today just ended the conservatorship that has controlled britney spears life than money for almost 14 years now the ruling marks an end of what spear says described as a quote, demoralizing and traumatizing chapter of her life. yeah. her attorney had said in a court filing last month that his client wanted to win the conservatorship immediately. >> and the singer's father, jamie spears also agreed to step down as her financial advisor jamie spears first saw a conservatorship for his daughter in 2008 as the pop star underwent a series of public mental health struggles fueled in part by heavy media coverage. joining right now is attorney graham doubt. he's with bar and young attorneys in greetings. welcome. it was certainly britney is relieved. her fans are thrilled, but in a practical sense. what does it mean for her. exactly. >> well, i think right now, it

means that is kind of a last line from first to make decisions for she's been under the conservatorship for over a decade in she now has a self determination to make decisions about her finances or care who spend time with what contracts changes in june is that it's a big moment for. obviously this case garnered a lot of attention. the free britney. >> fans showing up. but there were also a lot of people there in la outside the courtroom that weren't necessarily britney fans. but had issues with the idea of conservatorships. do we need to as a society re examine exactly what that is. who needs them. can you explain that issue a little bit. >> i know we price in northern california. but the pandemic is allowed open up zoom capabilities. so we appeared so, you know, for me and actions mosque courthouse in. i can tell you that this is shaken up court appoint counsel for cherries. other

people that are involved with the concerns are processed in. there's a lot of rethinking going on conservative process. how procedure should go for how much a voice that concert. he should have. i don't think that we should get rid of it by any means. i think that the conservatorship proceedings are good tool. and last line of defense for people that really don't having the ability to manage their personal welfare finances. but i'm passing these type of situations living is. a good idea to kind of take another look at the scene either ways to improve it. i think this is a great opportunity to improve this area lot, which i for one is times and bell times that there is a proven it. >> our older folks usually the ones who are in need of this and how hard is it from a legal standpoint, too. implement one. and what are some of the challenges

surrounding the whole process. >> yes. so definitely the by and large want connection or any guidance or vision and chances are you're dealing with a conservative because of your mother, father and grandparents on. this is of proceeding in that vols mostly the elderly just the way it turns out the people that are this is kind of built for them. but it also includes people that have other problems managing their finances. i i i think that, you know, getting the conservatorship depends on the facts. but it given temporary conservatorship is something that we've done pretty quickly at the circumstances require it but a general conservatives talk to get it takes a long time slot i think that crosses is fairly fairly but again,

this one is this instance of britney spears. i think impose our attorneys and people learn the to to really look weighs i would say a lot of people wouldn't even know what a conservatorship is had it not been. >> for her. but yeah, i guess what would just begs the question after 14 years of of being. in this situation. arthur checks and i mean, why did it go on for so long. i think that we're going to find out. i think that. >> britney's attorneys that a priest green's lawyer and his party get to the bottom of a lot of questions. but you know. from what i can tell outsider looking it looks like. you know, britain may have agreed to this this conservatorship and then. didn't really know that she can get out of it and it doesn't appear that anyone found any petition to put a

the issue of term. is our version of what working if no one does that. no one puts that, you know, clean before the court asking for. and just keep don't. and you know, this court investigation. need to you know, that, though, those those people letting their job to a great job. more. the more is a question that i think is important. >> and this, of course, is not over. i'm sure you saw the new york times report recently that said, jamie spears britney's father illegally put recording devices in britney's bedroom without her consent. and you alluded to britney's lawyer now who wants to depose jamie spears could he be in legal trouble. >> yeah, i think so. i think so. i think, you know, this as the conservator, you great power for good reason. sometimes, you know, it's necess ry to have great powers really in trouble. the to be able to cut take a i'm a toys

for them. but, you know, with great power abused can can be conducted and i think, you know, here is a group that unfortunately this a situation where i think it's really exposed to potential problems of of unchecked power were a situation where, you know, the conservator really concealing potentially concealing. the the the most common. but we don't know, you know, this is a ongoing process that is, you know, britney is free work. there's this. this fight over what happened in. how much money is going to go where that fire just start. yeah. and certainly when vast sums of money are it lends itself to a. >> the tension for abuse for sure. thank you so much for joining graham doubt ease with barr and young attorneys in

danville. have a good evening, guys. all right. weather time. laura, good out there tonight. right. and you know, it's a clear skies around the bay area. and yeah, we're going to see that nice weather as we head into the weekend do so we've got some plans. will you're going to love this weekend. how about the colors out there. >> this evening for your sunset. lot of yellows and oranges as the sun sets on the bay area after what was a spectacular day outside tomorrow. we're going to be similarly warming. today was a nice one. 70 degrees in downtown san francisco, 68 in oakland. 75 degrees gorgeous in san jose. 70 in little more cooler. 64 in the concord and then warm 73 in santa rosa clouds in the central valley. you have to watch out for that summit to the fog develops of this time of year. we're seeing that now. so if you're traveling in toward the san joaquin valley be headed down to los angeles. watch out for that. you see some of that in the late 90 early morning hours of that, we're looking good as we head toward tomorrow afternoon, maybe a couple passing high clouds overnight tonight. otherwise lots of sunshine tomorrow and

then by sunday things begin to change a little bit high you get a little system roll over the top of it and that will bring with it a few more clouds and our skies. but overall, what a great weekend. it's going to be weather wise 69 downtown san francisco tomorrow about 67 and gorgeous in daly city. 72 degrees in millbrae 73 in burlingame. your 70's across the middle of the peninsula. the south bay join temperatures up in the mid 70's by tomorrow afternoon east bay also looking good. cool start to the day you'll see those numbers in the 40's and the 50's. but by the middle of the day. a nice day to get out there to go for a walk. check things out around the bay area is going to be one of those gorgeous saturday is outside and it's going to continue into sunday. a few more clouds coming in temperatures may cool ever so slightly. but still we're talking a lot of 70's, a cooler temperatures expected to roll in with more clouds by tuesday. thank you, lawrence. you got to know before you blow san jose could be the next city to ban gas powered leaf blowers. the new method they're taking to try to reduce pollution.

>> 4.4 million people. that is how many folks have left the workplace according to the latest government figures. yeah. economists say that many of those have left jobs seeking higher salaries, better benefits. but there are still many waiting to see what happens as the pandemic continues to cause. >> many to pause, assess and barriers to, you know, there's a lot of women have really declined in the workforce. you know, pre covid-19. we

actually reach more than 51% of the workforce. but when you schools closing down. >> and you have a loss of a child care facilities. it causes a lot of women attend to get tagged primarily with caregiving. not in all cases but in many cases it really when you have a income family. i mean, someone's got to stay home and take care of the kids. so women have not been able to get back into the workforce as quickly as we'd like them to. >> economists point out that president biden, social infrastructure plan does include proposed aid to help out families with day care and other steps to stabilize families as to parent homes figure out a planned to have both return to the workplace. meanwhile, another round of california stimulus checks are being sent out starting today. the state franchise tax board is issuing nearly 750,000 checks to. >> people filed paper tax returns this year. other payments will be direct deposit. if you are online with your filing son order to qualify for the $600 payment.

residents must have earned $75,000 or less per individual in 2020. this is the second round of state stimulus payments checks, they say could take up to 3 weeks to arrive. >> still ahead, one climate group is releasing photos of what they believe. big cities are going to look like if we don't tackle global warming the stunning images are n

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emissions so that we keep 1.5 alive. >> some countries are reluctant to commit to ending the use of coal and stopping subsidies for other fossil feels and cop. 26 negotiators also struggled to get commitments to fund 2 different global initiatives. one would double the funds to help developing nations pay for infrastructure needed to deal with climate change this is personal this is not about politics. the more contentious fund would ensure that countries that caused the missions like the united states pay a combined 100 billion dollars a year for the loss and damage developing nations suffer from climate change because those developing nations create the least emissions in washington. >> alexandra limon. >> speaking of we head to the south bay and san jose could be the next city to ban gas powered leaf blowers. this comes as the california air resources board. says that running a gas powered leaf blower for one hour, ok, it's the same amount of pollution

as driving a 2017 toyota camry from la to denver. city. leaders say they're testing out electric leaf blowers which can obviously reduce air pollution and. minimize noise to a certain extent the city's parks department will evaluate the battery life charging time and overall efficiency of those electric leaf blowers. they hope to share the preliminary results in february. i'm taking a live look outside right now. this is the bay bridge toll plaza. a lot of cars heading into san francisco tonight. boy, what a backup unless they're all electric. you know, some pollution. yeah. there. >> chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is with us. and hey, yeah, we had some awesome rain yes to sort of start this rainy season. but now. yeah, kind of cut things off right and a stop. and that's how it kind of goes, though in the weather. you know, we'll have these incredible beginning of the season. suddenly it totally tapers off. we just hope it doesn't stop for too long

right now. >> we're in that a really nice batch of the beautiful weather outside clear skies above normal temperatures sticking around for the weekend and probably well into next week to we'll have more on that in just a moment. right now, all that rain is headed to the north where the pacific northwest are getting pummeled by heavy rain. you see all the areas shaded in green there currently under a flood watch advisory into the areas in red. those are flood warnings along the coastline or maybe the tributaries across parts of washington as are expecting some flooding to continue not only this weekend but maybe until about tuesday of next week. so they've got all a long way to go before before they're done with that more rain on the way for them. we're on the dry side, though under high pressure that's keeping us to dry things out, least for a couple of weeks here. that's probably a good thing. we've had so much rain. we've got to over 400% of normal across the bay area. that is just an incredible start to the wet season temperatures right now still very nice outside 65 degrees in san francisco to 66 in oakland 67 degrees in san jose 65 and beautiful in livermore, 60 degrees in concord, 67 in

santa rosa. so you can see all that energy you that was focused toward the bay area on the beginning. the season now has moved to the north. the bumped up by that ridge of high pressure following the jet stream. it'll bring more rain up in the pacific northwest over the weekend. in the meantime, though, we can have that front. the kind of drops over the top of that ridge and kicks the east high pressure is going build back in and look at the winds they start. you're more of a northerly direction. that is that offshore wind, that means we're going to warm things up very nicely outside around the state looking at nice numbers to 70's up and down the san joaquin. watch out for some of that to leave fog in the early morning hours. but after that you can warm up very nicely. mid 80's in the los angeles also into san diego and about 72 degrees in the monterey bay around the bay area tomorrow. enjoy some beautiful temperatures outside should be a great start to the weekend. mid 70's the warm spot inland inside the bay. you see some 60's co side next few days. we're going to keep things dry. partly cloudy skies as we head in towards sunday. a few more clouds on the way on monday. and then i think mostly cloudy come tuesday and wednesday. but still remaining dry. all right. laura down but

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obviously tourists at a tough time. >> getting there. the doors were closed for a while and they were technically open. but the governor was like, please don't come because covid and the like. but now they want you back. they say come vacation in paradise. the gov says come on down and spend that money. yes, of i jumped on a plane showed up on november. 1st, of course, had to check oup the food scene post shutdown. first stop tbd in waikiki ahead. >> new to honolulu looking for some good food and drink. there's the relatively new tbd by vikram guard, which sounds like a name to be determined. but no, that's the day wind really loved it little >> and so why >> although the vibe is playful. famed local chef it from garg is actually classically trained chef may come to your table to whip up for soto and fresh. a battalion but the bar

bartender whips wicked potion. he calls lat mayhem play with all that and ingredients these diners traveled from afar to give it a try. you come all the way from where minneapolis, minnesota on the edge of hawaii's famed waikiki beach pd is low key tucked away in the boutique lotus hotel. >> the cuisine is porky. not what you might expect from a hawaiian restaurant menu and that's by design ideas. do a little bit off. >> all spike it out. as you say, with the global influence and still keeping it very local. >> there's a moroccan tagine pacific shrimp as cargo and a cozy chocolate chip desert for your sweet tooth. you might polish off the night with this fun mango pop sprinkled with gold flakes with playing on call. she'll in honolulu vicki liviakis kron 4 news at. >> back from honolulu here. so

good. really that wraps up kron 4 news at 5. thank you for being with us this hour. but stick around ken and pam are going join the party on november. first we mentioned as we were controlling that story. >> is when vicki jumped on a plane. but that was the date that the governor said okay, as of november. you can come back. how surprised are you that vicky their first play. remember we even thought that he was show up in peoples. reports had a kevin frazier. got in hawaii and we're like would you be surprised if a key was in the kind of like the to be back with all right. thank you. make a great right. aloha. >> a lot coming up on kron 4 news at 6. we certainly appreciate you all being here. of course, we told you this a baby shot and killed that was a few days ago. the oakland police chief now supporting surveillance cameras along freeways but not all city

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gasp for will a 23 month, though young man. >> this is just really tragic for our city 119 homicides. a senseless act of violence in our community continues to sicken me that we continue to see these type of incidents occur in our city. >> now it's 6 oakland police chief leronne armstrong value for justice for jasper. wu community leaders in oakland now offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in the shooting death of the young boy. thanks for joining us this friday for kron 4 news at 6. i'm ken wayne and i'm pam moore. the 23 month-old boy died last saturday after getting hit by a stray bullet while his mother drove them home to fremont along. interstate 80. >> for shells. clifford was at the announcement today with oakland leaders. >> well here in oakland on friday, the chinatown chamber of commerce crimes against asians, reward fund and the san francisco police officers association have teamed up to offer a $10,0