>> top stories we are following on this wednesday, december 18th. a stolen a-t-m machine and a police chase in san francisco this morning. we'll tell you how the pursuit ended up on the bay bridge. >> a teenage girl remains on life support at oakland children's hospital. after her tonsil surgery went terribly wrong. now her family is searching for answers. >> and the winner is. someone in california. and georgia. how much did they win? a breakdown of the numbers coming up. >> the quick look at weather and traffic now. and >> we have a problem that is

developing but we do know that this accident is looking very serious on the nimitz. the lanes are blocked and one report says that one big rig is involved. some reports are stating that a person might have been trapped in a vehicle. ambulances have been dispatched. in fact, the officer for the highway safety patrol has also been dispatched. this usually means that more emergency vehicles are to follow. >> it is starting to affect the ride a 80 coming down past the 980 turn off. from this point: i think your best bet is to consider using interstate 58 instead. more details will be available. >> take a look at temperatures right now, they're very mild. off 50 degrees in san francisco

richmond is a 44 degrees. we do have patchy fog outside an expected cooler have to know. today is a transitional day and a slight possibility of showers increasing. i will highlight your extended forecast when we return. >> following breaking news out of san francisco, where police are looking for a man who stole an a-t-m in the fillmore district then led police on a chase across the bay bridge. kron four's jackie sissel is in san francisco with more >> this is a crazy story. there are multiple locations. i am actually add still more and jackson. this is the mayflower market. you could see the debris out here that is left after the two attempted to steal a atm

machine. according to police and witnesses, the started at 3:30 a.m.. a white van pulled up, tied a chain around the atm machine. they attempted to pull out the atm machine away from the wall. the chain broken at some point they have to reposition the ban and they knocked it over. they physically, not to the atm machine over. they tossed the atm machine in the back of the van and then they drove off with the doors open. the atm machine was hanging out in the back. that made it over to trace our island but they stopped, they were spotted by police officer and then they headed back to san francisco in the wrong direction. >> ultimately, the san francisco police found the van at 18th and missouri. it was in the patrol hill area.

the atm was on the back of the bed, the two suspects were gone. we have sound, where a witness saw what happened. >> he ran aground, the two of them, they loaded, they drove it down the street in part of it was still hanging, scraping down the street. >> the machine, was scraping. they fraud ended the machine a few times. let pulled the event to the front, they drove. maligned that was a witness who saw what happened. >> i can tell you that the owner of mayflower market just arrived. he is being briefed by the police. there is not a lot of damage to

the market but this is a crazy store. the two suspects, are still outstanding. you see all the debris that is outside. they have pieces of this chain that is on the wrong. they're starting to collect evidence. they're still looking for these two suspects. >> this is one of several developments and we are following. >> we continue to follow developing news out of oakland where a 13 year old girl will not be taken of life support. this despite another brain scan yesterday that showed that she is brain dead. kron 4's will tran is live in front of children's hospital oakland with the very latest on this case. >> we are having and communication difficulties with will tran. we will have an update with him later.

>> she seemed to be fine after surgery but something went wrong, she is brain dead and now there is a battle about leaving her connected to life support. >> it has been a very difficult time for classmates of jahi. these are the playgrounds, classrooms, and school hall where 13-year-old jahi mcmath has played, studied, and made friends for the past nine years lisa blair is the chief operating officer at e.c. reems academy of technology and arts in east oakland she has watched jahi grow up, starting when she was in kindergarten. >> now blair finds herself explaining to jahi's friends how the beloved 8th grader ended up on life support. she says her absence is felt deeply in the classroom.

>> she was the person everyone wanted as a friend. she was a quiet student but she had power, might that existed. >> blair says she will continue to comfort those classmates who need it, as well as talking to their parents but most importantly she says is to respect the wishes of jahi's family. >> keep it tuned here to kron four for the latest with jahi's condition. you can find updates on our website, our facebook and twitter pages, as well as our mobile apps. >> check your lottery tickets. two tickets were sold for last night's mega millions jackpot. one ticket was sold at jenny's gift shop on tully road in san jose. the other was sold somewhere in georgia. the jackpot is at least 636- million dollars.

here are the winning numbers. 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and the mega ball is seven. there were also 20 one million dollar winning tickets the jackpot now resets to 15 million for the next drawing which is on friday night. coming up at 6:30, we'll be talking to kron four's mike pelton who is live at jenny's in san jose where one of the winning tickets was sold. >> see, people do when it despite the odds. >> and you were right, you were right, you did not win, but someone did. >> the time is 6:08 a.m.. coming up on the kron four morning news. we'll tell you how teens feel about using marijuana. why they don't think its so

bad. >> plus, the man who tried to throw his wife from the san mateo bridge apparently thought people were trying to kill him. >> and we're watching bay area weather and traffic. live look outside at mt. tam good. good answer.

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>> welcome back. we are tracking a hot spot on the nimitz. i just spoke with the highway traffic control. they are still trying to get people through the scene. as you concede it is affecting both the north and southbound lanes. i will have a psst complete traffic check coming up. >> let's continue with the latest developments out of oakland where the 13 year- old girl who went to the hospital and now she is on life support. she is not going to be taking off despite the brain scan says that she is brain dead. kron4 will tran is live. >> she is still in there as she will be in their until this has been worked out. the reason why is because her family came with an attorney and they presented a letter. the attorney told the hospital not to take off

because they could have a bigger problems. here is a picture of a girl. apparently 700,000 people get their tonsils or molds. there are always at risk involved. at the surgery, she was in her bed, everything was fine. for whatever reason, she had a heart attack, she is unconscious and if it was up to the doctors, they would have already taken off. this is why yesterday, the family was scrambling and even asking the mayor to step in. this is why, late yesterday morning the hospital said that they hear them and they will keep her own life support. if they stated that they would help the the family through the grieving process. i had a chance to speak to the mother and this is what she had to say. >> she is alive to me, she

still has a heart beat. i laid my head on her chest, i hear her heart beating. she is just not the dead. when i think of something and dad, i think of something cold, something that is not pleasant to eyes. she is pleasant to the eyes. it is just like she is sleeping. i prayed over her and i told her that her mother would never stop fighting for her. >> her family for what ever reason is not letting the hospital give their side of the store. the hospital stated that they're there to offer services. they're trying to talk to the family and give information. they want them to understand the situation and that they stated there are a lot of misconceptions that the need to clear up. legally, if the family do not want them to speak to the media they cannot. >> the time is 6:14 a.m.. we

will be right back.

>> welcome back. the time is 6:17 a.m.. >> we have a northbound crash are ron phillips and embarcadero. at least three lanes are blocked. the chp

is from the scene. bear in mind that in the bethere is a dr more lanes are blocked for more than 30 minutes and this qualifies for a alert. because of the time of occurrence, but the response time was affected. there are units arriving now to assess what's going on. >> the backup is in the northbound direction all the way to the coliseum. at last check there were three northbound lanes blocked. this is really the slowest traffic that can be found right now. you concede that it is quite a stretch. >> the bay bridge continues to look good and there's hardly any backup at all. before the san mateo bridge, highway 92 there is

no stop and go conditions. >> let's take a look at temperatures right now, we're off to a very mild start. low 40's in santa rosa. san francisco is in the upper 40's and 39 degrees for oakland. is really not too bad in fact you your heat may not have to be on full blast. it will continue with temperatures and patchy fog. but by lunch time, a cold front will move closer to the bay, with that we will see more in the way of cloud cover. this afternoon will not be as warm as it has been. >> let's break down the afternoon high. it will be cloudy afternoon and sunnyvale will be at 62 degrees spread slightly cool--cooler conditions.

livermore was a high of 64. upper 50s for downtown san francisco and napa is checking in with a high of 61. it will be very windy and the wind will crank up, by midnight, we have a wind advisory that has been posted. >> down in the santa clara valley, with that we will see wind gusts of 60 mi. per hour. it may be difficult for you to sleep with the wind howling. power outages and downed wires may happen. we will continue with this for thursday. the good news is that the windy conditions will clean the air and i do not think a spare gear that will be issued in fact it will be cleaner and a lot colder for friday. mild weather will return for the weekend in fact we are back in the mid 60's for the start of next week. >> the man that fell off the

san mateo bridge last week is in jail this morning. this is video from our helicopter partnership with a-b-c seven news of the car being towed away police say xaiver mcclinton and his wife were having an argument when he tried to drive the car into the bay. when that failed, mcclinton tried to throw his wife off the bridge. when other drivers saw the struggle, they stopped to help and managed to grab his wife by her legs and save her from falling into the mcclinton fell into the water and was later saved by the alameda county fire department. district attorney steve wagstaff says mcclinton never showed any signs of aggression or paranoid people were going into his >> for him trying to do what he did, he wanted to end her life as well as his own. she was severely injured. she had major cuts on her face.

>> mcclinton faces felony attempted murder and domestic violence charges. he and his wife share 3 children together and there is a restraining order against him. >> >> a budget bill could be placed on president barack obama's desk for his signature soon. the senate is expected today to pass the legislation after it survived a test vote yesterday. the budget would restore $45 billion, half the amount scheduled to be automatically cut from the 2014 operating budgets of the pentagon and some domestic agencies. an additional $18 billion for 2015 would provide enough relief to essentially freeze spending at those levels for the year. >>

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that this new ad is just being tested by fesfacebook. they will get a lot of negative feedback and they may pull the plug. we will see what will happen. this feature will work pretty much like the way it sounds. you'll run across a video that may be playing, here is an example. this is showing a movie that will be released in march. any other act run without sound unless you tappet. in this case, it can expand to full screen. >> this will appear where you can click onto additional videos. each one that uc would have been down loaded advance. so it would not affect your data plan. this video add feature will slowly roll out and you might not see this for a while. >> what do you think about

this? i would like to hear from you. will this make you leave the facebook once and for all? you can send me a tweet or an e-mail. >> gabe slate, kron 4 news. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. we will tell you how a atm theft involved a driver going the wrong way on the bay bridge. [son] all right,she has no idea.

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there is a back up at the chp--so for a while they can use 580 and if you are driving through oakland you would want to use this instead of the nimitz. this knocked out accident is backing up the traffic in both directions. >> breaking news out of san francisco, where police are looking for a man who stole an a-t-m in the fillmore district then led police on a chase across the bay bridge. kron four's jackie sissel is in san francisco with more >> good morning. i am at the mayflower market and you can see the owner just arrived. he is also going to be surveying the damage to that was done. this is a crazy story that started around a 3:30 a.m.. there was an atm robbery, a chase across the bay bridge. they're still looking for the suspects.

this started at 3:30 a.m. when a white van pulled up they cooked up a chain to the atm, they attempted to pull away but at that point it broke and these two guys got out of the car and they repositions the van. that loss in the atm and opened the back door and the door was opened, they took off down jackson street. that also ended up at treasure island. at that point they were spotted and it took off. >> they went on the bay bridge point the wrong way and optimally, they caught up with the event, here is video of the band, the atm was inside a but no suspects. this is where we are at as far as suspects are concerned. they're still looking for them and i had a chance to talk to a person

who witnessed the whole thing. >> he ran all around, the two of them, put this in in the van, they loaded up they drove it off and down the street. part of it was still hanging off, it was scraping down the street. the machine, was screaming. >> they not the machine over with the van, they hit a couple of times. they pulled the van up to the front, that through the machine in the back and they drove off. >> this is a crazy scene. this is the owner of her now and it looks like it is just damage to the store. it does not appear to be any structural damage to the store as i stated the two suspects are still outstanding. we have not heard whether or not this

bed is stolen or what the circumstances are this could have turned out worse as we get more information we will pass it along. >> the time is 6:34 a.m.. >> it is not too bed and you would not need your heater on full blast. most of us are in the upper '30's to mid 40's. there will be very mild conditions. the cold front is want to push through later and with that we may see plenty of cloud cover. the temperatures were range from the upper 50s to the low 60's. today is a transitional day. we will have a wind the tomorrow and i will talk about the wind advisory in 15 minutes. >>

there were two winning tickets sold last night. kron four's mike pelton is live at one of the winning ticket locations-- jenny's gift shop in san jose. good morning mike? >> we do not know who the winner is, we just know that it was not us. there are two winning tickets. that will split $648 million. one of those tickets were sold here. this is a small store. if you bought your ticket here in the past few days you should check your numbers. they're born across your screen. we saw a lot of people waiting in long lines yesterday to buy themselves a ticket. plasma, after the draw and, the lottery stated

that they had winner in san jose and a second ticket was sold in atlanta. there are also two other winners, two tickets in the san diego area that matched five numbers. lottery officials say we know the owner will receive $1 million for selling the winning ticket. it seems like everyone is winning money except for us. perhaps, we need to shop at a different store. >> see, you still believe carry i. >> coming up on the kron4 morning nilews. a tennis champ

is representing the united states at the olympics in russia, she is lgbt, what message that is bringing to and vladimir putin >> . we know who owns the san francisco home that collapsed in the city's twin peaks the neighborhood. good. good answer.

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welcome back. the time is 6:40 a.m.. in what seems as is now up to the russian government, neither president obama nor any of their high-level u.s. official will be attending the winter olympics games and sochi. the president is sending to openly gay athletes as part of the offical u.s. delegation. to this great billie jean king will attend the opening ceremony, and hockey star caitlin cahow will be at the

closing ceremony. is clear that jab and russia is controversy law that bans and gave propaganda. relations between moscow and washington have been fractured this past year over several issues, including russian granting temporary asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. >> teens art heeding the message to stay away from cocaine and cigarettes. when it comes to marijuana, not so much. an annual survey by the national institute on drug use some 60% of high- school seniors do not think regular pot use is, " to their health. more than a third of them admitted to using it within the past 12 months. nearly seven percent said they smoked marijuana daily. that is nearly triple from what it was 20 years

ago. researchers say that going forward they will expose the link and drug use and the state. >> we will be right back.

>> on welcome back. >> we have lied and video from the scene and this is on the nimitz freeway we are seeing lanes that are blocked. this a big red, one of the vehicles involved it is continuing to block a lane of traffic. this is on 880 in the northbound direction. emergency to vehicles are on the scene. you can see the backup is reaching toward 66 and the southbound traffic is also affected. and a state 5 a is starting to feel the effects of this. this is true to that we have been sending people to. big rigs have also been allowed to use interstate 580 and that will account for some of the extra traffic. this is some

of the slowest traffic around the area. there was better mills for the ride on highway 4. >> there were >> still were added in between antioch and his bird. this did help for a while but a recent accident has continued this backup. >> the bay bridge toll plaza has no backups or delays. here is a look picture ride for your trip across the san mateo bridge. it is problem free. >> we are starting off with a live look from our roof cam this is overlooking the san francisco skyline. i do have a low clouds closer to the ground. this is limiting your visibility. we are waking up to very mild conditions. take a look at

the numbers. we're up to upper '30's in about toll. antioch's said 47 degrees. mid 40's for sunnyvale. as we head into the afternoon the cold front will slide through. although i do not think it will bring us any brain i think it will increase the cloud cover. it will crank up the wind speed. as for your temperatures later ron san francisco will be at 69 degrees. 63 for fairfield and low 60's for the south bay. when the winds increase the temperatures will be mild in fact we will hold on to upper 40's low 50's. >> and at wind advisory will go into affect tonight and it will impact the diablo range and closer to the mountains. the winds will approach between 30 to 40 mi. per hour. downed trees,

power lines as well esses any other and to stand in damages. if you see any of them you can e-mail them to was. the rain will not be the big story. the drop in temperatures will not be the issue. i think the wind will be the big issue for tomorrow. we're waking up to a frigid conditions once again. we will see mid 60's approaching christmas day holiday. >> if you do plan on using barred for the last minute shopping on friday we will have a holiday gift from the agency. board will have escorts that will walk you to your car at the three bart stations. the escorts will be available at west oakland, fruit of vail and

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rebound one to nothing sharks'. things were looking good early on the game. the sharks' win 4 to 2. >> on to basketball. stephen curry had 28 points and 12 assists, david lee added 21 points and 17 rebounds and the warriors beat the short- handed orleans pelican's 1 04-93. the warriors led by 10 points in the first quarter, 18 at halftime and 26 late in the third quarter. >> the san francisco giants have a new left fielder, and it certainly does not lack any confidence. free agent outfielder michael moore's has finalized a $6 million, one year contract with the giants after passing his physical. morrissey, 31, had

13 homers and a 312 at bat for the seattle mariners and the baltimore orioles. walt more see could get a start or to at first base, he primarily will handle the territories that belong to gregor blanco a year ago. >> we want to show you live pictures from this crash on interstate 880. the traffic is flowing okay and this is out near--we will give you an update coming up.

>> welcome back christmas is just a few days away. children will be getting some help from the u.s.

postal service. this is where postal workers respond to letters that are addressed to santa that may go unanswered. they're want to make a kids' christmas wish come true. they basically select a letter and then they fulfilled the wish that is inside the letter. the entire process is anonymous. >> this is a chance to help people who are truly in need. i also have received letters from parents that have a listed what they need. we just want to help. that is the big thing. my wife and i just want to help. >> there are a lot of people who were doing just that. if you want to participate you should know that the packages have to be brought and this friday so that they can try to buy christmas. >> a disney classic will soon be observed. the

married papen's movimary poppins comes as the movie about the mole they is now out in theaters. other selections include pulp fiction. >> coming up on the kron4 morning nils. we are keeping our eyes on several developing story spread george rask will have an update. >> a bay area family is still holding out hope that their daughter will be okay. she is brain and that after she had her tonsils remove.

>> also there was an explosion at a jail. we will tell you what happens. z

>> following on this wednesday, december 18th. a stolen a-t-m machine and a police chase in san francisco this morning. we'll tell you how the pursuit ended up on the bay bridge. >> and the winner is. someone in california. and georgia. how much did they win? a breakdown of the numbers coming up. >> we're also still fall when of the story of 18 nature who went to the hospital to have her tonsils removed. we will have that update coming up. >>