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top stories we are following is strong winds. debris and the roads, construction cone's blowing around all over the place. a pretty intense site. not only is the blowing sand but trees. here is another shot of a treat bone down this morning that is also bringing down power lines. it will be causing problems for not only people at home but on the roads as well. there is a wind advisory in effect until later on tonight. and the wind advisories also in effect for almost every bay area breads. >> it was really what we were sleeping because year in the weather center and the traffic center we're seeing difference in numbers. >> they are definitely dying down, they were stronger in antioch. you can see there currently at 15. stronger winds along the coast line up the wins will continue. they could pick up in the
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afternoon hours. looking at when the dust throughout the bay area where it 25 mi. per hour in santa rosa. 29 encountered. the wind advisory expires at 8:00 p.m. tonight. a live look at san jose and around the airport, you concede the camera sticking around. >> all bay area bridges except for one are under wind advisory this morning. the only bridge is not included is the antioch bridge. the wind advisory that we have been emphasizing also includes special advisory for high- profile vehicles. especially the golden gate bridge. high-profile vehicles are recommended to not be used on that bridge this morning. that would include campers, box back trucks, big rigs, anything with a large when the profile that could be affected by the wind. we have some down the branch is still affecting traffic on
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highway 92. this is just west of interstate 280 between skyline into 80. i doubt bylines has shut down the road on both sides of skyline boulevard on 35. that is why so many of you and the coastal areas are affected by power outages. it reaches all the way up have monday. >> we're talking about how the wind does not down trees and the bay area. another example of that is in san francisco. will tran it is keeping an eye on the situation there. it is so strong this morning that it acts as with a tree behind you and to three's. >> this tree looks pretty young as well. it happened around 38 am. i have the goodness of as low as you and the trees are no longer against the home. at first
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glance it does not look like there's any structural damage. people are still inside and were inside at the time. no injuries were the treetop toppled down. as we move closer you can see they have the their chainsaws and a pact this tree down. now it is just a clean up process. it split right and that half. it does not look like there's any riding inside. it is not just here but all over sam francisco. >> we just lost the will of audio. it is pretty extensive damage out there. a huge section of this tree that landed there in the street. you can see san
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blowing across the lanes of the great highway. it is obscuring the lane markers as well as lying around construction equipment. you can see cones and some of the signs on the ground lying around. that is the situation we're seeing around the coast. >> we are keeping an eye on the power outages to. as of 6:00 this morning, we keep checking and look at the peninsula. 20,000 customers along the peninsula have no power at this hour. there's just a handful left in san francisco. 200,00and the south bay you did see from our san
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jose camera of the shaking here. the winds are still gusty here. the 1 01 traffic looks lions, but it could be a spring break. we are expecting that people are holding on hard to their steering well and taking a little longer this morning. if you have any pictures go ahead and send them to as at kron4 dot com. >> also happening right now fire has intensified in sunnyvale as crews are working to try and contain aid to alarm fire. it is happening at the 300 block of angel ave. the call after 330 this morning about a fire in a detached garage behind a home. 50 minutes after the report is that an
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alarm went out as the fire persisted. crews are still working on knocking down the fire. the owner of a home made the call to the fire crews and was able to safely get out. we will let you know when they finally get the upper hand. >> sampras as the police are investigating an overnight shooting at though not shop. it happened at happy donuts on 2600 block of bay shore boulevard around three. the suspect fired a shot struck a person inside the shop, also during the altercation in the shooter was stabbed. right now is still not know what happened first the shooting or the stabbing and the shooter is still on the lows. >> two people wounded by gunfi police gunfire and standards as those mission district remain in the hospital this morning with life-threatening injuries. this sitting at an early as
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the morning outside a bar on the 17th and valencia streets. witnesses say to groups of people out as a confrontation outside the bar, when one person pulled out what appeared to be a fire arm. when police arrived they saw one person in the firearm at a group of people. that is the police opened fire would be the suspect and another person. police are still looking into what type of firearm was being used by the suspect. >> margaret thatcher, one of the most important but british politicians of the 20th-century has died. she was 87 years old. she passed away this morning following a stroke. thatcher was britain's first and only female prime minister and the only british prime minister of the 20th- century the win three consecutive terms. thatcher was called the iron lady for personal and political toughness. she retired from public life after a stroke in 2002.
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rethink possible. >> looking at the markets this morning future trading shows all three indexes and
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a positive this morning. investors will be looking to see if the stock market can turn around the day after losing ground friday on a disappointing march jobs report. u.s. employers added just 88,000 jobs in march. that is half the pace of the previous six months. here's a look at friday's closing numbers. the dow lost nearly 41 points friday, closing at 14,565. the nasdaq fell 21 points to the 3203. that's and be felt nearly seven points to 1553. we'll be watching the numbers this morning starting at 630 with the opening bell. >> power ball lottery goes on sale today in california. many bay area stores are expected to get crowds for these tickets. one popular store in santa will be no exception. kavanagh liquors
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is home of a million-dollar winners and the lucky store in the bay area. the power ball dry will be on wednesday. >> a live look at san jose, the camera looks fine but the wind is blowing. overnight you could hear howling. we will be back with more and a few minutes. ♪ yeeeowwww!
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>> on down and blow over. we have had trees blown over. >> the winds and ashley died down compared to 34 and 5:00 hour. we are mainly in the teens' right now with sustained winds in oakland. wind gusts and a 30 mi. an hour range for all good,
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redwood city and 29 mi. an hour with gusts in concord. the wind advisory last until 8:00 p.m. tonight. although it has come down in some spots right now, they can pick up into the afternoon and evening hours. the cast force as is 9:00 a.m., 22 while an hour winds, 24 in san revell. and the winds will stay fairly consistent around most of the bay area. this 81 years green indicates plans up to 24 mi. per hour. the wind advisory expires at 8. temperatures, we are currently in the 40's and 50's and we have winds approaching from the northwest. that will continue into later on today. the highs, amid the upper 60s in the south bay. 67 in san jose. prices same story for east bay and one
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spot. 67 high in fairfield, low 60s downtown sampras's go. 68 of the high end oakland and parent 7 day around the bay wins will die down by the weight and and by wednesday it we are anticipating the warmest day of the week. it looks like it is relatively short lived as wheat go back down to 73 on thursday. we will still conceived to see the sunshine and the dry weather pattern last in the bay area last until the lease saturday and sunday. 6:17 a.m. here is george. >> the bay bridge over the last week we have observed of the metering lights are being activated about 15 to 20 minutes earlier than usual. it seems they've been kicked off just before 6:00 instead of around 620 which is usually when they go on.
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619 seems to be the most common number. already a bit of a back up in the westbound direction. there were problems earlier at the treasure island off ramp with a downed tree. that has been cleared and the off ramp has been very open. wind advisories are in effect for both the bay bridge and the golden gate bridge and also for the gardenias and venetian bridges. the residence and revell bridge for the san mateo and dumbarton bridges and the wind is still creating problems for the right here on highway 92 with down the branches just west of interstate 280. there're highway 35 at the downed
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power lines are responsible for a big chunk of the power outages. >> a u.s. diplomat was among six americans killed in afghanistan this weekend. smoke from a roadside bombing was in the air here in the southern afghan province of is doublzabul satur. you can see emergency personnel treating injured people following the attack. five americans died last including 25 year-old ananne smedinghoff. she was
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delivering books to school when her convoy came under attack. it is believe she is the first american diplomats killed since the sept. the terrorist attack in benghazi libya. secretary of state john kerry spoke about meeting heard days before the deadly attack. >> she was the one who worked hard and put her life on line so that others could live a better life. >> officials have not said who they believe is responsible for that blast. meanwhile manon's of hostages at a hillary clinton presidential campaign of this back in 2007 has escaped from a minimal security correctional facility in new hampshire. authorities say leeland eisenberg first went missing during and after nine headcount. back in november 2007 heisenberg to control of the clinton campaign office claiming to have a bomb. no one was hurt during the five hour
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standoff in the bomb was later revealed to be road flares. it's out he will be charged of this date, of felony which is punishable by a three and half to seven years in prison. >> two children are dead after based on wall collapsed in north carolina. crews spent hours digging for the 60 girl and a seven year-old boy before that and does this change from rescue to recovery. they were trapped when the wall base by class at a home construction site. rescuers dug their hands at times trying to free the children. an emergency management officials as the atoms were unsuccessful since the two were already below ground when the wall collapsed. neighbors say the two were cousins. investigators are working to determine why the basement collapse. >> meanwhile in northern california at hijacker is being credited with helping to save up family of five after that as the behavior of for road and ended up in a river. the family was driving along highway 50
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near the community of fibers last week when there st be one of the road, hit a concrete mile-marker, a large tree, of boulder and then landed in the american river. a kayaker was on the river and helped get three children out a car and safely to shore. firefighters later arrive in safely remove the driver and his wife of the car. all passengers are ok this morning. >> 622 a m and the bay bridge looks fabulous. look at the clear skies. there has the some much wind that it was howling over night. the dust will continue today and through the night. we will have more on this and a couple of minutes.
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>> 6:26 a.m. and cal's fairy tale season is over. after leading at the half cal could the louisville weigh losing 64 to 57. lay-sha clclarendon led the way
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for cal scored 17 points. louisville and sunday the slaughter scored 18 points and hit six three-pointers to leave louisville over cal. the national championship is on tuesday when louisville will face conn. >> meanwhile on the men's side, of the championship game gets underway tonight between louisville michigan. the cardinals advance to the finals after beating wichita state said the ec to 68 saturday night. michigan beat syracuse 61 to 56. tonight's game will be played at the door down at 630 our time.
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>> any moment you will hear the being and the trading will start. that's and be as positive, not by much but a positive. hopefully they
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will rebound. there is the bell. >> i heard the wind howling over night. i'm sure you did too. big gust and things blowing around and power outages still 2000's this morning. this wind advisory is lasting until 8:00 tonight for the bay area. let's take a look at some of the damage. will tran is live in san francisco where a big tree came down. >> we do not have wells audio.will tran is audio. he is out on the street and it looks like they're trying to clean up the giant tree that came crashing down. there is a lot of sand over the highway to because of
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conditions. >> anything goes when it comes to the wind. we saw a downed trees and power lines. taking a look at current conditions, the winds have subsided a bit compared to what we saw at 3 and 4:00 a.m.. we're still the 20 mi. an hour range along the coastline. winds are certainly howling for those of you on a half moonhen y 41 mi. per hour and half moon bay, 80 mi. an hour and santa rosa. 20 in oakland and 30 in redwood city. we also have our fair share of power outages. a live look outside conditions and san jose, highway 1 01 where it meets highway 87 very the camera has been shaking their out the duration of the morning. i watch each your future cast four and talk more about the wind advisory coming up in my next report. >> is low down on 680 and the southbound direction leading out as a no coming
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out of the blend is residual slowing from a big rig that stalled earlier this morning. the big rig has been removed and i expect is back up to clear. also the lanes of 92 west of 280 are cleared the which were blocked by a downed tree. we still have one way traffic control due to down power lines on the honda road skyway boulevard 95. >> dozens of power outages are affecting pg&e customers. in san francisco 3700 customers are without power. in some detail 1413. in redwood city almost 44300 and in menlo park 810. in west menlo park 1700 richmond about 600 and vallejo nearly 900.
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>> we are going back to will tran and to see what they're doing in standards as go to he big tree that came crashing down. >> sorry about the technical the the gold sees but they are making great progress as far as removing this tree. it toppled at around 38 am and crossed several cars. it was leaning across this particular car but fortunately they have got a tree off of it. now you can see it, it doesn't look like it suffered any damage. that looks like it will continue to be shut down for probably the next hour or so. you can see traffic on 24th being diverted. there were people inside sleeping at the time, very gusty. fortunately with a tree toppled it did not injure anyone inside the home. this
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is just one of many stains all over is francisco. we talk to an officer and he said yes this is the worst of it. he had to respond to at least four other locations. the good news about those locations is there was no injuries there as well. they're making great progress and the scene should be cleared around 730 in the morning. it just a band's on how fast digging out the tree to get out of here. >> we also have damage that we have seen in san jose. tell all over the bay area, our live look at san jose and this camera has not stopped bobbing around. he conceded shaking here. it was rough over night, it is a rough commute. if you grab the cellphone take a shot of any damage the macy out this
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morning, you can send the pictures to last at breaking news @ kron4 .com. >> connors returned to capitol hill today following a two week recess and high on its agenda is immigration. bipartisan groups in the house and senate are expected to present legislation as early as this week aimed at securing the u.s. border, this in legal immigration and granting legal status of millions or in the u.s. without authorization. in immigration deal came close in 2007 but collapsed amid interest groups and bickering and an angry public backlash. >> more side position on the korean peninsula. missile defense batteries are on standby at the u.s. air force base and sold. earlier report cited the south korean official as saying north korea was preparing for nuclear tests. if this
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all has since said he misspoke. nonetheless, tensions are increasing. north korea announced this morning that it will recall 51,000 of its workers and suspend operations at a factory jointly run by the north and south. the facility was the last major symbol " cooperation between the two countries. >> police are looking for more for mason surrounding a possible explosive device that was found at crown memorial beach and alameda. the device was spotted yesterday morning by park rangers address from along shoreline drive and park street. alameda bomb squad responded to the scene and confirm that the device was potentially explosive. it was safely detonated in place. no was injured and there were no reports of any damages. the parking nearby streets have since reopened and police said the incident is still under investigation. >> the boy was arrested for
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purse snatching after residents spotted him and an accomplice jumping over fences and running through back yards in san leandro. the blazers by walking through the residence from a yard on sunnyside drive and into neighboring yard. when police saw was a spot of boys near duran's and beverly avenues, the boys ran away. officers are able to catch one of them who was found to have a back in the eye as long as the woman robbed on ac transit. > a live look at the golden gate bridge, and looked beautiful and dry. traffic is light and it is what you cannot see is the wind is is light and it is what you cannot see is the wind is ♪ you sig sned up weeks ago ♪ ♪ ♪ sun slight says get up and ♪ mountaunin-grown aroma cominmg through ♪ ♪ a n aew challenge waits for you ♪ ♪ ♪ jumpuin' in' to something ne ♪ ♪
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mateo bridge, you conceive a sign here is kind of being shaken with the wind. it is one of several bridges that is under a wind advisory this morning until 8:00 tonight. a lot of facebook pictures as well as pictures and into kron4 breaking news e-mail. this one here is from sean on facebook. a light pole struck his neighbor's car and parts summer sad. not a good way to wake up this morning. in the south bay, jonathan vargas' lives in east san jose and send us a picture where you can see a palm tree fell on to at his house or from his house on to the lawn. also we have some video of the jury that is down from the winds we saw earlier this morning on 24th and oak street. you can see it is doing a lot of
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damage to cars this morning all around the bay area. no surprise, we are seeing these images from the city to the east bay to the south bay. take a look at our peak wind gusts over the past six hours and we saw some very high wind gusts. we saw sampras's go at 75 mi.. in santa rosa that it is 25, i have monday, san jose at 38 mi. per hour. those are current wind gusts. we had higher when gust between 1 and 3:00 a.m.. those are hurricane force winds speeds there. send us your storm picks this morning and sit breaking news at crime back, or the kron4 facebook page. >> our team coverage continues at 6:42 a.m.. you
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can see it is basically it scoured over the clouds. a live look from our roof i'm van ness ave.
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>> the dow was off about 47 points at 4000 rob black is an the studio to talk about >> march madness is turning into april and the 80.anxiety. e second quarter is went to be lousy. anxiety, we had a
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great three first months of the year. it is giving way to not a lot of revenue growth. japanese investors are selling their bounds and that they bought in the u.s. market. six percent and three days. that is a lot. >> you mentioned the earnings season, why is that an indicator. what does that tell us about the overall economy? >> out: metal is just lousy. it is useless. they cannot get any support in their pricing. cost behind a sales in china are up 7% sales in america are up 14%. and america, not so good. he gives a lot of color, as an investigatoinvestor, you want t
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>> i wise to get your quick take on that. it is less and we've seen in the past. what was a reason for the debt? >> the block its is bidding less in the work force. they're getting discouraged in the workforce. we have a lousy job economy but a great earnings economy. we need to get jobs going again in the united states. the jobs numbers if we look of the last three of four months they're going in the right direction. friday was a step backwards. >> will macy's earnings reports come out and looks like the company is on the books that does not necessarily mean it is job expansion and creation. is productivity high, is that why we're seeing more projections? >> i would say the low cost of money is why people are doing well. corporations
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have borrowed and bought back shares. real-estate is doing well because of the low cost of money. a couple of refinances, i said about $8,000 a year and i spend it. it is not good for the long term. >> will break down in more detail when rob black rejoins us with winners and losers. >> he always says if you put a gun to my head. 649 a m and take a look at san jose. looking out his camera is shaken. that is because of the when we are saying this morning. there was a little rain overnight but it was really the howling wind and it will stick with us for a while. >> yes and i thought it sounded like rain. it sounds like a consistent downpour but it was just the strong wind. outside of our roof
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cam overlooking cathedral hill, we're working to make clear skies. we have a wind advisory in effect for the entire bay area until 8:00 p.m. tonight. winds are certainly howling. we deceive 50 mi. an hour winds and oakland. not as bad as the past few hours, 25 mi. an hour winds and redwood city and 26 along the coastline. future cast force drag-and-drop the day and we are in the 20 mi. an hour rate for just about everyone by 9:00 a.m. this morning. in the motion, although light blue indicates wind gusts between 20 and 30 mi. per hour. in the past six hours as west of san francisco we saw a wind gust reported as 75 mi. per hour. they have calmed down and subsided all little bit about you will see strong winds certainly into the afternoon and evening hours.
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the wind advisory expires at 8:00 p.m. tonight and expect conditions permit night and he was waking up tomorrow morning. temperatures currently in the 40's and '50's and '60's into the afternoon. for those of you a heads of the giants game at 8 at&t bart the first batches at 7:15 p.m. and expecteconditions temperatures in the upper 50s. 7 day around the bay forecast shows warmer weather and a decrease in winds by the middle of this week. by wednesday, the warmest day temperatures are climbing into the '80s. there is a the sea breeze kicks and and cools the temperature along the coast line. we fall into a dry pattern, overall springlike conditions lasting into the week and. so far >> here at the bay bridge it a wind advisory is in effect
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but we are also seeing a big back up forming here. the 880 approaches almost back up now completely over the toll plaza. it is backed up over the westbound lanes. drive times are passing past 22 minutes already. it could be they slow the meeting lights because of the high winds but that does not make any sense. by slowing the metering lights it makes it faster, not slower on the upper deck of the bay bridge. the san mateo bridge as a sensible method signed activated with the wind advisory for the high-rise. the golden gate bridge as eight high wind advisory this morning. it is anorthosites bridge and presents a different profile does not normally included. the rich as an revell bridge is otterhound advisory. at 880 in the southbound direction were at decoder road we have had an accident. it is clear now
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but it is already slow and the southbound direction between 92 and 84. law on their roads still has problems as crews are working on downed power lines that a better response will rot or outages along the peninsula. >> a severance as the giants have their reward for all of last season's hard work. the scene was presented with the road series championship rings before yesterday's game. the debris brought to the ballpark by a motorized cable car with a police escort. the giants closer sergio romo sums up what brings me into the players. >> it means a lot to me to have this piece of jewelry to prove that i was part of something special and bigger than something i could ever thought i would be a part of. it is very fulfilling.
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>> the first 40,000 fans and the park that the replica or rings. the jury may help soften the blow the giants losing the game yesterday. sampras as a backwater by the st. louis cardinals 14 to 3. >> 6:54 a.m. and a live look at our mt. tam cam. a beautiful shot but it is shaking. we have had best all around the bay area, some up to 59 to 75 mi. an hour. we will be right back. [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids?
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>> coming up on the kron4 morning and is, we are watching the winds this morning as it causes some problems for people all around the bay area. pg&e is reporting thousand
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customers are without power and we will have an update on those outages. we are watching the bridge this morning when advisers have been placed for all the bridges around the bay area. eric and george was shows how these wins will affect your morning commute.
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