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live from the bay area's new station this is the kron 4 morning news. >> hello everybody top stories were working on san francisco has a new interim mayor. well maybe. said lee will tell you why leaders think he's ready for the job as the outgoing mayor new some leaves. >> the forty-niners have a new coach jim harbaugh most from the pac-10 to the nfl. will let jan know why he was tapped to lead the forty- niners. >> teniers kicks off with one of the largest earthquake some months a fall from san as a the san francisco will tell you where and when. >> the stick a live look at
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sites from three vantage points as were watching the weather this morning. the bay bridge were fog advisory was issued overnight and down on the bottom right of the screen the san mateo bridge. jacqueline bennett ties it all together. >> >> another chilly start with temperatures widespread in the 30's now they're climbing into the '40's, dense fog and drizzle also remaining in our inland valleys out there this morning. that will continue until released early afternoon, by noon thing show clear will deal with partly cloudy skies but temperatures struggling to warm up. were getting a transport of cold air from the central valley into the bay area. that will continue through most of today but by the afternoon, cut off a little bit. still chilly at 3:00 with temperatures half in the '40's and half of the low 50s. we have changes heading into tomorrow, all have details on that plus rain next week coming up in just a bit. >> an earthquake in the south bay rattling nerves
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across the bay area this is what the seismograph look like just moments after the quake hit near san as a friday afternoon during rush hour. it is a 4:00 p.m. 4.1 quake could be felt as far as the east bay in san francisco. was centered in the henry coe state park between highways 5 and 1 01. seismologists say the calaveras fault and run deep, no major injuries or damage was recorded. it did get people's attention kron 4 da lin talk to people who felt the shape. >> a lot of people in san jose felt the earthquake the epicenter is about 30 mi. southeast of city hall which is right behind me. even though was not a major earthquake city officials say it was enough to cause as 18 story building to sway. here's some people described the quake. >> a big jolt at every stop it there were doing the kind of looked at each other was that may or did everyone else feel that. as we were waiting to see if we felt anything else we kind of had
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that role fact. >> the room started shaking a lot bed and i thought something was hitting the house or something. i felt rolling so i know is an earthquake. >> in san jose dahlin kron 4 news. >> we have fought for those in reaction to the earthquake. >> the big story this morning and the forty- niners paying huge money for stanford's jim harbaugh to lead the team back to super bowl contention. it is a five-year deal worth a reported $25 million. leaving stanford following the big orange bowl win and the cardinal's first 12 when season ever. the niners have made the playoffs in eight years so harbaugh nosy as a tough job ahead of him. >> these have been great days going through this process and it's the perfect competitive opportunity for me and the rest of the san
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francisco organization to be part of the team. i team that has a chance to win, i'm excited about the san francisco forty-niners. one of the legendary franchises and all of football. >> it's going to be a brother verses brother at to the forty-niners are planned the baltimore ravens were coached by a heart was younger brother john. gary we'll have more hot bubbling to the niners later in sports. >> the headline read see his body is in that that's the status of that lead. as newsome had to sacramento to take up the lieutenant governor's post. although one member board of supervisors voted to make at least at minister to the last year's the interim mayor. lately was in vacation time what when this took place. reggie explains the history making and saws one political hurdle to clear before leas sworn in. >> after a heated meeting on
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tuesday the atmosphere in the chamber was much different on friday. nearly all the borders supervisors came together nominate city administrator headley for interim mayor. >> i support ed lee because he is the qualified person in the right person to lead san francisco. this is our city administrator who is confirmed by the board of supervisors twice and individual over exceeds our capital plans. >> i will support mr. lee i believe he is well known as a very effective department head in this year with d p w. >> he is someone who shares our progressive values, some of his fog in the trenches for tenants, immigrants and seniors. >> the vote was not unanimous chris daly was opposed for his nomination from the start tried to delay the vote and then tried to convince his colleagues lie was a bad
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choice. >> i see a status quo be maintained we need change, what we have in front of us today is not that kind of change. >> dale is argument to that sway his colleagues vote for leave. lee's nomination passed by a vote of 10-1. many in the chamber feel this was a historic moment for the city. including an outgoing mayor gavin newsome. >> here we are on the process of having the first chinese-american mayor in the city it's an extraordinary moment. >> the vote is being called symbolic as newsome is still mayor until monday, the new board of supervisors will have to reaffirm the appointment of lee with another vote on tuesday. in san francisco, reggie could mark kron 4 news. >> newsom said he was hoping to name a new da on friday but that was sidelined because of the vote on the interim mayor. he said it's still interviewing candidates body has to make a decision no later than
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monday because that is when he's being sworn in as contending governor. >> coming up on kron 4 news weekend we have new details on the carbon monoxide leak that second-guess the popular san francisco hotel. >> a live look outside at san francisco look the fog, or facing the bridge and elsewhere because of this heavy dense fog. their 34 minutes to face at sfo one flights because of the weather. no delays at mineta.
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back on kron 4 news weekend, a live look outside the bay bridge approach. it's a cool and foggy morning with ties rate now only 43 degrees and expected to go up to 52 later today. >> the carbon monoxide leak pass sentence for gas have been traced to a restaurant. fire officials say they found of leaking water
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heater yesterday at the amber india restaurant. they noticed a strange looking pipe in the building crews later found out carbon monoxide was leaking into a shaft between walls and the marriott marquee hotel. normal co2 readings are about 25 parts per million by readings in the hotel where well over to and from 50 parts per million. the gas line has been shut off until officials can conduct a full and investigation and repair the damage. >> for forty-niner fans mike singletary is old news, jim harbaugh is the new kid in town. stafford's and new head coach is moving to the nfl to the niners. certainly good check. >> that's for sure if forecast had a live look at san jose 38 degrees right now the little less foggy than the center of the bay around san francisco.
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we are going to sneak a peek out side on this foggy saturday morning. beautiful view from mount tam with the sun rise. >> this check in with jacqueline bennett with a full check of what their. >> another chilly day around the bay with temperatures in the '40's in london low 50s to the rest of the bay area. slight warming as we head into tomorrow were expecting west baltimore sun into the afternoon. will get to that a moment. we've been seeing an influx of fog and really cold air from the central valley which is typical for this time of year there. we'll winds coming from the east that are pulling all of this since the bay area. you can see the fog extensive in to the north bay we've seen it over the past several days. the cold and fog carries into the bay area this morning, bringing in dense fog and drizzle or inland valleys and the delta. temperatures this afternoon will range from 46 to 54 warmer closer to the coast and down in the south bay. we will see this pattern break up though,
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which responsible for it is a storm sitting down to the south. it is bringing us the easterly winds, the ones moving in the direction you see here of the arrows. this will push to the northeast and that will help break up at fog and bringing us clear skies into tomorrow. as for the fog and backtracking a little bit this morning, we did see fog closer to the coast and the delta, it's when a brick up by the afternoon. up by new mostly clear skies to o'clock some lingering fog in the san mateo coastline but will see mostly sunny conditions. temperatures as morning started out in the 30's. as we head into the afternoon temperatures will struggle to warm, you will notice by 4:00 p.m. or leasing the '40's 42 fairfield, 45 and napa, 48 novato. this is for the north bay, delta and inland valleys barely reaching 50 in livermore. 52 in palo alto, 53 in san jose. in the evening
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temperatures will cool down again very quickly so by 7:00 p.m. if you have any plans the bring a jacket especially if you're in landor along the delta where temperatures will already dipped into the 30's by 7:00. a look at those high temperatures neighborhood by neighborhood, 55 in santa rosa was the warmer locations. temperature struggling to warm for most of the north bay and 49 novato, december 49, 2005, 46 napa and 42 in fairfield. down south it will be a little bit warmer, temperatures down the peninsula enter the east bay shore in the low 50s. 54 san jose, 54 1/2 monday but again as our inland spots that in the '40's. that will change out there tomorrow. if the temperatures in the '40's will change to low 50s for sunday. your kron 47 day around the bay forecast. chile today chile tomorrow temperatures will stay in the low 50s through the weekend into early next week. by tuesday increasing cloud cover ahead of a storm
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that set to push through on wednesday right now. right now we have a 30 percent chance of rain that's likely to go up as we head into next week. it will bring you all the details on that as it gets a little bit closer. >> now up to sports, the rest of the bay area forty- niner fans sang will be. it knew of head coach of the forty-niners jim harbaugh. >> popular man started off with a bold one on monday and had all these teams offering big paychecks but ultimately jim harbaugh state chose to stay in the bay area. gary rutledge has all the details. >> saying no to the miami dolphins and the collegiate wolverines and ultimately the stanford cardinals. jim harbaugh chose the san francisco forty-niners introduced by the gm tried balky of five years, $25 million. the best efforts
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season and 80 years. our budget does earlier tonight the new coach of the forty- niners. >> it was a perfect competitive opportunity with the san francisco 49ers organization. jed york in trend balky were on the same page, it became obvious that this was a time and this was a competitive opportunity and i willingly accepted it. >> this is what a week for broadcaster and especially the internet back-and-forth there seem to be an happen flow. were you aware of the happen flow at least on the media side? >> no not really i really don't get on the internet at much and certainly don't read about myself when i do. just a lot of careful thought to and research and prayed about it and talk to
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my wife a lot about it. >> how close we've got to go back to stanford? >> is the process this week and it started when i got back from the game and hundley had some opportunities come up in college from proteins. it is tougher to leave stanford than anything but on another level of the opportunity to the coaching the national football league for the san francisco forty-niners and the competitive opportunity that that brings it is what made my mind up. >> what influence did your wife have on this decision jam? you were married at stanford, she loves the bay area what influenced? >> she's very supportive and she told me something that any has been would love to hear that she wanted to be with me. we talk about
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everything we make those decisions and she understands me and understands that one to care my family and i want a coach and i want to win. she gave great council to advise. >> the man who swung the deal forty-niner head coach jeff york. >> we told him if you want to sign right now you feel comfortable or you want us to we want to be the coach. if you work out some options are you need to make sure this is the right fit for you. >> the next big story at the stanford replace half jim harbaugh. cotton ball tonight boy these bowls of dragging on the national championship game finally on monday. unless you try and get fired up the no. 11 vs. texas. jordan jefferson to terrace lsu. 41 to 24 jefferson 10 completions three for touchdowns. lsu is 111 of the loss 14 go games.
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warriors' home for that 18 of the next 22 games and fun jamieson finding out how that cleveland is with lebrun james. vladimir hasn't done outside shooting used as floating. the couple michael toward jordan take someone to work. tennis is he setting up david lee what a great night. he was good to hit 13 points as well. curry got injured in the second half staff but he got up and did a couple free throws and left the game. he got slam to the floor. >> still ahead on kron 4 news weekend sticker shock for blue shield customers of a story of the bay area man whose bills are going up. >> want to take another look outside this is the bay bridge shrouded in fog it's a fog heat and cool star to the day around the bay. the
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blue cross of california is proposing a third rate hike and a couple of months. that would leave california is paying as much as 59% more for health insurance compared to a year ago. state insurance commissioner dave jones along with u.s. health secretary kathleen, are working to try and stop the insurance rate hike. jones's last blue shield to delay the fight for 60 days. he admits he's powerless to stop it. >> unfortunately, under california law i don't have the ability to inject excessive rate hikes. if offered legislature to the commission authority to eject premium hike. if the premium hike is another example of why any that authority. >> for now jones only recourse is to find a
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problem with the rate hike. despite as blue shield to demonstrate that 7 percent of the increase would doctors and hospitals, and not to line the pockets of blue shield executives. >> this means thousands of blue shield customers will face sticker shock when the look at the new insurance rates. kate thompson spoke with one bay area man who see is a great increase by more than 50%. >> it's outrageous there's no reason for. >> this is from a redwood city he received a letter notifying him bushel this raising his rates by 55 percent. >> this is the one that has all the percentages and there and it says somewhere down here 55%, i was surprised they even competed to doubt i thought they would try to be a little more subtle about it. >> healthy 20 something is not been to the doctor once in the two years he's had his policy, was stunned by the increase. >> to raise its a much all
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at once i could understand 85 to 10% a year maybe, over the last two years of paying exactly double what i was paying in 2009. it's really been a tremendous amount of more money. >> in the past three months he's in his premium rise from $72 a month to $97 and finally to $115. he finally took to the internet posting his letters on the block and starting an on- line petition to stop the increases. it doesn't provide blue shield excuse that the new razor do to rising health-care costs. reporting in redwood city kate thompson kron 4 news. >> we more details of the blue shield rate hike on our web site log on to www.kron4.com. >> still ahead the city of antioch now asking for public donations to help fund its police department. schwab details on this unusual fund-raising methods coming up. >> first a live look outside this is walnut creek it looks like they're sucked in by the fall. that's of course of valley fog out in
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live from the bay area's new station this is the kron 4 morning news. the morning welcome back its 730 a m a live look outside quick beautiful from our mount tam cam. are going to check in with jacqueline bennett she as a check of this weekend weather. it's going to be a little chillier today. >another chilly start with temperatures widespread in the 30's, now there climbing into the 40's. dense fog and drizzle also remaining in our inland valleys out there this morning. that will continue until released this afternoon. by noon things should clear we'll deal with partly cloudy skies but temperatures struggling to warm up. were getting a transport of cold air from the central valley into the bay area. that will continue through most of today, but by the afternoon,
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cut off a little bit. still chilly at 3:00 with temperatures half in the 40's and half in the low 50's. we have changes heading into tomorrow. i'll have the details on that, plus rain next week, coming up in just a bit. >> the key jacqueline in san francisco carbon monoxide leak that sent for telecast to the hospital thursday has been traced to a nearby restaurant. fire officials say the potentially deadly gas was leaking into a shaft between the walls of the marriott marquee hotel. an investigation is underway but as kron 4 kate thompson explains, this may not be the first instance of gas poisoned by carbon monoxide. >> the fire department said the carbon monoxide problems coming from this alloway which runs along the marriott marquee. this is a hotel here, with the fire department said was happening is that the air intake vent which run along the side of the hotel were actually picking up fumes carbon monoxide fumes from a faulty water heater from
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this building. funneling those fumes up through the hotel and into people's rooms. thursday night may not in the first carbon monoxide poisoning. the fire department responded to the same to hotel rooms just two days ago. those guests also suffered a similar flow like symptoms. it wasn't until paramedics tested the blood of thursday's victim they discovered it wasn't a fluke but found high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood and in the air of the four guest rooms on the fourth floor. the hotel has been tested in the department of health has inspected and cleared the affected rooms. reporting from san francisco kate thompson kron 4 news. >> as a month on this may become a common story budget problems in antioch forcing the city to ask for donations to fund and the police department. the city opened a bank account for donations to help pay for services. the city is seeking donations from corporations and large businesses in the rioja.
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earlier six officers who were said to be laid off will keep their jobs until the end of the month thanks to these private donations. right now antioch is seeking concessions from the police unit. >> good news on the cheap jobs front. the unemployment rate has dropped from 9.4% that's the lowest in 90 months. employers added 190,000 jobs in december but the rate has remained at more than 9 percent for nearly two years now. as christine conley reports the numbers alone don't tell the whole story. >> >> and your could tell draws a huge crowd when it advertises 250 job openings. the president toured the plant in maryland and talks about the new figures from the labor department. >> the trend is clear, we saw this tall straight months of private sector job growth. >> december unemployment rate was 9.4 percent down from 9.8% in november. it is as deep as one month drop
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since 1998 to end the lowest unemployment rate in 19 months. that doesn't mean their budget and new jobs out there, employers reported they treated only about 103,000 positions, that's not nearly enough to make up for what the president calls the worst recession of our lifetime. the lower unemployment figure was a result of two roughly equal factors. to hundred 97,000 people reported finding jobs last month, on the other hand 260,000 said they had given up looking. >> this of a bunch of folks out there looking, still looking with a big hole with to dig ourselves out of. >> it could take two years to the jobless numbers down to 8% and possibly another three years to reach what is considered a normal level of unemployment and that 6 percent. >> also in washington the new republican majority in house getting down to business with the president's health care
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reform at the top of the hit list. a bill to repeal that law moving forward. the on the house's plan still faces an uncertain future. >> for newly elected republicans an early chance to keep the campaign promise. >> we've got to repeal this so we can create more jobs. of the small business owner myself that i can tell uses this as passed health insurance premiums have skyrocketed. >> the bill we will consider is no way it is symbolic. it represents the true will of the american people, the majority of who has stated time after time to this day, that they reject this law. democrats accuse republicans of trying to take away a new health benefits for the young and old. staging political theater. he be as good, you ran on the agenda of defeating health care and repealing it and now you're doing it all in it. it had meant what it is you are doing. this is not a
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campaign were play with fire were taking away health-care benefits to make a real difference to our families. >> the repeal of it is a killer of human beings, some 40,000 americans die every year for lack of health insurance. that's the reality, repeal this bill in your fine more americans dying. >> during the campaign many democratic lawmakers were reluctant to defend health- care law. top democrats are ravishing of repeal fight sending out talking points and fund-raising e-mail's. calling it a good way to activated demoralizing democratic base. not all democrats agree, okla. dan born voted no one health care last year and plans to vote yes on repeal even though he calls it an exercise in futility. >> it's not going to go anywhere. if i voted against it, why don't you vote for the repeal. even though it's not going to go anywhere, symbolically they need to
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know where i stand and i stand with my constituents. the reason why we lost some of these seats was because people didn't listen to the people back home. >> not all democrats who voted against the bill a great. they're still in the house and most say despite opposing their own parties signature legislation, or killing health care now is the wrong way to go. dan ash cnn. >> despite what they say the effort to kill reform is more symbolic than anything to satisfy its tea party segment. the measure is dead on arrival in the senate, the majority democrats will refuse to take it out. meanwhile republicans insist their following the will of the american people the american people are actually divided on this issue. here's the split the most recent poll found that 46 percent what the health-care law repealed, 40% stake keep it. breaking it down for their most republicans want repealed while most democrats favor the law.
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there is a huge divide is well, the majority of adults under 30 favor the new law while the majority of adults those 50 to 64 what the law repealed. >> still ahead, as they're in washington d.c. after an envelope addressed to jam it ignites. we'll have details. >> let's go back outside to the san mateo bridge where despite the fog is lifting. that is heavy is on the bay bridge. traffic is moving smoothly. we'll be right back.
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there's the the other male attack this time in washington d.c.. officials say a package ignited at a postal facility yesterday. it was addressed a homeland security secretary janet. the postal building was evacuated, no injuries were reported. it happened one day after fiery packages were sent to maryland's
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governor and transportation secretary. >> the police officer was flagged down by a postal employee that works in this block at united states postal facility. the employee indicated they have a package that's described a similar nature to the packages that were recovered yesterday in maryland. the package had been described as popping, smoking in with a brief a flash of fire and then it went out and extinguished itself. >> it's not clear what ignited the package, because the worker did know that. >> still to come on kron 4 news weekend at&t's scrambling after news that and other provider may sell apples icefall. what that story for you. >> a live look at sighted a winter wonderland like lake tahoe was highway 89 at squaw valley. a bit of a line it is a waiting to turn left to the ski resort. we'll be right back.
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your back at 747 taking a live look at the golden gate bridge which doesn't seem to have to much you can see some of it in the background there. traffic moving smoothly. yet the big news is the continued cold temperatures and jacqueline bennett has the full check on the forecast to be talking about how chile is the bay area. >> another chilly area from the bay area with temperatures in the '40's and land at low 50s to the rest the bay area. a slight warming as we head into tomorrow were expecting west fog and more son into the afternoon. will get to that in a moment. a fog and really cold air from the central valley which is typical for this time of year there. we have these winds coming from the east that are pulling all of this into the bay area. you can see the fog extended into the north bay we've seen it over the past several days. the cold air and fog carries
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into the bay area this morning burning dense fog and drizzle to our inland valleys and the delta up. temperatures this afternoon will range from 46 to 54, warmer closer to the coast and down in the south bay. we are going to see the pattern break up the, what's responsible for it is the storm sitting down to the south. it is bringing us the easterly winds, the winds moving in the direction use your of the air rose. this will push to the northeast and that will break up the fog and bring us clear skies into tomorrow. as for the fog backtracking a little bit this morning, we did see fog closed to the coastline and the delta, it's going to break up by this afternoon. mostly clear skies to o'clock some lingering fog in the sand until coastline but will see mostly sunny conditions. temperatures this morning started out in the 30's. as we head into the afternoon temperatures will struggle to warm you will notice in the 4:00 hour, or only seen the '40's
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42 fairfield, 45 napa, 48 novato. for the north bay, delta and inland valleys barely reaching 50 in livermore. and the cells a little warmer 52 palo alto, 53 san jose. and temperatures will cool down again very quickly. by 7:00 p.m. tonight if you up plans out bring the jacket especially will already dipped into the 30's by 7:00. a look at the hyatt high temperatures neighborhood by neighborhood, 55 santa rosa of one of the warmer locations actually. temperatures dropping to warm for most of the north bay. it counts of the will be a little bit warmer temperatures down the peninsula and to the east bay shore in the low 50s. to do for san jose, 54 in half moon be paid but again the inland spots stuck in the '40's. that will change out there tomorrow those temperatures in the '40's
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will change the low 50s for sending. your kron 47 day around the bay forecast, chile today and chile again tomorrow temperatures will stand the low 50s through the weekend into early next week. by tuesday increasing cloud cover ahead of the storm that's set to push through on wednesday. right now we have 30 percent chance of re but that's likely going to go up as we head into next week. -will bring you on all the details on that as we get a little bit closer. >> at the movies this weekend clothes cage is taking us back in time, but with cultural picks up the guitar to show she's more than just an actress. >> jim has a preview will not show it. >> in a season of the which nicolas cage plays the 14th century crusader, he returned to his homeland only to find it's been overtaken by the plague. the
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church says the which is behind all the dying cages still ordered to deliver the woman to a happy to be burned in hopes of breaking the curse. the journey to improve more dangerous than any battle of the crusader. season of the which is rated pg-13. >> (music) when a cop show showing off for musical talent in country strong. russia rehab and ready to launch a comeback. to define the road to recovery will be a rocky one. you're never the country music star was arrested few months ago for drunk and disorderly conduct. i can't wait to get on the road again in the torrid start. kelly is feeling better than ever. country strong, rated pg-13. >> stay tuned because later this morning will show you
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jan walls top 10 movies from 2010. we might even throw in an opinion or two. >> really (laughter) will give a thumbs up or had. still ahead on kron 4 news weekend a techie's paradise were going to take you inside the consumer electronics show in las vegas. >> another live look outside to walnut creek the chp has issued a high wind advisory at highway 4 in contra costa county looks like they're dense fog out there. people! look at you!
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it's good to the news this morning for as a wireless might be the second u.s. carrier to sell apples i phone. an official announcement is expected next week. at&t is exclusive provider of the popular support fall but the news about the rise and possibly selling it spread quickly at the consumer electronics show a loss this which continues through the weekend.
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>> speaking of the consumer electronic show their new texts that have techie's buzzing. let's take a look. >> they got the showed up at this year's siesta loss biggest help design a product for polaroid. the sunglasses have a built-in camera that takes digital video and still picture. with built in blue to the sun glasses consent picture use now to a small portable printer you can carry around in your purse or pocket. the idea take a picture with their shades and instantly be able to print out a physical picture with your carry along portable printer. the radical idea and it gets better. the shades have a built-in video display you can see through and activate when you want them. he got up images of the display of pictures you snapped. the sunglasses and printer come out in march no prices for the classes' yet the printer will be $150. i
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had to get to power your devices when you're on the go is the end power keg it collects energy as it moves. if you keep it in your purse or backpack while walking around the gains energy in storrs said. read for days long backpacking are camping trips and places with the power. when you need to charge the device you just connected to the and power in charge away. no batteries, no wall outlet needed could clean and efficient energy on the go. the n power tag is $160 and have deep reordered now it's coming out soon. something that may not come to market in our lifetime but socle look at is the gm and feet. to a tiny concept vehicle it two-seater was upright seats. the gm sees this as the future is how to get around crowded city streets. it's fully electric, weighs less than a third of the weight of the traditional car. it's it is a way that has a capsule built around it. don't fall in love with it though, the tv is not
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expected to hit city streets for another 20 years. gabe slate kron 4 news. >> which is small for me. as it may be in your backyard but a city street i don't think that's going to go well. get out of my way as you view. (laughter) >> is much more ahead on kron 4 news weekend that includes the earthquake that shook the south bay, and the new head coach for forty- niners. >> henry joins us with a preview of what's coming up. good morning henry. >> were going to be talking about vietnamese cuisine, one ammonification it to burn my vacation back with me. we're going to talk with the chef and he's going to tell us about what makes these cuisines special and they tell you how a bunch of restaurants will offer special deals that's coming up on kron 4 news weekend.
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live from the bay area's new station this is the kron 4 morning news. >> good morning everybody it's 8:00 we're back with top stories were working on. the forty-niners have a new head coach jim harbaugh moving from the college to nfl. it will tell you why he was tapped to lead the niners back to the playoffs. well that's good enough. >> san francisco also has an interim mayor his name is ed lee will tell you why city leaders think that he is ready for the job as outgoing mayor newsome believes for sacramento. >> did you feel it? the new year's kicks off with one of the hugest earthquakes we felt in months. >> instead of the good side to conceive of you from mount tam on the left in a few of the city skyline sort off on the right. >> one is nice and bright and the other a little over
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cal >another chilly start with temperatures widespread in the 30's, now there climbing into the 40's. dense fog and drizzle also remaining in our inland valleys out there this morning. that will continue until released this afternoon. by noon things should clear we'll deal with partly cloudy skies but temperatures struggling to warm up. were getting a transport of cold air from the central valley into the bay area. that will continue through most of today, but by the afternoon, cut off a little bit. still chilly at 3:00 with temperatures half in the 40's and half in the low 50's. we have changes heading into tomorrow. i'll have the details on that, plus rain next week, coming up in just a bit. >> an earthquake in the south bay rattling nerves across the bay area. this is what look like on a seismograph just moments after the quake hit yesterday afternoon. it was a 4.1 could be felt as far as these bay and also in san
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francisco. no major injuries or damage reported. kron 4 da lin spoke to people who say they felt it. a lot of people especially are in san jose felt the earthquake. the epicenter is about 13 mi. southeast of city hall which is right behind me here. even those not a major earthquake city officials say was enough to cause as a 18 story building to sway. hear some people described the quake. was a big jolt that everybody stop there doing. the kind of looked at each other and feel like was at me or did you feel? as you're waiting we kind of started having that will affect. the room started shaking a little bit and i thought something was hitting the house or something and then i felt the rolling in so i know was an earthquake. a sideways big jerk motion and i was surprised it was really strong. even for a long time bay area residents with its parents many earthquakes, they say you can never get
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used to the ground shaking. i open my back door n.m. outside. a lot of people say the 4.1 earthquake was kind of scary aside from battle of nerves, the good news there's no reports of major damage. many store owners said their products didn't seem to fall off the shelf. but things fine no broken days or anything like that. some people believe freddie's earthquake will serve as a good lesson because over my people to plan for the big one. we're not prepared for anything but that might opener highs. people from as far away as san francisco and oakland felt the earthquake. usgs report store couple of aftershocks. in san jose i'm telling kron 4 news. we have fought as a reaction on our website be sure to leave your own story it when you log on that address is
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www.kron4.com. after a whirlwind courtship the forty-niners got their man friday, they signed stanford's coach jim harbaugh to lead the team that to the playoffs and hopefully to a super bowl win. it's a five-year deal worth a reported $25 million. he is leaving stanford with the cardinals' first 12 win season in school history. the niners have made the playoffs in eight years so far bought nosy as a tough job ahead of him. university of michigan, miami dolphins and denver broncos interested in hiring our ball. obviously the news is disappointing at stanford university here's what a few of them had to say about the coach leaving the farm for candlestick. that's what he really wants to do, good for him. i'm happy for him a did a great job while he was here at stanford. on to bigger and better things. forty-niners in pro football is a different ball game so be interesting to see how we just said that. the he
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brought a great program to sanford and we were in need of it. i think he did a great job and i hope the does has a successful career with the forty-niners. good for forty-niners bad for stamford, good luck with the forty-niners but also a work here at stanford so what the both to stay here. (laughter) >> this would be a brother verses at brother act next season. >> the drama continues, more drama san francisco has a new interim mayor ed lee. he is the city's administrator. if these warning he becomes ever discuss first asian- american mayor. the vote was nearly unanimous with one supervisor chris daly voting against it. >> my question is why a supervisor death be given that he's running for mayor
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this november, not conflicted out like our city attorney dennis rare is? >> that's for the november election not for the point at this time. therefore, he has no conflict. >> despite daly's oppositions, several supervisors voiced their support for ed lee. here's what they had to say in the moments leading up to the vote. >> this is the historic moment for the chinese- american community, for a community that's been the city for 160 years. >> mr. lee would be a proper consideration. >> i believe a vote against deadly at this point would be something that would be setting his way back. i want to move forward. >> at the end of the day the question remains as deadly someone akin to this job?
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and i believe that he is. >> on the nomination of the lead there are 10 eyes and one no. (cheering) >> we keep saying it he is approved and that is because he must receive final approval by the next order supervisors. this will happen on tuesday that's because they're going to swear in four new board members later today the west take part in the vote on tuesday. that to repeat the process. >> in a program to keep up with these changes. still ahead we have an update on former governor arnold schwarzenegger to sell state buildings including what jerry brown thinks. >> a live look at son of fog he and julie san francisco morning and your full forecast ahead.
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we're expecting highs today in san francisco only reaching 49 degrees. right now it's 43 some not much of the change throughout the day. >> despite california's severe economic problems gov. jerry brown is not rushing into a single state buildings. the court says he now has until mid february to decide whether to take up with a former governor left off. arnold schwarzenegger had a deal to sell 24 state buildings to private investors for $2.3 billion. the sale was held up an appeals court and the supreme court refused to lift the stay. brown as attorney general and supported them. now he gets to weigh in on the matter. the critics say despite the influx of needed cash this it would bring, ultimately it might cost the state more in future years. >> stay with us a full forecast in the area coming up next is to take a live look of the san mateo bridge. we'll be right back.
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expecting sun into the afternoon. we'll get to that in a moment. we've been seeing an influx of fog and really cold air from the central valley which is typical for this time of year there. we'll winds coming from the east that are pulling all of this to the bay area. you can see fog extensive into the north bay, we've seen it over the past several days. the cold air and fog carries into the bay area this morning, bringing in dense fog and drizzle into our inland valleys and delta. temperatures this afternoon will range from 46 to 54, warmer closer to the coast and down in the south bay. we will see this pattern break up though, which responsible for it is a storm sitting down to the south. it is bringing us the easterly winds, the ones moving in the direction you see here of the arrows. this will push to the northeast and that will help break up the fog and bring us clear skies into tomorrow. as for the fog and backtracking a little bit this morning, we did see fog closer to the coast and the delta, it's going to break up by this afternoon. mostly clear skies 2:00 some lingering
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fog in the san mateo coastline but we'll see mostly sunny conditions. temperatures in the morning starting out in the 30's. as we head into the afternoon temperatures will struggle to warm, you will notice by 4:00pm at least the 40's, 42 fairfield, 45 in livermore, 52 palo alto, 53 in san jose. in the evening temperatures will cool down again very quickly, so by 7:00 p.m. if you have plans, bring a jacket, especially if you're inland or along the delta where tempertures will already have dipped into the 30's by 7:00. a look at those high temperatures neighborhood by neighborhood, 55 in santa rosa was the warmest location. temperatures struggling to warm for most of the north bay and 49 novato, 46 napa and 42 in fairfield. down south it will be a little bit
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warmer, temperatures down the peninsula and the east bay shore in the low 50's. 54 san jose, 54 monday but again as our inland spots that's in the 40's. that will change our there tomorrow. the temperatures in the 40's will change to low 50's for sunday. your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast, chilly today and chilly tomorrow, temperatures will stay in the low 50's through the weekend and into early next week. right now we have a 30 percent chance of rain that's likely to go up as we head into next week. we will bring you details on that as it get's a little bit closer. >> check out the nation's capital were not talking about what's going on in side with the legislature. this is a winter storm that sought the northeast. we got the shot of snow flurries outside the white house. isn't that pretty. still
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looks a christmas picture. it up to half a foot of snow expected in the region from the storm. much less of the mass of blizzard that dumped on the northeast last month and stump the airlines and screwed up a lot of people's travel plans over the christmas holidays. >> lot of complaint on new york about how cold it is. it knows no but very cold apertures. >> it's got a hand check in with henry good morning and rape. >> were going to warm you up with the star chef of the endowment era restaurant. it's a well-known famous it's all about the ingredients when it comes to vietnamese cuisine. by the way it's all about savings. and that is one of the restaurants participating we can tell you how you can eat well and save letting coming up on kron 4 news weekend.
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back a couple of weeks ago. this is all about the food in vietnam it is fabulous but it's simple ingredients are fresh. it is delightful cuisine. i miss the food so much that i thought hey, let's talk about vietnamese cuisine on the air. that's one of the rare privilege is that i get this job. in fact, we are going to be creating some fine vietnamese cuisine executive chef of and the man their restaurant. his name is jeff tie. >> this restaurant is one of the first restaurants participating in a diner about town concept. it will talk about that, it's a chance for you to get terrific deals on meals on lunches and on dinner. you have an especially good many will talk about it in a minute. what are we going to be preparing? >> even the lunar new year
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is coming up, in vietnam when the chinese new year we celebrate the first i saw like to bring it then. >> what is new year there's a lot of papaya. >> we chalk this up, this is carrots we mix it with garlic and this is regular fat liquor and this is a coach and this is pope we cook and we julienne them. this is a fried egg and he'd get to were: chicken. >> it's a really unique flavor. >> this thai basil all those three. one of them you could fry into pieces. can we
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start now? >> yes please. the cream pie here >> this is the same kind of popeye and you would find in supermarkets? >> yes. he makes them together like this and all you do is put some vinegar sometimes you mix vinegar with half an acre have water you can do that too. you mix them all and now you toss the vinegar wrote. that said >> you have the sweetened vinegar mixed together. you now put that on the plate. >> where you get your ingredients? >> you could buy at any store here.
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>> this is so easy. >> poached upon, you cut in half year. was this typical of a particular region of vietnam. ? >> this is near my home town near saigon. every year this is one of my favorite dishes. >> what you doing this and what to talk about the town concept. it started about 10 years ago. when the tough votes which are sitting there which you were saying are died about town concept started 10 years ago run at 11 and that was to get people into the restaurants because it was a tough time. they have this special to course lunches for seven to 95, 3 course dinner for 3495. and there are dozens of restaurants all over san
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francisco their offer the special deals. we pretty much have to go. >> there we go, and you garnish with mint. try it please. >> this is almost happened a year its died about town dock, and end up being a restaurant one of the protestants of fabulous prefix menus. thank you very much. >> it's like a vacation is still going on. read take a break when we come back we'll talk about getting naked? will explain coming up on kron 4 news weekend.
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bridge it is a chilly and foggy start to the day. many spots around the bay, let's check in with jacqueline bennett for full look at the weekend weather. >another chilly start with temperatures widespread in the 30's, now there climbing into the 40's. dense fog and drizzle also remaining in our inland valleys out there this morning. that will continue until released this afternoon. by noon things should clear we'll deal with partly cloudy skies but temperatures struggling to warm up. were getting a transport of cold air from the central valley into the bay area. that will continue through most of today, but by the afternoon, cut off a little bit. still chilly at 3:00 with temperatures half in the 40's and half in the low 50's. we have changes heading into tomorrow. i'll have the details on that, plus rain next week, coming up in just a bit. >> labor department reports a drop in the nation's unemployment rate, it dipped from 9.8 to 9.4 percent last
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month. its lowest level in 19 months. experts saying or people are finding jobs that drop is due to some people giving up on their job searches. we've all employers added 103,000 jobs in december. far below what analysts expected. >> means many americans looking for work, in fact, this year may be more competitive than last year when it comes to the job hunt. christine to show you how to stand out in 2011. >> crowds may be great with your rating in the new year but not when you're looking for jobs. it was 50 million americans out of work job- seekers have a lot of company this january. no question it's harder to get a job today, it's hard to get a job you have to be incredibly strategic and even lucky and user connections. >> you have another 9 million who are working part time but they want to work full time. there and there's
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another two to 3 million americans who were not captured in the unemployment rate number but if offered a job today they would take it. >> sounds like the boss has the upper hand right? maybe not, those of the job are ready to jump ship as soon as the economy improves. a survey by the job placement firm manpower found 84 percent of employees planned to look for new job in 2011 despite already having won. that's up from 60%-year. buses will have to work hard to keep the good people. >> no doubt it's a reaction to the amount of work that's been done by each individual and every single company. >> if you want to ask for a raise, not good for the long-term unemployed. >> were to cease trading of jobs and you're going to be seeing those who are long- term unemployed still struggling to get the attention of potential employers to hire them. >> measurable deliverable
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is. career coach helen read it said don't worry about the big numbers of job- seekers it's about the number one, you being the one employee a company needs. >> the biggest his stick people make is thinking it's all about them. it's not about what is a great job for you, what's a great fit what works for you. it's about what you think of for do for the employer. >> some bay area residents of you for jobs to the new jobs numbers is no surprise to them. this book was some job-seekers to get their input. >> if it gets any worse what are we going to do the homeless rig is already up. downtown is not building it seems it is closing more stores and opening. >> given talk about this jobless recovery it which seems to be that the it's happening, it's pretty desperate. >> so many people become discouraged that they back to stop looking for work.
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and that is very significant a troubling issue. when people stop looking for work it also mean they've lost hope. any prospects for improved in the future. >> you can be discouraged just got to find a job. it just continued to keep looking. >> we need to keep people in the games are to speak. interested in improving their skills and certainly motivated to keep looking. there are some jobs out there. >> this city of oakland a struggling with unemployment that nearly doubles the national rate carry >> jim harbaugh is not have to worry about a job is to bring copies of branded coach of the forty-niners the san francisco team picked apart off for an estimated $25 million over the next five years. the boz " a history of football as kron 4 kathryn explains. >> harbaugh comes from
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coaching family, he's the son of college football coach jack r. block, a brother and brother-in-law of worked as coaches. here's a cultivable start at michigan, played 15 seasons in the nfl for the bears, colts, ravens, chargers and panthers. he spent four seasons at stanford taking over one in 11 team when he was hired in december of 2006. it quickly during the team back in to win their and contender. he's an interesting. for example you reschedule practices so his team to watch the women's basketball team played the final four. fresh of the orange bowl when we saw him coughing of the bus carrying his two year-old daughter. he also has a newborn baby girl. years later asked if he had just coaches law stanford game. as a question he did not want to hear. >> did you think this was a lost game you coached at stanford? >> gimme a break have
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respect for the game it's about the performance tonight of these players. i love them. >> are going to have your full forecast of a comeback. later on general has our top movie picks for 2010. will get into that in a moment. >> coming up on bay area bargains i don't get this what would you pay less for lectures furniture is that big a difference? summaries of the manufacturers are paying can't just get rid of last year's model so they could restock this year's model. for example some of these are what office but sofa and loveseat $596. this is a floor sample but $687 for this three p sectional unbelievable. entertainment centers hundred $91 and when you mention bay area bargains no sales tax coming up a ton o'clock.
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by 7:00 tonight if you have plans out bring the jacket especially if your inland along the delta where temperatures will dip into the 30's. delicate as high temperatures today neighborhood by neighborhood. 55 set arose saw one of the warmest locations. kantor's struggling to warm through most of the north bay. 49 novato, 49 some fell 46 and napa and 42 in fairfield. down south it will be a little bit warmer, top interest on the peninsula and for the east bay shore the low 50s. 54 in san jose, 54 in half moon bay but again as our inland spots stuck in the '40's. and that
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will change out there tomorrow. those temperatures in the '40's will change to the low fifties for sunday. kron 47 day around the bay forecast, chile today, chile tomorrow. temperatures was in the low 50s through the weekend into early next week. by tuesday increasing cloud cover have a storm that set to push through on wednesday right now. right now we have 30 percent chance of rain that will most likely go up as we head into next week. will bring you all the details as it gets a little bit closer. >> coco chanel's scandalous affair and irish-americans fight for boxing championship. those are some of movies that were out audiences. >> will take a look at channels picks coming up next.
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clock tower. no. ton cocoa chanel and igor stravinsky. it follows the iconic fashion designer played by a and the and music revolutionary igor stravinsky played by matt nicholson. the attraction between the was instant and electric especially after a shell invites her to live at her villa outside paris along with his alien wife and children. >> hereafter starring matt damon he plays a man with a gift to what he considers a curse for being connected to the dead. was written by the same man who wrote the queen and frost nixon. in did you see? >> no i didn't. if broadway is a coming-of-age about '70s teenage pump band of the teenage title. it stars chris didn't store in seeds of conflict is properly with drugs and alcohol and a mix that sounds familiar and jealousies arise. >> i remember that band.
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coming in at number seven other what i enjoyed was city island if the result family played by andy garcia, julianne moore believes all part of a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations with one another. everyone lives in secrecy and the family finds are delicate web of lies destroyed by the arrival of young ex-con. good movie. >> #6 the fighters to embark wallboard the just came out to. this is a true story christian bale places troubled by other. the film follows ford's early years in boxing as he reaches rocking like fame. to get too many knobs from golden glow. >> christine vail is pretty much a lock for academy award nomination. that's five of the top-10 next hour we will go through chance no. 5 all the way through no. 1. >> stay tuned for that will be back. oh no were checking with henry sorry henry.
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>> how about this no dairy, no wheat, and sugar, no meat, no caffeine or alcohol. ennis said it's not only good way to lose weight but it's a great way to feel better. she's the author of get naked fast. how come we pass that books like this. we'll talk about that coming up on kron 4 news weekend. >>
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we don't do too many dieting segments here on kron 4 news weekend. we definitely knew your segment for everybody who's looking for some way to make themselves look better and feel better. pick the author of the book get it fast and also the author of the book called a plus. the diana still go when she talks about a kid in in need to be more the one thing. but he's really talking about is naked food leaves and gentleman. would you
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describe taken not to much detail it's a family show but would you describe naked food? >> it's dripping on the foods that way you down terry, we come lough meat, alcohol and caffeine. it's basically the standard american diet right. if you strip them away their some of the other things you can put in your diet that are amazing. we just don't know it because were so used to these foods as a stable. >> for example, you're saying in a week for example substitute would be spelt. wheat is again described as only produce because it's cheap and easy in gross anywhere an easy process. it's a process that our bodies go into like a standstill. at the age and grains that around for a long time to actually be assimilated. our god knows
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what to do with them so that get stuck and cause weight, disease and all those other things that are causing americans to go. >> how about dairy because i mention this before you do a diet he should consult with your doctor. make sure they understand what you're doing because if you just go off without really knowing in detail you can damage yourself. there specifics here about the replacement. >> gary, 75 to 90 percent of the world as lactose intolerance. it used to be that cute word when they use the q word. the only people who've mutated into lactase producing humans are in northern european. it's a really interesting thing. were such a melting pot here who knows where blood is. if some of us or taller than others we don't have the enzyme that is able to assimilate the food. it again get stuck, gets goes
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into or body as an acid. >> what about cooking food? >> what you're doing is you're losing all the enzymatic activities are body no longer has the enzymes and we did as a child and we need live food to digest foods were putting and carried it's ok to have the cooked foods, you would have a higher percentage of live foods in your diet. in order to keep things moving, keep things useful. >> what about substitutes for caffeine and alcohol? >> there are no substitutes. >> the naked concept is is that the food essentially getting down to the bare basics. >> we don't eat enough produce the average american diet does not have to produce and most people consider a salad at a local fast-food chain as a produce. it's not, it's been sitting in a copy for a long time, no nutritional value. without getting attrition and four body.
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>> diana to books get it fast and a good listener website is diana still votstobo yet the show from 6 until 9:00 p.m. it that the stellar spa she hose the get naked at the spot it's a fund raiser for beyond hunger. >> it teaches people love their body wherever it is. >> thank you for sharing the naked truth with us. when we come back were going to throw everything she just said because were going to do winetasting. the with the wine tasting kind of wine judging about the fine print of selecting the right wind and how you can have it. coming up on kron 4 news and how you can have it. coming up on kron 4 news weekend. of television service? the next generation at&t u-verse tv. tv like you've never seen before at a really great price.
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this is the kron 4 morning news. >> were back at 9:00 good morning everybody our top story were working on san francisco apparently has a new interim mayor ed lee. will tell you why city leaders thinks he's ready is the job as the outgoing mayor new some as the sacramento. >> the for debtors have a new coach jim moving from the pac-10 to the nfl like to know why he was taught to leave the minors back to. >> did you feel it and your kids off with one of the largest earthquakes in months. if was felt from san jose the san francisco will tell you where and when. we're watching >> weather for you taking a quick look outside san francisco on the left, still fog there and the new approach to the bay bridge and then the san mateo bridge there at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. >> let's check in with jacqueline bennett she has the forecast. >> of chile's>>another
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chilly day around the bay with temperatures in the 40's and low 50's to the rest of the bay area. slight warning as we head into tomorrow, were expecting sun into the >> was rain next week coming up in a bit. the earthquake in the south bay there rattled mayors across the bay this is what the seismograph look like moments after the quake hit near san jose friday afternoon during rush hour. the 4:00 p.m. 4.1 quake could be felt as far as the span san francisco. it was centered in the hand tricots
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state park between high was 5 and 1 01. seismologists said the temblor or wrongly calaveras fault in run deep there were no major injuries or damage reported but it did grab people's attention. the dollar and found people who felt the shaking. >> a lot of people especially here in san jose felt the earthquake epicenters about 13 mi. southeast of city hall which is right behind me here. even know was in a major earthquake city officials say was enough to cause this 18 story building to sway. here's how people described the quake. >> was a big jolt hit everyone see what was that. as we waiting to see if we felt anything else we started having this role fact. >> room started shaking a little bit and i thought something was hitting the house or something i felt a growing soy note with and an earthquake. >> in san jose dahlin kron 4
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news. >> if voters a reaction on our web site be sure to leave your own story while you're at it. >> another big story for understands the forty-niners paying huge money for staffers you jim harbaugh to lead the team back to super bowl contention it is a reported five-year deal worth $25 billion. harbaugh leaving stanford following the big orange ball one on monday. leading the cardinals to its first 12 when season ever. the niners cuba might have not made the playoffs a year so hard by knows he has a tough job ahead of him. >> these seven great days going through this process. it's the perfect competitive opportunity for me and the rest of the san francisco organization to be a part of the team. a team that has a chance to win. i'm excited
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about the san francisco forty-niners one of the legendary franchisees of football. next season will going to be a brother vs. brother active lease for one day when the niners play the baltimore ravens. the ravens are coached by harbaugh is younger brother john kerry and >> the headline reads something like this zia's body is in yet. that's the status of the lead just voted and takeover their gas gavin newsome stop. yesterday all but one member of the board of supervisors voted to make leave the city administrator for the last three years. lee was on vacation in taiwan when all this took place. the history making appointments to was one more political hurdle to clear. >> a heated meeting on tuesday the atmosphere in the chamber was different from it. nearly all the board of supervisors decided to come together and nominate six administrator
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for interim mayor. >> i support adlai because he's a qualified person. he's the right person to lead san francisco. this is our city administrator whose confirmed by the board supervisor twice as as city administrator, an individual who oversees our capital plan. >> i will support mr. lee, i believe he is well known as a very effective department head in this year it t p w. >> these the one who shares our progressive values, someone who has fought in the trenches for tenants, immigrants, seniors. >> the vote was not unanimous supervisor chris daly as opposed lee's nomination from the start, first tried to delay the vote and try to convince his colleagues he was a bad choice. >> i see a status quo be maintained. we need change, what we have in front of us today is not that kind of change.
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>> daly's argument did not sway. lee's nomination passed by a vote of 10 to one many inside the chamber feel this was an historic moment for the city. including the outgoing mayor gavin newsome. >> here we are on the press as having the first chinese- american mayor in the city and it's an extraordinary moment >> what city hall is symbolic the new borders supervisor will have to reaffirm the appointment of lee with another vote on tuesday. >> in san francisco reggie kron 4 news. another city business newsome said he was hoping to name a new district attorney on friday. that was sidelined because the vote on the interim mayor. he said it's still interviewing candidates but domestic a decision later than monday because that's when he's being sworn in as lieutenant governor. >> still ahead on kron 4 news weekend will have an update on what caused that
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a live look at side at the approach to the bay bridge some overcast skies and the background. the card temperatures in emeryville 43 degrees. are looking for a high at all the way up to 50 degrees today. >> and san francisco the problem monoxide leak that sit in for top guests have been traced to a nearby restaurant. fire officials said they found a leaking pipe yesterday. they noticed a strange looking pipes they later found out carbon monoxide was leaking into a shaft between the walls in the marriott marquee hotel. normal co2 readings for about 25 parts per million, readings and the hotel or well over 250 parts per
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million. the gas line and india has been shut off until officials can conduct a full investigation and repair the damage. >> straight ahead blue shield putting the burden of higher health-care costs on to consumers. for want to tell you about the state insurance commissioner plans to do about the shields. >> were going to go back outside install 34 minute delays on meet arriving flights at sfo because of the wetter. it's heavy overcast in dense fog in many parts the bay area. it your full forecast is next.
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>>another chilly day around the bay with temperatures in the 40's and low 50's to the rest of the bay area. slight warning as we head into tomorrow, were expecting sun into the afternoon. we'll get to that in a moment. we've been seeing an influx of fog and really cold air from the central valley which is
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typical for this time of year there. we'll winds coming from the east that are pulling all of this to the bay area. you can see fog extensive into the north bay, we've seen it over the past several days. the cold air and fog carries into the bay area this morning, bringing in dense fog and drizzle into our inland valleys and delta. temperatures this afternoon will range from 46 to 54, warmer closer to the coast and down in the south bay. we will see this pattern break up though, which responsible for it is a storm sitting down to the south. it is bringing us the easterly winds, the ones moving in the direction you see here of the arrows. this will push to the northeast and that will help break up the fog and bring us clear skies into tomorrow. as for the fog and backtracking a little bit this morning, we did see fog closer to the coast and the delta, it's going to break up by this afternoon. mostly clear skies 2:00 some lingering fog in the san mateo coastline but we'll see mostly sunny conditions.
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temperatures in the morning starting out in the 30's. as we head into the afternoon temperatures will struggle to warm, you will notice by 4:00pm at least the 40's, 42 fairfield, 45 in livermore, 52 palo alto, 53 in san jose. in the evening temperatures will cool down again very quickly, so by 7:00 p.m. if you have plans, bring a jacket, especially if you're inland or along the delta where tempertures will already have dipped into the 30's by 7:00. a look at those high temperatures neighborhood by neighborhood, 55 in santa rosa was the warmest location. temperatures struggling to warm for most of the north bay and 49 novato, 46 napa and 42 in fairfield. down south it will be a little bit warmer, temperatures down the peninsula and the east bay shore in the low 50's.
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54 san jose, 54 monday but again as our inland spots that's in the 40's. that will change our there tomorrow. the temperatures in the 40's will change to low 50's for sunday. your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast, chilly today and chilly tomorrow, temperatures will stay in the low 50's through the weekend and into early next week. right now we have a 30 percent chance of rain that's likely to go up as we head into next week. we will bring you details on bit closer. basha >> blue cross is proposing a third rate hike in the last three months. insurance commissioner david jones along with u.s. health secretary kathleen all working to try and stop that insurance rate hike. jones
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is asked to delay the increase for 60 days but he admits he's powerless to stop that. >> and forgery, under california law i did not have the ability to reject excessive rate hikes. i've offered legislature to give the office authority to reject excessive premium hikes. the site is another example why i need the authority. >> for now jauntily recourse is to find a problem with the rate hike. it is going to ask lucio to demonstrate that 70 percent of the increase will go to doctors and hospitals as the law requires a not to line the pockets of blue shield executives. >> that news means thousands of customers will face sticker shock when they look at the proposed new insurance rates. kron 4 kate thompson talked with one bay area man who is in his rates increase by more than 50%. >> to register is no reason it should be going so high.
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>> this is a letter ben received in december notifying him that live shield was raising its rates by 55 percent. >> this is the kicker one that has the percentages. it's as 55% i was surprised even computed it out to i figured they'd be a little more subtle about it. >> grads now a healthy 20 something was not been to the doctor once in the two years he's had his policy, was stunned by the increase. >> to raise its a much all at once i can understand 85 to 10% a year maybe, over the last two years and paying exactly double what was paying in 2009. it's really been a tremendous amount of money. >> in the past two months she's seen as premier rise from $72 a month to $97 and finally to $115. he finally took to the internet posting the letters on his block and starting an on-line petition to stop the increases. he
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doesn't buy blue shield's excuse that the new rates are due to rising health- care costs. reporting in redwood city, kate thompson kron 4 news. >> kron 4 news weekend city leaders passing the donation basket to the public to try and keep police officers there on the job. >> as check back in with henry. >> this is the champion, this is a champion and this is a champion picker yes great johnson from the san francisco chronicle wine competition joins us. they selected the top appliance and shocks yet to bring an end so we can check it out. will be staring sharing some the topics coming up on kron 4 news.
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how this thing works? >> to do mass of tasting a big judging up and clover they'll california. 60 judges, 5050 winds. >> this is a result of their lot of categories which mexico because otherwise, you're not able to afford the best one. in this case they're all different prices. >> some consumers as saying and what the best $110. >> that goes on and not it's a tremendous < this is online at wine judging.com you will also get a chance to try the wind yourself not tell you where the big tasting is pur. ray has brought three of the top winners. we're going to start with what? >> it's something like.
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novara they have been an icon up in the valley, very famous for the peanuts and chardonnay but this is one of the top picks. >> what a floury nos. >> when i say something right and get that look like you guessed it right. >> you're on the money. >> now that it's amazing because i tend to think as avenue block to peace of all, this speed simple. it's a great concentration. what price category is that? >> just $18. i'm eustace avenue block that's 395. it you get to pay for. that is the best sauvignon blanc i did note to taste that good. were going to move on my favorite which is a zinfandel.
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>> diamond pass so we've seen a number of big winners come out of the chronicle. this is as an adult they call it triumvirate that see what we smell. a nice kiss of vanilla. >> it's a really kind zinfandel. sometimes it's a little edgy it's the one side by for $3.99. this is moved. >> the firm is alive, the alcohol is integrated it's very silky. >> it has that nice and i said it's so cute but it's got that edge that send the bill has the characteristic is in flavor. now, this is the cabernet. we had a lot
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cabernets entered a number of different price categories this is of the 30's. what's new about this wind it's very vibrant, >> i'm not having a tough time because we don't have any water. my fault of having trouble distinguishing here. i know how the judges do it. >> there's a lot of black fruit we smelts coming through the mouth again, what's really neat you get a sense of 10 with cabernet, 2008 not much can and at all. >> san francisco wine competition you get to try these wines, at the festival pavilion in fort mason center. it's cheaper to buy in advance seeking get the tickets at wine judging.com or is this whole list of fabulous wines. one must
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wonder this year is the first year they had a label judging competition and the winner is, >> the class people the same person that brought to the bar. a very clever who cares about the test of winds the labels. were going to take a break coming up more on kron ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ ♪ and watch day-time dramas at the bus stop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop and smartphone with at&t u-verse tv. now get up to $300 back in promotion cards.
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live from the bay area's new station this is the kron 4 morning news. >> we're back at 9:30 a.m. a chilean foggy start to the morning. a live look from our mount tam of uc the low- lying clouds and fog that causing the dance coverage in the area. if someone to lay up there let's check in with jacqueline bennett she is a check on the weather. >another chilly start with temperatures widespread in the 30's, now there climbing into the 40's. dense fog and drizzle also remaining in our inland valleys out there this morning. that will continue until released this afternoon. by noon things
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should clear we'll deal with partly cloudy skies but temperatures struggling to warm up. were getting a transport of cold air from the central valley into the bay area. that will continue through most of today, but by the afternoon, cut off a little bit. still chilly at 3:00 with temperatures half in the 40's and half in the low 50's. we have changes heading into tomorrow. i'll have the details on that, plus rain next week, coming up in just a bit. >> thinking jacqueline, in san francisco carbon monoxide leak that sent for hotel guests to the hospital thursday it has been traced to a nearby restaurant. fire officials say the potentially deadly gas was leaking into a shaft between the walls of the marriott marquee hotel. the investigation now underway. as kron 4 kate thompson explains is not be the first instance of gets poisoned by carbon monoxide. >> fire department said they believed the carbon monoxide problems coming from this alleyway which runs
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alongside the marriott marquee. this is a hotel here. with the fire department said was happening is that the air intake vents which run along the side of the hotel, the option of picking up fumes from a faulty water heater from this building. funneling those fumes up through the hotel and into people's rooms. thursday night lineup in the first couple monoxide poisoning, the fire department responded to the scene two hotel rooms just two days ago. those guests also suffered similar flu like symptoms. it wasn't until paramedics tested the blood of thursday's victims that they discovered it wasn't a fluke but that high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood and in the air of the four guest rooms on the fourth floor. the ear of the hotel has been tested in the department of health has inspected and cleared the affected rooms. reporting from san francisco kate thompson kron 4 news. >> more bay area residents being asked to dig in their pocket to support city
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services. none of this budget problems in antioch forcing the city to ask for donations to fund the police department. the city is open a bank account for donations to help pay for the services. the city is seeking donations from corporations and large businesses in the area. this week that officials said six officers were said to be laid off will keep their jobs until the end of the month thanks to those private donations. right now antioch is seeking concessions from the police union. >> good news on the jobs front the nation's unemployment rate has dropped to 9.4%, the lowest in 19 months. employers added 103,000 jobs in december, but still the rate has remained at more than 9 percent for nearly two years now. as christine conley reports the numbers alone don't tell the whole story. >> and your " top draws a huge crowd when it advertises 250 job openings. the president for is a plant in maryland and talks about the new figures from the
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labor department. >> the trend is clear, we saw 12 straight months of private sector job growth. >> december's unemployment rate was 9.4%. down from 9.8% in november. it is as deep as one month drop since 1998 and the lowest unemployment rate in 19 months. that doesn't mean that there bunch of new jobs out there. employers reported they graded only about 103,000 positions that's that nearly enough to make up for what the president calls the worst recession of our lifetime. below are unemployed the figure was a result of two roughly equal factors. the 297,000 people reported finding jobs last month, on the other hand 260,000 said they'd given up looking. >> we have a whole bunch of folks out there looking, still struggling we have a big hole that were digging ourselves out of. >> federal reserve chairman
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said it could take two more years to get the jobless numbers down to 8% and possibly another three years to reach what is considered a normal level of the unemployment of 6%. >> also washington the new republican majority in the house is getting done business with the president's health-care reform at the top of the hit list. a bill to repeal the law is moving forward. the on the house the plan still faces an uncertain future. >> for newly elected republicans an early chance to keep a campaign promise. we have got to repeal the so that we can create more jobs of a small-business owner myself that i could tell you since this has passed the health insurance premiums have skyrocketed. >> the bill or is considering is in no way merely symbolic. it represents the true will of the american people. the majority have stated time after time to this day, that they rejected this law. >> democrats accuse
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republicans of trying to take away news health benefits for the young and old. staging political theater. >> you need is good you ran on the agenda of defeating health care and appealing it and now you're doing it all that. and it what it is it you are doing. this is not a campaign were play with fire were taking away health-care benefits to make real difference to our families. >> the repeal of it is a killer of human beings. some 40,000 americans die every year for lack of health insurance. that's the reality, repeal this bill in your going to find more americans dying. >> during the campaign that democratic lawmakers were reluctant to defend the health care law. now top democrats are relishing the repeal fight setting up topic points and fund- raising in dallas. calling it a good way to activate a demoralized democratic base. not all democrats agree oklahoma dan board voted no on health care last year and plans to vote yes on repeal even though he calls it an
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exercise in futility. the >> i don't think it's going to go anywhere, my constituents need to know if i voted against it went out to vote for the repeal. even though it's not going to go anywhere, some bill publicly any think they need to know where i stand. i stand with my constituents. the reason why we lost money seats were because people did listen to the people back home. >> of all house democrats who voted against a gray, 13 agreed to our reelection are still in the house and most say despite opposing their own party signature legislation in campaigning against it rippling health care now is the wrong way to go. dana kron 4 news. >> the gop effort to kill reform a symbolic to anything to satisfy its two- part segment because the measure is dead on arrival in the senate want majority democrats will refuse to take up legislation. the what republicans insisted following the will of the american people. the
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american people are actually quite divided on this issue. the most recent gallup poll found 46 percent what the health-care law repealed, 40% stake keep it. breaking it down further most republicans want to repeal while most democrats favor the health-care reform law. then there's an age divide the majority of adults under 30 favor the new law while the majority of adults those 50 to 64 want it repealed. >> coming up on kron 4 news weekend at a rocket launcher found in an unusual place, a dumpster in southern california. will have the story. >> first invited to live look at sighted san mateo bridge and look slightly overcast over there will reach a high of 50 degrees and sam until today.
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ignited at a postal facility yesterday addressed a homeland's security secretary. the post of building was evacuated and no injuries reported. this happened just one day after a fiery package was sent to the transportation secretary. >> the police officer was flagged down by a postal employee that works in this block at united states postal facility. the employe indicated they had a package that's described as similar nature have to the packages that were recovered yesterday in maryland. the package had been described as pop thing, smoking with a brief flash of fire and then extinguished itself. >> not clear this morning what ignited the package because a worker did note that. >> this is something you don't stumble on everyday a rocket launcher founded a dumpster yesterday. was wrapped in plastic and surrounded by debris a bomb
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squad called in to remove the launcher later found out than it did really pose a danger. authorities think it's a tea for anti-tank weapon used by the marine corps in the army. the have no idea how it ended up in the dumpster. the someone got it from there i guess. >> coming up on kron 4 news weekend another mystery that has people wondering about the top five movies when committed by chance. walnut creek as a look at the fog had lifted all. it's going to stay cool and overcast. your forecast coming up.
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top. >> let's check in with jacqueline bennett shall explain it all. >another chilly day around the bay with temperatures in the 40's and low 50's to the rest of the bay area. slight warning as we head into tomorrow, were expecting sun into the afternoon. we'll get to that in a moment. we've been seeing an influx of fog and really cold air from the central valley which is typical for this time of year there. we'll winds coming from the east that are pulling all of this to the bay area. you can see fog extensive into the north bay, we've seen it over the past several days. the cold air and fog carries into the bay area this morning, bringing in dense fog and drizzle into our inland valleys and delta. temperatures this afternoon will range from 46 to 54, warmer closer to the coast and down in the south bay. we will see this pattern break up though, which responsible for it is a
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storm sitting down to the south. it is bringing us the easterly winds, the ones moving in the direction you see here of the arrows. this will push to the northeast and that will help break up the fog and bring us clear skies into tomorrow. as for the fog and backtracking a little bit this morning, we did see fog closer to the coast and the delta, it's going to break up by this afternoon. mostly clear skies 2:00 some lingering fog in the san mateo coastline but we'll see mostly sunny conditions. temperatures in the morning starting out in the 30's. as we head into the afternoon temperatures will struggle to warm, you will notice by 4:00pm at least the 40's, 42 fairfield, 45 in livermore, 52 palo alto, 53 in san jose. in the evening temperatures will cool down again very quickly, so by 7:00 p.m. if you have plans, bring a jacket, especially if you're inland or along the delta where tempertures
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will already have dipped into the 30's by 7:00. a look at those high temperatures neighborhood by neighborhood, 55 in santa rosa was the warmest location. temperatures struggling to warm for most of the north bay and 49 novato, 46 napa and 42 in fairfield. down south it will be a little bit warmer, temperatures down the peninsula and the east bay shore in the low 50's. 54 san jose, 54 monday but again as our inland spots that's in the 40's. that will change our there tomorrow. the temperatures in the 40's will change to low 50's for sunday. your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast, chilly today and chilly tomorrow, temperatures will stay in the low 50's through the weekend and into early next week. right now we have a 30 percent chance of rain that's likely to go up as we head into next week. we will bring you details on
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that as it get's a little bit closer. >> the top five movies on jan wallace critic. she managed to come up with some favorites. >> can we talk? at 5 joan rivers a piece of work revealing personal documentary that follows when you're in the life of joan rivers. she sees herself for most as an actress her life as a comedian and record as being an extension of being an actress. i saw this a couple weeks ago and so we loved it. joan rivers a piece of work. >> no. 4, inside job. this is a documentary takes a closer look at the global financial crisis of 2008 which cost more than 20 trillion dollars and caused millions of people to lose our jobs and home and the worst recession since the great depression the film traces of broke industry that crooked policy,
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regulation and academia but explain a lot of stuff that we did note. like derivatives. >> is that it was very accessible and learned a lot. no. 3 on the list of a lot of critics are just jam the breakup fell about the rise of face book called the social network. and aaron sorkin film played by a very convincing jesse heisenberg as he develops the idea of a social network for the masses. some people think facebook was and has idea. legal battles continued and the get into all of that as well. a captivating movie at first it did not see it because of that facebook had to make a movie the made a great movie of that. >> i saw this i like to the light the late 1960's and outside london. it's women against ford and its dallas sally hawkins for any young woman who doesn't know about
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the feminist movement this was some important steps that these women may for equal pay for a lot of women around the world. >> #1 drumroll we all love this the king's speech it's pretty much unanimous here on the weekend at kron 4. the favorable be of the year based on a true story. george the sixth play by colin firth he has a very serious on the stuttering is the father of queen elizabeth the second he sputtered badly but did overcome that with the help of a courageous and outrageous australian speech therapist. it's just a wonderful film and george is able to find his voice literally and lead britain through times of war. >> and will be right back. (laughter)
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what the new cbs is distributing this year. >> lady got the showed up at this year's c.s. moss figures. shield designed a product for polaroid including the use the gl 20 damage capturing sunglasses. the sunglasses have a built- in camera that takes digital video and still picture. with built-in blue to the sun glasses can send a picture to a small portable printer he can carry around in your purse or pocket. the idea take a picture with your shades and instantly be able to print out a physical picture with your carrier along portable printer. a cool idea and it gets better. the shades of a built-in video display you can see through and you can activate when you want them. you can put images on the display of pictures he snapped. the sunglasses and printer come out march no price for the glasses yet but the printer will be $150. a handy gadget to power your various devices went on the go. the and how
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or peg collects energy as it moves. if you keep it in a backpacker purse while walking around ackees energy. when you need to charge a device he disconnected to the and power and charge away. no batteries no wallow but needed could clean and efficient energy on the go. the and power pad is $160 and can be pre order now it's coming out sam perry had a loss is something that may never come to market in a lifetime but so cool to look at. the gm and the it's a tiny concept vehicle, a two-seater with upright seats. gm sees this as the future of how to get around crowded city streets. the total electorate, weighs less than a third of the weight of the traditional car. it's it's a place that has a capsule built around it. don't fall in love with that though, the e v is not expected to hit city streets for another 20 years. gabe
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