never have been drawn the policy became so cumbersome it basically amounted to a filibuster. reporter: when asked why tasers don't seem to fly in san francisco versus other big cities -- cities chief said what the city i was born and raised in, we like our discussions almost more than anybody. live in san francisco jr stone kron four knows. >> san francisco police officers association wasting no time in a decision to abandon the taser. planned union had said in an e-mail to us once again some members of the police commission have shown a complete lack of understanding on the issue of taser's. he says just about every city in america has figured out tasers save lives especially when dealing with mentally ill he goes on to say at least three deaths could have been clearly avoided in the past two years if our officers had tasers but once again this is stupa, liberal

progressive politics run amok this time it will cost more lives, just plain stupa. pam? >> almost every other office uses tasers we found out why the san was a police department of officer for tasers redaxis 2004 every patrol officer here at the san jose police department has been a armed with a taser that is just under 1000 officers with a weapon on them at all times. we got to see one of those tasers today, the police department tells me it is a helpful, nonlethal crime-fighting tool. >> in most cases it stops -- prevent injuries to officers also injury to the general public. a tool we use that allows us to diffuse the situation at a short distance. the damages far outweigh the risks it sometimes may create. reporter: there are restrictions to when a police officer can use a taser

for example they are not permitted to be used on a pregnant person or on a suspect in handcuffs but the officer feels his or her life is in danger or someone else's, the taser can be used. in san jose, kron4 news. >> growing concern tonight about the range of south korean missiles president rack obama takes a harsher tone toward north korea, threatening nuclear war against the united states. catherine heenan standing by with latest developments. reporter: and new pentagon report says north korea probably has made more progress on nuclear weapons than anyone realized the north continues to send angry and sometimes strange messages including photos today of female soldiers on patrol wearing heels heels. president obama says it's time for north korea to end its belligerence. >> now is the time for north korea to end the belligerent

approach they have been taking. and to try to lower temperatures nobody wants to see a conflict or creative incident. reporter: pentagon report says north korea probably has niche -- nuclear weapons which can be launched by ballistic missiles although it says the weapons probably are not very reliable, that assessment was revealed today by a colorado congressman during a house hearing, a continuing concern of course what north korea's missiles might be capable of doing chuck clippard has more on that. reporter: the weapon that has been the focus of attention over the past couple of days is called a missile let's take a look at a google earth map of north korea we don't know exactly where this missile is in captain but experts believe any lunch would probably come from north korea's east coast, the mussadon is believed to have a range of about 2175 miles at that distance north korea could in

theory strike anywhere inside south korea the missile could also cross the sea of japan putting all of japan in danger. but that is not all, the outside range of this missile extends far out into the pacific ocean, it could possibly reach the us territory and military outpost of guam. this particular weapon could not reach hawaii, alaska or mainland united states that is believed to have other missiles that might have that capability. finally the united states south korea and japan are using ground, sea and air -based radar systems as well as satellites to keep an eye out for any possible launch in the newsroom charles clifford kron four news. >> the real estate market in the bay area is hot again but the limited inventory is making it very competitive for buyers to find their dream home for example back in 2007 more than 13,000 homes were for sale in alameda counties. in 2011, that number dropped to between 4000 and 7000 homes.

now, there may be as few as 1500 homes to choose from. tonight, kron four speaks to real estate experts about what home buyers are facing. reporter: this three level two bedroom condo in west berkeley listed at $599,000, but it will likely sell for over that price. >> talk about bidding wars, lots of competition. reporter: rilla till -- realtor been global says there simply aren't enough homes on the market that is why those that are for sale are getting multiple offers and selling for well over the asking price. >> i just closed one, listed at 429 we had 50 offers, six of them are over 500,000, we ended up closing at 564, all cash, no contingencies ten-day close. reporter: all-cash offers are becoming more and more common putting potential buyers may qualify for a loan but have limited cash

for a down payment at a great disadvantage. >> you have to have a heart-to-heart talk with buyers to let them know they will have a difficult time in this market, when sellers have this many choices to choose their offers. reporter: if you think you can wait a few months in inventory will bounce back, that is not the case. real estate experts say we are going to be in this situation for at least the next several months. in berkeley, kron4 news. >> blue skies around the bay area today this is a picture in the east bay, now over to south bay live chat from san jose much cooler today than yesterday but still a lovely day. tracking the nice weather for us us. >> it is a lot cooler than we saw yesterday, we were sitting in the 80s for the most part, today in the 70s even 60s let's take a look outside 75 up in napa yesterday near 90 in napa for inland valley in the

70s 77 at antioch, 72 in livermore, 71 for clemens also 70s and said he don't. east bayshore in the 60s this afternoon closed the coastline temperatures have dropped into the 50s at this hour it is also the breezily, mainly in the teams right now sustained winds 60 miles an hour half moon bay same thing in oakland hayward and redlands city down in san jose 13-mile an hour winds, we are seeing gusts of the 20-mile an hour range. winds expected to last through the evening tonight mostly clear little fog near the coastline for friday sunny skies, warmer than today more 70-degree readings, filed saturday but pulling into next week. i will have your complete forecast coming up in just a bit bit. >> quick check on traffic a live look at golden gate, day in san mateo bridges at the moment no problems to report we will keep an eye out throughout tonight

newscast. >> powerful storms have done damage to parts of the midwest and southeast looking at missouri, this is not too far from st. louis now confirmed the suburb of hazelwood was hit by a tornado last night. we have a closer look at some of the damage, a lot of big trees uprooted, crushing cars and homes, a look at that came down on top of the roof about home at least two dozen houses in the town of hazelwood for damaged at least one dead several injuries have been blamed on this spring storm system. tornadoes also touched thursday in mississippi not a lot of morning why most people to cover this man caught the tornado on camera, storms headed east where more trouble was expected another hard-hit area, northern arkansas look at the damage here. you can see the bus on its side not much left of the house this is van buren county. cars and trucks flipped over,

homes, churches badly damaged, thousands of people without power tonight there were at least three injuries in the area. and you can see why there is a flood watch. this is detroit, a soccer field believe it or not looks more like a creek bed at this point as the storm has dumped several inches of rain across southeast michigan more on the way. people are being told to brace for wet snow and below freezing temperatures by sunday. new tonight we are learning more about the gunmen that took five firefighters hostage coming up the dispatch call they made when they realize the man they thought they had come to save was heavily armed. >> first, changes to your facebook status updates rolling out this week. tech reporter shows how i is getting more visual. >> mlb commissioner not happy with the san jose mayor over threats of litigation. what does it mean for a possible possible move for the oakland a's [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week.

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feeling category. if you click on that a bunch pop up ranging from happy, sad to annoy. when you choose an emoticon it looks like in your status update. here are the other categories watching, reading, listening to, drinking and eating. when you click on a category there will be a search box that pops up lets you search within the category to find what you are doing and add a visual icon to your update. for example i can say i am watching a particular movie in a picture comes up with a brief description of the movie you can do the same with tv shows, books, music, you can also add visuals for what you are eating or drinking. here is what it look like if you add you are presently enjoying ice cream. you can only add one status update enhancement to each post. i think it's a good thing there are some people out there they get to footloose and fancy free with their emoticons. you may not see the status update options on your facebook

profile at this time they are doing a slow rollout to users. if you don't see them be patient the new features should arrive to your profile within a few weeks. gabe slate kron4 news. >> georgia firefighters responded yesterday to what they thought was a medical call, man with a heart of cap they ended up being held for hours as hostages we know that the gunmen might have been upset about money problems. melissa rainey has the latest. reporter: police say the firefighters arrived ready to help someone in need wednesday afternoon instead they were taken hostage. this is a radio transmission from one of the hostages. >> we are in a situation where we have an armed person and he is requesting certain -- certain

utilities to be turned back on at the house and he is armed and we are in the room with him. reporter: authorities believe financial trouble let the government take firefighters hostage a say the home was in foreclosure but have not said whether that had anything to do with the situation. >> apparently going through some financial issues, power was turned off along with cable and cell phone. reporter: after several hours with no progress authorities decided to take action to back it got to a point where we believe their lives were in immediate danger in our swat team made the decision to go in and neutralize the situation. reporter: to use explosives to distract the suspect he was killed in gunfire. and neighbor was home with her daughter when it happened. >> she was sleeping, my daughter was sleeping and i woke her up. reporter: firefighters and one police officer suffered when her injuries. melissa rainey kron4 news.

>> rutgers university has hired a widely respected former state attorney general to be the tools -- schools top in-house lawyer at the last man to have the job resigned amid scandal. the university announced thursday john farmer is taking the job the position opened when john wolf resigned. wolf came under criticism for approving a plan to suspend rather than fire ex- basketball coach mike rice. coach rice, the man you see here, hitting, kicking players, throwing basketballs at them using gay slurs during record practice. coach rice and the athletic director have resigned the school's president is still on the job though some are calling for him to resign as well. >> mostly sunny skies around the bay area this afternoon a lot cooler than what we saw yesterday temperatures 10 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday's. as we head into friday warmer weather on tap, a bit warmer. were 70-degree readings for

tomorrow afternoon. into saturday's mild but cooler for wednesday -- for sunday as the storm comes from the north cloud cover, cooler temperatures slightly and of rain in the north bay. more in a moment worse let's look outside. satellite radar picture high clouds streaming overhead this afternoon. we are going to see a pressure continued to build in tomorrow, warmer temperatures. as for fog very limited to the immediate coastline tomorrow morning. at the 7:00 hour no fog except around the coastline even that will tell back offshore by noon. temperature rise it will be pretty mild out the door tomorrow morning. lows in the 40s and into the 50s by 7:00 as we head into me and quickly worming 60s and 70s. seventys represented by yellow on the screen, quickly widespread 70s with 60s near the coastline, 80s, really confined to the central valley.

south bay tomorrow 70s once again 74 in palo alto, 76 for cupertino, 70 mountain view 71 san jose for east bay we see 73 in the vallejo 79 in livermore 70 in union city upper 60s for east bay shores. along the coastline 60s tomorrow afternoon 62 at ocean, 61 per daly city 66 s.f. range of 74 for north bay. your extended forecast, warmer tomorrow but not really hot melt like what we saw yesterday. as we head into the weekend saturday stays pretty nice but by sunday more cloud cover, cooler temperatures even a slight chance of sprinkles in the north bay. >> squirrel getting at least part of the blame for a gas leak and alert as chase bank nearby shopping center were evacuated near bank highway nine close for several hours this morning a gas leak was traced to an

underground utility box firefighters discovered the dead squirrel. >> apparently the squirrel crossed a circuit somewhere and wound up causing a short circuit which shut down power to most of the complex. not too long after that we had gas inside the structure, natural gas. reporter: it is not exactly clear how the short circuit led to the ghastly themes found their way inside the bank leading to the evacuation order and the alert traffic along highway nine santa cruz avenue in nearby highway 17 were affected by this. >> under the students at a high school in antioch tested for tuberculosis today. this comes after one student diagnosed. reporter: the reason why. entire school was not tested only a few hundred because the health department pinpointed the students share classrooms or clubs of the student who was diagnosed back on march 25 of

tuberculosis. a simple blood test, results should come back in about two weeks from now we got a chance to talk about the health department here is what she had to say. >> kids possibly exposed to tuberculosis, a blood test to determine if the germ is in their body, infected with tb does not mean they are sick, just means they are infected and we want to get the medication. there's a difference between tuberculosis infection but when the germ is in your body in sleeping cap be passed to other people when people are very sick sick, coughing, fever, night sweats. reporter: even if the tests are positive that doesn't mean the kids have tuberculosis, everything should be fine. this happened back on march 25 the person was told to stay home, was treated. right now back in school reporting from antioch kron4 news. >> a school bus crashed into a car in daly city this is video from

our helicopter partnership with abc seven news. likely no children on the bus at the time this happening on john daly boulevard. cars you can see was seriously damaged the entire back of the vehicle crashed. one person hurt no word on the cause. police are looking for three people involved in a high-speed chase that ended in a crash take a look at this video, the car stolen out of modesto hit a muni bus and a fire hydrant after the chase, this happened on van ness avenue and union street. >> bid for a bay area super bowl gets a boost from some nfl star power. that's after the break. [ man ] we have a go for auto sequence start.

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or read down he scolded the san jose mayor for threatening litigation if a solution could not be reached. >> this is the first time the commissioner has ever responded in writing to an interview request, i have asked for leave to the past usually the messages are delivered through a third person so a little progress getting direct response but not much progress. and we need to work on the issues, what ever problems there are we want to solve the but i would like a face-to-face to are those out. what the giants are doing is anticompetitive, not fair, bad behavior but litigation is a last resort. think the commissioner as a process, working through that we are going to be patient, work with the commissioner through the process but we need to deal with the problems if any, we need to hear straight for the commissioner to resolve any issues you might have. reporter: a big problem the giants have territorial rights in the san jose market and the giant do not want the a's moving there four years ago commissioner seelig appointed a special committee to examine the potential a's moved

to san jose. a's owner, lew wolff wants the a's to move to san jose mayor reed certainly want that to happen, and the mayor admits he is frustrated with where things stand. >> the plan to hold super bowl 50 in the bay area got a big boost as this -- football star power today 40 niner hall of fame quarterback steve young and former 40 niner coach george seifert now on board. the planning committee says adding famous 40 niners who won super bowls as a little pizzazz and will help close the deal. >> it should be here on a rotation all the time think about what we feel about the bay area. that is why it is the number one destination area in the world that makes total sense this is not -- we don't need news to do this. >> a planning committee has to turn in the bed on may 7 and will present its plan on may 21 in boston the new 40 niner stadium meantime is expected to be ready for the 2014 season.

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when people hospitalized, three in critical condition tonight most of the passengers are elderly, one passengers of the majority were not wearing seatbelts come out once the bus landed on its side people piled on top of each other blood everywhere. the driver survived, the driver was hospitalized, because of the crash is unknown but investigators say no other vehicles were involved. >> the senate voted today to let the administration's gun- control measure move ahead to debate. breaking the republican-led filibuster. the boats will clear the way for the senate to begin a wide ranging debate on gun laws and on capitol hill today family members of some of the sandy hook shooting this -- victims joined senators during a news conference today holding hands demanding progress on gun control. >> the texas student accused of stabbing more than a dozen people is reportedly on suicide watch.

his name is billing quick. also sharing chilling stories with investigators. they say he told them he has fantasized about cannibalism and cutting off peoples faces and wearing them as masks. also he had researched math stabbings on his home computer. also claimed getting ready for the campus stabbing incident this week, he sharpened things and put a hair brush and to use as weapons. pam? >> for the first time we are getting a look at the two young brothers at the center of an international search. after their parents allegedly kidnapped them. emily smith has more about the boys and what they know about this week long drama. reporter: they -- there were strict warnings before four -year-old cole in two -year-old chase appeared before the cameras. reporters told not to ask about the boys kidnapping because the boys have been told they were on vacation. >> they have been told everyone heard about their sailboat trip to cuba.

another country, as they called it, and the airplane ride back to america. and everyone wants to take their picture. reporter: what everyone else knew, watching the brothers happily have it up is to be huge effort to get them here and to get their parents, who had lost custody of them, in a florida jail they appeared in court thursday held without bail charges of kidnapping and child neglect. that the boys i sublet to cuba, cnn discovered them earlier this week. their grandparents who have custody chose to talk about the boys rather than the criminal case. >> they were evaluated yesterday have been well cared for on their journey. all the experiences -- only experiencing several bug bites. reporter: the preschoolers don't know which of international cooperation with you but to get them home they don't know their parents could face life in prison if convicted. their grandparents say they should not. >> our focus is on getting the boys now the focus is making

sure they go forward and lead a normal life. reporter: the next small steps are all the more important because of the long road these boys have traveled together. emily schmidt, kron4 news. >> in canada three teenage girls on trial for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of this apartment complex. this is ottawa. 215 -year-olds and a 16 -year-old girl arrested last june prosecutors say the girls used social media to lure other teenagers into the business, charges include human trafficking and factual assault. a fourth teenager facing similar charges in her trial is yet to come. if convicted the girls could be sentenced as adults. >> sunny skies around the bay area this afternoon cooler conditions that we saw yesterday live look to the bay bridge toll plaza not a cloud in sight. another look outside from the san mateo bridge. little hazy in this camera shot

view high clouds out there again mostly sunny conditions temperatures right now sitting in the 60s and 70s yesterday in 70s and 80s about 10 degrees cooler today. seventy-six in napa 73 in concord, currently 73 in sunnyvale as well 65 in oakland temperatures dropping to the 50s right now near the coastline but we were in the 60s earlier this afternoon. also a little breezy up there today wind speeds generally in the teens right now 70 miles an hour sustained at half moon bay golf and a 20-mile an hour range 60-mile an hour in oakland, hayward and redwood city were easy conditions expected to stay with us through the evening overnight winds die down little thought the the coastline mostly clear into friday a little warmer than today cooler weather ahead i will have details coming up. >> now for today's market update. us stocks another day of gains today. dow and s&p 500 new record highs.

the dow jones industrial average topped the previous day's record high, here are the final numbers dow rose 62-point two close at 14,865, nasdaq two points and s&p 500 rose five points. >> watching today's winners and losers with our financial expert we had reports of sales and hp really hit hard in trading today. >> hp, apple hit hard well not hard but it because they sell desktop computers. dell is going private, i would have to ask the question why this is a bad time to buy a company doing in the business of desktops. the pc boom is officially over in my opinion from a business model standpoint. microsoft got a downgrade to sell today again you don't have to trust wall street you just have to look at your own house. ten years ago i was on my computer almost nonstop now it is my cell phone almost nonstop

or my smart phone. i think both of those content week consumer from them are moving to the cloud i think you will find the watch and google glass and new devices to give us my car after the show today i will probably, five years from now get most of my sports scores from my car. >> something like that 17-inch screen on the home pc i feel like we are waiting to upgrade because we have all been upgrading our mobile devices i feel like the next pc search is coming. i'm a dinosaur. >> not as an investment. >> good advice thank you. >> now about justin bieber he is backing prepaid debit cards. >> to pay money to get your own money is ridiculous and beaver is a sellout. beaver must die susie orman must die. this is bad -- kramer -- i like kramer but $3.7 million in 14 months he said if i had $100 million or $100 you will go broke if you spend more than

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immediate coastline for the 7:00 7:00 hour that is for bob will remain near san mateo coastline and clear skies by the noon hour. temperature wise pretty mild output door tomorrow morning temperatures in the low 50s and quickly getting into the 60s and even 70s by noon. more widespread 70s out there tomorrow in fact with we will see are the most part 2:00 hours 60s closer to the coastline and as we head into the evening pretty mild little warmer than today. temperatures in your neighborhood tomorrow for the south bay looking at 70s, 74 palo alto and los gatos 71 for san jose, inland valley also 70s tomorrow 76 in concord 75 port livermore 77 in pleasanton upper 60s, low 70s for east bay shore along the coastline stuck in the low 60s 62 ocean beach six d when daly city 66 san francisco and range of 74

for the north bay s is going to stay dry for the next couple of days a slight chance of overnight snow sunday night into monday morning. associated with the system that will pass us to the north on sunday evening. it will bring us more cloud cover, chance of rain in the north bay that slight chance mainly we will see clouds and cooler temperatures. enjoy the next couple of days, very mild. 460-degree reading sunday into monday cooler weather tuesday but rebound by the middle of next week. remember you can watch the weather forecast whenever convenient for you on our 247 bay area news channel, headlines, live traffic too on comcast channel 190 and kron4 .com. >> thursday evening commute starting and san jose very heavy traffic southbound highway one oh one at the guadalupe overpass. on the san mateo bridge headlights eastbound traffic heavy eastbound right now also getting heavy westbound as well.

bay bridge toll plaza no problems all lanes open cars are zipping along. walnut creek 680 20 interchange very heavy all directions their golden gate bridge north and southbound traffic moving well. we will be back.

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. >> now i think bay area real estate is back kron4 news talk to prospective buyers frustrated at seeing their bids rejected. >> the previous had been beaten out by cash offers. >> we show you the hotspot where buyers have asked themselves. >> how much over asking do i have to pay? >> kron4 news starts now. >> tonight we start the coverage of grab out as he takes a look of the most popular places people are looking to buy a home in the east bay. >> attest to whittle down the realtors are telling us the real estate market is especially hot, we will start in east bay, berkeley, brock ridge, all of north oakland really and recently albany and el cerrito have become hot real estate markets we moved to the south bay now silicon valley area,

throughout san jose, campbell and cupertino basically anywhere you have tech companies stiff competition for homes on the peninsula, palo alto, menlo park and other places seen multiple offers for other listings -- every listing san francisco of course you can't whittle down by neighborhood almost all of san francisco is hot and you go up to north bay, realtors say all of marion very hot, mill valley, rob, can't build among others and mainly investors are buying properties, renting them and a lot of cases dan kerman explores the issue all around the bay area, dan talked to one prospective buyer who is trying to get more and more difficult to get the home they want. >> buying house? not really. >> for the last six months they have been looking to buy gold of the limited of homes for sale is making things much more difficult than expected.

>> this is the fourth offer we put in each offer be put in a little bit more than asking, more and more over asking so, we found one about 20% over asking and we got been out by, full cash offer so -- our offer was completely trumped by price in cash offer very frustrating. reporter: more and more common real estate experts say these days many homes are going for over the asking price with multiple bids 30% all-cash offers. >> not would you thought it would be like? >> no i don't know i did know we can get approved for an amount doesn't seem to be that way. reporter: miller is not giving up you have

to be a little zen about it, wait for the right moment, and help that there is going to be more coming into the market. reporter: kron4 news. >> san francisco police dropped the proposal to equip some officers with stun guns. the move was going to be part of a pilot program, but the chief says the suggestion to limit the use of the taser's would actually increase the risk to the officers and the public. reporter: if you have a tool and can't use it why haven't. reporter: that is why the recent separate the scope police chief greg suhr has opted to withdraw the plan to equip a certain officers tasers or other stun guns. >> it was so cumbersome waiting for a filibuster. reporter: pushing for a pilot program to

allow certain officers to have tasers but a series of community meetings held last year brought into light restrictions. >> young people, old people, pregnant women some suggest all women, mentally ill, wet people rule out rainy days, near roadways, people in crisis, on and on. reporter: sir believes the instructions could have been problematic when implemented. >> i think it creates too much on the parts to ask to give them pause from how they are currently doing business could create a circumstance the public would actually be more at risk and left the rest. reporter: the chief tells me occasionally officers use beanbag shotguns, he would like to find something a bit more portable but could be used instead of a gun. in san francisco j.r. stone, kron4 news. >> san francisco has a department that is not used taser seven

cisco police department does armed officers with tasers looking at one right now. the department issued traces to -- tasers to every officer in 2000 for almost 1000 officers the police department tells kron4 news it believes the benefits far outweigh the risk. reporter: something officer filled the can utilize instead of using their firearm in some instances, has prevented situations where you could use the taser, to kind of diffuse the situation. >> there are restrictions as to when an officer can and cannot use the taser for example, use not allowed on a pregnant woman or a suspect in handcuffs. however, an officer can use a taser on those people if our example they are coming after an officer with a gun or with a knife. >> there is a break in the investigation of the shooting death of an boyer, shot last

tuesday afternoon driving on caller avenue in oakland hills. >> >> we recovered the vehicle associated with this offense we continue to actively investigate that level of lead, we have received cooperation from community, anytime we received information we are able to follow up and corroborate it leaves one step further in an investigation hopefully in a short amount of time we will have more information and hopefully information that leads to a successful charge in this case bringing offenders to justice in light of the victim and victim's family. >> crimestoppers offering a 10,000-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooter in this case. a convicted child molester who was caught volunteering at a catholic grade school in san jose has been sentenced to 30 days in county jail. he acknowledged he violated his probation when he volunteered at the st. francis parish back in october.

parents asked the church pastor to remove him, the pastor said he should be forgiven. he was eventually escorted off, the reverend has since resigned. >> president obama says enough. calling on north korea to stop its belligerence and threats and this comes on the same day the public learned a new pentagon report suggesting the north has made more progress with nuclear weapons than anyone realized. that report says it may have nuclear weapons which can be launched by ballistic missile, although the weapons are probably not reliable, the president says it is time for north korea to back off. >> now is the time for north korea to end the belligerence approach they have been taking. and, to try to lower temperatures, nobody wants to see a conflict on the korean

peninsula. >> the president made the comments while meeting with the un secretary general, also said the us will take on necessary steps to protect its people in the region. >> patrons of a chase bank in downtown los gatos smelled natural gas late this morning, not long afterward the bank and sections of a nearby shopping center evacuated. and alert went out leading to the closure of highway nine. groups traced the smell to a gas leak ultimately blamed on a squirrel which have caused a short-circuit in an electrical box which then triggered the ghastly. the alert was eventually listed but not before seriously snarling traffic on nearby santa cruz avenue and highway 17. >> two powerhouses have joined the san francisco 40 niners bid for super bowl 2016 40 niner hall of fame quarterback steve young and former 40 niner coach george seifert now on board. the planning committee says adding famous 40 niners who won super bowl adds pizzazz and will

help close the deal. if the city does not win the bid for the 50th super bowl, it will still compete with houston to host the 51st super bowl the following year. >> new tonight at six absent from the waters of the guadalupe river for perhaps 150 years or more, beavers are returning and downtown san jose, this is the river where it runs past santa clara and st. john street you can see where the beavers have been gnawing away at tree trunks along the river's edge. they are taught to have built a large nearby however daytime sightings have been rare but you can see the beavers on youtube. this is a video posted by a nature photographer who managed to capture the beavers at night using special infrared photography. water managers also keeping an eye on the beavers should they get too busy and try to build a dam. they said that could lead to problems but for now they plan to leave well enough alone.

>> also new tonight at six pacific and several other san mateo county cities have plans to ban plastic bags later this month. the ban will go into effect on earth day april 22. the plastic ban will apply to all city and county retail outlets that includes grocery stores, convenience stores, pharmacies and other shops customers will be charged 10 cents per paper bag if they do not bring their own reusable one. hundreds of students at an antioch high school tested for tuberculosis today, this comes after one student at deer valley hide was diagnosed for tb. officials confirmed the student had active tuberculosis but is no longer affected they saw 55 reported tb cases last year, sense active tuberculosis include fever prolonged cough night sweats and unexpected weight loss of at least 10 pounds. >> temperatures cool up there quite a bit this afternoon, we did

see sunny skies and mild conditions for much of the bay area live look outside from our camp this afternoon you can see the clear conditions take a look at our current temperatures, a lot more 60s and 70s out there today yesterday it was 70s, even though it is right now, still pretty mild in napa 76 degrees there 73 in santa rosa, still in the 70s for inland valley, 77 in antioch, 71 for pleasanton and in south bay 72 in sunnyvale otherwise temperatures in the 60s for bayshore, even portions of north bay 50s near the coastline also some breezy conditions out there today especially near the coast, 20-mile an hour sustained winds half moon bay cost stronger than that, 15-mile an hour winds in oakland 17 redwood city, 17 also in san jose wins are going to stay with us through the evening. overnight winds die down, mostly clear a little bit of fog near the coastline not much at all actually so mostly clear

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coastline. let's take a look temperatures in your neighborhood. in the south bay 74 and powell told, 76 in cupertino. we will see the 70s as well, 76 in concord, upper 60s, low 70s along the coastline. temperatures in the low 60s, 68 in berkeley, and alameda. 70-acre napa. a look at your extended forecast, tomorrow a little warmer than today. today temperatures dropped about ten to 15 degrees from yesterday. it will be a nice rebound into tomorrow. it will be mild friday and saturday, but changes will.com in sunday and early next week. with more cloud cover and cooler temperatures and a slight chance of rain. most of the rain will stay out of the bay area. you can watch the weather forecast whatever is convenient for you on our 247 news channel. >> a republican love filibuster fell short this morning in the senate and didn't happen. that clears the way for wide ranging debate on tougher gun laws. it is expected to last up to two weeks.

the president says that family members of some of the sandy hook shooting members really did help pressing the senate to move forward on gun-control legislation. some of them were still on capitol hill today standing hand-in-hand during a news conference. yesterday a bipartisan compromise deal emerged from the senate dealing apart with background checks. it could still be a big bike to get that past. >> president obama posthumously awarded the medal of honor to an army chaplain from camden, kansas who died a prisoner of war. in a white house ceremony today president obama recognized captain emile coupon for his extraordinary heroism. his nephew ray accepted the medal, he is known for saving hundreds of soldiers lied. >> at other coupon was being led away he saw another american wounded and unable to walk laying in a ditch. other coupon carried that wounded american away. this is the valor we honor today, an american soldier who didn't fire a gun, but who wielded the mightiest weapon of

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up at 630. >> police chief greg suhr opted to withdraw his proposal to equip some of his officers with pagers. saying that the restrictions put on them could do more harm than good. in san francisco, jr stone crown for news. >> the san jose police department does use pagers. since 2004 every patrol officer has had one on him or her at all times, that's about a thousand officers. they consider it a helpful nonlethal crime-fighting tool. justine waldman crying for

news. >> the real estate market continues to be red-hot, the problem is not a lot of houses for sale, and as a result those trying to buy are having difficulty getting the hell they want. they are seeing multiple offers, 30% of those offers are cached only, and they see offers go well over asking. in berkeley dan kerman crown for news. >> shuts down highway nine for several hours. the signal alert went out at result of a gas leak which led to an evacuation of the bank and shopping center at the corner of highway nine and santa cruz avenue. that ghastly is blamed in part on the squirrel that caused a short shorts harkening on electrical wires which triggered the ghastly. chris cap a gas leak and repaired the wires, and reopen the road. >> investigators here at oakland police headquarters say

they believe they have found the suspect vehicle used in the shooting death of 34-year-old quinn boyer. >> we recovered a vehicle we believe is associated with the offense. we are actively investigating, with the level of lead we've received from the community there may be more additional information. >> at 10000-dollar reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the shooter in this case. >> work is starting to ramp up on the new bart extension from fremont to have san jose, and there are two new traffic updates. the first is warren avenue in fremont will be closed this weekend and again in two weeks between cale road and warm springs boulevard. also further to the south in san jose, hofstetter road between lundy avenue and quickened your avatar will be reduced from three to two lanes. that work will continue for about seven to nine months.

>> here in vallejo police are investigating an overnight shooting that left four people injured. police say over 40 shots were fired up and down the street last night just after 10:00 p.m. one of those bullets hit the house, and went through four different walls inside the house. the person who owned the house tells me her granddaughter was inside the house when the bullet came through the home. coming up tonight, i spoke with that woman and i will show you what she has to say as well it police about the investigation. in tech news, facebook is making big changes again. they're adding new changes to status updates on user profiles. you will now be able to enhance your status a day with an emoticon or other visual add- ons. on the lower part of your

status update box they're in this state if you click on that a drop-down menu of various categories popped up. the first is the how are you feeling hackwork. if you click on that a bunch of emoticon pop-up ranging from buried emotions. the big weather story tonight of cool down in the area today, temperatures were ten to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday, but it was still mild. 77 degrees and now, 71 in oakland, 67 for san francisco, and 57 in half moon bay. as we look ahead we will keep mostly clear skies and the more forecast. mostly sunny tomorrow, and warmer. we will see more 70 degrees readings and upper 70s with cooler weather expected sunday and next week. here's what it looks like in the south bay tomorrow. seventy-four in palo alto, 72

in mountain view, upper 70s for inland valley, 77 in pleasanton, blow 70s for east bay shores, low 60s near the coastline. sixty-six and can't have francisco, it. a look at your extended forecast, a little warmer to mild. staying mild into saturday but cooler weather on sunday and monday at a storm path to the north there is a slight chance of light rain sunday evening. >> four of the world's best selling car companies have issued a massive global recall. it involves almost three and a half million cars, one could be parked in your driveway right now. allison kostic is in new york with more. >> japanese automakers honda, nissan, toyota, and mazda are recalling about 3.4 million cars around the world because of airbag defect that could injure passengers. the faulty airbag are found mostly in 2001, 2002, and 2003 models. the passenger airbag deployed with too much pressure causing

it to rupture. toyota is recalling the most part, about 1.7 million vehicles including the corolla, and the tundra. the automaker said it received reports that by airbag defect. it's another blow to toyota which last year had to recall 7 million cars because of a different issue. honda is next in line recalling 1.1 million cars to replace airbag in players. they also had a previous recall, in 2008 at the same problem in driver side airbag. nissan is recalling 480,000 cars, and more mazda 45000. so far no injuries were back reported, but there is the common link. all the automakers got their airbag from the same japanese manufacturer.

the owners will receive a recall notification letter from the car company telling them to take their vehicle to an authorized dealer to get a replacement. there is a chance that this recall could expand too other brands. according to edmunds.com the manufacturer at the center of this recall is a global supplier. consumer advocates advise you keep an eye out for an e-mail from your car company in case you need to go to the dealership for replacement stomach jay-z is responding in song to criticism of his recent shift with his wife beyonci. we are now 38 days away from this year's bay to breakers, we will bring you the race from start to finish. the race is sunday, ♪ roundup

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of april,. >> entertainer jay z. is for spotting to criticism recent trip to cuba in song. in his new release called open letter he seems to suggest that he had white house clearance to travel with beyonci to the communist

country. in one letter j. the bed, obama says jill you're gonna get me in peach. white house spokesman jake carney says the president had nothing to do it and sent the treasury department approved the trip. jay-z and beyonci travel to cuba for their fifth wedding anniversary. cuba is currently under a u.s. travel embargo. a reminder that you can catch all of your entertainment news right here the insider starts at 7:00 o'clock followed by entertainment tonight at 730. the giants fall behind but rally against the cubs at wrigley field. gary has the highlights ahead. and tiger woods quest for the masters title starts today in augustine, georgia. that story and all sports coming

up next. >> i see them happening in the real estate market to make the real estate market is still busy, we're seeing a low inventory of properties and many buyers. we've all heard stories that the market is improving, and it has for some but not for others. there is still homeowners were facing property that are underwater. >> are short sales and optioned. >> short sales are still going strong and their great option to a board avoid foreclosure. >> many banks are still supportive of short sales and was seeing major banks black sheep chase, citi still operating of cash incentive programs for the successful close of a short self elected that mean everyone gets a. >> unfortunately now but we still look into it for everyone. >> i know you have helped hundreds of people in the bay area. >> we are trustworthy and we know were doing was short sales. >> let's hear from some of

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chicago, 40 degrees at first pitch for the giants and the cubs. here we go, won nothing, cubs in the third. anthony rizzo takes ryan vogel deep. another rough outing, six innings, and for online. a 1.85 nothing chicago. then vogel's ground ball is kicked by castro, and the giants are on the way back. pablo sandoval just died one into left-center field. it's five to four copies, and go to keep the boat assault in the head. you figure a pinch-hitter with bayer, he draws a bases-loaded walk. again the tide of five, fourth rbi for giants pitcher in the first ten games. brendan crawford to left field, giants lead seven, five. he's going to end up with a win here, he's still pitching in

the sixth inning. nobody is a "" superstar outside of posey. they have a lot of really good players like sergio romo. seven, six giants, they are now seven and three. age with the second best record in all of baseball. and in a few minutes there in anaheim to play the angels. all the great players off and rolling at the masters. arnold palmer, four-time champ hit the ceremonial opening drive. the prose with two other legends, gary player and mr. necklace. now to would teen bop in the par three, six whole. three of tigers for masters win came after shooting a 70 opening round, and that's exactly what he did today. to wander, 70. the coleader sergio garcia, and

a guy named mark policemen from australia both shot 66 tonight. and the brief time number one way mcelroy considered tiger's biggest rival. tied with tiger at 78 at by the birdie on that. this 14-year-old boy, one over 73 per kim lawn. fourteen years of old age and he stood up to the masters pressure. jamie donaldson is seven under. he the welsh gawker, the greatest walsh performers.com jones came out. let's hear from tiger, he's at 70. >> more so than most courses you have to be patient, especially with the greens as soft as they are. it will bait you into the flags and

have to be very difficult and. >> i don't mean to done pam and jackie, but.com jones, again you're probably in grade school. you know who tom joad isabel? he was, that was the rumor that.com jones would stuff a sock at caesars palace in las vegas. i thought tom perform any time. i can't confirm or deny if that was true. but he was, of all the white fingers in your career, he had more soul than anybody that i could think of. >> i don't know about all of the performers. >> speaking of soul, art standard is standing by. let's go now to augusta as i ""james brown, this is incredible. this is his 48th straight year of covering the masters.

>> i stayed home a couple of weeks ago. by the way tom brown that was a street named for him, james brown boulevard because he's from augustine. and i am literally standing, i am outside the hall where the irish throw a party every thursday at the masters. >> art, you say that james brown deal, you don't want to be by my side. pam and jackie they're cool, but they're not 48 straight years at the masters like the great ... to make the good thing is they forget that there's a huge thunderstorm that hasn't arrived yet and i'm grateful for that. i'm standing outside. >> let's get right to it. do you think tiger woods is back? >> he's back but he may not win the masters. does he have to win the masters? he is a few shots out of the

lead. sergio garcia a year ago said, i don't have what it takes to win the majors, i will never win a major, i'm no good. and ever since he said last year he's no good he said, you get down sometimes. i don't like this golf course. tiger like this golf course. you know they bring in jack every year and he obviously has 16 masters, and they asked jack if he thought this was the year tiger is going to regain it, and break through and win his bet? he said he should do it this year, but he doesn't do it, he might have some problems. in other words he's playing great, and he is right at the edge, if he doesn't break through when everyone thinks he's going to win it. then maybe it gets in his head

he'll never win at. >> everyone wants to look beyond love, i'm being serious. you think lindsey vonn who's on the scene has helped tiger relax a little bit? >> probably. you know girlfriend, wife whatever help a guy, certainly. i mean he's had problems and we don't have to go into all of them, but now she gives him a bit of stability, and she's an athlete. and we do all the joking about an audible i would have to think that lindsey vonn and tiger have usurped that tidal. >> we have 30 seconds left, give it to me quick. a thumbnail sketch on the 14- year-old who shot 73. >> even if he didn't play golf, he would be fantastic he speaks perfect english. so i think he's going to be, in

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job, next. >> youtube at work, there's a norwegian kicker named harvard rutland, who's played some pretty nifty kicks on youtube a few months back. now the detroit lions are giving him a shot. the lions have already signed a former 49 kicker, david akers. but the youtube video was so great, and there it is.

u2 with harvard rutland, if you can do anything in this world, put on youtube and cross your fingers. >> to >> see you tonight at 8:00 p.

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