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we will hear from both sides. >> will: on the heels of that refinery fire gas prices are going up not just a little bit but a lot i will tell you how much >> darya: temperatures are also on the rise, erica says it will be a hot day. >> erica: very toasty conditions expected later on this week. triple digits are in store for friday i will get to that and your seven day around the bay forecast but as we take it a condition for our mount tancam over all it is a pretty clear condition for the morning and expect it to the mild to warmer for community spots. it looks like we will stay pretty clear into the evening i will have the full details of their afternoon hike in the tremendous the fight the of the coming up in my next report. >> george: here is a quick check of your commute we are a problem for your right now eyes because san jose traffic.all around the bay
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area, you are likely to find mostly light traffic except in the east bay were things are a little bit slow. >> george: this is highway for through antioch and 80 through livermore. >> darya: the fire may be out of temperatures are flaring over the fire that happened onto is the craft that turned out last night and yelled and heckled at the county officials. several times the general manager of the refinery was barely able to respond to their comments. the crowd also wanted to know why it took them 10 minutes to push the emergency button that would alert the emergency personnel. >> it took us approximately 10 minutes to push that button could we have done it faster? i think we could have. but it is very difficult for us as well in a situation like this to react quickly to get it out. >> darya: when the meeting was cut off, the crowd held
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the left towards the panel, a police line formed a protective ring around the speakers. many that attended were angry but also concerned about their health. many residents say that the refinery is poisoning the community. >> what you people have to understand that you are putting this poison out here on us. >> york corp. is a criminal corp.! you pollute our community and you do not even higher richmond residents to we the community of richmond are fed up. >> darya: officials say that the leak started as a drop so small that chevron did not think it posed an immediate danger to residents. bay area of quality officials released test results of the samples that the to throughout monday. they say that these
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pollutants do not pose a health hazard and there below the state and federal regulations. samples were taken from local air quality monitress. the board also viewed marchers to the sheer rock financial normal concentrations of pollutants from a fire. they say the air helped to push the pollutants up and out of the area. gas prices are set to soar and the next couple of days. will tran is live at a gas station in the morning. >> will: it did not take very long, from monday to to see with this fire happened if one from $3.84 up to $3.99. you get a little bit of a break if you pay with cash. now this place is very busy the this, that already have their numbers here.
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they probably told the employees to not even bring them back any will be busy. how much will this place go? according to gas experts they believe as much as 105 to 255 in wake of the refinery fire. here is video that we got of people pulling in yesterday. as you can see people are very busy doing this. >> will: this not only impacted the bay area of the entire west coast. delicate your screen the gas prices in san francisco according to palatial $3.94. if you live and zero and it is $3.86. in san jose we have $3.88. no matter where you live, it could be more or less depending on your location. go to our web site
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and let us know how much your prices went up, you can put to my facebook and let us know and we will read off the gas prices throughout the morning. >> darya: along with the hundreds of people at hospitals that were concerned about the toxic fumes, hundreds of people lined up at law offices. one officer said that it has already received 1000 chevron fire injury claims. people who live near the refineries say they have been suffering since this and chevron need to compensate them for that. >> less that i felt very faint and my kids we're all sick with the history of knowing what toxins can do to you in the long term there is no compensation for it. >> they need to pay up, allow people have asthma and people with oxygen machines and stuff like that. >> darya: law offices in the
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>> darya: welcome back marin county sheriff's deputies are investigating an armed robbery at a marin county bus stop this morning. to give you more news faster, let us turn to jackie cecil,
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where are you? >> reporter: it is the big terminal on donna contract and if they just redid this. but as you said, the marin county sheriff's department wants people to be it a little bit more all we are out here after a rash of incidents at the bus stop. the first one happened on tuesday when a man was approached by a group of males and he was robbed at gunpoint. that comes on the heels of another incident about two weeks ago someone's ipod was forcibly taken from them. i talked with a marin county deputy and he says that they have increased patrols out here. they are telling people to be aware of your surroundings especially if less than now here by yourself and you have electronics.
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>> reporter: they do not believe these are connected in any way but they did believe that people should be aware i talk with a deputy who thought that they would eventually put cameras out year which would help, but for now they just want people to be aware. >> darya: is one incident sent is the other? >> reporter: not really, what happened in july and the afternoon a woman was sitting down on a bench, and in other happened about midnight on tuesday morning, he was approached by a group of teenagers it is unclear, they were in hooded jackets that that case, a gun was shown to the victim he was beaten and then his wallet was taken. >> darya: thanks a lot for the heads up. nine big fire cost $3 million in damage. we covered this live yesterday morning in san
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francisco. that is the damage and we told you about how the bakery and several other businesses caught fire and it took 125 firefighters about two hours to control the fire. now ernesto has weekend to a tropical storm as it moved through the yucatan peninsula. we are taking a look at photographs that were snapped in mexico. you can see the trees that are blowing in the wind there are big waves off the beach. the maximum sustained wind it decreased clear this morning. additional weakening is expected as the storm moves over land. the national hurricane center says that this could regain hurricane strength. this is something that we will watch as well as the local weather. we know that we will be warming up, so we will get with erica and she will talk about this day by day. we will have more and a
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second the first let us to a look at traffic. >> erica: actually i think i can take it from here. we have clean conditions to the most part of the golden gate bridge. we do have some high clouds above but no problems with visibility. so far we have a clear start to the morning, you can see this on satellite and radar. we are starting to see clear skies and a little bit of sunshine it looked like temperatures are in the '60s over and antioch. downtown san francisco is coming in at 54 degrees and a degree warmer in redwood city. the future forecast shows by 12:00 we have '70s and '80s for the most part. of course we will see 60s along the coastline to for nine east texas like livermore. as we head into the afternoon high temperatures you conceive yourself neighborhood by neighborhood we have warmer conditions compared to what
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we saw yesterday. now it looks like we could see 96 per antioch and plenty of sunshine reportedly there. >> erica: turning our attention to the north bay it looks like we will see a slight breeze, 80's for the most part here and i degrees over in napa. we have much warmer conditions for downtown san francisco. >> erica: your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast shows a warming trend. temperatures could hit triple digits by friday and saturday and sunday we are above the seasonal average. it looks like high pressure is firmly in place. we should have some relief by the start of the next work week of we have overall warm conditions, 90 in men and upper all--90's inland and then we have 60 for the
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coast. >> george: thank you erica, now we continue to monetary hot spot for your commute around the bay area. unfoldingy starting with a bridge check and then your ride to the upper deck. the only slowing you see is in the left-hand cash lanes. at the san mateo bridge you may want to look closely to see the traffic. you can see on the right side of your screen there is traffic moving out towards the stand without any delays. for your golden gate bridge ride we have an easy trip from accounting i will tell you about the road work in just one second. first of the your ride in the east bay. we will update the drive time still just a 40 minute trip from hercules to berkeley. san ramon valley is 70 minutes from walnut creek down through dublin. through the south bay we have a 16 minute drive time.
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this is from 85 of to the montague expressway. in marin county there has been were work and overnight paving work that has been going on. this stretch has been extended until 4:00 p.m. --has been extended until 6:30a.m. >> darya: now police are trying to get the full extent of the story about this killing outside of a sikh temple. the shooters name is weighed michael page. they are trying to figure out why he opened fire. right now they are sifting through his life, the army veteran had few relatives, spotted with history and a thin criminal record. he played in several white power bands that have names like definite hate.
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meantime, his former girlfriend was arrested in the wake of the shootings after an and authorize the gun was found in her home, the home that she once shared with him. she was a waitress and nursing student with reported ties to white supremacy organizations. people continue to remember the victims, the six people that were shot and killed at that temple in wisconsin and here they are acting, holding a vigil for these victims. yesterday a group of dignitaries and relatives from the communities in india pay their respects. meantime family members of the victims are talking about their grief. >> she was a good woman and she was a great mom. she lived for us. she worked for us. >> everything she did it was for us.
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>> darya: the american sikh community is calling for a national day of silence on sunday. >> darya: bay area sikh's are inviting the public to attend a live vigil tonight. there is one at 7:00 p.m. in san jose, it will be on more real avenue at 8:00 p.m. and then in hayward there will be one at 7:00 p.m. at the temple on the street. we will be back with more in a couple of minutes to get going on this wednesday morning first let us take a live look at the james is considered francisco, it looks like the roadway has nice and easy ride for you.
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says that they will decide whether or not to honor the tickets. over the weekend south west had a computer glitch that offered passengers 50% off of their flights. >> darya: surveillance video, a woman wearing scrubs walking into a hospital in california and moments later she tried to the police say that she pretended to be an and fully and she told the mother of the baby to take a shower and then when the mom turned away, the woman put the baby in a bag. the hospital had put an electronic bracelet on the baby's ankle. when the woman tried to leave the hospital that sounded the alarm, this is what they do for security. the baby was not hurt and the woman was arrested. >> darya: a school lesson may to some parents and kids uncomfortable and indiana teachers are encouraging students to to tell callers would on paper.
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they write them on the white board they say the word out loud and then explain why they were offensive. >> they say if you are nervous about it and uncomfortable then write it down and say it in front of the adult or teacher. >> darya: school officials stand by this unusual lesson plan because they say this allows them to gain control. the principal says this has cut down on the amount of that language that the students actually use can at least one parent said her child was uncomfortable hearing bad words in class. we will be back with more in a couple of minutes. we have three minutes until the opening bell will ring and we are winning live for the new york stock exchange to see what will happen we will be right back. have you ever roller-skied before? yes no when? you don't know everything that i have done. salesman: oh, well, it's wife: well really easy. tell me... [ting] ♪
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opening bell, or we are about to it looks like teen vogue magazine is ringing the bell this morning. we will see what happens a lot of street, there it is right out of the gate. we are hoping that they have something to cheer about today. if you like warmer weather you can cheer for erica because she has all the details today, tomorrow and then really hot on friday. >> erica: the have toasted conditions expected later this afternoon. >> erica: as we look ahead, is expected to range from the mid-60s all the way into the mid-90s. those microclimates will start to develop around lunch time. we have high pressure and play and continue with a gradual warming as we head into tomorrow. i will show you what you can expect this we can and shall today's afternoon high temperatures coming up in my next report. >> george: here is they could ride out of walnut creek heading south into the
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san ramon valley indicative of most of the conditions on the sweat freeway. -- conditions on the east bay freeway. tell the it problem for a ride on 101 the peninsula and 101 marin county. >> darya: people that live around the chevron refinery in richmond are still fuming. but it all the people that turned out to a town hall meeting. last night the crowd was heckling and yelling. several times the general manager of the refinery was barely able to speak above the roar of the crowd. all of these people were questioning why did it take them 10 minutes to push the merged to gun that would either to the emergency personnel. velma in 1992 when chevron voluptuous just a baby and now she is suffering from a mass on her liver and they do not know where it came from she does not smoke or drink, she is 19. and i want
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to know why has this happened? >> many people in my community live outside you are talking about shelters in place hall will shelter? how long should i hold my breath! >> darya: many people are frustrated in the meantime they say it is an all clear any event since then during the fire they took samples and they say the levels for potential toxic pollutants did not pose a health hazard and they were well below the state and federal regulations. these were taken from local air quality monitors on monday. the board also reviewed the mantra of near the chevron facility as well. in the wake of the fire where we to see what happens to gas prices. analysts are expecting them to soar and the next couple of days. we are live taking a look. >> will: the refinery is
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still burning but not the oil, our wallets. from monday to to say right after the fire happened we are here because you want to monitor this particular gas station to see how much it will go up. we know that it will cope with the question is would be 55 or 105? if you believe the experts this is just the beginning we could go up as much as 255. if you come here and pay cash, you get into the of the break. here is video of people pulling in yesterday. because of the refinery fire and because the unit is really all crime, 240 bar. of gas each day that not only impacted the bay area but also the west coast. they did not know when you pulled back into production because the longer it takes, gas prices will continue to go up. they already went up the week before and now court to
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skeptics this gives another reason to raise gas prices. taking the to the screen, the average gas price according to aaa in san francisco is $3.94. and across the bay bridge in oakland $3.86. >> will: by the way, this is good news, we thought it would open about 5:00 a.m. or 6:00 a.m., but you can see that it is still closed this morning and that is good news because no one is here to come by and raise these gas prices. we saw someone at the chevron down there and sure enough those prices were going up. >> darya: i think it is kind of funny that they still do it that way. no one doesn't that more--no one does it that way anymore we are digital. [laughter] >> darya: not east palo up a
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police are looking for to people that forced their way into a home and beaten and shot someone inside. this happened near the 100 block of weeks street. the victim is in serious but stable condition at the hospital. witnesses saw the intruder take off in a late 1990's, or an early 2000 model nissan all to mobile we have no description of the attackers. not after being held captive dugard is demanding sanctions against federal lawyers for alleged witness tampering. philippe garrido was a convicted sex offender when he kidnapped jaycee dugard in 1991. he was on parole at the time after serving 11 years of a 50 year sentence. now she is suing the federal government alleging the u.s. parole officers are partly to blame for captivity and her attorney says that the lawyers on fairly convinced a former chair of the parole commission not to serve as a
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witness. separately she has already received a $20 million settlement from the state of california. san francisco police are defending their decision to shoot an unarmed man last saturday in san francisco bay view district. >> darya: police say as they were chasing this one and 33 year-old brian cooper they notice that he had a hand gun they say he refused to stop and then he eventually fail. they say he started turning 0.1 of the officers and pointed a gun over his left shoulder at the officer and that is when the police opened fire. they say the shooting was justified but hooper's family was a community meeting still has a question for the police chief. >> i thought if a person with running you are not supposed to shoot at them i am trying to figure ou
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>> it is the policy that officers can fire until they believe the threat has stopped. >> justine: from the kron4 newsroom i'm watching the candidates this morning. we have live pictures where mitt romney will be. he will be introduced and then after i will, he will go to new york city to raise some more cash for his campaign. president barak obama will
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travel to colorado for a two day for city swing he is focusing on the economy and women's health issues. that is what we are watching right now in the kron4 newsroom. >> darya: thanks a lot to be back with more but let us take a live look we have the approach to the bay bridge and i concede that the metering lights are on but not much else. george's tracking your dry times and will tell you about any hot spots in just a couple of minutes.
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>> darya: good morning and thank you for waking up to kron4 morning news. this is a gorgeous shot. you can see the view very nicely. it is on to the hot one today. by friday we will skyrocket up to 100 degrees in the
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hottest spots. today we are on our way the we have a long way to go. we start at 52 and to advise the to the and that but that is a long way to go, from 52 greased up to 90 degrees. like i said, thursday and friday we are looking at higher temperatures. the warmest spot will be 100 on friday. we will check this out with erica now topping our health headlines right now we have some surprising news for overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes. a new study says that obese people appear to live normal--live longer than normal body weight people when they're disease was detected. people who have a normal p.m. i have twice as likely to die. experts say normal weight people may be at a higher risk if their fitness that is not good. the u.s. government finds that overall cholesterol levels in children and teenagers
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have gone down of the last two decades. the study was conducted on more than 16,000 people between the age of six to 19 years old. this was conducted over three different time periods from 1998 up to 2010. >> darya: more americans are walking a regularly to stay in shape but we need to pick up the pace. new findings released by the cdc says that 62 percent of adults say that they balked at least 10 minutes or more per week. 10 minutes for the whole week is up 6% since 2005. even with the gains and walking only 40 percent of adults get enough exercise to actually improve their health. walking can minutes per week can be from your parking spot at the time spent in the cdc
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recommends at least one half hours of moderate to intense aerobic physical activity every week. >> darya: if you are watching us on the treadmill or the bike, good for you. let us take a live look in san jose, traffic is not too bad. we do have a lot of sunshine as we do all across the bay today, we will be right back.
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>> darya: investigators are looking into how a seemingly insignificant lead at the turn into the massive fire that we had. the leak started as a trip so small that chevron said they did not believe this posed an immediate danger to residents. state law require chevron to notify the public of any gas leak fire or will spill immediately. the public is upset that chevron will depend minutes to pull the emergency lever. the
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chief says that there was nothing to advise the public about. there is already talk that the refinery fire will cause gas prices to go up. we already pay the highest prices in california in the nation. we are keeping our eye on the prices and we will have a live report coming up. bay area air quality officials have released test samples taken on monday during the fire. they say while the big fireball was going in all of the black smoke was billowing. it posed any health hazard but samples were taken from local air quality monitors and the also reviewed the monitor is near the facility and say no harm has been done. now that take a peek at the big board, the dow is down 28 points. here to talk more about the market are fighting to export--here to
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talk more about the markets we have rob black our financial experts. >> first of what actually the market is doing pretty well. >> darya: how about macy's, they reported an increase in their income for the second quarter, they continue to benefit from the local market, what are they doing? >> basically j.c. penney's is stepping it up and they're taking market share from j.c. penney. >> darya: they have a fail. is like every day. >> long story short, this is a story of great execution the awful weakness of other department stores. i have always said if you ever see me and sears, i
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will give you $20,000 because it just cannot happen that reality is the truth. >> darya: but you still have to go to sears if you need a vacuum cleaner. >> i go there online and they give it to you like the next day. so you will never see me in there. this is a good story. is a positive reading on our economy. >> now mcdonald's, domestic self, the how, then sales in europe are down. but the big sales and asia are down. >> you like them due to
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volume but the big question is this whole burger mc qeen--this burger king summer sensation are people going to to collate gather --cooling tochipotle rather than make donald. --than mcdonalds. >> now this morning chat dorsey found it square and he founded twitter. they say that they will invest $25 billion in the startup of square at the starbucks . now you can see this right here is the pavement that is put on your phone and the new flight. --then you s
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wipe. the vendor has this, they get paid faster this is a threat to visa because this gives vendors and the war cost transaction. they will not have to raise our prices and they are happier. >> darya: what is interesting is that i love this, i did not know what this querulous. but it freaks the out a little bit i was wondering if they could still my credit card. >> darya: but really the square, i will look at this and i am like they will still my card with this, i see that on your phone and i think that does not sound very official. >> as a guide you to work in a restaurant as a waiter i will tell you this the
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waiter is more likely to steal your credit card because they actually have it. the technology not so much. if it goes bad, liability is not that big. >> darya: there is a load off. now let us get a look at the weather. >> erica: good morning, we have pretty good conditions but later this week it will be hot with a lot of locations getting into the triple digits. now out in oakland, we could start to see the sun shine with the skies in abundance. on our satellite we do not see too much in the way of cloud coverage. we have clear conditions and what we do see is confined to the san mateo coastline. temperatures already started to jump 62 degrees and antioch, and a little more chilly in santa rosa coming in at 48 degrees. into the afternoon your temperatures will be much warmer compared to yesterday. we do have hazy conditions into the
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afternoon. we could have some problems with air quality. we could see several 90's and potentially uncomfortable conditions because we will have a lot of warmer air coming in from the north. expect any doctor, 96 degrees, 95 at walnut creek. >> erica: if you are going to the angels game versus the oakland a's, temperatures will be in the mid-70s. your seven day around the bay forecast fills a little bit of a warm-up. friday could actually reach triple digits. i want to remind everyone that we have a new way for you to get your kron4 forecast at any time. you can find this on comcast channel 193 but as of right now we have to take a quick break and the kron4 when a will be right back. [music]
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