of health and human services.

satellite and radar shows temperatures are pretty on par with the seasonal average. as you can see for yourself and have 66 degrees

f to the downtown san francisco, 84 concord, 86 for those in pleasanton. as we look your extended forecast looks like we would inland the '70s around the bay and upper 60 for the coast. >> james: we are also following weather on the national front, in fact we have some warm temperatures expected that could continue throughout the middle and eastern portions of the nation. we're looking at temperatures that may be in the upper eighties to low 90s for a good number of its some of the latest video that we have come out of the east coast. the good news is that there hopefully in store for some relief come saturday. here is what we see on the national map. the hottest part of the country is in the midsection of the east coast. washington d.c. had a number of people without power, some 2

million in total between these two sections of the country without power. they have had about 500,000 still without power in the east coast. now about 90% of their it looks like they may be doing okay about 90 percent restored. yesterday was the fourth of july and there was a lot of hot weather out there, thankfully they have the lights in the air conditioner back on at least for about 90 percent of those that were without power. all this resulted from some pretty severe storms that rolled through last weekend that knocked out power for a lot of people and for some the power is still out. fat is one of the stories we're following. in overnight news around the police arrested a man that they believe stabbing of a man in east victim was found stabbed in the neck on university avenue. witnesses tell the police track down this man who they think it's responsible for the stabbing

with no word on the victim's condition. now jurors could have a verdict as soon as today when the trout in the retired priest being case resumes. during the trial 44 euro william lynch said that father lender rate him and his brother back in 1974 at the time he was 7 years old and his brother was only for he says that the abuse basically destroyed his life. lynch admitted to a plunging the priest. now on to the developing story that we first brought you yesterday. this morning the police to looking for a missing teenager. three of the at risk children of broken yesterday all for vanished shortly after the a little brother--after their little brother was limited to the hospital with injuries of use. >> reporter: 16 year old a leah johnson remains missing. oakland police took

the children's mother, stepfather and babysitter into custody when investigators found cubs year-old child with severe injuries from being abused. investigators say i-after- invested their said after seeing news reports a family member contacted authorities in turn three of the four missing children over the police. but their 16 year- old sister is still missing. here at children's hospital there 3 year-old brother remained in critical condition. >> james: and look back with more headlines in just a minute ticket quick look outside to take a brief break and be back with more in a moment. the golden gate bridges in the background.

>> james: president barak obama the partly to the bus tour of ohio. >> james: his 250 mi. betting on america bus tour is taking him through several northern ohio communities when he receives strong support back in 2008. it will also taken to pennsylvania with a stop in pittsburgh. yesterday he talked immigration and naturalization ceremony in washington he welcomed 25 active-duty members of the armed forces into our nation as official citizens. the president told the crowd the fourth of july as much to the wear american, but also about how we die here. >> president barak obama: are american journey and our success will not be possible without the generation of immigrants that have come to our shores from every corner of the globe. we said so

often we sometimes forget what it means, we are a nation of immigrants. unless you were one of the first americans, native americans we are all descended from people who came from someplace else. whether there arrived on the mayflower on the slave ship, where they came through ellis island, or across the rio grande. immigrants sign their names to our declaration and help to win our independence. >> james: republican candidate mitt romney spent his fourth of july in new hampshire focusing on health care. this is the individual mandate that requires americans to have insurance is not a tax, he called a penalty, he called it a fine and now because it's a tax. >> the supreme court is the

highest court in the land and they called it a tax right that is what is a tax. >> james: he says is unconstitutional in his eyes, but the supreme court ruled last week that it is not. after a break for the fourth of july trading resumes and stock futures are flat at this hour. >> james: the dow, the s&p and the nasdaq all about even right now the european central bank is expected to lower interest rates during their announcement will 4:05 a.m. this morning. --plans to lower its rates before 5:00 a.m. this morning. also due out today is at the report on the health of the service sector. all of that could influence trading today will to trial on it. we will be back with more animated and the latest on the bay bridge just ahead. we have a live look i

believe at the james lick freeway camera that has been turned to show portions of the bay bridge this incident happened out near treasure island at least two lanes were still shut down will get the latest from erica coming up in just a minute.

>> james: some national headlines here, and i will authorities have recovered the body of three young children that apparently drowned in a river during the fourth of july and with their friends and family. the police chief says the two girls and one more were found last night in the iowa river for families in the drinking from six years old to 10 years old. a police searched the river for over three hours and finally found the bodies. the drowning happened in marshalltown about 50 mi. northeast. meanwhile, the wild fires in colorado to a burning this morning. firefighters predict full containment of that massive wildfires this coming sunday. a day of calmer

winds and higher humidity altamont pass for the july. they're also keeping a nervous how for fireworks and hazards that was the big worry last night. the waldo canyon fire is about 80 percent detained. >> james: dazzling fireworks and all of that synonymous with the fourth of july tradition all around the u.s. at america's a leveraged their independence. >> reporter: the night sky of the up above cities and towns across the united states, a washington the fireworks show went on as planned despite the tens of thousands that remain without power in the surrounding region. some towns canceled their fireworks shows because of a dangerously dry conditions and high temperatures. but decided to focus on recovery efforts from the weekend's damaging storms. at the white house, the president

spoke with military service members and their family members. a group of active u.s. service members be caned u.s. citizens by taking the oath of allegiance. this fills one of several ceremonies across the country and did not forget the parades. here is the big one in the nation's capital. in indiana the governor led the parade which was ravaged by tornadoes in march. >> i admire the people here. >> reporter: it was the town's 182nd consecutive independence day parade. in atlanta many pounded the pavement in the peachtree road race and is not the fourth of july without nathan's hot dog eating contest in coney island. the winners are...

>> joey the 68 hot dogs and guns. >> james: extreme he is making things awfully uncomfortable for firefighters in chicago not only are they dealing with 100 degree temperatures but they have to work with poor air quality and the heat generated from battling the fires themselves. firefighters are trying to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water. some are taking advantage of the war goes to cool off. they said the triple digits temperatures are expected the rest of the week and into the weekend there is some relief in store for the weekend and into next week. let us get a focus on our weather on this thursday morning. >> erica: good morning james, it looks like we are working up to a the but of cloud coverage this morning. it is a little bit cloudy in the south bay right now temperatures for the most part are sitting in the

'50s, as we check out your visibility chart, we do have some cloud coverage and release some fault that is working its way to the coastline. >> erica: here is where the temperatures will go later on into the afternoon. we are holding on to some upper 50s around the extreme coastline, '60s around the bay and '70s for the inland areas. as we push the clock in further, it looks like we start to see some orange trickling in on the screen that indicates the 80's. but it looks like the 80's will be pretty far and few in between. in the south bay for the most hunted can see '70s, 79 degrees expected for santa clara, 74 for those in mountain view. we could see some places and

at 80 for fairfield and antioch. it looks like for the e shores we will keep it in the very low '70s. we have 67 degrees on tap for richmond. >> erica: for the most part we do have cloudy conditions but that will start to burn oscar--burn off as we head into the afternoon. your seven day around the bay forecast shows that temperatures will start to climb over the next couple of days. we will see a pattern of morning fog and afternoon sunshine. warmer conditions are expected for the weekend we are talking '90s and then--inland.

>> erica: none new problems around the bay. we have three lanes blocked however we are not seeing any slowdowns. and also for those the hitting west that is out oakland into san francisco we do have an accident that is affecting traffic run around the s curve. a lot of people are not driving around this hour we are not seeing any major delays, but you may want to give yourself a little bit of extra time if you are using the bay bridge this morning. and i want to help you here in we have all of these lanes blocked that if you're heading this way should certainly be careful that should be cleared out fully. now toward san francisco here is the toll

plaza traffic is moving smoothly with no modern like to deal with. as we take it over to the golden gate bridge we have a live look that shows a little bit of fog, but a lot of space in between cars and no major delays for those of you coming out of the north bay. >> james: 12 headlines and an update on a store that we first brought you live yesterday morning a man that was fleeing from the police is still in critical condition after he crashed his car into a fire hydrant. you may remember the video let me give you a quick look this is the scene. the police try to stop a car but instead of pulling over the driver sped away. he eventually hit a fire hydrant about 2 mi. down the road. the driver suffered life-threatening injuries and another passenger was also hurt in the crash. police said that the car the suspects were and may not have been the only thing that this bill. --may not

have been the only thing that s theytole. >> we do not know of it was the car owners of property if it belonged to these two guys, or if they committed some sort of a fence. --some sort of offense. >> reporter: the police the first spotted the car here. they tried to pull them over the in the suspect took off. eventually the suspect loss control in this area near 41st in san leandro and that is when the suspect hit a fire hydrant take a look. we have a street level view of the area. this is the hydrant that the suspects

hit, the car careened off of this building and then eventually came to a rest right here in the middle of san leandro street. >> james: we will take a quick break we have a live look at the san mateo bridge as we go. traffic looks like it moving at the limit this morning. the current temperature and fremont is about 55 degrees and will be in the low '70s this afternoon.

>> james: we are back are developing story is the bay bridge this morning those of you his east brown--east bound, there is some trouble we have a live look. you can see all the flashing lights on the lower deck, the chp is invested it impossible shooting it happened around 2:00 a.m.. the area was completely shut down all

lanes for about 15 minutes the we understand that release three of the planes have been reopened to traffic. we do have some cars moving past the scene. let us get an update from erica she has been watching this in the traffic center. >> erica: i have been monitoring the maps, when i came in around 3:00 a.m. i saw a lot read on the road we centers. speech were down to the single digits that is when all of the lanes were completely shut down in this live shot shows two lanes are still intact, the left- hand lane is we are really not seeing much in the way of delays. as the ticket to the traffic map we start to see some yellow on our screen approaching the scene of the incident. it looks like peter down to 35 mi. per hour. a lot of that could be rubbernecking. pam also getting word that there are problems was down 80. ride around as curve there is another incident that is an accident could be impacting some lanes but so far so good. i did not see any slowing down whatsoever on the road with centers. if

you are coming out of the city approaching the east bay you want to be where this incident. you may want to add a couple of extra minutes to your dried thyme. as of right now the seat he has no estimated time of when the lanes will reopen. we will continue to mantra this route the morning. not at the approach the bay bridge toll plaza there are no problems and we remise to deal with. for those of you that want to avoid the bay bridge altogether it looks like smooth sailing. at the cemetery ridge there is a lot of space in between cars with the back of the toll plaza. has he taken outside to the golden gate bridge south bound 101 we do have some fog. fortunately queen to unseat him and i have in the incidents or accidents to report. your drive is just 22 minutes out of navato. >> erica: as of right now i want to take the conditions outside because it looks like it is a pretty mouth

start to the morning. yes we did have some cloud coverage of their the temperatures for the most part are sitting in the '50s. we are working up at 56 degrees in our view, and a couple degrees warmer and paul watteau--warmer in palo alto. for the most part of looks like we will be sitting in the '70s i did not see much in the way of 80's. your visibility chart shows 10 mi. of visibility that equals pretty standard conditions. highway 1 is the only place that is contending with extremely thick fog around the bay area. and fortunately all

the cloud coverage involved after the fireworks show that a lot of people into a yesterday evening. now check out 1:00 p.m., it looks like the fog will start to break up and pushed back into the coastline. your temperatures will be a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. we have a mixture of seven clubs with '70s and '80s and the south bay. as we check out the inland areas we could reach 86 degrees east. for the most part we will keep in the low '70s for the shores plenty of sunshine and '70s for the north bay. >> erica: your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast shows morning fog and afternoon sunshine for the next couple of days. as we transition into the weekend we are talking low nineties for year in the area this--

we are talking low '70s for your inland areas. >> erica: james over to >> james: delicate this. we are talking record-breaking temperatures. everyone is doing what they can to stay cool. luckily we understand there has been a lot of power restored to about 90% customer that were without power at least along the east coast that is good news that came just in time for the fourth of july holiday. we have another day of upper 90s to 100. these areas are expected to see some of the worst heat. the good news, we do expect some cooler air from canada. he probably

will see this saturday for the great lakes and sunday for portions of the east coast and maybe monday for some of the central states. that is what we are expecting. there will be some relief as we head towards the beginning next week. anyway, the national news, this is one of the national tour is that we will be falling as this continues to be a problem for millions of people around the country without power. now on to the headlines around the bay area police arrested a man the the believes that another man in east palo alto last night. the 21 year-old victim was found stabbed and the next--neck there is no word on the victim's condition but they did track down the suspect. now the trial will resume today for 44 euro william

lynch and father lender. lynch says that fog the lender rate him and his brother back in 1974 at the time which was only 7 years old and his brother was 4 years old. he says that the abuse it messed--destroy his life. lynch did it make to punching the priest. >> james: 9 man assaulting on monday may be blinded permanently in one eye. police say 66 roman was speaking to another man outside a bar when he was a salted the other man was a 25 year-old who knocked the man in the street and hit him multiple times in the face. two other men that try to break up the fight were assaulted by and another man asked got out of open age 35. --out of oakland, he

was 35 years old. the two men were arrested on the spot. >> james: now last night, the city's popular show went off early and all of the fireworks went off at once it was one gigantic explosion and the sky. this happened in san diego. a lot of people that went to see the show were wondering what happened the company that puts on the fire this glacial says that there was a malfunction. >> james: week seemed to have a problem blocking two

lanes we will tell you more about that coming up in a moment.

>> james: here is equipped with a some of the fire work shows the we saw run the country. this video out of miami it shows, the best part here, the finality of the sunshine state. there were a lot of explosions and fantastic techniques in the sky last night. there was a terrific fire work show at the nation's capital. we have video to show you here, the washington monument in the foreground and fireworks in the background. not only were there fire works with there was a star-studded musical performance and a parade. it was a big show in the sea.--it was a big show in washington d.c.. and we also have fireworks over chicago. we also have some clips from around the bay as well will try to show you those if you miss them last night. in the a's fans were able to witness some history yesterday.

>> james: david or teas hit his 400th home run. the a's went on to win three to two. now next up for oakland they will be challenging the mariners. >> james: washington beat san francisco 9 to 4. the giants will try to avoid a sweep this evening. and steve nash will be heading to l.a.. he agreed to a three year $27 million contract in return, the suns will get four draft picks from l.a.. he has spent the

past eight seasons with the suns and he says that he picked the lakers of the new york knicks and the dallas mavericks because you want to be closer to his children that are in phoenix. we will take a quick break and be right back.

>> james: firefighters make quick work of a grass fire we have video to show you here. it burned for about an acre parcel. the crews finally got this under control. a couple homes in the erie with kron4 in time there was no damage and no injuries. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >> it does not take much, it definitely takes fire works. fireworks and

unincorporated areas dropped california are illegal. >> james: this is not far from the croix fire that raged one and 3,000 a.. now we will take a break from the news and switch over to traffic we have the latest on the bay bridge situation with erica. >> erica: we have breaking developments to talk about the last report we said two planes report--we said that two lanes were closed but we now know that all lanes are shut down due to some police activity suspected to be a shooting that happen in alice. there's a lot of chp presence on the scene. east bound 80 is currently not accessible. we do not have an estimated time of when the lanes will reopen. if you are planning to go out of the city heading over to the east they will probably have to find an alternate

route. that could be the san mateo bridge or the dumbarton bridge this morning. we will keep you informed on any breaking of states--on any breaking of this. we do have yolie on the scene. we will have more information on this developing story coming up. i also wanted to tell you about this figure alert. this is east bound west bound interstate 80. we do have all the lanes shutdown there as well. this is due to some police activity that just occurred about and how were ago. if you are watching in the bay area and you're heading this way you may want to use east bound ag. --east bound 80. >> erica: again, we have no estimated time of when the lanes will reopen. we will

have more information coming up in a further report but as you take a look at the traffic cameras, all is well of open into the city of the bay bridge toll plaza this morning. there are no metering lights to deal with and traffic is flowing freely. here is a live look at the san mateo bridge for those that cannot take east bound 80, you may use east bound 92. there are a lot of space in between cars. your drive is just 13 minutes from end to end. as we take you outside, there's a lot of space in between cars and in the the fog for those coming out of the north bay. >> erica: we will monitor this throughout the morning. we are turning our attention to whether we do have some cloud coverage situated over the bay area. it looks like we do have some low clouds and patchy fog, but into the afternoon issued burn off. temperatures will be a little bit cooler compared to yesterday for the most part sitting in the '70s. as we head into the evening hours, it looks like we may

see clear and cool conditions. heading outside of the door here is what you should expect. we have 60 degrees and antioch, 56 working up an open and the fog tracker for has the southern half of the bay area, everyone to to live below the bay bridge stretches into the livermore valley as well. now as we put in--as be moving closer to 1:00 p.m. it looks like a lot of that will burn off. now compared to yesterday, we will see some '70's in the south bay. we are flirting with 80 for those in cupertino. we could see for places like antioch in fairfield. we have 86 degrees for pleasanton, 83 for walnut creek we're keeping it in the low '70s and relatively comfortable.

we have 75 for those of navato and 62 for ocean beach. your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast shows a mixture of morning fog and afternoon sunshine for the next couple of days. into the weekend of fuqua will squeeze out low 90s in the with '70s around the bay and upper 60 for the coast. we will continue to see the seasonal trend as the stock the next block. >> james: a developing story we have word that a large tree is blocking a road jackie cecil is on scene. now i was going to ask that damaging thing on the way down five guess so. >> reporter: yes oakland police the car was called about a tree down on 13th avenue and 21st street and 20th street. actually that is part of the treat this is

a large limb coming from the tree it fell down into the street it crushed the white car and you can see the back of the car is completely destroyed. now, the tree was on private property so according to the oakland police department's property owner will probably be responsible for the damage that was done to the car. the good news is that no one was injured. the other thing, there are a lot of overhead fire is out here. luckily none of those were dragged down on the branch came down. right now accrues from the city of oakland are on their way out to this location. there is a way for traffic to get by on 13th avenue. so it is not complete and blocking traffic at this point. >> james: i think it will take the cruise a little while to get this cut up the pieces that they can haul away. >> reporter: yes and luckily

it is not the whole tree is just a branch. it is not that big but i think once again knocked down they can get it out of here. >> james: thank you for that update now on to more headlines. >> james: we have a story for you and we should warn you the video could very well be disturbing for some viewers. you may want to turn away for just a second. >> reporter: home video captures the hutton want of a man walking through a fourth of july parade >> i heard the engine revs, and then the guy that was carrying the flag got hit by the car. >> reporter: police believe the 87 in a driver suffered a stroke and lost consciousness while riding. as you could the picture you can see the broken windshield from the impact

of hitting the man. >> he hit his head on the windshield and rolled off the side of the car. >> reporter: the car nearly hit people standing by watching the parade. >> it was too close for comfort and scary with all the kids. >> i was scared because the car came so close we were sitting in our chairs my wife freaked out i grabbed her and then we ran for our house. >> reporter: this woman is one of many that were to help the injured man. >> he was conscious the head injuries, he said his head hurt and is back heard and yet tingling in his feet. >> reporter: despite how rapid the video is the police say they release it because the man is expected to survive. >> he was carrying the american flag on the fourth to live for this to happen it was absolutely are renting. >> james: even if we have an accident of our own to tell you about we will tell you

that all lanes of the east bound direction of the bay bridge closed once again. officers are investigating a shooting incident that occurred earlier this morning we will have the latest coming up in just a minute.

>> erica: in our last report we to do all lanes were blocked east bound 80. this is due to some possible shooting and however we have just confirmed in the past couple of minutes that some of the lanes have reopened and traffic is moving again. you're not seeing any delays on the role with sensors to we have noticed some slowing. if you are heading out of san francisco, from out of san francisco and to open you may want to allow yourself some extra time or use an alternate route. >> james: room we will take

a quick break and be back with more in a minute we have video of a large tree that fell and jackie sinful is live at fan. --and we have jackie fissile live at the scene. we have more on this in a minute.

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they have shut down the lanes temporarily. and you can to back up and the police activity with the flashing light straight ahead. >> reporter: dividend is an investigation going on on the bridge. they had three disclosed. when i drove by you could see the line of cars the want to show some video that i shot as i drove by the scene. they did not allow me to stop or get off because all those lanes that are blocked off are part of the investigation there was a possible shooting that happened around 2:00 a.m.. a car was also involved how this comes as involved exactly nine no. we do not know if it was the intended target or if a possibly crashed because of what happened to we do not know of this point the

information is very sketchy, we are waiting for the chp spokesperson to come out and talk with us and give us more detail. in the meantime the investigation is causing a backup. you can see how all the cars have slowed down. as the morning goes on, traffic seems to get worse. when i first came out here around 3:30 a.m. it was not that that but now it is really backing up. like i said, it seems that periodically they have to stop all the traffic for a little bit and at this point i can only guess that maybe they be open the last two lanes that they had originally opened. because it is bottlenecks so much things are really slowing down here. >> george: george is monitoring the latest in traffic center, let me see if we have anymore

information. >> george: the morning james, information is hard to get about this incident i spoke with the california highway patrol they did confirm that there is at least one lane past the scene of the incident that is open the chp is allowing some cars to pass through. whether or not they're continuing to lead vehicle towards the bridge, or whether or not they're using the left and lane to clear the vehicles that are stuck on the bridge ahead of what had been the closure is still a little bit unclear. here is what is clear, try to avoid the bay bridge east bound. if that is sure normal commute, maybe you drive through the city and you're already in the north, you should probably head straight for the golden gate bridge and cut across that way using the richmond san raphael bridge. if your destination is berkeley, that will be a long way around but you are better off doing that than trying to get into the backup for the closure. your other

option is to use the san mateo bridge. traffic on many of the freeways there are very light. as you can see, once again traffic is coming to a complete standstill for the lower d eck ride east bound. now here is 101 north bound. the backup has not yet reached around the corner to the central freeway. it is backing up a long got the sky way at least as far back as fourth street. we will have more details as the morning progresses left it a quick check of whether--let us get a quick check of weather. >> erica: good morning george. it looks like we are contending with patchy fog and temperatures sitting in the '50s. as we transition

into the afternoon the cloud coverage expected to burn off. i think we will see some sunshine but it will give a bit cooler compared to yesterday. as we head into the evening will have mainly clear and cool conditions. temperatures will drop and i think will have a lick your afternoon high and seven day around the bay forecast coming up. >> james: overnight police arrested a man that believes that another man in east palo alto last night the 20 year-old victim was found stabbed in the next on university avenue. but this is help police track down the 30 year-old roberto ramero no word on the victim's condition at the moment. a large tree has blocked the road to give you more news faster we want to talk with jackie cecil our solo reporter on the scene. >> reporter: no cruise have

arrived yet oakland police department are here protecting the scene. we are waiting for a crew from the city of oakland to get out and move the tree. according to the police officer that i spoke about an hour-and-a- half ago you could see the large tree branch or release part of it fell into the church street--into the street near east 21st and east 20th. according to the police officer the tree was on private property so the owner will probably be responsible for the damage done to the white car. the good news is that no one was injured. there is a lot of overhead power and cable lines in the area and a veteran dragged down when the tree decided to go ahead and fall into the street. both right now, part of east 13th, east 13th avenue is still blocked. you can get by on the left-hand side but i would advise against it. the good news is

that there are not a lot of people out here. and a really good news is no one was hurt in this accident. >> james: has anyone come out yet to say that is my car? >> reporter: no one has come out yet, but like i said earlier that is not the we want to wake up in the morning to run your morning errands. >> james: wow! thank you so much i does cannot get enough of looking at that car, that owner is going to be in for a pretty surprised when they step out the door. >> james: trading will resume on wall street this morning we watched the numbers. investors are on the sideline hoping that the u.s. bank will offer more stimulus. now just announced in the last 15 minutes, the european central bank says that it cut its key interest rate by a quota--a quarter

of a percent. the big monthly jobs report is due out on friday so we will watch for that. and today is the report on the service sector. trading begins at 6:30 a.m.. independence celebrations were in full effect last night. here's a quick look at the fire were displays around the bay area. this video is in piedmont. you can see all the fireworks in the sky. this is marin county. and also milpitas has a similar story with great visibility and a wonderful show. >> james: it was a great night for fireworks all around the bay including san

francisco. there were tens of thousands of people packing the into to see one of the largest fourth of july celebrations in the nation. of course we have the special fourth of july section so if you miss the big event last night around the bay you can always catch are special. you can watch it in its entirety. go online and check it out, we have kron4 about, and a slide show with pictures from viewers all around the bay. we will take a quick break and be back with more headlines in just a moment we have a live look at the bay bridge. our big story right now is that all lanes on lower deck are shut down and every now and then they open up for just a few minutes. we will get the latest on all this coming up in just a minute.

>> george: breaking news this morning there is police action on the lower deck of the bay bridge in the eastbound traffic is crawling along because of the five lanes for--4 are blocked by the highway california patrol they have confirmed that there is one lane open past the theme of this incident on the lower deck that has been there since about 2:15 a.m.. this shot is coming from yolie. they are trying to wrap up an investigation. the best information that i have in this situation will be a witness for released an hour or longer. chp is sending additional resources to help and managed to traffic--help and manage the traffic. now

we did check the san francisco camel have good news, the back of this not reached on to city streets yet. it does not reach on to the sky way as you can see north bound 1 01 is coming upper past--coming up passed into them. we will have more with kron4 morning news returns we will be right back. the flat, dark, and by

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>> james: . >> george: we have one lane available on the bay bridge, three to four lanes are shut down for the continuing investigation of this police action that has been with us for about three hours and jamming up the traffic on the lower deck of the bay bridge. was he to tell if that the west bound could

you direction is unaffected by this problem. >> george: your best advice is to avoid using the bay bridge in the east bound direction. >> george: there have been reports as recently as 30 minutes ago that all traffic from the lower deck of the bay bridge is being diverted from the freeway. we do not believe that is still the case. i did not believe the chp is sending traffic off the freeway but they may as well be. because you will hit a wall of traffic when you get around a corner towards the san francisco off ramp that is right here. want to get to that point you hit a wall of traffic there will be with you all the we ought to the island. you are much better off heading to one of the alternates. now as i mentioned, let us talk about the commute direction to

the bay bridge that spot is completely clear. as you can see there are no problems there. if you're heading to the san mateo bridge as an alternate, there are no problems here. this is the east bound direction that is the direction you would be heading if you are trying to use the san mateo bridge as an alternate. if you're heading to the golden gate bridge from downtown san francisco, the north bound ride and to conceive is completely free. that would be the direction that you would be concerned not the southbound traffic flow. west bound is completely unaffected. as i shall the traffic map, this--as the show the traffic map, getting through san francisco is still ok. the latest information we have is that the into it will likely be with us until about 6:30 p.m.--a.m.. let

us get over to erica. >> erica: good morning to you george. let us take a look outside the door. later this afternoon of the five we will contend with mostly '70s, the old 80's will be far and few in between holding on to some upper 60s along the coastline. into tomorrow we will fix any of sunshine into purchasing around the seasonal average. the king ahead, it looks like was the a dry in quiet weather pattern with no rainfall to speak of. mal you can see where this--now you can see we're the offog is, we have cloud coverage in san jose.

>> erica: your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast shows coastal fog. temperatures will begin to rise into the weekend and 90's for the inland areas the '70s around the bay and upper 60 for the coast. we will continue to the relatively warm summer like conditions as we thought the next work week. >> james: 1 to politics, mitt romney is now calling

president obama as health care a lot a tax. he spent a fourth of july in hampshire. he stopped at a holiday parade in you can see him speaking to the crowd. he said the supreme court's opinion, he says the states have the power to place a mandate on health care but the federal government does not. he has gone back and forth calling this a penalty, sometimes a fee, or a fine, but now he says that it is a tax. >> the supreme court has the final word in there are the highest court in a land, they said it was a tax and that is what it is. >> james: mitt romney maintains that the high courts have made it clear. it is a tax. >> james: yesterday president obama formally welcome 25 active members of the armed forces into our nation as full citizens the president said it is not just about where americans

are, but how we got here. >> president barak obama: are american journey and our success with a plea not be possible without the generation of immigrants that have come to our shores from every corner of the globe. we say as so often, we sometimes forget what it means the we are a nation of immigrants. unless you are one of the first americans, a native american, we are all descended from people who came someplace else. where there arrived on the mayflower, on a slave ship, where they came through ellis island or the cross over the rio grande. immigrants sign their names to our declaration and helped to win our independence. >> james: president obama the parts of the two day campaign tour through ohio. he will also visit

pennsylvania. he will be raising questions about their romney's business record. his 250 mild betting on america for is taking him through ohio and western pennsylvania with a stop and pittsburg. you want to take a break and give you another live look as we go. now this is the bay bridge we have only one lane open right now as you head from san francisco out to open. --as you head out to oakland. then if only one lane open because there are investigating a shooting on the bay bridge we will be back.

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>> james: there was a

shooting earlier the morning around 2:00 a.m.. many claims on the bay bridge are shut down only one lane is getting by. we will have more on this in just a minute.

>> james: breaking news, at times all lanes of dead bay bridge in the east bound direction are closed because of a police investigation. there was a shooting earlier but here you can see some traffic moving now and again because they're trying to let some of that back up to go through. yolie is our solo reporter on the scene. is that the case? i see the back up current distill gridlock? ok we will give back with her because her microphone is having trouble. but the chp is out there investigating like i said, the traffic backup has

been somewhat problematic. george what have you heard about this incident? >> george: it is likely to be with us for the sin of the hour, there are a minimum of three lanes blocked and likely four lanes blocked on the lower deck of the bay bridge. sometimes one or two lanes may be available to help clear up the traffic. let us see if we can do a good job of setting the scene. our actual location is at the middle of the s curve just past the tunnel on the lower part of the bay bridge. this is traffic that will be coming onto the bridge. you will be looking at traffic coming from the tunnel that was funneled over into the to the left-hand lane. these

are flares that out to block out the right side of the road with because the chp now the traffic does not reach a around the bay bridge or to seventh street but on fourth streets things are back up. let me show you a we are talking about this stretch of roadway is where the backup begins leaving the lower deck of the bay bridge. our camera is positioned right here in looking at this traffic that is moving well in the northbound direction. you want to avoid the bridge if possible and use either the golden gate bridge or the san mateo bridge as

alternate to the bay bridge for least the next hour. >> erica: good morning george, we did want to take it again temperatures around the bay area for the most promising company and the '50s. no shocks or surprises we have some coastal fog to deal with it a lot of cloud coverage around the bay area. as we check out what is on tap later on this afternoon it looked like we will contend with mostly '70s. into tomorrow we will see plenty of sunshine temperatures around the seasonal average. i will have a full look at your past the seven day around the bay coming up. >> james: thank you erica, and now try to talk with yolie earlier she was with the chp trying to get the latest, she is back at the camera and let us get an update on where she has learned so far. good morning. >> reporter: good morning,

we learn what actually happened at 2:00 a.m., it looks like the chp was trying to stop a car for speeding. let me show you some video that i shot at the scene earlier this morning. this car that you will see in my video that is the car that they were trying to stop in the pursuit this car crashed on the side of the wall into the bridge. as soon as he collided with the wall he came to a stop there was gunfire exchanged at that point. chp was able to apprehend a suspect. they will able to take him that person into custody. he did suffer injuries not from the shooting but from the actual collision that happen because of the pursuit. that person is in the hospital and also is under investigation. what is

holding up everything is because since there was gunfire exchange, they have to figure out who shot who, there are also casing's they have to pick up. this is why they're taking up so many lane on the bridge. one thing that has happened in the last 10 minutes, caltrain has come out and extended the lane closures. it is making things a little more streamlined. traffic seems to be moving through easier than before. the lane closure to one lane is more gradual. i did see a tow

truck that went through. it gives me the indication that maybe they're ready to tollway the car that i saw on my video. i am sure once they tollway the truck and they have finished up the will of the investigation this will be wrapping up fairly soon ones that car is towed away. still we have no word as to when they will actually do this. this is just me observing and noticing that the truck did come by. >> james: thank-you from that of data that is a little more than we knew this morning. we will keep up talking with the chp in on the spot george's and the traffic center. as soon as we get a better indication as to when they will start to pick this up and get the flow going again we will let you know. oakland police say they have located three of the four children that were connected to the case of a three year-old boy being allegedly abused. police are

still trying to locate the 16 your own name here. the children safe with a relative in another city. they were all taken into custody. investigators began looking for the children after their young brother was hospitalized on monday. investigators found evidence of past abuse the little boy remains in critical condition this morning. his mother, stepfather and babysitter have all been tested. we will take a break, let us give you a quick look outside as we go. we are following the latest on the bay bridge that is our big story this morning. if the morning commute takes to cross this bridge normally you will have to find another way because we have a big back up as folks try to make their way along have a big back up as folks try to make their way along t[ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: dinner...is...served. tonight, take it easy and enjoy your favorite soup, salad and hot, hearty sub. like the toasty big hot pastrami melt. get to your local subway for some dinnertime deliciousness tonight.

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there, caltrain is up there and so is yolie. she's giving us of dates from the scene. we will find out when they will get that cleared up for morning commute. we are falling developing news out of oakland where there is a large tree blocking a road there. the talk with jackie our solo reporter on the scene. he showed us a large branch on a car, jackie good one. >> reporter: good morning, you can see part of the tree is still on the white car that you can see sitting in the street at 13th avenue between east 21st and east 20th street in oakland. you

can also see public work crews have shown about a year and already started to >> james: we will take a quick break and be back with more in just a minute hearing

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one in the lower deck of the beit bridge is jammed as the result of an early morning accident and shooting. the video on the right-hand side was shot by yolie. as she passed the accident she recorded some video in a moment, you will see a car, there it is. that the car that the police were chasing at a high speed they cannot handle the s curve and then they slammed into the wall and according to yolie, gunfire erupted shortly after. now the scene is all finished, they're investigating and as a result they have all lanes of shutdown at times. on the left-hand side with a live shot traffic is not moving at all that is a big change because just about five minutes ago of these the cars were getting by on the far left lane now look like they have stopped. maybe they're moving some equipment around. we will the place from her--we will the latest from her live on the scene. let us find out what george has learned. >> george: past the scene of

this accident only one lane is open. that is why we see traffic at a stop as the yolie reported a little bit earlier, the chp requested help from caltrans. caltrain has been attending the lane closures across the bridge making it somewhat more gradual but from time to time this is a part of their investigation, the chp has to shut off all traffic on the lower deck of the bay bridge. you can see it once again coming to a complete stop. it is backed up all the way along the lower deck of the bay bridge but not very that the debt into san francisco. now let us look over this is the camera from san francisco. this is traffic going towards the lower deck of the bay bridge. it is moving reasonably well through san francisco but you will hit the wall when you hit the lower deck of the bay

bridge. right now our best advice is for you to completely avoid this. you may want to use the golden gate bridge or the san mateo bridge after alternate. traffic in the city still doing ok. this is traffic out to the island, the scene of the incident. when i spoke with the chp about 45 minutes ago, they said this incident would be with us at least an hour. that puts it around 6:30 a.m. which is likely for to be with us and a bit longer. the bay bridge commute direction is completely ineffective. >> erica: good morning george. we do have some sunshine out there. as we head into the afternoon we will see cooler conditions temperatures are sitting in the '70s it looks like we will hold on to clear conditions as we head into

the evening. checking up front the door--check out your temperatures outside the door. in terms of visibility we see 10 mouth for most of freeways. a lot of the cloud coverage is well above. it looks like we see some compromise visibility along highway one for those driving in the half moon bay area. by 12:00 p.m. it looks like we will hold onto some upper 50s along the extreme coastline. as the push the cloth in closer to about 3:00 p.m. it looks like some of that blue will start to peel back many '60s and '70s for the most part along the water. we could see some 80's for the war in the areas. speaking of the 80's could see them for sunnyvale, los gatos, upper '70's for santa clara. we have 74 in mount you any active expected to be one of warmer places around the bay area coming in asking--

coming in at 86 degrees. we have 79 degrees for napa and 66 in san francisco. in a satellite report shows cloud coverage and the fog situated along the coastline. that will be the case for the next couple of hours. we do have a deep marine later that we are contending with. we see widespread cloud coverage. it will start to clear slowly into the afternoon so, expect partly cloudy conditions there will be contending with a quiet weather pattern for the rest of the workweek. your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast shows a warming trend in store as we head towards the weekend. it looks like we could hold on to '90s as we start the next work week. >> james: this morning may shut its expected to decide whether or not to release george zimmerman the neighborhood watch and that shot 17 year-old trade on

martin. that judge revoked his bond after learning the suspect and his wife failed to fully disclose their financial situation including $150,000 that they received in donations. his lawyer argued that he was not a flight risk and zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder. >> james: police say three bodies have been pulled out of the water near or after bay in new york. the u.s. coast guard said the survivors were in the water for about an hour after the vote to over some if not all the passengers on board were wearing life jackets. investigators say weather may have played a factor. >> james: there was an amazing fireworks show in the nation's capital last night. not only were their

fireworks but there was a star-studded musical performance. the fourth of july fireworks show in san diego was a big bust. the city's popular show went off early the fireworks jump the gun for about five minutes and then went dark. the company that put on the show said it was a technical issue that caused all of those fireworks to launch in just 15 seconds. this is some cellphone video from someone that was hoping to catch a nice fireworks show. they say they're trying to fit in what exactly happened, look that was a big boom last night in san diego. now we will take a break, here is a live look outside and of course our big story is the lower deck of the bay bridge you are being advised to find another way across the bay.

we do have an accident and a shooting overnight. police are out there investigating in all but one lane is shut down right now. ♪ ♪

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>> james: good morning, but i have to tell you it is not a good one for those on the bay bridge the chp says try to find another way if you are traveling eastbound on the bay bridge. they had a shooting right here as to come out of the tunnel. as a result they have all but one lane block off right now. it has been this way since about 2:15 a.m.. when we last checked, george talked the chp and they say will be at least another half hour or 45 minutes before they get this thing settled. >> james: as you can see in the live shot, traffic is barely moving is slow and go on the entire span from san

francisco with the island. we have more on that to come. let us turn our attention to sports. as fans were able to witness of history yesterday. take a look, david ortiz went deep for his career home run #400. >> james: this was an open he even got a standing ovation. the rest of the game was all oakland, the a's went on to win three to two to complete their first sweep of the red sox in four years. in washington, the giants to a 3 month lease went against the national-- the giants took a three nothing lead to the nationals but that is where it stopped. washington won. now we will take a quick break but we come back we

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