>> after eight days of dry weather plane has crept back in. the looks clear and light on van ness avenue in san francisco. like is the winter pattern things will start in the north. >> we're not expecting a washout but we are expecting wet rain. light rain continues and it could get breezy as well. in the evening a lingering showers to the picture. right now it looks like we see most of the activity through the napa valley, delta as well, also along i it 80 quarter. as we take it through this richmond san rafael bridge and a few raindrops also through concord, a walnut creek. all along the peninsula wheel drive for now. temperatures right now to the upper 40's like half moon bay, blue '40's in the north

bay, and still in the 30's for fairfield, antioch, 43 mountain view. future cast 4 shows better chance of showers and to the evening. hit and miss showers for the day, by the evening a better chance for organized rain to push through. nothing more than light rain throughout the day today. it could continue into their early morning hours tomorrow as well. '40's today for santa rosa, it will stay cool in through the net of bali and the delta. 51 in san francisco, low 50s through the east bay down to the south bay as well. 7 day around the bay shows a bit more plane for the next couple of days. just a few sprinkles in the morning hours tomorrow, partly sunny conditions for everybody by fed, saturday, pleasant weekend ahead with temperatures and low 60s.

>> pleasant commute ahead if you're headed out the door. no problems or even delays on the bay area roadways. the commute livermore, altamont pass all looks good. even in the up looks good. bay bridge, a west bound ride a light one the typical back up in the cache line read at 6:00 a.m., volumes still very light. as it is for the san mateo bridge, the volume has picked up on the westbound. excuse me the eastbound. the headlights here. west bound ride still lighter than normal for this hour morning. six 02 a.m.. golden gate bridge, still no delays as you head down from orange county board threw it from novato. intel and on the net but own analysis looks good as well. no north bay problems on reported either.

>> of palm lot of fired the puck a complex will tran live with details. >> the fire has been put out it is up about a quarter of a mile from one located. it is and no street that's why they force us to be down here. this is video we shot after the fire broke out at 3:00 a.m., i spoke to the captive he said the fire started on the end unit on the second floor. it got so hot and the flames are so big that 1.2 people had to just mud of a silk and balconies and they broke the leg, an ankle. for the people at the hospital with smoke inhalation. it took half an hour to put the fire at, by the time it was put out 22 units were affected. they don't of the cause of a this fire. even

though the flames of out the fire dupont will be here for a few more hours. wait for the sun to come up so they did go in and make sure the hot spots don't, do their investigation. when i was up there a couple of minutes ago they went through their liking glass and pulling cut it out to make sure that everything was out and it was safe at this time. much more throughout the day. >> another story in lows on the the shooting rampage that happen over the weekend. six people killed 14 injured including a congresswoman. galileo gifford is a critical condition but she is responding to global commands. she has been double to raised two fingers on her left hand. also giving them thumbs all. cat scans showed no further swelling for now. meantime the first gathering for mourners in saturday's shooting is being held tonight. at a tucson

church. president barack obama will travel to more to attend a memorial service for the victims. the shooter is this man right here. he was in court yesterday his name is sheila blocking your. he will remain in custody until the next hearing. he faces charges of murder, attempted murder, attempted to monitor and a member of congress. a fed says the gunmen called him, the morning of the shooting. according to an interview that he dead he left the it a voice mail for this land. at 2:00 a.m., saturday, it said heyman its jilted me and you had some good times. peace out. later. they say he attended the at a dead in 2007, she he was upset because she did not

answer one of his questions. >> and lee will be sworn and as the inter mayor. he'll serve for 10 months until the next election in november. he will be the first chinese-american mayor. he served in city government since 1989, but her >> of allies and is expected to announce in the next couple of hours at a day of, it will start selling iphone. aversion has been long expected an award. the wall street journal is reporting it is set to announce it will sell iphone starting late this month. analysts expected to sell 5-13 million- ounce this year. >> we will be back san jose alive look as we look at one 01 northbound. still moving smoothly.

6:09 a.m., looking at san francisco, everything looks clear. san francisco at 44 right now, looking for a high of 51 this afternoon. >> waiting for the opening bell on wall street they all pointing up quite well. japan up this morning. they'll pledging to buy your own bonds that is easing jitters right now. we are seeing futures pointing higher. cumbrous department will release data on wholesale inventories. that will come up before the bell. they're expected to rise 1% in november. intel agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit over key computer and

technology. qantas will resume flights of the jumbo jets from australia to l.a. will be back after a two month stoppage. >> 6:11 a.m., records show the fda helped arizona get equipped source of execution drug. despite the agency's saying it would not regulate or block the imports. a shortage of the drugs to disrupt it execution of the room the world. california prison commission said they released a batch of the drug to the state bought from england. fda will not comment the key findings by commission established following bp oil disaster. this is the pro explosion that killed 11 people. the mass of spill that followed them 200 million gal. of oil into the gulf of mexico. a portion of the report was

released last week. it blamed the blow on the system problems and said reform is needed to prevent up will be. >> coming up in this hour going gate bridge can sign eliminating polltakers and going electronic. alive report and seven minutes. wikileaks fell under back in a british court today. $10,000 report to find people analyzing telephone boxes in coster county. pam se a lot of winter weather causing a lot of problems on the roads and railways a lot report coming up in a minute.

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things storm trucker for center over the carolinas. north carolina particularly. on the upper box we see traffic shots out of that land head toward they are also dealing with the same winter storm since sunday. causing major headaches for atlanta or the airport is a sock it right now with all that snow. thousands of flights have been cancelled since sunday. delta air lines and heavily affected, air trend affected. the drive on atlanta's highways, in has been taught as well. cars stopped still because of the icing that won't go away. temperatures soared near down friesen. this is the latest this storm is actually tracking to the north. i wouldn't be surprised of baltimore washington

international, and dulles airport is good to be affected. out here in ohio, illinois dealing with the storm system. they are conversion to the north and east. we will follow this for the next few days. the greater new england northeast corner has been dealing with all whole lot of nasty weather as well. >> bay area weather as well some rain in the forecast. >> its just betting on us and that's about it this morning. light rain starts off this morning it continues into the overnight hours as well. early morning to more we could get some sprinkles. we will dry up by the weekend. the we can looks pretty good right now. the satellite radar shows all the moisture moving and, really into the northwestern portion. we're

getting a few raindrops as well. three san rosa, i 80 quarter. a out to vacaville as well. a few sprinkles in concord, walnut creek. your current temperatures in the '40's 44 for san francisco, fairfield and antioch the cooler spots a upper 30's. low 40's in mountain view, san jose, 40 in san rosa. future cast 4 7:00 a.m. showing a better chance of rain in the north bay. later morning early afternoon we could pick up sprinkles. but light rain certainly not a washout. it's not a big storm. hit or miss showers for the good portion of the day. it will gather some strength by the early morning hours. you're 7 day around the bay showing temperatures topping out into the 50s. they could stay in the 40's and the north.

to tomorrow morning sprinkle and the early hours, thursday best chance of rain in the north. partly sunny into the weekend and lots of sunshine for your sunday, monday. 6:90 a.m., check on your commute with george. >> westbound direction and the volume is definitely building up here. dylan all problems for the commute we are problem free from the upper to the lorry shore free with the ride taking 14 minutes. toussaint francisco for look at your commute on 1 01, in on central freeway pretty light no delays, you will see a pretty easy ride as well for your trip on highway 101 heading south towards the airport. 1 01 we are picking up near san jose airport, north of the guadalupe

parkway heading up towards power grid america. still a light easy ride here. southbound commute looks good never backs up and the southbound direction. the commute a good one for public transit no delays on the peninsula for caltrans, or bark this morning. >> golden gate bridge officials thinking about eliminating toll takers completely. today more news faster we turn to jackie says all live at the golden gate bridge. >> there is a bus in the way but if i could roll some video. this plan is implemented what it wanted to eliminate 32 toll takers here the bridge. going completely electronics. basically it's a move to save money. $90 million and all over the next five years. they say this will save them significant money. what the plan is it would

go fast track or video camera surveillance. if you not have fast-track transponder, when you go through the toll on camera takes a picture and then they send you the bill. they say this could save up to, or over $15 million over the next decade. this is in the beginning stages. it goes to a subcommittee and then the board on january 28th, as early as we could see this implemented would be sometime in 2012, probably closer to 2013. >> debt and an interesting way to save money. this is just the golden gate bridge as the other bridges are different toll of 40. >> 18% more for trash pickup today. they voted yesterday to hike the trash and recycling fees. the rate hike was proposed by the south bay authority. labor agreements reached last

year and nearly led million dollar debt to allied waste were factors behind the hike. time now is 6:21 a.m., back with more couple of minutes. san mateo bridge and let's look how things are there. visibility is terrific and everything is moving at the speed limit.

6:25 a.m., as we zoom and storm tracker are four shows you the rain we are having. this is not a huge storm. on 80, all the way to sacramento there is a wide swath of rain. we aren't getting showers. it is limited to the north. you can see more activity off the coast ready to move in.

>> hillary clinton has arrived in yemen on her visit to sure ties with the fragile alliance. under tight security she landed in the capital to press yemen leaders should do more to crack down on extremism. she is a first secretary state to visit in 20 years. >> 39 year-old has an extradition hearing for rape and assault allegation made against him in sweden. he was greeted bail and london last month. a final decision on the extradition will be made until february. it lead to the thousands of military and diplomatic documents to media outlets around the world. the federal government is investigating. it has looked for twitter messages. >> new killer technology to russia will take effect today. the agreement which cleared last

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6:29 a.m., wheel of focusing done storm trucker for we are seeing rain in the north. >> on the radar as well. dealing with light rain this morning, continuing to see rain in the afternoon as well. breezy as we head into the afternoon hours, evening springs lingering showers. the radar this morning shows you where we are getting showers off the north bay coast. showers to actually creep away in london. right now we're picking up rain drops in to back the bill. what we are dealing with is some isolated spot showers through much of the day. currently temperatures in the '40's for most part. much warmer than that in half when bay. low '40's in the south bay, cool spots fairfield, in the up coming in at 39. future cast 4 show's chance of showers and the north bay, best chance of a late morning hours into the early afternoon. it looks like we will

see spotty showers through much of the bay area. in fact we could pick up sprinkle since the early morning hours, four to more is well. overcast day for the chance of light showers for the good portion of the day. 40's and the north bay, 515 francisco, 53 the east bay. and the south bay as well. 7 day around the bay shows wet weather continuing over the next few days. not talking about anything significant you may be a few raindrops on wednesday. if we do see any raindrops' thursday looks like it will be contained to the north. partly sunny fervor but by the end of the week. >> not talking about anything significant. the back up here at the bay bridge, there now because the meter lights were activated at 622. a minor back up for the west bound ride slowing only at the beginning of these parking lot. so it still looks good for your ride to the bay bridge traffic volumes a

light it doesn't seem like it was the activation warranted. the san mateo bridge will volumes are building we are still below normal for the west bound ride. that's why it's still so light on 880 through hayward fourth northbound and southbound, approaching 92. tracking the golden gate bridge 1 01 southbound still not problems. easy commute in for marin county. problem free on the redwood highway. the only slow traffic that we track is the right on highway 4. the westbound direction war is typically slow between antioch and pittsburgh. >> time right now is 632, developing new set of belmont where fire broke out earlier this morning and an apartment complex. will tran is there live gathering details on what happened here. >> the fire started three hours ago, as you can see the fire department is still here, they

plan to wait until the sun comes up so they can thoroughly inspect the permit that caught on fire. here's a video that we shot right after the fire started on claremont drive, this started, they don't know the cause yet. it got so hot to people were forced to jump out of a second store story balcony they landed on the ground and broke bones. maybe legs, ankles. they were taken to hospital. four other people were taken gospel for smoke inhalation. altogether 28 units on the second floor, 22 of them displaced. those people are being put up by the senior center. they don't know if this place as a sprinkler system at this time. they do have an alarm system. fortunate for that that allowed residents to wake up in the middle of night for them to understand what was going on. for them to leave the building which is why we don't see any

fatalities. we will talk to the captain at 7:00 a.m., and get more for the story of what they plan to do throughout the morning. >> think you will. mark. >> out of arizona. jared loughner he appeared in federal court yesterday. gifford is recovering after being shot at close range in the head. outside the medical center in tucson. >> jared loughner or the charges against him two counts of murder, attempted murder, one count of attempting to kill a member of congress. he is accused of shooting 20 people, he made his first court appearance monday head shaven and wearing a jumpsuit. he did not make a statement or enter a plea, he answered questions in a clear voice. a former classmate

said he made people in class uncomfortable. >> he was off and that was something that was apparent, as soon as i met him. >> several victims remained hospitalized included gabrielle share remains in critical condition but doctors are optimistic. among the six people killed was nine year-old christina green. they are making plans to bury their little girl. >> until we would be picking out caskets and nine years old. i do not had to do that today. pam it reached out into space as deferreds brother-in-law reacted to the shooting. >> as a look at the window and see a beautiful planet that seems caring invite and peaceful. unfortunately it is not. we are better than this. we must do better. >> president barack obama and first lady michelle obama will arrive here tomorrow for more of

service to be held in the campus of the university of arizona. in tucson on paul. >> we will continue to cover the shooting we have more on the suspect as well on our web site. >> new details the chronicle reported pg&e has suspended that practice of boosting pressure of its natural gas lines. the practice of taxing out pressure may have played a role in september san bruno explosion. the utility says it will suspend the practice. until then inspection has been finished. >> a quick break as the news continues until 11:00 a.m.. @

6:39 a.m., a peek at 1 01, through san jose. that is northbound. the taillights and there is a company there but it is moving well at this hour.

currently amount view it is 44 degrees, we are seeing this around the bay. chilly temperatures, not as cold as it has been. but not very far to the high. they will only gain to 9-10 degrees. 54 later on today. >> they are trained figure out what happened more than 100 birds off of 1 01 in the eyes are built. the dead roots saturday were found. the officer said there were small with brown and platt for others. this report comes as other larger bird deaths of been reported in arkansas, louisiana, other states. >> at&t is now offering a $10,000 reward to catch the vandals who have cut phone and internet lines in walnut creek for a second time. it happened friday night on putnam boulevard near the pleasant hill border, disrupting service for customers for most of the weekend. at&t says vandals did the same thing in november at 15 different locations in walnut creek, orinda and lafayette.

>> vacaville police are a lot less 30 year-old lady on suspicion of living her three year alone. she left her daughter alone at home was too to the store and a friend's house on saturday. the girl was missing when the mother returned home. they found her barefoot in her pajamas a few blocks away. it was 38 degrees and foggy at the time. >> the fatal stabbing of a 20 year-old man and a center rosa school. 19 year-old rao will has been arrested for the gang- related murder of one carlos appeared police found as bronze of lying in a hallway at that: this brings elementary school saturday. autopsy showed multiple stab wounds. >> we will be right back as the news continues after the break. a live look at the toll plaza, at the golden gate bridge as we

are watching this story this morning and the toll takers be a thing of the past? looks like it's round the corner.

earnings season once again. they release their fourth quarter earnings yesterday after closing bell. they beat expectations. the stock is up 51. >> a look at the temperatures right now. those temperatures are down. and we do have right to talk about. >> we are starting off with light showers in the north bay. chance of rain for everybody through the day. golden gate bridge is dry. we could see spotty showers through the day. and through the early morning tomorrow, continuing scattered showers. drying up by the end of the week. july radar shows storm to some breaking into california

bringing some showers. up and down the state. in our area continuing to see showers right now through the delta along i 80 from fairfield to back the bill. also along the coastline breaking in and pushing towards 1 01, towards novato and san rosa. rainout current temperatures in the 40's for the most part. '40's san rosa, 44 in san francisco. the cool parts this morning fairfield, in the off at 39. taking it through the day better chance of the rain in to the late morning hours and especially in the north bay and delta. by the evening looks like we could actually gather strength and show some raindrops along the peninsula into the portion of the north bay as well. better showers though throughout a good portion of the day continuing into early tomorrow morning. your highs today will be in the 50s, some spots will not be out of the forested expression in the north bay. early morning showers

tomorrow, chance of rain thursday, partly sunny by the end of the week. the weekend lots of sunshine. >> still require ride around the bay area. the bridges all look good even the bay bridge with the meter lights act of has a very small back up. other cameras in san francisco the right here through the james lick freeway. when they marched together the scene of a big accident yesterday that tried it up traffic all morning long. no incidents today. an easy ride through san jose, as we track 101 in the northbound direction. getting heavier for your trip up towards our great america parkway but no problems are back up out of the coyote valley. your ride on interstate 80 heading through albany westbound the volume is definitely building up here through the s curve down the golden gate fields. the transition from the

upper to the lorry shore freeway with no problems heading around the corner and down the shore to berkeley curve. as we mentioned the bay bridge aliyah short wait for the beginning of the east parking lot. 10-12 cars deep at the worst lanes. >> bus riders in the south bay may have noticed some differences. they put into place minor tweaks. to most of the bus lines riders will likely see schedule in frequency changes. they said these are adjustments since the service schedule was redone in january of 08. >> each quarter this we take a look at to this schedule, the different bustlines. that offer service reuter county. the schedules need tweaking since our major overhaul the we did in january of 2008. back then we

took the entire system, wipe the slate clean, really took a hard look at the best way to put service on our roads with buses. since then we've been doing minor tweaks throughout the system. >> one of the most affected routes in the series comes to the 180 bus route weekend service. which connects to downtown san jose. it will be stopped on weekends, 181 bus will take its place. >> back in the east bay a police are questioning three men in connection with the shooting of fog richmond teen outside of his grandmother's home. he was found dead on fleming avenue about 330 yesterday afternoon. they say somebody ran up and fired several shots. he was pronounced dead at seen. police had the vehicle description and spotted the car, two hours after the

shooting. >> it has been a rough start in oakland a very violent start. there was a silly shooting of a 15 year-old on saturday, the latest in a string of islands in oakland. over the past two weeks, a lot of it involving teenagers. two other teenagers killed last week in an unrelated shootings. 17 year-old christopher jones shot as he helped his sister put her five month old daughter in the car. you can see the locations of the shootings here. six hours later 18 year-old darnell was fatally shot in the 3100 block. last tuesday night's six people were injured by shooting including a bystander who was watching tv. two other men were both found fatally shot in separate shootings in west oakland on tuesday and wednesday. 29 year-old fish smell suffered from a gunshot

wounds in front of campbell market, sunday night they found a man who had been shot on may avenue. >> we will be back as the news continues after the break. walnut creek right now on this dark morning clouds are moving in and a few light rain showers in the north bay. south of highway 24 is moving smoothly right now.

drivers in one city is part came in buses zonds stanley roberts has people being badly. >> there red nissan as he carries a box into a convenience store in san francisco. the problem? he is stopped and a bus on. in most cities stopping abuzz zone could cause you a lot of money. if you look around it's not hard to find somebody risk getting a ticket to do that. the driver this ford who

happen to be in the red cells when a parking of stores and office are passes by. but instead of leaving he pulls ford and sets. so you get the warning. well he's doing that another car pulls up to drop off a passenger. this man at 24 than mission posen with his flashers on to get money from an atm. apparently flashers are the international sign for i'm allowed to park illegally. this rule pies for pick-up and drop- off spirit this means taxis as well. but stone's are there so they buses can pull in and out without blocking traffic. so no stopping. although i wonder if pulling a bus into a bus zone at 90 degrees and goal is the correct use of a bus zone. before i go. if you drive up city vehicle you can still not pull into a bus zone. unless

it's an emergency and chatting with the body is not an emergency. >> if you have a comment or story idea for stanley please e- mail us that people being badly at www.kron4.com. >> 9:15 a.m., the doctor charged with michael jackson's death will be in court. detectives testified yesterday they told police he'd given the pop star powerful anesthetic. but at least six months a week for two months before he died. police detective testified that doctor told him he avoided giving propofol to jackson until about 4 10:40 a.m. on the day he died. the hearings will see if you will face charges for involuntary manslaughter. a mental evaluation of this washington state woman whose splashed i sit on her own face. in a bizarre hoax to get

attention and help. it is what to determine whether she could form a criminal and and when she accepted donations after falsely saying she was a victim of the attack. schieffer said in an unknown woman to harass the to the face. >> we will be back as a morning news continues. top stories we're following south eastern store. live looks right now. from raleigh trucks are stranded in this snow. atlanta of goes down again today. a 5 in. of snow on the ground, this storm is about to wallop new york city. details said.

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