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members covered in the system, both the governor and the pension board have called for changes. as >> of this is the victim he was serving time for a drunk driving crash that killed a young girl. they said the suspect a convicted murderer stabbed to death with a homemade weapon in the prison yard. and in monterey county 200 a. are scorched. this was near monroe canyon, the fire has been burning for two days, the investigators say that it appears that a car fire sparked this blaze. three minor injuries have been reported, no road closures or buildings are threatened at this time the crew have the fire about 75 percent
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contained. [music] >> a live look outside it is breezy out there but we see sunny skies, cool temperatures, the fog will be rolling back in here shortly. in it are satellite picture, is clinging to the san mateo coastline. most of san francisco still seeing fog as well, the temperatures are cooler it is only 55 at half moon bay, 58 in san francisco 60 in oakland. away from the coastline like the inland valleys, it is still cooking this afternoon, 91 antioch, 89 in concord. a look at the conditions over the past 24 hours. the temperatures for the most part are down, they're up in a couple of spots like a bottle. for degrees warmer there, two degrees warmer and here is what you can expect as you get into tomorrow, the fog is moving back into the bayshores this evening tomorrow morning there is dense fog and drizzle expected. we will see the
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fog away from the coastline and that will bring cooler conditions into tomorrow afternoon i will have details on your forecast coming up. >> coast guard boats and rescue units from the san francisco fire department continued to search for a missing cannot work. 52 year-old michael butler his canoe overturned late wednesday off of treasure island a helicopter search for him, he returned to the canoe while two of his companions swam to shore. the coast guard is still calling this operation a search and rescue mission. if people in the bayview district are remembering a young man tonight that was killed in a police chase. kenneth harding ran from the police after they tried to arrest him on july 16th for fare evasion. as it turned the he was a personal interest in a murder in seattle, the police say they he shot himself to to show the live pictures of the vigil going on tonight. the aclu lawyers committee have both investigated the
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details of the case san francisco police have work with both groups during the investigation a traffic heading in an east bay city after a man shoots and kills himself in front of a police officer. it happens here on our map. this is south of highway 4 in concord, this is video drivers being diverted away from the scene. the road was closed for more than five hours before it was reopened. we learn from investigators what happened just before the incident occurred. >> a routine traffic stop ended with a suicide right here in concord. that is what happened around 9:15 a.m. thursday morning when a california highway patrol officer pulled the driver of this aglycon over for driving erratically. they say the seeds the officer approached the vehicle and ask to see the driver's license. the driver gave his license to the chp officer
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and then suddenly pulled out a gun and shot himself. the concord police said the driver will die as a result of his gun shot wound a short time later at a local hospital. the concord police said the driver took his own life while still seated in the car. these on the markers on the ground indicate that some evidence was found outside of the vehicle. as for the suicide victim's identity, concord police are waiting to contact his family before releasing more information to the public. although the fail officer involved is again involves a chp officer concord police will head of the investigation as the incident occurred with in concord city limits. i'm hazzig manyud with kron4 news. >> coming up in this half hour as the president takes he, vacation time. we compare his days off with those of recent present. we tell you how much the texas drought is costing local
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industries. we find out what this suspect is being dubbed the bad hair bandit.
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-- >> there was a random sampling of american asking them if they were satisfied with a weighted things were going at friday that it at 11% and is only 4% of the
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11th time low. now when they were asked to name the most important problem facing the country three out of for the name the economy by contrast just one in four approved by the president is handling it that is the lowest since mr. obama took office and an 11 point drop from last may. against the background, president obama but jetted off to martha's vineyard for a 10 day vacation. >> dealing with the challenges we have. >> the republican national committee put out some snarky postcards making fun of the presidential vacation. but when it comes to taking time off the crown belongs to president obama predecessor george w. bush. he spent 500 days on vacation, roughly 40 percent of his presidency. by this point in his first term he had already spent 180 days at his texas ranch. that is
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three times as many days as president obama has taken off. >> president obama has just taken 61 days off so far bill clinton was even harder working. he racked up just 28 days by this point in his presidency. >> a live look outside this afternoon a thick layer of fog rolling in over 26 it has been sucked in all day long as we head into tomorrow. we will see more fog, and the cool and foggy weather all way through the weekend. take it the fog for tomorrow morning will be more widespread all the way through the north bay, notice it is edging into the delta and into the inland valleys. the 7:00 hour this will be the extent of it. pushing down a look farther south as well. later in the morning the fog will be a little slower to clear back and that also lead to cooler temperatures tomorrow. at the 10:00 hour we will see fog in oakland, hayward, the
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peninsula and the north bay. back to san francisco on the coastline by the navy--later afternoon hours. temperatures for tomorrow afternoon '70s and '80s for the south bay mostly in the '70s the mark, 76 san jose, 76 cupertino. much cooler for the inland valleys take a look.
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>> here is a look at the seven day around the bay forecast. foggy and cooler. as we head into monday and tuesday expecting less fog, it will be warmer conditions that into the '90s for the inland valleys by tuesday afternoon. >> checking our thursday traffic on the golden gate bridge you can see the fog rolling in, the traffic is flowing down on the right side of your screen that is the north side moving in well. we will be back with more news ahead.
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>> and national news, the drought in texas is taking a big toll on that state has been 10 months, is backed up about $5.2 billion in losses, livestock taking the biggest hit there. more than 90% texas is suffering from extreme, or exceptional drought conditions. the fbi says a woman known as the that here banded has finally been caught. there she is they gave her that name since she was robbing banks
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always wearing a different week. the surveillance video shows her at a variety of them since the event, is expected and lease 18 reason and attempted robberies since december. the also arrested her new husband of five months. sugar land is performing in new mexico this their first performances that terrible collapsed at the indiana state fair. that was on saturday a storm with high winds made five people killed and dozens injured. the indiana governor has hired an outside firm to help with the investigation stay with us, more news coming up after the break.
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>> the hacker group called anonymous has promised yet another protest against bart for monday. last monday the group organized this protest which led to the shutdown of four bart stations for various amounts of time. thousands of riders were get later had to make other plans all together now bart is asking writers to consider other options for this coming monday. j.r. stone show several ways that you can get home from work without being inconvenienced by a protest account. >> the protest was a 530 at the bart station. last monday the tempers flared from those that were offset from protesters those that wanted to get home and shove the protesters off the train. from five until 7:30
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p.m. on monday all for bart stations downtown were closed at one point keep in mind you have options for this coming monday. take the f line muni bus to the next bart station that run up and down market street unfortunately if a bart station closes, the f line will not stop at the station many you have to catch it at another stop. your best bet is to walk three blocks to groves, an hot on the 49 bus south to 16th and mission where you can catch the bart. another option if you're headed across the bay, take a cab to the bus station on mission and deal, you can board the bus or sign up for cash will carpool and get a ride across the bay. your best bet is to leave work early or to plan on staying a little late. i'm j.r. stone with kron4 news. >> in the last week, bart and the largest transit agencies in the world has been hacked twice. the group planned a protest anonymous hacked into my bart.org the
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personal informational wanted to thousand customers released online, this week they had the police officers association website and posted the personal information of more than 100 bart officers. the fbi is not involved in the investigation. it is such a major organization and if it can be infiltrating online so easily want to find out how the average person to protect their informational live. rob fladeboe top with a cyber security expert in santa clara about keeping online information safe from hackers. the offer this advice from the company's global threat center. >> there are people with bad intentions everywhere. on this map we see various indicators or hot spots of things going on all over the world. just give you an example, our labs have
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informed us about the threat called a trojan, you know like when you bring the trojan in it is disguised as something else but there are bad guys inside. the round red circles indicate i believe in the hundreds or thousands how many instances worldwide they have seen of that. the top three or four things you can do to monitor your security is to make sure that you pick a good passwords and change them often with a that is for your computer or the web sites that you frequent. make sure that you have good solid anti virus software installed and that you keep it current and up- to-date. third, mantra your own credit. it is a security thing but much your own credit and credit card and make sure you are the person that is responsible for your charges. >> he says the golden rule is to do your homework first make sure you know who was on the receiving end of any personal information that you post online. friday
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begins a national crackdown on drunk fighting. --drunk driving. labor day weekend the focus will be on highway 680. in fact there will be several checkpoints various states over the next three weeks more than 10,000 people were killed in the united states because of alcohol-related crashes in 2009. >> new at 5:30 p.m. the circus is in town. kron4 aubrey aquino goes behind the scene to give us a tour. >> it is fun for the whole family featuring an array of or original performances, plastic clowns and superhuman stunts that is all being led by a home grown ringmaster. ringling brothers and barnum and bailey are back with the
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141st edition of the greatest show on earth. >> month fully charged is the theme of our show as well as the name. it is about energizing the audience in the energy of the audience in turn reenergize sing them to put on display shelf. >> this is the first time that it has performed thessaly in san jose and for my friends and family like this is a lot of fun. >> i took my turn on the tight rope. i will leave this tightwire to be experts. then you will have to see live in action. >> we have a pair of denim and from the ukraine their strong man and a swing
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logged the size of telephone poles around their heads. we see men that like themselves on fire. >> this service features all kinds of power from hp, manpower to the power of beauty and grace. >> the ringling brothers and barnum and bailey circus will be at the ap pavilion through sunday. then back in the bay area from september 1st through the fifth at the palace in daly city. and then at the oral cool reno --oracle or arena and oakland. >> i am live in downtown danville at the appropriately named hot summer nights. this is the hot rod in classic car show i wanted to give you an example of what this is. this is a european sports car, right here we have a 67 surveil, superstore. right here is a 72 oldsmobile
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cutlass convertible that is owned by that guy standing in the shadows over there. right here is the 98 ford van which actually is not a part of the show, this is why i came in it is not a hot rod or a classic but it's the job done. there are 200 cars a spread out throughout downtown danville. organizers expect about 15,000 people come and check them out. there is a lot of food and drink live music and the show will go from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. tonight keep in mind that downtown danville, hearts avenue is actually closed to car traffic. if you want to get in, you lack the park and walk in. this is also a fund raiser of the money that they collect from donations some money from registration our entry fees for the car that goes to rebuilding the veterans hall. coming up tonight on
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kron4 news at 6:00 p.m. we will have more from the show and another live report coming up at 8:00 p.m. for now that is the very latest in danville. i'm charles clifford with kron4 news. >> a live outside from our roof camera downtown san francisco this afternoon the fog is starting to edge back in. see the low clouds, the fog will be an issue as we head into the weekend. right now has kept things cooler to the coastline. 59 san francisco 57 half moon bay and away from the coastline the temperatures remain one this afternoon very little fog making it to the inland valleys. in the upper 80s and low 90s also pretty comfortable in the south bay. temperatures in the '70s this afternoon. it is breezy in some spots. 22 mph wins in fairfield. down the peninsula, these bayshore and into the south bay. as we head into tomorrow we will see more dense fog and cooler conditions for tomorrow afternoon.
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continued dense fog and drizzle and cool conditions through the weekend. as we head into next week warmer weather expected in to monday and tuesday i will have details on this week in and how warm it will get next week coming up. >> and world news at least three people were killed at an outdoor music festival in belgium. the scene is reminiscent of the estate collapse in indiana strong winds knocked over a stage during a storm here, this is eastern belgium, more than 70 people were injured people begin to run for cover when tents and scaffolding and other equipment began to collapse. a violent day along israel's border. this is the aftermath of an attack on a bus, but there were a string of attacks that left six civilians and an israeli soldier dead. they say six people there were killed including a three year old child. many areas of thailand are still flooded more than one week after a tropical storm hit. 29 people have died in the severe flooding, it has hit
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23 provinces in the north, torrential rains in some areas are making this situation a lot worse. more than 215,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed. >> we take you back out live to san francisco bay view district. people have gathered their in their remembering can harding kenneth harding, the police say that he killed himself he was managing to shoot himself as day were pursuing him as a suspect in a couple of cases, these people are gathered to remember harding and to protest his death, we will be back with more news ahead.
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this a question of when is another recession? >> monk we are about 5050 may be a little bit less. there is economic data that says about 2 percent gdp in the third quarter may be 2012 no time soon. today the european banks borrow the money to stay afloat or be better capitalized and that freak out the markets. the threshold of a stress is higher, i kind of like it. we had a tough two weeks, we had a tough month. if we survive, it will set all of the selling is done, if we do not we have a another one coming. >> and you say some lingering issues? >> for instance i talked about technicals, now it will be nice if we had a double bottom so we go down, come back up and we go back down and come back up if that happens to get a 20%
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note. now we have a some insight in the federal reserve. some people want as much stimulus as possible and morgan stanley did a lot of world growth. he was down 4.2% to 3.9% that is not that bad, it is just another piece of data that says do not get as much in sales as we want. earnings have been at wonderful record levels. the last time that we had a recession, by 8% earnings and they missed and then they missed by a whopping 33%. i might say we could move 20 percent higher the the last time we were in this situation the earnings collapsed. >> now a another loser, a surprise announcement from hewlett-packard. >> at a couple of years ago they sent out mike heard, he
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sent a explicit message to employees and that might of been the downfall. today they said they will shut down the palm pilot touch pad and a that is a big win for apple as h-p's the market, the tabloid was only on the market for like seven weeks. >> it was not selling very well is that the bottom line? >> nothing is going to apple dominates at this point in time and with that said they will try to become ibm junior. that is the only thing i can get out of h p they're getting out of the hardware business they're saying services, software and printing. >> and mortgage rates hitting a year low. at >> it should drop their payment by least 300 to $400. >> thank you see you later. >> the fog was not so bad this morning as we head into tomorrow it will certainly spread throughout the entire bay area we have been seeing
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this along the coastline for the bayshores and it had been making its way to the delta and down to the south bay and into tomorrow we will see dense fog and drizzle close to the coastline patchy fog away from the coast. it will cool down at temperatures as we get into tomorrow and take a look, noon hour fall to the coastline temperatures are slower to warming and only 78 degrees in livermore, 67 hayward and 76 in san jose. take a look at the fog, tomorrow it will be a transition day. it will get much more extensive into saturday and sunday but for tomorrow is edging into the delta and the inland valleys. all the way through the north bay and the later morning hours it will add to the cooling trend into tomorrow. fog is sitting over oakland and hayward, into the 10:00 hour and also in the north bay and back to san francisco on the coastline for the afternoon. we will not see warm temperatures for the next few days all the way through the weekend. here's a look at tomorrow's afternoon highs, no 9076 san jose '60s
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and '70s for the bayshores 62 half moon bay 82 at antioch. here's a look to your kron47 their route of a forecast. cooler conditions through the weekend as we head into monday and tuesday, less fog is expected that means warmer temperatures getting back into the '90s are inland valleys. >> there are just a few more days left to enter the mom's night out sweepstakes taking place on our facebook fan page. while looking, her friends will join the giants battling to the padres. and we will show you how to enter go to the kron4 facebook fan page look a medical topic on the left- hand side and in this mom's night out sweepstakes. when you click on that it will take to the next page you have to like a kron4 on facebook in order to enter. in addition to watching the game in a luxury suite complete with catered food and drink the group can meet and mingle with the san
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>> now he walked in demanded money from the catcher and a patriot pointing what appeared to be a gun at them and address. he fled with an unknown
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number of cash, ticket this man in texas when a corpus christi peter, 12 1/2 with tigers are local researchers say that one this size would probably end of the record books and to cellphone cameras this was all caught on tape. now on a recent fishing expedition this man caught a 12 ft. blue shark that weighed 458 lbs.. he said it took about a half an hour to catch, the previous state record for a blue shark was 454 lbs.. ticket to the golden retriever at a golf course in may, it helps players returned of golf car keys to the clubhouse they say golfers are sometimes surprised by the canine but they do enjoy the convenience. take a look at the columbus zoo in the aquarium welcoming at three recons. the endangered fishing cats are native to southern asia they grow about twice the size of a domestic cat, they're caught fishing cats because they have webs' feet that makes
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them great swimmers in the nevada fish stay with us more news after the break. xwñ
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>> now what had investors on a selling spree and thousands of fish found dead in the water what could be behind the die off. and why a visit from the pope had protesters swarming the streets in spain. i -
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>> at 6:00 p.m. the stocks are down again, in other huge drop on the dow plunging more than 400 points. kron4 analyzes what may have been behind the sell-off. a gun and that prompted a highway closure now he is found dead after a two day standoff with the police. it happened at a san raphael hotel. tonight, team coverage on how it ended, who the suspect was and how a hotel guest were affected.
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batons and punches being used to keep protesters in spain under control. why a visit by the pope has been so worked up serious. a look at the new words that you will find in the dictionary. >> tonight's big story on this thursday and other huge drop on wall street. you can see the numbers here, the dow fell more than 400 points closing at just over 10,009-90.
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>> at the closing of the dow plunged on thursday dropping 485 points in the first 45 minutes. it stayed there for much of the trading day. there was a brief surge above the 11,000 mark in the last half-hour of trading. but it did not hold, and the dow closed down 419 points to 10,000, 990. reasons for the drop, there were many. >> there are problems in europe, the united states, we are hanging onto a slim notion. we will see manufacturing slowdown and our expectations will go lower, we are starting to lose a little faith in corporate america right now. >> a quick correction the nasdaq fell 431 points. now do the experts think that we
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are in continued volatility? >> yes, and it pointed that back in 2010 we had a market correction if you pulled out a love lost money if you stuck with it even with what is going on you to make money. for them in asian markets? >> they are open and not doing very well. this could be telling us what will happen and you a small, but the asian markets are down right now serious >> standard and poor's are being investigated by the u.s. justice the parma they wanted to know if they overrated mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the financial crisis the failure of the mortgages is what led to the 2008 crisis. the justice department started its investigation before s&p downgraded the credit rating of the u.s. debt. the justice department has not commented on the details of its investigation. the changes that hewlett-packard. the company said that it will in the tablet computers and smart phone products and may
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sell, or spin off its pc division this comes just two years after 80's been almost $2 billion to buy the smart phone maker palm and about 10 years after they spent months by compaq computer they said there have been talked to purchase the autonomy corporation that is a business software maker. faugh and a stand off of nearly 30 hours is now over, the suspect was found dead inside the hotel room where he and his girlfriend were held up in san raphael. we at least in the same hotel with the details of the dramatic conclusion to this standoff. >> of peter james thomas and his girlfriend were inside of a hotel room here on the second floor of this hotel. it's from that hotel room that the police say they he fired shots toward the freeway. the bridge was closed yesterday at and a metal sheet was pulled up by
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a crane to cover the windows. police say they spoke with him last night and that is the last time they had any communication with him. >> the swat team may entry into the suspect room, first using a camera device that went through to service the inside of the room to house --they entered through a wall of the suspect is actually in the room and deceased. >> the cause of death is unknown but here is what we do know. >> the to the ec grew whereto of more than 45 desk at his not get back into their hotel room after they got that from sightseeing on when they. they were staying in another hotel without their belongings. >> was going through my mind was the could be a lot worse. >> it is an inconvenience my medication i needed and
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is being held hostage in my hotel room we fly out to my love to go my luggage but we will have to arrange for the hotel to ship it to us. >> this couple that did not want to be interviewed was supposed to fly back to london on wednesday the could not because their passports were stuck inside this oregon couple was having a similar problem and they're happy to see the standoff over. >> we had to get our stuff packed enough to get back to new zealand and hopefully will make it. i did not hear anything or see anything but i am glad that is over and we can go in and get our stuff. >> late thursday afternoon guess were able to return to pick up their luggage. >> their reporting on how customers are guess were inconvenienced by this standoff. now we know about thomas, he is 38 and one for an arrest by the marin county sheriff's. there was a worn out for his arrests for burglary, weapons and drug charges. he came to this hotel after he was
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wanted in connection for a stabbing. >> the girl for we have not received information on her name, she is not in custody she is being interviewed we know that she was not injured. his cause of death is still unknown. >> a live look outside from the bay bridge toll plaza this afternoon, still sing sunny skies, but the fog will be moving in shortly. currently pretty cool out there and oakland 60 degrees, 57 this evening not cooling down that much this night because of the fall. --fog. now we from the coastline we have seen very little more rain influence temperatures are warm, 90 in napa 87 concord and pre mile down in the south bay. temperatures in the '70s, here's a look at the satellite picture for the fog and where it is sitting
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right now. as soon as it moves back in the temperature will drop off near the bayshores. the fog is clinging to the san mateo coastline. it will push back into the bayshores and even farther overnight. so here's a look at what you can expect. around 9:00 p.m. the fog will start to move back in. the 7:00 hour dense fog and drizzle close to the coastline. the marine influence of the cool sea breeze in getting all the way into the valleys will drop temperatures off to mark, the wind will pick up but i will have details on the cool friday and cool we can forecast coming up in just a little bit. we will be back after this. absolutely. oh, great, that's awesome. what about a platinum graphite rogue with touch-screen nav, bluetooth, and...a moonroof? with or without leather? we got 'em both. [ sighs ] i gotta get back. [ male announcer ] the most innovative cars are also the most available cars.
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>> this is video from last year's gas line explosion investigators are working on a draft of the final report.
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it will cover topics as to what caused the pipeline to rupture the emergency response and how the neighborhood is being affected by all. killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. a fire at walters junior high school in fremont, officials believe it was an act of arson. it started in the lockr room area last night and was controlled and about 30 minutes. the damage was limited to the locker room and will not affect any class sessions when school opened august 31st. >> the pope is in spain for world youth day, that is a big celebration filling the streets of madrid but not everyone is happy about the visit that even includes catholic priest. >> of the setting is beautiful, thousands of happy looking young catholics from all over the world waving flags. but some people question why the catholic church is hosting a
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lavish $72 million celebration some of it paid with tax dollars when spain is in an economic crisis, the unemployment is that nearly 21% the unemployment rate for young people is that 40 percent. world youth day organizers are brushing aside the concerns. >> it is financed by pilgrims coming from all over the world. the state is not paying a single penny. >> the spanish priest says that is nonsense taxpayers will pay for to endow the police officers on duty and others estimate the cost of extra security, collecting the trash and stress on how --and stress will add up to millions for taxpayers. only hours before the pope arrived, things got nasty. the riot police and protesters clashed in downtown madrid, eight
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demonstrators were arrested 11 people were injured. spain is not as catholic as it once was. bitter debates continue on the role the church in politics. in fact, 120 clergymen working with the pork, including priests signed a lengthy petition against the pope's visit. back in the meantime they're trying to blow on the cause of focusing on roughly 1 million young people from 193 countries. >> tonight police are keeping an eye on the mexican student that is in madrid for the celebration he is a big fan of the poll. his passport was taking, he has to report the police twice a day. >> and national news, a massive fish kill in louisiana looked at the pictures. the crew tried to clean up the thousands of dead fish floating in a river. a paper mill says that waste from one of its plants is responsible for all this. the paper mill
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says that its waste water system was overloaded causing the discharge of more than 20 million gal. of a black substance the plant has been shut down until the environmental officials give the ok for to reopen. cross dressing peace in dallas, they say men robbed a gas station while wearing a flower print dress and tight white underwear over his head. if they release this surveillance video hoping that someone might recognize the thief the city he pointed what appeared to be a gun hidden under his dress. he pointed that at the cashier. he also pointed at the customer before he made off with cash from both. a truck tied up traffic for hours, the top of the trailer was completely slavkov perry if the road was closed down for several hours the highway has since reopened an inspector say there was only minor damage to the bridge. >> 9 kimberlee sakamoto he would today headline.
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>> security researcher and teacher the guide includes many tips. we have details on how to download the guide for free online. four scorer said that they're adding even checking for movies, sporting events and concert. it gives you a full look at what a person is doing a particular place if you check into at&t part, for square were recognized your at the game if it is in session and then will broadcast the check-in. half 400 words have been added to the concise oxford english dictionary. the 12th and addition of the
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dictionary recognizes that modern technology and social media have greatly impacted the english language. earlier this year omg and lol were added to the official english words. >> checking the traffic out there. we will be back.
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>> is live look outside downtown the cooling trend will continue into the weekend but as we head into monday and tuesday warmer weather is expected. more on that one moment first take a look at the fog for small.
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--for tomorrow. and finally moving back to the coastline as we head into the later afternoon our. temperatures will be cooler tomorrow mainly in the '70s for the south bay, a few 80's out there. upper '70's and low eighties mar afternoon. we ran the upper 80s and low 90s will have the 10 degree cool down. fremont and union city both in the '70s. '60s and '70s for the peninsula, low 60s or even upper 50s close to the coastline. this
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58 ocean beach, many in the '70s through the north bay the 66 in mill valley and 68 vallejo. look at the kron470 around the forecast, cooler weather is expected tomorrow and through the weekend. dense fog and drizzle will be the weather story through the weekend as we head into monday and tuesday the fog will scale back some will see one dry air built in. this is warmer conditions temperatures reaching a low 90s in and by tuesday. >> newspapers are disappearing across the country and not for the reason that you may think. katherine tells two stories are focusing on in the investigation. >> taking a look at the newspaper racks across the country may think that they're selling like hotcakes but not exactly a story say that newspapers are mysteriously vanishing according to a report in usa today, these have started stealing sunday papers from newsstands and driveways, some more digging through other people's trash, why? it is because of the quest
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--popularity of the show extreme couponing. on that show they are able to fill up parts of groceries and purchase hundreds of dollars worth of items and only pay a few dollars. with prices for consumer products on the rise, people are trying to save any way that they can. when arkansas woman was arrested earlier this month for stealing 185 copies of a local newspaper that she claimed she did not know was illegal. the vanishing newspapers especially hurt the delivery people who wind up paying for the missing copies. >> a look of the thursday commute in san francisco, you can see that this is the james lick, and at the top of your screen that is that 80 in the lower deck is that standstill. now the bottom half of your screen is moving at a medium speed we will be back.
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the >> check out the comments about the shoot off--the standoff yesterday. now to checkout of the legs details and to leave your thoughts or visit our kron4 facebook fan page. >> new at 6:30 p.m.. amy and agree on a presidential campaign trail gets heated when protesters close and on rick carey's even. details on the group that is targeting david letterman, and what had a national news anchor losing it on the air? >> i am sorry this is actually never happened to me. >> a look of our extended forecast cool and foggy weather but it will warmer
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and into next week i will have details coming up.
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>> now the markets went into a tailspin, morgan stanley downgraded their forecasts for 2011/2012 saying that he u.s. was dangerously close to a recession showing more people are worse than expected and the u.s. government reported that inflation was on the rise.
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they blame the lack of confidence in the economy to political volatility. >> to a large degree the stock market is now hostage and has been hostage to dysfunctional politicians. >> congresswoman maxine waters says that president obama needs to step in and take action to reverse the economic slide. >> we want him to use the bully pulpit to get the banks in their we have profits that they're holding on to and lend that money in our community to small businesses that create jobs. in this time of turmoil what is an average investor to do? do not panic. and >> rather than being reactive, people need to be proactive there is little that they can do, the not try to call the broker or shift your money usually moves that you make under pressure with your money will undoubtedly be poor moves. >> the market and jobs were
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among the hot topics on the campaign trail today republican presidential candidate michelle bachman held a rally in colombia south carolina the minnesota congresswoman is on a bus tour of the state. she's trying to build on her when in the iowa presidential straw poll. last weekend she slammed president obama or the debt ceiling debate. >> just got off the debt ceiling debate and for the last two months, i have been leading the charge and for many times and own voice in the wilderness of washington saying that you have the premise wrong. we will not start with just assuming that we will give the president and another 2.4 trillion dollar blank check. i think we have seen what he does with our money, haven't we? >> congress and president obama were able to negotiate a deal earlier this month to raise the debt ceiling and to cut spending, block and voted--bachman voted against
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the deal. and rick perry is in new hampshire air. he started to shake hands with voters at a cafe. he was met there by hecklers who are upset over his criticism of entitlement programs. >> stop attacking middle class families. >> stop attacking middle class families. >> perry did not seem disturbed by the commotion supporters at the van out number the protesters there. >> our big weather story tonight as the we can forecast a much cooler weekend on tap as dense fog and drizzle settles back into the forecast. temperatures in the inland valleys on the in the low 80s and close to the coastline, chilly in the low 60s. take a look of the fog for tomorrow morning is spilling into the delta and the inland valleys by the 7:00 hour it is sitting over the north bay and the
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bayshores. slower to push back as well. it is cooling into tomorrow afternoon in the 10:00 hour is sitting over oakland, hayward and the peninsula. the fog is clinging to the coastline in san francisco for the most part will be sucked in drop today. cooler in the inland valleys, 78 livermore, 82 antioch. 65 oakland 79 concord, 79 fairfield a look at the extended forecast as we get through the weekend there will be a warm-up in- store temperatures on monday and tuesday will continue to climb hitting the low 90s in tuesday afternoon. >> hotel guests in san raphael have been able to return back to their hotel room after a standoff that started on wednesday. peter james thomas and his girlfriend were inside a hotel room on the second floor here, swat team members said they found him lying on the ground dead already. they were able to drill holes inside of the room next door in cameras capture the hinges lying here. as far as his
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girlfriend the police are not releasing her name, she was not injured, she is not in custody and she's being interviewed. >> continuing our coverage this cannot create a problem for the hotel guest, more than 45 people were displaced because of this incident they were given rooms at other hotels but many of them were unable to collect their belongings until the standoff was over. at least one family from london had to stay in the states and other day because their passports were stuck inside. >> in san francisco news, the group anonymous is planning yet another protest against the mark. take a closer look at this fire that is being sent all over the internet, hit schedules of the protests for 5:00 p.m. this coming monday. now in this video during last monday's protests, some of the people riding the train got upset with the
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protesters who came onto one of the trains and i talk with bart officials today they tell me that they will do what is necessary to keep their riders safe reporting in the studio i'm j.r. stone with kron4 news. >> here is silicone valley people away in about computer hacking. they say both institutions and individuals in need to be ever vigilant about their online activities they say to install some type of firewall technology on the computer system change the password on a regular basis, not all financial transactions on a regular basis and never put any information online that you absolutely have to keep confidential. >> on port chicago highway in concord, a fatal officer involved incident involving the officer in that black honda that easy ride their is under investigation. concord police said that
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during the course of a routine traffic stop the driver suddenly produced a gun and took his own life. the fatal chp officers involved in said it will be handled by the concord police as the incident occurred within their city limits. in concord high hazzig manyud with kron4 news. and >> in san francisco the city attorney has filed a lawsuit against this car wash. it was filed in superior court on wednesday and alleges unfair compensation of its workers. the city attorney says the car was had a longstanding policy that will require workers to show up at a specific time but not allow them to o'clock in until there were enough customer on the lot. they say those workers were told to wait in a room without a window during that time that they were waiting to o'clock in. the city is hoping to recover more than $3 million in compensation. in san francisco i'm jeff bush with kron4 news. >> it is time once again for the hot summer's night hot rodding classic car show. there are more than
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200 cars that are lined up throughout downtown. if you're thinking of coming to check out the show is free, but most of downtown is blocked off to cars. be prepared to walk in. this is a fund raiser to pay for the veterans hall and raise money for the 100 club that provides financial assistance to the families of fallen police officers and firefighters. >> checking traffic on the golden gate bridge, north bound south bound moving well at this hour. as jacqueline said, things are beginning to cool off, you can see that fog is beginning to roll in, more news after the break.
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>> this web site has posted online threats to david letterman. they're urging its american followers to kill the comedian saying that his tongue deserves to be cut out over his remarks about the terror leader killed in pakistan. the web site claims that letterman made jokes about the killing
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in dragged his finger across his neck to show the way of the slaughter. the fbi is investigating the threats. a silly story may cnn anderson cooper lose his cool. he got the giggles while delivering a report on french actor allegedly urinating on the carpet of an airplane, a flight attendant a purely told after that he would have to wait until take off to use the restroom but the puns and the script that he was reading prove to be too much for him. >> all i can say is that they should think their lucky stars that it was not part to. i am sorry, that made me read it every time i read it. [laughter] >> i know you got it, part 2. [laughter] [laughter]
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>> of the airline, said the judge also took a light hearted approach to the incident using twitter to tell passengers that it spent the morning mopping. and tim and the giants tried to earn a serious split with the braves, gary has highlights straight ahead and will supposedly friendly match up turned into an ugly bench clearing brawl in china, gary has details on all the sports next.
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>> could evening everybody, tim throwing tonight that is usually good giant news. it did not turn out that way, he was pretty good, tell done by someone named mike minor. nine over six innings. you know one thing did not go right and that
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was a ball game. and chipper jones has a home run and the giants have just lost to the lan to braves want to nothing, on to houston the giants go, having lost three out of four in atlanta. now jim mcmahon, the quarterback of the chicago bears to a ben 90 super bowl title is joining in a suit against the national football league. he and six other players said the police handling of concussions over the years has left them with serious injuries in their retirement. it is a first class action suit of its kind, they claim that the lead the trains players to hit with their hands. they did not properly diagnose or treat concussions trying for decades to conceal any leak between football and brain injuries he suffers from football making--brain trauma and henry lost. and jim mcmahon married a young
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lady from san mateo he played at byu. she was a very good mormon. jim was not a mormon and they fell in love and let their religion does, worked its way out. i do not know where he is now what he is doing it is still in love with jim mcmahon was married to a woman from san mateo. >> in local lady. >> now time for our brawl of the night. the georgetown basketball is played against a chinese pro team. cheer and water bottle tossed. free-throw line 57 times it was so ugly that the georgetown coach john thompson the third pulled his team off the court with the game tied at 60 for all. and again, pam says what will he say? i will say it, do not place in basketball in the summer overseas. if
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you are a student athlete take a few months off rest your legs and have to go back. they are touring in the summer. >> what does that have to do with the fight? >> if you are not there is hard to fight someone and you are not there. i do not know of the chinese fight in basketball, i do not know but i just say let the college kids rest themselves let them get a summer job instead of treating them like mules and having them play your around. >> when they do not get paid. >> yes and pam and i are on that. they need something they need money. now why not you and i get a sign, and we will walk in front of stanford saying free the athletes. we will have a sign, you and i will go back and forth and affect change. we can read all we want but if you and i to of the most respected people here at kron we could affect change. now tiger woods, he is not
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winning and his popularity is sinking. he is now ranked 33rd in the world on the pga tour. he is also the least liked and least trustworthy sports figure. it was of 2000 american respondents. howard course sale used to be voted the favors sportscaster and the least favorite and they say tiger is the most hated the that is because everyone knows his name. now we will show you one shot from the wyndham championships. this is the eighth fairway. it will bounce, it will bounce. he is two shots back after the eagles' jeff and tommy tried at seven under par. now tiger is not playing,
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and did not tell me about jeff and timing. now when we return, the ultimate fan. he breaks down baseball data better than any guess that we have ever had on this program. are you ok? >> there he is. 18 years of age, the great justin, yet the story and he will make you feel like you are dumb. >> julianne. >> i called him justin i'm sorry, but giuliani will make most of us feel dumb. are you ready? >> i am more than ready. i - xwñ
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>> best effort giants nirvana.com has analysis, recaps and games use. now
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julianne is a die-hard giants fan the mastermind and the obvious thing, you are a straight a student at albany high school and what made you say baseball, i want to follow this and follow it closely? >> i have been a fan of the giants since 2002. i really got into the statistics of it. >> are you a fan of the 80's? i do not know of your hill--hip to billy, the he was trying to change the game with a lot of statistical data. >> i will do for the a's if they're not playing the giants. >> now if we go to your web site will we see? a lot of numbers or fun things? >> it is writing, numbers and analysis on the giants. >> is it all young people because you're only 18. is
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there any proof that maybe a 45 year-old would be interested in the site? >> i have not really looked at the statistics, or the demographics but i think that it has a wide variety. >> speaking of demographics have you ever seen me or pam on television? >> no. >> it is great to have you here. it is linked into kron4 got, you can find out you have never seen me or pam on television? >> i have seen you on cnn. i think. >> the talk show where i am moving my head, ok. well i guess we will continue we only have one more minute. windy want to go to college? >> i am applying to a lot of schools right now. ucla is at the top of my list, brown, harvard or yale a fight again. >> what you want to do today in 30 years i've none of that what site will be here. >> we will see i am not
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exactly sure yet we will see where life takes me. >> have your parents said read a good book, do not worry. >> no, they have never said that because my name is julie in. >> i am sorry, not once you said you never watch me, i lost sight of this. now tell me quick, >> madison bumgarner has a pitiching of 2.6 to his era is 3.49, the f. ip would essentially tells us that he picked a lot better than his era. >> julie and i apologize for calling you just in the you are just too smart to be on this show. i will see you.
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the beverly hills suicide shocker. >> taylor armstrong claims she was beaten so badly by her husband she had to be hospitalized. i'm kevin frazier. >> i'm brooke anderson. >> "the insider" is on. >> taylor's cut-up face.
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was her husband's abuse covered up in this photo? the housewives' star's plastic surgery, after he beat her weeks before taking his own life. >> people are asking whether the show played any role. >> i know the show ruined his life. >> russell's family today. >> russell should be edited out. >> are they now targeting the cable network. and the last minute conference with the cast. >> the real question whether the show is going to go on as planned. kim k.'s pre-wedding crush and vera wang. did the paparazzi get a shot of the gown? why she and kris could postpone their honeymoon, and inside the new york penthouse the newlyweds could call home. why are you being so weird about this? >> i'm not being weird, you're being a little rude. >> piers morgan versus christine o'donnell. what happened after her walk-off. >> i'm being pulled away. >> where are you going? >> are we done? then little girls on stripper poles in high heels and lingerie? >> they become ove

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