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bay. by the latter part of your evening that is when things start to dry out. it looked like to see things around the end, conn. hour. so into the evening will be a much different picture. here is the seven day around the bay more rain and thunderstorms expected for today clearing by your friday in a that was the temperatures rebound as we bring them back to the upper '70's by the beginning of your weekend and then right into the 80s by next week. much sunnier and warmer and that whether stretches all the way into wednesday of next week where i high--are high as about nine degrees. right now it is for 40 7:00 a.m. let us take a lick your commute. --right now is for 40 7:00 a.m. the us to indicate your commute. >> we see some pretty easy conditions no major problems to alert you to as we had
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outside the door. traffic building at the approach of the bay bridge toll plaza of the still no way. most metering lights are still sakharov. at particular over to the san mateo bridge this morning was down an eastbound traffic looks good your good to go in both directions of 92 no back up back at the toll plaza and the drive time is running at only 24 minutes out of bottle toward san francisco taking the golden gate bridge, you will see a lot of space between cars. and we'll will slow this morning. but no accidents, not even a stalled report in either direction of 101. 280 looks good. however if you are heading to the sierra this morning you will need your chains for interstate 80 the same goes for highway 88. >> stay tuned out on the passing of steve jobs, the
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bay area is touted as the capital of technology and a lot of that is that to steve jobs. within his hard work and success and how shape silicon valley. >> steve jobs will forever be a legend in the technology world. steve and his company apple changed everything. rob, a tech analyst and jon mark off with the new york times have all covered technology for a decade in the bay area and they have followed the rise of steve jobs. >> i would have to say that he is on the skill of the beatles. >> he is huge, he is an icon i mean apple is steve. he has fans just like his products have fans. >> he up to define silicon valley in could on the map. >> the valley has been shipped around some myths, and one of the myths is starting and abroad and then going on to change the world. even as early as ronald reagan's presidency
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steve jobs has to become you know the emblem of that myth. and that's what the world, a notion that you could start with an idea of the could have this huge impact. and for 30, 40 years steve really profound-- personified that particular view of the valid. >> he was the face of apple he personally unveiled all of their new product on stage he was like a rock star to the community, he often got a standing ovation. >> he is a master showman and a great salesperson. >> i've not been there is another consumer product like this. >> i have rarely in my career as a reporter bumped into people with that level of charisma. i did not understand what is. bill clinton was an example person that had that type of charisma with intangible. >> that is the thinnest our fall on the planet. >> and if you spent time with steve, it was clear
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that there was a force of a personality that is the only that i can describe it. >> the strongest lineup of ipod that we have ever had. >> it is hard to get in front of an audience and how people listen and you tell them that this is magical and they believe it. it is that magic that has been lost today. >> he was so passionate about the product when he showed them off. >> it is 8 mm thin. >> i always at the feeling that he poured everything into these products he love them and he was proud of them. apple steve jobs, and steve jobs with apple. >> his life was typing his job, when he was fired from apple in the '80s he was borderline suicidal. this job and steve jobs were almost one in the same. it was a part of his life. >> in a rare public speaking engagement 2005 steve shares with stanford graduates at their commands
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and how important it is to love your job. >> work will fill large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do you believe is great work. the only way to do great work is to love when you do. if you have not found yet, keep looking. don't settle. >> let us sit in the contrasty did not settle and he built apple into one of the world's biggest and most successful companies are releasing products that people wanted. in 1984 he began the process of rebuilding apple and the key to the top are revolutionizing home computing with the macintosh computer. >> he to technology that cost $30,000 and then repackage them in this thing called the macintosh in 1984 at a price point of $3,000 which was debt--and just how the 10th the world that is the one thing you can say about it. >> he then unveiled a bizarre looking egg shape computer. >> that beautiful plastic i mac was the first example of
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him taking these technologies and putting them in a consumer package that was attractive and at the consumer price point. consumers just took him by troll's. and that is what capitalize his return. >> steve jobs really shine when he showed the visionary that he was that came later in 2000. >> and this new digital revolution there is no market leader. >> with the ipod, he changed the way that we listen to an interactive music. >> appleton the music industry upside-down, a computer company turn it the music industry upside down. this shows that one company driven by a megalomaniac and make a really big difference to a lot of people's lives. >> in 2007 after conquering the music scene stephen apple took aim at the mobile phone industry. >> and ipod, a phone, and internet communicator. >> commuting--computing
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have gone from 1 billion users to 6 million users and it was the iphone that made that jump. >> and his last big game changer it came out in 2010, the tablet computers the ipad. >> it is so much more capable went this gorgeous large display. >> let me leave you something from steve's commencement speech where he talked about that and take his advice on like i think you want to hear this. >> no one wants to die. even people that want to go ahead and do not want to die to get there. and yet, debt is the destination that we all share. no one has ever escape it. and that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. it is like a change agent. it clears out the old to make way for the new. your time is limited so don't waste it in someone else's life. don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the
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results of other people's thinking. don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most of portly have the courage to follow your heart and intuition and some how or reno you truly want to become. everything else is secondary.
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>> fleet week kicks off today and that means the stars of the show have arrived. the blue angels are here and you're expected to hear them as they cruised across the bay starting today it should be quite a sight as they were conducting some of those practice flights, our very own mark danon got to fly with one of them. you see him there in a plane. and we will hear later on this morning what marks experience was like. he will be sharing what it was like so high up in the air coming up. don't forget about our fleet week special that is
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coming up here on kron4. that is this saturday october 8th at 3:00. it is a one hour special, we will show you the best view of the blue angels and if you want to see the live action yourself that is this saturday right here on kron4. much more ahead on our morning news we will talk about steve jobs and the search for a shooting spree suspect. that story has to take a live look outside right now from our roof camera year in san francisco.
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story at this hour, former ceo and founder steve jobs has passed away age 56. he had pancreatic cancer in 2009 but that--it and know
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what caused his death was. the apple co-founder steve jobs started apple in his crotch with steve was the act--wasniack and saw that grow into a goliath a business that is now worth $350 billion. >> you can see that it is quiet here, but there is one key thing that you can see as a reminder of what happened. you can see the size of the more you out in front, and has a picture of steve jobs and there are real apples with headphone sticking out of them, and miniature flowers. there are more news like this at stores all around the country as people express their feelings about the loss of steve jobs. in the wake of his death as employee it comes to work, the news of his death was heart on wednesday thursday people are thinking more about where apple goes from here, it is a media circus that he with people from all over the country. as workers
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coming to talk to them about the concerns and the loss of jobs and where things might go from here. back to you. >> president obama released a statement saying that he was one of the greatest american innovators brave enough to think differently, bold enough to thing that he could change the world and talented enough to do it. the world is losing a visionary and there may be no greater tribute to his success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on the device that he invented. jobs is survived by his mother, sister, his wife and four children. we will have more on steve jobs throughout this hour including sound from the stanford speech and a look at apple's stock this morning. >> new this morning, protesters associate with the group called occupied sf clashed with the police early this morning. they have been camping out in the city's financial district for the last couple weeks.
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protest of our country's economic woes. to get you more news faster, let us return to our solo reporter in san francisco with more on what happened this morning. >> good morning, it actually is a continuation of what happened yesterday when they started their march. this is the federal reserve building and that is where it started. it was peaceful all day yesterday all until about midnight. that is when some of the protesters here live in occupieng this side walk pitched some tense up and started to make camp in front of the building that is when they got a notice from the public works department i mean from the police department, from the city saying that it was illegal for them to set up there. they were told to take it down. according to occupy as at they said they did come to some kind of
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agreement where they started to take down their tents, but before they knew it, they said that the police department are to come out when they're riding gear and separate lines of the they could allow the public workers to come and actually take away some of the items. that is when occupy as f started to form their a line around the public works department and the police department and try to do a human barricade. that is when i got a little hairy. that is when confrontation actually happened. and according to occupy sf. they say to people were arrested in the confrontation. they did hall with some of their stuff and at this moment, things seem to be, but they did say they will be are here, there will be out here indefinitely and they will be in from the federal reserve with tents, or without, their bodies will be occupying the space until they, according to them until there is a change in our economic situation and
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that the 99% get their share. >> will keep ride on that area and see been a return in the meantime san francisco is not the only place where protests are taking place. a < you're looking at protesters on wall street in new york city where they have been protesting and demonstrating. this is on the right, that is from boston. the new york protesters have been rallying for 20 days against income equity in what they say is corporate greed. 28 people were arrested for various offenses in yesterday's protest on wall street. >> a developing story that we are falling out of the south bay. the search continuing this morning for the gun in the shot and killed three people and injured six others. as the police continue to search for sharif allman they say he went to his work place at a cupertino rock quarry and shot eight of his co-workers and many fled the scene is in a couple of hours later he shot a woman during an
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attempted carjacking will tran if in the south bay right now with the latest on the manhunt. >> so far he's been able to swype team members going door to door. search dogs and helicopters with normal vision that were used overnight to look for him was so far no luck where ever he that they believe that he still has a gun and that is despite recovering several guns including two rifles from several locations. what they do not have it this time it is the motive and why he chose his particular victims. i am at the command center at the san account--at the santa clara county sheriff's department is is there is a break in the case i will tell ye immediately. >> stay with us for continued coverage rather morning we will have the latest on the manhunt and you can get updates on our web site, our facebook page in our twitter feed. >> at 5 of 6:00 a.m. this give you an update on whether. --at 5:06 a.m., let
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us give you an update on the weather. the chance of scattered showers of will be with us primarily for the morning hours and then taper off as we head into the evening hours. your evening commute may be what one, you'll see that in a minute it is friday and weekend looks great for fleet week in whatever plans you may have outdoors. thus it's the map and this is what we see on the satellite report a lot of energy to the north here. you can see the impose gradually headed our way moving in a southeasterly direction. i want to pushing here and show the bay. we have some bits and pieces of wet weather right now. now we zoom in on iran, we have some light rain falling there. another batch is set to move in the next 10 minutes. we have that going on in south of that in half moon bay we have some rain moving in there. the darkest portion have rain falling at about a fifth of an inch per hour. that is to attend and
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slowly sliding. is about to dilute or wet and up to the east we still see some rain out in livermore. it is still light but extend through that entire stretch. so that is what is going on in the east bay. now, we will track the rain on the future passed and walking through the day. it is set at 6:00 a.m.. the rain intensified in the north bay is heavy at times of near santa rosa. and you see the intense rain slowly shifting to the south including vallejo, napa, san rafael. and as you're heading out the door to drop the kids are in school to have to work, we will have quite a bit of intense rain across a good portion of the north bay and upper portions of the east bay and then down in san francisco and as it pushes to 9:00 a.m., you see the wave moving through the bay. we will keep pushing
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the clock for at 10:00 a.m. a continues its trend, by noon it will hopefully clear. we would still deal with the remainder of the day with on and began an off-again spotty showers. we advance to 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. and beyond. so in the afternoon is to see some of that stuff come through. we would have your forecast coming up talking more about the weekend and what we see in terms of a warming trend started to take shape for next week. the time is 5:09 a.m. and will be right back.
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>> welcome back, bay area stocks that were watching apple stock went down overnight trading on the death of steve jobs. it is over 1% and down to $3.70 35. antioch whose stock has jumped 10% yesterday on rumors that microsoft was interested in purchasing model, but when microsoft issued a statement saying that was not true we see of
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the shares trading at lower in overnight trading. and watching futures for the down, they're up right now over 40 points as the stock's gain ground for the second straight day yesterday, the dow at 131. ending at 10,940, the s&p was up 20 in the nasdaq was up 56. >> new this morning a british broadcasting corp. is cutting 2000 jobs want to reduce costs. the director- general says that the plan to cut the cost by 20 percent over five years means stretching efficiencies and significant job losses. the government has frozen the the license fee paid by households that fund the bbc and also has given the bbc responsibility for funding the world service. that is now funded by the government's service. the time now is 5:13 a.m. and will be back. as but a look at the james lick.
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>> is now on our top story, the death of steve jobs in 2005 during a stanford commencement he had words of wisdom. >> no one wants to die even people that want to go ahead and do not want to die to get there and yet, that is the destination that we all share. no one has ever escape it, and that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. it is a lifestyle change agent it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you, but some day not too long from now you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. sorry to be so dramatic but it is quite true. >> steve jobss beg
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mourned a around a row, taking the this vigil in from an apple store in china it seems like this is playing out in front of apple stores worldwide. >> police said body found near san jose may be connected to the suspicious disappearance of a fan of a woman over the weekend. here is a picture of the 20 a year old who was last seen early sunday morning getting into either a silver pontiac grand he or a blue some of the tunnel. --or a blue chevy tahoe. and a female body was found an unincorporated san jose and the cornice office is working now to find out whose remains it is. >> police say the 41 year- old victim was approached by two suspects, one pulled out a handgun and a man his property the victim turned over his car keys, what is cellphone and a computer. the suspects then run away
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with the item. the man arrived home and then discover that his home also been burglarized. >> the time is 5:18 a.m. we want to get a look at the weather and see what we are in for. things look nice and calm and dry right now but how will they change? >> the ticket could look, we have the radar set for at 8:00 a.m.. but let me show you the satellite. we are not done with the system the roads through. the last bits and pieces headed our way. we can expect and on and off again when morning especially for the morning commute will break that down in the till. taken closer look at the rate of you over san francisco. we're actually tracking some bits and pieces run into the city right now. light rain falling anywhere from traced to two tenths of an inch that is over the city. we also have a cell moving through it looked like iran right now headed towards oakland in emeryville. watch
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for that over the next half- hour to come your way. the other party will fall and was down in the south near half moon bay. this has slid over the top of half moon bay and will intensify. you can see some of the heavier stuff off shore. it will intensify as that makes its way to the eastern direction. once this its up and over the coastal range, we will see that having an impact on those out there in san mateo city. and in livermore as it continues to track its way towards tracy anywhere from traced to attend, or two tenths falling right now. those are the only cellular fallen over the bay, but did not the only ones that we will see, to our north, will see it intensified quite a bit. and you can see this as moving its way south into the east as we advance the car. that is 7:00 a.m., and here is a am as their hitting out the door for the morning commute. and for san
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raphael, for richmond, concord and any act as the system continues to slide south will see impact more communities by 9:00 a.m., oakland, hayward, livermore, fremont those that amount of you will see some intense rain, and red indicate heavy rain. do not be surprised of a thunderstorm pops up here and there we may even see some help falling this morning. we will keep cloud --the cameras going. and keep in mind is to be a wet morning. we are expecting at 2:00 p.m. it to get a little more spotty it is not as intense of the there are some pockets of moderate rain and then by 5:00 p.m. look for to be all gone. the evening arrival be located the morning ride that may be a problem for you. and here is where we see going over the next week. friday we start drying out, saturday and sunday we still look great for fleet week. in london tuesday of next
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week in eyes warming trend for sunny skies and the in the temperatures are getting back to near 90 degrees. at 5:21 a.m. the check the commute. >> a pretty good ride around the bay area we are not tracking the hot spots right now and not looking much at very so traffic. starting here with our bridge check at the bay bridge toll plaza papery light rye, not much clout or can justin. your ride to the san mateo bridge looks good. traffic here as you can see both east bound and west bound moving and the headlights are headed back towards hayward and the east bound commute. your golden gate bridge ride looks good. the trip in from marin county no problems or delays. and here's a check as we pick up our camera excuse me, are maps and sensors for the right on highway 4 on 680 into the san ramon valley westbound interstate 80 look good. so
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does your 580 ride coming into livermore out of the off my past. and then in the south bay will be a pretty good trip for you. that is funny that does not look like the south bay but this does. that is the highway 1 01 north bound, it looks great are the title valley and a traffic looks good from a 85 through the west valley freeway. that is heading out toward cupertino and then eventually into mount you. public transit no reports of any problems there or delays. >> thank you and our customers, those overcharge for long-term parking will receive $2,000 set aside for refunds. customers were not supposed be charged for those days and part receive complaints and their work. an investigation discovered that there was a problem the configuration of the billing software. bart says over 60,000 customers were affected. now >> thank you for watching kron4 morning news this thursday morning and as they
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live look our for our roof to show you the conditions here. they appear to be pretty clear right now we will be right back.
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>> 5:26 a.m. and in national news today, prosecutors will begin to explain the interaction between the drugs that the pop star was taking. that plan on calling a toxicology expert in the corners investigator to the stand today. yesterday's accord a forensics computer expert to the stand and present audio and other files that he recovered from the iphone of dr. conrad murray's. that phone that dr. murray was using the day that jackson died, the prosecution wants to show that murray was distracted by phone calls and e-mails causing him to neglect michael jackson. the defense says that michael jackson gave himself a lethal dose of drugs. >> congresswoman that giffords will be marked in
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for her husband's retirement ceremony. the retiring ashen and navy captain will be honored at the white house after 25 years of service. aside from its years as an astronaut, he piloted 39 combat missions during operation desert storm and congresswoman giffords is still receiving therapy for a gunshot wound to the head and nearly killed her. >> the time is 527 a and will be back in a couple minutes of the not go away. take a live look at the golden gate bridge everything is clear there and the traffic is starting to wake up and rolled in from marin county will be right back.
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the the death of apple former ceo steve jobs. he underwent pancreatic cancer and had a kidney transplant 2009. he remain as a part of the apple's board of directors
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and steve jobs co-founded apple in his crotch with steve and saw it grow into a $350 billion business. we are live this morning at the cupertino headquarters of apple where the memorial has been growing over night. >> you can see the sizable memorial right out front here. you can see that it is lit up in the light here at night there are people live are to come by. now we will give you some pictures of a close-up. there are even apples out here, real apples at the site with headphones and sticking out of them. there are more deals like this all over the country. as was the apple stores in china. today everyone will
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be seen the cool light of day people have been coming to work slowly while learning the news of his death. there many thought some people's mind especially when is apple go from here. it is a media circus especially all around the country and again as workers, and they will--we will talk to them about how they're feeling. >> we have team coverage of the passing of steve jobs it is obviously not only a local store but an international story that is making a lot of headlines. in the san francisco chronicle this is a big story showing a picture with a caption that said the man who saw the future. and we found this from locally from the daily news the sense tech tighten passes with a picture of him along with several of the gadgets that
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steve jobs is responsible for bringing to the world. and also this one i like that as well. the genius. and also the date of his birth and death. we will show you more newspaper headlines throughout the morning here on kron4. >> thank alive and at 5:32 a.m. are developing story is what we have been falling since yesterday with the live team coverage and the extended coverage of the manhunt for sharif allman he is accused of killing three people and injuring several others. he is still on the loose as a 430 yesterday morning. the police say that he opened fire during a meeting at his workplace which was the cement plant in cupertino and then he took off and evaded the police were the police say he got to sayville and shine tried the car deck woman there in the parking lot of h p. so yes today we shall the massive door-to-door
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search going on from neighborhood to neighborhood but so far there was no sign of him. the santa clara--the santa clara county sheriff says he is considered armed and dangerous. >> there are two fire arms that we believe he has like handguns. we know that he may own other weapons we believe he is armed, we know that the area of the search is clear we believe it is. >> of so we now know as you can see here the names of the victims who were killed in the shooting spree.
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>> they were all killed in the workplace shooting spree yesterday. >> a developing story we're falling right now protester's associate with the group occupied as an classed with the police early this morning there can be out in this financial district for the 2 1/2 weeks protest in the country's economic woes. we are live in san francisco with more. >> good morning mark, and after yesterday's protest it did end up here, we had about maybe 100 people occupying the whole space and for the federal reserve building a lot of them right now are sleeping in their sleeping bags. with just past midnight, they actually got a notice from the city saying that the tents that they had up the at detecting down there were a couple other violations like serving food and even occupying the space. now their understanding was that it was ok for them to do this. it was ok for them to have tent's up because of the rain. but they got this
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notice and they said they had to take it down. they say they did take down the tents, but reports still came in and they tried to confiscate some of their items and that is a list are getting here. that is in the police department did a police line. protesters here then formed a human barricade around there. and then that is we got very confrontational and one arrest was made during that confrontation now attention is pretty high even though things are calm right now we do have police officers circling around the area and worked to the side here, you can see one officer and just across the street you will see another as well as protesters, you see them here on the sidewalk their milling around in this area over on drum and market. so they are saying that there will be here indefinitely. mr. they will not be moved,
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and this is where they will stay. again, a part of occupy wall street this is occupy san francisco they say there will camp out in front of the federal reserve building in definitely. >> think for the update as you mentioned, we see similar protests here and off angeles and dallas, boston and other cities around the nation. we will show you video of those of a protest. >> 5:36 a.m. is the time and what are we in for? i am ready for anything. >> will have a little bit of everything coming we have some showers in the mix, some sunshine for later on in a little bit went out there. now let us look at san francisco. we had a cell rolled through giving us some rain in san francisco not too long ago and the radar shows that it is certainly starting to move off headed towards the east bay, but this is a lighter view of the bay. we will focus in on the wet weather that is coming down right now. in the north bay, san
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rosa, this what weather rolled through not long ago they're getting a break now, there is more headed are weary rainfall is not terribly heavy anywhere from trace amounts and lighter blue to maybe a 10th of an inch, or 210 in the darker areas. it is light but out there and will make the rules of the bill went. and here is the shot over san francisco we have south san francisco right now dealing with some light rain as it continues to move off over the bay. oakland you have a system headed to you. and things will get of the war went in the next five to 10 minutes. half moon bay getting a little more intense the heart of this cell, the more moderate rain moves onshore. we see the rain picking up there, and are to the east we follow that with whether that role to livermore and headed out towards tracy and we have fremont receiving showers live in nature this morning. i want to quickly run through the day in terms of what we are expecting, 6:00 a.m. the rain in the north
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bay will intensify that is the prediction in this system will slowly move to the south, you can see by seven, a a.m. and 9:00 a.m. that light to moderate to heavy rain, you see that in the green, the yellow and red it worked its way through the bay for your morning commute. at 9:00 a.m., the bay is dealing with that heavy rain and then it will push out by about 10:00 a.m.. hayward will be in the thick of it and so will livermore. by noon we should see the heavy stuff leaving their area will become very scattered in nature, as the push the clock forward you will see. now before we go to break hallie you know we are looking okay after tomorrow. friday is looking good saturday and sunday looking fantastic and >> have a warming trend to dark about for the first half of next week. at 5:39 a.m. we will take a break and be back with more headlines than just a minute.
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>> it is 5:45 a.m. and more on our top story, the death of steve jobs founder and ceo apple he died at age 56. during a commencement speech in 2005 he said he survived to live every day of his life as if it was his last. >> when i was 17 i read a quote that said something like you live each day as if it was your last sunday you most certainly will be right. it made an impression on me and since then for the
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past 33 years i have looked in the mirror every morning and ask myself if today were the last them my life when i want to do what i'm about to do today? whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row i know any change something. remembering that will all be dead soon is the most important tool that i have ever cauca--accounted that made me make the most important decisions in life. almost everything, our fear, embarrassment and failure these things fall way in the face of that leaving only what is truly important, remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose. you are already naked there is no reason why not to follow your heart. >> some eerie were just six years ago from steve jobs was always been viewed as the visionary behind apple and its products. we sat
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down with the san francisco bureau chief of forbes to find out what sets steve jobs apart from the other technology executives and how his death will affect the future of apple. >> this is more than a loss of a ceo, this is a loss of one of the great man in american business. steve has one of the change the way that we think about product. it is about the experience in the in fun experience, think about apple from walking into the stores, using the software, opening the boxes and watching the advertisement everything about them had a unified feeling and it was all about the quality of experience. apple created products not by figuring out how well people say what this feature show will include that are making focus groups, but they created that steve and the other people at apple thought that the world love. and you can see that time
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and again. the question for apple will not be what happens in the next 12 months or 24 months because the next great apple products are offered in the pipeline it is as you look three years or four years or five years down the road can apple maintained that its brand that we know so well and we just not know that. >> all across the world, people are reacting to the death of steve jobs. this is what is going on in tokyo japan flowers being placed in front of the apple store there and steve jobs himself was deeply influenced by sony in japan. he counted the sony founder as one of his mentor's a vigil is also underway in hong kong where fans have been leaving flowers in front of the apple store. >> here's a quick look at what some of the people are saying, the responses are certainly pouring in. smith says he changed the world and how we perceive it thank
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you so much you'll be greatly missed. and nancy clark says he was a genius neckpiece income from be bestowed upon his friends and family if you like to leave your own condolences and comments for steve jobs like i said, facebook.com/kron4. >> thank you very much erica and on the whether we are watching some lingering rain showered we have more on that and we can forecast. >> we will begin with the radar because we have rain falling this morning we knew that we would deal with some scattered showers and remnants of yesterday's storm for the first half of today and the radar showed that we were not wrong in that prediction. we have rain up north to santa rosa let us start the tour there. we have light rain falling now more moderate rain just behind it, it is scheduled to come on through. it looks like san jose will be underneath this wet weather for at least the next hour or so. and that will vary in intensity. we have light rain falling right now and the darker areas or even the yellow areas, that is where it picks up intensity a little bit. an open this
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was over ran less than an hour ago. it is stretching all the way down to san leandro and alameda. this continues to track to the east. and there you go, the latest update shows set up against the oakland hills and making its way over the valley. highway 92 in the san mateo bridge under some light rain right now and this moderate cell that was over half moon bay still tracking to the south and to the east. at some point if this does get up and over the coastal range, it could very well drop down into santa clara and san jose. will be watching for that, the system over livermore and heading out towards tracy seems to be dying down a little bit. so it is that such a ride over 580 is improving as we head into the 6:00 hour this morning. now future passed for have an early predictor that the north bay rain will start to pick up in intensity. you to see how this turned into the magenta color indicates the potential for some thunderstorm activity. and embedded in the system that
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is and what we saw some lightning strikes offshore, but we could very well see some of that this morning be ready for. at 7:00 a.m. it dropped further to the south and by 8:00 a.m. as you're heading out the door we have moderate rain coming across the north bay and upper portions of the east bay near concord and martinez. we will continue to keep this went through 9:00 a.m.. and you're drive will be a wet one more than likely depending on where you are. at 10:00 a.m. we are still dealing with this thinking up in intensity near hayward. finally we get down to the south bay and i hereby noon time. after that, we're dealing with scattered hit and miss showers, it will continue to diminish as we head into the evening hours. i want him over to george and will be back with the seven day forecast to talk about your we can all that good stuff. we have good news on the way on a weather front. it is 5:52 a.m. george good morning. >> good news here we are not tracking hot spots, a pretty good right around the area even at the bay bridge
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toll plaza just a modest backup in the left-hand lane. but is likely that we will see are to go back to the bay bridge this morning. metering lights should get active at about half past this morning. an easy trip both west bound and east bound. the left side of your screen is the commute direction and it is much light unusual. as you did see the traffic looks good south bound. the fourth lane is now available the entire length of the spanish coming from ran into san francisco. as the check the traffic map looked ride in the east bay and the south bay west bound 580 initial a little slowing through livermore, the south bay freeways are still wide open green on the map means being in excess of 50 mph. and sliding up the peninsula, it is slow and go on the 101 south bound. nothing to worry about that will clear out in the next minute or two. there are no delays or problems for your peninsula ride.
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>> fleet week flies into the bay area and especially that starts thursday october 6th. and that is when you can catch the blue angels make their first crack the crop--make their first practice run over san francisco and the bay. the blue angels are back in the air friday afternoon fine- tuning their maneuvers from 1230 until 4:00. things really get going saturday and sunday october 8th and ninth. the parade of ships and start making their way under the golden gate bridge on the 11:00 a.m. saturday. there would travel along the northern san francisco waterfront. all eyes will be on the fleet week airshow saturday and sunday from 12:30 pm until 4:00 p.m.. and people are sure to line up to tour several naval
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ships docked along the bay. in october 10th there will be more ship tours and the band challenge from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at golden gate park. all ships depart on tuesday. for a complete list of all the events in times had to web site kron4.com and click on fleet week. i am grant lotus with kron4 news. [ rapid footsteps ] ow! [ male announcer ] when life happens, you need a plan you can count on. 3.4 million californians trust us with their health coverage needs.
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