time, the latest on the budget battle as a government shutdown is less than 48 hours away. >> darya: we are tracking the storm which is really bearing down here as you can see through san jose. we are expecting everyone to get wet at times maybe even some help. >> james: we'll get what a lot, that is the good news, it will be annoying rain through your morning. a couple more widespread in the afternoon rainfall totals are not expected to be very impressive. rain in the oakland hills, walnut creek, and again as we thought they would. you will see some rain headed your way. like that, changing coloration. if futures surged showing losses that is a possibility right now, you're stretching along 580 from livermore all the way out into castro valley on-

again off-again scatter charts or activity. rain on 880, from haymarkepay word to fremont. tot of san jose we have a heavy batch of rain moving through. about two tenths of an end to fall in line now. that's what we see in the south bay, we see the most concentrated rain. seeing heavy stuff in the santa cruz mountains east of 17. we have a cell of heavier rain moving through. all in all most activity to the south, that will not stay that way. more rain is has hit our way. it is bringing cooler temperatures as well. i wanna walk through the data show you how chile will be today compared to yesterday. i knew and we are only seeing 50's and

'40's, no '60s at all. even at 3:00 p.m. we are only looking at the '50's and '40's on the map. it will be chilly day today, definitely bring your jacket. even by 8:00 p.m. fifties' are gone and we're back into the '40's. it is a cold storm. chance of thunderstorms lenders through friday, the weekend looks good but the ground looks dim.and any stamp. >> george: your bridge check a wind advisory for the bay bridge and a number of other bridges. the other ride is light and easy, san mateo bridge has the wind advisory as well, and it is raining there now. golden gate bridge no wind advisory, wind advisory still in place for the dumbarton bridge. as you see it

here with light traffic, green on the center shows no delay. the nation bridge 680 southbound as well. >> mark: philip credo may not have a trial, he may be of the skip that altogether working out a deal with prosecutors. >> will: here is how he can avoid going to trial by excepting a deal with prosecutors today. entering a plea, a guilty plea today. that will avoid a trial, but he will be sentenced right away. he is looking at 491 years. that avoids jaycee dugard from standing trial. his wife is

looking for a deal from prosecutors looking at 40-50 years with good behavior she could be out of prison by the time she is 85 years old. she might change her not guilty plea to guilty plea to save and injaycee dugard from going to trial. a lot can be decided today. according to legal experts he will do that and tell the court he was the one behind all of this. he did the majority of the work and therefore of leaving nancy to get a lighter sentence. we will wait and see. network news is here, this is a big deal. >> darya: we are following the latest theory bonds closing arguments will begin today in his perjury trial. the team

rested the case yesterday not calling a single witness to the stand. one of the charges has been dropped, not the case is down to three counts of perjury in one count of obstruction of justice here they call 25 witnesses to the stand over to a half weeks. they will have closing arguments today, his fate will be in the hands of the jury if convicted he could be sentenced to 10 years in prison on each count. kron 4 is in the courtroom every day. the closing arguments will start this morning, we will monitor back. >> reporter: this just and there are big changes coming to pg&e, the chronicle reporting to top executives will resign. this is the first major change is since

the deadly pipe explosion in september. the utility chief operating officer and senior president of engineering will leave the company. pg&e said in a statement their position will be eliminated as reorganization. >> mark: president barack obama saying he is confident a government shut down can be avoided. republicans being pushed by the tea party are seeking deeper cuts. cuts the democrats say are too deep. without a budget it has been funded by short-term spending measures appeared we will bring down what possible shutdown coming for you coming up in the next half hour. >> darya: we will be back with morning couple of minutes, a big store we are following a big fire and in berkeley. we will be

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good >> mark: news of your people applied for unemployment benefits last week. analysts saying it means employers are hiring in the workforce. labor department says the number of people seeking employment dropped last week, the third drop in four weeks. dow futures slightly higher on the news. analysts say higher gas prices and cooler temperatures did not keep people away from stores. an uptick in their retail sales for march. new figures this morning extending spending from last year. march 2010 spending was boosted by an early easter. this

year lake is >> darya: president obama will accept free trade with columbia today. the two leaders are expected to assign out free trade pact that the white house says it is part of the economic agenda. it will boost exports by $1 million a year, and could support several jobs. >> mark: we will be right back as the news continues, a store we are following a fire that's the house in berkeley james fletcher watching the weather. >> james: storm trucker for it is focused on the rain falling now, more on the way and colder temperatures this afternoon.

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>> mark: over night fire in

berkeley rips through single dwelling home. we turn to yoli. yoli it seems like a tricky fire. >> reporter: 01 alarm fire caused a lot of havoc in damage. let's show you some of the video of the fire when it was at the height of the fire. it was bad because this caused the meters to block. they dealt with the structure fire, and a gas fire as well as electrical issues. the main line that was connected to the house melted, it was dangling in the street. they had to wait for pg&e to discharge that line. they were addressing the ball of fire that was addressed by the gas meter. they were trying to protect the structures next to the hoshoused fight the fire in side. there

are able to get a handle on the fire within 40 minutes and that is good considering all the factors they dealt with. the four people that lived in the host they got out ok, they were out of the house before firefighters arrived. a firefighter said one of the people will stop, sought low and immediately started waking up their roommates, they got out of the house. no injuries, as far as the cause of the fire is still unknown. they are expecting fire inspectors to get here later this morning when there is more light so they can see what thiwhere this originat >> darya: firefighters contained a fire that broke out in the mission district. this is 3200 block of mission street. they had it under control by 10:00

a.m. but strong winds made it difficult to put it out. this is from a camera phone last night. you can really see the flames, the person shooting the video said you could feel the heat to. the third and second floor are apartments and the first floor is a dentist paroffice. the investigation gets under way to the cause today. we want to get a look at the weather, we are tracking the storm through the bay area, the south bay has been the west so far. >> james: the south bay we see the highest concentration of rain at this time. from oakland down into san leandro getting rain as well. let's look at these cells, along highway 4 out to antioch. they had a wave of light rain passing through a while ago another wave coming

through. the east shore freeway we see them under the gun with light green nothing to heavy but enough to slow you down a bit. the south bay we see light rain blanketing the area. milpitas, san jose everybody seeing light to moderate rain. nothing to turn your nose up at a decent rain but not too heavy. wider view shows said cruz mountains seeing heavier rain at the moment. at the moment 17 is wet but as this system slides we will have drying there appeared more rain is on the way a strong or winds. by 4:00 p.m. sustained winds 20 mi. an hour and san rafael, 27 in san francisco. if you look at the dust charred you

can see 30 mi. an hour or mortho 40 mi. an hour. today rain and possibility of thunderstorms, to more slight chance of rain, for the week ended looks nice. 6:19 a.m. could morning george. >> george: no hot spots but windy advisory as, the bay bridge is under wind advisory this morning. our report of a stall in the westbound direction they may activate the metering lights early. san mateo bridge we have a wind it buys rate and we have seen rain. golden gate bridge is not under any advisory's but you will find them in place for the dumbarton

bridge for your south bay crossing. also for the nation bridge.the wind had that impactn public transit ferry service for the harbor bay has been canceled because of high winds. >> darya: 6:20 a.m. the dodgers have hired an up lapd police chief to oversee security policies for the team. this comes after giants fan was severely beaten outside of the stadium at the doctor's-giants game. he is in critical condition in a medically induced, appeared this was the scene in los angeles activist and a family gathered outside the loss angeles men's center where he remains hospitalized in

critical condition. they are raising a with your premisawaref people came out in san jose still works here so they are trying to raise money more than $127,000 was raised in yesterday's market appeared an additional $20,000 raised from pizza my heart restaurants in the south bay. you can leave your well wishes for stoa and his family, you can also donate. --stow-- >>

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>> mark: opening bell, the dow futures pointed slightly higher right now. despite positive news we had about unemployment dropping again. positive news for march retail as well. >> darya: following a storm sweeping through the bay area. we have seen a lot of activity in the south. >> james: out here we have more scattered showers headed our way. the next set rain will enter here. we will have on and off again showers through the remainder of the day. let's find out where we see the rain now. 688 south of dann felt getting wet, brentwood seeing some showers, maybe clayton as well.

from livermore through a castro valley up towards the maize under sporadic showers light it times, at other times these and downpours. it is quick moving. it will make your morning commute wet for you. san jose seeing a break up not as widespread as in our last report still a decent amount of rain falling right now. in some spots trace amounts in others. as we pull out the santa cruz mountains saw widespread rain between santa cruz and los gatos but we are trying out as we thought they would. heavier stuff down in south. all of this getting ready to push off the map. we have a break before the next round comes in. temporize we are chile, 47 in san

francisco, everybody in mid to upper 40's. san rosa, san rafael 43 don't be surprised if you drop into the upper 30's. it will be a chilly start for you. 70 forecast shows rain today, not a lot of it's sporadic. friday a few showers, saturday, sunday looking pretty good. next week warming trend. >> george: no hot spots for your drive here is your bridge check metering lights are on back up is starting to form, windy advisory for the bay bridge and the san mateo bridge, also rain here, still windy advisory for the golden gate bridge, the problems with the traffic.

traffic is still light, her birthday barry is cancelled this morning no substitute buses. >> darya: philip credo may not go to trial. the man accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard may be able to skip that altogether by working out it deal with prosecutors. will tran is live to tell us what will happen this morning. >> will: he could skip going to trial by saying one word. the guilty. if he says that he will not go to trial he will be sentenced. he is looking at of 481 sentence. he could skip at trial and spate bring jaycee dugard from testifying in that trial. more importantly it could spare his wife nancy she has

entered her plea of not guilty, if a look enters a guilty plea saying he did most of the work, on the evil person behind this spare my wife while she is looking for a deal with prosecutors a more between 40-50 years with the behavior she could be out by the time she's 85. there is speculation they put the deal on the table then revoked it. they are working for a 181 year prison sentence for nancy. she said that is not what she is looking for she may go to trial. if she goes to trial j.c. may testify in her case something she says she's willing to do. it depends on what happens with the lot today. three things could happen pretrial conference, entering guilty plea. and then he could go straight to sentencing. we will monitor the situation.

lawyers usually walked in about a 30 a.m. we will try to get reaction from them. >> darya: we will try later thank-you. >> reporter: just in, an earthquake hits mexico, it was felt strongly in mexico city. it was also felt on the southernmost border. it is measuring 6.5, building swayed back and forth for several seconds there's no reported damage or injuries. >> mark: president barack obama saying he is confident a government shutdown could be avoided despite that budget deadlock. they met late last night with john painter and harry reid. republicans being pushed by the two partners are looking for deeper cuts. six

month left in the fiscal year. >> a time when the economy is still coming out of a deeper recession, it would be inexcusable given their relatively narrow differences when it comes to numbers between the two parties that we can get this done. >> i think we made some progress i wonder reiterate there is no agreement on the policy record for number. >> i have confidence we can get this done we are not there yet. >> mark: the government runs out of funding midnight friday, the national parks like alcatraz, and thethe smithsonian will be closed, are are as refund checks will be mailed out, immigration

verification for jobs will be able to be done. federal ploy's might have to turn in their blackberries. revenue generating government offices will not closed. post office stays open so that tax deadline will not be pushed back. common security will be open although they may not be paid. if you're on medicare those payments continue, military personnel could stop getting paychecks. >> darya: we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes. a check out san jose, we have seen a lot of action here so far this morning. you see the camera

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>> louisa: look at your tahoe's forecast a winter weather advisory until 5:00 p.m. today. we could get to-4 in. below 7,000 ft.. >> mark: we are following a latest out of libya road bullfighters a nato air strikes hit their forces on the front lines. it's all several tanks destroyed by nato bombing runs after rebel leaders complained airstrikes were too slow to disrupt forces. a nato official says the alliance is looking into the rebel claims. >> darya: japanese police say it's a race against time and radiation as they recovered thousands of bodies in the tsunami struck in northeast. many of those bodies have been washed out to see it may never be found. nearly a month after

that 9.0 quake and generated a tsunami. 15,000 people are still missing be it the death toll has grown to 12,600. operators have slow the release of the radiation. they have fallen dramatically, of storage facility which they hope to hold radioactive water is expected true or arrive this weekend. a second rise japan fund-raiser is happening tonight between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on 1246 fulton street. 100 artist has donated are 100 percent of the proceeds go to the give to it age shot artist felt japan. >> mark: robert gates making a visit to wire rack, he told

troops this would probably be his last visit. he intends to step down sometimes this year. this happening as obama in administration saying they would be willing to keep troops in iraq beyond the time they were born to float. >> darya: you can see the gray skies, the clouds are building and we are waiting for the rain in the south bay to come to our area. wherever you are today we may see showers and hair

>> darya: a quick look at top stories, president barack obama is confident a government shutdown can be avoided despite have budget deadlock. he met last night and after the meeting he said he thinks they can do it if they continue negotiations

and build on the talks. friday is the deadline. >> darya: closing arguments that today for barry bonds perjury trial. they rested their case yesterday without calling a witness. a perjury count was dropped very three counts of perjury one count of obstruction of justice. >> darya: the man accused of kidnapping j.c. to guard might plead guilty, he may entered as part of the deal to spare his wife, maybe have them go easy around her. he kidnapped jaycee dugard when she was 11 years old, holding her captive for 18 years in antioch. the wife is expected to go to trial unless she gets a better deal. >> james: keeping an eye on whether, storm trackers 4 where the rain is falling, they have been in the south bay so far.

antioch was under the gone awhile ago, brentwood, these rain should pass your weight in the next 20 minutes. it will start to dry out in a bet. it will last long showers will come back. livermore still wet. you have instrumented shower activity. san jose, campbell, the areas seeing the heavier amounts of rain right now. everybody else seeing all lot lighter rain. you go from light green to trace amounts all day today. how 17 beginning to dry out all the ones to get to los gatos you will encounter showers at the moment. colder

temperatures today, temperatures dirt mainly '60s and 40's. by noontime we finally get some '50s on the map but not a lot of them. even by 3:00 p.m. we are still in the 40's and 50's. it will be chilly day in to the 8:00 p.m. hour. if you're born to be out and about bring your jacket. showers until tomorrow, then the weekend looks good. temperatures warming up. the beginning of next week temperatures getting back to 70. 6:49 a.m. good morning george. >> george: meter lights are on, wind advisory is in place at the bay bridge. san mateo bridge and the deck is drying out, 1 01 southbound is a problem free no wind advisory here. wind advisory for the dumbarton bridge and the benicia bridge as well. we have cancellation of

the alameda ferry shutdown because of high winds. no bus substitutes. >> darya: 60 a.m. we are looking at the danger tags. for homes have been red tag and for hillo tank.4 yellow tag. soil engineee going to be waiting for a solid break in the rain, so they came get back there and give the all clear. the city does not want to take any chances. they put this concrete barrier in the middle of the street so that they would stop any more of the mud from sliding. the other area heavily hit is of wideman street in san pablo, these years are gone, the

sheer drop off 10 ft.. the city officials feeling good about the future because the soil engineers report that help is drying up. >> mark: caltrans board of directors will discuss service cuts. they will vote on the service of their changes. they need to balance the budget. the agreement reached on monday would eliminate 10 trains from the week is schedule, host three stations, as they are projecting $30 million deficit. this and omar marin area smart train their board of directors are time about 10 ways to cut $80 million from the project. they will vote april 20th it on proposals to reduce the project's. the 70 mi. project will be shortened to 37 mi.. tht

part of the projects costing 470 million.47 million. >> darya: right now visitors pay at $10 fee to generate $600,000 a year in revenue. instead it will be three under and 50,000. so is it worth it? they will decide whether to kill it or extended. a special meeting tomorrow to consider geing quandt proposal to have the mail in ballot election in july. it is for a parcel tax raising $11 million a year for the next five years. paying for police, parks, fire, technology. >> mark: we will be right back.

san jose and gusty winds. traffic is moving on 1 01 northbound. we have popped up showers and strong winds around the bay area today. a programming note to tell you about, this wednesday "minute to win it" will be right here on kron4. "law and order special victims unit" you can watch aat 9:00 p.m. and then the kron4 news will be at 10:00 p.m. [ jerry ] look at this!

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>> darya: it has been snowing on 80 and 50 throughout the morning. you see the snow coming down right now the roadway has been cleared. 30 rocked actress tina fate is pregnant. she is

expecting her second child. the 40 year-old actress's five months along. shearson has a five year-old daughter alice. the royal wedding 21 days away the big event is expected to break all viewing records to be the most watched program. 2 billion people around the world will tune in to watch prince william mary kay mills to amarys twice as many as watch her father and mother married. >> mark: we will be right back right after the break, walnut creek we have dry conditions here but strong winds in some pop strong showers over the south bay right now.

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