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

vacaville and fairfield, which have been the windiest this morning with the wind advisory up in solano county. temperatures are currently starting to rise back in the low 60's san jose hayward, san mateo in concord, each right at 60 degrees or just above it. now, vacaville up to 65 in later today. we are going to be looking at some 70's and even a few low 80's under all that sunshine. now, i will be breaking down this weekend's opportunity of rain and mountain snow. still to come in your full forecast, back to all right. thanks a lot. let's take a look at the traffic. >> and right now, wow, it's just everybody's cleared out of the bay bridge. so all you see is a sunshine and no traffic, which is quite nice. a 15 minute breezy right into san francisco over the san mateo bridge. it's been so sluggish earlier this morning is getting much better. 26 minutes now for westbound 92 on the right hand side. so still a little bit slow, much better than it was in the last hour, the richmond, sandra fell bridge is really just 11 minutes now. a little - bit of a lineup here to get through the toll plaza and

then through where it is better as well because from novato down to the golden gate bridge had been doubled to drive. time now is just 30 minutes. it was above 40 minutes before. so that's an easy ride. 2, by the time you get to the golden gate bridge, the only thing that hurt us up and that looking in that shot to see if i could see a ferry from sausalito making its way to san francisco can see the shot. but >> they are running again this morning. that's the good news. the golden gate ferry service between the city of sausalito is a backup in operational after what? 2 weeks of the ye. because there was damage to the peer they had to fix tha . crawford's michael thomas. >> has been live all morning long watching riders hapa board. good morning. >> hey, good morning, everyone. you know, daria, that's one of the common things that i've heard people say this morning. they didn't want to pay those tolls. they would rather pay to get on the ferry. and this varies been out for at least 2 weeks. but take a look. we've got video up on your screen, as you mentioned, that peer they were fixing the pylons on it. they're doing a routine inspection back on april 19th. that's when they found that

there was a small discrepancies. so out of an abundance of caution, they actually closed it down and they had contractors come in, fix that issue. and this morning the pair was finally ready and open for business. chatted with numerous people who were gathering here this morning, a few dozen at 7 and more at 8 o'clock. again, all who say really, they've been waiting for this moment because one they enjoy riding the ferry, but also they say it's a lot more cost-effective. take a listen. >> drive-in car, unfortunately. and how much of that cost him? you got a lot. >> very much. so. like community experience, i mean, every day. so when did you find out that it was going to back this morning? >> actually, just walking down here. >> and, you know, to add to what he was saying, he's not the only person. there was a few people who are here to actually get a bus ticket from one of the machines. and then they saw that the ferry was actually working again. so it's at that point that they got onto that ferry. but during this time that it was down, people are having to use

that golden gate bus to get over the golden gate bridge and take it in. one woman tells me it took about 2 hours and she says normally takes about 45 minutes to get across that water and back out here live, i'm sure you can see that beauty behind me, san francisco. so who would like to see that as they drive in? so the next very leaving is around 10. 45 this morning. but you'll hear more from some of the commuters who came at about 9 o'clock this morning. i'll send it back to and a huge deal for the businesses inside. so, you know, as well, tourists give a lot of money to sausalito. they'll be back. thank you. >> i think what court for entire world this encampment and other cameras around the country across the world, that not about the university not about it is lot. >> and there you hear some of the arguments that the demonstrators are protesting against the pro-palestinian demonstrators. here are several college campuses nationwide. tense now cover

the quad at san francisco state university. the protesters say they are pushing the university and u.s. officials to disclose what expenditures colleges have with foreign investors. yeah. and we have seen the protests growing as well over uc berkeley hears that cal campus and more tents are now set up around sproul plaza. >> this is now in its second week. and today, faculty and staff plan to join in the demonstration at noon. they are calling on the university to divest from israel. so any company that works with israel that rather than not have financial ties to? we're also monitoring what's going on at stamford because we have seen students camped out there as well. and we've also heard from students who say that they got letters from the university threatening disciplinary action for their protest. >> it start off with 19 for out at like 2 or 3 more. can't exactly. remember who have letters from the office of community standards and are basically being put through their internal disciplinary process. the language is very vague.

>> the more clarification we did contact the school asking how they might be punished for what you know, further the situation of these letters and stanford didn't give us any comment back yet. so we're waiting. >> well, in the south bay today, students at santa clara university will be joining in on these protests. they want administrators to pressure the government to end any military funding they may have to israel. organizers of today's solidarity demonstration are asking people to gather on campus at alameda lawn be there from noon until 08:00pm. and as we're seeing more and more demonstrations on campuses around the bay and across the country. >> congress is looking at what to do specifically federal funding for the universities. and then what about the jewish students in and he's anti semitism? yeah, they're pushing anti semitism laws to be passed. washington correspondent hannah brandt following that part of the story. >> 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. firewtrks 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. >> hanna, thank you. and we'll continue following that story an other news this morning. 450 homeless families in san francisco will soon receive financial help. they've been chosen as part of a five-year pilot program funded by google and local nonprofits. half of those in this program will receive $1000 a month. the other half will receive $50 a

month. and it's all part of the study aimed at showing that guaranteed basic income can work to combat poverty and homelessness. the payments are going to be distributed exclusively to families who are about to lose access to city funded housing subsidies. the program is all part of a bigger one-billion dollar effort by google to increase the bay area's housing supply. in the east bay. the alameda county board of supervisors has voted to certify the results of the recall petition for district attorney pamela price. this comes as the state now is also launching an investigation into one of the groups behind the recall. price said in december that her campaign team filed a complaint against this group claiming that it didn't comply with certain laws that govern all political committees in the state. but this reach called investigation could take several years to complete. and in the end, the penalties might only be a warning may be a fine, but it really won't have much impact if voters go ahead and decide to recall price in the meantime, and now that the recall. so is a certified the county board of supervisors

has to set a date for the recall to kron four's. dan kerman actually walks us through the timeline for this process. this is a frivolous, fraudulent and road or 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 to 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. >> it's 9.11 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. the ultimate theft in oakland, somebody stole 15,000 bees from somebody help. and a proposal to reclassify marijuana. it could county. is

it more like tylenol like you can take it without danger? and that could be a big difference pot dispensaries. >> and today, tomorrow looking good 60's to 70's out there for most of the bay area. we take a huge dip into the 60's with rainfall come

>> 9.13, is the time right now. and it is may first, which important, for many reasons why it's college graduation a lot more of those are happening. yes, maybe some this weekend with its on that's true. that might be an

issue and got john to explain out. know what is this with our saturday as being the bad taste of the week to be outside? it's gorgeous out there right now. but come saturday, we're going to be looking at some rain and much cooler weather, san jose right now. you've got the sunshine, a high of 77 later on today. >> going to be a warm, typical first day of may. but after this comes the cool down, we've seen a little bit of breezy conditions lately. still a bit breezy around point raise in especially so towards the central valley. a gale warning still in effect from point raise up the sonoma coast line. partly due to those winds. and then we also do have a wind advisory for solano county out into the central valley, 30 to 40 miles per hour. gusts around vacaville and fairfield. so far this morning, aside from that high pressure, ridge is going to keep us dry and relatively nice comfortable. great for getting outside through friday before our next storm system drops. as we've been talking about, it always seems like these are on the weekend of this year. and that continues this weekend, friday night to saturday morning cold front swings and drops

temperatures as much as 20 degrees. rainfall for the bay and snow will back for the sierra should all be out of here by sunday. so sunday stays cool, but at least will be dry back out. as for rainfall totals models are aligning now a 3rd of an inch to three-quarters of an inch of rainfall likely for the bay multiple inches of rainfall for the north coast in for the sierra looking at over a foot of snowfall possible in those highest of elevations expect chain controls, especially on saturday, maybe may now but still got some winter weather for you. temps today. nothing wintry about it. a very nice one. some 50's and 60's at the coast and then 70's to even low 80's that are warmest elsewhere. this is going to be today a little bit warmer than yesterday was you'll feel that warmth in the south bay getting close to 80 degrees. some solid mid 70's for most of the east bay. well conquered pittsburgh in fairfield are very warmest spots. each hitting 80 degrees for your daytime highs. looking ahead tomorrow and friday. almost exactly like

today. saturday can be more different. low 60's for your highs. rainfall on the way sunday. we do dry back out but staying pretty cool. james. all right, john, thank you. we're going to check the roads real quick. not a lot going on to slow you down. a few minor issues here and there primarily in the south bay. but all in all your bridges look great. >> here's your bay bridge drive westbound 80. you can see the drive. just 14 minutes to get from oakland in the san francisco with not a lot of waiting here at the toll plaza. your san mateo bridge right on westbound. 92 looking good. it is the right hand side. that is your commute direction. that's got the highest volume here in the shot. 21 minutes to get from hayward out to foster city. let's jump over to the richmond. sandra fell bridge where we're looking at some pretty good conditions here at the toll plaza in richmond. just 8 minutes. once you get past toll, gates to make your way into marion county and then a final stop for this morning. the golden gate bridge. you see the blue skies overhead. weve got light traffic on the span. you're southbound 1, 1, right from the battle in the san francisco is currently just taking about 26 minutes. more

weather and traffic in a bit. but now let's get back to the headlines. >> time to talk winners and losers with our financial expert rob black. hi, rob, morning so how are the markets doing on this first day of may? >> usually there's a phrase called sell in may go away as they don't do terribly well as a lot of people trying to get in front of that. but also it's a fed rate decision day and 6 months ago we were expecting the fed to cut 6 times this year. became 3 times. now it's 2 times so that easy money cut not there. right now. we'll learn a little bit more 11:00am this morning. amazon is a winner on some i news last night and good earnings. starbucks is loser down 16%. cbs down 20%. they're seeing weakening consumer week. average person friday with a big jobs number. so things considered. i like where we are. the economy is fine. print or nice. inflation's under but there's a little stubborn esta, the

wage inflation and some of the inflationary ages. so i'm not quite there yet. and i mean a bad business decision because, you know, my kids graduating. >> so i bought him a $60 piece of luggage. so i have a flying frontier. so i have to pay $65 to take the luggage with me for tickets. him the gift, by the way. but i always carry on anyway because i want them to lose my bags. >> yeah, pretty cool. statistic came out last night american airlines not american airlines, but airlines flight united states lost 2.8 million bags last year with american airlines being the biggest culprit. losing 29% of all the back. so fortunately, you're not flying you're going to have that. actually, that i know. but i always carry on. is that rather do that than have my back. >> also this saturday is may the 4th be with force be with you? i know that there's a big

time for people to watch movies all day long. yeah. one theaters going to show all 9 star wars movies back to back to back to back that in texas. >> if you want to go, let me now lego star wars and disney are going big promotion events of 20% off. same with target and walmart. so if you have a star wars, nerd your family and kind of thinking about james yes, >> yeah. just didn't know. james wanted to go and his kid james was a kid. he has his kid and his kids like dad. i'm really too busy. i can't i can't spend all day and night in the theater. that's in the cradle. moved hate. get that to a starbucks, though, just because you're saying took home a loser that they have. they lost a lot of money. sales are down stocks stocks down 16% this morning. >> so sales were down about 2%. earnings were down about 14%. consumer slowing global sales down about 4%. china down 11%. so it's hard to find

good news. >> in the united states, there was higher prices due to inflation and raising prices. but the transactions are down. so there's nothing good in this number. they've had problems in the $20, california minimum wage. they're doing a lot of promos. they've boycotts time towards the israel-hamas scenario situation response that they've had to it. the good news is they've got a great loyalty program and people are active with it. and the lavender drinks are doing really well. some spice drinks spring as well. the summer have you heard fruit bowl? but he have a yeah, i know a boba is. >> i wasn't born yesterday. okay. just to make ok with it. i learned about it until last year when my kids started asking about turnover and not and not that i'm saying i like it. sound like to chew my drink has yet the big straw and then you have to chew and it's kind of weird. so anyway, some going yeah, they're coming out. starbucks coming out of the ton of sugar and it's it should help.

>> with that being said, not a great quarter for start about kids show. just teach us the consumers longoria. the kids do like bubble, by the let's just talk last about what's going on with pot because if they change marijuana and make it more like tylenol, the change, the classification that could have big tax implications and business could boom. and this is where wall street meets a main street in politics. the biden administration yesterday ask for easing restrictions. i'm turning it from a schedule. one drug and it's time towards heroin meth into a schedule. 3. like you said tylenol with codeine. probably think anabolic steroids as well. so things that are as addictive yesterday, the etf ms alas and nj u.s. throughout the 19 to 20% on the news. that's a huge move. individual stocks like curaleaf up 19% and truly for that 30%. i don't own any stocks. i don't want to own any stocks is to kind of to find my which it's a state can not. news. if you're an

investor for marijuana. okay. thanks a lot, rob banks aren't. we will see later. if you have a question for robert comment, you can reach him on e-mail, twitter or facebook or e-mail, twitter or facebook or acts. so

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francisco, oakland, berkeley area experienced nearly 700 thefts for every 100,000 residents last year, bakersfield was the only other california metro area to make the top 10 list. the national highway traffic safety administration says they car is stolen every 32 seconds in the u.s.. >> well, a bizarre seth in oakland after a bee keeper says someone stole her colony of 15,000 bees and its queen. susan donoghue has lived in oakland for nearly 3 decades and she was hosting a honey tasting event after rockridge neighborhood this past saturday morning, she set up a table out front with a b observation hive. and then when she went back into her home to grab need to bring it out, she says someone pulled up and stole the bees. donahue says the thieves not only stole from her, but they also stolen experience from the kids who came by to learn more about them. >> and saying the kids come looking for that observation hive or to see the bees and

then having explained to them. that they got stolen. and that somebody would steal bees is really. disheartening to me. just getting tired the cycle. we're not coming out of hand feeling really. and representative policymakers. >> o'donoghue is part of the alameda county beekeepers association. she says commercial bee colony theft usually happens in rural areas. you don't see it that often locally. donahue says she did file a police report online but hasn't heard anything back yet. >> it's 9.26. and up next on the kron, 4 morning news. a recount is almost done in the highly contentious race in silicon valley. we're going

>> 9.29 and we want to get a look at the weather. it is may first the start of typically like really nice weather. yeah, i can't believe we're talking about snow in tahoe. i know. yeah, the next couple of days are great. we're talking about the weekend. john. good morning. yeah. that variety that we've got used to lately continues or right into the maze. so today looks wonderful as does tomorrow and friday. >> and then we get to saturday and you're exactly right. some low elevation snowfall in the sierra and some cool rainfall in the bay area to come this weekend today. lots of sunshine, not even all that hazy. oh, it's definitely going to be a good one to get out there. hopefully can get out and enjoy it for a little bit. even if it's just lunch break, we are seeing still a little bit of breezy conditions, especially up in solano county, vacaville as wells fairfield looking at 30

miles per hour. wind gusts right now and wind advisory through 05:00pm temps are rising and rising quickly, brett, what you're at 65 now. san mateo, 64 berkeley and oakland in the upper 50's currently later on today. it's going to be 70's to even some low 80's. now i'm going to be talking all those changes that the weekend has for us. still ahead, back to you. all right. let's take a look traffic right now. the bay bridge looks fine. you can see it's 16 minutes here. >> to get through the maze in the san francisco and the san mateo bridge has been a problem early this morning is just a lot of traffic. >> and now you see the drive times still find it on the right hand side. you can see the emergency vehicles and it seems we've been looking at this and it looks like it's just gummed up because there might be a stall is something you have to get out of the way. but we did see this tow truck there. so that should clear pretty quickly. and then over at the richmond, sandra fell nobody. is there any words, 9 minutes and you can pretty much count. the cars. >> golden gate bridge. the commute are in. >> has slow earlier this morning. but right now it's

just 23 minutes to get you from nevado and highway. 37 down to this spot on the golden gate bridge. just a light breeze and just a 9, something $9 and some to get through there 9.31. is a time right now. and in the south bought a brothel is busted in a months long investigation r police have arrested one person for pimping. >> they found 2 women inside of this home that they believe may have been human trafficking victims. the neighbors didn't even suspected. something will come for 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. 9.33. is

the time in on this may first today it marks international workers day and there's a group in san francisco honoring that by marching to city hall. >> at 10 this morning, a group of immigrant workers and antiwar organizations are t% going to be gathering at mission 24th street bart station. and we're going to march to city hall to demand investment in workers and immigrant communities instead of in war with the city budget crisis that threatens critical services that immigrant workers rely on workers are calling for justice from san francisco to palestine. well, janitors in the bay area who work california's largest office buildings and tech campuses are rallying today as well as their union contracts have now expired expired yesterday. thousands of janitors now taken to the streets to suppore their union committee, which is currently negotiating excessive that they say are excessive workloads in an industry that they say abuse and exploit janitors based on their status. according to the department of industrial

relations, one-third of janitors in california are injured on the job least. that was the number from last year. if no resolution is reached, janitors say they may strike as early as may 7. that's next tuesday. just or some sort of explosive or >> 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 very, very dangerous situation that we're following out of los angeles where there's still a heavy police presence on the campus of ucla right now after violent clashes broke out overnight between groups of protesters and this was hours after the university declared a pro-palestinian encampment was unlawful. protesters tried to take down barricades just before midnight and then the fireworks and then people were throwing objects at each other. it got very dangerous. there. also today and we are monitoring what's going on with the oakland unified

school district as they're planning a walkout in solidarity with the university protests for palestine that have been happening all over the bay area. oakland tech high school is going to be one of the schools that participates with this walkout, which is set for noon today. students and teachers are going to be speaking at the events talking about what's unfolding in gaza. >> meantime, 50 former google employees are filing an official complaint against the company for what they described as unlawful termination. it was 2 weeks ago that these employees were holding sit-in protests at google offices in new york and also in sunnyvale and are cameras were there? here's what we saw. the company fired them last week after finding out their identities. the workers then return filed a complaint saying that google unlawfully retaliated against them. the protesters say they want their jobs back and they want google to allow workers to protest without retaliation. >> it's 9.36 and com for your local election headquarters and the recount numbers are in

in the highly contentious race for silicon valley. 16th congressional seat. yeah. we had 2 recounts going on one in santa clara county. they finish their recount and released the results. >> then san mateo county, they've also finish their recount. but it's today that they'll announce their results. kron four's catherine heenan takes a look at the numbers. >> santa clara county voting officials say their recount shows evan low picked up 11 additional votes. joe, some indian 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 then senator 3 person race. it's a 2 person race. michael yaki also agrees with carter's call 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 or as it was catherine hannah. >> kron. 4 news. a lack of leadership, a lack of guidance. that's what a city audit found as the reasons for why oakland missed out on applying for the state's organized retail theft grant. according to that audit city officials learned about the grant in april, the local police department immediately started preparing an application, but the city's economic and workforce development department didn't begin working on their application until june. in the end, the audit found no one knew who was actually in charge of applying in both departments struggle to submit different elements of the application, even with the june 7th deadline coming and going the audit noted that the application might have been submitted on time if mayor sheng thao had exercised more leadership. so that audit was pretty critical of her. after years of delays, 16 17 year-olds in oakland and berkeley will finally get the chance to vote. now in school

board elections. the alameda county board of supervisors voted tuesday to approve what comes $113,000 contract increase with a 3rd party election services company. and with that money, they'll be able to add 6 positions in the registrar of voters office. and that decision will allow the county's edge elections. officials now to add the necessary software upgrades and you're around support for youth voting along with the elections process in canvassing all of that stuff that's needed to allow now these younger voters to participate. >> time now is 9.30. and a historic step towards easing marijuana restrictions with the dea looking like they're going classify marijuana and make it more like buying tyler. yeah, because currently it's a schedule one drug. now it will be. >> a scheduled three-drug if it's approved and conference. rob nesbitt shows us how that change could make a big difference. >> 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 gate 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 announced its 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 their rent, their payroll 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. that's the 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. >> moving to slide. kind of 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. >> it's 9.42. and still ahead on kron 4 morning news.

>> how's it going in the bid to try to build the utopian city in northern california called california forever. we'll take a look at where the >> and the oakland a's came out swinging in and came out on top of the pirates will take a peek at their games. >> and we've got another nice day today, 60's at the coast, a bit breezy out there, but not as bad as yesterday. 70's to low 80's for the rest of us. and then comes the weekend. a totally different forecast

>> it's 9.45. and take a look at this. all the sea lions pier. 39 in san francisco.

just you that i'm here. i'm i was doing never seen so many out there 800. and that's the highest count they've seen in 7 years. and you can see all the tourists get a look at him. just fun to watch. apparently there's a lot anchovies out there this year. and that really attracts, you know, they love to have a nice snack and then. basically is no lay on top of each other and it was about a lot. and joe v's, i got every square bit of platforms and for a look healthy. don't think they mean they didn't wealth that, you know, who is loving all those businesses 39. absolutely. tourists are just showing up in droves to catch popcorn. glimpses of the sea life i know they are yeah. had plenty of sunshine to baskin and bay. then john, they do. i kind of want to be out there with the are looking at a great day, maybe just a head out to half moon bay. it's not going to be as breezy as it was yesterday at the coastline. and you can see it's nothing but the sunshine out there. >> today is going to be a very pleasant one winds. really the

biggest issue further inland. you notice those red hues out towards the central valley. that's where we actually do have wind advisories. still do have a gale warning up in the point raised in sonoma coast line. >> they get a warning that we had yesterday along the peninsula coast has expired, though, mention that wind advisory in solano county that remains through 05:00pm tonight as well as those wind advisories. once you venture into the central valley, high pressure ridge for now is keeping us nice and comfortable today. tomorrow and friday are going to bw smooth sailing. really nice weather for the next few days. then come saturday and it's whole different picture. next storm system drops in from the north. and it's almost like clockwork that as we move into the middle of the weekend, that's when we see our cool down. and when we see our rainfall and we've got another wet saturday ahead. models indicating anywhere between a 3rd to 3 quarters of an inch of rain for the day in some pretty solid snowfall in the sierra too. by the time we reach sunday, we're done with the rain. it's just going to be cooler to close out the weekend. rainfall for the bay

area's going to be moderate, not enough to result in flooding but enough to get things wet for sure. the north coast is going to see multiple inches of rainfall. as for the sierra, it's the potential of well over a foot of snowfall. and it may be may now, but that doesn't mean you can get up there without the chains chain controls likely into the middle of the weekend on saturday today. nothing wintry about it just yet. it's 60's at the coastline and then a lot of 70's to even low 80's elsewhere. this does make today a little bit warmer than yesterday. not a huge change, but you'll notice that subtle warm up, especially for the south bay where you're getting close to 80 mostly mid 70's across the east bay today, a couple of low 80's like in concord, right at 80 degrees. pittsburgh and fairfield also getting right up to 80 today. a look ahead shows tomorrow and friday. very similar to today. more really nice days to venture out and enjoy it. come saturday. another round of rainfall for us. and i know it's right in the middle of the weekend, but keeping things interesting for your first few days of the new

bout, low 60's for your warmest of high saturday drying out by sunday. back to you. >> thanks, allison. peek at the commute right now. and traffic looks good at the bay bridge. just 15 minutes now on amazed to get you over into san francisco. so that's fine. >> there is an issue turns out at the san mateo bridge, not on the span itself. just before that looks like there's a disabled tractor trailer. now westbound just east of clover road. you got some lanes blocked there. so it's going take a little time to get to the toll plaza. but once you're past it, you make a good just recovering from yeah. it was a problem early this morning and >> richmond center fell as all clear and easy commute all morning long now it's down and 9 minutes, which is great. >> the golden gate bridge looks like a breeze on the deck in. and finally, we're right back to drive time at the speed limit fr m nevada all the way down to this shot. >> ok, 9.49, is the time in the north bay, california, % forever. that group that's looking to build a new utopian city in solano county says it

has more than enough signatures now to qualify its initiative for the november ballot. >> 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. >> if verified voters will decide whether to allow the construction of this new city on land. that's currently zoned for agriculture. that new utopian town is being described as a green city for up to 400,000 people. so we'll see what happens. >> in the south bay, police in sunnyvale are investigating a deadly shooting shooting that happened around midnight early in the morning yesterday on south bernardo avenue near highway 2.37. that's where police found the victim, a man in a car with gunshot wounds. he was taken to the hospital where he died. no word on the shooter. state community leaders are coming together to address gun violence in san jose, california attorney

general rob bonta just held a roundtable discussion yesterday highlighting what's being done to try to prevent gun violence and what are best practices to keep communities safe. he says the focus is making sure that law enforcement has the necessary tools to stop shootings before they happen. >> we status quo state of affairs where we have more mass shootings in a year than days in the calendar year where 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. >> says investing in the community will lead to meaningful change. >> well, less than 2 weeks after cutting 14,000 jobs, tesla looks like it's going to layoff hundreds more, including senior executives,

according to a report by the tech site, the information elon musk apparently sent a letter to those executives saying that any employee who doesn't pass the quote, excellent necessary and trustworthy test would be out of a job. a previous report by bloomberg show the tesla could end up cutting more than 20,000 employees in total. no word on if any of those layoffs are going to be here in the bay area. but we'll keep an eye out. >> it's 9.51 and we want to talk baseball. the a's taking on the pirates at the coliseum. it was a second game in this year. it is. can they get the sweep with sports director jason dumas with the highlights of last game. 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 time going break 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 to dead 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, we're we're coming feel prepared, ready to go. mean, you can see the difference in spring training and leading up until now. that are pitchers have been doing a great starters and bullpen. now starting to swing the bat a little bit better. and 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. >> as gas prices remain high, the head of the state's oil watchdog agency says he's concerned the oil industry's raking in profits while you feel the pain at the pump capitol correspondent eytan wallace. we'l

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string the electric lines when i first got power. because is 103 has a lot of family members. he has 7 kids, 16 grandkids. 23, great can yet see how many. i mean he and there is in his workshop where only stopped woodworking i don't know. maybe a month ago, i like one of the burned house makes for houses. we've all seen his wonderful work and his smile. he likes to say life is super. and i just saw day before yesterday and hygeine diego. happy birthday. he's been a loyal viewer long before i met him. yeah. i was watching kron 4. i i'm gonna say he's our old is for sure. 3. absolutely. >> all right. we're going to take a break at 9.57. coming up on the kron. 4 morning news in our next hour. the sausalito ferry back up and running this morning. after a couple weeks. >> of being down due to repairs. we're going to be live there at the terminal, talking to passengers. also,

an investigation has been launched into the group. one of them behind the effort to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price will tell you why. and protests on college campuses continuing in the bay area and acrright

now on the kron. 4 morning news police in the south bay bust a brothel and arrest a man for pimping. we'll tell you where it happened. universities across the nation start cracking down on pro-palestinian demonstrators pushing tensions even higher. we'll tell you what's happening here in the bay area. and the sausalito ferry back up and running today after damage to peer has finally been fixed. we're live at the ferry terminal.