this morning on the kron 4 morning news. record cold is causing problems across the country. schools closed, businesses disrupted.and big delays at airports including flights into and out of the bay area. plus - a east bay woman hailed a hero. for being alert.and helping get an abducted little girl home safe. and the niners take on the panthers sunday. how you can get in on all the action and the road to the super bowl. the kron four morning news at 6 starts now. good morning. it is tuesday, january 7th. i'm james fletcher. and im darya folsom. >>george: waking up to lighter than usual traffic conditions. a little slowing

for 101 and the south bay but definitely lighter than usual there as well as on the peninsula and through the north bay. happening now. a dangerous mass of arctic air is marching toward the south and east after leaving much of the midwest with wind chills as low as minus 55. wind chill warnings stretched as far south as alabama and florida, and schools in places such as atlanta were canceled today. officials in maryland worried that roads wet from melting snow would freeze as temperatures fell. the polar air broke temperature records in chicago, fort wayne, indiana, oklahoma and texas on monday. due to the deep freeze, there are over 18-hundred

cancelled flights across the united states today. here in the bay.eight flights have been cancelled departing from s-f-o. four flights have been canceled out of oakland. kron 4's will tran is live at s-f-o with what you can expect for today. will? so far there are eight and bound flights having problems coming into sfo so if you have family and friends come in and from those places monitor the situation is a good chance they will be arriving on time or if at all joining me now is a young woman we couldn't help but notice, you're staring at the board. were you taken off to. luckily i was able to get rebuilt at 755. >>: going through dallas- fort worth. and then bounced

to milwaukee. will that be a problem for you at all? >>:, writing a little later than i needed to be but i will make it work. >>will: you heard about chicago. >>: yeah the polar for attacks. i've been to wisconsin many years before moving to the bay area and now it's the worst weather i've seen in years. the >>darya: we wish you a safe flight. look at all these people who come here. they dress for winter. this is a good sign here. there are long lines which means these people got their boarding passes to their destination and now they're just going through a checkpoint. if

those lines don't-hopefully they can get that squared out because that's where a lot of 49ers fan are expecting to fly. no onea lot of 49ers fans are making last minute travel plans.to see the team take on carolina sunday. we crunched the numbers and figured out what it could cost you to get to the game. your best bet is to fly out of san jose to charlotte. roundtrip 365 bucks for a flight leaving on saturday and returning monday. two nights in the lacasa inn south charlotte will set you back 90 dollars. a cross country train trip is an option at 761 dollars round trip. each way would take you four days and beause of track work you'll have to take a bus at times.

finallydriving is an option if you leave tuesday google maps says your 27- hundred mile trip from san franisco to north carolina will take you 39 hours. ten hours a day and you could do it in 4 days and more than 600 bucks in gas moneythat's roundtrip. finally tickets to the game start at 140.much cheaper than playoff tickets at candlestick. and just as we were live in green bay. kron 4 is heading to north carolina. stay tuned for live coverage from the panthers home stadium. right here on kron4 news. a woman is being called a hero after calling police about the suspect's car in an antioch kidnapping last week. seven year old natalie calvo was found safe just a couple hours after her abduction on friday. roxanna ramirez noticed david douglas's strange behavior as he walked into

the target she worked at in pittsburg friday morning. she then went back to the office and watched him on the surveillance cameras. douglas eventually left the store and went into the parking lot where he hung around for a few hours. because of his bizarre actions, roxanna wrote down the license plate number from his gold toyota camry. later that night, there was an amber alert for 7 year

old natalie calvo was kidnapped. douglas' description and car fit what roxanna saw earlier. roxanna called authorities and 2 hours later, police were at her door thanking her for cracking the case. friday's kidnapping of seven- year-old natalie calvo finished with a happy ending. she was found safely just a couple hours after and as it turns out -- police were not the only heroes in finding the young girl. kron-4's alecia reid spoke with a woman whose call to car. prompted the search.

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take a look at this video. donner ski ranch has seen so little snow they can't even open. this video from january of 2012 is what they are usually seeing around this time.but not this year. the ranch announced on their website they could not open their lifts due to the lack of precipitation, they will update their website as soon as they are able to open. amazing pictures keep pouring in from people affected by this bitter, bitter cold in the eastern part of the country.we just had to show them to you. like this ice bubble. a grove, oklahoma man blew this monday. the soap is actually frozen. a 16-year-old snapped this

picture of a snowdrift in indiana. he says it's piled higher than 6 feet.

not just snow.it's the freezing temperatures.look at this bank sign in wisconsin.it reads "minus it's not quite as cold to the south in virginia.but still cold enough for this. the woman who shot this picture.says she saw the raindrop hit this leaf.then freeze before it dripped off to the ground. expect low 60s on the east bay shoreline. will see temperatures in the upper 50s for san bruno and san mateo. 62 year high in oakland is 61 expected and petaluma. clouds will only ramp up into the afternoon expecting mostly cloudy day with very over cast conditions but again not a raindrop in sight. most activity six well to the north. could see a few showers by the north bay. plenty of sunshine and warmer weather by friday.

another week system could make its way through saturday and sunday. i really don't think it's going to change the storm tracker it it's not until january 22, 2001 that now that judge models are approaching these are rain. at 618 < gaelic are rolled with a george. >>george: cracking a few accidents. not sure if there hot spots. this is a north bound accident on 880. it occurred here and industrial of the nimitz freeway. it's having a bigger impact on the softball side of the freeway as a visual hazard. however it is the commute direction of interstate 680 self month years at sheridan were an accident has been slowing as a no great ride for interstate 680 sel to bump three the rest of that commute however interstate 680 coming down from the dublin interchange looks pretty good as westbound 580 is a little like this morning. tracking your ride to the bridges there are no delays for the golden gate

bridge. here at the bay bridge the slow traffic is concentrated in the center lanes. on highway 92 your trip around the san mateo bridge still a pretty good ride. not so terribly light up the speeds are still good three to 11 to 13 minutes to read your drive time over toward foster city at 101 on 92 westbound. the 619 right now. >>darya: autopsy results show a beloved priest who was killed at a church in eureka was beaten to death. gary lee bullock has been charged with murder and torture for the killing of reverend eric freed on new year's day. authorities say bullock was released from jail just hours before the murder. the jail is located near

st. bernard's church. police say bullock got into the church by breaking a side window. they haven't released a motive behind the killing. after years of declining sales, more people are taking their chances at playing the lottery in the state, and that's pumping more money into the prize pool. you'll recall, voters approved the lottery to supplement school funding back in 1984. now, changes made to the system in 2010 gave the lottery flexibility in determining its education contribution. doing so has increased payouts.

last year, there were more than four billion dollars in lottery sales. and just recently, a san jose man split a 648 million dollar mega millions jackpot. the second largest lottery prize in u- s history. the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. weather gets cooler. weather gets cooler. so you can finish the great american novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. so you can country who get pregnant while dating are opting to live together rather than get a quickie marriage.

the national center for health statisitcs show that for the first time over the past decade, living together has surpassed the "shotgun wedding" for expecting couples.

time for the kron4 tech report with a gabe slate. good morning. two worlds largest consumer electronics show is aware of the new technology and gadgets are unveiled. already some great stuff coming from the show. here's how it from day one. >>: samsung have their big ceo. how you think it's going to impact how viewers experience your movies? >>: excuse me and i am sorry.

>>: opec laid is such a month less thank michael for being with us. >>: here's the unveiled of the local tv. they're preparing to make this new television next up an entirely new type of gadget. it's made by a sous. it's caught a pass from. it's a smart, tablet with a combination. you can use this in tablet to load or for when he tablet a bigger screen and then just slide it out when you want a more up some smaller pocket device. we have crews at cbs

this week hunting through the show to find the top 20 gadgets and technology transfer 2014. be sure to mark your calendar for our top tech show coming up on january 24th at 9:00 p.m.. cape slate kron 4 news. newly confirmed federal reserve chairwoman janet yellen takes on her new role february 1st. the senate voted yellen into the fed's top post yesterday by a vote of 56 to 26. economists think yellen's biggest challenge will be deciding how to ease off policies that were aimed at pushing down interest rates caused by the great recession. yellen is a long-time fed official. many democrats

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629 on the clock here to look at opening bell with the nasdaq and lyrics stock exchange. everyone applauded when it to see what happens.

three straight days of down trading on wall street. >>: numbers are definitely- nationwide and that is how close-just how cold it is. >>erica: we're starting off with warmer temperatures next of that cloud cover. fairfield right now. for sam 04 is out the door and concord. 46 leaving the house and redwood city. you won't see as many layers. full details on your extended forecast. the 7 day around the bay forecast coming up at 745.

>>: here is george. >>george: the accident on the nimitz freeway turns out to the. it's blocking of the traffic but not doing much to slow the ride on 880 southbound likely because traffic woes are lighter than usual this morning. and for your ride on 680 southbound one of our guests and the other and the southbound direction at mission boulevard. it's a slower than usual fight for 680 south for the so great a still not yet a hot spot. >>james:new this morning. starting next week, it will cost you more to park at several bart stations in the kron four's jackie sissel is live at the walnut creek station with details. jackie? the morning. it's pretty quiet out here right now. you consider a signs of letting people know about the fees and were you have to pay and how long you have

to pay. for these fees are going up. at 50¢ in most places. fears of video i shot earlier this morning. if the signs are still up go up saying a $50 at the walnut creek bart station but this is one of several stations feds going to see a 50¢ increase from the $50 all the way up to $2 a day to park at the station. other places like san leandro pittsburg of a point hill walnut creek. if you can go to our web site kron4 and get a list of all the stations that are going up. some are actually going from 250 to $3 a west oakland bart is going all the way from 550 up to $6. there is a cap of $3 maximum for parking and bart stations except for the west oakland bart station. so $3 is as much as you're ever going to play. the tested

very well on the heels of a lot of people. i will have peoples comments later obviously a lot of frustrated people here as we are talking about the heels of all the unrest. . jackie thank you very much. they're ready to dig a little deeper. >>darya: a pilot program was launched yesterday that will allow private commuter buses to stop at certain muni bus stops in exchange for a fee. city officials says the 18- month program will allow the buses to stop at about 200 of the city's 2,5-hundred plus muni bus stops if they pay a fee the fee for theerators, which tt employees for companies like google, apple and facebook will depend on how many stops a bus makes daily.

the 200 muni bus stops will only be available to permitted operators. the rest of muni's bus stops will be off-limits to the commuter buses. the suspect arrested in the case involving the fire set at the chinese consulate in san francisco-- will be in court today. authorities would not release the photo of 39

year-old, yan feng who turned himself in for lighting a fire at the chinese consulate on new this is video of the fire captured by a security camera according to the fbi, feng is a chinese national and permanent resident living in daly city. and on friday afternoon he called 911 and confessed,

prompting local police to make the arrest. the hearing to appoint a defense lawyer and to schedule a future defense hearing for yang will be at the federal building in san francisco at 9:30 this morning. new developments this morning in the audrie pott case. she's the saratoga teen who took her own life after naked pictures of her turned up at school. three boys.who were 16 at the time. are accused of assaulting her while she

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weather is our big story. another day another morning of dangerously cold temperatures and the midwest. so cold that three amtrak trains pass stuck in illinois with more than 500 passengers aboard. you can

see the train cars covered in ice. temperatures in the area a broken record of -16 degrees. the trains were halted yesterday about 80 miles west of chicago. one of them, the californa zephyr, is from the bay area. passengers are staying on the trains and are being fed and kept comfortable by the crew. >>george: it's not easy to rescue a train. that's a great train by the way. i've taken that. from san francisco to chicago. it's one of the premier ride to that amtrak offers. not the best to ride the is the one on interstate 680 with accident in the southbound direction with this in no great that trend is ride into a hot spot with traffic backing up now pass the highway turnoff. we continue to have a slow going here on

880 southbound with our accident on tennyson road between tennyson and industrial so it's a slow ride, down from 238 and a new accident for the ride here leading toward concord. surprisingly westbound way for a ride through an act doesn't look that bad at all. still looks good even with the meter in lights active. and no backups and the cash lanes. the golden gate bridge ride is fine and here at the san mateo bridge the volume is up but the speed is still down 13 minutes for the westbound ride heading over to our foster city. >>maureen: on this tuesday morning temperatures are too bad. we are working up to upper thirties. we do have

high clouds streaming into the bay area as some paget frog to our south. as we get into the afternoon of those clouds will stick around. again is going to be quite over cast. sunbelt a day high of 63. will of mother as a cool down the only at low 60s through the san ramon valley. san francisco today will be in the '60s. but take a look temperatures will drop wednesday into thursday the back on the climb as we wrap up the work week. we do have a weak system due to a disturbance off shore that's bringing all the clouds. could see perhaps a few scattered showers in the north bay as early as thursday. the

models are supporting her rain in fact i think will stay dry weather until about january 22nd. time to talk financial news as we check wall street. the dollar right now triple digits only about 20 minutes into trading and here we are 104 points for the doubt the s&p up about eight points. we are seeing a positive start. the markets finished down 1/3 in a row to start off the air. any worries or the signs we are seeing this morning telling us to collect a bit. >>: very short-term worried. the term no worries. you have a u.s. improvement in job market. you have up europe creating demand again. that will help the u.s.. he have japan with monetary policy. china kind of slowing but overall and very good picture as far as the best thing if you're looking for moderate

returns. i tried to hit a home run. >>: have to mention some of the cold weather we've been seeing how to east. sometimes call weather can play into the markets. i know it delayed some activity on capitol hill. how you see this cold weather impacting the economy. >>: 4000 flights have been cancelled and any time a president wants to make a transportation bill to make the roads better because the easier transportation goes the more economy goes on those roads. the coal to shut everything down pushing national-natural gas prices higher oil. that's a tax on as consumers and businesses. the short-term its-because it's starting to pile up. psychologically it's worse than the real economic impact because you just let those things. yet to catch the flight regardless. >>: let's talk corporate news to 3 bartolo start off with apple. what have you been seeing with apple. >>: they spent $10 billion in assets in 2013. 1 million

apps that judge 1 billion act in december. it's almost all profit margin-of pride that judge profit margin of form. samsung does. you've been hearing a lot of parties. the where rebel tech devices. sun announced sunday that basically says you can take a shower. they have this life man now it's your parting and dancing it will tell you he danced for two hours that day. so more and more wearable technology. more smaller tv is that can bend. >>: a tv on your hand that can bend. it's fun. i like this time of year. >>: and you mentioned samsung. they are trying to strike a deal. maybe they are ready have with comcast streaming to be more

content for these four k poulter high-definition tv. seems like everybody's getting on with blue right and then samsung does try to put of technology obsolete already. >>: use them as having a bright future. >>: i'm not crazy about samsung. it is good but it's still the third pretty a sister. i'd rather go with the first or second previous sister like apple or google. netflix got a downgrade today which plays into that whole samsung universal on what we do with devices with his watch media. >>mark: will be back with us and i 15 talking winners and losers. >>: >>darya: more business. target

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