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slamming the northeast this morning, bringing with it frigid forecasts for gusting winds, sub-zero windchills and blizzard conditions. the nor'easter comes just as parts of the midwest and east coast restored power to tens of thousands of residents from the last storm. boston specifically is under a snow emergency. as much as two feet of snow is forecast there. steve kastenbaum is braving the bitter cold and snow in boston. when gus over 45 mi. per hour. visibility down to over a quarter of a mile. the storm has already made a mess of air travel causing more than 2000 flight cancellations and the region. not to mention that the delays nationwide. the nor'easter was only expected to make matters worse through friday especially in boston which could see a foot of snow.

>>: and already had 12 in. of snow at logan international airport. that's only part of the problem here. this is a bitterly cold start when the wind starts blowing with us up to 35 mi. per hour the real chill temperature is - 25 degrees. reporting live from boston stephen--steven kastenbaum. with this storm comes major flight delays and cancellations. nationwide we are looking at about 24-hundred delays as of 5 -m. 16-hundred domestic flights have been cancelled. and some 15-hundred international flights * into the united states have been cancelled. continuing our coverage of the winter storms. kron four's will tran s live at s-f-o with an update on how things look there this morning. so far three cancellations. things are opening up as a fall. the best recommendation is get here

early in hopes that sure flight is ok. here's some of the video we shot earlier this morning. you can see the long lines. i have an update from sfo. j. f. k. one of the hardest-hit airports in the country but they tell me they also are monitoring the situation that they believed jfk will open up at 630 local time, our time here. that means if you're heading to jfk a little bit later it's a good chance your flight will be o.k. but you have to monitor the situation because it could be pushed back after that and as they said everything is on time so it can switch to cancel and a heart beat. looks like 25 minutes from now jfk should be open for business. a lot of people were hoping to take off earlier from jfk to other parts of the country but they aren't going anywhere at this moment including some niners fans who we caught up with 3 here's one fan had for his trip to a level field.

>>: ready to go. goldminers. --go niners. >>will: you're heading to green bay. are you having any difficulty? >>: yes. we had a three hour layover in dallas. we have to figure how to get to milwaukee. how you even get to milwaukee from this place. >>will: you heard that jfk shutdown this morning right? >>: yes. we also heard on the news that they will open up. hopefully by the time we get there they are open. the >>darya: you heard that he was heading to jfk. it could change because originally jfk was to be opened at 5:00 local time that did not happen. the latest we are hearing is 630 but again

such a fluid situation. you heard that his flight was around 745. he is beyond the 630 mark. but you never know. he could give back in line and wait to see a demo we just lost well but he was talking about how jfk is still closed and they are supposed to open here in 25 minutes but they keep the plane that. there were supposed to open at 5:00 but delayed by another 45 minutes but we will keep you posted on that. looks like folks are being unfairly patient as we are tracking the storm. speaking of tracking the storm here's erica of letting us know where it is now where it is going next. >>erica: this is right out of boston. when that speeds up to 30 mi. per hour. you'll see that from any time soon. just north of boston we did see an upward

of 21 in. of snow. more expected to be on the way and we are following those like cancellations. here's a look at satellite and radar not as active as what we saw 24 hours ago. the storm was still intact in the midwest but as of right now is still only affecting the eastern seaboard. here in the bay area quite a contrast. although we are quick enough to pretty cold temperatures. 33 degrees in santa rosa. we will see it sunshine dry weather and perhaps record-breaking afternoon highs. we will continue with mild weather into the weekend but we could see winter like weather and the bay area finally by the end of next week. will be checking your 7 day around the bay coming up in just a couple of amendments. >>george: a major problem of growing on the freeway interstate 283 just north of daly city. north of the john daly exit. it's actually ride here between the san jose off ramp from the south

downside and john daly boulevard off ramps. several accidents reported in the northbound direction and as a result of one of those accidents one of the parties to the north bound crash tried to flee the same period jumped across the center divider was struck and killed by one of the softball vehicles. all lanes of interstate 280 here are shutdown north of the john daly off ramp. john daly boulevard is actually right over here and this is as you can see and the curve of the southbound direction were the tunnels are there. what you are going to do is use san jose off ramp the mission street off ramp from southbound interstate 280, you can use that to get all the way over to 19th avenue and you can rejoin interstate 280 in the southbound direction. the biggest back up is on the northbound side because that's where most of the

traffic is this morning and there are two lanes blocked in the northbound direction in order to accommodate the incident there. the eye and is that we may have some live video from the scene here's what switch that can. this is courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc seven news. in looks as though we are looking on the right side of your screen at the northbound lanes where you can see the two left lanes of the roadway that are blocked. traffic is being funneled off on the right. on the left side of your screen is the southbound broadway were the fatality occurred and that's why there is no traffic getting through end the southbound direction again using 19th avenue is the easiest way to avoid it. however, because this is a holiday week, even with the obstruction and the northbound direction, there's really only about a six or seven minute wait to get north bound past the

crash scene. pg-and-e says the power went out around four this morning. affecting nearly 14-hundred customers at the start. crews are at 6th and folsom.repairing what caused the outage. and say everyone's lights should be back on around 6- 45.

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a comeback to the kron4 morning news we are tracking a hot spot here out of daily city on interstate 280. it's on the southbound side all let's have to shut down because of a northbound accident. there were an series of crashes that occurred on the northbound side. to stop a said the san jose off ramps and north of john daly boulevard from interstate 280. one of the party to one of those crashes jumped from his vehicle ran across the freeway and was struck by a southbound car. that's what all southbound lanes right now are shut down. and only because it's a very light day and traffic do we not see bigger backups that we do. i believe we have some video from over the scene

and what you are looking at the there is both the north and southbound lanes. the right time of your screen appears to be the northbound direction. you could see the flare pattern called work to of the left flank are closed the northbound a.c. that cluster of taillights which is the southbound side or all lanes have been shut down. the corner has been called to the scene because of the pedestrian with a person that was struck on the freeway. the easiest way to avoid this if we switch back to the traffic maps from the southbound direction, you can use the san jose off ramp make your way over to 19th avenue and then head south bound. in the northbound direction, you'll want to continue on to highway one which would be 19th avenue and as you can see it is starting to back up now heading up north and pass san francisco state because of so many people using it as an alternate route. a quick

check of other traffic for you. here's a look at bay bridge. no backup or delay san mateo bridge looks good east bound to westbound and was now would be that commute towards foster city. live look out of new york this morning were a nor'easter is slamming a part of the country this morning. let's get a check with our own weather. hey erica. >>erica: as we head into the afternoon we will see another day of temperatures warmer than average. in fact 10 degrees warmer than where we should be for the first week of january. 65 year

high in mountain view. yesterday we actually broke a record out and mountain view. at the quick and see that today as well. we have a spare the air alert and affects all know what burning is allowed the temperatures will be a lot warmer addenda--a lot warmer today. looking ahead we have that very important playoff game the 49ers at the green bay. if you are heading there, of course we are dealing with flight delays across the nation with high temperature at lamb coalfield he 5 below zero temperatures. brink of the jackets on because it will be bone chilling cold but at least we don't have any snow to talk about. your 7 day around the bay forecast highlights mild weather into the weekend the changes on the horizon. we will see an increase in cloud cover with a drop of temperatures. an area of low pressure will bring us some rain wednesday into thursday. >>anny: thank-you erica.

new this morning the 3 a. grass fire and--in corte madera is now under control. it was first reported around to 45 last night at a homeless encampment just east of the village shopping mall near 101 and tamalpais drive. the homeless camps are being investigated for possibly starting the fire. the fire chief says propane tanks pose a particular danger to the firefighters this morning. >>: we will be here throughout the day to make sure no hot spots pops up. >>anny: there were no injuries reported as a

result of the fire. >>mark: the fbi is now leading the investigation into an arson attack on the chinese consulate in san francisco. wednesday night, someone threw two buckets of gasoline on the front doors of the building on geary and laguna streets. no one was injured but the flames heavily damaged the outside of the consulate and left smoke damage. federal investigators say they're working with local police and fire departments as well as the attack appears to be an isolated incident. the chinese consulate has condemned the attack. they demanded that people responsible be brought to justice and that every effort be made to protect the consulate and its diplomats. >>anny: happening now, the trip back to land is on hold again for 52 scientists and towards rescue from a research ship stuck in ice

in the antarctic. his video of the rescue. the passengers were airlifted from the eyes of ship yesterday but the australian icebreaker has been told to stay put for now because the chinese icebreaker that supplied a rescue helicopter fears it may get stuck in the eyes as well. the vessel got stuck on christmas eve. the ships' crews plans to stay on board and has a week's worth of supplies. keeping our eyes on wall street investors feeling a little nostalgic for 2013 the white 24 teams started yesterday. the market's beginning the year with the worst performance in nearly three weeks. the dow dropping nearly 135 points. dow futures now up 26. about 10 minutes ahead of the opening bell. the s&p lost a 16. futures trading mixed right now opening bell

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following a fatality southbound to 80. a pedestrian hits and killed in the roadway. apparently someone got out of their car and cross through the roadway and was hit by another vehicle. traffic is

stopped on south found to 80 right now. we will check back with george rask for an update. time for the kron4 tech report with gave a slate. - gabe slate. good morning. at some point they will--2014 will be a big year for google. at some point they will unviel the mysterious barge that is floating in the bay google has revealed very little using the barge as an interactive learning space. that could mean it's some sort of floating show room party boat or much more. maybe it's time machine google glass their high tech head gear is expected to hit the market this year

the latest rumor is that will cost around $600 and come out before summer it might be the must have gadget for 2014 or it might prove to be too expensive and not offer enough real world practical uses and be a huge flop either way it will be big news as for apple 2014 will be big also it could be the year that we finally see an apple branded television. a tv set that has itunes built into it making it easy to listen to your music, watch tv shows and movies bought through itunes and view all your personal digital material, pictures and videos on your iphone. and we expect the iwatch to be unveiled apple's take on the smart watch samsung got thiers out in 2013, an android friendly watch. and the tech industry is waiting to see if apple will be next. and we may see a larger iphone 4 inches just isn't android phones have been very successful with the bigger screens there is a lot of people who want to

see a 5 inch iphone. speaking of phones lg will make a big splash in 2014 with their android phone the it's the world's first smart=phone to feature a flexible and curved display. the phone bends when pressure is put on it protecting it from some types of damage and the curved screen is said to enhance the visual experience when watching videos on the device. the lg g-flex is expected to hit the market this spring. and you expect 2014 to be the year of same day delivery services actually going to a store to buy something after 2014 might be weird ebay, google, amazon, and instacart all offer same day delivery services in the bay area gabe slate, kron 4 news. >>anny:your private messages to friends on facebook.not so private.at least according to a new lawsuit against the social networking site. and the people behind the suit.want a big payout. lawyers claim facebook intercepted those private messages.and sold it to marketing firms. two facebook users filed the suit in san francisco. and are looking for class- action status. saying as many as 166- million facebook users in the u-s may be able to join the suit. and get this.the suit wants either a hundred dollars a day for each alleged or ten thousand dollars for

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stop because a bulletin has been issued for sam until county--san mateo county for a vehicle with fronts in damage. north of the tula plans are shut down. southbound traffic your back to your normal commute route. you can use the san jose off ramp to get offered to 19 avenue of the a brotherhood that way. that will carry you back to interstate 280 southbound. north bound you can probably sit through the delay because it will cost you more than four to six minutes to get through the back up on the northbound side. this occurring on a holiday week. we still have video from over the scene. yes we do. that's a look at the southbound side of the freeway which is completely shut down here. no indication yet on when they are going to open those lands. they've actually close of those on ramps for on wrap to keep traffic

clear. with a fatality there's always a large investigation. the corner as on the scene but there's still a lot of cleanup work that still needs to be done. your best work would be to avoid to '80s out of bounds. >>anny: our top story this morning. the nor-easter slamming parts of the country this morning. we've been getting some new video in from the east coast. you're looking at massachusetts. one of the hardest hit areas today. nearly 2 feet of snow has fallen just north of boston. and here's what it looks like in new york today. major highways are shut down in new york and pennsylvania, and airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights. about a foot and a half of new snow has fallen there.

we are one step closer to here's erica out with our forecast. >>erica: strong winds blowing at the store-no around. we've seen the most of it and of words of maine. over 21 in. for upstate new york. 22 in. in boston. the first winter storm of 2014. a lot smaller than yesterday. in fact most of the storm has drifted into the atlantic. here in the bay area bike enough to call temperatures and the north bay. but take a look. still in the forties. high clouds keeping us a little warmer this morning. expect another spare the air alert and to the afternoon. bobby breaking down in your extended forecast and highlighting the possibility of some showers coming up in just a couple of minutes.

>>mark: new this morning. later this morning the battle over jahi mcmath will judges. even though several doctors have said the 13 year old is brain dead, her family argues she is still alive kron 4's will tran is in front of the hospital with what's going to happen next. there are two court appearances. the first one deals with the breeding and feeding tubes. whether the hospital should be forced to answer those tubes and the second court appearance this one goes before a federal magistrate which will try to break a deal between the two sides. next tuesday at 5:00 p.m. is the deadline. unless something changes the hospital be allowed to take her off life-support. reporting from oakland will tran kron 4 news.

>>anny:re is a scam e- mail going around disguised as a notice from san francisco superior court. it says it's from " elisabeth tailor, clerk to the court." and as recipients to open an attachment said to be a court notice. but court officials said there are no court worker's name that elisabeth tailor, and the attached actually contained

a virus. if you get on the courses you should ignore it in open the attachment- not open the attachment. the 49ers chase for the championship gets off to a freezing start this weekend and green bay. kron4's mike pelton is a wisconsin ahead of the team this morning getting a feel for just how cold things are there. and just how confident the packers are now that they've got back their quarterback. >>: was scared you most about the 49ers offense going into the game. >>: it's a tough one. i don't think kapernick will play as well as he did last year. i think they have him figure it out that figured out. >>: we will lead to hear from some 49 fans but i'm not hearing one and green bay just yet. will be interesting to see how many 49ers make their trip here to the midwest. the 49ers

themselves won't be here until later tonight. they'll be staying at and wisconsin. we plan to be there when they arise. in green bay mike pelton kron4 knows. my delta will continue to bring us coverage in green bay. below -20. the high will be - 5 at game time. stay with kron4 for continuing coverage of the niners. >>anny: following is an alert on 280. all south on lanes blocked two northbound lanes also blocked. this is in san francisco near the daly city border and this is where a pedestrian fatality has been reported. a number of other accidents involved. will bring the latest report coming up a little bit after the break. the time now is coming up a little bit after the breagood.e time now is good answer.

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to buy cheerios without genetically modified ingredients. general mill says it has been manufacturing its original-flavor cheerios without gmos for the past several weeks. the change does not apply to any other cheerios flavors such as apple cinnamon cheerios. original cheerios boxes will be labeled as "not made with genetically modified ingredients." original cheerios are already made with non-gmo oats, but now the company says it's also using non-gmo cornstarch and sugar. no specific date on when these new cheerios will go on sale. a fatality on the up to 80. south onto 80 all lanes are closed. it to left lanes on north bound to 80 per) it will have more on this one the kron4 morning news continues. -interstate 280.

>>george: welcome back to the kron4 morning news as we continue to track a hot spot on interstate 280 by the san francisco and heading into daly city. there's the

accident scene where kron4's jackie sizzle is now located jackie you're on the northbound side of the freeway aren't you with the two left him lanes are blocked >>: that's correct. those two vehicles uc there for the two cars involved in the initial accident. you can see how far the same extent. apparently i just got here is on still try to collect some information but apparently those the cars down there bart and the accident and the northbound direction. one of the drivers got out of the car jumped over the center divide and that's when he was struck by at least two vehicles. the person has been pronounced dead at the scene. chp has shut down all of the southbound lanes and two of the northbound lanes. the looks like it will be here for awhile. i can't say that investigators continue to, over the freeway area and the southbound lanes. a very large you can get a

sense of the traffic that's backing up out here. also in the northbound lanes as people tried to merge heading into san francisco from the daily said the area. this will be here a while. we're hoping to talk to chp and a couple minutes and get a better sense of time for them. how much longer they expect to be here. it wouldn't surprise me if there were here for another couple of hours. they still have a lot of accident-evidence to collect. if you're traveling i would try to avoid that area at all costs. >>george: sage advice for sure as the chp agrees with you. they've issued a sick alert. eight special traffic advisory which means not only an obstruction to the land but also of advice to avoid the area altogether. the 19th avenue south, is an

option. if you can't get off interstate 280 and you san jose instead to reconnect with the 280 south of past the scene. a better bet to be to use sun sets and avoid the area completely. for your trip around the rest of the bay. let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. light traffic here and in fact it's a way because traffic is still mostly white around the bay area that we don't see bigger backups at our hot spot. here's the 92 commute for the san mateo bridge where it's just an 11 to 13 minutes drive time either east bound are westbound grid over to the weather center with your update. here is erica. >>erica: waking up too high clouds. starting to bring up out there. we're still at the freezing mark and out of. still holding onto forties' along the east bay shoreline so it is warmer than 24 hours ago. you can

think high clouds for that. clouds will stick around as we head into the afternoon but in terms of temperatures warmer than where we were yesterday. upper 60s out in pleasanton and livermore. 63 year high and fairfield and 64 for san francisco. temperatures still about to degrees warmer than where they should be for this time of year and if you have plans later on tonight, take a look. very mild conditions with temperatures in the low 50s. not too bad as you may be out and about. light jacket only if you have dinner plans. satellite and radar shows high clouds streaming into the bay area really affecting the peninsula assault of that. high pressure still dominant over the region. changes however on the horizon. take a look at next week. clouds

will increase temperatures will drop and perhaps we will see some rain. as of right now it's 20 percent chance. i don't think we will seek more than a 10th of an inch. >>mark: a bay area driver arrested for hitting and killing a six year-old girl and san francisco on the perceived as a clean driving record and a valid license. 57 year-old syed muzzafar of union city was turning right when he hit a mother and two children at poulter and ellis street tuesday night. the family was in the crosswalk. -polk and ellis streets. the family was in

the crosswalk. muzzafar is a driver with the ride share company uber. uber as it performs extensive background checks to make sure drivers have a clean record. the company also says muzzafar was not on duty at the time of the accident. he's currently free on bond and his buber account has been deactivated. >>anny: a fire in santa rosa wednesday night to assure parts of the antelope as memorial site. fire officials said the flames burned less than a third of the alter display. there is an investigation into what caused the fire and if any foul play was involved. eddy lopez supporters plan to rebuild the site tomorrow.

--andy lopez. gelhaus told investigators he believes the replica be begun a lopez was carrying was an assault rifle. --bb gun. and san francisco and number of controversial banners has popped up along market street. the banners are attached to a lamppost promoting an anti-abortion event later this month. kron4's jonathan oakley of the streets and spoke with people about the banners. the city's banners are allowed provided they don't contain nudity or profanity. in san francisco, john

fenoglio, kron 4 news. >>anny: this video coming and from our abc partnership but it does jet helicopter partnership with abc seven news. a fatality on southbound to 80 has all lanes shutdown into lanes in the northbound direction shut down. we'll be back with an

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>>darya: still ahead on the kron4 morning news, we will have the latest on the pedestrian killed on interstate 280. plus, a massive winter storm hitting the east coast right now. it live look out of boston. where nearly 2 ft. of snow fell in some areas. and terry's world and 745. -- gary's world at 7: $5. 45. female announcer: female announcer: get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempur-pedic mattress sets, at low clearance prices. save even more on floor samples, demonstrators and closeout inventory. the year end clearance sale is on now at sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ anncr: at jennie-o we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos.

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welcome back to the kron4 morning news our developing story is in the traffic department where a fatal accident has occurred just north of daly city on interstate 280 in the southbound direction the resulting from a north out accident. kron4's that piece of soap is live at the scene with details on the