six >> mark: a.m. on them kron 4 morning of news. president barack obama auto waking up in the bay area we will tell you about his busy morning. >> darya: a new demand based price for parking debuts. we will tell you how much you could pay. $18 an hour maybe.? >> mark: we will tell you what city officials are saying about the safety of the park >> darya: first week in march and the weather conditions this morning. it is chilly and moist. all the rain is gone will it be back as the question. >> james: i don't think it will be back anytime soon this morning. in san jose where we see conditions, all right as a matter-of-fact. the san jose

getting up to 60 by lunchtime, right around 3:00 p.m. we will get up to about 63. south bay same conditions like this around 63, 64, 65. all in all not bad. san jose may be seen light showers but most of it is to the east. dry conditions, showers here and there and that's why the road are a bit damp. out in the weather the storm is rolling through. we have changed requirements there. --chain--the temperatures right now 45 san rosa, san jose mid- 50s not too long ago cool down

to 52 right now, 50 in the livermore valley. warmer temperatures this afternoon, upper 50s mid-60's directed day. we will show you the 7 day coming up in just a moment. >> darya: president barack obama is waking up to a moist morning in the bay area. he has a busy day ahead. a breakfast fund- raiser in san francisco before he heads out for us next on the tour. will tran is live outside of the hotel with details. >> will: they have not told us exactly when the breakfast will take place. between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.. not a lot of sleep for mr. obama. he will be at the st. regis hotel security is already in place. on the side alley, 10-12 police cars getting

ready. there's nobody in the lobby. this is not your normal breakfast for $4.99, this breakfast reportedly is between 30 and $35,000. it is a fund- raiser breakfast. u.s. earlier what could he a be eating the cost that much, i have thought about it. there's nothing i can think of that would have me pay $35,000. a lot of people have signed up as a private breakfast it is a good chance to meet with him and tell him what you want a barrel to be.the wort should be a traffic nightmare. >> darya: there's a fire truck getting by any way. we will check out to see what the president is doing before he heads out. last night fund-

raising event at the masonic center in san francisco. it is kicking off his 2012 campaign. the president says it can only be achieved if the republicans work together. it paid between $25,000.10000 dollars per ticket. then there was the facebook town hall meeting at headquarters of facebook. he believes they can agree on deficit reduction despite the radicals from by the republicans. >> justine: just didn't oakland police have arrested a 25 year- old suspected prostitutes who allegedly left her newborn babies in the car. it would be bad enough but she they say that she did this washer was working. she was arrested yesterday afternoon during a sting

operation, she told officers her one-year-old boy and girl were in her car. there are found sleeping in their car seats then turned over to child welfare services. she was telling police what was i supposed to do with my kids while i was working? >> mark: pg&e started sending out informational letters and safety brochures to 2 1/2 million homeowners and businesses that are located within 2,000 ft. of its natural gas transmission pipelines. if they have been under fire to provide more information on the location and safety of the pipelines in the wake of san bruno gas explosion killing eight people and destroyed 38 homes. parking in san francisco is about to get easier but probably a lot more expensive. starting today there is demand base parking system here the rates will fluctuate by the amount of spots available. if there are lot available you will play a little, if there's a view

you will pay more. as low as 255 per hour, $6 per hour if only off a few spots around. for special events you could pay as much as $18 per hour for parking space in san francisco. it takes real time information about where parking is available so drivers can find a spot. it can be found on the city website for length and more affirmation information go to kron 4 dot com. >> darya: a meeting today they may have found the three and half million dollars to avoid the cuts. it would be from deferring maintenance and more from a capital fund, also

borrowing from the 2012 fiscal year. they will still have to increase fares 255 one way. and parking fees will book by a dollar a day. >> mark: are research lab under fire for hiring research assistants using social insurancsecurity numbers from dead people. the lab is now taking steps to ensure some contractors follow guidelines. we will be right back. from the golden gate bridge the rain showers are tapering off.

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with the sun beginning to rise. cloudy conditions of this morning with a few light showers floating around. for the most part we are trying things out this afternoon sunny and mild, temperatures low 60s, tonight we cleared out completely and dry weather is in store for tomorrow. nice day to end the week. a quick look at your weather today. >> mark: stocks headed for another day of gains. apple reporting an exceptional quarter, they reported after the bell. the profit nearly doubled and exceeded what date or estimating in strength of the iphone. there netting .com, $6,000,000,000.20 months. that is up 95% from a year ago. they are up over $4 a share right now. news about unemployment your people applied last week, those numbers coming out 45 minutes ago. the number people

applying for unemployment dropped to 403,000 americans last week. they expect the numbers to decline as the economy improves. the total number is 3.7 million. the dow was up 40 now. >> darya: google top executive is getting a 1.2 $5 million raise in his new job as executive chairman. he is among the world's wealthiest people with a net worth of $7 million. the time is 6:12 a.m. back with more of a couple of minutes. the rest of us commuting over the bay bridge for another day of work, no metering lights are on.

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>> mark: the dog park in san jose that was closed after dog died is expected to reopen today. to give you more news faster let's go to cranks' clark. if >> craig: you can see the note no trespassing sign is still here. this dog died on saturday after the owner took the doctor this park. it got sick and died. they checked him for toxicity, but according to studies not the case. the have not found any poison at the park either, they will pressure washed the park and opened it again today. i talked to a couple people around here they were very worried that maybe poison. that is not the case and

there has been no sign of poise and hopefully things came to go back to normal. over the senate felt there was rat poison and a sign saying the person wanted to poison the dog. nothing like that here. the owner i talked to a couple days ago saw the dog eating something and getting sick and then dying when she rushed him to the bat. preliminary results showing not the case. hopefully this lot will go away, life will be normal at this park. >> mark: thank you for the information. >> darya: 6:17 a.m. let's look at the weather. i can see the sun over the golden gate bridge a looks like an ok start? >> james: yen looks ok, conditions look all right. -- yes--. oakland looking at 50

degrees, as we head into the afternoon the warmer part of the day when things will get up to about 64. all in all not a bad day for folks in oakland, anywhere in the state. the rain activity is dying down this morning, the bulk of it went through over night while you were sleeping, dealing with some light shower activity between your and more than help. otherwise we look good.morgan hk good. 46 in san rosa, 47 napa, 51 in san jose temperatures this afternoon upper 50s for most of the bay and then low sixties for some other spots primarily in the north bay, the delta, livermore valley in the south bay temperatures there right around 61, 62, 63. we do have a

couple of spots getting up to 66. conditions improving by tomorrow with a lot of sunshine and early morning fog, a great afternoon on tap. this afternoon still little dicey, we have a slight chance of light rain. next week nice and warm. at least the beginning of it. >> george: metering lights were just activated at the bay bridge starting to see the first part of a back up affecting the center lane for a fast track users, starting to back up for your ride coming in from 880, the right hand lane that a " heads toward the open toll lanes backs up first tariff. no delays here on the golden gate bridge southbound traffic looks good no fog. past sfo or leading to a through san bruno on highway 1 01 in a southbound

direction, i believe that is right here. these are the southbound lanes northbound 1 01 back toward san francisco. light traffic in both directions for the bayshore freeway. >> mark: 80 in the increasing reward for attaching cables vandals. $25,000 after a mandel's damage telephone boxes in pittsburgh yesterday. hundreds of customers were affected and without phone service throughout the day. it was the latest throw the county between october and december. >> darya: an arrest have been made in the lake merritt attempted sexual assault in 14th hundred blocks of third street police are not releasing information, they do say they'd are checking to see if he could be linked to any other assaults in recent months. officers

arrested a man for the fatal shooting in alameda yesterday afternoon. near 500 block they are not giving in details about the victim or the person they arrested. >> mark: we will be right back as the news continues a live look from san jose right now were traffic is moving smoothly on 1 01 at 87. we have some light showers in the area as well. programming change to let you know about on friday kron4 will air nbc programming, dateline nbc will air at 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. followed by a special 90 minutes of the kron4 news cast beginning at 10:00.

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sierra, april 21st, we have a chain requirements as you can see this snow making your way toward truckee. this snow, on this side of the road, some on the road right now. chain requirements on 80 and 88. to air-traffic controllers fired for sleeping on the job. they say one is a controller in miami found asleep saturday morning at a radar facility that handles high altar to traffic for florida. in february in knoxville tendency deliberately slapped for five hours despite attempts to we can appeared >> darya: fire fighters died battling these fires in texas. dozens of wild fires so far burned more than 1 million a.

in tire towns have been evacuated, they are calling for increased humidity and cool weather and maybe even some rain. the governor says virtually every county in the state has been affected or threatened by these fires. on the anniversary of the gulf oil spill bp is suing trans ocean for $40 billion in damages. they're accusing trans ocean the owner of a red, of causing the deadly blow out in the gulf of mexico. the oil giant is suing the maker of the rig as well. >> mark: libyan rebel leaders as they captured opposed on the tunisian border. the capture could open important channels to a desert town southwest of tripoli. three days of intense battles with government

soldiers that are loyal to gaddafi. news of two photographers killed in libya, to him and chris were killed yesterday well covering the battles became backed rebels and the garment forces appeared to others were seriously injured. he was not nominated for an oscar on the war in afghanistan. >> darya: people are banned from going around the power reactor in japan because of radiation reactors. this affects as 80,000 people. they can go and get their stuff from their homes before they will be allowed back in. new data from the police agency shows two-thirds of the more than 11,000 victims identified so far who were killed in the tsunami or 60 years old or over. gm is temporarily suspending

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>> mark: opening bell on wall street, a drop in weekly unemployment, but corporate earnings has been gangbuster appeare. we are starting the dos at its highest level in three years. we'll bring you the numbers through the morning. >> darya: watching the sun as it comes up waking up to dry weather. you might even notice the pavement just a bit moist,

in san francisco everything is pretty clear here. we get above the clouds we get a glimpse of the sun. we see the stock rain about. >> mark: president barack obama is this isn't a busy schedule before he leaves this morning. he will be having breakfast at the st. regis in san francisco. will tran is live with details. >> will: no street closures right now, mr. obama will be at this hotel on third-half >> reporter: >> reporter: >> reportesurf ave. it is a fung breakfast. after he leaves this place he will be escorted to sfo

where he will take off at 10:45 a.m. so even if he runs late here, there's a good chance his airplane will not take off without him. much more on his visit and street closures when they happen. >> mark: we will check back with you. president barack obama had a town hall meeting yesterday the second of three such events to talk about the economy. the president told the audience that it is not a cure all, more needs to be done with government health insurance. >> even if we get for trillion dollars we have long term problem with medicare and medicaid. health care cost goes up so much faster than wages and salaries. this is where there is another this philosophical debate with republicans. what i

have said is the best way to change is to build on health reform had last year. start getting a better bang for health care dollar. >> mark: president barack obama will be headed to reno for the last of his town hall meetings and then to l eight. >> darya: 6:33 a.m. we want to get a look at the weather. now that things are lighter things are clear. >> james: nice looking commute this morning, a brilliant blue sky out there and the sun is coming up. those early morning showers look to be diminishing to the point where i don't think we will see them a factor for your morning ride. that is the forecast today. tomorrow sunny skies all day long, great way to in the week. this weekend is another story with clouds moving in. a system giving us a 30 percent chance of showers. on saturday, maybe even some on monday we will have a look on

that. this is the way your easter weekend looks like. the winds are part of the forecast today, in oakland steady winds at 20 mi. an hour, 16 at sfo. every now and then we see the traffic cameras moving around it. it is breezy out there. the rain is not coming down right now and that is good news. a few pockets of rain here and there out by gilroy and morgan hill. pretty soon that will be gone and everybody will enjoy dry weather. temperatures on the mild side, cool it off just a tad. 46 in san rosa, 51 as san jose, all in all not bad. we could've had a wet morning rush of in looks like that's not going to happen. 66 in san rosa, also in fairfield 65, 62

in antioch, san francisco 60 degrees, 59 in half moon bay, in fremont 64 in oakland, fremont coming in at 63. san ramon valley and other mild spot this afternoon from 66 in walnut creek to 65 in pleasanton. south bay 66 in campbell, everybody in the low to mid 60's in the south bay. a detailed look to your 7 day coming up in just a bit. >> george: we are still not tracking any hot spots this morning, starting with a bridge check, we see today what we saw yesterday and early back up. there may be a stall on the incline section reports there may be lanes blocked and that could be adding to the slowing here for the west bound ride.

westbound san mateo bridge ride there has been no problems or delays. traffic is moving well here. the volume is pretty high but there's no problem or to lay across the span. golden gate bridge right also looks good easy traffic in both directions expression in the commute direction. san jose a hot spot yesterday but this morning light and easy traffic. no delays into santa clara from downtown area. a reminder the vallejo ferry will not be in service this morning they will be running buses in its place. >> darya: 6:36 a.m. new details. pacific gas & electric co. has started sending out informational letters and safety brochures to 2.5 million homeowners and businesses that lie within about 2,000 feet of its natural gas transmission pipelines. the company has been under fire to provide more information about the location and safety of its natural gas pipelines in the wake of the san bruno explosion and fire. the sept. 9 pipeline blast killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.

>> mark: a quick break as the morning news continues until 11:00 a.m., james lick in san francisco the rain is ending and the skies are bright.

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>> james: a quick check on your tahoe forecast, a good weekend for skiing. chance of morning rain, 55 degrees is the temperature this afternoon, the snow level at 6,500 ft.. thursday chance of rain, friday chance of raisnow as well, satuy chance of rain gear chain requirements are in effect and george will have more that coming up. >> mark: the major-league baseball story major-league baseball is taking over the

dodgers. the team has become financially paralyzed by nestor divorce. he will oversee operations of bit. he took actions because of concerns about finances and operations of the team. he says he will announce a new team head in the next several days, a former executive bush has been mentioned as a candidate. >> darya: taking a look get some of the severe weather around the country. in atlanta people in that area were affected, power was knocked out because the power lines were down. trees were torn down by the wind and rain, this guy is lighting up in atlanta appeared in misery this neighborhood--missouri--24 hours after the storm ended this was the scene. people came together

and help out cleaning up. they volunteered to help each other get recovered from this mess. local high school students delivered food to those claiming. look at the size of the hail as tornadoes and storms pass through miserymissourl. >> mark: we will be right back alive look from the bay bridge toll plaza on this thursday morning, traffic thick past the toll plaza. programming note, exclusive coverage of the 100 zazzle, bay to breakers on kron4 that will be sunday, may 15th, beginning at 8:00 a.m. we will have cameras all over the course. we will replay the event that evening.

>> darya: 6:45 a.m. president barack obama waking up in the bay area and having breakfast with close friends paying money it is part of his three day west coast trip. he will have breakfast before he leaves and then the headhunter reno. asa angeles's well. he is saying he understands their frustration but he says gop pushed is radical. >> mark: san francisco starting demand base parking system and select neighborhoods it could be as low as 255 an hour, if there's a lot of space. $6 if not many. $18 an hour it during special events. it collects real-time information about where spaces are available. a lot more informational what side. >> darya: caltrans will vote on

something that will help commuters use country because maybe they will have to make service cuts. they may have found three and half million dollars they need to avoid the cuts. but even if they do that, they still will need to raise fares by 255 and up the parking fees by a dollar a day. >> james: following weather at 6:47 a.m. out of san bruno 101 that pleasant skies above. early morning clouds and showers, we saw those earlier, they are peter and off. by 8:00 a.m. this could be gone. the weather will be dry and warm things up into the low to mid '60's. strom trucker for verify some showers may be by treasure islantruckere

snow impacting 80, 50, 88. there are chain requirements but george will tell you about those. 48 in san francisco, 50 in oakland, 51 in san jose. cooling off just a bit. don't worry we will warming up in the afternoon upper 50s and low 60s. a couple of spots could get up bin to the mid to upper 60s this afternoon depending on how much sunshine we get. at this point we look like we will get a fair amount. we are looking for things to get better tomorrow, a chance of early morning fog but nothing should bother you. saturday, sunday a couple of different systems coming your way, rain showers friday night into saturday, more potentially

for sunday night into monday. keeping that in the forecast. beyond that things are great things are slowly warming. let's check your ride with george. >> george: slower ride at the bay bridge a couple of problems on the incline, an accident and a vehicle with a flat tire leaving traffic slow headed up the ramp. according to chp reports all lanes are clear. we could see any early back up for the west bound to bridge ride. san mateo bridge for look a year commute on highway 92. it is problem free with no delays on the east bay or the westbound. golden gate bridge is a good one no delays for marin county across the span. there was a report of a vehicle fire in mill valley but it is on the shoulder. we will check to see if it causes any slowing there.

updating your ride through the sierra highway 4 note chain requirements, highway 15 no chain requirements, 80 and 88 required changes.ins. leading dn from the bay bridge looks good but it may start to slow pass the berkeley. >> mark: proposal includes thousands of residential units on treasure island. it will be among the largest developments in decades. development in the middle of the bay is a neat opportunity, critics say the man-made island will fare well in an earthquake. >> darya: the landslides' last they are talking about how

to stabilize the hill. it gives the residents of a glimpse of hope for the short term. this is what they came up with your >> appears, putting in place to support the homes that are about the slide appeared mud removal for them at the bottom. >> darya: city estimates this fix will be about a hundred and $50,000 taking five days. the hope is more permanent fix that the federal government will provide that money. the repair cost should be about $5 million. >> mark: donald trump making noise about a possible run for the white house in 2012. he was asked about a report in forbes that he is worth $2.7 billion. >> that's a low number, it's much more than that, if i decide to run, which i may surprise people, i will give a net worth

statement essentially. we have to fill out detailed forms for the federal government. people will be impressed, not only is a much higher but i'm extremely liquid and let. >> darya: why will we be happy? does that make us want a vote for him? >> mark: we will see. he has filed for bankruptcy twice. he will decide whether or not to run in the race and it doesn't win republican he may go independent. >> darya: that's interesting and? and with a lot of money so boat for me? (laughter) a programming note to tell you aboutprogramming change to let you know about on friday kron4 will air nbc programming, dateline nbc will air at 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. followed by a special 90 minutes of the kron4 news cast beginning at 10:00.

>> darya: taking a look at the 7 day around bay. we are looking at maybe seven some thunderstorms. chance of showers roles in again on saturday, and then sunday we hold up pretty good. then next system comes than in the mid-70s for tuesday, wednesday. >> mark: all eyes on wall street doubt jones add it highest level in three years appeared modest gains today is up 12 right now. strong earnings coming out from ge and united healthcare group. bankamerica customers will run into a familiar place. giants catcher will be at various places around the city handed out free tickets to a home game

spirit is the way bank of america it is banking customers. not naming specific locations though. just saying some bankamerica banks in san francisco >> darya: it will be are they giving free money away? in you will go to that bank. i will hit a few of my way home. (laughter) with the are running out front. we will be back with more of a couple of minutes.

>> mark: 7:00 a.m. on the kron 4 morning news top stories right now president barack obama in the bay area this morning. details on the remainder of his visit. >> darya: it using