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protesters vandalize
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president obama campaign headquarters this morning. the office was located on telegraph avenue and 16th avenue. the police also said a few cars had the windows knocked out of them. these protests come to weeks after the president is in oakland. at this point they're not sure why the campaign headquarters were destroyed. >> ysabel: violent crime involving young people is soaring there. now the police chief once a team review. one city council member says it will not be an easy sell. >> reporter: 0 fence topped cop wants to establish a juvenile curfew in an effort to reduce violent crime, city council member harry reid says... >> i would say good luck. >> reporter: the agenda was
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supported by the police chief anthony batts then. but he did not have the support of the key city council members including the following. >> the now mayor. as well as other city council members. i couldn't even get it out of the committee and move it up to the council for a full vote. >> reporter: mequon released a statement saying she commands and supports the chief for trying to reduce violent crime in oakland especially for the youth. we will work closely to try to come up with a proposal that will be successful. council member read says that he is ready to back this chief as well on the new idea because it is the right thing to do. >> i wish the chief well. i certainly hope that the outcome will be much different one than when i
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brought the curfew ordinance fourth. >> marty: from the south bay it could be trouble for san jose police chief one member of the police chief union is asking the truth consider a no-confidence vote for chief more--moore. the chief says he has no plans to leave. they say budgetary issues beyond the chief control are likely to blame for the issues. >> as we put more money into retirement benefits we have less money to put into the officers on the street. >> marty: the police officers association says that only the board of directors have control to do this and they said they have not moved on anything
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yet. >> ysabel: a woman was arrested last night in the double homicide of this missing woman. an amber alert was issued for this girl last saturday. investigators believe she was taken by her boyfriend and that they may be headed to mexico. now police have charged this 36 year-old woman with aiding and abetting and kidnapping. >> marty: 4 robberies in four days police are warning craigs list users to watch out. one of the victims that is held at gunpoint in speaking out now, but we for show you where the breeze are happening and how criminals are luring people in. >> reporter: they're targeting people try to buy things advertise on
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christmas. most of the violent crime happens in this area but there have been a string of credit suisse robberies here in the hills. this is normally a safer area. since monday, there were four crakes list robberies here. we will fly in on the big board. one on hillcrest, and this is near highway 24. and then 1 mi. or so west. all four robberies were between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.. the victims were hoping to purchase things like electronics. so, they showed up with a lot of cash. these are expensive items and people have been robbed as much as $6,500. kay thompson spoke with the victim of one of the progress robberies. >> reporter: this victim did not want his face shown a tree at a gun held to his head when he went to purchase a car and oakland. >> of my head was like this and then i never moved again
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and then he said give me the money. he said give me a cellphone 2. >> reporter: with his wife and three children in the car he begged the thieves not to shoot and handed over $6,500 in cash to two men that trick him by giving him an address that did not exist. >> when i read the sections of the street i call the man said i am here but i do not see the address of your house. >> reporter: the family says the money was their entire savings that took them more than two years to save up. >> i do not have any more not even 15. i need food for my family and to pay my rent. >> ysabel: still to come on kron4 news weekend some protesters at a chick-fil-a
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restaurant and federal were serving up more than chicken we will show you. >> marty: we will take a live look outside and it is a useful start to the day, we will be right back.
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>> ysabel: we are back in in santa clara the sheriff is asking for the public's help in finding a 76 year old man. he suffers from alzheimer's. he was last seen around 8:45 a.m.. the license plates are as follows. his family says he has not previously driven a vehicle since 2007. he had no idea of money on him when he left. >> ysabel: a volunteer searchers plan today for a 76 year-old pacifica woman who disappeared from her home over a week ago. police said that she was reported missing 10 days ago. she is
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in the early states of alzheimer's and with some time what the trails near the park near her home. the police say they will continue to investigate her disappearance as a missing persons case. >> marty: vandalism at chick-fil-a in the los angeles area someone spray- painted taste like hate on the side of a restaurant the chick-fil-a president recently said that he believes in the biblical definition of marriage between a man and woman. he says that he respects anyone disagrees. gay rights activists went to chick-fil- a restaurants nationwide for the same-sex kiss day. this follows wednesday's unofficial chick-fil-a appreciation day of the fast-food chain that resulted in record sales for chick-fil-a. and in the bay area not a very big turnout of protesters. in just a few people showing up supporting same-sex marriage. >> ysabel: coming up on
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kron4, a driver in san francisco sandwiched between a street car and a muni bus we will show you the video. >> marty: we have overcast skies and cooling temperatures will have the forecast coming up in just a moment.
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>> ysabel: muni is investigating what led to a craft to the st. clair, a minibus and a vehicle that was sandwiched in between them. it happened friday afternoon officials to a street car rear end of the white vehicle that you see there and then slammed into the bus. nine people had minor injuries and three of them were taken to hospital. the calls is still under investigation but it appears the street car operator pull the emergency brake before striking the car. >> marty: a streetcar in the tenderloin neighborhood with
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close for most of the day on friday after a crane fell into the street. the they say that if and parked cars and some street lines were damaged but fortunately no one was injured. >> ysabel: that us take a live look outside this morning. it probably will be a little bit more cooler today. >> janu: yes, we have increased cloud coverage of with a chance of try thunderstorms. there has been a red flag warning issued for the sierra that will be in effect until tomorrow about a 11 am. now, bringing it back to the area this is the view from the walnut creek camera. you can see that we have some high cloud coverage out there. it is not into the weekend that things will start to warm up. we will most begin a 50
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cephalus the '60s. in the afternoon high temperatures will barely making it to the low 80s. we still feel a lot of sixties down the peninsula as well as the coast and some '70s as well. for those heading up this evening temperatures will drop to the '50s and '60s. now taking a closer look at your afternoon high temperatures, was tough and felt the. we expect a lot of fear of the canal 80's. as for the east bay in the areas we have 81 through fairfield, 82 through any ockham livermore valley upper 60 for the east bayshore. we have 62 for downtown san francisco, 60 for ocean beach. as we take a look at the seven day around the bay we will continue to see mouth condition throughout the weekend and midweek things will start to warm up. >> marty: now let us turn our attention to decision
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2012 this new report provides plenty for politicians on both sides of the aisle to talk about. this study shows that job creation is up the economy added 163,000 new jobs in july and unemployment is also up a little bit. it is up to 8.3%. president obama says that more work needs to be done. he is focusing on a hacking away at his republican rival. >> president barak obama: let us acknowledge, we are not going to get to where we need to be if we go back to the policies that help to create this mess in the first place. >> marty: mitt romney was campaigning on friday he says the rise in the unemployment is just another example of the president failed policies. he had strong words for the senate majority leader harry reid
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who claim that irani has not paid taxes in years. >> the word is out that he has not paid any taxes for 10 years. let him prove that he has paid taxes because he has not. >> harry reid have to put up or shut up so, what are your sources? and i understand you're trying to do you are trying to deflect the fact that job numbers are bad, that americans are out of work and you're trying to throw anything up on the screen. >> marty: 4 magazine says that mit romney is worth 190 to $250 million. >> ysabel: fires near oklahoma city have distorted least 46 homes. at least 100 sheriff deputies have been helping. so far there have not been any reports of
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injuries. the state is struggling to have enough water to fight the blazes. >> ysabel: now this double decker bus crashed and killed one passenger and severely injured other a university of missouri graduate student was killed and 47 others were to the to the hospital. >> the tire blowout i felt the bus lose control and then go on to the median. i felt a really huge impact in when i came to my senses, it was his people in the aisles, and the median, most people had blood on them somewhere. there was a man
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that could not move from the neck down. i could hear people screaming in pain from the top levels of the bus. >> ysabel: investigators say the driver error does not appear to be a factor in the crash. >> marty: in vermont and man that was angry because of a minor one in--minor run in with police crush seven police cars with a tractor. the suspect was eventually caught but interestingly enough, the police denied his after him because they did not have a patrol car available. others nearby said they did not even hear the noise. >> ysabel: still to come we will talk about michael phelps.
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>> marty: we will take this live look outside we have cool temperatures around the bay today. good morning! wow.
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>> ysabel: michael phelps continues to pile on the metals and fans start to wonder if he really will retire. he was in seventh place after 50 m but turned on the jets' making the third:--third gold medal of the games and his 18th gold medal over all. there are rumors that the most decorated olympian of all time is planning a sportscast career. >> marty: now jonathan sanchez once pitched a no- hitter, this seems like a
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long time ago. he is now trying to resurrect his career but not last night. here is brad going deep to left field. it was three to nothing. and then milky cabrera doubled down the line. and then buster posey sent a three love hunting. the giants had a season-high 16 to 4. now a big crowd at the oakland coliseum last night to check out the debut of the 23 year old rookie pitcher that started for the a's this season. he gets off to a good start by striking oscar--striking out toronto. and then this happened in the bottom of the fourth. in
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the ninth it was four to one and the a's all-time out-- all-time closing came in and look what he does. it tied the game, but the a's won in the 15th with their 13th win. now the centerfielder cocoa crest and drove in the run. take a look at his brush with a superhero. now that spider-man of course. this is john his teammates. he had a unique way to celebrate. [laughter] >> ysabel: coming up on
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kron4 news begin we have more demand from one of the so-called fee freak killers wesley shermantine. >> marty: we will take a live look outside company have overcast skies and we will be right back.
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>> ysabel: and looking at outside it looks like we should have a decent day but not too hot. >> janu: good morning, we are waking up to some patchy fog, we also have a chance of some isolated thunderstorms and the higher elevations. we will see the clouds roll back into the nine towers. tracking that
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on fog tracker for set for this hour, it is widespread right now and will fall back to the coastline in the afternoon hours. this will linger along throughout the day. as you can see by about midnight it really will cover this area. as for the temperatures we are expecting an much cooler that, actually it currently can't. currently 51 degrees in santa rosa, 52 in daly city in the '60s for sunnyvale. as an afternoon high temperatures will be up in to the low 80s. we have 59 degrees in half moon bay and mid to upper 60s as well. i will have a full look your forecast coming but for now we will head back to your forecast. >> ysabel: wesley shermantine of the speed freak killer is making a request from his cell.
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>> ysabel: officials believe that the remains include of the body of a 16 to 18 year- old girl and an apparent the fetus. sherman ty says that he has more to share as kron4 j.r. stone reports. eporto a stock to a newspaper reporter wesley shermantine says that he will not give away new human grave site location until clinton gives him items that he was promised. he said it is like pulling teeth with him. i am not leaving the prison to
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show anything more until leonard man's up. >> i know has been charged my credit card so why he has my got it? i do not know. as far as the people that's in the tv and candy bars and all that, maybe some of it has not been ordered yet by my office but a lot of that task. >> reporter: as that candy bar, it heats up those with the real police department says that they have been regular contact. the woman was last seen at the hotel casino in 1996. >> marty: a while high-speed chase on the bay bridge happen friday morning. police had to use strips to flatten the suspects tires. they say the suspect was driving a car that was reported stolen and antioch.
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the suspect was arrested more than an hour after it started. >> ysabel: trouble the golden gate bridge in the middle of the commute the chp had to shut down the bridge twice creating a rear view. teresa estacio reports that officials say they had to do for everyone's safety. >> reporter: it all started when a call came in here to the golden gate bridge happened over there at the south tower of the bridge. bridge patrol officials as well as the california highway patrol responded immediately. a team attempted to negotiate with the mail. >> our last contact with him was at 8:00 p.m. last night when we lost visibility. >> reporter: by daybreak friday, take a look see how this bridge is vacant. but
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but he didn't the fall started to the officials shut down on this than to check out the north tower but there was no sign of the unidentified male, so the bridge was reopened within look again. this is the bridge one hour later. the crew stranded down again to check out the south tower. that is when they found a person. >> reporter: -- >> at this point had medical personnel on scene, they will do the evaluation. he has been up there all night which is a concern. >> reporter: all the closure only lasted 10 minutes each time it is slow down traffic for most of the morning. officials say they understand the driver's frustration with the say the brief closures are important to protect the public in the delicate circumstances. >> it is not for the protection of our officers in is for the protection of the public. so if he was there and the competition was to take place and there's a possibility that he would fall in the over into the water and could be
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into the pedestrian walkway or into the lane closure. >> marty: stanford medical school is warning patients that their medical records may have the stolen. a computer containing patient information was stolen from a doctor's office last month, they are notifying 2500 patients by mail. medical record numbers and social to trade numbers could have been stolen, police are reviewing security measures. >> ysabel: irani claims that it successfully tested a version of a missile that can pinpoint targets at sea making it the most accurate weapon of its kind in i runs of--in irans arsonal. officials say they're focusing on missiles that can strike naval targets. >> marty: we have more news
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coming up. >> ysabel: taking a live look outside this is the san mateo bridge that is looking pretty good out there. it looks like a lot of the pretty good out there. it looks like a lot of the c[ 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. subway. eat fresh.
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bombing. another bombing of later killed 7001 wants in the beginning of the end of world war two. >> marty: nasa is making strides to once again launch astronauts into space. they awarded more than $100 billion of contracts to developers. spacex received the majority of that funding. right now nasa pays millions of dollars to russia when astronauts hitch a ride on the soviet rocket. >> ysabel: still to come we have a big festival in the east bay that is expected to call some traffic for drivers we will tell you what you need to know. >> marty: let us lick it is a live look from walnut creek we are expecting cooler temperatures will be right back.
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>> ysabel: we are back with
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this story both fun and headaches. thousands are expected to come out for the heart and soul fest will that means the taurus and blocked streets. we have scrambled as with the details on the closures and which areas to avoid. >> reporter: there are some traffic issues in oakland this weekend. the festival the center-right your around city hall in oakland. here are the streets that are currently closed. there will be closed for a while. >> reporter: the streets are slated to reopen in time for the money morning commute. --for the monday morning commute. >> marty: now let us take it quickly, and plenty of overcast this morning. >> ysabel: i think i would
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like to be a little bit cooler this weekend. >> janu: you will get what you want. this shows a system of bringing an increasing cloud coverage as well the the kindle isolated thunderstorms in the higher elevations. this is a view for the mount tancam. the continued for a high cloud coverage as well as some fog. through the afternoon we are expecting a milder temperatures. then, things will start to gradually warm as we head into your work week. the us talk about the temperatures mid-50s through napa and fairfield, we have upper fifties as well. around 10 we will see a lot of '50s and '60s and then in the afternoon we will be barely making it into the 80's in the warmer areas to see a lot of '60s and '70s and for those of you heading up this evening it will get pretty chilly you will want to carry a jacket. now let us take in the good the numbers turning and the south bay.
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we have upper '70's and low 80s expected. 81 to los gatos, 84 degrees expected for morgan hill this afternoon and for the in an incumbent can upper '70's and lower 80s out there. it is slightly cooler along the east bay. we are expecting to get into the upper 60s as well as some low '70s. in the north bay we are expecting nice temperatures and upper '70's expected as well. as we take a look at your seven day around the bay, we see that temperatures will rebound in to your work week bringing them back up into the low 90s. back to you. >> marty: i want to give you an olympics alert in case you did not want to know, selena williams won gold the mean--beating maria it just happened. now
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the giants also put up 16 runs on the board in colorado. >> reporter: there was a big crowd at the coliseum >> reporter: to see the major league pitcher. the his proud parents among the 30,000 plus fans. he struck out the first batter that he faced. he pitched six innings, one run and five strikeouts. now chris all he does is hit home runs. this was a solo shot to the left giving the a's eighth to run cushion. now the a's were up by three runs. all-star close the lying cook does too loud and two strikes with a three run home run to tie the game.
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>> reporter: now kurt suzuki was traded they traded him for a minor leaguer named david. he was drafted by the a's in 2004. he was struggling offense of lee and his pitching staff had the lowest era in the majors. the bottom line is that he is due to make six and a half million per year so was time to go apparently. and jonathan sanchez once pitched a no- hitter with the giants. now add a look replace sanchez and the fourth and the first batter took him deep to left. now angell and lions scored six to nothing.
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another was his 436 home runs. the giants pounded out 16 runs after getting a pep talk from their managers before the nfl is that, the 49ers first preseason game was one week away from today. they host minnesota at the stick. we are not allowed to shoot practice but here is the team coming up after the practice. there's quarterback alex smith and his new friend randy moss. we will see how that experience works out. smith is coming off of a career year. now one receiver that he has not had is michael crabtree who missed the last six practices with an injured leg. >> at this point given the limited that it had such a great spring and summer. i do not know when he will be we are looking forward to his return. >> we feel like we will get him back soon. i do not
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think this will be a major bump in the road. >> reporter: it seems that michael phelps is getting stronger as the olympics go on, is he really going to retire? earlier in the race he was in seventh place but then he blew everyone away. that puts his career in that account at 21 and 17 are gold. and misty franklin is the story on the women's side. she won the 200 m backstroke setting up a new world worker in the process. it is the fourth metal over all for the 17 year-old with one race left. now a another rough outing for tiger woods. now look he is
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chasing a stuffed dog. [laughter] >> ysabel: he is getting his workout. >> marty: coming up on kron4 news week in a couple is time the not after they wer ysaa long time to get over it. [laughter] >> ysabel: still to come we have you with a forecast, we will be back. must be nice, cheering on team usa from the shallow end.
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[music] >> ysabel: welcome back to our second live hour of kron4 news weekend. we have the story about the president's campaign facility being vandalized and how one in four americans are too fat. >> ysabel: now let us check and with jan good to have you back. >> it is good to be back. i have some way to photograph the will not believe. later
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on we have andrea and we will be giving away the great dvd so we have a lot going on. >> ysabel: o.k. let us go outside we are checking on the weather and the bridge. the golden gate bridge has overcast traffic out there and not too much traffic. >> janu: the morning, we are waking up to widespread fog. we have a mixture of high clouds and low cloud as we head into the afternoon. we have a chance of isolated thunderstorms. the tracking the four new on the fog tracker for we have widespread condition right now that will kill back to the coastline and will remain along the coast throughout the day. and then it will slowly pull back. it is widespread until about
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12:00 a.m.. let us talk about the temperatures mostly fifties out there. we have 59 currently in downtown san jose and as we head into the afternoons are expecting a is for your inland areas certainly a lot cooler than we had this past week. we have low '70s for the station as an on again to about 59 degrees for half moon bay. we have about 62 degrees expected and i will have your extended forecast coming up. >> ysabel: we have this downtown march that turned violent as protesters vandalize pres obama headquarters in oakland. protesters broke windows and damaged property. one police said a few cars had the windows broken. this was on
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24th and telegraph down the street. at this point investigators are still not sure why the campaign headquarters were targeted. >> marty: now we have the latest in a story that broke last week in an amber alert was issued for this girl last saturday when the bodies of two men in their 20s were found in their parents' home. investigators believe that she was taken by her boyfriend. they believe they may have been headed to mexico. now police have charged this 36 your old maria and the connection with aiding and abetting. >> ysabel: in fairfield customers showed up in
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droves to support the fast- food chain and the ceo who said that marriage should be between a man and woman. they say just a few protesters came to the ship --the chick-fil-a. >> reporter: protesters came to show their support for gay marriage and expressed displeasure with the ceo of chick-fil-a who recently said that he opposes gay marriage. >> i understand everyone has a right to their opinions and that he has a right to say that i think that in this world there is so much hatred i think we should support love. a kind of upset me. >> reporter: there were a small number of people here with signs that support chick-fil-a. >> ysabel: in san jose one man was shot and killed. it was the city's 24th homicide of the year. the shooting took place from clover oak drive. this was around 3:00
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a.m.. the victim was announced dead at the scene his identity is being withheld until his family has been able to be notified. police had not been able to identify a motive for the killing. >> marty: and member of the police officers' union is asking members to consider a no-confidence vote for chief chris more at the tuesday meeting. the chief said he has no plans to leave. and if the budgetary issues are beyond the chief control that is what is likely to blame for some of the difficulties. >> we have been driven by skyrocketing pension costs and has become more and more money in retirement benefits we have less money to put into the officers on the street that has made it hard for all of the department. work is more difficult in all of the officers had to take a pay cut and that makes it tough. >> marty: the police officers association yolie said the board of directors took no action in this matter. the mayor read says
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he has no plans to ask chief more to leave regardless of the confidence vote. >> ysabel: in santa clara the chair is asking for help to find a senior citizen who suffers from alzheimer's. he was last seen around 8:45 a.m. on friday leaving his home in a green gmc truck. his family says that he is not driven a vehicle since 2007 he had no idea or money on him when he left. he is described as 5 ft. for about 150 lbs. and is missing his right thumb. in another case related to alzheimer's, a volunteer searchers planned to take place in the central pacific woman that disappeared from her home over one week ago. police say maria was reported missing 10 days ago. she is in the early stages of alzheimer's and some time what this area near her home. volunteers have since held in the search and police say that they will continue to
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investigate her disappearance as a missing persons case. >> marty: coming upon kron4 news week in a crane falls in a neighborhood and then a vehicle is sandwiched between a muni street car and a bus, who have those stories coming up. >> ysabel: that a second of a live look outside, this is walnut creek. things are slowly changing to be a bright day.
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>> ysabel: muni is investigating what led to a crash between a street car, a muni bus and a vehicle. this happened friday afternoon there market and second street. officials say shikari--officials say a street car read in--car rear ended this vehicle the ec. it appears that the street car pulled the emergency brake before striking that car. >> marty: a streetcar in the
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tenderloin neighborhood was close most of the day friday after a crane fell in the street. in large fork lift crane was removed. police say that if he parked cars and some street lights were damaged but there were no injuries. >> ysabel: there is more to come on kron4 news, too fat to serve in the military why soldiers wait is posing a real concern to security. >> marty: still to come, check out why these patrol cars for flattened. >> ysabel: we have a live look outside and san francisco hopefully the fog will burn off and you have a nice day.
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>> ysabel: taking this live look outside you can see a lot of cloud coverage out there. >> marty: we can fill the
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cloud coverage pretty much all of the bay area this morning. >> janu: first let us start out by taking this look desolate and let the parent we have increased clout coverage, some isolated thunderstorms and lightning in the higher elevations. there has been a red flag warning for the sierra because of the isolated thunderstorms as well as lightning. that will be in effect until about 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. that here is the view from the mount tancam, we have a mixture of high clouds and low clouds as well as some fog. we are expecting a mild we can all live around. things will start to warm up as we head into your work week. taking a mature temperatures, we have 505 an rosa, and san francisco and then the city. by about 10:00 p.m. things will still be sitting in the '50s and '60s. then by the afternoon hours things will
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start to warm up really getting only into the low 80s and warmer areas this afternoon. as for the evening temperatures will drop back down to the '50s and '60s. let us talk about the high temperatures, we are expecting mid-70s to low 80s. we have meant to upper '70's with a pen and injured seven day around the bay it looks like things will start to warm up as we head into the work week. >> ysabel: wildfire's the oakland--oklahoma city have destroyed at least 46 homes. officials say the reason is arson. so far they have not been any injuries but this this is just one of 11 fires that are burning in this drought plagued state. there also struggling to get enough water to fight the multiple blazes. and some of
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the men that was anchored the law and to his own hands by crushing several police cars with a tractor. officer said to cab just about their whole fleet. the suspect was eventually caught, but the police could not chase them because they did i have a patrol car available. and officers working in an adjacent building said they did not even hear the noise of the crushing police cars. >> marty: there is the new report this morning that is providing plenty for politicians on both sides of the aisle to talk about. the shows that job creation is up. the economy and 163,000 new jobs in july. but unemployment would up to 8.3 percent across the country. president obama says that more work needs to be done but he is focusing on the bright spots. at the same time he's hammering away at his republican rival. >> president barak obama: for neighbors, we have family members finding work
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and the security that comes with this bill for technology, we still have too many people out here looking for work. here's the thing, we will not get where we need to be if we stick to the policies that helped to create this mess in the first place. >> marty: mitt romney was campaigning in navato on friday he says this just another example of the president's failed policies. he had strong words for the senate majority leader harry reid who claimed that mit romney has not paid taxes in years. >> the word is that he has not paid any taxes for 10 years. let him prove that he has paid taxes because he is not. >> harry reid really have to put up or shut up, so who are your sources? and by the way i understand what you're trying to do, you are trying to deflect the fact that job numbers are bad, that americans are out of work and you're trying to throw everything up on the screen that will draft--grab
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attention. >> marty: mitt romney says he has paid a lot of taxes every year. >> ysabel: a new report says that there is a potential threat to the military growing right here in the u.s.. obesity is actually slimming the ranks of our armed forces here is a look of the problem and what they're doing to come back. >> this is not how mercedes looked a decade ago to try to and this in the national guard and was rejected she was told that she it was too fat. >> i am totally happy that they did not put me in the 220 lbs., i think i would of died out there. >> reporter: according to a group called mission readiness, 25 percent of all cruise are turned away because of their weight. the problem is so serious commanders of all ranks that spearheaded the study describe this as a potential threat to national security.
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>> this is autistic--the statistic that blows me away is that one in four americans are too obese to join the the military. >> reporter: they warn of this problem two years ago, in a new follow-up, they contend that the military is working harder than ever to find eligible recruits. >> we see that those showing up are not really fit to come into the military. >> reporter: hundreds of recruits were discharged early because of a weight issue. >> recruits that were over wage and i do is willing to camp or they may not complete their first terms of investment. >> reporter: this cost some $60 million per year invested in loss recruits and finding their replacements. the military says that this is reversible. they are now
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focusing on healthy foods and lowering average student weight. as for mercedes, she reapplied to the national guard after dropping 80 lbs.. >> if you are sent to the combat zone, you want to be able to maneuver and protect yourself and protect your fellow soldiers. how will you run? how will you get away? >> reporter: the study hopes to target younger generations to when the time comes, they will be ready. they want to stem this obesity crisis so it does not become what they believe could be a national security crisis. >> marty: still ahead on kron4 news, many of us cannot imagine the without and iphone. but that actually almost did not happen. we will take a look coming up.
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>> marty: believe it or not, apple almost cracked the iphone concept several times before launching it back in 20071 of the problems is that it would dial up when you kill the to your year. the company had to change the design. now get this, since 2007 apple has had produced 200 million i phones. >> ysabel: the remake of its popular arnold schwarzenegger action movie and a movie that will have your kids probably lacking this. we have more in today's now showing. >> this is a new twist on a movie classic. to recall is back. colin faroe plays a factory worker whose life takes a dramatic twist. he
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has no idea who he can trust. this also stars kate. to recall is rated pg-13. if you are looking to entertain a younger crowd, check out darya even with the kit. this is the latest movie based on a popular book series. the preteen audience will be able to relate to greg and his friends and his annual dilemma. school is out, so now what? diary of a would be kid dog days is rated pg-13. >> marty: coming up on kron4 news weekend to search for a man of the golden gate bridge we also have traffic. we will have this coming up. >> ysabel: we have another
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look outside, not too much traffic but still fall and we will be right back. must be nice, cheering on team usa from the shallow end. back in '08, we didn't have these u-verse wireless receivers that let you move the tv around wherever. no siree, bob. who's bob? and if you didn't have a tv outlet, well then you couldn't watch diddly-squat. you talk a lot. you have no idea how good you have it. that's not working.
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>> ysabel: we are back taking a live look up front, and some detail the overhead lights are out there, we still have a little bit of overcast hanging over the bay area. >> janu: it looked like a typical sunday morning and san francisco. we are waking up to widespread overcast conditions. it also have a chance of isolated thunderstorms for the higher elevations. as we head into the evening will see the fog roll right back in. now we have fog tracker for set for this hour, you can see is sitting over the entire bay area. this will remain
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throughout the day and pushed back into the overnight hours. now let us talk about temperatures, we are expecting a mild weekend. 57 degrees currently in napa and open as less than the tail. we have low 60s in sunnyvale and has be going to the afternoon and will not want to much. we have low 80s and in the inland valleys. the ultimate '70s for the east bayshores, 59 degrees for half moon bay. we have a pretty nice day and the north bay. i will have your extended forecast coming up. >> ysabel: trouble on the golden gate bridge, friday morning and this in the middle of a commute, the chp had to shut down the bridge twice. this gives a very rare view of the bridge. teresa estacio reports that the officials said they had to do this for everyone's safety.
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>> reporter: it all started with a call came into the golden gate bridge that a man was killing over the south tower. the california highway patrol responded immediately, a team attempted to negotiate with the mail. --the male. >> it was unsuccessful. our last contact was last night. we lost visibility in the travel and to the fog. >> reporter: now the fog was still a factor at around a a.m., the officials shut down this to check out the north tower. the bridge was reopened because there was no side of the unidentified man. and then one hour later the crews shut it down again to check out the south tower and that is when they found a person. >> at this point we had medical personnel on scene.
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he was being evaluated, his medical condition is a concern. >> reporter: all the closure only lasted 10 minutes each time is slowed down the traffic for most of the morning. officials say they understand the driver frustration with a brief closure was to protect the public in these delicate circumstances. >> it is not for the protection of our officers it is for the protection of the public. the tower to go over the lanes. he was there and in a confrontation with to take place, there is a possibility that he would fall and the over into the water and it could be in to the pedestrian walkway, it could be into the lane closures. >> marty: look as you concede this while high- speed chase police had used bike trips--spike strips because the suspect was driving a car that was
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stolen from antioch. more than one hour after it started the suspect was arrested. now the speed freak killer wesley shermantine is making a request from his death row jail cell. he is one of two men involved in what has been described as a myth induced killing rampage during the '80s and '90s. he has offered to help authorities find the grave of many more of his victims. this past week authorities found more remains in san walking county. it was a grave that was one of the dump sites. wesley shermantine directed the police to the grave site earlier this year he now says that he has more to share but as j.r. stone reports he has conditions. >> i know for a fact that the television was ordered months ago and he still has not done it. >> reporter: this is the dow hunterpadia that some might call drama as he describes what has built up between
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him and the death row inmates sherman time. in a letter to and newspaper reporter wesley shermantine says he will not go away new human grave site locations until leonard padia gives him items that he was promised. >> he says he is not leading the prison to give them anything more until the items show up. >> i know that it was charged to my credit card, so why has he got it? i did not know. i do not know, as far as candy bars and all of that, maybe something happened may be some of it was not ordered from my office the a lot of it has been. >> reporter: killed at the place apart missing they have their regular contact with sherman time and working to figure out if he and lauren had anything to do with a woman's disappearance was last seen in the flamingo hilton hotel-casino in 1996.
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>> ysabel: now the grandson of the former u.s. president harry truman is in hiroshima, he attended a memorial for the victims of the bombings authorized by his grandfather in the first ever use of the atomic bomb. today he talked about world war two and the bombings at the peace and memorial park and the side of the blast. this park stands as a reminder of the 1945 attack and a memorial to the victims. hundreds and thousands of people were killed by this bombing and of the blast three days later killed 70,000 more marking the beginning of the end of world war two. >> marty: knew this morning gunmen have seized a bus filled with 48 irani and pilgrims. regime forces pounded a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the capital city of damascus. a state news agency said the pilgrims were headed to the airport
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when they were taken. it is the largest single kidnapping of irani and in syria were several small groups had been snatched in recent months. >> ysabel: coming up, nasa is hoping to the american astronauts back in space and once again we will tell you how they plan on doing it. >> marty: we will sneak a peek outside where you can see overcast skies and light traffic.
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>> this one is always interesting to people. >> she is sort of timeless, you think of how a people you remember after 50 years from their death, marin and is more alive now than anybody. then, nothing could be anybody remembered in the same way. the gallery and the book will take you through a journey of metamorphosis. it will take you from norma jean to maryland and the osmosis' between the photographer and his subject. they had such a close relationship over all those years. >> this book is really wonderful. it has all kinds of beautiful things. and
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really, the with the road this makes you feel close to this remarkable woman. here is how you can be a part of the exhibit. we have near of an intimate exposure is opening today all this fourth with an invitation only reception this runs through september 15th at the san francisco art exchange. for more information, you can go to the web site and we thank you for keeping maryland alive and bringing us this exciting exhibition. she is really something that will never see in life again, no one can ever do this. i know there have been movies and everything else but no one compares to maryland. thank you again, now back to you marty n isabelle. >> ysabel: here is another
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look outside. there is not so much overcast out there. >> janu: here is a view from the satellite and radar you can see the system pushing up north and the combination of instability from that. this moisture could make for some isolated thunderstorms in the higher elevations. taking a look at the bay area this is the south bay right now we see a lot of cloud coverage of their waking up to some patchy fog and widespread crowds-- clouds. it will start to warm up as we head into the work we cannot take the indicator temperatures sitting in the upper 50s through napa, oakland, hayward, low 60s and sunnyvale, we have 59 degrees in san jose and by 10:00 a.m. we will see a lot of fifties and pictures of '60s. for that afternoon things will start to warm up. we will see some 80's in the warmer areas and it will
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be pretty chilly this evening with temperatures topping--dropping back down to the '50s and '60s. taking a closer look at the numbers, we expect 84 degrees from morgan hill and as for the east bay in the areas we're looking at upper '70's and low 80s there. we expect the upper 60s and low '70s for these bayshores today. it will be pretty cool on getting to about 59 degrees in half moon bay. >> janu: now as we look it shows that as we get past this weekend it starts to show more sunshine in your work week and we have more 90's. >> ysabel: coming upon kron4 news weekend we have stanley roberts with people behaving badly. >> marty: will be right back
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as the take this live look outside.
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>> ysabel: it appears that more and more drivers are trying to get away with the writing solo in the carpool lane. stanley roberts shall the house the chp is cracking down on violators in the latest addition of people behaving badly. >> reporter: pay attention to this red mustang the driver is trying to merge into traffic. the problem is she is in a car pool lane alone. since the hayward officer was at the on ramp you have a chat with her. not only what she carpooling illegally since but she presented a passport from guatemala so she had no license. her car will be told and impounded for 30
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days. the driver of this minivan just dropped off her kids at school. now in her ashtray there was a partially smoked blunt that is weed rolled up in cigar paper. she was issued a ticket for about $480 and a marijuana ticket that is somewhere around $600. i try to talk with her. >> reporter: i am just curious why you were in the carpool lane? >> can you please go away? >> reporter: here is something you may not know, the car pool on ramps are active 24 hours a day but the chp enforces them when the metering lights are on. the driver of this red torres had a few problems look at this. yes, her
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actual plates were under the paper plates. >> this is the registration is expired in the computer. >> reporter: the driver did not have proof of insurance which by the way could result in a fine somewhere around $1,000. and then there was this driver. she was stopped for being in the carpool lane illegally. the officer took her license. instead of a ticket she gets hit with a felony and they know where she lives. in just 90 minutes, car pool tickets were issued and two cars were towed. >> you are driving in the carpool lane, you do not have a driver's license that is a misdemeanor, you are getting a citation for both of those and your car will be told. >> i got caught be heading valley. >> marty: the lesson, stay out of the carpool lane any
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will not attract any attention. [laughter] >> ysabel: do not care blunts, have a license. >> marty: yes, the list goes on and on. >> ysabel: we will take a look outside, we will be back. building pass, corporate card, verizon 4g lte phone. the global ready one ? yeah, but you won't need... ♪ hajimemashite. hajimemashite. hajimemashite. you guys like football ? thank you so much. i'm stoked. you stoked ? totally. ... and he says, "under the mattress." souse le matelas. ( laughter ) why's the new guy sending me emails from paris ? paris, france ? verizon's 4g lte devices are global-ready.
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[music] >> ysabel: and a lot of the body will conduct the third live hour of the kron4 news weekend. >> marty: we will have a word from the president coming up. >> and i am so glad to be here we have one of our very
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cloud coverage and the fault in the afternoon hours. we start with some sunshine along the coast and stick to that cloud coverage. and things will roll right back into the overnight hours. now let us talk about the temperatures. we steal 505 an rosa. it is a little slow and warm because the clouds are sitting over us. as for the afternoon the south and will want to the ladies as leisure east gate areas. we have 72 degrees for hayward, up 50 for the coast and into the north bay we expect mid to upper '70's there and low 80's in fairfield. i will have your extended forecast coming up now we head back over to marty. >> marty: we turn our attention to downtown oakland the march became violent. police say that a crowd of about 170 protesters came through. this is located on telegraph
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and sixth avenue. police say a few cars have their windows broken. the protests come just two weeks after a protest in oakland they're not sure why this campaign headquarters location was targeted. >> ysabel: more than 400 and people have been arrested in oakland so far this year. now the police want a team curfew. when person says this will not be easy. >> reporter: oakland's top cop police chief howard jordan was to establish a juvenile curfew in an effort to reduce violent crime. city councilman larry reed says the following. >> i would say the vote. >> reporter: last year, redrafted the ordinance in the wake of the drive-by shooting death in the three year-old carlos now, the idea was supported by the then police chief anthony batts. but then he said he did not have the backing of
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some key city council members on the public safety committee. that includes the following. >> the now mayor jean kron, and two other council members. >> reporter: all three of them were for it? >> no. >> reporter: mequon said the following statement. >> reporter: council member read the says he's ready to back this chief as well because is the right thing to do. >> reporter:--bam i wish to achieve a much different outcome than when i brought it forward. >> marty: in the south bay
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they could be trouble for a san jose police chief. the chief says he has no issue mayor chuck reed says the budgetary issues are beyond cheese control. --and beyond the chief's control. >> it has been hard for all the permited to budget cuts. all of the officers had to take a pay cut and that makes it tough. >> marty: the police officers association would only say that their board has taken no action for this. the mayor says he has no plans to ask chief more to leave regardless of the confidence vote. >> ysabel: a monterey county woman was arrested last night in connection with a
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double homicide in the disappearance of a 16 year- old girl from the crime scene. an amber alert was issued for this girl when found in her parents' home. investigators believe that she was taken by her boyfriend and that the two may be headed to mexico. >> marty: 4 robberies in four days. now oakland police are warning critics lest users to watch out. one of the victims was held at gunpoint where he is now speaking out. first, grant lotus shows us were all of this is happening and how criminal coddling people in. >> reporter: armed robberies in oakland and the targets are people trying to buy things on craig lists. there have been a string of christmas robberies in the north oakland hills. typically this was a safer area of a sense monday for
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craig's less robberies here. we have locations of a few of them and we will fly this in on the big board. one on hillcrest, 11 and request. this is north of highway 24 and then 1 mi. or so west. now, all four robberies this week were between 2:00 a.m.. the victims were hoping to buy things like cars or electronics. so, they show up with a lot of cash. these are expensive items. people have been robbed with as much as $6,500. kay thompson spoke with a victim of one of the critics less robberies. >> reporter: this robbery victim did not want his face shown scared after he had a gun held to his head on tuesday after he went to purchase a car and opened. >> they had my head like this and then like this. i never move again after they said give me the money. >> reporter: with his wife
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and three children and the car he did the thieves not to shoot and handed over $6,500 in cash to two men that trick him by giving him an address that did not exist. >> when i read the directions i said i am here and called him and said i am here but i cannot see the address to your house. i do not see the 87 number. >> reporter: the family says the money with their entire savings that to the more than two years to save up. >> -i have any more money, not $1 or said. i need food for my family. my family does not have enough money for nothing. >> ysabel: coming up on kron4 news weekend there was a kiss in at the chick-fil- a and locations around the bay area. >> marty: also coming up, we
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should have a pretty nice day around the bay.
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>> ysabel: in santa clara russia is asking the public health and finding this man. he suffers from alzheimer's. he was last seen around 8:45 a.m. on friday leaving his home in a green gmc truck. his family says he is not driven a vehicle since 2007. he had no idea or money on him when he left. he is described as 5 ft. for about 150 lbs. and he is missing his right thumb. in another case related to alzheimer's, a volunteer searchers plan today for a 76 euro pacifica woman that disappeared from her home over a week ago. police say this woman was reported missing she is in the early stages of alzheimer's. more than 300 volunteers have since held in this search. police said they will continue to investigate her
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disappearance as a missing persons case. >> marty: vandalism at a chick-fil-a restaurant in los angeles area on friday someone painted taste like hate on the side of the restaurant. chick-fil-a president says that he believes in the biblical definition of marriage that is between a man and woman although he says that he respects anyone disagrees. gay rights activists went to chick-fil-a restaurants nationwide for a same-sex kiss a day. this follows wednesday's unofficial chick-fil-a appreciation day when support pack the fast- food chain. that resulted in record sales for chick-fil- a. here in the bay area, not a very big turnout of protesters at the fairfield chick-fil-a for kids day. just a few people showed up. >> ysabel: still to come, kudos from the commander in chief to the u.s. athletes competing in the olympics in london. >> marty: we also have an
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>> marty: president obama expresses pride for the fet that represented the united states and says that the games should serve as a reminder to the americans of the country they represent. >> president barak obama: is not the medal count along that inspires us. most of our athletes will not claim a medal at all. is the character of the men and women that compete for those metals. it is that of comparable spirit that american spirit that sense even though we may have very different stories to tell, even though we may not all look alike or talk alike or be dealt the same hand in life, if we work hard, we can achieve our goals. we can make it. >> marty: the president also thanked the athletes for being role model for america's youth. it is also
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his 51st birthday he is spending the day camp david before he returns and the campaign trail next week. >> ysabel: talking about getting all those gold medals, new this morning farina williams won gold in tennis beating malia sharpova. and michael phelps continues to pile on those medals. he was in seventh place after field-- after 50 m to determine on the jets and got his 17th goal medal over all. he has won even it left, before by 100 medley tonight. if he wins that he will finish his olympic career with a lot, like 22 medals including 18 gold medals. there are rumors that the most decorated a linchpin of all time is planning a sportscasting career. and it may be too early to call her the michael phelps of
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swimming the misty franklin set a world record in the 200 backstroke capt. her third gold medal in the process, her fourth medal over all. like michael phelps, she will compete in the four by 100 medley and usa is favored to win gold. and the fact that they are at the top of the leader board right now. >> marty: now let us turn our attention to the weather we have some overcast skies. >> janu: this is a view of the satellite and radar you can see the system that is pushing up north toward bringing increase cloud coverage. we have isolated thunderstorms for the higher elevations. there is also a red flag warning that has the issue. we could see some
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dangerous fire conditions, now bring it back to the bay area this is a view of the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza, there is dense fog and low clouds and high clouds out there. we are waking up to widespread overcast conditions. i cannot think things will start to warm up until the work week. we have upper 50s in napa in fairfield, low sixties in the south bay. and it looks like to warm up to the '60s around noon time. as for the afternoon high it will get to the 80's and some '60s along the coast. it will cool down to the '50s and '60s this evening. if you're heading out bring a jacket with you. how starting out in the south bay we have a vote 80's and upper '70's. in your east bay in the areas we are expecting upper '70's and low 80s there. it will
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be a chilly day along the coast, we have mid to upper '70's for the north bay. now for your seven day around the bay and show us things will warm up once we get into the work which back to you. >> ysabel: authorities in southern illinois said it appears that a long time accosts a double decker bus crashed killing one passenger and injuring dozens of others. you can see right here. a university of missouri graduate student was killed. one passenger describe the moments leading up to the crash. >> the tire blew out, i felt the bus lose control and then go to the median. i felt a really huge impact and then i came to my senses and it was just people in the aisles and i mean, most people had blood on them somewhere. there was a man
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that could not move from the neck down. there was someone that have their heads stuck in between the two seats in front of them. >> ysabel: investigators say driver error does not appear to be a factor in the crash. the bus was headed from chicago to kansas city missouri. >> marty: take a look at this a man that was angry because run in with the police took matters into his own hands by crushing several police cars with a tractor canyon offers to say that it nearly disabled all of their police fleet. the police could not chase after him because they did not have a patrol car available. officers working in an adjacent building said they did not even hear the noise. >> ysabel: they had no car. they had to get to know the community again. [laughter] >> ysabel: still to come we
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have some baseball highlights. >> not take a look outside right now and will be right back. must be nice, cheering on team usa from the shallow end.
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nih seniorhealth.gov. built with you in mind. >> marty: remember a couple of years ago jonathan sanchez pitched a no-hitter with the giants now he's with the rockies. last night he gave away two runs in three innings. it was three nothing giants. then it became six nothing, and there is the milkman. turning now to the eighth inning, buster posey smacked a three run home run. that breaks one open. 16 to 4 was the final period and the the crowd at the coliseum yesterday was there to see the major league debut picture. the 23 year-old is
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the fourth rookie pitcher to start for the a's this season. annt--and then to the bottom of the fourth as his parents looked on. by the ninth inning it was four to one oakland but then run and cook comes in and gives a bank to out to strike the run home run and that ties the game. the a's would come back to win in the 15th it was their 13th walk off wind. they outlasted the jays. >> ysabel: and cocoa crist got a victory run. take a look of his brush with a super hero. >> ysabel: that was josh
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blunt. it was a unique way to celebrate the a's winning. it was actually his third pie in the face this year. east-- >> marty: much more ahead on kron4 news weekend when we come back.
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>> janu: good morning marty, this is the view from the mount tancam is still looking very crowded out there. we are working up to widespread fog and clouds. we do expect some partly cloudy conditions. we are tracking that for you. the now taking indicate your widespread conditions we
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will see some clearing in the inland areas. your temperatures will roll right back into the overnight hours. now let us talk about temperatures. we still see a lot of fifties out there. the have upper 50s right now. and the south bay warm to the low 80s this afternoon. we have low 80s to ease the inland valleys as well. 74 degrees expected in oakland, and we are expecting a pretty nice day. we have mid to upper '70's and low 80's this afternoon i will have the full forecast coming up including when you can see temperatures rebound but for now we're heading back over to isabel. >> ysabel: the so-called speed freak killer wesley shermantine is making a request from his death row jail cell. he went into what was called a myth induce killing spree in the early
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'90s. he has helped to find the grave of some of his victims his partner has killed himself. this past week they found more remains in the san walking county drinking--swan juakeen county grave. sherman tine says that he has more to their but--more to share but he has some conditions. >> reporter: this is bounty hunter leonard describing what may be called as drama between him in death row inmate who wesley shermantine. >> for him being on death row little things become big. >> reporter: wesley shermantine says that he will not give way new human grave site locations until leonard give him the items that he was promised he says it is like pulling teeth. he says he is not want to leave the prison to show anything more until leonard man's up.
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>> like the television set up, i know that it was charged my credit card but why he has not got it? i do not know it is between the people of the senate tv and the prison, i do not know. as far as candy bars and all that maybe all of it has not been ordered a lot of it has. >> reporter: those with the real police departments say they had their regular contact with sherman time and they're working to figure out if he and lauren are connected to the disappearance of a woman that was last seen at the flamingo hilton hotel-casino in 1996. >> marty: there was a wild high-speed chase on the bay bridge that happened friday morning. now you can see the sparks flying, they say the suspect reported the vehicle stolen and antioch the case finally ended more than one hour after it started. the
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suspect was arrested. >> ysabel: trouble on the golden gate bridge friday morning in the middle of the morning commute the chp had to shut down the bridge twice. the this is what you are looking at the rear view of the bridge, it is empty. teresa reports that officials say they had to do it for everyone's safety. >> reporter: this all started when a call came into the golden gate bridge that a man was scaling right over there the south tower of the bridge. bridge patrol officials as well as the california highway officials responded immediately. a team attempted to negotiate with the mail. this is the sgt. >> that went unsuccessful. he remained on the cabling are last contact with him was at 8:00 p.m. last night but we lost visibility and he traveled up into the fall. >> reporter: by daybreak friday the fog was still a factor, take a look. and then are around 8:00 a.m., officials shut down this area and they checked out the north tower but there
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was no sign of the unidentified male. so, the bridge was reopened and then look again. this was an hour later at 9:40 a.m. the crews shut it down again to check out the south tower and that is when they found a person. >> reporter: -- >> at this point we have medical personnel on scene the with the devaluation he has been up there all night, his medical condition is of concern. >> reporter: official said that understand drivers frustration with the brief closure is important to protect the public in these vital circumstances. >> this is not as for the safety of our officers but to protect the public. there is a possibility that he could fall in and it over into the water or in the pedestrian walkway or into
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the lanes. >> marty: a stanford medical school is one patients that their medical records may have been stolen. a computer containing pension information was stolen from a doctor's office last month. the university is notifying tweet 500 patients by mail. it contains names, and the court records, medical history and social security numbers as well. patients are being offered free identity protection services. >> ysabel: iran claims it has successfully tested a short-range missile. if this can pinpoint targets at see making it the most accurate weapon of its kind in the arsenal. they have been pushing to upgrade missiles that already can target israel and other parts of the region. officials say they're focusing on missiles that can strike in naval targets.
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>> marty: regime forces pounded hills on the southern outskirts of damascus, a news agency said these pilgrims were headed to the airport when there were taken. is the largest kidnapping of iranians in syria where several other smaller group of iranians have been snatched in recent times. >> ysabel: still to come we have information about the flight that had to return to the oakland airport just about a few hours after taking off. >> marty: we have a live look outside and to the jews are moving smoothly, we will be right back.
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>> marty: a southwest airlines flight 143 passengers on board was foolish--was forced to return to the airport because the pilot noticed problem shortly after the plane lifted off for
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chicago. apparently there were issues with the tram system that was the queen they keep the plane leveled during the flight. emergency crews were out on the road we just in case. they were unnecessary because the plane landed safely at 8:30 >> ysabel: today the house majority leader the last out at cantor who criticize president obama. >> this week in washington we sought a collision of two very different plans. the president sided with harry reid and the democrats insisting that their plan to raise taxes was the answer for economic growth. >> ysabel: he went on to cite an independent to the that says extended the bush tax cuts could make a loss
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of hundreds of jobs. >> marty: now let us go ahead and check in with jan. >> alright, we have a show that is guaranteed to make you smile. >> we will be back.
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[music] >> her name is andrea makavichie. she is at the raz room with her show
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called smile. now she joins us. you say this a song was written by the same guy. >> herman. you would never expect that. in this call as time of that. the show is called smile. that is rarely does. it is filled with the vicious songs. there are songs that make you smile, and tribute to fred astaire and then crosby. i just noticed that people were feeling down about the economy, down about the election and i wanted to create something that was about to join. i even where the perfume called joy. [laughter] >> it is just a delightful show and you have to more chances to see it. it is at the wonderful raz room.
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>> addition of is this kind of down feeling that people are having in new york as will the san francisco? >> it was all over the country. i just want to do something that will make people smile and laugh, there were tears i do in section about placing your happiness in the hands. and there is a song about that. that is a little blue. the song smile makes people cry as well. >> that was with charlie chaplin, it was a wonderful. with >> you have been doing this for a long time how have you survived? >> i have very devoted fans, i gather more fans every year i get a sense of
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belonging and a sense of importance to what i do. the american clock song book must never died. it is terribly important to our district. and then the feeling that i get the end of each show. it is afterwards when i meet people and someone will say i wanted to see you for years, or i've seen for 25 straight years and then did not share--and then they will share their most intimate feelings about my music they will come to me give me a big hug and said i have been through something terribly difficult to share, but i feel better now. >> you act out the songs as well. in fact woody allen is in town and he has been here filming. it is a wonderful film. >> yes and they run it all the time. i am going to the carlyle this year and i will be right there on the same bill with him.
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>> i hope people will see this is about the new york blacklist and it really is the mccarthy era. it is quite a film. you were quite marvelous in it. >> half the kids out there, you can read this is great. >> everybody get their right now, it is cost mild, the show is guaranteed to make you smile. it is a great location. i love that place in reminds me of new york. >> the only place you can possibly get this is at the show. does not come out until september. >> thank you for being here. you know what, this move l theorax comes out on
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ddt de--this movie called the lorax comes out on dvd. it is a classic tale of a forest creature that shares the power of hope. in his right here on dvd. you can go to kron4 for your chance to win. thank you again. and thank you for that song that we got. it now back to you. >> ysabel: we always love to see our in our studios. she is such a lovely person to sing in the morning. now we are taking a live look outside it is looking very overcast. when is it supposed to burn off? >> janu: we are expecting to see the conditions throughout the day. here is a system north with pershing into the area and the
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combination of the instability mixed with the monsoon moisture could make for some isolated thunderstorms and some higher elevations of the for the north bay. now the san jose camera shows overcast skies as we head into the afternoon we are expecting breezy and cooler conditions throughout the entire weekend. then we have a gradual warming as we head into the work week. but us discuss the temperatures, sitting in the upper 50s, we have napa as well as the east bayshores. as we head into the afternoon hours, about noon, we will see a lot of the '70s inland areas as well as we afternoon. it limited to the 80's and warmer spots and will still see a lot of '60s and '70s and then by 8:00 p.m. the temperatures will gradually cool down into the 50s and 60s. but as take a look at those numbers starting out in the south bay. we have upper '70's and low 80s with
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79 san ramon, 78 and slightly cooler along the east bayshores. we have upper 60s and some low '70s and it is really chilly along the coast. we have about 59 degrees for half moon bay. we will finish off in the north bay and will be pretty nice. we have mid to upper '70's as we take a look at your seven day around the bay, we will see a warm up next week. back to you. >> ysabel: thanks a lot, thinking about the weather for the festival across the bay area. >> ysabel: this means the two wars and blocked streets. grant of about the areas that we should avoid. >> reporter: major traffic issues in oakland as the city holds its 12th annual celebration. it is right here are some city hall, so on saturday and sunday here are the streets that are
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currently closed. there will be closed for a while. clay will be closed from 11th to 16th. jefferson as well. taking the. --take a look. the streets are expected to be open in time for your monday morning commute. >> marty: i have been to several of the events and is always a great time with great music and food. coming up on kron4 news the plan, the hustler motors has a brand new deal with nasa. >> ysabel: first we want to take a live look outside at san francisco. we will be back.
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>> marty: friday nasa was awarded more than $1 billion
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in contracts with three commercial developers. space x received the majority of the funding. a recently was the first commercial space into practice successfully into cargo to the international space station. nasa wants to bridge the gap left by the retirement of the space shuttle program so now they're paying millions of dollars to russia when astronauts are hitching a ride. >> ysabel: they are also getting ready to land the latest mars rover this is a car sized 1 t of rover is set to land tomorrow night. it if it does go well and will begin it looks like a toy thing. [laughter] >> marty: a very expensive toy thing. [laughter] >> marty: that will wrap
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things up. >> ysabel: we will see you back here tomorrow morning at 8:00 p.m.. [music]
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