tv KRON 4 Early News KRON April 18, 2013 6:00am-7:00am PDT
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we will begin the 6:00 hour with the latest out of san francisco where a suspicious package has been founder of the lottas fountain. the package was found as commemorations were scheduled for the 1906 earthquake. we will now go live to will tran who was live in san francisco. >> we are having some technical difficulties with wheels signal. he was on to give us more information about the bag that was dropped off thankfully it checked off to be a non threat. there were able to open up the road near market street. as for the commemorative even if it has been moved to union square. and we may have reconnected wheel of. >> they cleared the area
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about 5 05 a.m.. this is why traffic is moving behind me. they have moved the commemoration of the want to make sure that they hang brief here and that is why you see people in the background. here is video when the bomb squad was here. there were called about 3:15 a.m. when a security guard spotted someone. obviously, that's security guard not want open it and they called the police department and they came out as a down market between grant and currey. they were here for about two hours and is sent out the ball to check out. >> about 3:00 a.m. there was a suspect in a hooded sweat
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shirt carrying a black bag. he just set the bag down and walk away. we have been searching the area for him and another person came out and stated that it was just a random radio parts and a lot of what happened in boston, we were just being cautious. we swept the area. >> a again, thankfully everything checked out and market street is now back open. the live picture that you saw showed them transporting debris from union square. >> a another big story that we are following this morning. police in a town
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west, texas, set up to 15 people have been killed in a fertilizer plant explosion that also injured more than 160. here is video from the same last night. rescue workers are still searching the rubble in the area for any survivors. the town's mayor had said some firefighters battled a blaze at the plant before the explosion are missing. many said a the explosion was felt miles away and was like an earthquake. here is a witness who describes what she heard. >> i drove and i turned the corner about 45 blocks and that is when it was heard. it was bad, it was very loud. it fell like a bomb was one off and i was not sure what was going on. >> rescuers are still in a
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search and rescue mode this morning. we do have more from the mayor of west, texas. >> approximately 15 to 60 houses and a five block area more damage. heavenly damage. >> the mayor of west texas spoke early this morning about the damages from the explosion. >> the plant, west fertilizer company was cited in 2006 for failing to qualify for a permit. the texas commission on environmental quality investigated west fertilizer in 2006, after receiving a
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complaint of a strong pneumonia smaleammonia smell. >> the other major story we are following today. the situation in boston where the investigation into the terrorist attack is entering its third day. president obama will be in boston today to pay tribute to the victims. he is expected to speak a.m.. so far, there have been no are arrests and no suspect has been named. authorities have pinpointed two men and pitchers shot near the finish line will could be possible suspects. a local politician says that investigators are looking for a man scene in surveillance video dropping off a bag at the side of the bombings. >> we do not know when to expect the next fbi
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briefing, when it ever it is, it will be a first official on-camera of business tuesday afternoon. meantime, a candlelight vigil and run is scheduled to mike on college avenue in oakland tonight in honor of the victims and boston. >> the drive time is 70 minutes from alta mount pass way up to the dublin interchange. this system resorbing back up. better news for public transit. there were problems in the early morning commute. there were delays of 5 to 10 minutes and even those may be gone. >> as we focus our attention on a thursday forecast it is a clear start to the morning. we will continue upper seven days for the inland spots. it will warm-
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up within the next several days. it is a dry forecasts and a springlike forecast. it is a cooler stars. it is 43 degrees out the door in novato. >> we will take a brief break at 6 06 a.m.. here is a live look as we take a look at the ride on 680. >> we will be right back. look at them kids. [ sigh ]
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>> the time is 6:09 a.m.. >> we now know the name of the suspect who is believed to have mailed letters filled with a deadly poison to president obama and a mena mississippi senator. federal agents say, they have arrested 45 year-old paul kevin curtis of mississippi. the deadly substance inside those letters is known as ry-sin. both letters were intercepted at screening facilities, and both were postmarked memphis tennessee--april 8th. the white house says, staffers followed a careful drill and handling the letters, and no one was injured.
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>> the u.s. senate has blocked a proposal to expand background checks on gun sales. the plan failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass. the move sparked anger from president obama and disappointment from the parents of schoolchildren who were massacred just four months ago in newtown, connecticut. >> congresswoman gabrielle giffords, who was severely injured in gun violence, also stood by the president's side, if she is quoted as being furious that the measure did not pass and accused the opposing senators of " cowardice ". the final vote tally was 54 to 46. the proposal was part of a compromise that was struck by a democratic and a republican senator. it was backed by president obama, but it faced fierce opposition from the national rifle association. a ban on
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assault weapons also fell, along with a bid to block the sale of high capacity ammunition clips. >> here is a live look outside at the 580 interchange. this is a very big backup and the drive times are up to 70 minutes or more. >> will be right back. eggs, ba, con, and pancakes. denny'n's everyday value slam® is four dollars every day.
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>> welcome back. the time is 6:14 a.m.. >> we have a major hot spot out of central valley for westbound interstate 580. here is live video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. here is a look at accident scene and the emergency vehicles that are attending to it. the back reaches all the way to alta mount pass way. this is due to it was initially been reported that two lanes were blocked. it is actually three lang's blocked. there are only two lanes available for traffic. >> this is right at the 580, 680 interchange. all originally, was thought to be the connecting ramp to the san ramon valley area.
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that rap is still open. look at what it has done to the commute. it is now 82 minutes from the 2 05 out to the dublin interchange. it is an hour and 20 minutes. this is a normal commute and this is not the case for west bound 580. this is the only hot spot that we are tracking. the metering lights have been activated but it is only a moderate back up for the westbound ride. the san mateo bridge for highway 92, they have something going on. the drive time last check was about 12 minutes and was if there is another problem. the golden gate bridge 1 01 southbound is problem. and so is the ride through marin county for southbound 101.
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the drive time is still under 25 minutes. >> we are taking a live look from mount cam. it is steady. the camera is not been shaken around as it was for the past few mornings. it has been a bright and clear start. the temperatures are cooler than it yesterday. the wins are not in the forecast in the coldest air is towards the surface. you will need to a bundle up the issue had out the workers go. into the afternoon you can expect warmer weather with plenty locations climbing to the upper 70's. as we focus on the numbers currently is in the upper 30 is for half moon bay. it is 48 degrees out the door and they were. i do want to follow these numbers into afternoon. even though it is a chilly start we will make a 4. >> by noon a will indicate
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70's and it will be very warm for the inland community. mild conditions will persist around the bay area. it looks like temperatures will be in the low 60's by 8:00 p.m. tonight. as i bring down your afternoon high the temperatures are between 5 to 8 degrees warmer than the seasonal average. 74 degrees is your high for fremont, 80 degrees for any hot and low 70's for castro valley. downtown san francisco is getting in at 70 degrees. mid-60's if you're heading to ocean beach. 70 it will be your high in napa. as will take a look this satellite and radar there are changes to talk about. >> it is quiet and clear of the bay area right now and there are no rain drops inside. and again, we will see a weak system just clip
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the north part and it will not bring any precipitation but we will see an increase in cloud cover. that is the case for tomorrow. there is nothing but sunshine, warm weather as we start the next work week. the temperatures will be close to 90 degrees. >> we are talking about 70's along the coast. >> new details and a sexual assault and suicide case of sarah told the team, audrie pott. the family of the south bay teen has filed a legal claim against her high-school. her family says, that the school was negligent, and that officials did nothing. aspott was reportedly being a bully with pitchers showing her being sexually
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assaulted. >> district officials are defending their actions st. all it could legally do against a three teens was expelled two of them from high school sports, because it was an off campus incident. the teen's have since been arrested. >> the latest on the bird flu outbreak in china that has already killed 17 people. the chinese government is not investigating the possibility of human to human transmission of this new bird flu strand, up 47 are rated slaughtered dolls and the birds and closed some live poultry markets. china has warned that the number of infections, which currently stands at 82 could rise. most of the bird flu cases are in shanghai. >> american airlines has resumed most flies, after a
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system wide computer glitch forced the airline to ground all their planes across the country. this is a live look at the lines at s.f. 0 yesterday. the airlines say, some lingering problems remain. according to a flight-tracking service, american, and its regional off shoot american eagle, cancel more than 200 flights. that is a big improvement from to is that when american eagle canceled nearly one out supplies and the late another 1100. after the glitch was fixed, the backlog of flights caused delays at s.f. 04 arrest of the day. >> how about the golden state warriors. 18 most thought would not make the playoffs, still a sixth seed in the last game of the season and stefan curry set
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an all-time nba record four three-pointers in the season. stefan curry, one of three. a short of the single season record. second quarter, currey hits a three-pointer to break the single season record of 269 three-pointers made by ray allen. warriors led by 14 1/2. >> currey, his the three from the corner he finishes with four three's for a record of 272 in a season, 15 points tonight. the final score was 99 to 88 warriors'. >> here is a live look outside, a single alert helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. this is 580 before the 680 interchange and pleasanton. we are live on the scene. we will have the very latest on kron 4
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all the lanes except for two. if this is right at the 680 interchange. if this has backed up the tractor all the way to live a more in to alta mount pass way. the drive time is now one hour and a half. >> we are watching wall street. taking a look at the markets this morning. future trading shows all three indexes and the positive this morning. after the weekly unemployment claims numbers showed only a small rise in the number of americans filing last week. here is a look at yesterday's closing numbers. >> the dow jones fell 138 points to close at 14,618. the nasdaq fell nearly 60 points closing at 3204. the s&p 500 dropped 22 points closing at 1553. better than expected armies this morning from pepsi, verizon and
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>> welcome back. here is a quick check on our hot spot. the drive time is over an hour and a half. two semi trucks collided just before the 580-680 interchange. one of them has been removed but only the two lanes are open. look at the back up it is now 95 minutes. a again, some progress has been made to the clearing of accident but i do not expect the drive time to go down soon. >> it is a clear start to
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the morning around the entire bay area. the temperatures will climb into the afternoon i have put up today's highs so which was see will be in plenty upper 70's. the temperatures will be between 5 to 8 degrees warmer than what we are used to. satellite radar shows quiet conditions and weak system would just be on a edge for tomorrow. we will see more in the way of cloud cover and the temperatures will continue to rise. >> the time is 6:31 a.m.. we are following at developing news out of san francisco where a suspicious package has been found near the lottas fountain. the package was found as commemorations were scheduled for the 1906 earthquake. if we would now go live with kron 4 will tran who is live in san francisco. >> they will take this
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seriously because of what has happened in boston. they shut down bay area because dignitaries are scheduled to be here. you can say that even though they move the ceremony is still came back here to lay a wreath. here is a video from the bomb squad at 3rd market. they shut this down for about a block stretch of 8¢ now robotics and the dogs. after they received a phone call about a suspicious black bag being placed on what they had a chance and we had a chance to talk to the police chief in this is what he had to say about the incident. >> about 3:00 a.m. this morning there was a suspect in a hooded sweat shirt carrying a black bag. he just said the back down and walk away. we have been searching the area for him
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and another person came out and stated that they just had random radio parts in it. the fact that it was on to bigger earthquake ceremony and dignitaries in the area we were cautious. which is we the area. >> they made sure that everything was clear about 5 05 a.m. they got the signal that evidence was okay. they had already made the decision 20 minutes earlier to relocate the commemorative events. they were not born to be deterred from this record does at 5:45 a.m.--the police chief as well as the fire chief came back out to lay a wreath. everything was clear in both directions the market were open back up. >> in this story was the
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only on kron 4. an update on one of the when they tried to a system that is when the second main came towards the officers with a hammer. when the officers fired his gun after the suspect refused to drop its weapon. >> he came up the officers with a hammer and he did not comply with our demands and the officers descended themselves. >> the man who was stabbed is in serious condition at a
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hospital. >> there is a live press conference going on with the latest information from texas and the search for any survivors. >> the emotional issues at this point. i do not know if this number: is with each other. >> i am not sure this may be something that they saw. i do not have information on what occurred. there are
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plenty of law enforcement agents. >> there try to find any survivors. emergency medical rules were there at the time of the explosion and some of them are missing. there is a large chemical plant right next-door. those homes caught on fire there are several people missing. this show up as a 2.2 earthquake. >> we can give you a quick on one of the young this that was injured in the blast. his 11 year role aaron hern, from martinez was in surgery a gain yesterday. we now know the trauma surgeons successfully
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closed his wounds. he had been waiting with his father insisted cheering on his mother when the bombs when all but the end of the marathon. his father described injuries of his sons leg as looking into a war wound. a successful surgery means that he will not need skin grafts. >> in a story was the only a kron4, a san francisco woman is back, after running the boston marathon. leica carpo was welcomed home by her sister margaret. this is video of the reunited yesterday. margaret actually lives in spain, but happened to be in sampras's go for a business conference. she was able to finish a marathon about half an hour before the bombs exploded. >> this is scary and it is
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sad and horrible. >> their younger sister a mada also ran the marathon was not injured in the bombings. leica says this is bangladeshi, her sister and friends were not hurt. she added that this will not stop them from running the race in the future. >> the time is 6 3:08 a.m.. we will be right back.
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>> you are watching kron 4 urs 24/7 bay area news channel. i am mark dan on. here are the top stories that we are following. >> police in the town of west, texas said up to 15 people have been killed in a fertilizer plant explosion that also injured more than fertilizer plant explosion that also injured more than 160 and leveled when i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. oh. oh look the lion is out! no mommy no! attack is entering its third day. if presiden attack is entering its third don't worry honey, it only works on checks.
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deposit checks from your smartphone with chase quickdeposit. just snap a picture, hit send and done. take a step forward and chase what matters. honor of the victims and boston. >> as an francisco police officer fatally shot an armed man suspect of stabbing his brother-in-law last night. happened around 9:40 p.m. in the 900 block of deharo street in san francisco hill neighborhood. when police arrived on the scene, the funny men with multiple stab wounds in his head, arms, and chest. when they try to assist the victim, another man came toward officers with a hammer. police chief greg suhr says that one of the offers fired his gun after the suspects refuse to drop his weapon. >> those are our top stories. thank you for
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bear a little more honest and more disclosure. google is talking about their phone and something needs to happen with apple and they need to talk about a new product. they usually start issuing new products for back-to-school perry ed it took them 17 months. i think the evaluation is important. one-third of their market is in cash. they have a bit capp and there the second biggest of the nation behind exxon mobile. they're just a cash flow mushing but they do not have products that we know obama but we know ey're coming out. >> we had morgan stanley,
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and pepsi with good earnings. >> a again, corporate america is still and press the but the second quarter may be the weakest of the year. we are waiting to the back half of the year, back to school. what we are seeing right now isetter. >> would check back with rod and black later with our winners and losers. >we would check back with a rob black later on with our winners and losers. >> we're in the upper part is for coastline. future cast 4 is tracking the temperatures by noon we will be in the '60s and '70s will start to trickle in by lunchtime. it will be a warm afternoon the 70's will continue to build for the
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afternoon. it will be upper 50s and low 60's by 8:00 p.m. tonight. it will be warmer that yesterday. santa clara will have a high of 76 degrees. we have plenty mid to upper 70's for the east bay. >> it will be low 60's and 70's for downtown san francisco. mid-70s for petaluma and oakland will be coming in at 75 degrees. satellite and radar shows quiet a clear conditions and we do have changes to talk about. high pressure is building in. a weak system may clip us as we head into tomorrow. it will not bring any precipitation but more in the way of cloud cover. in terms of your extended forecast id is not a raindrop in sight. we're talking plenty of sunshine not into the weekend but as we start the next work with.
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we miss the '90s for morgan hill and gilroy. there might be the day for you to head to the beach. the time is 6:48 a.m.. >> we have for some time been tracking this house botanist a 580 in the westbound direction. this is a run at the dublin interchange. kron4 mike pelton has been on the scene for a while and he has managed to clear one of the semi trucks. how are they doing with the progress? >> here you see the second semi truck is still blocking the two right lanes and the emergency vehicles are blocked and the no. 3 line. we are still badly back up. look at the traffic back to you will see the location of the incident and it only has two lanes open in the westbound direction. this
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has really jammed up the ride it has been overrun hour-and-a-half for the drive time in the westbound direction. if this is pushing almost two hours for the end route. this is a very solid backup to the dublin interchange. there are not many alternate routes for this area and the only other one will be highway 4 for people coming out of central valley. this is a very big detour but it might be worth the time. >> traffic is pretty slow at the bay bridge this morning and the back up is about to the macarthur mayes. will find delays as you hit westbound from a 580, 80 and a change. 92 to the san mateo bridge has no problems. the changeable message sign has been activated. your ride to the
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golden gate bridge is great and they are problem free through marin county 41 01 southbound. >> the time is 6:50 a.m.. the chief san francisco mayor daley will sign legislation today, that will require upgrades of some buildings so they are safer in the event of an earthquake. the new law will require more than 3000 soph story buildings in sampras's go to be retrofitted. the price tag to be anywhere from 60,000 to $150,000 to update each building. if you're when a soft story building, the landlord can
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appear went depending on your in come. >> renters who make less than the average san francisco and, seven $5,000 a year will be exempt from rent increases brought about by retrofitting. >> general motors has unveiled a new diesel version of its share of cruze. it gets 46 mi. per gallon on the highway making it more efficient compared to some hybrid vehicles. the diesel cruze goes on sale next month in select markets, it will then go nationwide this fall. it beats its closest competitor, the diesel volkswagen jeddah, which is 42 mi. per gallon on the highway. the regular pre is still does better at 48 mi. per gallon. you can get your hands on a diesel d
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cruze starting at about $26,000. >> as surprising twist in connection with the murder to prosecutors out of north texas. police have charged cam williams with allegedly plotting with her husband to kill a assistant prosecutor mark hasse back in january. also, district attorneymc-lelland and his wife, cynthia last month. she accuses her husband, eric williams, of been the triggerman. he has not been charged in the killings at this time. >> we will be waiting for the president's arrival in boston. we will be right back.
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welcome back the time is 6:56 a.m.. we're working on a hot spot that is still o box 30 to 40 minutes away from clearing. this has backed up 580 westbound for miles. we're looking at an hour or an 45 minute drive time. if this is from alta mount pass way to the 680 interchange. avoid this area and we will be right back with more of our live coverage. >> there is an interface service going on for the prayers of the victims of the marathon bombings. will be right back.
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