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but fast track lane is moving fine, and cross the water to the peninsula to hayward, at foster city, it is empty and only taking you nine minutes. >> breaking news, an important thoroughfare in the east bay is closed after a fatal crab this morning between a car and a motorcyclist. we at fremont classified -- boulevard. >> you can see as far as we have been allowed to go showing you how large the area that is designated as part of the crime scene. fremont police are investigating a fail track accident at fremont boulevard half a mile from where we are now. the collision between a vehicle and a motorcyclist was first reported to police after 2:30
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this morning. the person riding the motorcycle was pronounced dead and investigators say it appears alcohol was a factor. the driver of the vehicle has been arrested for suspicion of d.u.i. it will be affecting the morning commute to or from fremont. this road that feeds to highway 54 is closed at fremont boulevard. the major thoroughfare, fremont to dakota to highway 80 and 84 will be closed until at least 9:00 this morning. the next five minutes i will speak with the public information officer to see if they can open it earlier. it will be closed until 9:00 a.m. with another report in 30 minutes. >> breaking overnight if san francisco, a huge wet problem in the middle of the night a driver
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crashed into a fire hydrant unleashing a geyser that spewed water 75 feet soviet -- into the air. a man crashed into a van taxicab who knock over the fire hydrant. the driver of the car was taken into custody on suspicion of drunk driving. >> new severalments in the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370 with heavy rain halting the search in the south indian ocean. family members marched on the malaysian embassy in beijing and wanted answers without hard evidence many do not believe their relatives are dead. officials are saying no one could have survived the flight. the airlines is offering family members $5,000 for each passenger on board the ill-fated flight for the official compensation. the major newspapers are memorializing the fright on the front pages.
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"good night." the front page of "the star" it says "370, resolution in peace." we are following the mystery of the flight on air and online with reports on twitter. three volunteers with the red cross are headed to washington state after a deadly landslide providing to food and shelter to residents after the landslide and an hour north of seattle. 14 people are confirmed dead. 176 more are missing. authorities say many of those missing could be false alarms. we hear a ran tick -- frantic call for helps moments after the landslide. >> any injuries? >> yes, people are yelling for help. >> teams are looking through the
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thick mud that cover as mile. it is declared a state of emergency. >> a man was shot last night in richmond at 9:00 on main avenue. the man was suffering from wounds and taken to the medical center. police say a black vehicle was seen speeding away. there is no word on identity of the victim. >> people living in palo alto neighbor had to wait until midnight to get into bed after a five were hour stand off. police went into the house no one was inside. a woman arrived hot home to find two burglars in the house and called police. authorities were able to watch the suspects on surveillance video through the cell phone but the foot average was cut off. after several families to speak with the suspects through a p.a. system the s.w.a.t. team went in. >> mourners turned out to remember a man would was shot to delegate by police on friday. people would knew the man say
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police did not need to use deadly force. >> friends and family pay tribute to 28-year-old during the vigil. his father did not directly address the group but said he was surprised at how many people knew his son. several friends say he often carried a taser because he was a security guard. the police should be trained to understand the difference between a pistol and a taser gun. >> friday evening witnesses called 9-1-1 saying someone wearing what looked like a holster with a gun was acting erratically. >> he drew the weapon and officers responded and shot him. >> this man says he was recently shot with a taser by the victim. >> he fired at me five times so, in my back, as well, so if he is capable of doing that in front
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my family, he is capable of doing anything. >> arthur asked us not to show his face. he used to be friends but they had an ongoing dispute that build over. and vega got a restraining order against him a welcome before the shooting. organizers are critical of the shooting and looking forward to a townhall meeting with the police chief suhr. a committee is holding a hearing on a bill to tackle a giant backlog of unprocessed rape kits. the legislation was introduced in john following a report that uncovered thousands of untested rape kits. the bill gives law enforcement five days to send d.n.a. evidence from a rape kit to a crime laboratory. the laboratory would have 30 days do upload a d.n.a. profile to the state database and requires law enforcement to
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afford -- alert the victim if they do not meet the deadline. >> the berkeley city council will launch a review to see whether they should have officers wear video cameras. supporters say this regulates the behavior of police officers and help maintain trust with the public. opponents worry of privacy and who gets to access the camera and when the oakland and bart police use body cameras. san francisco is considering it. with weather we had a nice warm day in the south bayer. mike, we will see rain? >> not in the south bay in the morning but in the afternoon, absolutely. most of the rain in the morning is in the north bay as the storm comes in from the north. here is the rainfall deficit, we need 20" in santa rosa to be normal and san francisco needs
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we have a healthy storm coming in it will not put a dent in our drought. as far as visibility, an that rose has improved thing for situation from 2.5 miles to 6 miles visibility. the fog will move around. be prepared for light rain in the north bay in the morning. it will move into the bay by lunch. it will move in the south bay in the afternoon. it will taper quickly during the evening. not a very strong first push of wet weather. the big containing for most of us is the temperatures at 5- to 10-degrees cooler. we are stuck in the low secretary for most of the afternoon. the second wave of the storm is healthy wave with heavier showers tomorrow through the afternoon on wednesday tapering, finally, thursday morning and friday will be our dry day.
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if you are with us, you know we have more rain on the way for the backed. how is the commute? i noticed the deer are out again. that means it is getting dry again. >> across the bay area, dangerous conditions in fremont. knick -- nick is on the scene where we had a deadly accident. the intersection here is block off until 9:00 this morning. land ahead to avoid the area. it will affect your commute on highway 84. this is the drive through san rafael and rain is going to fall in the north bay first. take advantage of this from the southbound direction. those are the tail lights from 580 to the city. walnut creek southbound 680 away
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from pleasant hill to the 24 junction waspty and nine minutes gets from highway 4 to 24. the largest navy base in the united states and the world goes on lockdown overnight. the questions being raised about base security following the deadly hooting. >> incredible act of bravery, a rung boy has decided to have a leg amputated with his parents' backing. >> a daring jump that has three daredevils in serious trouble.
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security shot and killed the civilian. in word? he had permission to be on the ship or the basis. they were put on lockdown but it was lifted. little is being said about the suspect other than he is a man. >> three daredevils accused of pair shouting off of freedom tower in new york city are facing criminal charges. the three released a video of the stunt from september on youtube and turned them selfs in and bailed out. they face burglary and other charges. >> we never meant to...upset anyone. it was just a very simple thing, positive, simple thing. >> it is six months after the fact. we were a little bit shocked that it takes them that much time and energy continuing to pursue something they knew was
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not a terrorist act. >> defense attorneys say the three can an alleged accomplice are all experienced jumpers and did not endanger anyone. the freedom tower is known as one world trade center opening later this year. >> a boy in berkeley made a decision decision about his future. the 11-year-old wants to have part of his leg amputated. here is that story. >> right now my leg is broken. >> amit has a disorder that causes the bones to fracture under the slightest stress. >> sometimes he has night terrors. he has gone the maximum amount of tylenol that he can be on for his age. >> that is idea 11-year-old wants part of his right leg an stated. >> i have been through so much and i know i am not sure if it will heal or not but if i
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amputate i have more chan of running and walking and playing contact games. >> he break his leg by walking on it. despite the dangers, his parents let him play wheelchair basketball. >> my leg is shorter than the other and before when i walked i was limping a lot because -- why like to limp because people are always looking at you. >> with the prosthetic leg he wants to run. the website is growing as he blogs about the personal decision. >> i am scared. this is freaking me out. >> so far he has the full support of his parents and doctors except for the requested of pressuring his foot in a lava lamp in the east bay. >> oakland city council member will talk today about a new bill to make the streets safer if pickist and pedestrians
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establishing grounds for a civil suit against drivers would harass, assault or commit battery against pickists or pedestrians including inflicting emotional disstress or verbal threats and intentionally passage bicyclist at an unsafe distance defined as 3' or less and intentionally failing to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. >> the stanford women's basketball is in the sweet 16 for the 7th year in a row. second seeded cardinal defeated 10th seed florida state in the second round became of the ncaa tournament last night in iowa. stanford won 63-44 and face the winner of the game between florida and penn state. good news is at least the stanford weapon's basketball team did did beat the jayhawks. >> they did not make it.
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>> rather be there and loss and not get there but thanks for rubbing it in for a second day in a row. now, outside, at 4:47, the pacic northwest is where our storm system is. you can see the heavy rain to vancouver. we will roll it into motion with a couple of areas of low pressure. one in the upper left corner of the screen. that lifted the low, below it and pushing it to the north than the east. that is why the next system today going to be weak with light rain because the energy and moisture is to the north. it is dry when you step outside. it is fairly clear in santa rosa at 37 degrees. we have 41 in napa and 43 in novato, the coolest temperatures and half moon bay is 43. mid-to-upper 40's san ramon,
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concord, forward, livermore, fremont, and los gatos and low-to-mid 50's around san jose and mountain view and oakland and san francisco and antioch. today, you can see the light rain rolling law and the temperatures are much cooler in the upper 50's along the coast and low-to-mid 60's elsewhere and we could get into the upper 60's in los gatos and to the east bay valley where we will be the last to receive the rain. today, the first we have is light rain. tonight, if this time tomorrow, we have heavier showers with yellows pushing into the forecast. it will be mild when you wick up tomorrow. you will be driving on wet streets tomorrow morning upper 40's to mid-50's. action this morning, you can see the commute is starting off dry. by noon, rain is starting to move in to the heart of the bay but notice it is falling apart and it moves into the south by by 5:00.
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again, it is falling apart. i don't expect a lot of rain out of this first system. by midnight that is when the next bit of energy comes in. look what it does to the commute: moderate rain. tomorrow morning we will have more issues than this morning. that will tape are -- take taper afternoon we will see the storm pull away can clear out. notice today the rain is light. .1" or .25" to the north account rain comes in tomorrow and 1 yep -- 1" to 2" in higher elevations. thursday afternoon and friday, dry. more rain arrives on saturday. showers on sunday and monday. temperatures at average or below a all seven days.
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>> 28 bart trains are on time and ace train number one has no delays and muni has no delays. it is still dry according to mike so we can be confident our drive to morning is going to be safe but it will start to get wetter as we progress beyond 9:00 so be came of the solo spinouts and slick conditions. in the north bay you can see the area shaded in orange an indication of where we could have fog affecting the commute that could bleed over to 101 through santa rosa and all dry and clear conditions with top speeds. in the southbound direction through san rafael up to the richmond-san rafael bridge at top speeds and south of mill valley over the golden gate, 53 miles per hour so clear into san francisco. 80 to the maze is short four minutes and 880 southbound is 14 miles per hours and 101 to
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cupertino is 11 minutes and 280, it is dark and not too many folks on the road. president obama is in the netherlands and a main focus will be the crisis in ukraine. the president arrived yesterday for the first leg of a four day trip including stops in belgium, italy and saudi arabia and rebound met today with a close ally of russian president vladimir putin as he isolated man over the russian forces received out ukraine base in crimea. >> amazing transformation on what was the bay area's most dangerous roads. >> confusion in the cockpit. hear the shock of air traffic controllers when a plane lands at the
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>> a just released recording shows confused information when the southwest pilot landed at the wrong airport in missouri in january. her is the discussion. >> this is the wrong airport? >> are you kidding? >> he dropped off over point lookout. >> the pilots landed at night using visual sighting and they had to hit very hard to keep the 747 on the short runway and the pilot and co-pilot are on paid leave during the continuing investigation. >> now a check with mike nicco and the forecast. when is the rain starting in the north bay? >> toward the middle of the morning commute. it will be very light. just a narrow ribbon of moisture. it is now in mendocino county to
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portland. that will make its way down to monterey by the time we get to the evening hours. lake tahoe has record high at 64 degrees. 50 with rain. 80 in fresno. 90 in palm springs. mid-to-upper 60's around san diego and los angeles. this afternoon through tomorrow if you are traveling into thursday, 1' to 2' of snow in the western sierra. >> a 80 westbound address -- tracy to dublin is 20 minutes forecast san rafael to san francisco is a dry 15 minutes. we are accident free approaching the toll plaza westbound direction and only taking you 13 minutes across the water. this is toward the bay bridge, the new span, the eastern span
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shows trafficking smooth up to treasure island. >> for the first time ever you can walk next to the rocky cliffs of devil's slide following route of highway one which now is bypassed by tunnels. san mateo county resurfaced the road and may overlooks. the trail is the segment of the california cost trail that will stretch 11 miles to north half moon bay. >> this is a capture and release of a 14' hammerhead shark. >> the video shows a group of young men pauling the 700-pound shark on to the beach, together, caught on the atlantic side of the florida peninsula.
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they are part of a group called land shark fishing which specialized in nighttime fishing to large sharks. it was released into the water after the group posed for a few photos. >> baby gorilla in san diego is better this morning reunited with her mom. she was born at the zoo 13 days ago in an emergency c-section. it was touch and go for a while because of breathing problems. yesterday she was well enough to be placed with her mother would was allowed in to see her. the mother and the new daughter hit it off and the baby is nursing and getting free rides from mom. the veterinarians say the prognosis is "good." >> a frightening scene in a peninsula neighborhood. >> putting the new test to the test, a change for students as they start state assessment
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