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did morning sam and the top stori new fee construction is undefirst lady michelle bauman will be in the bay area today campaigning or for the last from a perch before elections we will tell you we're should be in a moment. speed fans welcome the national lea champion bacwe will tell you-get your hands on giants tickets and what can happen with the weather. we will lead off with that, a live look from the roof camera, world series this week, halloween this weekend. morning mark. >> snow in this yeare sierra, 8
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snow is coming down and the snow is expected on and off for the next hour or two. storm tracker 4, take a look at what's happening, as we see a few lingering snow showers up on 58 and 80, we are dealing with one-3 in. of regulation and some chain requirements out in this era. keeping our eyes on that it should be tapered off shortly. but here in the bay area a few sprinkles showing up, not much else. there east of 680 around the concord area. drying out, is the story this morning and then we wait for the storm. future can assure you we're expecting dry today, dry tomorrow, on wednesday a dry day but clouding up. on wednesday at 5, first pitch of the world series game 1 showers and the north bay.
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did you stay in the north bay. there is a chance there showers up for game 1, rate now looks like it will be dry. there is a common shares wednesday night and thursday, heavy rain all around the bay area from new and-5:00 p.m. it is forecasts pans out say goodbye to game 2. as we will see very heavy rain on thursday evening into friday jars expected all day friday at break friday night, heavy rain saturday. finally drying out on sunday. rain wednesday did, thursday, friday challahs heavy again saturday and then finally a break on sunday. we'll watch it closely as the next door comes in. for today, highs in the '60s, we should get some sunshine this afternoon thick fog in the north bay watch out for that. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay., watching that rain with the chance of showers wednesday evening. heavy rain
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thursday, anticipating the possibility of rain out for the world series game 2. a possibility for dryness we have a new hot spot in the making it is a six car pileup blocking lanes. traffic slowing. typical of what we would see by this time for the ride through the altamont pass. we will keep our eye on this. the only problem we are tracking it is like out in the caldecott tunnel. definitely watch speeds to make sure head lights are on. bay area traffic looking good. the bay bridge actually is a san mateo bridge traffic moving well
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in both directions. dilute minor delays in the toll plaza. 14 minutes across the span. the bay bridge is the s curve traffic is flowing freely metering lights cycled off. from the foot of the maze into fremont street san francisco eight minute trip. the bay bridge moving while novato into the city limits 25 minute trip. >> kids team coverage of the weather with kron 4. >> there are places you might find puddles like here on fremont. here the roads are wet but the rain is not coming down now. 880 between
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fremont and milpitas is drying out. you don't see any rain drops in front of the headlights. the cars driving on a are on drive road.dry roads. >> new construction under way this morning this is an animation illustrating what they will be doing. they are installing the second section of the tower. it will be on top of the first section. this time it will be more visible. they will raise these three stories into the air and attaching them. as you can imagine now that it is visible it may cause delays today. to give you more news faster let's turn to yoli live. she is looking down at the construction area. >> about an hour ago there
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was a barge under the bridge if it had the peace that they will be hauling up and placing here. i don't see any workers on the upper deck. my guess is they are down there trying to practice things.perhaps things.e how it will be distracting. that's where people will be seen all the action on the tower. >> we will see if it works out like it did last time. we will have to see how much of a delayed this will cause for drivers. >> 6 06 is the time right now. the first lady will be in san francisco today to support barbara boxer. she will be at the fairmont hotel that will begin at 330. pelosi is hosting a
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dinner later on. joe bidepresidt barack obama is making a campaign pushed the last full week of the midterm campaign in rhode island talking about the economy and raising more cash. he will talk about small business tax breaks and a lending package he signed last week. >> how about those giants. back in the bay area. it will work out at at&t park today. there they are getting off the bus. there istim lookcooling cool. the giants have a chance to do with the team has never done before bring the world
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series title to san francisco. >> as your feet hit the ground yet? >> not yet. we are excited for our team, the fans, the organization, the city of san francisco. >> it's right back to work. tomorrow we will have our normal were the followingworkoun get rusty. >> first game is wednesday, gained 2 this thursday and we might run into a rain delay.
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612 were following the weather. we do have the threat of rain later this week. right now we got a pass that storm. it is 53 right now when willin walnut creek. we have a chain requirements in tahoe. >> what's making news on the markets? stock futures are rock that is good news. wall street breezing itselfs for the three east."e". who will
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take over congress that is the big question. it will start today with the housing market rating. they are reporting on previously owned homes. >> a federal banking regulators examining whether mortgage companies cut corners on their own procedures when they moved to foreclose on homes. preliminary results will be released next month. attorney general's in 50 states are investigating whether mortgage companies improperly evicted people from their homes. >> we will take a break at 6:13 a.m. we have a lot of rain this week enough that we could impact the world series. don't forget the hot
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watching bay area weather 6:17 a.m. drying out and then a series of storms coming in later this week. the storms are open. whether headlines sunny skies today and tomorrow. thursday heavy rain expected throughout the day today.. clearing for holiday sunday in looks like now. the big question is a big world series reno? that is a possibility. we are expected to be in the '60s did a chance to clear things out and get a few days to dry out around the bay area. the
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rain will come back once again as we look at our 7 day forecast. for storm comes in wednesday night in the north bay, chance of showers for the world series game at 5:00. the game could be in jeopardy on thursday with rain all day. the latest model shows clearing for halloween. the store will come in earlier that means more wet weather saturday but clearing on sunday. we have a series of storms coming and we will not have a big chance to dry out. we had four-7 in. of rain over the weekend. the heaviest rain looks like thursday. lets coated traffic. >> all lanes have been
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cleared but we are tracking your ride westbound 580 as a hot spot. the red and yellow on your screen shows slow speeds. down to 50 mi. an hour just past the accident. worse than usual out there. the ride is in the clear now and moving closer to the limit near livermore. taking a look at the bay bridge as curves a few more cars than last report but still moving closer to the limit. the metering lights are cycled off right now 8, 9 minutes into fremont street san francisco. san mateo bridge in good shape traffic moving well in both directions. 14 minutes across the span. cooling gate bridge ride no problems golden gate bridge
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ride moving well no problems along the span. novato into the city limits 24 minutes. >> public utility commission released information on the fines that it has levied since 1999. the database shows it has $170 million over 11 years. it comes after questions raised against them issuing penalties. the data does not show any penalties over pg&e is natural gas system. >> $10,000 reward to catch whoever is dealing and to vandalizing signs. city council member looks. you
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concede this www.youtube.com city all he is a mentomeasure b supporter giving the suns to a place. he says what he did was not illegal. maturity would change arbitration for police and fire department disputes. >> 23 allows for the removal of signs on public property. in a tough budget times when we don't have enough people to respond to residents code enforcement only has so many resources. having these signs is not the right thing to do. so i took it upon myself to grab a few on wrote to the opening of the community center. >> the video was taken by union members at they
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questioned him about taking the signs down. >> tractor-trailers', school buses and larger vehicles have to be more fuel efficiency. transportation department expected to release standards today for medium and heavy-duty trucks beginning with those in 2014 model year. it is expected 20% reduction in fuel consumption for long-haul trucks. the average price of gasoline has jumped 5.2 35. the average price is $2.82, st. louis, $2.59, san francisco $3.16. >> we will be back with more moment team coverage of the
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whether we are headed for more rain in the next few days we will pinpoint that for you. looking at the commute pretty heavy for this hour but moving ok at commute pretty heavy for this hour but moving ok at the golden gate bridge. expecting different results. insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results. i've built businesses. i've built a business. met the payroll. met a payroll. i enter this office beholden to no one except you. i will owe my office to no one but you. i don't owe anyone anything. i don't owe anyone anything. what's the worst that can happen? what's the worst thing that can happen?
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6:26 a.m. 70 forecast shows us still a lot of rain. today mix of clouds that will be the pattern today and tomorrow. wednesday evening the chance of showers, thursday real chance of rain and and may very well push back into the world series. if the of forecast holds may be the rain will stop in time for trucker trading.trick or treatia tall it is snowingtahoe it is s.
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is 630 on the dog wall street getting ready to do trading. the dow has surged 39 points to the plus side now. we will see what happens this morning. >> we have the world series and we are looking here a it looks dry but the rain is coming. the man who knows when. that plus halloween no pressure. but we want no rain for halloween or the world series. >> looks like rain for game 2. we are looking at the sierra it looks like there is snow coming down. there
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are chain requirements this morning. let's talk about the rain that is coming. future cast shows you today, tomorrow dry. that is the good news. let's get this into motion. this snow comes down on 50 and 80 chain requirements. in the bay area we are trying out a few sprinkles popping up mainly to the east but a few showing up through antioch. there could be a sprinkle this morning. novato, said rosa that fog so watch out for that. dry today, tomorrow, wednesday. wednesday at 5:00 p.m. game one rain showers in the north bay. 5-10 it will stay in the north. here comes the
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rain wednesday night heavy rain thursday morning, throughout the day thursday, first pitch of game 2 and it could be a downpour we will wait and see. it looks like heavy rain thursday, rain showers all day friday another storm system with rain all day saturday heavy at times. we drive out sunday on halloween. it does look dry right now. 70 coming up in a moment but the period of heavy rain coming and wednesday night through sunday morning. let's go to traffic. >> along the altamont pass looks like we are behind schedule. all lanes clear right now but you can see the damage has been done. we are completely read from to 05 all way to livermore. the only good news is the ride in the clear which a pass
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livermore making your way to the 586. that's when speeds pick up. no other problems around the bay good conditions. your bridges pretty typical right now. we are gradually building at the eschar no problems or delays. the metering lights have been cycled on and we are seeing a back up at the toll plaza. san mateo bridge ride looking good right now slightly building on the right-hand side as you make your way towards foster city. a minor delay at the toll plaza but drive times right now about 14 minutes across the span. we are quiet at the golden gate bridge building a bit but traffic is still moving at the limit. no hot spots in the south bay we are definitely building within
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those taillights headed towards trumbull the legrees. a minor back of a drive times 16 minutes from downtown san jose towards santa clara. >> new construction on the bay bridge that is under way. this is that computer animation. this will be put into place for sections of the tower will be individually hoisted 30 stories into the air and then attached to the first level of the tower. you can imagine a could be a sight to see. it may be a distraction for drivers. we turn to solo reporter yoli who is taking a look at the activity. it is at eye level for the cars. >> you can see that is right at eye level. you will see
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all the activity right next wet. it will be quite a sight because these pieces are 1 72 ft. long is like a huge piece put on top. it takes 16 hours to put them and place will come down, from beginning to end. workers will be out here 12 hour shifts trying to get that completed. >> how many days? >> i don't know how many days because it's weather dependent. it takes 16 hours from beginning to end just to put one on. so they will be on 12 of our ships tried to complete this. >> i wonder if people will get used to it. today it seems so new. at least people will slow down during
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the as curve which is what people want. >> they are trying to tell drivers to expect this activity. maybe if they know it ahead of time it will be such a distraction. >> we will continue to monitor that this morning. >> the weather will affect that project and may be the world series. it will be working out today all in preparation for game 1. they were greeted by 200 fans waiting hours outside in the rain for the team to ridour life. there you see the team. this team this year has a chance to do what no other team has done before which is bring back the world series title. the
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rangers are flying to the bay area. karthe rangers had a workout sunday at home. he didn't say what orders the pictures would start at. this is the scheduled game 1 wednesday in san francisco start time for 57, came to thursday at 5:00 p.m. and that again is in san francisco, came three scheduled saturday in arlington tx, came for sun. in arlington tx, if needed game 5 of arlington tx monday. the giants postseason has meant a huge
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business for the local economy. stores trying to keep stuff stock on the shelves. this is video of them packing into the stores after they clinched the pennant. you can see what it cost. the jersey with the world series package selling for $215, the hoodie selling for $54, that is selling for $30, and the flag is selling for 25. >> look at what i will spend on a person so i guess so. we are keeping our eye on what their traffic a week that could bring us rain and problems on the commute. we
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we were just hazin' the intern. taking all look at the sluggish traffic northbound you can see all the bright lights. the current temperatures 55 right now at noon not much better at 62. the high 67 could be worse we got through rain weekend. >> watching market saw the dow up 76 points. good feeling on wall street comes after world finance there's say they will do a better job at balancing world trade. nasdaq also up 23.
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skies today and tomorrow. wednesday rain comes back all day thursday. we could be talking about a world series rainout for game 2 which is thursday night. but it looks like it is clearing out for halloween sunday. storm tracker for lingering showers around sacramento. snow showers on 80 and 50 right now. this snow still falling around north star. the next door comes in wednesday night in the meantime it looks nice. i from 61 at half moon bay, 65 hayward, 67 san jose. wednesday we will plowed up wednesday night there is a chance of rain. but it looks
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like it will be in the north bay we should getting game one. we will look at the timing. heavy rain all day thursday into the thursday 98 could be a rain out threat for game 2 of the world series. heavy rains saturday, the only dry day after thursday would be sunday it looks like we will clear route for halloween. this saturday storm will moving faster so that means clearing for sunday. >> westbound 580 is a hot spot the accident is long gone. the back up remains and is only getting worse. technically very slow speeds out there. past 680 is a very slow crawl. allow yourself extra time going through altamont pass. a new
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problem at the bay bridge traffic flowing freely we had the three vehicle accident near the foot of the maze slowing down traffic their fear if drive time now 16 minutes from the foot of the amazing to fremont street san francisco. san mateo bridge no problems here traffic heavy but moving at the lyman in both directions. only following a minor delay at the toll plaza 15 minutes across the span. golden gate bridge ride still quiet traffic moving close to the limit here southbound looking good now no problems through marin county novato into the city limits 25 minute trip. north to the sierra chain requirements artifact highway 80 your ride along 50 between twin bridges and myers, kirk were to the picketts
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junction. >>an employee of napa state hospital has been killed by a mancpmfomed tp the hospital. 54-year-old donna gross was found dead in an enclosed courtyard area of the state psychiatric hospital around 7 p.m. saturday.the 54-year-old concord resident had worked as a psychiatric technician at the facility for 14 years. shortly after finding gross dead, deputies arrested 37-year-old jess massey. massey has been confined to the state hospital system since 1993, when he was declared insane. massey was removed from the facility and is being held at napa county jail on suspicion of murder. >>the two teenagers accused of starting a fire that heavily damaged a san jose school are scheduled to be in court today to enter a plea. the two accused arsonists are 16-year-old lazarus reavallez and 17- year-old kliefert guiang, both san jose residents who last attended del mar high school.the teen boys were arraigned as adults on one felony count of aggravated arson. if convicted, they face 10 years to life in prison for the fire causing over 10 million in damage. epa says it's sold stakes.
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they are trying to sell assets to raise cash to pay for the blown out well. >> previously sealed documents from the diocese of san francisco said they knew about abusive priests to. some were moved from parish to parish despite complaints against them. a judge ruled they had to be made public because of a civil lawsuit. those records were released sunday. >> video out of texas at tornado destroyed three homes and injures for people. you can see the twister in the background and on the right hand side video of this morning. new pictures from the damage. it
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brought hail the size of baseballs pretty scary scene out there. the rebuilding project this story now. >> our weather is in the news as well. this is a applegate you can see snow. cars are going slow as you can see them. there is a chain requirements if you happen to start the work week going to talk halt. it could be an early snow season we
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you know it's bad when the press asks if you'd take a lie detector test. meg whitman didn't tell the truth about not voting or about how long she lived in california. she got caught in insider deals at goldman sachs. she changed her story about physically abusing an employee. she campaigned as tough as nails on immigration knowing her housekeeper of 9 years was undocumented. her tv ads have been condemned as false and misleading. and even her hometown newspaper said meg whitman has demonstrated "a loose relationship with the truth"
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under way. that could be delayed or drawn out waiting for the rain to stop. showers into friday, then maybe by sunday night trick or treating not start until 7:00 p.m. in a dry out of bed. >> the raiders. it was a perfect game on saturday. he goes 43 yds for the touchdown. the broncos on their first possession do not stir well. he throws. the interception, he will take it 30 yds for another touchdown. 14-0. here is this green pass campbell passes to different. there
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he goes. 19 yds for the touchdown. 31-0 they have the lead more in the second half. there he goes he is on fire. he had for td's for the day. 59-14. >> how happy are the raiders? could change for the raiders. alex smith tied at 10 in the third quarter charles johnson barrels in. smith would have to leave the game. matt more intercepted by ray mcdonald. the touchdown. more hits
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david with the game tying touchdown. san francisco's next possession he is picked off. 37 yd field goal that wins it for the panthers. forty-niners off to one game. raiders had their shot now the 49ers will have their shot in london. >> 658 we will be back with more headlines in a moment. this includes the world series, and halloween, mark will have the latest in a moment.
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