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fuhr this pipeful 59 >> reporter: american airlines left chicago at 7:05 p.m. inland
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to san francisco with 156 passengers and two pilots. as it flew of modesto 30 minutes from san francisco police say at passenger in their rear of the plane started making his way toward the first-class cabin. >> flight attendant to try to anticipate where he was going, thinking he was going to be the lavatory, he for did towards the cockpit door where he struck on the door. >> reporter: the flight attendant tried to get passenger way. >> when he refused to move back the flight attendant in a bear hug him, trying to take him away from the door. >> reporter: she then called for help. within second a pilot who was a passenger aboard the plane came to his aid along with
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another flight attendant. retired police officer and a retired secret service agent helped get the man to the ground, handcuffed and secured. the aircraft's pilot contacted air traffic control requesting priority landing. the suspect in seen here was taken to the san mateo jail and ultimately transferred into the custody of federal authorities. the complaint charges the man with interference with flight crew members and attendance. he will be arraigned tuesday morning. >> james: memphis residents are counting down to what could be flooded of historic proportions.
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the mississippi river should crest today, crews are doing all they can to relieve the pressure. >> reporter: never seen the water the side. probably never will again. >> reporter: officials awarding of his store and flooding that residents have never seen. this is what one area looks like. many are leaving town before things get worse. >> i will say there is a point in waiting around. >> reporter: the army corps of engineers are doing what they can to keep the water out. from installing flood gates to fill in the tens of thousands of sandbags. >> we think we have a handle on aunt, the levees are going to hold, we have evacuated 400, there are never--there are
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another 1300--. >> reporter: a crowd gathered to watch this gate slide open. louisiana gov. warns it is never too early to prepare. >> now is the time to make evacuation plans, thinking about where you want to go. >> james: we learning about a power outage along van ness avenue between california and broadway street spirit 900 customers without power right now, we have a live crew they're getting the latest. we understand pg&e is on scene. let's get the word on whether today. >> louisa: it will be applause of forecast today, a shot of downtown san francisco, clear shot and a bit of a breeze from mt. tam. temperatures starting off in the '40's, and the '50s.
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44 in napa, down a mountain view and san jose upper 40's low 50s. we will see a lot of clearing today, lot sunshine expected for today northerly breeze will help us where those temperatures. a few degrees for more were were yesterday by the weekend we are looking at a weather pattern that is expected to bring as a few storms that could potentially premise rain and thunderstorms. '70s and novato, naso, fairfield we could get up to 78 today. around the bay upper 60s down and to mountain view 72 degrees expected and 74 for san jose. let's look at the time line, by saturday 7:00 p.m. that's when we see a chance of showers, it is the later part of your day bringing with it the chance of
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wet weather. by sunday bay to breakers 6:00 a.m. has a chance of widespread rain chances and to the afternoon, potentially lasting into the evening as well. late sunday showers potentially lasting until monday. this is your 7 day the rest of the work week staying dry, temperatures cooled down slightly toward so weekend. >> erica: it is a pleasant start your commute no hot spots are delays to track, the only thing was a stall at the bay bridge just pass the meter lights, it was blocking the no. 6 line but it has been cleared. approaching the toll plaza no delays or wait here. the san mateo bridge good to go here for both directions of '92. golden gate bridge you
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can even see any cars within camera shot. your ride out of the north bay looks good, 24 minutes out of novato into the city. for 08 a.m. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.
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>> louisa >> justine: former california governor arnold schwarzenegger says that he and his wife of 25 years, maria shriver are separating. a statement was issued monday night by his spokesman. in the written statement they wrote that after "a great deal of thought, reflection, discussion and prayer," they decided to separate. they say they're both going through a "time of great personal and professional transition." both will continue to parent their four children together. schwarzenegger's second term as governor ended in january and since then, he has been pursuing entertainment projects and has had speaking engagements. shriver was a correspondent for nbc news when she left to fulfill her role as first lady.
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new this morning remember this couple? duke and duchess of cambridge are now one their honeymoon. they got married last month we watched it live here. the word came down this morning the couple is taking alone time, but it may be awhile before we know exactly where the honeymoon is taking place. >> james: wall street stock futures are positive this morning, figures on wholesale trade for march will be released today, but it holds budget top meetings, sony is looking to reach store the police station by may. and go
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goalgoogle is going to be talkig about music service. >> justine: microsoft could soon all sky.by skype. there has beeo formal comment. >> james: a quick break, a quick look as we go from the golden gate bridge. three sets of headlights light on roads this morning.
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>> justine: wheeler we're just learning the mississippi river has crested in memphis, shy of 48 ft., we continue to follow this right here on kron 4. >> james: following the latest
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out of the south pacific, 7.1 magnitude earthquake recorded east of new caledonia. just off the screen is australia's of the issue an idea of where we are talking about. it is to the east of fiji. at this point no word of tsunami warnings we are watching for that, if anything comes our way we will let you know. no word of injury or damage at the moment. in libya we have the situation continued to worsen, it has escalated with that an increase in the amount of nato bombings. they attacked four sides over night, once i hit was used by military agency, another building was sometimes used by parliament members. it
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was not clear what the other two strikes hit. the rebels control most of eastern and libya, gaddafi most of the west part. >> justine: the white house is weighing in on the plans to special operations in the lead in the fight in afghanistan. senior administrators say they are considering an option that would keep 4000 troops that would still be hunting militants, 6000 special operation forces, that would be training and fighting along afghanistan's. there would be less than 30,000 troops. we will move to pakistan now saying they will grant the u.s. access to osama bin laden to three wives that they took into custody after the raid that killed osama
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bin laden. they have been in custody since the navy seals storm the compound. relations between the two countries are still tense. in japan they will scrap a pan that would call for the increasing share of the nuclear power as an engine tree source. the country needs to start from scratch after what happened after the earthquake in tsunami that crippled the nuclear plant. >> louisa: pretty nice forecast for today, a shot of the san mateo bridge mostly clear conditions, starting off cool as well into the afternoon, lots of sunshine and we will get warmer as well. cool mostly clear conditions as we head into the evening. a look now as we head into morning temperatures
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bringing this temperatures in the '40's, '50's. 44 for san rosa, napa, 50 in hayward and bellevue, 49 interest and as a. --hayward and mountain view--. this afternoon we continue with the warming trend, around the bay upper 60s-low 70, 61 and half moon bay, and the south bay could squeeze out 72 degrees in through mountain view but 74 degrees for san jose. 77 in through los gatos. what we are keeping our eye on is this weekend we have a chance of rain not only that but we could see thunderstorms as well towards the weekend. we have potential for hal only have the heavy
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downfalls. here's your 7 day cooling down slightly tomorrow the rest of the work week we stayed dry with a cloud cover. by year saturday the end of saturday brings a chance of rain, sunday a better chance of more widespread rain lundgren over into monday. --lingering over--. >> louisa: the bay bridge as you can see it is good to go. the meter lights are cycled off no problems across decline in the upper deck. san mateo bridge no problems on this bridge yesterday we were following a strong wind advisory today is not the case. westbound and eastbound looks good, a drive time of 14 minutes across the span. north bay southbound 1 01
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golden gate bridge moves well traffic is at top speed is flowing freely. crosstown freeways practically a ghost town where the james lick meets the inbound central. quiet at the 1 01-80 split. overnight construction is taking place until about 6:00 a.m.. >> justine: new details a san jose fire department is trying to make more cuts to help close the city's budget deficits. they are thinking about brownout said to prevent more layoffs. we will tell you what this means when every second counts. >> reporter: the fire department is forced to possibly whirling brown of at five stations. because of the crisis and that means a fire truck or engine will be out of service every
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day, it causes lower response times. if they decide to do this it will start in july, lasting all year. in san jose kron 4 news. >> justine: parents are joining teachers in the week-long protest demanding state lawmakers make sure schools are properly funded. this was the seat yesterday as members marched to the school board headquarters, today parents will push lawmakers to extend recent tax hikes to avoid cuts. >> james: ed lee will return today is his second monthly merrill parents.. he was there e world's largest aircraft is making its first appearance
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sfo, it is the arrival of an airline's flight is an 8380 flight. they will arrive at about 12 05 p.m. is seats 850 people, begins service to and from asset vote today. >> justine: much more ahead, like how you can steal an entire atm. a beautiful day across the city and the entire bay area for that matter, we're watching rain for the weekend, we don't want it to dampen the zazzle bay to breakers. that is coming up on sunday. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.
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>> james: are developing story coming out of memphis tennessee, live pictures of a very high mississippi river. national weather service says it has
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crested short of 48 ft. after threatening to bring record- setting flooding to the area. it crested at 47.85 ft. they expected to stay at that level for the next 24-36 hours. all lot of low lying area has been soaked by this. this is an accumulation of wet weather across the u.s. all that snow that melts, for runoff has will in the mississippi. levels we haven't seen since the 1930's. >> justine: another smuggling tunnel has been found under the u.s.-mexico border this one's different. authorities in arizona said the 250 ft long and finished tunnel has water
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pumps, a violation, electricity. it was chiseled through solid rock. president barack obama plans to renew his call for the overhauling of the immigration laws. he's making his first trip to the u.s.-mexico border for speech in el paso. the president has been devoting a significant amount of time to immigration even though there is little to no chance of the bill passion.pg that will be " before border today to talk about how to prevent deadly car accidents. they will talk about why some regulations have not been enacted. >> james: lindsay lohan will be in court this week, she will enter an no contest plea to a misdemeanor theft charge. she has been sentenced to 120 days
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in jail for violating her probation. her trial is scheduled for early june, the store will not physically be in court instead heard lawyer will represent her because of the extra security costs and craziness associated with low lindsay lohan appearance. >> justine: jaycee dugard has released day of her book. it is called a stolid life, it will be released july 12th chronicling her life from the kidnapping when she was 11 years old all the way through her 18 years of captivity. philip and nancy pleaded guilty last month of kidnapping and sexual assault, philip faces a sentence of 431 years to life in prison. his wife nancy faces 36 years to life in prison. they will be
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sentenced on june 2nd. kron 4 is coverage of the zazzle bay to breakers is just four days away. we have every highlight from start to finish >> vicki: it is the 100th running and we have exclusive coverage, p.m. and gary will be hosting, we will have cameras and cruise along the course, henry will be at the pastry shell, of vernon glenn will be along the arc runners. i will be out there find in the wild is to costumes, and jackal will be at the finish line is zazzle bay to breakers run on kron 4 news.
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>> justine: your weather forecast on this tuesday morning. >> louisa: gorgeous weather into
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the afternoon, if you like yesterday today will be nicer. clear conditions in your shot appointed bay bridge approach this morning. as we head and this afternoon and nice warmup continuing as we head for the day today, then we will cool down as we head towards the weekend, the weekend brings with it a potential for showers. we will start you off with current temperatures, if we could take a look at that map. we will be back with your full forecast. >> erica: the bay bridge and easy morning complete bridge check for you and tell you if we have been a hot spot straight ahead. >> james: on toward developing story, and here we have the power outage in san francisco, pg&e is unclear
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as to what the causes timor news faster let sterling to yoli out there live. is that is street block off? >> reporter: it is just flares to let people know some lights are out. at injurethis intersecn the lights are out, maybe down to the next intersection it will be out, but then it will be ok for a couple blocks. but then on broadway that intersection has street lights out. it is body in this area, our radius of 4-5 blocks. they're trying to figure what caused this it happened about two we in this morning, 1000 people were affected at the peak, at this point there is the improvement may be 500 people without power right now but you
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conceive vehicles out here, trying to figure out what triggered this. apparently yesterday morning they had been noted it only lasted 30 minutes. just went off and came back on on its own. this is the second time around, this time they prefer to stay out so they can figure out exactly what caused it and they can solve the problem. just in the last 10 minutes they had another section powered up, i don't know when everything will completely beyond but in the meantime just be prepared, there will be a four way stop the intersections have not likno light to. >> james: yoli thank you for that, as soon as yoli says the powers back up we will let you know >> justine: just learning the
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mississippi river has crested in memphis just shy of 48 ft.. the soaking was isolated to narrow roads forcing hundreds from their homes. no this year's new flooding is expected. these are pictures out of illinois, this is the town of cayes row between mississippi and ohio river, this city would be under water if it weren't for the decision to blow open the levees there. the explosion opened a 2 mi. hole opening 130 sorry flooded 130,000 a. of farm land in missouri as well. they have been evacuated and been
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given livent limited access to their homes. we will look at our very dry forecast now, people are complaining they may have to water their lawns now. >> louisa: not towards the weekend. we have lot of things outdoors this weekend a lot of things in san francisco but there's a chance of rain, this morning clear and cool as we head into the afternoon bringing with it lots of sunshine for you, temperatures climbing more than yesterday will be nice forecast, outside sitting in the '40's, 50's, 40's and the north bay and 44 napa, 50 mountainview, also a day word. by this afternoon the highs in to the '70s a few degrees warmer than yesterday. 74 san rosa, 77 concord, at the east bay upper
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60s, 61 for happened bay, in the south bay plenty of '70s so fairly comfortable weather and to the afternoon. keeping our eye on the weekend the later part of your saturday that's when we pick up sprinkles. if for one to be doing something outdoors to it into their early afternoon hours or early morning. picking up sprinkles by 7:00 p.m. saturday and lasting through the night. for bay to breakers sunday the looks like we could be in store for some rain. we are talking about widespread chances of rain. here's a 7 day this could be the warmest of the workweek as we head toward the saturday, sunday, even monday cooler temperatures and a chance of rain. >> erica: no hot spots around the bay area at the toll plaza not a hot spots yet, traffic
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flowing freely westbound 580 in the northbound direction of the nimitz freeway, san mateo bridge ride looks pretty good westbound and eastbound 92. taillights and the commute direction of towards foster city the bridge lights coming into hayward, cool and gate bridge no worries tell you about here, i checked the road maps for you no major delays out of the north bay, drive time of 24 minutes out of novato and the san francisco. for 30 7:00 a.m. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.
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>> james: a giants fan was robbed friday, the robber wanted the miniature statute of willie mays appeared the suspect pulled out a knife putting it against the victim's stomach and took the statue before fleeing on foot. that it was on injured
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in the robbery. >> justine: there's an unusual burglary that happened at a costco store over the weekend. an atm got jack. >> reporter: for the average rider senior and luke used riders have a month to go before they have to switch over eventually the clipper card will change into the fast pass. they're trying to get the word out. they have signs letting youth and senior writers know about the upcoming changes, at to get a discounted ticket to can see riders will have to fill out an application and show id. riders could have until the end of the year to use the passes. by late summer and there may only be four places in the city to buy the paper passes. anybody who needs more formation can
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call me for more information. >> james: obviously that wasn't the story. moving on to tech news an emergency alert system to send a cell phones is being set up. it will warn about natural disaster or terror attacks. all new cell phones will be required to have a chip that receive these alerts. some smart phone party have this. apple is st. iphone location tracking is meant to improve service not track or stop customers. this after demanding details from the company about their tracking practices. researchers showed it was secretly keeping locations of users. >> justine: the first tablet to run on a ford geed network is on the market.
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>> gabe: the best thing about this new tablet is named after me. it is called the g slate. is not really named after me, it's an awesome coincidence. it is a tablet running on android honeycomb. it has access to the applications just like a smart phone. this is what it looks like next to the ipad. it is slightly smaller than the ipad. it is the first one to run on a four g service. i used it with a 4 g it was noticeably faster. in the unique thing it comes with
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3d glasses. that's because it is also a 3d camera. it is built into the backside to record three b3d pictures appeared it n the markets now. game slate kron 4 news. >> justine: much more ahead, but said a live look outside for more roof cameron said francisco, we will warm up into almost the '70s across the bay today. more on whether
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>> louisa: time right now is
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for 40 5:00 a.m. waking up to a clear morning. cool of there and the afternoon expect temperatures to be warmer than they were yesterday, lots of sunshine for you, the evening brings this cool and clear conditions. current temperatures 51 san francisco, 454 livermore, towards the afternoon the highs a few degrees warmer than yesterday. closing in on 80 in fairfield, temperatures in the east bay copper '60s, 71 expected in redwood city today, cooler than that at half moon bay 61. future cast 4 we are keeping an eye on this weekend, we expect the chance of wet weather. it looks like the later part of your day on saturday, best that you have things to do do it early morning hours, by the evening showers in the north bay then moving south. early
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morning sunday be prepared for wet weather, have the umbrella handy, the chance of widespread showers continuing throughout the morning hours in to the afternoon potentially we could see left over rain drops through the evening as well. you're 7 day around bay shows we will cool down a bit through the rest of the work week, bricks of sunshine and may be morning fog, by the weekend the chance of rain from saturday through monday >> erica: if you're hitting the road you picked a good time no hot spots, that is bay area wide. the bay bridge toll plaza we are seeing volumes building but it is a nice and easy ride into san francisco. san mateo bridge a good alternative westbound and eastbound 92 looks good no problems to report here. golden gate bridge ride
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southbound 1 01 looks good just a couple of cars on the road southbound into san francisco. no problems pass highway 37, down to the wall downgrade. one last camera for you not tracking 101 is a hot spots yet, this is probably one of the first heat up those taillights toward santa clara but nothing to report there. no problems in the southbound direction of 1 01. >> james: your drive over the bay bridge may soon change, friday we told you about a major delay that could affect you on memorial day weekend, today we have more informational about how will affect you. you can see where will take place, we highlighted them in green to explain what this means we have j are still. >> reporter: it has been under construction for some time, driving delays are common not
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now, but memorial day. >> i'm shocked there and a close the bridge memorial day weekend. >> reporter: it will take effect overnight saturday may 28th, and sunday may 29th appeared this is the changes in store, it is assembled detour. caltrans has yet to release the exact time of the closure but tells us it will happen in the middle of the night. those might be off hours these are changes taking place on a holiday weekend. our reason why so many drivers are concerned. >> it will be tough. >> reporter: bottom-line a trip on the bay bridge on memorial day weekend could set you back more than a few moments. >> justine: much more ahead on the kron 4 morning news, what we did a live look from our mount
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act now, act now! like he said... ♪ >> justine: good tuesday morning, here's a look they your 7 day around bay. the warmest day of the week is today. upper 70's. then we cool it down for wednesday, thursday, friday with morning fog and afternoon sun. we are keeping our eye on the chance of rain for the weekend. it's especially sunday, that is the 100 running of the zazzle bay to breakers. let's do a quick bridge check. san mateo bridge, let's do some other bridges to show you what's happening. this is the san mateo bridge. here is golden gate
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bridge, george's than checking any hot spots in keeping an eye on a power outage that is affecting some stoplights, and especially of the nest. we will watch that in a minute for you. we are five days away from the running of the zazzle bay to breakers which kron 4 is covering, we have all little cut down right hercountdown here. wh the young the stronger. >> reporter: at the high-school the couch put tar runners through her paces she has been running as long as she was able to walk. in 1968 she was of five year-old challenger on what's my line. the same year they chose
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her as a face in the crowd for beating her parents and 500 others in the race for mill valley to stinson beach. she faced another uphill battle with the bay to breakers. >> 1960 we tried to run as a family but they would not lead us. >> reporter: they were willing and ready the mother and daughter were unable to compete. the second grader learned the lesson about life and herself. >> in may to a stronger person when someone says no to make to a fighter. >> reporter: three years before ms. magazine tried to get women to encourage a themselves. >> we signed up with had sought
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and we went in the race and ran it. >> reporter: they were back against the amateur athletic union, they told women long distance running was bad for >> the >> you are female you will have consequences, >> reporter: the battle raged in boston a woman interloper was pushed off the marathon course, the next year the a you relented and women were allowed to compete in road races. in 1973 she won the tipsy. >> the year i came in first. >> reporter: at 1974 she was the youngest winner of the bay to breakers 43 minutes and 22 seconds, it stood for six years. before the victory there was disappointment. >> i was under the impression that i was in second and i
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failed. >> reporter: three days later. >> they said the woman cheated in you are declared the winner. >> reporter: she went on to win the next two bay to breakers. she is the only women to win the tipsy and the bay to breakers. she found herself on the cover of a book. this year she is returning to the scene of one for our earliest triumphs. >> is a circus but for people like me would take it serious. >> justine: kron 4 has exclusive coverage of the zazzle bay to breakers race we have cameras around the course, pam and gary will bring you coverage, james fletcher will be there, jacqueline will be there and i bet a lot of people in crazy costumes as well. don't miss it. if you are running and you want to watch, we will replace it sunday night at 7:00 p.m.
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hourlong show. we will be jamming a lot of good stuff in there. all live look on van ness ave out series a power outage happening there right now, up to 1000 customers without power. it is affecting traffic lights along the nest, pg&e doesn't know what caused the outage and they are working to fix it. we have a crew on the scene right now bringing us a live report coming up at 5:00 p.m. more coverage on top stories that includes flooding in memphis tennessee, that we're has crested. we have more on the man accused of causing a flight to start prindisturbance. some of s are red says he may have mistaken the bathroom door for
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the cockpit door. we will be right back.
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>> mark: top stories cruise on the scene tried to get power back on in san francisco for 1000 customers. >> darya: the man facing federal charges for crating the disturbance on a plane will be in court today. >> mark: memphis tennessee bracing for historic flooding. >> darya: for star own weather and traffic. >> james: a breakdown of what we expect today, for stop it will start off clear and cool, that is of forecast as to wake up, warming this afternoon, chance of rain for the weekend, and of course this is the weekend for the is zazzle bay to breakers. w
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traffic. >> george: westbound commute is very light no delays on any approaches or through the macarthur maze, no hot spots but we will have it checked coming up. >> darya: new this morning there is a power outage in san francisco causing problems for 1000 people, and problems for commuters along venice's avenue, live to see more news faster with yoli who is live on the scene. >> reporter: i'm on franklin and clay, anywhere in the neighborhood between pacific heights and pleasant hill you will want to be on the alert, some intersections have no power whatsoever it is spotty, you will have one intersection on van ness that is down, the next one will be ok. this one is down, the next one is down, the
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one after that is okay. it is ok for a couple of other ones but then it is out again. they have tried to put flares up, but they have burned out, some people are speeding through these intersections, it's dark and use lower down it is concerned for way stop when there's no electricity to stoplights. pay attention to these intersections you, on, as far as pg&e is concerned they are working on the problem. there has been some improvement, at the peak there was 1000 people now we are down to about 500. they are trying to figure out what caused it to begin with, they are doing troubleshooting in trying to figure that out. apparently yesterday.... >> darya: we just lost the live shot, we are monitoring this, 500 people remained without power, several lights are
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affected along van ness ave. treated as a four way stop. >> mark: mississippi river crested at 14 ft. above flood stage in downtown memphis. you can see the flooding, 48 ft. is the river level right now historic proportions. hundreds of people are fleeing right now as these homes are covered up to the windows. they are trusting levies will hold and protect the musical landmarks. attention is turning down river is the flooding makes its way into louisiana, farmers are making levees to protect their crops, engineers diverting water into the lake to help with the levees. this is an overhead shot. this is the spill way in louisiana it was opened up to allow water to flow from the
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mississippi into the lake. hopefully relieving some of the pressure. >> darya: we have new details on that man who was on the flight headed towards them francisco, he was tackled by passengers after pounding on the cockpit door. he will appear at court 9:30 a.m. is 20 years old, is charged with the crime of interfering with flight crew members. he tried to get it to the cockpit door and rammed it with his shoulders. he was screaming to passengers and flight attendant tackled him and took him down. the handcuffs on him, until they landed. this is the deal kron 4 has obtained of the 28 year-old. he is a math
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teacher from yemen live in vallejo. we spoke with his cousin who says he's not a terrorist. >> he has no ties to al-qaida, i don't even think he knows anything about terrorism, i don't think he knows that it should be done. he doesn't care about politics he's a regular guy, probably more to math than anything else. a big misunderstanding. huge misunderstanding whenever he was trying to do it was not triggered anybody. >> darya: if he is convicted he could get a maximum of 20 years in prison. >> mark: watching the forecast a bit of a warm-up. >> james: mt. tam looking at san francisco people start for this morning, fairly clear out there and that's the way it will be throughout the day care and clearing cool to start warming up this afternoon, but said a look at where temperatures are right now, cooler to the no. 44
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in san rosa, 48 in fairfield, 50 hayward, 49 san jose. all in all not bad. a mild start this morning, this afternoon into the '60s and '70s main light. a check gone temperatures 74 san rosa, 64 in san francisco, 77 concord as we head through the rest of the bay 68 expected in oakland, low-mid-70s through the south bay. warmer on the delta, pittsburg 78 degrees, livermore valley should see temperatures right around '70s as well. 7 day forecast changes aren't store today will be great, wednesday through friday will be great as well. the weekend things change. a system rolls through that should bring this showers late saturday night into sunday in throughout the day sunday. that is the bay to breakers race will
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will be out there with live cameras everywhere so we will be in a it with you, but it might be wet for you at race time on sunday morning. we will keep you updated and refine the forecast approaching that restate. at this point that's the way looks. check gone traffic could morning george. >> george: no hot spots yet we will star with a bridge check looking at the bay bridge toll plaza it's very light with no backup for delay in the westbound direction, san mateo bridge ride looks good as well. here you see the right side of your screen, early light traffic for the west bound ride headed towards foster city in san mateo. the ride for marin county along the golden gate bridge in bound looks good. few cars right now on the air reconfiguring the bridge adding a fourth lane. >> darya: 5:07 a.m. they were one of california's power couples this morning former
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governor arnold schwarzenegger and maria shriver arnold longer together. it came last night a spokesperson saying they are currently living apart, as they continue to parent their four children. some originator finished his seven year run as california governor back in january, since then he has been traveling the speech circuit, pursuing acting opportunities in hollywood. shriver is a member of the kennedy political dynasty and the daughter of eunice kennedy shriver. this is what they say. " this has been a great time of personal and professional transition, after great deal of thought reflexion and discussion and prayer we came to this decision together " >> mark:. we will be right back.
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>> mark: the opening bell on wall street futures are set for higher opening, it opened 45 yesterday releasing figures on wholesale trade for march, on capitol hill by been holding budget talks, sony announcing it is looking to restore its have to play station network by may. google developers' conference getting underway today, they may unveil a club based music storage. big news right now just crossing the wires that is confirmed microsoft is buying s kype for eight and a half billion dollars. >> darya: we will be back with more of a couple of minutes as we go to the break let's look at the 7 day around bay forecast. today the warmest day of the week by far. enjoy today we
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slide down then into 72 tomorrow fog back in the morning, afternoon sunshine, and lower temperatures by the weekend. compared to today we will lose 10 degrees or more. we have a chance of rain rolling and first in the knonorth bay.
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>> mark: san jose asking the fire department to make more cuts to close the deficit. they are considering brownouts and some station to curb costs and prevent layoffs. they will cause the response time of eight minutes to be a bit longer on top of that, five firefighters will be reduced to four with the extra firefighter moved within the department. the brown outs will affect the following four stations, station 13,
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station 14, station one, and station 16. >> darya: parents are joining teachers in protesting today and demanding state lawmakers make sure the public schools are properly funded appeared this was the scene yesterday as they marched to the school board headquarters, 65 demonstrators were arrested at the state capitol when they refused to leave. parents of in prison to use while pushing lawmakers to extend tax hikes. a look at the weather looks like a pop in the temperature. >> james: we enjoy that for the week but then it changes over the weekend. breaking down forecast cool today with temperatures in the '40's and '50's, this afternoon into the '70s, plenty of sunshine, carbon copy throughout the week. clear and cool by this evening. waking
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up to a mild start of '40's and 50's, 51 in san francisco, 43 napa, it is chilly up there 50 mountainview, 50 in fremont. this afternoon a different story as we expect things warm up into the '60s, '70s. we're looking for 75 napa, 64 in san francisco, 68 in oakland, in the delta 78 degrees near antioch and brentwood. cool but nice. in hayward we're looking for 74 degrees, 74 in los gatos as well. 7 day forecast for the remainder of the week we look good, sunshine and morning fog, saturday things change. storm system comes in and bringing rain saturday evening into sunday through the day sunday.
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future cast 4 shows us about 7:00 p.m. rainfall in the north bay, as i pushed it to 7:00 a.m. sunday morning we go widespread with a light rain. 7 a.m. is the start of the bay to breakers race. we are looking for rain at the start time, by 4:00 p.m. the rain staying with us. it is not until 10:00 p.m. that the ball, pushed off. that's the way looks right now. >> george: the right is doing jamewell james. there ride lookg at the bridges looks well, the bridge check the toll plaza where the westbound ride is pretty light. no delays through the maze and traffic on the upper deck is fine with no metering lights. the right to the san mateo bridge also looks
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good volume is only building slightly, smoot conditions in both directions, the golden gate bridge ride is problem free this morning, it just about completed the changeover of the line configuration for the morning commute. at 8:20 a.m. the latest in a newsroom. >> justine: we're looking at pictures coming into our newsrooms from memphis tennessee, it has started to flood there, the mississippi river has crested shy of 48 ft.. they are worried about the worst happening along the mississippi/delta. they have been tried the ease the pressure on the new orleans and levees, we're watching the flooding and that is the big story on kron 4. we will monitor the situation for you.
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>> mark: the latest out of libya fighting between rebels and gadhafi's forces has been escalating and within increase in the number of nato bombings. nato attacked for sites in tripoli over night as you see the aftermath. one side hit a building used by intelligence the, and in the building was sometimes used by parliament members, is not clear what the of the two strikes it, one of them sent plumes of smoke over tripoli. rebels control most of eastern libya, gaddafi controlling most of the west. >> darya: special operators the lead in the fight in afghanistan. july is true drawling looming seem to senior official say they are considering an option that would keep 4000 elite u.s. troops hunting militants, another 6000 special operation forces training and fighting along afghans. the u.s. would drive
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down from 100,000 to fewer than 30,000 conventional troops by 2014. pakistan says it will grant access to osama bin laden three wives the women have been in pakistan because the since the navy seals storm his compound and killed him. relations between the two countries still tense now since the u.s. raid on pakistan east oil. japan will scrap a plan calling for increased sharing of nuclear power as an energy source. the country needs to start from scratch on its long- term energy policy after the power plant was damaged. >> mark: a quick break as the news continues, mt. tam camel pretty looking morning around the bay with temperatures warming up.
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>> mark: a giants fan robbed at knifepoint friday night he wanted the miniature statute of
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willie mays. the suspect pulled out a knife put it against the victim's stomach took the statue and ran away. the victim was on injured in the robbery. san jose police have identified two men killed over the weekend in a shooting. 30 year-old antonio, 31 year-old joseph were shot by an unknown suspect early saturday morning. the victims were in a garage with the door open before the shooting began. announced by suspect approached a grudge and began firing. >> darya: no affirmation on the release date of jaycee dugard memoir. she was kidnapped and hidden away in the a backyard compound for 18 years. this is the cover of the book. "a still lifstolen life". philip and nany
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pleaded guilty last month of kidnapping and sexual assault. philip faces a 431 years to life in prison, his wife nancy could get 36 years to life in prison set to be sentenced june 2nd. >> mark: we will be right back, san mateo bridge traffic is moving smoothly. [ coach ] in albuquerque, citi pre-approved my mortgage.
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[ male announcer ] from pre-approval to closing, citi is with you every step of the way. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >> darya: double live look at the golden gate bridge, and on the right a few mark cars traveling over the bay bridge to get into san francisco. clouds look clear.
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>> james: visibility already beginning to like not just a bit. sunrise for half an hour or so but we are still doing good this morning, clear and cool is of forecast as you wake up. temperatures topping out low- mid-70s the chance of rain for this coming weekend. taking away from the forecast a great weekend possible wet weekend in-store. now check on traffic. >> george: traffic is moving well for the macarthur maze, and there bay bridges to the well this morning no hot spots complete check straight ahead. >> mark: in san francisco we follow up story about power outage. it looks like power has just been restored but the crews are still on the scene. we go to yoli for an update. >> reporter: pg&e thinks they have restored all of the power
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but they are working on the problem. this team is packing it up so they can go to another man hole, i'm on broadway and frankland. this was pitch dark. this is video from 2:00 a.m. that's when the outage happened, it affected 1000 customers, maybe about two hours after that they got 500 back on line, at this hour everybody is on line. cars will be a will to stop when the need to stop, because all the traffic lights seemed to be on. the problem is not exactly cells, you will see pg&e around this area going into pacific heights. you will see them double parking and getting into manholes because they have a problem to fix. they're not sure what happened, they have been able to pinpoint certain areas so you will see the crews here. as far as electricity
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goes, that has been restored to the customers as well as the intersection. >> mark: so that assets well?-- van ness-- >> reporter: absolutely looks like all the lights are around. >> darya: the mississippi river has crested 48 ft. today. we are memphis with the latest. >> i have never seen the water this high. >> reporter: president barack obama signed a disaster declaration on monday making federal aid available. flood waters swamped neighborhoods and forced hundreds from their homes. as the water continues to rise, some residents hope they will have an escape. >> i'm afraid every day now. >> reporter: further soak the
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army corps opened a spill way in hopes of averting destruction. it is not expected to crest louisiana until next week. governor is advising residents to be prepared. >> now was not too soon to look at the maps, if you live within those areas now's the time to go out and secure your property making evacuation plans. a >> reporter: of the flooding has been partly caused by two weeks of torrential rain that brought 600 percent more precipitation than usual. hot relatively dry weather is expected for the rest of the week. residents hope life returns to normal assume, forecasters say could be sometime in june before the flood waters fully received. in memphis kron 4 news. >> darya: big difference here we don't have any rain until maybe
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the weekend. >> james: that is the unfortunate that probably the bay to breakers race on sunday it's not good news but we will explain that this in the second. walnut creek we are cool and clear this morning. as break down what we see in the creek 49 degrees, warming it up to 74 by lunchtime, a 77 year high. a quick look at where temperatures are. 51 in san for cisco 49 in oakland, san rosa coming in at 44, south bay 49 in san jose-. -51 in san francisco--. this afternoon it will be warming up in to the copper 60s low 70's, in the north bay 74 degrees expected nine san rosa, 75 napa, 64 is inferences go. 68 in oakland, 61 have monday, south bay we look for san jose to come
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in and about 74 degrees. it shows the rest of the week looks fantastic so wednesday, through friday looks like sonny and your highs in to the '70s. the weekend the rains come in saturday night into sunday. that's when the system comes in with light rain most of the day on sunday unfortunately from 7:00 a.m. all the way through the race and into the late afternoon and evening hours. as get a check on your ride. >> george: we are not tracking any hot spots a bridge check and the right to the bay bridge is first with a look at the right coming in to the toll plaza, still very light no delays, san mateo bridge ride looks good on the approach from 880, volume is building there is a 13 minute drive time in both directions eastbound and westbound. golden
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gate bridge ride still smooth commute with all lanes available in the southbound direction, light traffic headed both into marin county and from it. through marin county as well 1 01 southbound is light and it is traveling at the limit. >> mark: 4 hours from now the vallejo man accused of trying to break into the cockpit of a man headed to sfo will be making his first court appearance. he had to be subdued on a plane that was 30 minutes away from landing at san francisco international. will tran is that the court has to tell us what is being trashed >> will: with. if convicted he could spend 20 years of his life in prison for interfere with flight crew members in attendance. authorities say he was walking briskly to the cockpit. it took to flight attendants and to retired law enforcement members to wrestle
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him to the ground and handcuffed him. at the time the plane was over modesto when authorities arrested him he was caring a yemeni passport, as well as the california identification card. will tran kron 4 news. >> justine: new information just then, the registered nurses at oakland hospital children's hospital in oakland, they will be going to work this morning, they agreed to end their five day strike, they were worried about changes to their health benefits, 700 union nurses have been no good shooting for year on a new contract. they will go back to work at 7:00 a.m.. >> darya: we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes. look at van ness ave it's a really nice shot right now looking at san francisco and clear skies. @
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>> darya: >> darya: prince william and catherine are on their honeymoon. it took off for so alone time. it may be awhile before we know where they went because it is a secret. we just know they're honeymooning picket lindsay lohan is in court this week, she is going to enter no contest plea to a misdemeanor theft charge. she has already been said and to 120 days in jail. that necklace and a possible when they say she walked out of the place with a necklace and a was an ok she said that she walked out and it was ok. she will be in court that day but her lawyer will be pared because of the cost of the craziness. >> mark: smuggling tunnel has
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been found under the u.s. mexican border. it was 250 ft. tunnel on finished but it had electricity, water pumps, ventilation chiseled through solid what rock. it began in an abandoned building in mexico. president barack obama will try to emigratoverhauled immigratio. the president has been devoting a significant amount of time to the immigration issue even though there's little chance of a bill passed in congress. >> darya: we will be back with more a couple of minutes a live look at san jose, checking out how 1 01 is doing. no meter lights on it is clear in san jose.
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sunnier morris afternoon '70s. we have a nice day for today, as we say we are starting with the mild note. phidias and revell, cooler to north, no big surprise there. 49 san jose, 50 in fremont, 16 in chiapas. tadmor there that is the warmer spot this morning. this afternoon nice condition is most unclear, 74 san rosa, 75 now, 64 san francisco, in the office, brown went on adult of 78 for you, livermore low '70's, 71 in fremont, 77 los gatos. oakland
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68, is 74 test shows greatly to forecast for the week. tuesday all the way through friday a lot of sunshine and temperatures low to mid '70's in the mid-60s around the bay. saturday things change for us, showers later in the evening, lasting through the day sunday which unfortunately is the bay to breakers race. it might be a wet one for you to bridges being accurate on saturday we expect the showers began to fall saturday night. by 7:00 a.m. the start of their race bay area wide light shower activity staying with us all day. by 10:00 p.m. sunday night that's when we see things break all. sunday will be it wet 1, who light bulb wet. copper for thai
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>> george: the bay bridge toll plaza and there's just all quadricycle reported on the upper deck west of the island. it has not backed up the traffic but that possibility exists and that could mean early activation, and early back up. no problems on the bridge in fact around the bay area we're not tracking any problems delays or hot spots. looking next at the san mateo bridge, you concede traffic looks good here, volume is building and no delays and other direction, cool and gate bridge ride in bound is the problem is greed. >> darya: electric car and all others will soon be able to power the three-year charging stations the first of which will be installed june will be located and 19 city: parking
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garages at locations from the city. officials plan have 80 of the parking stations and fueling station stall by the end of the year. >> darya >> mark: in national alert system will be set up to tax warnings about natural disasters or other emergencies starting next year all cell phones will have it shipped the receives the dollars. this system will be up and running in new york city and washington by the end of the year, cities around the country by the end of 2012. apple telling congress the eiffel location tracking is meant to improve service not stop customers. this after demanding details about the tracking practices. researchers showed they were secretly keeping track of locations and the vice president is set to testify.
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>> mark: today is the warmest day of the next seven highs near 80 inland, we will cool down a few degrees but mild wednesday, thursday, friday at cool weekend on tap and we could see some showers by saturday evening. it looks like rain on and off throughout the day sunday. hockey news after jumping off to a three-zero series they are in danger of tying the series tonight. the sharks were
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up 3-1. if san jose can stop this slide they have a date with the vancouver canucks. >> darya: we are five days away from the 100th running of the zazzle bay to breakers. kron 4 is covering that for you we had a chance to sit down with the youngest winner. >> reporter: at nappers high- school coach mary puts hurt runners replaces. she has been running as long as she's been able to walk. in 1968 she was a five year-old challenger of the tv stick show what's my line. the same year sports illustrated chose her as of facing the crowd for beating car parents and 500 others in the dip to raise from mill valley to stinson beach. her and her brother would win
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that race within 670 up hill steps appeared she had another battle with the bay to breakers. >> which i sure run as a family but they would not let us. >> reporter: marietta and her mother were unable to compete. the second grader had learned an important lesson about life and herself. three years before ms. magazine urged women to empower themselves the boitano women did just that. >> we could have gone to and signed up and so they couldn't help but we were at all we went into the race and ran it. >> reporter: there are back in 1970 joining a protest against the amateur athletic union. they told women long-distance running
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was bad for their health. the battle raged across the country and in boston a woman interloper was pushed off the marathon course, the next year a a you relented and women were allowed to compete. 1973 boitano won the tipsy, she has the t-shirt. 1974 at age 11 she became the youngest winner of the bay to breakers her record time of 43 minutes and 22 seconds stood for six years. before the victory there was disappointment. >> i was under the impression for two-three days i had been second appeared >> reporter: three days later. >> they said the woman cheated and you are declared the winner. >> reporter: she went on to win the next two bay to breakers she
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is the only woman to win both the x rays and the dead sea. her running career took her to japan even on the cover of a book. this year she is returning to the scene of her early this trial. >> reporter: it's a great race is a circus for some people we take it serious. >> darya: i really like her. we have exclusive coverage so check out everybody's race form and story on our air sunday may 15th at 8:00 a.m.. if you're in the race you could raise home and check it out when we read broadcast that at 7:00 p.m. sunday night. taking a lot he can san francisco's james lick freeway all directions look great right now. 50 degrees freeway all directions look great right now. 50 degrees looking for high of 64.
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