>> mark: 6:00 a.m. gas prices jumped 505 in the month. a live report coming up. >> darya: high windy advisory advises for several bay area bridges. >> mark: pg&e facing deadlines to produce records. we will tell you where they are reviewing these documents. >> life from the bay area new

station this is a kron 4 morning news. >> mark: march 7th, 2011. >> darya: a nice one today and a bad one tomorrow. >> louisa: just some left over raindrops in through the livermore valley. will stay much drier today with the exception of showers if moving over to the sierra and the foothills. i will keep you posted on how long to expect wet weather. >> george: tracking an accident earlier problems for south 1 01, as many as two lanes are blocked with an accident. chp says it may take time to clear. the complete text redhead. >> mark: looks like every day you could fill up because a bit more. the average price jumping

505, a gallon. jackie live with gas prices around the bay area. >> reporter: $3.93 for regular gallon of unleaded gas. this is about average for the bay area. you talked about our early we see gas prices increase. on average according to aaa, $3.96, that is the highest in the united states. those huge jumps we have seen over the past month, it seems like there's no end in sight. it all has to do with the price of oil. $107 a barrel, right now all of the unrest in north africa and th. t

will you pay around the bay area? the average in oakland is $3.91, san francisco $3.95, and oakland tops out at $3.91. obviously we passed the national average we are headed towards $4 a gallon on average. >> mark: especially when the summer blood kicks in soon. >> darya: part of the reason gas is so high, what's going on in libya with the uprising. rebels say they will regroup, bring and heavy weapons after forces pounded opposition fighters to stop the rapid advance towards the capital. an army colonel

says his forces need reinforcements from east after the setback. the white house is considering how to deal with the rising gas prices. one option, tapping into the petroleum reserve. it is only done on are rare location. the reserve contains 727 million bar. of oil. it was last tapped in september of 2008. everything is positive this morning on the stock market. the continuing turmoil in libya pushed the prices up sorry down on friday. stocks were lower. the dow opens today down 88 points. the s&p is at 1321, nasdaq was down t2.

>> mark: coming up bin 25 minutes. in the meantime watching mothers will look to dryout.watching weather and is attempting dryout. >> louisa: everywhere has some left over raindrops and breezy conditions. drying out in san jose, 50 degrees, by noon time 58, your highs today 62. your current ones right now winds ri5 at sfo, 20 and half monday,

concord 18. here's your radar and you can see just a few left over rain drops for the livermore valley, as we wanted out you could see the bulk pushing east. we still see rain right along highway 50. also in the high country plenty of snowfall. in the 40's and 50's right now, starting off on a mild side. by the afternoon low 60s. 57 and san rafael, san francisco. temperatures should be in the low 60s through the east bay into places like mountain view, san jose. upper 50s for redwood city. a chance of rain for tonight and into tomorrow morning. a few sprinkles maybe some passing

showers really isolated through much of the morning. by 10:00 a.m. we should dry out. your 7 day around the bay shows a pattern of dry days, and sprinkles, another dry day, by wednesday that will be the nicest day of the work week. warmer temperatures into the upper 60'60s. >> george: we are watching in marin county were thankfully there's no back up again. there's an accident at lucky drive that manages to brougha lo lanes. they are waiting three tow trucks, chp thinks it may block lanes for more than 30 minutes. a special traffic advisory as an alert is issued

when lanes are a lot for more than 30 minutes. that has not been issued yet. this has potential to be a hot spot of this phase out too long. that is the only problem right now, at the bridges there are windy advisory for several bridges. richmond sanforsan rafael bridgd the san mateo bridge, the bay bridge as well. the camera's not shaking quite as much as it did during the 5:00 a.m. hour, maybe the winter of beating a bit. the wind advisory still in effect. golden gate bridge no problems for the southbound ride, a quick check on a chain requirements in the sierra. interstate 80, 50, and 88. six 08 a.m., the kron 4 news will be right back.

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>> darya: a developing story in daly city. there is a private invitation only event. they are going over tens of thousands of pages of documents. will tran is outside the cal palace to tell us what's going on. >> will: what's going on thi, ty are going through all the documents 100,000 boxes. security guards are refusing to talk to us. we got some information saying there are boxes inside, he would not say how many. we have learned over the past 30 minutes, trucks are coming into the cow palace to pick up shredded documents. the reason they are here, is

because after the san bruno gas pipeline explosion, their computer records show there were no seams or welds in the pipe that exploded. when they took the puck back to a laboratory, they found it was welded. they're going through the records, some dating back is far as the 1920's, there are 12 hour shifts, 24 hours a day. the plot is ticking, they want to know the records, they want to know the details about the thousands of miles of pipeline the rain that run through san francisco. if they don't get the records they could be forcing the gas their rights through the pipes to be changed. there could be a big

change and that is why they are having to go through all of these records. i will try to get a reaction at 7:00 a.m. this morning when the shift changes. >> mark: a quick break is the news continues until 11:00 a.m.. the latest on the space shuttle.

>> mark: discovery on docks this morning wrapping up its nine day visit. it is the final flight, scheduled to land on wednesday. it will be retired and sent to a museum. it has drawn a hundred and 50 million mi., 39 missions, 27 years. >> james: defense secretary is in afghanistan at this hour.

talking to foreign commanders in afghanistan. both sides have agreed to continue but reduce military involvement. in afghanistan gates told troops, the force will be much smaller, just a fraction of the number there today. at one. he shared the motion talking about the troops and their sacrifice to.. >> i would tell you, you keep me up at night. i think a lot about the people of here. and what you put up with, and the conditions 11, the sacrifices you make. the french you loosfriends you losen doing this for fomessrs. for a f

years. that's what keeps me up at night. that in congress. >> james: he has another day there before he moves on to germany and belgium. >> darya: this tells so weather story, san jose the camera shaking around, we have lot of wind in some spots. the golden gate bridge looks calm, so where's the wind? >> louisa: sfo seeing strong winds, costs of 35 mi. an hour. the golden gate bridge is .com. calm. san francisco 49 degrees,

your highs today 57. your winds are about 23 mi. an hour winds at s the vote. these are sustained winds so we do get gusts. 20 in half moon bay, 18 in fairfield and concord. we are having spotty showers right now in concord, and livermore. we are still seeing snow on 80. temperatures in the '40's, '50's, by this afternoon your highs up to the '60s. wednesday will be nice upper 60s, but rain will be on and off through the work week. by the weekend keeping the rain chances in there. wednesday remembered as bring forward time. george?

>> george: the bay bridge were not tracking any hot spots right now. there is a wind advisory but that is the only concern you will have. same true for the san mateo bridge not much of a back up, when the advisory for the west bound commute. for the marinmarine commute there isvols building. leading down to a lucky there is not much of a back up coming down from sir francis drake boulevard. although it slow the past the scene not much of a backup for 1 01 southbound. richmond san rafael bridge also has a wind advisory in place. it was issued

in the early morning hours. mark? >> mark: a police officer arrested and a high profile private investigator is free on bail. he was arrested friday on suspicion of his it bears the to sell controlcontrolled substancs and possession of our roof falat rifle. an officer fired for shooting an unarmed man will be reinstated. he said it appeared the man was reaching in his waistband, as he ran in the direction of officer. and he fired to protect that officer.

family members tried to sue the police department. he was fired and under not arbitration agreement announced he will be reinstated. >> darya: we will be back with more in a couple of minutes. if you spent the weekend in tahoe or you're heading out, this is 80, the road here looks good. we will be right back. california should be proud.

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>> mark: love being shot out of the ground after a pan to open late saturday night. there have been 150 small quakes around the volcano. and national park is

closed nearby. severe weather moving through louisiana over the weekend, a tornado ripping through rain. a tree fell on the home and 100 other homes were destroyed. 1500 people are not allowed back to their homes as utility workers are surveying the damage. >> darya: new zealand says the damage of the quake that hit last month is so bad parts of christ church may have to be abandoned. thousands of buildings will be demolished as well. meantime the new zealand government has a provincial holiday to mark the impact of the quake. 166 people, were killed in that trumbull. we will be back with more the couple of minutes. a big story along with the nice weather we got arid

of the rain. but we do have gust of wind. lots of us are sick or hurt we have four times as many emotional problems as other kids i'll have to move over and over again. i'm twice as likely to drop out of high school. there's a 50-50 chance i'll end up homeless.

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>> james: the stockmarkets open. there way acquisition news. west digital corp. advanced 8 1/2% in pre-market trading. they have agreed to by hitachi, the company's got it for 4.3 billion. anytime we have mergers

and acquisitions is seen as a good thing. trading expected to be positive, but it may turn negative by the end of the day. >> darya: price of gas, it is skyrocketing. it is still jumping 505 per gallon in the past month. we are live in emeryville with jackie, what we have seen higher prices, lower prices, hard to save $4 is not a bad price. >> reporter: it's not unusual to find around the bay area. this is the average. it is right around the california average according to aaa. $3.90. california tops the list, it is a list you do not want to be on top of. these prices are jumping

by the day. 505, increase over last month. according to lumbered it is a record to see those prices go up that quickly. let's look around the bay area and see what we are paying almost $4 a gallon on average. san francisco $3.95, san jose $3.91, oakland $3.91. we talked about it before the market opened $106 a barrel as oil prices climb. >> darya: we talked about this last week, it was alas, now with the prices we will see the ripple of fact. stuff that relies on gasoline whether be in the project or the shipping we will see service charges will

tack on. --surcharges-- >> reporter: diesel is well over $4 a gallon and we see those prices climb. we will all pay more for everything. >> mark: on to bay area weather and some better news there. >> louisa: a little bit better and news. we have some breezy conditions, some guests to wake you up with this morning at sfo gusting up to 35 mi. an hour, malamute 28, 29 for redwood city, 28 in through novato. certainly a breezy start for the day. we will dry out. your sustained winds are 23 at sfo.

right now we are picking up some rain in the livermore valley, the bulk moving to the east right now. we are also seeing snowfall in the sierra. we are at a chilly 46 in napa, and san rafael, but fairly mild weather in the south bay low 50s to start you off. this afternoon your highs of '50s and '60s, 61 in fairfield, concord, along the coast mid-50s. little warmer than that in the south bay 62. a chance of wet weather over night, we could get sprinkle sleep tonight into early tomorrow morning. we are talking about maybe passing showers, continuing through a good portion of your morning. certainly not a big storm and it could dry up by the end of the morning. this 7 day around the bay, we have a pattern of

friday's throwing in some sprinkles here and there. rain is certainly possible by the weekend, keep in mind sunday set those clocks forward one hour. >> george: we are looking at some pavement problems here for the east shore freeway and the golden gate bridge. i spoke with the sergeants, a chp took a report from a driver who said they thought they saw hole in the bridge that it let them see water underneath that. they are dispatching a unit to check get. the possibility of a large pot hole in the pavement on 1 01 northbound. they are enroute to check that. we will have a bridge check the bay bridge westbound, so far no problems but the metering lights were just activated pierre we are seeing a bit o. here you see the

changeable message 9 is active, and shaking up the camera to can pick that out. indicative of the wind out there. wind advisory for the richmond san rafael bridge, that which issued in the early morning hours by caltrans. interstate 80 @ central, here right by the 580 split. there was out large enough pothole that it may require emergency maintenance. crews and the chp are on route to make a determination about whether or not it will be a hazard to motorists for the west bound commute drive. we will attract that if it becomes a hot spot. >> darya: 6:36 a.m., republicans

accuseultrahigh wanted to confie of the 88 planes to express lanes. currently there is one express line in the bay area on 680 from signal to milpitas. if you live in san mateo you will pay more for trash back up. they will rise 23%, the typical home will see the quarterly garbage bill jump from $39 to $48. san mateo will have the lowest fees of any of the 12 cities between berlin game and east palo alto because it subsidizes its gathe bridge. >> mark: we have been at the cow

palace and a busy night pg&e turning it into a huge library of sorts. workers sift through pages of documents. will tran is live. >> will: have an incredible story. cow palace turned it to fort knox. they dropped the ball because you can see it is open to the public right now. 10 minutes ago yoli and i went inside, to see if we can talk to anybody there. here's some video that we got, we shot it through at cracked door. you can see appellate there. i walked inside, this is one of thousands of pellets that i saw in a warehouse next to the cow palace. as soon as i walked inside. security told me i had to leave the place, i didn't even have a chance to ask them if there's anybody at the cow palace that i could speak to

about the work. they threaten to call the san francisco police department, excuse me daly city police officers because we were on the premise. this is very private. pg&e won't even acknowledge what's going on. but we have reports that they are looking through documents dating back to 1920. they're going to record simply because of the gas line explosion that happened in san bruno. afterwards they were weltheir computer showed there s no wilson that pipe, when they took the pipe away they found weld's in there. so their records don't match, that's why the state utility commission is forcing pg&e to provide records by march 15th, that say the pipes are safe. it's not there will be a big change in the way

they do business. we talked about this last week when under oath pg&e engineers went before the national transportation safety board. they're being watched by state and federal government agencies. that's why they are in there right now. i've been here before including the death of a concertgoer last month. no problems getting on the site or talking to people at the cow palace. not this morning. the moment we showed up security guards threaten to take away our camera as a matter of fact. this is highly secretive. hopefully i will catch people as they leave. we never caused any problems we promised to leave the promise. >> mark: we will be right back as the news continues after the break.

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troops, they would be needed after 2014, to train and advise the afghan forces appeared he will meet with the president during the trip. >> mark: space shuttle discovery leaving the space station for the last time. this is discoveries final flight, it wawill land on wednesday. >> louisa: we are certainly looking at a different weather picture today, we are actually trying out. overcast conditions continue right up from marge schott of mt. tam appeared it is .com, but we keep getting these wind gusts through the morning. breezy start for the day trying out however for the day. slight chance of showers tomorrow morning. we will start with how

strong the winds are, 20 mi. an hour through as the fall, 18 in concord, into fairfield. dry conditions through the livermore valley, and in the top zero area we aran tahoe area we are seeing snow. we are currently in the 40's and '50's. by the afternoon bringing the highs up into the low 60s we will stay that way for the next couple of days. chance of showers tomorrow morning, by wednesday proper 60s, that be the warmest day of the workweek. we will have on and off showers through the work week, and towards the weekend we could see a chance of rain. keep in mind sunday is bring forward. >> george: the bay bridge, there

had been a stall in the early morning hours before the activated the metering lights. it was reported westbound rate at your balbuena island.right ad have slow hand here tying up the westbound ride. a bridge or other chp wind advisory for the west bound ride. if this backs up pretty quickly, this may become a hot spot. otherwise we have not been tracking any. here at the san mateo bridge, a wind advisory is in fact issued in the early morning and our spirit is still active. the camera still shaking. the ride on 1 013 marin county, slowed in the early morning hours when there was an accident at lucky drive.

that has been cleared from lanes and the freeway. we mentioned in the last report upon all opened up in the pavement on 1 01 northbound remits band. the crews have checked and determined, there is a pot holder, but nobody will fall through it. that is exactly the word. highway 1 01, we track the commute on the bayshore freeway. 1 01 ride here, taillights are northbound. it is light traffic in both directions, the backup will be in the northbound direction in just a little while. pavement problems are report of pot holes on 80 in the westbound direction at central. so far no word on emergency road closures there. >> darya: trying to find parking

at the airport has been a challenge with a lack of spots. that will change. >> craig: thousands of parking spots at this parking structure. the vast majority go to rental car agencies appeared to complain about the lack of parking pointed out 3000 parking spaces in the new building but only 354 incoming passengers. the others are reserved for rental car agencies. that might change, are of spot will bfor no can't park here have to catch a shuttle to the airport. >> mark: with the explosion of cell phones the 408 area code has been exhausted. you will start seeing 669 popping up by the end of the year. public

utility commission will have public hearings from march 16th to march the 18th. to explain the switch. the decision has not been made on whether it will overlay which will allow current customers to keep their area code, or if they will divide up the county and split it with the 408. we will be back as the news continues. alive look for a moment creek, the skies are of right now, we have a storm from yesterday passing off to the southeast.

>> mark: despite oil rising we are still seeing a positive day on wall street today. five days of negotiations for the nfl.

they have until friday to reach an agreement. failure could be the first strike in the nfl. enough progress was maybe 11 days overseen by a mediator, to extensions were granted on the key issues. holding the deal how to split up $9 billion in revenue. >> darya: to what have men may not be take be any more for this season, charlie sheen is starring in a new tv show. you have to watch it on the internet, live on news story.yo the first episode has been viewed as 100,000 times, he followed up yesterday with an upper so called torpedoes of truth. charlie sheen just keeps

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