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>> top stories we are following on this tuesday, september 10th. a fire on mount diablo is threatening homes. as hot temperatures and wind gusts make the blaze even *harder to battle. an update, ahead. >> a vote on syria stalls in congress ahead of the president's speech tonight. why the obama administration is being cautious about a potential diplomatic breakthrough. longand the tech world buzzing today. with apple
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expected to unveil a new i- phone. will it meet consumers expectations? >> we are waking up to a mile to a cool morning. the temperatures are in the upper 50s. we do have pretty dense fog. as we head into afternoon you can expect a sunny day. it will be made 90's in line. as we focus on was born on at mount diablo the temperatures are going to be about the same and will lead to know what that would do for firefighters. >> it has been pretty quiet for the chp but things are changing. there is not a stalled car on westbound interstate 80 at central. it is backing up the ride on the east shore freeway. because of the slowdown is
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reaching all the way back to the richmond parkway. there is a new pair of accidents in hayward and fremont. south bond. there are two new accidents for the nimitz south. yesterday, was a slow stretch. we're off to a bad start this morning. >> happening now, firefighters continue to battle the large wildfire burning on mt. diablo this morning. the blaze is now more than 27-hundred acres in size. that's nearly six square miles. our coverage begins this morning with kron four's >> we were sitting at 1,500 a. of but now it is at 3,700 a.. it continues to burn out of control. here is a look from our camera. the fire
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trucks are arrived and they are ready for a shift change. they have 700 firefighters that are battling this. they may get an additional 200. w relieve the workers who were there overnight. here is video of the fire and i can tell you that it is 20 percent contained. no homes are pregnant this time. they have been a good job to make sure these areas are safthreatey have done a good job to keep this from happening. the evaluation number at 100 has not changed. we had a chance to talk to the fire captain and this is what we have to say. >> i am optimistic that the
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containment numbers will go up. the fire is contained in areas that do not have canyons. i do know and no which areas have 20% contained a but i do know that there were working overnight to make sure that they can get this done. >> what is your plan to get this for? >> we will try to get more containment and we will also mount up operationstart mop up >> this will give us more space between the area that has burned in the area that has burned. >> you concede that the fire fighters are getting their breakfast and briefing. you just heard that he expects members of containment to go up. we will try to get to the new numbers coming up
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6:30 a.m.. at this time they did not know what caused the fire is. >> if need be, they will talk to the fire fighters that were out and monday i'll overnight and they will see whether not if they need extra help. if they do need more than they stated that they will not have been a problem bring people when to relieve them. it is cold, a little when they and they stated that the fire conditions are great for them to attack it. but when that heat rises, they will face the same conditions of this saw yesterday. it will be about 90 some degrees outside. they want to make sure that the firefighters are safe and they're not dehydrated. >>
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the mount diablo fire is surrounding areas. the bay area air quality management district says, the smoke can affect residents in parts of contra costa, alameda and santa clara counties. a smoke advisory issued kept school and community activities indoors. one school in dublin. canceled outdoor activities. >> they do not want us to go outside. they are nothis is affg sports and they do not one as the lunch outside. >> officials have advised all residents in smoky areas. to stay inside, close windows and doors. and set air -conditioning units and ventilation systems to re- circulate indoor air. >> we are asking our kron 4 viewers to send us their photos of the raging brush fire near mount diablo.
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and here is a look at some of the pictures you are sending us. we encourage you to send your best fire pictures to breaking-news at kron dot com. or message us on facebook. >> stay with kron four for continuing coverage on the mt. diablo fire. you can also get the very latest on our kron four news app. >> new this morning. one person is dead and six others escaping this morning after their berkeley home caught on fire. the fire broke out overnight around 1:45 this morning in a three story residential home near oregon street and telegraph. the fire was contained about a half hour later. the red cross is assisting those seven people with food, shelter, and clothing. one person was injured in
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the fire and was taken to a local hospital. no word on their condition. - >> still ahead on the kron4 morning newest. syria and russia has came to any agreement this morning. this could be all tied to secretary of state john kerry. more on that story next. >> also ahead, george zimmerman is in hot water once again. this time with his soon-to-be ex-wife. we will tell you what happened coming up.
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>> new this morning. syria says its accepted russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. syria's foreign minister says the agreement was reached after meeting with russia's parliament speaker. meanwhile, russia's foreign minister said that russia is now working with syria to prepare a detailed plan of action to "derail the u-s agression." president obama will make his case to the public in a white house address tonight. kron four at 6 pm.
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without delay. >> he is not about to do anything. >> after a kerry made those remarks. the state department quickly said that mr. kerry's answer was rhetorical. more russians seized on those comments and put into motion the events that are not resulting in syrians claiming that they will in fact turn over the chemical weapons stockpiles. >> >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. we are keeping you up to date on the latest on the fire that is burning
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activity atop mount diablo. on the left is a time lapse of the billowing smoke as crews battled the flames yesterday. and on the right is video from our partnership with abc 7 news. the blaze in mount diablo state park has spread to nearly six square miles. calfire says it is 20- percent contained this morning as hot temperatures and wind gusts fueled the fire's spread. flames are threatening 100 homes. the fire was also threatening electrical transmission lines, communications infrastructure, and a historic lookout and visitor center at the top of mount >> a new wildfire is burning near homes outside of redding. the clover fire has charred more than 67-hundred acres. evacuations are underway. the fire has damaged or destroyed some 20 structures. one woman says she pulled up to her son's home. only to >> we do have a fog bank
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this morning and that means more calls. the this is not making its way inland. we're still dealing with very dry conditions. the winds are stronger this morning. this is actually blowing backed and the community is still in the 20% tile. >> as we take a look that the current temperatures we're in the upper 70's. you can expect the temperatures to approach the low 90's. is still will be very hot in the area. this will limit the fire fighters and their ability to fight this fire. this is something that we will continue to monitor. the rest of the bay area is waking up to low 50's. we do have this marine and layer that is bringing colors to the area. we even have some mist and drizzle. the visibility is a little--as
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we head into afternoon you can expect some skies for most of us. due to the fire, it will be smoking in certain areas and you may be able to have this in the south bay as well. >> we will have cooler and wetter than yesterday and we will still be dealing with '90s. it will be 80 degrees for castro valley and upper 70's for san leandro. downtown san francisco how whens the low 80s for the most part. oakland will have a high today of 76 degrees. >> we will continue with the pull down for tomorrow and the temperatures will be right where they should be. we will continue with the pattern of morning fog and afternoon sunshine. off the temperatures will bump up a bit for saturday and sunday. >> the time is 6:18 a.m.. >> we are updating the hot
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spots. 880 in the westbound direction. the stalled car is gone and the traffic is recovering. there were problems for the nimitz commute. that is on 880 south bond ride at the 92 interchange. there was a crash and there still is an accident at the cold road. most of these rules are behind schedule. the south, we're still doing pretty well we picked of slowing on 1 01 northbound coming up at julien mckee. there was an incident that was onto 37. there is a little bit of slowing coming across europe bay bridge ride, the me reliancmetering lights have been activated. the san mateo bridge ride, the volume is up. it is still 11 minutes.
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the golden gate bridge ride is what this morning. >> police say that george zimmerman is wife does not want to press charges against her husband despite calling 911 saying that he was threatening her. monday's uproar in a home in an orlando server is the latest in a string of incidents which zimmerman has landed in the news. on the 911 colors, shellie zimmerman yells at her father to get inside the house, that zimmerman may start shooting at them. as police pressed her for information, and after talking to her attorney, she declined to press charges. zimmerman and attorney says that his client did not threaten anyone with a gun. >> coming up on the kron4
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morning news. we're keeping an eye on a wild fire that continues to burn for a third day on mt. diablo. continues to burn for a third day on mt. diablo. >> we wou unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? a little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible.
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day that apple will take the stage at their press event and unveil the next iphone. they may have some other new products. anything is possible with apple. we are about 99% shourd there will be a new iphone. here is a look at other rumors of the new iphone and what we think will happen today. >> this video just showed up on you tube clamming to be a picture of the new iphone. these seem to be we are expecting to be the iphone 5-s we're not sure what they were named. these will be the next high-end models. made of aluminum or plastic. that was also bring out a cheaper by phone. this will be the first time that they have released two models at the same time. this plastic
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model may be called iphone- c. this iphone may be as cheap as $50. being plastic, it will be easy to offer a more colors. a new rumor came out that they may have a tablet sized iphone. the screen size will have 6 in.. this is possible and there is a huge market margin for tablets. there are selling well. the new iphone may have fingerprint recognition. this had more security. it was less than one year ago when they updated their ipad. on october 23rd, 2012 the ipad mini was unveiled. they applaud all the people who
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can't offer this. it was officially on the market. it is possible that that will show off a new one that will hit the market before christmas. >> these new i pets will be a lighter and thinner. the ipad mini may did a super high redness screen. this will be a big improvement. they may also come in different colors. ok, moving on. what about the whatapple watch? basically it will have everything that iphone does but no keyboard. we will see, i'm not sure there is a market for that. the new high tea the this is something that i can get on
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dropped from dow. goldman sachs, visa, nike will be added. >> these three companies dropped and these companies were added. we will talk with rob black about this coming up. >> all so right now the very latest with the fire that is burning on mt. diablo in contra costa county. this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. the blaze is growing this morning as more people are forced to leave their homes. the fire has burned more than 3,700 a. that is nearly six square miles. >> kron4 will tran is live in dublin at the command center there with the latest. >> the firefighters just got
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done with their briefing and these are new numbers. they just told me 45 percent containment. they told us and that it was actually down and now is just about 3,200 a.. it went down because they were able to look at the ground and they stated that the numbers were bigger than what they actually had. here is a shot from our camera. they are still to learn everything at it. we have a few hundred firefighters more ready to go on the front line to replace. here is video of the fire and it is much lighter than what we saw 24 hours ago. the good nils suspect the number of homes that have been evacuate is still sitting at 100. they do not anticipate that any more a evacuations. also,
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the number injured is still sitting at one. one firefighter to was injured thursday with a foot injury. they're making good progress. they plan to do and mop ups and a plan to make sure that the hot spots will no longer be a problem. i will let you know when this comes up because they still may use that special a lot of the fire fighting efforts are done by foot. they're almost five have wet. >>they are almost half way. >> we are still a few miles away. a lot of the smoke is coming from the clinton area. there are gathered here because it is great for
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the crews to come here to get briefed and then hit the front line. i can tell you, look at the summit. it is a little misty and foggy. when you do not see is a huge fines. it looks like the sun is coming up. >> help is coming in from a number of areas. and there are a group o of inmate firefighters from northern california also on the scene. >> it is wherever cal fire needs is to dispatch. we are ready to go. the inmates are all trained, they are physically fit, they do classroom time. >> a total of 426 inmate
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firefighters are on the scene. most of them arrive late sunday and have been there ever since. >> will not go over to the weather. >>we will now go over to the weather. >> it is more and windy this morning we saw yesterday in fact the wind gust are at 35 mi. per hour. if we are still dealing with low humidity. right now, we're talking extremely dry conditions. as of right now the temperatures are in the '70s. a quick look picture tuesday forecast for the rest of us, you can expect cooler conditions. mid-90s. the temperatures will continue to climb over the
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next couple days. i will have full details of your forecast coming up. >> and we continue to track some hot spots. the nimitz freeway heading south from san leandro into hayward and fremont is backed up because of a series of accidents southbound had to call road. also at the 92 interchange. there were two or three incidents. the big delay start on interstate 580 in the westbound direction. this goes all the way to dublin. off this is coming out of livermore. we have been talking about the closures that has put extra pressure on highway 4 in this also means that this role there runs between here and carries a lot of the traffic is also jammed. it we are seeing traffic
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equally split between highway 4 in interstate 580. these are the closures that are affected by the fire. >> marsh creek road is the biggest one. this is closed at regency and deer valley road. morgan terry road is also shut down as well. all the roads and streets inside the park. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. firefighters continued to battle the wildfire on monday of low, we are learning how much the fire fight is costing to contain the rimfire the was and disseminate. >> jim harbaugh is offering some old choice " words to a
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>> 49ers coach jim harbaugh.defending his team. questioning the man-hood of a packers player. this was classic harbaugh.talkin' a little trash.calling out a tough guy on the other team. sunday's season opener featured this illegal tackle to colin kaepernick.and then a scuffle ensued. clay matthews came flying out of bounds.clothes- lining kap. when offensive lineman joe staley came to his quarterbacks defense.matthews hit him in the face. the nature of that hit is what harbaugh tackled. >> i looked everything and
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has sought to punches that raton. there were plans to joe's head. there was one punch and one open/. if you're gonna come to the space you can't know was not with a slab. that young man works very hard. it may have some preparing to do with his image. >> easier to joke about it since the niners won - 34 - 28. harbaugh said his guys aren't going to back down. but he tells his guys to grab on to the other guys jersey in those scuffles. instead of striking an opponent. people are reacting on our kron-4 facebook fan page >>
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to fight. it has not burned like this since 1931. it is a lot of dried field. we have a lot more work to deal with. >> there was the battalion chief talking about the dry conditions that they're facing. today marks the third day of the this fire has been active. we are waiting to get an update on containment numbers. >> here is a live look at the command center where we heard that the wild fire numbers have changed. it is 45% contained now. this is really good progress and day have regrouped the area and it is now 3,200 a.. this is a new number and the fir
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>> 92 in the midday transit they have no problems or delays. it is a 13 minute commute time. looking at the golden gate bridge ride is foggy and more fog year at the north of the bridge. there was an early morning fog advisory that was issued. i am not sure if it's the same but it has cured and visibility. here's a check of the weather with erica. >> we want to update the conditions are long mount diablo. the temperatures are in the mid-70s. but humidity is still very low. the wind direction has changed a bit. the smoke is actually blowing back towards the fire itself. the temperatures will be cooler than yesterday and we're still talking low 90's and again the winds are a little bit stronger this morning.
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>> this is the big story that we will continue to follow. >> here is a live look the cathedral hill. you can see the water droplets on the camera. we do have a bigger fall the bank og bank to wake ut 7 day and we're talking soggy conditions north of the golden gate bridge. as we put the puck into motion it will be clear skies for most of the bay area. >> here is a look at that afternoon high for today. it will be cooler than yesterday. 94 degrees expected for livermore. the temperatures will stay in the '70s. san francisco will
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have a high of 68 degrees. we will continue with cooler weather and the temperatures may go for friday and saturday. we will see the pattern of morning fog and afternoon sunshine. >> we are watching wall street with our financial expert rob black. >> we're talking about some big changes come in for the dow jones industrial average. including a bay area company been dropped. >> visa, nike and goldman sachs. i like this move. who really buys computers in the world of pipetteipads?
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>> is not but they're not important that our pricy. it is commodity ended this, a good move. >> we head ave visa replacing h p. >> there is a company that is similiar to h.p. called ibm. we do not need to computer companies. i like these molves. this is a nice index for you to keep your eyes on. if it is a good
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stor and i say congratulations to visa. >> when you have the dollar, you had to do thisso we sang inr the dow but there hav a better mold in september this io stupid things. this is another reason why you do not sell everything in september and october and way at all. with that said, it is a lot of trauma.drama. sya took a turn for the bulk worse yesterday.morse said yest
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(male announcer) this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> top stories we are following on this tuesday, september 10th. a fire on mount diablo is threatening homes. as hot temperatures and wind gusts make the blaze even *harder to battle. an update, ahead. >> a vote on syria stalls in congress ahead of the president's speech tonight. why the obama administration is being cautious about a potential diplomatic breakthrough. >> and the tech world buzzing today. with apple expected to unveil a new i- phone. will it meet consumers expectations? >> george? >> james, slower-than-usual.
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