tv KRON 4 Early News KRON March 7, 2011 4:00am-6:00am PST
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details coming up. >> erica: northbound, low- 101 it is windy complete check coming out. >> james: soaring gas prices are hitting everyone where it counts in the wallet. the latest survey shows the they've shot up more quickly than any time. >> reporter: what's happening here is hurting drivers here, the new survey shows gas prices jumped 335 is all but two weeks. the second biggest jump ever recorded. the uprising in libya is the driving factor. prices are $3.51 a gallon, more than $4 and in many places. none of this pressure on the president to
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open up the oil reserves to ease pain upon. >> it's very rarely done. there has to be a lot of factors looked at. >> reporter: cell corsican say the answer lies in center on borders. >> we need to find more on energy longer explore offshore, lands, natural gas, alaska. /+ drivers are doing what they can
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morning by drying out to a slight chance of rain for tomorrow late rain we're still not said that wet weather just yet. radar, we are in the clear. this brought the showers to the livermore. we will stay dry as we had to the day. temperatures are in the 40's, 50's. warming up to about 50 degrees and half moon bay, along the coast also donatello's gardens in san as a. satellite, radar shows the storm system question to the east. still looks like tomorrow that slow-moving in another chance of an unstable weather. light showers come tomorrow that will be the trent seven days that are dry, others that are wet. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. we are
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auctioning to continue with the trend today dry out, tomorrow light rain wednesday warming up. at your 60s by mid-week. slight chance of rain thursday rain is possible for this weekend. slight chance of seeing some rain especially to the north bay. now, here is a look at the traffic. >> erica: lot too much driving on a on the roadways. certainly no hotspot. we do have a strong wind advisory in effect at the san mateo bridge. if you wide-screen tv you can see the message signed is activated. california highway patrol is asking you drive with extra caution. drive, of just 13 minutes.
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westbound-80 no problems. traffic moves well from of three approaches. golden gate set a bad looks good. very quiet. no problems. drive time of just 23 minutes. james? >> james: we will take a break, as we go the space shuttle discovery has just left the space station it was a long shot, of you , discovery is on its way home. when it lands a will be retired this is the end of an era. back with more in a moment.
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so far, so good. golden gate, traffic is coming up looking good. headlights south bend. wall street, stock futures are at. crew rode atop one of $6 per barrel there's not a lot of data due today the federal reserve raises credit for january. playboy's hugh hefner has taken his operation private with the help of an investor. meanwhile, j. crew is one step closer to changing hands shareholders approved a $3 billion sale to a private company the vote gives the way for capital
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to by j crew for $43.50 a share. the deal should be finalized by tuesday. but to we hearing the careers today. $8.2 billion buyout drove in one of the oldest u.s. media company into bankruptcy protection. a judge must decide between competing plans to leave the door open for lawsuits they were the $1.7 billion in fines for executives have gone to prison. among those
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convicted or british airways. no major u.s. carriers have been charged. i recall of hands on labs the fda says seven people in three states got sick from eating his lots. three people were hospitalized no deaths reported. there were distributed between november 2nd and 22nd. there were sold in 1 lb. packages to four from big the tracks or in open bins. we will take a break, back with more than a minute. another live look as we go. checking the view from mount tam. crystal clear roadside, more on your forecasts coming up in a bid.
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tahoe. the view is dark you can see that there is snow on the ground. chain requirements are in effect. let's get the latest on the forecast. >> louisa: starting off try, that is how it will stay for the rest of the day. oakland 50 degrees by noontime at the 50s high of 60. low 50s by 8:00. elsewhere we are drive. different picture on the radar than yesterday we will stay dry throughout the day to day. temperatures are in the '40's, 50's. about 52 in mountain view. elsewhere upper '40's. fairly mild start this morning. satellite, radar shows the
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storm system pushing off to the east a bit of snowfall in the sierra. trying yet today mixture of sunshine, clouds. tomorrow another unstable weather pattern bringing in a chance of light showers. by the afternoon your eyes look like they will work their way into the 60s topping out around 59 in santa rosa. vallejo 60, same for the east bay and says bay. san jose could warm up to 62 degrees. 59 redwood city. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. partly cloudy today, tomorrow light rain especially into the morning wednesday drying out. not to drying up the warming up. could be the warmest day of the workweek. friday it looks like we will try it out to keeping a slight chance of showers by
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the weekend. >> erica: no hot spots on their roadways, we do have high winds you can see that indicated here. it is shaking around. the california highway patrol and has issued a high wind advisory. they are asking that you taking it easy. so far, so good. tracking a pretty normal drive time of 13 minutes. bay bridge, of westbound-80 no problems, no way, this meeting and lights are off. golden gate bridge, at your ride other during county very quiet. tom rowe, if you're heading to the sierra we have a chain requirements in effect along interstate-80 highway-50.
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>> james: an accident over the weekend is a vote several vehicles ending with the death of a woman. crossed the double yellow line in byron, the woman went straight into oncoming traffic. >> people started spinning out i got hit started spinning across spun across through. >> james: it has been the site of a number of fatal collisions. maureen kelly choses what is being done. >> even though the evidence still litters the shoulder if you still see cars and zipping along, it is a
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narrow, winding road that has been the site of numerous collisions. officials have been working to get people to drive more safely. california highway patrol says there is a patrol dedicated to the road 100 percent of the time. here are signs letting drivers know this area is a special zone requiring daylight headlights. they put if trips down the middle and the sides of the road. there are 3 ft. high yellow polls a physical reminder to try to pass here is a really bad idea. the scene of a drop in accidents since these improvements but there's still more on the way. there's an effort to extend the legislation in here, where you see this cold shoulder is where phase one of the project begins. approximately 3 mi. of road will have a concrete median
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barriers much like the one exists on this section of the road. well that should bring the rate down it's not the answer just last december a driver was killed off. maureen kelly, kron4 news. caltrans wants to convert the couple lanes to express lanes. it will also be available for solo drivers to pay a toll. there's one expressway in the bay area of right now. and new packaging, it will be unveiled today will unveil the helmet in scotts
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valley it was just one year ago someone was injured by a batted ball he has recovered returning back to the field he and his family are pursuing increase safely. in a rally being held today the rally is to protest the recreations plan to eliminate off leash dog walking. leaders say over the past years get their exercise their dogs. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban the sale of a shark fin. it would also make it illegal to serve shark's fin soup. it's a delicacy in the chinese, ser culture. some video contains graphic images.
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>> reporter: lawmakers are looking to pass a bill they will ban the use of a shark's fin. if it passes it will affect all lot of other restaurants here in chinatown. none of the residentrestaurants i contacted would talk with me on camera. >> james: we will have a full story with that video in just a little bit, oakland police officer who was fired for shooting an unarmed man is expected to be reinstated. officer hector hernandez is accused of shooting and killing a man who was running away from him back in 2008 it appeared he was reaching for his waistband. he fired to protect a second officer. failure members tried to soothe their police departments evelyn for six under and $50,000, he continued to contest his treatment and under an
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arbitrator announced he will be reinstated and given back pay. up voters and oakland may have to weigh in on to new measures mayor jean quan is hoping to get help with closing the gap she's proposing a five-year $80 parcel tax that would need approval from two-thirds of the voters. which route voters rejected in 2008 an emergency meeting is scheduled tonight. it will be open to the public. we will take a break, and much more straight ahead on the kron 4 morning news a live look to that site at
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to keep traffic at a minimum. forecasters are expecting more rain this week. another borough reminder that winter is not over take a look at that car. nearly 3 in. of snow fell, causing headaches for drivers. this was sunday, minnesota. that pickup trucks to run out of control flipping over on the side of the road. pretty tough conditions. it is not over yet. the opposite problem in hawaii's scientists are studying a volcano that became more active. it shows what can it activity blasting up about 65 ft. into the air lock and shot at the broad opt in (tweet. 150 earthquakes reported all over the course of 24 hours. the ground shaking.
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obviously it's a pretty sight to see when you are looking at it safely but scary on the ground. >> space, the final frontier. (music) these have been the voyages of the space shuttle discovery. >> james: that was the wake- up call for the crew of the discovery this morning william shatner recorded a special message it was followed by the theme song of star trek. the series that made him famous. the space shuttle just undock from the space station, not scheduled to arrive on earth until wednesday. they have some very excited people on the ground. discovery and its crew of six spent more than a week on the space station. after this final mission discovery will be retired and sent to a
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museum. only two more missions remainder for the entire fleet is retired for a group. this is the crew, having some fun aboard the space station before the close the hatch. a live look, this is their view as seen from the krio above discovery. --crew. current is to the top or a of the screen. we will follow the shells progress in discovery's return to earth. we will take a quick break, let's go outside, give you a look at the golden gate bridge. headlights headed southbound we'll be right back.
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rain and. it will be a washout. afternoon highs 50s-'60s. dom 57 for san rafael in san francisco. tonnages are staying in the upper 50s, low 60s. -- temperatures. 56 half moon bay, 62 san rafael. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. barely steady today slight chance all rain on tuesday. warming up, temperatures slight chance of rain begins. bringing back the rain on saturday. unstable week ahead of us. quite a few dry days here and there. spring for it, we
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will actually lose an hour of sleep. >> erica: not much is going on in the traffic center, we do a strong wind advisory for the san mateo bridge. lot of skiing in you watch your speeds, a drive with extra caution. bay bridge, nice, light. no problems to report. and full of cars headed restaurant no proms along a freeway westbound 580 ordinance barring direction. the camera is shaking around strong wind advisory in the fact still tracking of drive times of 13 minutes. very quiet, says band 101 no problems to, no accidents. 0 live look from
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the south bay, and northbound 101 read that the money to expressway traffic is nice, light. the only accident we have is a long northbound-101 is a solo accident. but james? >> james: 29 the average price of gasoline has dropped 335. --thank you, analyst bob the the national average price per gallon of regular is $3.51. amazing that)á is
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>> reporter: this man has so far else murdered his victims, for bakers, detectives. that's why the fbi released surveillance pictures, " we the public can help address them. he somehow to over people's big account impersonating them into withdrawing their money. they will say how much money he got away with but enough to involve the at beyond. the crisis restarting in 2009, he walked into new a bank and
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withdraw money from the sterling account. last march he did the same thing, san francisco, sex offenses care, estimates there. the fbi is not seeing a whole lot of reformation for example agents would not say how the suspect had attained their numbers, how he collected enough personal confirmation or documents to convince the bankers to lead and take the money out. detectives say he is 5 ft. 9 in. 50-60, weighing 1 42 lbs.. from here, green eyes, and driving his white or gray suvs. >> james: santa cruz police are continuing to search for a second suspect who allegedly robbed a man at current rate. he all along
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with an unidentified suspect approached about some in the 300 block of west cliff drive demanding again point the victim gave him whatever he had on hand. he's a 24-30 road man wearing a dark ever coped, light skinned, possibly african american. we'll take a quick break, another live look as we go. a shot of the james lick freeway here in san francisco there road is drying out. you probably heard there rain overnight. today is a day of trying. more on your forecasts in a little but.
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and no hot spots. your ride looks alright. --project. no rain is falling. highly 92, traffic is moving well. your westbound ride is optimal at this point. golden gate bridge looks good. those headlights and your commute directions. california highway patrol has been out there nothing wrong our logs. consumer reports noted the three deadly statistics car crashes are the leading cause of death for jeans, teams are involved in three times as many crash's as other drivers, testing it multiplies the risk by 23
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percent. --taxing. charlie sheen has started a show of his own, sheen's corner live video streaming mes stream, you see him napa oslo take brian says your religion in sheen's corner or you're with the patrols.troll's.s. it n viewed 1 million times. he noted that yesterday with a lot of so-called tort he knows of trees. three which is in san the mass. post a spiritual house cleaning for turley sheen. --charlie sheen. these witches were upset when charlie sheen cbs
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picked a fight with the warlock. five more days and negotiators for the nfl have now until friday to reach bay agreement. failure could mean that for a stoppage since 1987. two extensions were granted maybe that's a hopeful sign. the key issues are how to split the $9 billion in revenue. repeat rate scaleanoths morning from space shuttle discovery, here is a view from one of the space station cameras looking or the exterior. the shuttle is
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falling away, it will not come back today, it will land on wednesday. it will finalize its reentry checklist, once it gets the green light we will follow its landing. here is mission control, there you see the shuttle in their right. they continue to drift further and further apart. > >> the shuttle is seven to 5 ft. away,
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>> louisa: we did have rain, it is pushing to the east leaving us dry. that is good news and in about break today. san francisco of our forties lying in time warming up to the mid-50s, high a temperature of 57. rain and your radar is sharing dry, a few showers pushing to these. --right now your radar is dry, a few showers pushing to the east. we are often a mild start this morning. 50 oakland, antioch, san jose. our highs will warm up into the '50s, '60s. 60 for novato, napa. with and through the east bay temperatures will tahoe out around 60 degrees. --
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temperatures will top out around 60 degrees. we have some gusty winds this morning leftover. future cast shows as as we hadn't tomorrohead in to tomorrow light showers. in looks like they will continue to continue to read a good portion of your morning. 10:00, drying out. the second part of your trthey should be dryer. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. wednesday we will try and out and bring those ties and to the upper 60s. --dry out. one day will be rainy, the next day trying out that will continue to get a good portion of the work week.
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best chance for the north bay. sunday, keep the mind is bring forward, we will lose an hour of sleep. >> erica: for the months prior we're good to get up, no accidents, hot spots. strong wind advisory in effect for the san mateo bridge. if you look closely you can see that camera shaking around california highway patrol is asking that you drive with extra caution. bay bridge, westbound 80 more traffic families at 10 minutes ago. --then we saw 10 minutes ago. if you're having a different technique than to golden gate bridge still very quiet. not all love cars. drive time of 23 men this year will look a gift
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you are heading up to the sierra we do have teener carmen. -we-do have to change requirements. >> james: for 3.5 years san francisco has been in the middle level lawsuit who says the city does not do enough to make sidewalks, parks, libraries, schools and accessible to the disabled. it is said to good trial next month in oakland. it seeks to force the city to spend far more than it currently does on accessibility. meanwhile the latest delay in the city, l.i. ordinance is because of the print shop. the police chief says the entire department has been trained and procedures on the new ordinance. they're just
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waiting for the kurds to come back from the printer. there multilingual cards that officers will present to people. fines could range from 50-$500 including community service or jail time. san francisco's clinic is in a race to avoid closure. it serves thousands of homeless, gay, lesbian, underprivileged patients a year. it has one month to raise a half million dollars. their $1.5 million in debt, it can no longer employ of his staff of 18. unless the donation start to come in. california lawmakers have introduced a bill banning the sale of shark fin. if it passes it would also make it illegal to serve the meal. it's a
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delicacy for a the chinese culture. some of the video is graphic. >> reporter: shark's fin soup has exploded in popularity especially incidents as gust chinatown. this is video from www.youtube.com in order to make get a require shark fin which leads to the death of millions of sharks. in many cases their fans are kron4 they are still alive their bodies are thrown back into the water where they died. it is so controversial none of the dozen or so restaurants by calls or visited with would talk to me on camera. but i came across the store features in in new york times article they would not parked on camera but they should read the fin. if
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they pass the bill these restaurants and stores will have to stop selling it why it passed a similar bill oregon and washington may do the same. many are rushing to stop people from eating it. there's an alternative, a chef in san francisco has come up with the zero shark fin soup. instead of the scare, reggie kumar, kron4 news. --san francisco. >> james: this is a look at highway 101 those headlights headed north as you can see traffic is moving along pretty good. back with more in a moment.
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47 degrees. 56 by noon, almost 60 by year high this afternoon fairly nice day i know we had train yesterday today looks like we will be drying out. all in all good day. other headlines the ipad to is doing something that the first ipad did not its entering the market with competition. here is the consumer's guide to the top awards. >> reporter: the introduction of the ipad-to could widen the company's lead. >> it will keep obol ahead. >> the best talent for you depends on what your looking for starting with size. the
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ipod is not your cup of tea if he won it in your purse. >> the first top live from brought very it is business ready. >> the motorola went on sale just a week before apple's announcement. again, this is the number-one competitor to ipad. la paz to starting at $495. it will not try to dig out and you have some time to think about which best suits you obols i can't do crews aren't skilled march current. >> james: 3 movies that made
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it to the top of the list over the weekend, rango featuring johnny depp, the adjustment bureau in second place, starring matt damon. pulling in 21 million. did you see it restricts because i tried to. i fell asleep. >> james: retelling of beauty and the beast beastl, easily. louisa some of r movie and she said it was ok. there you have it, the top three not getting very good reviews by us. the world's most expensive painting is going on display for the first time in 50 years. in any event, it will
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be displayed in britain. the 1932 painting set a world record lin it was stacked up for 16 of $5.5 million. 106.5 m. who has that kind of money to spend on a painting? here's a look at the international space station, looking at the space shuttle discovery. will lead landing on wednesday. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.
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>> mark: 5:00, monday march 7th, top stories gas prices are to go roof. jumping almost 505 in a month. >> darya: pg&e is facing a deadline to produce records from the deadly explosion what major then you are they using to review the documents coming up. >> louisa: strong tractor sharing a few raindrops to livermore we're dry i will they. wind picking up. >> george: wind is in traffic this morning as well. there is a wind advisory for the san mateo bridge. >> darya: tricky to even get your car there who can often
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lead? the average price has jumped 505 per gallon in a month. jackie sissel is in san francisco to take a look at the prices. these are actually good prices? >> reporter: this of courage which is the sad part. this is average for a gallon of gas. folks or coming up will cost credit bit. according to aaa we have gone up 505 our loss humans. california average is 405 higher. the san francisco house the highest of rich in california. in california is the highest in the u.s.. >> darya: it was so windy
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out there it was hard to hear. , san carlos curve 3945. this is at issue pretty good is because at 413 for the premium stuff i think i paid for 21. these are the average prices may be a little less spirit you can definitely pay more. >> mark: the white house is considering a deal to deal with them. one option is tapping into the petroleum reserve. it contains 727 million bar. of oil. last test in september of 2008. stock futures are slightly positive oil prices closed 210 $7 a barrel. to $107 a barrl
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worries may have an effect on stocks. we will bring you the opening bell on wall street and 1.5 hours. >> darya: here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. rain all day, never at out of that fact and calves. back and force were to get on an odd. >> louisa: this morning a shot from downtown san francisco, we are actually in the clear. those winds are really picking up. we are trying out in a slight chance of rain and continues tomorrow. --the drying out.
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30 mi. an hour at sfo, keep in mind strong growth across. --strong were guests. widthwise into the south bay as well, san jose 24 your sustained winds. dry, windy. at the the higher elevations we're seeing moister porch. still seeing elvis of snow fell along 50. we're acting miles. *---down into monday hill 52, by the afternoon it looks like our highs will warm to the '50s, '60s. 61 rate onto the delta, 60 for oakland and along the coast
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via the net 56 trees for half moon bay. slight chance of showers will tomorrow. timing will move through late tonight in to tomorrow. early tuesday a few sprinkles. certainly not a washout. most of the rain in the early morning. 10:00 starting to dry out. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. at a pattern of on and off showers we are not talking about any big storms we could continue to see raindrops tomorrow, thursday, into the weekend. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. set your clocks forward if we will lose a little bit of sleep. >> george: as we continue to track wheind, said francisco, oakland bay bridge where a wind advisory was just issued. --san francisco.
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hall there is a wind advisory here for the san mateo bridge, as you can see this interval, is active. the images jiggling around on the screen. that shows you how windy is this. for your ride to the golden gate grant still easy, and no delays in the southbound direction. no hot spots, public transit is often called star carole no delays reported. darya? >> darya: developing story from the cow palace, there's a lot of activity. not because of the concert,
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pacific gas and electric company has turned to the cow palace into a gigantic library as a look to tens of thousands of pages of documents. will the trend is there to tell us why. this seems old school, you just read everything out? >> will: they have acted, they tried to turn some of their records into a computer records but that has failed and the clock is ticking they want pacific gas and electric company to tell them all about their pipes. by march 15th. there could be some serious changes to the way they do business. i went in there to see if i could talk to the driver the looks like the engine is running and no one is answering the door. perhaps this chart is coloring paperwork. usually this case is open, it is not open today pg&e says this is
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a private party they will not comment. they have 100,000 boxes that they have to go through. 300 employees and around the clock working 12 hour shifts looking through the documents. radar for the excursion they went through their computer records and told there were no wells in the pipe that it was seen less but when they took the pipe backed a laboratory they did find some seems and this is causing the public utilities commission and the ntsb, the at the hearing three days last week to say we do not believe you we have to look to your paper documents. to see if in fact it is true, if it is not we see big changes ahead. >> darya: so is this like having to transfer their old
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record and something i've been missed? we're used to searching for a word and finding it. they think something was missed? >> will: the president of pacific gas and electric company has acknowledged their missing about 30 percent of the 1,000 mi. of pipeline that they use to transmit their gas. even here acknowledges there's a lot missing. they proudly didn't even think about doing this and tell the san bruno gasoline explosion and now they're being forced which is worthier here. had not exploded, perhaps they would never had to load back.--look back. i'm sharon
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>> james: our live picture courtesy of nasa's space shuttle discovery the most travelled spaceship we have ever designed left about 4:03 a.m. you're looking at a live picture looking back at the space station. it cells that give you their ec earth or rotating palo. they separated this morning, more than 200 mi. above this pacific ocean. this is the final flight for discovery that's due back wednesday. it is being retired. it will be sent to the smithsonian for display. the star of
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>> darya: i developing story federal agents need help captioning a man they say has stolen people's cash from the bank. the fbi says this man impersonated his victims and then with true large amounts of money from their accounts. >> reporter: the fbi released surveillance pictures of this man hoping the public can help identify him. he somehow to over bank accounts impersonated them, withdrawing their money. in
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the last two years he stole the money at of bank accounts in reno, sacramento and the bay area. the fbi is backing a lot of information, they would not say how he obtained the victim's bank account numbers or how he collected another personal information or documents to convince the bankers to let him take the money out. >> mark: 8 police officer has been arrested in the investigation of the drug task force chief. he was arrested friday on suspicion of conspiracy and possession and transfer of an assault rifle. it follows the rest of norman welch, and christopher butler. he
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was working patrol in danville. an oakland police officer who was fired for shooting an unarmed man is expected to be reinstated. he's accused of shooting and killing a man who was running away back in 2008. he said it appeared that he was reaching for his or waistbands. he fired to project a second officer. daly members settled for 650 + and dollars. under an arbitration agreement he will be reinstated and given back pay. >> darya: we want to take a look at the forecast. you can see in the right-hand side of the cemetery bridge carries shaking the left- hand side is acquired shot of the golden gate bridge. >> louisa: that san mateo camera has really been shaking pretty testy wins. sfo got some wind gusts up
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to 35 mi. an hour. monday 028, 29 in redwood city. 28 for novato overall surly a breezy start to the day. storm tracker 4 is much drier than yesterday. as we were writing it out you can see the bulk of the wet weather is in the foothills. as restated to the day today will try it out. temperatures in the '40's, '50's. 50 half moon bay,. 52 monday. ties into the 50s, 60s by the afternoon. the brother, napa, vallejo. temperatures into the low 60s rid of these bay, south bay. next chance of wet weather looks like it will move in late tonight, overnight. as we head into
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tuesday we could perk up a few sprinkles. hit or miss. it looks likely morning we will start to dry up. what this past ana pattern is is dry, wet, dry, wet. we're not talking about any big storms but a wet weekend ahead of us to the north bay. keep in mind sunday is daylight savings be sure to set your clocks forward. >> george: thank you, i marty a great to miss that sleep. >> gary: >> gary:no major problems or hot dogs, a california highway patrol just issued a wind advisory. --hot spots.
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westbound rate bridge looks good. last week we had lighter than usual traffic, we're not sure if that will continue. san mateo dry. no problems. golden gate, this problem free. we had word of the problem on the freeways in san francisco a dumpster had been dropped in the lanes of 101 northbound. one vehicle reported he struck it. the california highway patrol went through they did not find anything. there's a slight delay. we will take a break on the kron 4 morning news we will be right back. california should be proud.
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oakland. high near 60 degrees. five more days, that's the story for the nfl as negotiators have until this friday to try to reach an agreement. feller could mean the first stop since 1987. --failure. the key issues had to split $9 billion, 18 games he's in, a rookie wage scale. >> darya: to act man is cancelled on cbs, but you can still see charlie sheen, his own show called sheen's corner, it is live, the tagline says coach you are either in sheen's corner
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historic venue into a giant library. that's where we find will treen. will? >> will: get to prove to the public utilities commission that their pipes are safe. if not it to change the way they do business for years to time. all i will get the driver of the track, he said he's here to pick up shredded documents. i asked if he was working with pacific gas and electric company? he said no he's being subcontracted out. the fact that he's here to pick up shredded paper or probably says pg&e is inside working on this. pacific gas and electric company is being very tight-lipped even though it is the worst camps that currendebt secret. ---bruct
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secretworst kept secret. their computer records said that there were no wild on the pipes that exploded. when they inspected the pipe they did find a belt in there. --welds in there. they want to major everything is on the same page. which is why they want to make sure everything is on that up and up. city% of the paperwork cannot be found. they're trying to talk with records to prove that pipelines are safe. back to you.
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>> darya: we want to get a look at the weather in looks like we're all of the board this week? >> louisa: 1 they dry, the next day sprinkles. we are still pretty good. stratus san mateo the cameras are shaking around. --shot of the san mateo. 30 mi. an hour at sfo, 21 oakland san jose 20. keep in mind we're getting stronger gusts than this as well. we're dry arid and few circles through livermore the bulk of the wet weather is to the fed has. picking erewhile little bit of snow fall. --the bulk of the wet weather is in the
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foothills. by the afternoon are highs will warm to the '60s. fairfield, concord 61. 57 in downtown san francisco low 60s to the east bank down into the south bay. 61 in los gatos. future cast a little bit of rain overnight tonight. early morning tuesday picking up sprinkles. not a washout. it looks like the best chance of any rain is in the morning. late morning you could see that taper off and drying out. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. one day dry, one day wet. this pattern that continues. no big storms headed our way. sunday is daylight savings time.
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george? >> george: traffic has been influenced where much by the weather. the wind has created wind advisory as for bay area produce.bridges. lookit your ride that the bay bridge you don't see the wind the you will experience a. traffic is heavier than we have seen on other days. still a pretty good start. san mateo bridge is under a wind advisory you can tell by the ocelot the gulf lubricious mood chocolate but no wind advisory there is between rand and richmond and wind advisory. weed mentioned your travel plans interstate each zero you're going to need chains.
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>> darya: we're taking a live look at 76. as we talk about the price of gas. it does really jumped 505 per gallon. this is the second biggest price increase over eight to the span. kron4 is jackie sissel is in san francisco. you say you've seen higher and lower? >> reporter: is $3.93 that's pretty much the average. that is the highest in all 50 states. even higher than whites. san francisco is the highest in the high state. it seems
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like a daily, hourly we see this prices. at this by one of $6 for rural of oil. it is really causing those of prices to soar. what are you going to pay? oakland $3.91. just a terrible sense away from the magic for dollar market. in san as a $3.91. if you think that is bad tri 4 rose 395. that is the highest i found on gas buddy.com. $4.39. is in san
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francisco about $4.39. >> darya: i have seen the san francisco prices. $4.13 that is not our role. which is horrible to think it's true. i paid more. >> mark: part of the reason are seeing gas prices are high is because oriole is close to 1 07 a barrel. -- oil prices. an army colonel fighting with the rebels told the associated press that the need reinforcements for the east. in new zealand's prime minister
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says the damage from a 6.3 earthquake that hit last month was so bad that parts of christ church may have to be at vincent rather than rebuild. the government announced plans for a holiday to mark the impact of the earthquake. police wondered 66 people were killed. or keats is an afghanistan this morning he says both the u.s. and afghan government agree on continued but reduced military involvement. gates told a group of american troops that it would be just a small fraction of the presence of the u.s. has today to advise the afghan forces. gates is on it today visit to afghanistan. we'll be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. and live look religions alike.
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is going to perform an autopsy on a five year-old kindergarten student at oregon mill school who died on friday after testing positive for in so and said. it is not certain if that was the cause of death. a letter was sent out to urging those roots close to contact their medical providers. >> mark: because car driver is facing trial for a fatal truck. opening statements are expected today in the case of paul marranos. he's pleaded not guilty. he was responding tour port of the boat's deck in the mud when he took off into it is in diego bay hitting a in another bout. the accident killed in the urals. >> darya: santa clara county
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will be getting a new area code 408 has been exhausted, customers will see 669 by the end of the year, will hold public hearings to explain the switch to a decision has not been made on whether not the new area code will be an overlay. or whether they will split the current 408 >> mark: that is our is a big fight as you've got to change their business cards, letterheads. we will see what happens as the kron 4 morning news continues. watching weather as we drive today. warmer weather is expected wednesday , thursday. [ wheezing breaths ]
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this morning of the golden gate bridge and into the north bay temperatures are mild upper 43 now. by noon time 50s high temperature of 59. your action fairly high getting pretty breezy conditions at been sfo. troll for novato, 24 half moon bay. we're getting stronger guess that as well. stay dry with the exception of spot showers reed of your livermore. up to the sierra you can see that's for the bulk of the wet weather is. quite a bit of snowfall. forties, fifties off to a mild start. high's warming into the '60s can get to 61
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for fairfield 62 novato. upper 50s, low 60s to the bay. 62 warming. late weather tonight, looks like rick around midnight a few sprinkles you'll see hit or miss showers nothing to heavy by any means you could continue to see what weather to the first part of your day late morning tapering off. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. pattern of dry days, rain than another dry day wednesday, the driest day of the work week temperatures soaring into the upper 60s. wednesday a pretty pleasant day. a few sprinkles over the weekend sunday set those clocks forward. >> george: no hot spots, wind advisory is for bay
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area's bridges bay bridge, westbound traffic may not be too bad the volume may be of little heavier but still an easy ride westbound heavies wins experience near the island. more evidence on the upper deck than lower. san mateo android wind advisory so is richmond and san rafael bridge between marin and san rafael. golden gate, no problems. san francisco, there was a problem reported on 101 at the 280 interchange. but apparently there are no problems there there was a reporter of one but california highway patrol went through and there was no debris. easy ride for public transit,
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there are changes required in this era. --teams or acquired in the sierra. >> mark: there is a possibility of an express lane caltrans wants to convert the existing curbs will lanes in to express lanes. there is one express lane in the bay area currently. >> darya: california highway patrol says iraq may have come been caused by the weather killed the woman. you can see the rain falling the woman crossed a double yellow line early sunday morning. she went straight into oncoming traffic. she hit three other vehicles before spinning out and being hit by another car. the california highway
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patrol is working to make that drives a further there's now a patrol dedicated 100 percent of the time to that role. rumble strips also on the street. there are 3 ft. high yellow polls to discourage drivers from passing over. there has been a drop an accident but still, there's more work that needs to be done. >> mark: and new helmet will be unveiled today. they will unveil an, a prototype for little league baseball just one year ago as student was struck and seriously injured. he has recovered, he and his family are pursuing increased safety to prevent other athletes from suffering similar injuries.
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a rally will be held today to protest the proposal to eliminate all off the lead leash dog rocking. they're protesting sing over 40 years they've used the recreational products to exercise their dogs and want to continue. >> darya: every call of hazelnuts, their concerns their tainted with e. coli. seven people in three states have gone six. three people were hospitalized no one has died. there's a voluntary recall for the nets there were distributed between the second in the 22nd sold in 1 lb. packages to 4 lb bags, or opened bins in grocers' jurors.
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>> darya: 5:56 a.m. taking a look at the here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. nice states day, a few clients, a high of 62, same thing for tomorrow. chance of rain tomorrow. on and off again thing. warmer on wednesday. the rate rose in but just a chance it is light. waves of grain, here and there through the week than we get the weekend, that's when the rain could stay for a day. >> mark: j. crew is one step closer to changing hands,
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they approved a $3 billion sale to private equity company depraves the way it for jake true to be bought for $43 a share. the deal should be finalized by tuesday. that two week hearing begins today to find the fate for a bid to been company *--tribune company. the hearing will affect the ownership of the chicago tribune, 23 tv stations and other newspapers. three new movies at the box office rango $38,000,000 feature and johnny depp as they can million shares. the adjustment bureau $20,945,000 the big blockbuster with matt damon, a third-place the retailing of beauty in the piece called beastly $10,115,000
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