evacuated from clear lake. they say driving away from their home was a very scary experience. >> first the fire marshal came, then fish and game, and then another one and they said you need to leave and you need to leave now. they say you are running out of time and we just drop everything and left. the fire is coming up the hill, it is growing taller. if you could see pretty much what look like flames. >> it was like a war zone driving through. houses were on fire and it was like a firework, you like it and it just went everywhere. gaurd

rails had melted and the structures that reside on the side, it was getting dark i did not see any structures there. from pg&e are in the area trying to work to fix any power outages. they say residence may be able to return to their homes but the fire came dangerously close. >> the homes are still standing throughout spring valley. we had three structures that were destroyed and we are trying to determine what they were exactly. this fire was birling down on that community and there were hundreds of homes and the path, so we did a good job of keeping this contain but unfortunately the conditions worked against us and three structures were destroyed. >> justine: they are unsure which of these structures were homes, but they're still investigating. we have

continued coverage on our facebook page, twitter and our web site. >> justine: a controversial law is not affected mandates thousand homeowners across the bay area have to pay an extra bill for fire protection. it is about $150 per year. the breakdown for residents is on your screen right now if you want to check it out. >> justine: teresa estacio spoke with fire officials who oppose the law and they say it does not make any sense. >> reporter: this is in residential community that has about 439 homes and soon each homeowner will get a bill from the state for fire protection services. that is

because this area is located in the unincorporated area of marin county. but as the ticket our fire chief says, the bill would be for nothing because everyone here already pays taxes to have the timber on fire department meet their needs. >> it is really unfortunate that it has no bearing benefits for the constituents for already doing it. >> reporter: it is not a just this area in paradise k, it will also affect all the homes on the eastern part of to ron and other pockets of scattered around marin county. the chiefs' best--they have attempted to fight the state in order to block the law. >> reporter: he says he understands that cal fire officials push for the law to help fund their

department to help pay for putting out fires in areas where people have decided to build homes in remote areas but he says that does not apply to various cities where fire departments handle all of the areas with ease. >> we want to talk with the senators at the state level and really go back and read you this because this is very unfortunate and burdensome. >> justine: a flex other has been declared for today designed to encourage conservation. the alert is between a 11 a m and 11:00 p.m. tonight we are being asked to keep our thermostats as 78 degrees. turn off your of appliances and lights when you are not at home. now we just saw

that shot from the golden gate bridge, your could looks like you have a lot going on in the weather center. >> erica: yes, we do have some changes good morning to you justine. this morning i had to use my windshield wipers, but overall we have clear conditions it just depends on where you are situated. in an is crystal clear. it will continue to be sunny through the afternoon. because we are contending with shallow marine layer, we will hold onto all that cloud coverage for our coastal communities. we will also see a dip in temperatures. i will show you the afternoon high temperatures coming up. take a lick your visibility chart. check out along the coast. visibility is down to 1 mi.. certainly dry with caution and be careful of the cars in front of you.

not only does the cloud coverage and fog hug the coastline but it starts to feel in along the bay. in terms of your afternoon high temperatures would have plenty of sunshine. >> erica: your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast does show that temperatures will continue to slide. temperatures are about on par with the seasonal average. we are talking upper 80s for your warmest inland areas. we continue to introduce cloud coverage as we start the next work week. checking with the chp there is nothing to alert you to, just a typical row work for this time of morning. the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza shows traffic

moving well coming out oakland into the city. over at the sand until bridge you will see a lot of space in between cars. over at the golden gate bridge, check out the fog the commute south bound. fortunately there are no incidents to report. we do not have any accidents to invite issue of, certainly drive with extra caution >> justine: thank you erica, much more ahead on the kron4 news as we take a quick break, let us take a look at what is happening along the james lick freeway in san francisco.

>> justine: 3 people are dead including a police officer after a man opened fire near the campus of the university. >> reporter: in a residential area just a few blocks from texas university police say a man started shooting at a law- enforcement officer that was serving an eviction notice. >> we received a shot fired

call from the citizen. we responded very quickly. upon the officers' response is when they began to take on fire from the suspect. >> reporter: the shooter was identified as a 35 year-old thomas kaful was killed with two others. >> bryant was very close with everyone in this community he was a killer. it is sad and tragic that we have lost him. >> reporter: another officer and a 55 your warmer were also shot, two other officers suffered to non- life threatening injuries. this sparked a warning for students and faculty to avoid the area where there were reports of an active shooter. officers mourning the loss of their colleagues have secured the area and they are investigating the incident. >> justine: will ticket quebec on the kron4 morning

news and will have the forecast right after this, keep it right here to kron4.

>> justine: the race to the white house has new energy. mit romney announces paul ryan as his running mate as catherine heenan tells us this move has energize both parties on the campaign trail. >> reporter: the mitt romney campaign strategy to they would divide and conquer. >> if i ask him the same question that i'm getting axed from people all around america which is where are the jobs mr. president? >> reporter: the president was also an iowa he was getting a first time look at drought damage he called right in a good man but he blamed them for being one of the republicans for blocking the farm bill. the

>> i am told that mitt romney's running the median iowa in the next few days, he is one leaders that is standing in the weight of the--standing in the way of the farm bill. >> reporter: mitt romney's campaign was not without some drama. two women were heckling him shouting things like are you going to cut medicare and you are attacking the middle class. he tried laughing it off but then the women were eventually forcibly removed. >> justine: we want to go back to erica in the western center to the that our forecast. it is a little bit cooler from what i understood from what you said but it is still hot all things considered.

>> erica: good morning dusty and i did not think we will see triple digits but some location will keep it in the upper 90s. it looks like we see some cloud coverage may be some fog over downtown san francisco. you probably need to use your wipers. expect temperatures to sit in the low 50s. so, it declined they be city of the 52 degrees, 54 in downtown san francisco but check this out still holding on to low 80s here. our future forecast showed about lunch time we have 60s along coastline. we have '70s throughout the bay and 80s and 90s for your warmest inland areas. by 3:00 p.m. in the cycle could see some 90's in the south bay and the in an east bay valleys. for the most part i think the triple digits will stay at of the area. now breaking down the numbers neighborhood by neighborhood, i see '70s, '80s and even some 90's.

>> erica: for our in the east bay spots, check out and not coming in and 90 degrees. it looks like we will see much more in the way of cloud coverage this afternoon especially with the marine layer that we are contending with. actually, temperatures along the coast will be of the cooler and not as much sunshine. >> erica: as we look ahead at your extended forecast, you will see not much has changed. we may lose a couple degrees but overall we have a pretty clear conditions. we have 90's for your inland areas, upper '70's and low 80s and it looks like we will continue

to see a cool down i will have your full details in just a little bit. >> erica: your san mateo bridge ride is moving smoothly. from highway 92 edition is 13 minutes from end to end. as we take it to the golden gate bridge, it looks like we have fog coverage but certainly drive with extra caution. >> erica: at the traffic map we see no backups coming out of the north bay. your drive time isn't 10 minutes out of navato into the city. >> justine: a new survey is fighting that bank accounts are getting more expensive.

>> justine: the average minimum balance to avoid service fees went up this year. banks are looking for ways to recoup revenue because the law limits how much they can charge stores when customers use their debit cards. >> justine: according to a new study of adult obesity rates rose 30%. >> justine: we have much more ahead on this tuesday morning as we take a live look outside to see with the conditions look like around 600 and walnut creek we have [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home

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has cut prices on the nook e-reader you can now purchase a nook tablet at cheaper prices. the cheapest tablet on the market is $179. >> reporter: and do you remember this iconic 90's you've got mail? they even name the movie after this with tom hanks and meg ryan, now you can add that sound effects to your g-mail account to learn how to do that log on to kron4.com and look for the news links section.

>> justine: how would you like to fly from new york to london in one hour? the government is on to test and aircraft that if is successful it will be capable of traveling nearly 4,000 mi. in one hour. it will take off from edwards air force base and then be carried to the height of 50,000 ft. over the pacific ocean. as you can see in this animation they're showing us what this will be like. it will launch into the upper atmosphere before turning on the experimental engine. if all goes well, the aircraft will travel about six times the speed of sound for about five minutes before crashing into the ocean. but they will not do that when they start doing the commercial flights in the future. >> justine: it has been a week since the nafta curiosity rover travelled 350 mouse and then landed on mars. the scientists

receiving special thank-you from president obama. >> president barak obama: i just want you to know that we could not be more excited about what you have been doing. someone asked me the other day if you already found marcion's i told them that we have to give you a little bit of time. >> justine: right now you are looking at sections of one of the first high resolution pictures from mars. they want to determine if n existed on the planet. much more ahead on this tuesday morning. it is a little drizzly out there in some parts of the bay area. we will be tell the forecast we come right back. [music]

>> justine: there was a sell-off ahead the shell oil refinery yesterday's emergency crews were quick to get this under control. >> reporter: the fire was quickly extinguished only lasting for about a few minutes, but there were several flare ups. this is the fuel and the fumes that were being burned off. the refinery said this is normal. the unit was immediately evacuated around 2:00 p.m.. no one was injured. there are about 90 workers here at the refinery that are trained as volunteer firefighters. they quickly put out the fires

pouring water on it the try to cool it down. there was a health advisory issued for parts of martinez but that was quickly lifted. the spokesperson says there was a lot to figure out as forrest what damage had been done. >> it is too early to say the impact of this on our refineries we will access the damage and correct this as quickly as we can. we will also investigate the cause of the fires. >> reporter: unlike chevron this did not to the community alert system this was only a level 2. to get the community alert going it had to be a level 3. this fire was so quickly knocked down that it was taken down to a level one. >> justine: it has been one week since the massive fire broke that at chevron in

richmond. this thick black smoke sent thousands of people to area hospitals. investigators were kept out of the area where the fire started because of continued safety concerns. as dan kerman tell us that could change by the end of this week. >> reporter: after a fire broke that at the richmond refinery investigators have not been able to get into the area to collect physical evidence. >> there is danger from structural elements, scalping could collapse. we have to be very careful with those things. >> reporter: chevron is now running steam through the pipes in that area to clear out any remaining liquids. the remaining work should be complete in days. >> i think we can get in there within a couple of days. >> reporter: 1 site will gather evidence and collect

all flight testing on the pipes. they have been interviewing employees and checking company >> we want to look at the past history and focus on that to see when things were done and how they were done. we will do a thorough investigation. >> reporter: was all of the investigation has been done, they may be allowed to restart the unit. but that is only once they say so. this could take up to six months to complete the investigation but they could come up with a called earlier. at that time there will also decide whether i'm not sure raunch to be fined for violating safety and health standards. >> justine: cal officials also made very clear that is the state of california that is working the refinery investigation and not the federal government's chemical safety board. both

will conduct investigations, but cal osha says they will decide when the site is ready to be re-entered. >> justine: let us check in with erica on our forecast. >> erica: good morning justine, we do have some fog in the area, not taking it out side to walnut creek overall we have a crystal clear conditions. we continue to see that as we head into the afternoon in terms of your temperatures right outside the door we half '50s, '60s, '70s, and 80's. some have reported and antioch, '70 waking up in livermore we see sixties in places like pleasanton in concord. >> erica: as we check out our future forecast to show where the numbers will go, it looks like by lunchtime

we will have '60s, '70s, '80s in places like concord and livermore. now by 3:00 p.m. start to see purple. yesterday we saw a lot more widespread but today i think it would just take any forecast area. now where will the numbers go into the afternoon? here is the breakdown. >> erica: temperatures are a little bit cooler along the water with upper '70's reported in oakland. >> erica: as we take a look at your seven day around the bay forecast, you will notice a little bit of a cool down each and every day but by the weekend we did not see any 90's and fact are warmest it is will be in the upper 80s. it looks like temperatures are on par with the seasonal average. now a quick bridge

check to get you out the door we are not looking at any hot spots. the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza is moving find out oakland into the city. over at the san mateo bridge marketing a little more busy. here is a live look at the golden gate bridge south bound 101 shows a of of of road work. you can see the flashing lights and on top of that we have compromised his ability with a lot of fog on the deck, certainly drive with extra caution. >> justine: a woman was stabbed in san jose yes to the this is the city's second homicide of the day. the woman was found on the sidewalk. it was shortly after 6:30 p.m.. she was suffering from at least one stab wound when the police arrived and was later pronounced dead at the scene. earlier in the day hispanic man was found suffering from a fatal gunshot wound on patrol streets. those two deaths mark san jose's 25th and 26 homicide of the year. and to

19 year-old man now face strong driving charges and speeding charges after they crashed into two homes in saratoga. both of them had minor injuries. rob fladeboe shows the damage and explains what happened next. >> reporter: this was the unbelievable scene in saratoga early monday were two cars, a bmw and a toyota slammed into a pair of homes and severely damaging both. >> and our traffic investigators are saying that the speeds were in excess of 50 mi. per hour when it crashes to the home. >> reporter: a bottle of whiskey was found in one car, both were suspected of driving under the influence and may have been racing. this caused a rude awakening for neighbors. >> it was shocking and horrifying, it is amazing that these boys survived and

that no one was hurt and that those cars managed to go through the two trees and get through that tiny little space i do not even know how that even happened. >> reporter: imagine being in that chair and a car suddenly crashes into your living room fortunately no one was home at this house. no one was hurt export either but this man was irate due to the damage done to his roses. the karsh of a 300 lb. boulder through his crotch door causing extensive damage. the vehicles careened and ended on top of each other. >> obviously they were going to fast. >> reporter: crew spent the entire morning trying to take away the tan old cars. --the tangled cars.

>> justine: police say an action movie drove through the school's large front window on foothill boulevard right near seminary. the person drove off the left behind a license plate of the car that should help authorities track down the driver. the front of the building is now boarded up, the cleanup inside is now finished. the six children that take class's there will be able to continue with their training. in a bottle, a garbage truck slammed into a car and pushing it into a curves gym. the driver was transported to the hospital and his condition is unknown this morning. we have much more to get to on the kron4 morning news. it is drizzling out there in parts of the bay area. we will be tell your forecast as to take a live look at your approach to the bay bridge.

>> justine: there is none new with you to get kron4 weather and news when you want it. >> reporter: our new 24/7 bay area news channel is all about convenience, you can check in and get up-to-the- minute weather and news information. let me show you, right here we cycle through cities showing the current temperature and the particular place. right next to the current temperature we have the city's seven day forecast. these are always on the screen and they're always being updated. like campbell 70 forecast is a news crawl with the latest information from the kron4 newsroom. the time you want, you can check the update on the weather or get an update on the news. in this big box we will have more information and news of the along with updated traffic checks and a live video from the bay area bridges. what if you are not near a television set? you can

watch online as well as kron4.com. please give us some feedback. this is just super quick and convenient. it is a with you to get the weather and the news anytime you want. remember the new bay area news channel is on comcast channel 193. [music] >> justine: of much more ahead on the kron4 morning news, we will be right back. [music]

>> justine: a new kind of vehicle crash test aims to lower interest and debt. we have the story. >> reporter: the insurance institute for highway safety is adding in the crash test to the battery of safety tests that it makes targeting a certain kind of crash. >> we call it a small overlaps crash because a look at what happened to the

front corner of the vehicle when it's another vehicle or a tree or object. we looked at the real world data. this is a very important issue. >> reporter: loves cars have safety cages in the event of a head on collision. according to iihs about one- quarter of the serious injuries and fatalities in these accidents involve collisions like the one this test replicates. >> often those vehicles that do well in the government crash tests are hour crash test do not do well in this type of crash tests. >> reporter: the acura tl

and volvo and insanity earned fair ratings. >> reporter: now to find the cheapest gas in the area you can go to kron4.com. you can go to the gas locator and click on this link. this screen will appear. the darkest read indicates the most expensive gas. >> reporter: we have the easy to find the cheapest gas in the bay area. we have

broken down for you. these are the cheapest prices in the south bay right now ticket. --take a look. >> reporter: with prices soaring in the bay area this gas price navigator will help you save some money at the pump. >> justine: now we want to check in with erica with a look at our forecast how is it going out there this morning? >> erica: we do have some fog and drizzle to contend with. we have some cloud coverage as well. our

satellite and radar shows fog hugging the coast line going into some of the inland spots. >> erica: we have 10 mi. of visibility for the freeway the checkout half moon bay. visibility is down to one and a half miles. >> erica: checking out your afternoon high temperatures here they are. we could reach the mid '80s for milpitas. it looks that fairfield and antioch could reach the afternoon high temperatures of 90 degrees with plenty of sunshine there. >> erica: as we turn our attention to the east bay, we could see handful of '70s. we have partly cloudy conditions and a lot kilpatrick for ocean beach coming in at 63 degrees.

>> erica: the delicate your big weather story, we will continue to see dense fog and morning drizzle. by the weekend, it looks like temperatures will be on par with the seasonal average. as we check out your baseball forecast if you're heading to the nationals reverses the giants--the national's verse the giants, temperatures will be sitting in the mid-60s. for the most part we will notice a cool down, by the we can we are talking up the for the inland areas, '70s around the bay and los 60 for the coast. over in the traffic center we have no hot spots. it looks like the bay bridge is doing well. we do see an increase in volume but with no metering lights to deal with. >> erica: here at the san until bridge we have no problems to alert you to, your drive is just 13 minutes from end to end. now taking it over to the golden

gate bridge we have some road work, but the fight trafficking by fine. >> erica: turning it over to the traffic map, all is well. >> erica: it looks like we see an incident free trip coming out of marin. >> justine: bankamerica, enough of pretty embarrassing pictures have happened in new york and now raises concern around airports this all started with a jet skier breaching a 100 --$150 million system. >> reporter: the new york area's four airports have a hundred million dollars security system of all that did not stop a stranded jet skier from wandering onto jfk airport. this incident

is raising a red flag with airport security experts. the port authority police say that the 31 euro was justine with friends friday in jamaica bay when his jet ski broke down. authorities believe that he swam towards jfk airport and when he got on shore, he jumped over the barbwire fence and then walked across at least one warm--1 runway near terminal three. no one saw him or stop him until a delta employees saw him and stopped him and called security. >> we need to see if there are possible threats that can come in and attack a center. >> reporter: the young man was charged with criminal trespassing. now the port authority said that is increasing its around-the- clock presence to secure the protruding from the

waterfront. in a statement, the port authority said the following. >> reporter: ratheon the company that designed the security system did not want to accommodate only said that they're reviewing what happened. the port authority says that the system has been riddled with problems including too many false alarms. >> reporter: it raises the question about security at all waterfront airports like ones in the nation's capital, temple, and san francisco. the union is calling for a uniform perimeter plan for all experts, but experts say that may not be so clear- cut.

>> not one airport security measure fits all sizes. >> a security standard in place at one airport does not belong at another. >> reporter: law-enforcement officials say the story may be true because marine officials were approached by a man on a jet ski that said his friend went missing on around the same time.

you some scenes from the night sky. looking closely. see that, the sky was full of these. they are saying he

still to check this out you can get away from the city lights and the fog to see this as well. >> justine: the question this morning is what will webster think of this? dictionary editors say they back to 1988. >> justine: some other words that are making the book this year are sexting, energy drink and life

coach. >> justine: and coming up we have more on the wildfire update. also, your child snoring can be a sign of a bigger problem. >> justine: we have republicans on tap we want to show you what chris christie will be doing at the convention.

[music] >> darya: good morning, hundreds of people are waking up in their own homes again after the evacuation of a wildfire that was burning forced them out over the weekend that is our top story this tuesday morning of august 14th. the wye fire in lake county has grown to 6,000 a.. the conceit the intense flames. they're having a hard time to keep this fire from spreading. it is about 20 percent

contained. the positive development is that the wild fires are moving away from the spring valley area where 480 homes had to evacuate. those residents are being allowed back into their homes. part of highway 23 east of clear lake oakes has been closed. earlier yesterday the entire high will shut down because the smoke was so heavy. utility crews from pg&e are in the area working to fix in the house or disruptions. >> darya: pal fire says that although residents were allowed to go back to their homes, the fire did come dangerously close. >> many residents will return to blackens smoke all around the homes are still standing. we had three structures that were destroyed in we are trying to determine exactly what they work. there were hundreds of homes in the path of this fire, so we did a good job of keeping the

fire away but unfortunately the conditions work against us than three structures were destroyed. pam kvell >> darya: cal fire does not know if those three structures were homes. we want to show you where the fires are at this time. >> mark: as you can see, the wye fire is to the east of clear lake oaks. it is still burning with 25 percent containment and the walker fire had the burned to thousand acres and containment is 20 percent there. we have some viewer pictures coming into kron4 showing how much smoke is billowing up from these fires with temperatures well above 100 degrees during the afternoon yesterday. we are watching the difficult conditions in the area as you see some more pictures

from our kron4 viewers. this has been really tough for the firefighters. let us find out if there will be any break in the weather ear cut is watching the conditions. >> erica: as we take a look at what is happening currently, it is about 80 degrees at clear lake and the wild fire is burning with humidity levels at about 10%. we have seen an increase in the wind speed. later this afternoon temperatures will be about 105 degrees so if firefighters want to get a handle on this, they have to do it now. >> george: we are tracking the house by this morning on highway 24 in the westbound direction. we just caught a world that a truck trailer has overturned on

the highway and is blocking f the lanes. it could be the lane from the left or right. as you can see with the green on the road sensors, this means that there is not a significant back up yet. at this hour traffic is still pretty light, but it is building up quickly. if this is your commute route, you may want to start thinking about alternates and about an early departure this morning because later on it is more likely that we could see a back up. no respondence yet but we are anticipating the delay. >> mark: not operators of the state's electrical grid are putting out a flecks of work. it is from 11 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.. during that

time, power supply companies across the state are asked to keep their to the cheers of 70 degrees or higher. turn on the nbc--turn off the air condition if you are not home. >> darya: now yesterday a fire broke out at the shell refinery in martinez. 90 volunteer firefighters were able to knock down the fire at the refinery. the county issued a health advisory for parts of martinez. the refinery says that it does not know if this will affect oil production. >> it is too willing to say what the impact of this will be on the refinery. we will be accessing the damage and correct this as quickly as we can. we also will be investigating the fire so that process is just starting. >> darya: the advisory was

lifted around 3:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. >> darya: officials say will be a couple more days before the area is safe and the chevron refinery in richmond. right now they're running steam through the pipes and that is a to clean up any remaining flammable liquid in the remaining work should be done by the end of the week. once inside, the cal osha investigators would gather evidence and to offsite testing as well. already, investigators have been interviewing employees and reviewing company records. >> there is always mean it's going on and replacing of piping, so we want to focus on that and see when it was done, how it was done, the training of the personnel that conducted the work, we want to do a thorough investigation >> darya: once the physical

evidence has been collected chevron may be able to restart that unit no. 4 but only if cal osha says so. >> mark: let us get more on the heat and how it will be for your day with erica. >> erica: the morning mark, it looks like we will have some heat and into the afternoon we could see some of the '90s for your warmest inland areas. later this evening we have mostly clear conditions overnight who will see an increased andfog--in fog. i will show the seven day forecast coming up. >> mark: on the kron4 morning news we will check out the campaign trail. we will tell you about the vice-presidential candidate for mitt romney who got the worst hecklers in the crowd.

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>> president barak obama: the best way for us to help the states is for congress to act. they need to pass that also makes necessary reform and gives them some long-term certainty. people suffering cannot wait for congress to do its job. in the meantime i have made way for my administration to do everything we can to provide relief to those who need it. >> mark: that was the president speaking an iowa yesterday. in the meantime, hecklers began to attack and it romney's new running mate at the i was >> i heard that president obama is starting his tour here today. i heard he also

attended the iowa state fair. i think it has become... [shouting] >> as you know what, it is funny because those from iowa and wisconsin like to be respectful and these ladies must not be from iowa or wisconsin. >> mark: the heckling did not last long, the two women were taken away by security. george. >> george: we are getting an update, here in orinda a truck vehicle has turned

over. i will have more when the kron4 news returns. [music]

>> darya: knew this morning, clipper says that for two years and failed to collect from writers using the bottle ride system but now it is finally kinkaid--auto ride system but now its getting paid. >> will: this affect thousands of people possibly 8000 riders over the past couple of years. but happens is if you have the clipper card, you can go through very should deduct from their account. once it gets to a minimum amount it replenishes. well they forgot to replenish, and for a couple of years people have been getting by

sometimes it would replenish and most of the times it would not. we are talking approximately $230,000 that are still out there outstanding and that is why some people are getting an e-mail. people say they do not like this. and muni and clipper are reaching back into time and reaching into your account and then saying what is fair is fair, we messed up and now we are planning on fixing it. >> darya: for the average person what are we talking about and are they taking all this money all at once? >> will: that is a good question, but if you do the math, they came up with 8000 people into $230,000 i am not exactly sure how much, but we will hear with john and see what he has to say about the breakdown. the people are wondering what our the tampering with my account? you messed up, i

did not mess up but they say what is fair is fair. >> darya: let us go to george because the big moment is a hot spot here. >> george: this is on westbound highway 24. i just got off the phone with caltrain. they have a camera that is at stevens and it is not backed up that far. if you look, you can see there is not really much back up in the westbound direction. at last look, the chp had been running a traffic break in order to stop the traffic so that the king did the right lane cleared either by setting the trader--trailer back up and then pulling it off. the bad news is that it is out there the good news is that it is not delaying your ride. now the san until bridge should look good.

here, you can see light traffic both west bound and east bound. the headlights are heading towards hayward. and for a miracle in the right, we have fog again this morning. south bound 101 looks good. let us see how the were the works and for that we will talk with erica and the weather center. >> erica: good morning george, we see a lot of fog and cloud coverage. it is evident along the coastline. we have more clear conditions along these communities. and taking a look outside your door here are the current temperatures. >> erica: this afternoon a will pick up warmer temperatures. by lunchtime, we have '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s for places like livermore and concord. by the afternoon in the stock

we can see purple on the screen however i think that is out of our forecast area. now we break down the numbers for you. we could see some bit 80's today. >> erica: 40 in the east bay communities, it looks like antioch and fairfield will reach an afternoon high of 90 degrees. >> erica: your kron4 seven day around the bay forecast shows a gradual cool down as we transition into the weekend. >> mark: thank you erica, now and the clear lake area we are monotremes fire that is burning east of the town of clear lake. the temperatures today are expected to be a very hot. >> mark: see humidity levels

are down below 15% this morning that will make for some tough conditions today. other stories we are falling, imagine flying from new york to london in one hour that is the type of speed that they will be testing today. they will be dropping this hypersonic wave rider. they will drop this from a b-52 bomber off the coast of california. they are hoping that it will be able to travel at six times the speed of sound for a five minute period if this is successful they will not be putting people on their they plan on using this for missiles and other things that they need to get around the world really fast. >> darya: now there have been some concerns that airport security around the country. it all started with a jet skier breaching eight $100 million security system. they say that the 31

year-old man with jet skiing friday night in jamaica bay when his jet ski broke down. they believe that he swim toward jfk airport and then when he got on, he jumped over the barbwire fence a acrost one runway and no one saw him, no one stopped him. he was finally near gate 7 when a delta employee saw him and then they alerted authorities. >> it is definitely time to look at perimeter security. if there are possible threats where someone can access and aircraft that is a problem. >> darya: he was charged with trespassing and now the port is increasing its security some--to secure its print amateur as well as its waterfront. >> darya: taking a live look

at the same until bridge, you can see that it looks pretty clear out there. >> darya: if you want to feel more safe at home, do not just mow your grass, take care of that they can lot to. we have that coming up.

>> mark: the number of inmates and police about 15% higher than what the projected. about 170 inmates with of on to prison have been sentenced to the county jail instead. many that were paroled have had their cases newly assigned. the report also finds the nearly 87 percent of those released had a moderate or high risk of rhee offending. and a crediting organization has tolkin state university that its status is in jeopardy based on recent developments of the jerry sandusky child abuse

scandal. the commission cited the schools and to report an n.c.a.a. sanctions over the handling of the molestation allegations against the former assistant football coach that was convicted in june of 45 counts of child sexual abuse. they say they want a report submitted by next month from penn state as well as more information about the fallout from the scandal. >> darya: researchers did a study in pennsylvania and they found transforming vacant lots into preen--into clean green spaces make some more illegal--impossible to hide illegal guns in the areas and people also feel safer living next to a clean and green space. that is the latest that was done in pennsylvania. i think it applies to other areas as

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tropicana o.j. is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. >> darya: here is some good news george, this hot spot was overnighting quickly. >> george: it sure was. jackie went to the scene because we were expecting with reports of a trailer on its side we would see big backups, but the good news is that the acting has been cleared. all of the lanes are be open and it is possible that it may have been a completely different accidents than the one that was originally described by the california highway patrol. for your commute, you can relax and breathe easy. stay with us on the kron4 morning news. >> erica: temperatures are

not too surprising as you step outside the door. we are still holding on to 70 degree temperatures waking up and antioch. now take a look we expect a wide range from the '60s to the '90s. we may have a couple of degrees cooler and coming up and my next report i will take in the case afternoon high temperatures but i do not think we will see in the triple digits. i will have your seven day around the bay forecast coming up. >> darya: the wye fire has grown to 6,000 a.. we want to give you the latest, we have seen video come in and of these intense flames. we know that people are back in their homes, but firefighters are having a tough time with the heat and the wind as they battle this fire is only 25 percent contained. a positive is that the wild fire is moving away from the spring valley area that is the most of the homes or evacuated. those

residents can get back into their homes. parts of highway 20 have closed and are closed. yesterday the entire highway would shut down because of the thick smoke that was so difficult and visibility was reduced to nothing. utility crews and pg&e are in the area to make sure that any power interruptions are quickly fixed. in clear lake they used caught set up by the red cross. we spoke with one family that heard the back which is just before midnight sunday. they said they were driving away from their home it was a scary experience. >> first fire marshal and in the fishing in the game, then another truck and they went from you need to leave and then they said you the --you need to leave now because you're running out of time. we just drop everything and left. the fire was coming up the hill, it grew wider and taller. it

was a little below and then it went to a very obvious glow. you could see the fire. it is like a war zone driving through. the telephone lines grew on fire. it was like a firework. and car rails began to sag and melt. >> it was getting dark and i could not see any structures that used to reside there. >> mark: there are actually two separate fires more than 6 mi. apart but they're treating this as one incident as the wildfire continued to grow. the wye fire is burning by highway 23. that is the one that called for immediate evacuation it has burned over 3,000 a. and it is 20 percent contained. the

walker fire has burned over 2,000 a. and containment it's about 25%. resources are stretched thin as the arch--as they are fighting these massive fires. >> darya: a new law forces hundreds of thousands of californians to pay extra for a state fire services. they are sending out a bill to rural homes and a fee could cost up to $150 for one property. those that already pay local fire tax will see a flight--slight discount. but the timber ron fire chief says that this does not help people in his area, he said areas like paradise cane not located in

these areas and the residents will have to pay the fee on top of current fire taxes because that is considered an unincorporated section of marin county. this is to help offset the amount that a cow fire stands to fight fires in the rural areas. at least one group has planned to file a lawsuit in protest. >> darya: this morning police are investigating a stabbing in san jose. a woman was found on a sidewalk and into the corner of west san carlos street and meridian avenue. this was around 6:30 p.m. last night. she had been stabbed to death. earlier in the day man was found with a fatal gunshot wound. >> darya: 219 your own men are facing a drunk driving charges vase said their

cars into two homes. check out this video at the intersection of sterling road and prospect ave. look, the cars or on top of each other it is in the interview and a toyota they are slammed into two homes, they are severely damaging both of them. a bottle of whiskey was found in one car. they are suspecting that the two men were racing. here's what the santa clara sheriff's office had to say about the investigation. >> they were coming southbound trying to make a left hand on to prospect where it goes east bound. obviously they were going too fast to make the turn safely. it caused damage and literally took out a gun-- our a gaurd rail a 300 lb. boulder was hit and then it landed on one of the homes. >> mark: police spent most

of the day police cars out of the homes. both drivers were under arrest and they were both under age. >> justine: this just in, general motors because your vehicle could catch on fire they are recalling thousands. they said the chevy express, the gmc savana and models are from the year 2003 to 2004. safety regulators say that there is a high risk of fire. no injuries have been reported and dealers will be installing a new park and they say the owners have already been notified if you still have questions you can contact your dealer. >> mark: thank you, the kron4 morning news will continue until 10:00 a.m.. [music]

>> mark: snoring may be common but there are times when you should be concerned when it comes to your children. if your child snores loudly there could be some other problems associated with this. a study found that children that snored loudly at least twice per week at the age of two and three have more behavioral problems than those children that did not snore. research also found that breast feeding over longer periods of time seemed to protect toddlers against this type of snoring. >> mark: eating cocoa could help you think in the future a new study suggests that antioxidants and cocoa could help with language, merely and judgment. the study looked and 90 elderly people suffering from cognitive impairment. those who

received medium and high levels of the flavored malt did better on the mental test. they also said that physical exercise has a more positive affect on memory. >> darya: we will be back with more and just let us take a life outside from our mount tancam it is very clear we will be right back.

>> mark: the top stories we're following right now, hundreds of people are back in their homes, but the wild fire continues to rage. evacuation's in clear lake forest people out but the fire is growing to 6,000 a. in size. firefighters are having a tough time with temperatures over 100 degrees during the day. 25 percent containment is what we have right now. >> mark: klipper is alerting people of a payment that they will be getting they

are collecting uncollected transactions. you will receive an e-mail if they have not charge you then they should have. >> darya: in world news, in an apparent change of heart, iran says foreign aid is now welcome for those countries that were affected by the earthquake over the weekend. before this the country said they did not need any assistance and may send back a rescue team from turkey that are ride with some advance there was a 6.4 and 6.3 earthquake on saturday that struck killing 306 people. more than 3000 people were injured. i romney in sources say they have accommodate about 50,000 people that lost their homes in this earthquake. thousands of people in china suffered property losses from a 6.2 earthquake that hit on sunday. look at how the

earth just separated here. this earthquake was followed by two aftershocks. the earthquake brought of landslide and destroy it about 400 houses and hundreds of livestock were killed and about 350 residents have had to be evacuated. >> mark: if you have a few minutes to take a look outside, here is some video of a meteor shower that someone took in kentucky. this incident happened across the night sky. although it peaked on saturday, sunday and yesterday they say you can still see the some of the stars. >> darya: with the fog gets in your way, i know the san mateo bridge looks pretty clear and even the mount tancam looks pretty clear. >> erica: that was pretty

interesting i was looking at the mount tancam and it was crystal clear. you can see all the lights of this city. over the golden gate bridge we have some sopped in conditions. we will continue to see partly cloudy conditions for those along the coastline. now let us take a look at the temperatures and when they are expected to go. right now looks like we see temperatures in the '50s and '60s. around 12:00 p.m. we have mostly sunny contempt--mostly sunny temperatures. >> erica: your seven day around the bay forecast shows a gradual cool down.

by saturday and sunday we are talking upper '70's around the bay and 60 for the coast. we will continue to see temperatures on par with the seasonal average as we start the next work week. i want to remind everyone that we have a new way to get the kron4 forecast at any time. >> erica: you can check in any time to get the latest news, weather and traffic speaking of traffic, george how is your ride? >> george: not bad. we have reports of a hot spot that is completely clear. westbound traffic looks great with no delays, no fog and no problem. the san mateo bridge is problem free as well we have boast--both west bound and east bound. here's a quick look at your ride to the golden gate bridge. the commute is fine with no problem across the

deck, iran has looked good. let us--marin has looked good. let us check one the in the interstates. you're a west bound ride on 580 is getting pretty heavy. here is the north bay ride towards the golden gate bridge to navato your drive time is less than 25 minutes. >> darya: thanks a lot george. not a gunman was served with an eviction notice when he opened fire from inside of a home near texas a&m and killed a law enforcement officers. the city of college station texas's where this happened. the 35 year-old started shooting at the police during a standoff. a

bystander was shot and killed duringof gunfire that had during the stand off, for the people were injured including three police officers and a woman in her 50s. she was also a bystander. the officers are originally came to handle an eviction notice. 1 woman says that she and her boyfriend took cover and inside and then realized later that the bullet singled right through their windows. >> the first round was like five, or six shots. it was like an automatic gun that was going off. >> darya: this standoff in shooting prompted texas a&m to send out an alert warning students and residents to stay away from the area.

>> mark: a bill is heading to governor brown's office it is the transit phone jamming bill. >> mark: a new test by the entrance of highway safety shows that a large number of luxury vehicles do not measure up to safety standards. the test was to replicate what happens when a car's front end strikes and another car or a fixed object like a treat this happened at 40 mi. per hour. they say only the following vehicle earned good or acceptable ratings from the institute. >> mark: the following

vehicles - marks.

>> darya: f-bomb makes it into the collegiate dictionary today, dictionary editor said they have traced back 1988 it was actually printed gary carter was talking about how he had given all of that along with

many of the profundities. some sites already have the f-bomb listed. other words that are making it into the dictionary this year are sexting internet--and life coach. >> mark: researchers soundest python that is not native to south florida it was the largest they have found. the recent--those of the university of florida are trying to study the carcass to help stop the spread of this species with no known creditors. >> we found that the burmese python has eaten at least one bird and we also

found that it contained 87 a experience--87 eggs. >> mark: that would've been a lot of snakes. they say the burmese python was first found in asia. >> mark: coming up on the kron4 morning news at 6:00 a.m. we are following the wild fires burning in lake >> mark: we have no retail sales rising, we will talk with rob like about that. also how a man is one his way through security at the jfk airport.