of july last year. anthony garcia has lived next door here all his life and says he's seen men come and go out of this house since last summer. just wants a life safety for my sister, my niece and stuff. and while the investigation is ongoing, garcia says now he has some peace of mind to do now that they're out here loved like a sign relief. in san jose. jack moment. kron 4 news. all right. 32 is the time happening today on this may 1st. >> we're recognizing international wor ers day and a group in san francisco is going to be honoring that by marching to city hall. it's set to begin at about 10 o'clock this morning. it will be a group of immigrant workers rights and antiwar organization supporters. they're going to gather at mission 24th street bart

station and march to san francisco city hall demanding investment in workers and immigrant communities instead of war with the city budget crisis that threatens critical services. immigrant workers rely on workers are now calling for justice from san francisco to palestine. meanwhile, janitors in the bay area who work at california's largest office buildings and tech campuses will rally today as their union contracts expired yesterday. so they're now without a contract and thousands of janitors are taking to the streets to support their union committee, which is negotiating. what they claim or excessive workloads in the industry. and they say that abuse and exploited janitors are the norm. now, according to the department of industrial relations, one-third of janitors in california are injured on the job. if no resolution is reached, janitors will plan to strike as early as may 7th. i mean, just or some sort of explosive or firework okay. just a firework

>> hey, guys, we've got to go. we've got to go. we've got to go. we've got to go a very dangerous situation developing overnight in los angeles. you can see a heavy police presence. >> which is still out there this morning after clashes broke out overnight between groups of protesters. the university declared a pro-palestinian encampment was on lawful after that. protesters attempts to take down barricades around midnight and then the fireworks and people could be seen throwing objects at each other. got very, very dangerous. now we have seen protests but they have been more peaceful at all kinds of schools. not just college is this is the oakland unified school district they have seen some demonstrations there and they actually plan to have some more as well. oakland high are sorry. oakland tech high is going to have a demonstration today. they're doing a walkout at noon and students and teachers are going to be participating in

that. >> okay. well, meantime, 50 former google employee is now filing an official complaint against the company for what they say was unlawful termination. 2 weeks ago, those employees were holding sit-in protests google offices in sunnyvale and new york. the company fired them last week after finding out their identities. and this was video of that demonstration in sunnyvale. the workers filed a complaint saying that google unlawfully retaliated against them. those protesters say they want their jobs back and they want google to allow workers to protest without consequence. >> it's a 35 and calm for is your local election headquarters and we should know all the results soon today for the recount for the contentious race for silicon valley. 16th congressional seat. yeah, it is half over if you think about it because they're 2 recounts. one in santa clara county, they finished their part of the recount. >> then their san mateo county and they say they have completed theirs as well. but they haven't announced the results yet. kron four's catherine heenan takes a look. >> santa clara county voting

officials say their recount shows evan low picked up 11 additional votes. joe summit, ian gained 7 so low lead summit, ian, by 4 votes in santa clara county. but that does not answer the question of whether low one san mateo county still has more than a dozen challenge to ballots and official there told me they have finished counting them but won't announce the results until wednesday after campaign attorneys and others get a chance to review the numbers. meantime, sam liccardo published an opinion piece in which he again rejects claims that he's behind the recount because a former staffer named jonathan padilla requested it. he says the fact that padilla is a supporter of mine is not remarkable. every independent expenditure committee in history has been created by a candidate supporter. i think the cargo is doing the smart thing, which is. >> he's trying to get ahead of whatever the results are

because someone is going to win. that was going to lose and where it's going to lose main all probability trained, blame liccardo the fact and of the 3 person race. it's a 2 person race. michael yaki also agrees with lockhart called for. >> automatic recounts in a close election which may have lessened the political drama. >> because you want to kind of get the politics out of this and just getting into that. the issue of voter integrity and every vote counts. i would hope that the california legislature after this would mandate as a as a requirement in the california electoral process that automatic recounts be available in united states house of representative races in the case of a tie. as it was catherine hannah. >> kron. 4 news. a 38 is a time in the east bay. after years of delays, 16 17 year-olds in oakland and berkeley will finally get the chance to vote in school board elections the alameda county board of supervisors voted tuesday to approve $113,000

contract increase with a 3rd party election services company. and to add 6 positions to the registrar of voters office. the decision will allow the county's elections officials to add the necessary software upgrades to provide year-round support for youth voting elections processing canvassing voter file maintenance, special election building and youth voting activities. so a whole lot now going into effect 8.38. is the time right now. and this could be a historic step. >> in easing marijuana restrictions, the dea might reclassify cannabis to be pretty much like tylenol schedule one drug to schedule three-drug kron four's. rob nesbitt has more now on how those changes could have big ripple effects. owners of cannabis businesses will tell you how hard the industry is hit by high taxes. it's part of the reason why the for 20 event in golden ate park was canceled this year. >> announcement from the federal government will help ease tax burdens.

>> the cannabis industry celebrated a big win tuesday when the u.s. drug enforcement administration announces plan to move cannabis from schedule one status to schedule 3 ceo of the national cannabis industry association, aaron smith says for years marijuana has been viewed federally as having no medical value and a high potential for abuse. it seems absurd. but, you know, since the 70's cannabis has been a schedule, one substance alongside drugs like heroin lsd, president biden called for the review back in 2022. >> reclassifying does not legalize cannabis federally, but it would allow pharmaceutical companies to get involved with selling drugs in states where it is legal. it will also remove the tax code called to 80 e on legal cannabis businesses. marijuana businesses are unable to deduct things like to rent their payroll and marketing expenses. their compliance costs, the cost of the security cameras in their in their facilities. spark on 6 dispensaries in the bay area. and ceo eric pearson says 2.80 e has limited investors from taking cannabis

seriously. he hopes becoming a schedule. three-drug will change that when that gets eliminated, it frees up capital that makes investors more interested. >> and investing in cannabis companies investment capital comes in which helps the industry, which is otherwise struggling from other taxes. the proposal must still be reviewed by the white house office of management and budget before can join the same classification as tylenol. >> the national cannabis industry association wants congress to go even further by removing cannabis from the controlled substances act. f catches. the federal government say we're california was in the 90's. that does not cats, california and the federal government up to a california is now. >> i asked myth when he thinks the reclassification could happen if passed by the white house. he predicts changes before the november election. reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. 41 the time. >> still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news will talk about the a's and the fact that came out on top once again against the pirates will have the highlights. and after the

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another milestone. they have. they've submitted enough signatures now to qualify for the november ballot. so that >> voters can have a say. we have kron four's tiffany justice with the latest. >> the group says they have 7,000 more signatures than needed and they're confident all 20,000 signatures collected. we'll be verified. >> so i don't voters have made that first decision. and they have made loud and over 20,000 to lionel residence have signed the petition. >> the campaign to build a new california city is moving for jan sramek, ceo of california forever says they are gaining the support of locals submitting more than 20,000 signatures tuesday to qualify the east. a homes. >> jobs in clean energy initiative for the november ballot. 7,000 signatures. more. >> than was required. 30,000 signatures are required. that's over 60 for something that was more than was required. >> it's now up to the solano

county's elections office verify each signature. is there a voters will decide whether to allow urban development on land currently zoned for agriculture. the new town is being described as a green city for up to 400,000 people in the san francisco bay area, the travis air force base as a group did address their concerns and plans and minimize the impact this development could have on local training flights. an exercise a place like this system. almost almost near not anyone. you can't do so i'm i'm really just the storm is to do so much vacaville vice mayor greg ritchie endorsing the plan for the new development as does area resident ken cluess up as is with california river. looks like these essentially a townhouse like to a lot of you are like santana row. we have a some stories below or offices or so i like the idea.

not just a building, new housing building, new housing that doesn't take a lot closer, says he's concerned for his 2 grandchildren, one in college. now he says affordability of houses in california. >> it's hard to obtain. also the idea that the housing is could be a for a double to me, that's big selling point. the group forever, california says it may take up to 30 to 60 days for the signatures to be verified. but again, they do say that they are competent. >> that the signatures will be verified and that the measure will make it onto the november ballot. reporting to justice kron. 4 news. >> a 46 is the time and we're looking at the weather. plenty of sunshine to go around for the next few days. anyway, yeah, lots of it through friday and then by sunshine for just one day. but it gets cool and wet comes saturday might be may now, but we are not done with these wintry feeling systems today. nothing wintry about it. lots of sunshine of of kuwait. our little bit of a breeze behind me. you can believes moving around there in downtown san

francisco, not as windy as yesterday, but still enough that we do have a few advisories to talk about both inland and out along the coastline. first, some gale warnings up along the point raised in sonoma coast lines, seeing those expiring along the rest of the bay area codes. so little bit of good news there. as for interior, though, we still do have a wind advisory for solano county in the central valley through 05:00pm today, a strong north westerly wind continues in areas like vacaville and fairfield, most notably. now we are in the midst of a high pressure ridge, but only momentarily, this keeps he's very comfortable through friday. nice warm forecast. but after that, we see our next storm system diving in and as has been the case for so much of the bay area this year. it's right in the middle of the weekend. saturday comes along with temperatures, 20 degrees cooler and some showers models aligning for anywhere between a 3rd to 3 quarters of an inch of rain for the bay and some solid snowfall in the sierra out of this one. we will be looking at some decent snow

here in the bay area. but wrists, rainfall for the bay area that snowfall north of us, though, mendocino and humboldt counties, multiple inches of rain. so this is going to be rather heavy for areas just to our north. as for the sierra multiple feet of snowfall at the very crest of the sierra nevada donner summit echo pass will likely have chain controls in effect come saturday. so just because don't forget those chains 60's and 70's for the city today and 50's and 60's right along the coast. definitely our cooler spots elsewhere. it 60's 70's to even a couple of low 80's that makes today just a little bit warmer than yesterday was. and if you can a good day to get out there for a bit fremont at 75 he word as well as richmond at 74. our warmest of spots conquered pittsburgh and fairfield each right at 80 degrees today. looking ahead tomorrow and friday, almost exactly the same as today, but saturday couldn't be much more different. we're looking at low 60's for your warmest of temps on saturday. rainfall likely through the day. and as

i mentioned, some snowfall up in our mountains. james. john, thank you. let's check the roads. no major problems out there to slow you down. so do quick bridge check starting off with the bay bridges. and as you can see here. >> the congestion really has thinned out here as we're now getting close to the 9 o'clock hour. just 13 minutes to get from the macarthur maze in oakland to fremont street in san francisco. your westbound 90 to ride the commute direction here on the san mateo bridge. that's the traffic on the right-hand side moving. well, 29 minutes right now to get from the east bay out towards the peninsula to the north. the richmond, sandra fell bridge looking good. 13 minutes. that's a minute. better than it was in our last check commuters there on westbound 5.80, make their way into marion county and then lastly, we have the golden gate bridge. speaking marin county for those heading southbound. i want to want to get into san francisco. it's actually looking just fine. 37 minutes, the current drive time from novato down into san francisco. >> stay and community leaders are coming together to address gun violence in san jose,

california attorney general rob bonta held a roundtable discussion yesterday to highlight the ongoing efforts to prevent gun violence and to identify best practices to keep communities safe. he says the focus is to make sure that law enforcement has the necessary tools they need to stop a shooting before it happens. >> we status quo state of affairs where we have more mass shootings in a year than days in the calendar year where the leading cause of death for our youth. is gun violence. where we lose 45,000 people each year to gun violence. we have more guns more places and that creates more gun violence and morgan death. >> bonta says investing in the community will lead to meaningful change. >> okay. let's turn our attention to bay area baseball. the a's taking on the pirates out of the coliseum in their second game

of the series up. they'll have a sweep it when it's all over. sports director jason dumas takes a look. >> flying under the radar. the a's have been one of baseball's hottest teams over the last couple of weeks. look to keep it going on this day. let's head to the town as they were hosting the pirates at the coliseum. looking to make it 2 in a row over the pirates. second ending. we have a tie game to offer tyler, nevin first. i've been raking. if that one out to right. that brings in the go ahead, run lead it 2 to same score in the 50's until jj bleday. turns on this one. that lands in budweiser receipts, his second of the season. he wasn't done later in the game. in the 7th, he hits another one. this today center. the a's go on to win 5 to 2 after the game. talking about >> think our camaraderie is

really good. i mean, it's a night and day difference from last year to this year. you know, we're doing the little things, you know, coming feel prepared, ready to go. mean, you can see the difference in spring training and leading up until now. and star pitchers have been doing a great stars and bullpen. now starting to swing the bat a little bit better looking to continue to do that. you know, of i think we're going to go well. >> all right. other news, the red sox took down the giants in the opener of their series. that series continues tonight. all right. that's a look at sports. >> it's a 52 in coming up on the kron 4 morning news. why the bay area ranks among the worst in the country when it comes to the number of car thefts. it's 8.55. and while

some companies are cutting back on working from home, the demand for remote jobs. >> is still high. the employment website indeed says in the last year they saw 40% increase in work from home jobs. and here are the 5 most in-demand jobs that are hiring for remote work. the companies are document review make 120 grand a year. really tele medicine you make 140 grand for that. well, forensic and the analysts real estate analyst and senior environmental scientist. those round out the top 5 where you can work from home. sounds like 20's. a lot of schooling, though, just jump all right. a 56 is the time coming up in the next hour, the sausalito ferry look at this running once again this morning after being down for a couple of weeks. we're going to be live at the terminal with the latest on that.

>> plus, an investigation launched into the group behind the effort to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price will tell you why. and protests on college campuses continue both here and across the nation and now congress is weighing in.

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do i enjoy being in nature? mmm. do i like looking at it? fo sho. so if maintaining forests maintains my happy place, yeah i'm gonna be a papertarian. living room? sanctuary. bathroom? sanctuary. other living room? well, that's just extra. in america we have private forests. so when you choose this, the forest people will replenish that. so those outdoor creatures can [ yells ] stay where they belong! now. the kron 4 morning news police in the south bay bust a brothel and arrest a man for pimping. we'll tell you where that happened. universities across the nation have been cracking down on pro-palestinian demonstrators increasing tensions are going to tell you where what we're

seeing happen here in the bay area. meanwhile, the sausalito ferry back in service today after damaged the pier has been fixed. we're live at the terminal. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. >> good morning and thanks waking up with us on wednesday. i'm darya and i'm james and what a wednesday it is the first day of may. we've got another bomb who skies and sunshine and then in the first week of may may be snow and rain. you'd never know it. looking outside today through friday. >> with gorgeous conditions out there, it's beautiful start to the new month until saturday gets here. and then the rain that the mountain snowfall and just generally a big cool down in temperatures. we're sitting this morning from mount tam. it is nothing but the sun. and you also notice not too hazy out there. we can. i think the wind for that yesterday was a blustery day at the coastline. still a little breezy towards the coast, although it's really