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courthouse this afternoon on the other side of metal barriers. who are supporters of ms. elise victim oscar grant. kron 4 christine conley has been following the protests live in downtown walnut creek. looks a bit quieter christine. >> it's pretty much over with at this point they've opened up the roadway this roadway is now open to traffic in there's really just a few stragglers holding signs that are left here. we see one person right here and that said. the protests began at 2:00 was posted and at 5:00 now by 530 there's almost no one laughed. let's roll some video pish to show you what looked like earlier as a peek. police say there's about 300 people here we'd never saw any violence but officers were standing by in riot gear just in case they have the entire one at creek police department was here to sink has something did happen all we saw when ising arguments appeared no
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violence. let's roll some sounds you both sides said about why the came out today. i'm or the family oscar grant feel sorry for them i'm also for mr. mesoglea was a horrendous mistake. as yet to be accountable yes but it was a mistake. we want to make a statement and a point and let them understand your badge in your training and your badge number is not to be the right to shoot innocent people in the back. you paid taxpayers' money not to eliminate. in an earlier today police officers went through this parking lot and on sniffing dogs to make sure there is nothing in the parking lots. they also picked up rocks to make sure it no rocks or pieces of glass will be thrown remember the last protests in oakland things heated up when rocks were thrown at police officers.
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nothing like that occurred here today. now that this is over with officers will still be in the area. they will still have these officers that the golden for the one at creek police department the audience stand by just in case something happens with a few stragglers that left behind. at this point it seems it was a very peaceful protest that occurred here. let's continue our team coverage with kron 4 is more and kelly who did see conflict today. here you can see the supporters of johannes mehserle talked behind this wall here and the oscar grant supporters are down below hot on the sidewalk and the two sides are pretty much just chanting and yelling at each other. the progress of these supporters who jump down off the wall and have been standing in trying have some dialogue with some of the oscar grants supporters right here. calmly discussing each other's points of use here. it is a little bit of people trying
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have a dialogue and other people just screaming at each other. and here you can see again traffic it had been close on the street it 2:00 at around 520 p and they open a back up and traffic is flowing freely. reporting live christine conley kron 4 news. steve kron 4 for continuing coverage of them as early rally in the burgeoning bird appeared with a special section on www.kron4.com wait to watch videos, read stories and post your comments. were learning new details in the violence should out in oakland this weekend that left was bound 580 closed for 20 hours. i suspect in the hospital who shot several times. here's a picture of byron williams from a prior arrest the 45 year-old grove glenn california has an extensive criminal history including armed robbery. they tell kron 4 news williams is talking homicide detectives his mother is reportedly said williams was upset because he
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couldn't get a job because he was a next volunteered kron 4 reports on the shoot out and how police believe william survive the violent confrontation. the the the toyota pickup truck of the oracle with the lips. the chp vehicle with its windows shot out. seal the yellow markers on the freeway, officers tell kron 4 news more than 60 shots were fired at suspect byron williams. after he opened fire. a chp spokesperson tells kron 4 the violent confrontation all started saturday evening and night. officer saw williams driving erratically and weaving through traffic on 580 in oakland your poll bullet of the new appeared they tend to pull over several times is a finely when he did that 20 pulled out a gun and started to shoot. listen as you can hear gunfire in this youtube video posted by witness. officers say the hell of gunfire lasted around 10 minutes with more than 10 chp officers involved. they say billion
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williams silent surrender after suffering multiple rooms this is williams been taken off hospital he survived to the fact he was wearing heavy duty body armor. kron 4 is learned officers sunday morning went through his car they found three guns. in addition a bomb squad a mechanical robot team here were called in. when a suspicious package was discovered inside the truck here you can see the robot to pull out this binder. it says california on it. fbi agents are analyzing the binder cared officers on kron 4 news if they believed he was heavily armed because he is heading to some unknown location. tivoli the traffic stop prevented a possible deadly situation from occurring. police investigators are following up on another major incident that happened this weekend as kron 4 dan from reports this incident involved a sniper shooting a police officer. this is seen around 1130 last night after someone
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opened fire on police officers would pull over a vehicle and 1000 block of a street near avalon. the car stopped in investigation and discovered there's a large amount of crack cocaine inside the vehicle. are further investigating someone from the apartment complex was there a 2558 street started a fire at weapon at the officers. please backed off called an additional officers and end up searching the apartment building only to find nothing. still the search for the shooter is a top priority. any time your son is going to shoot at the police or endanger society they're very dangerous to the public and officers and hopefully tips coming in will be able to locate these individuals. to oakland police say they will not take a look at surveillance video from various locations in the area to see if it helps them track down the sniper. in oakland kron 4 news. yet another incident in oakland over the weekend after
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bart and oakland police officer shot and killed a man they say charged them with knives on saturday morning in the third bill district. authorities in oakland promising a thorough investigation appeared officers tried unsuccessfully to taste a suspect who ended up charging officers and opened fire on him he died at the scene. the fog will start to take over as forecast in the next several days. live look at the only bridge box billing in here even along the coastline this afternoon to apertures are much cooler closer the coast. 59 and san francisco, 55 half moon bay. even our inland spots in the 80s and low 90s. to give five, six and seven degrees cooler than we saw yesterday. all weather headlines fog cut in the coast line will see a portion or will saddam's fog. in the afternoon temperatures about five degrees cooler the foggy weather will continue for the week. it will
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for a limited time, get u-verse tv state health officials say the a greg of open cost of the biggest of 50 years the recommending the ministers did vaccinations as well as young children. californians recorded nearly 1500 cases of whooping cough. five times as many as last year. five infants have died in all were too young to be immunized. that's where the state to part of health is urging vaccinations for women of childbearing age. those over 64 specially grandparents care for a fence should also get the vaccine. i should anyone in contact with infants are pregnant women. adults usually recover quickly from a whopping cough infants because of their delicate
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airways have more difficulty surviving infection. whooping cough was once a major killer of children in america more than a quarter million cases were reported in 1934 before mass vaccination cut that number by 99 percent. whooping cough is once more on the rise and a spike in 2004 and five and an even bigger one expected this year. a typical case a whopping cough may appear similar to a common cold for up to two weeks. i weeks or months of rapid coughing fits that sometimes in with a whopping sound. >> just into the kron 4 news room starting next year california will set aside a day to honor former president ronald reagan. the floors were to decide to bills the first designates february 6th as ronald reagan day. it encourages schools to spend the day commemorating reagan's life and accomplishments. the second bill establishes a commission to is planned celebration of what would of been reagan's 100th birthday next february. live in
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the blaze in rugged terrain near the town of of fish now 90 percent contained its for more than 560 a. as much as 650 firefighters battling the blaze. a dozen other wild fires burning in riverside county the cactus fire near 650 a. 100 percent contained. another fire near tenaculum also lightning strike that's been contained since saturday morning. for more than 500 a. they continue to watch the potential for a lightning strikes in the southern california area. if wild fire in central washington state that's destroyed at least three homes and threatened dozens of others.
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strong winds blew the fire across the stage rush toward the area of about a hundred homes. the started yesterday afternoon off about 10 mi. yes of yakima about 10,000 a. have burned so far. tough times for firefighters and vallejo if tumors asians closing the doors today. kron 4 jeff bush tells us what the bankruptcy had to make the move. five >> station 25 on the drive close its doors today and carried station 26 on full avenue close to end station 21 marin st. is reduced its equipment staffing level to one ladder truck. they will be acquitted of fire fighters for the two fire stations that are closing over the station 22 which have been closed but will reopen as part of the shuffle. the changes are results of the city council decision earlier this month. they're an attempt to save money. the overall staffing and vallejo fire fighting broke down from 18 to 15 firefighters per shift. the will be no layoffs as a result of the shuffle off because the department is already lost some firefighters over the years through
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attrition. in to doesn't six the department had a staff of 122 fire fighters, today the department is down 67 pure the changes effectively reduced if the number of companies on duty from 5 to 4 purifier official said the shuffle will result in increased response time to service calls. and vallejo jeff bush kron 4 news. prison >> all, is frustrated and angry with republicans for trying to block the extension of unemployment benefits. he said people really need the help if not just looking for handouts. the issue comes up in the senate tomorrow. tron >> to make his latest political fight more personal president barack obama stood between three as he fired back at republicans. the same people wouldn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars of tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now sing russian offer relief to middle-class americans like jim, as we were denise who really need help. senate republicans have repeatedly blocked votes to
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extend on a planet benefits for november arguing the bill would cost $33 billion. tom price said democrats should first cut other spending. >> believe we ought to go back to the free pre below pre stimulus levels. >> since june about a million americans have maxed out of unemployment benefits the u.s. unemployment rate was 9.5% and the lowest in 11 months. many analysts don't expect it to fall any further this year. >> there honest, decent hard- working folks who fallen on hard times for no fault of their own. and what no where else to turn but unemployment benefits. >> president knows democrats think they can break the law in the senate tomorrow because that's when the replacement for the late senator robert byrd is seated. >> fog will start to dominate our forecast for the week but look at our mount tam cam there is the marine layer striking in the the day right now. it will continue to push inland through
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this evening as a matter of fact it will move pretty quickly in our inland spots. tomorrow morning dense fog along the coast and around the bay. it will scale back by the 7:00 hour and start to hug the coast line. 11 clocks will see a couple sunbreaks from the san mateo coast is and as we get the 3:00 hour mostly sunny through the bay area and at about 5 degrees cooler a look at fog tracker for tomorrow morning the 5:00 hour the fog stretching and for inland spots a lot patchy fog in the inland spots and along the delta. turning to the morning drive the 8:00 hour filed fog cut in to the north bay and east bay shore and the peninsula and the coastline. stay along the coastline for most of tomorrow 11:00 a little bit of a break along the san mateo coastline. for the most part it will stay pretty overcast for the afternoon. if our high temperatures will be on the cooler side 59 have the bay, 60 san francisco, '60s around the bay shore either inland spots back to the low 80's. well below
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average for this time of year antioch are warm spot is 88 degrees. here kron 4 here is a look at your 7 day around the bay around the bay forecast fog will dominate the forecast this week the storm passing to the north will strengthen the fog was sea breezes and cool temperatures also just in the low 80's for inland spots. we will warmer couple of degrees and the fog will scale back a little bit heading into the weekend but it will still be pretty foggy heading into next week. >> live look at the golden gate bridge traffic moving fairly smoothly catafalque the bridge that of the three lane configuration to both directions a little heavy northbound but close to the speed limit. a look at the same mateo bridge on the right hand is westbound on the lefties' balance heading through the toll plaza outside. will things mostly in both directions but for the thick on the left headed east bound. we'll be right back with google pulling the plug on the smart phones.
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google has pulled the plug on the next is one smart phone. it was the first attempt to break into the cell phone world with a hand set. the device did not touch on it which the current inventory sold off the phone ceases to exist. motorola is having a huge success with its droid foam that run the google mobile operating system. and read the new drug acts has hit the market and it's getting a lot of buzz. tech reporter gabe slate takes a closer look at the drake acts. upon >> if you want the new droid x school and george f. mark phone for of rise and you better act quick. most were sold out or have really low inventory. this will be really hot phone this summer. i think it's the first boland to be a real i phone competitor pure the critics want is on the rise of network it uses a slight invisible keyboard of the trade but you get a giant 4.3 in. touch screen that's bigger than the i phone. great for watching video and searching the web pure the battery on this is impressive. most local phone cyclically
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because they do so much all the power each of the battery life. this fall has a good solid battery. has in a mix of 60 camera that three more than the i phone records each the video you can use skype us it for free phone calls and has this nifty new typing system called white. lets you type a different way by dragging your fitter under from letter to letter and lifting up when the work is done. note sounds weird but it's " once you get used it's a faster way to type on the touch screen. risings letting existing customers use this if there contract expires in 2010. so in summary a great phone a few of rise and anyone and i phone like device this is said. downside its big it will put it in every pocket. it doesn't have the invisible slide out keyboard of the first for the people seem to like. >> steve jobs announced part of apple's response to the whole i phone for antenna problem would be to offer free cases to all owners. when a producer can only
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brings is a look at the humorous and inexpensive 6. >> described as a magic revolutionary sticky and colorful thises and senate aide. to closer look the page that apple made a boo both make all better. the described a custom sized bottle stickered that may improve signal performance one place over the lower left of the intent so basically it's a band- aid for your i phone. if you don't see the tiny disclaimer at the bottom the seller said in 108 is for entertainment purposes and results may vary although since it does cover the trouble spot chances are the solution will work as well as stock table or other type of protective covering. the bandages are being sold in packs of 6 for 499 each. the jacket and 108 check our whats on the web section of www.kron4.com. >>a programming note to tell you about. the giants game on nbc, nbc programming on kron 4. america's got talent at 8pm, the last comic standing at 9pm.
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followed by a special 90 minute edition of the kron 4 news at followed by a special 90 minute edition of the kron 4 news at 10pm. followed by a special 90 minute edition of the kron 4 news at 10"meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento. he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs. big pensions for state employees. the special interests have chosen their governor. how about you?
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live this is kron 4 news at 6:00 p.m.. our top story emotional demonstration in downtown walnut creek the group's holding a rally in support of former bart officer johannes mehserle out numbered by a number of groups showing support for oscar grant who shot and killed at the fruit they'll guard station in 2009. as we take a look at the protesters marching through downtown will the creek. a demonstrator taking to the streets and marching towards the walnut creek park station where they briefly closed the gates for six months. they're now reopen kron 4 christine conley has been live in downtown one at creek following the protests. >> what a difference in the school had to show you this protest is over with there's not
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a single person laughed the last person holding a sign leaving about 50 minutes ago. even taking a look at traffic you can see they been able to open up and now still valley road traffic is moving freely. at its peak there were about 300 protesters here you can see some of that right here. you see people from both sides pro oscar grant and the pro johannes mehserle crowd yelling at each other. one protester telling me there's a lot more screaming going on than listening. very little listening going on. the organizers of the pro johannes mehserle group was not named by police and they did not make themselves known today. officers in riot gear did stand by just in case some times boos and cheers from the crowd. they did have to block off the street for a few hours because the protesters to fill the into the street. the walnut creek police department had every officer come to the police department about today they said the
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officers will be on standby for the next couple of hours in case there are any stragglers. no idea yet how much this is cost the walnut creek police department and if they're going to try and recoup any of those costs. some of those officers standing by but no violence. our team coverage with kron 4 is gabe slate who is in the middle of the crowd. the view if the protesters and oscar grant. what are you saying. >> he wasn't resisting the was no problems. >> i didn't say purposely shot anybody. the that never came out of my mouth. z then he's not guilty of murder. z i know law enforcement gets heated a
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special the world were in right now not stupid and not ignorant. i understand that the police are necessary. i'm not going to see all cops are bad but the cops i've encountered have come at me very aggressively. i move appeared to be run better people. >> i notice it to see men died and so most of these people are up in that rally in a lot of people around here have never ever been arrested. they've never had it this way. ok. >> gabriel slate kron 4 news. >> look at police officer in right kier marching down the streets of downtown will the creek breaking up the protests which was scheduled to end in hour ago when it did end peacefully. businesses in the area to take precautions for today's rally. as kron 4 moreen tally shows a subpar the story.
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>> several businesses around the demonstration and counter demonstrations close upper like this are crustacean here. there only about half a block away from where the protest in counter protests are taking place. this boiler station across the street is one of three gas stations in the neighborhood that close. also some other businesses took a more stream measure like to go with this one this is a dry cleaner you can see as a zoom and the boarded up windows. they also hired a security guard to keep watch. other businesses like this development right here they're selling condominiums they stayed open all they did was remove the street signs that they had out in front advertising business. maureen kelly kron 4 news. >> kron 4 news room here's the first picture showing protesters blamed on the ground in downtown walnut creek. here's another picture showing a woman wearing a shirt sing in support of our friend johannes mehserle. another picture coming in showing police lining the road
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on a ratio valley road keeping the crowds under control. there but a lot of comments posted about this rally on line appeared our web producer kimberly stock a model to closer look. this is a website it's called bart police officer johannes mehserle is just anderson appeared details of today's rally were first posted here. if grant was completely innocent to the pleas would not been there to begin with it was an accident three masterly. judge asked you reinstate bill for johannes mehserle and set aside the verdict. there's no reason for and being in jail. johannes is innocent. i'm very proud to stand for the system invoice my beliefs at the rally in w.c.. this incident was a tragedy on both sides. visit www.kron4.com we'll let us know what you think. >> fog will be the big story
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over the next several days. the movement today little bit thicker we can see a heavy along with coast and also moving into the bay. conditions are little cooler out there today. 58 and san francisco, 54 half moon bay temperatures and linda will be in the low 80's but the continue to cool as well as the fog comes more dominant. still looking closely will still in fairly quickly and move further inland so by tomorrow morning were looking at dense fog and towards the afternoon at about 5 degrees cooler appeared the fog will dominate our forecasts for the week and into the weekend appeared on the details on your extended forecast coming up a bit. stay with us will be right back after the break.
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some as a chief of police who explains of the suspects were caught. >> pictures of the suspects were arrested after the six weeklong investigation by the internet crimes against children task force. it's comprised of 13 local long for some agencies including the fbi. san jose please chief rod davis explains how the task force was able to track down the suspects. >> search the public internet sites and waves if you will frequencies to be able to identify digital fingerprint and photographs of prepubescent children who are engaged in some type of horrible sexual exploitation. hence we can identify with this an exchange that information to the digital fingerprints were searching for the internet. were able to search search warrant on the individual's be contracted out to the local home computer and find what they're doing. >> arrest made on july 15th are only a small sample of this type of crime that to be investigated from san jose but to be trees anywhere.
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>> is is the type of the is an expert goes around the world we focus on what were looking for here. the doesn't mean we can't target any given area through the technology we used to scan across the internet. the >> san jose dave kron 4 news. this >> city of san francisco has a new sister city. mayor gavin newsome signed an agreement with the mayor of barcelona spain today. barcelona now joins more than a dozen other cities including sydney australia and shanghai china. this is to the program was great in the 1950's to build relationships between the u.s. and other countries. >> took a look at extended forecast fog will be the big story for the week it will keep you cool and even trees along the coast. all of a full forecast coming up in just a bit.
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apart station. a man from virginia which killed that night to the webster as he was leaving a dentist's office after emergency visit. whizzer with the shooting in i 580 near the harrison street exit. this is a suspect he's been identified as firing william speer the 45 year-old from grove lane california has an extensive criminal history. including a robbery. oakland police tell williams is now talking to homicide investigators. his mother has reportedly said williams was upset because he could not get a job because he was an excellent. we have new video of the kron 4 the shooting on 580 you hear the gunshots going off here. then you start to see police officers from oakland move their way into the scene. kron 4 to reset reports on the shoot out and how police believe william survive the violent confrontation. >> the toyota pickup truck riddled with bullets. and here the chp vehicle with its windows shot out. and seal these yellow
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markers on the freeway officers tell kron 4 news that more than 60 shots were fired at suspect byron williams. the cp spokesperson tells kron 4 the pilot confrontational started saturday evening at midnight one officer saw williams driving erratically and weaving through traffic on 580. officers attempted to pull over several times they say finally when he did that's when he pulled a gun and started to shoot. listen as you can hear gunfire erupted this youtube video posted by witness. officers say the hail of gunfire lasted around 10 minutes with more than talent chp officers involved. the same williams finally surrounded after suffering will multiple wounds. this is willie is being taken a hospital. police say survived to the fact saying he was wearing heavy body armor. kron 4 learned while officer sunday morning went to his car they found three guns. in
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addition a bomb squad and mechanical robot here. when a suspicious package was discovered inside the truck. here you can see the robot pilot this binder it says california. fbi agents are now allies in the binder appeared officers tell kron 4 news they believe williams was heavily armed because he was heading to some unknown location. they believe the traffic stop provided a possible deadly situation from occurring. to reset kron 4 news. >> were now one of the other incidents over the weekend as police investigators are following up. kron 4 dan reports of the incident involving a sniper shooting at police officers. >> this is seen around 1130 last night after someone opened fire on police officers would pulled over vehicle in the 1000 block of the street near adeline. >> during the car stopped in investigation and discovered love large amounts of crack cocaine inside the vehicle. as a further investigated someone from the apartment complex to
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was there started to fire a weapon at the officers. >> expect often called an additional officers and searching the apartment building only to find nothing. still the search for the shooter is a top priority. >> anytime your son is willing to shoot at the police or endanger society it's very dangerous to the society and the officers. hopefully tips will be able to locate the individuals. >> they will look at surveillance videos from various locations in the area to see if it helps them track down this labor. in oakland kron 4 news. >> oakland please continue to investigate the shirting a job interview with google. demanded an emergency dental procedure done sunday night as he was leaving the clinic in downtown oakland are around 1132 men approached him demanding money. they shot him and took off with a few of his possessions.
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oakland police offering a reward $20,000 for information leading to an arrest. >> to the other incident in oakland over the weekend after bart and oakland police officer shot and killed the man who they say charged at them with knives on saturday morning in the fruit they'll district. authorities in oakland are promising a through investigation. officers tried unsuccessfully to taste the man appeared the suspect end up charging officers who opened fire on him. he doubted the scene. and more fire stations are closing in vallejo appeared kron 4 jeff bush tells us what the big rig city had to make the move. >> fire station 25 and drive and vallejo close its doors and 80 m ^ station 26 and full of the new close to end station 21 demonstrate reduced it to quit was affable to one letter truck. the department of the equipment in the fire fighters from the two fire stations that are closing but was reopened as part of the shuffle. the changes are results of the city council decision early this month. it's
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an attempt to save money. the overall staff in the vallejo fire department will go down from 18 to 15 fire fighters purchased. there will be no layoffs as a result of the shuffle because the department is already lost some firefighters. in 2006 the department had a staff of 122 fighters to date the part is down to 67. the changes effectively reduce the number of engine companies on duty from 5 to 4. fire officials said the shuffle will result in increased response time for service calls. >> the the fog is already starting to push into the bay. a look outside from our roof cam over downtown san francisco. thought he skies here and along the coastline. the stick a look at what we can expect tonight into tomorrow. the fog is pushing and so will move fairly quickly this evening all the way toward inland spots. if to our morning were the can't dense fog along the coast and around the
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bay and 7:00 a.m. your lord deskilling back pushing back to the coastline in the late morning hours. by through the morning will cease undisguised of most of the bay area over cast of the coast line 5 degrees cooler in many locations. 80 degrees will be our warmus in the spot. 5:00 fog spreading into the inland valley also long the delta but it will be patchy there and dance close to the coastline. continuing to the morning commute it o'clock fog for the north bay down the station or the peninsula and the coast line. it will push back just to the coast at 11 clocks some sunbreaks possible along the san mateo coast in the afternoon. temperatures will be a little cooler out there tomorrow especially in our inland spots. upper 80s out there today to rose and the low 80's. the cool close to the coastline is while 50 that in half moon bay, 60 separates this goal if they 60s around the bay and '70s and the south bay.
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carried a storm passing as to the north will strengthen our sea breeze winless which will bring us more dense fog any interest all along the coast of for the next couple of days. the weekend the fog will slack off a little bit but still will last for the weekend into next week as will the cooler temperatures. thea programming note to tell you the nbc programming on kron 4. america's got talent at 8pm, the last comic standing at 9pm. followed by a special 90 minute edition of the kron 4 news at the 10pm.
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a 17 year-old pennsylvania boy is dead after falling more than the 400 ft. from local storage while hiking with his family to south the gulf of beech tree officials say it happened just after noon today. three of the boy's family members were with him when he fell and 2 where the parking lot nearby beach. live in the newsroom dan curbing kron 4 news.
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>> the latest a mile and receive a look to the floor of the gulf of mexico the cap is holding rate now. their small amount of oil and gas leaking the pressure still climbing on the cap they fit into place last week. the government top man on the oil spill said there are no plans to let any major amounts of oil escape from the wild. it's a >> collective opinion of the folks that are talking about this that the small seepage as we're fighting right now to not represent any indication that there's a threat to the well if we think that was what happened we would take immediate action. >> it crews have been able to skim most of the oil away from the site to some of the crews are now being sent out to look for oil elsewhere. present >> know, is really frustrated with republicans for blocking and extension of unemployment benefits. today try to make this political site or person volzhsky appeared alongside three unemployed americans. he said there people who need real help to not just looking for
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handouts. >> right now these benefits benefits are often the person sole source of income while there looking for work are in jeopardy. and i have to say after years of championing policies that turned into a deficit the same people wouldn't have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we should offer relief to middle- class americans like jam, leslie ortiz who really need help. >> issue comes up in the senate tomorrow the president hoping democrats can break the law when the replacement for the late senator robert byrd is seated on tuesday. researcher reporting a breakthrough against aids. they say gel containing an aids drug can cut in half a woman's chance of getting hiv from infected partner. these results still need to be confirmed scientists disagree about whether there's enough protection right now to
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and other businesses like this development here stay open while they did was removed the sign they had it upfront advertising business. marine kelly kron 4 news. kron 4 is learning new details about what happened during a violent shooed out that took place on interstate 580 saturday night. investigators tell kron 4 the suspect byron williams is a convicted felon and is now cooperating with authorities. chp officers say the 45 year-old opened fire saturday night he was injured but officers say he survive because he is wearing body armor his mother said he was frustrated because he could find a job. to reset kron 4 news. >> in oakland police lookout for sniper who opened fire on police
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officers it happened last night at the st. traveling about 11:30 p.m. appeared officers had pulled over a vehicle and while they retain those inside someone from a nearby apartment building opened fire on them. no one was injured deal of research department building but didn't find anything. now officers will be looking at surveillance video from the area. in oakland dan kron 4 news. >> san jose a task force headed by the san as it pleased apart as arrested a least 13 suspects in santa clara county for distribution of on-line child pornography. these are buckshots of the suspects or arrest on july 15th after 6 weeks investigation conducted by the internet crimes against children staff oars. it's comprised of 13 local law- enforcement agencies including the fbi carried the suspects were trucked out after investigation of of nine images and a digital fingerprint that lead to the origin of the material puritans san jose kron 4 news. >> and another big story the vallejo fire department close to
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fire stations today and of the crews and equipment to another fire station as part of the department reshuffling of resources. station 25 and 27 close the doors this morning and station 20 to reopen and with the crews from the close station. the reshuffling in still be three fewer firefighters on duty at any given time. court officials said the reshuffling of resources might have affected response times for service calls. vallejo kron 4 news. >> in texas the new joint ex google and dried smart following is now on the market and if you want it you better act quick most rise in stores are sold out to where they have really low inventory. i think this will be really hot phone this summer. editor pure the drug nexus $200 with a two-year contract. in summary it's a great foam if your present one and i phoned this is the phone for you. >> sweet apple claimed virtually every competing smart phone faces the same intent the
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challenges as the i phone 4. kimberly tells us about the new challenges posed by apple competitors h dc, nokia and research in motion >> last friday use the room block. if you will assert with the signals are great just like the i phone 4. random officials say apple's attempt to draw is unacceptable and their blackberry customers don't need to use the case to maintain proper to activity. nokia's also jumped in bragging that they pioneered internal antenna technology and have it all figured out while apple was playing the blame game for foolish design decisions and h. t. c. to let the numbers speak for themselves showing only 0.016 of the droid zero spires have called to complain about signal problems. a check of all the statements from the smart phone maker this are what of the what section of www.kron4.com. >> our big weather story is the fog. a look from our mount tam
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cam there's a marine layer spilling into the bay. fog will be the big story throughout the week take a look at extended forecast. dense fog over the next several days as the storm passes us. it will kick upper sea breeze winds. this brings us more dense fog, cooler temperatures, the drizzled it will get in the low 80's and our inland spots. as we make our way into the week not much improvement expected. will see fog dance close to the coastline and temperatures will not were not as we head to the weekend. >> health officials say this year's outbreak of war and gulf could be the biggest and 50 years or recommending women and seniors get vaccinated >> california recorded nearly 1500 cases of will to call five times as many as last year. five infants died in all were too young to be immunized. that's what the state department of health is urging vaccinations for women of childbearing age. those over 64 specially
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preference caring for infants should get the vaccine appeared ashen that one in contact with infants and pregnant women carried adults usually recover quickly from open cough events because of their delicate airways have more difficulty surviving infection carried a whopping cough was once a major killer of children in america more than a quarter million cases were reported in 1934 before the vaccinations cut the number by 99 percent. whooping cough is once more on the rise and a spike in 2004 and 2005 and an even bigger one expected this year. >> typical case a whopping cough may appear similar to, called for two weeks that could be followed by weeks or months of rapid coughing fits and sometimes and with a whopping cough. as we go to break a program reminder the giants game is on nbc program america's that talent at 8:00 p.m. alas, extended 9:00 p.m. followed by a special 90 minute edition of the kron 4 news at 10:00 p.m..
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"meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento. he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs. big pensions for state employees. the special interests have chosen their governor. how about you?
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i'll hear stanley roberts 2000 people behaving badly. >> this driver was just caught speeding. on on highway 24 to set aside the tunnel in oakland. were the california highway patrol looks for speeders. from time to time the chp conducts speed enforcement. and what are known as problem areas. this is a problem area. and i see your license and registration please? this driver was doing 70 mi. over the speed limit to get some lunch. but the chp conduct speed enforcement the officer pulling you over. >> do not stop here did not stop here get off the freeway get off
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the freeway. >> to know how fast you're going? 80 mi. an hour and a 55. can i see your license and registration insurance plays. >> the officer writing the ticket is not the actual officer give issue in the to keep. washing to release such as speeding why you may not be able to talk your way out of this ticket. coming up tonight in the next edition of people behaving badly on a special 90 minute kron 4 news at 10:00 p.m.. >> fee of a comment story differ stanley you to e-mail us at people behaving badly at www.kron4.com. >> job job or has a new head she was in surgery for three half- hour's according to or has been everything went while she's 93 years old and broker had when she reached for phone watching jeopardy in bed she fell to the floor. she's partially paralyzed from car accident that happened back in 2002. pish this is lynn below his last day of freedom for a while. she's sick scheduled to serve 90 days in prison for violating probation.
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it starts tomorrow shares video over sentencing earlier this month her new home will be a 12 by 8 ft. seles shall be by yourself for roll protection low and will be able to leave for sell at least an hour day however it's not likely she's going to serve all 90 days of the sentence. the last time low and was in the same jail was for drunk driving and she was let go after 84 minutes because of prison overcrowding. >> michael jordan has some very interesting things to say about a broad james going to the key to. speaking of the heatwave way past explains the comments of his own. gary coming up next with sports.
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right knee. sweeney was batting a team leading to 9436 rbi he's got 54 games without a home run. a's now have 10 players on the disabled list real bad news. days will have pretty good crowds in the next three games. half the crowd will be rooting for boston but on the last. here's the game everyone still talking about look mark d. this year? >> yes >> the game was over that of won the game ever played shows the giants game in eurocrat set the bottom of the that's the umpire called out to even this catcher said he was safe all the way. giants dodgers as we said in a few minutes here's the argument market you have instant replay it's not the game is so slow you're running baseball slow or you're young and happy. >> if you have replay on not to, my gosh and then you stop
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the game for two minutes we'll someone goes under the hood. it would be worth it to you. in a hot look at it from a player my livelihood depended on the call being right i'm for appeared as a fan i think it takes human error as bad as that was. >> as a fan i won a 22nd pitch clock. >> www.kron4.com if you want to pitch clock. >> that was one of the few times when you look at a different way. that is blatantly they blow it giants lost the game but to their credit they did a lot of complaining after. as you did the dutch stadium opened no holdout for one of the game's best running backs chris johnson and the tennessee titans have revised their contract purities pointer to a half million this season it's not the minimum 30 million guaranteed monday that he be saying he wanted. that's what's funny about this. don't say anything of not coming to camp on this it 30 million or to have his good but it's not 30. anyways theory
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goes chris johnson will be in training camp. michael george getting a lot of attention for apparently taking a shot brought james for looking up between wade and chris bosch. >> i would never called larry and say let's get together and play a one team. but things are different i can't say that's a bad thing it's the opportunities these kids have today. i was trying to beat those guys that of they would appeal my team on the competitive guy i like to play games competitive players and see what happens there. >> jordan started and made it happen shot go pick winning six titles. the broad had to go tail wing waiting go to miami to try when its title. meanwhile the before mention wait catching heat with the world trade center disaster. >> this court of the times where might list to get to the roll you never know. it doesn't seem
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like the world is crashing down you will going to seem like the world trade went down again. it's not going to be bad to get a couple games and get back on track. >> he should apology to those who may of been offended by his use of the phrase world trade yet to remember he was saying you guys not that he felt that way. easier to say if you're sitting there been interviewed for 20 minutes for the last two months every once but at your feet butter you up telling you you're the greatest. sometimes you get a little carried away. to bring up the world trade center i think even twayblade said who i probably should have done that. the tour de france is still going it is this weekend. it is that a shame to have to ask mark what it is. currently in seventh place in the fighting mad dropping his shame in losing the overall lead. the two-time champion from spain least and
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the slack by eight seconds are some question whether he may have caused a chain to come off by shifting gears. as you well know and jackie when you go into rapid acceleration switchgears and then because the chain of falloff. >> if i don't pass me if my chain falls off. >> tell you jackie you know lot of stuff markets like a damn genius. i damn genius of the to the point i'm going to ignore both of you. (laughter) when we return are you ready, we have a tent year-old u.s. national and california state judo champion ty can go down. how all 4 ft. 3 in. 63 lbs. he made just whoever is around the edges beat somebody up. look could cause a serious and that his brother mike the mayor of daly city. get ready something physical and
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here is the champ and action to end years of age 4 ft. 3 in. 63 lbs. u.s. national california state to the champs since the age of 60 as 110 tournament titles his picture there with his dad and they are a daily city. he train speed former lick coach willie in san bruno. no joke, his dad of five time reading mayor of daly city. we should say the word to be people our credibility allowed it your brother works for a set cronie'' worked for 25 years a good friend of mine. why once wrote over my shoulder. show some video how he did to 7 to this who wants to have of violence sun? (laughter) we tried baseball adjusted work out a thick the wrestling in the judo
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is what the things you like to do. he liked that. do have to be a great to be good at this? >> just opposite if you can calm yourself down and become going in there and do you draw. >> are you looking at we had we do this thing? fair enough. now does that help you out? >> yes actually he helps meal the way. he really helps >> you go with this like a baseball kid maybe he'll be in the major leagues are basketball nba what is the ultimate if i keep going and going and going? >> were hopefully were headed you want to burn out at wanted to keep continuing to enjoy what he's doing and what are loose we wanted to keep continuing. >> are you dealing they are in united states with a sad who is a champion in and you go? >> i have no idea.
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>> probably so pureed and caught you are impressionists i know you're all dave thinks this is fantastic. you do again? he do 0 p from the old andy griffith show kind of a weird thing. >> (laughter) may be in case you thought it was a tape watch you do it again. live on camera. >> that there is the king of days. >> showed a live demonstration i love it it's a beautiful boy with his pro hoc here is sky and the mayor of daly city. >> ok, that's right ok. >> all for you right on your rear end. you get a good boy terrific hero is metals. maybe i
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