tops stories we are following on this thursday. bart management is set to vote on the new contract with unions today. we'll tell you if a rejection could lead to another strike. and san francisco police describing this man as "extremely dangerous" we have new details in the search for the killer wanted for a weekend shooting plus. a string of armed robberies in vallejo is leaving residents on edge this morning. we'll have the latest in a live report. good morning and thanks for i'm james fletcher. we saw a lot of rain yesterday. and it slowed the morning commute down quite a bit. we are seeing dry clear conditions at the bay bridge. drive times about 23 minutes from about reaching the walled old tunnel. james.

>>james: thank-you ericanew this morning. three san jose state university students are charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after allegedly confining their black roommate with a bike lock and subjecting him to racial and religious taunts. college freshmen colin warren, joseph bomgardner and logan beaschler each face up to a year in county jail if convicted. the three defendants allegedly called their black roommate "three-fifths" and "fraction." have placed a "u" shaped bike lock on his neck and refused to give him the key for five to 10 minutes. also contributing to the atmosphere of a hate crime the defendants kept a photo of adolf hitler and a confederate flag in the suite they shared. vallejo police are looking for the suspects involved in a string of eight armed robberies at homes and businesses in the city. police say all eight happened last night. the first incident was reported around 5-30 outside a home on olympic street while the last one

happened at 9-15 at the parking lot of the pep boys on plaza drive. victims have given similar descriptions of the robbery suspects. the suspects have been described as a group of two or three black males armed with a revolver and wearing black hooded sweatshirts. no arrest have been made at this time. the bart district board will make a critical vote today which could leave bay area commuters in chaos again. board members says the will reject the agreement, which union members have already ratified. that is because that paid family leave provision should not have been okayed by district negotiators because it?is too costly bart union representatives say they are willing to discuss the board's concerns with the provision and consider making revisions

but only if the board approves the agreement first. here is the anchor lead and script: we are less than a day away from a critical vote. which could leave the bay area commute in chaos once again. the bart district board is set to reject the tentative contract agreement. it reached with its unions last month. tonight, dan kerman explains

why, and talks to the union to see if a thumbs down vote. means workers will go bart unions refuse to say whether they will return to the picket lines, if the bart district board rejects a tentative contract agreement reached last month. 50 there will be a bart protest this morning following a press conference. it will all happen in front of bart offices in oakland. beginning at eight-15. the event is being held by united public workers for action. to stop union busting against bart workers. it will last until the bart board of directors meeting at nine a-m. organizers say. the bart board continues to try and cut back worker benefits. they also say managers should be jailed for unsafe health and safety practices. stay with kron-4 for more on the latest bart contract trouble. you can always log on to our website -- kron 4 dot com -- to get an update. or check our facebook and twitter pages. you can also download the kron-4 mobile app. developing news this

morning. san francisco police have identified a suspect involved in a deadly shooting in san francisco's soma district. they are looking for this green. police believe he's responsible for opening fire after a fender bender dismisses and jessie streets early sunday morning. they say a woman in a red dress got out of one of the cars and started yelling at the victims. then a passenger, melquiesha warren, got out of the car to calm the woman down. that's when police say green walked up with a gun and started shooting. killing warren and critically injuring the driver. chief suhr says green is dangerous so if you see him, don't approach him. call authorities instead. they believe he lives on the peninsula and may be driving a 2001 mercedes benz. the high school coach of one of the victims says this tragedy is beyond senseless. monique walton was melquisha's high school basketball coach at tennyson high and was melquisha's

teacher, mentor, and friend. she says that melquisha was an outstanding player who mentored the younger students in her school she was an honor student at tennyson. she was a three year varsity basketball player. her work ethic was very strong. she was a mentor to a lot of the other kids. she aspired to become a lawyer one day and wanted to work with students, young people that were struggling with school and things like that and just wanted to be an advocate for them and let them know where there is a will there is a way. monique says that melquisha made the world a better place while she was here. walnut creek is moving forward with a plan to double parking meter fees downtown. and change enforcement hours.

the city currently enforces parking meters from nine in the morning until six at night. the proposal would make the new enforcement hours ten a-m to eight p-m. the proposal also looks to charge people on sundays. to park at the meters. city officials say higher parking fees should bring the city around two-million- dollars a year. if adopted, the new parking fees and rules will go into effect in next year. it's a big sign the holiday season is underway. the salvation army has started its annual red kettle campaign in san francisco. the campaign helps more than four million people in need during the christmas season. and about 30 million people every year. officials say all the money officials say all the money rto those who've worried... suffered in silence... hoped... and lived in a state of fear... welcome to a new state... of health. welcome to covered california. the place to find quality, affordable coverage.

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a developing story out of santa rosa. a teacher is stabbed multiple times with a pencil. that is what police say happened at mid-rose high school.

kron 4's j.r. stone has more yellow tape and a police officer marks the spot where it stood at went after a teacher. >>: in fact police tell us it was a 16 year-old male who stabs the teacher multiple times in the head and neck and arms. and get this this didn't in not having night. police say the weapon used was a mechanical pencil. another student jumped and to give the 16 year-old off the teacher. officers tell us the on the attacker ran off school grounds to a relative's house. melrose high school and cousy and high-school all share the same campus and were put on locking down for about an hour after the attack the administrators were quick to assure parents and their students were ok. no one else was hurt during the attack and investigator

said injuries to the teacher are not life and dreams. the child has been arrested about the names are not being released of the teacher or the attacker. as for why this happened officers are still trying to figure out. and they tell me that the attacker does not have a history of violence. a j.r. stone kron4 nose for it >>james: out live look outside as san francisco international airports. looking like chronic conditions overhead but no word of delayed flights. we will keep an eye on its. if it should happen to pop out will alleging a. zçzçzçtó

the death toll in the philippines has crossed the four-thousand mark.nearly two weeks after typhoon haiyan struck the nation.

about 16-hundred people are still missing. aid continues to pour in for those who survived the storm. long lines of people wait for food and supplies in hard-hit tacloban city. and now - china says it plans to send a medical ship to the region. we are picking up some light rain. more of a drizzle. looks like the rain is actually a little more intense closer to san ramon print as resume and take a look at all of this yellow brick rain is coming down at about two tenths of an inch for an hour and the livermore area and we already see can't field

solver 3 in. of rain. in most locations in the east bay we saw over an inch closer to 2 in. of rain really not too much reported for those in the santa clara valley. here's a look at temperatures right now. chronic conditions overhead which is actually keeping us a little bit more insulated. as we carry these numbers into the afternoon you'll see plenty of 60s. low 60s for today. sunny skies are expected. campbell hitting a high. as we work our way to the east bay. walnut creek to a high of 65. 63 the, number for both san leandro and castro valley. your 7 day around the bay forecast shows temperatures will warm as we haven't closer to the weekend. in fact we are a

little bit of warmer than where we should be for this time of year. a string of sunshine will carry us into next week. although we aren't looking at any hot spots take a look. a few raindrops on the camera at the bay bridge toll plaza. you may need to use your windshield wipers approaching the maze. san mateo bridge dry conditions and at traffic off to a good start on highway 92. the we do have clotted conditions in the north ave. all was well for highway 24 despite the light rain. we don't have the incidents to report for the ride through the san ramon valley. >>james:tomorrow marks the 50-th anniversary of the j- f-k assassination.

it's a moment that everyone alive at that time can remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. however, for one politician.who was a boy at the time.the memory is a little more vivid than most others. that's because he met president kennedy shortly before the fatal moment in dallas. dana bash reports. >>: it was a sane abstinence experienced all over the country but for williams it was different. he had just met the president that morning. but i couldn't stand him frankly and i had just seen him. >>: his father was a car dealer in fort worth texans were the president started out the day he was killed. whims dad told a local congressman he would surprise supply cards but

only on one condition. >>: he said the only thing that asks for congressmen is that my wife and my son can meet the president. >>: and that's exactly what happened. at the texas hotel after what turned out to be the final speech of a jfk is life. no one took williams pitcher with kennedy but it blazed in his memory.

little did williams to know that he would become one of the last people kennedy would ever meet. >>: i literally was a last person to shake his hand as he left in the hotel that day. >>: now williams is a member of congress and credits his encounter with the jfk that fateful day 50 years ago with his interest in public service. >>: it's hard to describe and sometimes get too emotional. in empowered me to do something for my country. the idea that i was here at the united states congress. >>: he touched my heart and soul and all of the generation where i really believe that on that moment the world changed. did abash cnn, capitol hill.

a palo alto man is being held in north korea. merrill newman's family says the 85 year-old was in the country with a tour group to visit a war memorial. they said was pulled off the airplane just as he was about to head back, just minutes before it was careful to depart. this was back on october 26th. north korea has not publicly

acknowledged that its holding the elderly man. as the second american being held there. election of we find out anything more for newman. >>: ladies and gentlemen we have here looks to be a salmon or great white washed up on ocean beach. >>james: pretty crazy. interns out when he got a good look at the shark he realized it was actually just near death. it was too

late to actually do anything for the shark is still an impressive sight there at ocean beach and a fairly rare experience. for 23 on the clock. we will take a break. coming up on the kron4 morning news a special holiday edition of a dying and dish with kron4's vicki liviakis--dine and dish. it's great having at&t u-verse high speed internet.

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♪ welcome back to the kron4 morning news is a live look. the king of some light rain and east ave. more like sprinkles and alameda. falling at a rate of about two tenths of an hour of livermore so it is heavier for your ride coming off of interstate 580. alleging how long this is expected to last. >>: time now for the line and dish with vicki liviakis. >>: food and forces as a culture. and he used during the holiday season. i'm here

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new details about a >>will: the bart board of directors will vote at 9:00 this morning. it is expected that they will reject this tentative agreement because it says this mistake could cause a bart the 26 and $40 million. it was a clerical error that they did not mean to have it and the language of that the bart workers would be allowed six weeks' paid leave each year. instead has been rejected several times during the negotiating process and bart unions fully know that bart directors did not want that. it was an accident. they want the bart unions to acknowledge it was an accident and just remove it. and then sign the bill that

bart unions say is they denote a deal. you put it in place you have to live with it. right now bart unions is not say what they will do if the bart board of directors will reject the it will probably head back and decide whether or not to take that clause out and about again whirrs and we have to scrap this thing. we saw how ugly it was four months and that we sought to bart strike is. they broaden and she negotiator.

>>: let's turn our attention to weather. we have erica check in now the forecast. >>erica: we are not done with the wet weather just yet. we are picking up some sprinkles. light rain for both the nimitz freeway and interstate 580. looks like san leandro we start to see drier weather around oakland. don't be surprised if you need your windshield wipers for your drive to and from the caldecott tunnel. we are san ran at about a quarter of the net falling apart hour for your ride along the all to my past. rain starts to clear up a bid to but we are right back and it's working their way to the dublin interchange. you may need to use your windshield wipers carry an umbrella just in case for it but this is really the last of it. you can see the showers actually rotating

heading closer to my right and eventually reaching southern california. we are working up to plenty of clouds here in the bay area. and that's actually keeping the temperature is insulated. livermore today check-in with a high of 62% upper 60s are back on the board. we're going to continue with a dry and mild conditions affect all signs turned to clear and dry weather approaching the thanksgiving holiday. more details on your extended forecast coming up in just a few minutes. traffic around the bay area looks good. we

do have some right now there's a you may want to watch your speed. taking it out to the bridges just a small weight in one of the cash lanes here and the bay bridge toll plaza barley so far so good working your way out of oakland and san francisco. san mateo bridge moving well in both directions of highway 92 and you can see traffic on the right hand side of your screen those taillights are delayed for approaching the high rise and eventually reaching the 1 0192 interchange. rest of the bay area looks pretty good. and preliminary reports show we don't have any delays just yet for ac transit, bart are for those of you writing caltrans. >>james:

new this morning. a three san jose state university students are charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after allegedly confining their black roommate with a bike lock and subjected hunter a racial and religious taunts. college freshmenwatching wall street this--colin warren, joseph bomgardner and logan beaschler each face up to a year and a county jail if convicted. the three defendants allegedly called their black room 8 " 3/5'

s and fraction. in early september, the defendants are alleged to have placed a you-u-shaped by clock on his neck and refused to give him the key for 5 to 10 minutes. also contributing to the atmosphere of a crime the defendant kept if all of adolf hitler and a confederate flag and a sweet they shared. --suite. vallejo police are looking for the suspects involved in a string of eight armed robberies at homes and businesses and the city. police say all eight happened last night. the first incident was reported

around 530 outside home on the london streets while the last one happened at 915 at the parking lot of the pep boys quan plaza drive. victims have given similar descriptions of the robbery suspects. the suspects have been described as a group of two or three black males armed with revolvers and wearing black hooded sweat shirts. no arrests have been made at this time. vallejo high school is about to get a new mascot. after more than a century the school district has voted to retire the apology--apache

mascot. the vote last night was emotionally charged on both sides. while the board's decision was unanimous, the change won't happen overnight. the apache mascot is still all over the school and will cost the district money to remove it. the city of oakland is set to receive more than $50 million in a judgment against a fraudulent immigration consulting company. " american legal services " advertised itself as a legal service but none of its employees were lawyers. the company lied to customers by promising them u.s. citizenship. one victim lost their life savings and some were driven to be deported because of botched immigration applications. this is the

largest financial judgment ever won by the city and litigation. we'll be right back.

kron4's jackets as slow as at the scene with a car on tracks >>: apparently some people

are behaving badly and this white camaro. that actually did pull it off the train tracks ed harris and write off of gelman print the car was stuck right on the middle of the tracks so much that the berkeley police department had to call the tracks and let them know to close the tracks. we don't know if any trains were delayed. the strange thing is the car is not treated as reported it is

442. let's get a check on wall street. morning. futures trading shows all three indexes positive at this hour. but the latest news from the federal reserve appears to be spooking investors. stock and bond prices fell yesterday after minutes from the fed's latest meeting shows the economy was improving steadily enough to warrant a reduction in stimulus in the coming months. here's a look at the closing numbers. the dow lost 66 points. the nasdaq lost ten. and the s and p 500 lost six and a half. opening bell today at 6:30.

a quick follow-up story. now that the streets of san francisco are safe from the likes of the joker and his cronies. bat kid has returned home.

lyle aarons caught up with the pint-sized caped- crusader. in a town of about 1000 lives and international celebrity miles scott. he's back home now with his family complete with plenty of souvenirs' of being batman for a day. member i don't think it's a really sad and the scope of how big it got. >>: san francisco was transformed into gotham city for a day to help miles live out his dream. bat mom natalie scott was surprised at her son's reaction for it that it was like he was eating at all well and i wasn't expecting that because he's really shocked. bat dad knicks got--nick scott felt the same miles

is a cancer survivor and the make a wish foundation and people of san francisco made miles wish to make that-to be batman for a day came true. >>: it was huge. >>: everybody was smiling, happy, jumping up and down with their phones operate just as the crowd like that of everybody excited and happy. >>: miles remains shy despite being an international celebrity. >>: was superpowers still have >>: i don't have any superpowers. >>: but to then maybe he does have some super powers. an ability to give some hope to total strangers and make the world smile. in tuli lake. >>: the mayors office says it cost san francisco 105-

household s thousand dollars to honor batkid. most of the money went toward renting the sound system, video screens and other equipment brought in to accommodate the huge crowds honoring miles. 'make- a- wish' says it hopes to reimburse the city through private donations. >>erica: as we take it easy to see rain as a little heavier for portions of the optima past. light rain continues approaching the dublin interchange and it

looks like iran is starting to intensify closer to this in no great. so i really does depend on where you are located. and san francisco you are completely dry but we are seeing some areas of moderate showers coming down the really no more than a quarter inch per hour. here's a look at some of the rainfall totals. most of the rain actually fell in the north bay but still pretty impressive amount for the east bay. we saw about an inch for those of you all along the made an antelope. futurecast for tracking the temperatures throughout the day. approaching one time we will see sixties and fifties. so it's really a mixed bag. later on tonight temperatures still fairly mild. we're talking partly cloudy conditions and most locations back in the mid- 50s. broken down your afternoon highs specifically fairfield 634 today. oakland a high of 64. we're talking mainly sunny skies and even daily city getting out of

the upper 50s. your headlines show we will continue with a warming trend approaching your weekend. a little breezy into tomorrow but overall we will keep mild and dry conditions. not a raindrop and sides approaching the thanksgiving holiday. for the most part temperatures will be in the upper 60s for the next string of days and again wet weather not in sight. all models pointing to drier conditions approaching holidays. that's something to definitely look forward to greet as we take a look at traffic around the bay area. we're in good shape. at last check we sought a wait starting to form some of the cash lanes but that's not the case anymore. although traffic is a building for it is still flowing freely at the pay gates. san mateo bridge currently a problem freak drive. the problems in both directions of highway 92 print golden gate bridge is currently without incident. your drive time 23 minutes

from about into the city. westbound highway 24 is problem free. we are currently without incident and your drive time clocking in at 12 minutes down the e shore freeway for your ride between hercules and berkeley. >>james: new this morning. police in daly city now have the funds to crack down on the impaired drivers this holiday season. more than $41,000 is coming from a new traffic safety grant just in time for the holidays. more than $41,000 is coming from a new traffic safety grants. the money will be used to set up for additional dui checkpoint and purchased eight --a glo-bug blown up

lighting system. to help increase visibility. daly city plans to start enforcement december 14th all the way to the new year parade into thousand 11, drunk and drugged driving caused nearly 800 deaths and 24,000 injuries and the states. baseball player alex rodriquez walks out of an arbitration hearing. sources say a-rod became frustrated yesterday after an arbitrator decided that an mlb commissioner bud selig would not have to testify during that hearing. a-rod slammed his fist on the desk, buster wahl, curse and that walked out. he later released a statement saying in part " the absurdity and injustice just became too much. i will not participate any further and the farce. "--a-rod is in

the process of appealing an historic to 11-game drug ban. the warriors without stephen curry couldn't hold back on the mend as grizzlies. the grizzlies held on to beat the warriors 88-81 in overtime. andrew bogut had 12 points and 14 rebounds for golden state. it was memphis is a 11th straight win over the warriors. prince fielder is headed from detroit to texas. the tigers get 2b ian kinsler in return fielder recently made the highlight reel by eating a

fans nachos after chasing down a foul ball but fielder struggled this postseason with no home runs and zero rbi's in 40 at bats over 11 games for the season fielder hit.279 with 25 hr's and 106 rbi last year he is two years into a 9- year, $214 million deal

>>darya: could morning and thetops stories we are following on this thursday. vote on the new contract with unions today. we'll tell you if a rejection could lead to another strike. fundand san francisco police describing this man as "extremely dangerous" we have new details in the search for the killer wanted for a weekend shooting the bart district board will make a critical vote today san which could leave bay area commuters in chaos again. was check-in with erica first on the weather and. >>erica: looks like we are picking up moderate rainfall along the ball to my past where rain is falling at a rate of about a quarter of an inch per hour. if looks like rain subsided

approaching at the dublin and castro valley to take a look at this and no great. we have had the rain falling but this will continue to work its way east itself. temperatures right now are in the '50s, for the most are under mainly cloudy skies. i will highlight conditions into the afternoon and about 15 minutes. good morning george. >>george: we are now turning a pretty good ride. not any hot spots, dry roads and light traffic conditions. light traffic heading to the bay bridge. quinn commute check shows that even 4580 fairly light. a little slowing beginning to form grid highway 4 looks really good through antioch. north bay ride all doing pretty well. >>darya: thanks to george. bart will make a critical vote today which could leave the bay area commuters and chaos again. kron four's

will tran is live at the west oakland bart station with more on today's vote. will? "we expect the board to meet their responsibility to the workers and to the riders and approve this contract. we are willing, through the mediator, to meet and discuss the implementation of the family medical leave provision, including its cost." there will be a bart protest this morning following a press conference. it will all happen in front of bart offices in oakland. beginning at eight-15. at this point seems like they are very upset that they are distancing

themselves from this man. the fight is over the family leave. right now as it's written in the tentative agreement, bart workers get six weeks of paid family medical leave. before that you could use it but to have to use vacation time, six days or unpaid days. that's up to bart workers but now looks like bart is on the hook for that if the tentative agreement is ratified the way it is written. we got a chance to talk to bart commuter's this morning and here's what they had to say. >>: it was brought to the table and the initial discussions and it was decided on that was one thing. i don't think it was. i think it was a clerical error pre >>: this is an error that art should live with because obviously bart riders are stuck and the metal. >>: your password is short a dollar and he wanted.it righte your ride. >>will: bart is basically saying a you know we never wanted it and first place

since it was rejected several times during the contract talks. the bart unions are saying it's in there so they are coming out with a statement of their own. they are saying we expect the board to meet the responsibility to the workers and the riders to approve a contract. it looks like a bart unions are not backing down grid we had a chance to ask the and and what will you do if the bart board of directors rejects this. they say right now they don't know grid for them they say this is on chartered territory. we will get more reaction from our commuters on the story that continues to give us a lot of a drum up. >>darya: continues to give up. yahoo thanks a lot will. and there is supposed to be a protest today following the decisionthe event is being held by united public workers for action. to stop

union busting against bart workers. it will last until the bart board of directors meeting at nine a-m. organizers say. the bart board continues to try and cut back worker benefits. they also say managers should be jailed for unsafe health and safety practices. stay with kron-4 for more on the latest bart contract trouble. you can always log on to our website -- kron 4 dot com -- to get an update. or check our facebook and twitter pages. you can also download the kron-4 mobile app. developing news out of berkeley this morning where a car is sitting on the train tracks.

the car is located near harrison and gilman in berkeley, right near the berkeley transfer station developing news this morning. san francisco police have identified a suspect involved in a deadly shooting in san francisco's soma district. soma district. they are looking for this man, 23-year-old michael green. police believe he's responsible for opening fire after a fender bender outside a nightclub at 6th and jessie streets early sunday morning. they say a woman in a red dress got out of one of the cars and started yelling at the victims. then a passenger, melquiesha warren, got out of the car to calm the woman down. that's when police say green walked up with a gun and started shooting. killing warren and critically injuring the driver. chief suhr says green is dangerous so if you see him, don't approach him. call authorities instead.

they believe he lives on the peninsula and may be driving a 2001 mercedes benz. new this morning. three san jose state university students are charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after allegedly confining their black roommate with a bike lock and subjecting him to racial and religious taunts. college freshmen colin warren, joseph bomgardner and logan beaschler each face up to a year in county jail if convicted. the three defendants allegedly called their black roommate "three- fifths" and "fraction."

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>>erica: the morning. and thanks for waking up with a kron4 morning news. the rain we are seeing and east bay is a very light in major. the roads are a little damp so to prepare yourselves. you consider-clearing up in oakland and alameda. in the showers continue to work their way southward. farther east to go the rain fix up in intensity. take a look and san ramon. rainfall is about to 10¢ per hour. like to land along the ought to not pass. but like its intensified as your approach in livermore. here's the wider view of satellite and radar these are the showers

in the bay area. the showers are actually going to work their way closer to what are right and eventually reached southern california. yesterday waking up to mostly cloudy conditions. tenders ride out in the '50s thanks to the cloud cover. oakland is think about the door 53 degrees of fremont. the approach in the afternoon expect low 60s. it will be cooler than the plenty of sunshine is expected. concord at 62. tenders will be in the loan mid-60s for the south bay tree looks like santa rosa today with a high of 64. your 7 day around the bay forecast shows there's a gun to be a change in the weather patterns. plenty of sunshine and warmer weather lasted into the weekend and it looks like we will hold holmes a mild conditions and dry weather approaching peak thanksgiving holiday. 518 on the spot right now the morning george. >>george: could morning

erica. a good thing is we are not tracking any hot spots. things are pretty quiet tafoya in the traffic department. still pretty light traffic. you are going to have an easy approach this morning whether from the nimitz or at the 80 approach and the macarthur maze. in '92 the san mateo bridge looks good as well. from the golden gate bridge we are problem free 4101 southbound for it to the commute year from hercules the berkeley and the westbound direction. light traffic there with a 12 minute drive time. westbound 24 is clear and so is out about 680 westbound 58 looks good all the way into the castro valley ride. as off the freeways are very light as well.

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radel apologizing at a late- night press conf >>: i'm sorry. i have no excuse for what i've done. radel also says he will donate his salary to charity during his leave of absence. >>james:the attack on virginia state senator cree deeds is raising questions this morning about mental health assistance. senator deeds was stabbed more than ten times by his son gus. outside the family's farm in virginia. after the attack, gus went back inside the house and shot himself.

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and >> welcome back. the time is 5:31 a.m.. >> there is an accidental that meant early activation of the meteor lights. there was no cushion between the accident and the meter and lights to allow the traffic to back up. this is what they have done and you concede there is slow traffic across all the lanes. it only regis to the east of the parking lot but to vehicles were involved in two different lines. it is

likely that the wet pavement, one of the vehicles on out and faced the wrong direction. this is a bad start for the bay bridge to this morning. this is a westbound commute. >> we will not find out about the weather. >> we are having the storms moved out of here but we're still be dealing with light to moderate showers. light rain in walnut creek a truce san ramon. the rain will pick up at dublin for your ride out of downtown livermore. the heavier showers spread south so they're no longer affecting your ride along the small grave. as we head into the afternoon you can look forward to drier conditions and sunshine. the winds will pick up and we do have it wind advisory in effect. i

would tell you who is want to be affected by that to. >> developing new is out of a vallejo this morning where police are looking into a string of seven armed robberies. all of them took place last night. kron4 mike pelton is live at the vallejo police headquarters. >> police stated that the same to suspect went around holding people up and robbing them from their purses, cell phones and everything else. here is say map of where the police are stating the first robbery took place. police stated that the next one was said this parking lot where the suspects pistol what a victim. several robberies took place at these homes and that the couple of locations the victims confronted-tested left their

cars. there was a couple of stores abroad rob on pleasanton drive. this was at costco--at >> this a vehicle is a late 98 lexus with a silver trim. that is the only description that we have for the vehicle to go on. we want people to pay attention to this vehicle. we believe it is a four-door. >> police have surveillance video outside of costco and here is a still image of the vehicle there are looking for. they stated that the men were wearing black hooded sweat shirts, bandannas or eight masked.a mas

>> some new details about the man who was seen wandering around a elementary school in e; spb ramel sobrante. investigators say that he is identified ss " james " and said that he was there to wait for the mother of one of the students. after about 45 minutes of walking along the campus he left. he never made contact with any students on campus. the school plans to increase their height of the senses and add more surveillance cameras. >> vallejo high school is about to get a new mascot. after more than a century the school district has voted to retire the apache

mascot. the vote last i was emotionally charged on both sides. >> while the board's decision was unanimous, the change will not happen overnight, the apache mascot is still all over the school, and it will cost the district money to remove it. >> walnut creek is moving forward with that plan to double their parking meter fees. the city currently in force as parking meters from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.. the proposal would make the new enforcement hours 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.. the proposal also looks to charge people on sundays. city officials said higher parking fees should bring the city around $2 million a year. if adopted, the new parking fees and rules will go into effect next year. >> the city of oakland is

set to receive more than $15 million in a judgment against a fraudulent immigration consulting company. american legal services advertised itself as a legal service but not of its employees were lawyers, the company lied to customers by promising them u.s. citizenship. one victim lost their life savings and some were even threatened to be deported because of the botched immigration applications. this is a the largest financial judgment ever won by the city in litigation. >> a new poll out today shows a growing number of san franciscans want more housing to offset the high cost of living in the cities. more than 600 voters were told earlier this month. 71 percent said the san francisco has become much more expensive place to

live that is followed by the growth in the tech sector, and too much high in housing. 68 percent said that more housing would help solve the cost of living. when it comes to who is to blame for the city's housing issues, reaction is mixed. those polled said that it is under investment, developers and city halls policies. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. a plane lands at the wrong airport. how it all happened coming up. >> a shark washes up on ocean beach and the gores endeavor to see the shark. we will explain how it all happen coming up. >> we also have people behaving badly coming up.

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>> welcome back we are updating the hot spot, the bay bridge that had an accident. this is ominous and klein section. it was blockin twthe bridge is completely clear now. however, the metering lights or remain on and the backup

continues to build. the drive time is now over 14 minutes. and >> a strange looking plane in a strange predicament. a boeing and dream lifter landed at the wrong airport in wichita, kansas. one with a run way apparently too short for the mammoth cargo plane to take off. late wednesday night, the plane which was bound for mcconnell air force base from new york's jfk airport, missed its mark by about 8 mi.. it landed at james jabara airport. it is an airport with a 6,000 ft. runway. the fully loaded plane needs a 9,000 ft.

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>> it is time to get out your skis and your snowboards, boreal is now open. the ski resort is back in business. it got a couple of new inches of snow. local says, that they cannot wait to get back on the slopes and the resort says, that the crowds are only going to get bigger. >> it is nice to have a hill that is open. >> heavenly is set to open

tomorrow. squaw valley opens on november 27th, just-in- time for banks giving. alpine medal will open its doors on december 13th. north star and kirkwood are making snow, they are going to opetheir opening dates are still to be determined. donner says, that it will open as soon as winter arrives. >> we had a winter weather advisory but it has expired. snow is coming down at about 4 in. an hour yesterday. we did receive a decent amount. >> storm tracker 4 is showing light rain mostly in the east. walnut creek and your ride through san ramon valley. the dublin interchange has moderate

showers. there rain is falling at about a quarter of an inch an hour. it looks like the intense hours will last through the small grave. light rain for the mid peninsula. highway 1 01 and you may need to use your windshield wipers. >> i want to bring up a shot from inside 580, jackie sissel is out there. the rain is coming down and it has been writing for the past hour. the showers in the bay are accepting. as we head into the afternoon just a speck cloudy conditions. the sun will come up later on. >> here's a look as some other rain totals. 2 in. 4 or when the and richmond. afternoon highs oakland at

64, 624 fremont. as we head into the evening the winds will pick up and we will see a major change in the weather. in fact the national weather advisory has a wind advisory that will stretch into tomorrow evening. north east will top out at 60 mi. per hour. downed power lines are a possibility. >> we're looking at mild conditions for the weekend. looking at comfortable whether upper 60s for the banks giving holiday. the time is 5:49 a.m.. >> we already had one accident thankfully it has been cleared but because of the location the me realize where activated early. they remain on the back up this building. this is affecting the 880 on ramp. the delays

are climbing above 14 to 16 minutes for the westbound ride but the bridge is clear. the flashing lights are only just for a wide load. >> as slow ride coming for interstate 580 heading toward alta mott has. there was slow and go, stop and go conditions on two 05 approaching the 580 interchange this morning. this is why we received a late start >> (male annoucer): now here is stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> let's watch of the driver of this blue audi will just toppling cleveland st. in the city of albany and he thinks he is alone. so the woman who pops out this pickup truck at the very

same location. right outside of el cerrito tires and uto body in albany are the surveillance cameras that do not miss a beat. >> you see the problem is, people are dumping illegally in one way or another and it will noi wanted to stop. what se leung is referring to imparts is dead this driver who makes multiple visits to the shop to make deliveries is doing illegal drop off. >> here he is backing up to a driveway and then dumping trash from the back of his pickup truck. in the process of dumping he somehow appears to break his tail gate but he keeps at it totally unaware that he is being recorded. >> he apparently toss this

out too much stuff because he puts some of them back in his truck. >> he leaves on to return an even more debris to dump. >> but not so regular customer was the driver of the line audi whole use the parking lot as a personal toilet. >> he even has the nerve to duck down when he sees a passing vehicle that was at five. >> we are open for business, is easy enough for them to just come in and say can i usurer rest room but they do not. >> now midnight this truck ride and a woman pops out and does what she has to do she even had bathroom tissue. >> standard have naked for a few minutes apparent to wipe some of the urine of her

pants, legs now that is just plain nasty. >> no freaky stuff? no, seen that yet but i am sure that if we keep the camera on london of some of this is bound to happen. >> just for the record whatever kind of dumping it is, just remember there is a very good chance that you might be watched. >> in albany, stanley roberts kron 4 news. >> it may some additional detail, but it is true, this was what washed up on the san francisco's ocean beach. it is believed to be a salmon shark, at least according to kirk lombardi.

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>> coming up on the kron4 morning nils. >> tensions are still wrong with bart and the board. there are set to vote on the contract. we will find out

what happens. >> abercrombie is added plus sizes. >> red kettle campaign is coming to san francisco. >> will have more on bay area weather and

>> tops stories we are following on this thursday. bart management is set to vote on the new contract with unions today. we'll tell you if a rejection could lead to another strike. >> and san francisco police have now identified a suspect they believe killed a woman and seriously injured a driver in a shooting outside a nightclub. >> an african american student at san jose state was hailed with a bike lock or arouns