>> the top stories that we are working on this monday, december 16th. a rash of robberies near uc-berkeley has police on high alert, increasing patrols. we will have more on this story coming up. >> a water main break at san jose and mineta, prompting an evacuation of one of its terminals. we are following that story for you. >> a report is due out today on the findings from lechers fire at the chevron refinery plant in richmond. we will have a preview. >> there is a stall on the west span, the old

suspension span of the bay bridge. the right hand lane is blocked. not only do we see traffic backing up in the toll plaza there is also slow traffic all the way across the span. the drive time is pushing towards 18 minutes and not so much because of the back of but the slow traffic that you still will encounter. >> we are waking up to temperatures not as cold as they have been the past couple weeks. most locations are above freezing 36 degrees right now in concord. we are waking up to clear skies and we do have patchy fog. all the time we reach the afternoon, we're talking 70's. oakland will

have a high of 69 degrees. i will break down rest of the afternoon highs coming up. >> happening now, terminal a san jose and mineta airport has been evacuated after a broken water main. kron4 jackie sissel joins us live with details. >> this is about 40 percent of the traffic and this terminal is shutdown for purposes right now. this happened in the sky way, here is video at about 2:15 a.m.. officials stated that a water pipe about 6 in. wide and burst as sent water in the area. it also bought into the baggage claim area. it also reached a security

checkpoint shutting down this entire area. this means, that if you are traveling out of this area, that means that if you have bags checked, you will have to check in with the airline then have to walk or be bused to terminally b and then go through security checkpoints and then they will bus or walking back here to terminal a to catch a flight. we have had a chance to talk to san jose's police officials to talk about this situation. >> you should plan to arrive a little early. we recommend that domestic flies get here a little early given the situation. we want to make sure the to leave on time. until we get

this situation resolved. >> this was actually the spokesperson--this is a huge crowd and hundreds of people are arriving have no idea what is going on. you can see some of the long lines. once again, you concede that they will have to go through, check-in and then catch this buzz or walk down to a terminal b and then they will have to come back to check their flight. i had a chance to check with the spokesperson. she was not sure and that they are aware of the situation. she is not sure if that will be able to hold them or what type of delays they are expecting. they stated that you should give yourself extra time. they do not know how long these terminals will be closed pripet they stated

that it may be several hours before this is fixed. also it is just the opposite and they will have to come here and you will have to get your bags and then come back fred you can see there are a lot of people here in many of them did not know what is going on. >> not only will this affect this terminal it will affect the other one because they're one has to go through security there. maligned the time is 6:05 a.m.. >> this is developing story out of the east bay this morning, police are increasing patrols on bart stations after a rash of robberies near uc berkeley. kron4 will tran is live with the past the bart station. >> they want to catch who is

doing this and they're telling people to be careful. this has not happened here but you can see so many people coming here. a lot of people are not from berkeley. we are talking three armed robberies are long the area over the past week. one involved a pregnant woman which is why we have seen them stepped up patrols police g involved because the border oakland. this is a very dangerous time because it is the holidays and the armed robbers tend to pick up. they believe that there is a lot of desperation people are looking for money and this is why they're stepping up patrols. i had a chance to talk to the police department and this is what they had to say. >> there are pedestrians--

thankfully no one was seriously hurt. it is very serious by getting this information now >> in one location and man was sitting and he had his laptop taken that he was pistol what. at this point they're not sure if one person is doing this for a group of people. >> has anyone been seriously hurt? >> unfortunately no fatalities just minor injuries. at the personnel was passed what was able to speak to give a generic description of an african americans suspect. in the meantime they're telling people that they should just be careful. we spoke to several people and their reaction was a little bit of

fear and then i asked them where they are from one man stated from union city. that is why a lot of times when you come here and you cannot-session do not have to necessarily be from the sitting. >> the time is 6:08 a.m.. still ahead on the kron4 morning news. did those holiday packages and letters are ready early. today is the busiest day of the year for the u.s. postal service. >> residents along the skulls are digging out of all the snow this morning after a weekend winter blast.

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a new poll and >>darya: stocks ended with a little changed friday as investors remained sidelined ahead of this week's federal reserve meeting. here's a look at the closing numbers from friday. the dow, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq all fell about one quite 5% last week, the biggest percentage decline for the dow in seven and p--and s&p 500 since the final week of august.

15,755.36 nasdaq 4,000.98 as a the 501,775.32. -- 1,775.32. we will hear what our financial expert rob black things in the next half-hour. >>erica: by the time we reached the afternoon we have '70s and are forecast a big change is to highlight. i have a day that out of a look at today's temperatures on the kron4 morning news returns.

safe >>darya: new video this morning of the weekend snowstorm that hit parts of the northeast. on the left is video out of maine at, nearly 17 in. of snow fell in the state's southern coast. and on the right, new york where hundreds of flights were canceled over the weekend because of heavy snow. flights in the new

york city area are taking off on schedule today. while the weather pose problems for travelers, skiers were rejoicing about the fresh powder. let's check in with erica. the morning. >>erica: we will see a hazy sunshine. we still have pretty smoggy conditions especially in the east and south bay. it o'clock tonight looks like temperatures remain steady in the '50s. . mountain view 70, 74 year high in campbell. looks like 73 for the aldon valley. the warmest locations definitely in the south bay. still warmer than average. walnut creek 67. 67 for those of you and livermore. 63 for alameda and looks like the bottle today with a high of 65. keep in mind no wood burning is allowed. we still have that cold air immersion

in place. but the good news is air quality is expected to improve as we head into the middle of next week. by wednesday will see increasing cloud cover. cooler conditions of most location struggling to get into the '60s. for the first a cold front will slide through marin get a 20 percent chance for showers. nothing to organize. it will be very scattered advest and i would be surprised if we see a 10th of an inch by the afternoon. firefighting will have when the conditions in place as we wrap up the work week and we are back in the sunshine and mid-60s by next weekend. time now is to 17 on to george fan traffic 54 >>george: 6 their country if the use of the bay bridge. that's all that was blocking the right lane on the suspension span has been clear from the right hand lane. i just spoke with the tow service at the bridge westbound it to me it was a vehicle with a flat tire and they manage to get it clear. traffic from island looks much better now and the westbound direction however

it started to back up here at the toll plaza toward the macarthur maze. it's already backed up past the 580 flight over. the drive time coming out of the macarthur maze is now over 21 minutes. it will be less and your best approach is if you come from the nimitz freeway. but take a look at your san mateo bridge ride and highway 92. volume definitely building up. i see what looks like some flashing lights at about here that may have just been a turn signal. will keep a closer eye on it. now there's a vehicle pulled over with flashing lights. a little bit of slowing as you head out towards the toll plaza. the golden gate bridge however is clear. east bay traffic now. interstate 80 picking up a little slowing and the westbound direction. drive times are up to about 90 minutes. your commute through the san ramon valley is still clear. about a 33 minute drive time from the 2 05 interchange out for the dublin interchange and some slowing for 101 in the

northbound direction. but the north bay ride still looks great through marin county 4101 southbound. public transit no delays or problems reported. >>james: now on to an earthquake. a 2.8 quake. it was recorded near the geysers and sonoma county last night. . the u.s. geological survey says it happened around 955 about 2 mi. east of the geysers. there were no reports of damage. >>darya: major changes to ac transit lines in alameda county. these changes started yesterday. they include new bus line serving employment centers and shopping areas. a more direct route for certain lines. there's also increased frequency and longer hours on other lines. for more information visit

ac transit got work. well bart management and its two largest unions will continue contract talks today. they started negotiations on thursday over one clause and the labor contract that is causing a major snack. the unions have already voted to ratify the contract, the bart management says the page family leave act was included in the contract by mistake. the talks on thursday and friday were the first formal negotiations since october 21st. a federal mediator is participating. >>james: investigators are saying 18 year-old karl pierson and colorado's arapahoe high-school bent on revenge. pearson's target, his the bay coach tracy murphy. murphy is suspended--murphy suspended pearson from the team in september. before he could reach its intended target,

person encountered 17 year- old senior clear davis, shooting her apparently at random, point blank in the head. now, she remains in critical condition at a local hospital. the sheriff is now vowing never to speak the shooters name again. the sheriff praise the schools quick deployment of its active sugar protocol, and fast action of and on campus deputy. the whole ordeal over in 80 seconds. authorities also healing cults murphy as a hero for attempting to lure pearson away from the school during his rampage. school has been cancelled today and it's not clear when students will be back. >>mark: new this morning, u.s. secretary of state john kerry is a vietnam where he announced the u.s. will be boosting its naval presence in the region. the increase in response to china's growing assertiveness over disputed territories and the east china area. here's

video of carry visiting a u.s. navy gunboat that was used during the vietnam war. kerry also making headlines calling north korea's leader " reckless " and " and secure " after recently executing his awful. kerry travels to the philippines later this week.

the republicans and uncertainty for a tweet. senator bob roocho from north carolina tweet yesterday, saying the affordable care act has done more damage to the u.s. than the nazis, soviets and more damage to the u.s. than the nazis, soviets and terroris♪ yeah her gift o ♪ i picked it out in a snap ♪ what made it genius ♪ was the camouflage wrap ♪ that's my kind of holiday responses on twitter including some who said rucho stepped down. >>james: it might be the most wonderful time of the year but the u.s. postal

service says today is the busiest day of the year. the postal service expects to process around 545 million pieces of mail each day during the holiday season for a total of 15 billion pieces of mail between thanksgiving and new year's eve. today however, the service expects more than 600 million pieces of mail to be processed nationwide. the busiest delivery date from hell will be wednesday and the busiest day for packages will be thursday. ♪ i love it!

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welcome back opening bell on wall street looks like a turnaround and out of over 400 points so far this month without futures of 85 ahead of the opening bell. if we want to go live to a developing story we are following. big problems and san jose man at airports critic gave him water main break at terminal 835 shutdown right now. kron4's objectives is to have more of the delays >>: i am here at terminal bay. the terminal is basically open. there are parts that are shut down. because of that water main break. let's go to video. according to officials of europe and around 215 this morning, a hot water main burst. then a walkway between the terminal date and the baggage claim and the security area of sending thousands of gallons of water into the security checkpoint area along with

the baggage claim area at. that area have to be evacuated. it is shut down right now. and it's going to remain that way for several more hours what happened to the passengers and that's our checking and here at terminal 83 that includes hawaiian airlines delta air lines american jet blue and virgin america. about 40 percent of all flights come out of terminal bay. what means is that passengers are going to have to come here if they have that critic check-in with the airline. the bus or walked down the terminal be to go through security checkpoints down there because the security checkpoint your terminal a remains closed. once they go through the security checkpoint then at that point they can either walk down or be bused back here to terminal date to cash their flights. obviously that means it's one to take a lot more time. we had a chance to talk with spokeswoman with the airport about a half-hour ago. she

is asking people to get here early. >>: while we typically recommends for domestic flights to get your 90 minutes early give yourself about two hours given the situation. it is an emergency. we want to make sure you give your flight on time. >>: there's no indication what caused him this water main to burst. obviously that's secondary right now. what they do have to do. there was water all over the place he now wants the water is clean up. you can see the vote checking and. they're going out to go through this

line. check in with air carrier and go down here and catch one of these buses that are waiting for them right down there every best of what they're going to have to go thru terminal the. at that all going to take extra time. no indication if the airlines themselves and want to delay any flights. i did go to the big board to check on the flights from time. that means you're really going to have to give yourself extra time. this year, go through the process, the patient. you won't have to give yourself an extra time at mark. >>: not even if they're flying out of terminal id which is a last and southwest will have all of those terminals eight people in your security-so no matter what plan ought extra time this morning. >>: thank you mark. a 633 erica is looking at your forecast.

>>: >>erica: 43 degrees and fremont. 44 san francisco. living there house men and 36 degrees and antioch. we have an off shore breeze. as we head into the after known. two of continue with warmer than average temperatures as we had out tomorrow. wednesday we do have a shifter it will have an increasing cloud cover. the 7 day around the bay coming up as 645. have the morning george. >>george: currently not tracking any hot spot for it and we already have a stall and the bay bridge the back up is not have that. the one thing that concerns me add that bay bridge back up what 880 is starting to climb the

ramp. a quick commute check shows are really lighter than normal conditions around the bay. though we do see a little slowing on interstate 680 walnut creek in concrete and 580 west leading through the often not pass. >>darya: in san francisco, more than 30 people are homeless this morning after a fire lives through their apartment building. the fire started yesterday and a third floor apartment in the city's north beach neighborhood. the one alarm fire was knocked down within 40 minutes to have caused major fire and water damage. at least wealthy and a turnout uninhabited uninhabitable affecting 31 people. there is also extensive damage to quit flickers under the apartment complex. --coit liquors. the

owner now have to wait for an electrician and his insurance show before he can even think of reopening. this is the most busy time. i thought of how long it's going to take to just put it back in. >>darya: luckily no one was hurt in this fire. the red cross was there to assist anyone in need a single people have someplace to go. >>james: cal fires as a vegetation fire near big sur has prompted evacuations this morning. the fire near pfeiffer ridge road and state highway one was reported. just before midnight. officials said the blaze has earned roughly 100 a. as of 2:15 a.m. and had damaged at least one structure. evacuations are underway and residents are being sent north toward the caramel area until evacuation center is set up. there are no reports of injuries. the cause of the fire is under investigation.

>>darya: burglars may be posing as contractors to gain entry to fremont home street last week residents reported that two men knocked on his door and told the homeowner that they were reporting that judge repairing the neighbors spent in needed access to the backyard. the honor to the man into the backyard, leaving the front door unlocked and after speaking with them for about 20 minutes, discover that cashen jury were missing from the home three a similar contract a scam was also reported in the southern part of the city the previous week, in which suspects told residents they were joined at inspections. >>james: the search continues for an animal rights activists suspended in multiple bombings of the bay area. the fbi says daniel san diego suspected of planting bombs at eight emeryville biotech company and that a nutritional products company in pleasanton in 2003. the fbi has released these images of san diego, showing that he

may look like that is what he may look like now. it $250,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture. >>: melted is too small an anonymous to to be accepted. over the years since have place san diego and a bottle, san rafeal, santa cruz and even northampton, massachusetts as well as germany, spain france and italy, costa rica and bolivia. --san rafael. >>james: the fbi added daniel san diego to its list of most-wanted terrorists in 2009. it was the first domestic terrorist to be added to the list. we will be right back.

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here's a shot of our san mateo bridge highway 92. so far so good. hopefully we are doing all right. finally, the golden gate bridge so far so good on 11 coming out of marin county. now want to weather the fifth tier of thrift >>erica: we're starting off with this lot from our roof camera. we do have some high clouds out there. this is quite interesting hand. 45 degrees right now in san francisco. of purdue are living here than just leaving your house at 46. loews and put his arm above freezing san jose and sent a

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the morning the top stories that we are following this monday's december 16th a bunch of robberies and around bart station near berkeley has police and people on high alert. we'll tell you what's going on. and the problems at sam mineta a water main break causing big problems in terminal 83 will have the details. and the report due out today from the findings of lastr'