tv KRON 4 Early News KRON November 23, 2011 6:00am-7:00am PST
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the clouds to get out and we watch for the rain to start falling, you'll see temperatures like this, upper 50s and low 60s similar to yesterday a couple of degrees cooler. san francisco should come in at 59 degrees. your 7 day around the ratios rain leading us by thursday, things will stay cloudy as we head into the weekend. the good news is we will slowly warm up. on tuesday and his son finally breaks through the clouds and begins to warm. let's see how the roads are shaping up on this wednesday morning furious >>george: there are no problems or hot spots, there is not much in a way of a delay. we are looking at unusually light traffic of the bay bridge toll plaza
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westbound. there are no backups on any of the approaches and there are no delays. your ride on the sand until bridge is equally good. problem free with letting the usual traffic was down. but if the golden gate bridge has had no problems so far this morning. bridge is now configured with four lanes available southbound and to lanes off northbound. looking at east the freeways sensors show that traffic is moving off at the limit for better all around the bay area. there is some slowing on highway 4 westbound. 580 westbound looks pretty good coming out of livermore and heading down towards the dublin and to change. your ride on the south bay is also a good to me with no problems from 101, to 80 or 80. in the north bay the commute is still a free and problem free. >>mark: will tran is watching the situation at sfo this morning, a day
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current miners' to go public since sandusky's arrest. his lawyer responded to these new allegations by saying that we expected copycat allegations and we're confident that we will be >>mark: the opening bell on wall street coming up and about 20 minutes. we have weekly unemployment numbers come out a date early fun of it came out at 530 of. we had a small rise in leafless fast as is the weekly jobless claims. the dow finished down again yesterday almost a half percent closing at 11,493. the dow is off close to 700 points over the last 2.5 weeks. >>justine: if he likes know he will definitely like what
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>>james: here is a live look from san francisco which are not looking for any rain to start falling clouds on the in keister of the day. rain in the north bay may believe this afternoon and then bay area wide overnight. and it looks like we have the potential for a wet thanksgiving. here is a quick look at the radar. there rain is a will to the north but will slow the sad
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hour wait. it will search impact us late this evening and into the overnight hours. here is what we expect for the holidays. fairly widespread and light rain. light-moderate rain bay area wide carry the morning hours will be rather intense. as you push towards later in the afternoon by 1:00 p.m., we expect these to actually start drying out. hawks have temperatures are on the school's science. here is your 7 day
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around the bay. the clouds will stay with us for the next few days. the weekend is not bad. next tuesday is the next time it looks like we will get a decent break in the cash clouds and >>george: we're getting a decent break in the traffic department. there is no slow traffic or hot spots. on the bay bridge, the metering lights have not yet been activated. normally they are turned on the buy 615. traffic is so light westbound. the san mateo bridge ride looks good. on the toll plaza later the usual although it is getting heavier. the drive time is the least 13 minutes. how
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about your trip on the golden gate bridge, it is a problem free. the volume is building although it is not yet slowed in marin county. first, let's look at the east bay freeways as we look at the ripe on 80 westbound hercules to berkeley, 17-18 minutes. there are no delays on 580 westbound coming out of livermore toward dublin and into castro valley. the south bay freeways are delay free and problem free. it will be the easy ride on 85 westbound all the weights and on view. your north bay ride is still without delay for 11 southbound. public transit is still quiet. there are no delays reported for caltrain, bart or valley transit authority. test box
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>>mark: according to aaa 42.5 million people are expected to travel, if that is the highest number since the start of the recession. gas prices are more expensive, 20 percent more expensive than it was last thanksgiving. but craig skalar is watching gas prices in milipitas. >> it is about $3.71 a gallon for regular and milipitas. that is pretty common in the south bay. you mentioned a year ago it is much more now. just about one week ago, it was 65 a gallon. if you are going on a trip thanksgiving weekend, is directly speaking prices are higher than they were a year ago. the a barrel of what is
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about $98. fruit prices have gone up. experts say for some reason it is just not happening. $4.29 a gallon for diesel. prices are high all around the country. felt we are really at the mercy of the market. for now prices are not as high as they were as you get ready for your things given vacation. raquel >>justine: the occupy demonstrators have been protesting what they see as income inequality in corporate greed for about two months. the protests have cost taxpayers 13 million in overtime as of november 15th in new york city it has cost about $7 million. this is where the movement started. the second
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city where it is costing the most is in oakland. this includes more than 1 million in police overtime. portland has paid just under 1 million. $785,000. that is the estimated total police overtime. also this morning we have new details and to the investigation of the pepper spray incident at uc- davis. the president is now calling on a former l.a. police chief to investigate what happened to offer syria students who were protesting peacefully were sprayed in the face of pepper strife. from there are calling for a system my examination of police protocol's a caller from
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>>erica: that video has fanfare hot topic on our facebook fan page. take a look at what some people are saying. >> here is what one of your head to say. >>erica: here is what another person had to say. >>erica: we are getting a lot of responses. did you like to leave your own visit our facebook fan page. fan >>mark: protesters have, and evicted the it from at, a
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>>mark: natalie wood went missing 30 years ago and the captain that helped pull her body of the water now believes she could of been saved. a former l.a. county rescue boat captain said he was not notified until she had already been missing for four hours. she survived for some time call but was pulled out to sea. her death
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investigation was reopened last week. >>mark: this judge was seen on camera beating his then teenage daughter back in 2004. the video was viewed by millions of mind. he is on suspension with pay pending the outcome of an inquiry. his daughter of live video which shows her father beat her repeatedly with a belt. >>justine: we will take a quick break and be right ahead
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>>mark: opening bell on wall street. santa claus and felix the cat mood of babar of molest. the macy's thanksgiving day parade is tomorrow. dow futures are down 102 points as the slide that we have seen over the last two weeks continues of the doubt is that 11,363 create >>justine: a big story this morning is the weather forecast, not only what is happening in the bay area but also on the east coast. if you are planning to travel bring your umbrella. >>james: here is the view from storm tracker 4. but whether getting closer to the riga coastline. the bulk of the wet weather, the front itself is about to
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make landfall. at some point it will impact us around the bay. cloud cover stretches into the pacific. we are watching and waiting as it continues in eastern league march. the clock is set for 8:00 a.m. to point out the fact that santa rosa could see a pop of shower here and there. by 7:00 a.m., slow- moving. 9:00 p.m. is when showers will begin to arrive and spread bay area life as we head into the overnight hours. widespread rain with pockets of moderate rain activity. that is kind of what we are expecting as we head into the evening and overnight. that is when the bulk of
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today's rain will fall. tomorrow will be the reverse, the first half of thursday will be wider than the second half. we will talk about thursday's forecast in my next update. it is chilly outside, 39 in fairfield, 42 and concord the south bay as we take a look, 46 in san jose, 44 in los gatos. redwood city and san francisco, 51 degrees there. upper 40's and low 50s are your temperatures around the bay. cost >>james: the rain should be done by the end of thursday. cloudy and a dry but temperatures will still warm as we head into the beginning of next week.
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>>george: we are tracking a potential hot spot on the bayshore freeway. we do not yet have ct confirmation but we do have of your alcohol off to tell us about an accident southbound at sfo that is blocking three lanes. some reports indicate that a vehicle may have overturned and it went over the center divider into the northbound traffic lanes or perhaps the car is overturned on to the center divider. it is possible that boats northbound and south on lanes could be affected. half will transit is in a rout fortunately he was close by at sfo. we have another problem a hot spot in the south bay on 101 northbound fear in overturns a vehicle on 101 northbound at tully road. if traffic is
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backed up with at least one lane of blocked. reports are that other lanes are getting by. that means there is a delay. if you look at the rest of the commute, it is really light. it is hard to imagine that there will be much of a snag. you do not have to worry about an alternate route. there are no other delays on the ride all the way to santa clara on 101 northbound. here is a bridge check. very light traffic on the bay bridge, no concerns or delays. the sanity of bridge is an easy ride with no problems eastbound or west ounce. a quick look at the golden gate bridge this shows with easy ride. >>mark: we're going live to
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a spokesperson from sfo. >> things are going very well. the weather is cooperating. everything is moving well. it looks like everything is on time or close to being on time. no major problems to speak up. >>mark: has long-term parking at been filled yet? >> not yet. we added another 1400 spots in the overflow area. if we do, we will issue vouchers for people to park in short term at the long-term rate. this is the first traveling season with a terminal no. to open. security checkpoints are moving quickly. less than 10 minutes to get through security and the roadways out from are moving
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smoothly. >>mark: what is the best advice? >> we recommend people get here 90 minutes early for domestic, two hours for international city of sirte even before that, check with your carrier before you leave your house your high-- before you leave your house check with your carrier. >>mark: what is the cut off for getting your bags on the plane? >> most carriers like your 45 minutes minimum that is worse case. some carriers, if you miss that 45 minute window will not figure bags on the plane. >>mark: happy thanksgiving, thank you for the information. we are getting word of flight delays in philadelphia. heavy rain on the eastern seaboard. there are no delays or ordered in
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concerned about terrorist attacks. timothy mcveigh was a vicious terrorist, he was arrested. >> timothy mcveigh succeeded. that is the point. timothy mcveigh killed a lot of americans. i do not want a law that says, after you destroyed a major american city, will come and find it. i want a law that says if you try to take out a city, we will try to stop it. >>justine: the candidates agree that deep cuts to the defense budget would be a bad idea. >>mark: the dow is down 93 points. after two months of steady declines, more americans are filing for unemployment benefits. the labor department says that weekly applications rose by 2000 to 393,000 americans filing for unemployment last week. the increase is not enough to reverse the overall downward trend in the for the average of applications. they have now been at their lowest levels since april. if there are a
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>>george: we are tracking a hot spot that will delay your ride to sfo if you're coming from daly city. on southbound 101 there are three lanes blocked at the airport. the censors do not indicate it but we have confirmed with will tran and. fifth the backup reaches beyond 380 southbound. but looks like a pretty serious accident with a vehicle on its roof "
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>>george: we are tracking to hot spots on highway 101. the first is one a once southbound at sfo. there are three lanes blocked with an overturned accident. will tran is live on the scene, i believe. here is a look at the ride on 101 at southbound. >>will: george, can you hear me? >>caller: you can see that there is an overturned car it is still being worked on. this looks like it will be here for quite some
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time. the car the ec moving, this is a three lane highway for people to head sfo from the san bruno avenue exit. more importantly that would normally be 101. as you can see, it is shut down except one line of cars going through. fit is already impacted northbound 101 which is on the other side. as a move the camera, you can see it is slow going northbound. we do not know the extent of the injuries but it is already impacting the morning commute. we wallet much more in a few minutes. >>george: again the location of the crash this right at sfo the southbound lanes are mostly affected. in the foreground you're looking at traffic that would be headed to the airport. closest to us are the airport lanes, for this
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from us are the freeway lanes. that is where you see the chp vehicles. only one lane is available. again southbound, the back of already reaches beyond 3d for 101. 51 are not headed so use interests in haiti. you of it as a of comically to give yourself more time. they could be as much as 15 minutes the need to add to your commute. again if this is a serious crash, it could be out there for a while. a major snag. there is one and the south bay as well. the only good news is at tully road the accident has been clear from the traffic lanes. it is on the shoulder and back up nearly to highway 85. thankfully, this is the only slow traffic to you will encounter on 101 northbound. a quick bridge check. hot
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>>george: the san mateo bridge is a problem free. the golden gate crooks good . let's get a check on whether with james fletcher. south >>james: here is the view from our roof camera looking back over the bay the clouds will contain rain mainly by the nine hours. here is with a wide view looks like. this of stretches from seattle to the oregon-california border. south
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>>james: here is what we can expect out of this storm system. today and wednesday is when the rain will be the heaviest. thursday, for thanksgiving, scattered showers in the morning theory that is what we expect most of the rain. it will taper off by 3:00 p.m.. only the very northern portion of the bay area will get scattered showers. the rest of the bay area should dry out throughout the day on friday furious that is a breakdown of what we're looking at over the next 24- 48 hours. if the temperatures in the low 60s for a good bit of the bay. gifts fiske's the rain should leave us by thursday
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evening. sachs >>justine: ag gas prices and higher air fare are not stopping many of us in traveling. according to aaa, 42.5 million people are expected to drive, fly or ride. that is the highest number since the start of the recession. 90 percent plan to drive and it will not be cheap. drivers can expect to pay almost 20 percent more for gas. to find out what is happening craig skalar is live in milipitas. ousts >>craig: 20% more people are headed out or on vacation. if it was about $3.25 a gallon a year ago. bad if you want to keep things in perspective, prices are down
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about 65 a gallon from what they were a week ago and more than that over the last couple of weeks for keep things in perspective prices are coming down just- in-time it seems, accessible paranoid a little and did dollars a barrel. the price of gasoline is dropping, that is counter intuitive but they say that is the way it is this year. if you are using diesel the presence that has gone up. galoshes course now are about three $80 if at $3.71 is what i have seen. as an interpreter of on it's still up in an july week and during that this season in the form of lower gas prices.
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>>mark: hundreds of people in danville came together for a candlelight vigil to honor a fallen marines killed in afghanistan on friday. he was 19 years old. he enlisted shortly after graduating from san ramon valley high school. his they are cut out to show support here sixth >> this community is coming together in helping everyone out. it does help ala. >>mark: on but hundreds of needed numbers like new-line i'm upset his support. flags at the danville town hall were made at half staff.
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>>justine: also offered last night, james capoot, a bank robbery suspect killed him the vigil was held up the good samaritan baptist church. many pastors have been counseling members of the community following is a tragic loss. the suspect has not yet been charged in will enter a plea at a later date we will be right back. + +
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>>george: we are tracking a major hot spot in a bad location. if you are trying to get the sfo or anywhere in north of the airport you will be delayed. there is an accident a major crash southbound on 101 that is blocking three lanes at as a fog. traffic is already backed up on the bayshore freeway past south san francisco. if you are not heading to the airport use
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interstate 280 to get around the problem. >>justine: we will keep our eyes on us that hot spot and the wet weather moving into the bay area just in time for thanksgiving. here is a live look at the james lick freeway in san francisco where there are no issues. as you heard, we are watching the road, the skies and the weather.
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