new this morning, video into the newsroom of the world's largest passenger plane making an emergency landing. you can see the cause of the fiery problem and how it affected travelers. >> the ballots being counted on oakland. the latest on the race and where the candidates stand. good morning.

it is 4:30, november 4th. we have breaking news to start with. one person dead following a chp chase in oakland. it happened after 2:00 this morning on mac arthur boulevard and 10 sixth avenue. the person who died was the suspect that chp officers were chasing. we have a crew to the scene and we will bring you the latest as it becomes available. in the meantime, let's go to mike inouye. mac arthur boulevard a busy thoroughfare. >> it sounds like the crew just arrive and they are getting set up. there is a closure for mac arthur boulevard for about a two-block area. mac arthur boulevard is closed. a major roadway between foothill boulevard south to 10 seventh street. stay clear if you can. access to 580 is clear, but the roadway is major. foothill is a good alternate because it takes you south.

keep that in mind. 880 is reopened through oakland into hayward as well. the lighter volume on the east bay freeways, but we will follow the deadly accident and investigation on mac arthur boulevard. >> another warm one around the bay. rob is joining us with an hour by hour forecast. >> kind of warm outside in oakland. 64 degrees. we have clouds on top of a warm day yesterday and that tends to keep the overnight temperatures up. fairfield we dropped down to 50. hints of an offshore breeze and more clouds in the afternoon. no rain-producing clouds, but come friday, deeper moisture comes in and increasing chance of showers approaching the weekend. from the east bay and beyond, highs mostly 70s out to the trivalley. livermore should be close to 80.

another day in the mid 70s and oakland with a high of 76 and upper 70s around concord. we will introduce the two chances of rain as we move through the upcoming weekend. a look at that in the seven-day forecast forecast in a minute. >> thank you, rob. the oakland mayoral race is still undecided. how the new voting system is plague out there. . >> reporter: a buzz with the reg star of voters as they take care of the vote by mail and provisional ballots. >> on friday we will run a ranked choice and that redistributes the votes if nobody gets a majority. >> par ota leads in front of jean quan. >> we knew we were going to win or lose by a few amount. we would rather win or lose by a

bigger amount. >> voters rank their top three choices. >> for the first choice can win, the choice can count more. >> if no one wins more than 50%, the last place is eliminated. >> we will go through round after round until somebody gets 50%. >> they still may not know who wins for weeks. >> also hanging in the balance, the race for district attorney. san francisco dakamala harris in a race with steve cooley. at least we know jerry brown will hit the ground running. he will begin working on the budget in two weeks and the first time he will fill the top post. >> i approach the job with enthusiasm and optimism and all the energy and creativity i can bring to bear on a very broken

process. >> at a news conference in oakland he said he is ready to get lean and mean when it comes to cleaning up the state's big mess. brown does not take office until january. election leaders are sorting out unusual events in san francisco. an nbc bay area news crew found this. an electronic tabulator used to count ballots in the sidewalk in the tender loin. they believe it was stolen after the memory card and ballots were collected. deputies picked it up. finding the piece on the street is unusual, but it won't affect the election results. in an unrelated situation, there as many as 75 ballots missing. a poll worker stole them and he has since been arrested. the theft may cause complications. >> as we go through the process, if something is close, whoever is on the winning side of a close race wants to know what

this means. that becomes a legal question at that point. >> police arrested 50-year-old karl bradford nicholas for the strange theft. he is not telling police where the ballots are or why he stole them. also new, a couple accused of kidnap and raping jaycee dugard will face new charges. they have been indicted on 18 felony charges that include graphic unreleased details on what they did to dugard. there will not be a preliminary hearing and that spares dugard and her family from taking the witness stand until the actual trial. they were previously charged with 29 counts each and now face charges ranging from kidnapping, forcible rape, lewd acts on a child and false imprisonment along with eight others. san pablo police are trying

to figure out who the mother is of a toddler wandering on the streets. he is believed to be between 18 months and 2 years old. he was walking alone on valencia street. one witness said he saw a young woman in her 20s wearing a brown jacket and yellow backpack drop the boy off in someone's front yard and she jumped into a cab. >> the cab was yellow and we are currently contacting cab companies from vallejo to oakland. >> a man stopped by the police station last night and said he recognized the boy and knows who the other is. police are following up on his information. >> coast guard is working to contain a tug boit leaking diesel into the east bay. they are working to contain the spill from the partially submerged tug. this is near antioch. there is a hard boom on site to

contain the sheen. this tugboat may leak as much as 800 gallons of fuel. 4:37 and a rough day for oakland where a chp crash ended at mac arthur boulevard and person reported dead as a result. mac arthur is closed at 106 as well. use foothill boulevard. we have another deadly accident up in napa. activity there and the corner cleared the scene and traffic should be restored n. novato west of the city at copper hill, the power pull and lions. we will follow these accidents and send it back to you.

>> a tough day. meanwhile, november 4th is more like july 4th. >> felt like it yesterday. at the giants parade, we saw temperatures in the upper 70s and clouds spilling into oakland. 64 degrees to get things started over in concord. you can see 55 and here in livermore, 54. the wind is light and a bit of an offshore breeze zeechl clouds coming in. the sun will be hiding between the mid-and high level clouds. we will see a chance of showers into friday. a better chance on sunday. highs not quite as warm. we will have a few extra clouds, but pleasant. 70s around the peninsula and the inner east bay. the trivalley upper 70s to low 80s. let's go through the seven-day forecast and see a chance of showers late tomorrow. the best chance of rain on sunday. daylight savings time ends this weekend. there is the good news. an extra hour of sleep starting

at 2:00 on sunday. >> more on the breaking news next. christie smith is live on the scene of that deadly crash. the world's largest jetliner makes an emergency landing. the problem affecting the entire airbus 8380 fleet. schools cracking down on kids and their parents. a fine if your student skips school in the east bay. whether it's working.

one person is dead and following a crash in oakland. one other person may have been killed. it happened about 2:00 this morning at mac arthur boulevard. christie smith is live on the scene with the latest. >> reporter: what they are telling me is this started with the chp officers on westbound interstate 580 trying to pull over a car that was speeding. the driver did not stop and instead kept going, exited the freeway at foothill and mac arthur and basically kept going to 10 sixth. this was a lights and sirens

kind of thing where they were following the driver and he refused to stop block after block and got in a wreck with another car that was coming at that driver. his car, the person they were pursuing caught fire. they had to pull him, the officers who were after him had to pull him out of the car. he was taken to highland hospital and pronounced dead. the person we are told in the vehicle he hit, that person died as well. at this point investigators are telling me they don't wherein he didn't stop. he just didn't. i am looking@least five chp cars at 10 sixth and mac arthur where the intersection is blocked off. oakland police out here as well investigating. they are telling me oakland police are taking over the investigation. we are asked when the intersection might open. it could take several hours.

that's what we know right now live in oakland. >> christie, thank you. skipping school could get costly in one east bay city. richmond's daytime curfew allows a judge to fine truant students up to $500. vicki has an update on how the curfew is working and why some feel it's unfair. >> no one can argue that truancy is not a problem. the last time they conducted a sweep they picked up 425 students in three days. richmond becomes the last city in the school district to add a daytime curfew. we rode along with the officer to see how it works and how the program is designed to prevent repeat offenders. precisely 30 minutes after school starts. ray hernandez searches for students skipping school. >> you have students back here hiding in the bleachers and the

play structure over here. >> it doesn't take long to spot them. >> how are you guys doing? where are you going? >> these two, 14 and 16 years old tell the officer they go to the continuation, but they attend richmond high and were heading home. before the curfew, they would return the students to class and if it was close to the end of the day, they would go home. now they are taken here to the activities league. >> come on down here. >> a staffer checks the record of absences, issues a citation and counsels them as they wait for mom or dad. >> you need to pick them up and there will be forms to sign. >> officers pick up nine or ten students a day, always with an excuse. >> i am hungry and i have to eat something or i'm sleepy and i have to go home. i need to change. i don't like this outfit. i need new shoes. >> it's no joke for parent who

is have to miss work and spend a day in court to address the truancy. >> why do you think he is not going to school? >> i don't know. i talk to him a lot and encourage him to do good. >> the officer offers to make a home visit to talk to her son and students need to know their safety is sat risk on the streets. a national study found 94% of homicide victims under 25 had a history of skipping school, starting in elementary. >> i'm a teacher's assistant from preschool. i teach and i help students and i cannot help my own child. >> as tough as it may be, getting parents involved in tracking truants helps to stop the problem. >> we are trying to help them out. >> richmond is not alone. they instituted ditime curfews and police say not ohm has the truancy rate gone down, but so

has crime rate both by students and against them. today in the bay. >> it has been a very busy traffic day. let's go to mike. it's all over the place. >> scattered all over the bay. we will start with the accident at the end of a high speed crash going on in oakland. 10 sixth at mac arthur. the car came off the freeway and continued. it might be affected later ons more people hit the streets, but it has mac arthur boulevard blocked. use foothill currently. we will let you know if it affects the area, but 880 at 101 to the south specifically, three of four lanes and a sigalert we will follow this before we get to oakland. the southbound side of 101. this will be a major issue. trucks are on scene. back to you. >> thank you, mike.

new this morning, the dow starts the day at a two-year high. for more on news before the bell, let's go to courtney reagan. good morning, courtney. >> wall street's winning ways could continue. futures are higher and the dow closed on wednesday as investors digest the latest plan to boost the economy. they will buy $600 billion in treasury bonds. the pros are it drives the low rates lower and encouraging spending on equipment and consumers for goods and services. the cons, some fear it could make the dollar weaker, leaving traders to go higher into anticipation. europe is also opening stronger. still ahead, new filings for unemployment and productionivity and labor costs. wall street bonuses are set to rise according to a survey by

johnson associates. they will offset declines for stock and bond trading. despite the overall increase, this forecast is still about 20 to 30% lower than the high posted in 2007. back to you. >> thank you, courtney. all of qantas's six airbus a 380 with double-deckers are grounded after one of them blew out an engineer. the passenger plane had engine trouble after it took off from singapore, forcing an emergency landing. it was the most serious mid-air accident involving the a 380 since it debuted in october of 2007. this flight originated in london and was flying to sydney. the ceo of qantas said all of the 380s are suspended until the airline can ensure that these planes are safe. qantas flies out of sfo and los angeles. republican leaders will lay out

their agenda for the next congress. tracie potts reports, topping the list is slashing the budget and starting all over with health reform. >> a divided congress, a president humbled and apologetic. >> it's hard. i take responsibility for it. >> what's next? cooperation? >> the american people want us to work together. >> newly empowered republicans have a different idea. fire the democrats. >> what are our friends learned is that choosing the president over constituents is not a good strategy. >> in a speech, connell will suggest president obama should not be reelected. nancy pelosi said she hasn't decided whether to step down. >> after you serve as speaker of the house, it's hard to make that transition. >> one republican is looking forward to working together. lisa murcowski. >> it's all about consensus building. >> will cooperation turn into

compromise? >> that's something we have not seen. >> the new congress has a heavy agenda. taxes, energy, immigration and health we reform. republicans want to get rid of it. >> we're want to repeal the bill. >> now they have the votes and momentum to do it. in washington, tracie potts, today in the bay. >> we will look at what's coming up later on today in the bay. >> good morning, scott. good morning, everyone. johann mehserle will be sentenced tomorrow. we will talk to steven clark about what to expect to happen next. we fall back this sunday and will be reminded to change the batlies in smoke alarms and clocks. next day, one bay area city will decide whether you have to change the smell smoke alarm and bring you the controversial plan later in today as well as a lot of breaking news i know you are covering as well.

time is 4:52 and clouds from the west underneath the clouds and nothing showing up offshore. just behind this system. a little more moisture to work with. we will bring the first chance of seeing scattered showers and a big drop in temperatures. still warm out there in terms of high temperatures, but as we go through friday and saturday, temperatures start to drop down into the 60s and 70s this weekend. still to 80 degrees around livermore and 75 in richmond and oakland as we head to the east bay and trivalley, the numbers approaching 80. the seven-day forecast forecast starts to drop off and we will see a slight chance of showers on friday. sunday we will see rain with the time change. all important extra hour of sleep for us all here on the morning show. back to you. >> we will take what we can get.

mike inouye has the world's busiest job. >> i do for folks heading to their jobs. an update. i got this seconds ago. southbound 101 is closed just south of the 880 to southbound 880. chp is arriving on scene and completely closed 101. diverting traffic on to southbound 880. you get back on to city streets and just after the interchange, you will have a jam up right now. they may reopen a lane or two. following this one. until that interchange, it's moving all right and get your way into san jose. following also the deadly accident in oakland, mac arthur at 106. it affect this is area of the

intersection in about a half hour when more folks head through that portion of the east bay. back to you. >> thank you much. giants fans are still on a high from the amazing ticker tape parade. a testament to the power the community, energy, and heart. raj mathai takes a deeper look. >> reporter: this is hardly a story about baseball. it's purely history and culture. nowhere else is like northern california and that was on full display for the country to see. >> you can see the electricity going on right now. you don't want to be anywhere else besides the bay. >> i'm so proud of this city and the team and the coming together of people and the victory. it's great. >> not just a parade. from november 33rd 2010, this was a celebration for an entire generation. a generation past -- >> this is great for the city. i know when we first came out here it was great, but this is

greater. >> reporter: and in the spirit for the generation to come. >> i can't explain it. it's so emotional. the giants will always be in my heart no matter what. >> we nailed it! we nailed it! >> this is so much fun, it's unreal. the fans are unbelievable. >> i was emotional then and this is what it's all about. this is the most fun i have had in my life. >> lining market street echoed decades of memories. but the sound and images on this november day will rewrite the history books and more importantly change the fabric, even just a little of our community. turning to football, you may have to shell out more.

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