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Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

President Biden arrived in California on Monday for a campaign fundraising trip. He stopped at the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto.Related ArticlesPolitics | Traffic alert: President Biden arrives in Bay Area, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expected later today Politics | President Biden set to announce $600 million in climate projects during a visit to Palo Alto Politics | Biden, DeSantis head to Silicon Valley for fundraisers. Will all the talk focus on Trump? Related ArticlesPolitics | Traffic alert: President Biden arrives in Bay Area, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expected later today Politics | President Biden set to announce $600 million in climate projects during a visit to Palo Alto Politics | Biden, DeSantis head to Silicon Valley for fundraisers. Will all the talk focus on Trump?

Biden in Bay Area this week for fundraising, climate announcement

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

(KRON) -- President Joe Biden will arrive in the Bay Area on Monday. He is scheduled to spend three days in the area and is expected to make a big announcement. While in the Bay Area, President Biden will ramp up his reelection effort with four fundraisers in the San Francisco area, as his campaign builds up its coffers and lays strategic foundations for 2024. 2 people injured in shooting near Pier 39: SFPD The fundraising blitz follows Biden’s first campaign rally on Saturday in Philadelphia, where he was endorsed by key unions — the event highlighting a pivotal constituency in the largest population center of a critical battleground state. It was meant as an early display of enthusiasm for Biden’s campaign, and a venue for him to interact directly with voters before he spends much of the rest of the month meeting with deep-pocketed benefactors.Biden will be at the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto Monday afternoon. He is expected to announce a $600 million plan for climate f...

Fire crews respond to two-alarm residential fire in Oakland

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

(KRON) -- Fire crews responded to an early-morning, two-alarm fire in Oakland, according to the Oakland Fire Department. Two detained after Pier 39 shooting that left 6 people injured Crews arrived at the scene on the 2400 block of East 22nd Street around 3 a.m. OFD found a two-story residential fire that was visible from the second floor. More information was not immediately avaialable. This is a developing story. Please check back with KRON for updates.

Inside California Politics to air special show on 2024 Senate race featuring leading candidates

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

(Inside California Politics) — Inside California Politics will air a special program on California's 2024 Senate race on Thursday, June 22, at 7 p.m. on Nexstar's local stations around the state.The special, "Inside California Politics: The Race for the Senate," will feature the three leading candidates running to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein after she retires in 2025: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank). Schiff, Porter lead in Senate race, but nearly half of Californians still undecided, poll shows A recent survey by Emerson College Polling and Inside California Politics found that Schiff and Porter were in a statistical tie for first place among voters with each being the preferred candidate for a little over 14% of respondents. Lee was a distant third with only 6.2% of respondents naming the Oakland representative as their first choice. Here’s what has already qualified for the statewide ballot in California in 2024 How...

Rare corpse flower to bloom within 14 days at San Francisco Conservatory

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Francisco Conservatory is expecting the rare bloom of Scarlet the corpse flower within the next two weeks. Mom, 12-year-old daughter die in fiery Tesla crash in Santa Clara The flower's scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum, and it reportedly smells like rotting flesh upon bloom, according to the United States Botanical Garden. (Photo courtesy of San Francisco Conservatory)Seeing the flower in its full glory is rare as it only blooms for two to three days every year or so. It can sometimes bloom as rarely as once every seven to 10 years. KRON On is streaming now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }The SF Conservatory explained how the botanical team knows the bloom is on the way:"At the center of the bud is a pale green, folded area peeking through...

Tropical Storm Bret forms in Atlantic Ocean; possible hurricane threat to Caribbean islands

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

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Holiday weekend draws big crowds at Captain White’s Seafood

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

Between Father’s Day and the Juneteenth holiday, it has been an extremely busy weekend at Captain White’s Seafood, an iconic business in the D.C. region that is now located in Oxon Hill, Maryland.The business moved to Maryland last year, after being at D.C.’s Southwest Waterfront for about 50 years.Sonny White, who owns the company, said he was pleased to see that the new location was thriving over the holiday weekend.“After 50 years of good service and good crabs, we have a lot of customers,” said White.It was so busy Monday that White had to call in extra employees to help out.Dozens of people were in a line that stretched around the business, and when the line would shrink, more customers would pull into the parking lot.“This is the first time we’ve been open on Juneteenth,” said White. “We weren’t really expecting it to be as strong as it is.”Local customer Steven Benson was there Monday.“When I came and looked I was li...

Exhibirán de forma permanente la Proclamación de Emancipación en el Museo Archivos Nacionales

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

La Proclamación de Emancipación se exhibirá de forma permanente junto a la Constitución, la Declaración de Derechos y la Declaración de Independencia en DC, anunciaron los Archivos Nacionales el sábado.Durante una celebración del 16 de junio, la institución señaló que el documento histórico se uniría a los demás en la rotonda de los Archivos, según un comunicado. La Proclamación de Emancipación y la Orden General 3 se exhibieron temporalmente del 17 al 19 de junio.“Aunque todos los privilegios de la libertad no se otorgaron de inmediato a todos los estadounidenses con la orden de Lincoln, me enorgullece que los Archivos Nacionales consagren este documento fundamental para exhibición pública junto a los documentos fundacionales de nuestra nación”, indió la doctora Colleen Shogan, archivista de Estados Unidos. “Juntos, cuentan una historia más completa de la historia de todos los estadounidenses y documentan el progreso en el crecimiento continuo de nuestra nación hacia una Unión más ...

Colorado vegetation from recent rains could become fire fuel

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:21:52 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Mike Amdur is a firefighter at the Foothills Fire Protection District around Lookout Mountain.He said the grasses in the area are green and several feet high after all of the recent rain."There's good moisture content right now, but we worry when those grasses dry out, they create a very large, heavy fuel load for us and can generate pretty intense and fast-growing fire behavior," he said.Amdur said grasses dry out much faster than trees and it doesn't take long.According to Zach Hiris, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder, the rest of June looks to be pretty dry."For places like the plains where it is predominantly grass, it just takes a couple of weeks of really dry conditions to get those fuels available to burn again," Hiris said. When was Denver’s last 90-degree day? He said there would be reason for concern if the area moved into an extended dry period, after a very wet period."We did that a couple of years ago where th...