tv KRON 4 Early News KRON April 6, 2011 6:00am-7:00am PDT
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>> darya: top stories at this hour late night fire residential motel in san francisco league scores homeless and 20 injured. >> mark: what could be the most anticipated day in the barry bonds perjury trial. we will learn if the slugger will testify. >> darya: republican and democrats have not reached a budget deal. the date is looming what is happening today and how the shutdowns affect you. >> mark: alive look over san francisco we wait for sunrise. a check on whether with james. >> james: rain is on its way tomorrow, today cooler temperatures and wind. really gusting up here in advance of to more storm. >> george: bay bridge westbound looks good no hot spots this morning and is an easy ride year, and a debt to purchase as well. >> darya: topping our news right now live on the scene of a
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residential fire that happened at a residential hotel in san francisco. broke out loss nine. firefighters are on our roof, tried to fight the fire that spread quickly. its start on the first the floor and is spread through the building. 20 people injured, four had to go to hospital for non-life threatening injuries. this morning all of these residents up to 100 me to place to live. to get you more news faster let's go to yoli. are there displaced people being helped? >> reporter: everybody in this building has been displaced. that is just over 100 people. people are getting on shuttles waiting in the lobby of another
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apartment building, waiting to get put on a bus or shuttle to find a place to sleep. they will be displaced toward the city in different shelters. it's unfortunate because a lot of these people who lived here are disabled in one way or another. or they are senior citizens. it is a mixed people who have been displaced. i spoke to one person who is a victim of the fire, he explains what he saw, and what he went through at the height of the fire. >> the house on the fifth floor, i was watching something on dvd and i heard a noise outside. we have false alarms in the building, and i didn't know was a real fire until i sought of fireman's latter. the first thing i did was put on my coat,
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no shoes, walked out of the apartment. smoke was coming in on waves. it was toxic and there. i was talking to a friend of mine saying that i have a new-found respect for firemen. >> reporter: the sermon told me some apartments look ok. over here and the far corner. the problem ha is the fire was at te center of the building. that's probably why those people are displaced for quite awhile. >> darya: it's not just for the trash chute is, but isn't that the emergency stairway? i wonder if there's a violation or the live in a building in can get to that. >> reporter: i don't off that's
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the case, people the decks and out of the stairwells. according to this one red cross volunteer she said getting to some of these apartments is so damaged that it will be a problem for them. something may be ok in their apartment it's just getting there. >> darya: the inspectors have a lot of work to do today inside of the building. >> mark: the latest on the barry bonds of perjury trial of federal judge will decide whether or not to dismiss a count against barry bonds. it charges him with lying when he denied his personal trainer asked him to take anything before the 2003 season the judge agreed with the defense team in it is against designer drugs. on his lawyers are planning to call six witnesses, hanting one may be barry bonds himself. the
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judge has barred prosecutors from using the audiotape with the orthopedic surgeon because it was "barely intelligible." following the latest with the u.s. government the possible shutdown. it increasingly looks like the government will be a lot of money by friday night when the temporary spending bill expires. president barack obama said he would like to meet with crown congressional leaders everyday until this is soft. no meetings are scheduled for today as the president is out of town. he says he refuses to see signs of a short-term spending bill. coming up at 6:35 a.m. we will tell you what will happen if there is a partial government shutdown friday night. >> darya: we want to get a look at the whether it looks clear right now. >> james: rain not expected
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until tomorrow morning, let's bring down what we expect for the weather. clear skies this morning, cool well, you'll notice that when you head out the door. cooler temperatures and a wet weather pattern for tomorrow. let's go to the temperatures, actually will look at future cast 4 looking at 5:00 p.m. and any event rain comes in tomorrow, and then it will be with does not all day long but all evening long as well. the 74 test what to expect in the near future, i want to get loose on here to talk about the wind spiris. we have sunder activityt up for friday as well. the weekend looks ok. >> louisa: dusty winds, those
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winds will get up to about 40 mi. an hour. picking up through the morning, we will start off with a stronger winds in the north bay, then the peninsula will be affected. as we head toward noon those test get up to 20 mi. an hour in places like san rosa, san rafael, san francisco. as we head into about 4:00 p.m. those wins actually top 30 mi. an hour in san francisco and along the coast up to about 40 mi. an hour. look at how strong it is for the delta, all sorts of 20 mi. an hour winds up through livermore. redwood city winds pick up 30 mi. an hour. by the evening 7:00 p.m. still keeping costs out thergusts to out there.
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>> george: could have a hot spot on 580 in the westbound direction. there was an accident just reported. we will do a bridge check san mateo bridge a clear ride, a free westbound truck heading over towards foster city, golden gate bridge is clear free ride in from marin county 1 01 south found. >> reporter: following san francisco lead another major u.s. city wants to ban toy giveaway in fast food restaurant meals. new york city will discuss the ban today, there spot is it would reduce the lure of fast food restaurants for children and encourage the industry to provide healthier options. the lawns in francisco will be enforced december 1st. we will be right back.
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>> darya: new developments in the giants' fan who was attacked at dr. stadium on open date. the reward for information to find the attackers has doubled to $100,000 being offered meantime his conditions he is showing signs of brain damage, he is in critical condition suffering severe skull fractures. here means in, in los angeles. his family said they received a text message from stow saying that he was scared at the stadium. his family said that's unusual to say something like that. they say there must of been a tense inside the stadium long after. today there will be a barbecue from noon until 8:00 p.m. in san
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>> mark: we need for opening bell stock futures are positive this morning after the dow finished down as you point yesterday. consumer spending expected to slowing to the spring. that's what economists are expecting march sales figure is expected to slow down. wells fargo will pay $11 million to settle allegations the bank overcharge clients for mortgage investments. united states and colombia are expecting to announce a free trade pact. chrysler is slowing production
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to conserve hard for japan appeared >> darya: toyota is may be downgraded the financial and operating performance will worsen because of the cars quicken tsunami. it caused a major disruption. it has forced out and other companies to halt production. they say they have sold 1 million prius hybird rights. they are saying the prius has been the top selling highbred in united states since it went on sale in 11 years ago. it reports its sold 2 million prius. >> mark: lets k used the latest on the forecast with james. >> james: a quick look outside, conditions are on the cool side this morning, not seeing anything really out of the '40's. except maybe in antioch.
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a cooler start for today, a cooler afternoon as well. san francisco is only getting up to 61 today, 67 concord, 68 in napa. no '70s. 57 and half moon bay, 66 in san jose, 63 in the livermore valley. temperatures cooler than yesterday, tomorrow will be downright cold. we will also seek rain. future cast 4 set for thursday morning at midnight. shower activity and as we advance 3:00 a.m. more widespread, by 6:00 a.m. as you wake up get ready for work we will see more widespread scattered showers. and dancing the clock to the afternoon conditions are mile through your afternoon commute. shores
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through the day but not a lot of them. it will be windy and cold and somewhat what with all the scattered showers. as we head into thursday night it clears out a bit but we hold on to the possibility of thundershowers for friday. saturday, sunday not looking too bad. possible evening showers coming our way sunday night. let's check your ride. >> george: 580 westbound hot spot traffic is backing up towards livermore. here's a bridge check, bay bridge as a good one metering lights may have been activated. san mateo bridge 92, volume is building a good ride, the golden gate bridge looks good from marin county. mark? >> mark: southwest flight that took off from oakland headed to
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over the passes we could actually get more than a foot of snow. heavier snow expected through midnight into your sunrise hours. more snow piling up in the sierra. >> mark: will there be football? federal judge hill hearing arguments from players who won an immediate end to the lockout. owners imposed the lockout after failing to reach a deal. seven players filed a lawsuit on behalf of all the players to illegally force an end to the lockout. if the agreement is not reached, there could be delayed or canceled. >> darya: president barack obama is pushing education and energy today he is traveling to philadelphia to talk about long term plan to lower fuel prices by tapping domestic energy resources and shifting to less
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polluting sources of of energy. he has a steady cool of reducing oil imports. we're learning more details about the bay area truck. he will hold a town hall session later this month on facebook. it has been a popular means for the president to talk to people. it will be from facebook headquarters including ceo mark the book or bark. >> mark: on in the cars up three. present from last year. more expensive tires and depreciation costs is some painmain ú t7
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>> mark: developing story fire fighter still on the scene of a hotel fire in san francisco, we will show you are located on google birth. it started on the first floor. it spread through the entire building, the roof also partially collapsed 20 people injured for has been transported to the hospital. to gain more news faster return to yoli who is live on the scene. >> reporter: they were able to extinguish some of the approaches that happened at 4:00 a.m. on the roof. it kept kindling up there and there were able to put that up.at to. theye here to make sure there are no more flareups. red cross have
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their hands full this morning. i will show you some video of people that lived here. 100 people are displaced because of the fire, they have been trying to get people into shelters, it wasn't easy, a lot of people are disabled, the elderly. all lot of things they had to take care of. they have been shuttled oregon on muni bus that was catered for these people and put them into shelter. in the meantime we are waiting for inspectors to come out and figure out what exactly caused the fire weather was accidental or intentional you know this dirt on the first floor in the trash compartment. it went into the attic and that's why there's so much damage. >> mark: thank you for the update.
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>> darya: let's get a look at the weather as it is shaping up today. >> james: alive look from mt. tam, that is the view out there this morning, clear skies for now, clouds are rolling in. dealing with the cooler start this morning and clear skies. cooler temperatures and gusty winds. we will bring that down for you. wet weather tomorrow that is a big headline for the week we have scattered showers struck the bay tomorrow and maybe been thunderstorms friday. right now is to wake up is 49 degrees in san francisco, 46 in oakland, 41 in napa, warmer to the south 47 san jose, the warm spot in antioch low 50s. everybody will warm up right
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around the mid '60s. 61 in san francisco, 68 expected in napa, 66 in oakland, everybody ran around a 65 degree mark. it will be cooler today than yesterday. it will be even colder tomorrow. you can see the cold air on the satellite maps diving down to california in current trend on four far north. it will trap its way down tomorrow scattered showers in the morning and the afternoon tapering off by evening, friday holding on to the possibility of a thunderstorm here and there. lower snow levels as well. 6:33 a.m. good morning george. >> george: 580 westbound traffic is still slow because of an accident. here's a bridge check
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metering lights are on slowing a bit. the golden gate bridge 101 south, still problem free across the span. watching what may be developing hot spot in the north bay westbound 37 a disabled big rig blocking the slow lane. it is leaking oil so there will be clean up. >> darya: cal trained is making big changes they will affect riders for sure. it will be tough you have to find a ride out of your trains, fewer stations appeared it will eliminate 10 transforming the weekday schedule, to close three stations. weekend and special events service would be provided but modified. the board of directors declared a board fiscal emergency last month.
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sonat to a more news faster let's go to jackie one of our team of solo reporters out there getting into details. he is in some detail at this will be one of the stations). >> reporter: you went through the list of potential cuts, instead they decided to cut three stations, to some of the other thing she talked about. 32 stations and all along 77 mi. corridor. potentially they could close 16, instead they closed three. he talked about the $30 million deficit, radical measures to make up that deficit indeed. let's look at the three stations that will be closing in july. a ward park in san mateo, capitol station in san jose, a shortstop in brisbane san francisco line. all in all there
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ari have to tell you i have only seen three people come through the station, the parking lot is basically empty. there was a dream right now.train right nowr stations are very close to the station. it made sense to shut this one for convenience. a lot of people using the station will have to commute to a nearby station. but like i said radical financial problems are causing caltrans to do these measures. >> darya: so jackie you been here an hour and a half? and you've seen three people. >> reporter: 3 people and the parking lot is empty right now. >> darya:, for which they have to walk to get to another
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station? >> reporter: san mateo station or the south of where we are hillsdale. >> darya: so there is enough overlap and not a lot of use here. >> mark: the latest out of washington talks intensified to reach a long overdue legislation to finance the government through the end of september. there has been no deal in place. if the temporary order expires friday meant night. that government could shut down in the white house is assessing the extent of progress made in late may night talks. they're trying to set up another meeting with president barack obama. they are single that could happen today. so how could the government shut down affect you? museums and national parks
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would be close saturday, passport applications may be delayed, combat troops may not be paid on time. social security checks will continue to go out. >> reporter: if you're a this early you probably did not get enough sleep. so the wall sewalt journal put a sleepless steady, and 98% needs eight hours of sleep so they can feel normal. 2% of the population needs only four hours. the short sleepers apparently have different heart rhythms and are more positive and thinner than the average person. they are more energetic and outgoing and i sort of hate them. >> darya: will still be better. we will be right back.
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>> louisa: welcome back to the morning news, we have been tracking the wins, expect them to get testy this afternoon. it will pick up in the north bay in them by noon winds up words 20 mi. an hour from san francisco north. as we head towards 4:00 p.m. we are looking at 34 mi. an hour wind gusts. 32 in redwood city, and we will continue with strong winds up until about 7:00 p.m. and not just in the coast but the inland spots as well. fairfield 26, 27 oakland. keeping breezy conditions in through the overnight hours. >> mark: a breakthrough in japan they have finally stopped a leak of radioactive water into the pacific ocean from the nuclear power plant. their real to plug
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the leak by putting liquid lawson to appeared they've been struggling to restart the pomps, and they are saying until that is fixed they will pump 3 million gal. of contaminated water into the ocean because they have no place to store the water. the water has radiation levels 5 million * illegal limit. >> darya: out of libya but the military operation continues to enforce a no-fly zone over libya, for some on the ground said the western coalition is not making good on promises of support. the promises that were made before airstrikes. this comes after pro gaddafi forces launched attacks by nato says the international operation is working, they have taken out 30% of the military capacity. >> mark: we will be back, george
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>> darya: a quick look at some of the top stories, firefighters still on seam of our residential hotel fire in san francisco. planes broke out last night, this is video from when it was going. 20 injured, four had to the hospital. this on the 200 block of eddy street, it is being investigated now, they have to figure out where to put 100 people. >> mark: federal judge whether deciding whether not to dismiss that count against barry bonds. he saysthe defense will begin
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presenting its case today, the lawyers are planning to call 3-6 witnesses, they said one maybe barry bonds himself. >> darya: the white house is trying to stop the government shot down. midnight friday was what will happen, they say there's a glimmer of hope after late-night negotiations session between democrats and house republicans. >> george: 580 westbound still slow out of livermore back down . bay bridge a stall westbound, slowing the trip up the westbound crews are already with it. san mateo bridge an easy one, cool and gate bridge ride southbound still looks good coming from marin county to san
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francisco, 648 in time for weather. >> james: as the sun comes up let's bring down what we expect today, cool and windy, testing intensely this afternoon. chance of showers throughout the day to more bay area wide. pot of thunderstorms possible friday. here is wednesday, thursday, friday for you quick and dirty. you'll notice as you head out the door this morning cooler, 46 in oakland, 47 in san jose, it is a cooler start than 24 hours ago. you will feel that this afternoon as well with your afternoon highs not getting pass mid-60s. 67 concord, 67 santa rosa, 66 in oakland and san jose slightly cooler in the
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livermore valley today your highs getting up to 63 or thereabouts. here's where we expect the rain, the clock is set thursday morning, by 3:00 a.m. tickets more coordinated in the east bay, by 6:00 a.m. we should have the widespread light scattered showers. nothing to beg, it will move through the morning and evening drive, a couple of scattered bits here and there, not much from this system but it is enough. he leaped 11:00 p.m. thursday clearing out nicely but we will hold on to the possibility of scattered storms for friday. the weekend looks good, saturday your saturday, sunday we role in clouds and we have evening scattered showers to the north bay. >> mark: twitter staying in san for cisco, lawmakers approving
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the tax break, they are giving it to keep the company from leaving the city. it exempts the service from paying payroll tax on new hires for six years. san francisco supervisor was a board of muni light rail when that door failed to close. we brought you this video yesterday showing the door opened, it turns out supervisor was on the passenger on this train. the operator came on and advised riders the door was opened and to stay away from it. most passengers stood right there, the train arrived at the station and passengers were asked to clear the car. >> darya: we will be back with more a couple of minutes.
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>> darya: 6:55 a.m. if you are looking for something to do sunday we are rerunning baseball by the bay at 10:00 p.m. on kron 4. 7 day around the bay forecast we are looking at holding out with some sunshine, barely reaching 70 today. the transition to the cool down which kicks in tomorrow, what tomorrow as well, as we dry it out on friday a few raindrops me stick around. it gets warmer by the weekend mid-60s, a little bit of sunshine, same with sunday. >> mark: watching wall street stocks rebounding today.
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commodity prices are rising this morning. >> darya: and new report about teenage drinking says teenagers don't see a problem with daily binges. kids say five or more drinks a day is ok. five or more drinks a day! it comes from a steady. if they are asked if they see a problem with drinking that much, 45 percent said no. the study shows up for trends in marijuana and ask to see. teen s are at a record low. in 2009, 410,000 teenage girls between 15 and 19 gave birth. that is a 37%
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decrease from the right 20 years ago. according to the united nations the right of teenage pregnancy in the united states is nine times greater than the majority of other developed nations. >> mark: we will be right back, a big store we are monitoring of a budget hearing under way. they are talking about the budget, the government on the verge of shutting down if i no deal is reached by friday night, u.s. government runs out of fundy funding friday.
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