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recieved 90 emails and they are looking into it. >>well the mtsd says only 1 email reports to a gas sign they are lookiki toi'm told by people in the neighborhood what's left of thisthe investigation continues, it is a atastraphic blast. we will show you this part of the story, they saw the gas and she was confirmed the 4th victim, her family knew
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there was a problem. >>my mom smelt gas for 3 weeks, they called pg &e and they went back and didnt do anything >>pg & e is looking inot the reports, they found no record of a gas leak to the gas zone, they are 95% done and they found 2 calls and pg & e tjey continue and we live >>investigators are looking into
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the pipe wright here that exploded, it ent under ground here and curved to an upward slope to negotiate the depth they were welded together and also had a welded seam. >>gov. shwarzzenager is back, kate thonpson is live, kate >>the gov walking thru the crater on earl st, it s a red tagged home, the concrete has been left all over ... where
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those fell you can see if weov over here...blowing a hundred feet..we have video of the gov. speaking to investigators and a map of the damage in the homes and when he was here he signed an order asking fema for money, he talkied to the president who promisec all the help cal needsi think the important thing now is to investigate, we have investigators here to find out exactly what happened we know so far a one hundred foot pipe blew
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up. we don't know exactly why if something was missing or it was weak or something. i think thats why we have to hold the area secure so investigators can go through because some important to make sure this never happens again. >>now san bruno has to be approved for fema money, no gaurantess, and also trick is it can only pay for a sponge that pg e would not pay for if the fema money does come through >>tuesday senaters are planning a cause, alex and mark say they will examine how to pervent tragedy, they will have a rate
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increase caused by improper maintenance. there are heros for there actions, peter and bob, im sorry, bob and bobby and they were in a senior home, lets talk to him >>bob is at this job showing us heis emergency vehicle. on thursday ight after seeing the flames they looked for people who neeed help, it had 6
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occupants who left them >>as we got down there a lady was on a sidewalk and we thought this doesnt look right they screamed "help help" >>they went looking for more, they helped 3 people, he was being told to evacuate but had a feeling there was someone else left they hadnt searching the home at the very last room was a lady on oxygen with a catheter and i looked out the window and with flames behind me
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the bed wouldnt fit through thed pbrought her out >>6 seniour woman the youngest 93 were saved >>i always teach my kids, do the best you can. >>this just in, we have word of a vigil and funeral mass set up, jaqueline and her 13 year old daughter. the mass starts at 11 friday morning and her, she has been going there since
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commendation robbery/the gunman broke into not view home last night and the 72 year-old homeowner and a few no caregiver had been down and the attacker had trouble and in the face. please of not release details of what was taken from the home just yet. >> a jockey has been paralyzed from the waist down after fall during the race and cool the field the middle of your screen that's 24 year-old michael martinez. he see in the fall of the force there. that slow this down and you can see various the course false and falls on top of him. martinez is now recovering at an oakland hospital he also has a severe head injury and is bleeding and as long as he was the second leading jockey at golden gate fields. >> city of menlo park is ready to tighten restrictions on smokers the city council unanimously approved a new law that would ban smoking in common areas of apartment and condominium buildings and parks and a precarious. illegal us to
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smoke in the transit spots the fine would be $50 for the first offense, 100 and dollars to the second offense within 12 months. thcity council is to hold another vote on the measure until it can go into a factor that's what the traffic out side of the bay bridge toll plaza if the right side of your screen is traffic headed east bound towards emeryville and moving well critic of the left side of your screen heading into san francisco about to cross the bay bridge no backup and the pay gates nor the fast track the flames. we'll be right back. >> a quick look at our temperatures right now it's about the same as yesterday a couple degrees warmer in the north bay and a couple degrees warmer in nice weather continues tomorrow off but big changes this week and a forecast is coming up in just a bed.
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police to go through the rubble that you're looking at now to look for personal belongings. will keep an eye on this and bring you the latest as we get it. >> san francisco gorgeous supervisors giving the go-ahead for a five story shopping center on market street. this is what the center will look like this official say the shopping center between the fifth and sixth street is an important part of reviving the area. the centers being built in hopes of attracting resellers to sell for will let electronics, sporting good and bulky items construction is scheduled to begin next year. >> signed by the state puts oakland a big step closer to a new development project you see it here in oakland waterfront. the jury the location on google earth will fly in take this fall. this is where the pope tonight project is supposed to go from 10th avenue to the embarcadero. right here along the estuary. jeff bush chose as what's planned for this area. >> it's been years in the making of the deal is done between the
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state and developers who plan on a massive development here at the oakland waterfront. the plan is to develop this mostly industrial area into a center for housing, and retail the project is expected to take 15 years to complete the when the dust settles it there will be more than 3000 homes and more than two did thousand square feet of retail spots. it's a massive project that will span 64 a. almost half of that will be parks and green spaces. the developers' plan on putting tuesday of the are marinas as well. oakland raiders are happy about development for several reasons. the unused funds said the area will be turned into productive space and will create jobs in the process. developers say as many as 8000 jobs will be created in the project is expected to provide much needed tax revenue for the city puritan estimated $800 million in taxes ago the city as a result of the project. the development was
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stalled for years because of a lawsuit filed by anti develop an activist judge ruled in favor of the appeal is overruled construction will begin sometime next year. in oakland kron 4 news. >> nice weather out there today continues into tomorrow but big changes this weekend. friday increasing cloud cover and temperatures will did just a little bit but into saturday and sunday the storm passing to the north looks like it will clip us for saturday evening in the north bay and sundays through the rest of the bay area. cool temperatures will prevail throughout the bay area as is pushes through. we'll talk more about that in a moment for icicicicicouou satellite pictures out there now. if fog near san francisco but along the coastline to the north and down to the south is the sunbreaks here. we'll see the fog push back and tonight it just will be as extensive as what we saw this morning. 6:00 a.m. tomorrow up and down the coastline and the
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fog into the bay shore as it will not move much from this point to the 9:00 a.m. our will to push back a little bit. it back to the coastline by and says sunbreaks once again possible along the coast tomorrow. temperatures will be a degree to warmer virtually the same as today. 657 cisco, '80s santa rosa now the low 80's for inland spots and in the '70s through the rest the bay area. were expecting in terms of the rain. looks like most of the rain will stay well to the north of us but there's a chance come eleven o'clock saturday morning in the north bay a stingray which will continue into the 7:00 hour saturday. the chance for the rest the bay area moves into the sunday but the likes screen you see in your screen slight chance of showers will be pre light and most of the heavy rain will stay well to the north of us. it willarly monday morning your here is a look at your 7 day around the bay first in the north bay and
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the rest the bay area cooler temperatures expected for the weekend but as we've had into next week dryer and slightlyyyyy >> new details tonight about the uc-berkeley graduate finally released from prison in the ron carey sarah shore to staying out of the public eye on her first full day of freedom and the year. this was the scene yesterday after ron released her after nearly 14 months. she is one of the three u.s. hiker's arrested in dhahran and accused of spying. the other to including her fiance are still in prison. she said today she did have a chance to say goodbye to them and they were thrilled about her release. >> in national news the old, administration will not require oil and gas companies operating in the gulf plunged nearly 3500 and not producing wells. the companies will also have to dismantle hundreds of production platforms which are no longer used. it's a move to prevent potentially huge lakes. as for
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the gulf build its now expected that bp is broken well could be permanently plug by sunday. meantime, officials in louisiana say these crabs which they caught recently are full of oil. they say the catch is useless the fishermen are demanding testing to find out if this is bp oil. arlington national cemetery has discovered three people buried in the wrong grapes. the army said today officials opened three burial sites last month and down the remains and each had been put in this marked graves. the discovery falls investigation into bookkeeping problems and real mixups at arlington. officials say up to 6600 graves might be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps. one of the 33 e trapped miners in chile has hope to look for to that's the name of his first baby was born on tuesday. with video now ec of the minors was showing sonogram of the baby the minor the wife
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live this is kron 4 news at 6:00. our big story tonight it 6:00 the san bruno gas line explosion just moments ago kron 4 received reports that some residents are being escorted into the neighborhood to retrieve whatever was left of their belongings. and this video you see the homeowner who is dressed in white going through a fireproof safe and with officials to recover whatever he can from the ruins of what used to be his home. how silly member of one of the victims was killed tells kron 4 they did smell gas four weeks befefefefee christine conley has that part bruno. christine. '''''''''''''e >> the son of one of the victims said the family had smelled gas and a backyard when he stepped
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out of the way work and is it meant the fires don't see and show you what's going on now. you can see the car moving through the area of the investigation continues. as investigators try to determine if this is a catastrophic failure of the pipe or shows a small lead over time. the ginnie said of looking into reports that some residents claim they smelled gas before the blast. patrol some video entry that part of the story. the son of elizabeth torres who you see here said she had called pg&e about a gas smell the 81 year- old was confirmed yesterday as the fourth victim from this blaze. her son said the entire family knew there was a prom with the gas line in their homes. ticklismy mom and him han selling gas for three weeks in the cold piccinni they just kind of looked around and said yes ok and they go back without doing anything. >> genie said they already
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reviewed calls from september 1st thru september 9th and found no records of calls from the blast they looked at over 3 million calls in about 95% complete reviewing calls from september july 1st to september 1st is found to cause a small leak at adjoining properties piccinni's as they looked into that and then repaired that leak. thissssssssssss is a veryt part of the investigation and when they are very much looking into. reporting live christine conley kron 4 news. >> the governor arnold schwarzenegger toward the scene of the catastrophe today it is his first visit to the community since explosion. kate thompson is live in several whitmore what the governor had to say. kate. >> the governor was here and he was surveying the damage and getting filled in by investigators on the latest. now this has been a red tag area so people had led back here until today we've seen some residents
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who've been able to get escorted behind this fence and start to go through their damage shells of homes and look for kenny belongings that might still be intact. we've seen people in these white moon suits those are residents who were here sifting through the wreckage. we have video to show you of the governor who is here on pearl streets. he was speaking to investigators about the latest on the investigation what's been done by federal investigators and what's being done by local authorities as far as the blast. there's still no determination of what caused the blast but the governor has promised to answers. now that he is back he will really be trying to get answers or over the next few days. there has been frustration because there's some government agencies here on getting answers of what went wrong. were the bells were why were they shut off why did it take so long. if the governor says now he was here he will put
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pressure on these agencies to give some answers over the next couple of days. >> there is no hiding the information i can guarantee you that. i will get the report and i'm a bigggggggggggggggr not soh and pointing fingers but the only way we can learn from things that happen and mistakes that are made is by looking into it and acknowledging and honestly and making the changes so it doesn't happen again. >> where we are is just one street which leads up to this damaged area. their number of streets that all interest act to where this crater is. kron 4 moreen kelly tore the neighborhood is your closer look at the devastation. >> on the 2700 block it looks like the fire ball miss the street but it's a whole different story when i pan this way. three homes used to stand here and now they're completely gone. this is where one has used
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to be this is what's left of the front yard and it's all dry grass killed by the heat of the flame. here's the front walkway that leads now to nothing there's no front door. over here those of the broken front steps lined. over here is where the growth issues to be and that's what's left of the family car. it barely looks like a car at all. you can see what's left of the exterior of the house with the support beams burned away it's just as bio of stucco and chicken wire and that's all that's left.'s very left here that looks like anything at all its old just twisted metal and charred bits of wood and paper. over here is the one thing really that's left standing you can see it was a barbecue really the one thing left in this family home. bring kelly kron 4 news. >> stay with kron 4 for
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continuing coverage of the san bruno gas line explosion and you can also had to our web site www.kron4.com where we have comprehensive coverage of that explosion. >> 3 night stay out there today the nice weather continues into tomorrow but big changes roll for this weekend looks like we're going to get some real details on that coming up of that al mess. and i'm not going to give you any phony plans or snappy slogans that don't go anywhere. we have to make some tough decisions. we have to live within our means. we have got to take the power from the state capitol and move
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tourists now revealing its multimedia site carried kimberly shows us some changes >> to expect> stubble very important changes were rulediliw of them if we can take the video right here. he see that familiar timeline on the left-hand side of those tweets role in down on the right-hand side that's a bunch of the information that wasn't there before. the most important part of this redesign is twitter moves almost everything to a single screen. you don't have to open new tab
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or page to find a whole twitter experience right here. which to do is click on an individual tweet and a detailed page revealingly content. see this person right here put a link to youtube video is so open-ended tap and browser you see in the same window. now thehahave beenw select members but it will expand to the entire twitter group over the next few weeks. read all about waters changes visit our whats on the web section on www.kron4.com and right after the break will hear about a father and son who helped r rcue if several elderly women in san bruno.
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>> he is at his job at a san leandro sausage co. join me in the car that became emergency vehicle when used to evacuate three of the six women who may not been able to leave the area under their own power but thursday night before the explosion scene the flames they took off of their home a few blocks away and he look for people needed help. this is a senior song called it had six occupancy caretaker left after the explosion occurred. >> to get down there my son and i we saw a lady on the sidewalk being held by another lady was in a wheelchair. this doesn't look right. we stopped and the lady just added screaming help, help, help. we but the lead in the wheelchair in my car. >> it went door to door looking for more to help when they realized there were at the seniors home where they up a few more of the elderly women into his a one of the women's cars. they're being told by fermenta affected the area but he had a feeling there might be another
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person left in the house. get back in that house there something in my dad telling me i haven't finished searching at home. at the very last row was a lady in a hospital bed on oxygen. catheter on and completely and i'd look out the women in there's flames behind me and i said oh my gosh hospital bed with it through the door it because it's normal door so three the specter of butter in a wheelchair and brought her roadside. >> in all six senior women in the youngest in 93 years old or in some part rescued by him and his son they even ended up driving them to the hospital as well. >> was taught my kids help people if he can carry if everybody did what we tried to do it would be a better place. >> in san leandro kron 4 news carried >> investigators looking into the wealth on this piece of pipe
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that blew in san bruno live show you why on google earth. this is where the explosion happened for going to take this fall and fly on and carried to the pipe that one underground here went from a downward slope on the street and curved back up to an upward slope. investigators believe in order to negotiate this very depp, small three or 4 ft. pieces were welded together shall to agree to curb it also handled the scene at the bottom of the pie. investigators looking into whether or if those wells failed. >> changes and to the weekend starting on friday cooler temperatures and were going to start to see clouds streaming in and of the storm that will pass this mostly to the north. we do have a chance of showers in the afternoon on saturday and a chance in the morning and sunday while cooler temperatures on top your will talk more about that in a moment. over night tonight into tomorrow morning early dish satellite pictures showing fog hogging the coast line in the
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san mateo coastline slightly offshore and clear skies along the north bay coast as well as to the rest of the bay area. fog will push back in tonight but will not be as extensive mainly in our bay shores. temperatures will warm as a result. 80 degrees in santa rosa same thing in that the 75 and december fell seven is for bay shore is a low 80's for in the location. but talk about the rate now it looks like the majority of the rain will pass this to the north. a pretty strong storm some of the this drilling into the north bay 11:00 on saturday continue for the day on saturday into the evening. looks like the majority of the bay area will get hit by some sprinkles on sunday morning. that's the light green skin a screen credit it o'clock on sunday continued through the day and sunday and the late hours in early hours of monday morning. it's not going to be a big rainmaker all but some light showers are expected. mild conditions tomorrow cooler as we head into frida in much cooler as we head into sunday and the
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bulk of that rain pushes through the bay area. into next week so more dryer conditions are expected. >> the new video camera program is being tested by police officers and one east bay city kron 4 road along with an officer to demonstrate how this new camera work. >> your looking at video of a traffic stop been recorded by this opd officers knew that on camera. unlike the trocar cameras this recording device captures video and audio. opd spokesperson jeff thomas and explains why the department is divertinininininininininininin e car camera program to the new clip on. >> these are tests to officers so when officers: a house, walking stops when the contact people off to the side away from their vehicle, you're going have video and audio from that stock.
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>> officer thompson says every traffic stop will be recorded. all the officer has to do is lie discovered down like officer jason scott does right here in the officers camera is rolling >> getting a ticket for your cracked windshield so you have to fix that read away and you will be getting a ticket for not having a driver's license with you. >> this is the camera will be good for the public as well as for police officers and as traffic cop shows why. >> this delay was to make complaints that i got stopped for no reason or the officer was rude all those things are recorded on a video camera. >> 15 cameras are being tested now however opd plans and ordering 350 chess' cams for the entire patrol division by the end of the year appeared in oakland kron 4 news. >> if you thought dealing with furlough days is causing a back up in government offices try the fremont dmv office staff the crowds there are even worse things to the shutdown of the dmv to the north and a word.
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kron 4 craig shows is how bad it is as the office takes on the demands of two communities. >> just trying to get into the parking lot is a mess. there no spots at the fremont dmv whether you're from fremont or just drove down from a word for the local offices closed. tough for me to get in the billy winn in this line to get a ticket. you have to wait even longer pre never to be called he become one of the many waiting in this claustrophobic office a roadside mini against the wall. >> been here for our have yes, when i came this morning was actually all rumble building. there's so many people in their i couldn't that the stroller. >> and waiting about to 10 pages. >> the way for a driver's test the instructors work is on this. >> i can't even sit down for a minute. were overloaded. a lot of work. >> furlough friday this week the
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a dmv workers say they face a backlog that gets worse each day it will be this way for another three weeks that's when they were office reopens after renovations putting the demand on the fremont dmv. >> up programming note to tell you about this thursday nbc will air the giants game and crime will air nbc programming but it o'clock on kron 4 you can catch this season premiere of the apprentice british will be followed by a special edition of kron 4 news at 10:00. we'll be right back. mm, my water just broke!
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decision 2010 voters in two states have selected tea party over establishment of republicans. established a new delaware have included republican hopes of ending the. and >> the midterm elections this november republicans are focusing on the number 10 that's how many more seats in the to win control the senate.
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>> as and then on and the people of >> delaware have >. this woman just made their job more to the colts republican strategists call roll calls christine o'donnell unelectable. >> we were looking ahead 89 seats in the senate were now looking at seven or eight. >> o'donnell when the senate n delaware with the backing of the tea party not the republican party. she advocates abolishing social security medicare and the department of education. o'donnell defaulted on a mortgage, defaulted on student loans and has been called a fraud by her former campaign manager. nevertheless she upset longtime congressman michael cassell off with been a heavy favorite to fill vice presidents biden's senate seat. >> i want everyone in the republican party to oppose me to know this, you're welcome to join the people's crusade. >> in york tea party back carl
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defeated party veteran advocate in the old republican primary for governor. the buffalo millionaire has proposed turning prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients and he's been caught ford in races e-mail jokes. of former governor of new york, november. >> republican candidate for government whitman and was in services could today she is talking to employers that yell. she's now become a record holder meg whitman has now spent more for a money than any other candidate in any of their race and the entire history of american campaigning. for talking $119 million. we asked about that in our one-on-one interview this afternoon. >> i've been running now for almost 18 months almost 20 months. i had a contestant primary and up against someone who is backed by the republican unit. it is expensive but i feel great about where we are. i believe californians are very
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smart you can't buy elections californians are too smart for that but you can by candidates and i tell you jerry brown has been bought and paid for by the public employee union. what i will bring to sacramento's independence and i will do what is right to the people of california because i don't have special interests. >> distending market holder was new york and michael bloomberg we also asked about the success of sight of a couple of the tea party candidates. some republicans very worried that's going to make it harder for mainstream republicans to win elections. whitman said the tea party candidates tend to be fiscal conservatives and that's ok with her. what more of our interview with whitman on kron 4 news saturday night. we'll be right back if back to our
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in this video you can see officials are cutting into a safe for one of the residence there can get inside to get his belongings. also new details from the victim's son who said they did so gas the days before the giant blast destroyed 37 homes and killed four people in san bruno. christine conley as live in san bruno tonight with the latest. the son tells kron 4 they sell gas in the backyard this is the investigation continues as we go ahead and zoom in to the fires on here. you can see there's still crews continuing to look for close and this is pg&e to sponsor their records to see if they got calls about gas wells. let's roll some video feed and show you that part of the story. the son of elizabeth torres we see here said she called pg&e about a gas called the one-year-old was confirmed on tuesday as the fourth victim from this blaze. her son says the entire family
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knew there is a problem with the gas line in her home. take a listen to what he says his and told him. they had been selling gas for like three weeks, they called pg any of there and they just kind of looked around and said okay and they go back without doing anything. pg&e said there investigating these reports they have already reviewed calls from september 1st thru september 9th and say they found no records of the ghastly calls from the blast zone. the look at over 3 million calls if they say there not a 5% complete reviewing calls from july 1st to september 1st and found to cause of gas leaks one on july 23rd and one on july 27th at adjoining properties. pg&e said it responded in a six the leak. investigators are trying to determine if there is a catastrophic failure with a 30 in. pipe or a small leak that was there for some time. the ntsb said they've got about 90 e-mail's from that had
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different varying reports in one of the reports was somebody that said they smelled gas and that was two or three weeks ago pg&e prepared that problem and they say was that it's helpful orore recent reports reporting live in san or nine christine conley kron 4 news. for going to move from christine conley to kate thompson she was with the governor on his first tour of the destruction. kate. the governor was here from this side of that now secretory you can see it right here it is surrounded by that chain-link fence. all of the damage here the shell of this current out home this is a red tag: we just ought resident who was able to go and sit through the shell of his house to see if he could find any of his belongings. it also see here were these massive chunks of concrete have landed in someone's driveway hundreds of feet from that large crater.
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this is what the governor was taking a look at when he came today. we have video to show you of his visit he would show maps of the area he spoke to inspectors and also investigators from the ntsb and also local police and fire who were here the day of the blaze in have been helping out a person's. the governor was on a trip to china so this is his first visit to the area. he said he's trying to get as much money flowing as possible he had spoken to president barack obama the day after the blast and has also just today signed an executive order asking for the federal emergency dollars. >> we also ask president barack obama to help us and he during my conversation with him, was in china at the time he said
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anything that you need to do he will respond and help us as quickly as possible. >> fema was on-site a couple of days ago and completed their initial assessment of this area. now the governor has signed an order is up to the president to decide if he will declare this a federal disaster area. we do not know how long that was so take but now the governor signed the order everything is in place. if reporting live from san bruno kate thompson kron 4 news. >> stay with kron 4 for continuing coverage of the san bruno gas line explosion it also had to or website www.kron4.com where we have comprehensive coverage of the gas line tragedy. >> our big weather story chance of rain this weekend we had a nice day this weather continues and more with less fog them what we saw today. friday will see changes with clouds streaming in ahead of last and the storm
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entablatures will: friday but especially in to saturday and sunday. the first chance of rain is in the north bay saturday evening and the rest of the bay area mainly sunny morning into early sunday afternoon. it's not a big rainmaker it all just like showers most of the rain will miss this to the north. as we head into next week things will dry out how warm up just a tad pureed >> to new machines which rather freeze or deflate fat cells to help in weight loss may in the market soon. kimberly brings is a look at one of the new fda approved devices. >> this could be the future for those who want to lose weight. the first one i have is called a body contour and treatment. what happens you're hooked up to this machine here for about one hour you can see it in many people's problem spots in the stomach the thought recedes are freezing treatment kills the fat cells then those cells are absorbed into the body what people are going to like about this is there's no need for incisions or
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anesthesia. the fda also approved a fat blasting glacier i don't have a picture of it what happens with that when it punctures and distillates fat sell some of these do some promising expert still advise a healthy diet coupled with exercise is the best weight-loss treatment carried to read all about these new fda-approved of isis visit our whats on the web section on www.kron4.com. we have a programming note to tell you about. tomorrow nbc will air the giants game and kron will air nbc programming. at 8:00 p.m. on kron 4 you can catch the season premiere of the apprentice. that will be followed by a special edition of kron 4 news at 10:00 p.m. we'll be right back.i'm told by people in th
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terminal in san francisco. o explain why a second. the temporary terminals for ac transit greyhound and less contra costa stop until the new transit terminals constructed. only buses and authorized vehicles are allowed to drive inside the terminal. pedestrians are not allowed. so security officers are there to keep the roadways cleared of any but using the terminal is a shortcut. their numerous signs like this one and this one and this one asking people to use the sidewalk. often these signs are ignored like the guy and richard he escorts back on the sidewalk to cross a different location worries met by a security officer in order to the sidewalk. again. this woman here is pushing a stroller and said the lot and this lady just wander around although she was asked not to it's a constant battle trend keep people from making the terminal shortcut.
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one worker at the terminal told me it's a matter of time before someone gets hit by a boss that it will make the news. is a jury different times they're literally dozens of people tried to use the dangerous shortcut every day. at the temporary transit terminals stanley roberts kron 4 news. few of a comment or story idea for stanley you can e-mail us at peoplebehavingbadly@kron4.com. the giants are scoreboard watching as the rockies in padres battle today carry has had led some reaction on the street ahead. one of the most influential film makers of all time. ken burns said downs live with gary to talk about the latest documentary. gary ride the chin can coming up next. and candles is that low rate now www.kron4.com will bring you the latest developments in the san bruno gas line explosion. watch the and tsb news conference as
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good evening everybody giants got help this afternoon particularly if you don't all think rockies are capable catching up here is the young fellow from sunnyvale. this is the second coming of cal ripken and then some. troy hit a pair of three run homers 37 rbis rockies win 96 giants trailed by one day now in the west. >> that was big it's all kind of
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the many debris away from the pack. all we can do is focus on ourselves right now and winning. >> giants dodgers in a few minutes. grenfell south carolina prettify broke out after the collision home plate between a couple minor league teams this is playoff action the green pole derek gets it mixes up the cash to capture both benches cleared punches were thrown as we like to say there pam nobody died. the last game 6-1 these are guys i've never seen millionaires get angry. how you get angry when making a million dollars. when making it to hundred dollars a month barely then you get angry. reggie bush vacated 2005 heisman trophy will remain that vacated. the word today from the highs into custody th. it all the rule
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configuration that cool all lists not an nfl traditionalist they went away for awhile that has returned and vernon glenn will have to get there and said he's never been more exciting >> i wanted the band back together people were excited there's so many people that make this organization work and it's going to be fun putting it all back together. >> when we return is the american storyteller from his award winning story of the civil war two is planned to attend the name that was screen last night in san francisco appeared to ken burns' covers it all that's not can hose that's jose canseco but she particularly have to enjoy kent's work on the burning of barry bonds that upbringing may very well shaped his personality were back with the award winning timberlands. in a moment.
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sokoto's an award winning film baseball. branson and producing films for 25 years the war of the nassau parch the unforgivable blackness that's quite interesting to >> p.s. audiences get in the high 30 millions and sometimes their original is will series some 40 million. it's controlling me for a while. let's start local people fascinated with bonds both on and off the field. you have some interesting pieces of information regarding various upper range and all say right out that basically very was
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raised not to trust. >> is father's traded seven times his chocoholic he reads the press how bad is that is. i not tried to excuse the behavior but in an earlier generation joe did not she'll was tough on the press and the fans we treated him like a god and barry bonds didn't get the same pass because we live in a much more complicated in the era. >> he dreaded talk to bonds legal ramifications and the way. >> were able to find stuff from their records of press conferences and conversations and i think there were incredibly revealing the promise we made him a one-dimensional character is it about a good. this guy is the best player the last 20 years he's arguably one of the greatest players of all times and always have the steroid shadow hanging over him we don't just throw way these people will understand them to live viticulture which w w w w w drugs to do better in the bedroom or we give them draw
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kids to do better in the school we did to wake up and suddenly were shocked if our best jurors are taking something is >> is a heck of a general question to think bonds and clemens with the perjury trials next year she think because of the way they've handled themselves in particular clemens' when he stood up before and said no do think they belong in jail? >> don't know about the long a jail in think there's a good chance clemens will end up in the hall of fame in jail think barry will get off i don't think the case is strong there i'm just a layman. they both deserve to be in the hall of fame but you wonder in the end where there were taking it all too terribly seriously. >> because baseball relies so much on the numbers u.s. the average guy we go through this every but intruth using that the game is tarnished and i won't say forever but for people under age group will never look at the same and indeed football is
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king? >> in football that was good pr and continues more eyeballs watch baseball it's our national pastime is the best game ever invented. the numbers do matter and to require stories. back in 1919 it doesn't say this uncinate red sox were in the world series a distance to the black sox took money from gamblers there's lots of stuff we ought to explain the story. i think about the area where the more tragic hitters know, did anyone hit for 06 know, to the pitcher win 40 games of 35 games are 30 games know. basically we have e e e e e e e e e e e e e e paris hospital and we had some inflated home-run records. the 50 home run season which was a rarity before the syrup is the already again. if we look back and tell their kids like we tell them about the black sox and what we tell them about the absence of african-americans would tell the stories and that's why do for living address figured how to interpret the steroids here and in the and the star of it isn't very bonds is the resilience of the game
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that's come through and flying colors and go to the park last later tonight and see a beautiful came in the play on the field is never better. >> a young person says hey i can play football with my video- game baseball is for you old- timers it's too slow it doesn't jump out at me. have you contact that it is a slower pace. >> it is lower but allows for reflection of football and basketball they are far soros could that everything is good evidence that baseball has at last is the this is silly teens bored in which there's no clock. the lateen sport in which the defense as the ball always cared it's only team sport where the man scores and knock the ball. fill the place which those parts are regular with a tub to my foot caulfield was a hundred and five years long cared what if i to do i open basketball court would be bad the territories matter in this game and all of these things happen in this is the only sport that accompanies every decade of prosperity ever
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facts as good and bad. that's with the steroids and the strips but that also baseball's >> with a minute left and also when told to this i have a radio show and i said burns is a brilliant guy but i don't have to know is to sit and look at a stuffed with your children how the heck did you break this in a culture that's reliable and will he became a star during long form. >> that's adb we of steroids you can take for that. (laughter) think the shooting down senate today. you know what i'm saying had a break for personally. >> roll interested it the thing that matters is our attention in the works are part of the relationships you care most about have benefited from your attention. even know we live in a culture that ddt is still buy that stu in the kids' lineup for harry potter box that's going to take a much longer than to take the watch my film. >> 28 the september on pbs the
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10th inning ken burns's name on it. that means it's dynamite nice to meet you can. ok we will see what a lot nouncer ] we know jerry brown was mayor of oakland, but what were the results? fact: brown promised to improve schools. but the drop out rate increased 50%, and the state had to take over the schools. fact: the city controller found employees paid for 22,000 hours... they never worked. fact: brown promised to cut crime. but murders doubled, making oakland the 4th most dangerous city in america.
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