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the top worst roads in the nation bay area city is number one on a list. >> it is a water main breaks that is one of the breaking stories. a win the advisory on the bay bridge. in the whether department cool and nice but you would think we would get a little more on the last day of summer. it's looks like the same mold and then once we hit the fall then what.
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>> the weather has not claimed the last day of summer. we could see triple digits in the forecast later this week. the game a8 fall begins at 8:09 p.m. tonight. it will be hot starting off into the low 90s this weekend getting around the '80s around the bay. through the weekends mid-90s to the upper '90s, lookit monday triple digits. s.f. 0 60 mi. an hour winds today, 21 mi. an hour winds in oakland, similar to yesterday's 76% rosa, 71 in san rafael, mid-70s in to los gatos
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morgan hill, warm response only getting into the mid '70s, los '70s for mountainview and fremont. the 7 day around the bay highlights the warming trend. tomorrow start to warm up and we continued to that warmouth into we hit the triple digits next week. >> waking up to what spot free commute. we will do a quick bridge check traffic building at the plaza only seeing a minor way in the cash lanes at the k gates. no problems making away toward the upper deck of the bay bridge. we are tracking a high wind advisories. there is a sign alerting you to the high winds as for making way up the incline. good drive times 10 minutes from the foot of the
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maze to ward's fremont san francisco. san mateo you can see the tail lights making their way in the commune directions no word of any slowing or delays in other directions. drive time for you 14 minutes across the span. quiet outside for the golden gate. four lions south bell moving at the limit right now novato into the city limits 23 minute trip if you're coming from highway 37 on 580 also looking good at 9 minutes. south bay 1 01 in san jose we were tracking an incident northbound 1 01 we had a three vehicle accident. when lang currently block so we do have some minor delays. fifth >> developing story out of plows and health careers are working on a water line break. pictures
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coming out of pleasant hill. this happened last night rate near diablo valley college this is the second break in a week in the area. crews are on the scene right now. >> they are trying to redirect traffic because they won opened up. the college and other schools around there for schools in this area and this is the main store frermain thoroughfar >> we will check back with an update yoli. >> new this morning if you ride ac transit getting around might be tougher as kron 4 as will tran explains today agency leaders will meet to talk about several ways to save $12 million a year. that includes cutting weekend service and half. >> if you ride ac transit
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earlier this jury had to pay 25¢ more each track. and you saw service cuts in march. that did not help close the budget deficit. the agency is looking at more drastic moves including ethnic fighting for bit six overnight lines getting rid of the 39 out of a total of 56 weekend bus route spirit line state union city are practically eliminated. if approved these cuts will be effective in december. >> fifth san jose was named as top city with the worst roads. to top five cities an analyst san jose no. 1 with 64 percent of rows in poor condition, l.a. in as no. 2, then honolulu,
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concord, and san francisco. it is costing $600 more year for work vehicle maintenance. >> jubal expected to out enter pleas in oakland. for the shooting of officer todd young in august. he is a suspected of carjacking and taking off. another suspect is charged with being an accessory to attempted murder and transportation of marijuana it will enter a plea as well. eighth >> the two recent sexual assaults around lake merritt they have released a sketch of the person they believe is behind the attacks. he is african-american in the '20s. he wears dark clothing and was armed with a weapon at the time of the attacks. police have released a location of both
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attacks. the first near 1400 block of third ave. the second is near lakeshore. both incidents women more robbed and then a salted. one woman got out of her car when she was attacked. the crimes happen within hours of each other. investigators believe the same suspect may be responsible for both incidents as oakland police stepped up our patrols investigators are canvassing the neighborhood. >> 607 a and we will be back with more of a couple of minutes. live look outside a 21 today. this is san mateo bridge the right hand side you have company the camera shaking a bit have both hands
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jose right now temperatures cooling down today even more than yesterday around the bay area. 58 in san jose near 70 by new now high today of los '70s was on. the warm-up starts to kick in tomorrow and it gets hot for the weekend. >> governor schwarzenegger called for a budget meeting today the governor called democratic and republicans to meet to negotiate the budget shortfall. democrats are pushing for taxes and delaying corporate tax breaks. and democratic wants deeper cuts to social programs. >> the dow was up but he points yesterday in store stock futures are planning lower. federal reserve said they may have to boost the economy investigators are disappointed they're not taking immediate. blockbuster
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files for chapter 11. president barack obama as economic advisor plans on leaving. >> today is the last day of summer but the salt lake. it is cool like yesterday but the wind is a big issue today. leaving some are with a lot of wind and going into fall with heat tomorrow. this is the incline as you climb up to the bay bridge you can see the advisory their two hands on the will this morning. we will be right back.
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things are bunching of bimbos the right and left hand cash lanes and no problems have yet been reported. this san mateo bridge ride still smooth here the traffic volume not yet built up as much as they usually do for this hour of the morning so it's an easy ride on the approach to the san mateo bridge and across the span no delays. golden gate bridge ride
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1 01 south bound this most conditions not likely to see fog on a bridge and we don't this morning. in joyride over the waldo gradin across the bridge. drive time running 23 minutes out of novato down to the toll plaza. san francisco on the look at the amount central freeway at the bottom of your screen the southbound james lick freeway looks good off the upper deck. if you're heading towards these bay from 1 01 northbound and easy ride as you get up through hospital curve and around the corner on to the skyway from the lower deck of the bay bridge. >> more on the wind advisory to hands-on will jackies sizzle joining us. do feel the winds of their jackie? >> you can feel them pick up out here there is an advisory you
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are looking at the incline of the bay bridge we're being told it's bad when she goes through the tunnel on the western span so sure driving a high-profile vehicle you should be careful. traffic is starting to back up on the incline. >> thank you for the update jackie. >> a major flaw in the clipper card gate jonathan blum reports another glitch has been discovered that cost many more money. >> union officials said their working tirelessly to fix a bug with the clipper card. it allows some riders to waltz in and ride free. one of the things on the table is requiring to tap on çyour weight out as well asmçn that way people cannot pretend to exit. another thing is to update the software to make it more difficult to fool the
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system. it would cost the taxpayers nothing because it's covered under the warranty. >> supervisor david watson a crackdown on club promoters. this is a deadly shooting in february outside this week nightclub if passed legislation would track troubled promoters and take measures against them. additional security and liability insurance and doing criminal background checks. >> a federal judge will make a decision by friday on whether or not to resume executions. they recently refreshed death chamber will be ready for execution next week if the judge lives of four year moratorium. we just went inside the chamber yesterday to get the video. albert greenwood brown is set to die wednesday
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with legalethal injections. >> the thethe mayor and former city handcuffs tuesday, charged with working-class suburb in a scandal that triggered nationwide outrage and calls for more transparency in government. former city manager robert rizzo dozens of counts of illegally paying themselves huge salaries.rizzo, who was making booked on 53 counts of and conflict of interest.he and the others were scheduled to be arraigned wednesday, with officials seeking bail amounts ranging from $3.2 million for councilman george cole. the took. >> will be back with more of a double let's. and did a full shot of the skyline and the sun's coming up.
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summer and then warming it up for the first day of fall. that is typical of this summer. we will have hot weather in the bay area '70s that the beaches on the weekend mid to upper 90s close to 100 inland for friday, saturday, sunday, monday. >> and that's why you live here in not in texas. powerful storms in texas 10 in. of rain. local creeks flooded authorities found the body of a driver who had been swept away in the flash floods. igor has been halting eastern canada washing out roads and flooding homes. >> so wild file fire in utah they're watching for hot spots. half the evacuations were listed last night. it is 50 percent
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contained some national guard started the fire on sunday will shooting guns on during the trading drawl. people are furious saying this was a problem waiting to happen. >> bedbugs are reaching an epidemic club all across the country. the lead to a first ever bedbug summit. the sold-out event featured but experts birds exterminators the scientists all trying to combat the source of bedbugs. there is chemical control options you can turn to but some of them are not effective. says the recent resurgence has led to innovative methods for controlling >> people can go for professional pest control that segment of the mark global
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day mixed the dow off and the other two industries down. it has been mildly negative and as we head into trading dayç today we are starting a contest.negate want to see where it goes from here >> the last official day of summer and it feels like a fall. tomorrow the first day of fall and it will feel like summer. not much in a way of fog keeping temperatures cooler they worry yesterday fall begins at 809 this evening mostly sunny and cool them we he wave for the weekend triple digits in this heat wave take a look at some numbers by friday back into the 90s in those inland spots eighties around the bay mid-70s for the coast. each day this week and we start warming up by monday we are breaking the century mark up to 101 degrees
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apparatus run bay and upper '70s for the coast. temperatures sitting in the '50s seeing forties' in santa rosa and that us so it is cool in the north bay through the napa valley. 60 until clinton the south bay temperatures in the mid-50s. afternoon we warming up to 71 in san rafael the same to richmond upperq 60s for san francisco. where are spots mid to upper '70s 744 livermore and greater and the bay keeping a low '70s. 7 day around the bay highlights the warming trend over the next couple of days much warmer we will see plenty of sunshine through the weekend in to the beginning of next week as well that he wave will continue for a string of days. 632 way of checking on traffic. >> minutes after last update
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meter lights were activated and of course a back up already. it reaches to the end of these parking lot a 80 approach starts to slow bit for the west bound ride. there is a wind advisory for the bay bridge this morning and as we heard from jackie sizzle it is moreç in evidence when you pass on to the suspension span. ias you are on the suspension of you are more exposed. one of the benefits you have smoother traffic flow up the incline section in fact that's the rationale for using it aerolites is they try to keep big rigs moving at a good pace because big rigs have to start and stop it can really back up the traffic. this san mateo
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bridge no problems here the approach starts to build little as you get close to the toll plaza but in the non commute direction no problems or delays feared golden gate bridge still problem free no fog or delay over the wall so great in the zeroth still through marin county drive times are still under 25 minutes out of novato heading towards a toll plaza. >> 6:34 a.m. developing story of pleasant hill at this hour crews working on a water line break it happened last night. you can see the water gushing from under where the pipe is right now. it is the second break in a week in the area. crews are on the scene and so is yoli with the details. water that pumping here really. >> for if they haven't pumping enough so nothing goes back into
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the system. throughout the night they were working on breaking up the street in getting to the pipe. now it is at a steady current so nothing goes back into the pipes the day shift is about to start. they will be working on the actual repairs through the day. this is done morello avenue and main street to get to several different schools that was one of the things they focused on the last hour is try to open moralize avenue so traffic could get through. the two-way traffic right now. anybody going through this area will have to deal with this water main in the middle of the street. they will report through the day. >> they haven't even started fixing and yet there still is pumping water out? >> that is correct.
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>> ac transit meeting tonight considering service cuts in a fight to stay financially afloat. lets take a look at what will be on the chopping block. slashing we can service and half and eliminating two bus lines. it would save $12 million but they're facing a $56 million deficit. the union representatives say service cuts are not necessary. >> san mateo is hosting an event by people for peoplet( there wee affected by the gas explosion. it will help with health insurance issuesç and replacing member idea cars and amounts of things people have to do. south they're preparing to remove debris from the neighborhood county house officials have been monitoring the area the air
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quality ever since the explosion and massive fire. and they will remove the burned out cars and then as debaters will take other remnants of the homes and also take a few inches of the topsoil in that area. >> well we work to the debris removal will be doing air samples appeared to fit any time there's a problem will shut down. i do not anticipate the problem we will be taking every precaution >> if they estimate it could take three-four weeks to remove all debris. stay with kron 4 for all the coverage. the very latest on our web site at kron 4.com. >> thaw and companies will be the meat with congress over the sill manila, the outbreak appears they will testify. panel
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has as the men to come prepared to discuss the filthy this conditions at their firms. >> talking about the last day of summer in the first day of fall in what to expect with the weather kind of the repeated yesterday but things are going to change starting tomorrow. we going to a heat wave really. we will be right back.
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oh, great. hey, are they happy we got rid of the rye bread? totally. they love our grilled artisan bread. they say it's the perfect compliment to the classic hot pastrami, melting cheese, deli mustard and pickles. awesome. hey, um what are we testing in that room? oh! nothing we were just hazin' the intern. a peek at some detail bridge and talking about the wind in his dusty out there so be careful. right now is 57 degrees going to heat up to 72. sunny and nice like yesterday but not warm. we start our heat wave on the first full day of fall tomorrow. >> the latest with save the bay they released a new report of
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waterways with the most trashed pollution. one location is also 66 avenue in oakland this has a unique problem five creeks will into this and trashes carried downstream from those creeks. the oracle and coliseum are located nearby the trash generated from the events are carried into the waterway. oakland are required to get a handle on these hot spots by 2014 the water board will require capture devices to be installed. >> a dramatic end to a police chase in the east bay. pickup truck caught on fire after crashed into a building in richmond. police say officers started that chase because it was a stolen truck. it started
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kron 4 morning news 6:46 a.m. san jose author the sun starting to rise low cloud cover should burn off quick today mostly sunny today ankle once again appeared similar to yesterday current time the jurors at 55 by noontime upper 60s and keeping in around 73 for an afternoon high back down below '60s by 8:00 p.m. elsewhere: north bay 47 for san rosa also through the napa valley at 45 much warmer
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through oakland at 60. in the afternoon we should keep it at 76 in santa rosa today the same through fairfield, san francisco 67 fairly similar to yesterday. los '70s around the bay and 73 in san jose. your 78 around the bay shows as the first full day of fall is tomorrow that is when the war mob began its. continuing with warm temperatures through friday, saturday, sunday. mid-80s around the bay and mid-70s for the coast your high on monday 1 01. it will feel like summer even though it's the first few days of fall. 6:47 a.m. the morning commute with george. >> of the bay bridge back up
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continues to grow sadly. we have some really slow cycling of metering lights. there had been the reported incident on the incline we can show you here pitch their do not appear to be any delays. some reports said there was installed but it appears as though there may be something right about here. doesn't appear to be anything moving there and cars are moving out of the lane. indeed we do have a disabled vehicle. it is blocking the right hand lane and that is likely flowmeter lights have been slowed down. 880 approach is building. there is not a lot of movement at the heart of the toll plaza a stall slowing in the right early in the morning. san mateo bridge
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smith conditions here no problems in either direction or at either end. 92 in a change in 880 both look good. here's a look on 1 01 the golden gate bridge southbound still smooth conditions no problems across the span still no place for marin county. south bay 1 01 through san jose the only slowing you see is rain on the connecting ramp. >> let's head back to the bay bridge to lookit the incline with jackie sizzled. his part of are so low reporters out there and jackie have been noticed anybody getting caught off guard? >> nobody you can see this all on the bay bridge you can see the high wind on the bridge that the advisory is still in the fact we talked about it's really bad going through the tunnel. the west bend especially
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if you're driving a high profile vehicle be aware of it. the wind has died down a bit in the last half-hour so not sure how long that will be a fact. >> ok will keep us posted. >> one step closer stores from selling tobacco cover all retail outlets with death supervisors gave preliminary approval tuesday to an ordinance banning big box wholesale clubs and grocery stores from selling cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco if the businesses have on-site pharmacists. supervisor eric mar, who sponsored the legislation, says tobacco's negative health cigarettes have no place being sold next to drugs meant to passed on a 7-3 vote and needs mayor gavin newsom's desk. mill valley pays the governor $315,000 a year, salmonsan ramon pays $359,000 a year. dingell
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will the city manager has an impressive salaried. >> joe earned $312,000 last year it make him can one of the highest paid in the state. this is hell breaks down his base salary is two under and 23,000. he cashed out for vacation time for $16,000 in in lieu of tension they pay him 35 percent of his salary or $72,000 towards retirement which he cashed out last year. that $70,000 towards retirement is why cancel woman says danville is unfairly so high on the list. many other towns did not include their retirement contribution. >> he took it as a cash lump- sum so you have to do is look at all the other cities and say okay you are showing us salaries
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[ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer major flaw in muni. kron 4 stanley roberts has details. look at this underground training facility for the new clipper system in san francisco. this is where the hand waving glitch was first discovered by a muni employee during training back in july. according to muni spokes person paul rose, there was suppose to
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be a fix for the glitch in place by november. until... >> they all do it. >> kron4 showed 10's of thousands of muni riders how to ride muni with nothing more than a hand wave. now a source inside of muni pointed out a new glitch to the clipper gates. it is a glitch that also allows muni riders to ride free. what happens is sometime the fair gates get confused, often because of fair evaders' piggy backing off paying customers. when that happens the gates get stuck open like this gate, and although this gate closes sometimes they don't. these glitches in the system are because the city of san francisco, choose to be different for every other city with similar gates. muni officials allow riders to walk out instead of tapping out. tapping out means using a card to enter and exit, because of this walk out feature in san francisco, it created glitches in the system that need to be fixed. muni spokes person paul rose says they expect a fix to the gate problem by october,
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but this soon to be developed firm ware patch. paul pointed out with every new system there will be glitches. so until the fix is created it will up to muni fair inspectors, and station agents, to tow the line. in san francisco, stanley roberts, kron4 news. 6:56 a.m. back with more of a couple of minutes. a peek at one of our developing stories all waterline has broken and they are pumping water. they have not fixed it. this happening in pleasant hill this morning. it is blocking a main road. we will talk about the traffic implications and was one on in a couple of
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