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from the bay area this is the kron 4 morning news. kron 4 news said 4 starts now. >> good morning and thank you for joining us on this wednesday may 1st. some top stores were following for you this morning. hundreds attend a vigil for a 8 year- old valley spring grove stabbed to death in her home as please look at a possible connection to a case in placerville. >> and the bay area boy injured in the boston bombing attack filing is to come home. whenever his parents. >> we will get to those top stores in a moment the first was checking with erica and the weather center for your morning forecast. good morning erica. >> good morning anny . all looks well from our roof camel the san francisco skyline. tracking windy conditions for santa clara county. in the past six hours we sought a 70 mi. an hour wind gust. atop mount
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diablo. 35 mi. an hour gust around 20¢ san francisco. card when speeds not to bad inside the bay. again, it is above a thousand feet that is where the red flag warning goes into affect. sustained winds at 28 mi. an hour in fairfield. 12 and vallejo and for concord. keep this in mind. the windy conditions have been keeping you awake. temperatures off to a warm start. napa 70 degrees. 68 in richmond. upper 50s in oakland. futurecast 4 shows temperatures will continue to warm throughout the day. by 12:00 '70s and '80s a round the entire bay area. another woman. the potential for 90 certainly exist. that will stick out in the central valley. temperatures a bit woman yesterday. looking at 8:00
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hour later tonight. green inside the bay. the rest of a sore man in the low seventies. breaking down by for to say okoume five operators and more. a 74 in daly city 85 and santa rosa. windy conditions right now. when will start to die down into the evening hours. we have a heat advisory going into effect for thursday. this is between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.. you are advised to do any outdoor activity, exercising, or daily jog early in the morning or late at night. it will be a scorcher. >> the national weather service decided to both of the temperatures along the coast. your coastal highs could climb to the '80s. your inland spots to get in the mid-90s, upper 90s, and potentially triple digits. we are certainly setting the stage to set an break in abundance of records. >> your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast shows warm weather continues to friday
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however, we will be a few degrees cooler. as of now thursday looking to be the warmest of the week. temperatures certainly cooler heading into the weekend. taking a look at sunday, and the upper seventies. low seventies a round the bay and lows '60s for the coast. we will continue with gradually cooler weather starting the next work week. >> more details on that very high forecast coming up in just a couple of minutes. traffic around the bay area looking good no hot spots. for those of you heading to the bay bridge you're in very good shape. the traffic coming down the shore freeway where we are not seen any accidents. a live look at the san mateo bridge is very quiet at this hour for highway 92. southbound 101 the golden gate bridge crystal clear conditions. no accidents in sight for those of you coming out of marin county. >> i does want to thank the entire city in all their family and friends. for all
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the support you have given my family. thank you. >> and emotional candlelight vigil was held last night honoring 8 year-old leila fowler pill . who was killed ovr the weekend in calaveras county. >> her mother is struggling to cope with the death of the april growth. here's what we know. an autopsy was performed and the county coroner says she was stabbed multiple times while insider home on saturday. the young girl bled to death. law enforcement has interviewed of sex offenders in the area. but darden not saying that sexual assault was part of the crime. an intense three day manhunt was has turned up no clues. police do not have enough to provide suspect name or a sketch. >> a sea of people gathered at jenny lind of interest cool to remember leila . she
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went to school there. there were her favorite colors think and purple while mourning the loss of a little girl. >> earlier in the day, neighbors recalled moments right after the stabbing and her dad was try to find the killer. i said oh my god is she okay? >> he said no she is not ok. >> i would have tackled the guy so fast if i could have. >> i do not want justice to our system. i want justice through the country. we are not in the city we are in the country. plain and simple we do not take kindly to what goes on around here. >> the road where leila was murdered was open for a short time since the murder. her home is a crime scene adjutancy with yellow police tape. >> police caught up to this
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apartment building a placerville and arrested 44 year-olpolice arrested 44 year-d jason wryrynen and grabbed a 15 year-old the baby from her mother's arms. >> this was very bizarre. i think it would be a bizarre event in the country. >> patricia s. six year-old daughter saw what was happening in iran to the bedouin to call the police. >> he pushed the door. >> she was holding the door closed, scared and fearing for what would happen next. fortunately police showed up and arrested. neighbors say the man was hearing voices in his head. >> a double told him to kill
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the baby. >> the good news is the little girl was ok arresting officers ccollected dna and were sent to calaveras county to compare the dna from the murder scene of a eight year old girl there. >> i am jeff bush kron 4 news. >> and red flag warning across the bay area. it is in effect through tonight. the national weather service is a red flag morning on the north bay hills, east bay hills and diablo range. >> the warning means a higher risk of fire danger if essentialland for a potentiae fires. thousands of feet and parts of the east santa clara county hills. >> and cal fire is issued a statewide no barn order banning burning all throughout california. >> new details in the case of a murdered silicon valley millionaire. >> a judge says that to
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children fathered by ravi kumra , with one of his former prostitutes, have a valid claim on his estate. the judge says there is convincing evidence that the two growth for his children. this is video from our helicopter apart issue with abc seven news. he was killed five months ago in his mansion after robbers broke in, bound and gagged him, and read off without it was. his two older daughters were owho opposed to request claim that their father had no financial obligation to the children. >> if you're smelling smoke here in san francisco not to worry. is it working fire in the yountville area off the silverado trail. the strong northeast wind is what caused the smoke-and-carry gismo to san francisco. the fires currently 50 makers fire officials said they're expecting a full containment
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by 8:00 a.m.. >> the warriors did not play their best game last night. the nuggets came out on fire needing a win to stay alive. warriors were down 20 at halftime and there was more often from the nuggets in the second half. the warriors trailed by as many as 22 in the third quarter but the cab plunging away. staff currey makes it a five. game with five minutes ago. it was a rough night for him scoring only 15. the warriors in a losing 107- 100. this irritates back to oakland for and six for the war it will try to close it out on thursday. >> the sharks are opening against the canucks in vancouver tonight. san jose is seeded sixth of vancouver is the no. 3 seed. the sharks are undefeated against the cannucks this year winning all three games. two h p pavilion and vancouver. >> will have more on the forecast coming up. the time is 409. =dj çó
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>> welcome back. the time this 411. >> 11 year-old karen hern d local boy injured in the boston marathon bombings back at home in the bay area. the family flew back from boston yesterday morning. kron fours terisa estacio up with his emotional parents. >> aaron says he is tired but is back home thappy to be bk home. there is a big welcome home sign that read him at sfo yesterday afternoon. it is his 12th birthday wednesday. here is the family with more. >> his life and all our lives will never be the same. chris is something we can recover from but is always going to be there. it will not go away. >> exhausted but grateful to return home to her family
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spoke with kron 4 news about how their son is doing after being injured in a boston bomb blast. >> he has something like 85 total staples' between two legs. he has 62 or 63 in his right leg. the biggest area of concern was up by which was a pretty good sized crater after the shrapnel. >> the family was in boston because catherine was running the marathon. aaron, his dad allen and sister abigail for the finish line when a bomb off. >> katherine says that going forward she is worried about all of the aspects of her son's recovery. >> this is one of the hardest things to deal with because every day we are realizing how lucky we are and how much worse it could have been. and it wasn't that much worse for some. >> he was right next to the little boy who died. >> a little boy and his
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>> welcome back. the time is 416 . we are watching the weather and the wind. here is erica with our forecast. >> good morning anny . we have wind advisories in effect and we will at sea he advisory's going into effect tomorrow afternoon. some of you heard the howling winds overnight. we have the of red flag warning in effect until 6:00 p.m. mainly concerning the north bay and east bay hills. we saw a
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couple of wild fires break out. this is special concern for those of you about 1,000 ft.. be aware of your surroundings. this is something we will continue to monitor. we saw when the gust of four of 74 mi. per hour atop mount diablo. when the condition around the twin peaks and santa scope. looking at current wind's peace. 21 mi. an hour and fairfield. 15 in santa rosa. i did track our custom charts and currently we're seeing gust upward of 38 mi. an hour over in fairfield. i want to follow the wind for you on future cast 4. by 7:00 holding on to windy conditions. this concerns the delta perhaps the livermore valley and the blue shading indicates the wind gusts between 20-30 m.p.h.. it will be plenty and breezy and spots for the rest of the morning. you will see the wind dies down into the afternoon and evening hours. in terms of temperatures it is a warm start out there. 63 in
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oakland. upper 50s in hayward. pleasanton 62. 70 in santa rosa. i want to follow the numbers in to the afternoon. plenty of '80s to go around. temperatures could be a few degrees warmer than yesterday. santa clara 85. 84 in mountain view. getting close to 94 places like fairfield, pittsburgh 87. 82 expected in richmond. downtown san francisco checking in at 80 degrees. a degree warmer for berkeley. will be a warm one around the bay. nothing compared to tomorrow. remember the heat advisory goes into affect 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. keep this in mind if you are accustomed to exercising outdoors. your inland spots climb to the upper 90s. we hold on to the potential to see some triple digits. gradually cooler conditions by that i mean just two degrees. we will continue with cooler weather saturday and sunday. the
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return of your morning fog. temperatures will hit around the seasonal average starting the next work week. if you did not like thathe hot weather leaf on the way. more on forecast coming up in just a few minutes. >> if you're heading to the free wagering good shape. no hot spots very quiet morning at the bay bridge. just a few cars using the nimitz freeway approach. no wait here to pay gates there it the merry lights are off. the same story at the san mateo bridge drive time 12- 13 minutes. >> south bound 101, the golden gate bridge an easy ride out of marin county. no fog to contend with in a drive time 23 minutes out of navato the city. >> north bound 101 is accident free. bring on the road way censors for interstate 280. it is a pretty strict ride coming out of marin county and no accidents and of course tspeeds over 50 mi. an
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hour. >> thank you erica. >> on to some national news. >> new jersey state legislators met on tuesday for second round of gun control debate. and no issue discussed this year is that the state house committee rose as much as gun control. but a hot-button issue was a bill that was not even up for vote. families from new town, conn., lost loved ones in the shooting at sandy hook elementary school, came to support a bill that is not it is scheduled to be voted on and a ban on high- capacity magazines. >> we are neighbors by geography what we are like you our desire to keep our children and our city safe. >> if this had been transplanted to connecticut from new jersey the reality is we would be passing this legislation. the lesson learned is if it happened in connecticut it can happen in new jersey and we should not wait. if the bill is passed
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there will be expanded background check to include more mental health records, and a photograph to the fire on purchase or id card and bandit type of sniper rifle and the like. a host of different proposals as part of this package for bills. we are also following the latest with furloughs that continues to loom in the forecast for the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. suppose for day furloughs the effect of froapproximately 12,000 noaa employees which include workers at the miami-based national hurricane center. the new cuts come on top of a hiring freeze that took place in march. noaa has already cut 7 percent of their budget this fiscal year. the designated fall they to july 5th, july 19th, august 5th and august 30th. >> bp has agreed to give
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$340 million to louisiana's restoration project. bp is agreement as part of the $1 billion investment they agree to give for the repair of damaged natural resources caused by deep water rise in oil spill. the projects are expected to create doubt of- restored dunes and marshes along the louisiana coast. bp also ever to research center to restore and restock their mist fisheries one on a lake charles and the other in plaquemines. >> new evidence has been uncovered in connection with the ricin laced letters were sent to president obama into other public officials. an fbi affidavit reveals a discount ricin and form a martial arts studi run by james everett tdutschke. he
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is been in jail since saturday. among the items found was it does come as recover from a trash can. the affidavit also says he bought castor beans on the internet. r castor beans used. ricin. >> tens of dollars are expected to rally in dozens of cities from new york to right here in california. it was becoming annual cry from easing the nation's immigration laws. the rallies carry a sense of urgency this year. two weeks after it was center's introduced a bill that would bring many of the estimate 11 million living in the u.s. illegally of the shadows. the may date groves are not expected to approach the massive demonstrations of 2006 and 2007. the in the last serious attempt to introduce major changes to the u.s. immigration system. advocates of poking their efforts on getting supporters to call and write
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doubt about it is very windy. in the past 6 hours 44 mi. an hour when us all around napa county airport. 70 mi. an hour wind atop mount diablo. red flag morning currently in effect until 6:00 p.m. tonight. that for everyone above 1,000 ft. for the north bay and east bay hills and those of you in santa clara county. it is also a warm start to the morning. to produce and the upper 50s and 60s. into the afternoon when he up. temperatures warmer than yesterday's. clear conditions will stick around by later tonight. i want ran down your afternoon highs. 84 for san raphael. amid '80s in oakland. 88 in fairfield. 84 in san jose. satellite and radar shows clear conditions around the bay area right now. high- pressure still ahead of us but we have the northerly wind gusty conditions especially for those of you on the delta. north of the golden gate bridge as well.
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at one up is certainly on the way. the past couple of days or more. tomorrow we will have a heat advisory in effect. i will talk about just how hot it will get in your neighborhood coming up in just a few minutes. james. >> thank you erica. as horrifying plane crashed on camera all seven americans on board died. this was a 747 civilian cargo plane in afghanistan right outside of the bagram airfield. >> the plan appears to be taking off the nose is way too high. then you see it quickly ascending and flipped around. there's a massive fireball explosion it falls to the ground. there it goes. right in front of that car. huge fireball, huge plume of black smoke. it is unclear why the plane went down and why it took off as a steep angle. some are speculating the cargo on board may have shifted during takeoff
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slowing the plane. the plane was carrying vehicles and other heavy cargo. it was headed for dubai. the 747 was on by florida-based national airlines. all seven people on board the cargo plane were crew members. >> coming up on the kron 4 morning news a look at your new headlines. also a live look from the san mateo bridge on your wednesday morning. it will be a mild start in the warm to hot day. also windy conditions. more details and then later. the time ms. 428. wow, the track looks perfect.
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east bay hills. a couple of wildfires also that is something we're tracking in the news department. once the wind dies down the heat is on. and he advisory going into effect tomorrow. with that we could see record- breaking temperatures. triple digits for some of your warmest inland spots. greta cool initial specs be some spots could be 25 to 30 degrees cooler. looking at current conditions. 63 in oakland. 61 in hayward. 69 for par to san francisco. of course see the range around ocean beach is as week 63. in the upper 50s out the door in san carlos. futurecast 4 tracking the temperatures by lunchtime '70s and '80s clearly dominates the screen. we could perhaps, see some low 90s. the red just borders the livermore valley. by 8:00 p.m. we will cool down but a fairly warm evening.
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temperatures in the '60s and '70s. breaking down the afternoon highs. milpitas 84. 85 in campbell. we're talking of brady's fairfield, castro valley 82. 87 of one of creek. >> 80 for san francisco. amid '80s for santa rosa. >> your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast highlights tomorrow at the warmest day of the week. it says 96 on their but a couple spots could flirt with the triple digits. >> take a look at your collective years we are talking low '80s for places like have monday and was difficult. >> tomorrow is definitely the eighth head to the coastline of the beaches if you can. cooler weather in to the weekend and return of morning fog. >> the traffic center a great time to leave home. a bridge check. bay bridge looking good however, traffic is increasing. >> no problems, no worries at the san mateo bridge. the drive 12-13 minutes. >> south bound 101, the golden gate bridge looking
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good at working way out of marin county. >> i does want to thank the entire city in our family and friends. for the support you have in my family. it will never be forgotten. thank you. >> and emotional candlelight vigil was held last night to remember 8 year-old leila fowler she was killed over the weekend in calaveras county that was her mother. the small town of valley spring struggling to cope with the death of the april growth. here's what we know so far. an autopsy has been performed and the county coroner says she was stabbed multiple times wallace lighter moments saturday. that was the cause of death. lot for officials have interviewed sex offenders in the area. at this point they say they're not sure if sexual assault was part of the crime. and in a tense three game and none has turned up no clues. please have no suspect in line no
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name. they do not have a sketch just yet. >> meanwhile, a sea of people gathered at jenny lind elementary school to remember her who went to school there. the warmer favorite color pink and purple while mourning the loss of a little girl. earlier in the day, never recalled moments right after the after dad was feverishly trying to find the killer. >> he said someone's that my little girl. i said oh my god! is she okay? >> he said no. she is not ok! >> i would have tackled the guy so fast that i could have. >> i do not want justice to our system i want justice through the country. we are not in the city. we are in the country. plain and simple. we do not take kindly to what goes on around here. >> the road where leila was murdered was open for a
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short while. as you see in the video her home has been treated as a crime scene surrounded by yellow police tape. >> meanwhile, a police rest is suspect inattentive kidnapping of a 15 month old placerville baby. authorities are investigating whether the intended kidnapping might be linked to the murder of 8 year-old leila fowler. kron fours jeff bush has the latest. >> police say the suspect followed the victim of stairs to our apartment and grabbed the 15 month old girl from her mother's arms. patricia fought with him until police arrived. very very bizarre event. >> i think this would be a bizarre event anywhere in our country. >> even more bizarre in the quiet mount down for six year-old daughter saw what was happening. she rented the bedroom to call the police. he had pushed the
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door. >> she was holding the door closed, scared, and fearing for what would happen next. fortunately police showed up within minutes and arrested him. neighbors said the man was hearing voices in his head. >> the devil told him to kill the baby. >> officers collected dna samples from him and sent to zepa to calaveras county to be compared with dna evidence collected at the murder scene of a 8 year-old girl there. >> i am jeff bush in the newsroom kron 4 news. >> also following the weather one of our big stories a red flag warning in effect for the entire bay area in effect for tonight. the national weather service issued a warning for the north bay, east bay hills and the diablo range in the south bay. mike pelton is joining us with the latest on the conditions there. >> we have sunny skies and not a lot of rain. that is
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great but the down side is it creates a perfect conditions for large-scale fires that is why there is a red flag warning in effect until 6:00 p.m.. low amenity and warm weather and high winds create the perfect elements it is such an expose of conditions for the fires to break out. cal fire has issued a note or order to keep that in mind if you are heading outside. james, overnight we had a couple of small fires to the north of according to the national weather service. all the smoke drifted here in to the bay area in san francisco. i could smell it when i left my apartment earlier this morning. i'm sure a lot of people could smell it if you have your windows open. this is shaping up to be one of the dry is seasons on record. the bottom line is the careful even if it is as simple as not throwing the cigarette out of the window. fire danger extremely high today. >> thank you. the last word we got from cal fire was that it it was 100 percent
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contained. >> coming up on the kron 4 morning news a look at your new head lights also a live look outside from our roof camera here on van ness ave. we have clear skies the wind is howling especially in the east bay hills, the north bay hills. more details on the way and your heat coming up. the times's 438.
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>> we are back. checking futures trading as we keep an eye on wall street. we all three indexes positive this morning. reports that ibm will buy back more stock and raise its dividend helped pull the dow and the s&p 500 out of a morning slump yesterday's. here's a look at the numbers. the dow fell as much as 84 points in the in the morning trading ended with a gain of 21. at 14,839. the nasdaq rose nearly as was two points to close at 3003 of
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the 28. for the s&p 500 eds to of nearly four boys close at 1005197. watching the numbers all morning starting at 630. also following the latest out of colleges. it appears call it just is not worth what it used to be. that survey out tuesday found that for one person of college graduates from the last two years stuck in jobs that do not require a degree. a consulting firm accenture who conducted the survey talked to more than a thousand students to graduate from college in 2011 and 2012 will have not gone to graduate school. in addition to the 41% underemployed, a 11 percent said they are unemployed, with 7% reporting they have not had a job since graduating. also, nearly two-thirds said they would need additional training to start their chosen career. >> the monster beverage
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company is suing the san francisco said his attorney over demands the city's made. the city says monster must reduce the amount of caffeine in his injuries and stop marketing to minors. the company said city attorney denis parreira is starting moss to as the company to produce documentation showing the drinks are safe. the city attorney also asked monster to reformulated stricken change the label and marketing. this comes at the fda investigate reports of deaths linked to mostar regmonster beverages. but the agency has said the reports not prove that the drinks cost any deaths. >> i strongly disagree and i intend to litigate this case aggressively to perform their response will marketing and business practices. i believe clearly violates california's consumer protection laws in ". >> ya hoo ceo marissa mayer
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to accommodate package of nearly $6 million for first six months on the job. according to the regulatory documents, she got a salary of nearly half a million dollars, a $1.1 million cash bonus and $4.3 million worth of stock. her compensation packages were the least 71 million through 2017. and it could top 120 million in extra batch of stock grants that she is eligible for comes through. >> do not forget the bay to breakers is coming up on may 19th. our coverage of the rate from start to finish will began at 8:00 a.m. that sunday morning. what cameras and cruise along the race route. you do not want to miss that. bay to breakers may 19th 8:00 a.m. right here on kron and have more news in a minute.
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have a lot of talk about. we have red flag warning, wind, and fire spreading out. but it first the forecast. >> good morning erica. >> good morning james it is windy out there. a live look from our mount tam camera is shaking around no doubt. gusty conditions. piqued when guston the past the hour. mount diablo 74 mi. an hour. napa county airport 44 mi. an hour. at a speed 39 mi. per 20 to 32 mi. an hour just a few minutes ago in twin peaks. we have a wind advisory in effect for the north and east bay hills and mount diablo. >> we saw a couple of small fires break out. this is in effect until 6:00 p.m. this evening. we will continue with windy weather but rest of the day and possibly even into the evening hours. temperatures we are off to a warm start with lows 60s in concord and pleasanton. 66
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and they city. 61 waking up in sunnyvale. temperatures will only rise into the afternoon. futurecast 4 shows by lunchtime we are talking mainly '70s and '80s a round higher bay areas. the heat is on. i do not think we will see in the '90s. starting to see a little bit of red shading looks to be affecting tracy and in central valley. by 8:00 p.m. tonight still pretty warm conditions. 60s inside the bay. seventies everywhere else. it will be mild warm for the next one to four hours. breaking down your highs. fairfield 88. a for san francisco. low seventies and have long day. satellite and radar shows clear, dry conditions of the bay area. a ridge of high pressure still over as but it is the week system and the drop to our east. that is bringing the northerly winds and the gusty conditions. remember, it is extremely dry. not much rain this season. be extra cautious an extra prepared
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for the next several days. >> your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast highlights a the advisory as we head into tomorrow. thursday is actually the warmest day of the week. we could see triple digits. 96 on the board but we could definitely see closer to 100. the national weather service has wrapped up the temperatures along the coastline. they are calling low '80s for half moon bay, pacifica. it will be a scorcher. slightly cooler conditions will shave off a couple of degrees moving in closer to friday. then the return of coastal fog and a dip in temperatures by the end of the weekend. we will continue to monitor that for you. relief is on the way. i want to talk about traffic for a minute however, we did not have any hot spots. a good time to leave home. a live look at the bay bridge seeing the increase in volume. mainly from the east shore freeway and westbound 580. >> the san mateo bridge is shaping up to be a typical
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commute no problem delays in the direction of highway 92. >> south bound 101, the golden gate a lot of space between cars. turning to the traffic maps drive time under 25 minutes out of novato into the city. not tracking any delays whatsoever for interstate 280 or the bayshore freeway. >> thank you erica. every opening date has been announced for famed xhez panisse and berkeley. the restaurant is set to open it june 10th. it has been closed since march when a lack of fire caused extensive damage. rest of founder, alice waters, originally thought the restaurant will only be closed for a short period of time. but the fire caused more damage in first thought. >> and pleasanton preschool teacher will not face charges. she is accused of taking a two year-old student ankles and wrists together. this allegedly happened at center point christian preschool when the students refused to take a nap. 25 year-old and a love calcagno has already
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resigned from the school. the accusations claim that he did not only bound the child also took photos and shared with others and a party. the alameda county district attorney's office tell kron 4 there was not enough evidence to file charges. >> housing demand has come roaring back. some housing developers are holding lotteries do buyers. and that seems to be the case for the new 228 human development in sunnyvale. the new call the sacs called fusion was created by developer o'brien homes. o'brien began holding monthly housing lottery to keep up with the rush of buyers. the system works just like a regular lottery. as news section of the fusion development became available. potential buyers who requalify for mortgage and had a down payment would show up at the sales office
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and be assigned a number. o'brien within two the number. the ideas in is getting on other states including virginia and florida are adopting the methods. >> the 16 year olds will fell down a 35 ft. ventilation shaft at a world war to a bunker at the marin headlines may also face trespassing charges. the teenager suffered a broken arm and other injuries. he was with four friends to try to get inside the bunker on sunday. the cut through metal bars with a hacksaw to get to the ventilation shafts. three of them left when the boy fell down the shaft, but one friend remained in a called 911. marin county district attorney would cited charges will be filed against the injured boy and the others that conclude trespassing, creating a nuisance and damaging resources. >> an independent monitors said the oakland police partisan in slight improvement in meeting reforms that were mandated in the settlement of a police brutality loss of a decade ago. during the last three months of 2012, there
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was slight increase in its compliance efforts. however the monitor said the city of oakland and its police parkin have stifled and sidetracked the court reform effort for for two long and he still dismayed by what he described the department's lack of progress toward affected just and constitutional policing. >> some sad news for kron 4 family. jeffrey gramm, the original host of bay area backroads has died. he suddenly died monday at his home in santa c the cause of death was a heart attack. he was 78 years old. bay area back roads began in 1985 on kron someone accidentally. gramm and photographer jeff pierce went to marin county looking for an interesting story in many man. he carried tiki statues in his front yard. people loved the story in the station made backroads its own show. jerry had a
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very distinctive voice and was known for driving around in his red, volkswagen convertible. he also co- anchor the kron for weekend news. >> gramm is survived by his second wife catherine, his daughter lili and his son from a first marriage jefferson and judd. >> u.s. secretary of education arne duncan visited a san francisco preschool on tuesday to tout a proposal by president obama. the proposal states it will provide universal access preschool for children and low and moderate-income families. duncan said the national program to provide universal access preschool would be fully funded by a tobacco tax. it has to be approved by congress, which recently led sequestration cuts go into effect, taking funding away from various education programs. duncan's bay area toll will continue today with three events, one in
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516 right now. taking a live look at wall of creek. looking at temperatures in livermore. 8066 in livermore. looks like a high of 87 we're expecting. >> is a war morning. a lot of people have noticed. at first i did not believe the temperatures. when i woke up it was 70 in downtown san francisco. we're starting off with a live look from
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our mount tam camera this morning. it has been shaking around. we have a wind advisory in effect. this is mainly for the north and east bay hills. bizarre couple of wild fires break out. keep in mind the red flag 1 is expires in 6:00 p.m.. this causes concern for everyone above a thousand feet. right now we're not to bad some pretty gusty conditions overnight. fairfield 18 allow an hour winds. 15 in santa rosa. the rest of the bay area is waking up to calm conditions. later today to cast 4 highlights the 7:00 hour. we're talking 24 mi. an hour went for fairfield. 19 for santa rosa. >> looking at the blue shading on your screen indicates wind gusts between 20-30 mi. an hour. the wind starts to die down to the afternoon and evening hours. by the time the advisory expires we're talking 11 mi. an hour winds. for concord and. a
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look at your afternoon highs will be lower than what we saw yesterday. santa clara 8584 in mountain view. the numbers are pretty conservative. a few spots could reach 90. fairfield is one. 88 degrees. 87 and his bird. >> 84 downtown san francisco. 88 in napa appearing at a four for petaluma. we have even more whether on the way. tomorrow is shaping up to the warmest day of the week. high- pressure is in place. we have the northerly wind along which that we will see when the ramp up in the offshore flow. 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. tomorrow and he advisory in respeca heat advisot from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.. some spots could reach
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triple digits. >> tomorrow at least midnight is for your inland spots. 80 to nine is around the bay and eighties and seventies along the coast. >> into the we can expect cool weather and the return of morning fog. starting the next work week looking at how much the temperatures dip. some spots could drop between 25 and 30 degrees within the next seven days. >> 519 that was your weather on to traffic with george. good morning george. >> good morning erica. no hot spots to slow your ride. looking at the bridges the bay bridge westbound of it is a good one. no delays out of the macarthur maize. 11 minutes to lead time from 580 and highway 24. less if you're coming from an image or the east shore freeway. 92, the san mateo bridge a great ride. 11 minutes from foster city coming out hayward. the golden gate bridge ride problem free for one to one southbound. a quick check a public transit. no delays to
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report for your ride on board, h train, caltran or the muni metro. >> muni metro reporting no delays there. look at your ride around the bay. update your east bay ride * looking at the traffic maps. looking at the south bay ride. here the commute looks good for 101 as you head north coming up from the coyote valley. out to the west valley is an easy ride as well. your drive time through marin county 23 minutes from the auto as you head south to the golden gate bridge. >>--from novato. >> tens of thousands are expected to rally today in dozens of cities across the country. in what has become an annual plea for reform immigration laws. today's rallies carry an extra sense of hope. two weeks ago a group of senators introduced a bill that would bring many of the estimate 11 minutes
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and documented immigrants in the u.s. out of the shadows. the mayday crowded not expected to approach the mass of distress of the 2006 and 2007. but a less serious attempt to reform immigration systems. advocates of all in their efforts on getting supporters to call and write members of congress. >> new jersey state legislators met on tuesday for second round of gun control debate. and no issue discussed this year has passed the state house committee rose as much as gun control. hot-button issue was a bill that was not even up for votes. bell is from new town, conn., lost their loved ones in the shooting at sandy hook elementary school, came to support a bill that is not event scheduled to be voted on a ban on high-capacity magazines. >> if this tragedy had been transplanted from connecticut to new jersey the reality is that we will be passing this bill. the
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lesson learned is if it happened in connecticut. it can happen in new jersey and we should not wait. >> if the bill passes there will be expanded background checks to include more mental health records. also a photograph to the firearm purchasers id card and a ban on sniper rifles. >> new evidence has been uncovered in connection with the rice and laced letters that were sent to president obama into a public officials. an fbi affidavit reveals agents found ricin in a former martial arts studio run by james everett duteschke. he's been in jail since saturday. >> among the items found was a dust mask recovered from a trash can.
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we're walking wall street keeping an eye on the market. futures trading shows all three indexes positive this morning. reports that ibm will buy back more stock and raise the dividend helped pull the dow and the s&p 500 out of a morning slump yesterday. here's how the market finished up at the end of the closing date. the dow fell as much as 84 points in morning trading but ended with a gain of 21. at 14,839. the nasdaq rose nearly 22 points to close at 3328. this in the 500 as the nearly four points to close at $1.597. will be watching the numbers all morning. >> the monster and beverage company hassling san francisco saturnian of the message of disciplined. the success monstera must reduce the amount of caffeine is enjoying an stop marketing to minors. >> the company says the city attorney dennis herrera is
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starting a monster by asking the company to produce documentation showing the drinks are safe. the city attorney also asked monster to reformulate history such as the labels and marketing. this comes at the fda investigate reports of deaths linked to monster beverages. but the agency said the reports to not approve the drinks cost any deaths. >> and al denys is responding says " i strongly disagree with monster legal contentions, and i intend to litigate it pleasantly to reform there is possible marketing business practices. with that lead clearly violate california's corporate tax and laws. >> let us take a look outside the ride for the toll plaza moving well. it is clear, windy, and dry and it will be hot today. more on that in a minute.
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just dead and dry. this makes for an expose of a fire scene. this is in affect due to high mixture and low humidity. they have stated that there is a no bend order and park officials are putting up suspensions signs do to barbican when. you cannot just go and live up your grill for lunchtime. the fire authorities are stating that you should state away and remove any dead plants that may be taller than 6 ft.. they stated that this is shaping up to be one of the driest season is that we may have had. >> there is not a lot went out here. right now at least for now things are dying down. >> fire crews are working
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and fired in the young to deal area just north of the napyountville area just north of napa up. the flames broke out around midnight and it has now known to have a burnt 50 a.. the fire is now 40 percent contained, but no estimation on when it will be contained. if there are reports of a few other small 1 a. fires and just south of yountville fire office of silverado trail area. a total of three happening right now. overnight, gust in the area got to 44 mi. per hour. >> the small town of valley
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springs is struggling to cope with the death of a eight year-old girl. here is what we now know. an autopsy was performed and the county coroner says the scholaat fowles stabbed multiple times while inside of her home on saturday. the young girl bled to death. law enforcement has interviews sex offenders in the area. authorities are not saying that sexual assault was part of the crime. an intense manhunt has turned up no clues. >> jaycee of people gathered at jenny lind elementary school to remember her. they wore her favorite colors, pink and purple while mourning the loss of a little girl. earlier in the day, neighbors recalled moments right after the
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stabbing as her dad was trying to find the killer. >> we do not take kindly to what goes on around here. >> the road leading to where leila was murdered was open for a short while as yesterday. the first time since the murder, our home is not a crime scene which is around with the yellow tape. >> police arrested a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a 15 month old child and placer bill. authorities are investigating whether the attempted kidnapping might be linked to the murder of eight year-old leila fowler. police were called to an apartment building in
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placerville and arrested 44 year-old jason wryrynen. police say that he followed patricia patino up the stairs into her apartment. police said that he grabbed the 50 month old child from the mother's arms. >> a martinez boy was injured in the boston marathon bombing is now back home and he will be celebrating his 12th birthday today. 11 year-old aaron hern came back from boston yesterday afternoon. his mother and his father says that he is tired, but extremely happy to be back home. off the family was in boston because of cathekat
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herine running a marathon. katherine says now born for, that she worries about the many aspects of her son's recovery. >> the community and martinez held several fund- raisers for the summit to help them out. the family is incredibly grateful for what everyone has done for them. >> the plant-b-b morning after pill is moving over the counter. it is being made available to teenage girls. the food and drug administration announced their decision just days before a court imposed a
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deadline. the fda says that the pill needs to be available to girls and women 15 years of age and older. it says that girls and women can buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription and that it is no longer needing to be kept behind pharmacy commerce. instead, the pill can sit on the drug store shelf just like condoms, but that buyers would have to prove their age at the cash register. earlier this month, a federal judge has ruled there should be no age restrictions and give the fda 30 days to act. the fda said that its latest decision was independent of the court case. >> we will be right back.
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all mceo marissa mayer is not offering female employees 16 weeks of paid maternity leave while the new dads get eight weeks' unpaid leave. she is a new mom herself after giving birth seven months ago. more recently, two months ago, mayer shut up the tech world by not allowing telecommuting. for a couple working at it as dyahoo, the change in policy means an new moms and dads could have a combined six months of paid time off to bond with their new babies. they will even get four months of combined for babies and they have adopted or fostered. yahoo's
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policy for parents are hardly the best in silicon valley, wisconsin six would try to retain the brightest that workers. for instance google, where a mayer work before joining yahoo, offers up to 22 weeks unpaid leave for its new mothers, among several other perks for expectant google moms. what do you think of yahoo's maternity policy? is it enough? share your comments on kron 4 urs facebook page. that is facebook.com/kron4.
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>> welcome back the time is 5:45 a.m.. the top stories that we are following this morning. fire crews are working a fire in the yount areaville . this is just more and napa. the flames broke out on the 11:45 p.m. last night and have burned 15 a.. it is 40 percent contained, crews are expected to have full containment a.m.. so far, a bond has been destroyed and no other structures are threatened. >> we're also watching the weather as we are seeing unseasonably high temperatures around the bay area. >> take a look at your current wind gust. it is 64
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mi. an hour gust. the winds are not too bad down in san jose is just that 90 mi. per hour.pretty, from san francisco and oakland. here is a live look outside from our mountain cam. it is a pretty start to the morning. futurecast 4 is tracking the wind. if we may see it and up to shake and a win clocking. the wind advisory will expire at 11:00 a.m. for the north bay area. focusing on your temperatures. it is 8 warm start for the morning. 63 degrees fisher current temperature in concord. i do want the follow these
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temperatures and afternoon. you will see plenty of 80s. >> you may see upper 80s pretty close to 90 degrees for fairfield. a few spots a may reach 90 degrees. downtown san francisco has a warm afternoon in store. upper 80s are expected for napa up. satellite and radar shows everything that i just talked about. we are waking up to clear conditions but we do have an area of low pressure just to our east. high pressure is in control. we will see an heat advisory and unseasonably warm conditions heading into tomorrow. some locations made definitely get up to the triple digits. we are talking record-
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breaking heat for thursday and friday. it will be cooler as we head into the weekend. really take a look at the drop that will come by sunday. some spots could actually see a 25 to 30 degree tumbled. >> conditions in the bay area is still a pretty good we are tracking a potential hot spot for the north bay. here is a live look at the bridges. the bay bridge toll plaza shows a the cash payers are starting to back up. the metering lights have not been activated. the san mateo bridge at 92 is still looking at an 11 minute and route time. the golden gate bridge ride is clear with no problems. it is a very beautiful morning. the southbound traffic looks good through marin county. 128 has been reopened and they have removed a downed
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tree. your east shore freeway is 14 minutes from hercules to berkeley for a westbound ride. the south bay freeway still looks good this is an 18 minute drive time heading north from the capitol expressway. there are no delays out of downtown on 280 out towards cupertino. i mention a potential north bay hotspot it is here on highway 37 and the westbound direction right at 121 just a little pass. there was a big rig accident that may require a lot of help. a traffic advisory has been issued. there may be as few lanes blocked for a while. if this is a major commute. >> avery opening date has been announced for the famed chez panisse restaurant in
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berkeley. a restaurant is set to reopen june the 10th. it has been closed since march when an electrical fire caused extensive damage to the building. the restaurant founder, alice to walters, or bridge about the restaurant would be only clothes for a short period of time. if the fire caused more damage than was first thought. >> the 16 year-old who fell down at 35 ft. a ventilation shaft at a of world war two bomb occurred at the marin headlands also faced trespassing charges. if the teen suffered a broken arm and other injuries. he was with four friends who try to get inside the bunker on sunday. they cut through metal bars with a hacksaw to get to the ventilation shaft. three of them left when the boy fell down the shaft, but one from remain in called 911. the marin
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county district attorney's office will decide the charges will be filed against the injured boy and others that could include trespassing, creating a new sense and damaging resources. >> the a's are once again had the angels number. yoenis cespedes drove in four runs, seth smith knocked in three with a base loaded double and oakland athletics beat the los angeles angels at 10 to 6 last night. one night after all less than the angels in a 19 any classic the that lasted 6 1/2 hours, the a's had few problems defensively but a look just fine at the plate while beating los angeles for the fifth consecutive time in the season. >> pablo sandoval hit a two-
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out run homer with one out in the top of the ninth inning and the giants or railed to beat the diamondbacks 2 to 1. it was san francisco's second straight come-from-behind victory, rallying for a 6 to 4 win in the series opener monday. sandy rosario recorded the last out of the eighth inning for his first career win, and a sergio romo this the ninth for his 10th save. >> we will be right back. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's.
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>> coming up on kron 4 morning news. the warriors' struggled against the nuggets last night in denver. if they were not able to seal the win to move them to around two of the playoffs. if we will tell you what this means for the warriors coming up. >> fire crews are battling a blaze and the yountville area just north of napa, 50 a. have already burned. we will have details in the next hour. >> we're also fall in the weather as we are expecting scorching temperatures. n erica kato will bring you a full update on the forecast coming up.
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following at this hour. fires are spreading right now in napa county, this is as the north and east bay are in a red flag warning. >> more on the weather as we are going to see unseasonably high temperatures around the bay area today, but also strong winds will last throughout the morning. >> we will see plenty of 80s outside. it is 84 year high in sunnyvale. it will be a another one day around the bay. if there will be a wind one. we do have a wind advisory in affect. a red flag warning pushes into the 6:00 hour. if this is for anyone above a thousand feet. i will have al
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