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the other smoke inhalation, the fire has been detained. it was not clear how started. an alarming number of high-school students in oakland are dropping out of school during their senior year. the state department of education said that more than 1100 seniors dropped out during the 2009/2010 school year. 37 percent of the total student nearly half of the dropouts were
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african-american and they say they're comparing that to just 37 white students that dropped out the same year. the naacp says that there is a long list of dropout rates. they include inadequate access to college preparatory class is one parent told us that her daughter has been waiting two years to enroll in a college preparatory class. >> i am an old school mother and i am trying to make sure that she stays on the right path so that she can go to college and not be a statistic. >> she was talking about her daughter serenity with a sophomore at oakland high. she says she is frustrated because this is her daughter second year without being able to enroll in college preparatory courses. >> and rolling in the class and i felt should of been done in the very beginning starting ninth grade such as biology first year and spanish. >> i want to go to grambling or ucla. >> she is concerned not been able to take the college preparatory class to
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the oakland high will reduce her chances of going to college. >> how like graduate without spanish? >> i would have to look at the courses that oakland high, it just sounds more like an overpopulation issue as opposed to one targeting black students. >> the single mom says she's doing everything to try to keyboard on the right track and thinks that the high school should do their part as well. >> i have been working hard to make sure that she stays on course there's a lot of peer pressure out here there's a lot of other stuff going on with the social media and the kids and their peers in dense is a clothing and stuff. >> coming up to 6:00 p.m. we will hear from the naacp about their proposed solutions to the high-school dropout problem. a san francisco bound flight carrying a supreme court justice was forced to evacuate passengers today this was the scene in virginia after the pilot noticed an engine problem. passengers on the united
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airlines plane including 78 year-old justice rose ginsberg's had to use the emergency slide to get out she was not hurt but the official said it is one person was injured. >> dirty water flowing around the bay area the organization save the bay just released its annual list of trashed hot spots there are five waterways in the bay area on the list i will use the big board to show exactly where they are. first, we have this area right in richmond, mission creep in san francisco and here are the three others on the list. i have a video for you, as the diamond is here in oakland. and this unfortunately seems to appear annually on the list, you could see all the trash in the debris on the bank. it is right by the coliseum and the oracle arena. all that trash from the sporting events get blown into the water. now i
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want to take you down to san carlos. i have video of this one. and san francisco regional water quality control board gathered data from cities and counties about water cleanliness. save the bay does its own independent research and that is how they come up with these trash hot spots. you have 225 waterways on this list. these five are the dirtiest, there is a bird trying to exist in this war. rounding out the top 5, we have guadalupe river down in san jose and that is will we find maureen kelly who shows the pollution there and tell us why this south bay waterway is so polluted. >> you could see a plastic that floating in the water of the guadalupe river, this river goes through downtown san jose before emptying into the bay and unfortunately it takes a lot of trash with it. let me take to the shoreline here
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is yet another plastic bag that is caught up in the brush. here's a giant plastic garbage bag that is also car here. and over here i can show a candy wrapper. a lot of this trashes blown in from the city streets that surround the creek. >> some of the trash that in the open river is blamed on the homeless encampments that can be found here longer river's edge. here is a place where someone has been sleeping and right nearby there is more trash. here is an old newspaper. as well as other old things. they say all this garbage in the waterways ends up polluting the water quality and harming the habitat of the wildlife that make their home here like the ducks that you are looking at resting on the shore. save the day estimates 80 percent of the trash that is down on our beaches come from inland locations like this one so keeping areas like this free of debris is a great way to
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help keep the coast clean as well. >> save the bay is looking for volunteers to help pick up trash in the hot spot the many other locations around the bay area if you like to help out head to our web site to find out how. >> a live look outside this afternoon from our roof camera. you cannot see a whole lot because the fog is not clear back from san francisco it had been edging into oakland all afternoon. fog over san francisco and in to oakland and down the coastline this will move back into the bayshores in the inland valleys overnight. of the faulty in quebec tomorrow right now the temperatures are a lot cooler than we saw yesterday are in the valleys are in the low 80s, only 58 san francisco 62 oakland, 73 san jose and here's the changeup in the last 24 hours.
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>> until tomorrow morning the dense fog will continue, and tomorrow afternoon it will be breezy in cold continued cool temperatures into friday as we get into the weekend less fog and the temperatures will warm up as a result i will have details coming up in just a little bit. >> new details on president obama approval rating a new poll shows the he is losing support here in california. it shows that his approval rating has dropped 8% since june. as of this month, 46 percent of californians approved of his job performance, just 49 percent said they will vote to re- elect him some of the reasons are the high number of unemployment. and president bush looks president obama with the north carolina and get a lot of push back from those on capitol hill. here's a look at what americans think about the debate. >> president obama spent
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another day on the road on a mission to get public support for his $447 million drop its plan. >> every single one of you can help to make this deal a reality by telling congress to pass this bill. pass this jobs bill. >> senate republicans said the president's plan does not include changes in taxes and regulations that they want. >> what the president is talking about jobs to the minister's is making it harder and more expensive to create jobs. >> and a new cnn poll, 65 percent of americans say that if given a choice lawmakers should focus on job creation instead of reducing the deficit, it shows more people trust president obama to handle the economy than they trust republicans. even though the president's disapproval ratings are at an all-time high. >> i love you back. but if you love me, you have to
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help me pass this bill. >> this stop the north carolina marked the second 2012 battleground state the president obama has extended visit in two days. >> new at 5:00 p.m. salim casey anthony why a man who search for caylee anthony body wants money from the acquitted lawyer and what her lawyer has said about the suit. now getting ready for football we will tell you will be on the field for this sunday's game. an explosive scare in the south bay, kron4 crudes are there as a bomb squad goes above dates reset situation in san jose. >> we have seen the failure there. >> shedding light on the multimillion-dollar loans to the solar plant so mantra we
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>> there was a civil lawsuit filed in florida by a diver who helped to look for her daughter in 2008 he is asking more than kicking thousand dollars in damages he said he risked his safety in the old alligator waters while she knew her daughter was dead she says that he also has been married she was acquitted of killing her daughter but convicted of lying to the police. a federal report in last year's gulf war oil spill blaming bp the report says the cement still put in place failed because of bad decisions by the company the the put only one layer of cement and that's got the work also put added pressure on the welding. and then they said the company did not tell the owners about
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the oil rig and any of the decisions were the 200 million gal. of crude oil spilled into the gulf. a strange day in court for the man known as the underwear bomber he is charged with trying to detonate a bomb while on a flight from amsterdam to detroit. he argues that statement that he made earlier to investigators be thrown out because he says he was never read his miranda rights. in tacoma washington a teachers strike is over a judge's order the teachers to go back to class a went on strike on tuesday contract talks with the school district broke down the judge ruled that the strike was illegal more than 28,000 students were outclassed during the walkout. >> a live look outside this afternoon from the golden gate bridge, foggy conditions here as well
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covering the tower the fog is not only confined to the coastline this afternoon the over san francisco and edging into the bayshores. it will continue to move back in this evening and for tomorrow morning dense fog and drizzle expected dense fog will spread to the bayshores drizzling will stay confined to the coastline at 4:00 a few high clouds streaming over futures still cooler than which are today and when will pick up is quite breezy especially along the delta. taken the default for tomorrow morning at 5:00 it will spread through the delta and also be down to the south bay and to the north bay the fog tracker is not high enough as what i think it may be into tomorrow morning. >> and now it will lead into the south bay through about 11:00 a.m., and at 10:00 a.m. it is still brushing it will not clear back that far. oakland may
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stay from the drug the afternoon tomorrow we said san francisco would be foggy today and tomorrow will probably see quite a bit of fog through the afternoon. temperatures will be cooler tomorrow afternoon all in the '70s and upper 60 tomorrow in the south bay. 67 mountain view, 75 morgan hill, it will be cooler for the inland valleys quite a bit cooler as a matter of fact 87 antioch, tomorrow only 78, 75 concord, 76 pleasanton, 73 livermore. the cool marina here is making it all the weight inland. the east bayshores in the '60s. again, these locations are likely to see a good deal of fog through the afternoon tomorrow. now the peninsula '50s and '60s barely. stang who and close to the coastline we will see
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drizzling to the morning and it will be foggy and cool throughout the afternoon. of the north bay '60s and '70s, 747 rosa, 74 fairfield inns and get your extended forecast running up the work week temperature on in the '70's in the inland valleys. as the yen to weaken the fog is expected it will take one day or two days, temperatures in the warm-up and back into the '90s. >> a very classic rivalry will live again as the 49ers would take on the dallas cowboys on sunday, vern is here and there is something about that match up it will be fun. >> there is just a sizzle to it whenever cowboys come to town seven times we've been in the post-season with pre much everything online, '71 and '72 and in a move to candlestick park and that was for the nfc championship game and let us go to the big one, montana to clark,
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2827 kitkat, and they went on to their first super bowl at the expense of the dallas cowboys. now january 15, 1995 steve young, a touchdown in the third straight nfc championship game between the two this goes to the 49ers, they went on to miami to win best of the vote. and september 24, 2000 after t o scored his second touchdown he went and then he went again and then george knocked him back and just a little bit of what we have seen in the zero read between the two so yes, this is a regular-season game we may have over hiked it a little bit this is just the second game of the fees but
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the 49ers have a chance to see where they stand, this will be an anchor cowboy team coming in after the way they lost to the jets. we will see what jim had in store on sunday. >> a lot of people are not necessarily glued to the games but they want to watch this one. >> just because the match up. >> stay with us more news after the break.
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>> a pedestrian hit in badly injured by a truck is expected to survive it happened here this morning the investigators say was a woman walking in a crosswalk when the pickup hit her. the police ticketed the driver of the truck for not having a license a violent robbery in san francisco last night police said a man with a knife approached a woman pushed to the ground knocked her unconscious when she woke up her keys and money were gone. the woman suffered minor injuries but no arrests have been made.
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>> coming up will show the dangerous situation that forced the bomb squad emergency and a gruesome scene along the border, what authorities found hanging from a pedestrian bridge in a frightening warning attached. and a cop car who deeply--houdini, someone escape from a police vehicle that is all ahead.
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up the explosive the result was smoke throughout the neighborhood. this is the man that was charged with possession of weapons and explosives. people that know him are painting dramatically different portraits of the suspect. >> i knew he had a gun because at night we would hear the shots going up to the air. >> neighbors of the man that lived in this house on north sixth street in san jose said they were just plain scared of them. >> we stayed away from him because the new he was crazy. it was just terrible. really terrible. >> 630 mark was booked now on explosives but on suspicion of making criminal threats. >> his close friend tells me that he is a vietnam vet that suffers from depression that would not hurt anyone. >> he has severe arthritis he is heavily medicated and
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the has a brain tumor and an little off sometimes if he is on his medication but his action this week aren't served his country and this is really not a good payback for him. >> the friend said what police described as exploding devices were all made fireworks with the explosions broke several windows in the area a convicted felon he was not supposed to have firearms police said he had several. neighbors say that he had threatened to use them on several occasions. >> it was a shock to us to know that yet things in the house that we were just panicking. >> he had just been making threats ally he made a lot of enemies with people here. we have kids around here and he should not be doing stuff like that. >> arsonist targeted homes in san leandro. in the first attack people found a gas soaked rag strong through
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the window of a home and other home was set on fire shortly afterwards. no arrests have been made this point. and the bank will rub bay area company solyndra is generating a lot of heat on capitol hill. republicans are choosing the obama administration of pushing through a half million dollar loan guarantee while budget officials were waving red flags about the finances. one year after the president call solyndra at a engine of economic growth the company sped to a stop. fbi investigators are arrived as the employees left. they say this is a poster child for bad decision making. >> this is exactly what we get when the federal government tries to put money into businesses in tried picking winners and losers. >> and energy department official countered that the risk is worth it. >> it is not picking winners and losers in this
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is making sure that we have winners in all. >> the house has a seven month investigation into solyndra. they have an e- mail that express concerns as far as two years ago, it says the following. they took nine days to review the loan guarantee compare with an average of 28 days for other applicants. it is not just republicans asking questions, democrat henry once the solyndra executives to testify what they told him two months ago that they hope to double their revenues this year. his letter knows that these assurances contrast sharply with the kind--company's decision to file for bankruptcy. >> non new details about
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the two uc berkeley graduates, they say plane is being sent there so that they will be released soon. amon helped to bring sera short home last year the country's core system says that they're still reviewing all of this in the could be an embarrassment to the armenian president he said there would be released, but he does not have direct power over the courts. if you drive gas prices are up around the bay area we show you where one place cost even more. >> this is one of the highest places in the bay area is set for out of the 135 per gallon the average is now $4 per gallon. and if some of the highest prices include $4.29 per gallon in
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san mateo, and also $4.19. local say they're disappointed at the cost. >> i cannot imagine the cost of fuel the oil companies are making a lot of money right now. >> the hope is that prices will go down after labor day weekend but that has yet to happen. >> one of the nation's busiest borders has collapsed. about 11:00 a.m., you can see the scene, the construction scaffolding collapsed at least 14 people injured all 24 border crossing lanes are closed people driving from mexico to the u.s. are being directed to another across and about 5 mi. away. and in san diego remember the man us suspected of robbing the 711 in a gum be sued, he is turned himself the surveillance shows an
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interim the store on labor day he told the clerk that it was a robbery the clerk thought was a prank, the suspect's sister said it was for fun and not intended as an actual robbery. >> they were just going around and joking. >> on police were not of rows. and the gum the suit has been taken by the police. >> othe fall been discreetly in, but it is clear in the north bay, temperatures are a lot cooler out there today thanks to the increase seabury's wind and the increase fog. 57 san francisco 59 oakland 60 in redwood city the upper '70's and now pays for the inland valley for the most part. 85 and antioch in the to change over the past 24
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hours of the north, this will receive the most change. hoare teen who lives and rosa. 10 degrees cooler down in san jose and we will continue this cooling pattern. upper 50s tomorrow and in san francisco. 70 of san of sesame 5 concord friday will not be a lot differently continue to see the cooler temperatures in the forecast 69 fremont 72 san jose, 76 concord i will have more on the cooling trend and a warmer forecast coming up. >> and world news and attack has left 27 dead militants armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles were at the capitol today. the assault lasted 20 hours a lease 11 of the people killed were children
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at a nearby school. in mexico reported in the border town discovered two bodies hanging from the pedestrian bridge there was a message nearby warning people not to discuss drug cartel activity on logs or social networks they said this will happen to all of those posting funny things on the internet. that is the note, and the bodies of a man and woman in their early 20s they were tortured before they were hung. off the japanese coast nine defectors from north korea managed to reach shore. officials are the men and women and children drifting nearby when questioned by authorities this said their escape from north korea by boat this is only the third documented case of north korean defectors sailing to japan. and you are looking at the bay bridge toll plaza. traffic is moving
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>> stocks rose for the third consecutive day. the dow was up 141 points nasdaq up 40 points. and rob is here. psst >> i had to send a phrase --i hate to say the phrase i told do so but i told do so. september 29th will be, to mama day. we are still not there yet. >> another winner, you say facebook but they're putting off going public so what you say that there are a winner? >> i believe this is a gray area. most businesses that
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went public are underperforming including businesses like pandora. facebook came out today and they're leaking it to the media that they may not come out public early 2012 it will be late 2012 that if at all. it not need the money. they need to stay dynamic. as the was a smart thing for the delay. the market conditions are too volatile right now and things are changing pre dynamic it. facebook says that they will be a lot more likely google they may have a social dating side as well why go public now they have a lot going for them. >> and other winner, yahoo and baseball. >> i am interested to see what video we pulled today. cahow this was the author who desk video. the men, we go to yahoo for sports, nhl
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and fasten football. when you go to yahoo sforza-- sports, if it is the bottom of the ninth the game may flip from the filly atlantic game to the san francisco gan, give you breaking news. it is like dish network. i think you'll do well it is taking sports to the next level. >> let us talk about a cleaver restaurant. >> the ancient chinese secret is that there's no shortage of chinese restaurants in america but there is something that's collated with kind of mexican food the me stand in line and cater yourself
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there are companies that already do this, it is a growing market chinese is sexy and a revenue grower. but to serve yourself of pick and choose what you want is a huge opportunity and there of 100 percent and the last two years about 300% in the last four years. and now they are expanding their concept to include a chinese serve yourself buffet. >> they have clearly thought this out thank-you see you tomorrow. >> a couple of live looks outside this afternoon first from the roof camera. it is a little hard to make out with the fog that has been sitting on the stage rocket. has been edging into oakland and officially has rolled over the bay bridge toll plaza. low clouds covering the area satellite pictures showing the fog up and down the coastline and over san francisco. it is over oakland and spreading into the bayshores in the next several hours. storm tracker
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for radar is picking up a few isolated thunderstorms to the east. this activity is not nearly as bad as what we saw yesterday the threat will continue to diminish into tomorrow. we are on the clear and the sierra up will be as well. with the increased fog it will be cooler. warming up on saturday with less fog 68 in oakland on saturday 72 mar 72 friday and 785 tomorrow the in the value will only be in the '70s warming back to the 80's this weekend. take a look at the fog before this market--take a look of the fog for tomorrow morning. it pretty much covers the whole bay area. by 7:00 a.m. not really going anywhere. it will be in the north in the south and the inland valleys. the later morning hours nearly clearing back. oakland and
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hayward see the fog clinging court and today we saw a lingering to san francisco tomorrow will be to open through the afternoon. as for temperatures will be so cold there. additional cooling in the south bay. inland valleys cooling as well back into the '70s will average for this time of year. fifties for the east bayshores, 59 berkeley, 61 oakland. fraud is expected to lean during these locations through the afternoon tomorrow that is why will be so cool. only a perfect for the coastline expecting morning drizzle in those locations. in the north bay, '60s and '70s there may force federal the. 74 fairfield. a link to the extended forecast cooler conditions to round up the work week less fog into saturday and sunday. meaning warmer conditions especially
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in the end and will continue the warming trend in to next week. >> i am here with today's edition of taken the the this. the first video show and a man breaking into a fast-food restaurant in chicago he is trying to slip through the fast food window to see his legs, but his clothing got stuck take out the next park, and he tripped the security alarm all along the way, before the police got there the man was hungry so we got a drink from a soda fountain and heated up some chicken tenders and fries in the microwave the police were entering the building the same with the suspect did for the drive-through window and arrested him. the next video showed the prison escapee from a police squad car. his hands cuffed behind his back to watch as he manages to maneuver himself so that he has the handcuffs in the front eventually he and did his pockets police records show that it contains heroin he chews off one of his handcuffs which i am assuming is plastic and many checks to make sure
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that the officers were not watching he got out the window the hunt went on for eight hours and required a chopper to get him out of the swamp. now a they're still in breakfasts from a bird feeder. >> that they're emptied out both scenes, and once he was full, he made his way back into the woods. at this last one, 12,000 lbs. of chocolate goodness. the world's largest chocolate bar stands 3 ft. high 21 ft. long, 5,500 lbs. of sugar 1,700 lbs. of cocoa butter was and is certified by the guinness book of world records it will go on to a. stay with us to be back after this quick break.
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>> president obama losing his appeal across the country. and woman found dead in her home the officials said they tracked down the killer more than 10 years later. and what the naacp is demanding to be done to keep kids in school. west now worries. and face the cassette--facebook is planning to go public. >> and new survey of california voters paints a
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disturbing picture for the president. the numbers this that a democratic state by california do not bode well for the reelection. >> the new poll based on interviews to 1001 registered california voters is anything but good news for president obama. while in june 54 percent approved of the job they he was doing now only 46 percent approve of the job that he is doing. >> it is not a surprise given unemployment in this country and in this state. is 12% in california and 9 percent nationally. whoever the president would take a lot of grief for that and obama it is getting a lot of grief. >> uc berkeley science professor says that even worse is the response to this question. 68 percent said that they were going on the wrong track. >> arms he has performed out there but he does not
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have results in terms of the economy and that is what he is facing. >> built poll also far as the lesson for timber some of those polled are inclined to re-elect obama grady says that a significant especially in california which is largely democratic. >> more said they would then what is. but still is below 50 percent that is not good news for president barak obama if he is having a hard time in california that means in the swing states, he may really be in trouble. >> coming up tonight a p.m. will talk with the political analyst about what has to change for president obama to turn things around both in california and nationally. >> the president continue his push for jobs today holding a campaign style rally. he is with college students here in north carolina and he is asking his audiences to help to put pressure on congress into taking action. >> democrats and
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republicans have supported every time a proposal that is in the american job said. we have to tell them to support it now. that is where you come in. already, you have some republicans in washington who have said that some of this stuff may have to wait until the next election. they said maybe we can just kick our problems down the road and stretched this thing out rather than work together right now. >> the president toward a manufacturing plant the company described by white house as the kind of small business that will benefit from the jobs act. a souvenir from the tour he gave the president his name and metal. while here in north carolina republicans were blasting his plan. >> you cannot sprinkle little money here and there and then expect our economy to be repaired. the underlying problems are
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structural problems. they have to do with deficiencies in the tax code. until those are addressed fairly radical ly, we will not be able to get any long-term relief. the short-term lease, you can sprinkle money here and there, we have been through that we have been through stimulus, but to get to where we need to be we need structural change that comes by way of tax reform and by way of regulatory reform. >> the president is now back at the white house he city was to speed up payments to small businesses with gov. government contracts they now have 30 days to make payments and the president says he wants to cut that down to 15 days. he is in ohio and virginia, and those are states that he won the election in those states he badly needs with reelection. grant lotus is here and he was looking how the president's jobs bill will affect us in california would have you found? >> according to the white house, the president knows that things are not good
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throughout the state the and implement rate is about 12% the white house says that the american jobs at would really help people here for instance, the former $47 billion plan calls for $50 billion in infrastructure mostly road and bridge work. the white house says that california would get almost $4 billion of that. that would translate into 51,000 jobs. a lot of jobs, coming up to 9:08 p.m. i will break down more of the numbers. >> thank you grant. now an alarming number of high school students in oakland dropping out of school during their senior year. the state department of education says more than a 700 seniors dropped out during the 2009-2010 school year. 37 percent of the students nearly half of the dropouts were african- american and compare that to
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just 37 white students that drop at the same year. the naacp has put together a list of demands that they will present to the school board tonight there will more accountability for teachers and counselors, were staffing for the libraries and they said the the one burned out teachers replaced. they say parents need to help. >> we need to organize more parents we need to get more parents involved if any messages pushed our presentation today is get involved. we need your help this not descend naacp issue is not just a black issue, it is not does a poor people's issue is an issue for the city if you're talking about increasing property values and cutting jobs back in the city, this is a problem for the whole. >> while the oakland unified school district says that it has put into use some programs to help african-american students finish school it agrees that a lot more needs to be done to do something about will drop out. a developing story
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in san jose a fire at a large apartment complex injured two people and that about a half-dozen apartment damage. this kid to rob fladeboe who is live on the scene with the latest. >> that is right, we are here at the pond rosa would condominium complex. it is near the intersection of jackson and mayberry avenue taken look behind me firefighters are still mopping up after what turned are to be a stubborn smoky three alarm fire. the school to the video earlier i can show this broke out in the two units on the right. there are two of six units that are partially or completely destroyed. there's also a lot of damage on the other side of this particular building. there were about six different roger base. also partially or completely destroyed firefighters tell us that two people were injured here, there were two males, both in their 20s inside the apartment complex and there were inside the condo with a
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fire that started. one has second-degree burns on his legs the other was treated for smoke inhalation was transported to a hospital. firefighter say what made this very difficult to fry was what they call an addict fire, it is into the attic of one and then spreads in to the others. this is the fire spokesman. >> because of a space when there is no division between the attic spaces in the unit's the fire want to get up in the attic space. when there are no members in there, it would manage to stop the forecast--the fire. there are difficult. >> firefighters are still mopping up. i am told by at least one individual here on the scene that there was a contractor working in one the units and using some type of solid to melt linoleum on the floor and that in turn may have been
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sparked by the pilot light on the hot water heater nearby when this irish--when the fire spread from there. two people injured and a total of six condos were destroyed. >> a bay area environmental group is out with a list of trash hot spots. toxic a garbage. and you are looking at the spots here. you can see other spots in san francisco, baxter creek in richmond maureen kelly went and showed us what the problem looks like there. >> check out the plastic bag inches from the war. the environmental group that calls these waters a trash hot are puts much of the blame on the amount of their that blows in from vehicle driving by on highway 101 that you can see runs right over. taking a look a short distance from the creek, you could see how much trash gets tossed out of the cars.
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some of it gets stuck by the cyclone fence but not all. there's an old with a ship back on the water's edge and over here you can thick plastic drinking lead. maureen kelly with kron4 news. >> we are looking for volunteers if you like to help head to with the kron4 dart, the hon. >> and said of the police were busy detonating explosives found in a man's home last night. one was complaining for what of the men with shotguns in his backyard another neighbor claim that she been threatened. police arrested him last night and found eight explosive devices in the home of some models
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were evacuator well policed to shore it this. and a crushing conclusion they since 17 year-old running a stolen car crashed into a deli on beacon avenue in san raphael. it happened this afternoon they say the driver was trying to run from a highway patrol traffic stop. >> the vehicle signal to the right as if there were going to be stopping. the vehicle then suddenly it federated krupa 40 mi. per hour. in a very short distance from the location it was in the deli here. >> the teenagers suffered minor injuries. pg&e has replaced a gas line that erupted in hillsborough. that happen when landscapers will put out a tree stump and gas shut down to just one home no other customers has service disruptions and no homes were evacuated. prosecutors
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will not seek charges against a nevada woman that husband was found buried in the backyard of their home. you may remember, bill smith's body was found under barbeque pits back in february. his wife never reported the death of her husband. the corner says that the body was too badly decomposed to determine how he died. in san francisco police are arresting members of a family that they say is running a complex scheme. carlos is the father and a police say they still more than one of the power and always been a real estate scheme. they're accused of taking an elderly woman into giving her money. police cracked the case and you saw him arrested in a similar scheme and a third man is in custody police are still looking for carla. >> a mc qeen extended forecast cool weather for the work week only in the '70's in the inland valleys. less fog or the weekend and
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>> and suspect is accused of killing a computer programmer and her home on continue to go this is the victim. we are live with the hall of justice. how were investigators able to close this case? >> they were able to close the case with the na but i want to tell your spoke with the victim's mother earlier today she says they she learned of the arrest on saturday and was feeling overwhelmed. now this is video of helen with her daughter lisa. in 99 their daughter with them multiple times and killed and fatter duron heights apartment. into the noon lunch until
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this is her daughters who was found she herself will come back to life. >> 13 years later i his said they're very rich meat and grateful. the victim was 86 years old. she was successful. sheila's outgoing and, and then the head deserve to go the way she did. >> hughes was charged with murder and rape the 52 year- old is currently in jail inspectors would not go into much detail with they will not comment on how good suspect in the victim knew each other. >> tonight parts of san jose will be followed you for the west nile virus. several affected birds have been found is believed there one in 100 mosquitoes in this area is caring the far issue fell in the east to
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will read about the decision more than 200 million gal. of crude oil spilled into the gulf. >> a live without 5 from the bay bridge toll plaza of the fog over oakland spilling into the bayshores and gdp. we sell fog and that is one result: conditions. we saw the cool marine filter until the in the event. --in the inland valleys. >> temperatures were down from what we saw yes today a degrees cooler in san francisco 9 degrees cooler in san raphael. temperatures will continue to cool this evening. in the 74 in the valleys. we will see continued cooling as the
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head into tomorrow. dense fog through our bayshores. the un and the south and north bay will be everywhere. continued fall the in clear weather for friday the less fog in temperatures warmed up as an end to the weekend. years in the the fog tracker for tomorrow morning spilling into the inland valleys delta will be up to the north and down to the south bay. 7:00 not allow movement. that's the coastline before the fog stars contend that down in oakland it will stick in oakland for tomorrow. temperatures are in the 60s and low '70s for the bayshores. 70 san jose, 75 morgan hill. only in the '70s for the inland valleys. '60s and '70s as well. cool weather for the end of the
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no exclusions. go to jcp.com to see everything on sale. jcpenney. report facebook ceo is pushing back and going public. it reflects a desire to keep employees focus on current development. their public offering was reportedly set for spring and next year but it is now planned for september later. the current value is at $66.5 billion. and the social networking giant launched a subscribe button that will let you follow the public update of others regarded if your friends or not. the button will appear on people's profile. this is a part of the effort to give
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users more control over their accounts and new speeds. youtube is rolling out a new video editing feature it is not meant to replace software what is meant to use--let u.s. fixative video and a less time consuming matter. they have a variety of options. as you can see, they can boost colors in contrast stay with us, more news after the break.
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>> in san leandro police are investigating two separate car bombings that took place in this quiet neighborhood the first one with attacked around 3:30 a.m. tuesday morning residents heard bill glass breaking and found an unlit, telling the house leader around 9:30 a.m. another house was firebombed this time the cartel was lit and thrown into this house. the front room caught fire and was badly damaged fortunately there was no one with time neighbors said they saw someone running down this street within as the difference. the city to victims did not know each other and it is not connected except that they live in the same neighborhood. >> we're in san jose of the the board about the man police arrested when
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explosives and weapons charges. neighbors who live in this home on north sixth street says that he threatened maus several locations and shot his guns often the neighborhood of a close friend says they he was a vietnam veteran who suffer from health problems and depression. >> and san francisco police arrested a man of brutally murdering a computer programmer in san for diamond heights home more than 10 years ago. police arrested anthony hughes in connection with the 1990 homicide she was 36 at the time and that multiple times. inspector said that dna played a key role in trying anthony used to this case. he was arrested saturday and charged with murder and rape.
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>> in san jose and terminal group has named the guadalupe river has won the bay area's five trash hot spots. they said the banks of the river choked with garbage like plastic bags of food wrappers, on and off city streets or dumped in from the storm drains. they say orders are also part of the problem the trash to try to stay here this 80 percent of the trash found in a speech comes from inland areas like this one. >> here in san francisco a new study claims that by the end of the century 92% ocean beach could be washed away by rising sea levels. as the beach disappears the city's $82 million in tourism there could be $540 million in damages as the erosion tears with the shorelines and nearby buildings study also says if ocean beach goes the city could be left vulnerable to storm surges.
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>> here is the oakland unified headquarters the naacp is demanding that the district take steps to improve the conditions that they say lead to a high level to african american students dropping out before receiving their high-school diplomas. civil rights groups point to troubling statistics like these from 2009-2010. high school african-americans account for nearly half of all high school dropouts far surpassing the number of white students who did not finished their senior year. >> here stanley roberts and found people behaving badly. >> it has been called the free line but it is the key line located in san francisco it is a muni line that is notorious for writers using this as the shuttle and not paying their fears. to be fair, most of the writers on the t line are writing with proof of payment but there are a few
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that do not. tonight on kron4 news that a p.m. i hang out with the muni fear inspectors. in the next edition of people being badly. >> and tech news i am wearing the latest greatest gadget that is about, out on the market. here is a sneak peek. >> this is a personal aide to the in 3d viewer that puts a movie screen in front of your face like a personal theater. it does to be an 3d. he uses the highest elie de displays to bring a bright sharp image you can connect any video source to eat you can watch movies, tv shows and the on the video game. it will be on the market in october. now i am giving away these high in cameras. the latest web cam out there with a lot of great features. it is and 80
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data value the you can have for free enter for your chance to win one and look for my tech page. >> today on the kron4 facebook fan page dozens of viewers were talking about the report that the reading scores for the s.a.t. tests are at their lowest levels ever. check out the comments of the day. they come from christina she says i'm not surprised with as much advancement that we had with technology is about kids who have access to the internet, video games and tv more than ever before harding few kids plant outside much less reading for fun our homework. we would like to know you think if you agree or disagree with the comic,
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visitor facebook fan page to leave your thoughts. >> a the straw that it be in from the bay bridge toll plaza we see cloud disguise the fog rolls back in. parisienne cooler in afternoon the cool weather will stick with this until friday. temperatures were much cooler than what we saw yesterday. >> to mark continued cooling. and are in the valleys will drop to '70s tomorrow afternoon. 75 concord, 73 livermore 78 anyhow. '60s for these bayshores but only 59 berkeley. effective fog too meager to these locations. '50s, '60s and '70s for the peninsula only in the upper 50s along the coastline the fog will be there through the afternoon. up to the north bay temperatures in
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but what the >> the talk about tracker of blood in winning he thought it could not put out the fire he says he is sober now could narrow the last time to drugs or drinks and is not remember or believing keeping track of the sober time he says he's reconnecting with his children and our appreciating the choir things in life. and the picture surface online today, the woman that looks
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from scrimmage to hanson. in march, tmz named johansson as well as a number of celebrities as victims of having their cell phones or computers hacked. several ports claim that johansson has contacted the fbi to track down the hackers. and now we have a list of the top best dressed men and women. to check the rest of the list visitor kron4 facebook fan page and what you're there, check out a video we just posted the kardashian sisters mocked by fox news anchors who were unaware their microphones were still on. >> now carries a hint to discuss the game straight ahead and the shake up about the giants' organization is just one year after winning the world series. gary has the story and all of sports and up next.
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>> could evening everybody. the defending world champion giants apparently are pushing their managing general partner bill neukom out the door to be replaced by a top assistant now with bill neukom larry baer will tickle. --will takeover. there is a tin person executive committee. he is completing his third year and its owner,/21 a will serious but not enough of the ownership group happy with bill neukom. has he said, larry is now the field. --ceo.
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>> he needed to consult with them about how to spend the additional revenue that the jack up. and my information is that he was asked to step down a few weeks ago. >> he has been a part of the dead in their operations and the franchise from long time. i'm guessing he will keep the old king guys of the executive committee informed of what he's doing. he was met doing is live as those guys want to. >> and house of the ballpark in today mary belle was nervous today since i have to go to a meeting. an asset is funny because before he won the world series he was see your truck for a half-hour. he had a nervous laugh and said i have a meeting right at 11. but a way to make a long story short, larry is the guy that build the ballpark. he went out and found money to build a ballpark starting
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when they took over the key backup--took over the team. none lucan had been for a short time in navy did not know how to navigate once again it is great the one called will when someone's money at stake in you and i shall your money is going and still like it is someone's fault that is what happens. again, long wait 20 years larry has been with the giants and now he is the boss of san francisco apparently beginning next season. not on the field, to taking care of business. be it a little too late, carlos beltran plant for contract and there it goes. and looking him. i do not care how much he weighs. the guy
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can play. and that 40 lbs. that he lost it is cutting back on it. see me play will no one is griping. now the 30th multi home run game of its career the giants win 321. the 6 1/2 back in the wild card, you can forget about arizona. he is also trying to finish strong, the a's had a scoreless game again. weaver. the anaheim angels, very close. is one to nothing. and you look at his statistics, yes 26 home runs, and the angels will win four to one. but we must show you clift pennington and that is it. now the a's are thinking let us get this over with and quick. it is official at the park in pittsburgh today roberta clementi day, but the pirates put their 19th
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straight losing season. they dropped to 6782 they have not had a winning team since barry bonds left in the very early '90s to come to san francisco. now what the but time this was football's top rivalry a really big deal the 49ers and cowboys of course the most famous play in san francisco history, montana to the white car. it started it all, january 1982. for the niners won the super bowl, then steve the leader got the monkey off his back. 49ers can win without montana. tarot olins, there is a famous still where he celebrated midfield. of course you can now see teel on vh-1 with his own reality show. and tony rule vs. alex smith. not as glamorous, but the 49ers are the first
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played teams but there were not ranked so there was nothing to base their ranking on. this was our first true test against a top team. there were those that thought that this would undo us, and then there were those that believe in us. we were the ones that were believing in it was a great match. >> now the students were out in force last night. >> yes, it was great probably 100 members of the band it was wonderful. >> the you cents on the college campus, football and basketball speak for themselves but when you are number one in america at this to this kind of kept on to that. >> i think they're beginning to. it was a lot of talk around here, a lot of tweet and a lot of facebook stuff. there was a lot of talk about the matchup in the fact it will rank no. 1. >> i was going to ask what was the highest the ever finished. >> i was right on target
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flash. but before that it was fixed, and, >> so how heavy the recruit? >> we recruit all around the country. it is a big part of what we do in the off-season convincing kids in cal and the bay area that this user fee if the place to be. >> taking a back to high school was a young lady dick volleyball for basketball how you recruit them the same skill level and a sense. >> yes, but there are some differences the one thing i talk about volleyball there is a separation of teams by the net. it is a noncontact sport. and that may attract a different we many kids that can move fast if it is very similar, track and field, basketball we're fighting for some of the same athletes who we have a few unique qualities in basketball and may attract
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kids will win some of the other. >> i would guess the you are pretty good and volleyball. >> i was a very average player. the to school to show average kids can do more in life. >> we turned down the coaches and things and we prefer to criticize others. now who was up next for you? >> we have, row and a team on friday night. >> glad to meet you and all you have to do is be number one and put everyone back on tv. >> i would like to come back. >> ok that is a deal. we'll see you at 8:00 p.m.. [ cow mooing ]
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