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live from the bay area new station, this is the kron 4 morning news. >> could morning, 4:00 a.m., live looks from james lick. not bad here but also you what we have dense fog out there. particularly in the north bay as well temperatures this afternoon scheduled to be nice. lets you the latest and say good morning to a we saw haunch. >> similar to yesterday dense fog. especially over the north bay this morning. we have an adviser in effect until 10:00 a.m., but another warm afternoon lots of sunshine in store for us. changes in store for the weekend. let's go ahead and take
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a look at current temperatures still chilly, 36 rose san rosa, 36 napa, satellite radar shows the ridge of high pressure in place. we will see changes by the weekend. more and onshore flow clouds in telmexthe amex. temperatures into the '60s today. we might even squeeze out a few 70 degree reading six special in the south bay. temperatures mid to upper '70's right through the east bay. in terms of fog this is what visibility looks like. fog building along petaluma it down to this san rafael. the problems are staying up and to places like santa rosa, the adults as well. right through concord as well. bring visibility down.
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you're 7 day around the bay shows more sunny days ahead. a couple of days left. towards the weekend per le cloudy conditions. >> right off the bat no hot spots. we do have dense fog advisory spiriadvisory. chp aske speeds. drive with caution. these so the only two bridges in effect. westbound 80 pretty clear out there. a couple of cars on the road. no dense fog advisory for this bridge. no problems all lanes open. nine minutes from the foot of the maze and fremont streets in francisco. san mateo bridge eastbound 92 looks good. lots of space between cars. nobody but the toll plaza. you may have problems at the bridge. overnight construction still in
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effect until 5:00 a.m., 2 lanes have been closed. not producing any slowing yet. the golden gate bridge southbound 101 nice and quiet. very few cars on the road here. traffic moving at the limit. >> for 02 a.m., at the latest details on the search for juliani cardenas cruise coming the canal have suspended the search. we have video of yesterday's search. they recovered 11 vehicles in that canal. to that they pulled up yesterday. none of them how what are was the court what they were looking for a connection with the missing. they will respect to sonar images today. they determine any plan of action. >> moran county search and rescue teams are still looking for a teacher and deborah
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schmidt. she was seen a week ago after writing a message on the chalkboard. it said they knew everyone. we will get the latest on the information. >> this is where the press schmidt was last seen a week ago. take a look at this video. the have been looking for her all day near phoenix lake it will continue to search for the night. she liked to hike, the terrain is rugged, the park is 1 mi. from our home. we like to her home and tried to talk to her house but he didn't want to talk on we spoke to al for wallace, he says she was a substitute teacher. choose a favorite among students. >> she would act like a teenager. a student. she talked was casually, easy to relate to.
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then she would be able to teach. that's not something you get out of every teacher. >> she may need medication they don't suspect foul play, they don't believe that she is suicidal. move for you this morning san bruno police looking for a man suspected of stabbing a 16 year-old boy during a fight. happened last night. they saw eight people involved in a fight when the boy was stabbed. he is expected to recover. all suspects got away including the man who stabbed the child. >> prosecutors expected to charge a man. 29 year-old will be arraigned today on murder and arson charges. that they believe the victim was killed in sacramento, then driven to san
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francisco where the car was set ablaze. snowfall record are falling across the northeast. out of washington d.c. heavy snow bearing good portions of d.c., and new york. public schools are closed today as in the rose reports this latest blast is making trouble troublesome even for the president. >> people are waking up to scenes like this across the northeast. meteorologist are calling for foot of snow in some spots. virginia to new england. virtually impossible in some areas, heavy snow fell through night around the capital. most runways at were shut down late wednesday night. jfk airports were closed as well, hundreds of flights are canceled across the region. air force one landed at
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inf airforce base. but it was a long commute for president barack obama as motorcade back to the white house. >> is not travel watch this. >> are we ever going to get out of here? the month a transformer blew during an interview causing one of many power outages that left hundreds of thousands of people without heat or light in the d.c. area alone. after what has been a rough winter, some residents are unimpressed. >> very slippery. but it is great fun i love this note. >> what was snowstorms be without a snowball fight. this happened in dupont circle, a wonderland for some, a worry for others. into rows reporting. >> we have a lot look out of new york this morning as well. well we had the shot went away. there is again. the seeing your seeing through new york city. lots of
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snow. this one looks passable. in some areas not possible. we have though lotuthe latest snow fall 9 in. at look cornea, 6 in. in jfk, 11 in. in d.c., in philadelphia 14.2 in.. we will have airport problems throughout new england today will keep you updated. for 08 a.m., we will take a break. a much different scene, a beautiful shot of san francisco. no snow on the ground. temperatures again upper '60's, low '70s that many in new england would kill for. we will be right back.
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for 09 a.m., temperatures near
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the 70 degree mark, lots of sunshine. the clout world isn't by the weekend we will get more men on shore marine push. we will see temperatures dip on sunday, but we return back to normal by the middle of next week. nice forecast expression when you think about we are still in january. errors on a shooting rampage we are told the man accused of trying to kill gabrielle gifford did his research days before the attack appeared it turned up internet push searches on solitary confinement, political assassinations. he pleaded not guilty. for almost nine years scholars have been used to designate national threat level. but now the homeland's security
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system is or to be shown the door. they are expected today to announce they will pull the plug on the color coded poster in april. she will under a veil and new systems specific threats in geographical areas. hearst each speech is scheduled for today. federal deficit will surge to 1.5 trillion this were a year. blame it last month's tax cut lot. tax revenue will drop to its lows: 1950 when measured against the economy. the report serves as a reminder that it will take more than president barack obama is raise to stem the budget woes. more bad news on the economic front social security will run out of money by 2037. the budget office says this year alone social security
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will get 45 billion less than it pays out manifests. i and employment has payroll taxes league game at the same time applications for benefits are rising. good news on surveys that found there is optimism about the economy for the year ahead. it shows the economy will grow faster than the position of the three months ago. unemployment will remain high at 9% by year's end. economists think it will be 2016, or later before unemployment drops to a normal rate of 5%. check on wall street stock futures up slightly. after a positive day yesterday. it finished at its highest level since 2008. the government's weekly reports on employment comes out this morning. they're looking for to rise. for closure of listing jumped in 149 largest
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metropolitan. net flicks' got a 20 million customers in the fourth quarter. we will take a break up for 12:00 a.m., a lot look as we go. the golden gate bridge. we have some fog in the north bay, in the east bay as well. another look at forecast coming up.
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for 2:00 pm, a shot of the golden gate bridge. as you head into the north your hitting dense patches of fog. especially to the east bay valleys. dealing with a lot of the fog. in san francisco temperature 51 degrees. by noontime 64, your highs today 67 it will be another gorgeous the out. back into the fifties by the o'clock hour. still chilly today for
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napa, san rosa, 35 fairfield, in the op 384 livermore. but the afternoon now we have rich of high-pressure helping to bring temperatures up. they warm up into the '60s today the upper 60s for san rosa, mid-60's for novato, san rafael, down in the south bay we might see some 70 greetings today. overall we will have another gorgeous day similar to the day before and the day before that. visibility less than a quarter of a mile in san rosa, through the delta as well. less than a quarter of a mile through fairfield, and concord. 7 day around the bay lots of sunshine in store for the rest of the work week. it will be a pleasant forecast but by the weekend partly cloudy conditions persist. temperatures will cool down. >> what looks like it's going to
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be gorgeous day outside. you have to get through that fog out there. too dense fog advisories for some burgess. cartagena's bridge, and the benicia bridge. they asked to reduce speed and be mindful of the cars in front of you. no slow spots, hot spots or accidents to contend with. the bay bridge toll plaza nice and light just a few cars westbound and then francisco. if you're headed to the san mateo bridge we are tracking construction once again in effect today until 5:00 a.m., 2 lanes will be closed in both directions of the nimitz freeway. a lot look from the bridge, one to get on this ban itself no problems to contend with. no problems getting to the bridge along 1 01. golden gate bridge looks good no problems here. you can even see any cars on the road practically a ghost town. freeways near the downtown
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area. past 87 interchange no problems to report, easy conditions. a drive time of 50 minutes in downtown >> for 4:00 pm, a lot of oakland police chase come to end with the crash appeared that chase ended with a horrible crash near 85th at 430 yesterday afternoon. one suspect was killed. one of the problems for police officers was the police radio system went down. jonathan blum shows us how that unfolded. >> in oakland a police chase terrorist turned deadly after two men shooting at innocent people in the neighborhood. when they pursued those men who are in the drive-by shooting police said they let them on a high- speed chase. ultimately crashing into car. that that is a person was not her but the suspects got
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on the vehicle one of them was armed with two guns. when he was ordered on the ground up one of the police officers opened fire leaving him dead at scene. the driver was taken into custody without incident. they are looking into why they were shooting at innocent people. >> a woman who was killed in a crash while fleeing police and a stolen truck has been identified the sheriff's department said 27 year-old cristina of the word crashed into a power pole tuesday afternoon. she had lost a please officer who was attempted to people are over. a girl was killed last night when she was hit by a vehicle. the one-year- old was killed outside of our aunt, no word on how the accident happened. we're told
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her organs will be donated. cal train conductor facing charges for demanding sexual favors from passengers. he is facing charges of misconduct after scoring a 16 year-old girl to go firemen's cap on the train car. asking for sexual acts resident is back out on bail $55,000. december not gas line explosion for the first time yesterday survivors of that explosion are finally receiving donations which poured into the city after the disaster. christine, spoke to the victims who had been waiting for months. >> this is edward pollack greenish this will literally put clothes on his back. >> buy food and pay bills. i definitely need clothes.
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>> his son was leveled in the explosion. he has been waiting months for assistance. >> frustrating but i know the city, and the council are doing the best they can. that's all i care about. better late than never. >> for a hundred thousand dollars in donations poured into the city of san burn off. that money is being distributed to victims as city hall. 30 families whose homes were destroyed will get $6,000 track. moderate damage 4000, minor damage $1,000. the city doesn't expect everyone entitled to pick up the check. rex says he will donate it to charity. >> i have misgivings about taking money at this point. i think i will take it and dispersant in one ever benevolences i can dream up. >> any leftover money will be put in a contingency fund.
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>> sam francisco woman headed to jail after posing as a victim of that pipeline explosion and ordered to get disaster money. jacqueline turner pleaded guilty. turner is the fourth person convicted of trying to scam aid money. the parents of a woman that was killed filed wrongful death lawsuit against pg&e. she was at her boyfriend's house when it happens. this is a photo of the two. her boyfriend lived but is badly burned. national they say hazardous activity on pga naseby half. marin county has joined a growing list of bay area communities banning single use plan that plastic bags. they approve the band is expected to take place next year. there'll
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be a 55 fee for paper bags at creche restores. five other cities including san francisco already have approved similar dead man's. redwood city's police jeep is resigning. he will be resigning after serving four years. the chief says he has accomplished schools including reducing crime in the city, and making adjustments in hours. his last it will be february 16th. are read by rush limbaugh are caused criticism from the senator. now the senator says he's received death threats. he was making fun of the visit by the chinese president. he suggested not all of the president whose speeches were translated >> (no audio(inaudible) nobody s
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translating. that's as close as i can get. >> this is where the death threat came in. they were sent to lease office. it shows our reference to rush limbaugh it has racist slurs targeting asians and african-americans. and news what appears to be president barack obama said. lee says this is more chilling he doesn't plan to back down on boycotting lombard show. >> when we raise issues we get threats. if there is any indication, maybe the threats
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would stop. what i'm doing is not the case. best thing i can do in response to threats is not have them cause me to change my behavior or any of the work i do. >> he went on to say he doesn't stop with the call to boycott the advertisers and will make public appearances. >> allies look aside we will check the ride on the james lick freeway the headlights coming off the central freeway. it looks the they get right now. we will be right
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a quick the bridge check. no issue on this band is an easy ride into san francisco. from hayward to foster city looks pretty good. no problems on san mateo bridge. the golden gate bridge as usual easy commute coming out of marin county southbound into san francisco. more weather and traffic in a moment. president barack obama has signed a disaster declaration for 10 counties that sought heavy damages by winter storms. the declaration makes federal funding available for the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by flooding, and monthsmud flows. in world ns
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this morning japan's major obstacle agencies and the alert about volcanic activity in southern japan. it erupted earlier this month for the first time in six months. ash fell on the city below the mound yesterday afternoon creating a crater, the agency is inviting people to stay away, and warns there's a possibility falconet activity may intensify. the mud number of moslems will double in the next 20 years to 6.2 million. that is according to a new study. this is video from mecca. the rise in muslims is primarily due to the high birth rate. it points out pakistan will take over indonesia as home of the hard largest number of muslims with 256 million. we
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will take a break out for 20 7:00 a.m., a look at of new york where they are waking up to record snowfall. will tell you if there's any flight delays for today. jfk, new work shut down completely because of the snow. we will monitor the ripple effect back with more in a moment.
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one minute before 4:30 a.m., the bay bridge approach. today is lot like yesterday morning. cool in some spots and fog and others. >> it is starting to feel like a groundhog day. this is the good kind. another day with lots of sunshine into the afternoon. warm temperatures as well. clear shot of downtown san francisco. to the north, east bay dense fog. once again this morning. a really nice afternoon on tap.
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changes by the weekend. current temperatures this morning. chile in the north bay, san rosa, now about 36 degrees. 46 along the coast. 51 in san francisco. some large yesterday. high pressure system in place bringing us dry weather in sunshine once again. this will continue into the end of the week. the changes by the end of the weekend. in afternoon highs will bring this upper 60s and rosa, mid-60's novato, a bit cooler through the data where they deal with fog. in the act it as 58 degrees today. big difference along the coast upper 60s, south bay upper 60s even low '70's. visibility shows us we are having problems in the santa rosa, through the delta. less than a quarter of a mile visibility into concord this morning. seven day around the
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bay shows sunshine for the rest of the work week. by the weekend we are having more clouds. and a small chance of rain on sunday. then by the next work week temperatures will stay in the '60s warming it up bad week. >> good morning in looks like fog is the big story in the weather and traffic department. we have advisory's that are in fact for the benicia bridge out there. watchers speeds be mindful of the cars in front of you would is foggy. these are the only to fog advisories in effect. none for the bay bridge toll plaza nice and light conditions here. no problems getting to the bridge from the east valley freeway or the nimitz freeway. if you're headed to the san mateo bridge over night construction in effect on the nimitz freeway right where it meets 92. to lanes will be
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closed until 5:00 a.m., looking at this ban itself clear conditions westbound and eastbound 92. golden gate bridge ride could hear no problems at marin county. traffic moving at the limit was drawn this ban had lights in the south and direction towards them francisco. craig talked drive times at their 23 minutes into the city limits. no problems reported for ac transit, burt warm union this morning. >> let's talk about east coast weather. a storm pounds that quarter of the country. it has been battered by winter weather already. this has forced more business closures and airport closures. this is boston more some of the were snow fell. it will come to an end later this morning. it leaves all whole lot on the ground. the snowfall this winter has been costly. boston
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has gone through 66% of $60 million budget and trying to combat this bill. i-95 in connecticut north of new york was closed all night long. tracks are stacked up going nowhere. 5 mi. of trucks standing still. those trucks have been ordered off highways until 10:00 a.m. this morning. a live look at of new york the sun beginning to come up. they have record snowfall as well. we will tell you if there's any flight delays. will tran has been monitoring the situation at sfo is been keeping an eye on any delays. we understand jfk, new work has shut down right now. >> yes. no flight delays out of as at all because they have cancelled the about flights to this morning that could change later today according to accept those duty manager. he says
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because that system is moving out of the northeast. perhaps this afternoon about flights will be ok. for now they went ahead in cancelled to outbound flights. as far as in bound flights. that was made yesterday they didn't want people showing up at jfk, and it worked in sitting on the tarmac. they went out and cancelled 20 flights. that won't change. that can change tomorrow but the impact is being felt at s the vote. if you're taking off today. you probably won't have any problems getting to chicago or milwaukee. but when she get there you might be stuck on the ground. as far as you're concerned. flights other than to jfk up are ok this morning. >> thank you for that the snow for fault totals have been impressive. we've put some cities together. 14 in. the
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search for juliani cardenas crews have suspended their search for car possibly learned that his appearance. this is video of yesterday search they were pulling up debris from underwater. they're recovered 11 vehicles and all. to yesterday alone. none of of was the toyota corolla they've been looking for. experts are expected to examine sonar today. they will go back to the drawing board and come back to a new plan. they
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have a meeting at 10:00 a.m. this morning to brainstorm marin county search and rescue searching for a high-school teacher. she was last seen a week ago after writing and message on her chalkboard. is that " thank you everyone " and that was the last time anybody saw her. >> investigators say their version that was last year a week ago. dip focuses search on phoenix light because they believe she like to hike. at a high-school where she taught english, a student says she was a likable teacher. at this point investigators say they don't expect foul play but they do want a fighter, because she does need medication >> new this morning sambar please looking for a man suspected of stabbing a six year-old boy during a fight. it happened last night witnesses
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reported seeing roughly eight people involved in the fight when the boy was dead. he is expected to recover. also suspect involved got away including the man suspected of stabbing the child. prosecutors are expected to to charge the man for killing a woman and torching a car. he will be arraigned today, on murder and arson charges. all connected with monday's murder. the victim was killed in sacramento then driven to san francisco where the car was set on fire with her body inside. school districts to tighten their belts across the state of oakland school board will give its staff are raised. did incur man tells us it is long overdue. >> oakland teachers and other staff members will get a 2 percent hike. this is long overdue there among the lowest played in the county. as a
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result teachers lead after just a year or two. this should go a long way toward retaining teachers appeared >> when you have a teacher that you can rely on it does something in the community. the community sees that teacher is committed to the community and staying there. it has a tremendous effect on student learning. i had students i was teaching i have their cousins, their brothers, their parents came back to visit. when you build the community. that is seen as part of the school. that helps kids to stay involved, stadium trusted. it becomes a place you want to be. >> if there's one concern is that this increase could lead to increased class size and that is never good they say for improve learning. >> we will take a break at 4:38 a.m., a lot look outside.
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checking your ride on the san mateo bridge. traffic is nice and light this morning. a complete look at weather and traffic in use in a moment.
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before 30 9:00 a.m., a foggy look at the cartoonist bridge. really bad fog along highway 4 from any of all the way to the concorde as well. careful as you drive out this morning. expect traffic delays in that part of the bay. will have a complete look in just a bit. some video of a pedestrian staying in marin county. stanley roberts has more now on people being badly. >> this is the exclusive video from store security camera in marin county. right here is a crosswalk. this happened 2008, 930 in the evening. all those
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hard to see a 51 year-old man was crossing the street in a crosswalk the man is hit and killed because the driver failed to yield. now marin costs. >> hews to the pedestrian crosswalk there. >> pedestrian stings like this one in marin county. the higher per patrol officers walks back some fourth, to see if drivers will yield. some drivers stop. more than often they don't. the drivers that don't stop have a conversation with the uniformed officer. >> at you are being stopped for failing to yield to a pedestrian back there. >> where was he? >> the driver said he never saw somebody in the crosswalk. and.
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>> he argued since the pedestrian lights were not on he is not required to stop. i pose this question. >> what you do when you get to cross one that doesn't have lights. >> good point. >> what about the light is not being done? >> i understand we say but the light, the fact is there's a lot across watts without lights. >> at a location of both past fatal accident is worse. as a decoy crosses the street. this mercedes blows through the crosswalk. even with the sheriff present by the way was not part of the sting. they both give chase. in 3 hour chp wrote 32 tickets for drivers not yielding to drivers in the crosswalk. including the driver in this part. the chp will conduct more
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of these things as long as drivers continue to ignore traffic laws. is something many residents are happy to hear. except the ones getting tickets. >> failing to yield for pedestrian on a crosswalk. >> stanley roberts kron 4 news. >> as those of you got a comment or story idea for stanley, on their pedestrians' be have been badly or drivers be have been badly let him know send him an e-mail. we will to and take a break, let's go outside and have looked at mt. tam. nice look at san francisco there. fog in the north bay there. fog in the east bank. expect traffic problems because of that. more in your commute and forecast coming up.
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we began with developing news, out of oakland. high speed police chase came to an end in a deadly crash near san leandro street and 85th. at 430 yen to afternoon. one suspect was killed. one of the main problems during that ordeal was the radio system went down for a while. jonathan blum was following this story and explains how this unfolds. >> police said the chase started after they came to investigate an unusual call. two men shooting at random people in the neighborhood that has never been a crime hot spot. when the shot up to arrest the men the suspects did not stick around. is there around 7600 block of a locked ward where they fell multiple bullet casings. they >> they had a woman putting our sun and the car, and other
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people were milling about on the sidewalk. >> the bullets missed all of them. the suspects were leaving when an officer tried to pull them over. they fled toward the freeway. it tried to call dispatch but the real was down. >> we've had problems with that in the past. the system will sometimes go down we have a difficult time talking. we have no contact with dispatchers who our lifetime to safety of here. >> police chased the man took a quick ride on cell leandro implored the accelerator. they ran a red light, plowing into another car. here you can see the damage. the green card badly damaged. but is trevor was not seriously hurt. after the crash police approached the car. >> the driver fled, the passenger exited engaged by officers and was shot and killed. the suspect to exit did
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passenger side was armed with two fire arms which were recovered. next to this person and under his person. >> you can see the yellow body bag covering the suspect. jean quan says the city will fix the real problem. >> please have yet emotive this started this. police officers are amazed nobody was hurt. johnson blue and kron 4 news. >> watching weather around the country this morning. out of new york city they are dealing with record snowfall this morning. 1 ft. of snow fell in new york, new england. we will let you know if there's any flight delays headed our way as a result. jfk and new work have been shut down right now. that is causing a ripple effect around the country. back care nothing to complain about maybe the fog. but otherwise it a great forecast. >> is great when use have the contrast starting off with this
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nor in the east. and then are temperatures. starting off this morning in san jose with temperatures around 47 degrees, by noontime 66 your highs today upper 60s in san jose. back down into the fifties by 8:00 p.m., here's a look at current temperatures 30's for san rosa, napa, 36 through the delta, antioch and fairfield. livermore 38 degrees, in the south bay mid to upper 40's. your satellite radar shows high pressure system which means we will have clear conditions today. dry conditions and warm weather. we continue with this trend of warm temperatures and to the afternoon. similar to yesterday. the cool spots this morning or this afternoon actually will be into the napa valley and the delta, upper 50s low 60s. elsewhere upper 60s in places like oakland, hayward, south
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bay mid to upper '70's. we could reach out some 70 degree readings today. there is a dance of fog advisory for the north bay, east bay dollars this morning you can see why. a low visibility into the north bay less than a quarter mile for san rosa, fairfield, concord as well. 7 day around the bay shows more sunshine for us. another couple of days with nice temperatures out there. we get a call them by tomorrow. you more by the weekend. low 60s. there is a slight chance of rain on sunday. by monday, tuesday we will warm up by mid week next week. for 40 9:00 a.m., check on you commute. >> no hot spots in the traffic department. a couple of the advisories issued for bay area
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bridges. the benicia branch, chp is asking you watchers speeds out there. be mindful of the cars in front of you. alive look from the benicia bridge. no back up at the toll plaza but foggy. be cautious this morning. no dense fog advisory for the bay bridge toll plaza. clear no problems getting to the bridge from the shore for a way, was bell 580, or the nimitz freeway. if your head to the san mateo bridge, no problems here westbound and eastbound 92 still looks good. you can see lots of space between cars, no back up at the top was the. the golden gate bridge we go. no problems out of the north bay, a ghost town of there. any barely any cars on the road out there. i just check censors no problems or accidents, speeds averaging
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65 mi. an hour a drive time of 23 minutes out of novato into the city limits. crosstown freeways look good. no problems with the james lick. no slowing just yet, conditions look good for their southbound towards ups building. no problems reported for public transportation a great start. >> don't forget mac world gets underway today in san francisco. they have 300 companies that will have booths there appeared they expect 25,000 attendees to rise. this is the second year that apple will be there. 25,000 people expected to be there. they run through sunday, from 10-6:00 p.m. each day. tickets
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are $25 online or $45 at the door. we will take a quick break. all live look from the south bay 1 01 in san jose, we have traffic moving nice and easy.
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we'll come back at 4:53 a.m., 78 forecast great conditions today, tomorrow. temperatures mid to upper 60s. changes a bit through the weekend. a few more clouds roll in. you get clouds from the ocean. temperatures get cool. and then we rebound next week. inland getting near freezing. otherwise we have the afternoons and that's what we to be thankful for. snowfall across the northeast, a out of
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washington d.c., the heavy snow there. burying the area. new jersey, public schools in new york shut down right now. we will follow this through the morning. be aware we will have flight this delayed. nasa is remembering the 17 astronauts lost in the line of duty. tomorrow's the 25th anniversary of challenger lost launch disaster. the fatalities were days of each other though years apart. seven died aboard the challenger accident in january of 1986. the explosion and seven crew of columbia perished during reentry in 2003. president barack obama the first lady
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michelle obama will address the latest score of new shoulders today after a ceremony on fort jackson is the carolina. mrs. obama trial publicity. in and doug here what is on all links today. he makes his did europe in san diego at farmers open. he loves the course. he has won seven pros on it. last year was not good for him. he failed to win a single tournament and crop to no. 3 in the rankings. >> obviously, i was consumed by a other things, i had to deal with that life goes on, let's moving forward. that's what's exciting about this year. having the perspective on things, my
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kids are doing that great. that's my number one priority. golf fall somewhere down the list after that. >> taggart takes off at 9:00 a.m., we will take a break for 56 on the clock. it is fairly clear in san francisco not the same for the north bay, and the spade. dense fog along highway 4. we will get a full look a forecast coming up.
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coming up of 5:00 a.m., a top stories at this hour. canal should search for a four year- old boy has now been suspended. we'll tell you what they're planning to do next. >> north east getting hit with heavy snow again causing gridlock traffic, and airport trust closures. >> major problems with airports. we will have the latest from sfo and the big back up for being here. >> no fault of the bay area whether we are waking up calm, clear. here's a live look from van ness ave. >> this is the time of year in the northeast are jealous. we continue with this really nice trend of temperatures warming up into the upper 60's, low '70s once again today. downtown san francisco, we are however starting with the fog in through
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the east bay valley. even fog the north bay. another warm afternoon on tap. changes by the weekend. really take advantage of today, tomorrow. we have changes in store. in the north bay we are only not the 30's. 36 for fairfield, napa, 34 in india. baird chile's start for the day. up groceries for livermore, 40's down in the senate. as we take it through the day. into the afternoon. we will warming into the '60s. even some '70s and the amex. cooling it down and the '40's, '50's by 8:00 p.m. upper 60s and rosa, mid-60's for novato, san rafael , 67 in san francisco today, a degree warmer and richmond, east bay 68, the common number for oakland, hayward, fremont as well. as we head into the south
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bay we squeeze out possibly 70 degree readings as well. san jose expected at 69. here's a look of visibility, all the lord showing this problems in visibility of a mile or less visibility. as you had to san rafael and peddle my we are dealing with fog but san rosa is bringing dense fog at this point. half a mile visibility for san rosa, the prom queen through the delta and fairfield. to the fog will stick around through the morning. cooler temperatures in the dock as well. 7 day around the bay shows sun shine in store. cool mornings and warm afternoon into friday. although we are cooling tomorrow, down in to the mid-60s by the weekend low 60s, chance of rain on sunday. then we warming up and bring more sunshine into the mix by next week. >> we are off to a bin start for
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this morning's commute, no hot spots, incidents. fog advisory's for the been the should bridge this morning. yesterday it was not the benicia bridge under the bed advisory. though parts of highway 4 rows under dense fog yesterday and we may see that again today. through the bay bridge westbound very light traffic here. no problems headed towards the east bay, or from the east bay towards san francisco. the commute here at the san mateo bridge is good no problems in the westbound direction. that is so right side of your screen. during county this problem free and so was the trip across the golden gate bridge. there may be some delays on the meaning natural this morning. getting word that might be a problem. we are tracking that note and we will update you as soon as we know.
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>> details on the search for juliani cardenas. they temporarily suspended the search for the car a witness said said he sought dry been to the canal. they've recovered 11 vehicles to yesterday. none of the more this silver toyota corolla. experts are examining sonar images today. taken from the canal. investigators determine new plan of action. they have calmed 12 mi. of the canal. >> high-school teacher in denver schmidt was last seen a week ago after writing a message " thank you everyone " on the school chalkboard. police tortured searching checfor else. and she enjoys hiking. police do not suspect foul play. they do not
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believe she is suicidal. several people have posted messages on facebook since monday expressing concern about her and asking english teacher to return. >> watching the storm east storm tracker for shows no in boston area, 15 in. of snow from new york city. let's show you what's going on with pictures from the east coast. there's this note tried to clean the streets as they have seen 15 in. of snow in central park. they never record amount of snow this year. gridlock from virginia, people out walking dogs the best way to get around. trucks are bumper- to-bumper on i-95. hundreds of people stranded at airports across new york. 300,000 people
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without power around washington d.c. area, jfk expected to open right now. we are dealing with problems and new work which is supposed to be closed until 10:00 a.m.. >> at least there's major delays and cancellations across the nation tried to get back east. will tran is live at sfo with an update. >> it is very busy right now, i didn't talk to anybody in line. nobody in line headed to the northeast at this time because according to the international duty manager appeared to morning flights to new work and jfk have been canceled already. that could change this afternoon because the weather system is moving. as fires in bound flights from that area, they decided yesterday to cancel 20 flights a usually come in tests at all. simply because it in what people show up to jfk and find out there flights were canceled or delayed. worst-case scenario that they would sit on
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the tarmac. that has been light wiped off the books today. if you're at it out this afternoon from s.f. out to jfk you should call ahead. he says it looks pretty good right now for this afternoon. but you never know. it depends on how the northeast has to say. if you're taking off to chicago, minnesota and you won't have any problems there are no weather problems in that area which you get there. the connecting flight you may have to stay overnight in those areas. as far as this morning is concerned to flights canceled out bound to those airports. >> other stories we're following nine years we've been using homeland's security system the color-coded system to designate national threat level. this will go by the wayside. only security advisory system
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will be shown the door as home and security officer will make the announcement today after pulling the plug in april. they are expected to unveil a new system focusing on specific threats. her speeches scheduled for later this afternoon at george washington university. >> 5 and 7:00 a.m., a big story the weather. we have a warm friend in the bay area, they have another big storm back east. live shot of new york. you can see the slow traffic. streets are clogged with snow that they are doing their best to removed. it's really delicious, mom.
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5:11 a.m., a health advocates say the government brown. he has limited most people to attend doctor visits per year. that would save the state to
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honor million dollars. a camelot lawmakers heard testimony. democrats say will they did not like the proposals, they were committed to reaching the goal of $12.5 billion in cuts and fun ships. . that was proposed by governor brown. the public policy poll finds six in 10, likely voters willing to pay higher taxes, to support schools. the majority would pay more for public universities. voters opposed paying more for california's over crowded prison system you must ask to extend sales, a vehicle and income-tax increases for five years which to pay higher taxes to prevent school bus? the bust your
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comments on our facebook. >> waiting for opening bell stock futures pointed positive this morning. dow finishing at its high level highest level since 2008. john believeweekly s report will be out soon. foreclosure listing from realty jumped 149 largest metropolitan areas last year appeared net six tops 20 million customer in the fourth quarter. >> we will be back with more of a couple of minutes. a police chief sorry chase and in a shoot off.
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false and alenia, please trace ends in a deadly crash going to
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a suspect. the chase started in a locked ward. about 4:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. this is video from afterward appeared to men were shooting at random people in the neighborhood. police responded. nobody was hurt by the bullets which is amazing. the suspects drove away crashing into another car on 87th ave. one suspect ran out of the vehicle armed with two guns. he was shot and killed after his surrender.he failed to surrendey said the chase was hampered because they did not have contact with dispatch which delayed medical assistance for the suspect who died at seeing. it is unclear whether faster response would have saved his life. the problem remains with the real connection. >> it is something we've had
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problems within the past. it will sometimes go down we have a difficult time communicating. officers can hear each other, we have no contact with dispatchers. as well as pertinent information. a problem the city is aware and is working on. >> city officials are working on at the mayor says they're working to fix that problem. a woma >> the woman who was killed while salinas stolen truck has been identified. she grasped a stolen vehicle into a car pulled. she lost the officer was trying to pull her over. the crash knocked down power lines, causing 200 pg&e customers to lose power. >> a baby girl was killed last night when she was accidentally hit by a vehicle. officials say with a one-year-old girl, outside of her home we don't have any word on how the
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accident happened, we are told that her organs will be no imminent.deleted. >> so we're coming to the end of the trend. if you're in oakland to 43 degrees, by noon time jumping into the mid-60s high today 68. a comfortable oakland. back down into the '40's by 8:00 p.m.. we are still chilly in the north bay. 35 for san rosa currently, 36 napa, fairfield. and to livermore. in the south bay low to mid-40s. ridge of high pressure still the dominant this morning. we continue with clear conditions, warm temperatures as well. we will break down as we head toward the end of the week. westerly flow means we could actually see cooler temperatures, clouds
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rolling and even the chance of rain as a system drop them by the end of the weekend. afternoon highs upper 67 rosa, 65 novato, san rafael, 67 services co, 68 through a word, oakland, upper 60s in '70s in through the south bay. certainly a nice warm afternoon for us. we are contending with fog in the north bay and delta appeared to fog once again in places like concord, fairfield. less than a quarter of a mile. half mile visibility is that arose of adults were you looked good. 7 day around the bay shows changes tomorrow. cool enough temperatures, saturday through clouds and the amex, sunday a few raindrops. as get a check and a commune with george. the cartoonists and benicia bridges fog advisories issued this morning. there were issued in
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the early morning hours in affect for cortines and benicia bridge. visibility is restricted there. it may be the case for highway 4, in the westbound direction. eastbound as well fog does not play favorites with directions. west of pittsburgh yesterday we had similar conditions. no hot spots around the bay area, agreed that the bay bridge, your ride to the san mateo bridge equally good no problems coming in from hayward and the nimitz freeway. the nimitz interchange with 92 looks good northbound and southbound. so does the southbound golden gate bridge no problems here. an easy ride across the span. in san francisco the police department at the intersection of 23rd, and mission weren't accident occurred, it is not off the head of a fire hydrant.
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there's flooding in the street. they may still have the intersection shut down. that means muni 14 will be rerouted around that closure. >> more on traffic and the weather out there as we watched the fog drifting into the east bay in the last few days joining us now jackie's a cell at the been the bridge. >> you can see the toll plaza, at the benicia bridge how thick and dense the fog is. expression when you get midst band. there is a dense fog advisory on the bridge itself. want to get out to midband lesson hundred yards visibility. you'll have to be aware that when you're troubling out there. don't use high beams that will make it worse. there are patches of fog all through the bay area this morning. >> we will have more on whether traffic coming up as the news
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we are back 5:25 a.m., on these clothes they had a nasty bout of snow come down lasting in d.c. and new york. 10 in. in d.c.. 14 in new york. right now looks like they're getting a break from the snow falling on the ground right now. 6 in. of snow at jfk, jfk shut down right now not reopening until 7:00 a.m., new work close to not expected to open until 6:00 a.m., that is causing problems at s at all, inbound and outgoing flights have been cancelled today. so if you have flights to call your carrier. >> 5:26 a.m., at the russian airport in moscow. investigators probing that airport blasted looking at 10 people from the
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region as possible suspects in the spirit the blast killed 35 people, wounded 180. they thought it could be sure she and rubbles they thought maybe this was their work. the prime minister says there is no indication of a chechen collect connection. >> there was the fatal blast in the same mind four years ago killing 32 miners in 2007. a disasters are fairly common in colombia which is the top coal producer. 73 miners were killed in june, in november 9th dive into separate accidents. >> me urologists say they have a volcanic activity in southern japan. this volcano started
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erupting earlier this month. the first time in six months it has been active. it is falling below the amount yesterday afternoon creating a large crater. the agency is advising people to stay away from the crater. there is a possibility that the activity will intensify. >> we will be back in two minutes as a news continues. the latest on whether traffic on the bay area. another message from new york city. jfk airport still closed for another hour passed. people are trying to get around new york city this morning. paralyzed with 15 in. of snow. [ male announcer ] breakfast for breakfast.
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5:30 a.m., check out what they are doing back east. using snow blowers, schools are cancelled, flight delays as we continue team coverage. power is out. you can see how much snow there is a spirit another powerful
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nor'easter, new york 15 in. of new snow. this is queens. this snow is piling up. it is hard for them to keep up. as you can see on the sidewalks and streets for get it. boston another spot that is freezing and snow- covered. there's a cap trying to make its way through the road. all schools are closed for the second day in a row. here's the thing to. in eastern massachusetts east of boston they have wind gust 40-50 mi. an hour. you have to deal with the blowing snow on top of that. washington d.c.. things aren't normally milder in d.c.. they have a problem 6 in. of snow expected to fall on the capital. they are not prepared for the way the other east coast cities are. you are looking at truckers that are stranded. commuters are
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frustrated. firefighters warning about snow bring down power lines. causing outages in washington dc. >> airport problems no problem in boston's airport. jfk not expected to reopen till 7:00 a.m., new work and not until 9:00 a.m. our time. two of the three airports of new york city area) now. will tran watching the back up for me on the west coast at sfo. >> right now there are no problems flying to the midwest. but once you get there you will experience problems appeared to flights on the best of all have been canceled this morning. that could change later this afternoon, according to a duty manager it seems that system is moving out of the area. as far
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this loved ones coming from jfk to sfo. you will see them today. they decided yesterday even before today started to cancelled 20 flights into sfo, they didn't want those people showing up at those airports to be stuck on a tarmac or sleep overnight. they knew the conditions were born to be terrible. all of those flights cancelled today. at bound flights call ahead this afternoon. >> with all of this, and everybody who has their hands full. we have our hands empty. sunny, warm temperatures. another day of '70s. >> i don't know what word or two about the sunshine. here's a look at current temperatures, cool in the north bay, 35 san rosa 36 fairfield, now, 30's and through places like livermore 30
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degrees, and the south bay mid- 40s, 51 for san francisco. as we take you through the day we will warm up once again. are ridge of high pressure in place. however as we head into the next couple of days that bridge will break down. more and onshore push. winds picking up, temperatures cool enough. this system expected to bring us some showers on your sunday. bring rain back into the forecast once again for the weekend. afternoon highs upper 60s for san rosa, 65 novato, 67 south san francisco today. temperatures in the upper 60s for oakland, hayward appeared also in to the low 70's as well. visibility chart shows you the pockets of dense fog this morning. santa rosa, fog moving into the delta as well.
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you're sure 7 day around bay. sunshine for tomorrow, temperatures: off slightly by the weekend we will be in the low 60s and some warm spots. chance of rain by out the weekend by monday tuesday which dried up and warming up your 534 traffic poured with george. >> a problem at the intersection of 23rd and mission or is a broken hydrant near muni rerouting. that has been reopened by the police department. no hot spots around the bay area but we have fog advisory's for the nation and the heartiness bridges. parts of highway 4 will be under the father this morning as well as the board yesterday. snow advisory is issued their the bay bridge is very light no back up or delayed. the san mateo
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bridge, also an easy ride. building towards peak volume but not quite there. the ride looks good on 1 01. marin county ride no problems are delays from 37 atoms of nevada to the golden gate bridge. it is a good ride as you can see. there was an accident reported on oakland san leandro border. southbound on nimitz freeway. lanes are blocked but censors do not indicate any back up. because that's a non commute direction might to dodge a bullet. >> the man accused of the deadly tucson rage did research before the attack. the post reporting our review of his computer turned up these internet searches. he was indicted last week on federal charges of tried to assassinate
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gabrielle gifford. the last six dead and 12 injured. >> 5:36 a.m., we will be back with more a couple minutes.
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we are back at 5:39 a.m., the number of people applying for unemployment rose sharply last week looking over the numbers here. they rose by 51,000, that is the highest level we have seen since last october. there is a caveat here. is because of the bad weather. that forced a cobbled companies to shut down temporarily. those employes hitting the lines for unemployment. we will see how unemployment deals with this news. >> the federal deficit will surge to one and a half trillion dollars this year. experts blamed the slow recovery and last month tax cut
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lot. tax revenue will drop to the lowest level since 1950. when measured against the size of the economy there right port serves as sobering. it will take more than president barack obama is a freeze on agencies to stem the extraordinary budget woes. >> more bad news when it comes to social security will run out of money by 2037. they calculated this year alone social security, will collect 45 billion loss in taxes than it pays out in benefits. high employment has them legging at the same time applications are rising. >> there is a growing optimism about the economy. it will grow faster than ambition three months ago. still unemployment will be high, at nearly 9% by year's end. majority of economists think it will be 2016 or later, before unemployment
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drops to a historical normal rate of 5%. >> that was in new good news segment. we will be right back. from our roof camera dark skies, thick fog for some inland spots this morning.
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lough kron 4 morning news this there's a new spirit another similar forecast what we saw yesterday. you'll probably like the forecast for today clear conditions as in francisco. we are dealing with fog in some areas currently is in francisco 51 degrees. by noon it will warm up into the '60s, high today of 67. back down elsewhere temperatures are cool in san rosa, mid 30's. 36 degrees for
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now, fairfield, chile in antioch as well as 35 degrees. 383 livermore appeared to san francisco the warm spot. your satellite radar shows clearly the high pressure system still in place. it is expected to weaken tomorrow. temperatures cooled them slightly a bin of and on slope. a slight chance of showers kicking and by the end of the weekend. right now your afternoon highs getting up into the upper 60s in many areas. 69 san francisco, 65 novato, san rafael. keeping in at 63 the east bay in the south bay. maybe even possibly 70 degree readings. your visibility showing us the problems of visibility this morning. in orange indicating visibility a mile or less. you may hit dense fog in some spots. san rosa half
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a mile, but the to leave fog causing quarter mile of visibility today. you're 7 day around the bay show sunshine for tomorrow. changes in store for the weekend, a slight chance of bringing rain drops and the mets on sunday. monday, tuesday and drying it out and bringing temperatures and to the '70s by mid-week. >> we are looking at a dense fog advisory for the benicia bridge. they are all well wel warranted. parts of highway 4 reported to be under the fog as well. checking bridges for you the ride on a the west bound to the bay bridge. completely clear and light traffic here. no problem, back up, delayed. the traffic here is moving smoothly
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in fact briskly towards the high rise from hayward. the council commute looks good coming from foster city. golden gate bridge southbound no problems, no delays. marin county is trouble- free right now. we mention an accident in san leandro on the oakland border, at marina boulevard. we are starting to pick up slowing here but only pass this scene. most of the traffic is on the northbound side of the freeway. the backup has not grown any larger cured lanes were blocked there. this should be cleared shortly it has been out there for awhile. >> 5:48 a.m., the parents of a woman who was killed in this san bruno gas line explosion have filed a wrongful-lawsuit against pg&e. she was at her boyfriend's home, when the explosion happened. this is a photo of the two of them. the boy from was badly burned but surprised to.
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says walt terrell hazard this dangerous activity on the pg&e. >> sambar no police searching for a man suspected of stabbing a 60 boy. eight people worst in the fight and a boy was stabbed. he is expected to recover. >> san francisco prosecutors will charge a man suspected of killing a sacramento woman and then tortured her body in a car in san francisco's. 29 year-old will be arraigned today on murder and arson charges. they believe the victim was killed in sacramento, and then driven to san francisco where that car was set on fire with the body inside. >> cal train facing charges for
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allegedly asking for sexual favors. richard ricardo misconduct after discarding a six year-old girl to fireman's cab and and asking sexual acts. the resident is out on $55,000 bill. >> 5:49 a.m., radio talk shore has drawn criticism from state senator he. he called for a boycott of the advertisers. now he has a death threat. he was complaining he couldn't understand the chinese leader because there is no translation. let's listen. >> (inaudible) nobody was
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translating. that's as close as i get. >> this is where the death threat comes in. they were sent to lease office in sacramento. a copy shows it contains reference to rush limbaugh, it it also has racist slurs includes and yusuf surrounding what appears to be president barack obama as head. the threat is more chilling in light of the arizona shooting he does not plan to back down. >> it seems as if one ever, all we raise issues, we get threats. if there is an indication that maybe the threats would stop what i'm doing, that's not the case. the best thing i can do in response to some of these threats is to not have them
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cause me to change my behavior. or any of the work they do. >> went on to say he does not plan to stop with this call to boycott the show. he will still continue to make public appearances as well. >> we will be back as a morning news continues until 11:00 a.m., all live look from the benicia bridge. foggy conditions for the east bay spots. and then it's fog showing up again. more on our weather and the whether it in the east. [ man ] i was deciding what to do
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through the fence parish's been taken into custody. further south csu professor charged with urinating on the door. imperiling there was a dispute in any event to misdemeanor counts. university suspected it was going on so they set up a videotape and caught him and that in the action. manufacturing goods fell in december that will way and to what investors will do when the opening bell rings. >> 5:56 a.m., live double live shots from new york, and washington d.c.. you can see they are dealing with the nor'easter. tried to deal outo m
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