live this is kron 4 news at 530. at 530 in oakland police and residents are getting accustomed to the normal. your police that follows tuesday's layoff of 80 police officers when the layoffs happen law enforcement officers forecast a bad outcome. >> the rules are to come out and it's scary. it's truly scary. >> for just a few officers are looking at. it is a considerably more than oakland has seen in the past two years. kron 4 to anchorman has been juggling the numbers he's here now to give us an understanding of all. >> look to argue more police should have the most cases this a freebie. as a lot of talk of kids in those 80 police officers and how dramatic it is. oakland has had so many police officers for so long when you look at the numbers is strictly where

oakland is right now is pretty much in the same ballpark they had to deal with for most of the last several years. >> the 2005 gop bp to 683 officers. the climb to 699 in 2006. 736 and 2007, and at the very end of 2008 to zero p d reached an surpassed its goal of 803 officers. then in 2009 the slide began at the beginning of 2010 we were already below the peak. dropping just this week to 694 officers. i can that's a level not far off from where we were just a few years ago. >> course they've made so much progress getting the numbers up his third chance to be able to get the numbers back up again? >> here's the one chance of has to do with a measure why funds right now the can't take the measure why funds because it didn't have some officers to get the funding to get the additional 63 officers. some of

the council is talking about is amending measure why so there's no bottom line is that the be able to get the measure why funds even if they have not had a certain level appeared that with the loss of its 63 officers even if it's not at the very bottom level. if that happens the be able to kick up some more officers. >> also looking at another parcel tax as well. a possible strike at ec transept may be just around the corner. an important deadline is set for tomorrow as kron 4 to recent reports transit officials say if a strike does happen a wall of a widespread effect of thousands of people. >> ac transit officials tell kron 4 news that drivers and other workers go on strike it will lead to hundred and 30,000 riders for of the east bay stranded. they say it's not possible to hire enough place the workers. transit officials recently passed a new contract to deal with the multi-billion

dollar shortfall. however the and tells kron 4 news they did approve the contract and want to resume negotiations. ac transit provides service to 13 different cities in the east bay. stretching from west contra costa county to fremont in alameda county. 1750 people work for ac transit to cover the mass of area. the last time there's a strike was in 1977. on friday judge is set to decide whether negotiations should resume for the new contract should go into effect possibly setting the stage for a strike showdown. in oakland trees that kron 4 news. >> the bridge officials concerned about those small nicks in the metal on the bridge said they have come up with a plan to prevent future fractures. in fact you may remember this this is the high bar with the bay bridge was closed over the labor day weekend last year. caltrans discovered this cracked sidebar

was repaired and several weeks later the repair job failed on a permanent fix was then put in place. as kron 4 christine conley tells us inspection since. >> the bay bridge i bars are inspected every three months. inspectors have found what the ftc says is the number of very small nicks in the middle the bridge. you see one of those tiny nicks circles here in the photo they're easily fixed by writing about. the mtc doesn't know the number that has been found they say it's a war in the low double digits. they've all been repaired. the concern is the knicks could be a precursor to cracking. this is nbc's john goodwin and he explains why. >> investigation into the crack in the high bar that was discovered last september indicates the bacharach may have started as a small nick or cut to and it was exacerbated by the force of the wind. >> panties he stresses the bay bridge is safe and future failures are not likely. there's

an abundance of caution and a bay area and it told committee has come up with a plan to pay an engineering firm a million dollars to come up with designs to brand feature crafts. those designs include devices which you see here called dampers which are sort of shock absorbers wind of the bridge. at designed for quick fiber fixed the fold told 40 will vote july 28th. the nbc says drivers have every reason to feel safe on the eastern span. >> to to save that of fact for seven year-old steel structure it structurally quite sound. chris >> the conley kron 4 news. >> if you drive the golden gate bridge and a car cooler tomorrow is the last day that she paying cash. kron 4 transportation reporter mark jones says monday morning there will be enforcing fast-track only. >> golden gate bridge carpoolers started payment is for a dollar toll july 1st. the number of carpoolers paying with fast-

track doubled since then. officials were still letting carpoolers pay with cash. friday will be the last day. monday morning all carpoolers will have to pay with fast-track. if you have three people in your car but of how fast track the beautiful $6 toll starting monday morning. if your new fest track user and car pool is only one other hitch. he can use of the fast-track only claimed. you must use the cash fast track two-lane said the toll collector can confirm you of three people in your car and the collector will gladly pay the $3 toll with fast track. at the golden gate bridge mark jones kron 4 news. >> suicide barrier at the colgate bridge is closer to being built the transportation committee signed off on $5 million and federal money to design the barrier. gold gate bridge officials voted two years ago to hang a stainless steel mats on the sides of the bridge the plan comes as an effort to try and catch anyone tried to

jump off the golden gate bridge. the barrier is expected to cost $45 million. >> temperatures really hot out there this afternoon in land and up to the north even down the peninsula peace 87 room city close to the coast temperatures are kept a little cooler think to some slight sea breeze winds. near triple digits in lynn 90s to the north bay 86 san jose. here's a look of the difference over the past 24 hours. 60 degrees warmer winter in the spots 7 degrees warmer in the bottom santa rosa warmer of the rest as a couple degrees warmer for the most part. will keep the weather in the forecast for the next couple of days as we head into this evening cleared mild conditions are expected in the fog while less and less of a factor in our forecast pairs of o'clock tomorrow morning middle clouds along the coast mainly pushing back offshore about how hot and sunny conditions once again appeared will take a look at how long the war weather

will last coming up a bit. >> live look outside the bay bridge toll plaza. the back of their and the peleus fast track planes moving fairly well. in san jose this is highway won a one southbound traffic moving relatively well to guadalupe parkway overpass showing some backup. will be right back. ♪

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oil has stopped leaking into the gulf of mexico for the first time since april. british petroleum has slowly dialing down as low as part of the test uncap these are live pictures you see not of the gushing that we've been looking at for the last nearly three months. engineers are monitoring the pressure if the see of the boston we'll will hold. the plan is to keep the oil trapped there for 48 hours officials concede that the approach is in fact working. the new custom cap will be a temporary fix before the cruise permanently clogged the

blown out well for good. a fatal shooting of a san jose woman as the victim's family questioning whether the police did all they could to save for life. the shooting happened here on the 200 block of wexford way at del mar ave. as kron 4 tells us the family may sue the city and the police because of the decision that was made on the scene. >> that's her blood, >> san jose please may have cost a sister life appeared 48 year- old lay bleeding to death on the spot in her apartment after police say this man 61 year-old robert shot her just before 10 wednesday night. listed are stoutly say barged into or hold shooting or stabbing another woman who survived the attack. the call unwanted angeles arrived around 10 they held back until the armed it arrested taylor. another 20 minutes she later died in hospital. >> it was the police would not

let that come in here and do anything. >> please it standards and procedures to secure the area first. >> don't focus our attention on rendering medical attention of the suspect such in this case accept deep apart and present a threat and causing further injury to officers or additional victims. the >> is not enough for the family who is very much planning and selling the city or the police department. san jose kron 4 news. >> taking a look arts and the forecast hot weather expected to continue for the next couple of days. it gets cooler towards the beginning of next week. all have a forecast coming up in just a few minutes.

alisha report of the bay area housing market the results are mixed. real estate tracker firm says that sales fell in june down 3% from a year ago. if prices are up 17% from the same time in 2009. the median price paid for last month in the bay area was $410,000. kron 4 moreen

kelly have explains what's going on. >> the latest housing numbers are in the bay area and the results are mixed. sales fell in june down 3% from year ago experts say were the reasons is because the federal home buyer tax credits expired on a lot of people. earlier. the median home buyer prices up to four and 10,000 that's because there are fewer foreclosures up they're dragging down prices to more operand prices like this one house selling. >> president barack obama said that he will sign a new financial reform bill next month it will passed by congress today after more than a year of debate. the bill is aimed at preventing another to manage a meltdown that spread from wall street to main street and left millions of americans jobless. >> the party is over and over privatizing and nationalizing risk no longer will we have had

so you loose. >> house speaker says a wall street reform bill will strengthen consumer protection it sets up a new bureau under the federal reserve with authority to spot brewing problems in the financial system. the result according to president barack obama, >> american people will never again be asked to foot the bill for wall street's mistakes. there'll be no tax pier funded bailout. >> republicans are not convinced already planning to appeal the measure. shortly after the bill passed goldman's sacks agreed to pay a penalty of more than half a billion dollars if the settlement involves charges that goldman sold mortgage investments without telling the buyers that they had created with input from a client that was betting on those very same things to fail pair the $550 million penalty it represents only about two weeks of the income for goldman sacks. a good sign the economic recovery is gaining some momentum as the number of first-

time unemployment claims dropped to its lowest since august of 2008. fewer people are applying for first-time jobless benefits down 29,000 to a total of nearly 430,000. experts in order to shore we'll come back the number of unemployment claims he's to drop below four to thousand. >> live look inside the mount tam cam pure gorgeous sunny skies this afternoon and it's pretty nice out there closer to the coast line is you've inland pretty warm. take a look at our current temperatures near triple digits and our inland spots also the '90s up in the north bay pier 95 and now the rate now 91 and san were filed but closer the coastline temperatures much cooler. that's because we're still seeing sea breeze wins out there and have to keep temperatures down close to the coast. not even that much so in our bay location down the

peninsula 83 in redwood city, 88. tonight and tomorrow we'll bring patchy fog along the san mateo coast will move backing today will see the fog close to the coastline but it is going to move out pretty quickly tomorrow morning. were written in another hot day tomorrow saturday will be pretty warm but into the weekend on sunday the fog will movement and so will the cooler temperatures. a look at fog tracker for tomorrow morning it's 5:00 a.m. this will be the extent of the fog tomorrow. reaching into the north bay down the east bay shore down the peninsula before hugging the coast line appeared as we move into the 7:00 hour look how quickly the skills back. barely reaching over san francisco but mostly hugging the coast pushing off shore later on in the morning because he patchy fog lights during around san francisco and pacifica pier such a pushover later than noon. temperatures will be on the warm side. once again will see

temperatures in the upper 90s for an spots than three now but, for several saw, '80s around the bay shore, 68 half moon bay, 71 is san francisco appeared much more comfortable closer to the close line. kron 47 day around the bay forecast the key sticking around for couple of days a really warm their building and but as we move into sunday that will start to break down the sea breeze wins for pickup and into next week will have more dense fog and much cooler temperatures. >> it is official the golden state warriors have been sold. boston celtics minority partner in mandalay entertainment bought the team to our record $450 million. they beat out oracle ceo larry ellison who was considered a favorite to buy the team. they broke the record for the largest sale in history proper and the four to $1 million mark that robert paid by defeatist phoenix suns back in 2004.

>> it school for to make the team do something. if we can make the team do something all by myself. as long as we can make them do something. >> to be nice to get a ring or get up in there and in the finals for the championships at know how we did last year i did follow. >> this deal needs to be approved by three-quarters of the nba board of governors. >> a live look upset at traffic as we approach the 6:00 hour. this is the james link in san francisco the top of your screen traffic trying to move towards the bay bridge not moving very much of all the bottom of your screen traffic heading south on 101 moving slow as well. will be right back.

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other electric drive components. the company's move will set the bar for competitors like the sun was planned to could to roll out its electric vehicle later this year appear to read all about the new push for electric cars visit our whats on the web sectional www.kron4.com. >> to look at our extended forecast a ton out there today it will continue into tomorrow and saturday especially for inland spots we will get a little bit of relief on saturday around the bay from the warm temperature appeared as we head into sunday's the sea breeze winds will start picking up and after the fall back in. that means cooler temperatures as we head into next week. >>we have a programming note to tell you about. this friday nbc will air the giants games so we will have nbc programming. at 8pm we will air the nbc movie of the week: the jenson project. at 10:00pm a special edition of kron 4 news, w w e smackdown can be seen on saturday at 7:00pm and dr.phil smackdown can be seen on saturday at 7:00pm and dr.phil starts friday at 3:00pm. ?çoñoñoño

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live this is kron 4 news at 6:00 p.m. at 6:00 oakland police have released new photographs which may save people living store smashing windows and spray painting graffiti the night of the bart shooting verdict. kron 4 has a closer look at pictures and tells us why they're so important to police. >> to go to these photos released by the oakland police department people base their wanted for allegedly looting during last week's protest of the johannes mehserle verdict your the oakland police some sort of put this guy coming out of the foot locker holding an armful) years ago of someone who appears to be shattering this glass window outside of sears. another photo of a woman here holding what appears to be the top portion of the mannequin with insured still on it also coming out of shares. these people here looks like a living this sushi bar and take a look

of this this guy's running down the street with two arms loaded with close. oakland police say these are few of just a dozen photographs sent to the department from " people the committee. oakland police say they need people's help in identifying people you see here the photographs. >> kron 4 >> next week reporters a former bart police officer johannes mehserle will hold their own rally. rwanda's messily was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting daft ofdeath of oscar >> to ensure everyone safety walnut creek police are calling on to outside agencies to help out during monday's rally. >> utilize the shares department and the construction with them. other agencies in the area were still developing our plan. >> when it 2:00 supporters of johannes mehserle will superior courthouse attanasio valley road for what they're calling a

peaceful rally. this is the facebook page organizers are using to spread word of the event. on thursday nearly 100 people had rsvp that they planned to attend your the police chief did address concerns that promus early and anti johannes mehserle could clash here appeared >> any time you of two conflicting groups with differing opinions especially on a very emotional issue like this we have concern and were preparing to deal with that. organizers did not return calls or, as the details of the rally in the face page say the rally is not about this latest violence destruction or intolerance. it asked people whose intent is to do those types of things to stay home. reporting walnut creek kate thompson kron 4 news. >> back to oakland police and residents are beginning to get accustomed to the normal viewer police following tuesday's layoff in the layoffs happen law-enforcement officers forecast a bad outcome oakland. >> just a few officers are we

talking about here. is a considerably more than oakland has sat in the past few years. kron 4 dan curtis been struggling all the numbers and is here with the latest on that. >> one could argue the fact in most cases there's been a lot of talk of cutting those the police officers is a dramatic cut back for oakland. as we look at the numbers is strictly over the last five years so what were fighting as they had to deal with this loan no. 3 which close to where they are for most of the last five years. >> in 2005 gop bp debt 683 officers. that climb to 699 in 2006, 736 and 2007 and at the very end of 2008 opiate reached and surpassed its goal of 803 officers. then in 2009 the slide began and at the beginning of

2010 we were already well below that peak dropping just this week to 694 officers. i can that's a level not far off from where we were just a few years ago. >> of course as you mentioned communities generally do feel better when there are more police officers on the torso is are any opportunity your chance the numbers may climb again? he >> what has to do is a measure why fun to measure why right now they can't take the money because are below the number of 739 officers. that means they can get the funding for the additional 63 officers. the talk is about amending measure why so there's no bottom level see don't have to hit the 739 to get to those 63 officers. that way they be able to give up back if they get on the ballot the be able to get funding for an additional 63 officers whether they're at the 739 level or not. >> that depends on how the voters feel about that. thank you dan. >> boy it is hot outside today

if your inland temperatures are nearly a hundred degrees. a little cooler closer the coastline banks to the sea breeze when still affecting our forecasts. bay, 69 san francisco. as we look ahead tonight into tomorrow it will stay clear the in while this evening. will see some flawed " and overnight it will be very minimal by 7:00 tomorrow morning he lord be scaling back pushing off shore by about noon. in the 3:00 hour it will be hot and sunny once again. take a look of your extended forecast to see how long he will stick around just a bit. >> big news for apple to number news is reporting this steve jobs knew about the into the problem before was released on the market. he was warned by apple intended engineer. apple hasn't confirmed the but they will have a news conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. at the headquarters staff in cupertino to talk about this very issue. course to broaden our tech reporter gabe slate to give us a sense of what you're

expecting to or from apple. >> knows for sure they just said the holding a press conference to talk about the issue and we don't know appeared will find out more at 10:00 a.m.. this is historic in the tech world. apple is had a decade of success with products and this is a big deal. there's a backlash and a bad image right now even the stock is been hit a little bit. they really have to deliver tomorrow on this issue. >> aspect steve jobs will be there? >> i do think it will be there i think it needs attention i think he will be there. >> this refers video on what the issue was with the intent of right there were used to the finger-pointing at the lower left corner the issue is intended it's built into that stainless steel frame on the phone for one your skin covers the area reception will drop. it's not every following its certain phones in certain areas. i've had many friends with no problems with that to or get on the weapon. let's roll the next

video. there's a simple solution that's a proper case these costs between 10 and $30 and then that stops your skin from touching the intent of causing the problem pretty simple solution. the i phones cost $600 another $200 subsidize. $600 daddy should have a case anyways. tomorrow morning at about for a recall it i don't think they need to there's not a phones with the problem i think the say the give all i phone for owners a credit to our fancy $30 rubber case and that's how or dissolve this might guess. >> jonathan city to put dock take their but i don't know. >> what we will see. to some people and talking about this issue that today we asked our viewers what they think about apple scheduled news conference tomorrow web producer kimberly brings is a look at your comments. kimberly.

>> under twitter in face book fan pages are jurors have been weighing in on the latest problems with the i phone gore appeared to stick a look of some of the comments on twitter butterfly 1241 says i have an android phone and i think these problems with the i phone will make more people want to try and read phones. if on facebook ultraleftist this, and every time apple comes out the product there's always an issue with the foster endured i figured the odds with a figure that out by now the way into the products have been out there for awhile. also in facebook, does this one riding apple dollars just don't care they have dropped the apple kool-aid as long as it has the apple logo, they have to have it. to read all about apple scheduled press conference and let us know what you think visit www.kron4.com. >> and this just into the kron 4 news for were following up fast developing fire as you see behind me here. this is called the cactus fire we see that shot has just gone away but we could

tell you it is called the cactus fired its spurting in riverside county near hammond at this point we're hearing baird is again. its 250 a. of this point to bring in riverside you concede bring up the hillside and is definitely near homes. getting more permission of the kron 4 news room will bring it to you as we get it. reporting live if i'd been fervent and will be back with more kron 4 news right after this.

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the international standards that defied pure cold pressed all boils that deserve the title of extra virgin olive oil. although the survey sample was small 19 widely distributed brands purchased from retailers in the bay area sacramento and los angeles. scientists say the study did hold on to the claims on their label they held to a scientific of terrible. united states is the third largest consumer of oil not not a percent of which comes from foreign producers. check out details on www.kron4.com. >> this is to the kron 4 news room california department of public health is warming consumers eat a certain type of room made less package by fresh express you can see it here this is one of the packages. apparently many the packages are contaminated with e. coli. if all were talking about 480,000 packages of fresh express lettuce. you can go to

california department public health website to find out exactly which packages are off- limits. live in the newsroom dan wasserman kron 4 news. >> take a look at our extended forecast the he will stick around of foall have a full weekend forecast coming up a bit.

live pictures from southern california this is in riverside county they're calling the cactus fire right now it's about 250 a. this is near hemet to again this is in riverside county we're hearing from officials lightning strikes have sparked a least a dozen brush fires with strong winds and thunderstorms that are fanning the flames into the wind pushing the flames down the hillside their officials say a band of thunderstorms swept through the inland empire about 3:00 and this is the results this is called the cactus fire in riverside county and its beer homes will continue to follow the developments in bring you the latest route this newscast.

a live look inside over downtown san francisco is the clear skies gorgeous weather today please closer to the closely is different in the hot sun and air inland spots set up under current conditions 99 degrees in antioch in the upper 90s to inland spots appear to stick to the no. 95 and now the. crystal seeing enough of the sea breeze winds to keep temperatures down glucose linked to your ticket and a half moon bay, 69 san francisco rate now as we head into the night and tomorrow morning some fog will push back in to see it sitting off shore there. it's very minimal but it will stay close to the coastline and clear out early as well. will be enough very sunny and hot day tomorrow or whether to sunday. fog tracker for tomorrow morning at 5:00 this will be the extent of the stretching a point in the

north bay done these until back pretty quickly seven clocks morning just hugging the coast line and spilling over san francisco it will push offshore pretty quickly by 10:00 tomorrow morning are pushing offshore we could see labor and patches of fog and san francisco to about new. kron 470 around the bay forecast. he continues into tomorrow the temperatures in the upper 90s inland 97 by saturday will see little relief from the bay the sea breeze winds will pick up that will bring us more dense fog as we head into next week. temperatures will drop substantially by the middle of next week. >> fatal shooting of this is a woman has a victim's family questioning whether the police did all they could to save your life. the shooting happened here you see our mount the 2000 block of rockford way in san jose. they may sue the city employees over the decisions that were made on the scene. san jose

police say the shooting and stabbing took place here this apartment at 2100 block the wexford way and 10:00 p.m.. no one called a been a sister brought the police and ambulance here just before tend study with him was felt across the street appeared inside the street lay her shoes clean to death after allegedly being shot by 61 year- old robert lee turner if the list to doorstep of family members say she lay there on the ground bleeding to death this please give the evidence workers away while they disarmed and arrested turner please estimate about 20 minutes passed before the to a lot of urgency medical technicians in it is too late she died at the hospital located two blocks away >> why did they come get the man they have enough officers to combat the man and a sister of a fear that it even tried. spokesperson >> said the tried to follow procedure make sure there no other our people in sight that's not a good enough for the family with the debris which planning on selling the city in the police department.

>> possible strike ac transit may happen soon the important deadline is set for tomorrow as kron 4 reporter explains terms of official said if a strike happens it will have a widespread effect on thousands of people. >> ac transit officials tell kron 4 news that its drivers and other workers go on strike to it will leave to enter and 30,000 people throughout the east bay stranded. it's not possible to hire enough people to replace spear transit workers pass a new contract to deal with the multimillion dollar shortfall. however lie union tells kron 4 news didn't approve the new contract and they want to resume negotiations. ac transit provide service to 13 different cities in the east bay. stretching from west contra costa county and fremont in alameda county. 1750 people work for ac transit to cover the mass of area. the

last time there is a strike more than 1977. the judge is set to decide whether negotiations should resume where the new contract should go into effect. possibly setting the stage for a strike showdown. oakland 3 south kron 4 news. >> the bridge officials concerned about small nicks in the middle of the bridge they say they've come up with a plan to prevent future fractures you may remember this from the bay bridge was closed for the labor day weekend? this was the problem of there's crack their the discovered the cracked by our it was repaired it and several weeks later the repair job failed. they had to put a permanent fix kron 4 christine conley tells us they found a number of small mixed on whether i'd bars across the bridge. the bay bridge sidebars are now inspected every three months. inspectors found what the ftc says is a number of very small nicks in the metal the

bridge. he's he was tiny nicks circled here in this photo. they're easily fixed by grinding about. the ftc doesn't know the number that have been found the state so were the low double digits. they've all been repaired. the concern is the knicks could be a precursor to cracking. this is and he sees jobs good one and he explains. >> investigation into the crack into the high bar that was discovered last september indicates bacharach may have started as a small nick or cut and exacerbated by the force of the wind. >> the nbc stresses the bay bridge is safe and future failures are not likely. the abundance of caution to the bay area toll authority committee has come up with a plan to pay an engineering firm of million dollars to come up with designs to prevent future cracks. those designs include devices which you see here called dampers which are sort of shock absorber is which could reduce when vibrations on the bridge. it also includes a plan for designed for a quick aside or

fix. a full told a story will vote july 28th. the ftc says drivers have every reason to feel safe on the eastern span. the >> bridge is safe and in fact for seven year-old steel structure, it's structurally quite sound. >> christine conley kron 4 news. >> tell you about. this friday nbc will air the giants games so we will have nbc programming. at 8pm we will air the nbc movie of the week: the jenson project. at 10:00pm a special edition of kron 4 news, w w e smackdown can be seen on saturday at 7:00pm and dr.phil smackdown can be seen on saturday at 7:00pm and dr.phil starts friday at 3:00pm. oñoñoño

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5 look excited traffic on the golden gate bridge it's moving pretty well north and southbound at this particular our goal gate bridge officials confirm rush-hour has been a bit more hectic lately on average. transportation reporter mark jones says they've been getting leads. >> officials say traffic is heavier and on the afternoon of

the switch to four lanes north. bridge officials say they've had two dozen complaints about late switches happened late. causing congestion northbound or southbound depending on the time of day. it seems worse because it is. there are more cars on the bridge this time of year. tourists don't know fast track and the oil drive construction worker all factors including a bigger bottlenecks. the monitoring the traffic changes by our and try to do better. the golden gate bridge mark jones kron 4 news. @' :

if now at 630 to its big story isn't big block of news. more cruz, more stories right now our top story. >> our top story of a very hot day around the bay still hot and are in the spots and up to the north 9 degrees in several locations including redwood city. things are starting to cool down now as to he will be back tomorrow and saturday

especially inland looking at temperatures there appeared a hundred degrees around the bay will be too steep in the '80s and the bay and a little relief from the bay comes saturday especially come sunday into next week will see the fog returned the cool sea breezes will dominate our forecast. temperatures will drop off significantly into next week. >> your oakland police headquarters investigators released these photos of suspects wanted for allegedly looting during a protest rally following the johannes mehserle verdict. the show individuals that are a foot locker, sears they're stealing items taking them and very clear photos of the suspects. we the public to come forward give his name so we can follow up it arrest appeared to show is a message this is not a playground for criminals. >> in muckrake a rally is planned for monday to support former bart police officers johannes mehserle was convicted

of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of oscar grant. so far about hundred people have rsvp to of the organizers facebook page and attending the rally started to o'clock at the courthouse. walnut creek police say their midst of planning their security plan which does include brain and outside agencies such as the sheriff to help them deal with the crowd and if there are problems that arise during the rally. reporting in walnut creek kate thompson kron 4 news. >> and open the layoff of the police officers has law enforcement predicting a surge in crime. that may or may not happen to the reduction of the force to 694 officers and staff levels closer to where they've been over much of the last five years. as you see the chart this is where we were in 2005 and this is where we are now. well it's true it peaked around 2008 most of the last five years the levels have remained in this area. dan from kron 4 news. if >> karen san jose please say shooting and stabbing took place

of this apartment to 2100 block of record weighed 10 thursday night appeared family receive 40 year-old verna lay bleeding to death after allegedly being shot a 61 year-old neighbor robert kerrey please kept in ambulance from the street. san jose policeman says the truck to follow procedure to make sure there no other our people in sight to her that's not good enough for the family which has shrunk greg kron 4 news. >> tech news history is about to be made for the first time ever apple's holding a press conference to deal with the backlash all other products. actinium in cupertino told a press conference to talk about the intent of reception issue of the i phone 4. i do not think the recall it seems to only affects your phones in certain locations i do think the offer free rubber cases to all i phone 4 all users. this would solve the issue whatever happens will vote tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. to 3 gabe slate kron 4 news. >> and another big story market

analysts are keeping an eye out apple's stock to an expert at market watcher says the tech giant stock as left about 4 percent this week even though the market is been strong all week long. the problems with the phone for are to blame for the split. investors are concerned about what apple is going to do to fix the reception problem with its flagship problem. the cooper jr. based the product is were holding a rare press coverage starting with to see what apple is good to do with the i phone for periods san francisco jeff bush kron 4 news. >> in these bay ec transit officials are asking unit employees not to go on strike. they say if they do a 230,000 riders per day will be left stranded. because they can't hire enough replacement workers. a judge is set to decide on friday with their new contract will go into effect. however the intel's kron 4 news they didn't approve the contract to and they want to resume negotiations. in oakland teresa kron 4 news.

>> at the bay bridge officials to come up with a plan to prevent cracks of the eastern span. the ftc says inspectors about is a notice of number of small mix of the metal if that could be a precursor to cracking her those next up and quickly fixed. the nbc says the bay bridge is safe but has an abundance of caution officials to come up with a plan that's conclude $7 million to design a quick fix and ways to combat vibrational the bridge. if christine conley kron 4 news. >> old gate bridge friday as the last day of the carpoolers have a grace period to pay their $3 told with cash. starting monday you must have fast-track did you pay $6 even if you have required three people in your car. you can't use a fast track only in you have to use the cash fast track team stop declare a car pool and the toll collector will push a button and charge your fast track to $3 toll. carpoolers jumped to bypass track with new customers

doubling since july 1st appeared at the golden gate bridge mark jones kron 4 news. >> you're not to dundees and hundreds of other california nurses station protest rally outside the home of meg whitman carried a riding by the busload the nurses marched down to women's front door she wasn't told but the nurses staged a noisy rally to sleep what they say is wouldn't attack on public employee unions. they claim whitman's agenda would punish the middle class and forced the state deeper recession appeared whitman in turn has said the nurses and other unions represent the states on discipline spending and political gridlock. enough >> the latest housing numbers are up for the bay area and the results from experience down 3% from a year ago experts say what other reasons is because those federal wire credits have expired. but a lot of people out if house hunting in the early in the year who may have waited to buy. the middle prices up 17% to four $10,000. that's because

there are fewer foreclosures up their dream down prices and more up front properties like this one selling. >> for the first time on record senior citizens out number teenagers in the labour force. web producer kimberly tells us about this historic crossover. >> data compiled by bloomberg news shows 6.6 million people over the age of 65 work to or look for work of the first six months of the year compared to 5.9000016 to 19 year-old spirit experts say over the last decade older workers have tended to hang on to the paycheck longer. all in the savings for foliar said falling oil prices making it more likely than older workers will be to delay retirement. the shift toward aging work force has been disastrous for 16 to 19 year-old who face unemployment rates of 25 percent nationwide and 34 percent in california which is similar to the great depression. to check out the big details on the report visit our whats on

the web section of www.kron4.com. >> were continuing to follow the cactus fire as you see right here this fire is burning in riverside county it's about 12 mi. south. fire officials say its charred more than a hundred acres at this point in there's no containment in sight. we can tell you it's burning near redwood mountain about 12 mi. south of plymouth appeared at this point more than 70 firefighters are on the same as it continues to burn in the thick vegetation. live in the newsroom dan from kron 4 news. >>we have a programming note to tell you about. this friday nbc will air the giants games so we will have nbc programming. at 8pm we will air the nbc movie of the week: the jenson project. at 10:00pm a special edition of kron 4 news, w w e smackdown can be seen on saturday at 7:00pm and dr.phil starts friday at 3:00pm.we have a programming note to

[ meg whitman ] if we could only do one thing, putting people back to work

would be the most important thing. the human cost of 2 million californians out of work is devastating, and i think, often, politicians forget about that because they don't see it every day. i see it every day. i think raising taxes on californians today is absolutely the wrong thing to do. we have to streamline regulations, we have to cut taxes for businesses, and then we have to stand up and compete.

california needs to lead the nation again, and i think we can do it. to the first time announcer's almost no oil gushing into the

gulf of mexico. bp says it has choked off a while that has nearly 2 million 0 gal. of oil. the live pictures tell the story you could see nothing going on there. the newly fitted cap appears to succeed where all the others at the tens of failed. kron 4 vicki has details. >> difference a few hours makes appeared on the left a picture from this morning showing the familiar geyser of oil. of the right would look like this afternoon. >> think we have to be cautious through the next 48 hours. >> not the end but maybe the beginning of the end. >> to be entering the final chapter of this tragedy. >> interesting as a result of a test. in the past day bp engineers closed off each of these escape valves on the new cap. now begins a waiting period to see if it can hold back the oil. >> to the fire hydrant that's raging away with some water if you tap it to quickly the

pipeline could burst. the stock >> it came 85 days 16 hours and 25 minutes after explosion on the bp oil rig which killed 11 workers and triggered this bill. bp chief operating officer says a lot of work remains to be done. >> were to get the well permanently sealed off, or going to pick the oil off the water clean the shorelines of or gore to make things right in the community. >> this would bp should know more about the effort within about the 48 hours as those engineers test the new cap on the blown out well. after year of intense debate financial reform legislator has finally cleared congress and is headed to the president. some at the hays details of final debate and what happens next in washington. >> the final vote with two republican senators from maine and massachusetts senator scott brown also joined democrats to

pass sweeping reform of individual industry. their support allowed democrats to to slow debates earlier this day and move forward with the votes. >> today's votes in the senate the united states congress has now passed a wall street reform bill that will bring greater economic security to families and businesses across the country. >> wall street reform bill to strengthen consumer protection with the new bureau under the federal reserve. shine a light on complex the initial products and create a new process for dealing with troubled financial firms. >> this legislation is about the people on main street not the folks on wall street. republic >> and say some of the new regulations go too far i would stifle economic growth appeared before the official votes house minority leader john painter says the bill will need to be repealed. >> think defended to reform bill is ill-conceived i think it's going to make credit harder for

the american people to get to clearly harder for businesses to get. and the fact that it's going to punish every banker in the for the sins of the few on wall street and its allies. to >> in the bronco, could sign the bill as early as friday and has indicated he will quickly point the first chief to the new consumer protection bureau. washington said at the haze. >> world is the vatican has rewritten its laws on how to deal with priests who sexually abused miners appeared first victims now have until they're 48 birthday to file charges against a priest who they say sexually abused them under the old law victims have until the 38th birthday. if the process to defrocked priest will move faster than before the law says is evidence of sexual abuse is clear if a priest can be dismissed by simple decree instead of going through a trial which can be lengthy and costly. priests were in possession of child pornography will be treated the same as those who

actually commit sexual abuse. argentina is now the first latin american country to legalize same-sex marriage. the senate passed a bill after 14 hours of debate this morning you see the crowd for responding to the vote. the law against same-sex couple equal marriage rights including the ability to adopt children. the president of argentina said she will sign the bill that roman catholic country now follows the netherlands, belgium and spain which of all legalize same-sex marriage. >> i'm kimberly sakamoto right now www.kron4.com were making it easy free to watch kron 4 news cast whenever and wherever appeared if your way from a television set all yet to do is hop on the web if to watch dollar newscaster in the week and the weekend with our live stream. if you missed any of the kron 4 big block of news that 6:30 p.m. we have you covered. the post's on-line every day on 6:30 p.m. we have you covered. the post's on-line every day on www.kron4.com.

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surprising discovery minute the side of the world trade center proves work today to recover the whole of the ship which scientists say could be back to the years when america was born. >> that the construction site ground zero where find. remnants of a ship dating back to the 18th-century. we were allowed to climb down 25 ft. to the site and see firsthand what archaeologists stumbled on tuesday >> pulled up by a we thought that look like a ship timber we started excavating with shovels and uncovered a portion of the hall and since then uncovered the arrest that he seemed. >> what we can see as half of the ship. with >> and here's to be an oceangoing vessel and probably

sometime in the 1700's. it's heavily built and very solid. one mystery this circular structure the process may been used as a fireplace. an anchor was also recovered. >> a significant is this fine? >> and it remains to be seen what the ship really is. it's pretty significant it's exciting and that there have been that many ships found in manhattan. it was something of that occasionally used as part of land filling. it was probably part of filling in this land so it's not unheard of. because >> of the history here archaeologists have been monitoring the construction site pier the wildlife conservation society shows just how much lower manhattan was under water hundreds of years ago and its projects. compare that to now. the land full structure of this particular area and have their reusing

things like old boats to fill up the land here the shore line was originally about a block that way. where were staring down at one point was the hudson river. >> side a salad of where the world treats tower stood their ground like hidden for more than 200 years. >> is the kind of thing are to lodges are looking to find and very rarely do. than >> it was pretty warm out there this afternoon but still on the hot side and our inland spots. 97 degrees in antioch 92 napa things are starting a colossal especially cluster the coastline were still searching enough of the sea breeze winds to keep temperatures more comfortable here. here's what we can expect tonight into tomorrow were going to see some of the fog push back it but it will be very minimal over night tonight and stay close to the coastline clearing very early tomorrow morning will be left with the sunny and warm day. into this weekend saturday

will be warm but sunday will cool things down as the fog move backing in. your height of its shares for tomorrow very similar to today the upper 90s for inland spots, 93 now but, for several suckler cluster the coastline. still toasty around the bay shore as we have warm dry air that's building in. that's why temperatures are so warm there. will continue that and his saturday. as we head into sunday and next week that's when things are released and cool off will have more dense fog building and and as we head into next week temperatures will be back down to the '80s inland. 60s along the bay and '50s along the coast. stay with us will be back after this break.

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